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Excuse My Grandma While We Talk Influencer Drama and Algorithms · Excuse My Grandma

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Welcome back to another episode of Excuse My Grandma. It's Kim and my co host. Grandma Gail. Grandma and I are in Palm Beach. I've been in New York City mostly.
• 0:27
  Every time I bump into people, they're like, what are you doing nowadays? When are you here? Are you I'm Palm Beach, mixed up. I know. And I'm like, honestly, I go back every week or two.
• 0:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, to do business, we need to come back.
• 0:41
  Speaker 1: To New
• 0:41
  Speaker 2: York and then to be with me in Florida. Otherwise, we can't do it together. And since my husband had a knee operation, I haven't been able to leave him this winter, which is stressful because I really like to go back to the city like a week or ten days a month. But it'll be over soon.
• 1:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah. We literally only have less than a month left here. Correct.
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  Speaker 2: I'm already thinking about getting the boxes and the suitcases up from my basement here and taking back stuff that I didn't wear here, and I'm not going to wear them in New York. So I'm really going to think very carefully this time because really in the city, don't dress up very much. Mean, it's
• 1:21
  Speaker 1: mostly Just that last year?
• 1:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so. It's much more casual living for me in New York. I don't go to the big fancy balls.
• 1:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because they have more parties here, I guess.
• 1:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they have more parties. And there are places that tend to say, you need to be dressed. I don't think Poppy needs to put on a jacket anywhere unless he's chilly in the city.
• 1:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I wonder why it still has that formality in the culture and fashion here.
• 1:49
  Speaker 2: Well, I think it's been an old guard society for a very long time. And they love to get dressed up because women always like to put things on that look pretty. And there is no Thank heavens, there's no threat of being mugged or robbed or We don't have those concerns as much. There is some, I'm sure. You now have to lock all your cars, that's for sure, because they steal the cars.
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  They don't want to steal your dresses. I don't think if a lady went out
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  Speaker 1: in a fancy dress in New York, they would be mugged.
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  Speaker 2: Well, but they wouldn't wear the jewelry. They wouldn't wear perhaps That's their engagement absolutely true. No, I think it is.
• 2:29
  Speaker 1: I know people talk about it, but if you're getting in an Uber and you're going to like a charity event then you're getting back in the Uber and going home.
• 2:37
  Speaker 2: Well, if you're very secure, it was a very interesting thing when you're talking about that. There was a problem just yesterday. The taxi drivers, there was a scam man on Clematis Street, which is right near where the college is in West Palm Beach, who was scamming riders. And I don't take Ubers that much, but evidently when they gave him the credit card, he was able to get Wait, you don't give Ubers credit cards? Well, he's a taxi.
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  He wasn't an Uber or a Lyft. Was supposedly a
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  Speaker 1: taxi driver.
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  Speaker 2: Taxi driver. And he really was I don't think he was a real taxi driver either. But he evidently scammed over 50 people. He has Who
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  Speaker 1: was charging more than
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  Speaker 2: No, he was taking their security code that was on the credit card, which I don't know how. And he went and he cashed in money from their accounts. It's not great. So they arrested him, thank heaven. So don't worry about it.
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  It's all cleared up. But, you know, people do devious things, you know, but I never think of that. But you have to be a little careful.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, I guess that could really happen anywhere.
• 3:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Don't you remember when you get off in an airport when somebody says, come in my taxi, come on my taxi? And I always wanna tell people who come into New York, don't do that. Go to the taxi stand. Go to a legitimate driver.
• 3:53
  Speaker 1: You think that people would just know that, but I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but I don't think so. Think people are very trusting.
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  Speaker 1: Dad and I were walking in Central Park a few weeks ago, and you know the pedicab drivers They were on the They like pull up and they're like, Do you want to get in? And we're like, No, it's okay. And for the next five minutes, he's like, I'm gonna keep bothering you until you decide to get in. And we were like, Do have a bratty horse?
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  Speaker 2: And they're very expensive. They rip off these people because I think it's like $17 And a minute or they also, which we've discussed before, because when you and I came out of theater a few times in the fall, they're always standing in front of the theater. And if it's raining and you need to get a car or your Lyft is coming in front, there's no way you can get into your taxi or your Lyft or your whatever. So, you know, there are issues. And I tend to think people are a little more careful now.
• 4:49
  Speaker 1: You love talking to Uber drivers and cab drivers.
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  Speaker 2: I
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  Speaker 1: do. Like even we went down to Delray yesterday to do videos with Danielle Brown, whose Instagram handle is HealthyGirlKitchen. She does all these cooking videos. We So wanted to cook with her and like have a fun content day. And so we got in the Uber and I think
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  Speaker 2: We had a trauma first. Let's discuss it. It was a boat weekend here in Florida. The boat show. So the boat show.
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  So for five days, there were big mega yachts going up and down the coastline or staying stationary, trying to sell their boats. So on Sunday, when the boat is show is over, then all the armada of boats have to leave the dock. So they would put the bridges up. You could be sitting at that bridge for an hour. Yesterday Why don't they just make the bridges taller?
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  Well, can't get into that. They're not asking our opinion on that. It's already done. So yesterday when we had to go somewhere, you had called for a car and we could see the bridge was literally
• 5:54
  Speaker 1: Up, but not at the time that they said they typically go up. No. Because everything was off.
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  Speaker 2: Correct. Correct. So it took us much longer to get off the island. And it's not easy on a good day to get off this island anyway.
• 6:06
  Speaker 1: But yeah. It was fun.
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  Speaker 2: I loved our little trip to Delray. First of all, she's delightful. And she has another cookbook coming out. We're actually going to see her in New York in April. But the best part was looking at her little boy.
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  He has the most gorgeous blue eyes I ever said. Said he's going to grow into those eyes, but I don't Well,
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  Speaker 1: I think with all babies, like your eyes are always the same size they will be your whole life. It's everything else that's smaller. So then you like grow in to the rest the rest of the mean, they'll still look like blue like that,
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  Speaker 2: but it was fun. We had such a good time and we made, she made, we sort of assisted, right Kim?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. We kind of just watched.
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  Speaker 2: We sort of
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  Speaker 1: messed We chopped a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: We chopped grapes. Yeah. And we chopped the salad.
• 6:57
  Speaker 1: You chopped grapes. I'm not sure what
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  Speaker 2: I did. I was worried with your knife. The knife was getting a little too tricky near your fingers.
• 7:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't know. I'm not the best at that. I think I just need to watch like one YouTube video.
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  Speaker 2: Think you need to use a smaller knife. Smaller knife, a paring knife. I don't think we needed that big, tremendous cutting knife for those little tiny grapes that were miniscule. But anyway, it was fun.
• 7:21
  Speaker 1: Because I'm always like, it'd be fun to take a cooking class or something. But in those classes, they try to do really outlandishly. I just need to know literally how to hold
• 7:29
  Speaker 2: a knife. Well, you can really do that. I think you could do that on a YouTube. Yeah,
• 7:34
  Speaker 1: that's what I'm saying. Well, now I ask JotGBT everything. Like I'm so reliant
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  Speaker 2: on it. See, brother was right. Everything is AI and ChatGPT.
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  Speaker 1: It's actually crazy. Usually I would say, Oh, let's just Google it. I don't even do that anymore. Just That's what happens. Go on And Zach jokes because I'm like, ChatGBT is my boyfriend.
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  I talk to it all day long. I ask it every question.
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  Speaker 2: All right. If it works, it works. You don't get an answer back that you don't like.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Or you can tailor it to respond to
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  Speaker 2: what you're asking.
• 8:09
  Speaker 1: Right. I mean, it's not like it's giving me false information.
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  Speaker 2: It's not like telling you I love you. It's showing you how
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  Speaker 1: to Do think do he's ready to say I love you?
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  Speaker 2: The chat GBT? Probably. You're using it so much. You're probably in
• 8:22
  Speaker 1: They're a relationship. For the next step. I'm excited.
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  Speaker 2: No, moving
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  Speaker 1: I feel like there's going to be so much technology in the next
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  Speaker 2: No question. No question. And that's got pros and cons because people will have to develop new jobs because they're definitely going to take over many of the jobs that people do now. But Annie, I just listened to something as a matter of the other day. This has been going on since the Industrial Revolution.
• 8:48
  Everybody said, oh, nobody will have any It changes. It mutates into new jobs and new educational things, and people will
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  Speaker 1: learn different skills. Is there any piece of technology that you can't really get behind? What about Waymo, like the driverless cars?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I don't really like it because I don't trust the people around me. But I know I have to trust the But I car think because
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  Speaker 1: it's it's smarter messed than the people.
• 9:14
  Speaker 2: Right? It is smarter than the people. The people are very stupid, especially in Florida. I would say they're the worst drivers anywhere I've ever met.
• 9:20
  Speaker 1: I don't want to out anybody, but you were very upset that Poppy was honking the other day.
• 9:25
  Speaker 2: I did. I don't like honking on the street. That's one of the things that's a pet peeve of mine. I don't like it in the city. I find it very rude.
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  Speaker 1: It's more common in New York, too. Like, no one really
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  Speaker 2: does Yeah, it hear the taxi fellows used to So honk all the
• 9:38
  Speaker 1: that when you honk here, it's like extra rude?
• 9:40
  Speaker 2: I don't like it. Feel that people, first of half the people here don't hear. So this is a very big problem. You're blowing your horn, and they're not really hearing But you I do think a big problem here is there are too many people on the road. We're having a big issue with bikes here now because there are many, like in every big city, and this is becoming a
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  Speaker 1: I big haven't noticed that
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  Speaker 2: here. A lot of Not city bikes. Excuse
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  Speaker 1: me? Not city bikes.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no, regular bikes. But they don't have a bike lane. So if you don't have a bike lane and you have narrow streets to begin with, I think it's a disaster
• 10:16
  Speaker 1: I never for see to bikers unless I'm on the lake path.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no. People go all the time, especially Saturday and Sunday. Families are out there, and they're supposed to go single style, single file, and they don't. So they go like three or four deep on the road, and it's tricky.
• 10:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Walk like the rest of us. Why are you even on a bike? Well, it's supposed to be healthy. Just get in your car drive No, like a regular was always the worst bike rider.
• 10:47
  Speaker 2: I love riding a bike. I used to have the kids when your mom and uncle were young. We used to go in the park with the bikes and
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  Speaker 1: take It's nice it in one theory, like in any rom com when they're like on the bikes and they're holding hands.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's never, it's just a nice exercise to do with the family, but it's very hazardous now with all the traffic. So I certainly wouldn't do it.
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  Speaker 1: Here are my bike injuries. Fell off, partially tore my ACL. Fell off, got thirty six stitches in my knee. I liked stationary bikes. I liked SoulCycle, but that probably messed up my back.
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  Like, there's nothing good about
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  Speaker 2: For you.
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  Speaker 1: For me about Exactly. Or running or much
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  Speaker 2: It's of those very hard on everybody's Mom
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  Speaker 1: says I'm like delicate little flower.
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  Speaker 2: You're like a little
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  Speaker 1: China doll. Yeah. I'll just lounge and eat bonbons. Well, that's
• 11:37
  Speaker 2: what you should do. Well, yesterday, instead of eating bonbons, we were eating these little crackle things that I thought was fair. There was nothing real in any of those things we ate.
• 11:45
  Speaker 1: Oh, it was like an organic snack. Waterlily seeds
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  Speaker 2: or Right. I was going to go buy those at Publix because they sort of were tasty and they were under 100 calories
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  Speaker 1: Honestly, for a whole that is better for you than eating Lay's potato chips in your bag.
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  Speaker 2: Well, don't eat chips.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, what were you eating the other day?
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  Speaker 2: Saw wrappers. Like what's the Swedish Fish? Fish.
• 12:05
  Speaker 1: Well, know, there's a really healthy Swedish Fish brand.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I like this one. Well, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if it's really healthy, but it's like organic or something.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I use Pepperidge Farm. They're perfect. It's a good snack and it only is 100 calories. And I like that.
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  And it cuts the hunger in the afternoon. But these things were pretty good. I'm to go to the market and see if I can find them.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't love Swedish. Like, I don't like gummies.
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  Speaker 2: No, don't like gummies.
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  Speaker 1: But there's this store called Little Sweet Treat that opened in the West Village.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of like Dylan's candy bar, except tiny. And like, you know, you self serve the Right. And it's always a line around the block, with adults, not like children. Yeah, well people love them. People love candy.
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  I don't know if it might be Swedish candy. I don't actually know what it is, but they have some chocolate things, but it's mostly gummies and sour. And I don't like that kind of stuff. But I went in after dinner. I forgot where I
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  Speaker 2: was eating. It probably always looks so pretty too,
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  Speaker 1: all the different It's like a cute scrub, that cute branding. You walk out with a little bag.
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  Speaker 2: Like Dylan's thing in the Hamptons, where they all walk out with a different color jelly bean.
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  Speaker 1: But this feels a little bit minimal, more normal. But I took the chocolate ones. They were like chocolate caramel.
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  Speaker 2: But are they real chocolate? Real chocolate. Real chocolate.
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  Speaker 1: It's not a healthy shot.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, but chocolate is healthy. But you know, now there's so many people say it's vegan this and vegan that. Want the actual chocolate.
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  Speaker 1: This is real chocolate. And I kind of loved it.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, good.
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  Speaker 1: But then I was like
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  Speaker 2: You should have bought some and kept them in the apartment.
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  Speaker 1: What I did, I was with my friend. She was like, That's not how you do it. Because you're supposed to like fill out the bag. I put like three in. Because I was like, I'm not gonna like it.
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  I don't have to fill up a whole bag of candy. And of course I ate all three.
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  Speaker 2: That's gonna cost you $20 to go back to the store and you won't even find it.
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  Speaker 1: No, I know exactly where it It's on 7th Avenue and I wanna say like around twelve or thirteen. But I have to double check on that. It's called Lil' Sweet Treat. It's very popular on Instagram.
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  Speaker 2: Well, as soon as we say this, it's going be a line around the corner.
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  Speaker 1: No, there's already a line around the But I went late at night and there wasn't. So usually after
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  Speaker 2: Maybe it's an after work thing.
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  Speaker 1: People go Or maybe people, the initial hype kind of died down. All right. Because it opened last year, I think.
• 14:29
  Speaker 2: Oh, okay. By the time I get it, it'll be closed. Probably. I'm still talking about the biscuit place.
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: Guess what closed? What? The restaurant on my corner. Which? The the Italian one?
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  Yes. Lupetto? Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we were the only ones who ate there,
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  Speaker 1: I guess. Isn't that weird? It such
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  Speaker 2: a pretty restaurant. Months ago.
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  Speaker 1: No, a year ago.
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: A year ago.
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  Speaker 1: And it's so pretty. They had It was beautiful. Done such a long time of renovation. And then I walked by and it was all papered up and it said what it was gonna be.
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  Speaker 2: Well, what's going on there now? Probably said what's-
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: Memae Metze. And I think that's what it's called. And I Googled it and it's from Greece. Okay. I think it's like more of a
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  Speaker 2: Mediterranean now.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's Mediterranean. But I think I think when I looked it up, it looked like a not fast casual, but definitely like
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  Speaker 2: less expensive,
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  Speaker 1: not expensive.
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  Speaker 2: Well, was an expensive restaurant, really. And it didn't
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  Speaker 1: But get the up place is so pretty.
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: How do you get a to don't think they need to change the decor.
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: It's beautiful. It doesn't look like Mediterranean Mediterranean Well, they just
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  Speaker 2: put some wine bottles with a candle dripping on it. Guess Go look Mediterranean, put some tomatoes on the table. That was really pretty. I liked it.
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: Thought the food was great. It's the same people as Pecor Bianca, which is all over the city.
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: Well, maybe they felt that it was just not evidently wasn't getting the crowd.
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: But then how do you like put, they probably
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  Speaker 2: lost They lost much money. Of course, of course. Well, this is a very hard, restaurants are very, you know, first of they go in spurts and restaurants get hot and then all of a sudden they can get as cold as ice. So unless you have a clientele that really supports you and stays
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  Speaker 1: But it's with never one year. That felt really fast.
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  Speaker 2: That's bad. Well, they evidently did not do well. I'm sorry to hear it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but you know what was weird? I always thought there was a lot of availability, but then some nights I would look on my phone and there was no availability.
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: Well, maybe they were having a problem staffing or the chef. Who knows?
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: I'd love to know, though. Okay. So, yeah, that was an update. So I'm sure when I go back to New York, I'm going to try a lot of
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: There are a lot of more restaurants. I'm going to all new restaurants when I go home. I'm making a whole thing about that.
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we were talking because we have your birthday, mom's birthday, and Poppy's birthday, and we don't know where to go.
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: Well, problem is it's not that we don't know where to go, we know where to go, but it's tables of 12. And nobody in New York wants to take a table of 12. Family doesn't really want to be in a private room. How much can we say to each other every five minutes? It's sort of fun
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: maybe to be in a to. It's not like we haven't caught up in years. We have dinners all the time. Least once a week.
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: And it's fun when you see the crowd in a restaurant, but there really is a problem with that. So we can't get rid of people. So we're going to have to just go to places that'll take us for twelve. We'll do the other new restaurants at a smaller group.
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: I'll try to think of where I've gone with big tables before.
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: Not that many. That Casa Touy was very accommodating. Casa Touy. Casa Touy. They were very accommodating, and that's beautiful.
• 17:27
  But that's a private club, and it's not easy to get into. It's, you know, that's kind of thing. You know what? Whatever it is, we're together.
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: Speaking of private clubs, I just joined a new one, which I I told you know,
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: I have a problem. You do have a problem. You don't have enough nights in the week for all these clubs.
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: And I'm barely in New York, which is the other thing.
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: Like Well, I think you should start eliminating some of them because they are You do have to pay
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: for these clubs, even though they're minimal. Well, most expensive part is the initiation fee, which I kind of ate already.
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: So then it doesn't So
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: then, I mean, it's still expensive to pay every year because it's
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: not They don't have dues?
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you pay dues every Not as much as the initiation thing, but dues on top of whatever I'm paying, like dinner or drinks that I get when I go.
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: Unless you're, if you're not using it, I would eliminate. This is not the
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: time I know to have it's like, this is a privileged problem, obviously, but, and it's not even a problem. It's more just like this, I don't know if I feel like if I can and I It's feel like it's a fun excess. It's excess.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: And at this time, I think you keep the ones that
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: you I don't really know. It's like, I feel, even though I like to try new places, I feel it's like I hard to get in.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: There's that's the also not
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: a lot of places that If I wanna not just have dinner, but you wanna just sit around and have a drink before or after dinner. I don't really know where to do that. That's not like a gross bar or you're standing in a That's
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: why these clubs are so popular. That's why they were a big smash in London. Not so in Paris as much, but Paris is much more secretive. We don't know where they are in Paris. There are probably millions of them.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: There's probably millions of them.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: But New York has certainly been taken over by the club scene.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: The popular ones right now are Chez Margo, which I haven't been to yet.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: Okay. That all downtown?
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: That's, yeah, I think like, where is that one? Meatpacking area? Wait.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: Everything's in here.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I haven't been there, so I don't exactly know. But maybe it's a no ho. I actually don't know. What different?
• 19:35
  Zero Bond, which I'm a member of. Not that old, but a few years. So house is old, but I use that when I travel. The one I just joined, San Vicente Bungalow, Well, is in the old Jane
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: that's gonna be okay.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: From LA. And now I get my membership there too. So when I'm there, I can check out that one,
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: And which should be
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: then, I'd like to see
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: how the food is these Oh, you've eaten there already? Yeah. Okay. And was it Italian? It's Italian, I guess.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: No, it's like a, I don't know what it It's mix, like they have pasta, they also have sushi, but they also have steak.
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: Oh, so it's a little bit of area.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: A little bit of area. It's San Jacinto, yeah. And then the twenty two opened in Union Square from London.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: Right. That was delicious. I ate there.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: Didn't go to clubs. Ate in the restaurant.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: I did too.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: But you can go to the restaurant in New York too. I made a reservation for next week. It's very I think it's called Cafe Zaffre.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: Well, there's so many new places opening, so that's fun. Yeah. Not to worry because even the hot dog stands on this corner are delicious in New York.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. The dirt gets
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: Oh, in the hot I love it. I love it. I love it. It's my favorite. A little sauerkraut busted on New York hot dog just puts me away.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: We know you love hot dogs. You might need a hot dog line. Like, open your own hot dog shop.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: Well, Gray's Papaya reopened. So that my absolute favorite between a drink and an old fashioned It's like
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: old school and classic. And delicious. Yeah. Let's move on to the drama club. Talk about what's trending right now with celebrity gossip, drama.
• 21:20
  So this is like a little old, but we haven't talked about it yet. There's a thing going on with New York City influencers right now. Did you see this? No. So this one girl who I'd never seen before on TikTok, she made a video saying, All the New York City influencers are so boring.
• 21:40
  They're all
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: I think you're right.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: They're all the same. She said they're all tall, skinny, blonde, whatever. And that is very much referring to specific people that I get on my feet all the time. I actually don't think they're boring. Like I But they're classic lifestyle New York That's
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: a problem, yeah. But you know what? Most people don't live like that and it gets annoying. So I understand where the girl is I coming always say that
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: to Isn't it aspirational too?
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: No, not really. It's almost annoying. You know, if I look there's a couple of girls. I told you I was looking at a couple
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: of them on Not the New York City ones. You were looking at other girls.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: I don't even know where they're from. But they're so tall. First of they're at least six feet tall. They put on a little tiny dress that's a size two. They look absolutely magnificent.
• 22:27
  They're wearing the most perfect heels, the most perfect bag. Who is this? Who could be like this? This is nowhere near. And it gets people, I think, I've always felt this way.
• 22:38
  It gets them either angry that they can't do the same, jealous, or just feeling bad about themselves. And I don't think that's what people should feel when they look at these people. I like the ones that I listen to. I can relate to because I think they're funny. And they make fun of themselves as well as the things they do.
• 22:58
  When they take themselves too seriously, I of scroll
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: through I understand that. But I think, yeah, maybe on first glance, and there probably are people out there who do take themselves to seriously and it's really curated and they're whatever.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: And they're also making money doing it, let's Right. Face
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: But I also think like some of these girls who have millions of followers or at least a million followers, like they obviously have some personality. They're obviously a little bit likable. Otherwise, they wouldn't have that.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: Well, they're likable or people want to look like them.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: Interesting. I'm interested to see what they're doing or whatever it is. Like, I'm trying to think why I like to follow.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: I mean, sometimes Why I'm following elephants, Dan? Okay. I have a whole thing in Africa. I'm following all these animal reserves where they're protecting
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: You all the different know, the more you watch those, the more it'll be fed to you. Is that true? Yeah.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: Cause now I've got a million leopards and and
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: Like I only get like dogs on Instagram because I watch How do they
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: know that I'm doing that?
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: Because if you, when you're scrolling through, let's say you're getting fashion, fashion, fashion, and then got an elephant video and you're like, Oh, I'm interested in this. And you watch the whole thing. It's like, Oh, she just watched a two minute video about elephants. We'll give her another video Oh,
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: all right. No wonder I keep getting this one reserve and now I've attached to the elephant baby. Love this baby.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: That's cute.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: So, Oh, I didn't realize that.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: I mean
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: that's have how go quicker through.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: Can't, I gotta- Oh no, but don't you want it to know? Yeah, this is the whole question. I like it. I like that the algorithm can be personalized. Like, I think a lot of people are like, they know your information, but like that's helpful for me.
• 24:34
  Like if I was like, I really like this dress and then I get fed more of the assets that I like, I'm like, great. Like now I found Exactly. A dress that I So I don't see anything bad about that, but that's basically how the algorithm goes.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: Right. Okay.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: So more news going on. Poppy, the soda brand, it was sold for $1,500,000,000
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: Is that the thing we drank yesterday?
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: No, that was Olipop. Oh. But like similar idea.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: So what's that, a vegan drink or something? No sugar?
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: So PepsiCo bought it. Good for them.
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: Maybe they want to buy us.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, I don't know if that's how it works, but I was going to read a little bit about it. It's a prebiotic soda brand. Probiotic. No, I think prebiotic is the same thing as like I don't in supplements Like there's and prebiotics and probiotics.
• 25:38
  I don't
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: know the difference. I don't know the difference.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: But it's very popular drink. Do they do it after you do exercise? It's like a low calorie soda.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: No, no, no. It's not electrolytes. It's not replenishing anything. It's just-
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: It has apple cider vinegar.
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: Well, that's dietetic. That's what everybody's taking to like Ozempic. They're saying that apple cider vinegar and baking soda is.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, don't know about the baking soda thing, but I know for like, I think nutritionists years ago or something told me that in the morning on an empty stomach, I think you are supposed to have a spoonful of cider vinegar.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, because it supposedly stirs on your immune system.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know.
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: Not your immune system. Do call
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: Your digestive system. Your thing to go faster. Metabolism. Metabolism.
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Thank you. All right. Well, good for them. Was it a young company?
• 26:34
  It a young group of people who owned it?
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So it's a husband and wife duo, Alison and Stephen Ellsworth.
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: For where? Are Well, they
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: they pitched it on Shark Tank once and nobody invested. Bethany was and on that they didn't invest in it. Oh, no, sorry. They did get it from the guest shark, who was Rohan Oza. Okay.
• 26:59
  But I know Bethany did a video, Frankel, and was like, she's usually right about that.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, she's very good.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: Right, so she missed one. It was just like a viral soda, but yeah, they're like a young couple. Oh, that's wonderful. Yeah. Okay.
• 27:15
  Good for That's cool.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: I don't know. Yeah.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: Oh, also, two more news things. You know Pete Davidson?
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: Yes. I don't know him personally,
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: but I know who he is.
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: He doesn't call me to say hi, Grandma.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: I wish he did.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: That would Yeah, be it would
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: be nice. Was like, there was paparazzi pictures of him making out with his girlfriend in the ocean in Palm Beach.
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: Why was he? Oh, I think I knew that.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: Oh, really?
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I read that someplace.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, was like a week ago, but I wonder why they were here.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: Why not? It's beautiful here. Do think
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: they're just on vacation?
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, probably came down for spring break. Maybe. Does he have children or does she have children from a former relationship?
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: I don't think so.
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: Maybe they're just here to soak up the beautiful weather we've had.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: They're also like 30.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: All right. Well, it doesn't mean he doesn't have children.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: I don't think
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: yeah, no. Does. No, Okay.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: I don't know who the girl is.
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: They're just here on the beach.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I didn't know if they were here for
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: Well, they might be here for a meeting. Could be here for anything. We have no idea. Maybe they're visiting the president.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: Maybe. That would be surprising. I don't know. Okay, last thing. Selena Gomez.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: Oh, I saw her this morning
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: with her. She's promoting her album that just came out with her fiance, Benny Blanco. I like it a lot, I decided.
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: Okay,
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: good. They're just very like
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: Well, he's very normal. Right. It would not be a person I would ever imagine she would like.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: I mean normal, like he works with the biggest stars and he's a really songwriter. I don't know if he's normal.
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: He's a little way out
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: He's a little quirky.
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: But I thought he was adorable.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: You feel like he talks I he's authentic when he's agree. Whether it is or not, I feel like they're not trying to be this unrelatable couple. You look at them and you're cute. It's cute. It's interesting because both their names are on the album.
• 29:07
  Obviously, they worked on it together. I feel like it's more interesting that it's their like album as a couple versus if she just came out with the album.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: Okay. They both give each other some credibility. It's nice.
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's nice. So you should listen to it.
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: What if it happened to Taylor Swift and The Boyfriend? Did they ever get engaged? I honestly don't
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: really, I'm not a Swiftie.
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: You don't mind. I'm just curious. Sometimes it goes about when they want to push the publicity and then all of a sudden it dies out. Maybe we have to wait for football season again.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Okay. Yeah, I don't know anything about I think we would definitely know if they got engaged. Okay, let's go to the Grandma Report. Our BuzzFeed article from this month says women 30 are sharing how they met their partners, It's not all from dating apps.
• 29:57
  So there's this Reddit thread, Ask Women 30, and people were asking how everyone was meeting their partners. So let's go through a little bit of it because maybe it can give people inspiration.
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: Okay. So someone said, I joined disc golf and dart clubs, both of which are male dominated. I'm the only woman in the disc golf club, has over 30 men, half of whom are single. I find this easier than using dating apps. I like being friends first because that means they'll be themselves and I can filter them out that way.
• 30:27
  So far, I'm interested in one guy and the feelings are mutual.
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: Okay, nice. That's good. You know, as you get older, your choices get less. So she's got to seek places where she can meet desirable men. And good for her.
• 30:42
  She found two different places. Think it's
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: think that pretty works for any age, though. Join something that you're interested in. Yeah, maybe. It's more natural.
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: I think when you're in school and when you're as you get into the workforce, you don't always have commonality with the people in your office. It depends on what business you're in.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So look outside of
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: You wasn't have to look outside of the box, which she did. Very smart.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: Okay. Someone said, we met dancing. Our city has line dancing country swing dance lessons. We got paired to swing dance partners, had drinks talked, and the rest is history.
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: I think it's terrific. I mean, I love all those things. I mean, that's how older people meet as well. If you have a commonality of an interest and you enjoy it, why not find somebody who also has the same interest? Everybody at different times in their life have different desires and different needs.
• 31:32
  So taper it according to your lifestyle.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: They said we met at a party hosted by an older woman I met once. I went because I enjoyed meeting new people, and I believe it's good to be open to everything, even though I knew no one else there. I was 34. We've been together since that night.
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: All right, good, good. So maybe this will go into a long term relationship.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: So it's like, say yes to anything you're invited to because you never know. That's correct.
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: I think that's the same even if you're in your 20s. I think if there's a party thrown by friends, even if you don't know anybody, no, you can always leave after half an hour. Nothing is at
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: a That's bad the thing. Sometimes I'm like, oh, I don't want to go to something because you're committing to a whole thing. But you have to remember, you can leave at
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: any No one's holding you prisoner. Yeah.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: Okay, great. Let's do the rewind. Grandma, what have you been watching on TV?
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: Well, Grandma's you know, I love all my Amazon and Netflix programs. But this week on Netflix, I binged The Leopard, which I think has been around for a couple of months, but I just got to it. It was a it's about Sicily in the 1860s and the reunification of Italy. But it's staged around the leopard who's a prince. And the story about is, you know, all the intrigues in the family.
• 33:01
  I love that. It's a period piece. I believe it's eight different episodes. And for anybody that loves beautiful scenery actually, last night I watched they did a production a video on how it was produced because the sets are gorgeous. And for those who have not been to Sicily, which I have been, Palermo is, they took all the different parts of Sicily that you would love to see.
• 33:26
  Pretty. And the characters are very likable. So was very interesting. Fun.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: Liked it. Nice. Do you think
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: I would like it? Yeah, I don't know why not. It's a love story. It's a frustration. It's a period piece.
• 33:42
  You're not going to relate to it because it was a very different time. And she was very busy going in and out of a convent when her parents didn't approve of her love for her cousin. I mean, are lots of intriguing things in it. But the costumes are beautiful. The production is beautiful.
• 33:59
  Think it's worth a couple of shots.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: I'm obviously watching White Lotus.
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: Right, know you are.
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: But that's so annoying because it's only one a week and I watch so much TV. So I decided to binge a reality show on Bravo that I already had seen the last few seasons on, but I kind of was putting it off because there was more exciting things to watch. But then I binged it. Southern Hospitality, it's like in Charleston. Oh, I used to love that program.
• 34:24
  No, that's Southern Charm.
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: Oh, Southern Charm.
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: Which is still on TV. Is it really? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: It's very popular. They can't be the same characters. The same people.
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: Really? Yeah, minus like two of them.
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: But basically one of the cast members of Southern Charm owns a restaurant. So on Southern Hospitality, it's like her restaurant and the staff there. Kind of like how with Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, there was Lisa Vanderpump. And then she started Vanderpump Rules that had like the cast of the restaurant. And it's like good drama.
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: I don't know. But entertaining. Yeah. All this is entertaining. It's light and airy and takes your mind off your work.
• 35:04
  So
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: we're going to do Ask Grandma Anything with listener questions written in on Instagram. But first, just wanted to say we also have Grandma Gail's voicemail. So just remember, you can always email team@excusemygramma.com or send us a DM on Instagram with a voice note and we'll play that voice mail with a longer question so we can really get into all the details. But first, we'll do just our short little questions written in on Instagram. Someone said, Are leggings pants?
• 35:38
  I'm torn. I'm trying to dress more adult in my thirties. Are leggings out? I think leggings are for exercise or for running to pick up your kids.
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: I don't think leggings look great when you go to a restaurant, unless you're wearing a very long sweater and high boots. You know, it's all about No, putting it I just saw it in Paris, wearing it with a What were
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: you beautiful in Paris?
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: I was on my Instagram. I just saw the fashion week. There was big, big coats. Everything else has to look very large if you're going to wear skinny leggings. Not my favorite look on anybody.
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: I think that if you're running around the city from a border cross to an errand to like lunch with your friends, if you match the rest of the outfit to be athleisure. So if you're like in sneakers and a trench and a hoodie and sunglasses and baseball caps, But that's like if you're wearing it with a cashmere sweater and boots, it looks weird. Okay. That's my thought.
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: Not my greatest look.
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I remember in high school there was this girl who was walking around to everyone and she was saying, Leggings are not pants. Making everybody feel because like in the 2010, leggings were
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: I didn't think a lot of people do wear them as pants, and that's fine. But I think a tailored pant is still pretty or a jean, a straight jean, still looks better than a legging because a legging reveals too much unless you are absolutely a perfect fit. Some of the bulges that come out in leggings aren't so pretty.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I tend to agree. Okay, someone said, what's your favorite ladies lunch place in Palm Beach?
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: I don't really do ladies lunch in Palm Beach because I play a lot of bridge. So I usually get a very fast snack. But I would say if I had to pick one, You go to lunch? I would but that's not the same. I don't really go out with girl for lunch.
• 37:31
  I don't do that at all. I would say probably The Colony and sitting outside around the pool would be one of the prettiest and the nicest, and the food's lovely. Or Saint Embrose. It's always lovely for the avocado sandwich. I mean, a lot of people love a big lunch.
• 37:49
  I don't need a big lunch because I like a big dinner.
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: So what is your advice on dealing with hardship or uncertainty?
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: Dealing with hardship is hard, and everybody has it, either sometimes relationship wise, sometimes health wise, sometimes financial, and you have to learn how to deal with it. And sometimes you need to ask a friend or ask a family member to be supportive. But nobody goes through life. And now I'm 82 years old. Nobody goes through life without something.
• 38:23
  And you either rise above it or you wallow in it and you get depressed and then your life gets worse. So my advice to those who have any kind of issue, talk to somebody you love, talk to somebody that you trust, and work through it. The next day, maybe it'll get better or in a couple of months it might get better. Nothing is awful forever, hopefully.
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: I think relying on your close friends and family is a good piece
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: of Well, friends only has to be a very, very trusted friend.
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: Or therapist.
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: Well, I don't believe in therapy so much. So That's you crazy. I know. Crazy. But the truth is, I think you need somebody who you really trust to talk to.
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: How do you know when you're ready to move inget engaged? Is it normal to be nervous?
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: You're asking the wrong person because I don't believe in that. But I just think if it's ready, get engaged and get married and maybe live together a couple of months. I'm not for all these long things because I think what happens is you start finding faults in each other, unless you're very, very young. If you're very, very young, then you need a time where you know where your relationship is going and if this is really, the right person for you. But when you're in your late 20s, early 30s, you should really know where you're going at that point.
• 39:43
  And you have to take a chance. Nothing is guaranteed. This is something I say all the time to people. There is no guarantee. Everything could look great, and then it turns out terrible.
• 39:54
  So if you're going for the guarantee, you might be sorry.
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: So I guess the answer is like, yeah, it's normal to be nervous because you never know. That's correct.
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: But nothing is guaranteed. Right, exactly. You could be married fifty years and it doesn't work. And all of a sudden, you wake up one morning and say, this is no good anymore. So I mean, you really have to somewhat be a little flexible.
• 40:15
  And don't worry about every little minute detail. That's one of the things I hear when you're talking about some of your friends and the arrangements they're doing for weddings and showers. And this is so unimportant. In the long frame of things, it's only important at that moment because they're excited and whatever. But you don't even remember.
• 40:36
  Two years down the road, you don't remember it. So, just keep things in proportion and where it's important.
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: Agreed. Okay, let's end with a game. Should we bring it back? Hairstyles edition. Buffon, should we bring it back?
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: No, and I see a lot of the Broadway back on Pop Beach when they're very teased out like in the eighties. Okay. It's a very old look. It's a Dolly Parton look, what works for Dolly Parton, but for nobody else.
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: Okay. What about curled bangs?
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: I don't think that should come back either, unless you're in a cartoon.
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Victory roles?
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: No, those are all '40s. Those are hairstyles that were well it would look weird now? Okay. Yeah, they weren't so good even then.
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: Beetle ponytail?
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: I don't know what a beetle ponytail is. Maybe it's just a ponytail. I like a ponytail. I don't know. Me see.
• 41:43
  Beetle one is a short one where the guys used to pull their hair back in a rubber band. I don't think it's a long ponytail. And that was mostly for men, I think.
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah. It seems like it's for men. I think it's like how the Beatles wore their hair.
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, that was very sixties. Yeah. I don't think that needs I think it's back, actually. Think all these guys now, lot of the models I see on the runway But all pull their hair that's strictly for men, not women.
• 42:10
  If they want to wear it, luck to them.
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: Pixie cut? No, that was ugly.
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: I think I had that when I was 12. Your mother used to it looks like you have a bowl put on Oh, your no. Head and your mother Well, nobody looked looked like like pixie cut. Yeah, but she
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: was her perfect. Some people are like, I think- She's so perfect. If you have the most Exactly. Perfect
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: You could do anything. I mean, she was one of those You few could do it, Kim. No. Yes, because you have very defined features.
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: Thanks. There's this one model, Taylor Hill, who has one. And it was like kind of a big deal when she cut her hair because she is so beautiful.
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: Well, that's the thing. You really have to
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: have But the she gorgeous still is beautiful, of course.
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: But Yeah. Well, that was very, very Audrey Hepburn. Yeah. She pull it off. She can pull it off, but 99% of the people can't.
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: Okay. What about a sleek updo? I don't like those looks. Really I that's back, isn't it? Well, yeah,
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: I guess if you want to pull your hair very severe, some of the models wear I feel we all wear
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: our hair like that.
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: Oh, well, you do because you have long hair. If I sleeked it back, would look like I was in the shower.
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah,
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: yeah. Yeah, I think when you're wearing a ponytail or pulling your hair back in a bun, It's pretty. Yeah. It's pretty. And it's also pretty for at night.
• 43:31
  I like it more nighttime than daytime.
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: It's like model off duty. Yes. Exactly. Okay. The Farrah Fawcett blowout.
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: No, definitely. I had it not coming back.
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: I like it, but it is very, very has easy to be like an to updated show version of it.
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: I don't think it could get updated.
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Okay, amazing. Another great episode of Excuse My Grandma. Follow us on social media at excusemygrama. My personal is Kim Mercy.
• 44:02
  We've been posting a lot more on there as well. And see you next week.
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: Bye.