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- Olivia: Welcome back everyone to Brilliant Minds Rabbit Trail, the favorite time of our evenings on every Thursday when we record. And we'll also get to see how long Andrea lasts tonight because she hasn't had to yet. Andrea: Mm-hmm. I've had the craziest day, especially 'cause like I worked today and I don't normally like see clients on Thursdays or Fridays. So all day has been so thrown off. Olivia: Yeah, this week has I've been really thrown off because I this is my first well first full week. First full week where I'm working Friday. So I'm working tomorrow. And I have always had Fridays off pretty much. So like I'm so confused what day it is right now. So confused what day it is. I'm like so thrown off my own schedule. I'm like, Is it Wednesday? Is it Saturday? Is it third is it Friday? Andrea: Hmm. Same. Mm. Yeah Olivia: Is it my Friday? No, it's not my Friday. So confused. Andrea: Yeah. I went to go pick up Tasha from the boarding place this morning and the like gal's computer wasn't working and I was like, That's okay, it's Monday and she was like, it's Thursday. I was like, Olivia: Here's the most important thing I need to tell you. Andrea: Please What do you got? Olivia: I got one of those small cast iron skillets for my birthday and I have forgotten that I had it slash kept forgetting to look up a recipe for it. However, two days ago I made my first chocolate chip skillet cookie. Andrea: Mm. Yeah. Olivia: And then I put a little ice cream scoop on top. And it was so good. It was so good. And I wanted to make one tonight but we were recording. Andrea: my gosh. I'm so that's so smart. Olivia: It's so good. It was so good. It was so good because it's like the perfect serving and it looks fancy and it's freaking delicious. It's so good. Andrea: Maybe I'll have to ask for one of those for Christmas. We just have big cast iron, so I can't do it. Olivia: I don't even have a ba I don't have a big cast iron anymore. I used to but I never used it, so I was like Andrea: They're kind of annoying to take care of if I'm gonna like Olivia: Yeah, they're more high maintenance than I am. Andrea: Yeah. Olivia: Okay, it wasn't that funny. Andrea: think I consider you high I don't think I consider you high maintenance. I think that's why I was like, what? Olivia: Yeah. Good. Glad you said something. It was a test and you passed. Andrea: Like Do you consider yourself high maintenance? Olivia: No. I I consider myself anti maintenance. Andrea: Okay. I was like What does that mean? Olivia: Kind of like I'm hyper independent, I don't need anyone. Andrea: yeah, that's me. Olivia: S so like high maintenance in the sense of like I need you to do all these things or like be this way or like I need this type like I'm just like you can't do that thing? Okay fine. I'll just do it. Or like I don't care or I'll move on or whatever. So that's why I I'm like I'm like anti maintenance. You know? Like it. So real. But the skillet cookie. Andrea: Hm. That makes sense. Yeah. Hyperindependence is real. Olivia: Really good. Also, because normally when I make cookies my trick is always to refrigerate the dough overnight. And that like gives you the best cookie. Andrea: Oof. Yeah. Yeah. That's a really good that's a really good tip for baking cookies. Olivia: It's like num number one, number one tip for making a cookie, make your cookie dough a day ahead. But that also means that instant gratification is not there. But that skillet cookie, you melt the butter and you like mix it all up and you just plop it in there and you stick it in the oven. It's in yeah. And it worked great. I was a little bit like, mm, I don't know, because I always refrigerate the dough, but I'm like, I'm just gonna try it. What have I got to lose? Andrea: Yeah. Mm-hmm. Yep. Some more instant gratification. Olivia: Exactly. It was done in like twenty minutes. Andrea: Wow. Olivia: Now, depending on when we get done recording this, I'm actually still might go make one tonight. Andrea: I love that. You probably should. I s still have to eat dinner, so I did make a really good dinner though and it is I can smell it. I made salmon with lemon orzo. Olivia: Mm. Andrea: It's like all kind of pan fried together. Mm. It's gonna be yummy. Olivia: I wan I want to like salmon more than I actually do. Andrea: Really? Olivia: Yeah. Andrea: I could see that. Olivia: Like I I like the idea of it. I can cook it fine. Whatever. I go to eat it. I think it's gonna taste good. And it just kinda tastes like salmon. I don't know how else to describe it. Other than it's like fishy and I like fish. But for some reason I like I get the ick with salmon really, really fast. So I'll eat a bites and I'm like, I can't. Like I know it's so good for me and I was like excited about it. Andrea: Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Olivia: And like it theoretically tastes fine, but I just like can't eat it. Andrea: What fish what fish do you like better? Olivia: Well depends on what form. So that's like the odd thing. Like if it's like raw, salmon. Like sushi, poke like salmon, salmon, salmon, salmon. I'll raw my god, I'll I'll fuck up some salmon. But I don't I don't particularly like tuna. The texture's a little bit off for me. If it's like sushi or or poke. Yeah, yeah. But like cooked, like pretty much any other fish I'll eat cooked, like mussels, clams, shrimp, Andrea: Okay. Interesting. Like a Ahie tuna, yeah. Interesting. Okay. Hmm. Olivia: Any other like like I've had rockfish, I've had like all those yeah, they're fine. The the white fish are like tilapy like those kind like they're kinda bland but like they're fine. Andrea: Yeah. Huh. Yeah. Yeah. I d I really like salmon, but I do get the ick of it depending on how I cook it. Like today I'm actually really surprised I haven't gotten the ick because I got a really big fillet. It cause I did grocery pickup and it came way bigger than I thought. So I had to cut it. And I had to cut it skin side up and so the like scales came off and that like I'm surprised. Olivia: But Andrea: I'm still excited to eat it because that usually would give me like lulla ick. Olivia: Yeah, mm. Yeah. No, I I know what you mean. Yeah, there was one time where I I had that like back in the like COVID days. and I like Instacarted a a grocery order and I got like a obscene amount of salmon. Like an obscene amount of salmon. And it was like I don't even like salmon this much. Like it was like it was like my personal hell. I was like, nah Andrea: Yeah. Mm. Well. no. my gosh. Ugh. Yeah, I had to cut it up and now it's just like there's raw salmon in the fridge because I couldn't cook all of it. Like so I'm gonna cook more of it tomorrow and I'm Olivia: It was terrible. Yeah. Right. Okay, so my grocery goof of the week. So I had a grocery goof yesterday as I set a Fred Meyer order for pickup and I set it to the wrong store. Andrea: Uh-huh. No Olivia: 'Cause both of the Fred Myers are on the same, like, highway. Andrea: Yep. Yep. no. Olivia: So mad. Yeah. And when I did a pickup order last week, I sent it to the right one. And so when I logged in, I just thought it like saved that one because that's where I sent it last time. And it didn't. I know. Andrea: Did you do the one that's farther away? Well that's weird. So so I did a Fredmeier pickup order today. That's what I did. And there were no green bell peppers. Olivia: Okay. Why did you that qua the way you just the tone on that question was so weird. Was that a question or a statement? Andrea: How both? How was the store completely out of bell peppers? They didn't even give me a replacement. They didn't even give me a red one. Olivia: Or an orange one? Nothing. Andrea: Nope. They just said we don't have bell peppers. Olivia: Yeah, how do you not have bell peppers like at all? Like even give me an organic one at that point, my god. Andrea: Right? Yeah. Or even like the pack of three or like the bait like I just give me bell peppers. Olivia: Or you have like pre cut bell peppers or something? Yeah. Andrea: Yeah Yeah, nothing. I didn't get a single bell pepper. Olivia: So funny. Reminds me how how my husband used to get the like prepackaged cut onions and bell peppers to add to his like eggs in the morning. He's like, it's just so it's easier. And I'm like, this this package of pre cut peppers is like like almost four dollars. Andrea: Yeah. It's like more. It's more than getting a full bell pepper. Olivia: Yeah, it was like almost four dollars and like a single bell pepper is like a buck. And I remember Andrea: Yeah. You're paying for the labor. Olivia: I literally was like, I was trying not to trying not to be but I was like, my my the first thing out of my mouth was, do you just not know how to cut a bell pepper? Because I'm like that feels like a legitimate question. You look at a tiny package, it's almost four dollars of pre-cut bell pepper, and you look at a bell pepper, that's a dollar, maybe Andrea: Yeah. Maybe. Olivia: And you're like, it's too much. If a one dollar bell pepper is too much, t toss the package of pre-cut. That bell pepper's not for you. Andrea: What's so funny too is that like I've literally told clients, just get the pre cut ones if it's too hard. Olivia: Ha Andrea: Like I would never do that. Like that like it I can cut a bell pepper in two seconds. Like Olivia: Well, okay, so I I I I haven't in terms of like the pre cut stuff, but I'll I'll talk about like things that are more convenient to grab. Or like individually packaged things. I feel like that's a little bit different. Andrea: Yeah, yeah. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that's fair. Olivia: But also this goes to show that like we're not a therapist when we're not being a therapist. So I'm not gonna be like, it's okay, honey, get the package of pre cut b bell peppers every week because you can't figure out how to cut a dollar bell pepper. I'm more likely to smack him across the face with the dollar bell pepper and be like, we're gonna cut it this way. Andrea: No. No. Yeah, no. Literally soon as the clients are done the that switch goes off. Like it's done. Olivia: Yeah, it's done. No ADHD tags here. Get the dollar bell pepper. You're cutting it with a knife. Andrea: Yes. Yep. Olivia: We even have one of those things like you like were so popular and I like never really use it. Those like where you like put the vegetable in and you like ch like smash it down and it like chops it or whatever. I hate it too. It's like hard. When you see it on the it's loud and it's hard and you already have to like pre-cut the vegetables enough to even put it in the thing and at that point you're like, I've now made like ten dishes dirty. Like what's the point? Andrea: I have one of those too. I hate it. And it's so loud. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. The only time I use the that thing is for the mandolin slicer when I'm like slicing something I need something sliced really thin because it's not loud. It's not the same thing. It's different. But like Olivia: I like almost sliced off my finger doing that and so any time somebody talks about that I like get PTSD and my finger hurts. Andrea: no. Olivia: Literally to the point where my husband got me like those like like cut safe gloves. I don't even like know what to call them. Andrea: yeah. I've heard of those. Yeah. That's funny. Olivia: Yeah, 'cause he didn't trust me with the choppy thing he did. Andrea: Did you ever have one of the choppy things when you were young that was like it was kind of a dome and it had like a a thing at the top and you just like hit the top of it and it just chopped whatever was in the little dome? Olivia: Yeah, yeah, like a like a mixer. Like was it like a KitchenAid add on or was it just like my I we had both. Andrea: No. It was it was literally just this like it looked like an upside down cup. It was just an upside down cup and the blade would go up and down when you like press the thing up and down. I kinda I kinda miss those. That was like really therapeutic. Olivia: Like the food processor. Yeah. Yeah. It's like the the what the what's the word? salad spinner. It's like the salad spinners. Andrea: yeah, yeah. Those are fun too. I don't have one. Olivia: Yeah. I love my salad spinner. I use it a lot. Andrea: No, I don't have one, but I don't I get salad ick. I can't eat salad. Olivia: Just across the board? Like at all. Andrea: I will eat it. Like I love a I will get a Caesar salad, but like a salad will never be the first thing that I pick. Sometimes I'll get like a side salad with a burger and that tastes good. But like I have to be in a very specific mood for it. But like I don't like salad generally. Olivia: Like at a r what about like at a restaurant or something? Huh. That's interesting. Andrea: Yeah. Yeah, I'm very, very picky about salad. One might be because I am allergic to some types of lettuce. Like I can't eat kale. I can't have arugula. So it's like iceberger romaine or butter. And like those are fine, but like meh. Olivia: Kinda they're little bit more bland. Yeah. Andrea: Yeah. And like the stuff that you it's just it's so much work and like Olivia: Work? What do you mean work? You can't just like Andrea: To make a salad all nice. Like if I want a salad, I want like carrots and cucumbers in it and like meat. That's so Like just lettuce and dressing? Olivia: I just love me some Well yeah, just let us in dressing. Like I'm not a psychopath. Who do you think I am? Andrea: Well, I will do like like I have a salad mix, like a pre made chopped salad. I'll do some of those. I have one that I really like, it's an avocado ranch one, but I don't like any of the other ones. I like that and a Caesar. Olivia: Hm. How much more expensive is the pre made salad kit than the skinny? Andrea: Not that much. Olivia: No, I know. Yeah, the salad kits are very different. I don't know why that's like way like not that expensive, but the pre-like what? Why? Andrea: Ha Yeah. Right? When it has like dressing and croutons in it and you're like, Okay, this is like two ninety nine. Exactly. Yeah. Olivia: Yeah, I mean it has like one and a half croutons, but yeah, sure. It reminds me of I don't know why this gave you the flashback to like this like weird childhood memory. did you ever go to Pizza Hut growing up? Like nineties Pizza Hut and like the salad bar? Andrea: Y yeah. Yep. yeah. Yeah. Now I will fuck up No, I will fuck up a salad bar. Because because because I do less lettuce I do all the other stuff. Olivia: Did you not get anything at the s Wait no Andrea: So like I'll put like a little bit of lettuce and then I'll be like carrots, cucumbers, bacon, whatever else they have at a salad, pickles. Baby corn. So it'll just be like a veggie bowl. Olivia: My brother and I were just swapping our Pizza Hut salad bar recipes in each other. Andrea: my gosh, okay, what's yours? Olivia: Okay, growing up, my like go to thing was lettuce, because I'm not a hater. lettuce, cheddar cheese, bacon, carrots, cucumbers, ranch, and a ton of sunflower seeds. Andrea: Yeah. See I would eat that. With with n maybe not as much lettuce. Olivia: Less lettuce. Yeah. But the amount of ranch I put on that thing was obscene. And this the sunflower seeds, I th I honestly can't even tell you when the last time I had sunflower seeds is. It's been so freaking long. I w when when have I gotten sunflower seeds? I don't e I don't even think I've bought that at a grocery store. Yeah, they're great. Why don't I I I about made Pizza Hut run out. Andrea: Ha ha. Mm-hmm. They're so good. Yeah. Yeah. The papitas. Maybe. Have you ever had the little like papitas things? They're like kinda like Yeah? Okay. Olivia: Yeah, they're all right. I like sunflower seeds better. Not like I've, you know, had them in a decade, but you know. Andrea: That's that's fair. Right, right. my gosh. Remember when Pizza Head also did like a book thing where like if you read a certain amount of books, yeah. Olivia: Yeah, I was l literally just gonna say that. Like the like yeah, the what was it called? Andrea: I don't remember, but I think they brought it back. Olivia: Pizza Hut doesn't like barely even exist anymore. Andrea: No, but for the ones that exist, it's back. Olivia: I did just send us my fifth book last week. Andrea: Five? Olivia: Yeah, and I'm halfway through my sixth one. Andrea: What are you reading now? Olivia: I'm reading when women ruled the world and it's about female Egyptian rulers throughout history. Andrea: That's cool. I like that. Huh. Olivia: It's actually been really interesting. yeah, can I just tangent into that for a second? Andrea: Always, that's what this is. Olivia: Now Okay, so I'm learning learning about like a lot about Egyptian history and like how all the pharaohs were set up and like how that specific climate and geographical location was really helpful throughout history and culture in that society forming and like they didn't get invaded very much and so they're just like all these different aspects of the history and very interesting, really like it, it's cool. Andrea: Mm-hmm. Olivia: The piece that I continue to get stuck on, and maybe this is just dumb, but I don't think it's that dumb. They created such a like rich and unique religion, right? At such an insane cost for like multiple dynasties and like the initial dynasties of the pharaohs, when a king died, anywhere between like four to like six hundred people had to die with him. Andrea: Mm-hmm. Olivia: were literally like sacrificed, human sacrifice to make sure that he could get into the afterlife and also secure the next king. Andrea: Holy fuck. Olivia: And like people were chosen at random, but it was like an honor to die. And it would be like the moms or wives or children or council people or servants or like just like mass genocide every time a king died. To and that was just normal. And it was like an honor to die on behalf of your king, so you could get into the afterlife with him. And I'm sitting here thinking. Andrea: That was just normal. Olivia: Am I dumb in the brain? Because if you're gonna make a religion from scratch, why wouldn't you make it easier to get into the afterlife? Why do you have to kill like six hundred frickin' people? Andrea: That's like a whole s town. Olivia: Right. That's what I'm saying, like I mean, it like after a couple of, you know, dynasties they s they stopped doing that. Andrea: I did not know this. I would hope so. Olivia: My god, they wouldn't have any population left. Everytime a king died, they're like whole elite group got fanned out. Andrea: Yeah, that's Yeah, 'cause like even even if your king lives I don't I'm trying to think of like the time frame. Olivia: Well yeah, that's well that's the other thing is is like if you lived it if you lived into your like late forties or like maybe even reached fifty, you were old. You were ancient, like you were gonna die any day. Andrea: Yeah. And so then I then were they nam wow, we could really get into this. Were they naming the new king as like a small child or like teenager? Do we know this? Olivia: Depends. Depends on the yeah. But like generally there would be a king younger. Yeah. But then they also kind of like a regent system, because that's when some of the women actually r like were regent or like ruled Egypt. Was they were regent for somebody who was destined to be king that was too young. Andrea: Cause that like Cause like even if like if you said yeah Right. Olivia: To actually rule. Andrea: Wow. That's that's crazy to think about. Olivia: But that's what I'm saying. Like, you you're gonna make a religion. No, I get that they believed it, and like that's really hypocritical of me to say because I'm also religious. Bleh. Okay, get it. You're gonna make a whole religion, and like you're gonna choose these things to be tradition? Why? Why? You're making traditions from scratch. Andrea: Yeah. Yeah. Olivia: with like no other cultural influence from any other country. Really? No other countries were doing this. So you created this from scratch. Like are you insane? Andrea: Right, right, right, right. So somebody that at the beginning was just a sociopath? Olivia: I apparently or wanted to die? I don't I don't know. Cause it's like from the way it's like depicted, it's like no one was safe. Andrea: Yeah. 'Cause like how Olivia: So it's like, why would you do that? Why would you why would you make that so tradition? Yeah. Andrea: Picking people at random? Why not just eliminate the criminals and the bad ones? Like Olivia: I don't know. But yeah, I've just like that's really it's really been stuck in my brain of like so you were creating all these traditions from scratch and that's what you chose. You were actually dumb in the head. You could have just made it like I don't know. You eat this thing and you get into the afterlife. Like you could have made it that. But instead you made it mass murder. You're an idiot. You're an actual idiot. Andrea: Whoa, that's so interesting. Yeah, I could it could have even been like you marry all these wives, like some religions. Like what? Death? Mass genocide? Well, that got dark. Olivia: That's what I'm saying. And yeah. But that's what I'm saying! It's extremely dark. It's like what Why? Why? It was so unnecessary. So categorically unnecessary. Andrea: Yeah. It's very different than the books that I'm reading. Olivia: I bet. Andrea: I just read a book and the teenager basically just masturbated every episode. Episode chapter. Olivia: Yeah. Andrea: And there was absolutely no purpose for it. Olivia: I'm getting learnt and you're just I don't even know. Andrea: Yeah. I'm pretty sure the story was supposed to be about like the trans experience. And so that's why we picked it for book club. But then we all were like, why does this kid just keep masturbating every chapter? Olivia: You're gonna get us cancelled in this episode, Andreya. I Yeah, I knew you were gonna say that. Fine Andrea: Well, you got us cancelled in the last episode. Ha ha ha. my gosh. It's been a day. Olivia: Yeah. It has been. do you wanna go eat dinner and I go make a cookie? Andrea: Yeah. Sure, this has been a really short rabbit trail episode for you all, but Olivia: I think I think they can handle it. Andrea: Think they can handle it. Our last one was long, so you get a little a little taste of us today. We'll be back full energy at some point, but I just also I didn't tell you this. Maybe I told you this. Alabama was cool at first. And I was like, this is funky. Never thought Alabama would be a vibe, but we had some real, like we went to a really cool restaurant, saw some vibes. It was cool. But the humidity. I do not ever want to step back into the south in the middle of the summer. Ever again. Olivia: Yeah, you thought you sweat now on Phoenix. Mm mm. Andrea: There was it was n when we got to the concert it was ninety five degrees and eighty eight percent humidity with absolutely no wind. Thank goodness we brought a baby stroller fan with us, but the fan died three quarters of the way through the show. We started pouring water on ourselves. Olivia: That's insanity. Andrea: Yeah. So needless to say, I'm oddly glad to be back in the desert, but I also have been hydrating like crazy, which is so unlike me. Olivia: Yeah, I gonna say, did you like lose some weight from just like sweating out every fluid that was in your body? my gosh. That's so terrible. Mm. Andrea: Yep. Yep. So not worth going back. I got another state checked off my list, but nah, I don't think I'll be going back. Olivia: Yeah, I that's pretty much how I feel about any East Coast anything with humidity like just the smallest bit of humidity. I'm like, I'm gagging, I can't breathe. No. Yeah, no. Yeah, well drink up because that sounds awful. Andrea: It's rough. It is rough. I'm gonna go get myself some food. We love you guys. Olivia: I'm gonna we love you so much. Thanks for coming along. We hope you have a good one. And we'll catch you in the next rabbit trail. Andrea: Yeah. Yeah, go get your cookie. Olivia: Alright, I will Queen. Bye y'all. 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