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- 0:00I'm Abby. And I'm Anna.
- 0:02And this is serious beef welcome.
- 0:04I feel like we have recorded. Forever.
- 0:06It feels like a. Long time we've had to keep
- 0:08pushing. Oh because right, God forbid we
- 0:10have 5 minutes without something catching on fire.
- 0:16It turns out the whole world is on fire, so.
- 0:19You know, what are we going to do?
- 0:21What are we going to do? What are we going to do?
- 0:23Well done. Which beef is?
- 0:24I have, you know, this is funny because I don't know, I don't
- 0:27even know how we got started on this topic of conversation, but
- 0:32we got talking about the Amelia Bedelia books, the children's
- 0:36books. Now I know Sam has beef with
- 0:38this. Sam cannot stand the Amelia
- 0:41Bedelia books. Some people love them.
- 0:43I don't know, think of her as a beloved children's book
- 0:46character, but she's really just a dumb bitch.
- 0:50Yes, yes, yes she is. She is really dumb, okay?
- 0:56There's a lot of there's a lot of good Amelia Bedelia memes,
- 0:59just. I bet there are because she is
- 1:01the dumbest person on the planet.
- 1:03Accidentally told Amelia Bedelia to slay everyone.
- 1:06Stay. Inside.
- 1:09Yeah, it's because Amiah Vadila is a person that takes
- 1:11everything you say literally and but is also incredibly dumb and
- 1:16doesn't understand that things have sometimes more than one
- 1:19meaning. And so when she's told to dust
- 1:21the furniture, she dusts them with powder.
- 1:26She doesn't actually. She puts dust.
- 1:28Yeah, she puts the dust on them. Changed.
- 1:32They said to change the towels so she cut them into strips
- 1:38because that she didn't really know how it was changing.
- 1:41I like this. Imagine how Amelia Bedelion
- 1:43would serve you bottomless mimosas at brunch.
- 1:46Oh, my gosh, yeah. That's just, that's hilarious
- 1:50that she was told to put dates on the cake.
- 1:52So she cut numbers off the calendar and laid them, laid
- 1:56them on the cake. And I mean, like, you know, it's
- 1:59just like, well, you know, steak, the tomato plants.
- 2:04You could imagine what happened there.
- 2:08Honestly, at first I thought it was she took a wooden steak and
- 2:11like killed them all. No, she put beef.
- 2:14She put steaks. Oh, on put a piece of beef.
- 2:18What? How expensive?
- 2:20Yeah, that would be very expensive.
- 2:21This one says. This one says mixing up.
- 2:23Amelia Earhart and Amelia Bedelia.
- 2:25Yeah, she probably got lost because she was being so silly.
- 2:31I mean, the whole preface of this was to be the kids were
- 2:35when you read these books to the two children that they'd be
- 2:37like, no, Amelia Medelia. Dog beans.
- 2:42No, that's not it. That's what my kids are going to
- 2:45say. That's what they're going to
- 2:46say. You.
- 2:47Dumb bitch she. Was told to put the lights out.
- 2:49She took all the light bulbs out of everything and took them
- 2:52outside and like, and then the kids are going to supposed to
- 2:54say no Amelia, but you just turn the light off, you know, and
- 2:57like it's I guess there's supposed to be a lesson there.
- 3:00I, I don't know, like, but I think it's just, it's a little
- 3:05bit, it's a bit much for me to handle.
- 3:07And Sam, Sam who is, is, I think generally I would consider
- 3:14easygoing. She's a.
- 3:15Here's the thing. Sam was a very good She used to
- 3:17work in the tutoring center when we.
- 3:19Were in college, yeah, and she was ATA in college, very good at
- 3:22that, very good at working at teaching people who wanted to
- 3:25learn. But she has no patience, does
- 3:28not have patience for stupid shit.
- 3:31And so whenever you would, whenever you would read a
- 3:34Medelia, Medelia book, she'd, I can't even say it Medelia.
- 3:38She would just be like. What the hell is?
- 3:39Wrong with her. What she wouldn't say else
- 3:41because she'd be a kid, but even as a kid she'd be like.
- 3:43What's wrong with her? She's really stupid, no one
- 3:46would think. That she would just go off on
- 3:48Amelia Padilla. But we, I think we all have a
- 3:52little bit to be with them a bit, a bit.
- 3:55Yes, I just can't say nothing. No, you just would listen to the
- 3:59story. She would go off on her and say
- 4:01that she is dumb and I would laugh so hard because Sam just
- 4:05didn't have the. Patience for that nutsense.
- 4:07To quote my father, Amelia Bedelia, that was really.
- 4:12Dumb, dumb, stupid. But it says that you dumb stupid
- 4:16any bitch. Oh my God.
- 4:19A. Classic.
- 4:21So yeah, if you like reading dumb about dumb people, Amelia
- 4:25Bedelia is your book. Well, I said that Amelia Bedelia
- 4:29would be a very good Halloween costume.
- 4:31It's true in hindsight, hindsight 2020.
- 4:35But which brings us to Halloween.
- 4:38Halloween just was yesterday. We're recording this on November
- 4:411st. It is, it's it, or we're
- 4:43celebrating All Saints Day. For those of you Catholics out
- 4:45there who love your Saints, today's the day to celebrate.
- 4:48Indeed. And for you pagans out there who
- 4:49know that the Al Housey was rebranded for the Catholics, the
- 4:55Christians really celebrate whatever you celebrate.
- 4:59I don't know what you celebrate because it was rebranded and.
- 5:02It's true. It's true, yeah.
- 5:06I think is today Dia de Los Muertos as well.
- 5:08Is it? Is it the 1st of November?
- 5:10I think it might be right. I thought it was the day after.
- 5:13How this is when I always I always want November 1st tonight
- 5:16for all those who celebrate Dia de Los.
- 5:18I always watch Coco and the what's the other one about the
- 5:23book of Life? I always watch this.
- 5:24I love the book. Yeah, Coco is very good.
- 5:26I got no beef. I like them.
- 5:27Yeah. I love the book of life.
- 5:29I actually has never seen that. I need a.
- 5:30Portion to watch. You should watch it today.
- 5:31Today's day to watch it. I should, I should we.
- 5:34I'm gonna go home and watch those while I do the laundry
- 5:37today. I love that.
- 5:38That's my, that's my goal. Do my Duolingo.
- 5:40OK, so I've been doing my Spanish.
- 5:42Excellent. Excellente, excellente.
- 5:46Oh my gosh. So yeah, I love to watch Coco
- 5:50and Book of Life on on this day, yes.
- 5:52So classic. Yeah, Well, well.
- 5:55Speaking of Halloween, gave up Demon hunters, obviously.
- 5:59Big. Big costume choice.
- 6:01Big. Costumes.
- 6:02I think it was probably the most sold costume this year.
- 6:05Easily. I saw a thing.
- 6:07I saw, I think I showed you this last night.
- 6:09I was like, godspeed to all of the moms who were out there
- 6:14attempting roomies. Purple bubble braid, purple
- 6:17bubble braid. And I'm like, Oh my God.
- 6:21You're not a kitten. I wouldn't know how to do.
- 6:23It I bet a whole bunch of those wigs were sold.
- 6:26Oh, yes, my niece, my little niece did was room.
- 6:29Is it roomy with the purple? Yep.
- 6:31Yeah, she did it. And they must have bought a
- 6:33little wig. They had to no.
- 6:35It looked like her hair was braided that.
- 6:36Picture didn't it? They pulled her hair back, but.
- 6:39Maybe they, maybe they braided. A little bit fresh and then they
- 6:42added that to it. Maybe.
- 6:43Maybe. I don't know, but it looked
- 6:45good. Look good, look good.
- 6:46So but I I tell you what, I love K pop being hunters.
- 6:50It's so fun. I love it is it is seriously
- 6:53very, very fun. It's very fun even if you're not
- 6:55into K Pop. This show is oh, you don't have
- 6:57to be into K Pop I. Think it's very fun, that music.
- 6:59Is music is super fun? I think so.
- 7:01Story is great. Animation made that one Really.
- 7:04Sony Animation did like the the Spider Man.
- 7:07They killed it. They have been.
- 7:09They did. They did.
- 7:10The spider verse The Spider. Verse 10.
- 7:12They are. They are killing it.
- 7:14Those are both excellent. They have, they have been
- 7:17absolutely killing it now. I mean, recently now they did.
- 7:22If you want to go back further, you would go for Halloween
- 7:24movies. They did Hotel Transylvania.
- 7:26Oh yeah. And Monster House.
- 7:28See. OK, look, you're right.
- 7:30The I think you can see her hair.
- 7:33They've got it pulled back. Yeah, and I think they just
- 7:35clipped the. Braid and then they must have
- 7:36clipped this braid in because look how long.
- 7:38Yeah, yeah, her hair. Is not quite that long, that's
- 7:41got to be, but it turned out great.
- 7:43Yes, it looked. Great my sister texted me and
- 7:46they said she was had to get him ready for Halloween.
- 7:48They went to a wedding, a Halloween wedding oh fun where
- 7:52everybody was supposed to dress up so even their mom dressed up
- 7:54and she was one of the many. My these are my great nieces and
- 7:58nephews. I guess the the Amanda dressed
- 8:01up as which one has the pink hair?
- 8:04Mira, Mira and then Zoe. Zoe.
- 8:08Marilyn was Zoe and Bella was. And then little.
- 8:11Purple hair girl, but. Well, Jake was.
- 8:13Bobby Jake was Bobby and it was adorable.
- 8:16And the girls, Yep. And he so they went to this
- 8:18wedding all dressed up. K pop hunters, very K pop demon
- 8:22hunters. And then they went K pop
- 8:25hunters. K pop hunters.
- 8:27That's me. Please no and do not haunt us.
- 8:32You're hunting the K pop. Stuff.
- 8:33Oh, OK, well it was I thought that was they were hunting
- 8:35people that like K pop. We don't want that K pop demon
- 8:39hunters. So they looked amazing.
- 8:41And then they went to a sing along movie today.
- 8:45So they were back in costume already this morning.
- 8:47And Sue Mayer says I feel like I'm getting them ready for AK
- 8:50pop cup sleep event. That was so cute.
- 8:53That's so fun. Yeah, it was hilarious.
- 8:55Sony Animation, K Pop, even under their most recent one.
- 8:59Yeah, in my opinion, the last few years they have absolutely
- 9:02killed it. Now I know like Hotel
- 9:04Transylvania was a very big one that was very successful.
- 9:08Spit off monster house is a is a niche 1 and Liv loves that one.
- 9:12Yes, a lot of people, but cave up deep hunters, the spider man
- 9:16and the spider verse and all that kind of stuff is a is a big
- 9:19one. And then I haven't seen any of
- 9:21the Sonic movies, but I've heard they're really very good.
- 9:25They're making they made those and then Mitchells versus the
- 9:27machines that we made you guys watch.
- 9:28I loved Mitchells versus the machine.
- 9:30So they're cave up to you Mitchells versus the machines
- 9:33and the Spider Man ones. All of those I think were really
- 9:35good. They also did Cloudy with a
- 9:37Chance of Meatballs. Yeah, that was.
- 9:38Very, very cute. Yeah, they have some that like
- 9:40more fluffs. Like angry.
- 9:41Birds, sure, all The Smurfs, but yeah, yeah, they no the some are
- 9:47more successful than others, but you know.
- 9:49Absolutely, absolutely. But yeah, no, the the these,
- 9:52this three right here, Mitchells Versus the Machines, Kpop, Demon
- 9:55Hunters and the Spider Man 1. The animation and all three of
- 9:58those is amazing. So the concepts are so
- 10:00different. I love it.
- 10:02Yeah. I love it so much.
- 10:03I and and K pop Demon hunters. No one expected that to blow up
- 10:06the way it did, but, well, that's why.
- 10:08They sold the thing to Netflix FYI.
- 10:11That's why Netflix. Has the right and Netflix.
- 10:12Didn't believe in it. Netflix has just made.
- 10:15It rolling now. Sony, of course, has absolutely
- 10:17as well. They'll be wrong.
- 10:19They're making plenty of money. The.
- 10:21The The thing is though, it's it's a very unique idea.
- 10:25The animation is excellent and then the songs are great.
- 10:28Well, so I got to think. Of it just great.
- 10:30So this is the. Information I'm sitting on OK OK
- 10:32so I don't know if you're aware those singing voices for the
- 10:36main 3 girls and speaking voices are different people yes OK so
- 10:40the girl who is Ruby the purple brain her singing voice her name
- 10:44is like Eji think something like that she helped write all of the
- 10:49music first of all, so amazing I've read I've read a little bit
- 10:53about. Her and this is like amazing
- 10:55big. Brother, Oh my God, for her, she
- 10:57so she was now you're going to know more about this than I do
- 11:00really you go to like for K pop, you go to like whatever thing
- 11:05they company, yes company. They bring you up the adult
- 11:07training. You can go through years of
- 11:09training, yes. Or sometimes if you're really
- 11:11amazing, you might do. Like my boy Lino did six months
- 11:15of training, but he also had done dance school dance lessons
- 11:19forever growing up. And so it just depends on your
- 11:22talent level. Depends.
- 11:23On well, she I guess. Depends on your looks.
- 11:25Well, I guess she was in this training for.
- 11:27Years and they in their. Finally told her you're just
- 11:30never gonna make it. You're just not good enough.
- 11:31Yep. Even though she has an
- 11:33incredible single. Unbelievable.
- 11:35Yeah. So she switched.
- 11:37But also depends on the company. Some companies are very abusive.
- 11:39Were were supposedly it's better now very abusive to their
- 11:42trainees. Well, and and she's.
- 11:44A little older now, yeah. So.
- 11:45And they want them super young, yes, so they can control.
- 11:48Well, I mean, she's older now. Of course she was younger when
- 11:50she wasn't training all this kind of stuff, but, and that
- 11:51would've been years ago, years ago.
- 11:54So and some don't ever make it. Yes, you go through all that and
- 11:56you don't. Make it nothing.
- 11:57And so she's told like you're never gonna make it.
- 12:00And I don't know exactly what led her to where she's at now,
- 12:03but of course now she's writing, she's main vocal.
- 12:06And her singing voice, my God. Amazing.
- 12:10The girl who sings for Mira, she correct.
- 12:15It's very funny because everybody has said, I've seen a
- 12:17couple interviews with the three groups, yes, and they're like,
- 12:20they've casted these girls perfectly.
- 12:22Yeah, like they really did. They're both singing and the
- 12:25acting voices are they are their characters like EJ is this very
- 12:30roomy, this very dedicated, hard working the girls who voices
- 12:33Zoe. I'm both singing and when I very
- 12:35bubbly over the top. And so cute, the singing.
- 12:38So cute. Yeah.
- 12:39So funny. Well, and the the singing girl,
- 12:41it's very funny because she's been like interacting with
- 12:43people on Twitter and people are like no, no, no like but and
- 12:48then the girl who and then the girl who voices Mira is very
- 12:52kind of down to earth and she cracks me up.
- 12:55She. She.
- 12:56Went to. Whatever.
- 12:57She went to the MTV Music Hall in the sleeping bag because.
- 13:01And the sleeping bags are? Yeah.
- 13:04Character where is the sleeping bag and she is.
- 13:06Her, she's so tall and so beautiful.
- 13:08And very funny. How hilarious.
- 13:10How hilarious is that? Yes, so.
- 13:13But yeah, so happy. For these these.
- 13:15People that I was so happy well yeah the girl who was saying for
- 13:19Mira she was like yeah I've done like a lot of like you know like
- 13:22get a lot of voice over work and whatnot both because they.
- 13:26She speaks Korean and, and you know, English and so she does
- 13:29both and she's like, I get this call, like do you want to do
- 13:32this K pop demounters? And she was like, it was so
- 13:35silly. And she's like, of course I do,
- 13:37of course. And she's like, I had no idea.
- 13:40But they. But that song, the song Golden
- 13:43when it it hit #1 and I think I actually just recently got back.
- 13:47It is insane how successful that has been.
- 13:49They're like on mainstream radio.
- 13:51It's the. First time a girl group has had
- 13:53a #1 Billboard song. Since Destiny's.
- 13:54Child. Yeah, I was like, that's the
- 13:57same. To me, just crazy.
- 13:59But who knew it would just be this amazing, You know, it would
- 14:04just blow up. Exactly.
- 14:05And so I'm just like, good for them, but it's.
- 14:07Wonderful. So why wouldn't it?
- 14:08And I'm so glad for them. But yeah, I've been.
- 14:10Sitting on that information about that's great Jay is voice
- 14:14is roomy and kind of how her story of like getting kicked out
- 14:19and absolutely being rejected and she's like you would fuck
- 14:21you want to do it anyway and now.
- 14:22She's like now she's huge, huge, good for her, huge and the
- 14:26opportunities are knocking and I hope she just continues to have
- 14:29success. Oh, she cracked me because I saw
- 14:31an interview of her. And so I was like, listen, we've
- 14:33seen you guys seeing it perform the songs on, you know, the The
- 14:37Tonight Show or whatever. Yeah, Yeah.
- 14:39And they're like, are we going to ever see you guys do the
- 14:41dancing choreography? And she goes, girl, no, I am
- 14:44not. I want to have babies.
- 14:46I do not want to be out here to. Because I guess.
- 14:48Apparently if you were doing that much physical activity,
- 14:51like the dancing whatnot, it can mess with like fertility and
- 14:54such really well. Actually, I've heard that not
- 14:58just with like, dancing. But not just women.
- 15:01Like if you're a an athlete, a serious athlete, yes, like it
- 15:07absolutely does mess with it because it just think about the
- 15:12toll it takes on. Your body evolutionary to be
- 15:15tactic that that's like if you if you are expending this much
- 15:19like physical effort your body over you know the course of
- 15:23illusion. Has said.
- 15:24This person is in no position to be pregnant to care for a child
- 15:27because they are so physically. Too much?
- 15:29Yes, it's too much. And so it usually hurts with
- 15:33like if if you're trying to get pregnant, yeah, it a lot of like
- 15:36saving my athletes will have to take.
- 15:38Time off. And it's the same thing with
- 15:39like, yeah, these girls that are dancing or not, it's just so
- 15:42extreme. It's their workout condition,
- 15:44their workout routines, their physical.
- 15:47They're just like, it's so extreme.
- 15:48You think about Olympic athletes, the same thing, yeah.
- 15:50Oh my God. Yeah, yeah.
- 15:51But yeah. So she cracked me up.
- 15:53She's like, they're growing up babies so early for her.
- 15:57Absolutely not. She's like.
- 15:59She's I will sing that I want babies.
- 16:00I got a good one and dance stuff.
- 16:02I could I'm. Voice, this is this is the
- 16:04perfect thing for her. I get to voice and sing and do
- 16:06all this good stuff and somebody else gets to she's do all the
- 16:10character. I'm so happy for her she's found
- 16:12her that her spot or whatever what what works for.
- 16:16Her and they they of course were like we want.
- 16:18Sequels and like, oh, it's already in the works and
- 16:21everybody wants it and I hope they do it good, though.
- 16:22I hope they do it good. Yes, they, you know, it's really
- 16:25interesting that you talked about that the training whenever
- 16:27you know the, the you know, I follow several K pop groups
- 16:31because I because I love the music and it's really fun, but I
- 16:33don't really do deep dive into it.
- 16:35And I don't follow. I'm not, I'm all.
- 16:36They're also like young enough to be my son.
- 16:38So I'm not like, you know, delulu about I'm definitely
- 16:41going to marry Chip back Chan someday.
- 16:42Like that's not where I'm at, you know, but to me, like as a
- 16:47mom, you know, when I hear when I hear some of their stories,
- 16:49Oh, my heart like this the one group we love a TS We've seen
- 16:52them twice now. They're amazing and their their
- 16:54youngest member has the most amazing singing voice.
- 16:57I could well, I could listen to just sit and listen to him sing
- 17:00all day long. It's gorgeous.
- 17:01And yeah, the first company he was with, same thing.
- 17:05Told him he was never going to make it.
- 17:08He wasn't good enough. That's so sad.
- 17:11And thankfully he didn't give up.
- 17:14He went to a different company and they signed him, they took
- 17:18him and he joined this group and he is killing it.
- 17:22He's so amazing and they're so successful.
- 17:24And I'm so happy for him because it's like don't, don't support,
- 17:28you know, their children when they come to their children,
- 17:30when they, when they get in there.
- 17:32And it's like. Wow.
- 17:35So harsh, but The thing is like. I I like I you guys, I guess you
- 17:39can't tell every kid that they're going to be a superstar
- 17:42meeting because the talent, I mean, there's a lot of people
- 17:45who can sing honestly, think about it.
- 17:46I mean, there's a lot of people that maybe have a good singing
- 17:48voice. They can't all not everybody's
- 17:52going to make it. They're all very talented.
- 17:53So I don't even know how you would handle that.
- 17:56That's you know, but to tell someone you're never going to
- 17:59make it, Yeah, like that's terrible.
- 18:02Sucks. You, you to me, you could be
- 18:04like, you're just not a good fit for our company or whatever it
- 18:07is. There's got to be a better way
- 18:08to say that than to just say you suck and you're never going to
- 18:12make it like this was not. Exactly.
- 18:15That's so me. I know that's tough.
- 18:18So I don't, I don't know. I don't know.
- 18:20Well, let me. Say our sauce real quick.
- 18:21Oh yeah, secret sauce. Do it.
- 18:22Let's see on the on the Halloween, our sauce is caramel.
- 18:25Sauce. Caramel sauce.
- 18:26Caramel sauce if you. Want or however?
- 18:28Yeah, however you want to say it.
- 18:29Right, that's our that's our sauce.
- 18:31Nope. And then in that same bin with
- 18:34with the Halloween, I got one more Halloween thing.
- 18:37OK, OK, so my work did a pumpkin painting competition.
- 18:45They did. And we God bless what it was,
- 18:52what a wild ride we were on. OK, this pumpkin painting
- 18:55because we see the e-mail and just none of us really, I mean,
- 19:01Mandy, who I work with, she is like an executive assistant and
- 19:06so she has the credit card. And so she's usually the one
- 19:09that goes out and we'll get a supplies because they give us
- 19:12like a budget, OK? So we had like a $50 budget to
- 19:15get paint or pumpkins or whatever, you know kind of
- 19:17thing. Well, she's got the credit card,
- 19:19so she's kind of been charged with that to go out and get it.
- 19:21OK. But everybody was so busy that
- 19:24Friday last Friday rolls around the Friday before Halloween and
- 19:32she Mandy had sent out like a message to people at the
- 19:35building I work at and she's like, is anyone like still
- 19:38interested in doing this? And like me and Erica were not.
- 19:41This is listener Mandy by the way, cuz I found out that she
- 19:44started. Hot yay.
- 19:46Welcome, listener Mandy, welcome.
- 19:47Listener Mandy, she was listening to our sloth.
- 19:50Sloth. Sloth again.
- 19:52So Sloth the father house. Sloth again.
- 19:54I almost. Said sloth again too.
- 19:55But it's long again, and sloth her house and.
- 19:57Sloth her house, I always say I say it wrong every time, but
- 19:59she. She was cracking up.
- 20:00I go, I go. Don't judge.
- 20:01I know the audio and those early ones are rough before we figure
- 20:04out what we. Were doing, it's true, and they
- 20:05might still be. Rough they I don't.
- 20:06Care they. Probably are, but she was like,
- 20:09no, I love it. Yeah, So I'm like, OK, good.
- 20:12That's awesome. But so we're like, yeah, no,
- 20:17we're still interested. You know, I I used to paint a
- 20:19pumpkin every year. Yeah, we've done that before.
- 20:21It's fun. I did this Skellington.
- 20:23It's going tonight. You used to pump.
- 20:24You used to paint. I didn't want to.
- 20:26Carbondale. You'd send me a picture of that
- 20:27pumpkin that you paint. I just haven't had time.
- 20:29I love that it's been busy. So I was like, this is perfect.
- 20:33I was like, I love. I'm like if I can't do something
- 20:35on company time, get paid for it, then why I'm not doing?
- 20:37It So that's the way to do it, man.
- 20:41It's absolutely. I was like, I got to pay my
- 20:42pumpkin and I got paid to do that.
- 20:44Perfect. Exciting.
- 20:45Well, so she and Erica went out on Monday and purchased the
- 20:50supplies Monday afternoon. OK and then informed me as I'm
- 20:54walking out the door at 4:00 on Monday that it's due Tuesday at
- 20:59two o'clock 2:00 PM so you. Had Tuesday morning till 2:00 PM
- 21:06till 2:00 PM to get it done in whatever what we're going to do
- 21:09which we. Had decided we're going to do
- 21:11like a little Super Mario's theme OK And we're like Oh my
- 21:14God I've seen the picture and we'll post a picture we'll post
- 21:17a pic now you guys can decide if it's amazing or not we we show
- 21:21up OK Erica and I and it turns out that like the other people
- 21:25who are going to help had meetings like the one they were
- 21:29girl that. They actually had to work the
- 21:31one. We're on.
- 21:31Yeah, I know. Can you believe it?
- 21:34Dare they I? I told I told Erica I go.
- 21:38I built. I came up with built and sent
- 21:42off 3 separate ad campaigns Monday so that I would have my
- 21:47entire two days free. Gotcha gotcha.
- 21:49Because I was like. Jesus Christ, so I could just
- 21:52imagine this whirlwind of you guys.
- 21:54We show up. Painting pumpkins, doing all
- 21:56this and then at 2:00 submit and you both all just like lay down
- 21:58on the floor well. Mandy couldn't help and then the
- 22:02other girl who was going to help, she was like, I have to
- 22:05go. She does like the at work, like
- 22:08our our partnerships with companies and whatnot.
- 22:10She had to go because they were closing a deal today.
- 22:13She couldn't even be there. She was busy and I'm like, oh
- 22:15God. So it's.
- 22:16You and Erica. Me and Erica, and we just have
- 22:18this dollar store, literally Dollar Tree steak knife.
- 22:22I'm holding this pumpkin. We were making the big one into
- 22:25the piranha plant for Mario, and then we're gonna make a little
- 22:28Mario and then we'll jump over it.
- 22:29So I am. Bracing so not only do they
- 22:31don't just paint 1 pumpkin you have to do you're doing 2 we're
- 22:35well yeah for sure starting for sure so I'm.
- 22:37Bracing this giant stompkin and she's got the world's shittiest
- 22:41steak knife and we are carving it as quickly as we can because
- 22:44we wanted to have an open mouth. The mouth, OK, OK, so the piece
- 22:48shoot the plant. You know and sure.
- 22:50And it's barely cutting, I'm sure right it.
- 22:53Worked shockingly better than I ever expected to.
- 22:56That's good, but. You know, we got it.
- 22:59We got it there. And then we're so you carve out
- 23:02the gist of mouth. And then you paint it.
- 23:04Red with white polka dots. And then Erica had brought in
- 23:08some like air dry clay and is going to do it the whole lips
- 23:12like I don't know if you know the product.
- 23:13Looks like I do but. I do know you do now.
- 23:16And it has those puffy lips, yes.
- 23:18All the way around the mouth and so the white puffy lips, look at
- 23:23that, and then sharp teeth, Yep. And they come out of the green
- 23:26pipes. For those of you I recall from
- 23:29the game, recall the game. Yep.
- 23:31And did you make the leaves too? No.
- 23:33God no. It's sitting.
- 23:34It's like we got they found a green bucket at the Dollar Tree.
- 23:38Thank God. So it's sitting in the bucket,
- 23:39so I cut the. Handles off the bucket.
- 23:42We put it in there and we're like, listen, when you jump over
- 23:44because we're like, we can't do this.
- 23:46No, with a with the. Big pumpkin, we can't.
- 23:48Put it on it. We have nothing on a stick or
- 23:50something else but. Listen, when you're in the game,
- 23:53you wait till it's in the pot and coming up to jump over.
- 23:56But anyway, exactly. So that's, that's ideal.
- 24:01So we just, I put it in the bucket, I draw with pencil a
- 24:04line around it and I'm like, everything below this line is
- 24:08not going to show. We don't have to paint the whole
- 24:10bucket. Save yourself some time.
- 24:11Yep. Erica called it cannibalized
- 24:15sponge. One of we have, you know, in the
- 24:18break room, you know, a pack of sponges to wash dishes or
- 24:21whatever. She cut one in half and then cut
- 24:24it into two different size circles.
- 24:26OK. And then boom, boom, boom, boom,
- 24:28polka dots. And then we went through and
- 24:29cleaned them up later. Gotcha.
- 24:31Yeah. Yeah.
- 24:32Erica then had a hub on a meeting.
- 24:34OK. And so I'm like, OK, I have to
- 24:38draw Mario. You have to draw Mario.
- 24:40I have to draw Mario in this little pumpkin.
- 24:43I can't. Believe you, drew that.
- 24:46It's isn't it so terrible? And I'm just kidding.
- 24:48It's good. I draw it in pencil.
- 24:50There is cardboard. We're working on it to not get,
- 24:52you know, pumpkin guts. Sure.
- 24:53All over the table because Erica's like, I don't want to
- 24:56touch these pump guts. I go, Erica, I'm going to tell
- 24:57you right now, then we're going to cut this pumpkin oven.
- 24:59I'm going to scrape it around, let all of it falls to the
- 25:01bottom and you can't see it because we're going to go
- 25:03straight on you. Don't have to clean it off, I'm
- 25:04not. Cleaning this pumpkin out she
- 25:06was. Good idea.
- 25:06Good idea. Great.
- 25:08So I I draw Mario on cardboard 3 or 4 four times.
- 25:14I'm tracing him a pencil over and over and over again on this
- 25:16pumpkin because I'm like. You guys be able to see it?
- 25:20There was a moment that I was like, I should just tell Manny
- 25:22to print one out. I'll put it down and I'll trace
- 25:24it and then. But I didn't do that.
- 25:26Just freaking free handed it like an idiot.
- 25:29I finally get it and I I get into a point that there's like 5
- 25:33or 6 Mario's like drawn over top of each other on this pumpkin.
- 25:36Gotcha. And I get a sharpie because I'm
- 25:37like, if I go over in sharpie one, I will know what it
- 25:40actually is supposed to look like certainly and it will show
- 25:43through the paint. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 25:44The new to the outlines, right. And then because I'm going to go
- 25:46back around it anyway. So so cute as I as I'm doing
- 25:51this another one of our Co workers came the the person who
- 25:55was supposed to help but she ended up having to.
- 25:56Go to another meeting. And she was like oh and she's
- 25:59like looking at it. Well I got 2 sharpie lines so
- 26:02all she's seeing is 5 or 6 terrible Marios all on top of
- 26:05each other. And she's like oh she's like
- 26:08well you'll get it there. Oh my God.
- 26:12I told Erica I go 2 arm projects I have worked on and I have been
- 26:16roasted. Yeah, insulted to your face.
- 26:19So why is I have been roasted? I know I got to stop doing these
- 26:24so we're just laughing like you're, you're self esteem
- 26:27plummeting everybody. At work is like if I if you.
- 26:30Can get through an art project at at my work you can do wow.
- 26:35But I could so I I'll show you this.
- 26:37This is when I was working on it.
- 26:39I've already done it in Sharpie. It looks good before.
- 26:42I've already done it in Sharpie. Before I painted, I went and
- 26:45showed her. I was like, OK, does this look
- 26:48better? Because genuinely, like
- 26:50obviously she's not gonna hold back.
- 26:51It looks like shit. So no, she's not.
- 26:53I was like this is. Just my God, that looks amazing.
- 26:55Great. My God, that's amazing, great,
- 26:58great. So the fact that.
- 27:01You're freaking. That's weird.
- 27:02That's incredible. My old boss Lisa was also
- 27:05staying there and she was like, Oh my God, she's like, this is
- 27:08amazing. She's like, we have so loved to
- 27:10have you guys here but begin your thing.
- 27:13I have no idea what the awards are, right?
- 27:16We just know that that we'll submit somebody will win for
- 27:202nd, 3rd place and they're oh, there will be an award.
- 27:22We don't know what it is now. The last time we did like a big
- 27:26old poster thing and with the ship and the pirates and we won
- 27:30against all odds and and we got 3rd place got coffee for the
- 27:38office and 2nd place got lunch at the office and 1st place got
- 27:42coffee and lunch so so we got a free lunch out of it and it was.
- 27:46Good and A and a special coffee. And here's the the whole office
- 27:50gets it, not just the people who worked on it.
- 27:52So it's like everybody's like, keep going, guys.
- 27:55Yeah, everybody in your office is like, you guys are amazing.
- 27:59But we got our lunch on Monday, this past Monday.
- 28:02And the Doug is he sits across from wherever we're working.
- 28:07Yeah, he used to work in a previous branch that closed
- 28:10because we opened up a new one and instead.
- 28:12Of he's lucky he got moved to your branch to your office.
- 28:15Instead of sending him to the new branch that was open, they
- 28:19sent him to us because we're back office.
- 28:20More so, so is he. And so he's been there.
- 28:25And we're like on the other side of this, like cubicle.
- 28:28We like lean up. We're like, we're so we're just
- 28:29gonna apologize in advance. We're so sorry.
- 28:31We're making a ruckus. We're like carving this.
- 28:34We're shaking the whole freaking thing.
- 28:36Right, right. We're like, so sorry.
- 28:38But you asked him if he enjoyed. His lunch yes, I did I go Doug
- 28:42suck your did you like your lunch on.
- 28:43Monday he goes. Yeah, it was really good.
- 28:45And I turned to Eric and I go, that's who we're doing it for.
- 28:51So. You did not one pumpkin, not 2
- 28:53pumpkins. Well, you're right.
- 28:55Because I got my Mario done. And then Erica comes over and
- 28:59we're we're painting frantically.
- 29:00And then we get to a point that we're like, OK, doing pretty
- 29:04good. You got the teeth in,
- 29:05Everything's looking good. She they bought a white pumpkin,
- 29:08a little 1 and so she drew the little Boo, a little ghost
- 29:11circle guy on there and then we're still cooking.
- 29:17We're doing good. We found some aluminum foil
- 29:22because she was rolling out the lips in clay and it was taking
- 29:26so much clay too much. So we got aluminum foil, tin
- 29:29foil, if you will, whatever you call it, and bulked it out and
- 29:33then put the clay on top of that.
- 29:34And I was like, you do the clay, Erica.
- 29:37I will do. I'll handle the pumpkin butt
- 29:38guts because I did not want to touch clay because it's messy as
- 29:41as the pumpkin. Guts.
- 29:42Yeah, yeah, yeah. And and whatnot.
- 29:45So she's doing that. And then we're like, well, we
- 29:47can. I think we have time.
- 29:49Let's do a Princess Peach. So she's drawing Princess Peach,
- 29:52which turned out great. Turned out great.
- 29:55Yeah. She's very cute.
- 29:56Well, she goes, it's too big. She shows me it.
- 29:59It is. There's no room for the for the
- 30:00dress. And she was like, oh, we have
- 30:03one more pumpkin. You said you came.
- 30:05You had one left. Came with a workaround, right?
- 30:07So I have the world's shittiest steak knife and I am sawing
- 30:11through this pumpkin. Like you cutting it half
- 30:14drastically. Yeah, and cut off the top so it
- 30:17would be flat. And then we set them on top so
- 30:19that the bottom pumpkin will look like her.
- 30:21Skirt. It did, and it looked pretty
- 30:23good. It worked.
- 30:24It looked pretty good. I think it.
- 30:25Worked and so and then I made a we.
- 30:28So I said that was our last pumpkin because I had already
- 30:30started making like a little goomba, which is a little brown
- 30:32mushroom. And I was like, if I just paint
- 30:33the whole thing brown and then we stick some feet on him,
- 30:36that's it. I just got to draw his eyes or
- 30:38all that eyes. I just have to draw his eyes.
- 30:41I say it turned out cute. The whole thing came out super
- 30:44cute. We won't know if we won until
- 30:46Monday. Mandy made bricks a brick
- 30:49diorama. Ball, It was like, where are we
- 30:50going to take this photo? We're like, wait, we should
- 30:52make, like a little diorama. Yeah, we should like, like.
- 30:56And she drew the world's smallest bricks.
- 30:58I was like, Mandy, she really. You could have done so.
- 31:00She made that her brick. She made that hard on her.
- 31:02She made it so. Hard on herself and.
- 31:04She was like she was yes, hindsight is 2020, but it turned
- 31:09out great. It looked great.
- 31:10I here's the thing. We've got the imagine, if you
- 31:13will, we've got most of this. I am drawing the eyeballs and
- 31:16whatnot. I am in his little teeth and his
- 31:19little teeth and, and such. And I'm, I'm doing his little,
- 31:21his eyebrows on the Goomba and I'm, you know, I'm like.
- 31:24They're they're sisters, not twins, the whole thing.
- 31:28Don't overthink it. Well, and and she and Erica is
- 31:31in the back is cutting out in construction paper these pipes
- 31:35to go on the background. Oh that's what that's supposed
- 31:37to be. Yes.
- 31:38OK, OK, Yeah, they once you know like.
- 31:40I do see it now. I see the shape now.
- 31:42I didn't zoom in well, so we have.
- 31:43This bucket and I go, should we put a lip on the bucket because
- 31:50all the pipes have a lip. I see what you've done.
- 31:52Yes. And Erica, now that I've said it
- 31:55is like us, so we're kind of, no, I wouldn't imagine we have.
- 32:00Now we are painting 5 pumpkins, drawing all of these characters.
- 32:05One big pumpkin. 5 1/2. Yeah, man, he's doing this
- 32:08background and we had to adjust the pipe the the the the pot, if
- 32:13you will, in six hours from the from the this is insane. 15 to 2
- 32:19PMI sat and did that. Actually, that's not true.
- 32:22I also stopped and I had to go make a flyer and then I came.
- 32:25Back and you came back and continued.
- 32:26This is an insane amount of work for the time that you had and
- 32:29I'm shocked Erica, that you were able to do more than just even 1
- 32:33pumpkin in that time frame. I wouldn't have been able to do.
- 32:36That yeah, these are, this is a white cardboard box that we
- 32:38chopped up because I was like, I don't want to paint it.
- 32:40Yeah, we don't have time. For the teeth, it got to.
- 32:44Erica showed her husband I Ryan. That's not his name is.
- 32:47Ryan, it's Ryan with an I. You call him Ryan with I, I Ryan
- 32:50and he goes, when did you do all that?
- 32:55She goes today, today and he goes, that's amazing.
- 32:59I can't wait. You did all that.
- 33:00He thought it was really good. I thought it was really.
- 33:02Good. It is very good.
- 33:03I am shocked. I will absolutely post a pic.
- 33:05Absolutely. I'll let you know if we want.
- 33:07We'll find out. I think that we're good enough
- 33:10to place 100 percent, I hope. So although we haven't seen the
- 33:12competition. But no, well, they were exit.
- 33:15They were going to announce the winner on Halloween.
- 33:17They did not. I guess in all years past
- 33:20they've always posted the day after.
- 33:22Well, that's today. Today it's a Saturday.
- 33:24We'll have to wait till Monday. So we'll have to wait till
- 33:25Monday to find out. But yeah, we didn't see any of
- 33:28the pics of who won or or who who was going to see what else
- 33:32they did. I know I need to see what my my
- 33:34competition because it's for the.
- 33:35Plus I just want to see because. It's for the posters I got.
- 33:38We voted yes. We find out.
- 33:40I thought that they were going to post the photos and the
- 33:43company and vote. Again.
- 33:44Oh no. On Halloween.
- 33:45Then I'm reading it and I send Mandy a screenshot.
- 33:48I go, this is that the winner will be announced on Halloween.
- 33:51And we're like, well, shit. So there was no voting, right?
- 33:56So she emails the girl. One of the girls she does is
- 33:59involved. And she goes, Oh yeah.
- 34:01Well, the pumpkin committee met yesterday.
- 34:04Hang on a minute. The Pumpkin Committee, a pumpkin
- 34:07committee, met yesterday and just picked a winner.
- 34:11And picked a winner. And they'll and she goes.
- 34:13It'll probably be announced sometime next week, probably one
- 34:16day. And Mandy immediately emails her
- 34:20back the exact same question I did.
- 34:21I said to Mandy what I found in separation hours.
- 34:24What is the pumpkin committee? Who's on the pumpkin committee?
- 34:28How do I get on this committee? I.
- 34:30Know. Does it come with pumpkin spice
- 34:32lattes? Does it come?
- 34:34With there are no pumpkin perks. Oh me, no pumpkin perkin pie
- 34:37Blizzard. Just get to vote on the
- 34:38pumpkins. So me, it's not a very baby I
- 34:41need to get on this pumpkin if. We were on the pumpkin
- 34:43committee. It would be, well, I see we
- 34:46would have pumpkin beer. I mean, it would be a pumpkin
- 34:48committee. It would be phenomenal.
- 34:50It would be phenomenal. It would be the phenomenal
- 34:52pumpkin I'll pee for. Psycho but but I was like Mandy,
- 35:05I can't be on the pumpkin committee because then I can't
- 35:07compete. It's true because then you can't
- 35:09pick yourself to when that that won't be.
- 35:11That won't be Mandy. Could be on the committee.
- 35:13Punkylicious Mandy. Maybe something of word didn't
- 35:16work so cut that up. Mandy could be on the committee.
- 35:18Well, she only, she only did this background part and we're
- 35:22like, listen. That we could.
- 35:24Sacrifice. We could sacrifice that.
- 35:26Yeah. So that for next year, Yeah.
- 35:28Now I already know what we're going to do next year because I
- 35:30had. Well, you got it already all
- 35:31planned. Now I live it because it.
- 35:33The idea of the light bulb went off.
- 35:35So first of all, apparently the pumpkin committee were the
- 35:37people who kind of helped put the whole Halloween thing on
- 35:40because apparently in Kansas City it's a big thing at the
- 35:45like annex, all the different departments, marketing, HR,
- 35:48whoever, whoever, they decorate their space like it's a very big
- 35:52deal. They decorate it really well,
- 35:54all this good stuff. And then they have some like
- 35:57outreach or whatever program and they bring these kids in and I
- 36:00think you can bring. Your kids in to come in and they
- 36:03can treat all these different things.
- 36:05That's really funny. Now here's the thing.
- 36:06I only I don't. Know I need to talk to my boss
- 36:08and find out what marketing did but I know that one of the
- 36:12departments did a whole K pop demon hunters thing.
- 36:15Fun 3 girls dressed up full whole costume.
- 36:18They got this like glitter E kind of thing.
- 36:20Tinsel hanging out that was like a metal.
- 36:22Like they were a big hit. Well, they went, you go through
- 36:24the metal detector, there is a guy they've dressed up as
- 36:26security. He's scanning these fake tickets
- 36:28that they had printed out and gave everybody so cute.
- 36:31They so the kids go in and they have the, the three girls are in
- 36:34there. They're playing the music like
- 36:35it's like a little concert in there.
- 36:37It's a Quorum concert. This was one department that was
- 36:40just one. That's one department that's
- 36:42amazing. Boy, they do go all.
- 36:44They go all out. It's a wow.
- 36:46Thing and go to Kansas City next year.
- 36:47Probably you. Damn.
- 36:49You ain't a kid. Well, it's going on.
- 36:51So, yeah, but it's like obviously I think I believe that
- 36:54the employees can bring their. Some of their own kids of.
- 36:56Course they have some kind of program and they bring other
- 36:59kids gotcha. And they get to go.
- 37:01So it's almost like a trunk or treat sort of kind of thing.
- 37:04But they go all out. And I believe the photos will be
- 37:07posted next. I can't wait to see.
- 37:08You're going to show me. I cannot wait to see.
- 37:11That's so amazing they do that. I actually.
- 37:12Love, I do that. I think that's such a great
- 37:14thing. I will say that do something fun
- 37:16for kids. It's I love it.
- 37:18It's a big it's a very big company, but they are very
- 37:20committed to their local markets.
- 37:23They started in Kansas City and it's a very, very big thing.
- 37:26That's cool. Good thing.
- 37:27Like to give back. So I do appreciate that.
- 37:29But yeah, so we'll find out. But we don't know who's in the I
- 37:32don't know. And we don't know who they
- 37:34picked. No.
- 37:35And I wanna win very bad because I got one free lunch.
- 37:38I would like another. Yeah, who doesn't want a free
- 37:41lunch? I know, but I do want to see the
- 37:43other pumpkins because I'm interested, because it turns out
- 37:45yours turned out great. I want to see you know I want to
- 37:47see what ours turned out great. I wouldn't.
- 37:49We can do it in six hours, but if we started fucking two days
- 37:52before, Can you imagine? Wow, you guys would have it
- 37:55would have been off the charts. I I want to know.
- 37:58I just want to see what they did because I find it.
- 38:00Fascinating. Now I have.
- 38:01Zero talent in painting. And so I'm always amazed at what
- 38:04other people, how they in like, wow, how did you know how to do
- 38:07it? Incredible.
- 38:09I heard. Well, look, I'm picking up on
- 38:11context clues. I believe that somebody did like
- 38:14a genie, like from Aladdin and stacked a bunch of pumpkins
- 38:18together. That could be fun.
- 38:19And they go, they go. They only had it holding up long
- 38:22enough to go click, click. And then they had to take the
- 38:24bottle. Off OK, they take it.
- 38:25Down, but honestly, we were the exact.
- 38:27Same thing, they found a Donald rod OK cuz you got to get Mario
- 38:30jumping over some. I've got no.
- 38:32Hammer Oh my God, so. I have the world cheese steak
- 38:37knife. I cut like a whole, like a like
- 38:38a thing in the bottom of the Mario pumpkin.
- 38:40OK, slam it down on this dowel rod to puncture.
- 38:43I heard you had to use the ground.
- 38:45Well, I did. I got it for then.
- 38:47We're like, we're like, OK, we have this like you like
- 38:49packaging paper, you know, the whole things together.
- 38:52We have, we're stuffing the pumpkin full of this to try
- 38:56because our dowel rods again from the Dollar Tree are not
- 38:59long enough to actually stick out of the pumpkin, OK.
- 39:02And so we're like filling it. We're trying to bulk this thing
- 39:04up. I'm like, Erica, it's not going
- 39:06to hold. This is paper right, right.
- 39:08So she was use the top of the pumpkin that we've cut off.
- 39:12So I'm now taking the world cheese steak knife.
- 39:14I need to keep emphasizing this because my hand was very tired.
- 39:17I think I'm something in my sole hair.
- 39:19I bet you. Did and we are I'm cutting this
- 39:23as much as possible to try to get it to fit into the mouth of
- 39:28our piranha plant pumpkin because it needs to fit in
- 39:31there, but it needs to also be heavy enough to hold up Mario on
- 39:34top. Now once again, I getting the
- 39:37thing on to Mario wasn't too hard.
- 39:39I just got to get through this like he's a little pumpkin.
- 39:41I just got to get through a little layer and then he's
- 39:42hollow. You know, he's a pumpkin.
- 39:44Certainly certainly, but the the the top of the pumpkin is not
- 39:48hollow. It is solid all the way through
- 39:51correct. So one I've got to cut the stem
- 39:53off. That was a whole adventure.
- 39:54Oh boy. With with the shitty stakes.
- 39:57I'm sawing and I slammed that on the ground, then popped that
- 40:00off. Right now I'm like, desperately
- 40:03stabbing the center of this pumpkin trying to like, soften.
- 40:07Or make like a little like incision so that I can put the
- 40:10dollar on. Can't get in, can't get in.
- 40:12I put it on the ground and I can slam the sucker onto the ground
- 40:17over and over and over. Once it's like signed, like
- 40:19finally somewhat attached, I'm slamming over and over because I
- 40:22can. I have no hammer.
- 40:24I have no way of attaching these things together.
- 40:27Meanwhile, Erica is like doing the little lips one on our
- 40:30pumpkin. She's broken a bunch of paper
- 40:35clips and it's stabbing using the thing, then stabbing the
- 40:39aluminum foil and then covering it in clay with the lips.
- 40:43Yeah. Yeah.
- 40:43Stabbing the lips cuz we don't have anything.
- 40:46Yeah. She's like, she's like using.
- 40:48I go, cuz it's wet so you can't glue it or take.
- 40:50No. Yeah.
- 40:51The inside of that pumpkin is so wet.
- 40:52It's wet. And we're like, how are we gonna
- 40:54attach these teeth? And I go, is it corrugated
- 40:55cardboard? Yes.
- 40:58So she's like threading the corrugated cardboard.
- 41:00She's cutting the teeth specifically so that we can
- 41:02thread the things onto the teeth and then stuffing the OR the
- 41:06teeth onto the paper clips and then stabbing the paper clips
- 41:09into the into the pumpkin. Yeah.
- 41:11Or the paper clips were the MVP. Paper clips are the MVP because
- 41:15those you have no idea how versatile.
- 41:17Turns out you could use them as push pins basically.
- 41:20Or tag or tag them for. I've used them for ornament
- 41:24hooks on on a Christmas tree I've used them in.
- 41:27When I was teaching, I used to hook them through the little.
- 41:29That's we did that. The ceiling.
- 41:31The ceiling because we. Have the hang stuff.
- 41:33Yeah. We we tie we have a little bad
- 41:35sword that crave probably Yeah. We just hook them up in there
- 41:38and hang your stuff. That's what we did.
- 41:40Those are paper clips are the MVP.
- 41:41They are but but yeah. And so this we'd already
- 41:45apologized to Doug, but I apologized a second time.
- 41:48For slamming this fucking slamming to the ground, he's
- 41:51probably enjoying that. But yeah, no, we got it.
- 41:53We got it like again. It's all good.
- 41:55It stood click, click, click done, done, and then we're we're
- 41:58I think it was submitted AT2O four, but the thing didn't shut
- 42:01off and I honestly. On a little bit.
- 42:03Of time, it never said that there was a cut off time until
- 42:06Mandy. You just told us there was two.
- 42:08We just sort of took our report. It might have been in the
- 42:10e-mail, but not, who knows. But we submitted it so.
- 42:14Well, good for you guys. That's a that's AI can't believe
- 42:17that's a crazy. That's a crazy day.
- 42:19That was I go. I'm like sitting there like.
- 42:21But you were successful because it turned out great.
- 42:23I go no. One's going to believe that I
- 42:25actually do anything around here because I sat there that whole
- 42:28day. Pain debunked this for six
- 42:29hours. Now I told you we have an idea
- 42:32for next year. Do you want to say don't say it
- 42:34because somebody's going to? Steal it.
- 42:35Well, I'll say it. It's OK, It's all right.
- 42:39I said there's a, there's a song, the Internet, kind of just
- 42:45a funny. Bit called disco snail.
- 42:48Disco snail OK? And Mandy dressed up as disco
- 42:52snail for. Halloween.
- 42:53Oh, that's hilarious. It is very funny, but she had
- 42:54borrowed a wig from Erica because they do a bunch of
- 42:57cosplay kind of stuff. OK.
- 43:00And so she brought the wig back and was sitting on Erica's desk.
- 43:03And I see it and I go. You see the wig?
- 43:05And I was like, we should do I go?
- 43:08I already I go, I know what we're going to do next year.
- 43:10I tell Erica I made it. So OK, wait, wait.
- 43:12And I go we should make a Bob Ross pumpkin painting another
- 43:16smaller pumpkin. Yeah, because it's a fucking
- 43:19painting. Yeah, and we can put the little
- 43:22thing on there. Wig.
- 43:24So I wrote this on a sticky note and now it's now push pinned
- 43:26into my cubicle so that we do not forget this.
- 43:28One for good idea, good job. Good job that we were like,
- 43:31isn't that the cute? Wouldn't that be so cute?
- 43:32Oh, I think that's hilarious. We got one that's borrowed us
- 43:34and then one little. And he's having a little.
- 43:36Tree and all that. Oh my.
- 43:38God, Oh my God. OK, that's hilarious.
- 43:40So we thought that that would be very cute.
- 43:41Fantastic. So that's our idea.
- 43:43I think I love it. Well, I have to tell you,
- 43:45Speaking of Kansas City, hit me, Sam and Liv and I did a did a
- 43:49pilgrimage to to Purple Kiss. I always did.
- 43:53You use pilgrimage. No, I have not used pilgrimage.
- 43:55I always try to do some alliteration with the travel and
- 43:59if only I could come up with something that starts with D
- 44:02that has to do with travelling to go to dance.
- 44:05Abby came up with drive and went right over my head.
- 44:08So I had to call this one Pilgrimage of Purple Kiss
- 44:10because what else am I going to do with AP?
- 44:11So anyway, you know, it's just a straight shot to Kansas City
- 44:15from, you know, where, you know, once you get over to Saint
- 44:17Louis, it's very, very easy drive.
- 44:20But we get in the car and you know, of course, somebody,
- 44:24something always holds us up. We're we're women.
- 44:26It happens. I hate to lump us into that
- 44:28category, but you know, I would throw live under the bus.
- 44:31It's typically live, but I'm in the back seat, they're up front.
- 44:34We're in Sam's car. And you know, I coughed.
- 44:38I kind of choked a little bit on my on my coffee.
- 44:42You're eye control, Anna. And Sam says, are you OK?
- 44:45And I couldn't really answer yet because I'm trying to because
- 44:48you're choking. I'm choking.
- 44:49Yeah, Yeah. And Lip says, oh, she's dead.
- 44:54And so then I finally got it together and I said, you better
- 44:57be dead. Better be dead.
- 45:02OK, So that better. That immediately triggered your
- 45:05memory of Atlanta. It did the same thing to us.
- 45:07And then we all did, like we're in the car just crying.
- 45:09Yes, yes. Remembering taking a hitter out
- 45:12of the shower so I just. I just remembered another thing
- 45:15about. Georgia.
- 45:17OK. Well, so then, you know, so it
- 45:20was fine. I was fine.
- 45:21I wasn't choking to death. When was this trip?
- 45:23Like 2-3 weeks Just recently. Yeah.
- 45:25Yeah, 2 two weeks ago. One week ago.
- 45:27I'm like you said, it feels like we have a Gordon for I ever
- 45:30honestly, I have been on a whirlwind since June and I
- 45:33haven't had a moment to rest. I'm very, very tired because I
- 45:38did back-to-back trips. Liv and I went down to I don't
- 45:40even know if we talked about this.
- 45:41We did a quick hop down to Nashville, TN for Levy.
- 45:45If you ever get a chance to see Levy, this woman is amazing.
- 45:49She's from she's Icelandic, Chinese.
- 45:51She her father is Icelandic. Her mother is Chinese.
- 45:54I've I've diverted to another trip.
- 45:56Who's that? She is beautiful, beautiful
- 46:00singing voice. She sings in this kind of a old
- 46:03school style when you think of, yeah, Frank Sinatra.
- 46:06And lyric, almost like. Crooning a little bit not, you
- 46:08know, and she does some very jazzy stuff and yeah, she but
- 46:12then she also does kind of some stuff that's her own unique
- 46:14style and it's and she's and she's literally this concert.
- 46:17It's like I'm just a kid from Iceland, you know?
- 46:19And she's like, I never, I wanted this was my dream and I
- 46:22chased it and I wanted it. But you just in the background
- 46:25mind you think I'm never gonna. Or the odds, yeah.
- 46:28Never gonna be this successful and she's like and here I am in
- 46:31Nashville, TN and this big, you know, Bridgestone Arena where
- 46:33the the Predators play hockey. Excellent venue and.
- 46:37That's, that's pretty. I mean, we went to Knoxville
- 46:40for. I would say it's similar to, you
- 46:42know, our enterprise center, it's similar, similar, similar
- 46:45type of. Yeah, I'm like that's a big
- 46:46venue. That's a bigger arena that we.
- 46:47Were at with 20,000 seats yeah and her sight was so beautiful
- 46:53and she has a twin sister, identical twin sister really,
- 46:55who is her creative director and boy does she knock it out of.
- 46:58The box wow her. Set her costumes, everything
- 47:01beautiful, beautiful. We had the most.
- 47:04I just literally got goosebumps thinking about how wonderful and
- 47:07I didn't want to go. I was like, don't want to spend
- 47:09any more money. I just don't have the money.
- 47:10Live like, you know, I had the money, you know, but it's like
- 47:13you. Know the one time of award.
- 47:15Out of PTO, you know, it's like it's just and then she's like
- 47:18what if this is just like my birthday present next year when
- 47:20my birthday February like don't you don't give me anything.
- 47:23This member depressed she because she has been following
- 47:26ladies since she since college and killed for a long time to.
- 47:30Be like my Taylor Swift. Almost.
- 47:32Yes, she's been following her for a long time.
- 47:34She loves her. And I was like, OK, fine, it's
- 47:36just me and you, we're going to go.
- 47:37I found a hotel that's with 7 minute walking distance of the
- 47:41venue. So we parked the car.
- 47:43We could walk everywhere and it wasn't crazy expensive because
- 47:46some of the hotels when they're close to a venue like 500 and a
- 47:49night, this is like 250. It's fine, OK.
- 47:52And it's only. One night this mandible, the
- 47:53tickets are much the tickets were not very expensive.
- 47:56It was like 300 for both of us. So like 150 a seat where we've
- 48:00paid way more for concert tickets and.
- 48:04I was like, OK. It's one night I'm we're going
- 48:07to take turns driving. We'll split it up.
- 48:10It'll be fine. Well, we when we got we got in a
- 48:12car to go, we both looked at each other and we realized that
- 48:14we had made a mistake because I am directionally challenged as
- 48:19you know. Is it?
- 48:21It was the seven minute walk that got you?
- 48:22No, I know, I know. Listen, that wasn't even a Dick.
- 48:27Why? I have had to do that before
- 48:29where I've been in downtown Saint Louis and I've had to kind
- 48:32of get turned around. Well, it's very difficult
- 48:35because you're not walking very fast and so it takes a little
- 48:39bit for the GPS. So I've realized sometimes that
- 48:42I've walked almost the entire block in the wrong direction
- 48:44before it realized OK, got you going the.
- 48:46Wrong way, You're going the wrong way.
- 48:47Well, no, I don't know my left and my right.
- 48:50It's the dyslexics curse and it is what it is.
- 48:53But also Liv is a terrible navigator.
- 48:56We have openly said this in front of her, like, the problem
- 48:59is she doesn't pay attention. She's doing Cookie Room Kingdom
- 49:02on her phone and she's supposed to be helping you, you know
- 49:04what, find your exit and whatever.
- 49:07So, I mean, GPS is a huge help, of course, of course.
- 49:10So whatever we made it, we're proud of ourselves.
- 49:13Mayor and Sam were on their own trip, yes, to go up up to
- 49:17Chicago to see a different group.
- 49:19Stacey. I was here.
- 49:20You were here. I said I had to bring.
- 49:22I did They. I need to bring Abby with me
- 49:25just because Abby is an excellent navigator.
- 49:26Yeah, but. I I wish it was Dad and I who
- 49:30navigate our whole way to fucking Atlanta.
- 49:32You 2 are the are the two best. I wish I would have brought you
- 49:34with me, you and Ash with me, the Leibe because it was you
- 49:38would have loved it. I loved it.
- 49:38Ashley and I just love design. All types of you absolutely
- 49:42would have loved her set. We we there's AI think it's
- 49:46still on Netflix. It's all documentary.
- 49:48I watched it for the first time in college.
- 49:51It's like a docu series. There was two seasons.
- 49:53They never made any more and that makes me very sad.
- 49:56But it's, it's called abstract and it goes through all these
- 49:59different types of designs. So it goes through graphic
- 50:02designers, of course. And it was more, it was really
- 50:05interesting because it was old school.
- 50:06It was like, they're like, this person was like, oh, I've been
- 50:09in this for, you know, my whole life.
- 50:13And now it's all digital, right? You're using Photoshop and, and,
- 50:17and all that kind of stuff. And they're like, back in the
- 50:19day, we were handwriting these things, right?
- 50:22We are hand, we're painting that.
- 50:24That's what it was. That's not really what it is
- 50:27anymore or not. So that's very interesting.
- 50:29But then it was like interior design, set design.
- 50:33Each episode is a different one, right?
- 50:35So like the set design is kind of like for here for concerts
- 50:38and things like that, right, Right.
- 50:39And so each episode is a different.
- 50:42That's cool. It's very, very, very cool.
- 50:45They only made two seasons. We love it.
- 50:47This is her album cover. She is lame.
- 50:51Her album cover is a clock y'all very midnight blue beautiful.
- 50:55It's The album is called a matter of time.
- 50:57This is her most recent album. It is no skips.
- 51:00I love this album It's fantastic.
- 51:02It's so fun. It's I've heard a.
- 51:05Couple of her songs. Oh my.
- 51:06Gosh, you would love this. I think you would love this.
- 51:07And she's laying on the in front of the clock and her her legs
- 51:10are like the arms. The arms, a little bit of the
- 51:12clock. And she isn't.
- 51:13She look beautiful. She looks amazing.
- 51:15So this is kind of the theme for the set.
- 51:18You know this clock and the extended stage is the face of
- 51:22the clock. Very fun.
- 51:23And she at one point is she is spinning with the clock.
- 51:27Oh my God, so cool. And then she did like what she.
- 51:30Called like almost like acts like Act 1 was she come out and
- 51:34did whatever. Like I think she did the song
- 51:36off this album, whatever. And then Act 2 was very jazzy
- 51:38and it was her and just the piano and and the cellist and
- 51:42and the little drummer out on this on the center stage.
- 51:45We were right there in front of the center stage.
- 51:47So she was right there and she's in a little fringy get up and
- 51:51doing her little jazzy thing. And then she does another little
- 51:53jazzy. Yeah.
- 51:54And then she does another costume change and does Act 3
- 51:56and, you know, does different songs.
- 51:57And so it was very, very, very cool and it was very wonderful.
- 52:01And I was just like, so glad. It was one of those things where
- 52:05I was like, I really don't want to do this.
- 52:06And then of course, in the moment, I'm like, I'm so glad I
- 52:09did it. Yeah, I'm so glad I did it.
- 52:10Liv and I had an amazing time and it was really fun to do
- 52:13something with her. Anyway, back to Kansas City.
- 52:15We go to Kansas City. We're going to go see a group
- 52:16called Purple Kiss. OK, This is AK Pop group.
- 52:18Yes, they are actually disbanding.
- 52:21This is a farewell tour, so Sam, I wasn't.
- 52:25Going just like regular kids. Just like regular kids, all
- 52:29right? Actually, RIPAS, really.
- 52:31He just passed away. Yeah, yeah, there.
- 52:33Were well, thank God you guys got to go to that.
- 52:35Dan, I had the time of my life. I just actually came up with my
- 52:38memories that we went to that concert, one of my favorites.
- 52:40Anyway. So we go, we go.
- 52:42We're driving to Kansas City and I don't know why, but it it's
- 52:48like 2:00 and we're gonna hit town at three, OK?
- 52:51We're gonna get to our tell at 3:00, the newest.
- 52:53Now there's a new thing and typically you could check in at
- 52:563. So I'm thinking, you know, we're
- 52:57timing it right. But now a lot of the hotels are
- 52:59doing check in at 40, check out at noon where it used to be like
- 53:033 to 11. Like me, we pay a lot of money
- 53:05for a hotel. You don't even get 24 hours, you
- 53:07know, you know that anyway. So I'm like, I hope they have a
- 53:10room. A lot of times they have, if
- 53:11they have a room ready, they'll let you go in your room and it's
- 53:14fine. So we were fingers crossed,
- 53:16hoping for the best. And I said, what time do we have
- 53:18to be at the venue? Because Sam bought what they
- 53:23called an everything ticket. Some of the concerts you can do
- 53:29a VIP ticket, VVIP, VVVVIP, whatever at different levels.
- 53:32Yes, we've talked about this as you guys like running up and
- 53:35down and doing all the yes. So yeah, this was insane.
- 53:38This was the one that we did every.
- 53:39So she literally bought an everything ticket and I'm like,
- 53:41why don't we do that? And she's like, because you get
- 53:44to meet them. OK, so before the concerts.
- 53:46Well, anyways, So what time do we have to be there 4?
- 53:49They're like, we have to be there by 4 or you're going to
- 53:51miss stuff. And we're like, what?
- 53:53We have to be there by 4. It's 2:00 right now, and we're
- 53:56still an hour out of the city. Yeah.
- 53:58I'm like, are you kidding with? Me, let's go faster.
- 54:01We get to the hotel at three. We're like, let we look at Liv.
- 54:05This is this is directly at Liv. You have till 3:30 to be ready
- 54:08to go and then we're out the door because now we got to go
- 54:10find the venue, which is not far.
- 54:12Thankfully I found a hotel that's very close.
- 54:14But but you have to find it and. We're like, if our room isn't
- 54:16ready, we're screwed. We're getting ready in the bath,
- 54:18the lobby of the hotel, yes, you know, and find a bathroom.
- 54:21Hopefully there's a bathroom in there.
- 54:23Room was wetting. But then I I literally almost
- 54:26have a full on panic attack because I realized we can't take
- 54:29the room. We don't have time to check the
- 54:30room for bed bugs. And I am like, Oh my God, Oh my
- 54:33God, Oh my God. Breathe, breathe.
- 54:34OK, It's going to be fine. It's going to feel that.
- 54:37And I'm almost in tears and Sam knows and I'm like, why didn't
- 54:40we check this before we left? Why aren't we on top of this,
- 54:43which then that made Sam upsets. And then I was like, I'm sorry.
- 54:45I don't mean I apologize. Tensions are running like.
- 54:48I don't mean to make this is the biggest.
- 54:50Trigger for you. That I am fully triggered with
- 54:53the understanding because. Completely understand because I
- 54:56will mention this to my friend, this J dog, yeah, who has her
- 55:01own experience with this, that her parents also were in a
- 55:03similar situation. And it was similar to like me
- 55:06that I was like, you're sort of detached, but not really, Not
- 55:08really. And and it is triggering for her
- 55:12to be like, Oh my God, we were like, we both were like, we
- 55:15can't. Talk about this.
- 55:18We can't talk about this. I never even, I never understood
- 55:22why things like triggered people.
- 55:23I heard that term before. I was never that kind of person.
- 55:25I get it now. I get it now.
- 55:27So I'm upset. I'm getting ready to go and Sam
- 55:30says because we're like, we're just going to leave all the
- 55:32luggage in the bathroom and hope for the best.
- 55:34And I was just like, that was not flying with me.
- 55:36I was not yelling that. Well, it's not.
- 55:38It's not. And then?
- 55:39We're doing well like this is the fastest quick change for a
- 55:42concert of our lives Yes, we throw on our clothes, touch up
- 55:46the makeup, we're out the. Door.
- 55:47It's giving. It's giving.
- 55:48After my wedding rehearsals, we go home flying everything out
- 55:53every over to Saint Louis. Literally.
- 55:56And she finally, Sam says, Mom, would you feel better if we took
- 56:00everything back out to the car because we kept everything
- 56:03there's. No way anything has got a.
- 56:05Container and I said Oh my God yes, yes, if you guys don't
- 56:09mind, please let's just take it all back out to the car.
- 56:12So if we Can you imagine? We we roll the.
- 56:16Bags in and all our shit and then we get ready to go and we.
- 56:19Roll it all back out. And put it back in the trunk.
- 56:23Find the venue. Turns out there's construction
- 56:25on the street in front of the venue.
- 56:27We cannot get to the venue. We finally park wherever we can
- 56:30park. We start walking towards the
- 56:32venue. There are fences you can't
- 56:34cross. We can see we're like up the
- 56:36fence holding on to the let. Us go, let us cross the street,
- 56:40please. Sam breaks out the bolt cutters.
- 56:43Literally, we're going in, these guys are working on the street
- 56:45looking as we're like how? Do we get over?
- 56:47There, we're signalling he's like down there, you know.
- 56:50So we walk down the block. We find a little.
- 56:52I'm a single. Caracle these fuckers.
- 56:54Exactly. And I looked amazing.
- 56:55We we crossed the street, we walked back to the venue, we get
- 56:59in line and the guy's like OK, and and we went and we went.
- 57:03We made it. We made it.
- 57:04We really, really feel like no breathing.
- 57:08I can't believe we fucking. Made the oxygen in here, yes.
- 57:11We couldn't believe we made it unbelievable.
- 57:14We go in, you get to have them sign something.
- 57:17They all there's. 5 or 6. You said, and they all sign
- 57:23whatever you put in front of them, you know, So your boob.
- 57:26Yeah, I, I wanted boob. Sam said no, but one with ass
- 57:30cheek. Well, 52345, yes.
- 57:36Oh, no, 66 girls, 6 girls. So they each sign and you.
- 57:38And OK, now I don't typically get starstruck, but here are
- 57:43these six Korean, South Korean women sitting in front of you.
- 57:50They are the most beautiful people I have ever seen in my
- 57:54life. And I'm on the other side of the
- 57:57table. And I'm like, I'm just saying
- 57:59they're like, wow. And I literally am like, you
- 58:02guys look amazing. I like said it.
- 58:05I couldn't help it. It's kind of.
- 58:07And they're like, well, thanks. You know, they're so I'm like,
- 58:11so I cannot believe how beautiful you are.
- 58:13They. They were gorgeous.
- 58:14Yeah. So cute.
- 58:16So sweet. Just beautiful.
- 58:18So then we. Thanks, lady.
- 58:19Yep. So then we have Thanks Mom.
- 58:24It's Mom energy. My mom said I look good, so you
- 58:27know, they're incredible. We go downstairs, we go back
- 58:30outside and get in the line because we get in the line
- 58:32outside, yes, because. We kind of were doing like a.
- 58:34So we go up, we go upstairs, back downstairs, back outside,
- 58:37then we go back in. Now it's time for a high touch
- 58:41picture. We're taking a picture.
- 58:44OK, So it's like you file in they're sitting in these little
- 58:47they're. Sitting on this.
- 58:48Little stool and like whatever, however many people a time, 10
- 58:52people, whatever you know, filing behind them.
- 58:55Group, you lean in, smile group pick.
- 58:56OK, get out. We go back outside, click.
- 58:59OK, then time for sound check. Nope, that's after sound check.
- 59:05We go in, they come out, and we're sitting very close.
- 59:09It's a smaller Amphitheatre type.
- 59:11Yeah, Little Place indoor, thank God and.
- 59:13Like a like a the pageant of the factory were like bigger like.
- 59:16Oh, it's smaller than that. Smaller really than the pageant?
- 59:19Yeah. Yeah, maybe pageant style.
- 59:22It literally reminded me of the school.
- 59:23School auditorium. Oh, wow.
- 59:26I think these chairs actually have the desk I could pull.
- 59:28Up. That's like.
- 59:28Funny, it was comfortable like a college auditorium.
- 59:32It was like a college auditorium, literally.
- 59:34And very comfortable and nice like it was.
- 59:37I know. So you would.
- 59:37That's wherever you stand. Yeah.
- 59:40Wherever you were sitting, you had a great view.
- 59:42Yeah, it was. They're right there.
- 59:44That's really fun. And they come out and they do,
- 59:45they do a little, you know, 3 songs, 3 songs for sound check.
- 59:50And, you know, they're waving at you, whatever.
- 59:51And then they go off and then they come out.
- 59:52And then, then now general admission comes in and yes, now
- 59:56we have the concert. And then at one point they come
- 59:58out into the aisles and walk right by you.
- 1:00:00And we're like, oh, you know. And so then concert ends.
- 1:00:05Then you go over. To the to the line and you go up
- 1:00:08the. Stairs, the high touch?
- 1:00:09Yep, go up the stairs suggesting it and it's never that.
- 1:00:11It is high touch so you go up the stairs and you literally
- 1:00:14went by and high 5 them all and you have a high touch that's.
- 1:00:17Whatever that is. And then you go back downstairs
- 1:00:20and then we loop around and we go back upstairs.
- 1:00:22And this time it is for a photo of you and all six girls.
- 1:00:27So they're. But.
- 1:00:27Individually, individually, me by myself, 3 girls over here, 3
- 1:00:31girls over here. I go in the middle and so we're
- 1:00:33all like, what are you going to do?
- 1:00:34What are you going to do? What are you going to do?
- 1:00:36I'm like, I am absolutely going to ask them all to do finger
- 1:00:39guns and so I did and so I can't wait to see this picture.
- 1:00:43I haven't seen this. So this isn't the selfies.
- 1:00:45No, not yet. Like this is a my God.
- 1:00:47These girls are taking a lot of these girls were really working
- 1:00:50hard that night. I'll tell you what.
- 1:00:51I'm not sorry as you guys were working, that's true.
- 1:00:53Because I had to make 5-6 rounds up those damn steps.
- 1:00:55And I'll tell you what, nobody warned me about the cardio.
- 1:01:00So I looked at Sam and I said, should I ask them to do finger
- 1:01:02guns? I think that would be hilarious.
- 1:01:04And she goes. You should absolutely ask them
- 1:01:06to do finger guns. So I go. 1st and I go, ladies,
- 1:01:10can we all do finger guns? And they're like yes.
- 1:01:11And so I get the middle and I'm like.
- 1:01:15And they're all doing it, and they all went.
- 1:01:16No, they all did it. They all did it and Sam is
- 1:01:19rolling Sam's crying, laughing. And so then I she was holding a
- 1:01:22bag of like ours. We all got shirts.
- 1:01:23I'm wearing my shirt and I grabbed the bag from her so she
- 1:01:25can do. Hers with the purple jacket.
- 1:01:27With the purple jacket, it's the purple kiss and it's like neon
- 1:01:29green and then. The marriage is really low and.
- 1:01:31Then yeah, then my jacket, I think it looks good.
- 1:01:32So yeah, cuz look at my zombie bracelet.
- 1:01:34The green, purple and the purple and the green.
- 1:01:36Sam does hers. I don't see her because I'm kind
- 1:01:38of walking empty. You have to get out of the way
- 1:01:39quickly. Liv comes into hers and Sam and
- 1:01:42I turn to look at her and Liv does like, I don't even know
- 1:01:46what you call this pose, but she looks gorgeous, OK.
- 1:01:49She just like strikes a pose like and she looks and she's
- 1:01:52like, can we all do like? I don't even know what you call
- 1:01:55it. Can you do the pose for?
- 1:01:56Me she just like leans up against the.
- 1:01:57Wall. Like this.
- 1:01:58And she's just like, like, beautiful, like.
- 1:02:01Oh look, a very casual like. No, it's more like about, you
- 1:02:06know, gorgeous, like a little like, I don't know, but she
- 1:02:11looked she looked awesome and tame and I were both literally
- 1:02:16like dumb stroke. We just said they were like, oh,
- 1:02:18that's beautiful. So it's amazing, like, like
- 1:02:21you're Jessica Rabbit, like, you know, like.
- 1:02:23It's the it's it's contrapostome if you will.
- 1:02:27Is that what it's called? Well, it's an Italian term for a
- 1:02:29naturalistic pose and art where a figure stands with most of its
- 1:02:31weight on one leg, causing the hips and shoulders to lift in
- 1:02:34opposite directions. OK, I know this because I had to
- 1:02:36do it on the Well, it's it's a whole thing, but it's it's like
- 1:02:40you you lean on one leg because it.
- 1:02:42It just your hips and your chest out opposite directions.
- 1:02:45Well she looked amazing. I don't know if that's what it
- 1:02:47was, if that, it sounds right. She looked gorgeous and she's
- 1:02:50just kind of leaning against the wall like and does some
- 1:02:53beautiful pose. And I'm like, damn, that's going
- 1:02:56to be a good pick, you know, So whatever.
- 1:02:58So then go back down the stairs, get back in line, go back up the
- 1:03:01steps. Now you're going to do a selfie
- 1:03:02with each girl. OK, so you.
- 1:03:04Literally they're like have your phone ready and then you had
- 1:03:08can't have it on live. I don't know why they turn the
- 1:03:11live. Well, sure, I.
- 1:03:12Mean I I get. Whatever, I didn't care, I
- 1:03:14didn't care. Never hurt my feelings.
- 1:03:15And then you hand the phone to the this is Yuki and you can do
- 1:03:21a pose with this is E Ray. OK, This is not it's like go,
- 1:03:28umm, go umm is her name. She has a she the beautiful
- 1:03:32voice. This is oh man, I forget her
- 1:03:37name. Shoot, she's really fun.
- 1:03:40And I got my little Kitty out and we're took a picture with my
- 1:03:43little Kitty that's on my purse and she's so cute.
- 1:03:45Darn. What's her name?
- 1:03:47Hold, please, Swan. This is Swan here.
- 1:03:49This is Swan. OK Dozy.
- 1:03:52Oh, this. Oh, Dozy.
- 1:03:54Dozy. That's Dozy.
- 1:03:56That's Go. This is E Ray.
- 1:03:58E Ray, OK. And there's Chan Chan.
- 1:04:01OK. And then I looked it up.
- 1:04:03There you go. And we were at the Gem Theater
- 1:04:06in in Chicago. I mean, I'm sorry, in Kansas
- 1:04:09City I said the wrong way. But yeah, it was.
- 1:04:12It was just an absolute. Now the funny part was this.
- 1:04:15Is so funny up and down the stairs so.
- 1:04:16Much, well, literally this, there were these two girls in
- 1:04:18front of us and they were pretty heavy.
- 1:04:19They were pretty, they were, they were a lot bigger than than
- 1:04:21me and the girl I said, and I'm like on the time, I'm like
- 1:04:24breathing hard now because I'm like, I've been up and down
- 1:04:26these goddamn steps like, you know, 6 times.
- 1:04:28And I just said it's the last, our last time up.
- 1:04:30And I said, you know, nobody warned me about this, about the
- 1:04:33steps, this. Is cardio.
- 1:04:35Yeah, I'm like, I'm not prepared for this much cardio.
- 1:04:37And the girl and the girl goes, this is not very fat friendly.
- 1:04:43And I was like, OK, you said it, not me.
- 1:04:45That's hilarious. So I thought that was pretty
- 1:04:48funny. Well.
- 1:04:49I we I'm going to really very, very quickly tried to rapid fire
- 1:04:55a couple things that I remember we went to the all time low
- 1:04:57concert on Tuesday. We.
- 1:04:58Just went to all time low it was amazing.
- 1:05:00You and me and Ashley and Olivia.
- 1:05:02And the same was sick and so she took her friends.
- 1:05:04So Kelly got to go. We had an amazing time, the cab.
- 1:05:06I was so happy to see the cab. It was the paradox.
- 1:05:09Yep, the cab. Mayday.
- 1:05:10Parade, Parade. Those were the openers and then
- 1:05:12all. Time and the all time.
- 1:05:13Low telling Erica and Mandy about this and now they just
- 1:05:16went and saw that chemical romance.
- 1:05:18I was like that too. They Mandy goes, listen, I
- 1:05:22cannot go to any more concerts because I just blew so much
- 1:05:25money going to my coming romance.
- 1:05:26But she's like, we were in the pit.
- 1:05:28It was. Amazing.
- 1:05:30Because they tell like a whole story.
- 1:05:32Jealous. It was amazing and I didn't.
- 1:05:34Even know they were coming so they're.
- 1:05:35Big, they're big, like fans and whatnot.
- 1:05:38So I'm telling them and Erica cracks me up because she goes.
- 1:05:40I don't want them to play no me, no mere music.
- 1:05:42She goes if I go to a concert, don't play your new stuff.
- 1:05:44I'm stuff I know. Well, that's the whole point.
- 1:05:48They promote the new stuff. I like all Time Lowe's new
- 1:05:52stuff, certainly. It's very fun, certainly.
- 1:05:54And why not? Why aren't you listening to the
- 1:05:56new stuff? Well, do it, I think.
- 1:05:57She is. She's just okay.
- 1:05:59This is just Ericas. Here's the thing.
- 1:06:01I totally get her because we've done this before for many
- 1:06:04concerts, but it's like. No, they don't play.
- 1:06:06Whatever anymore because they're playing a new song.
- 1:06:09That's what I feel about together.
- 1:06:10Yeah, God damn, I've missed the Air song and now yeah, will I
- 1:06:13ever hear her performance chanted.
- 1:06:15I don't. Know.
- 1:06:15Probably not, so who knows? That's the thing, you're right,
- 1:06:18because they can only do so many songs.
- 1:06:20You know, not everybody's doing a 3 1/2.
- 1:06:22Hour. Not everybody's doing a 3 1/2
- 1:06:23hour show, so but I get it. Well, so I do the cab.
- 1:06:28I love the cab they came, they call it.
- 1:06:30They were so. Funny, they they hadn't
- 1:06:31performed or toured in forever. And they were.
- 1:06:33Just like so I was I was like a freshman called and I find out
- 1:06:36with the cab. Yeah, love them.
- 1:06:38They're great to modern, you know today.
- 1:06:40Yeah, they have not done anything in the last 10.
- 1:06:43Years. 10 years, yeah. And, well, even all time.
- 1:06:46Low. This is like their first tour in
- 1:06:47the IN. The time, but they were at least
- 1:06:49putting up music the cab has done enough because.
- 1:06:51You're you're a Robin. She loves all time low.
- 1:06:54She saw them ten years ago. Like.
- 1:06:56Legit legit she text she was post column.
- 1:07:00She's like 10 years ago. I was like they still sound
- 1:07:03great. They.
- 1:07:04Sound amazing? Still sound great, put on a
- 1:07:06great show. All time low and I don't really
- 1:07:08know Mayday Parade. Which I didn't know them either
- 1:07:10and it was fine. Because I was telling Mandy and
- 1:07:13Erica about this, and of course they lows all time low and
- 1:07:16they're like, Oh my God, I'm playing on the line of the
- 1:07:18paradox of the cab. Paradise was very fun.
- 1:07:20I didn't know them, but they were fun, yes.
- 1:07:21They're new and they were young. They were young.
- 1:07:23They were immediately legit. She was like, Oh my God, I heard
- 1:07:26whatever song, which is I have been obsessed.
- 1:07:28They are funny and they're very young, so they're just starting
- 1:07:31out, so good for them, yes. And the cab the.
- 1:07:34Cab is just great, he. Was like, yeah, we have 1910
- 1:07:37years. I didn't know of anybody want to
- 1:07:39cut and of course we're losing our.
- 1:07:41Place is cheering. He's like we're so exciting.
- 1:07:44Thanks for opening. Thanks.
- 1:07:45The factory is beautiful by the way.
- 1:07:49I wish there was. Well, you know, we're, we're old
- 1:07:51and we're staying on concrete and unfortunately with three
- 1:07:53openers, I've done 3 hour concerts.
- 1:07:56I've done it before and I've got, I have invested in good
- 1:07:58shoes, but when you're staying on concrete, boy that's hard.
- 1:08:01Yes. And it's not 3 hours because
- 1:08:04it's like you said, well, you're well.
- 1:08:06It's three hours, but me like the concert I'm go to.
- 1:08:09Like kpop concerts are longer. You don't have an opener so it's
- 1:08:12just a concert. But when you are waiting for
- 1:08:15them to tear down and set up for the next for three different
- 1:08:18openers and you can't sit down in between, that's rough.
- 1:08:21Well, but The thing is like. My knees were hurting bad at.
- 1:08:24Six. We went there before that, yeah.
- 1:08:26So because you got to find a spot.
- 1:08:27At a minimum, from the our time of 6:00 until we leave, we're on
- 1:08:31our feet, which is like. 10:00 Ten. 10/10/30 yeah I think oh
- 1:08:35easily. 10301030 yes, probably closer to 5.
- 1:08:38And we just, we just stood on concrete that whole.
- 1:08:41I'm like, that's like 4 1/2. I wish they would make the
- 1:08:44floors of those venues, the playground floors.
- 1:08:46Yeah, Because then you could be on a little squishy.
- 1:08:49Yeah. Help your knees, help your
- 1:08:51joints. Hope he's fine.
- 1:08:52Yeah. Well, you know, so funny as I'm
- 1:08:55standing in line. Victory.
- 1:08:57We're gonna go up to the balcony.
- 1:08:58We're gonna get a seat. I.
- 1:08:59Don't know, I don't wanna get those tickets.
- 1:09:00That's my goal. Well, so it's funny, 'cause I
- 1:09:03get there first yes. I just went straight from work
- 1:09:05there. Yes and I'm in line.
- 1:09:08People are getting in line and I hear his girl and she was like,
- 1:09:11yeah, no, like you saw all time low.
- 1:09:13We're excited. I'm over here in the
- 1:09:14conversation and she like, then we saw the cab was coming.
- 1:09:17He's like we must get tickets. And I was like the exact was
- 1:09:21like, I thought like all time low.
- 1:09:22I love all time low little time, but I don't.
- 1:09:23Get the cab and all time low. So both.
- 1:09:25That's what I said. I was like Ashley, I love the
- 1:09:29cab. I didn't even know if they were.
- 1:09:31I was never going to Liv. Said the same thing.
- 1:09:33Liv said the same thing. She's like the cat.
- 1:09:35I would. I want more of the cab.
- 1:09:36Yeah. Right now the Mayday Parade is
- 1:09:38very big. They are, which is very funny
- 1:09:41that I don't. Really, I didn't know them so
- 1:09:42that so that was fun. I got to hear somebody, I got to
- 1:09:45hear some new stuff which. Is always a bonus.
- 1:09:47Jamie all over is their biggest song, I guess, and I didn't know
- 1:09:49it and which is like very funny because I mentioned them the
- 1:09:522000 yeah, that 2000 like pop punk and thing.
- 1:09:54I love the cat all time low like I'm a Roman and so forth.
- 1:09:58You guys, I. Remember, you guys were.
- 1:09:59Listening to me, never listened to me.
- 1:10:02He was so funny because he's like, all right, we're doing
- 1:10:04some emo in Saint Louis. I thought that was hilarious.
- 1:10:10It's all people in their 30s. And one night older, absolutely.
- 1:10:14Well, not all of them, because all of them.
- 1:10:15Because they also brought their children.
- 1:10:17They brought their children, They're assuming.
- 1:10:18People had kids. I couldn't believe it.
- 1:10:20I'm like, well, let's cover those ears.
- 1:10:22The one guy. Because of the language, Because
- 1:10:24of the sound, yes. But the leasing of all time low
- 1:10:27at one point goes, I want to see you guys get verbal, get get on
- 1:10:30so many shoulders. Now, of course, we're all like
- 1:10:32Oh my God. That's not happening.
- 1:10:33That's not happening. There were so many people who
- 1:10:35won. They did do that.
- 1:10:36Yeah, some of them put their little skinny girlfriends on
- 1:10:38their shoulders. But they also put a bunch.
- 1:10:39A bunch of kids went up and I'm like, OK, that's very good.
- 1:10:43I thought it was great. I thought it was great.
- 1:10:45The one kid was dressed as The Lorax.
- 1:10:47Yes, and he goes. I see you, Lorax.
- 1:10:49Someone's going to speak for the trees.
- 1:10:51Someone goes. I was dying.
- 1:10:53Keep doing what you're doing. It was.
- 1:10:55It was great. Full body orange suit pillow in.
- 1:10:58The bell pillow in the bell. Mustache.
- 1:11:00I'm like what the fuck? It was, it was amazing.
- 1:11:04It was amazing. The concert was so much fun.
- 1:11:06I was so excited. I got to do a concert with Evan
- 1:11:08Ash. Haven't done that since Dan and
- 1:11:10Shay, I guess. Yeah, that was that was a hoot.
- 1:11:13And Mayday pray I'm going to I'm going to goddamn, it's going to
- 1:11:16kill me. Finish it.
- 1:11:17They're they had the song Jamie all over.
- 1:11:19They say the line. I'll never go back to Georgia.
- 1:11:22I took a picture because they put the words in the thing.
- 1:11:25They literally say I'll never go back to Georgia.
- 1:11:26And we turn and we look at Liv and work with Ryan and she's
- 1:11:31Larry and she's like, you're right.
- 1:11:34You'll never know that from Georgia.
- 1:11:36They made a fan for a. Life they did.
- 1:11:37It was. Like, I'm With You and their
- 1:11:41song Jersey, I'd never never really listened.
- 1:11:45Yeah. And so they're performing Jersey
- 1:11:47and it gets to one point and then they cut and then it kind
- 1:11:49of like slows down. Then it comes back.
- 1:11:50You're really hard. And there was a key change.
- 1:11:52I turned actually go oh, key change.
- 1:11:55And she goes, yes. Everybody loves a key change.
- 1:11:58We were losing. Oh shit, that's fantastic.
- 1:12:01That's fantastic. It was, honestly.
- 1:12:02Such a great show. It was so great.
- 1:12:04I was so tired by the time I got.
- 1:12:06Home and having to work and they're like the name it was
- 1:12:08sunny because they're like it's a Tuesday.
- 1:12:10What are all you people doing here?
- 1:12:11And I'm more like, yes, we're going to.
- 1:12:13Regret this tomorrow, but we're having a good time tonight.
- 1:12:16It's so fun. Yeah.
- 1:12:17Yeah, we did. We had a box.
- 1:12:19We went because we like their new album and they sound exact.
- 1:12:24All of these. Not a great.
- 1:12:25All of the groups sounded amazing.
- 1:12:26And that's always like, I always worry about that going to
- 1:12:29concerts because it's like, oh, man, what if they sound like
- 1:12:31shit? No, the cats sounded great.
- 1:12:33Mayday Pray was great. I had great, you know, Mayday
- 1:12:35Pray didn't know the songs but. I'm like, it doesn't matter.
- 1:12:37It's still fun. I love, I love, I hear new
- 1:12:39stuff. I never want to become stagnant.
- 1:12:41So hit me, submit some new music.
- 1:12:44The song, The weather that's on. All time high.
- 1:12:47New album we Ash and I obsessed with that song.
- 1:12:50That's on her. I liked I liked that one a lot.
- 1:12:53And then it's like the second or third song they perform.
- 1:12:55It's called Sucker Punch is also on their new album OK and But I
- 1:13:01I love both of those. I was listening the day before
- 1:13:03we went. I was listening to their new
- 1:13:05album just so I could get the new stuff.
- 1:13:06Yes, yeah. So yeah, I thought they put on a
- 1:13:08great show. I really enjoyed it.
- 1:13:10Dear Maria starts. Dear Maria.
- 1:13:12Yeah, the wacky WAVY inflatable they put their flailing tube
- 1:13:16men. Come out, they had a theme of
- 1:13:17like your kind of primary colors, your red, yellow,
- 1:13:19blue-green was A and they had one of each color.
- 1:13:23Wacky WAVY inflatables are flailing around art.
- 1:13:26Flailing tube men. Yes.
- 1:13:27And it was, It was hilarious. It was great.
- 1:13:29My boss is obsessed. Oh legit with?
- 1:13:32Wacky WAVY. Oh, you're right, I told him.
- 1:13:34Yeah, you told me that you're. Right, so, so I see this and I
- 1:13:38go, Oh my God. So I do not have a lot of
- 1:13:40certain video person. I don't really take videos
- 1:13:42because I'm like, one, I'm never going to go back and watch it,
- 1:13:44and two, I've just been enjoying.
- 1:13:47I don't like to film too much as well because to me, be in the
- 1:13:50moment and watch. I don't want to watch it through
- 1:13:52my phone. Yeah, yeah, and so, but
- 1:13:54otherwise I got to take a video. You got it cuz you got to send
- 1:13:56it to her so I messaged. Her the next day I go, hey, do
- 1:13:58you listen all time low? Do you like all time low at all?
- 1:14:00She goes honestly, I probably only know dear Maria and I and I
- 1:14:04laughing react on that. I'm like perfect.
- 1:14:07And so I send her the clip of the of the court.
- 1:14:09Waving the lady she was, she's like, Oh my.
- 1:14:14God it was awesome. I literally only took this.
- 1:14:16Video so I could send it to you. They they shoot up and start
- 1:14:19waving around and they're singing to Maria.
- 1:14:21Around, they're all alive if we can.
- 1:14:23We absolutely will. We absolutely will last.
- 1:14:26I have to tell you one last thing.
- 1:14:27Go for it. It's very short.
- 1:14:28It's very funny. We're driving home from Kansas
- 1:14:30City. OK, we stopped so that so that I
- 1:14:34can. I drove and then Sam took over
- 1:14:36and drove back. We split the time, OK, That last
- 1:14:3930 minutes was I was fighting for my life.
- 1:14:41I tell you what, I was tired but anyway and Liv wants to stop for
- 1:14:45lunch and we're like no, you can eat when we get home.
- 1:14:46Sam wanted to work half a day so we were up and going early
- 1:14:49because she wanted to be home by like noon 1.
- 1:14:50Well, that's like. So she could work.
- 1:14:52Hour drive so it's like you get up early enough you could we're.
- 1:14:54On the if you're on the road by 8, you know, we stopped and got
- 1:14:58gas and then we were home by 12:30 and 12:45 yeah.
- 1:15:01And then she, she works from home so she can just log on to
- 1:15:03work. So we were shooting for that for
- 1:15:05her. So she lives like, can we stop
- 1:15:07for lunch? And we're like, Nope, you can
- 1:15:08eat when we get home. And she's like, man, you know,
- 1:15:12And then we get back on the Newsday and she looks over and
- 1:15:15she sees the Texas Roadhouse. And, you know, she loves the
- 1:15:20Texas Roadhouse. And she goes, Oh, are you?
- 1:15:23Joking me? You're joking me.
- 1:15:27And then she proceeds. Sam.
- 1:15:29And I just cry laughing. We just amuse.
- 1:15:31She proceeds to then play Life is So Unfair, Sad and Kill
- 1:15:36Myself. These three songs she's she's DJ
- 1:15:41and 1st she plays Life is So unfair.
- 1:15:44Then she plays the song Sad, and then she plays the song Kill
- 1:15:48Myself. No sympathy, laughing her asses
- 1:15:53off through the whole of it. Yes, it was very good.
- 1:15:55Very, very. Good.
- 1:15:57So we got home and she did not get Texas Roadhouse and she's
- 1:15:59still mad at me. I really don't care.
- 1:16:02No cinnamon butter for you, baby.
- 1:16:04Oh man, so. We.
- 1:16:05Got home safely, it's all good. I got 4 things I could tell you,
- 1:16:08but I know we're already 60 minutes over we.
- 1:16:11Better stop then. I guess so.
- 1:16:12We'll save it for next time. Hold back, baby, Hold back.
- 1:16:15Write it down though. I know I did.
- 1:16:17Early gone. Well, I'm not about you this.
- 1:16:20I'm gonna use some serious beef. And some series Simon Butter
- 1:16:23Summer about whiskey. There you go, bye bye.