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New Year, Same Me · Obnoxiously Pleasant

0:05
SPEAKER_00: This is obnoxiously pleasant season two.
0:08
SPEAKER_01: Yes, finally.
0:09
SPEAKER_00: We're back.
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SPEAKER_00: We're back.
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SPEAKER_00: Yes.
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SPEAKER_00: Um and what well this is our first episode of the year, right?
0:14
SPEAKER_00: I know January, dry January.
0:16
SPEAKER_00: It was dry everywhere, including for the podcast.
0:19
SPEAKER_00: Oh, you don't know about dry January?
0:20
SPEAKER_00: What is that?
0:21
SPEAKER_00: People do dry.
0:22
SPEAKER_00: Oh, well, they don't drink at all during January.
0:23
SPEAKER_00: Oh, well I don't drink any January.
0:25
SPEAKER_00: That's the concept.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, okay.
0:27
SPEAKER_00: I was being funny.
0:28
SPEAKER_00: Clearly, I have to read my audience better.
0:30
SPEAKER_00: But um, but yeah, we've it's just been it's the first episode of 2020.
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SPEAKER_00: I know.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, all right.
0:38
SPEAKER_00: This is our first episode of the year, and since it's our first episode, even though it's a little like behind, it's February.
0:44
SPEAKER_00: Yes, um, we just kind of want to talk about like goal setting and what we wanted to do, what we want to accomplish this year, right?
0:50
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
0:50
SPEAKER_00: So that's one of the that's one of the one of the topics.
0:53
SPEAKER_01: What we've been thinking about, what's on our minds, you know, we've had a few, but since the last time we did this, a lot has happened.
0:58
SPEAKER_01: A lot has happened.
0:59
SPEAKER_01: Yes.
1:00
SPEAKER_01: Um, so what's what's the um what are your goals?
1:03
SPEAKER_00: What are my goals for twenty-well, honestly, one of my biggest goals is to commit more time to this podcast.
1:08
SPEAKER_00: I really have so much fun doing it, but I need to get serious about a schedule.
1:13
SPEAKER_00: And because this is like actually fun.
1:15
SPEAKER_00: It's not like um you know, like it's not a job.
1:17
SPEAKER_00: I actually enjoy sometimes.
1:19
SPEAKER_01: It feels like, oh my god, we have work and life and kids and then the world is against us.
1:24
SPEAKER_01: Yes.
1:24
SPEAKER_00: But I really love doing this, and it's just and it's funny, right?
1:28
SPEAKER_00: It's not like we um like the the the little things that we do here and there, um, it really puts me in touch with people that I haven't like talked to in a while, like friends, people in my realm, like not strangers or anything.
1:41
SPEAKER_00: And it's just amazing for them to reach out and be like, oh my god, I like had so much fun listening to you guys.
1:45
SPEAKER_00: And so I really miss that.
1:46
SPEAKER_00: And so that's one of my biggest goals is to commit more time to do that.
1:50
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, because you know, like we we made fun of and we joke about like nobody's watching us or listening to us, but you know what?
1:56
SPEAKER_01: Enough people have reached out to us, yeah, which is amazing.
1:58
SPEAKER_01: And it kind of like makes us at least we're enjoying it.
2:01
SPEAKER_00: It like it like reignites the fire.
2:03
SPEAKER_01: Yes, yes.
2:03
SPEAKER_01: And at least I know we don't have like millions of followers or even thousands, but like at least the people who do shut up, let's not go to that again.
2:11
SPEAKER_01: But the people that do, at least they like what we have.
2:14
SPEAKER_01: I absolutely agree.
2:16
SPEAKER_00: I absolutely agree.
2:17
SPEAKER_00: No, that's that honestly, that's like one of my one of my yes, no, no, inshallah, this year, yeah.
2:22
SPEAKER_01: We're gonna get it, we have it together, yeah, no excuses.
2:24
SPEAKER_01: We're gonna do that.
2:25
SPEAKER_01: So we're both committed to that.
2:27
SPEAKER_01: What else do you wanna?
2:28
SPEAKER_00: Well, my one of my other one of my other things is like, you know, I you know, I've been on this whole like a care, like this journey for the past five years of like, you know, do you and self-care and self-care and self-care.
2:38
SPEAKER_00: And I'm I'm I still want to do that, but I also like want to make sure that I'm in my journey of like self-care, I am not um taking time away from other important things, right?
2:47
SPEAKER_00: Like I'm not so focused on just me that I'm not like, you know, just I mean, I I do spend time with my kids and I spend time with but I my husband, my friends, all that stuff.
2:55
SPEAKER_00: But I want to make sure that in my journey to try and figure out, you know, how I can take myself like or take care of myself better, that I'm not like also like slowing down and actually giving myself a break.
3:07
SPEAKER_00: So like, and I'll tell you why.
3:09
SPEAKER_00: So like last week, this whole last week, I've been getting over a sinus infection, and I haven't really been sick in like two years.
3:13
SPEAKER_00: But I also think it's because we haven't really been going places, but I have been going places, yeah.
3:17
SPEAKER_00: Um, but I also think it's just because I like push myself and push myself, and so it's your body's way of telling you, like, calm down.
3:23
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, calm down.
3:24
SPEAKER_00: So I need to like be better about that.
3:26
SPEAKER_00: About like, you know, like building in breaks from my.
3:28
SPEAKER_00: I know it seems dumb, but like you really forget about that sometimes.
3:30
SPEAKER_01: Well, for me, I just need to get off my ass because I feel like it's not even that, it's just the whole pandemic has really spread over.
3:38
SPEAKER_01: Like, honestly, like alhamdulillah, like thank God I didn't get COVID.
3:42
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I'm fully vaccinated.
3:44
SPEAKER_01: You know, like I've been very safe, you know.
3:46
SPEAKER_01: You don't like much, like I don't go anywhere.
3:49
SPEAKER_01: Okay, so I think that's finally taking its toll on me.
3:51
SPEAKER_01: I think it's like yeah, it's the same routine every day, and like working from home is a blessing, but it's also like a curse because you don't get out because you stay at home, and then like, oh well, I'm just gonna, I'm gonna like you know, do my work.
4:04
SPEAKER_01: Like, sometimes I just work from bed, like I'm not even gonna lie, you know, like I'll shower and brush my chest.
4:09
SPEAKER_00: That does get difficult after a while.
4:11
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and then and then like you realize, okay, like at least when you went to work, like you actually drove into work, like physically showed up.
4:17
SPEAKER_01: Well, you get you got up, you showered, you got dressed, you know, you know, like it's it's after a while, you're like, okay, it's the same routine.
4:23
SPEAKER_01: Every day we're doing the same thing.
4:24
SPEAKER_01: And yes, I hang out with the kids, we hang out at home with each other, we do these things, but at the same time.
4:29
SPEAKER_00: And then, like, not going to work, yeah.
4:30
SPEAKER_00: You miss out on like the little fun things that happen to your coworkers.
4:33
SPEAKER_00: Funny story.
4:34
SPEAKER_00: Break time, and then I'll let you finish.
4:35
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
4:36
SPEAKER_00: The other day, Mahmoud and I were in the car driving, and um, and it's funny because I was like, I have to tell Lena the story.
4:42
SPEAKER_00: So I was telling him, Oh, we're going to um, we're going, Lena's coming over next week so we can start refilming the podcast.
4:48
SPEAKER_00: He's like, Oh, great.
4:49
SPEAKER_00: And as we were, um, as we were having that conversation, there was a goche song on the on the on the like playlist or whatever, like playing.
4:57
SPEAKER_00: And it's that song, you know, but you didn't have to cut me off that one.
5:01
SPEAKER_00: And Mahmoud goes, Oh, one time Lena and I had a fight at work, and I sent her that.
5:06
SPEAKER_01: Oh my god.
5:07
SPEAKER_01: He was like, after we made up.
5:09
SPEAKER_01: You know what?
5:10
SPEAKER_01: It's funny.
5:10
SPEAKER_01: I mean we we have to talk about that the moments that me and your husband had because we used to work with each other.
5:15
SPEAKER_00: It was so funny though, because he was like, Yeah, and I was like, What?
5:17
SPEAKER_00: He goes, Yeah, I sent her that song after we made up.
5:19
SPEAKER_00: I was like, that's pretty freaking funny.
5:20
SPEAKER_00: So not going to work, you miss out on stuff like that.
5:23
SPEAKER_01: Yes, you definitely miss out on stuff, but I really don't miss going to work.
5:27
SPEAKER_01: It's not that, it's just the the the I like I don't know how to explain that.
5:30
SPEAKER_01: No, no, I know what you mean.
5:32
SPEAKER_01: Like it does take like the actual, the actual um just getting up and getting the process of getting ready and traffic and like doing your makeup, like you have to do like not that I do makeup.
5:41
SPEAKER_01: You guys know me, but like I put some eyeliner on, some mascara, whatever, like basic stuff.
5:45
SPEAKER_01: No, but it's like getting ready.
5:47
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and then like you, you you picked out your clothes, you looked forward to doing that stuff, and you see your colleagues or whatever, but like it's not just that, like I'm in like a little like okay, I have to do so many things.
5:57
SPEAKER_01: I have a long list of stuff to do.
5:58
SPEAKER_01: Like, I don't know if I mentioned this before, like renovating the bathroom.
6:02
SPEAKER_01: My husband brought me a contract, yeah.
6:04
SPEAKER_01: The guy gave me a uh an estimate.
6:06
SPEAKER_01: I like the estimate, and I'm like, this was in September uh July of last year.
6:10
SPEAKER_01: I'm like, what am I doing?
6:12
SPEAKER_01: Because I know that I have to actually like put in some effort and I have to go and I have to pick these things and what I want.
6:18
SPEAKER_00: And I'm just like, I don't feel like doing it.
6:20
SPEAKER_00: But I agree with you.
6:20
SPEAKER_00: I think the pandemic has caught up with you.
6:22
SPEAKER_00: Like, yeah, like in the beginning, she was like, Oh, this is great.
6:24
SPEAKER_01: This is great.
6:25
SPEAKER_01: Like in the beginning, I'm like, no, I have to go to work, and then I'm like, no, this is good, and then now I'm just like, God, I'm I'm done.
6:29
SPEAKER_01: I'm done.
6:30
SPEAKER_01: Like, and I need to get out of this, like it puts you in this like a constant rotation of doing this this constant cycle of doing the same crap over and over again.
6:39
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
6:40
SPEAKER_01: And and because I'm actually like avoiding you know, places and I'm trying to do my best to keep my kids safe and to face it, but at the end of the day, but now your kids are vaccinated too.
6:48
SPEAKER_01: Yes, they'll take the second one tomorrow.
6:50
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, congratulations.
6:52
SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
6:53
SPEAKER_00: I mean, again, this is not a topic that we're gonna discuss.
6:55
SPEAKER_00: Oh no.
6:56
SPEAKER_00: Whether we're not touching your yeah, that's it's up to you.
6:59
SPEAKER_00: Exactly.
7:00
SPEAKER_00: That's where I'm at with that one.
7:01
SPEAKER_00: I'm I like everybody, do you boo.
7:03
SPEAKER_00: That's my do you boo boo.
7:05
SPEAKER_00: That's my shot.
7:06
SPEAKER_01: Like, that's what I want to work on.
7:07
SPEAKER_01: Like the list of projects that I have, and these are projects that that I've really been wanting to do for a while.
7:12
SPEAKER_01: Like, my my goal for this year is to finally actually do those.
7:15
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, but I think it's great, and like I think it's important for you because Lena is somebody who really does enjoy her being home.
7:21
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, like she likes being so it's like why not like make that your sanctuary?
7:24
SPEAKER_00: Exactly and like really beautify the certain areas that you spend time in.
7:27
SPEAKER_01: There's no excuse for me not to do it.
7:28
SPEAKER_01: It's just like I don't feel like it.
7:29
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but you know, it ha we all have those.
7:31
SPEAKER_01: But I think it's like we we don't realize, I think we're not gonna realize the toll this pandemic has taken on us mentally.
7:39
SPEAKER_00: No, no, no.
7:39
SPEAKER_00: For a while.
7:40
SPEAKER_01: For a while, and like I think it's finally caught up.
7:42
SPEAKER_01: It's just like, oh, okay, no, wow, I I really need to get out of this.
7:45
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you know?
7:46
SPEAKER_00: And like I know we had like the last time we we had done an episode, we said that this would be the sofa diaries, but her and I decided we're gonna just keep switching up formats.
7:54
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
7:54
SPEAKER_00: Because this is like comfortable for us.
7:56
SPEAKER_00: It's this is this is whatever, yeah, it's easy.
7:58
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's like whatever works out, whatever's easiest, and whatever will get us to um like actually do the the episode, right?
8:05
SPEAKER_00: And for us, this is really simple because this is literally we're on my sofa.
8:08
SPEAKER_00: So, you know, I made her coffee, I made my coffee, we sat down, we went through the list of what we wanted to talk about.
8:14
SPEAKER_01: Exactly.
8:14
SPEAKER_01: But you do you guys see the purple?
8:16
SPEAKER_00: Oh, my purple hair.
8:17
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I like that.
8:18
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, shout out to Lauren at Salon Farage, my girl.
8:22
SPEAKER_00: Nobody does this better than she does.
8:24
SPEAKER_00: She will go through what you want, um, but like she just kind of adds her little touch as well.
8:30
SPEAKER_00: So, like, I sat down and I told her, I'm like, you know, like I want something different, I want something fun.
8:35
SPEAKER_00: What about this purple you had?
8:36
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, because you asked me, I'm like, no, I can't see it.
8:38
SPEAKER_00: And then when the light, it depends on the light.
8:40
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
8:40
SPEAKER_00: And it was funny because like I was like, well, well, you know, why don't I do it?
8:43
SPEAKER_00: She's like, girl, I got you.
8:44
SPEAKER_00: Like, I didn't have to say anything.
8:45
SPEAKER_00: It's just like boom, boom, boom, boom, done.
8:47
SPEAKER_01: You can see it, but it's still subtle.
8:48
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
8:49
SPEAKER_01: It's done.
8:49
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, like she didn't, she well, everything she does is like super tasteful.
8:52
SPEAKER_00: That's why I love like having her do my hair because it's very like yeah, it's fun.
8:56
SPEAKER_00: So, anyway, shout out to Lauren at Salon Garage in um near the Mosaic District.
9:01
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
9:01
SPEAKER_00: If you're in Maryfield, Virginia.
9:02
SPEAKER_01: Oh, she's in the Mosaic district?
9:03
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, she's like right across the street from Mosaic.
9:05
SPEAKER_01: So it's and I want to talk about my sweatshirt.
9:07
SPEAKER_00: Yes, yes, and then we'll get back to goals.
9:09
SPEAKER_00: But this is like break time.
9:10
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's in the Black History Month.
9:13
SPEAKER_01: I love it.
9:13
SPEAKER_01: And I saw it, it was in the men's section at Target, but like, dude, it was so nice.
9:17
SPEAKER_00: Let me just uh bring up uh as soon as Lena walked in today, I was like, oh my god, I love your shirt.
9:21
SPEAKER_00: It's beautiful.
9:22
SPEAKER_00: Hold on, let's do this so they can really see the um the design on the shirt.
9:26
SPEAKER_00: It's it's so beautiful, and like guys, I know it's Target, but like Target.
9:31
SPEAKER_00: This the quality is beautiful.
9:32
SPEAKER_00: It's like one of those sweatshirts that are like warm, but it's not like soft, but it's not overly thick like it chokes you, right?
9:38
SPEAKER_00: And it's like, let me see the inside.
9:40
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's really nice and fleecey on the inside, but like really well done.
9:43
SPEAKER_00: And like, you know what?
9:44
SPEAKER_00: We should you should insert um a picture of it.
9:47
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, we'll and we'll insert a picture so you can see it clearly.
9:50
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
9:50
SPEAKER_00: But the design is really nice and it's printed on, but it's not like cheaply done, if that makes sense.
9:54
SPEAKER_00: No, it's nice.
9:55
SPEAKER_00: Like you can tell that this will wash really nicely.
9:56
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but the cool thing is it's like it the person who designed this um is a student at Bowie.
10:01
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, Bowie?
10:01
SPEAKER_00: Bowie State University in Maryland.
10:04
SPEAKER_01: Um uh and it he's basic Shar Sharon.
10:07
SPEAKER_01: So he's one of the winners of the historically uh black colleges and universities design challenge.
10:13
SPEAKER_01: Uh it's a design competition in which students um from uh historic historically black uh colleges and universities submit designs for Target celebration of Black History Month.
10:23
SPEAKER_01: Uh winners and finalists win prizes, mentoring opportunities, and a uh chance uh for their artwork to appear in Target store.
10:30
SPEAKER_01: So this is uh this is done by a student, which is I think is amazing.
10:33
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, like go Target for having this thing.
10:36
SPEAKER_00: And the what is the student's name again?
10:38
SPEAKER_00: A Sharone?
10:39
SPEAKER_00: Let me see.
10:40
SPEAKER_00: Student Sharone.
10:41
SPEAKER_00: Student Sharone, yeah.
10:43
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
10:44
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
10:44
SPEAKER_00: So I don't know if it's like first name, last name, or that's like the artist's name is Sharone, but yeah, I'm not sure yet.
10:48
SPEAKER_01: It's weird the way they're describing it.
10:50
SPEAKER_00: But I but I think it's beautiful and I think it's really lovely, and I think it's um it's like really awesome that this um that this stuff is like like super accessible.
10:58
SPEAKER_00: Like who doesn't go to Target, right?
11:00
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I love that.
11:01
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, but I thought it was it was really nice, and then my mug matched her really nice.
11:05
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
11:05
SPEAKER_01: She made me good coffee.
11:07
SPEAKER_00: But it was like a second time, like the first one wasn't very good.
11:09
SPEAKER_00: The first one wasn't very good.
11:10
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, but you know, we tried.
11:11
SPEAKER_00: Anyways, back to goals.
11:12
SPEAKER_00: Now that we did that little detour back to um back to our goals.
11:17
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
11:17
SPEAKER_00: So we talked about like you getting my goal is just getting off my ass.
11:20
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's pretty much it.
11:21
SPEAKER_00: In general, and and but what she means by that it's just being not being stuck in a routine.
11:25
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, not being stuck in the stuff.
11:26
SPEAKER_01: Just being motivated to do the things that can have a long list of things, and there's no reason for me not to do them.
11:30
SPEAKER_01: I just don't get them.
11:31
SPEAKER_00: I yeah, like the day just goes.
11:33
SPEAKER_00: It happens to all of us.
11:34
SPEAKER_00: I promise it happens to all of us.
11:35
SPEAKER_01: So that's it.
11:36
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
11:36
SPEAKER_01: No, I think that that's really good.
11:37
SPEAKER_01: And obviously, obviously, you know, to get like to start exercising.
11:41
SPEAKER_01: I think that's one thing when you're gonna be able to do it.
11:42
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, to move don't say exercise, just say move your body.
11:46
SPEAKER_01: Yes, exercise.
11:47
SPEAKER_00: And that equals getting off your behind.
11:49
SPEAKER_00: Yes, that's part of it.
11:50
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, because honestly, like a I mean, think about it.
11:53
SPEAKER_00: When you were working downtown, you were parking your car, walking around downtown, grabbing or like going to grab coffee, or going to grab lunch.
12:00
SPEAKER_01: That is to go to sometimes.
12:01
SPEAKER_00: There's a lot of there's there's anyways, yeah.
12:03
SPEAKER_00: That that's that's you know.
12:04
SPEAKER_01: But just to be healthy.
12:04
SPEAKER_01: It's not about no, honestly, just to be healthy because sitting at home and not going, especially with the cold weather, like you really feel like you really do get stuck in this like like horrendous routine.
12:14
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and we all know Lena doesn't go out at night, so the days are long and the nights are long.
12:19
SPEAKER_01: No, like on the weekends, I spend time with the kids, like we have fun, but I'm just like, uh, yeah, yeah, that's how I feel.
12:26
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, it's hard.
12:27
SPEAKER_00: And and and and like I said, Lena's like a whole body.
12:29
SPEAKER_00: Like I always said, if you want to go see Lena, you have to go to her house.
12:31
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
12:32
SPEAKER_00: And that's okay.
12:33
SPEAKER_00: Like everybody's different, yeah.
12:34
SPEAKER_01: Everybody, and I think that they I like to go out sometimes, but like it's just the whole thing with the weather and like this pandemic crap, it just won't go away.
12:42
SPEAKER_00: She was definitely more amenable to going out during the summertime or in the spring when we could like sit outside and get some sun and get some good weather.
12:49
SPEAKER_00: And like, look, I get it.
12:50
SPEAKER_00: Like, she was not all about like, hey, let's go sit indoors somewhere.
12:53
SPEAKER_00: Like, there was she did it a couple of times, especially when just for for the when we had friends visiting, yeah.
12:58
SPEAKER_00: When we had friends visiting, she did it a couple times, but it's yeah, she's not like that's not her.
13:02
SPEAKER_00: And I like it's fine.
13:03
SPEAKER_00: I get it, it's totally fine.
13:04
SPEAKER_01: So, what else?
13:04
SPEAKER_01: What did you have?
13:05
SPEAKER_01: You been watching anything?
13:06
SPEAKER_00: Um, are we gonna talk about our goals?
13:08
SPEAKER_00: Are we done about our goals?
13:09
SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
13:09
SPEAKER_00: Do you have any other goals?
13:10
SPEAKER_01: My goals is just to get off my ass.
13:11
SPEAKER_01: Like, literally, if I can do that, I'll be happy.
13:13
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, like I'm like, and to do this podcast, I don't really have any goals.
13:16
SPEAKER_00: Anyways, so that's my thing.
13:17
SPEAKER_00: It's like I want to make sure that like I am giving everything proper time, like everything in my life proper time.
13:23
SPEAKER_00: Whether it's my family, whether it's my friends, and like when I say family, not just my need to manage my time better.
13:30
SPEAKER_01: Yes, yes.
13:31
SPEAKER_00: That's my problem.
13:31
SPEAKER_00: Like, I tried it, my problem is so so Lena and I are on the opposite ends of the spectrum.
13:36
SPEAKER_00: She doesn't fit enough things into her time, and I fanish it down of stuff into my time.
13:40
SPEAKER_01: Well, it it the thing is, I think the way I work.
13:43
SPEAKER_00: You fit the same things into your time.
13:45
SPEAKER_01: No, it's more like if I'm in the like here's the thing, I get these like spurts of energy?
13:49
SPEAKER_01: Yes, and I'm like, I'm gonna do everything now.
13:51
SPEAKER_01: Like, I and I get a lot done when I have that, but then like those spurts of energy.
13:55
SPEAKER_01: Are few and far in between things?
13:57
SPEAKER_01: It's like every Mercury retrograde.
13:59
SPEAKER_00: I think that's like yes.
14:00
SPEAKER_01: No, but like speaking of because you mentioned work and like whatever, but I'm just like, they asked us to do like your achievements for 2021.
14:06
SPEAKER_01: I'm like, my achievement is that I didn't kill any of you people exactly achievement.
14:11
SPEAKER_00: My achievement is I showed up.
14:12
SPEAKER_00: Exactly.
14:13
SPEAKER_00: Anyway, so what I totally want.
14:15
SPEAKER_01: What else?
14:15
SPEAKER_01: What else did you want to say?
14:16
SPEAKER_01: No, that's it.
14:18
SPEAKER_00: Oh, because what we were doing like during the breaks.
14:20
SPEAKER_00: So we had a lot of of um downtime the last couple of when I say downtime, it's like I haven't really been doing much, and she really hasn't been doing much.
14:27
SPEAKER_00: And by doing much meaning like cooking?
14:30
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
14:31
SPEAKER_00: I mean, uh actually so have I.
14:32
SPEAKER_00: This week I haven't because I was feeling very much so under the weather.
14:35
SPEAKER_00: Like Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.
14:37
SPEAKER_00: I like yesterday was the first day that I felt sort of human.
14:40
SPEAKER_00: And it's funny because I I called her and I text I texted her yesterday a um a picture of my negative COVID test, and I was like, if you get the Coco Girl Adium from me.
14:48
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so in the downtime, there's two things that I want to talk about, right?
14:52
SPEAKER_00: Two shows.
14:53
SPEAKER_00: So one show we've been watching together, and one show that I forgot to tell you that I've been watching on that.
14:58
SPEAKER_01: Emily in Paris.
14:59
SPEAKER_01: No, no, no, no.
14:59
SPEAKER_00: That's I did watch Emily in Paris, it's fine, but that's like um that's like Emily in Paris is fun for like when you want to have something on in the background to just kind of kind of thing to watch.
15:08
SPEAKER_00: It's totally fine.
15:09
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's it's fine.
15:10
SPEAKER_00: I mean, look, here's the thing it I can see why people love Emily in Paris totally because it's a good disconnect, and that and a lot of people are searching for that.
15:17
SPEAKER_00: So we'll talk about we'll talk about the the show that I've been watching, and then we'll talk about the show that we've been watching.
15:22
SPEAKER_00: So the first show that I watched on my own, and it just got released on Netflix, and um it you don't have to speak Arabic because you can watch the subtitles.
15:29
SPEAKER_00: It's called Finding Allah, Al-Bafan Allah, okay?
15:31
SPEAKER_00: Oh, who is this?
15:32
SPEAKER_00: It starts Hin Sabri, you know Hin Sabri, the Tunisian actress, six episodes.
15:36
SPEAKER_00: I absolutely loved that concept, and I'll tell you why.
15:40
SPEAKER_00: Because it's about a woman who just hit four, about to hit 40, and her husband comes and tells her, like, she did everything right, right?
15:46
SPEAKER_00: And and she's it's very like um like Middle Eastern mentality.
15:49
SPEAKER_00: Like it was a this is a um a sequel to a show which was called in Arab, also starring Hinda Subari that was released um in 2010 called Isa Gowiz, which means I want to get married, right?
16:01
SPEAKER_00: Okay, and it was about this woman who was a successful pharmacist who was just looking to get married before turning 30.
16:06
SPEAKER_00: And if you know anything about Middle Eastern culture, 30 means you're freaking ancient if you're not married, right?
16:11
SPEAKER_01: She's passing.
16:12
SPEAKER_00: So, yeah, which is really sad.
16:13
SPEAKER_00: Anyways, so the show um I Wanna Get Married or I Z Gowiz ends with her meeting this guy named Hisham, who's a a um a psychiatrist, okay, um, and they get married.
16:24
SPEAKER_00: And so fast forward to the show that's now on Netflix and you can watch it, Finding Ola.
16:29
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, Finding Ola, which is her character on the show.
16:31
SPEAKER_00: Ola is is who she is.
16:32
SPEAKER_00: Ola Abd Samar.
16:33
SPEAKER_01: So the show begins now with her being married for 10 years.
16:36
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
16:37
SPEAKER_01: So now she's 40.
16:38
SPEAKER_00: Okay, and she has two kids.
16:39
SPEAKER_00: One is a preteen and one is like an elementary school-aged kid, a boy and a girl, and she's since quit her job.
16:46
SPEAKER_00: And she is like, you know, she's trying everything to be like the most perfect wife.
16:50
SPEAKER_00: Like, he's he's 45, he's five years older than her, six years older than her.
16:53
SPEAKER_00: Oh.
16:53
SPEAKER_00: And so she's quit her job.
16:54
SPEAKER_00: So her focus is the house, the school, this, that.
16:56
SPEAKER_00: And then he like rocks her world by telling her, I want to get a divorce.
17:01
SPEAKER_00: But but the amazing thing about the show is that it shows you, like, yes, this chapter of her life ended, but she finds out so many things about herself that she loved.
17:12
SPEAKER_00: And I think it's so beautiful, like, for especially for women who think that like divorce might be.
17:19
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so you you're telling us to watch, so don't like spoil it.
17:21
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
17:22
SPEAKER_00: I'm telling you guys to watch it, and I'll tell you why.
17:23
SPEAKER_00: It's because, like, um, and I'm not saying like this is everybody's story.
17:27
SPEAKER_00: I'm just saying this is something I enjoy.
17:28
SPEAKER_00: It's relatable to some story.
17:29
SPEAKER_00: It's really it's relatable to some people, and it's um, and here's this woman who gave everything, and you know, her her was it right, was it wrong?
17:39
SPEAKER_00: This is not my thing.
17:40
SPEAKER_00: Do you are you gonna love it?
17:41
SPEAKER_00: Are you gonna?
17:42
SPEAKER_00: I'm just saying I enjoyed it because a lot of times in our culture, when a woman says, I want to get divorced, like people treat her like her life is ending, right?
17:52
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
17:52
SPEAKER_00: Am I right?
17:53
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
17:53
SPEAKER_01: I mean it's a lot of people.
17:54
SPEAKER_01: And I don't want to talk about reasons.
17:55
SPEAKER_00: I don't want to get into reasons and to why and this and that, but like it for this person, this was wonderful.
18:02
SPEAKER_00: And I think for so many people, some people will watch it and will absolutely despise it and hate it.
18:06
SPEAKER_00: And I think some people will check it out.
18:09
SPEAKER_00: I think it's a little like I can see it.
18:12
SPEAKER_00: It's it's it's come to like reveal reviews.
18:14
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
18:14
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
18:15
SPEAKER_00: Um, some people are gonna love it, but I think some people are gonna hate it.
18:17
SPEAKER_00: But I just thought this was like we really fun.
18:20
SPEAKER_00: Six episodes.
18:21
SPEAKER_00: I mean, I was sitting literally in that chair that's over there.
18:23
SPEAKER_00: You guys can't see it, but it's over there.
18:24
SPEAKER_00: We can insert a picture to kind of get a feeling of my nook.
18:27
SPEAKER_01: Okay, were you watching on your iPad?
18:29
SPEAKER_00: I was watching my phone actually.
18:30
SPEAKER_01: Oh my god, I know just watch on your your big screen.
18:33
SPEAKER_00: Because I was sick and I was just sitting in the chair and I was like lamenting and sulking my life.
18:37
SPEAKER_00: So that's that's that's the show.
18:38
SPEAKER_00: I I think you're gonna love it.
18:39
SPEAKER_00: And it's if you don't understand the Arabic, it's okay because you know Netflix subtitles on Netflix.
18:44
SPEAKER_00: And you can change the input audio, right?
18:46
SPEAKER_00: I think so.
18:46
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you can change the input audio on Netflix.
18:48
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, but anyway, so I would love to um if you guys can like comment and tell us, one, we're gonna do the poll on Instagram, right?
18:56
SPEAKER_00: Because I really want to know like how you guys feel about the show.
18:59
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, two, if you guys can like comment with other show ideas, I'm always looking for good shows to watch.
19:05
SPEAKER_00: Like that's a fun way to like engage you guys and you know, and and like I said, this was this episode was just supposed to be like, okay, let's like ease back into the catching up, yeah, ease ease back into into like what we're doing.
19:15
SPEAKER_00: But no, I'm actually I'm I'm I'm super excited and I'm like very committed to us doing this now every week, right?
19:23
SPEAKER_00: Every week, it is literally one of my 2022 goals.
19:26
SPEAKER_00: Yes, so tell us and also if you guys want, share with me what some of your 2022 goals well with us, what some of your 2022 goals are.
19:33
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
19:33
SPEAKER_00: And if you guys have something that like you would love to bring up or love to share or love us to discuss or you want us to talk about.
19:38
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, because that the whole thing is just like I like we and Lena and I are having like numerous discussions about this.
19:45
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, like yes, we want to address some other topics.
19:48
SPEAKER_00: But I but I kind of just want it to be like hanging out with your friends, like that's the best kind of thing, right?
19:52
SPEAKER_00: Like, I want you to be able to still put this on like while you're getting ready and feel like you're engaging in a conversation with your friends, or put this on like, you know, in the car while you're driving home from work or from school or from wherever, and just feel like, hey, this was like a fun hangout time, right?
20:06
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
20:07
SPEAKER_00: Anything else?
20:08
SPEAKER_00: That's it.
20:09
SPEAKER_00: All right, thanks guys.
20:10
SPEAKER_01: See you next week.
20:11
SPEAKER_00: All right.
20:12
SPEAKER_01: Bye.
20:12
SPEAKER_00: Bye.