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Making It Work! · Obnoxiously Pleasant

• 0:06
  SPEAKER_00: Hey everybody and welcome back.
• 0:08
  SPEAKER_00: Or if you're just joining us for the first time, welcome.
• 0:10
  SPEAKER_00: I'm Henan.
• 0:11
  SPEAKER_00: I'm Lena.
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  SPEAKER_00: And together we are obnoxiously pleasant.
• 0:15
  SPEAKER_00: What's today's episode about, Lena?
• 0:17
  SPEAKER_00: Uh nothing.
• 0:18
  SPEAKER_00: Exactly.
• 0:19
  SPEAKER_00: It's about nothing.
• 0:19
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 0:20
  SPEAKER_00: It's about nothing.
• 0:21
  SPEAKER_00: We kind of sat there and racked our brains for different topics to discuss.
• 0:23
  SPEAKER_00: And I was like, why don't we just talk about everyday life?
• 0:25
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 0:26
  SPEAKER_00: Which is a series of or how or how difficult it is to put this together every week.
• 0:32
  SPEAKER_00: So we decided last August that we were gonna do this, right?
• 0:36
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 0:37
  SPEAKER_00: But you know, like like sorry, I don't want to interrupt you, but we fast forward to the summer, and we realized now that maybe we shouldn't have started in the summer because it's been such a crazy schedule for both of us.
• 0:49
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's been hectic.
• 0:50
  SPEAKER_00: We kind of just like lagged for a while.
• 0:52
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 0:53
  SPEAKER_00: Everybody was doing life, and then we're in the summer, we're like, okay, let's do this, let's start.
• 0:56
  SPEAKER_00: And then we decided to get like on a weekly recording schedule.
• 0:59
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 0:59
  SPEAKER_00: On top of that.
• 1:00
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so it's just been hectic.
• 1:02
  SPEAKER_00: Lena has two kids, I had two kids, and but it's okay.
• 1:04
  SPEAKER_00: I'm glad we did it because I think if we didn't jump in in it, yeah, we wouldn't have never done it.
• 1:10
  SPEAKER_00: But you can talk to them about the amount of work that you do because again, I just freaking show up and I run Instagram.
• 1:14
  SPEAKER_00: She does everything else.
• 1:16
  SPEAKER_00: It's not an issue for me because you know, I stay up late anyway.
• 1:19
  SPEAKER_00: So I just use my time wisely.
• 1:22
  SPEAKER_00: It's not an issue.
• 1:22
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, but for me, it's just a matter of scheduling because we have a lot of ideas for you guys.
• 1:27
  SPEAKER_00: We have a lot of plans and a lot of cool things we want to do.
• 1:30
  SPEAKER_00: But like today, we were supposed to do a bunch of other things, but we're just not gonna do it because we're both not having a great day.
• 1:36
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, but you know, it's funny that uh her and I were talking about the earlier.
• 1:39
  SPEAKER_00: I was we should just talk about that.
• 1:40
  SPEAKER_00: We really both are not having a good day today, and it's okay.
• 1:43
  SPEAKER_00: You can't have a good day every day.
• 1:44
  SPEAKER_00: Or night, and we can't really, with as tight as the schedule is, we cannot shift the schedule and say, like, well, let's just record tomorrow.
• 1:51
  SPEAKER_00: No, because we don't have that luxury.
• 1:52
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, like we don't you have to when you say like okay, I have to record today, then I have to record today.
• 1:58
  SPEAKER_00: And like she's tired, I'm tired.
• 2:00
  SPEAKER_00: It's not even about being tired, it's just like like I said, we have a lot of things we want to do, and and and some of these episodes that we want to do require require a little bit more producing, yeah, and we just don't have that and planning, honestly.
• 2:12
  SPEAKER_00: That's just producing, planning, you know, just planning ahead.
• 2:15
  SPEAKER_00: And the problem is I have a trip coming up.
• 2:17
  SPEAKER_00: I'll be gone for a two week.
• 2:18
  SPEAKER_00: And I was gone for two weeks.
• 2:19
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and she she had two trips, by the way.
• 2:21
  SPEAKER_00: Two, not one, two.
• 2:23
  SPEAKER_00: I had one.
• 2:24
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, but yeah, like you, you know, she sat to get to my house, she sat in traffic for an hour and a half.
• 2:30
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's like forever.
• 2:31
  SPEAKER_00: How many miles was it?
• 2:32
  SPEAKER_00: It's not that many miles, yeah.
• 2:33
  SPEAKER_00: It's just an hour and a half, it's just not big enough.
• 2:35
  SPEAKER_00: An hour and a half, yeah.
• 2:37
  SPEAKER_00: And she brought her snacks with her too.
• 2:38
  SPEAKER_00: I told her to eat it, it's not a big deal, but she's like, no, it's down here at the table.
• 2:42
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, for anybody who's listening and not watching, it's check's mix and it's it's the uh the original kind, right?
• 2:49
  SPEAKER_00: That's the only good kind, by the way.
• 2:51
  SPEAKER_00: I don't understand people who like and yes, people are gonna hate on me and say, like, oh, it's nowhere near as good as a regular Chex mix that you make at home, you know?
• 2:59
  SPEAKER_00: But what people make this stuff at home?
• 3:01
  SPEAKER_00: Kristen, Kristen, if you're listening.
• 3:03
  SPEAKER_00: Oh yeah, Kristen, hi Kristen, we love you.
• 3:05
  SPEAKER_00: She makes some bomb ass check' mix.
• 3:07
  SPEAKER_00: I've never had her chex mix.
• 3:08
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, she wasn't mixed funny for me.
• 3:09
  SPEAKER_00: Kristen's check.
• 3:10
  SPEAKER_00: You know my address.
• 3:11
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it was mixed money for eating this check's mix because she's like, it's just not as good as it's trash, right?
• 3:15
  SPEAKER_00: According to her.
• 3:16
  SPEAKER_00: Well, I mean, like when you make your own stuff, exactly.
• 3:18
  SPEAKER_00: So anyways, off the Chex Mix topic.
• 3:21
  SPEAKER_00: So, yeah, like she hasn't had dinner yet.
• 3:22
  SPEAKER_00: I haven't had dinner yet.
• 3:23
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah, I haven't.
• 3:23
  SPEAKER_00: No, I had a sandwich.
• 3:24
  SPEAKER_00: Let me not lie.
• 3:25
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I had a protein box from Starbucks.
• 3:28
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, yeah, let's not like announce where we get our coffee from.
• 3:31
  SPEAKER_00: I don't get my coffee from there.
• 3:32
  SPEAKER_00: I just said I had a protein box.
• 3:34
  SPEAKER_00: I actually drink an espresso coffee if we're gonna be completely honest.
• 3:37
  SPEAKER_00: I I I just make my coffee at home now.
• 3:39
  SPEAKER_00: I used to not make my coffee at home.
• 3:40
  SPEAKER_00: I make my coffee at home.
• 3:42
  SPEAKER_00: I know you have like Dunkin' Donuts or something.
• 3:44
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, definitely a Dunkin'.
• 3:45
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, Dunkin' Donuts, yeah.
• 3:46
  SPEAKER_00: I don't brew coffee anymore.
• 3:48
  SPEAKER_00: I don't like brewed coffee anymore.
• 3:50
  SPEAKER_00: What else were we supposed to talk about?
• 3:51
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
• 3:51
  SPEAKER_00: This episode is about nothing.
• 3:53
  SPEAKER_00: No, but we were supposed to talk about all our difficulty and our like annoying things that keep happening to us.
• 3:58
  SPEAKER_00: Just everything.
• 3:58
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, you know what somebody a question that somebody asked me about this podcast was what kind of mics do we use?
• 4:03
  SPEAKER_00: Why are they bad?
• 4:04
  SPEAKER_00: No, they love them.
• 4:05
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, okay.
• 4:05
  SPEAKER_00: I'll put them in the description.
• 4:07
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
• 4:07
  SPEAKER_00: Put them in the description.
• 4:09
  SPEAKER_00: I'll give you the exact um link.
• 4:11
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, to them.
• 4:12
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, because they really like the the quality of the sound.
• 4:14
  SPEAKER_00: So I said I will ask Lena.
• 4:15
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's cool.
• 4:16
  SPEAKER_00: Well, thank you.
• 4:18
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, cool.
• 4:19
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, he was like, What mics do you use?
• 4:20
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, I'll ask Lena because I need to.
• 4:21
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, we didn't, we didn't invest in the$500 like road mics or whatever that pot no, we just we're not there.
• 4:28
  SPEAKER_00: We did get a nice camera.
• 4:29
  SPEAKER_00: We did get a nice camera, like an entry level.
• 4:31
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and these mics are good.
• 4:33
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, who cares?
• 4:34
  SPEAKER_00: People are gonna be like, but but I'm glad like someone is actually has yeah approves our audio because our lighting, we still need to work on our lighting.
• 4:41
  SPEAKER_00: David, right?
• 4:42
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you, David.
• 4:42
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, lighting, Hanan, drop the ball on that one.
• 4:45
  SPEAKER_00: It's not terrible, it's just maybe bright and white here.
• 4:48
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, we need we need more lights.
• 4:50
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, we need to do that.
• 4:51
  SPEAKER_00: We need more lights.
• 4:52
  SPEAKER_00: So, yeah, I mean, honestly, it's a like it's a learning, you know, process.
• 4:55
  SPEAKER_00: And yes, what I've been doing is like watching other people who do this on YouTube, and they don't seem to have a much more, you know, no, no, we're awesome setup than we do.
• 5:04
  SPEAKER_00: It is just lighting is key.
• 5:05
  SPEAKER_00: And so listen, listen, forget about the lighting or not.
• 5:08
  SPEAKER_00: Tell me about your trip to California.
• 5:10
  SPEAKER_00: How was it?
• 5:10
  SPEAKER_00: My trip to California was really nice.
• 5:12
  SPEAKER_00: I've just discovered that the weather where we live like sucks.
• 5:14
  SPEAKER_00: It's terrible.
• 5:14
  SPEAKER_00: Really?
• 5:15
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 5:15
  SPEAKER_00: What was the weather like?
• 5:16
  SPEAKER_00: It was 85, 86 degrees sunny.
• 5:21
  SPEAKER_00: You know, there's no humidity in California.
• 5:22
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's true.
• 5:24
  SPEAKER_00: But uh but it was crazy because when I was there, they had no mask mandate.
• 5:28
  SPEAKER_00: And now they do.
• 5:28
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, for now they do.
• 5:30
  SPEAKER_00: And now it like they do again.
• 5:32
  SPEAKER_00: LA County has a mask mandate.
• 5:33
  SPEAKER_00: It was a little surprised.
• 5:34
  SPEAKER_00: So you got there just in time.
• 5:35
  SPEAKER_00: I did get there just in time.
• 5:37
  SPEAKER_00: It was five glorious days of sun and just great weather.
• 5:41
  SPEAKER_00: But I will say the people in California are a completely different like schedule than we are.
• 5:46
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah, they're different.
• 5:46
  SPEAKER_00: They're a lot calmer, I think.
• 5:48
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my god.
• 5:49
  SPEAKER_00: And friendlier.
• 5:50
  SPEAKER_00: It's not just yeah, they're friendlier, they're more calm, but like everything takes time.
• 5:53
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 5:54
  SPEAKER_00: Like here, when like and when I say here, we're in the DC metro area.
• 5:57
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 5:58
  SPEAKER_00: East Coast, East Coast.
• 6:00
  SPEAKER_00: People, why should I not say where we live?
• 6:01
  SPEAKER_00: Is it?
• 6:02
  SPEAKER_00: No, no, no, no.
• 6:02
  SPEAKER_00: I'm just saying the entire East Coast is usually like I don't think it's the entire East Coast, I think it's really like Northeast.
• 6:07
  SPEAKER_00: North Come on, let's be real.
• 6:08
  SPEAKER_00: Not not all.
• 6:09
  SPEAKER_00: It's like really here in New York, New York City is much worse than we are.
• 6:12
  SPEAKER_00: But that's true, but like whenever I like people in DC are rude.
• 6:15
  SPEAKER_00: Come on.
• 6:15
  SPEAKER_00: Like when I when I when I call you remember when the homeless guy called you Becky?
• 6:19
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my god, that was amazing.
• 6:21
  SPEAKER_00: She got really mad because he thought she was white.
• 6:25
  SPEAKER_00: She's talking about the homeless man that called me Becky.
• 6:27
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, he's like, hey Becky, you look like you you you're a you're a Becky.
• 6:31
  SPEAKER_00: And I was like, I'm not a Becky.
• 6:32
  SPEAKER_00: For any Becky out there, like please don't take this person off.
• 6:35
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not a Becky, I'm not white.
• 6:36
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, my my skin color may be white, but like I don't identify as white.
• 6:40
  SPEAKER_00: She's not white.
• 6:41
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 6:41
  SPEAKER_00: And so she was kind of upset about that.
• 6:43
  SPEAKER_00: I was that he called her Becky.
• 6:44
  SPEAKER_00: Anyways, back to regular.
• 6:46
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, but I was saying, like, in terms of California, um, when I like during my actual daytime job, I have to like when I'm working on a story or whatever.
• 6:57
  SPEAKER_00: And whenever I talk to somebody from the West Coast, it's a whole different world.
• 7:02
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, it is.
• 7:02
  SPEAKER_00: They go out of their way to be nice and accommodating and helpful.
• 7:06
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm like, oh my God, like, is this how they live life there?
• 7:09
  SPEAKER_00: Because here it's like half the time people just hang up and half the time people are like what you want, something.
• 7:14
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, like no, like F off.
• 7:16
  SPEAKER_00: But even like when you go to like order coffee or get something, there isn't like just this whole like like rush, rush, rush that we have here that doesn't exist there.
• 7:23
  SPEAKER_00: And I don't know, maybe I was just Well, when I when my niece came over, uh, not this time, the time before, we went to uh uh Chipotle.
• 7:31
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and then she's like, Why is she so rude?
• 7:34
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I'm like, what do you mean?
• 7:35
  SPEAKER_00: And she's like, Why is she acting like you know, like she's giving me food off of her plate?
• 7:41
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I I'm willing to pay extra.
• 7:43
  SPEAKER_00: Why does she have to be so but it's like she's not that's just her face, yeah?
• 7:47
  SPEAKER_00: And so she's she's like high school, yeah.
• 7:50
  SPEAKER_00: It's fine, she was like, Yeah, but it's a different, it's a different one.
• 7:53
  SPEAKER_00: And then another another niece of mine, when she came and I took her around, she's like, Why do people here look so miserable?
• 7:59
  SPEAKER_00: She's like, I haven't seen somebody smile.
• 8:01
  SPEAKER_00: It's the humidity or during the winter, it's the cold that makes you like or the traffic, really the traffic.
• 8:06
  SPEAKER_00: It's just sitting in traffic that makes people just one thing I really appreciated about like the COVID times was there was no traffic.
• 8:12
  SPEAKER_00: But there's traffic in California, yeah.
• 8:14
  SPEAKER_00: But it's like it's so different.
• 8:16
  SPEAKER_00: So I don't think anybody cares.
• 8:18
  SPEAKER_00: Honestly, though, uh no, people care in California.
• 8:20
  SPEAKER_00: I think it's because I am on vacation.
• 8:23
  SPEAKER_00: So I don't have anywhere to be, I don't have a schedule to be on or anything like that, so it's very different.
• 8:28
  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, no, I I I would probably go, I don't think I'd live in LA, but I'd probably live in the West Coast at some point in my life.
• 8:36
  SPEAKER_00: Really?
• 8:37
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 8:37
  SPEAKER_00: Uh I'm good.
• 8:38
  SPEAKER_00: Why?
• 8:38
  SPEAKER_00: No, I mean this weather?
• 8:40
  SPEAKER_00: California's gonna f fall off the map at one point or another.
• 8:43
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so I'm good.
• 8:45
  SPEAKER_00: No.
• 8:45
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, there's certain places I wouldn't move to in the country, but California is not one of them.
• 8:49
  SPEAKER_00: Like I can't move to anywhere that's really um remote.
• 8:52
  SPEAKER_00: I like where I live.
• 8:54
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, yeah, it's like I mean, it's expensive.
• 8:56
  SPEAKER_00: It would be nice.
• 8:56
  SPEAKER_00: Could the weather be better though, seriously?
• 8:58
  SPEAKER_00: It could, but I mean, you can live in the Midwest and it can be like snowing and cold and raining 10 months out of the year.
• 9:04
  SPEAKER_00: I know, seriously.
• 9:05
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I have a friend that lives in I think it's South Dakota.
• 9:08
  SPEAKER_00: Miriam, forgive me if it's South Dakota.
• 9:10
  SPEAKER_00: Someone lives you know someone in South Dakota?
• 9:12
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 9:12
  SPEAKER_00: So that's cool.
• 9:13
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I don't know anybody in South Dakota.
• 9:15
  SPEAKER_00: But it's um, yeah, it snows there a lot.
• 9:17
  SPEAKER_00: Like she's only sending you pictures of the snow.
• 9:19
  SPEAKER_00: Well, where's that movie Fargo from?
• 9:21
  SPEAKER_00: Where was that?
• 9:22
  SPEAKER_00: North Dakota.
• 9:22
  SPEAKER_00: North Dakota?
• 9:23
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, that was a good movie.
• 9:25
  SPEAKER_00: I saw it like only two years ago.
• 9:27
  SPEAKER_00: Because like, you know, it came out when I was like a kid.
• 9:29
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's true.
• 9:30
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and I was like, why?
• 9:32
  SPEAKER_00: Let's not play.
• 9:33
  SPEAKER_00: 14, 15.
• 9:33
  SPEAKER_00: What year was it?
• 9:34
  SPEAKER_00: I have to think about it.
• 9:35
  SPEAKER_00: 1994.
• 9:37
  SPEAKER_00: Hold on, hold on.
• 9:38
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna tell you.
• 9:38
  SPEAKER_00: Tell you.
• 9:39
  SPEAKER_00: I thought it was in the 90s.
• 9:40
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, but like when you're at that age, you're not gonna watch a movie like that.
• 9:43
  SPEAKER_00: No, you're not gonna watch a movie like that.
• 9:44
  SPEAKER_00: Fargo 1994.
• 9:46
  SPEAKER_00: 1996?
• 9:47
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, I was close.
• 9:48
  SPEAKER_00: March 8th, 1996.
• 9:50
  SPEAKER_00: So we were in high school, so we didn't have time for that.
• 9:52
  SPEAKER_00: I was in high school.
• 9:53
  SPEAKER_00: God, that was ages ago.
• 9:54
  SPEAKER_00: See, now you have not age this time.
• 9:57
  SPEAKER_00: I didn't mention our age, I just said, you know, I saw them.
• 10:00
  SPEAKER_00: What else?
• 10:02
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, but that's yeah, we told you guys this episode was about nothing.
• 10:05
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 10:05
  SPEAKER_00: This episode is about us just like shooting the shit.
• 10:07
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah because honestly, a huge part of what takes us a long time in getting these episodes prepared is that we spend a lot of time doing this shit.
• 10:15
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I have my friend's son totally adores you.
• 10:18
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, that's really his name is Ronnie.
• 10:20
  SPEAKER_00: Ronnie, if you're watching, hearts out to Ronnie.
• 10:22
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, he's like in love with you.
• 10:25
  SPEAKER_00: Hearts out to Ronnie.
• 10:26
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, he's like, I gotta meet, I gotta meet Hanan.
• 10:29
  SPEAKER_00: She's so funny.
• 10:30
  SPEAKER_00: Aw, that's really nice.
• 10:31
  SPEAKER_00: That's Ronnie.
• 10:32
  SPEAKER_00: Put up that coffee date, my friend.
• 10:34
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, he's really cool.
• 10:35
  SPEAKER_00: He's he's watched every episode so far.
• 10:37
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, that's really sweet.
• 10:38
  SPEAKER_00: It's nice.
• 10:38
  SPEAKER_00: What what how and he's under 20 years old.
• 10:41
  SPEAKER_00: Under 20.
• 10:42
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's amazing.
• 10:43
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's like changes completely the demographic of people who are.
• 10:46
  SPEAKER_00: See, she was like laying down, ready to fall asleep, and then she got up.
• 10:50
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my god, I'm laying down to fall asleep.
• 10:52
  SPEAKER_00: We have to talk to you guys about our chairs.
• 10:54
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah, the chair.
• 10:55
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my god, yeah, we almost forgot.
• 10:56
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my god, I almost forgot to say about the guy.
• 10:58
  SPEAKER_00: Wait, wait, I'm gonna show them.
• 10:59
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna show them before we were sitting before you guys.
• 11:02
  SPEAKER_00: So, like the last couple of episodes, we were trying to figure out like what we're going to um be sitting on.
• 11:08
  SPEAKER_00: We want it to be like raised and you know, straight, and we wanted to make sure that we're conscious of like how we're um how we were sitting.
• 11:14
  SPEAKER_00: And sometimes when you have a chair like this, like with a back, you you kind of tend to do what I was doing, which is like slumping it, right?
• 11:20
  SPEAKER_00: And so we Lena has these really cute side tables that we were sitting on top of.
• 11:24
  SPEAKER_00: Hold on, let me get them for it.
• 11:25
  SPEAKER_00: Let me get it for it.
• 11:26
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my god.
• 11:26
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
• 11:27
  SPEAKER_00: Look, here we go.
• 11:28
  SPEAKER_00: Almost forgot about the table.
• 11:30
  SPEAKER_00: Look at this, look at the look at the table.
• 11:32
  SPEAKER_00: So we would take turns.
• 11:34
  SPEAKER_00: Bring in the book, and oh my god, oh my god, I'm oh my god, you guys.
• 11:38
  SPEAKER_00: So like if anybody has if anybody's ever used like an Arabic language dictionary, it's called Al Moaded, right?
• 11:43
  SPEAKER_00: Like English to Arabic, Arabic to English.
• 11:44
  SPEAKER_00: And so I would put it.
• 11:45
  SPEAKER_00: And I don't use that, it's it's the it's a book my husband had before we got married.
• 11:49
  SPEAKER_00: I would put that, I'm not gonna pull out the book, it's all the way in the bottom.
• 11:51
  SPEAKER_00: I would put that book.
• 11:52
  SPEAKER_00: Come on, you gotta you gotta do the visual uh so bad, you guys.
• 11:57
  SPEAKER_00: But I would put the book on top of this table and I would sit on it.
• 12:00
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my god.
• 12:02
  SPEAKER_00: So this is what I was sitting on, and so could you imagine my butt being supported by this thing?
• 12:07
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, but I have that in the blooper reel.
• 12:08
  SPEAKER_00: You do of you saying my butt hurts.
• 12:12
  SPEAKER_00: It hurts a lot.
• 12:13
  SPEAKER_00: You're sitting on a hard table and a book.
• 12:15
  SPEAKER_00: So, but but if it's gonna be if there's any book that you want to sit on and gain knowledge from, it's gonna be that book.
• 12:22
  SPEAKER_00: Like it's amazing.
• 12:23
  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, that's we've come a long way.
• 12:25
  SPEAKER_00: Today I was I was doing Lena's makeup in the kitchen, where I always do Leah's makeup in the kitchen.
• 12:29
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, because I could notice and I was like, Lena, your kitchen chairs, let's just sit on your chairs.
• 12:33
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I thought about them a couple of times ago, and I'm like a couple of episodes ago, and I'm like, no, maybe they're too low, and then we're gonna slouch.
• 12:39
  SPEAKER_00: No, but it's nice.
• 12:40
  SPEAKER_00: But I was a little slouchy, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 12:42
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, but you got up, you got up for Ronnie when you heard Ronnie said Ronnie likes you.
• 12:45
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
• 12:46
  SPEAKER_00: No, it's nice, it's really sweet.
• 12:47
  SPEAKER_00: I always get really excited when I hear positive feedback from people, and it always like makes my day.
• 12:52
  SPEAKER_00: So today, one of my friends actually reached out to me.
• 12:55
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, and I will not tell you her name, but I will tell you she'll know who she is.
• 13:00
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, but I wouldn't share with the rest of the world who she is.
• 13:02
  SPEAKER_00: But she's a sweetheart and I love her, and she's wonderful.
• 13:04
  SPEAKER_00: And she said she's been really enjoying listening to our podcast.
• 13:07
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 13:07
  SPEAKER_00: We keep her entertained and laughing while she drives early in the morning.
• 13:10
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, that's nice.
• 13:12
  SPEAKER_00: She said, Can I just say I didn't realize how much of an antisocial person I am until I heard Leah.
• 13:17
  SPEAKER_00: See?
• 13:18
  SPEAKER_00: She said, She is my spirit twin child, whatever you call it.
• 13:22
  SPEAKER_00: I can totally relate to her sentiment about socializing, but also appreciating the good close friends you have.
• 13:26
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 13:26
  SPEAKER_00: So it's really nice.
• 13:28
  SPEAKER_00: So it was really funny that um that she said that because I was like, oh, that's a really sweet message.
• 13:32
  SPEAKER_00: I'm glad I can normalize, you know, hating people.
• 13:35
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm not that she hates people.
• 13:37
  SPEAKER_00: Not hating people, I'm joking.
• 13:38
  SPEAKER_00: I'm joking.
• 13:39
  SPEAKER_00: So socializing in a closed group is what we're calling it.
• 13:42
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, and not wasting your time on people that don't deserve your time.
• 13:45
  SPEAKER_00: I don't think honestly you're being antisocial.
• 13:47
  SPEAKER_00: I think you've just made a group of friends and you're like, I'm good.
• 13:49
  SPEAKER_00: And that's who you're socializing with.
• 13:50
  SPEAKER_00: I'm good.
• 13:51
  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, but I thought that that was really sweet.
• 13:53
  SPEAKER_00: But, you know, on that note, we've gotten such positive feedback from so many people, and it's really sweet.
• 13:58
  SPEAKER_00: And I've also loved the constructive criticism that we've received as well.
• 14:00
  SPEAKER_00: I don't look at it as criticism, I also look at it as feedback when somebody says, hey, you know, you need to do this on your lighting or you need to do something.
• 14:06
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, we're working on that and that.
• 14:08
  SPEAKER_00: We're working on all of that stuff, but I love to hear that because one, it makes me feel like you guys are invested in us just as much as we're invested in us.
• 14:14
  SPEAKER_00: But two, um, I'm always open to like opinions and ideas and anything else that you guys want to share with us.
• 14:20
  SPEAKER_00: So that makes me really happy when I get messages like this, or you know, when people talking about Ronnie.
• 14:25
  SPEAKER_00: I just think it's really awesome that people actually have um the time or take the time, not have the time, but take the time to listen to us.
• 14:32
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 14:33
  SPEAKER_00: Because I know a lot of people listen to us on Spotify and Apple Podcasts, and they might not get on YouTube, but you know, thank you wherever you're listening or watching, whatever it is.
• 14:41
  SPEAKER_00: Wherever you're subscribed, we really appreciate it because this really does take a lot of time from us.
• 14:45
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I did not think it was gonna be this hectic.
• 14:47
  SPEAKER_00: I really did.
• 14:48
  SPEAKER_00: And yeah, and like I said earlier, we really had like three other things we're supposed to do after recording this, but we're just not because you know what?
• 14:55
  SPEAKER_00: We need to start doing like we heard I talk about it all the time.
• 14:57
  SPEAKER_00: We need to start doing like YouTube shorts.
• 14:58
  SPEAKER_00: We need more content.
• 14:59
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, no, no, just like it, like like even for the episodes we do, we need to like I want to get into doing interviews and a little bit like diversifying the topics where you know, we're gonna do all that stuff, but I think the timing for us was a little bit difficult.
• 15:14
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it was summertime.
• 15:16
  SPEAKER_00: Once the kids are back in school, I think it'll be a little bit I know, and honestly, this year was already hectic, and that's why it took us so long to start because the kids weren't even in school.
• 15:23
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 15:24
  SPEAKER_00: But I'm glad we jumped right into it, even if we're not ready.
• 15:26
  SPEAKER_00: Because you know what?
• 15:27
  SPEAKER_00: If we if we continue to say, Oh, when we're gonna well, we would have never done it.
• 15:31
  SPEAKER_00: Well, no, and I totally agree.
• 15:32
  SPEAKER_00: You know, if we hadn't just started and just like said, okay, we're gonna start and this is gonna be episode one, we're gonna do it now, and this is a schedule, we never would have gotten this far.
• 15:40
  SPEAKER_00: And I just want to tell you, like, my son is always like, Mama, are you sad?
• 15:42
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, why?
• 15:43
  SPEAKER_00: He's like, Because you don't have that many views, and I'm like, it's okay.
• 15:48
  SPEAKER_00: He's like, I always watch your videos, and I'm like, I'm not sad.
• 15:51
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, it's okay, we're here, we're in it.
• 15:52
  SPEAKER_00: We're not gonna die.
• 15:54
  SPEAKER_00: It's not so much for the views, it's for the joy that it brings.
• 15:57
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 15:57
  SPEAKER_00: But I love how he's concerned about.
• 16:00
  SPEAKER_00: You only got like a hundred views.
• 16:02
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, it's okay, baby.
• 16:03
  SPEAKER_00: But it's better that it's like, you know, it's I'm a hundred views, thank you.
• 16:07
  SPEAKER_00: Exactly.
• 16:08
  SPEAKER_00: I look at it as a hundred views that you have last week.
• 16:10
  SPEAKER_00: So I mean, parties aren't even that big.
• 16:12
  SPEAKER_00: Well, I mean, airborne's aren't big.
• 16:14
  SPEAKER_00: What are you at?
• 16:14
  SPEAKER_00: What parties are you going to?
• 16:15
  SPEAKER_00: She acts like she goes places.
• 16:17
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, parties aren't that big.
• 16:18
  SPEAKER_00: What places have you been in the last like two months?
• 16:20
  SPEAKER_00: Forget year, two months.
• 16:22
  SPEAKER_00: I haven't been anywhere.
• 16:23
  SPEAKER_00: Exactly.
• 16:23
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, exactly.
• 16:24
  SPEAKER_00: But I'm going like uh 10 days.
• 16:26
  SPEAKER_00: She's going to visit family.
• 16:27
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 16:28
  SPEAKER_00: That's not really going out.
• 16:29
  SPEAKER_00: No, it's fun.
• 16:30
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, her family's pretty fun.
• 16:32
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 16:32
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 16:32
  SPEAKER_00: We'll have fun.
• 16:33
  SPEAKER_00: It'll be it, it will be fun.
• 16:34
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 16:35
  SPEAKER_00: No, I'm I'm personally ready to not have any.
• 16:37
  SPEAKER_00: I did a lot of fun the last two weeks, so I need a break.
• 16:40
  SPEAKER_00: I need to be more like Lena.
• 16:42
  SPEAKER_00: What do you what does that even mean?
• 16:43
  SPEAKER_00: Like you make it seem like I'm sitting on my ass all day.
• 16:47
  SPEAKER_00: I need to be more like Lena.
• 16:49
  SPEAKER_00: I need to relax, is what I'm saying.
• 16:51
  SPEAKER_00: I need to chill.
• 16:52
  SPEAKER_00: Did you cook today?
• 16:53
  unknown: No.
• 16:53
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, exactly.
• 16:54
  SPEAKER_00: Of course not.
• 16:55
  SPEAKER_00: That's a difference.
• 16:55
  SPEAKER_00: When was I gonna do that?
• 16:57
  SPEAKER_00: I don't care.
• 16:58
  SPEAKER_00: You gotta make some time.
• 16:59
  SPEAKER_00: When was I gonna do that?
• 16:59
  SPEAKER_00: What are you guys eating for dinner?
• 17:01
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
• 17:01
  SPEAKER_00: They already ate dinner with that one.
• 17:02
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, okay.
• 17:03
  SPEAKER_00: I was here.
• 17:04
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's true.
• 17:05
  SPEAKER_00: When was I gonna eat when were they gonna eat dinner?
• 17:06
  SPEAKER_00: When was I gonna make dinner when I'm here recording?
• 17:08
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I'm just hating on her.
• 17:09
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 17:09
  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, you know, I I don't sit on my ass all day doing nothing.
• 17:12
  SPEAKER_00: No, I didn't say that.
• 17:13
  SPEAKER_00: I said relax.
• 17:14
  SPEAKER_00: It's different.
• 17:14
  SPEAKER_00: Relaxing doesn't mean sitting out.
• 17:16
  SPEAKER_00: How am I relaxed?
• 17:17
  SPEAKER_00: I'm sitting here nine days out of ten editing the crapper for six days out of seven.
• 17:22
  SPEAKER_00: It's only six weeks.
• 17:24
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my god.
• 17:25
  SPEAKER_00: I meant nine out of ten times.
• 17:26
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 17:27
  SPEAKER_00: No, it what I'm saying is that Lena, I like her pace of life sometimes.
• 17:31
  SPEAKER_00: Oh yeah, I'm very like, I don't care.
• 17:32
  SPEAKER_00: I don't want to do anything.
• 17:33
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I'm not that's what I mean.
• 17:35
  SPEAKER_00: I don't mean that you're sitting in your like I have a couple of things to do tomorrow, and I'm like, I'm busy.
• 17:39
  SPEAKER_00: We can't do it on Saturday.
• 17:41
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, I can't do anything Saturday.
• 17:43
  SPEAKER_00: Like, that's it.
• 17:43
  SPEAKER_00: I got stuff going on, it's not gonna work.
• 17:46
  SPEAKER_00: No, it's okay, but that's what I mean.
• 17:47
  SPEAKER_00: I love her pace of life.
• 17:48
  SPEAKER_00: It's different.
• 17:49
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, it's different.
• 17:50
  SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
• 17:50
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I I'm not like that at all.
• 17:52
  SPEAKER_00: It's all about me and my family.
• 17:53
  SPEAKER_00: That's like I don't care about everybody.
• 17:55
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, it's not just that.
• 17:56
  SPEAKER_00: I but not that you don't care about your family.
• 17:59
  SPEAKER_00: But there's also a lot more of us.
• 18:02
  SPEAKER_00: What do you mean?
• 18:03
  SPEAKER_00: Like, with family is easy, oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 18:06
  SPEAKER_00: That's true.
• 18:06
  SPEAKER_00: You have a little bit more obligations than I do.
• 18:09
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's yeah, I wouldn't really say obligations, just more of us.
• 18:11
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, there's more of us, there's more things to do, there's more things to coordinate, like there's just stuff going on, you know.
• 18:17
  SPEAKER_00: Is there anything else you want to talk about?
• 18:18
  SPEAKER_00: AIDS next week.
• 18:19
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my god, yeah.
• 18:20
  SPEAKER_00: What are you doing?
• 18:21
  SPEAKER_00: What are we doing for nothing?
• 18:22
  SPEAKER_00: I bought a new dress.
• 18:23
  SPEAKER_00: Dude, we should have like did we should do something about that.
• 18:26
  SPEAKER_00: You bought a dress?
• 18:27
  SPEAKER_00: Where are you going with that dress?
• 18:28
  SPEAKER_00: You're gonna go to Salah for a dress?
• 18:30
  SPEAKER_00: No, I don't actually.
• 18:31
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe I will, honestly.
• 18:33
  SPEAKER_00: But none of the uh mosques have been opened because of COVID.
• 18:35
  SPEAKER_00: But no, lately happened.
• 18:37
  SPEAKER_00: I'm just yesterday.
• 18:38
  SPEAKER_00: What's today?
• 18:38
  SPEAKER_00: Friday?
• 18:39
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my god, I'm thinking yesterday was Friday.
• 18:40
  SPEAKER_00: Today's Friday went today.
• 18:42
  SPEAKER_00: Wow.
• 18:42
  SPEAKER_00: No, but I was saying, like, I don't think they were open last eight.
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_00: Am I not crazy?
• 18:45
  SPEAKER_00: Did they open this past eight?
• 18:47
  SPEAKER_00: I don't I I don't think so.
• 18:48
  SPEAKER_00: I don't think so, yeah.
• 18:49
  SPEAKER_00: The last the last like three AIDS we did prayer, but at my brother's house because my brother's house has a space for prayer, which was really nice because it's like super intimate, it's just your family.
• 18:58
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, um, but I don't know what we're gonna do for uh for aid this year.
• 19:02
  SPEAKER_00: As I like to say, this age.
• 19:03
  SPEAKER_00: I'm probably just gonna go out for dinner.
• 19:05
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, people because the kids actually miss like going to a restaurant.
• 19:09
  SPEAKER_00: That's right.
• 19:10
  SPEAKER_00: I don't think we've ever been to a sit-down restaurant.
• 19:12
  SPEAKER_00: We haven't been to a sit-down restaurant yet.
• 19:13
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I have because I I traveled, you know, for work and whatnot.
• 19:17
  SPEAKER_00: But like I don't think the kids have.
• 19:19
  SPEAKER_00: I don't think they have.
• 19:19
  SPEAKER_00: No, my kids have.
• 19:21
  SPEAKER_00: No, we went to remember we went to um the French uh what's uh what's it called?
• 19:25
  SPEAKER_00: Remember when we hung out a couple weeks ago?
• 19:27
  SPEAKER_00: La Madeleine?
• 19:28
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 19:29
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's literally the first place.
• 19:31
  SPEAKER_00: That's true.
• 19:31
  SPEAKER_00: That's two weeks ago.
• 19:34
  SPEAKER_00: Virginia apologize.
• 19:36
  SPEAKER_00: Whatever, I'm not apologizing to anybody in France.
• 19:38
  SPEAKER_00: Sorry.
• 19:39
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I didn't say in France.
• 19:41
  SPEAKER_00: But if you have to be a little cognizant and aware, and that's like, I don't know, I just don't feel like it's America right now.
• 19:48
  SPEAKER_00: I'm sorry.
• 19:49
  SPEAKER_00: Like I'm my god, yeah many ways.
• 19:52
  SPEAKER_00: That's probably gonna get you did go to Lamadlane a few weeks ago, and it was nice.
• 19:55
  SPEAKER_00: Where did we go?
• 19:56
  SPEAKER_00: Lamedelin.
• 19:56
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah, okay.
• 19:57
  SPEAKER_00: That's what it's called.
• 19:58
  SPEAKER_00: Lamadlan.
• 19:58
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, that's what I said.
• 19:59
  SPEAKER_00: Lamadlan.
• 20:00
  SPEAKER_00: I know.
• 20:00
  SPEAKER_00: I was just saying it's not French.
• 20:01
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my god.
• 20:02
  SPEAKER_00: Well, what is it?
• 20:02
  SPEAKER_00: They say French bistro and then it's not really French, my god.
• 20:06
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, you know, you know, this reminds me of the time you and Dana made us go to a freaking French restaurant.
• 20:12
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my god, the worst experience.
• 20:14
  SPEAKER_00: We had fish.
• 20:14
  SPEAKER_00: No, Janine, she was with me.
• 20:16
  SPEAKER_00: Janan, me and her, we ordered some chicken and it did not look like chicken.
• 20:20
  SPEAKER_00: Dude, it looked, I don't even want to say what it looked like because it's inappropriate.
• 20:25
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 20:27
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, it was so disgusting, and they were like so uptight, like whatever.
• 20:31
  SPEAKER_00: You're in America, but it was fine.
• 20:33
  SPEAKER_00: It was it was a real French experience.
• 20:35
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, they no, they ate the because you guys like seafood, but meat, like we don't I don't like that.
• 20:39
  SPEAKER_00: And it was just so everybody was just like sixty years, like sixty or older.
• 20:44
  SPEAKER_00: I know, and then we were like in our 20s, so they were like no no, but they were just so uptight, and the food sucked.
• 20:49
  SPEAKER_00: Like, what is this whole like French uh whatever?
• 20:51
  SPEAKER_00: Do you remember?
• 20:52
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know, and I don't want to remember.
• 20:53
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it was so bad, and it was supposed to be like like top, like what was it, like some major gourmet, like it wasn't really supposed to be like the gross for French.
• 21:02
  SPEAKER_00: So just give me a pizza or a burger and fries, and I'm good.
• 21:05
  SPEAKER_00: I can't remember.
• 21:06
  SPEAKER_00: Dana wanted to go.
• 21:08
  SPEAKER_00: You need to comment and let us know why we went to that restaurant.
• 21:11
  SPEAKER_00: Was there an occasion?
• 21:12
  SPEAKER_00: But she wanted to go.
• 21:13
  SPEAKER_00: You two were the ones that wanted to try it out.
• 21:16
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe, yeah.
• 21:17
  SPEAKER_00: And then, like, after I left the restaurant, like me and Julianne, we had to go get food.
• 21:20
  SPEAKER_00: Like, we were freaking hungry.
• 21:22
  SPEAKER_00: That's true.
• 21:22
  SPEAKER_00: They didn't have to go.
• 21:23
  SPEAKER_00: See, I'm so traumatized.
• 21:24
  SPEAKER_00: That's literally like what 15 years ago.
• 21:26
  SPEAKER_00: It's more.
• 21:27
  SPEAKER_00: No, it's not.
• 21:27
  SPEAKER_00: Really?
• 21:28
  SPEAKER_00: I think it's more.
• 21:29
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, maybe it is.
• 21:30
  SPEAKER_00: No, no, 16 years.
• 21:32
  SPEAKER_00: Really?
• 21:32
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, 16.
• 21:33
  SPEAKER_00: After I got married.
• 21:34
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, we gotta stop talking about how many years ago it was.
• 21:37
  SPEAKER_00: It was a long time ago.
• 21:38
  SPEAKER_00: That's really what it comes out to.
• 21:39
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 21:40
  SPEAKER_00: The kids are whole.
• 21:40
  SPEAKER_00: The kids are home.
• 21:41
  SPEAKER_00: Her kids are whole.
• 21:42
  SPEAKER_00: My kids, I have to go home.
• 21:43
  SPEAKER_00: And I have to go open the door.
• 21:44
  SPEAKER_00: Thanks for watching this episode about it.
• 21:46
  SPEAKER_00: We'll see you guys next time.
• 21:47
  SPEAKER_00: All right, bye.
• 21:47
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