Aug. 28, 2025

Emma's rage and Travis's Raisinets.

Emma's rage and Travis's Raisinets.
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Emma's rage and Travis's Raisinets.

Travis wakes up in full chaos mode and Emma is in no mood to deal with his nonsense, but that doesn’t stop the besties from diving into everything from trash bagels to driving lessons with the Barlows.

This week, we get into:

  • The emotional rollercoaster of a morning FaceTime
  • Travis’ horrific first trip to Dollar General
  • Would you ever buy a ticket to someone’s wedding?
  • How much money is too much money to still be miserable
  • The death of fall & spring
  • The return of the tandem bikers
  • Reality Roundup: Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Season 1, Episode 3

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My name's Travis. And I'm Emma. And this is Bestie

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Approved. What's the last song you listened to?

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It was Video Games by Lana Del Rey. Love that.

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A classic. It is a classic. Mine was Maybe You're

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the Problem by Ava Max. Who we love. I love Ava

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Max. Yeah. Do you know for the longest time I

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thought she was from like Sweden or like a Nordic

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country or something, but it turns out she's

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from like Ohio or something. Interesting. I would

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have guessed Florida. In my mind's eye, you were

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going to say Florida. Oh, I can see Florida.

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No, but like, I don't know why I thought she

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was from like. Are you looking it up? Yeah, I

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don't know. Well, her parents. Hmm. She's from

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Milwaukee. Milwaukee. Which is crazy. Yeah. How

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do you become Ava Max in Wisconsin? Well, how

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do you become Trixie Mattel in Wisconsin? I really

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don't know. That's a fair question. Anyways.

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Anyway, so today, Emma and I did our daily FaceTime.

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Emma, I want from your perspective, I want you

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to tell the world how I just woke up full of

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venom and anger and haste. And I, you know, OK,

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the other thing is I wake up at 6 a .m. and I

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immediately am a mother all morning long. And

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so I don't really have an outlet for my anger

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or haste. And so I drop Jack off, all is well

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and good. And I decide to go get a bagel while

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I wait for the CVS pharmacy to open because I,

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whatever. Worst bagel I've ever had in my life.

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And I get back in my car and I go, ugh. And then

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I go get my stuff from CVS. And then I come home

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and I'm like, wow, I wish we had a punching bag.

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Like, I just am full. I just, you know, you wake

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up on the wrong side of the bed. There's your

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audio. There it is. Oh, good. I guess I'll just

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fucking kill myself. I didn't mean to cut you

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off. I'm sorry. But like Emma's audio, like where

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we record looked so quiet. And then the second

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she moved her mic, it was like, oh, it's normal.

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It usually sounds better if I hold it like down

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there, but not today. Today is just not my day.

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I just woke up on the wrong side of the bed.

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I like can feel that I have a little cut or something

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on my tongue that's pissing me off. That's actually

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the worst, to be fair. I'm just in a bad fucking

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mood. That's it. That's all. So let me tell you

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how I experienced it this morning. Yeah. So I

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FaceTime her and it was probably like. nine o

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'clock in the morning and i was like oh she's

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probably like taking jack to school or something

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like i was doing laundry which is like yeah i

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was like putting stuff away my hands were full

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she didn't answer and that's fine so then i was

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playing with boomer and then i hear my phone

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go off and i was like oh emma's facetiming me

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back and i was like it's gonna be the best day

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ever i'm gonna talk to my best friend Today,

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I have no sunshine in my pocket. I got a pocket

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full of rain clouds. Not sunshine. I open up

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FaceTime. And I was like, hi. And she goes, what's

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up? Oh, yeah. That's not surprising to me. And

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I was like, I just wanted to check on you. She

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goes, yeah, what's up? Oh, I don't even remember

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saying that. And then I had goldfish pretzels

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that I was eating and I knew the instant that

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I put one in my mouth that it was a mistake.

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And Emma was going on about like, oh, yeah, like

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I woke up in a bad mood. I was like, oh, we all

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have those days. It's not a big deal. And then

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I like crunched on one of the goldfish pretzels

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because that actually made it worse. I can't.

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I am in such a bad mood. I also have the most

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annoying dog on planet Earth. I love him to death,

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but he's a little tiny little rat. And all he

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does all day is follow me around and lick his

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lips. And so I have just had a time today. Yeah,

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you've had a rough day. I also. I asked Kenny

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yesterday when he got a haircut to ask the people

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at the salon where he gets his haircut if they

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can cut my hair because they do men and women

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there. And I wanted him to ask because it's like

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an Asian salon. Like, oh, cool. The owners are

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Korean, whatever, whatever. And I was like, show

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them a picture of my hair because it's like curly.

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It's just like wavy and thick. You do a lot of

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hair. Ask them if they can cut my hair. Because

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the lady I normally go to is perpetually booked

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out like three months. And I, once I decide I

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need a haircut, cannot wait three months. This

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is the one that Sky Lee sent you to? Yeah. And

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like if I were as on top of my life as Sky Lee

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is, she would be perfect. Like she does a great

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job on my hair. Once you decide you need an appointment,

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you have to wait three months and I just can't

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do it. That is insane. So Kenny asked last night

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and the lady said, yeah, for sure. Just send

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her my number and we'll like schedule her or

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whatever. He never sent me her number. So I texted

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him this morning and I said, are you going to

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send me Kat's number? Are you uncomfortable with

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me going there? I just feel so full of rage.

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You have said, I will take every man in my life

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and make him the victim. Suffer everybody but

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Jack. Because I do think it's funny when I'm

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in this type of mood and Kenny and Jack are both

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home. I'll like be talking to Jack and be like,

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yeah, how do you feel about that? What do you

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want to eat for dinner? How's your day? And then

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I'll turn around to Kenny and go. So. Yeah. I

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love that. This is where I am. It is where you're

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at. Anyway. I took my first trip ever to a Dollar

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General. Have we talked about this? Yeah. So

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I went to the Dollar General. There's a Dollar

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General in my town and like. the dollar general

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like their business model is problematic to begin

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with because what they do is create food deserts

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like that is actually a thing that they do but

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like i didn't want to drive all the way to east

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washington street because all i wanted was a

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box of raisinets right it doesn't dollar tree

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do the same thing where they like just pop up

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all over the anyway but at least dollar tree

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is honest about their pricing yeah that's true

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so whatever but dollar general i was like let

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me go in here and um let me get a box of raisinets

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because like anytime I'm having a really good

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hankering for Raisinets. And I know I'm like

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I'm a person that's nine million years old. I

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love Raisinets. I won't be attacked for it. I'm

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sorry. I love Raisinets. Oh, you know what I

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do? This is so sick and twisted. You know how

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I do this, too, where when you go to the movies,

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you put M &Ms in your popcorn and they get a

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little like melty and delicious. I've done that

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with Raisinets. Oh, that's magical. It's. So

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messy and so delicious. It's not for anyone to

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judge, though. It's dark in there. No one has

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to see the chocolate between you and God. Yeah.

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Anyway, really delicious. Highly recommend. So

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I went to the Dollar General and let me let me

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tell you about the Dollar General in my town.

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So I go in. And the place is a pole barn and

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literally in the middle of a field. They like

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mowed down part of a cornfield to put in this

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Dollar General. And this Dollar General went

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up in 14 minutes. Like there's no way they spent

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any time designing this place. Right. I go in.

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There's one person working there. I find the

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candy aisle. I go by the Raisinets. I was so

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excited. The person working there is gone. I

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don't know where the person is. very common dollar

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general experience because there's literally

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one person in that entire store right so if they

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have to do anything that is not at the cash register

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you gotta wait right yeah which is so funny because

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why do they put in like five cash registers why

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even put them there oh they don't they put in

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one cash register seven self -checkouts that

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you cannot use they they they're turned off it's

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been upwards of like eight years since i've been

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to a dollar general so they did not have a self

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-checkout but they did have like five checkout

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lanes and i was like why there's one person here

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anyway yeah so i go up there to check out right

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i um i was like oh the person's gone oh wait

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a minute and You know how like some places have

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like a bell or something like where you can like

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ring it or like a doorbell, whatever. It's like

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signal. I won't do it. Do you want to know what

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this fucking dollar general had? You screaming.

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Hello. What? A cowbell. Not a cowbell. There's

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no chance. I'm ringing a cowbell. I gunned to

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my head. I was like, this can't be real. You

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must want me to steal because I'm not doing that.

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I said, I'm just going to sit here. I'm going

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to sit here for the next however long it takes.

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And if I if it's too long, that's just the decider

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on whether or not the raisinets were that important

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to me. I guess. Take care of Zanette's sister.

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It's on them. There's no one up there. Higher

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security. I don't know. Oh, it's even worse.

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They have signs of people that were caught stealing

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from this place. Like, it's like they print out

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from their security cameras. They used to do

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that at the Circle K on Michigan. They still

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do it at the Circle K on Post Road, too. It's

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so insane. And I get it. Like, it's a small.

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It's not a small business, but it's a business

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in a small town. So you're going to shame the

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people. Whatever. Sure. But like, I just imagine

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the scene that is like seeing someone walk into

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your store and then like pointing at their picture.

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Do you really have the balls to do that? Or are

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you just going to check them out? Or like. i

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don't i don't know it's as someone who has worked

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in retail there's a zero percent chance i'm walking

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up to someone and being like you're banned there's

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a sign like i'm not doing that it's not happening

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so i pick up my stuff i go and then like i get

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home my sister -in -law is at my house i was

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like hey I just had the most horrific experience

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at Dollar General. And then she goes, oh, Dollar

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Tree is much better. You should check out Dollar

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Tree. I don't know that I've ever been to a Dollar

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Tree. I have. What I will say, I believe the

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quality of goods is better at a Dollar General.

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That might be a hot take. I don't know. But Dollar

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Tree is much more. Well staffed. You're going

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to have a better experience there. It doesn't

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feel like you're fighting for your life. For

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some reason, in a Dollar General, it feels like

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someone's mad at you for being there. A Dollar

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Tree does not feel that way. Yeah. Well, listener,

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if you have any opinions about Dollar General

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versus Dollar Tree, let us know. Also, why are

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they still called dollar stores when everything

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is like three bucks? I don't get that. I don't

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know. I did pay $1 .25 for each box of Raisinets.

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I bought five of them. It was five for $5. So

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it was $1 .25 or five for $5. So. Okay. Made

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out like a bandit there. But that's like, sure.

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But you used to be able to go to a Dollar Tree

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and get like a bottle of hairspray for $1. Or

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like. a notebook for one dollar i don't i don't

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know what happened to that if i'm being honest

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like so this is the thing i i've never been a

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dollar store shopper but i've never been like

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a frequenter of dollar stores but i remember

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that yeah and like i remember when this was like

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a thing on the news where like it went from a

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dollar to a dollar 25 and people were like protesting

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and i was like I guess then don't call it a Dollar

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Tree. I don't know. Well, that's what I'm saying.

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Like, you would think they would have rebranded.

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But I don't know. What are they going to rebrand

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to? Like the cheap garbage store? Because like,

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I mean, just based on. I don't know. Maybe. But

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like based on. Based on the experience of the

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Dollar General, if the Dollar Tree has the same

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quality of items or lesser, because I cannot

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imagine it's. It gets worse. I mean, yeah, I

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don't know. It's been years since I've been to

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either one of them, to be fair. It's probably

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been like five years since I've been to a Dollar

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Tree. And like I said, like eight years since

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I've been to a Dollar General. But that has been

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my experience. I don't know. Well, now we know.

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And that's checked off my list, my little bucket

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list. I have a question for you, Emma. Would

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you pay for a ticket to go to a wedding? If they

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don't want a gift. Yeah. Really? Yeah, because

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like when I go to a wedding, odds are what you're

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getting from me is three hundred dollars. That's

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pretty much what I've given every single wedding

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that I've gone to. That has been my gift. Three

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hundred dollars cash. And so if you. want to

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forego your wedding present for me to pay in

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advance for my ticket to your wedding, then fine.

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Unless I don't want to go to your wedding, here's

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the thing. You need to be open to hearing that

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people don't give a shit about your wedding if

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you're going to start asking them to buy their

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tickets. Sure, okay. OK, so, yeah, depends who

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it is. If I really want to go to their wedding,

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then yes, but they're not getting a gift. And

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if I don't want to go to their wedding, then

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they're going to have to hear about it. Fair.

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I do. I don't know. This is the thing I'm conflicted

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about, because. Like, so this is all like this

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all comes from an article in People about these.

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They call them they fancy themselves entrepreneurs,

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Marley Jackson, Steve Larson, who. As a case

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like this, the way this article is written is

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very I don't I don't love the way this article

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is written, but it's like, OK, so the. entrepreneurs

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Marley Jacks and Steve Larson sold tickets to

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their wedding weekend in Idaho as a case study,

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a proof of concept that weddings could be funded,

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not financed. Guests could buy a basic $57 ticket

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for admission to the wedding day or a three day

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experience for two tickets valued at $997 that

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allowed access to the wedding day. Plus the pre

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and post wedding events. You have to be so conceited.

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That's what I'm saying. Like, okay. If you were

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like a celebrity, I think it would be a cool

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concept. Oh, if this was... I can't stand her,

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but someone I can see doing this and being very

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successful, that's Larsa Pippen. 100 % Larsa

00:16:46.480 --> 00:16:48.730
Pippen could do this and get away with it. I

00:16:48.730 --> 00:16:51.610
have Jason Derulo on my mind because he's coming

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to my city very randomly for a golf tournament.

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Yeah. If Jason Derulo or Larsa Pippen or someone

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like that wanted to be like, hey, anyone can

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come to my wedding, but you have to buy tickets

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to it. I can see that being cool. Absolutely.

00:17:08.789 --> 00:17:11.970
That would be sick. But not these random people.

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I don't know who these people are. But. And the

00:17:16.940 --> 00:17:20.119
fact that you're like, OK, so here's a $60 ticket

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to just to show up to the wedding. There's a

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$1 ,000 ticket to have the privilege of coming

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to all the pre and post wedding events in Idaho

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of all places. Like what? Like, did they? How

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do they even present this? Like, I don't know.

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How do you even? Do you just call all your friends

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and you want to be and be like, do you want to

00:17:46.509 --> 00:17:48.210
come to my wedding? And I say, yeah. And they

00:17:48.210 --> 00:17:50.630
go, OK, great. That'll be a thousand dollars.

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What I'll bet you happened is that they made

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an Instagram or TikTok or something and sent

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it out to everyone that they were going to invite.

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But here's the thing. Apparently, the couple

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broke even on it and then had money left over.

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So they donated one hundred and thirty two thousand

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dollars to Village Impact from the proceeds from

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this. I have to tell you right now, if I received

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a thing saying. You can you can come to our wedding,

00:18:16.329 --> 00:18:18.529
but you have to pay for a ticket. I'm not going.

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I will not be going because like this is the

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whole song and dance of it is you show up to

00:18:24.490 --> 00:18:26.269
a wedding and like you're there to celebrate

00:18:26.269 --> 00:18:28.670
the couple. I don't want to feel obligated to

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be there. I don't like that. Yeah, I do see that

00:18:33.069 --> 00:18:37.109
there has been so like discourse I've seen online

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is that. When you're buying someone a wedding

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gift, you should try to like, and I don't know

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that I agree with this. You should try to like

00:18:48.240 --> 00:18:53.119
keep in mind how much they paid like per person

00:18:53.119 --> 00:18:57.700
in the wedding. No, I'm sorry. Well, I feel like

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if you want to celebrate their matrimony and

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do the thing, then I don't see a problem with

00:19:02.519 --> 00:19:07.309
that. But I don't think that. People should only

00:19:07.309 --> 00:19:09.250
be invited to your wedding if they have money.

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Now, the problem I have with that is and like,

00:19:12.309 --> 00:19:14.069
you know how I feel about this, where it's like

00:19:14.069 --> 00:19:16.190
this whole idea of like keeping count. Like it's

00:19:16.190 --> 00:19:18.970
like, oh, you spent X. You spent, let's just

00:19:18.970 --> 00:19:21.250
say, seventy five dollars a plate for food or

00:19:21.250 --> 00:19:22.950
whatever. So I have to spend at least seventy

00:19:22.950 --> 00:19:27.750
five dollars for your wedding. No, I don't think

00:19:27.750 --> 00:19:31.500
that's. I think the sentiment is I want you to

00:19:31.500 --> 00:19:34.599
start your marriage on the right foot and like

00:19:34.599 --> 00:19:38.680
in a comfortable place financially. Oh, sure.

00:19:38.779 --> 00:19:41.420
OK, that is the sentiment that I've gathered.

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That's fine. Because that's like the whole the

00:19:43.859 --> 00:19:47.660
whole thing with like. Putting on your registry

00:19:47.660 --> 00:19:50.619
the honeymoon fund where like people can donate

00:19:50.619 --> 00:19:52.539
to your honeymoon. I'm a million percent fine

00:19:52.539 --> 00:19:54.240
with that. I love that. I think it's the same

00:19:54.240 --> 00:19:58.119
idea. It's like you want them to be celebrated

00:19:58.119 --> 00:20:00.359
and all of this. And so you don't really want

00:20:00.359 --> 00:20:05.380
them to like struggle financially from it. No.

00:20:05.380 --> 00:20:09.299
And that's the thing, though, is like I think

00:20:09.299 --> 00:20:14.990
it comes back to this thing of like. Yeah, if

00:20:14.990 --> 00:20:17.029
you're throwing a wedding, if you're throwing

00:20:17.029 --> 00:20:20.430
a really, really high -end wedding, you're looking

00:20:20.430 --> 00:20:22.549
at anywhere in, like, it's a wide range, but

00:20:22.549 --> 00:20:24.750
anywhere in the ballpark of, like, $30 ,000 to

00:20:24.750 --> 00:20:27.829
$100 ,000. Not for a high -end wedding, mama.

00:20:28.670 --> 00:20:30.829
Not in this day and age. You're looking at at

00:20:30.829 --> 00:20:33.730
least $100 ,000. That's insane. Yeah. Like, weddings

00:20:33.730 --> 00:20:37.329
are stupid. They are stupid expensive. And there's,

00:20:37.329 --> 00:20:40.750
like... Like how there's a pink tax on all feminine

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products. They're more expensive because they're

00:20:44.170 --> 00:20:50.529
girly. There is an exorbitant wedding tax. Like

00:20:50.529 --> 00:20:54.309
a venue for a baby shower or whatever is not

00:20:54.309 --> 00:20:56.309
that expensive. But as soon as you say it's for

00:20:56.309 --> 00:21:00.930
a wedding, it's a million dollars. Is it because

00:21:00.930 --> 00:21:05.259
of the... Like, do they have to take extra liability

00:21:05.259 --> 00:21:07.740
insurance out or like, is it just because they

00:21:07.740 --> 00:21:10.039
know you're just because they know people will

00:21:10.039 --> 00:21:12.519
pay out the nose for a wedding? It's problematic

00:21:12.519 --> 00:21:15.940
as fuck. It's really bad. It's really bad. This

00:21:15.940 --> 00:21:21.339
is like this whole conversation is like the reason

00:21:21.339 --> 00:21:24.700
I am torn about what I would do for my wedding,

00:21:24.759 --> 00:21:27.480
because what I would like to do is have a destination

00:21:27.480 --> 00:21:31.859
wedding and only invite. like maybe a hundred

00:21:31.859 --> 00:21:35.519
people but the thing is a hundred people for

00:21:35.519 --> 00:21:38.619
a destination wedding yeah oh that is nothing

00:21:38.619 --> 00:21:40.880
for a wedding i would invite like 12 people to

00:21:40.880 --> 00:21:43.460
a destination oh no well but that's my thing

00:21:43.460 --> 00:21:48.200
is that i would need to be able to afford to

00:21:48.200 --> 00:21:52.880
fly anyone out there who tells me that they can't

00:21:52.880 --> 00:21:56.609
afford to go Because I don't want anyone to miss

00:21:56.609 --> 00:21:58.210
it because they don't have the money. That's

00:21:58.210 --> 00:22:00.190
fair. Like and see, that's that's that's why

00:22:00.190 --> 00:22:01.869
I would invite like 12 people, because like I

00:22:01.869 --> 00:22:04.349
I would assume that I'm on the hook. Like this

00:22:04.349 --> 00:22:05.869
is this is where I come from with all this. And

00:22:05.869 --> 00:22:07.430
I think this is like just because of the way

00:22:07.430 --> 00:22:10.369
I was raised. If you're hosting an event, if

00:22:10.369 --> 00:22:12.009
you're putting on an event, you're on the hook

00:22:12.009 --> 00:22:14.490
for the event. So like if I'm having a destination

00:22:14.490 --> 00:22:16.769
wedding, if I'm saying I want to like I have

00:22:16.769 --> 00:22:18.670
to have my wedding in Cabo, Hawaii, wherever.

00:22:19.789 --> 00:22:23.940
I believe that like. It will be my Delta Sky

00:22:23.940 --> 00:22:26.140
miles that are paid for to come out there. Do

00:22:26.140 --> 00:22:27.839
you know what I mean? I feel like a wedding is

00:22:27.839 --> 00:22:32.279
the one exception to that. Honestly, maybe because

00:22:32.279 --> 00:22:35.740
I feel like everyone's supposed to rally around

00:22:35.740 --> 00:22:39.779
you and be like seeing you off to your next stage

00:22:39.779 --> 00:22:42.099
of life or whatever. That's fair. I don't know.

00:22:42.319 --> 00:22:44.839
OK, but to answer the question, the original

00:22:44.839 --> 00:22:46.579
question I asked now, I wouldn't have paid for

00:22:46.579 --> 00:22:49.039
tickets for this this wedding. And just know

00:22:49.039 --> 00:22:55.069
if I ever do get married. I you're not paying

00:22:55.069 --> 00:22:58.289
for the ticket to go to wherever I'm getting

00:22:58.289 --> 00:23:10.430
married at. Yeah, I don't know. The drama. Oh,

00:23:10.430 --> 00:23:13.329
God. I have one thing I want to talk about. Talk

00:23:13.329 --> 00:23:15.210
about it. I've been watching the second season

00:23:15.210 --> 00:23:18.329
of Wednesday and I rewatched the first season

00:23:18.329 --> 00:23:22.539
because I wanted to like. remember what was happening

00:23:22.539 --> 00:23:28.119
and I cannot look away from number one Catherine

00:23:28.119 --> 00:23:33.799
Zeta -Jones wow she looks amazing she looks stunning

00:23:33.799 --> 00:23:37.420
but most importantly and what I want to talk

00:23:37.420 --> 00:23:41.259
about the costumes the clothes their costume

00:23:41.259 --> 00:23:46.920
designer eats every time it is so good so so

00:23:46.920 --> 00:23:50.660
good every single character looks so good and

00:23:50.660 --> 00:23:53.400
so i looked it up and of course this woman designed

00:23:53.400 --> 00:23:56.119
the costumes for like johnny depp sweeney todd

00:23:56.119 --> 00:24:02.000
sleepy hollow all of these scarier horror movies

00:24:02.000 --> 00:24:04.759
and she has like a million oscars and stuff like

00:24:04.759 --> 00:24:08.319
that so it's like yeah obviously anyway colleen

00:24:08.319 --> 00:24:13.440
you ate good job colleen Um, when's the last

00:24:13.440 --> 00:24:16.559
time you felt super patriotic, Emma? I gotta

00:24:16.559 --> 00:24:20.559
tell you, never in my life. Never once have I

00:24:20.559 --> 00:24:23.579
felt patriotic while voting. Never once have

00:24:23.579 --> 00:24:30.680
I. Never. I'm going to tell you, my Apple music

00:24:30.680 --> 00:24:34.279
was on shuffle and the Whitney Houston version

00:24:34.279 --> 00:24:38.680
of the Star Spangled Banner came on from the

00:24:38.680 --> 00:24:44.000
1991 Super Bowl. God, she has the pipes. I listened

00:24:44.000 --> 00:24:46.579
to that all the way through because I was like,

00:24:46.619 --> 00:24:48.579
what is what am I listening to? And I didn't

00:24:48.579 --> 00:24:51.880
like it didn't hit me until like, yeah, we got

00:24:51.880 --> 00:24:54.160
into like the chorus. And I was like, oh, my

00:24:54.160 --> 00:24:56.079
God, this is Whitney Houston at the 1991 Super

00:24:56.079 --> 00:24:58.900
Bowl. And then I have not felt that patriotic

00:24:58.900 --> 00:25:03.200
since I voted for Kamala Harris. I did not feel

00:25:03.200 --> 00:25:06.900
patriotic voting for Kamala Harris. I did. She's

00:25:06.900 --> 00:25:11.579
a cop. Well, did I vote for her? Yes. Yes. Is

00:25:11.579 --> 00:25:16.160
she a cop? Yes. Yes. I didn't feel patriotic

00:25:16.160 --> 00:25:18.319
voting for Hillary Clinton. Did I vote for her?

00:25:18.480 --> 00:25:24.819
Yes. Is she scum of the earth? Yes. I've never

00:25:24.819 --> 00:25:31.630
once been like, I love my country. Fair. Francis

00:25:31.630 --> 00:25:34.829
Scott Key, you don't do it for me either. I loved

00:25:34.829 --> 00:25:37.470
my country when I was listening to Whitney Houston

00:25:37.470 --> 00:25:44.430
sing. I do love my country when I go to Taco

00:25:44.430 --> 00:25:49.390
Bell. That's helpful. Or Subway. Subway? Yeah.

00:25:51.750 --> 00:25:55.130
Whatever. Chan restaurants. Okay, I see what

00:25:55.130 --> 00:25:58.490
you're saying. Have you seen this article about

00:25:58.490 --> 00:26:00.430
the couple that sold their company for seven

00:26:00.430 --> 00:26:02.890
hundred and forty five million dollars, but they

00:26:02.890 --> 00:26:06.130
couldn't process it because they felt numb afterwards?

00:26:07.750 --> 00:26:19.549
Yeah. Cry me a fucking river. This. I. So there's

00:26:19.549 --> 00:26:22.230
a couple who sold their company off to Salesforce,

00:26:22.569 --> 00:26:26.509
the CRM company for. seven hundred forty five

00:26:26.509 --> 00:26:29.890
million dollars and and then have the nerve to

00:26:29.890 --> 00:26:32.390
cry about it well the article is all about like

00:26:32.390 --> 00:26:34.829
this company became our identity like work became

00:26:34.829 --> 00:26:37.789
our identity and now we wake up and we have nothing

00:26:37.789 --> 00:26:41.009
and i'm like you have seven hundred forty five

00:26:41.009 --> 00:26:44.529
million dollars like after taxes ostensibly you

00:26:44.529 --> 00:26:50.210
will have at least 350 million dollars like let's

00:26:50.210 --> 00:26:52.450
just say you are doing the right thing and paying

00:26:52.450 --> 00:26:56.450
the amount of taxes you should be paying $350

00:26:56.450 --> 00:27:00.670
million free and clear. You're telling me like

00:27:00.670 --> 00:27:03.049
a hundred dollar bill and wipe those tears, mama.

00:27:03.210 --> 00:27:06.490
Find a hobby. Right. An expensive one. Even start

00:27:06.490 --> 00:27:09.450
collecting something. I don't know. Buy a house.

00:27:09.529 --> 00:27:11.869
Start another company. This is like what we talked

00:27:11.869 --> 00:27:14.650
about in the last episode. People have no idea

00:27:14.650 --> 00:27:16.809
what to do out of their life with their lives

00:27:16.809 --> 00:27:19.970
outside of being efficient at their job. Well,

00:27:19.990 --> 00:27:21.430
that's that's exactly where I was going with

00:27:21.430 --> 00:27:23.970
this. It comes back to this whole grind set thing

00:27:23.970 --> 00:27:25.950
where it's like, oh, what do we do now? And we

00:27:25.950 --> 00:27:27.789
know a couple of people like this. Like we used

00:27:27.789 --> 00:27:30.190
to work for a guy like this. i live with a person

00:27:30.190 --> 00:27:33.170
like this yeah my papaw's like this like we we

00:27:33.170 --> 00:27:37.250
know so many people like this and like on some

00:27:37.250 --> 00:27:40.089
level i do respect and appreciate it like i i

00:27:40.089 --> 00:27:42.710
love what the person that we used to work for

00:27:42.710 --> 00:27:45.390
what he built like i think he is because he's

00:27:45.390 --> 00:27:47.250
incredibly generous and he does so much but like

00:27:47.250 --> 00:27:50.130
at the same time some of his kids don't talk

00:27:50.130 --> 00:27:53.900
to him I never meant to get on this podcast and

00:27:53.900 --> 00:27:56.819
say that being hardworking is not an admirable

00:27:56.819 --> 00:28:00.819
trait. Right. It is. Yes. It is not admirable

00:28:00.819 --> 00:28:04.480
to be so hardworking. You forget how to be a

00:28:04.480 --> 00:28:06.859
person. I don't think that's hardworking, though.

00:28:06.920 --> 00:28:09.299
I think that that is like I have nothing else.

00:28:09.380 --> 00:28:11.839
I'm going all in on this. And like, I think it

00:28:11.839 --> 00:28:13.759
stops becoming hardworking at a certain point

00:28:13.759 --> 00:28:18.380
and it becomes an obsession. It's like we've

00:28:18.380 --> 00:28:21.839
lost the plot of how to be. A person on planet

00:28:21.839 --> 00:28:24.279
Earth experiencing life for the first and only

00:28:24.279 --> 00:28:30.339
time. Right. And that it sucks because. Like

00:28:30.339 --> 00:28:33.460
you, it's this whole idea of like, oh, you can't

00:28:33.460 --> 00:28:36.140
even be proud of what you built to to the extent

00:28:36.140 --> 00:28:39.019
of a company like Salesforce, like one of the

00:28:39.019 --> 00:28:41.299
most powerful and one of the most well -respected

00:28:41.299 --> 00:28:44.460
companies in the world wants to buy your brand

00:28:44.460 --> 00:28:46.220
from you. You can't even be proud of that. You're

00:28:46.220 --> 00:28:48.500
like, I have nothing. Mind you, they have kids.

00:28:48.799 --> 00:28:52.589
Yes. Throw yourself into parenthood. Hello. Yeah.

00:28:52.869 --> 00:28:55.809
There's so much you could do. What a cool opportunity

00:28:55.809 --> 00:29:00.069
to be like, oh, my God. Now I have time to spend

00:29:00.069 --> 00:29:02.450
time with my fucking kids. And I don't I will

00:29:02.450 --> 00:29:04.930
for the rest of my life. I will never have to

00:29:04.930 --> 00:29:06.910
worry about money for the rest of my life. For

00:29:06.910 --> 00:29:08.650
the rest of my kids life. They will probably

00:29:08.650 --> 00:29:12.649
never have to worry about money. And now. Instead,

00:29:12.649 --> 00:29:15.210
they're going to see this article on CNBC about

00:29:15.210 --> 00:29:17.250
how you hated your life after you stopped working

00:29:17.250 --> 00:29:19.089
the first time that they ever got to see you,

00:29:19.109 --> 00:29:20.990
probably. Well, and this is the thing is this

00:29:20.990 --> 00:29:23.670
is not the first time they've sold a brand for

00:29:23.670 --> 00:29:26.369
millions of dollars. And it's like, well, now

00:29:26.369 --> 00:29:28.049
we have to do something else. And I think this

00:29:28.049 --> 00:29:31.480
is what I struggle with is like. you will never

00:29:31.480 --> 00:29:34.180
find someone who's more of a capitalist pig than

00:29:34.180 --> 00:29:37.480
i am i love money i love shopping i love excess

00:29:37.480 --> 00:29:40.539
i love all of it like i i do and like that i

00:29:40.539 --> 00:29:43.359
yeah i love to order on amazon i think there's

00:29:43.359 --> 00:29:45.480
a package on my front porch right now there was

00:29:45.480 --> 00:29:51.200
and so we we do this whole song and dance of

00:29:51.200 --> 00:29:54.819
like Yeah, like this is this is who we are, but

00:29:54.819 --> 00:29:57.140
like you have to be realistic going into it.

00:29:57.180 --> 00:30:00.339
I don't I don't want to lose who I am. I don't

00:30:00.339 --> 00:30:01.940
want to lose the relationships with my family.

00:30:01.960 --> 00:30:04.119
I don't want to do the whole song and dance if

00:30:04.119 --> 00:30:08.140
it comes at the cost of only doing the song and

00:30:08.140 --> 00:30:10.180
dance. It's literally your whole life. And like

00:30:10.180 --> 00:30:13.359
people don't take into account what their life

00:30:13.359 --> 00:30:16.000
is because to them, their life is how much money

00:30:16.000 --> 00:30:19.299
they have. And it's like, what about your family?

00:30:19.440 --> 00:30:22.920
What about having friends? What about a bucket

00:30:22.920 --> 00:30:26.140
list? What about like, what do you want to do

00:30:26.140 --> 00:30:29.660
in this life other than generate wealth? Right.

00:30:30.059 --> 00:30:33.660
Because what is the point of wealth if you never

00:30:33.660 --> 00:30:37.039
do anything? Right. What is the point of having

00:30:37.039 --> 00:30:39.180
money if all you do is go to work every day?

00:30:39.259 --> 00:30:41.619
Well, and this was what I struggled with. And

00:30:41.619 --> 00:30:43.299
I had this conversation with the guy that we

00:30:43.299 --> 00:30:47.200
used to work with. more so like when i was when

00:30:47.200 --> 00:30:51.720
i knew i was leaving and i was like you what

00:30:51.720 --> 00:30:54.519
are you doing because like i it was right after

00:30:54.519 --> 00:30:58.319
he had me donate it was like a million 1 .2 million

00:30:58.319 --> 00:31:00.380
dollars to a high school for them to build a

00:31:00.380 --> 00:31:02.140
performing arts thing and i was like yeah do

00:31:02.140 --> 00:31:03.539
you ever use this money for you because he was

00:31:03.539 --> 00:31:05.579
the cheapest man on god's green earth to just

00:31:05.579 --> 00:31:07.819
know that yeah do you ever use this money for

00:31:07.819 --> 00:31:10.059
you he goes oh well you know i like i bought

00:31:10.599 --> 00:31:12.400
bought my wife a boat. And I was like, but for

00:31:12.400 --> 00:31:15.660
you, his splurge for himself was like buying

00:31:15.660 --> 00:31:20.839
real estate. Yeah. Yeah. And like, and he's proud

00:31:20.839 --> 00:31:23.680
of that golf course, but buying a golf course

00:31:23.680 --> 00:31:27.200
is giving yourself another job. Like I was proud

00:31:27.200 --> 00:31:29.880
of, it doesn't matter how proud you are. Now

00:31:29.880 --> 00:31:33.200
you are the owner of a golf course and that in

00:31:33.200 --> 00:31:35.960
itself is a job. You'll remember this. Cause

00:31:35.960 --> 00:31:38.400
when we shared an office and he walked by, I,

00:31:39.069 --> 00:31:42.089
had the article up that was like this golf course

00:31:42.089 --> 00:31:44.390
was voted the number one golf course in the state

00:31:44.390 --> 00:31:46.529
of indiana right do you remember this and i was

00:31:46.529 --> 00:31:49.250
so proud of him and he could not take pride in

00:31:49.250 --> 00:31:52.309
that yeah he was just like yeah he goes oh and

00:31:52.309 --> 00:31:55.650
it's like oh you don't care about that you don't

00:31:55.650 --> 00:31:58.809
care about the success you know you care about

00:31:58.809 --> 00:32:00.769
checking the box and that's what i struggled

00:32:00.769 --> 00:32:03.970
with with him because i was like there there

00:32:03.970 --> 00:32:06.230
was a lot of problematic stuff to him don't don't

00:32:06.230 --> 00:32:08.250
get me wrong about that and like he's an old

00:32:08.250 --> 00:32:11.869
white man yes and we fought a lot but like at

00:32:11.869 --> 00:32:14.150
the end of the day I do believe he cared about

00:32:14.150 --> 00:32:15.630
me and I do believe I cared about him and it

00:32:15.630 --> 00:32:19.269
was problematic in its own way but like that

00:32:19.269 --> 00:32:23.069
is what it is so that being said I wanted him

00:32:23.069 --> 00:32:25.369
to be happy and I like I don't think these people

00:32:25.369 --> 00:32:28.950
are happy no and that's my problem with it is

00:32:28.950 --> 00:32:34.599
I think your only goal like Your major goal that

00:32:34.599 --> 00:32:37.660
all of your other goals should align with is

00:32:37.660 --> 00:32:40.900
being happy and content in your life on this

00:32:40.900 --> 00:32:46.140
earth. And I don't think you have sight of that.

00:32:46.359 --> 00:32:50.680
I don't think you are even going after that if

00:32:50.680 --> 00:32:54.740
all you think about is money to the point where

00:32:54.740 --> 00:32:57.839
you don't want to go on vacation because then

00:32:57.839 --> 00:33:00.480
you'll miss opportunities at work. You don't

00:33:00.480 --> 00:33:06.150
want to. Take a month off and be in your son's

00:33:06.150 --> 00:33:08.549
life when he has a baby, because then you'll

00:33:08.549 --> 00:33:11.809
miss an opportunity at work. You don't you're

00:33:11.809 --> 00:33:15.109
not interested in that. And I where is your happiness

00:33:15.109 --> 00:33:18.150
coming from? Because I don't see a smile on your

00:33:18.150 --> 00:33:19.990
face when you log in and check your bank account.

00:33:20.109 --> 00:33:25.849
I don't see that. Like, where does it? I cannot

00:33:25.849 --> 00:33:28.480
believe that. numbers on the screen are making

00:33:28.480 --> 00:33:31.400
you genuinely happy no well and that's that's

00:33:31.400 --> 00:33:33.380
the thing is like I mean even when he did because

00:33:33.380 --> 00:33:36.480
he went to what was it was Italy or Spain one

00:33:36.480 --> 00:33:41.140
of the two and he called me every single day

00:33:41.140 --> 00:33:45.119
30 times a day just to see how everything was

00:33:45.119 --> 00:33:47.240
going how the investments were doing like like

00:33:47.240 --> 00:33:50.150
the whole thing and I was like Take a fucking

00:33:50.150 --> 00:33:53.329
break. Do you remember he got COVID? His wife

00:33:53.329 --> 00:33:56.970
is tired of him. His wife. His wife put him out

00:33:56.970 --> 00:33:59.450
of the house while he had COVID. Yeah, his wife

00:33:59.450 --> 00:34:02.109
hadn't seen him in 50 years because he spent

00:34:02.109 --> 00:34:05.970
12 hours a day in the office. And so he was home

00:34:05.970 --> 00:34:08.889
with COVID and his wife called the office and

00:34:08.889 --> 00:34:11.170
was like, please, God, take him back. I can't

00:34:11.170 --> 00:34:13.210
fucking deal with him anymore. Can you imagine

00:34:13.210 --> 00:34:16.099
that being? I forgot about that. But can you

00:34:16.099 --> 00:34:18.639
imagine that being your life? You have thrown

00:34:18.639 --> 00:34:23.139
your whole life away into money to the point

00:34:23.139 --> 00:34:25.619
where even your own wife can't stand you. But

00:34:25.619 --> 00:34:30.099
that's the thing is like. And that's it's like

00:34:30.099 --> 00:34:31.840
it's the devil, you know, is better than the

00:34:31.840 --> 00:34:33.519
devil. You don't know that whole saying. And

00:34:33.519 --> 00:34:36.059
like I, I love I love both of them. I do like

00:34:36.059 --> 00:34:37.820
to this day. I love it because they still call

00:34:37.820 --> 00:34:41.179
and check on me like they're there. I believe

00:34:41.179 --> 00:34:43.079
they're good people like say what you will. I

00:34:43.079 --> 00:34:47.300
do. It's hard because I'm just like, oh, you

00:34:47.300 --> 00:34:50.400
guys, this is the life that you live and you've

00:34:50.400 --> 00:34:53.099
been running from what life is. And now that

00:34:53.099 --> 00:34:55.519
like their businesses are winding down, like

00:34:55.519 --> 00:34:59.199
the the individual we worked with is he's pushing

00:34:59.199 --> 00:35:03.880
80 and he's like 74. Yeah. Yeah. And I'm just

00:35:03.880 --> 00:35:07.260
like, oh, and he's I mean, he had like seven

00:35:07.260 --> 00:35:09.440
strokes or something insane like that. He had

00:35:09.440 --> 00:35:12.619
a ton of strokes. And I'm just like, you are

00:35:12.619 --> 00:35:17.360
running from. who you are because i don't i think

00:35:17.360 --> 00:35:20.099
he doesn't have a sense of who he doesn't know

00:35:20.099 --> 00:35:22.099
who he is yes i think you're right and that's

00:35:22.099 --> 00:35:23.860
i think that's where i'm where i'm at with this

00:35:23.860 --> 00:35:25.800
article where it's just like the article talks

00:35:25.800 --> 00:35:27.519
about yeah we were in the car and my husband

00:35:27.519 --> 00:35:32.340
asked well okay what do we do next and i'm like

00:35:32.340 --> 00:35:36.880
what do you mean go to mallorca i don't know

00:35:36.880 --> 00:35:42.840
but i just and I understand the privilege that

00:35:42.840 --> 00:35:45.300
comes with this conversation, right? Because

00:35:45.300 --> 00:35:48.019
there are millions of people out there who are

00:35:48.019 --> 00:35:51.480
financially insecure and would do anything to,

00:35:51.599 --> 00:35:55.320
you know, live their life for a paycheck if it

00:35:55.320 --> 00:35:57.760
meant that they had a place to live and food

00:35:57.760 --> 00:35:59.440
to eat and they didn't have to worry and all

00:35:59.440 --> 00:36:04.800
of that. So I want to acknowledge that. But like.

00:36:05.630 --> 00:36:09.829
I don't even I think even people in those situations

00:36:09.829 --> 00:36:13.809
where they are very financially insecure would

00:36:13.809 --> 00:36:18.210
agree that they wouldn't want to throw their

00:36:18.210 --> 00:36:21.070
family or their whole life or their identity

00:36:21.070 --> 00:36:24.210
away in order to attain that. Oh, I think this

00:36:24.210 --> 00:36:27.289
is the problem that we have in this country is

00:36:27.289 --> 00:36:30.150
it's so all or nothing. Like it's like you're

00:36:30.150 --> 00:36:32.909
either the person that we're talking about here

00:36:32.909 --> 00:36:37.070
or you're the person that is. poor homeless desolate

00:36:37.070 --> 00:36:39.489
on food stamps on medicaid and you feel like

00:36:39.489 --> 00:36:43.869
you're worthless there is no space to be yeah

00:36:43.869 --> 00:36:47.210
well i think we've lost sight of those two people

00:36:47.210 --> 00:36:50.969
being worth the same like at the end of the day

00:36:50.969 --> 00:36:53.630
they are both human beings who deserve the same

00:36:53.630 --> 00:36:56.630
thing right and maybe this comes with like the

00:36:56.630 --> 00:36:59.010
conversation around like the erasure of the middle

00:36:59.010 --> 00:37:01.510
class because i i'm i'm gonna be real i do think

00:37:01.510 --> 00:37:04.070
that is happening yeah a hundred percent and

00:37:06.030 --> 00:37:09.050
So I guess I don't know what the answer is, but

00:37:09.050 --> 00:37:12.849
like I do know that. I'm comfortable financially,

00:37:13.150 --> 00:37:16.030
I'm fine, like I'm I'm happy with the amount

00:37:16.030 --> 00:37:17.690
of money I have in my bank account and I've never

00:37:17.690 --> 00:37:22.489
in my life struggled and I understand that. I

00:37:22.489 --> 00:37:29.739
do know that. After law school, I. I don't ever

00:37:29.739 --> 00:37:32.659
want to be the person who goes home and wakes

00:37:32.659 --> 00:37:35.619
up and all I do for the next 18 hours is obsess

00:37:35.619 --> 00:37:38.719
over how much money can I make? I don't want

00:37:38.719 --> 00:37:44.079
to do it. Yeah, I completely agree. And so, yeah,

00:37:44.119 --> 00:37:46.480
I mean, we are two people who are financially

00:37:46.480 --> 00:37:51.719
stable, at least you come from money. I don't

00:37:51.719 --> 00:37:54.099
come from money, but I'm taken care of. I'm not

00:37:54.099 --> 00:37:58.030
having to. worry about it necessarily i just

00:37:58.030 --> 00:37:59.610
wanted to acknowledge that there are people who

00:37:59.610 --> 00:38:01.630
genuinely have to worry about money and they

00:38:01.630 --> 00:38:03.989
would choose to have these champagne problems

00:38:03.989 --> 00:38:06.670
over wondering where their next meal is going

00:38:06.670 --> 00:38:10.570
to come from etc sure that doesn't mean that

00:38:10.570 --> 00:38:12.510
this problem doesn't exist though because it

00:38:12.510 --> 00:38:16.010
definitely does we have people who are just throwing

00:38:16.010 --> 00:38:19.869
their lives away for a check and it's sad right

00:38:19.869 --> 00:38:25.079
are we complaining I've done nothing but complain

00:38:25.079 --> 00:38:28.659
all day. Complain again. What I wanted to complain

00:38:28.659 --> 00:38:32.960
about are the seasons. Blame global warming or

00:38:32.960 --> 00:38:35.199
don't. I don't really care what your stance is.

00:38:35.380 --> 00:38:39.860
Summer is way too long. Winter is way too long.

00:38:40.219 --> 00:38:44.099
Why is it either 100 degrees or zero degrees

00:38:44.099 --> 00:38:49.219
outside? I am tired of it. It used to be once

00:38:49.219 --> 00:38:51.880
August hit the first day of school, you would

00:38:51.880 --> 00:38:54.800
like get a little chill in the air. You'd be

00:38:54.800 --> 00:38:59.039
able to smell fall coming. Not anymore. It is

00:38:59.039 --> 00:39:04.199
85 degrees, mama. And by the time it goes down,

00:39:04.260 --> 00:39:08.670
it will go down to 40 degrees. Yeah, the swings

00:39:08.670 --> 00:39:12.349
are hard, especially in Indiana. I hate it. As

00:39:12.349 --> 00:39:14.750
someone with allergies, as someone who doesn't

00:39:14.750 --> 00:39:16.969
like to be outside if it's too hot or too cold,

00:39:17.110 --> 00:39:21.329
I'm angry. I want fall back and I want spring

00:39:21.329 --> 00:39:26.570
back. I love fall and spring, personally. That's

00:39:26.570 --> 00:39:28.309
what I'm saying, but we don't get them anymore.

00:39:29.130 --> 00:39:33.210
Well, I don't. Yeah, it's hard. Maybe like two

00:39:33.210 --> 00:39:37.440
weeks. If that, I mean, in New York, it was you

00:39:37.440 --> 00:39:40.380
had like I mean, and I'm not exaggerating. You

00:39:40.380 --> 00:39:43.500
had like one one good day in the summer where

00:39:43.500 --> 00:39:45.920
like everyone was out. You called into work.

00:39:45.980 --> 00:39:48.739
It was like everyone was out running around the

00:39:48.739 --> 00:39:51.739
spring. It was like mid April. You would get

00:39:51.739 --> 00:39:53.440
that one really, really good day because it was

00:39:53.440 --> 00:39:55.280
either oppressively cold or oppressively hot.

00:39:55.420 --> 00:39:57.039
And then it would go into summer where it was

00:39:57.039 --> 00:39:59.860
like the entire city smelled like pee. And then

00:39:59.860 --> 00:40:04.380
you had. probably in the fall two ish good weeks

00:40:04.380 --> 00:40:10.559
that's what i'm saying yeah and like it's always

00:40:10.559 --> 00:40:12.739
storming during those two weeks too like it's

00:40:12.739 --> 00:40:16.900
never actually that good and then it's 30 degrees

00:40:17.519 --> 00:40:20.360
Like there's no in between anymore. And I hate

00:40:20.360 --> 00:40:24.519
it. I want to see a high of 66 degrees and a

00:40:24.519 --> 00:40:27.860
low of 40. That is my ideal day. And I understand

00:40:27.860 --> 00:40:30.539
that is colder than most people's ideal day.

00:40:30.880 --> 00:40:33.760
But I'm telling you, my day doesn't exist anymore.

00:40:35.420 --> 00:40:37.940
Well, we'll take a trip to somewhere where your

00:40:37.940 --> 00:40:40.219
ideal day does exist, because I have a feeling

00:40:40.219 --> 00:40:46.400
it is in a place that you hate, Utah. Their summers

00:40:46.400 --> 00:40:48.679
are hot as hell. But, like, I'm talking about,

00:40:48.739 --> 00:40:51.599
like, in the fall we could go to, like, we could

00:40:51.599 --> 00:40:53.639
have a live show in Salt Lake City. You know

00:40:53.639 --> 00:40:55.760
where I'm convinced they have my perfect day?

00:40:56.059 --> 00:40:59.940
France. Ireland. Ireland, yes. Because I'm okay.

00:40:59.980 --> 00:41:02.199
I'm actually okay with a little gloom and doom.

00:41:02.900 --> 00:41:06.940
I don't need the sun out all the time. And I

00:41:06.940 --> 00:41:09.000
feel like they're pretty temperate. Like, I'm

00:41:09.000 --> 00:41:11.739
sure it gets hot. And I'm sure they don't have

00:41:11.739 --> 00:41:18.909
AC. But, like. Please. Please. Oh, anyway, what

00:41:18.909 --> 00:41:21.269
do you want to complain about? I truly thought

00:41:21.269 --> 00:41:23.110
today I was going to have nothing to complain

00:41:23.110 --> 00:41:26.190
about. I said, wow, this is the first thing that

00:41:26.190 --> 00:41:29.389
or the first time on the podcast ever. He had

00:41:29.389 --> 00:41:31.690
a pocket full of sunshine. Yeah, I was like,

00:41:31.730 --> 00:41:33.469
what? What a day I'm going to have. I pull out

00:41:33.469 --> 00:41:35.130
of my fucking driveway. Do you want to know what

00:41:35.130 --> 00:41:38.050
was back? Well, the goddamn tandem bike people.

00:41:38.889 --> 00:41:42.849
Oh, and so this and people are in love. Shut

00:41:42.849 --> 00:41:48.260
up. No. This is not what it's about for me, because

00:41:48.260 --> 00:41:51.119
I am convinced and I am not exaggerating. They

00:41:51.119 --> 00:41:53.280
were listening to this podcast because these

00:41:53.280 --> 00:41:55.440
people were all over the goddamn road. I couldn't

00:41:55.440 --> 00:41:58.000
pass them. I couldn't do anything. And then when

00:41:58.000 --> 00:42:00.039
I gave them a little because I was like, they're

00:42:00.039 --> 00:42:02.340
not wearing helmets. These people will die. Like,

00:42:02.360 --> 00:42:04.360
I'm actually worried about these people who are

00:42:04.360 --> 00:42:09.460
retirees like God bless them. I. They don't live

00:42:09.460 --> 00:42:11.719
on my street. I know that, but I don't know where

00:42:11.719 --> 00:42:13.480
they live, but I'm just like, I'm sure they're,

00:42:13.480 --> 00:42:15.659
they're the, the ball of their neighborhood.

00:42:15.739 --> 00:42:20.699
I love them, whatever, hate them. They are all

00:42:20.699 --> 00:42:25.519
over the fucking street. And today I gave him

00:42:25.519 --> 00:42:27.039
just a little toot on the horn, just a little

00:42:27.039 --> 00:42:30.400
toot toot. And the way that they stopped the

00:42:30.400 --> 00:42:34.820
bike in the middle of the street, the guy throws

00:42:34.820 --> 00:42:36.360
his hands up in the air. He goes, you're going

00:42:36.360 --> 00:42:40.070
to kill someone. And I said, You're on a tandem

00:42:40.070 --> 00:42:42.349
fucking bike in the middle of the street. And

00:42:42.349 --> 00:42:44.710
it wasn't a full blown fight like I've had. I've

00:42:44.710 --> 00:42:46.989
had hundreds of these fights on my road before.

00:42:47.130 --> 00:42:51.269
But I was just like. I'm going to I'm going to

00:42:51.269 --> 00:42:54.269
pass you and I'm going to hope that this conversation

00:42:54.269 --> 00:42:57.389
goes no further. Because I'm not going to kill

00:42:57.389 --> 00:43:04.760
someone. I'm going to kill you. And. Maybe this

00:43:04.760 --> 00:43:07.559
speaks to a larger sense of entitlement thing

00:43:07.559 --> 00:43:10.679
that I have where or that I have with other people

00:43:10.679 --> 00:43:13.300
where I'm like, oh, you think you're entitled

00:43:13.300 --> 00:43:17.739
to be in the entire road. You think that no one

00:43:17.739 --> 00:43:20.340
else has anywhere to be. You think that you are

00:43:20.340 --> 00:43:22.099
the most important person on God's green earth

00:43:22.099 --> 00:43:23.760
because you're on this fucking tandem bike that

00:43:23.760 --> 00:43:26.179
you do not know how to control. Because I'm convinced

00:43:26.179 --> 00:43:28.320
because I thought a lot about this since I listened

00:43:28.320 --> 00:43:30.119
to the episode where we originally talked about

00:43:30.119 --> 00:43:34.059
this. I thought about. You know, maybe maybe

00:43:34.059 --> 00:43:35.960
I'm being too hard on these people. And it's

00:43:35.960 --> 00:43:38.260
like it's these specific people. And because

00:43:38.260 --> 00:43:41.420
surely to God, a normal person on a tandem bike

00:43:41.420 --> 00:43:44.280
or two normal people on a tandem bike know how

00:43:44.280 --> 00:43:46.239
to control it and not be all over the fucking

00:43:46.239 --> 00:43:49.639
road. Yeah, it sounds like they're still figuring

00:43:49.639 --> 00:43:52.519
out their tandem bike. Maybe they are in love,

00:43:52.579 --> 00:43:55.820
but not synchronized. I don't know. They need

00:43:55.820 --> 00:44:00.139
a divorce. Yeah, this is their first sign. Are

00:44:00.139 --> 00:44:04.820
you ready for reality roundup? i am okay so we're

00:44:04.820 --> 00:44:07.760
on episode one i'm sorry season one episode three

00:44:07.760 --> 00:44:11.659
of real housewives of salt lake city it's called

00:44:11.659 --> 00:44:14.280
everybody needs a switzerland i don't know why

00:44:14.280 --> 00:44:19.139
i put isle in front of season anyway um we get

00:44:19.139 --> 00:44:22.059
the opening shots and what are you talking about

00:44:22.059 --> 00:44:25.199
what what are you talking about did you just

00:44:25.199 --> 00:44:30.900
do that yeah mine doesn't say that oh OK, never

00:44:30.900 --> 00:44:34.219
mind. We get the opening shots. Lisa and John

00:44:34.219 --> 00:44:36.079
are driving around and Lisa needs a Diet Coke

00:44:36.079 --> 00:44:38.199
and tells Henry that he really needs to work

00:44:38.199 --> 00:44:42.519
on his Ten Commandments. And he comes up with

00:44:42.519 --> 00:44:45.480
thou shalt not smoke and thou shalt not do anything

00:44:45.480 --> 00:44:53.219
bad. Like looking at porn. I'm like, OK, sometimes

00:44:53.219 --> 00:44:56.940
your kid just says something that you can't really

00:44:56.940 --> 00:45:01.960
hold your laugh in about. Like Jack the other

00:45:01.960 --> 00:45:05.199
day, he tripped on something and like hit his

00:45:05.199 --> 00:45:10.800
rib on his scooter, I think. And he started crying,

00:45:10.900 --> 00:45:13.860
but also he farted a million times when it happened.

00:45:16.119 --> 00:45:21.599
Poor Jack. I know. Just like all came out of

00:45:21.599 --> 00:45:26.519
both ends. So, like, he dries his tears, he's

00:45:26.519 --> 00:45:29.320
sitting with me, and of course he's blaming his

00:45:29.320 --> 00:45:32.159
pretend sister Gabby for the whole thing. And

00:45:32.159 --> 00:45:36.559
he goes, Gabby! You made me cry and fart. I love

00:45:36.559 --> 00:45:40.199
that Gabby's such a little client. And I died

00:45:40.199 --> 00:45:42.900
laughing. I could not hold my laugh because it

00:45:42.900 --> 00:45:45.340
reminded me of that episode of Parks and Rec

00:45:45.340 --> 00:45:48.739
where Aziz Ansari's character is saying that

00:45:48.739 --> 00:45:51.320
Jerry had a fart attack because he had a heart

00:45:51.320 --> 00:45:55.719
attack and he farted. I could not stop laughing.

00:45:55.739 --> 00:45:57.960
It was the funniest thing I've ever seen. I love

00:45:57.960 --> 00:46:01.119
that so much. Anyway, yeah. Kids are so funny.

00:46:01.519 --> 00:46:04.179
Meredith and Brooks are working out, in air quotes,

00:46:04.480 --> 00:46:06.880
where they're laying on a table with electrode

00:46:06.880 --> 00:46:09.380
things attached to you to kill fat cells. And

00:46:09.380 --> 00:46:11.139
Brooks says this is the most he's worked out

00:46:11.139 --> 00:46:13.820
in five months. Have you ever done one of those

00:46:13.820 --> 00:46:17.460
things? No. Have you? Yeah. And do you know the

00:46:17.460 --> 00:46:22.440
science behind it? It shocks fat cells and you

00:46:22.440 --> 00:46:25.659
pee a lot. I know you lose water weight. I don't

00:46:25.659 --> 00:46:28.320
know that it actually has any beneficial effect,

00:46:28.440 --> 00:46:32.329
though. It's certainly not making you stronger.

00:46:32.710 --> 00:46:36.389
So God, no. Yeah. Whitney's planning a party

00:46:36.389 --> 00:46:39.050
and she goes to an antique store. That's also

00:46:39.050 --> 00:46:46.150
a speakeasy. And I hate a theme so much. Where

00:46:46.150 --> 00:46:49.769
are they going? Are you where you go into a store

00:46:49.769 --> 00:46:51.630
and you have to pretend it's the prohibition?

00:46:51.769 --> 00:46:57.800
Oh, yeah. I love a theme store. Don't make me

00:46:57.800 --> 00:47:01.380
a part of the scene. Right. Yeah. It's weird.

00:47:01.539 --> 00:47:05.019
I don't like if you like it, I love it. Whatever.

00:47:05.280 --> 00:47:09.059
No. We go over to where Heather's planning a

00:47:09.059 --> 00:47:13.579
baby shower. Right. Because like they're all

00:47:13.579 --> 00:47:16.500
pregnant. Five out of the 20 employees are pregnant

00:47:16.500 --> 00:47:19.420
and they're pregnant with boys. So Heather wants

00:47:19.420 --> 00:47:23.650
to plan something special. Jen shows up. And

00:47:23.650 --> 00:47:26.010
this is the thing where I know for a fact at

00:47:26.010 --> 00:47:28.389
this point, Jen was the person that this show

00:47:28.389 --> 00:47:31.610
was built around because Jen shows up, has no

00:47:31.610 --> 00:47:35.269
connection to beauty lab employees. Yeah, she

00:47:35.269 --> 00:47:39.329
has. She doesn't know. Yeah. Anyway, Jen's aunt

00:47:39.329 --> 00:47:41.969
drove her to Heather's house. And I ask, is this

00:47:41.969 --> 00:47:44.650
is this the aunt that had both of her legs amputated?

00:47:44.789 --> 00:47:49.650
And you bitch. But also that aunt does have prosthetic

00:47:49.650 --> 00:47:51.699
legs. I think they talk about that. Yeah, you

00:47:51.699 --> 00:47:53.699
see him at some point, but like this isn't the

00:47:53.699 --> 00:47:56.219
same man, right? No, I don't think you can drive

00:47:56.219 --> 00:48:02.219
with prosthetic legs. You absolutely can. I'm

00:48:02.219 --> 00:48:05.219
looking it up. While you look it up, I'll tell

00:48:05.219 --> 00:48:10.139
you. Jen makes her aunt walk her to the door

00:48:10.139 --> 00:48:12.780
and she's an absolute asshole going, hurry up.

00:48:12.780 --> 00:48:15.900
My feet are freezing as she's wearing open toed

00:48:15.900 --> 00:48:21.409
heels in the literal Utah snow. Oh, it is possible

00:48:21.409 --> 00:48:24.389
to drive with prosthetic legs, but it depends

00:48:24.389 --> 00:48:27.989
on the individual's specific circumstances and

00:48:27.989 --> 00:48:30.670
the type of prosthetic. I have a feeling that

00:48:30.670 --> 00:48:33.190
if you have weathered the storm with one Miss

00:48:33.190 --> 00:48:37.389
Jennifer Shaw, you can probably drive with prosthetic

00:48:37.389 --> 00:48:40.489
legs. You understand what hardship and turmoil

00:48:40.489 --> 00:48:46.260
is. Right. Yeah, Jen is. She has her toes out

00:48:46.260 --> 00:48:48.719
when it's 10 degrees. Yes. And it goes, hurry

00:48:48.719 --> 00:48:51.179
up. My feet are freezing. She's so mean to her.

00:48:51.239 --> 00:48:53.960
She is so mean to everyone. She's mean to like

00:48:53.960 --> 00:48:58.739
the Shaw squad, too. She is evil to them. Yes.

00:48:59.239 --> 00:49:03.519
Anyway. So they they're planning the party. Heather

00:49:03.519 --> 00:49:07.309
buys a little role or not Rolls Royces. Range

00:49:07.309 --> 00:49:10.349
rovers for the kids. It's adorable. The little

00:49:10.349 --> 00:49:13.110
like drivable ones. My nephew had one of those.

00:49:13.130 --> 00:49:14.989
It was adorable. There's one like behind you.

00:49:15.349 --> 00:49:22.090
Yeah. Yeah. Where are we at? I scrolled too far.

00:49:22.170 --> 00:49:25.469
Sorry. Talks about Mormon messaging around women.

00:49:26.110 --> 00:49:30.250
Oh, yeah. And. And she gets into the how her

00:49:30.250 --> 00:49:32.469
most important work is raising a family. And

00:49:32.469 --> 00:49:34.929
then she kind of she talks about how life kind

00:49:34.929 --> 00:49:36.429
of stopped for her when she was getting divorced

00:49:36.429 --> 00:49:40.829
and she started getting emotional. And I thought,

00:49:40.929 --> 00:49:44.650
like, I've read the book and everything that

00:49:44.650 --> 00:49:48.349
I think this was all much closer together than

00:49:48.349 --> 00:49:49.949
I thought, because I was like, oh, she's been

00:49:49.949 --> 00:49:53.170
divorced for years at this point. Well, it's

00:49:53.170 --> 00:49:57.949
fuzzy because. I do think she's been divorced

00:49:57.949 --> 00:50:01.489
or at least separated for years at this point

00:50:01.489 --> 00:50:05.869
because the divorce is settled. Like she's not

00:50:05.869 --> 00:50:07.929
going through it anymore. And that takes a long

00:50:07.929 --> 00:50:11.829
time. Sure. Especially in Utah. Their divorce

00:50:11.829 --> 00:50:16.329
laws are very hard to navigate. And did she have

00:50:16.329 --> 00:50:19.829
beauty lab while she was still married? I don't

00:50:19.829 --> 00:50:22.610
think so. I don't think so. So like she has been

00:50:22.610 --> 00:50:26.539
divorced for years. I feel like it does seem

00:50:26.539 --> 00:50:29.880
raw, but I feel like she it's less to do with

00:50:29.880 --> 00:50:33.380
her ex -husband and more to do with like her

00:50:33.380 --> 00:50:35.760
internal feelings that she needs to deal with.

00:50:35.900 --> 00:50:40.199
Oh, absolutely. She gets into how in a confessional

00:50:40.199 --> 00:50:42.500
she didn't get married for love, but she was

00:50:42.500 --> 00:50:45.119
doing what she thought was expected of her. And

00:50:45.119 --> 00:50:48.619
we also get into her talking about how she feels

00:50:48.619 --> 00:50:50.619
like the expectation was that she stayed married,

00:50:50.699 --> 00:50:52.920
even though she was absolutely miserable in her

00:50:52.920 --> 00:50:57.980
marriage. And I've seen this play out a million

00:50:57.980 --> 00:50:59.960
times. I've seen marriages where people stay

00:50:59.960 --> 00:51:01.940
together because they think the church wants

00:51:01.940 --> 00:51:03.900
them to or like their family wants them to, whatever

00:51:03.900 --> 00:51:09.480
the case may be. And I have seen marriages that

00:51:09.480 --> 00:51:11.820
have fallen apart because they thought they were

00:51:11.820 --> 00:51:14.380
supposed to stay together. Well, Jen asks her,

00:51:14.440 --> 00:51:17.260
she's like, if you could have stayed in your

00:51:17.260 --> 00:51:19.679
marriage, even though you were miserable, would

00:51:19.679 --> 00:51:22.719
you have? And she was like, yes, without a doubt.

00:51:22.780 --> 00:51:27.460
Yes. And that's so it was like the most eye opening

00:51:27.460 --> 00:51:30.179
scene for me to see, because she talks about

00:51:30.179 --> 00:51:32.599
how unhappy she was and how horrible it was and

00:51:32.599 --> 00:51:35.519
how they didn't align on anything. And she still

00:51:35.519 --> 00:51:38.619
is saying, if given the opportunity, I would

00:51:38.619 --> 00:51:41.340
have stayed in my marriage, which is insane.

00:51:41.460 --> 00:51:45.519
And I think she resents a little bit that it

00:51:45.519 --> 00:51:47.860
was Billy's choice to leave because they do get

00:51:47.860 --> 00:51:51.179
into that eventually where. yeah well it's clear

00:51:51.179 --> 00:51:54.460
in this episode to me because she acts like she

00:51:54.460 --> 00:51:57.360
would have done anything to stay in that marriage

00:51:57.360 --> 00:51:59.340
because that's what the church wants her to do

00:51:59.340 --> 00:52:05.119
right which sucks um But Jen was a nightmare

00:52:05.119 --> 00:52:06.800
in the first couple of episodes. I think she

00:52:06.800 --> 00:52:09.219
did a really, really good job of being supportive

00:52:09.219 --> 00:52:10.800
of Heather right here and being like, no, you

00:52:10.800 --> 00:52:12.480
need to be a good example for your daughters.

00:52:12.539 --> 00:52:14.619
Like you're doing the right thing. And like with

00:52:14.619 --> 00:52:17.420
this divorce, I think. Yeah. Jen did the right

00:52:17.420 --> 00:52:20.380
thing here. She did say she was like, would you

00:52:20.380 --> 00:52:22.179
tell your daughters to do the same thing? And

00:52:22.179 --> 00:52:26.159
that's where like Heather had a pause and was

00:52:26.159 --> 00:52:29.019
like, no, I wouldn't tell my daughters to be

00:52:29.019 --> 00:52:31.019
miserable in a marriage. And I think that really

00:52:31.019 --> 00:52:33.960
did kind of like. Open something up for her.

00:52:34.099 --> 00:52:36.940
Oh, for sure. We go to Meredith's house where

00:52:36.940 --> 00:52:40.320
she's making cocktails. Meredith starts the blender.

00:52:41.719 --> 00:52:44.760
And it's this whole trope. They've done it on

00:52:44.760 --> 00:52:49.059
every single city of housewives. But she starts

00:52:49.059 --> 00:52:50.739
the blender without the top being on. And Chloe

00:52:50.739 --> 00:52:53.699
and Brooks come down and they are the opposite

00:52:53.699 --> 00:52:56.440
of helpful. Like they are the most unhelpful

00:52:56.440 --> 00:53:00.239
children. Brooks is like, Mom, what are you doing?

00:53:01.199 --> 00:53:04.460
I do believe obviously Meredith is a good mother

00:53:04.460 --> 00:53:08.940
and I'm sure Seth is a good dad, but yeah, those

00:53:08.940 --> 00:53:12.300
kids don't know how to clean up anything. No,

00:53:12.380 --> 00:53:14.079
because they've had help their whole lives. Like

00:53:14.079 --> 00:53:16.900
Meredith has had a housekeeper forever. That's

00:53:16.900 --> 00:53:20.519
fine. But like the way Brooks and Chloe were

00:53:20.519 --> 00:53:29.800
just like, mom, you made a mess. I also wrote

00:53:29.800 --> 00:53:35.960
Meredith, like Meredith will be my my Jesse for

00:53:35.960 --> 00:53:37.940
Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, where like

00:53:37.940 --> 00:53:40.079
every time they come on screen, I just write.

00:53:40.119 --> 00:53:43.099
Meredith has a really beautiful family. Yeah.

00:53:43.519 --> 00:53:48.360
Like they're all very pretty. Yeah. Jen shows

00:53:48.360 --> 00:53:51.500
up and brings her assistance with her to spend

00:53:51.500 --> 00:53:53.539
time with Meredith. She brings Marillo and Crystal

00:53:53.539 --> 00:53:58.130
and I. I don't, why does she bring them everywhere?

00:53:58.250 --> 00:53:59.730
Why is she always bringing the shot spot around?

00:54:00.070 --> 00:54:03.070
I think she thinks it's like a status symbol

00:54:03.070 --> 00:54:10.409
to have a staff, which is weird. Okay. Jen gives

00:54:10.409 --> 00:54:12.030
us a confessional where she explains that she

00:54:12.030 --> 00:54:14.030
and Meredith have very similar situations where

00:54:14.030 --> 00:54:15.829
their husbands are constantly away for work.

00:54:15.969 --> 00:54:18.550
And then we cut to Jen doing high kicks on the

00:54:18.550 --> 00:54:20.809
couch where we find out she's not wearing underwear.

00:54:21.070 --> 00:54:24.409
And Brooks goes into a confessional says and

00:54:24.409 --> 00:54:27.130
says that he's uncomfortable because Jen's vagina

00:54:27.130 --> 00:54:32.389
is in his face. And I feel like. This situation

00:54:32.389 --> 00:54:35.550
and we we come you will come to find out that

00:54:35.550 --> 00:54:37.989
this situation is blown up over the next two

00:54:37.989 --> 00:54:40.650
seasons. Oh, yeah, 100 percent. It doesn't stop.

00:54:40.889 --> 00:54:43.150
Do you want to know what I think about it? Tell

00:54:43.150 --> 00:54:45.230
me what you think. I think Brooks doesn't like

00:54:45.230 --> 00:54:49.130
Jen. OK, I think that's where this all started,

00:54:49.289 --> 00:54:52.369
is that Brooks is a little protective of his

00:54:52.369 --> 00:54:58.510
mom, which is fine. Sure. And doesn't like. his

00:54:58.510 --> 00:55:00.650
mom being friends with jen and he thought this

00:55:00.650 --> 00:55:03.110
would be a way to get them to stop being friends

00:55:03.110 --> 00:55:05.610
i never even once considered that that's actually

00:55:05.610 --> 00:55:08.150
probably a really good point just based on how

00:55:08.150 --> 00:55:12.590
everything plays out but i i looked at it from

00:55:12.590 --> 00:55:14.389
like if you look at the angles of where brooks

00:55:14.389 --> 00:55:16.710
is sitting of where jen is sitting of where like

00:55:16.710 --> 00:55:22.510
of where her cut is facing and he she obviously

00:55:22.510 --> 00:55:26.119
wasn't trying to flash this little boy right

00:55:26.119 --> 00:55:29.519
she mind you they're by the way they're all adults

00:55:29.519 --> 00:55:32.219
he's 21 years old yeah but she wasn't trying

00:55:32.219 --> 00:55:34.239
to flash him she wasn't trying to flash anybody

00:55:34.239 --> 00:55:37.840
he could have just moved to a different spot

00:55:37.840 --> 00:55:42.760
if it was really that serious like it if he saw

00:55:42.760 --> 00:55:45.000
anything though i feel like just based on the

00:55:45.000 --> 00:55:47.659
angles based on everything it was so quick like

00:55:47.659 --> 00:55:51.960
he saw her cooch for one second yeah and like

00:55:51.960 --> 00:55:55.139
what okay yeah it's not like she hiked up her

00:55:55.139 --> 00:55:58.039
skirt or anything like she was just it's not

00:55:58.039 --> 00:56:01.440
like he was at a burlesque show with the the

00:56:01.440 --> 00:56:05.460
mormon wives hitting a joint out of a vag like

00:56:05.460 --> 00:56:09.300
it was wild but it becomes this becomes a major

00:56:09.300 --> 00:56:12.880
plot point over the next two seasons and at the

00:56:12.880 --> 00:56:15.500
end of this like brooks and chloe leave because

00:56:15.500 --> 00:56:17.179
they need to go to best buy to get away from

00:56:17.179 --> 00:56:20.179
jen and i was like oh jesus christ like here's

00:56:20.179 --> 00:56:22.119
the thing i get it if you're uncomfortable yeah

00:56:22.119 --> 00:56:26.900
sure leave but like it felt like a little much

00:56:26.900 --> 00:56:29.659
you couldn't just go to your bedroom yeah you

00:56:29.659 --> 00:56:32.920
couldn't just you're going best buy well i don't

00:56:32.920 --> 00:56:35.960
know the last time i went to a best buy i had

00:56:35.960 --> 00:56:38.420
to go for some reason i don't remember what it

00:56:38.420 --> 00:56:42.460
was for i don't know We go to Lisa taking Jack

00:56:42.460 --> 00:56:44.659
out for a driving lesson. Jack says he has a

00:56:44.659 --> 00:56:46.679
strong pull out game as he's packing out of the

00:56:46.679 --> 00:56:50.420
driveway. Oh, my God. Just can't stop. Won't

00:56:50.420 --> 00:56:55.900
stop. No, I could not get in a car and drive

00:56:55.900 --> 00:56:57.780
with Lisa. The passenger seat. There's no fucking

00:56:57.780 --> 00:57:01.639
way. Why? Because I know for a fact she'd be

00:57:01.639 --> 00:57:03.519
like, do you see that? Do you see that? Do you

00:57:03.519 --> 00:57:07.079
see that? Like, it would be like I'm talking

00:57:07.079 --> 00:57:09.480
as someone who's had a driver's license for 20

00:57:09.480 --> 00:57:12.949
years. No, I feel like she's only like that because

00:57:12.949 --> 00:57:15.349
he's learning to drive. But I don't know. You're

00:57:15.349 --> 00:57:16.809
telling me she's not like that with John Barlow.

00:57:17.849 --> 00:57:20.650
Hundred percent. She's throwing things out the

00:57:20.650 --> 00:57:26.510
window with John Barlow. I just I wouldn't be

00:57:26.510 --> 00:57:28.110
able to do it. I would love to be in a car with

00:57:28.110 --> 00:57:30.489
Lisa. Could not be the driver in a car with Lisa.

00:57:30.530 --> 00:57:37.789
No way. And then. I fully forgot Henry was in

00:57:37.789 --> 00:57:39.670
the backseat, just like living his little life.

00:57:39.750 --> 00:57:46.789
He's just having a time. Mary goes out for dinner

00:57:46.789 --> 00:57:49.090
with Meredith, and I feel like these are two

00:57:49.090 --> 00:57:53.570
people I would love to have dinner with. No,

00:57:53.590 --> 00:57:57.610
I don't like Mary. I really don't like it. No.

00:57:57.789 --> 00:58:03.820
OK, you haven't gotten into. Seasons four and

00:58:03.820 --> 00:58:07.000
five were like, I shouldn't take four seasons

00:58:07.000 --> 00:58:09.139
for me to like someone. It shouldn't. You're

00:58:09.139 --> 00:58:11.199
100 percent right. I don't. I get where you're

00:58:11.199 --> 00:58:14.639
coming from. And I think I looked at this season

00:58:14.639 --> 00:58:16.219
like looking back because, you know, I've watched

00:58:16.219 --> 00:58:20.440
I've watched these episodes 4000 times. I looked

00:58:20.440 --> 00:58:22.460
at it through the lens of like everything I know

00:58:22.460 --> 00:58:29.440
now. Yeah, I. I think Mary would like even even

00:58:29.440 --> 00:58:32.530
knowing her just from season one. I think Mary

00:58:32.530 --> 00:58:34.550
would be so funny just to sit down and listen

00:58:34.550 --> 00:58:37.949
to her talk. She's so funny. I'm just like not

00:58:37.949 --> 00:58:42.809
interested in someone who I pretty much know

00:58:42.809 --> 00:58:45.610
without a shadow of a doubt. 90 % of the time

00:58:45.610 --> 00:58:47.989
she's just not being authentic with me. Okay.

00:58:48.070 --> 00:58:52.389
She's putting on a facade. She is getting her

00:58:52.389 --> 00:58:56.960
Chanel out of one of her 16 closets. And meeting

00:58:56.960 --> 00:58:59.739
me and telling me what I want to hear or being

00:58:59.739 --> 00:59:02.119
catty as fuck just depends which Mary you get.

00:59:02.500 --> 00:59:05.440
Like, I don't, I just don't like her. That's

00:59:05.440 --> 00:59:10.639
fair. And I also feel like she, I'm not going

00:59:10.639 --> 00:59:14.460
to sit here and defend religion ever, but she

00:59:14.460 --> 00:59:16.940
doesn't act like the first lady of a church either.

00:59:17.079 --> 00:59:19.079
I don't disagree with that. She does not take

00:59:19.079 --> 00:59:22.619
that seriously, which to me is strange. I agree.

00:59:22.800 --> 00:59:25.000
Especially after you inherited that from your

00:59:25.000 --> 00:59:28.110
grandma. you would think you would take it more

00:59:28.110 --> 00:59:33.210
seriously yeah anyway i also and again me defending

00:59:33.210 --> 00:59:36.230
mary i think she is damaged i think that there

00:59:36.230 --> 00:59:38.730
is a lot there and i'm not defending her hurt

00:59:38.730 --> 00:59:41.309
people hurt people but that doesn't make me like

00:59:41.309 --> 00:59:44.610
her that's fair um One thing that Andy Cohen

00:59:44.610 --> 00:59:46.570
has talked a lot about is making sure producers

00:59:46.570 --> 00:59:48.590
include footage of Real Housewives ordering.

00:59:48.789 --> 00:59:50.670
And I love that just in general. I love knowing

00:59:50.670 --> 00:59:53.170
what people eat. Oh, 100%. I want to know what

00:59:53.170 --> 00:59:55.010
your order is. If anything, I wish they showed

00:59:55.010 --> 00:59:57.030
us the whole menu and then showed us what you

00:59:57.030 --> 00:59:59.110
ordered. Yes. Because I feel like I would understand

00:59:59.110 --> 01:00:01.429
your brain so well. I have on many occasions,

01:00:01.510 --> 01:00:04.530
like when they show the shot of like the restaurant,

01:00:04.630 --> 01:00:10.500
I will look up their menu. They go to this place

01:00:10.500 --> 01:00:12.639
called Walter's. By the way, when we go to Salt

01:00:12.639 --> 01:00:14.480
Lake City for a live show one day, we're going

01:00:14.480 --> 01:00:16.219
to this place called Walter's. Walter has since

01:00:16.219 --> 01:00:21.340
passed. But the restaurant is it's real Italian

01:00:21.340 --> 01:00:27.260
food. And I want to go so bad. Mary talks about

01:00:27.260 --> 01:00:28.900
how she's been super close to her son, Robert

01:00:28.900 --> 01:00:31.219
Jr., for his whole life. And now that he's 17

01:00:31.219 --> 01:00:33.199
and dating a girl for the first time, he isn't

01:00:33.199 --> 01:00:34.880
hanging around her as much. And she's having

01:00:34.880 --> 01:00:37.860
a hard time with that. Which I totally get. Yeah,

01:00:37.900 --> 01:00:41.699
I totally get the way she goes about it. I do

01:00:41.699 --> 01:00:44.079
not support, but we're not there yet. Yes, I

01:00:44.079 --> 01:00:49.260
agree. Meredith gives really good advice, which

01:00:49.260 --> 01:00:51.380
was not shocking to me hearing the way she talked.

01:00:51.440 --> 01:00:53.539
I was like, oh, she's a very thoughtful individual.

01:00:53.900 --> 01:00:57.699
Yeah. And I feel like she like would meet anyone

01:00:57.699 --> 01:00:59.579
on the street, like hear a problem, be like,

01:00:59.599 --> 01:01:00.900
this is what you need to do. And it would be

01:01:00.900 --> 01:01:03.099
the best advice. I feel like she is an empath.

01:01:03.280 --> 01:01:07.570
And she also like. isn't afraid to tell you exactly

01:01:07.570 --> 01:01:10.630
how it is like she's she will say the hard thing

01:01:10.630 --> 01:01:13.929
mary gets into because we we don't hear a lot

01:01:13.929 --> 01:01:16.849
about this until like later on but we get into

01:01:16.849 --> 01:01:19.050
mary talking about how her marriage has turned

01:01:19.050 --> 01:01:22.030
into more of a partnership and her marriage was

01:01:22.030 --> 01:01:25.530
arranged and leaving isn't an option i put arranged

01:01:25.530 --> 01:01:31.349
in quotations because i I have a lot of questions

01:01:31.349 --> 01:01:34.289
about this. Well, here's the thing. It was arranged

01:01:34.289 --> 01:01:36.949
for someone. It didn't have to be you, Mary.

01:01:37.329 --> 01:01:41.809
You wanted it. You chose this. I... Your mom

01:01:41.809 --> 01:01:43.889
could have taken it. Your mom is mad you didn't

01:01:43.889 --> 01:01:54.429
let her take it. Okay. That is true. Again, I

01:01:54.429 --> 01:01:59.119
feel like Mary is damaged. yeah but aren't we

01:01:59.119 --> 01:02:03.519
all sure you poor thing you poor poor thing you

01:02:03.519 --> 01:02:05.300
poor millionaire you're gonna have to move to

01:02:05.300 --> 01:02:07.420
one of your other closets to cry it out for a

01:02:07.420 --> 01:02:12.119
change of scenery I feel so sorry for you um

01:02:14.259 --> 01:02:17.400
She she talks about how she has beauty in all

01:02:17.400 --> 01:02:20.360
of her mess, and she recognizes that her marriage

01:02:20.360 --> 01:02:22.840
is weird, but she did it because she trusted

01:02:22.840 --> 01:02:24.920
her grandma. And she shares that she disconnected

01:02:24.920 --> 01:02:27.019
from her mom when she was 19 years old because

01:02:27.019 --> 01:02:29.460
her mom wanted to take Mama Cosby's spot in the

01:02:29.460 --> 01:02:33.880
church. And this is where I start to get super

01:02:33.880 --> 01:02:35.420
uncomfortable, because in a confessional, one

01:02:35.420 --> 01:02:37.039
of the producers asked, like, did you guys sleep

01:02:37.039 --> 01:02:38.519
together on the first night? And she goes, no,

01:02:38.619 --> 01:02:41.360
I was on my period. For a month. For 28 days

01:02:41.360 --> 01:02:42.820
she was on her period. She says she was on her

01:02:42.820 --> 01:02:48.119
period for a month. However, you chose it. And

01:02:48.119 --> 01:02:52.599
why is leaving not an option, Mary? Why? I don't

01:02:52.599 --> 01:02:56.739
know. And like part of me wonders if... He gets

01:02:56.739 --> 01:03:00.019
the money. Well, that. Well, yeah, because it's...

01:03:00.019 --> 01:03:03.500
I don't know how that works after you're married

01:03:03.500 --> 01:03:05.119
and divorced because like half of the assets

01:03:05.119 --> 01:03:09.239
ostensibly would be yours. But... My I have a

01:03:09.239 --> 01:03:11.519
lot of questions about like, did she choose this

01:03:11.519 --> 01:03:17.260
or was she pushed into this by Robert Sr.? Like,

01:03:17.260 --> 01:03:20.400
that's because you think like she didn't step

01:03:20.400 --> 01:03:24.519
up. He chose her. Yes, I have a because I'm like,

01:03:24.619 --> 01:03:27.340
what? What night? She was she was married. Like

01:03:27.340 --> 01:03:30.559
Mary was married before this. What 19 year old

01:03:30.559 --> 01:03:32.960
would choose that? Tell me. Like, unless it's

01:03:32.960 --> 01:03:35.119
truly for the money. I mean, think about how

01:03:35.119 --> 01:03:39.300
many 19 year olds are. Looking for sugar daddies.

01:03:40.960 --> 01:03:42.940
It's the same thing. But like, think about like

01:03:42.940 --> 01:03:46.380
my grandma, Kathy, Larry's wife. Let's just say

01:03:46.380 --> 01:03:49.019
Larry dies and they're sitting, I mean, they're

01:03:49.019 --> 01:03:51.139
sitting on not as much money as like my granny

01:03:51.139 --> 01:03:52.659
and pap will have, but they're sitting on a pretty

01:03:52.659 --> 01:03:54.179
good chunk of money. Like neither one of them

01:03:54.179 --> 01:03:57.880
have to work. And let's just say Kathy comes

01:03:57.880 --> 01:04:01.659
to me and says, Hey, I'm lonely. Like for me,

01:04:01.679 --> 01:04:05.469
I'm like, I wouldn't choose that. No. Do you

01:04:05.469 --> 01:04:09.789
know what I mean? Yeah, but who forced her up

01:04:09.789 --> 01:04:13.409
on the altar? Well, and that's where I come back

01:04:13.409 --> 01:04:15.489
to. Like, I think the religion plays into it

01:04:15.489 --> 01:04:17.690
a little bit because I'm like, I truly if you.

01:04:17.889 --> 01:04:21.190
She doesn't cite religion as the reason she can't

01:04:21.190 --> 01:04:24.449
leave. But at some point they start to talk about

01:04:24.449 --> 01:04:27.269
how people used to believe Mama Cosby was God.

01:04:28.110 --> 01:04:30.980
And. That's where this church gets into. And

01:04:30.980 --> 01:04:33.400
like, I wonder if Mary believes that. I wonder

01:04:33.400 --> 01:04:37.679
if Mama Cosby, if she believed, oh, yeah, like

01:04:37.679 --> 01:04:39.980
God's telling me to marry this man. I wonder

01:04:39.980 --> 01:04:43.480
if this is purely speculation. Yeah, no. And

01:04:43.480 --> 01:04:47.420
I do believe he is strange for going along with

01:04:47.420 --> 01:04:50.579
this whole arrangement. And I don't think he's

01:04:50.579 --> 01:04:53.880
just going along with it. I do believe he's perpetuating

01:04:53.880 --> 01:04:59.289
it. Yes. However, Mary is a grown woman. Sure.

01:04:59.369 --> 01:05:04.090
Who has chosen not to stand up for herself. And

01:05:04.090 --> 01:05:07.250
so at some point you have to turn the weirdness

01:05:07.250 --> 01:05:10.750
off. Okay. Like. That's fair. If you're going

01:05:10.750 --> 01:05:14.550
to choose to set this example, then set it. Sure.

01:05:14.769 --> 01:05:17.750
And I just don't, I don't know. Something about

01:05:17.750 --> 01:05:19.550
it just does not sit right with me. The whole

01:05:19.550 --> 01:05:21.550
thing is weird to me. And I do have sympathy

01:05:21.550 --> 01:05:23.949
for her. I don't like her, but I do have sympathy

01:05:23.949 --> 01:05:26.800
for her. Yes. And if for nothing else than to

01:05:26.800 --> 01:05:29.659
say like, oh, the entire world is talking about

01:05:29.659 --> 01:05:31.480
how fucked up and weird your marriage is. I feel

01:05:31.480 --> 01:05:34.920
bad for that. Yes and no, because she did choose

01:05:34.920 --> 01:05:36.960
to be on the show and she knew that she was going

01:05:36.960 --> 01:05:40.280
to have to talk about it. I just, I don't know.

01:05:40.320 --> 01:05:42.980
Part of me wishes she would have just been a

01:05:42.980 --> 01:05:46.599
lot more forthright with about everything. The

01:05:46.599 --> 01:05:49.340
whole situation from start to finish. I 100 %

01:05:49.340 --> 01:05:54.070
agree. Because. No matter how deep it goes, no

01:05:54.070 --> 01:05:58.909
matter how fucked up it is, people will understand

01:05:58.909 --> 01:06:02.210
if you give them something to understand. Like

01:06:02.210 --> 01:06:04.690
people will either side with you or against you

01:06:04.690 --> 01:06:08.570
either way. So you should just let it out. And

01:06:08.570 --> 01:06:12.610
I think that we get that in season four. I will

01:06:12.610 --> 01:06:16.199
tell you that like in season. between seasons

01:06:16.199 --> 01:06:18.659
four and five like we start to really understand

01:06:18.659 --> 01:06:22.380
who mary is as a person as and more so as a mother

01:06:22.380 --> 01:06:26.340
and as i think she's an excellent mom oh you

01:06:26.340 --> 01:06:29.039
what i've seen when you get really into it though

01:06:29.039 --> 01:06:32.019
like it you find out how good she actually is

01:06:32.539 --> 01:06:35.599
Yeah, I can 100 % see that. I haven't seen season

01:06:35.599 --> 01:06:39.219
four, but I can 100 % see Mary being an amazing

01:06:39.219 --> 01:06:41.980
mom. And I do see that in seasons one and two,

01:06:42.039 --> 01:06:45.980
what I've seen. She's a great mom. My problem

01:06:45.980 --> 01:06:49.099
is not with her as a mother. It's not with her

01:06:49.099 --> 01:06:51.239
as a wife. I don't care how a woman is as a wife.

01:06:51.300 --> 01:06:54.960
I'll just say that. It's her as a person. She

01:06:54.960 --> 01:06:58.860
comes off like she's always trying to hide something.

01:06:59.449 --> 01:07:02.829
I do agree with that. At all times. And people

01:07:02.829 --> 01:07:04.909
like that just make me so severely uncomfortable.

01:07:05.409 --> 01:07:07.690
Okay. Because I'm very open book. I'll tell anybody

01:07:07.690 --> 01:07:09.690
anything. Oh, for sure. And so like people who

01:07:09.690 --> 01:07:13.210
just always come off as not being 100 % honest

01:07:13.210 --> 01:07:16.110
or like they're hiding something just, I don't

01:07:16.110 --> 01:07:20.480
like it. Yeah. That's fair. Yeah. Anyway, Mary

01:07:20.480 --> 01:07:24.420
invites Meredith to come to her church. And I

01:07:24.420 --> 01:07:27.139
feel like Meredith was really, really supportive.

01:07:27.340 --> 01:07:29.599
And like, I, I appreciate this about Meredith

01:07:29.599 --> 01:07:31.360
because like, it would be like me being like,

01:07:31.360 --> 01:07:33.280
yeah, I'll go to your church. Cause it's not

01:07:33.280 --> 01:07:36.139
her religion. It's not anything to do with her,

01:07:36.179 --> 01:07:38.219
but I feel like she was really excited to check

01:07:38.219 --> 01:07:40.800
out Faith Temple. Yeah. I feel like it's like

01:07:40.800 --> 01:07:42.980
every time I've ever been invited to church where

01:07:42.980 --> 01:07:49.380
it's like, yeah. As a guest. I will come as a

01:07:49.380 --> 01:07:52.460
spectator. Thank you. Yes, that is 100 % the

01:07:52.460 --> 01:07:55.940
vibe. We go over to Meredith's house where Meredith

01:07:55.940 --> 01:07:58.400
and Brooks are making guacamole. And Brooks gets

01:07:58.400 --> 01:08:00.480
into how he took a semester off to support his

01:08:00.480 --> 01:08:02.219
mom during the separation. Diva, you wanted to

01:08:02.219 --> 01:08:04.579
be on the show, girl. They talked about it in

01:08:04.579 --> 01:08:06.380
the first episode, too. I don't know why he brings

01:08:06.380 --> 01:08:11.539
it back up. Like, OK. OK, girl. They unpack how

01:08:11.539 --> 01:08:13.719
Brooks and Chloe were uncomfortable with Jen.

01:08:14.880 --> 01:08:17.479
her cooch being out and then he starts getting

01:08:17.479 --> 01:08:19.939
annoying about the high kicks like I if okay

01:08:19.939 --> 01:08:24.760
here's where I fall on this issue he could have

01:08:24.760 --> 01:08:26.760
just said to his mom hey the whole thing was

01:08:26.760 --> 01:08:29.439
weird and it made me uncomfortable more than

01:08:29.439 --> 01:08:32.159
that I think I think he needs to come to his

01:08:32.159 --> 01:08:35.279
mom and be like I don't like her I don't like

01:08:35.279 --> 01:08:38.079
being around her and I live here too but if it's

01:08:38.079 --> 01:08:42.500
for the cameras just say Yeah. That her cut being

01:08:42.500 --> 01:08:45.579
out made me uncomfortable. He went on and on

01:08:45.579 --> 01:08:51.180
and on and on and on. And then he turned it into

01:08:51.180 --> 01:08:54.500
you're the CEO of Meredith Marks Brands. You

01:08:54.500 --> 01:08:56.800
don't have time for this. And I was like, oh,

01:08:56.920 --> 01:08:59.479
I don't like this because now you're trying to

01:08:59.479 --> 01:09:01.340
say like who your mom can and can't hang out

01:09:01.340 --> 01:09:04.500
with. Which is weird. Right. It would be so much

01:09:04.500 --> 01:09:08.430
easier to just say. Hey, Jen makes me uncomfortable

01:09:08.430 --> 01:09:12.229
and I live here too. Right. Can she not come

01:09:12.229 --> 01:09:15.930
over? Yeah. And I feel like Meredith as a mother

01:09:15.930 --> 01:09:18.569
would 100 % be like, okay, yeah, I don't want

01:09:18.569 --> 01:09:21.250
to put you in a situation. Well, that's ultimately

01:09:21.250 --> 01:09:23.489
where she ended up, but it was just like him

01:09:23.489 --> 01:09:24.810
pushing and pushing and pushing and pushing.

01:09:25.069 --> 01:09:27.409
Yeah. And then Jen was supposed to come over

01:09:27.409 --> 01:09:29.930
for a sleepover and Brooks decides that simply

01:09:29.930 --> 01:09:32.090
isn't going to happen. So Meredith has to text

01:09:32.090 --> 01:09:35.539
her and cancel, which becomes. a whole thing

01:09:35.539 --> 01:09:39.479
yeah i would think this is this was surprising

01:09:39.479 --> 01:09:44.420
to me because i genuinely thought jen would try

01:09:44.420 --> 01:09:47.420
to see it from like her son's perspective oh

01:09:47.420 --> 01:09:51.159
no and like i genuinely thought that she would

01:09:51.159 --> 01:09:55.600
be like oh okay and be like if anything like

01:09:55.600 --> 01:09:58.039
a little embarrassed about it that's that's not

01:09:58.039 --> 01:10:00.739
what jen was told though jen was told oh chloe's

01:10:00.739 --> 01:10:05.210
gonna be home for the weekend yeah no that's

01:10:05.210 --> 01:10:09.750
no because but also at the same time when jen

01:10:09.750 --> 01:10:14.189
found out about this and this is we get into

01:10:14.189 --> 01:10:16.609
this at the beginning of season two but spoiler

01:10:16.609 --> 01:10:19.729
we find out that jen starts retweeting not retweeting

01:10:19.729 --> 01:10:21.949
i'm sorry she starts liking homophobic contents

01:10:21.949 --> 01:10:24.789
about her uh homophobic tweets about brooks and

01:10:24.789 --> 01:10:30.250
yeah and all of this and he hasn't come out at

01:10:30.250 --> 01:10:35.739
this point on the show wow I'll let you take

01:10:35.739 --> 01:10:41.199
that one. I will say it was assumed. But that's

01:10:41.199 --> 01:10:43.699
not fair. No one should be outed by assumption.

01:10:44.100 --> 01:10:52.560
Absolutely. However. Okay. With that being said.

01:10:52.779 --> 01:10:56.439
Okay, baby. Yeah. Whatever you need. But he does

01:10:56.439 --> 01:10:59.590
talk about it in season two and he's like. I

01:10:59.590 --> 01:11:02.770
never got to like have that be my news. And that

01:11:02.770 --> 01:11:05.010
makes me sad. Sure. I don't ever want to see

01:11:05.010 --> 01:11:08.270
someone be outed against their will. Right. 100

01:11:08.270 --> 01:11:12.130
percent. But so it's never this was never about.

01:11:13.369 --> 01:11:17.350
Until Jen saw it on the on the show, we never

01:11:17.350 --> 01:11:19.850
knew why she was being uninvited. Yeah. Right.

01:11:20.369 --> 01:11:23.250
So. We go over to Mary's house. Mary and Robert

01:11:23.250 --> 01:11:24.869
Senior are talking about finding a new school

01:11:24.869 --> 01:11:26.689
for Robert Junior because he's not learning anything

01:11:26.689 --> 01:11:28.789
where he's at. And he's literally 17 years old.

01:11:28.850 --> 01:11:31.989
So he's he's a junior in high school, at least.

01:11:31.989 --> 01:11:34.489
Right. Well, it's not about the school. Well,

01:11:34.550 --> 01:11:37.010
obviously, it's about his little girlfriend.

01:11:37.250 --> 01:11:42.350
Well, it's we you will come to find out more

01:11:42.350 --> 01:11:44.770
later that it's not just this like this. This

01:11:44.770 --> 01:11:48.069
is season five. I think you figure out what it's

01:11:48.069 --> 01:11:52.329
really about. Well, I remember. Not long after

01:11:52.329 --> 01:11:55.329
this, Mary starts talking about how she doesn't

01:11:55.329 --> 01:11:57.470
like his little girlfriend. Well, no, she's talking

01:11:57.470 --> 01:12:00.569
about it at dinner with Meredith. You're you're

01:12:00.569 --> 01:12:03.149
going to really find out why, though. It's bad.

01:12:03.670 --> 01:12:10.149
Oh, OK. So but that's the thing is, like, I don't

01:12:10.149 --> 01:12:11.909
like this whole conversation. Like, oh, let's

01:12:11.909 --> 01:12:14.090
move. I agree with you. It's 100 percent about

01:12:14.090 --> 01:12:15.909
the girlfriend, because I don't think they knew

01:12:15.909 --> 01:12:18.210
the depth of what was going on here at this point.

01:12:18.229 --> 01:12:22.470
That being said. It is a weird time. Like, why

01:12:22.470 --> 01:12:25.109
would you be like, yeah, I know you've been at

01:12:25.109 --> 01:12:26.489
this school your whole life and you're going

01:12:26.489 --> 01:12:28.550
to graduate next year. But how about we move

01:12:28.550 --> 01:12:32.750
you to a boarding school? Can you imagine? No.

01:12:33.409 --> 01:12:37.789
We get a confessional from Mary about how. Oh,

01:12:37.869 --> 01:12:40.250
Jesus Christ. She had to she had to get to know

01:12:40.250 --> 01:12:42.729
Robert Senior after they got married and how

01:12:42.729 --> 01:12:45.189
if she had to pick a guy, this is the guy that

01:12:45.189 --> 01:12:47.710
she would pick. And after Mary had Robert Junior,

01:12:47.989 --> 01:12:52.699
Mary. drifted into being a mom and Robert Sr.

01:12:52.840 --> 01:12:56.300
drifted into being Robert Sr. I think it's an

01:12:56.300 --> 01:13:00.640
age thing with that, to be fair. Like he had

01:13:00.640 --> 01:13:04.119
done the song and dance of being at least a stepdad

01:13:04.119 --> 01:13:08.680
when he was with her grandma. And so it's like

01:13:08.680 --> 01:13:12.800
he's not he's not in a stage of his life where

01:13:12.800 --> 01:13:16.260
like he wants to take care of a baby. And that's

01:13:16.260 --> 01:13:21.279
just where we're at. Yeah. But Robert Jr. comes

01:13:21.279 --> 01:13:23.779
down and Mary tries to convince him that he should

01:13:23.779 --> 01:13:26.239
go to the sporting school in Los Angeles. And

01:13:26.239 --> 01:13:32.659
I forgot that I wrote this. If if Robert Sr.

01:13:32.939 --> 01:13:35.840
is Mary's step grandfather, does that make Robert

01:13:35.840 --> 01:13:39.899
Jr. Does that make him Robert Jr.'s great grandfather

01:13:39.899 --> 01:13:43.500
and his dad? Or like, I don't understand how

01:13:43.500 --> 01:13:46.520
that works. Step great grandpa and also dad.

01:13:47.940 --> 01:13:50.039
I don't know. That's a lot to unpack. I don't

01:13:50.039 --> 01:13:53.560
know what to do with that. Yeah, me neither.

01:13:53.720 --> 01:13:56.579
I might cut that, too. I'm calling the police.

01:13:59.220 --> 01:14:03.260
We I don't know what that is. We go over to.

01:14:05.140 --> 01:14:08.359
I'm sorry, Mary's church and Whitney, Whitney's

01:14:08.359 --> 01:14:10.460
dad and Meredith are all showing up for the service.

01:14:11.340 --> 01:14:12.819
When he thought it would be a good idea to bring

01:14:12.819 --> 01:14:14.520
her dad to church because he's recovering from

01:14:14.520 --> 01:14:17.359
addiction. I go back and forth on this because

01:14:17.359 --> 01:14:19.399
like, yeah, it's a great place to find community.

01:14:19.420 --> 01:14:22.760
I don't like how predatory religion can be with

01:14:22.760 --> 01:14:27.279
people that are addicts. Yes. But I also like

01:14:27.279 --> 01:14:31.119
have firsthand seen someone who was addicted.

01:14:32.380 --> 01:14:35.539
finding the church and that like pulling them

01:14:35.539 --> 01:14:38.060
out of addiction which is amazing i love that

01:14:38.060 --> 01:14:41.880
if you need that then i want you to have it sure

01:14:41.880 --> 01:14:44.920
100 and that's where i'm like it's a case -by

01:14:44.920 --> 01:14:47.100
-case basis for me like i don't like churches

01:14:47.100 --> 01:14:50.000
finding these people i like people finding the

01:14:50.000 --> 01:14:52.279
church that's where i'm at with it right for

01:14:52.279 --> 01:14:57.310
sure um mary's Church is a lot like the Nazarene

01:14:57.310 --> 01:14:59.729
tent revivals that I used to go to as a little

01:14:59.729 --> 01:15:02.510
kid. There's people crying and jumping around.

01:15:02.869 --> 01:15:05.010
It's a lot. People are getting up and speaking

01:15:05.010 --> 01:15:11.310
in tongues. It's a lot. Yeah. And it's a lot

01:15:11.310 --> 01:15:16.250
of yelling. To me, it looks like emotional manipulation.

01:15:16.989 --> 01:15:19.329
But I've never been to a church like that. And

01:15:19.329 --> 01:15:21.810
I don't want to yuck someone's yum. If that's

01:15:21.810 --> 01:15:24.069
how you worship your God, then by all means.

01:15:24.890 --> 01:15:28.050
To me, it just seems like you're getting people

01:15:28.050 --> 01:15:31.250
worked up on purpose so that they will feel something.

01:15:31.470 --> 01:15:33.949
One day we're going to get into cry nights at

01:15:33.949 --> 01:15:37.489
church camp. Oh, I've been through that, actually.

01:15:37.609 --> 01:15:40.409
I went to a church camp, a sleepaway camp one

01:15:40.409 --> 01:15:44.729
time. They did not. They did not appreciate me

01:15:44.729 --> 01:15:47.869
at camp, whatever it was called. I'm not going

01:15:47.869 --> 01:15:53.899
to dox them. They didn't like me. Actually, one

01:15:53.899 --> 01:15:57.460
anecdote from that trip that I remember so vividly

01:15:57.460 --> 01:16:01.520
is we were sitting like on the Wabash River and

01:16:01.520 --> 01:16:03.479
we were supposed to be like reading our Bibles

01:16:03.479 --> 01:16:06.800
or something. And it was dead silent. And all

01:16:06.800 --> 01:16:10.340
of a sudden, my dumb ass just chimes in and goes,

01:16:10.520 --> 01:16:13.579
what's the difference between this and Catholicism?

01:16:16.720 --> 01:16:19.020
Oh, they did not like that. They didn't like

01:16:19.020 --> 01:16:25.100
it at all. Anyway, moving on. Yeah, they're at

01:16:25.100 --> 01:16:29.579
the church. It's a lot. It's a lot. Mary gets

01:16:29.579 --> 01:16:31.760
down to the congregation and goes over and starts

01:16:31.760 --> 01:16:34.000
praying over Whitney's dad and then just starts

01:16:34.000 --> 01:16:40.100
screaming, heal, heal. Yes, ma 'am. And I have

01:16:40.100 --> 01:16:42.359
seen this in real life. I have seen this happen.

01:16:42.619 --> 01:16:46.600
We're like. I I've seen, I've seen it go one

01:16:46.600 --> 01:16:48.659
of two ways, either like the person just starts

01:16:48.659 --> 01:16:50.680
crying, falls on their knees and like whatever,

01:16:50.800 --> 01:16:54.319
or the person like throws themselves on the ground,

01:16:54.399 --> 01:16:59.159
starts shaking and like, and the demons are released.

01:16:59.220 --> 01:17:02.920
Like I, I am telling you it is wild to see in

01:17:02.920 --> 01:17:04.760
real life. Cause I'm just like, I can't even

01:17:04.760 --> 01:17:07.699
imagine. I will tell you my uncle Kirby has talked

01:17:07.699 --> 01:17:12.399
very, very. Frankly, about like, yeah, when I

01:17:12.399 --> 01:17:15.319
was a little kid and like we because Dad Bolin

01:17:15.319 --> 01:17:18.659
used to take them to these church revivals. Dad

01:17:18.659 --> 01:17:22.500
Bolin took us to one of these revivals and they

01:17:22.500 --> 01:17:24.720
brought me up on the stage and they did this.

01:17:24.800 --> 01:17:27.340
And I just started speaking in tongues because

01:17:27.340 --> 01:17:31.720
I thought I was supposed to. Yeah, I have been

01:17:31.720 --> 01:17:34.539
to one church where I know that they acted like

01:17:34.539 --> 01:17:38.359
that from third party stories. But like when

01:17:38.359 --> 01:17:42.000
I went. I was with like the pastor's son and

01:17:42.000 --> 01:17:43.659
some other friends. And so we just like played

01:17:43.659 --> 01:17:47.000
basketball. And I am so glad I wasn't in that

01:17:47.000 --> 01:17:49.600
congregation because I know I would just like

01:17:49.600 --> 01:17:53.039
look confused. And that's not the energy you're

01:17:53.039 --> 01:17:55.420
supposed to get. You were supposed to be crying.

01:17:55.619 --> 01:17:59.340
Right. And I can't. My face is very readable.

01:18:00.279 --> 01:18:04.079
There's no lying. But all of my feelings about

01:18:04.079 --> 01:18:08.479
religion aside, you saw. the reaction that Whitney's

01:18:08.479 --> 01:18:12.319
dad had to it where he just starts crying. Yeah.

01:18:12.359 --> 01:18:14.659
And I was like, that is beautiful because like

01:18:14.659 --> 01:18:17.159
he felt like, and this is what I do feel about

01:18:17.159 --> 01:18:21.939
Mary as a pastor where she makes people feel

01:18:21.939 --> 01:18:24.220
love. And I think that like, granted that can

01:18:24.220 --> 01:18:26.020
be used for manipulation. I won't take that away

01:18:26.020 --> 01:18:29.199
from anyone, but I feel like Mary does turn that

01:18:29.199 --> 01:18:34.380
on. and yeah he needed that in this moment he

01:18:34.380 --> 01:18:38.539
felt seen and supported in that moment and i

01:18:38.539 --> 01:18:41.079
do feel like there's something to be said for

01:18:41.079 --> 01:18:47.560
as ironic as it is but for an addict going somewhere

01:18:47.560 --> 01:18:52.600
and not just being immediately judged and looked

01:18:52.600 --> 01:18:55.960
down upon but instead people like genuinely wanting

01:18:55.960 --> 01:18:59.890
to help you yeah Even if sometimes their motives

01:18:59.890 --> 01:19:01.409
aren't the best, like they're just trying to

01:19:01.409 --> 01:19:04.989
prove something. It's still like she genuinely

01:19:04.989 --> 01:19:08.310
wanted him to heal in that moment. Yeah. Instead

01:19:08.310 --> 01:19:11.409
of being like, oh, you little crackhead. You

01:19:11.409 --> 01:19:17.010
know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah. We head over to

01:19:17.010 --> 01:19:19.649
Jen's house where the Shaw squad is helping her

01:19:19.649 --> 01:19:22.869
plan or look for the party for. I don't know

01:19:22.869 --> 01:19:26.590
if this is for the baby shower for for Whitney's

01:19:26.590 --> 01:19:30.239
party. But there are literally six people there,

01:19:30.319 --> 01:19:32.119
and she says that they all work for her every

01:19:32.119 --> 01:19:33.880
single day. How much is she paying these people,

01:19:33.939 --> 01:19:34.800
or do you think she's paying them? We've already

01:19:34.800 --> 01:19:38.880
brought this up. I don't know. I go back and

01:19:38.880 --> 01:19:41.880
forth on it. I don't think that they're making

01:19:41.880 --> 01:19:46.500
a livable wage, but also she was funneling in

01:19:46.500 --> 01:19:50.060
a lot of money. That's true. I don't know. I

01:19:50.060 --> 01:19:52.460
like I know some of them came to live with her

01:19:52.460 --> 01:19:54.479
at one point. Like, I mean, she's got this massive

01:19:54.479 --> 01:19:56.479
chalet. So maybe that like she's just like, oh,

01:19:56.539 --> 01:19:58.039
here you work for me. You get a place to live

01:19:58.039 --> 01:20:01.159
and like food. I don't know. Like, I watched

01:20:01.159 --> 01:20:04.699
a Netflix show that was like that. I can't. Oh,

01:20:04.939 --> 01:20:09.220
sirens. Oh, yeah. Yeah. We're like a live in

01:20:09.220 --> 01:20:11.939
assistant. But that was just one girl. Like,

01:20:12.020 --> 01:20:15.539
I can't imagine six people living in your house.

01:20:15.779 --> 01:20:18.300
Also. Two of the people had their faces blurred

01:20:18.300 --> 01:20:20.979
out and like part of me wonders like because

01:20:20.979 --> 01:20:23.079
they wouldn't say they will. They wouldn't sign

01:20:23.079 --> 01:20:24.819
the release. But like part of me wonders is like,

01:20:24.880 --> 01:20:28.340
did they know what was to come this early on?

01:20:28.779 --> 01:20:32.640
Well, I just wonder because Jen is awful to these

01:20:32.640 --> 01:20:36.380
people. I wonder what the turnover rate was like,

01:20:36.420 --> 01:20:39.439
like if they were done working for her before

01:20:39.439 --> 01:20:42.579
the season was even done filming. Maybe. Yeah.

01:20:42.760 --> 01:20:48.359
Oh, God. We at some point I want to watch this.

01:20:48.420 --> 01:20:50.979
We'll probably watch this after season two, but

01:20:50.979 --> 01:20:56.439
like the the Hulu documentary about like what

01:20:56.439 --> 01:20:58.880
was going on, because like you get into like

01:20:58.880 --> 01:21:01.279
her screaming at one of the assistants and like,

01:21:01.300 --> 01:21:06.520
yeah, I wonder like how often that was actually

01:21:06.520 --> 01:21:10.170
going on. Well, yeah, I don't I feel like she

01:21:10.170 --> 01:21:14.090
can't be paying these people a ton of money and

01:21:14.090 --> 01:21:17.289
she's so mean to them. Like you got to get people

01:21:17.289 --> 01:21:19.930
who are only there for a couple of months before

01:21:19.930 --> 01:21:22.909
they throw in the towel. I part of me wonders

01:21:22.909 --> 01:21:27.550
if Jen is someone who gay guys absolutely live

01:21:27.550 --> 01:21:30.510
for, like gay guys love a fabulous woman who

01:21:30.510 --> 01:21:33.189
is larger than life. And that is Jennifer Shaw.

01:21:33.329 --> 01:21:38.819
And I wonder if she like. use that to her advantage

01:21:38.819 --> 01:21:41.539
yeah I wonder if she's like oh come with mama

01:21:41.539 --> 01:21:44.100
shot and like I wonder if she was like better

01:21:44.100 --> 01:21:46.399
to the gay guys than she was to like Stu or whoever

01:21:46.399 --> 01:21:51.979
I don't know I don't know that was her right

01:21:51.979 --> 01:21:56.939
hand man and she was so mean to him oh well she

01:21:56.939 --> 01:21:59.699
got what she had coming if she was ever mean

01:21:59.699 --> 01:22:03.039
to him like because we find out like you'll see

01:22:03.039 --> 01:22:05.760
when the arrest happens but you'll find out that

01:22:05.760 --> 01:22:10.380
like He sold her out like you would not believe.

01:22:10.560 --> 01:22:14.560
And I believe that maybe he would have gone lighter

01:22:14.560 --> 01:22:19.800
on her if not for the way she treated him. I

01:22:19.800 --> 01:22:22.420
don't know. I love Jen Shaw, but that's one thing

01:22:22.420 --> 01:22:25.340
I cannot get past. Once you have a working relationship

01:22:25.340 --> 01:22:32.039
with her, she is mean. Just mean. We go over

01:22:32.039 --> 01:22:34.220
to Beauty Lab for the baby shower and everyone

01:22:34.220 --> 01:22:36.380
shows up and the party actually looks really

01:22:36.380 --> 01:22:39.979
fun. And I feel like it was very cute. And I

01:22:39.979 --> 01:22:43.439
feel like Heather, if she is. I say this. She's

01:22:43.439 --> 01:22:45.539
good at everything. Like, everything we've seen

01:22:45.539 --> 01:22:48.020
her do, she's good at. Yeah, pretty much. I feel

01:22:48.020 --> 01:22:51.159
like she is probably one of the best party planners.

01:22:51.279 --> 01:22:53.220
It's like, yeah, my mom putting on a party. Like,

01:22:53.220 --> 01:22:54.960
I feel like she was always the mom in the neighborhood

01:22:54.960 --> 01:22:57.380
where everyone wanted to be invited to her birthday

01:22:57.380 --> 01:22:59.819
parties. I feel like she's just very thoughtful.

01:23:00.359 --> 01:23:04.359
And she's, like, a very generous lady. Because,

01:23:04.800 --> 01:23:07.079
like, she had to have a pretty nice divorce settlement.

01:23:07.260 --> 01:23:10.079
And she's making money off of Beauty Lab. Billie's

01:23:10.079 --> 01:23:11.520
still taking care of her, too, at this point.

01:23:11.529 --> 01:23:14.670
yeah and so like she's not sparing a dime on

01:23:14.670 --> 01:23:17.350
anything either right which is yeah and so like

01:23:17.350 --> 01:23:20.409
you get all of those factors together and yeah

01:23:20.409 --> 01:23:23.170
she's amazing um heather gives us a confessional

01:23:23.170 --> 01:23:25.630
where she says that she that everything going

01:23:25.630 --> 01:23:28.390
on going on in her life has made her reevaluate

01:23:28.390 --> 01:23:30.350
things and she's decided that she wants to be

01:23:30.350 --> 01:23:33.329
supportive to her daughters figuring out what

01:23:33.329 --> 01:23:37.649
they believe on their own and for a person who

01:23:37.649 --> 01:23:42.420
is as religious as heather was yeah that is Huge.

01:23:42.560 --> 01:23:45.640
Right. And this is something that like I'm actually

01:23:45.640 --> 01:23:48.439
like it made me think a lot about Huck and like

01:23:48.439 --> 01:23:51.600
how Huck is my dad, dear listener. But like where

01:23:51.600 --> 01:23:54.760
he came to where he said, I cannot push my kids

01:23:54.760 --> 01:23:58.180
into the Nazarene church because of like how

01:23:58.180 --> 01:24:01.739
damaging I know it can be. And he let me and

01:24:01.739 --> 01:24:04.800
Zachary figure out what we believed in on our

01:24:04.800 --> 01:24:07.640
own. And I like that's impressive as hell. Well,

01:24:07.720 --> 01:24:11.899
both of my parents were. catholic growing up

01:24:11.899 --> 01:24:16.399
and they both like were so tired of feeling guilty

01:24:16.399 --> 01:24:19.600
and evil all the time that they both stepped

01:24:19.600 --> 01:24:22.279
away from the church and so that's how i grew

01:24:22.279 --> 01:24:24.739
up too they were like we're not gonna judge you

01:24:24.739 --> 01:24:28.119
for whatever you pick if you pick anything but

01:24:28.119 --> 01:24:30.539
like you gotta figure it out on your own because

01:24:30.539 --> 01:24:32.180
we don't know what's going on but i think that's

01:24:32.180 --> 01:24:35.470
how it should be like i think like if you force

01:24:35.470 --> 01:24:37.229
a kid to go to church it's like they're only

01:24:37.229 --> 01:24:39.789
perpetuating like whatever i think i don't know

01:24:39.789 --> 01:24:42.109
like it's hard because some people do have like

01:24:42.109 --> 01:24:45.649
a really good relationship with the church and

01:24:45.649 --> 01:24:48.989
so i get i also understand the viewpoint of like

01:24:48.989 --> 01:24:52.229
wanting to share that with your children and

01:24:52.229 --> 01:24:56.510
like have it be a part of your life and routine

01:24:56.510 --> 01:25:00.880
sure So that's hard. And it's also hard, like,

01:25:00.939 --> 01:25:04.939
if you're going to church every Sunday and you

01:25:04.939 --> 01:25:07.600
want to be that person, I want you to be that

01:25:07.600 --> 01:25:10.680
person. And so it's like, when you have kids,

01:25:10.779 --> 01:25:14.079
I don't think you should stop that necessarily.

01:25:14.739 --> 01:25:18.279
But that's hard. It's hard. For a non -religious

01:25:18.279 --> 01:25:20.100
person, it's very easy for me to look at Jack

01:25:20.100 --> 01:25:22.199
and be like, I'm happy with whatever you want

01:25:22.199 --> 01:25:24.159
to choose. I'm the same way. But if I were going

01:25:24.159 --> 01:25:27.039
to church every week. It's not that I would be

01:25:27.039 --> 01:25:29.539
like, this is what you must believe. And I need

01:25:29.539 --> 01:25:32.340
you to fall into this wholeheartedly. But like,

01:25:32.340 --> 01:25:35.920
I would take him with me every week. Sure. But

01:25:35.920 --> 01:25:38.159
like, I don't know. We'll get into it one day.

01:25:38.220 --> 01:25:41.579
Like, but it's. I don't like being told this

01:25:41.579 --> 01:25:44.239
is what you believe. That's what I think. And

01:25:44.239 --> 01:25:47.039
that's what I was told my whole life by my grandparents.

01:25:47.359 --> 01:25:50.140
Yeah. And like by my dad to a certain degree.

01:25:50.180 --> 01:25:51.699
And then one day he was just like, actually,

01:25:51.840 --> 01:25:54.699
no, we're not doing that anymore. But I do think

01:25:54.699 --> 01:25:59.060
Heather is very admirable. It is like she really

01:25:59.060 --> 01:26:02.779
broke through the level of I don't want to say

01:26:02.779 --> 01:26:05.020
brainwashing, but that's really the only word

01:26:05.020 --> 01:26:09.359
I have. She really like broke through that with

01:26:09.359 --> 01:26:12.060
the LDS and they were like and was like, I just

01:26:12.060 --> 01:26:14.800
want my daughters to be happy. Yeah. And I really

01:26:14.800 --> 01:26:19.909
respect that. I do, too. Heather, Whitney and

01:26:19.909 --> 01:26:23.569
Jen break off on their own. And Jen asks if Mary's

01:26:23.569 --> 01:26:26.369
going to be at Whitney's party. And Whitney's

01:26:26.369 --> 01:26:28.729
like, I like Mary. Like, what's the problem?

01:26:28.829 --> 01:26:31.770
Like, and then Mary or Jen says that Mary's irrelevant

01:26:31.770 --> 01:26:37.140
and then proceeds to go on. about how Mary attacked

01:26:37.140 --> 01:26:39.159
her family. And I'm just like, can we, for the

01:26:39.159 --> 01:26:41.380
love of God, like, can we please let the hospital

01:26:41.380 --> 01:26:44.159
smell comment go? Like, can we please, please?

01:26:44.260 --> 01:26:46.199
Like, is it the most horrendous thing that anyone

01:26:46.199 --> 01:26:47.500
has ever said to anyone? Because we're going

01:26:47.500 --> 01:26:49.119
to get into some of the shit that Jen Shaw said.

01:26:49.380 --> 01:26:53.239
Right. Well, that's the thing is coming from

01:26:53.239 --> 01:26:57.699
Jen. Like if it were Heather, who would never

01:26:57.699 --> 01:27:01.119
hurt a fly. You know, she can be a little messy,

01:27:01.199 --> 01:27:04.060
but she's not saying mean shit left and right.

01:27:04.220 --> 01:27:07.819
Right. And you, like, sort of came for her instead

01:27:07.819 --> 01:27:11.439
of snide comment. I would understand her demanding

01:27:11.439 --> 01:27:15.439
an apology more than I understand Jen Shaw demanding

01:27:15.439 --> 01:27:18.479
an apology. Right. I don't understand. When are

01:27:18.479 --> 01:27:20.479
you going to apologize for everything you've

01:27:20.479 --> 01:27:26.380
said? Well. Then we get into Jen saying that

01:27:26.380 --> 01:27:28.140
she's not OK with Meredith being friends with

01:27:28.140 --> 01:27:30.659
Mary and going to Mary's church because that's

01:27:30.659 --> 01:27:34.659
a personal dig against her. And she she says

01:27:34.659 --> 01:27:38.079
you can't be friends with her and be friends

01:27:38.079 --> 01:27:41.079
with me. I'm not saying to choose. Just tell

01:27:41.079 --> 01:27:45.520
me. Tell you what? If you're not telling me to

01:27:45.520 --> 01:27:46.939
choose, if you're not if you're telling me not

01:27:46.939 --> 01:27:48.460
to choose, then what do I need to tell you? But

01:27:48.460 --> 01:27:51.810
like at the same time. I don't like this. Like,

01:27:51.890 --> 01:27:57.109
here's the thing. You know where I stand on being

01:27:57.109 --> 01:27:59.229
friends with people that you don't fuck with.

01:27:59.949 --> 01:28:01.710
I'm not going to I'm not going to be friends

01:28:01.710 --> 01:28:03.529
with someone who has been rotten as hell to you.

01:28:04.270 --> 01:28:07.409
That being said, I will never, ever, ever tell

01:28:07.409 --> 01:28:10.710
someone who to be friends with. Right. And you

01:28:10.710 --> 01:28:13.229
just have to like you just have to have your

01:28:13.229 --> 01:28:14.810
own friendships with people. And that just has

01:28:14.810 --> 01:28:18.489
to be OK. Yeah, like, let the... I don't know.

01:28:18.550 --> 01:28:21.229
And, like, if you're really that serious, Jen,

01:28:21.350 --> 01:28:24.670
watch their actions and decide for yourself.

01:28:24.989 --> 01:28:28.829
You say, I'm not okay with being friends with

01:28:28.829 --> 01:28:31.350
Meredith if she's friends with Mary. And then

01:28:31.350 --> 01:28:33.729
when you watch her be friends with Mary, you

01:28:33.729 --> 01:28:35.489
have to stop being friends with Meredith. But

01:28:35.489 --> 01:28:38.180
at the same time... I'm telling you right now,

01:28:38.239 --> 01:28:41.000
if anyone on God's green earth is capable of

01:28:41.000 --> 01:28:43.300
being friends with someone and like separating

01:28:43.300 --> 01:28:45.779
their feelings about another person from a friendship,

01:28:45.880 --> 01:28:48.479
it is Meredith Marks. Well, yeah, but I'm just

01:28:48.479 --> 01:28:51.500
saying I don't think Jen is even Jen is looking

01:28:51.500 --> 01:28:53.880
for a compliment here. She's like digging for

01:28:53.880 --> 01:28:56.340
a compliment is the way I see it. Yes, because

01:28:56.340 --> 01:29:00.020
she's like asking if you would ever choose her

01:29:00.020 --> 01:29:02.699
over Mary. It's an honor to be in Jen's circle.

01:29:03.619 --> 01:29:07.739
Christ. OK, so then we head over to the to the

01:29:07.739 --> 01:29:10.279
Roaring Twenties party. I know earlier I said

01:29:10.279 --> 01:29:13.260
I hate a theme, but like I I think the party

01:29:13.260 --> 01:29:20.720
itself seemed fun. Yeah. I didn't like the whole

01:29:20.720 --> 01:29:24.060
entrance situation. I don't. That's I agree.

01:29:24.159 --> 01:29:26.020
That's the thing that I can't deal with. I didn't

01:29:26.020 --> 01:29:28.319
like the like you have to walk into a gift shop

01:29:28.319 --> 01:29:30.079
and tell them you're there for a party and then

01:29:30.079 --> 01:29:32.770
they open the secret door and like. The more

01:29:32.770 --> 01:29:34.090
and more I think about it, I think that's the

01:29:34.090 --> 01:29:36.970
whole kitsch of it. It's like, oh, the gift shop

01:29:36.970 --> 01:29:40.050
doesn't actually sell anything. Yeah. Like, it's

01:29:40.050 --> 01:29:43.130
there for the bar. No, I get it. It's just like,

01:29:43.310 --> 01:29:46.270
they're just such completely different vibes.

01:29:46.529 --> 01:29:49.289
It was, I don't know. Right. But then you go

01:29:49.289 --> 01:29:52.930
in, and I couldn't stand the voice Whitney was

01:29:52.930 --> 01:29:55.569
putting on. The whole, hey. Like, she was trying

01:29:55.569 --> 01:29:57.590
to be Marilyn Monroe. Yeah. Like, I couldn't

01:29:57.590 --> 01:30:01.939
stand it. Well. I just wanted to make sure that

01:30:01.939 --> 01:30:05.739
wasn't going to fall out. That's fine. When he's

01:30:05.739 --> 01:30:09.640
doing a voice, it's okay. It's a lot. There's

01:30:09.640 --> 01:30:12.619
a stripper cowboy, and I was not mad about him.

01:30:13.380 --> 01:30:17.800
Yeah. And then... But, like, why are they there,

01:30:18.039 --> 01:30:19.779
the male strippers? I don't understand. I wasn't

01:30:19.779 --> 01:30:22.220
sure how it fit into the theme, yeah. I don't

01:30:22.220 --> 01:30:24.020
think they were all strippers. I think some of

01:30:24.020 --> 01:30:26.720
them were just... Dancers, whatever. Yeah, but

01:30:26.720 --> 01:30:29.819
they were all naked, and I didn't under... Whatever.

01:30:31.049 --> 01:30:36.210
Sure, Whitney. Whatever you want. Yeah. So then

01:30:36.210 --> 01:30:39.810
Jen shows up late as always and sees Meredith

01:30:39.810 --> 01:30:42.369
talking to Mary and feels very attacked by this.

01:30:45.850 --> 01:30:48.909
Then be attacked. I don't know what to tell you,

01:30:48.949 --> 01:30:54.270
Jen. I really don't know. I don't know. And that's

01:30:54.270 --> 01:30:56.130
that's where we leave off with episode three,

01:30:56.189 --> 01:30:59.859
dear listener. Yeah. Do we call it there? I think

01:30:59.859 --> 01:31:04.020
so. We're at an hour and 45 minutes. So, yeah,

01:31:04.159 --> 01:31:07.720
we had a lot today. Dear listener, thank you

01:31:07.720 --> 01:31:09.840
for listening. Thank you for being here. We love

01:31:09.840 --> 01:31:16.060
you. From Indy to Belgium, I think was one of

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them on the list. We love you. Thank you for

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being here. Share us with your messiest friend.

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See you next time. Bye.