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Excuse My Grandma While We Talk Oscars and International Women’s Day · Excuse My Grandma

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Welcome back to another episode of Excuse My Grandma. It's Kim and my cohost.
• 0:04
  Speaker 2: Grandma Gail.
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: We are doing a remote podcast. I'm in New York. Grandma's in Palm Beach. And it was really easy to set up this Zoom call.
• 0:30
  Speaker 2: Oh, sure. It's only taken us three hours. We can't get it going still, but hopefully, you can hear both of us clearly.
• 0:36
  Speaker 1: Yes. But the ability for you to have set up a podcast on your own is more than most people my age can even do. So it just was a lot of growing.
• 0:45
  Speaker 2: A lot of cords, a lot of changing mics, a lot of mic changes. Okay. Let's try it again.
• 0:51
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's being a female founder owning a business. Your career has evolved so much.
• 0:58
  Speaker 2: I know, but I can afford to get somebody to help me. And if you gave me a heads up, I would've had somebody come up and really professionally do this. It's you don't know which cord to put in which place, and it's it's a lot of stuff. I I give kudos to all the engineers who do this all the time. Taking us for grandma Gail.
• 1:15
  Speaker 1: It's taking us back to our early days of excuse my grandma where we were really doing all of the setup every time on our own.
• 1:24
  Speaker 2: We've gotten lazy, Kim.
• 1:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, lazy or just evolving. We're focusing our time and on other things maybe. And the things that we can get help on, we get help on. But I wanted to say being female founders is an amazing thing.
• 1:42
  Coming up is International Women's Day. I think it it will be the day after this episode comes out actually. So, just wanted to say
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  Speaker 2: thank certainly having fun being founders, and people find actually find us all over the place. So we're really significantly being found. So, good luck to all the new people who are starting out. It's a it's a great journey.
• 2:06
  Speaker 1: Anything to say anything to say to women out there for an International Women's Day?
• 2:12
  Speaker 2: Yes. Well, I think women really should feel proud of themselves no matter where you are in the work cycle. Always look ahead. There's always something that will change, and never give up hope. There's always a little bit of a setback, and then you go forward a couple of steps.
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  Don't worry about the bumps in the road. It really if you persevere, you're gonna make it because women are powerful, and we're and we're smart, and we can do it.
• 2:37
  Speaker 1: I love that. So let's catch up a little bit. I haven't seen you in, I don't know, a week and a half.
• 2:45
  Speaker 2: I know. Well we're still talking about our birthday dinner that we had at the beautiful new Milos.
• 2:52
  Speaker 1: My birthday dinner,
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  Speaker 2: not our birthday Oh your birthday dinner. Well we were all part of the birthday dinner and, so that was really a beautiful new building. They're building so many new buildings in West Palm Beach here. It's going to look it is already a big city, but it's going to even be more so. So you'll be surprised those people who come down here for the first time when you would think it was a small little community.
• 3:17
  It's tremendous, and all the young people who are moving here, with families and new schools are opening and new hospitals are being created. Vanderbilt is opening a business school in West Palm, so they're gonna have lots of new people here creating new jobs. And, it's a very exciting place to be young and and here at this point. I'm already over it. I'm just aggravated with the traffic.
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  But for young people who are starting out in life, this is going to be a very, very viable community.
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  Speaker 1: Well, so my birthday dinner was at the restaurant Milos, but I still think the clientele maybe was a little older.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yes. Well, it's very expensive.
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  Speaker 1: Restaurant. Yeah. But it's really It's
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  Speaker 2: very expensive.
• 3:57
  Speaker 1: Beautiful. It looks like the one in Hudson Yards. I don't I haven't been to the one in Midtown, so I don't know what that one looks like.
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  Speaker 2: The one in it's very pretty. The one in Miami, think, is the prettiest of them all. I just want one more. Oh, yeah. It was I ate there several years ago.
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  It's delicious Okay. With my girlfriends. We had such a delicious dinner. Mhmm. No.
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  It's it's they do a good job. I think the one here needs to get their act a little bit more together. I ordered lamb chops and got rack of lamb, but they were very good. And You
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  Speaker 1: just got more
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  Speaker 2: than what you ordered. Exactly. I got more than what I bargained for in that. But they made charges. They were very nice, and they put it all in the middle of the table.
• 4:38
  There was more than enough food. We could have fed an army at the end of the dinner, and the dessert, I love that dessert.
• 4:44
  Speaker 1: Oh, I forgot what it was. It's some special greasy Yeah.
• 4:47
  Speaker 2: It was delicious. That was the best thing. I loved
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  Speaker 1: it. But they let you look at the fish before
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  Speaker 2: you eat fish. In all of them.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. But I don't like to look at the fish because they just stare back at you. Nice. I know.
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  I I barely their
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  Speaker 2: that's their that's their modus operandi because they charge you by the pound, and that's when it gets very expensive. So if you order on the menu, not the big fishes, it can be really much difference in price. So for those who wanna watch their budget and still wanna go to the restaurant, order actual dishes on the menu. Don't order the big fish.
• 5:22
  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: You know, that's what they're known for.
• 5:24
  Speaker 1: The big fish. Yes. Big fish. And it was nice. It was you and Poppy, my parents, and Zach, it was very intimate, but my friends still wanna do something for my birthday, and I'm kinda over it
• 5:36
  Speaker 2: now because Yeah. I was gonna say
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  Speaker 1: I also didn't care this year. I don't know.
• 5:41
  Speaker 2: Well, I I don't know. I think you'd overdo your birthday. We celebrated. We blew you blew out a candle. You got plenty of flowers.
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  You got the lovely gifts. It's enough. It's enough. Know.
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  Speaker 1: But, like, my girlfriends are still like, oh, we wanna, like, you know, do a dinner or something. Okay. I think this Friday I know I'm seeing you Friday during the day, but at night, I was gonna just organize a dinner. But, like, I don't know where would take a I wanna do at least a table of, like, six or eight.
• 6:10
  Speaker 2: Well, you better hurry up because New York, I know, was very, very busy. There's so many new restaurants down near your brother's area in that Houston area on the Lower East Side. I'm sure you probably can't get into any of them anyway.
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  Speaker 1: Not. Like, anywhere downtown is so impossible that's somewhat trendy and relevant. Yeah.
• 6:32
  Speaker 2: I think everywhere uptown is is trendy and relevant now. I'm gonna try to get into that L'Avaux d'Or, which everybody is raving about. What you saw? Which is a redo of an old fashioned French bistro. And they say the food the reviews were great, and I understand you can't get in there either.
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  And that's in the sixties. That's in Midtown.
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  Speaker 1: Also, I wanted wait. What did you ugh. You just said something that reminded me. Oh, Shay Shay Fi Fi on the Upper East Okay. So that's like apparently it's in a townhouse, and it's impossible to get into.
• 7:06
  Speaker 2: I'm telling you. I may as well just stay in Florida. I can't get in here, and I can't get there up up in New York either.
• 7:13
  Speaker 1: You should learn to cook.
• 7:14
  Speaker 2: Oh, I I know how to cook, but I can't nobody wants brisket anymore. So forget that.
• 7:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Otherwise, this week, I have this UJA charity event that
• 7:27
  Speaker 2: honored.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'm co chairing the event. It's so far, we've sold almost 800 tickets.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.
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  Speaker 1: It's a big event. So anyway, if you guys are listening because this does come out Thursday early morning, you can probably still get your last chance ticket or get your ticket out the door.
• 7:42
  Speaker 2: Tell them where it is, Kim.
• 7:44
  Speaker 1: It's in Chelsea Piers at the lighthouse, and it's for people in their twenties and thirties, young adults who want to be connected with, other young Jewish people. It's sushi, open bar.
• 7:57
  Speaker 2: And this is one of those things we always say where you meet people. This is a perfect place. You know, it's no guarantee, but amongst the 800 people, there has to be somebody that that ticks your box.
• 8:08
  Speaker 1: Especially with, like, single Jewish people, they're always looking for other single Jewish people. Yeah. And so that's like it kinda becomes a singles mixer a little bit, which is good. Like, in the past, obviously, not this year, but in the past years, I always at least got one date out of it. So Well, that
• 8:25
  Speaker 2: was very interesting. I was playing cards the other day, and a woman said, my granddaughter met somebody in New Jersey. They're having I guess a a rabbi is setting it up where on Friday nights, they're, like, 12 people that he single people they invite for an intimate Shabbat dinner, and they've gotten three marriages out of it. Because people really have often said to us, where do you meet somebody? Right.
• 8:47
  Whether it be your church or your synagogue or some community.
• 8:50
  Speaker 1: But, like,
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  Speaker 2: even you're not religious. Yeah. Even if you're not religious, just go. Sometimes you may you know, you find something that's really interesting and you find someone that's interesting to talk to.
• 9:02
  Speaker 1: Mhmm. Exactly. So, yeah, lots of fun events this week, also work stuff. So definitely check out our social media because we'll be posting more on there. Anything else I missed while you were here and
• 9:16
  Speaker 2: Well, you haven't missed anything. There's been chaos around the world. We don't know if the tariffs, which went in, this week are going to matter. I'm hoping that, doesn't cause too much, disturbance in the marketplace. The price of eggs have nothing to do with the tariff.
• 9:31
  That's got the the chickens in the Midwest, but we've got a lot of things that we do get by and whether the prices are gonna go up now. You know, family incomes are pretty static, and if the prices go up too much, it's gonna be they're gonna feel hurt. But we're hoping that that that these countries become fairer to us, and I think that's the eventual goal. But it's certainly gonna be an interesting week, for those. I I don't think you're gonna feel the price differences on, anything yet.
• 9:59
  I you know what I wanna do, Kim, when we when I come back to you? I wanna order those bags on Amazon and on the TikTok shop, the copies of, the Kelly, which is now, I think, $34.
• 10:11
  Speaker 1: So many Hermes bags. Why would
• 10:13
  Speaker 2: you want take look? Show because everybody shows on their on their Well,
• 10:17
  Speaker 1: why don't you show your real ones? That's even better.
• 10:19
  Speaker 2: But I wanna compare it to a $34 one. It looks pretty good. It looks pretty good. So I think when I come back home, we're gonna do that. I want a white one.
• 10:27
  A small white one.
• 10:28
  Speaker 1: A real Birkin with a fake Birkin.
• 10:30
  Speaker 2: Right. Right.
• 10:30
  Speaker 1: Okay. That sounds good to me. Let's move on to the drama club. Let's talk about the trending topic of the week. Did you watch the Oscars?
• 10:44
  Speaker 2: No. I didn't watch the Oscars. I'm actually I watched a bit of it. I turned it on for one second and was very annoyed. I think Hollywood has gone crazy.
• 10:56
  Speaker 1: Wait. There was nothing political other than Conan's, like
• 11:00
  Speaker 2: Oh, no. One five. There was a movie. No. There was a movie.
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  They they they criticized Israel, and it was done by an Israeli in an era, a Palestinian. I found that very disturbing. This has become why did he I
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  Speaker 1: thought he said he said That our government for hate or anti Semitism. Did you watch that one? I watched it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, he said no hate, but he criticized our government. I I really don't think this is their job to criticize, the government of the United States or the government of any country. They're supposed to entertain us. And unless they can, unless they can entertain us.
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  Speaker 1: But this topic of the movie was about that. I think sure. If it's if it's a movie that is like Barbie and then they're come or whatever, Wicked, and then they're coming on and talking about that, it's odd. But this was You want one
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  Speaker 2: big thing. I I I I don't think it won any of the big awards.
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  Speaker 1: It won it won costume design.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Exactly. Oh, which pathetic.
• 12:00
  Speaker 1: No. But it was amazing because it was the first black man to win the award, which is very cool.
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  Speaker 2: They well, they threw him a bone, but that was a big production, and they got this little anora, which was a little sleeper movie won everything, which I'm gonna watch. I'm hoping it's on Netflix. Was it good?
• 12:16
  Speaker 1: Yes. So it's funny because I watched it with Zach. And he said that when we watched it, I was like, this isn't good. But I don't think I said that. Because I think what I what I said and what I feel is, it feels like an indie movie, the budget was only $6,000,000 But
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  Speaker 2: that's what they were saying.
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  Speaker 1: It was an indie movie, but it was enjoyable. It was like, I was on the edge of my seat. But I was
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  Speaker 2: Is it worth an Academy Award?
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  Speaker 1: I was shocked it was nominated for best.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. So there's your answer. These what what one of the editorials in, the paper I was reading in the last day or so, said that this is a message to the to the academy that the little indie films are really taking over. We don't need these big productions, which in a way is sad because we love the big productions on the screen. But they're not gonna you know, they're they're I
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  Speaker 1: don't think so. Because I think the big productions make the most money in the box office. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But they should get the awards.
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  Speaker 1: But why? Because it's not about fan boat. It's about the like the the artists in the academy. What they
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  Speaker 2: Well, there should be a special category for up and coming artists. But this is up and coming. Like, these interviews Not when you win the Academy Award. That's not up and
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  Speaker 1: Anora was all first time filmmakers. That's up and coming. You're saying there should be a an award for box office hits within the For the ones that that make the money. Those aren't little movies. You're that's the opposite of what you're saying.
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  The the up and coming people are the people winning these awards. The ones make the big movies And they're not getting Right. And they're not actually getting the recognition. There should be a category less about, I don't know, artistic, I mean, because, like, wicked is a big box office movie, and it was nominated. So that's
• 14:09
  Speaker 2: You know, I I almost think that the Academy Awards are are are gone. I don't really care. I don't think most of America cares. They're watching the red carpet. See
• 14:18
  Speaker 1: the outfits. Of people tuned in.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: That's what they said.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. That's they lie.
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: I don't I don't think people are watching. I think people are looking at the outfits.
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: I think most of social media
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, that's who's watching. That's who's they're hearing it to.
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: That's everything. No. No. I think that I think that Not. Not everybody maybe is tuning and watching it live, but anything that's being clipped up as a viral moment, everyone on social media is seeing, which is most of the population?
• 14:49
  Speaker 2: I Kim, I I I have a feeling I have to disagree, but it's alright. I think I think it's wonderful. I think it's great that everybody's watching social media and that everybody is watching the Academy Awards, but nobody cares about the movies. So that's the bottom line. Or they'd be going back to the movie theaters, which you don't even see these movies in.
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  Most of them go right to to Netflix or Amazon.
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: To be in the theater for a few weeks to be, eligible. So they are in theaters, a lot of them.
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah. They don't sell much popcorn and licorice in the in the theaters after two weeks.
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: Let's move on to the Grandma Report. It's the article it's a recent study published in Nature Medicine. They say that these are the things that really age you.
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: Oh gosh, let's hear this.
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: So environmental influences are socioeconomic status. So lower socioeconomic status was associated with accelerated aging.
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Because they don't have the proper medical care. I mean, that just stands to reason. And people who are on a lower income don't have the same availability to go to doctors of any sort. So, I mean, that's that's a problem we have, and the cost of medicine is going way up, and and prescriptions and all these things.
• 16:08
  People are saving money. They're splitting their medications to save money. There's a big health issue in America, and, we're going to have to come to grips with you in the next couple of years. Medication prices definitely have to get lower because people can't afford their meds.
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: Okay. Some other things, home ownership. So not owning a home correlated with increased biological age. Right. Residing in deprived areas contribute to fast raging.
• 16:37
  And then lifestyle factors, smoking, not being active, drinking alcohol, those I feel like are we know those.
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah. We all know them. We know them, but we can't help with doing some of these things. So, you know, it it it is an issue. But then we have on the other spectrum, we have a woman who'll go on, which is a 110, and she ate
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: and she drank and she
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: ate a pastrami sandwich every day. So you know what? We have to just live moderately. I think that's the answer and do as much exercise and try to eat healthy if we can.
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: The other things, employment status. So if you were unemployed Right. Unemployment is linked to Stress. Living with a partner, tended to age more slowly.
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Because you have somebody to talk to. That stands to I agree with that. People who are alone or isolated usually and and not as, in tune with them themselves, their brains sort of get sluggish because they have no one to have a conversation with like you and I are having.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: And then genetic factors account for 2% of the variation in aging as well. So that's actually pretty minor compared to the environmental Which is interesting. Factors. Yeah. Which is interesting.
• 17:49
  Super interesting. I was watching Kardashians the other day, and she met Kim and was a few of the the Kardashians actually met with this guy. He's the creator of Venmo, but he sold it. And now he does all this, like, bio hacking genetic research, I guess, on living longer. And he looked like a totally different person, but he totally lives like like almost like a vampire because he probably doesn't go out in the sun.
• 18:19
  But he looked like eats extremely, like, restrictive way. And he, like, thinks that he can evade like, he could be immortal if he Well,
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: maybe he has to freeze himself. And then eventually, if you freeze yourself, they're gonna come up with something. I don't know if I if I would freeze myself when I was old. I don't wanna come back and and experience anything. But if you but they're gonna come up with things.
• 18:42
  I don't know. Then you're gonna have all these people inhabiting the world. Nobody's ever gonna die. That's been a a theory for years. I I I think we're a long way off from that.
• 18:51
  Okay. But good luck to him.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: Let's do let's do the rewind. Grandma, are you watching White Lotus, by the way? Because that's what I've
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: been talking I was just looking at it that they were talking about what you're talking about. It's very much about a health, thing this season. Like, one season was about jobs. One season was about something else, the theme. And they're saying that this one is going to be more it's about exercise and keeping healthy, which is gonna run through the whole season.
• 19:27
  So I don't I've
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: seen, I guess, three episodes now that I've been out.
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  Speaker 2: Is anybody doing that? Is anybody exercising?
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: I actually didn't really pick up on the health part other than they're in Thailand, and they're supposed to be, like, zen and and Right.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: Well, then that's the yeah. I think that's what they
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: were saying.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: Something healthy body.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: Maybe. I don't know. I don't think the message Are
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: you enjoying it?
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: I love it. It's so good.
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: Okay. Okay.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: But it's like a murder mystery. So I have my theories. Right. But I won't spoil anything.
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: They're very smart, these guys. They created a very, very good program.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: It's so good. Yeah. Okay. Let's do Grandma Gail's voicemail. So this one was written in this week, and then we'll see what we think.
• 20:17
  So she said, I'm 73 and wanted to share a funny story. I have an identical twin sister and we went to the same college. One day I was reading a book on campus when a guy kissed me. It turned out to be my sister's boyfriend. Didn't want to embarrass him, I went along with it.
• 20:32
  And honestly, I kind of enjoyed it. My sister always dated the hot types while I went for more introverted guys. And I secretly wished to swap places with her for a romantic moment with one of her boyfriends. It felt like he had read my mind. Later I confessed to my sister though I didn't mention that I enjoyed the kiss.
• 20:48
  She seemed fine with it and chalked it up to a mistake. You were easy to tell apart. She was thinner, had different hair and was more glamorous. Later, I learned from a friend that she confronted her boyfriend at his frat house, kissed him and told him you can't tell me apart from my sister and then she slapped him and walked off. It was funny, but I also felt conflicted.
• 21:07
  Did I do the right thing by telling her was he asking for the slap? By the way, my sister was a theater major and did some acting and TV shows in the late seventies and eighties. So part of me wonders if she enjoyed that little performance at the frat house.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: Well, this is a tangled web. You know, we've had these stories. There was I think there was actually a a TV show where they or some movie where they exchanged husbands and Ray and and how the families reacted. You know what? It's an I'm sure the guy didn't do it on purpose or maybe he
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: he was and he was a weirdo.
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: Exactly. I I don't think the sister should have gone along with the kiss. She should have stopped and say, I think you have the wrong person, but she enjoyed the kiss. So I mean, not that she She should right. I think she was right to tell the sister that I think your boyfriend kissed me by mistake.
• 21:58
  And then her conscience is clear. She didn't go after him after that.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: Well, she's she's 73 now and this was clearly 50 ago. It's been bothering her. It's been bothering I think this is a little bit of a case too of like, it sounds like she compares herself to her sister a lot of being like the prettier, glamorous sister. And I think like, realize your own self worth and like, you can find a guy who's right for you. You don't have to be looking for what your sister's looking for.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: Exactly. Exactly. It never works out. So do your own thing and hopefully, and because it's more important to have a good relationship with your sister. Don't Yeah.
• 22:37
  Especially you know, it's like, that's the that's the goal. You don't wanna take over anything that she believes is hers and, vice versa, and I'm sure you've had a good life with somebody else.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: Yes. Let's do a quick game. Should we bring it back? Okay. This week, we're doing nineteen fifty slang.
• 22:58
  So tell me if this is a phrase you think we should be using again. Cruising for a bruising.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: No. It was silly even when we said it. Basically, it was, you know, you're doing that kind of behavior, you're gonna get punished. I don't think that's a necessary thing to go back to that sign.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: Love that. Yeah.
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: No.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: What about bash? Is that like a party, I guess? Like, let's throw a bash.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: No. I don't think that was. I don't I you know what? I don't remember what that bash was a was a sell was a big all out flow out celebration, but I don't know if that's the way that was used, the slang. I'm not sure.
• 23:33
  I never called anything a bash.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: Okay. So then no. What about an ankle biter, like a misbehaving kid?
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: A misbehaving child? I never heard of these things in the fifties.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: Apparently, they were slang says
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: the research. Well, maybe we didn't have any. We had misbehaviors in our house, so we should we we usually got smacked in the backside of it for misbehaving.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Not great. Let's leave that one in the past. Okay. What about dream boat?
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. Well, that was that was everybody would say, oh my god. He's so handsome. He's like a dream boat. You could bring him back.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: I mean, man cute to bring back.
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: It's cute. It's cute. Can't hurt anybody.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: No. What about the bee's knees? Like, when something's good, it's the bee's knees. Right?
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: I don't think that slang is necessary either. There's nothing terrific about that.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: Okay. So let's just go with dreamboat.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: Okay, a little bit of Ask Grandma anything. Questions that you all wrote into us on our Instagram stories. A little bit more background about us. So Rabbi, I'm I'm sure we have spoken about this, but what what age did you become a snowbird?
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: When I was in my late when my children went to college.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: My late thirties. That's still kinda early.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: Yes. Yes. But we like the warm weather, and, my husband used to come down on the weekends, and I stayed down here. And then when my kids came home from school, they would come down here. So we basically stayed six months, for a very long time before we became yeah.
• 25:13
  In our early early forties. But we were very happy here. We had family here. We had community here, and we we just liked it.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: Okay. What's your advice on getting out of a wardrobe rut? Well,
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: just go for something a little different for a change. You know, if you're always like I am, always wearing black or white, go for the pink. You know, don't experiment. Don't go with an expensive experiment. Get something that's not too expensive.
• 25:43
  Put it on. See if you like the color if or a belt perhaps that you would not normally do. But, just but keep it on the low price range. So then if you don't like it, you'll give it to you'll gift it to somebody else without feeling guilty. Great.
• 25:58
  No guilt.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I like that. Do you have a fashion trend that you want to see make a comeback?
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: I think the little black dress is always here. It's still my favorite thing. I don't really have a trend that that would come back that I'm not already wearing. I like the casualness that we have today. I don't really love the formality that we used to have in the sixties and seventies.
• 26:25
  The big dress, the big outfit. I'm much happier with the more casual things that people, wear today. I think it's Yeah. Just easier.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: I don't see this as much in, like, real life, but I know on the Oscars carpet this week, I saw a lot of gloves. Was lot of the there were a lot of vintage silhouettes that were modeled after that time.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, Schiaparelli and a whole group of the Dior, they you know, it was but it's not something that people are gonna wear even to a party themselves. Those are spectacular couture gowns that for maybe $30,000 a dress or more, that these designers make specifically for these stars, and we would have no place to go. I mean, honestly, I often think about that. Where do they wear it?
• 27:11
  You could never wear that in real life. There's no possible place except the Met costume ball
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: Mhmm.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: Which we don't go to.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: Well, not yet. You never know. Okay. Last one. How do you stay hopeful about dating?
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: Well, I I think everybody should be hopeful that there's always gonna be a a good person out there. Sometimes you have to go through an awful lot of bad dates before you get a good one. And, it doesn't you know, just stay hopeful. Don't make so much out of it. Enjoy yourselves when you're out.
• 27:43
  If you don't like somebody, move on. It's not the end of the world. And don't get stuck in a relationship like I see so many women today. They wait, they stay there so long, and then it's uncomfortable getting out. If you see that this isn't going where you want it to go, just get out of it.
• 27:58
  There are a million fish in the sea.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: Great. Okay, Grandma. Thank you. It was so nice catching up over Zoom. I'll see you in the city in just a few days.
• 28:08
  Okay. And thanks everyone for listening. Follow us on social media. Excuse My Grandma. My personal Instagram is Kimmerstein if you wanna follow me when I'm not with grandma.
• 28:18
  And we will talk to you next week.
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: Bye everyone.