[SPEAKER_00]: And welcome to very amusing your one-stop shop for the story secrets and shenanigans of a popular fueled theme park journalist I'm currently myself and not to chewed my own horn But I really feel like a nail that intro the hell low was like sometimes I you know I cascade down and I don't hit all the notes.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just blabbing up here But that's how I really oh I feel like it's totally correct.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh my chorus days from high school have taught me well
[SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, as you know today is a gab session episode.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've been leaving notes over the past two weeks being like, oh, don't forget to mention that we have a lot to get into We have a lot to get into today, but the things that are top of mind that I need to tell you about are that I had friends over to play Domino's last night I also learned how to make play Masha on recently in which we will, I'm writing it down now, we have to talk about it soon Masha on the, the, the, the, it's the craze among a told women anyway
[SPEAKER_00]: And my friends over to play Domino's last night, and they were all talking about protein intake.
[SPEAKER_00]: I live in West Hollywood, also anywhere now, people are very successful with protein.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I didn't realize a can of tuna is 40 grams of protein.
[SPEAKER_00]: Did you know that?
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just down here eating tuna salad being like, wow, I should eat something more responsible than like tuna salad.
[SPEAKER_00]: tuna salad is so good protein.
[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't know I was being a healthy.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was being like a fit person without realizing.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was just walking in a circle eating a tuna salad and fantastic.
[SPEAKER_00]: Also, I make my tuna salad.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, this is if you if you don't like this, please listen to us The episode I'm not gonna talk about the whole time.
[SPEAKER_00]: I make my tuna salad.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know why I started doing this I don't know who told me this was legal or okay, but I started making it with pickles and green olives I will chop up pickles and then chop up Castleville Toronto olives during my favorite or not just go like a regular old green olive chop them up Chop up a scallion because Long story short tummy stuff.
[SPEAKER_00]: I can't really have onions right now.
[SPEAKER_00]: I will chop those up and I'll put those in the tuna salad
[SPEAKER_00]: It's fantastic.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's really fantastic.
[SPEAKER_00]: I know there was this thing that came out, I don't know, if you saw this online, you saw it and you know what I'm talking about, if you didn't, you didn't.
[SPEAKER_00]: Nicholas Sparks, the author, made a chicken salad with like a ton of splendor, like so much splendor, and that blew my mind, was putting splendor and chicken salad sounded like an alien concept.
[SPEAKER_00]: But now I'm putting all these random things my tuna salad, and it's pretty good.
[SPEAKER_00]: I highly recommend you try it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And if you were horrified, I will never speak again.
[SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, we are gonna gab, we're gonna gab about more than pickles more than tuna more than Domino's But we might come back to Domino's in this week's episode.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's so much to talk about.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's then Disney news.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's life stuff.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's And update on like maybe I'm getting better at a Fun being a functioning member in society.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna get it scheduling stick around We're gonna talk about it.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's gonna be great.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like we're hanging out.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like we're on a phone call except I never come up for air It's kind of what a podcast is stick around and I will see you on the other side
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[SPEAKER_00]: Welcome back to our gabs-episode and I gotta tell you, I've had a unique mix in my body of sugar and caffeine and lack of water and I kind of feel like I'm floating I kind of feel like I'm floating because never do I have a butter finger before 10 a.m. and today I did, why is it in the car?
[SPEAKER_00]: That was it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I guess all it takes for me to just abandon all nutrition in my life is just to be close to a butter finger.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was in the car and I was like, oh yeah, now's an appropriate time to have it because it's Halloween.
[SPEAKER_00]: Today is Halloween and now you're listening to this after Halloween and you're probably already already in the holiday mode for winter time, but
[SPEAKER_00]: It's Halloween.
[SPEAKER_00]: I got to talk a little about Halloween because I haven't told you about it yet And this is a gab session episode.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm also recording this video will never see the light of day I don't know Also, I think it froze.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't really know how to do this.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah, it paused.
[SPEAKER_00]: Why did it pause?
[SPEAKER_00]: I?
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh gosh
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm running it through my watch.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh no, I don't want to be at 0.5%.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, there we go.
[SPEAKER_00]: Whoa.
[SPEAKER_00]: Do you know you can like fully use your Apple Watch as a full-known remote for recording a podcast, which is something you do professionally and should have done a really, really long time ago and never do because it's just really burdensome to think about how now you have to be a video editor when you majored in news editorial journalism so you could hopefully work in a newspaper like the Chicago Tribune or a magazine in New York City.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then eventually,
[SPEAKER_00]: Writing just kind of stopped becoming a job and the way that you anticipated to pivot it and pivot it again and now your job is just speaking to a microphone to your friends and it's really great But now you also have to know how to record that and edit it and you still don't know how to record things and they just live in your phone And you feel really bad about it every month You feel worse and worse and worse, but this time you're like this time it'll be different this time I think I'll actually do it do you ever feel like that because I should I should do I told you I had a lot of sugar.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, okay We're just doing our best today anyway.
[SPEAKER_00]: I am running this off my apple watch
[SPEAKER_00]: It is filming.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you see this, give me a round of applause, because it means I actually saw something through something we will talk about later today in today's episode, because there is a lot of like life, scheduling, getting things done, ish stuff that I really want to talk to you later on in the episode.
[SPEAKER_00]: But first, we're gonna talk fun stuff.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're gonna do the little bit of Halloween, even though the malls are like fully playing Christmas music already.
[SPEAKER_00]: We gotta get a little bit in.
[SPEAKER_00]: I am talking to you in the afternoon of Halloween, just like right before we go out trick or treating.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I am dressing Pearless and Narella.
[SPEAKER_00]: She does not know it.
[SPEAKER_00]: She, no, she has a surprise costume coming.
[SPEAKER_00]: After her nap, I am going to be fairing on, mother.
[SPEAKER_00]: Ben is going to be Prince Charming, and this was all kind of a ruse so that I could buy the Gus Gus plush purse off Halloween costumes.com.
[SPEAKER_00]: By the way, great plush purse.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was, I think, $39 very little.
[SPEAKER_00]: A little zipper doesn't hold a lot, but it looks like Gus Gus.
[SPEAKER_00]: It looks like a stuffed animal and it has an adjustable strap.
[SPEAKER_00]: So in Pro wants to wear it, she can wear it across body, no problem.
[SPEAKER_00]: When I want to wear it across body, I can do that as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, two people in a household sharing a Gus Gus purse, that's really what it's all about.
[SPEAKER_00]: You don't want to buy something you're never going to use again, and this Gus Gus first I am going to use again.
[SPEAKER_00]: The theory godmother, listen, I just don't, I don't, I keep saying I don't like costumes, but then I keep seeing these women in witch hats, and I'm kind of like, that's what I want.
[SPEAKER_00]: Next year I want to have a witch hat, and I want to have a witchy outfit that is clothing I can wear another time, but I really am craving a witch hat in a way I didn't anticipate because remember, I told you I don't like to wear a costume.
[SPEAKER_00]: So that has been tempting to me, but if you're in godfather, I put it on and was like, well, it's only a few hours.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just really don't feel like myself and I feel weird, and I know that's the point of a costume that you feel like someone else, but
[SPEAKER_00]: It's just not for me, it will never be for me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Once again, that witch had on, though, it might be a different story.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I saw, like, I took pull to school today and I saw this mom and her kid and her kid with Spider-Man and I think she was maybe, obviously I don't know.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was either Gwen Stacy or Madame Webb.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think she made a Madame Webb because she had a red, like, like, I think it was like reddish hair and that had like a cool trench coat on.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm like, whoa, she looks cool and she's in a costume.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I can't, I can't achieve that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like the last time I wore a wig was on Star Wars Galactic Star Cruiser.
[SPEAKER_00]: I looked weird like it just looked weird to see me without glasses in a purple wig I thought it'd be like fun and I'd feel like I was in space but I didn't feel like that I just felt I don't know I just I didn't feel it felt alien to me one might say But I'm not gonna complain about costumes the whole time we are past Halloween in real life anyway But I wanted to tell you about
[SPEAKER_00]: our trip to Disneyland.
[SPEAKER_00]: I usually like to go on to Disneyland on Halloween, but now that I have a child, that's like fully off the table.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's just not happening anymore.
[SPEAKER_00]: So we went the day before.
[SPEAKER_00]: It wasn't a little busy, but not in a way that really impeded our day or our ability to do anything we wanted to do.
[SPEAKER_00]: Our priorities were, because remember, if you're going with the child to a theme park, you always want to know your priorities in advance.
[SPEAKER_00]: Our priorities were really meat-micky.
[SPEAKER_00]: My kid really wanted me to make it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, it was, we've come a long way.
[SPEAKER_00]: We've come a long way from her not wanting to go anywhere near a character.
[SPEAKER_00]: Very exciting, our priorities were to meet Mickey.
[SPEAKER_00]: I really wanted to see the Mickey.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's called Mickey Trick or Treat, basically with the Disney Junior Show is at the moment.
[SPEAKER_00]: We got to see that over at Disney California Adventure, which was fantastic.
[SPEAKER_00]: Pearls demanded ice cream.
[SPEAKER_00]: My girl's order is Sprinkles on the bottom.
[SPEAKER_00]: Scoop a strawberry ice cream whipped cream on top.
[SPEAKER_00]: We got that done.
[SPEAKER_00]: She really wanted to go on small world, but I forgot it closed, actually remembered in a panic, because sometimes my brain does work.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was in a manicure the day before, and it was like, it was like a spirited enter my body, and it was like,
[SPEAKER_00]: Small world is close on October 30th.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like it just came out of nowhere and I remembered it And so I had to break the news to her that we weren't going on small worlds Which was fine because we ended up going on stuff we never go on We've kind of gotten in a little routine of easy rides to get on that we tend to do when we're at Disneyland and we went on Astro Orbiter.
[SPEAKER_00]: I guess it was still like stuck in my head from when I went by myself to Disney World we could go So we went on Astro Orbiter Made it like a half an hour.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was so fun that right really hits with kids.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is hard
[SPEAKER_00]: Again, it's one of those things like getting out of space mountain when you're like, oh, my bones, I'm getting old, getting in there and then lifting, could you have to sit and then you lift a kid kind of like up and over and into your lap from you sitting in there, I guess you could let your kid go in first, but it's tricky.
[SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, a physical accomplishment, I'm very proud of myself.
[SPEAKER_00]: They only work out in this week so it counts for something.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to take it and run with it not physically because I haven't worked out this week.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have an end time But you know what I mean and then Dumbo even though like in the blazing sun yikes was so fun I totally forgot there's a water feature to that right I completely completely forgot and so it was nice to do Dumbo do that Do the carousel we had a nice little Halloween day
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't even think we had any Halloween treats because of those cookies I loved from harbour galley.
[SPEAKER_00]: The season of ones sold out a few days earlier, according to the internet.
[SPEAKER_00]: I haven't fact-checked it, but I saw enough funny videos where I'm like, I'm just gonna, I'm gonna assume it's true because if people wanted to get the cookies and they're sold out, if their cookies aren't there, then there's old out.
[SPEAKER_00]: But those were delicious, and they didn't have them.
[SPEAKER_00]: I got a popcorn, which was pretty good, I'll give it a B.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes it's better, sometimes it's worse.
[SPEAKER_00]: After I bought the popcorn, also if anyone's a Disneyland cast member or was, and knows the answer to this,
[SPEAKER_00]: Please call the Charles Hotline.
[SPEAKER_00]: I want to know after I bought the popcorn, it looked fresh like I saw them popping It might have been the caramel corn because it was the booth at DCA, but I saw them pop popcorn and then I went back like 10 minutes later to get popcorn I got a popcorn and it seemed somewhat warm.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was a cool popcorn and then as I walked away with my new six dollar 50 cent popcorn.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah
[SPEAKER_00]: $6.50 is what it costs to get popcorn and Disneyland right now as I walked away with it I noticed them taking all the popcorn out of the big bin and shoving it into like a big plastic box which makes me think like did I get old popcorn was it like the time where they're like oh it's not fresh anymore we got to get rid of it I don't know uh i'm curious if you know the answer that please let me know
[SPEAKER_00]: but it was fine, it was a great Disneyland day.
[SPEAKER_00]: And yeah, right now I'm really just taking a little Cesta from the Halloween Hubba, but before we go trigger treating tonight, and I get a fat stash of candy that I get to go through when I kids asleep.
[SPEAKER_00]: I always heard that that was a fun part of parenting and I'm gonna really live it up this year.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right now I'm wearing, I don't know if you can see.
[SPEAKER_00]: Can you see I don't know if you can see okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: Also, I don't even know if I'm ever going to publish this video But if you can't see I'm wearing these silk shorts because I tried to pair on at Reformation And I was like, oh, I want to I don't know if I'm a silk short-purt person I was kind of in between sizes.
[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't know what to do And then this influence where I like posted a link to this pair and I was like okay, and so I ordered it and it was Amazon and I never order anything on Amazon Anything clothing I never do I'm like oh Amazon that so I ordered these shorts
[SPEAKER_00]: They come and try them on and I'm like, I really don't like these the laces Let me see if they're good.
[SPEAKER_00]: The lace is only in the front and not the back They're like silky little jammy shorts Laces only on the front not in the back and I'm like, I don't want I want at least to go all the way around and so I return them and when I return them They said psych you get to keep them now.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is a gift from the cosmos We have just decided that you get to only shorts for free and I was like well
[SPEAKER_00]: When they were $20, I was like, nah, I don't need them.
[SPEAKER_00]: But now that they're free, I'm wearing them every day, okay?
[SPEAKER_00]: I can't resist a bargain.
[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't do this intentionally.
[SPEAKER_00]: I fully returned them, not expecting to net out at free short.
[SPEAKER_00]: But now that they're free, I'm kind of low-key obsessed with them.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let me see if I can jump for the video.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, what work um, but they're kind of comfy and now I'm definitely going to go back to Reformation and buy the real ones because I've been shopping here and there at least and I've been shopping.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've been shopping for new clothes and I'm finding it really hard to commit to nice things.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just feel like even almost having a three year old being truly like three and a half years out of starting the child journey.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just still don't know my size, my interests, my lifestyle.
[SPEAKER_00]: If things I wear will be covered in food, if they won't be, what do I save those nice things for when I go out?
[SPEAKER_00]: Which means I don't wear them anymore.
[SPEAKER_00]: Which means that the things I wear every day are the clothes I might not prefer.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's too much to think about as a parent.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so I'm trying to find only by things that are kind of I have these standards that I'm kind of shopping by these days.
[SPEAKER_00]: Is it fun?
[SPEAKER_00]: If it's not fun, I don't want it.
[SPEAKER_00]: If it's not fun, I don't care because even if something is itchy, uncomfy, like fragile, if it's fun, fun wins out over everything.
[SPEAKER_00]: It has to be fun.
[SPEAKER_00]: If it's not fun, what's the point?
[SPEAKER_00]: That's basically my life mantra at this point.
[SPEAKER_00]: If it's not fun, why would I be doing it?
[SPEAKER_00]: Why would I be wearing it?
[SPEAKER_00]: And sometimes there are things I need, like functional things, but I don't know those and I never wanna shop for them which is why it never happens.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because if it's not fun, I don't wanna be wearing it.
[SPEAKER_00]: if things basically needs to feel authentic on my body and I know that's a strange way to put it but I will put on a sweater and it can be itchy and I can just be like oh it's so itchy but if it's fun if it feels me I'm gonna keep it there's a sweater I just ordered from Zara and it is
[SPEAKER_00]: Polyester and wool, which is the devil's combo.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, that's not really something you want to be putting on your body when you're sensitive to what things feel like But I put it on and was like, oh, this is me.
[SPEAKER_00]: This feels like me.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is this brown kind of it has like it's like knit.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's kind of see through not see through it has little holes and it's floral and it's brown and it's orange and it's just so
[SPEAKER_00]: It gives me like the 70s limited to inflatable couch vibe that I'm seeking out.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know what I mean, that like retro, like the 70s that you imagined when you were a kid in the 2000s and the 90s 2000s, that's what this sweater is giving me.
[SPEAKER_00]: And even though the material can be worse,
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm going to be unconfident at the whole time, I'm going to be happy because it's fun, and it's authentic to me.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the third thing that I'm looking for when I'm shopping is, is this good enough?
[SPEAKER_00]: A lot of times I'll shop and be like, that's a cool sweater.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's a cool shirt.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's cool jeans, but I only really want one.
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe two things in this category.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't want my closet to be full of stuff.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't wear anymore.
[SPEAKER_00]: So is this like is this going to take me the long haul like is this if I find a new version of this and I'm going to be like I wish I had this better pair or like oh, I wish I had this different version of it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I really need to be like I am so happy with this and if another one pops up, I don't care because I love this one
[SPEAKER_00]: That is how I ended up buying this very cute Striped Sweater.
[SPEAKER_00]: Also from these Zara Disney collaboration that they did with Harry Lambert, it was kind of slept on because everyone was focusing on the Disney stuff.
[SPEAKER_00]: But this cardigan is a Striped Cardigan.
[SPEAKER_00]: Again, it's a little itchy, but it's all thented to me.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I just put it on, it was like...
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't need another striped cardigan ever.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like this is the striped cardigan.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I found these little niche holes in my wardrobe that I have to fill with different things.
[SPEAKER_00]: And when I fill them, like when I just drop that texture square in the right slot,
[SPEAKER_00]: It makes getting dressed so much easier.
[SPEAKER_00]: I really needed a new pair of jeans that were like a little funky, but a basic.
[SPEAKER_00]: They were fun.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're authentic to me, but they're still like they're filling that spot.
[SPEAKER_00]: And there's other barrel jeans that I got when I talked about them in the Caribe Royale episode.
[SPEAKER_00]: Those jeans, I'm wearing all the time, and they have made pairing them with tops and shirts and other things I haven't quite figured out how to style together.
[SPEAKER_00]: It has brought everything together because I filled these little gaps in my wardrobe, and it's been really fun to get dressed again, just because I filled those little gaps.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like I knew I needed new sneakers.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's something I put off forever.
[SPEAKER_00]: It just put up for so long.
[SPEAKER_00]: But then I walked over to the Guedita store.
[SPEAKER_00]: You had a pair of
[SPEAKER_00]: like animal print brown sneakers with these red orange laces, and I'm like, you know what?
[SPEAKER_00]: That's fun.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's authentic to me.
[SPEAKER_00]: And if I have a fun sneaker, I have a black and white sneakers and oh my, this is a fun sneaker.
[SPEAKER_00]: This really fills avoiding my wardrobe.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't have.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I've been wearing them almost every day and they again with the other pieces in my wardrobe that fill these gaps, I now really feel like I'm dressing like myself years after being my body, just being a vessel for someone else.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like it really feels different and fun.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I just recommend
[SPEAKER_00]: Setting your own kind of goals, like setting your own shopping rules to really weed out what you do and don't need.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, did that apply to these Amazon silk shorts that I got for zero dollars?
[SPEAKER_00]: No, it did not, but sometimes you get a gift from the heavens that you didn't expect and you just got a ride with it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Also, we are not going to talk about shopping for the entirety of this podcast.
[SPEAKER_00]: This wasn't even something I planned on discussing.
[SPEAKER_00]: We were just, we were just talking about Halloween at the start and I was going to jump to another topic.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I'm often in tangent.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm full of butter, think of Rebecca's babies.
[SPEAKER_00]: So we're going with it.
[SPEAKER_00]: The last thing I want to say is that this mentality has also served me so well for makeup.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you are like me, you have a drawer in your bathroom that is so much makeup.
[SPEAKER_00]: But if it's unused and it costs money, you feel bad about throwing it out.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because like clothes and shoes, like a lot of that stuff.
[SPEAKER_00]: News makeup is literal garbage if you don't use it.
[SPEAKER_00]: So my makeup for us always told us this stuff that I feel bad for spending money on.
[SPEAKER_00]: I bought two concealers in the wrong color.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's Sephora and it's been so long.
[SPEAKER_00]: I can't return one.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm stuck with it.
[SPEAKER_00]: So what am I going to do?
[SPEAKER_00]: throw it out like a normal person?
[SPEAKER_00]: No!
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to wear all of that concealer even though it makes my under eyes look kind of bright yellow.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just going to power through.
[SPEAKER_00]: So now I use my shopping for clothes mentality for shopping for beauty products.
[SPEAKER_00]: If I have a mascara, I don't need another mascara.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't need another mascara.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have a black mascara and then I have a brown mascara.
[SPEAKER_00]: I
[SPEAKER_00]: bought the wrong, I have the brown mascara on the way because I went into creed-ox later 20% off sale.
[SPEAKER_00]: I had to get a girlfriend and I found this mascara.
[SPEAKER_00]: They said it's good for sensitive eyes because I've learned sensitive eyes.
[SPEAKER_00]: As you can see in this video, if you are watching, oh, and if I ever post it, uh, it's just every, oh, my makeup melts on my face.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I got this brown mascara.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is a tangent.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I have to know about this.
[SPEAKER_00]: And well, I'll show you sort of I ended up with the brown mascara and a waterproof brown mascara.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that is a little, oh, it's making me a little uncomfortable because I really like to have a
[SPEAKER_00]: And I used to be completely different.
[SPEAKER_00]: I used to love to have all these different colors and all these different things.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's kind of like a efficiency in that drawer has emerged as really important to me.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have a few versions of things.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have like this blush, I have that blush.
[SPEAKER_00]: I am powering through the things I don't need and using them as much as I can because again.
[SPEAKER_00]: I can't throw out a makeup.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not like, now like the clothes, it's stressing me out.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just flushing money down the drain.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I am powering through.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm doing my best and I'm really hoping to like emerge out the other side with this closet of things I wear in love and I'm makeup drawer of just the things that I use.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm getting there.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm getting there.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm getting there and it's feeling real.
[SPEAKER_00]: Good.
[SPEAKER_00]: But that is not.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're here to talk about today because I have a laundry list of things that I really want to gab with all of you about starting with TV shows I have been watching since we last spoke.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have finished Buffy.
[SPEAKER_00]: I finished the entire series of Buffy The Vampire Slayer and I
[SPEAKER_00]: Get it now.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's kind of like becoming a fish fan or becoming a parent like you were something else before and now you were on the inside Now you understand who people are saying when they're like angel spike like you get it You get what that means before those were just words now There's a whole universe the whole life that I know about I absolutely loved it I also saved myself from reading about Jaws weed in until after simply because not because I didn't want to know about all the
[SPEAKER_00]: Things bad things that people had to say about working with him, but because any time I looked up a Joss Weedon story, I like accidentally spoiled me for Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, which I'm still watching among season three.
[SPEAKER_00]: I heard season four is bad.
[SPEAKER_00]: Charisma Carbender said that at a panel that I watched on YouTube, yeah, I mean pretty deep, but I heard from my friend that season five, I believe, comes around and is actually good.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm going to power through Angel.
[SPEAKER_00]: But whenever I would go to like look up Buffy stuff, it's just spoilers everywhere.
[SPEAKER_00]: everywhere.
[SPEAKER_00]: Even in all the jaw stories because that's how you find out a certain character was written out of a certain show.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not going to finish that sentence to the nothing is spoiled for anyone else, but you find out the thing that it's too early to find out.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I've only been able to read some stuff.
[SPEAKER_00]: I know it's bad.
[SPEAKER_00]: I know it's dark and I know it's worth mentioning.
[SPEAKER_00]: But also,
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a shockingly progressive show.
[SPEAKER_00]: The LGBT representation on the show is excellent.
[SPEAKER_00]: It stars multiple women.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, this is like, backdale tests beyond.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, these women are the stars of the show.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's strong, powerful women with different powers.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's really great.
[SPEAKER_00]: I loved it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not usually in this space and I'm so obsessed and I'm like, what do you mean?
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, it's starting to be at a convention.
[SPEAKER_00]: What do you mean, Jim's mustard is going to be in Spoken Washington.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like I'm just all in and I kind of think it's really interesting to watch a cult favorite show like this so long after it's been on the air.
[SPEAKER_00]: Not just because the vehicle by which I'm watching is
[SPEAKER_00]: on an app it's on Hulu and the aspect ratio was changed so you can fully see like boom mics and floodlights and stuff in the background which I'm so charmed by because I'll be watching graveyard scene and be like wow wow wow wow I'm tapped in and then you'll just see a person who works there and you're like oh movie magic movie magic I know the people who created are probably furious that you can see stuff in the way it's cut but I'm delighted by it.
[SPEAKER_00]: But the real reason why it's so fun to watch a show like this, it was so popular now is because of like I mentioned, the convention circuit, you can, you can go almost any month and find the stars of shows like this in person.
[SPEAKER_00]: They will meet you, they will take photos with you, you can hear them talking to a panel, and that's something I didn't grow up with, that's something that I'm not used to.
[SPEAKER_00]: A lot of this stuff I watch, they're not, listen, for all the networks that comes, I want to, they're not like,
[SPEAKER_00]: going up panels and hanging out and doing photo ops.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's really in this fan space.
[SPEAKER_00]: And Buffy is a show that is way in that, which I didn't even realize, and it's fascinating to me.
[SPEAKER_00]: What a great time to be passionate about stories and television and comics and like be able to interact with these people.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's fascinating.
[SPEAKER_00]: And if you haven't watched Buffy, you absolutely should.
[SPEAKER_00]: Also I'm realizing, do you ever hear that noise in the background of the podcast?
[SPEAKER_00]: And you're like, what is that?
[SPEAKER_00]: That's my rings.
[SPEAKER_00]: I thought it was my bracelet.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's my rings.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm taking one off and we're going to see if that makes it.
[SPEAKER_00]: If that makes it better.
[SPEAKER_00]: But beyond Puffy, we meet alone in my kitchen while I'm making my sound dinners, is back to watching every sitcom that exists on the air.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is to come season, it is fall.
[SPEAKER_00]: I am thriving that Hulu AutoPlay is just really carrying me through to just a cascading field of joy.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm watching Ghosts, gotta be watching ghosts.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm watching season two of Matt Locke.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh yeah, I've seen every episode of Matt Locke,
[SPEAKER_00]: Jason Redder, underutilized, he's in all the episodes, but he's not featured enough and he's such a talented actor and he's so charismatic and we've just need more of him High potential.
[SPEAKER_00]: I watch every episode of high potential season two is really good like season one was okay season one was pretty good season two like the writing is tight the storylines are great and also
[SPEAKER_00]: I was watching high potential a few days ago, and I watched it and, oh, who's that?
[SPEAKER_00]: My friend Stephanie Styles just appearing in the credits, and I texted her and was like, you're at high potential this week.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I was just like, I don't think we knew that it was happening.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, it was just so exciting.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was just so exciting to see her name in the credits.
[SPEAKER_00]: She's on the show.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, do you know?
[SPEAKER_00]: Do you know what fun it is to see your friends on TV?
[SPEAKER_00]: And I know you know my best friend Alex is on St. Dennis Medical.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like,
[SPEAKER_00]: To see my friend on television is something that my P-shaped P-shaped, my P-sized brain can't handle.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, I didn't grow up in LA, I'm not used to Hollywood, I'm not used to working actors on television, being people I interact with my daily life, because here it's just a job.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's just like a craft that people do, like any other job.
[SPEAKER_00]: But then,
[SPEAKER_00]: My, I go home and I'm truly the only person in LA just sucking down all network television.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm watching everything, okay?
[SPEAKER_00]: I am well-versed.
[SPEAKER_00]: I watched all of shifting gears in about 70 hours.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay?
[SPEAKER_00]: Nobody else in West Hollywood is doing that.
[SPEAKER_00]: I can assure you.
[SPEAKER_00]: By the way, Sean Williams gots on it.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's great, but I just can't believe that people in my life are up here on the television and not in like a, not in like a, oh talent way.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's more like, oh my gosh, I still believe these shows are real.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, I still believe these shows are, they're creating these environments that actually exist.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, they're storytelling to such a high level that I just always think it's real.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then someone that I like, I don't really go to the gym with or again, brought to Star Wars galactic circles or peers on screen and I scream every time.
[SPEAKER_00]: Every time I have a friend who appears on TV, I scream, because these aren't like, there's like acquaintances I know who will appear and stuff, and I'm not going to talk about that.
[SPEAKER_00]: These are close friends of mine, and then they're like on TV someone else, and I'm also like, hi, what do you, like my brain is like, what are you doing here?
[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't know you're going to be here.
[SPEAKER_00]: You didn't tell me, you didn't tell me you're going to be at this hospital.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like it's just so interesting, and I love it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love it so much.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like the joy of my life to watch my little shows and then see someone I love on it.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's just,
[SPEAKER_00]: I support them all so much and I'm so amazed by their talent and it's just really special.
[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, make sure to watch high potential.
[SPEAKER_00]: See, staff on there.
[SPEAKER_00]: She's on another episode that they're taking a break and coming back in January and I'm kind of like froze.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're taking off November and December.
[SPEAKER_00]: I need my Caitlyn Olson, but okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: So it comes back in January and then sing Dennis, I actually don't know when it's back, but Alex is in season two.
[SPEAKER_00]: Check it out, read her on.
[SPEAKER_00]: We love it.
[SPEAKER_00]: She's also going to be in something else, but I can't talk about that.
[SPEAKER_00]: So.
[SPEAKER_00]: Stay tuned.
[SPEAKER_00]: You'll see me yell about it at the internet when it's time.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, I'm caught up on season eight of the neighborhood.
[SPEAKER_00]: Again, nobody else know what I was saying that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, watch an avid elementary.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's another one I'm watching, but oh, that's what I want to mention.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, Terran Killum guessed to the pod has a new show coming out.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's called stumble.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's about I believe it's junior college cheerleading.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's on NBC.
[SPEAKER_00]: It looks great.
[SPEAKER_00]: Highly recommend blindly just because have you ever seen Terran Killum in anything bad?
[SPEAKER_00]: You haven't because it's impossible.
[SPEAKER_00]: He makes everything better.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's like the actor equivalent of that flaky expensive sea salt.
[SPEAKER_00]: He makes everything better.
[SPEAKER_00]: So don't miss that.
[SPEAKER_00]: I will truly be seeing the first episode of the second drops.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not just going to watch it on demand on Hulu.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to be, or whatever it's on peacock, probably.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not going to just be watching it on demand.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to be doing the little record button.
[SPEAKER_00]: So you watch it with the ads right when it comes out.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because I love Terrence work.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I've so grateful that he came on the podcast.
[SPEAKER_00]: We got to get him back.
[SPEAKER_00]: Some other things I want to discuss with you that I am obsessed with right now.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if the people in your life who love you have told you what fruit riot is, but let's just say that I have talked to two to three groups of friends over the past week.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I said, oh my god, do you know what fruit riot is?
[SPEAKER_00]: And they went, yeah, of course.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm like y'all didn't tell me about this.
[SPEAKER_00]: You didn't think it was important to tell me about the greatest achievement in frozen food ever made.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let me tell you what fruit ride is.
[SPEAKER_00]: Fruit ride is frozen fruit, mangoes, grapes.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think they have some other fruit that they've chosen, but I've only had mango and grape.
[SPEAKER_00]: wrapped in sour candy sugar.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, is your mouth salivating?
[SPEAKER_00]: I bet it is.
[SPEAKER_00]: But wait, because it's even better than that.
[SPEAKER_00]: The sour candy coating is flavored.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's flavored.
[SPEAKER_00]: The bag of frozen grapes has three different flavors in it.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like lemon lime.
[SPEAKER_00]: Something else and something else.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_00]: I can't tell the difference between them honestly, but they're all little different.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're so good And then it's like real grapes like some are red some are green some are big some are small You don't know what you're gonna get because as the pack says they're like nature's not uniform that they're real grapes and then the mango Oh the fruit diet frozen mango
[SPEAKER_00]: And is I think strawberry peach coated frozen mango.
[SPEAKER_00]: So you have a frozen piece of fruit.
[SPEAKER_00]: Healthy yum delicious.
[SPEAKER_00]: They just can't eat.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then they wrap in and like the most potent sour sugar.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you take a bite of it.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's you keep it frozen.
[SPEAKER_00]: You take a bite of it and it's like, like I ate it and was like that's all I'm going to think about for the next six days.
[SPEAKER_00]: I truly stick in your mind, we're after dinner.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm like, oh, it's fruit riot time.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, I'm getting ready.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm pulled open that freezer being like, we're about to have a party for me of three to four pieces of fruit that will blow my mind.
[SPEAKER_00]: Can't recommend it enough.
[SPEAKER_00]: Fantastic.
[SPEAKER_00]: And to all my friends who knew about fruit riot and didn't tell me, I'm French, French, and I'm over.
[SPEAKER_00]: Fridge Boomer.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, but one thing a friend did my friend Alex from St. Dennis, which I just told you about.
[SPEAKER_00]: One thing that was told to me a long time ago, and I fully slept on is true lime.
[SPEAKER_00]: Do you know what true lime is?
[SPEAKER_00]: True lime is this little packet, like a splendor packet.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a little packet of dehydrated lime.
[SPEAKER_00]: And like citric acid is that the same thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what's in there.
[SPEAKER_00]: But you rip it open, dump it in a
[SPEAKER_00]: and it makes it taste potent and limey, but it's made of nothing.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like, I don't see this in a very 90's counter calories.
[SPEAKER_00]: Wait, it's zero calories because it's like, it's dust, it's nothing.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you put it in and I'm telling you, your diet coke goes from like pretty good to top of the pyramid incredible in seconds.
[SPEAKER_00]: And my friend Alex gave me a little pouch of this.
[SPEAKER_00]: I want to see like a year ago, and it's been kicking around in my purse since then, okay?
[SPEAKER_00]: It's been in your for a while.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's been in there for an embarrassing amount of time.
[SPEAKER_00]: And yet, I went to Fairx Pharmacy like a week and a half ago, a week ago?
[SPEAKER_00]: Probably week ago.
[SPEAKER_00]: I went to Fair Oak's pharmacy, I got a diet coke, and I was like, this is the time, like this is the moment I'm going to put it in a diet coke, and I whipped it out in front of everyone, and I whipped it open, and I dumped it in, and it was a little chunky because it was definitely past its prime.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's quite old, it's been in my purse for over a year, as I said.
[SPEAKER_00]: But it was excellent.
[SPEAKER_00]: So much so that I immediately bought a box of it, and now I bring it everywhere.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's in my car, it's in my bags.
[SPEAKER_00]: At night when I'm just having a look, Roy, unflavored at home, if you follow me on Instagram, you know why I have the unflavored.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a superior look right.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, superior one.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, I like rip open the lip hack and I dump it in and it is better than line flavored Selzer.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm telling you if you were like a spindrift person you have to try this stuff out.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is so Good.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is so good
[SPEAKER_00]: And I don't know if this is technically something I'm obsessed with or if it's more just something that's existing in my purview, but a few weeks ago I took a Moshong lesson with friends.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah, I'm starting to get a lot of wrinkles.
[SPEAKER_00]: My body hurts when I wake up in the morning and I'm playing Moshong.
[SPEAKER_00]: Signed you might be being returning into win old lady.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I took a lesson.
[SPEAKER_00]: from, oh, what was her name?
[SPEAKER_00]: Marvelous Miss Mosh?
[SPEAKER_00]: I believe it was her name?
[SPEAKER_00]: She's Los Angeles based.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was excellent.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is like a heavy learning curve.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is pretty confusing.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I loved it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I really want to get good at it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if I can commit enough to actually get good.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because here's the deal.
[SPEAKER_00]: Mashaong is like a fun game, but actually your brain has to be really thinking about your like operating on many, many levels at once.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you've played it before you know what I'm talking about, it's like you gotta be thinking, thinking, thinking, thinking, what are other people doing?
[SPEAKER_00]: What are you doing?
[SPEAKER_00]: What are you going to do?
[SPEAKER_00]: What could be next?
[SPEAKER_00]: Like you have there's so many layers of thinking to it that it's really a mental exercise.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I also just joined a book club.
[SPEAKER_00]: I said yes, my friend
[SPEAKER_00]: And Rebecca is Loki, a genius, Rebecca herself as a talented author.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so I was like, in author inviting me to a book club, that's like a big deal, okay?
[SPEAKER_00]: That's like a big deal.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was honored that she thought I knew how to read.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's really honored.
[SPEAKER_00]: Again, you know, the only book I read the past few years until now was Jessica Radloff's Big Bang Theory book, which by the way, I have multiple copies of it, because it's my favorite book in the world.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm using it currently as my mic stand with my
[SPEAKER_00]: Cut comedy compilation book notes from the bathroom line.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've Maddie Kongs, but what does that mean?
[SPEAKER_00]: It's what's called in.
[SPEAKER_00]: Young and restless, and I have...
[SPEAKER_00]: The Big Bang Theory, oral history by Jessica Ravloff.
[SPEAKER_00]: I literally at book club is like, and this is the only book I read.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like a tree has crimped into amazing.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's the best truth I've ever seen.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, I'm obsessed with it, but I signed up.
[SPEAKER_00]: We read Elizabeth Gilbert's new book.
[SPEAKER_00]: Kind of a stinker.
[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, not great, but we listen.
[SPEAKER_00]: There are book club and they do this monthly.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so now I'm a part of it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm so excited to be a part of it.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I didn't rise like, I was like, Heck yeah, I'm coming to the next one.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, it's a fun party.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a lively conversation.
[SPEAKER_00]: We have snacks.
[SPEAKER_00]: We actually chat about the book,
[SPEAKER_00]: The other people in it are so interesting and like lively like it truly was the best night and like yeah I'm coming back in a month, but now that I'm home and like oh no, I got to read a book I got to read another book and I think the next one is pretty long I don't remember the name of it, but I think it's pretty pretty long and there is a chance I talked about this in the podcast because now I'm thinking did I?
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_00]: I my brain is butterfinger.
[SPEAKER_00]: What can I say?
[SPEAKER_00]: Regardless, I am gonna read this book And it means that's the moshong space in my brain.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's like the moshong space.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I can only have one Maybe once I finish reading all back to moshong, but if you've ever thought about playing moshong It's pretty rad and also I didn't know about this
[SPEAKER_00]: Mashaong is like a nonprofit organization.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're based on the East Coast.
[SPEAKER_00]: They have these like there's different gate like oh god If you play, I'm so sorry if I get this lingo wrong.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's like different hands you can have.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's basically like what if poker changed every year Like what if the sweets and like the two of a kind three of a kind what if all that changed every freaking year?
[SPEAKER_00]: And to know what it is you have to get the official card from official poker
[SPEAKER_00]: That's what Madrong is.
[SPEAKER_00]: Every year, the things be changing.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's fascinating to me because there's like a lot of drama there, I think, like these people, like the sons of someone run it, I need to like fully read more about it, but there's like, uh, I mean, it's just because it's becoming so big, so fast.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, oh, there's just so much there.
[SPEAKER_00]: If I had more bandwidth I would probably report a story on it and like dive in because I'm like I got to know more about this but I don't so I'm not going to but I am either going to read a book or learn to play Mahjong even better one of the two I don't know between what else I'm going to talk to you guys about
[SPEAKER_00]: No, I don't want to talk.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was going to talk about AI, but I don't really want to talk about AI.
[SPEAKER_00]: Whoever wants to talk about AI, I just am so annoyed with an Instagram, how they're constantly prompting you to use AI to put a fun hat on, or like, change your font into bubbles.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, that do we need that?
[SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely not.
[SPEAKER_00]: AI is fine when it's useful for things that we need.
[SPEAKER_00]: And like, when it helps our everyday life improve, but that's going to improve in my life.
[SPEAKER_00]: to like use it like put a costume on to like oh what would I look like they might do water jump in a pool okay it's like the same thing we like literally touch grass and not like make an image of you touching grass that's what I feel um we have more things to talk about after the break which you're going to get into in a moment I'm also pretty sure I talked about what club already so I apologize if I have but we're gonna talk about it's like big life goals scheduling growth and being an adult all that stuff on the other side of the break so stick around uh I will
[UNKNOWN]: Thank you for watching.
[SPEAKER_00]: welcome back and if you hear audible crying in the background just please know that everything is okay in my household as I mentioned I am recording this on Halloween and I may have hyped up trick or treat a little too much because my child could not sleep she could not take an app because all she could think about was trick or treating and I think she started to get worried we were going to go trick or treat without her or she was going to miss it which I completely understand this is like the best kid holiday around so she uh she's not an app in today.
[SPEAKER_00]: She's not an avid today, but I'm only mentioning this because if you hear sound in the background, I promise she is fine, my husband is just tending to her at the moment because she couldn't wait and I get it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Who wouldn't want to wake up and be a princess and eat a bunch of candy?
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, that's the best day ever.
[SPEAKER_00]: Her and I truly are the same.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're both the same.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like, I don't want to rest.
[SPEAKER_00]: Take me to the party.
[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like we both have it so strongly.
[SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely hilarious.
[SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, we are moving on from Halloween and kind of kicking its straight towards new years because I do this thing, I don't know if I always talk about it, but I kind of do this thing where in November I start kind of, you know, I do, I kind of start my resolutions early.
[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, I do this because I think there's a lot of pressure and I can't handle it about like like January 1st.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is my year.
[SPEAKER_00]: And like if by January 7th, you need to know it's a weird week.
[SPEAKER_00]: You like kind of have a holiday and then you're right back to work, you're right back to school, you're right back to like doing everything that you were doing before.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a real like zero to 180, kind of move, zero to 60.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, 180s, if you turn around halfway, 60s, if you're speeding up a car, and it's very much like, whoa, and if you don't like stick to this brand new routine in goals immediately, you feel bad.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I don't like that.
[SPEAKER_00]: I really don't like that.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I often try to start in November.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think I talked about this last year on the podcast and pretty sure, but I do like, I don't know, I like knowing that if I fail in November, I have that safety net of kind of retooling and starting again and working harder at the start of the year.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now that I ever follow through on a goal, I don't, but it is nice to like start things early so that you're not on that same pressure schedule that everyone else is.
[SPEAKER_00]: My real resolution this year is to stop being lazy, like though what else it's kind of ruining my life, but we'll get to that in a second because my real resolution for 26.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it is one that actually fits up with this November timeline, is that I am trying to be better at buying presents.
[SPEAKER_00]: I am horrible at buying presents.
[SPEAKER_00]: I overthink it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think nothing is good enough.
[SPEAKER_00]: I worry that it's something someone won't like.
[SPEAKER_00]: I start to spiral and be like, oh no, it's my friend having allergy that I don't know about.
[SPEAKER_00]: I start to like truly panic panic panic.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because I have weirdly since I've moved to LA since I've become an adult, I've weirdly found myself among the best gift givers in the world.
[SPEAKER_00]: I can name over 10 friends who are unbelievable gift-givers, like giving me things where my jaw is on the floor.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know how these people are so thoughtful and kind, I am very grateful.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I just don't, I don't have that in my brain.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so for the past truly two to three years, I've been like, listen, I know I owe you gift.
[SPEAKER_00]: I feel very bad about it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just need to find something good enough to repay the good thing you have given me.
[SPEAKER_00]: I will find it one day, but I haven't found it yet.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I have a laundry list of people that really deserves something special that I haven't sourced yet.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so I am going to try starting this holiday season, starting next year, to be much better about this.
[SPEAKER_00]: If I see something that makes me think of someone, I'm just buying it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't care if I'm like, do they even want this?
[SPEAKER_00]: Do they need a candle that smells like this?
[SPEAKER_00]: Do they need this tracheke?
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't care if I'm buying it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because that's the way my friend's operate.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm always like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, I don't know, I don't need it.
[SPEAKER_00]: It might be wasteful, they don't want it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I know, I'm starting, and I'm doing it, and I really hope that
[SPEAKER_00]: It makes me feel a little better because I'm so bad at gifts and I'm really trying my best.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I know that we, I think we still have them as a sponsor on the podcast.
[SPEAKER_00]: Uncommon goods.
[SPEAKER_00]: Y'all, I'm not like that ad.
[SPEAKER_00]: I put so much effort into because I'm, I mean, everywhere that I'm saying.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I do about every ad because I write them the ones that I say out loud.
[SPEAKER_00]: But like,
[SPEAKER_00]: That website I'm buying I'm buying everything.
[SPEAKER_00]: They have this is again something I really struggle with and I went on there I was like, oh, that's perfect for Heather.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm getting that for my cousin.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna get this like they have the things they make me feel like I'm not going insane Like I go to a regular store and I'm like this is the same stuff everybody goes the same stuff
[SPEAKER_00]: Here you see stuff and you're like, oh, that's perfect for so and so like it's really just shopping on a higher level of existence you can get so much more done.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love that website.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm so happy I partnered with them and I truly will be spending so much money when I place all my holiday orders.
[SPEAKER_00]: I already did a few orders, but I'm going in.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going in big.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going in big, but to talk about the lazy thing, it's, listen, being lazy is kind of this through line in my life that I cannot escape.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's not like, I'm not big lazy.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, I'm not never dropping my kid off at school on time.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not like the big stuff.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's the little stuff.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's the, oh, the chore that took me five minutes that I should have done a long time ago.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, I had to reorganize a section of my closet and like, it took a moment and yet I,
[SPEAKER_00]: just didn't want to do it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I feel like the tiny things that I'm avoiding in my life have the biggest hold over me and are actually just representative of the discomfort that I have to deal with.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like the days are so full of things I have to do, which we're going to talk about that momentarily.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to talk about scheduling because something big happened and we got to discuss it.
[SPEAKER_00]: But like the days are just so full of wake up, send any mail, feed yourself breakfast, got to get coffee like there's just a list going down all the way until the end of the day of things you have to do.
[SPEAKER_00]: And when I get to nighttime, that is when everyone's like, oh, me, time.
[SPEAKER_00]: self-care.
[SPEAKER_00]: But when it's nighttime like after I cook and I sit and I eat, the last thing I want to do is start a 25-minute skincare routine.
[SPEAKER_00]: The last thing I want to do is do my four physical therapy exercises and both of these things would improve my life in a long term for the better, but I just can't do it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I know I posed a question on the podcast a while back about like, what would my future self do?
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, what ideal version of me, what would they do, what would they be doing in the scenario?
[SPEAKER_00]: And they would just be standing up and walking and doing their skin care.
[SPEAKER_00]: And while that mentality has gotten me through a lot of things, it's gotten me to really be better about work for the most part with some of them still really a mess with it's gotten me better to finish the podcast on the deadline.
[SPEAKER_00]: I actually set out to finish it at
[SPEAKER_00]: But still it's like these little things are just dragging me down and it's hard It's really hard to do the things that you know will be worth it in the future and not immediately like if I'm for an errand I run it it's over here.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like
[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm just gonna do this physical therapy for like three months.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like the long-term of it is too hard for my brain to grasp.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's been really hard because the worst part is that I will like cook dinner.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll be like, oh my gosh, what a long day of doing so many things.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll sit down.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll eat it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll open my phone.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's all these people like yelling at me about not doing better than things I have to do.
[SPEAKER_00]: Do like I don't know if you're algorithm is like this.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm pretty convinced that my TikTok algorithm is designed to make me feel bad about myself Like I guess it's just what I do is that I watch these people and I'm like, oh, this is how you live your life and then it just cascades for a while It was just women
[SPEAKER_00]: on on walking paths like on the little treadmills it was just women on treadmills getting a lot of work done that was my entire feed and I'd watch these and be like wow they're drinking so much water and walking so much and like yeah I'm bad at both of those things and I just kept itched my whole feed does that I guess I know this is kind of a problem I've created for myself but
[SPEAKER_00]: Still it's like I'll open social media and I will be bombarded with people being like tuck in baby We got three months to go till spring.
[SPEAKER_00]: Do you want to accomplish your to-do lists?
[SPEAKER_00]: Do you want to accomplish your goals?
[SPEAKER_00]: Do you want to make sure that your self-care routine is locked in this is what we're gonna do?
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm like, I am chemically a balanced.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, like, I'm no divergent.
[SPEAKER_00]: And if you think I can get anything done in the end portion of the day, you are out of your freaking mind.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like it is a miracle that is mostly fueled by science and coffee beans that I get anything done before 6 p.m. And then I'm supposed to cook myself food, eat it, and then be like, all right, time to exfoliate.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, like I need to carve out a little bit of freedom.
[SPEAKER_00]: I need a little free time and yet And yet I know I should be doing these things, and I just feel bad about it And I'm kind of on the fence right now when I know this is a gab session We're just gonna go through it.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're gonna talk about it And I'm very curious of other people have been feeling this way this duality of like like yeah Like I know what I have to do.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm responsible.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna get it done and then also being like I don't know It's just like people like go online
[SPEAKER_00]: Just because I want to break, ooh, I want the little dopamine, like, ooh, I want, I want a little fun, like I want to be excited.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then I go online and it makes me feel bad that I am online.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it reminds me of the things I'm supposed to do.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's just this, like, this, like, never ending or a boroughs of, like, I have things to do, but I want a little fun.
[SPEAKER_00]: But then also it reminds me that I'm doing a bad job.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then I just can't, I can't, I can't, I can't.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm not saying the phones are evil.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not at all like I love my phone.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love my phone so much My phone brings me so much joy like I do feel bad for scrolling, but then again I'm like I learned so much on TikTok.
[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't know that the mall by my house is actually just a like basically Some sort of I don't want to call the front, but behind it is oil drooling in my neighborhood like I didn't know this I watched this whole investigative journalist do a thing on their phone about Cisco the food supplier company and then other ones like
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm at my phone learning, I'm at my phone congratulating friends who like finally got pregnant and I'm talking to them about their babies and about their families like I'm here to hype up friends in the comments section.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm connecting with people I wouldn't know otherwise.
[SPEAKER_00]: So when you said always bad, you know?
[SPEAKER_00]: And people like put down your phone, go to your face mask, go do your best like no.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes phone is good, phone is not on the nonsense and it's just hard to balance everything and I guess the point that I'm trying to get to because it's a little long-winded And I'm kind of losing this red because I think the sugar high is crashing and I'm doing my best But I came across this video and I even wrote it down to talk about it It is from this person John Paul Dumbrowski
[SPEAKER_00]: And they basically said, which is not a phrase private to them.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've seen other people say this.
[SPEAKER_00]: But they said, how you live your day is how you live your life.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then they posed, what would your dream debut?
[SPEAKER_00]: Is this like informative exercise about how to build your life?
[SPEAKER_00]: What would your dream debut?
[SPEAKER_00]: How can your life be like your dreamtakes?
[SPEAKER_00]: If you're dream day, if you do everything perfectly, this could, that's the pattern you need, neuroplasticity.
[SPEAKER_00]: You got to change your behaviors to change your life.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like all this stuff.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm sitting here looking at this video, being like, are you joking?
[SPEAKER_00]: Because for a lot of people that makes a lot of sense.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, you make your dream day.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is my dream schedule.
[SPEAKER_00]: I wake up at this time.
[SPEAKER_00]: I go to the gym and then I have a coffee.
[SPEAKER_00]: I shower.
[SPEAKER_00]: I go to work.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is my ideal day.
[SPEAKER_00]: For me, someone who's brain functions the way it does.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm like, okay, my dream day would be I wake up at 10.
[SPEAKER_00]: 10 a.m.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have a bottomless bull of frozen cool whip with berries for breakfast.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then I watch about six hours of television.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then a friend comes over and we watch a movie on the couch.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then we say should we go to popcorn and then we drive to the AMC just to get popcorn and walk around the mall.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then I spend like four hours of my child in the afternoon hanging out.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then I go out at night for a great goose martini with the twist like that to me.
[SPEAKER_00]: is my dream day.
[SPEAKER_00]: Do you know what God done in that day?
[SPEAKER_00]: Nothing.
[SPEAKER_00]: My dream day does not involve work, responsibility, take care of myself.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm taking your person because I genuinely like spending time with Pearl.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I would be eating a bag of white sugar with a spoon if I was having a dream day.
[SPEAKER_00]: I would just, I would never eat a vegetable.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like, I have to be responsible.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if anybody else lives like this, maybe I've bad impulse control.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I'm kind of like, if I have it, in my dream day, I'm trying to, I'm chillin' my friends, I'm having a real Sunday.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, maybe I'm eating a Sunday on a Sunday.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm having a good time.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not doing anything for my longevity, anything to make my life healthier, to keep myself healthy, to keep me from my tummy issues happening.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not doing, I'm not going to the dentist, I'm not doing anything, I'm not doing returns, I'm pushing everything off to another day.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I just can't,
[SPEAKER_00]: I just can't get over that that like yeah, a lot of people function in a way and I am different and I just I want to flag that for anybody who feels the same that like I function differently than most people and when I think you live in an ADHD head and if listen If you know if you have executive function if your brain doesn't work like this you may not know It's maybe different to you, but like for me.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't function the same way as other people So I I'm saying this is a reminder to me, but mostly to anyone who feels this way where if you go on your feet and people are like
[SPEAKER_00]: Lock it in, wrap it up 2025, get in it done.
[SPEAKER_00]: We don't function the same way, okay?
[SPEAKER_00]: So if you've been feeling bad, don't feel bad because I've been feeling bad and I'm trying to not to feel bad either.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the thing, this is, I promise there's a point.
[SPEAKER_00]: I promise there's a point.
[SPEAKER_00]: The point that this is all coming to, even though again, like I too, and like I gotta go trigger treatment, my brain is not functioning.
[SPEAKER_00]: The thing I want to stress to you.
[SPEAKER_00]: is that I think I have hacked the ADHD solution for scheduling.
[SPEAKER_00]: I really think I have figured out how to get the most done with the brain that I have, because if you're a neurodivergent, like I am, you probably also have time blindness.
[SPEAKER_00]: time when you when you're brain functions like this you don't view time the same way other people do time isn't a pool with clear barriers and borders like you know where the edge of the pool is for me and for many others time is like the ocean it just goes on of it goes on and on and on until eventually you hit land like there is no end
[SPEAKER_00]: That is how I function with time.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have time until boom.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like it's time to go.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have a meeting.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have a call.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have to go to a point and like that time just floats on until there is a hard stop until you reach land again.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I've tried something new the past week and I think I think it's solving most of my problem and it's going to sound so stupid at the beginning and just
[SPEAKER_00]: I am now using Google Calendar in a way that works for me.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I know it sounds dumb, but for me it's a new approach to scheduling because I function out of it to do list.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have to do lists written on paper, and then I'll transfer it to a list written in my email.
[SPEAKER_00]: I cannot functionally keep track of the things I have to do.
[SPEAKER_00]: and I realized that if I assign every individual task to a certain period of time, I don't just have work, I don't just work from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
[SPEAKER_00]: If I actually assign every single thing I have to do and I'm talking everything in a calendar, but I don't have to look at the to-do list.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's all in like the notes of the workday, then I get everything done and I'm never overwhelmed.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's, I know, I know it sounds so basic.
[SPEAKER_00]: It sounds really straightforward, but let me explain it to you because there is, there's at least four people out there who this is going to be game-changing for.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I never really use a digital calendar because to me, I'm like, I don't have real jaw, I don't have a real jaw, I don't have slack, you know, like I don't have co-workers in the natural sense.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know reason I need to be looking at all of this text calendar.
[SPEAKER_00]: So when I look at my months, it looks horrifying and grotesque and I don't see anything I understand.
[SPEAKER_00]: But then I go into like the four-day a week.
[SPEAKER_00]: And what I've done is that I call her code everything.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have color code for work, for appointments, for my shared calendar, or then, so like anything with Pearl, with her family, anything we have to do, I have a color for exercise, which I call movement.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because I feel like that's more, oh, it's more like some shit with movement.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I have everything color coded.
[SPEAKER_00]: So when I look in my day and this is the kicker, when I look in my day, I put in a little block for when I'm driving or for when I'm going between things.
[SPEAKER_00]: So that I leave enough time for me to do things I have to do, leave time to get ready before an event that I put in there.
[SPEAKER_00]: But the work section, like the work I have to do, is there, but it's hidden.
[SPEAKER_00]: So for example,
[SPEAKER_00]: The, let's do the day of this podcast comes out.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's fun.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm looking at my schedule.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have a 10 AM workout class from 11 to 11 30.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm driving and then from 12 to 3.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm working.
[SPEAKER_00]: But when you look at my calendar, all I see is exactly where I have to be when.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the, the, the color coded calendar tells me where my body needs to be the notes inside the block.
[SPEAKER_00]: Tell me where's my brains needs to be.
[SPEAKER_00]: So from 12 to 3 or 12 to 25, whatever this is, that says work from home.
[SPEAKER_00]: I know I have to work.
[SPEAKER_00]: Period.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just look at this.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not overwhelmed like the things I have to do.
[SPEAKER_00]: I know I have to work.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's fine.
[SPEAKER_00]: But then I click into that box.
[SPEAKER_00]: And in the description, is a list of all the exact tasks I have to do.
[SPEAKER_00]: All the exact portions of the podcast after record, all of the Q&As that I have to prep because we got some interviews come in.
[SPEAKER_00]: Every task I have to do,
[SPEAKER_00]: It's scheduled out.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's assigned.
[SPEAKER_00]: My to-do list is broken up into little chunks and assigned outwards.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't even have to look at it, but I know it's already been assigned to something.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then when the day comes, I click on it and everything's in there when I'm looking at my schedule.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't see it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the amount of ease this has brought me cannot be put into words.
[SPEAKER_00]: I am so much less stressed than I used to be.
[SPEAKER_00]: I used to look at my to-do list and be like, I can't prioritize this because I literally need a birthday for this person.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have to call and reschedule this appointment, and I need to turn it upon cast episode.
[SPEAKER_00]: All of those things need to be done.
[SPEAKER_00]: When am I supposed to do that?
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, if they're all urgent, they all have to be done.
[SPEAKER_00]: What order do I do them in?
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, then the podcast will take more time than I anticipated because of the timeline.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'll get it all done, but if I need to record like, oh, I just need to record a quick outro for this episode.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's 30 minutes for me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Usually it takes me a while to sit down and be like, oh, I'm going to play with the mic in, like, truly it takes me too long.
[SPEAKER_00]: But if I have a 30 minute block in here between things that I would usually dilly dally that time, by a little block that says, dude, you got to record this right now.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll get it done, and I've been getting it done.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right now is proof of that.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's Halloween!
[SPEAKER_00]: You think I'm gonna get any works on at a normal Halloween?
[SPEAKER_00]: Not dude, I've been pillaging Pearls candy that she got in school.
[SPEAKER_00]: I would just be chowin' down and gummy bears, hanging out with me like it's Halloween.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna watch a silly movie, but I planned out two weeks in advance, and I knew today was the best day to record, so I could turn the podcast in early so I could be ready to go.
[SPEAKER_00]: and it worked.
[SPEAKER_00]: It really worked.
[SPEAKER_00]: So if you function like I do in the world which is like a little ambiguously and you feel like you need an easy solution to get things done, try this.
[SPEAKER_00]: I cannot swear by enough and I have tried every schedule, every calendar, every notebook, every to do list, to do list apps.
[SPEAKER_00]: I used to write out on a sheet of paper.
[SPEAKER_00]: I would have a manual to do list that I would
[SPEAKER_00]: and I can't even tell you the grass I have on life right now is wild and what also like I don't know why I never thought visualizing my schedule was the key but now that I see this I was putting my schedule together for the next two weeks and I was like oh you know what I'm gonna be on the other side of town and I have two hours free I should make plans with the friend then
[SPEAKER_00]: which is something that I have not mentally been able to put together ever.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like I just, again, I don't see time and color coding it and looking at it like this and being like, oh, if I work, even if it's starting out work in our later and then fit that appointment in there, it has changed my life.
[SPEAKER_00]: It has truly changed my life and I can't recommend it enough.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you have any questions about this, just let me know.
[SPEAKER_00]: I hope I'm explaining it correctly.
[SPEAKER_00]: But that brings me back to like ignoring the low rate responsibilities that will better my life because I'm hoping if this takes all the other kind of stress and anxiety and like, Oh, so much to do and bursting at the seams.
[SPEAKER_00]: If scheduling everything out this way.
[SPEAKER_00]: Just instantly has made most of that go away.
[SPEAKER_00]: I bet those little things that I need to do for 30, 45 minutes at night.
[SPEAKER_00]: Once, like, my schedule is kind of automatic for someone like me to have an automatic schedule.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, that's a bananas thing to say I never thought I'd be here.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it will fall into place more because I do strongly believe.
[SPEAKER_00]: that those little things that are keeping you like cleaning your office, cleaning out your car, those little things that take 5-10 minutes to fix, that just take a little bit of more effort to fix.
[SPEAKER_00]: I do think that is the key to like changing your life into fully functioning, and I am resisting.
[SPEAKER_00]: I listen, I'm eating my fruit dry in at night, and I'm like, I don't want to do my knees right now.
[SPEAKER_00]: My skin is so dry, my skin is like, my skin is Latino, okay?
[SPEAKER_00]: Like the quality of my skin right now is desert community built by Disney.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it needs to be fixed.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have been out of serums for weeks.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have nothing like I am desperate for new skincare.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I just don't want to do it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just don't want to order it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just don't can't get over the hot, don't want to order it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't want to wear face masks.
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't want to do it.
[SPEAKER_00]: But if everything else is not complicated, I do think I can finally get those last pieces done.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it won't feel like, oh, it's like the cherry on top of stress mountain.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's just a cherry that I get to snack on from somebody also surely temple.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've been gabbing a lot and I know it's a gab session, but I think I think I'm I think I'm don't think I'm all gabbed out.
[SPEAKER_00]: I hope this was fun.
[SPEAKER_00]: I know we covered a lot of random stuff.
[SPEAKER_00]: But the scheduling thing I think is important because there are there's a small crew of us, small-ish who listen to the podcast.
[SPEAKER_00]: I conclude myself in the small crew of people who I think are on the same wavelength as me when it comes to productivity and trying to balance life and maybe you're brain operating a little differently things like that and I just want to make sure
[SPEAKER_00]: that I hear all of you and I see all of you and we are in it together and hopefully this will help.
[SPEAKER_00]: I also quit my coworking space.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's kind of huge for me.
[SPEAKER_00]: I took some time off of it and I went back and I'm not to get too into it the health stuff but I can't really work out the way I was working out previously.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've worked out a little differently and a little lighter.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just not pushing myself the way I was before until all this stuff is healed.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm fine.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just waiting.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just trying to figure out what it is.
[SPEAKER_00]: That place was truly something I needed when Pearl was young and I needed to get out of the house.
[SPEAKER_00]: And now I'm like, you know what, I love my kid and I want to see her.
[SPEAKER_00]: And if someone's going to pest for me during my work day, I'd rather have it be my beautiful child than a person sitting next to me who cannot stop shaking their hands or their legs.
[SPEAKER_00]: Everyone's like tapping along to music the whole time.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just, I couldn't focus there.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was done.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm done with it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've done with it and it's been freeing, it's been very freeing and I'm very happy about it.
[SPEAKER_00]: The last thing I wanted to tell you about, was I was just going to say it, I went to Fort Wilderness the other week, which you know, like say, well, I'm just like right there.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, I don't, I know you know from the layout of Walt Disney World, but like,
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm a pioneer haul.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm in who do you review?
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm looking up.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm in a construction site.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like it is on the butt of Fort Wilderness in a way I did not anticipate.
[SPEAKER_00]: So just keep that in mind the next time you go.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like the views are of the back of the hotel.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, I hope.
[SPEAKER_00]: I hope the way it's designed will kind of meld in, but it does kind of take away from the charm of that area for wilderness so far.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm hoping the final product won't, but I feel like it was a bit of a jump scare and I wanted to make sure you knew because I did not know and it really kind of freaked me out.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, that's it.
[SPEAKER_00]: This was a weird one.
[SPEAKER_00]: This was a weird one, wasn't it?
[SPEAKER_00]: Just a lot of random stuff, but yeah, it's Halloween and I'm in a silly mood.
[SPEAKER_00]: We will be back next week with, and episode I'm so excited about.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's Japan related.
[SPEAKER_00]: So stay tuned.
[SPEAKER_00]: We actually, and again, to go back to the calendar.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, the calendar.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you don't believe me that
[SPEAKER_00]: This has changed my life.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let me tell you what the calendar has done for me.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have scheduled out every single episode through mid January.
[SPEAKER_00]: We've never done that.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not organized and yet I not only know like when every episode is going to be for the next even beyond that honestly.
[SPEAKER_00]: I know what every episode is locked.
[SPEAKER_00]: Usually you have like a soft outline and move things around.
[SPEAKER_00]: Locked baby locked in and not only that.
[SPEAKER_00]: I know for almost all of them when I work.
[SPEAKER_00]: according.
[SPEAKER_00]: I know when I'm recording the interviews, when I'm prepping the interviews, when I'm finalizing the interviews, when I'm editing the interviews, I have never scheduled out that meticulously in my life and it is changing for me.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm truly like so delighted that the podcast is kind of the scheduling is just done.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's just done.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's now you're just gonna podcast every week except for the holidays.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna take a couple weeks off of the holidays It was originally gonna be free But I think I'm gonna do two just gonna do I think it's on Christmas is one of the days and then like January 1st is kind of almost the same day It's like oh my I just look at all right.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just like a calendar I'm probably gonna take off two for the holidays.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh gosh.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't oh there's so many windows open seeing
[SPEAKER_00]: You can take the girl out of the neurodivergent brain space, so you can't take her out of her many, many windows.
[SPEAKER_00]: We are probably going to skip December 24th.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just Christmas and Christmas Eve, and then December 31st, which is New Year's Eve, the double Eve's.
[SPEAKER_00]: I am probably going to come back in the 7th.
[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, we're probably going to take those two weeks off.
[SPEAKER_00]: The 17th might be a lighter episode.
[SPEAKER_00]: We'll see, but yeah, everything's scheduled now.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm like an organized person.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now I'm like functioning.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's wild, bro.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's really bananas.
[SPEAKER_00]: I can't believe it has all changed for me.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it just was like, what if I put my to-do list behind a brick of purple?
[SPEAKER_00]: And then I just don't have to stare at all of the things that are haunting me all the time.
[SPEAKER_00]: Heaven, baby.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's great.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to listen.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to watch my face tonight.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to think of all of you.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm really going to do it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, yeah, I'm going to do it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I'm going to do it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to do all watch my little shows.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I hope there's a new.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I hope there's a Halloween special.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, um, hope you all have a great first week of the holiday season.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for listening and okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: Love you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Bye.
[SPEAKER_02]: Hi, Carly, this is Michelle for Maine, and as a high school history teacher, I'm not sure, I ever thought I would say this, but I think I need some justice for Germany, I just listen to your ranking world showcase episode, and I have to say when it comes to the Germany civilian, I can't believe that you forgot the little miniature train village.
[SPEAKER_02]: Both of my boys were absolutely obsessed, they're five years apart from each other, but each time they went on their first trip.
[SPEAKER_02]: leaving that train village area was literally like pulling teeth because they were mesmerized.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it's even better because they changed out the little figures from the decorations during each holiday season and it's just an absolute peaceful little treat that is perfect for all ages.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I really think that you need to reconsider given Germany's a little bit more credit because it deserves it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Thanks, bye.
[SPEAKER_00]: Listen, I tell you guys to call me out and this is the perfect example of it.
[SPEAKER_00]: So thank you, Michelle, and also a high school history teacher, uh, listen, any call, anything you were going to say after that, I was like, I was seated.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was ready.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was tucked in.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was like, okay, you're a professional, you're extremely smart, and you shape the minds of the future.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I need to take this call seriously.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I see what you're singing, and I want to agree, but for me, okay, for me, the thing that kind of separates this out is like the train not giving the Germany pavilion of boost.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm thinking way too much about this, and I apologize from the get-go, but for me, like the train is a fun addition to the pavilion, and I will, I'll take the yell, I did forget.
[SPEAKER_00]: And did forget, even though I was quite literally looking at it with my friends about a week ago, we were like, oh, the train, yeah, we love it.
[SPEAKER_00]: To me, that could hypothetically exist anywhere.
[SPEAKER_00]: I, to me, it doesn't strike me as extremely specific to the Germany pavilion, something like the landscaping and the Canada pavilion I think stands out differently, because that is reminiscent of a certain place in Canada.
[SPEAKER_00]: The train set here, I know it has German cultural ties, but to me,
[SPEAKER_00]: It could, like, that could be somewhere else too.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I don't know if that is the, what is the hell I want to stand out of the hell I want to die whenever the phrase is, I don't know, but I, I don't, I think I, I'm staying with the score.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you're me having really good score in my defense.
[SPEAKER_00]: It had 3.5 out of 5 for details, five for dining, and two for stuff to do.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I don't know if train would fall into stuff to do where details, but like, train is, I don't know.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think I can give it a 0.5 boost for the train.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_00]: I trains are important, and I know people love trains.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love trains too, but I don't know.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm so sorry, but I hear, I hear your call, and I see what you're saying.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I agree that it is extremely compelling, but the train just doesn't do it for me.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not the same as like the delicate in-laden Moroccan tile, or some of the other features are alive, acrobat, or live music.
[SPEAKER_00]: To me, the train is just,
[SPEAKER_00]: Wow, oh my god, I'm never gonna live down, I'm never gonna live down talking about the train like this.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm so sorry.
[SPEAKER_00]: Is it?
[SPEAKER_00]: I know it's captivating, but I stand by my scores.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sorry, I appreciate you and all that you do, but while I do understand that the train is popular, I'm giving Germany the score that it got.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for calling.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm horrified.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm so sorry.
[SPEAKER_00]: Please don't hate me.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love you.
[SPEAKER_00]: by.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, I'm back.
[SPEAKER_00]: But then again, there is a Walt Disney connection to trains.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so it is like pretty cool that there is a train in there.
[SPEAKER_00]: They have outside of the village.
[SPEAKER_00]: But also it's not as strong as the decorative elements that they have inside the bureaucratic restaurant.
[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, I'm still in my score.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, I came back.
[SPEAKER_00]: I came back to bargain and to because I feel really bad.
[SPEAKER_00]: I feel really bad.
[SPEAKER_00]: It really works so hard.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm telling you know, but okay, I'm staying with the score.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for calling.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm really sorry.
[SPEAKER_00]: I hope I hope you still isn't the
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[SPEAKER_00]: Also, ooh, I don't know if you hear, but the second I start recording, there's some leaf blow and happen outside.
[SPEAKER_00]: I guess it is fall.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, I'm getting a cappuccino screw it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Hey, sweetie.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's mom.
[SPEAKER_03]: I know it's the correct way to say it, but hearing you say caramel cook, huh?
[SPEAKER_03]: makes me think I'm saying I'm sticking with the old way I can't do it I can't say it but I still don't think I'm saying it right but um starting with Canada yay my maple popcorn oh my god my spades are especially when it's hot in my defense okay I bought three of I think was the smallest we have the smallest of the Canadian maple popcorn it was so hot they just
[SPEAKER_03]: I had a bite to be.
[SPEAKER_03]: You went to the bathroom knowing you would never let anybody free of them.
[SPEAKER_03]: We enjoyed two of them and I brought the last one home the next day on the plane and I did take a picture of my tray on the plane and it had a double chocolate chip cookie from Gideon and my Canadian maple popcorn and a coke.
[SPEAKER_03]: That plane ride ever.
[SPEAKER_03]: I was so enjoying myself.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, wait, what the cast of shit's great is hosting an Epcot attraction.
[SPEAKER_03]: I love that shrill, how can I don't know about this?
[SPEAKER_03]: This is like now the top of my list when you ask me so what do you want to do with Epcot?
[SPEAKER_03]: This is it.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm telling you right now.
[SPEAKER_03]: And by the way, the creation shop that you're doubling on East Bend more than 15 minutes then is the best shop.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's huge.
[SPEAKER_03]: It has everything.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I like to look at everything in that.
[SPEAKER_03]: It is my favorite store.
[SPEAKER_03]: OK, the pavilion with John Stamos telling the story of Christmas and meeting him after the show because of you.
[SPEAKER_03]: for about 15 minutes was a moment in my life I will never forget.
[SPEAKER_03]: The level of entertainment at the Pavilion is so so great and I love John Stainless.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I also like to design and fix that myself.
[SPEAKER_03]: But I give this to William the highest level ranking.
[SPEAKER_03]: The Pavilion is my number one spot for me and some of you agree, but that's it.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm John who called in from Burbank.
[SPEAKER_03]: Hi, John.
[SPEAKER_03]: I agree you should take your family to Epic Universe.
[SPEAKER_03]: You have to see it.
[SPEAKER_03]: The Harry Potter area blew me away, and I don't want to give too much away, but it was so amazing to walk around in the Harry Potter land, and they have a candy shop there that I was fresh candy.
[SPEAKER_03]: You can buy by the piece, but I think your daughters or son would love that.
[SPEAKER_03]: Having a postcard painted for you with your family is a great cheap thing to have and save.
[SPEAKER_03]: And yes, I did enjoy the Yoshi ride, and it was fun, and we did it at night when it was all
[SPEAKER_03]: but my favorite favorite thing of the entire day at night was the carousel ride.
[SPEAKER_03]: The horse is spin.
[SPEAKER_03]: I've never been on that before when they spin.
[SPEAKER_03]: This was so cool and so fun and the carousel lit up at night felt like magic.
[SPEAKER_03]: I hope you have a great time and enjoy.
[SPEAKER_03]: Great up to Stout Honey.
[SPEAKER_03]: I love you, Carly.
[SPEAKER_03]: I love you, Pearl, and you had to bring up John Stamos.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, I still love you.
[SPEAKER_03]: John Stamos.
[SPEAKER_03]: Bye-bye.