Ask, Tell, Confess: What Hill Are You Willing To Die On

Summary

Podcast Summary: Dumb Blonde – "Ask, Tell, Confess: What Hill Are You Willing To Die On"

Release Date: December 12, 2025
Host & Guests: Bunnie XO, Jaime, Mimi, Jason, Haley

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Overview

In this lively, candid roundtable episode, Bunnie XO welcomes friends to a playful but brutally honest "Ask, Tell, Confess" session. The main theme: everyone reveals the pettiest, silliest, or most meaningless “hill they’re willing to die on”—those stubborn opinions they just can’t let go of, no matter how trivial. The crew’s confessions spark a cascade of debate, laughs, and deeper dives into relationships, family dynamics, airplane etiquette, trauma, and internet culture. The tone is comedic, real, and relatable, with raw personal moments alongside hilarious (and occasionally heated) rants.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Holiday Plans and Feelings (02:42–05:25)

• The group chats about what they're doing for Christmas and New Year's. For some, it’s all-out family festivities; others are escaping to Vegas.
  • Quote: “My mom's holiday, guys. She goes all out so it has to be spent in her home. She’s been preparing for this.” — Jaime (03:23)
  • Some feel the holiday spirit has faded: “Each year it gets more and more like that.” — Jason (04:29)
  • The group jokes about ice skating and the risks involved, segueing into grisly urban legends (severed fingers from skate blades).

2. Main Topic: Petty Hills Worth Dying On (05:33–33:32)

a. Grammar Grievances (05:44–07:03)

• Jaime’s hill: The “lose/loose” spelling mistake.
  • Quote: "You lose loose change. Your team did not loose you did not loose your wallet!" — Jason (05:46)
  • Mimi delivers a memorable mnemonics lesson: “The one that has two O's means like something's vagina…loose vagina, two lips, two O’s.” (06:41–07:00)
  • Jaime admits lifelong struggle with the difference due to dyslexia.

b. Airplane Etiquette Debates (07:11–12:32, 17:17–12:32)

• Reclining seats in economy is hotly contested.
  • Haley: “If you’re on an airplane and you recline your seat in economy… in my opinion because those 2 inches…you're not comfortable and you’ve made me uncomfortable sitting behind you.” (09:17)
  • Mimi takes the selfish view: “Who gives a—. I don’t get paid good money to fly. I know we're gonna be coming.” (11:02)
• Other annoyances: open windows on 7am flights, bare feet on armrests (“raw dog,” “bare bunion”), hogging the bathroom, and using overhead lights when plane is dark.
• Memorable Group Moment: “I will chew somebody’s toe off. Dude, do not do that.” — Mimi (11:30)
• General consensus: lack of situational awareness on planes is rage-inducing.

c. Situational Awareness & Grocery Store Despair (12:48–16:29)

• The group broadens out: situational cluelessness in grocery stores.
  • Jaime loves browsing, couponing, and finds joy in shopping; the rest hate it—fluorescent lights, noise, self-checkouts yelling, and repetitive unloading.
  • “What is the point of grocery shopping? You get in your car, you drive to a store…have to take everything out…put it back in the cart…” — Bunny (13:27)
  • Jason and Mimi: prefer delivery, find it anxiety-inducing, hate Trader Joe's crowds.
  • Insight: Instacart may be convenient but is pricier and misses deals/coupons.

d. Influencers & Toxic Social Media Trends (21:33–24:10)

• Mimi and Jaime fume over parents live-streaming their kids' punishments.
  • “When is enough enough? When are these streaming sites going to be like, people are literally dying trying to live stream crazy.” — Mimi (23:39)
• A sub-rant about influencer couples faking drama for money (Nirali and Laura case).
  • Quote: “They’re scam artists that made millions…when money gets low, they come online and pretend to fight and they pretend to break up.” — Mimi (22:05)
  • The group finds this ecosystem harmful—both for viewers and children involved.

e. Parenting, Generations, and Social Media Exposure (24:10–28:48)

• Jaime draws a line between “bedroom kids” (sent to entertain themselves in their rooms) and “living room kids” (kids who want to be with their parents).
  • “Sometimes we get very overstimulated because Jason and I were raised as bedroom kids and we are raising living room kids.” — Jaime (24:46)
• The struggle with children’s exposure to internet culture and parental reliance on screens as babysitters is highlighted.

f. Cutting Off Toxic Family Isn’t a Trend—It’s Self-Preservation (29:30–31:42)

• “Cutting toxic family off is not a trend. It's protecting your peace.” — Read by Jaime (29:30)
  • Old-school “blood is blood” attitudes (keep family together no matter what) don’t hold for Gen X/Millennials; many have cut relatives out for decades.
  • Mimi: “I literally just blocked another family member last night. If somebody doesn’t make you feel safe, seen or comfortable, cut that off. It doesn’t matter who they are.” (30:04)
  • The group discusses how, once older generations die, families often splinter; the pressure of forced togetherness is artificial.

g. Final Personal Notes on Family & Support (31:42–33:32)

• Jason shares about having a close, loving family, and how his grandmother (“nanny”) is their biggest cheerleader online, defending them in comments and buying merch.
  • Quote: “My nanny is my number one supporter…I’ll see her in comments like going back at people…She’s subscribed to everything.” — Jason (32:49–33:07)
• The camaraderie between the group is palpable—ending in jokes about not getting too sentimental.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On airplane seat recliners:
  “If you’re on an airplane and you recline your seat in economy… you’re not comfortable and you’ve made me uncomfortable sitting behind you.” — Haley (09:17)
• The mnemonic lesson:
  “Loose vagina, two lips, two O’s.” — Mimi (06:41)
• On grocery shopping hell:
  “You get in your car… have to take everything out… put it back in the cart… then you have to take the cart out to your car, load that car up, put the cart away, drive all the way home, and then you have to unload the groceries from that car, take them inside your house, and unload them again.” — Bunny (13:27)
• On influencer drama:
  “They’re scam artists that made millions…when money gets low, they come online and pretend to fight and they pretend to break up.” — Mimi (22:05)
• On toxic family:
  “If somebody doesn’t make you feel safe, seen or comfortable, cut that off. It doesn’t matter who they are.” — Mimi (30:04)
• On found family:
  “My nanny is my number one supporter…I’ll see her in comments like going back at people…She’s subscribed to everything.” — Jason (32:49–33:07)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Holiday plans & feelings: 02:42–05:25
• Grammar hills (lose/loose): 05:44–07:03
• Airplane etiquette: 07:11–12:32
• Grocery store debates: 12:48–16:29
• Trader Joe’s anxiety: 16:12–21:19
• Influencer/streaming rants: 21:33–24:10
• Parenting & generations: 24:10–28:48
• Cutting off toxic family: 29:30–31:42
• On found family and support: 31:42–33:32

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Tone & Vibe

Casual, irreverent, and extremely relatably—equal parts therapy session, roast, and group chat. The friends bounce between laughs, petty grievances, and real talk about personal boundaries and modern struggles, blending humor and heart.

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Useful For

This episode is a must-listen for anyone who loves authenticity, laughs at petty quirks, or wonders if they’re alone in hating self-checkout, airplane etiquette, or their distant relatives. The mix of humor, nostalgia, and vulnerability is quintessential Dumb Blonde.

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End of Summary

Transcript

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[Mimi]

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[Bunny]

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[Jaime]

Ask tell Confess. Ask to confess.

[Mimi]

Hello friends.

[Jaime]

Welcome back to another episode of.

[Jason]

I Can't wait. I Can't whistle.

[Bunny]

Hello buddies. How are you guys doing?

[Jaime]

I'm doing good. How about you?

[Mimi]

I'm just, you know, great.

[Jason]

I haven't seen you in a while.

[Bunny]

I know.

[Jaime]

Holiday season guys.

[Jason]

Yeah, you guys.

[Jaime]

In weeks.

[Bunny]

What are you guys doing for Christmas? Anything spectacular?

[Jason]

Go home.

[Jaime]

No, you're going home for yours.

[Jason]

I just like to go.

[Jaime]

Going right up the road.

[Mimi]

Jaime, what are you doing?

[Haley]

I'm going home. See my mama and family.

[Bunny]

I love that.

[Jaime]

Yeah.

[Jason]

I'm actually going to Branson, Missouri. Yeah.

[Bunny]

Misery.

[Jason]

Yeah.

[Jaime]

Why?

[Jason]

My dad, my stepmom are taking all of us kids on a trip instead of just doing it at their house.

[Jaime]

Oh, I love that.

[Jason]

That's fun.

[Jaime]

I've literally told my mom that all the time. But this is my mom's holiday, guys. She goes all out so it has to be spent in her home. She prepares. She's been preparing for this.

[Jason]

I don't. We've done like a summer trip where we went to like, like a beach or whatever, but we've never done like Christmas. And we have like, we all have matching pajamas and I think it's the cutest thing ever. I've never done that before.

[Bunny]

Such a family. Yeah.

[Mimi]

Such a family. We're laying low and then we're taking off to Vegas, baby.

[Jaime]

Yeah.

[Bunny]

Can't wait.

[Mimi]

Vegas for New Year's. I hate the holidays. I'm not that like I love Christmas.

[Bunny]

Don'T get me wrong.

[Mimi]

I love Christmas time. I love Christmas music. But I feel like the world just slows down so much and it's like let's get back to the frickin grind.

[Jaime]

I love it. This is my favorite.

[Jason]

I love to slow down.

[Jaime]

Yeah, it's the slowdown before the huge pickup at the beginning of the year.

[Jason]

But I don't like it for too long.

[Jaime]

Right.

[Jason]

I get what you mean. Like I can't be slow for too long. Cuz then I'm like I'm not doing anything.

[Mimi]

I feel like this Thanksgiving and Christmas just haven't felt like Thanksgiving and Christmas.

[Jason]

No, it didn't.

[Jaime]

Right now it doesn't feel like Christmas time to me.

[Jason]

Each year it gets more and more like that.

[Mimi]

Yeah, it's like less and less.

[Jaime]

Mine starts to gear up when it gets a little closer. Cuz I've got kids. But I think the magic of it in the home, the older you get. But once you have a family, it's going to change dramatically. Or if you had a significant other to do holiday stuff with. Haley. Yeah. See, you know how it is. You guys can go do holiday stuff. They just opened the skating rink in Murphy's borough. Do you guys want to go ice skating?

[Haley]

Yeah, I do, but I will fall, I think. I haven't done it a couple years.

[Jason]

I've never went.

[Jaime]

I.

[Mimi]

Ice skating falls are the worst.

[Jason]

You're expecting me to roll around on a razor Blade.

[Mimi]

Yeah. Bye.

[Jaime]

I put you on one of the kids things and push you.

[Mimi]

I'll do that. I've heard people have gotten their fingers severed off because somebody went over there with an ice skating blade. You can get a finger sawed off.

[Bunny]

Yeah. Didn't know that, did you?

[Mimi]

All right, well, today the topic on Ask, Tell Confess is going to be.

[Bunny]

What is the pettiest, silliest, most meaningless hill you are willing to die on? Who would like to go first?

[Jaime]

I'll go.

[Mimi]

Go.

[Jason]

This one says you lose loose change. Your team did not loose you did not loose your wallet. You don't have lose change. Someone said this is my Waterloo.

[Jaime]

I get it.

[Mimi]

Yeah. That drives me crazy, too. So I get it.

[Jaime]

I'm that person. I'll misspell it in a heartbeat. Yeah.

[Mimi]

Oh, you are?

[Jaime]

Yes.

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[Mimi]

Oh, gosh.

[Jason]

Oh, and no, we have.

[Bunny]

I'm confused.

[Jaime]

What are you guys saying?

[Jason]

Got it.

[Jaime]

All right.

[Jason]

That.

[Mimi]

No, that pisses me off too. Loose and lose are two different things.

[Jaime]

Yeah. No, I don't have the comprehension. I literally can't.

[Mimi]

Well, she's dyslexic too, so that could.

[Jason]

Okay, you get a pass.

[Jaime]

Yeah. No, I literally can't understand differences in them. You could explain it all day long. I'm not going to comprehend it. Yeah.

[Haley]

Do you know the theirs ones, just.

[Mimi]

One has one arrow and the other. The one that has two O's means like something's vagina.

[Jason]

A loose tooth.

[Jaime]

Okay.

[Mimi]

Loose vagina. You'll never forget it.

[Jaime]

What the.

[Bunny]

She'll never.

[Jaime]

This is wild.

[Mimi]

You'll never forget it, though. Now you will never forget it. When you look at the word that has two O's, you're going to be like loose vagina, two lips, two O's.

[Jason]

Think about it like that.

[Jaime]

I'm a try, guys, but can't promise.

[Mimi]

Yeah, I may had a hill that he was willing to die on that we actually disagree on.

[Jaime]

Yep. Very much.

[Mimi]

I may tell people the hill I.

[Haley]

Will die on is if you're on an airplane and you recline your seat in economy.

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[Haley]

See mintmobile.com in economy you cannot do that in my opinion because those 2 inches of you're not comfortable and you've made me uncomfortable sitting behind you.

[Mimi]

Well, you know, you could recline your seat too. Yeah, but then the person and get those and get those two inches back. You know, didn't think about that and everyone just stares. I mean it's a domino. Yeah, let's be comfortable. Especially if we're stuck on a plane for three to four hours, you.

[Haley]

Yeah, I'm sorry.

[Jason]

When we went to Europe, I reclined.

[Haley]

Yeah, that's different. That's a different recline. I'm talking like if you're traveling within United States, I've. I've done the reclining and it's not comfortable. So to me, if you do it, you're making me more uncomfortable than your comfortable. Like you're not as comfortable as you could be if it was a better recliner.

[Mimi]

No sitting up. I cannot. I hate sitting up like this the whole time. I have to lean back a little bit because I don't know, it's like my anxiety from sitting up straight. I can't do it. But you're always welcome to recline your seat back too.

[Jaime]

This is crazy because I'm on. I'm on Jaime side of the fence here. Really, I am. Only because I'm a forward person. So, like, I like to go forward.

[Jason]

I put the tray down this. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, see, I'm not like that either.

[Jaime]

I gotta go forward with it. Well, I've had like five back surgery, so any kind of pressure backwards is like. It really kills me. So I have to go forward.

[Mimi]

But if somebody puts their seat back, that gives you an easier access to laying forward, right?

[Jaime]

No, it does not.

[Haley]

Oh, it makes the ride way more like it goes from it being here to now you're here. So now like, okay, we could have just been here. But now your. Your 1 inch movement has made.

[Jason]

If you experience back a little bit more and then came forward when it.

[Haley]

Yeah, but I'm not doing what you're doing to the person behind me.

[Mimi]

Who gives a. I don't know.

[Jason]

You don't.

[Mimi]

I don't get paid good money to fly. I know we're gonna be coming.

[Jason]

That doesn't bother me as much as. Why do you have your window open on a 7am flight?

[Mimi]

Sonny?

[Jason]

Everyone else, just the present.

[Jaime]

Clothes.

[Jason]

Fucking shut it.

[Haley]

Going to sleep, we can agree on.

[Mimi]

I love to. I'm one of those people who loves to have my window open, but not when the sun is shining directly outside.

[Jason]

And not when I'm the only one. I feel like everyone's staring at me.

[Mimi]

My thing is, my pet peeve on an airplane and hill I will die on is. Do not put your feet up. No, on the armrest in between you. That there. I will chew somebody's toe off. Dude, do not do that.

[Jaime]

And they raw dog it too.

[Mimi]

Oh, just bare bunion.

[Haley]

I see Yeah, I agree with that.

[Jaime]

Bear bunion.

[Mimi]

I can't do it, dude.

[Jaime]

No. Taking shoes off in a plane. Bear no socks and just putting them place. Nope.

[Mimi]

No, no.

[Jaime]

I can't handle it. There's so many things on a plane.

[Mimi]

That taking forever in the bathroom. Like when there's a line for the bathroom. Like, what are you doing in there? No, like, I know it doesn't take that long to.

[Jaime]

If you know you have sleep apnea, you should not be allowed to sleep on a plane.

[Bunny]

No.

[Haley]

Yeah.

[Mimi]

Or the people when the plane is completely dark and they have their light on. I'm like, bro, what are we doing?

[Jaime]

Yeah, just be part of the group. Turn it off.

[Mimi]

Yeah, like, turn it off.

[Jason]

Read the room, read the plane.

[Mimi]

Yeah, that'll use your phone light. You know what I'm saying?

[Jaime]

Like, don't make it a quickie. What do you need?

[Jason]

Lights. That's the same thing with like. Like when you're getting on the plane and the person's just standing in the middle of the aisle, like putting something up, getting things out. It's like move and then get it.

[Jaime]

Scoot in.

[Jason]

People don't have, like, situational awareness.

[Jaime]

Situational awareness. So important. Someone wrote in on that one. To the hill to die on is situation awareness in a grocery store. I know you guys don't.

[Jason]

Grocery store.

[Jaime]

Yeah, like, I love to grocery store shop. It is. I. I go to Walmart on a weekly basis. I love to go to Kroger. I will sometimes Instacart, but I enjoy grocery shopping so much.

[Jason]

And.

[Jaime]

And both of you guys can't handle it.

[Mimi]

The fluorescent lighting pisses me off.

[Jason]

It's the check out.

[Mimi]

Hurts my eyes.

[Jason]

I get anxiety at the checkout.

[Mimi]

What is the point of grocery shopping? Let's really talk about this, okay?

[Bunny]

You get in your car, you drive to a store, you get out of your car, you grab a cart, you.

[Mimi]

Go down every aisle and pile shit in that cart. When you're done, you get to the checkout and have to take everything out of that cart just to put it in bags to put it back in the cart. And then you have to take the cart out to your car, load that car up, put the cart away, drive all the way home, and then you have to unload the groceries from that car, take them inside your house, and unload them again.

[Jason]

And that's why I just open my door and it's right there.

[Mimi]

Yeah.

[Haley]

I've never actually thought about it.

[Mimi]

Oh, I have. I don't want fucking anxiety. No, the fucking. The lights the noise?

[Jason]

No.

[Bunny]

The smells.

[Jason]

And normally you have to self check out because no one works at a cash register anymore. And then it's yelling at me that I need to remove something from the bagging area.

[Haley]

Yeah.

[Jason]

It's not even there. And then I have anxiety, and then everyone's. I feel like I'm holding up the entire line, and everyone's just, like, waiting on me to check out, and I just start panicking.

[Jaime]

Go ahead.

[Mimi]

Tell us what you love about that.

[Jaime]

Yeah, all of it. It was great. I enjoy it.

[Haley]

I get it.

[Jaime]

Yeah.

[Jason]

Yeah.

[Jaime]

I'm also not a stagnant grocery shopper in which, like, I know exactly what I want. I don't keep the same things in my house. It's like. It's a mood. So it's like, that week, I might be into something different. I got to go browse. What if there's something new? I won't know. Not everything.

[Mimi]

I feel like I can see everything more.

[Jaime]

No, not everything's on the app. And someone accidentally left my receipt in there the other day. You guys know how much of a price difference it is?

[Jason]

I don't care.

[Jaime]

You care when it's, like, a hundred dollars more.

[Mimi]

What's a hundred dollars more like?

[Jaime]

It was a grocery bill. It was a hundred dollars more because of the prices. So if you go on the Kroger app, like, let's say Kroger, they don't take the markdowns. They charge more. So that Instacart will literally charge you this set amount.

[Mimi]

Don't care.

[Jaime]

But it's all on sale at Kroger, so you can go there, and they have coupons that you get to.

[Mimi]

Now you're taking I'm a Midwest mom coupons, Sally. Oh, all right. All right.

[Jaime]

You cut them on the app, and then you just put your little number in, and they all come out and buy one, get one. I get those magnesium gummies. Buy one, get one. There. They're like, $8.

[Haley]

I'm with you, Mimi, on that one.

[Mimi]

I'm going to have a lot of.

[Jason]

Wives on that one.

[Mimi]

Mimi. You're going to have a lot of housewives who agree with you. I don't care. Me and Haley agree. That's all that matters.

[Jaime]

You guys are the. You guys are the same person when it comes to this. Me and Jaime, I made walks to Trader Joe's.

[Mimi]

I also goes for walks at midnight in the middle of strange cities.

[Jaime]

Okay. Yeah, you.

[Jason]

I cannot go into Trader Joe's ever again.

[Mimi]

Why?

[Jason]

I went one time, and it was so many people. It's so much anxiety.

[Haley]

It's worse than a regular grocery store.

[Mimi]

Why is every Trader Joe so small?

[Jaime]

Tiny, but tiny outside.

[Mimi]

They're not right and then everything's stock this.

[Bunny]

And to be honest, some of the stuff looks dirty in there. You know, starting your own business or podcast sounds glamorous until you're suddenly the host, editor, marketer, accountant and social media manager all at once. It's intimidating and honestly, it can get really lonely when you're figuring it out as you go. When we launched the Dumb Blonde podcast.

[Mimi]

We had no clue how many hats we'd have to wear.

[Bunny]

We were learning everything on the fly and wishing we had someone or something.

[Mimi]

To help us build the business side without the burnout.

[Bunny]

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[Jaime]

I will be honest. They have like the highest recall rates.

[Mimi]

Wow.

[Jaime]

Because everything's so fresh. So it's like there's the difference of like going to Kroger where you have like a lot of gmo. And then like Trader Joe's is like, you don't have as much genetically modified at Trader Joe's. So then you get a lot of like, the rawness of the foods. And then you get so many more recalls due to it. Like this.

[Mimi]

Trader Joe does have some cool though. Like that chili crispy. That crispy chili.

[Jaime]

Yes.

[Mimi]

Stuff.

[Jaime]

Oh, yeah. He got me onto their sourdough fire.

[Jason]

Is it good?

[Haley]

So good.

[Jaime]

So it's the best sourdough tomorrow.

[Jason]

Yeah, maybe I'll go back to maybe. You can't instacart from Trader Joe's. No, that's why I start working on.

[Mimi]

Remember I vlogged it and I was like, I'm never doing that again. That was horrific.

[Jaime]

Yeah. No, you're right though. Like, I've never been so close to people grocery shopping before. Like that. Talking about situational awareness. They don't. They'll bring your cart right to your ankles. And I'm like, my guy, I'm just trying to shop here. No, but Kroger, I wanted a shadow.

[Mimi]

I'd go outside you know?

[Jason]

God, that's funny.

[Mimi]

All right, who's next? Me.

[Jaime]

Go for you.

[Mimi]

Who you thought you'd never ask one.

[Bunny]

Of the hills that this person said.

[Mimi]

That they would die on. This is one that I'll die on. And I agree with this person.

[Bunny]

This is fudgeing.

[Mimi]

Getting so bad.

[Jaime]

Dude.

[Mimi]

This person said, live streaming your kids punishment. I screenshotted that too. But it's not just live streaming your kids punishments.

[Jason]

Sometimes I get overstimulated.

[Mimi]

That's like.

[Jaime]

But you can't help it. Sometimes it's literally forced onto your feet.

[Jason]

Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Like, they've normalized it now.

[Jaime]

Exactly.

[Jason]

It's crazy that that shit's not like the Laura Lee and Narali and Laura. That whole thing also, that get that.

[Mimi]

They'Re a scam artist. They're scam artists that made millions of dollars off of. We can talk about it. But they. It's Nirali and Laura, right?

[Jaime]

Yeah.

[Mimi]

Nirali and Laura are a couple. And this couple, they. What they do is when money gets low, they come online and they pretend to fight and they pretend to break up. This last time, Narali was posting videos of Laura outside. What shoving. Wasn't she a toaster?

[Jason]

Like, exposing all her new stuff too.

[Mimi]

And it's disgusting. And so what they would do is they would put swipe ups and they ended up making like, what, $1.7 million in a month off of all of this. And they were posting it on Instagram. And Instagram wasn't shutting them down like they're scam artists. But people are so desperate for some sort of, like, trash TV that this is what they're trash tv. And it's literally like, it's disgusting.

[Jason]

It's not healthy for the kids in this situation.

[Jaime]

The difference is we were raised on trash TV that was made up.

[Mimi]

Yeah.

[Jaime]

TV, like, that we watched was.

[Mimi]

So the majority of it was made up. There was some.

[Jaime]

There was, of course. But like, a lot of it is so staged and dramatized that this. These people acting these things out. It's actual. It's happening. Yeah. In their lives. And they don't realize TV is TV for a reason.

[Mimi]

Yeah.

[Jaime]

This isn't normal. No.

[Mimi]

It's so bad. And I. I just. To go back to what this person said. Sorry that we went off on that ramp. But it's like, when is enough enough? When are these streaming sites going to be like, people are literally dying.

[Jaime]

Yes.

[Mimi]

Trying to live stream crazy. There. There was a creator who was streaming while they were Driving and flipped a vehicle and it's like that. Then that's when they kick him off, you know, and it's like they should have mods that are already seeing what's going on and there should be heavy.

[Bunny]

Heavy penalties for crazy live stream.

[Mimi]

If not, we're gonna have kids out here doing with cars. Like, it's just like, dude, this stuff is scary. Like if this is what our world is turning to, we have no hope, man.

[Jaime]

No, it scares the, like raising children in this generation right now scares me so much. My kids don't really do Internet, you know, you can. I, I literally cannot expose them to what we are looking at right now as Internet. And I know so many parents who let kids of my daughter's age on social media and I'm like, that's an issue.

[Mimi]

And it's because they don't want to.

[Jaime]

Entertain their kid a thousand percent. It is exactly that. It's a babysitter. Yeah, it's a free babysitter. Oh, here, sit. Scroll. Doom. Scroll. You're going to be quiet and you're not going to bug me. I couldn't imagine the funniest thing though. Jason and I realized, like sometimes we get very overstimulated because Jason and I were raised as bedroom kids and we are raising living room kids. Holy crap. There's a difference in the two and I'm so thankful for it. But like, I know you look kind of confused over there.

[Mimi]

I was a bedroom kid too.

[Jaime]

A bedroom kid is like, you were raised to like go to your room and entertain yourself. Yeah, right.

[Haley]

Well, I didn't have a room for a minute, but yeah.

[Mimi]

What happened?

[Haley]

I don't have a room. I haven't had like my own room for a while.

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[Jaime]

8Th.

[Haley]

Grade, maybe 7th grade yeah, I slept on like the last one. I remember I slept on the couch for a couple years in the living room.

[Jaime]

Jason just told me he he slept on a couch for years because he didn't have a window in his room.

[Haley]

Well, yeah, well, it's because my mom left my dad and it was one of those situations where it just took one time where she saw something. She's like, my kids aren't going to be in this took me and my sister bounced out of there.

[Jaime]

Good for her. Quicker.

[Haley]

I respect her to this day for that because I'm just like, like imagine that excuse of well, we're staying together for the kids or whatever. But like, yeah, good for mom. But yeah, but the difference. Please explain.

[Jaime]

Well, yeah, no, it's like I it's like the kids who are like forced to their rooms so it's like their entertainment comes from the rooms and it's like a big separation in families. My kids, I almost have to sometimes force them into their rooms and being like, don't you want to go like play in a room or something? They're like, nope, perfectly content here with you. And I'm like, I'm a good mom. I swear. Just sometimes you get over stimulated because it's like they've got the TV going and then like Cash is running around and Jason's doing something and like the phones are going and like. But then I have to like sit back and be like, I'm raising living room kids. That my kids feel so comfortable being with us versus wanting to go hide in their rooms and isolate themselves.

[Jason]

My kid and, yes, I was a bedroom kid.

[Jaime]

You were a bedroom kid.

[Mimi]

A lot of our generation and before and below were.

[Jason]

Well, that's because I like to move my room around and redecorate.

[Mimi]

Oh, I did that. Did you do that also? That's why I paint every one of my houses and customize my houses because I cannot. I cannot sit in white walls because I was grounded so much. The only thing I was allowed to do was paint and redecorate.

[Jason]

I moved my room. They'd get so mad at me because I would move that by myself.

[Mimi]

Yeah, Same like.

[Jason]

Like giant dressers and everything. And they'd be like, you better not be scooting that across the carpet and it up. I'm like, I'm not. So I do it so slowly so they wouldn't hear me.

[Haley]

Yeah.

[Jaime]

That's so funny, dude.

[Jason]

I know.

[Mimi]

All right, who's next?

[Jaime]

This was actually kind of, like, into what we were just talking about. Cutting toxic family off is not a trend. It's protecting your peace. Yeah. That is so important because I was always raised, blood is blood. And you got to, like, keep family members in your life because they're blood. And it wasn't until I got older that I realized that blood meant nothing.

[Mimi]

Yeah, absolutely. I don't think anybody is. Who's cutting their family out is considering it a trend.

[Jaime]

Oh, it. On social media, it is. Oh, absolutely. I have seen that a million times.

[Mimi]

That's so sad.

[Jaime]

Yes. And it's like, that's not a trend. That's literally.

[Mimi]

I've been cutting toxic family offered 30 years, 40 years, deuces, you know, that's. It's never been a trend for me. It's just protecting your piece. I literally just blocked another family member last night just because I'm just tired of it, you know, I think if somebody doesn't make you feel safe, seen or comfortable, cut that off.

[Jaime]

Yeah.

[Mimi]

It doesn't matter who they are.

[Jaime]

There was that generation, like, before us that was like, blood is blood. Like, you gotta, like, keep families together.

[Mimi]

To be like that, or. Yeah, no, I get it. Trust me.

[Jaime]

Exactly. Go give that uncle a hug or whatever. Like that. And it's like. Yeah, like, that's how I feel. Like there was that generation. And it was like, once those grandparents started to die off, you saw so many families disperse and never speak again.

[Mimi]

Yeah.

[Jaime]

It's so crazy how that, like, monumental person in a family can hold a unit together. And when that person Passes. You realize how much you don't have in common. It's truly shocking. You can, like, zoom out and be like, oh, I don't actually like you as a person.

[Mimi]

Oh, yeah.

[Jaime]

Truly.

[Mimi]

Yeah. And I don't like anybody in my family. I literally was born into the wrong family.

[Jaime]

You think so?

[Jason]

Yeah.

[Mimi]

100. Who do I talk to in my family?

[Jaime]

Yeah.

[Mimi]

Not one person. And if I do talk to a family member, if I do talk to a family member, it's not blood. It's an outside family member. Like my cousin Mary Beth. Love her to death. And, like, that's about it.

[Jaime]

Yeah. Yeah. That you and I are very similar in that we were talking about how, like, like, your family.

[Jason]

My family's so close.

[Mimi]

She.

[Jaime]

She comes from such a beautiful family. Yeah. And I, like, I.

[Jason]

It's very, very thankful for that, too.

[Jaime]

A hundred freaking. You've got, like, that typical, like, how.

[Mimi]

Did I like me?

[Jason]

Mom loved you.

[Mimi]

I finally got to meet mom.

[Jason]

You know, she actually.

[Mimi]

Enough about you, let's talk about me. How did mom like you?

[Jason]

No, she. She actually came to me. She said it meant a lot of thought that you hugged her at the end like you were leaving. And you're like, I want to give mom a hug. She said that meant a lot to her.

[Mimi]

Well, she made the most beautiful human, so I have to love her, you know?

[Bunny]

Okay.

[Mimi]

Anyways, let's not be gay. Let's not be gay.

[Jason]

Yeah.

[Mimi]

I love you guys, but no, you're. Your family. Says what? Your dad love Shake and bake is hot, by the way, and he's got a hot wife.

[Jaime]

Yeah, Patty's hot.

[Mimi]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, they're great.

[Jaime]

You have a really beautiful family. Your grandparents. Are you kidding me? Make me cry.

[Mimi]

Oh, dude, Grandpa's so cool. Oh, the one that's in the cornfields. Yeah, yeah.

[Jaime]

Your granny. I love them so much. She comments on everything.

[Jason]

Oh, my girl. My nanny is my number one. Number one supporter.

[Mimi]

She's always been some crazy.

[Jason]

She has.

[Jaime]

Yeah. Has heard it.

[Jason]

She's like, I just don't play them in front of your grandpa anymore.

[Mimi]

Shout out nanny for having her back, though.

[Jaime]

100 always.

[Jason]

And she'll be in comments. I'll see her in comments, like, going at people if they. She's like, I just hate that they say such mean things to you guys. I'm like, it's okay. We get it all the time. But I'll see her in comments, like, going back at people. And I was like, go, nanny. She's on. She's subscribed. To, like, all of, like, all of our Facebooks, all of our YouTube. She subscribed to, like, everything.

[Jaime]

I love those supporters.

[Jason]

She buys your merch.

[Mimi]

Like, she doesn't need to buy it. We'll just send her boxes of it. All right, guys, if you guys loved this episode, let us know and we'll do a part two possibly, but love you guys. See you guys next week. Bye.