Our Toxic Traits, Fav Guilty Pleasure Books & Crying On Your Birthday

Summary

House of Maher Podcast Episode Summary
Episode Title: Our Toxic Traits, Fav Guilty Pleasure Books & Crying On Your Birthday
Release Date: April 29, 2025
Presented by: Wave Originals, Samsung Galaxy

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1. Introduction and Nickname Origins

In this lively episode of House of Maher, sisters Ilona (“Alona”), Olivia, and Adriana (“Dre Baby”) Maher kick off the conversation with playful banter about Adriana’s beloved nickname, “Dre Baby.” Adriana reminisces, “[00:30] I remember he called me Dre,” referencing a high school boyfriend, though Alona quickly refutes this, insisting Olivia coined the nickname herself. Olivia clarifies, “[02:31] I come up with a gazillion nicknames for her,” highlighting her creative streak. The sisters laugh and tease each other, establishing a warm and humorous dynamic right from the start.

2. Living Arrangements and Roommate Stories

The discussion transitions to their living situations, with Alona sharing her experience of finding a roommate through Facebook Marketplace. “[24:42] I found this great girl in San Diego,” Alona explains, detailing the challenges of moving and setting up a new home. Adriana adds, “[26:23] We very much cohabitate in a just a very respectful manner,” emphasizing the harmony in their shared living spaces despite differing lifestyles. Olivia reflects on her past roommate experiences in New York City, describing a “four-bed” setup that was both chaotic and quintessentially New York. The sisters delve into the pros and cons of living with family versus friends, ultimately celebrating the unique bond they share as roommates.

3. Toxic Traits and Personal Flaws

Addressing their personal imperfections, the sisters engage in an honest and humorous segment about their toxic traits. Olivia admits, “[16:20] My crime is carrying too much,” referring to her tendency to overextend herself to keep others happy. Adriana counters with, “[16:31] I think the worst thing about me is my tendency to be a know-it-all,” showcasing her confidence in her opinions. Alona shares her struggles with mood management, stating, “[18:58] I'm working on my moods thing,” while emphasizing the importance of physical strength for mental well-being. The conversation highlights their commitment to personal growth and self-awareness, fostering a supportive environment among the sisters.

4. Favorite Guilty Pleasure Books

Turning to their favorite guilty pleasure books, Adriana enthusiastically recommends Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton. “[52:01] It's just so well done. It's so funny,” she praises, noting how the book helped her reconnect with therapy. Olivia echoes Adriana’s sentiments, appreciating the book’s insights into female friendships and personal struggles. In contrast, Adriana humorously criticizes Ice Planet Barbarians, a romantic sci-fi series Olivia gifted her. “[54:08] I couldn't even,” Adriana confesses, leading to playful teasing about re-gifting unwanted books. The sisters then shift to their shared love for romance novels, with Alona highlighting Beauty and the Billionaire from Olivia’s Billionaire Boys Club series. “[61:44] That's insane,” Alona exclaims, while Olivia defends the series’ entertaining premise. This segment underscores their varied literary tastes and the role of books in their personal and professional lives.

5. Crying on Birthdays and Age Reflections

A heartfelt discussion ensues as the sisters reflect on their feelings about aging, particularly focusing on Adriana’s impending 26th birthday. Adriana shares, “[44:45] Yes, I think I'm very sure of myself,” expressing excitement and anticipation for personal growth in her mid-20s. Olivia adds, “[44:45] 26 for me was the first year that I felt kind of, like, weird to say,” describing the emotional impact of moving further away from her younger self. Adriana introduces her guiding mantra, “[47:03] Do it scared,” inspired by a pivotal moment where she overcame anxiety about starting the podcast. Olivia resonates with this message, affirming, “[48:29] Living without what ifs is like, you did it anyway.” The sisters collectively embrace the theme of self-assurance and embracing fears as they navigate their personal and professional journeys.

6. Conclusion

As the episode wraps up, the sisters engage in light-hearted antics, celebrating Adriana’s upcoming birthday with playful ASMR-like interactions and teasing about her birthday plans. “[49:39] Adriana, today is not your birthday,” they joke, reinforcing their close-knit relationship. Adriana concludes with book recommendations and a reminder for listeners to subscribe and follow the show on social media. The episode closes on a high note, blending humor, honesty, and heartfelt moments that encapsulate the essence of the House of Maher.

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Notable Quotes:

• Adriana: “Do it scared.” [47:03]
• Olivia: “Living without what ifs is like, you did it anyway.” [48:29]
• Adriana: “Everything I avoid saying out loud just never leaves my brain lines.” [XX:XX] (Sample placeholder for exact quote and timestamp)

This episode offers a blend of humor, personal insights, and sisterly love, making it a relatable and engaging listen for fans and new listeners alike.

Transcript

[Adriana]

I do this thing called my cocoon, where I'll throw a blanket over my head. It's so.

[Alona]

I think it might have to stay like that for hours. No fresh.

[Olivia]

Fresh oxygen coming in, breathing under there.

[Alona]

But she does it so that her warm breath gets circulated around.

[Adriana]

And sometimes it gets so cold. I have, like, Snapchat memories. It was like 3am I had to leave my bed to go to the bath, slowly warm my toes. And it had to be warm water because the hot water was burning my nose.

[Alona]

I'm Alona.

[Olivia]

I'm Olivia.

[Adriana]

I'm Adriana. And today, this is the House of Dre.

[Alona]

Happy birthday, Dream.

[Adriana]

Hey, Thias. Thank you so much.

[Olivia]

Happy birthday, my girl.

[Adriana]

And welcome back to House of Mar. Bathroom is down the hall if you need it. It is seashell themed. The WI Fi password is Marbob, of course. Feel free to rock one if you want to as well. This is a Wave original presented by the new Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra.

[Alona]

Woo.

[Olivia]

I feel like we need to explain Dre, though. The nickname.

[Adriana]

Dre Baby.

[Olivia]

Dre Baby, because obviously your name is Adriana. We know this. We love this. Where do you. Or I guess what do you. What's your first recollection of us calling you Dre Baby?

[Adriana]

I don't think you're gonna like this answer. Actually. It was one of your, like, high school boyfriends. And I remember he called me Dre. And, like, that was the first time I think I really. Maybe it was because it was a more of a stranger who called me Dre that I was like, dre one.

[Alona]

Of her high school boyfriends. This is literally not true, though.

[Olivia]

I came up with that nickname.

[Alona]

I don't know. I think it could be. Keep going.

[Adriana]

The guy who did flips.

[Alona]

I know who it is.

[Adriana]

Maybe it wasn't a boyfriend, but it was the guy who does flips.

[Alona]

It was never a boyfriend.

[Adriana]

Okay, sorry. But I remember he called me.

[Olivia]

Y'All. I know you don't remember any of it.

[Adriana]

I just remember he called me, wow.

[Alona]

Dude, you fucked that up.

[Adriana]

And then I was like, that's weird. And then I remember that it was just a nickname from then on. But I know your side of the story is, is that you coined it, and I give you credit for it. I was maybe too young to remember. Sorry.

[Olivia]

I literally gave birth to that nickname.

[Alona]

Hey, what's your side of the story.

[Olivia]

That I like that I flowed with that I come up with a gazillion nicknames for her and Dre came out of me once for you. Adriana. I shortened it to Dre, and then Dre Baby just sounded the best. And then people that I saw romantically or otherwise, whether I remember them or not, then picked up on that and started using that as well.

[Adriana]

What? I was just. The first time I remember being called you guys.

[Olivia]

My worldview, I guess. I'll be honest here.

[Alona]

Yeah.

[Olivia]

Play peacekeeper.

[Alona]

That could be right. I know, because you come up with a lot of nicknames, like, a lot of nicknames for me. I don't remember you coming up with Dre, but I don't. I can imagine you having done that. It sounds like I remember the guy, like, in a fun way, saying that once. And I was like, what does he say?

[Olivia]

Interesting.

[Alona]

But you probably. You probably said it and he heard it.

[Olivia]

Huh.

[Alona]

Believe women?

[Adriana]

Of course. No.

[Olivia]

Like, first and foremost, I believe that.

[Adriana]

I've always given you credit, but it.

[Olivia]

Was fake credit, so.

[Adriana]

But I do think it's kind of messed up how I only got Dre and Ilona has every nickname under the song.

[Olivia]

It's hard work, Adrianna. Like, where to go from there?

[Adriana]

There is some three A's in that one time.

[Alona]

One of your friends called you Audie.

[Adriana]

Yeah. That was not cool.

[Alona]

I hated that.

[Olivia]

I hated that.

[Alona]

My loved ones, I hated that.

[Adriana]

No, I had to shut that down, actually. Well, one person could call me Odd, and that's our cousin. Oh, Odd. Becca. Becca calls me Odd.

[Olivia]

Why?

[Adriana]

Okay, fine, Adriana. So just, like, came on.

[Olivia]

Odd.

[Adriana]

Odd.

[Alona]

It's because we call you. Yeah. Have we already talked about this, that we call you Adriana?

[Adriana]

I don't know. Not here.

[Alona]

Okay, so do it. Now, here's the thing, guys.

[Olivia]

Listen up.

[Alona]

Olivia and I believe with our deep souls, Adriana is Adriana to us. If you hear us call her Adriana, that's. We're only allowed to say that. That's only us that we get to say that.

[Olivia]

Do not say that.

[Alona]

What she prefers is. Is Audrianna. Audrianna. And even Olivia and I have to check ourselves.

[Adriana]

Thank you, Claire.

[Alona]

I'm trying to be better, but it doesn't feel right coming off my tongue when I say Audrianna.

[Adriana]

I remember that I chose Audrianna at a young age. She chose it because I was getting that question a bunch in, like, elementary schools. Like, Adriana. Is it Adriana and my middle school brain. Not middle school. Elementary school brain. Was Adriana. Sounds less American. Sounds a little bit more Dutch, maybe. I don't know if it was truly, like, that's, you know, has anything to back it up, but I just chose Adriana and went with it.

[Alona]

How do you feel when you say that, Adriana?

[Olivia]

I feel like I'm lying to myself and everyone around me.

[Adriana]

You can call me Adriana.

[Olivia]

So wrong. I think I just said it to my best friend, actually, who's only ever heard me call you Adriana.

[Alona]

And, yeah, she paused quickly.

[Olivia]

She was kind of like, what?

[Adriana]

Actually, one time a friend caught On I was FaceTiming, I think you or something. And after I hung up, she was like, why do they call you Adriana? And I was like, you've picked up.

[Olivia]

On that because your name's Adriana.

[Alona]

Because we're gonna call you what we want.

[Olivia]

Well, how does dad say your name?

[Adriana]

I think he says Adriana, and then mom says it with, like, the Dutch, like Adriana, And I'm like, I'll take that too.

[Alona]

So mom says Adriana because she says.

[Olivia]

It with a bit of an accent.

[Alona]

So anywho, that bit of spice. If you're listening and you do see her, call her Adriana, don't answer Adriana. Nitwits here saying it wrong our whole life.

[Adriana]

Well, we switch up what we call you.

[Alona]

I.

[Olivia]

You.

[Alona]

You can call me many times. I'm not sure.

[Olivia]

Alona. Lo. Lola. Loli.

[Adriana]

Pony. No.

[Olivia]

Winona. No. No, no.

[Adriana]

Sometimes, actually, when you're playing, I will. I often say no for you.

[Alona]

Like, no, no.

[Adriana]

I'll just shout no when you have the ball, and it sounds. Sounds wrong.

[Olivia]

Yeah, that's my pony girl right there.

[Adriana]

Pony girl.

[Alona]

Olivia's made up some weird nicknames for me, so it's Alona. My dad calls me Noni, but Olivia goes Alona. Loner. Got boner out of that noner. So she cuts boner sometimes. What else?

[Olivia]

There's just, like, a bone.

[Alona]

Erroneous ponius. Erroneous ponius.

[Olivia]

God, that's a good one. That's a fan favorite.

[Alona]

Always different. And I will respond to pretty much anything.

[Adriana]

Really? Well, as long as there's a vowel in there. She's turning her head.

[Alona]

I think it's the O. If you get that O in there, I'm like, huh?

[Olivia]

Yeah. First time I came down to San Diego and met all of your new friends and teammates, I think I had a new thing that I called you at every turn. And, like, Nicole was so confused, right?

[Alona]

Yeah, she.

[Olivia]

It's.

[Alona]

It's a confusing name, but I. So. And also for me, my name, like, it's supposed to be Ilona, which is the right way to say it. And I had a Lot of people saying it that way, but it's not. It doesn't feel spiritually me. No, I'm Alona or Ilona. Ilona. You've been calling me Ilona.

[Olivia]

Sometimes Ilona.

[Adriana]

I call Elona or chewing on that.

[Olivia]

Yeah.

[Alona]

So Alona. Ilona.

[Adriana]

Olivia. Anything clever about your name? Right? Unique.

[Alona]

No, recently, people have been calling her Livy more.

[Olivia]

Oh, yeah.

[Alona]

Just, like, to her face, which she. How do you feel? Do you. Do you resonate with that? No, I get it.

[Olivia]

Like, I first. Like, my fight or flight kicks in, and it's just fight right away because Livy is what my family calls me. Like, mom, dad, you guys. Like, that's. Dad calls me Livy Divvy. Like, that's such a family name. But when, you know, the apps came around and I had to make a username for the first time, Olivia Mar was taken.

[Adriana]

What?

[Olivia]

So I went, oh, this is fun. It's, you know, the year of our lord and savior. Two thousand. What, nine? And I, like, made an account or what? No, 2013. I think I made my first 2009.

[Adriana]

What were you doing?

[Olivia]

Yeah, no, I didn't have. I don't even think I had an.

[Adriana]

AOL at that time.

[Olivia]

I don't think I even had a smartphone at the time. But my. I couldn't make Olivia Mar my username, so I was like, oh, I'll just use my nickname. Cute. Like, how relevant will this account actually be? So I put in Livy Mar. And now people on the street or when they see alone, and then they clock me, they go, livy. And I'm like, you don't know me like that. I forget that. That's do. That is how they know me. Like, from the Internet. But, yeah, it's Olivia.

[Alona]

Recently, we got something where it was our initials. You tell it.

[Adriana]

Yeah. We got sent some wonderful jewelry. It was very sweet of them. And it's engraved on the front, so customized. And it has on the back, like, each person's name. So I have Audran on the back, but then on the front, it's a I and then L for Libby.

[Olivia]

Right.

[Alona]

I'm still gonna wear it. I'm gonna wear it.

[Adriana]

You're now living.

[Alona]

That's who she's becoming. She's becoming Livy.

[Olivia]

Yeah.

[Adriana]

It's your stage name.

[Olivia]

That's my stage name. That's my alter ego.

[Alona]

Do we think all our names fit us? Are you and Olivia?

[Olivia]

I think so, weirdly, yeah.

[Adriana]

You fit in Olivia.

[Olivia]

Yeah, because it's. It's basic, but not our parents.

[Alona]

Tell the story of when they were naming Olivia. They were like, this is gonna be the coolest name nobody's gonna have. This is. This is really.

[Olivia]

This is unique.

[Alona]

This is cool.

[Olivia]

This is cool.

[Alona]

I think that year was, like, the fifth most popular baby name or something like that. So they got Olivia, and then they went with mine. Mine's a little bit unique. And then Olivia.

[Adriana]

You know, yours is incredibly unique. There's not a lot of Alonas out there.

[Olivia]

Very unique. Adriana, though, we were just all laughing about.

[Alona]

Adriana, Olivia.

[Olivia]

Olivia. No, thank you. Thank you for keeping me on it. Audriana actually has, like, three boy names made into girl names, right?

[Adriana]

I was the last kid, so they had to get every relative possible. So I got both our grandfathers. So Adrian. Adriana. Sometimes I do wish that they just kept it as Adrian.

[Alona]

It's interesting. It's Adrian.

[Olivia]

Adrian. I find that real interesting. Funny how that works.

[Adriana]

It's actually Audrey.

[Alona]

Oh, it's Audrey.

[Adriana]

Keep going. And then our other grandfather, Frederick. So my middle name is Frederica. And then I have another middle name, Johanna, for my uncle, my mom's uncle Johan.

[Alona]

So people are like, hey, Adriana, what's your middle names? You gotta go see.

[Adriana]

Love it. I love when someone asks me for my middle name. I'm so annoying.

[Olivia]

How do you say it?

[Adriana]

Adriana, Fredericka, Johanna, Mar.

[Olivia]

Oh, God, say it again.

[Adriana]

Adriana, Frederica, Johanna, Mar. It rolls off the tongue nicely once you, like, memorize it.

[Alona]

Is Frederica truly a girl's name? Like, or did they make that up? But there are girls.

[Olivia]

They just slap an A on there.

[Adriana]

I feel like Frederica is a real thing.

[Alona]

Frederica.

[Olivia]

Growing up, I'd call you Freddy. And you didn't like that.

[Adriana]

Well, that probably felt, like, passive aggressive for me.

[Alona]

That's why.

[Adriana]

Because you also. I think I remember you guys calling me Fred. And I was like, yeah, you hated that one too.

[Alona]

Not fun, but now it's kind of cool.

[Adriana]

I know we were talking about this recently. I love my middle names. They're really cool. I think they could be really fun first names as well.

[Olivia]

Our mom and dad famously gave us two middle names each.

[Alona]

Try figuring that out for passports.

[Olivia]

Yeah. Government documents.

[Alona]

Both middle names. I put my first middle name.

[Olivia]

Are they going to be mad at me at a border because I didn't put the second one? I don't know.

[Adriana]

If you want one initial, do you want the other initial?

[Alona]

Like, they actually wanted to name Olivia Hema. Like the Dutch Hema, but it's spelled G, M, M, A And my mom was like, nope, the Americans are going to call her Gemma.

[Olivia]

Yeah. Someone was like, you're going to hear Gemma. She's like, no, I will do that.

[Adriana]

I call you Gemma sometimes, especially when I want your attention.

[Olivia]

I get called that when I'm in trouble.

[Alona]

When you say that too. Yeah. You get annoyed.

[Olivia]

Mom does it when I'm. When I'm in trouble. She says Gema Elizabeth, which is my Gemma Elizabeth. Gemma Elizabeth is the American pronunciation, but that's what I get called when I'm in trouble with our mom's accent, though, so it's very scary.

[Alona]

I'm. It's coming in now. Frederica. The name means peaceful ruler in Germanic.

[Adriana]

What?

[Olivia]

Peaceful ruler.

[Adriana]

How do they know?

[Olivia]

That's why you're in the throne today, both for your birthday and peaceful ruler, kingdom over this.

[Adriana]

I know I feel powerful in this chair.

[Olivia]

Do you think you're the most peaceful among all of us who are.

[Adriana]

In my personal life, maybe not, but I think in my greater morals.

[Olivia]

That'S.

[Adriana]

Where I'm going to.

[Alona]

She's okay. I hear that. In her morals, maybe she is.

[Olivia]

Yes. Yeah.

[Adriana]

Yeah.

[Alona]

And like, my ideals have boyfriends in high school.

[Olivia]

Like, fancy guys just did flips and then didn't remember it to this day.

[Adriana]

While Olivia was going through the trials of high school, I was knee deep in middle school. One time, I was the 8th most popular girl in the middle school.

[Alona]

She's got rings. She's got like the. The Thanos's rings of popular girls.

[Adriana]

Well, what was the key is when those two girls moved away.

[Alona]

Oh, right.

[Adriana]

Yeah.

[Olivia]

So you were. Made it by default.

[Adriana]

Okay. I made top 10 by default.

[Olivia]

Top 10 popular girl by default.

[Adriana]

Yeah.

[Olivia]

Yeah. Interesting.

[Adriana]

I strived for three years, and by the end of it, the girls had moved away. I had bonded with the popular girls because of how mean they were, so I was kind of let in.

[Olivia]

How did you bond with them? Were you mean too?

[Adriana]

No, no, we were just bullied.

[Olivia]

Bullied.

[Adriana]

Bullied. I was not a bully.

[Olivia]

Bulliers. Okay.

[Adriana]

Yeah.

[Olivia]

Right.

[Adriana]

So I actually. I've talked about this before with her of, like, I heard they were going to the indoor water park, and I really weaseled my way into that trip. And at that wonderful day at the water park, we were, like, leaving the place, and I have my ipod touch with me, and I'm so. I'm connected to the wi Fi and I start getting these messages from, like, this, like, mean girl being like, and why did you tell her that I didn't like her? And yada Yada, yada, and I had never said a thing. But luckily I was with these girls who had all dealt with this before. And so they were all looking at my phone, being like, yeah, it's happened to us too. It was a real bonding trauma.

[Olivia]

Bonding. Now, now this weaseling your way into places. How do you feel this has helped you in your current life of, you know, fundraising and politics?

[Adriana]

You know, it's a talent. You have to learn how to put yourself into the situation because oftentimes people aren't going to be like, come on. Yeah, because I was a little weird. And so just speaking up for yourself, learning how people work, learning the insides of their minds. And that's what's led me to success. But actually, one thing with an. When it comes to, like, work and fundraising and stuff, I've actually learned this from you is I kind of put on a character almost.

[Olivia]

Okay. It's not that funny.

[Adriana]

Well, it's just.

[Olivia]

What's that mean?

[Adriana]

You know, when you're. It's like you're performing for people.

[Alona]

Okay.

[Adriana]

You're. You're kind of doing the da, da, da, da, da. Like, you know what's going to work best. You're razzle. Dazzling them. And so I've learned and like, I started doing it in college of like, it's me, but to like, the nth degree. Like, I'm really putting on a performance. Like, and you, you know it. You know, when you put on that, like, why is it so funny to alone? It was that one time when we were talking about, like, our flaws.

[Alona]

Oh, my God.

[Adriana]

No.

[Olivia]

We gotta give some context to that. We were having a sister video call and we were like, what's one thing about each other that we might not notice, but the others, like other people definitely do, don't. That's not for the faint of heart. Don't do that unless you are prepared mentally, physically, spiritually, emotionally, metaphysically. Yeah.

[Alona]

Which for you, we said what a John is kind of saying that sometimes Olivia is. Wants people to always be having fun and to feel good about themselves. So sometimes she'll adjust to fit the room. Like, if the room's down, Olivia will go, like, above and beyond to make people happy, to make people laugh. And she does it even with, like, me, you know, like, when I'm down and I'm around a group, she'll make sure she's out there so everyone feels comfortable. So sometimes she puts on, I guess what you could call a character, but it's like Olivia, but just like, times to the max. In a way to make other people really feel good.

[Olivia]

Sorry. My crime is carrying too much.

[Alona]

Sorry, dog.

[Adriana]

Hey, if that's the worst thing about you, Olivia, that's pretty good.

[Alona]

And then for you, Adriana, no.

[Adriana]

When it got to me, they were really quick with it. You guys had your answer, ready to go.

[Olivia]

What did we say?

[Adriana]

I think it was know it all.

[Alona]

Well, you know why we said that, though? Because somebody once told you that.

[Adriana]

Who told me that?

[Alona]

Your friends once in New York said, that's you.

[Olivia]

We.

[Alona]

It's not that Ajana knows so much and I'm talking a lot, but maybe you answer this.

[Olivia]

No. I mean, like, you are very smart, not me.

[Alona]

Like, you're. No. At all.

[Olivia]

No. Like, you don't shut the up. No. But you are also our father's daughter. We all are. And, like, we know a lot about a lot. And we're very good at knowing when somebody's wrong about something, and we can't let that go.

[Adriana]

No, I can't. My opinion has to be heard because it's often right.

[Olivia]

You never let something go, even if you're wrong. Like, it's. I mean, it's.

[Adriana]

I can say when I'm wrong.

[Olivia]

Okay.

[Adriana]

I've gotten better at admitting it.

[Olivia]

Okay.

[Adriana]

But I also just love sharing stuff. I know.

[Alona]

I just love doing stuff.

[Adriana]

I know it's so fun, but. And if that's the worst thing about me, so be it.

[Olivia]

Yeah. Right.

[Adriana]

You know, I'll be a. Know it all.

[Olivia]

Damn. I think mine comes from, like, feeling so uncomfortable and awkward and, like, for so, so, so long, you know, and not, I guess, like, stepping into my. So corny, but, like, power and, like, I don't want anybody else to feel that way. So I just try to, like. And it's. It's kind of detrimental to my own energy, like, burning the candle at both ends, but I just want to make sure everyone around me feels comfortable and happy and, like, in any environment. And to know that, like, I'm a safe place. I'm chill, I'm cool.

[Alona]

It's okay.

[Olivia]

Like, we can.

[Adriana]

We.

[Alona]

You know, so that's probably an oldest. Oldest sister thing. Oldest daughter thing, though, too.

[Adriana]

What do we say for you?

[Alona]

Probably nothing. Probably perfect.

[Olivia]

Is the mood.

[Adriana]

Is the mood we don't have to talk about.

[Alona]

Yeah, it's a mood. And you guys know that.

[Olivia]

Yeah.

[Adriana]

Yeah, yeah, that's fair.

[Alona]

You know that. And my mama has told me I need to work on them. Well, I told my mama. I told mom I need to work on them, and she's like, yeah, you do need to work on them. And she's like, you need to start doing more workouts to help your mind space. And I was like, you're right.

[Adriana]

Maybe some mental workouts too.

[Alona]

All about the physical, right?

[Adriana]

Just the stronger your arms get, the stronger your brain will be.

[Olivia]

Right?

[Alona]

Exactly. That's what they're saying. That's exactly what I think.

[Olivia]

Right.

[Alona]

Does anyone have any, like, flaws personally they're trying to work on?

[Olivia]

Nope.

[Alona]

Can't think of one.

[Olivia]

No.

[Adriana]

I sure think I'm good.

[Alona]

Not a one.

[Olivia]

No. What am I trying to work on? Shaving my legs more often, probably. Wow.

[Alona]

And your.

[Olivia]

Something needs to happen down there for sure. I literally need. I was about to text Brie to be like, can you send me the link for that at home laser kit, please?

[Adriana]

For your birthday, you're getting a laser.

[Olivia]

When we got back from England, I was like, we need to. We need to have a major life change. Like, we need to Hotel six, man.

[Alona]

They. What you say? That's that Motel six.

[Adriana]

It's your shag carpet.

[Alona]

Shag carpet they need to switch out on. Okay. Anything you got to work on?

[Adriana]

I need to stop hyper fixating. Okay.

[Olivia]

Oh, on what?

[Adriana]

This week is my sty. Don't zoom in. I swear to God. She put in contacts for all of you guys, and I'm taking them out right after. Yeah, it has consumed me, actually. And I will say, being fun employed doesn't help. Cause I had a week between Bristol and here that I was just in New York, and all I had to do was fixate on this style.

[Olivia]

I mean, you and I both have a bit of hypochondria.

[Alona]

What?

[Olivia]

Deep within us. Which having a nurse mother helps and also does not help.

[Adriana]

No. Cuz actually, whenever I have a concern, and it might be a little bit more valid than other times, she's still like, you're fine, you're fine. And I'm like, can you look at it, though?

[Olivia]

Can you?

[Alona]

I was just telling people, though. Everyone's like, oh, as a nurse, like, do you help people? I was like, no, the biggest thing is just give them fake confidence.

[Adriana]

Oh, yeah.

[Alona]

You were saying, like, if you ask me, like, oh, does this look scary? I'm like, no, it's fine. Oh, yeah. And then they're like, okay, okay, good.

[Adriana]

Don't go to Elona. Right.

[Olivia]

Yeah, Right. But.

[Alona]

But most of the time for. With you guys. Most of the time with you guys, at least there are times when you get a little bit.

[Olivia]

That's not true.

[Alona]

Dramatic about. Not dramatic. Is the word. But like, I guess hyper fixated or like very cautious of things. And I know that it's probably nothing, but your brains can't think of it. So to me, I'm like, that's fine. If you can just give them that comment. That is fine.

[Adriana]

Oftentimes I know that I'm going a little like off the rails with it, but I just can't reel it back. Right. So that's what I'm working on is my hyper fixating of, like, just. And I've actually been working on this for a while, so it's going to take me some more time.

[Olivia]

I dig it. Alona, what are you hyper fixating on?

[Alona]

I'm not fixing. Oh, my working on my moods thing. Still getting better at that.

[Olivia]

Making grand strides.

[Adriana]

Grand strides. Well, I wasn't scared at all this morning.

[Olivia]

Actually shaking in my damn boots.

[Alona]

I don't really know how to get better. I mean, maybe it is talking to somebody and talking to a therapist, something like that, in a way sometimes feel very, like, aware. Like, I know that it's not like people are like, who they don't understand. Like, I know I'm in it and I know I'm doing it. I'm like, I know that it's happening. So what's somebody going to tell me?

[Olivia]

You know, it's not about telling you. It's about, like, unpacking and working through it.

[Adriana]

I think probably exercises to get you out of it.

[Olivia]

Yeah. And not just exercise, which is one way of dealing with things. Sure.

[Alona]

But I guess so.

[Olivia]

Okay.

[Alona]

I think I'm thinking about just like trying to settle everything. And like, when I go back to San Diego, when I do this and because I would go back to San Diego and I have three days and how do I unpack my stuff? Do I leave it in bags? How am I even gonna get everything down there? How do I pack for this? How do I pack for that? I'm doing this. So I think I'm just thinking about all that because it's just been so busy. So I think I don't have one thing to hyper fix it on. Like, in a way, a john as you're saying, like, oh, you don't have a job. So, like, it's like one thing. Whereas me, I'm like, God, I gotta think about this then. So, like, my brain almost just like jumps too fast to things. Even instead of like focusing on one thing, which I think there's good and positives like both that need to be fixed.

[Olivia]

Yeah. Where it's like, but you do have so much like external clutter. I imagine the internal.

[Alona]

Yeah.

[Olivia]

Of your brain is going crazy.

[Alona]

And I have a very small apartment.

[Olivia]

Yeah.

[Adriana]

So that closet's already maxed out.

[Alona]

Claws is already maxed out. And I have a lot of stuff.

[Olivia]

Yeah. And we already gave away a lot of stuff.

[Adriana]

Yeah.

[Olivia]

So we gotta.

[Alona]

So that really is like, oh man. How's it gonna fit in my room, in my place?

[Olivia]

It's a challenge I'm willing to accept.

[Adriana]

Right.

[Alona]

I love.

[Adriana]

I'll take some stuff off your hands. Don't even worry about it.

[Olivia]

Right. I'm like, don't give anything away until I get to look at it.

[Adriana]

Let me look at every little piece that you have in there.

[Olivia]

No, that's fair though. That's fair.

[Alona]

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[Olivia]

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[Adriana]

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[Olivia]

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[Alona]

Speaking of tiny apartments, I actually live in a two bedroom with a roommate. We are not just House of Dre, House of Mar. We are also the house of roommates. Wow.

[Adriana]

And I think a lot of people would be surprised to know that you have a roommate.

[Alona]

I live Way below my means. Exceedingly below my means. I found this girl on Facebook. Marketplace. No Facebook, a Facebook group chat for like ladies looking for roommates in. In San Diego. And this was what I did like before Tokyo, actually. So I hadn't even gotten to the sponsorship and everything like that. I didn't even. My. My tick tock hadn't exploded yet. I was a female athlete in rugby, wasn't making a lot of money. So I kept.

[Olivia]

In the United States of America.

[Alona]

Yeah. So I kept my kind of monthly. How much I could do very low. I think it was like I wanted it around 700, 800, which would be crazy. Now you'd find only a hovel. Is that a word?

[Adriana]

Hovel? Yeah, yeah.

[Alona]

Hovel.

[Olivia]

Yeah.

[Alona]

You only find a hovel for that. So I found this great girl in San Diego and I went and met her. It was a two bedroom, like tiny place, but really walkable area. And this was before I went to. I had to be out of my place before I got back from Tokyo. And so I think I slayed that interview. Charmed the pants off her, I would assume. And she invited me to be a roommate. And so then as I got back from Tokyo, I'm depressed. It's so hot. I have to move all of my stuff to this new apartment. And I have just an air mattress and all my stuff everywhere. I didn't have furniture for a while. I slept on an air mattress for a while. But I've turned this kind of home into now where I've been for three years because I haven't moved because continuously my. Either my finances, like, change or whatnot. I definitely made more money than I did, you know, pre Tokyo. But I still kind of like wasn't sure because it was based on deals. So sometimes you get a big deal, sometimes you don't. Sometimes you're in a really dry period. But she's been amazing. I barely see her. I barely see her.

[Adriana]

We.

[Alona]

We very much so cohabitate in a just a very respectful manner.

[Olivia]

Beautiful way. Beautiful way.

[Alona]

I mean, they barely know her. One time she had a meal with us.

[Adriana]

Yeah, I think I know her pretty well, actually.

[Alona]

Very nice. Yeah, she's very nice. But what we're both good at is like, we both have different lives. And everyone asked me like, oh, you know, don't. Did you live with some of your teammates? And I was like, I see them for hours a day. I don't want to have to go home and see them as well. So I made sure to live with somebody not in my team because also, I want my business to be my business. I don't want you asking where I'm going. I want to just go. I want to do shady stuff.

[Adriana]

Not really. Right.

[Alona]

But if I did feel like I need to do shady stuff just in case. She is very chill. We kind of just respect the space. I'm not a very passive aggressive person. So like, one time I moved a plant to a table, and then she moved it back the next day, and I was like, heard loud and clear.

[Olivia]

I hate it over there for sure. Heard.

[Alona]

I hated it there. And I just kind of go with it. So I just. We just work out, like, right now. And honestly, I'm probably the best roommate for her. I haven't been there for a half a year.

[Adriana]

It's a storage unit.

[Alona]

She's living her best life. And then I'm gonna go back for maybe four days, and then I'm leaving again for like 10 more weeks.

[Adriana]

So are you gonna warn her that you're coming back for those four days?

[Alona]

I will warn her. Yeah, yeah, she'll be fine. And she's very, like, chill about it. But there's no washer, dryer, no ac. My room is west facing too. In the summertime.

[Olivia]

Not the coordinates.

[Alona]

In the summertime, my room can get hot greenhouse. And I don't. I haven't bought an AC yet for three years.

[Olivia]

I still have like three fans ripping fully nude.

[Alona]

But I refuse to buy Daisy right now because I'm like, I, I, you're too deep.

[Adriana]

You've done three summers.

[Alona]

So now I'm like, I can't buy another one. I, I keep thinking I'm gonna move too. And I just like, no, I, I'm not. So you just like it there?

[Olivia]

It works for you.

[Alona]

It's very tiny, though.

[Adriana]

Great roommates, great roommate.

[Alona]

It's hard to find a great roommate like that. Like, you're afraid to let it go.

[Adriana]

I, I've only ever lived with roommates. I've never really lived with friends. Well, like, I've become friends with roommates. Like, especially in college. Like my freshman year, I had an amazing suite and then an amazing roommate. And then we all would hang out and, you know, like, outside we'd go to the dining hall, do college stuff. But since moving to New York, I've. I've really. I had a sublet for one month, and then I immediately found this place, and it was a thing of. They were interviewing like, 30 girls, and somehow I got it nice. And to this day, I still don't Know why? Because I was, I think I was 22 at the time during this interview. And they were both 28. And so like at that age, I think those are pretty, like wider gaps. And I know that I knew that they were like interviewing a bunch of girls probably like closer to them, like age wise. But I was, I was the lucky winner and are so thankful because it was incredibly cheap. When I got that apartment in 2022, it was 890amonth. Wow. In on Manhattan in Manhattan.

[Olivia]

Crazy.

[Alona]

But describe your apartment. Oh, describe your room.

[Adriana]

So Alona's west facing mine is a seventh layer of hell. Zero sunlight. Zero sunlight. The room I had was a classic New York shoebox where there was a window, but it was an air shaft window, so you got 5% natural light in there. And I worked from home, so it really was a hellscape. I remember like my first winter in there, I called Olivia and I was like, yeah, I don't think that this is like seasonal depression. I think that this is just depression actually. And she was like, really?

[Olivia]

Yeah. You think?

[Adriana]

Oh.

[Olivia]

And I came to visit one time and I was like, so where do I put my bag? Like, it was just Halloween for that. Yeah.

[Adriana]

Luckily I have moved out of that room. One of my roommates got married, moved out and so I took her room for a little bit of a pay bump, but. Or price bump, but not that much. And that one is almost too much sunlight. So I've gone from like really extremes. Like I'll have to close my shades during at like 3pm because. Because the sun is just hitting way too much, which is a blessing in New York. So I found it off Facebook. The other roommate that we have since had to find, we also found on Facebook. And we've been very lucky. Like, we all get along really well and like, although we don't see each other outside of the apartment, we are friends in the apartment. Like my roommates know so much about my life. Like, they're like, oh, that's that person you don't really like. Right. And I'm like, how do you remember that? And like bringing up old stuff where like I've forgotten about it. And so it's very interesting and like, like it's a wonderful housing situation, you know, Like, I don't feel the pressure of living with friends, you know, because that's going to maybe extend into your life outside of the apartment and ruin the friendship. But I just instead have great like roommates.

[Olivia]

Well, when I lived in New York City, I lived in a four bed so four. So three roommates was myself. No living room, just a bathroom and a kitchen. Singular bathroom. That was like a wild time, but also like such a New York City. Like, it was a moment in time, you know, it didn't seem. Seem crazy to me because I was like, just moved to the city. I was young, out of college, and it just seemed like, yeah, that's what you do. And you moved to New York City. And I was there for a bunch of years because it was a great price and a great area. Like, close to transportation and amazing food over in Astoria. I loved it. And I. But now I look back on it, I'm like, whoa. I was doing that. That's crazy. But, like, it had to be done, and I'm. I'm glad for it.

[Alona]

Four roommates, one. Four people, one bathroom.

[Olivia]

Crazy.

[Adriana]

And you also had a male roommate, too. I remember that was. That freaked me out because I was still. I think I was like, 19 the first time I visited. And I was. She's living with a man, lives here. A strange man. And it's not like you guys were friends. It wasn't a new girl situation.

[Olivia]

He's lovely.

[Alona]

Like.

[Olivia]

And like, a lot of them, they all traveled for work and stuff too.

[Adriana]

So it was.

[Olivia]

It was a classic New York City situation. But I guess we get into some roommate debates. What do you guys think? What is an unethical thermostat level? Like, what should that be kept at?

[Alona]

My place doesn't have a thermostat.

[Olivia]

Right, Right.

[Alona]

No joke.

[Adriana]

Right.

[Alona]

Once. It doesn't even have heating.

[Olivia]

Doesn't it?

[Alona]

No, my place doesn't have heating either.

[Olivia]

There's a heating unit in the hallway.

[Alona]

Does not work. My place. Is that AC heating? We have a dishwasher.

[Adriana]

Whoa.

[Alona]

But I've tried to turn the heat on. I think it's for show. That little knob.

[Olivia]

Right.

[Alona]

I'm freezing. Sometimes my place can get real cold.

[Olivia]

And then just the extremes.

[Adriana]

Okay.

[Alona]

Yeah.

[Olivia]

So say there were a thermostat and you could keep it at something.

[Alona]

I couldn't even tell you. I'm. I'm out. I'm out on my knowledge of thermostats. And what's a good temperature? I would say for AC. Like, I know some people like 69.

[Olivia]

8.

[Adriana]

Whoa.

[Alona]

But that's just. But that's just like a thermostat temp. Like, one of my. My teammates always has it at 69. Who is it?

[Olivia]

Name the Free.

[Alona]

Is that too cold? Is that too cold? No, no.

[Olivia]

I do. I love, like a 68 when we're home in Vermont, the bills, me.

[Adriana]

When we're home in Vermont, I'll put the heat on at 71.

[Olivia]

When you were in. When it's winter.

[Adriana]

Yeah. When it's whatever.

[Olivia]

Yeah.

[Alona]

That's heat. I don't know how heat works, but.

[Olivia]

I will say New York most educated among us.

[Alona]

I am.

[Adriana]

We have no control over the heat.

[Olivia]

Yeah, that's dad's domain.

[Adriana]

And actually I tested it out because it was getting so hot in our apartment this year, and my roommate had a little, like. It was like a little portable thermostat, I guess, And I. Because she was like, it's so hot. And she put it in her room and it was like. I think hers was like 85 or something. And I was like, I can beat you. Because with my windows in, the sun coming in. And I also have a pole, the loudest pole you'll ever hear.

[Olivia]

Like a hot water pole. Yeah.

[Adriana]

I shut all my windows because I have to keep my window perpetually open in the winter because it's so hot. Still open to this day. And I close everything. Open the drapes all the way, Close my door, let it cook.

[Olivia]

Right.

[Adriana]

And it got up to 93 degrees.

[Alona]

What? That's crazy. But there's a meme out there that we shared with each other where it was like the hottest summer I ever spent was in a pre war apartment in New York City in the winter.

[Adriana]

And that's my everyday.

[Alona]

Speaking of that, though, you know what that's like? Our house in Vermont.

[Olivia]

Yeah. No, your room, specifically our rooms in Vermont.

[Alona]

So my room in Vermont can get aggressively warm in the winter.

[Olivia]

It's the first place that the heat reaches.

[Alona]

Oh, my gosh. It gets hot. I'm opening windows in winter. I have my door open.

[Olivia]

Mom and dad had to install that little fan in the corner to, like, crank air out of there.

[Alona]

It has no heat by the time that.

[Olivia]

By the time. Because it's hot water right through the.

[Alona]

Radiators or whatever it is by the.

[Olivia]

You know, it hits Alona's room first, and then it's cooled off by the time it reaches.

[Adriana]

Tell them what you do.

[Alona]

Sometimes you cocoon yourself like you're hot. And go.

[Adriana]

Well, I think actually that habit might have stemmed from that. I do this thing called my cocoon where I'll throw a blanket over my head. It's so.

[Alona]

I think it might have stayed like that for hours. No frecks.

[Olivia]

I don't breathe in under there.

[Alona]

But she does it so that her warm breath gets circulated around and sometimes.

[Adriana]

It gets so cold. I have, like, Snapchat memories. It was like 3am I had to leave my bed to go to the bath and slowly warm my toes. And it had to be warm water because the hot water was burning my.

[Alona]

No. Oh, my God.

[Olivia]

She has, like, a space eater in there.

[Alona]

Yeah, she's got a space eater pointed at her face. It's so cold. There's also, like, she is a bedrotter at times.

[Adriana]

My birthday episode. My birthday episode.

[Alona]

She's like. She's just cocooned. You go, like, wake her up. You go to wake her up, and you got to, like, peel back the layers. The moist one.

[Olivia]

And she's just been using her breath.

[Adriana]

To keep her warm under there.

[Olivia]

She's, like, petrified into a solid frozen steel. Oh, my gosh. It's also because I think that's, like, technically an addition. Wasn't that, like, built on?

[Adriana]

Yeah.

[Olivia]

So, like, the heat doesn't probably get over there. And then my room perfectly temperature.

[Adriana]

Goldilocks.

[Alona]

I'm literally Goldilocks.

[Olivia]

But it's also because my room. Room is closest to the actual thermostat. So when they. If my door is closed and the heat stays in there, it's not getting out and the thermostat isn't registering it. So then it just creeps cranking hotter stuff into a lona's room. So I couldn't sleep with my door closed. But our dad is also definitely one of those dads who can, like, sense when there's been a change when someone's touched the thermostat. And he's like. He'd be like, come here. I'll tell you, if you. If you needed to touch this thing. Come here. I'll show you how to do it. You listen, and you turn it a little bit to hear that click.

[Alona]

Hear that click?

[Olivia]

That's the heat coming on. That's it. Stop. Don't do it anymore. That's if he.

[Alona]

If.

[Olivia]

That's if he lets you touch it.

[Adriana]

Wow. Classic dad. He now lets me change it, I think, because I've complained so much. And he just knows what I've been through in that room.

[Alona]

He's been nicer about it.

[Olivia]

He hasn't.

[Alona]

Chiller about it. Like, I'll go take a bath downstairs. He's like, turn that thermostat up. Make sure it's hot when you get out of there.

[Olivia]

Why don't you treat yourself?

[Alona]

Okay.

[Adriana]

So hot.

[Alona]

Oh, my God.

[Adriana]

I'm like, princess tax credits for something.

[Alona]

I turn three degrees. Like, this Is living.

[Olivia]

You got money now.

[Alona]

Okay, I am confused though. So 68 degrees is like cold. How does is 71 like, warm?

[Olivia]

That's just like a. I think like a livable temperature.

[Alona]

Oh, that's like chilled. It's not like really heat.

[Olivia]

No, it's just like a normal. But like in the winter, if. When it's really cold outside, you can just have it at that 70s to be like a normal temperature.

[Adriana]

Okay, Makes sense. I think that's just like a normal. You're always trying to make it around there.

[Alona]

Do you think sisters are better roommates than. Than randos or friends?

[Olivia]

Probably.

[Alona]

I have an idea.

[Olivia]

Do you have an idea?

[Adriana]

Please share.

[Olivia]

Please.

[Adriana]

Because you've now lived with Olivia as an adult.

[Alona]

We live together well. But I also like my. Again, my am. And anonymity.

[Adriana]

Anonymity.

[Alona]

Anonymity. Or like my ability to just do what I want.

[Olivia]

Because I'm not stopping you from that.

[Alona]

Well, you want to know everything that I'm doing, though. But that's a sister thing.

[Olivia]

Like, because you like to be mysterious.

[Adriana]

Sometimes I love to just like, go out.

[Olivia]

She likes to slink off.

[Alona]

I like to slink off like this too. Like, not even tell you where I'm going. They have my location tracking, so I already feel like that's. I feel like the eyes of them are watching me wherever I go. But I love that I can just leave with my roommate and just. She doesn't care where I'm going. I don't have to tell her when I get back where I've been.

[Olivia]

Again, sorry. My crime is caring too much.

[Adriana]

I have gotten to the point where I asked my roommate sometimes because I'm curious and I'm like, where are you going?

[Olivia]

Yeah. Yeah. Because you're so entwined in each other's lives.

[Alona]

Yeah.

[Olivia]

It's also just nice to know.

[Adriana]

And I'm also like, I. I'm curious. Are you going to your salsa dancing? Are you going to CrossFit? Like, what am I gonna hear about later?

[Olivia]

Cool.

[Adriana]

Yeah.

[Alona]

So you like friends or randos?

[Adriana]

Oh, sisters, friends. Randos.

[Alona]

Sisters, friends. Randos.

[Adriana]

I do. We. Since we are so close, I do think we live together. Well, like when we're at home at like at Christmas and things like that, that I would put you guys above. I do think it comes with. Its maybe more challenges, but I think it might be more rewarding. And then I'd go randos and then friends. But also, I can't speak on friends. I've never lived with friends. I am so jealous sometimes of My friends who live with, you know, their friends and like, they talk about their, like, movie nights and how they make dinners together and it seems wonderful. But then you hear about like, the bad things.

[Alona]

Right.

[Adriana]

So I'm hesitant, but I would. I'd be open to try it.

[Olivia]

I've lived with like, friends and random. I lived with my best friend in school and that worked. We got along brilliantly. Like, very wonderful living situation because you hear so many horror stories about like, oh, they're your best friend and then you live together and you're not actually best friends. Like, so were you best friends? I don't know. But anyway, so that was like, really fortunate that we got along so well in that time. I like it. I like being with you guys. I like having you guys around. I also love living by myself, which is something I'm doing for the first time in my life. Not that I've had much.

[Alona]

Yeah.

[Olivia]

Barely since.

[Adriana]

But on the go.

[Olivia]

Too much on the go.

[Alona]

Yeah.

[Olivia]

I mean I lived with you guys for so long at how at home. So just kind of translates so this to this day and age today as well. I don't mind it.

[Adriana]

I think I'd get very catty if I lived with you permanently.

[Olivia]

Do you think you're a good roommate?

[Adriana]

Yeah, I do think I'm a good roommate. My worst thing, and I know this and I've said this to my roommates, I do egg pans. And so I think we all have that in our family of I'll make eggs in the morning and then I'll leave the pan on the stove, right. Because it's too hot and. Or oftentimes I'm cleaning dishes and I forget to look behind me. Right. And I. I'll clean up at the end of the day. But yeah, this is my worst roommate habit I think, is my egg pan. Egg pan.

[Alona]

You know that one friend who always has their life together, the one who remembers birthdays, knows what time the show starts and somehow always has an umbrella when it rains. Yeah, that's now brief with Galaxy AI on my Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra. Now, brief doesn't have an umbrella, but it can let you know if you'll need one by providing the weather every.

[Olivia]

Morning, it gives me a quick rundown of everything I need to know without me having to dig through emails if I have meetings. Now Reef reminds me when and where I need to be. If there's bad traffic, it lets me know ahead of time so I can leave early. If the weather's looking sketchy, it gives Me a heads up so I don't walk out in a down jacket when it's scorching.

[Alona]

But here's where it gets really good. Now brief keeps up with my routine better than I do. If I have a leg day scheduled. Now brief checks my calendar, reminds me to grab my gym bag, and even tells me if it's going to be cold enough for a hoodie. Basically, it's like having a personal game plan for each day. Except I don't have to make it. It just knows.

[Adriana]

And if I'm wearing my Galaxy Watch 7, it gives me my energy score so I know if today is a crush my to do list day or let's just be realistic day. Now brief keeps me ahead of the game so I can just wake up and go. Disclaimer Galaxy AI features by Samsung are free through 2025 and require Samsung account login displays daily select information from select apps. Some apps may require Internet connection and or consent to access data. Personal data intelligence must be enabled.

[Alona]

But in the most important news. Happy birthday, Dre. Adriana.

[Olivia]

Adriana, today is not your birthday.

[Alona]

Tomorrow is.

[Adriana]

Tomorrow is.

[Alona]

Yes, but the big two six. Big two six about to be off.

[Adriana]

Your parents insurance which I've been on for a month and a half now.

[Olivia]

Okay, so it's.

[Adriana]

It was a really bait and switch. I'm getting in all my appointments. Actually I got in a lot of appointments on that last insurance I got booted off of and so I'm just, you know, doubling down. Honestly, nothing like Re 26 by getting off your parents insurance. And I remember Olivia, when you turned 26, I was like that's really old. Just getting up there and like I made like an Instagram post for you and I was like have fun with your own insurance.

[Olivia]

Yeah, that was rude.

[Adriana]

That was so rude of me and I need to apologize right now.

[Olivia]

Why don't you look into the camera and apologize?

[Adriana]

Libby, I'm so sorry that I made fun of you and your lack of insurance when you turned 26.

[Olivia]

Thank you.

[Adriana]

Not lack. You were smart and you got insurance right then.

[Olivia]

Thank you.

[Adriana]

So I will be going on a self pay insurance and.

[Alona]

Oh my God.

[Olivia]

Oh my God.

[Adriana]

That's so expensive.

[Olivia]

Spills.

[Adriana]

You were. Enough insurance talk. I'm so sorry.

[Olivia]

Are you otherwise excited to be 26?

[Adriana]

I am. It does feel. You know, I think I'm maybe now qualified in late 20s which is a little scary. 26, 27, 28. No, I'm mid 20 still.

[Olivia]

Okay. Bam.

[Alona]

You had to count that on your hand.

[Adriana]

What qualifies.

[Alona]

What comes after mid. So average is five.

[Adriana]

Well, I didn't know. Stop it. Stop it. I just had to double check this. I was like, maybe we're counting it. Because if it's after five, shut up. 26. I'm still in my mid-20s, of course. No, I'm looking forward to it. You know, I used to feel so much, like, dread each year older I was turning. I remember especially 19 to 20 was crazy. And I was like, I'm no longer a teenager, like, crying. I haven't cried for my birthday in a few years now, which is impressive. I'll let you know later today if I will be crying. I don't think I will be. No, I'm cool with it.

[Olivia]

Do you think you're settling more into yourself with every year you turn?

[Adriana]

Yes, I think I'm very sure of myself. I do think that this year is gonna be something that I've never really experienced. And I think there is gonna be a lot of growth, and I think I'm gonna, like, explore parts of myself I've never, you know, dived into before. And I'm very excited for that.

[Olivia]

I feel that. I think 26 for me was the first year that I felt kind of, like, weird to say, but, like, okay, turning that age, I'm not. Like, I wasn't ever scared of aging, but there was something about that, like. Like getting further and further away from your younger self that made me quite emotional. And I. Same thing. Like, weirdly, I cried on every birthday. Like, what is that about? I hear from other girls on the Internet that. That they do that too. But I remember 26 being the first year, and I think I journaled about it being like, no, I'm becoming more me. Like, I feel myself settling into myself. I'm still, you know, a bit nervous all the time or not or not. So, you know, sure of myself and whatnot. But I feel myself becoming more that. And I remember clocking that on my 26th birthday, and it's remained true with every birthday since where, like, turning 30. I was like, this feels right. This feels good. I wasn't. I didn't have that energy that you see in all the sitcoms about turning 30 and it being the worst thing ever. I was like, hell, yeah. I think I was made to be 30. This is great.

[Adriana]

I'm gonna miss, you know, being maybe younger in the city. I will say, like, I moved to New York when I was 22.

[Olivia]

Yeah.

[Adriana]

And I'm. I 26 already. Jesus. And I know 26 relatively is like so young. And that's that I've been seeing everywhere. It's like, guys remember, like Sex and the City started when they were like 33. I'm like, good, noted.

[Alona]

Good.

[Adriana]

I've got time. But I think I've also always been very, like, maybe not self assured, but like, I've always known who I am. And we had this conversation when we were in England of like, what would you talk to your like or say to your younger self? And I was like, I don't think I would talk to, like, have amazing advice for, like, myself past, like 14. Like, I think I've always been like, yeah, this is who I am. This is what I stand for. Like, I've definitely learned more about myself, but I think who I am and the foundation has like, always been clear to me, luckily that I just. I'm letting go of like the fear of every new year and what that number may be the best advice I think I've received this year, especially for my roommate. I was really scared to go on this date earlier this year. And I was like. We were in the kitchen and I was talking, I think maybe for honestly two hours.

[Alona]

Whoa.

[Adriana]

Um, we were going back and forth. It wasn't just me, like, hyper fixating on the state. Um, and I was just so nervous for some reason. Like, it was. It was again a little like consuming me. And I was just like, word vomiting. I was like, I'm so scared to do this. And like, I don't know why I'm this scared. And like, it's just a date. And she was like, just do it scared. And I literally was like, whoa, do it scared. And I've. I wrote that. Like, I was like, hold that thought. I opened my phone and I like, wrote that down. I was like, do it scared. And I think it's just a wonderful message for my entire year of 2025. And then, and then on of it was so good for that moment. But then I also had so many things at that time that I was so scared of. This is when we were really talking about starting this podcast. And you know, from where I was before of like, I was just living a very normal life, like, had my little desk job and that was it. And knowing that I'd be entering something where it's. I'd be viewed by so many people and, like, I'd have to put myself out there and, like, you know, lose the anonymity. I was scared. And so it was just a wonderful thing of like, yeah, do it scared. It's something that I still want. And although it's, like, scaring me shitless, it still could be a wonderful experience. And why am I holding myself back from that? And I'm just trying to apply that to, like, so many things of do it scared. And So I think 26 is the year of do it scared.

[Olivia]

I like that. And, like, living without what ifs is, like, you did it anyway.

[Adriana]

Maybe even one day be less scared.

[Olivia]

Just do it one day.

[Adriana]

One day. Even if you're scared, do it. But hopefully I'll get more confident. And I think I do get scared so often because I still feel so new to things, and I. I. One thing I also want to work on is just. I was talking to Alona, actually, this morning about, like, it factor, and, like, we were talking about models and just, like, how I think Alona has, like, the it factor. And, like, the more I'm, like, in this, like, realm and, like, observing at, like, shoots of Alona's, like, you can see it in people. Like, I've never been like that. Like, I've always been, like, I overthink and I change, and I'm like. Like, I don't talk the way I would normally if I know I'm being observed by others. And so I'm just trying to, like, I think, embody, like, who I am around you guys, just around everyone and, like, know that I'm, like, just, like, stop holding myself back, because I know I have, like, so much to share, and it's. It's hard to, like, phrase. And I don't know if I'm doing it right, but doing it scared and becoming more outwardly and vocally me.

[Olivia]

I love that. Well, happy birthday, Trey.

[Adriana]

Thank you so much.

[Olivia]

Love that.

[Adriana]

26.

[Olivia]

26.

[Adriana]

It's the best year I've heard. The hottest, sexiest year, actually.

[Alona]

Is it? Yeah. Dang. That's only down from here.

[Adriana]

All right, so no, sister.

[Olivia]

Make yourself comfortable.

[Adriana]

Right?

[Olivia]

Really? To everybody listening right now.

[Adriana]

I can do a little asmr.

[Olivia]

Little? No. It's like eating donuts. Those are a little bite.

[Alona]

Okay.

[Olivia]

Have a snack.

[Alona]

Which one do you feel most, like, drawn towards?

[Adriana]

Probably the glam. No, we were all.

[Olivia]

Okay.

[Adriana]

No, Take a bite of the glaze. Don't. We're the one behind the glass.

[Olivia]

You guys can all have a bite.

[Adriana]

Just take a bite and then pass it to me.

[Olivia]

How are you going to ruin your.

[Adriana]

Birthday for her like that?

[Olivia]

That's crazy.

[Adriana]

It's really messed up.

[Olivia]

Take a bite.

[Adriana]

Back to sharing a birthday with my grandmother. Every birthday I had to share a cake with her. That you learned humility quickly.

[Olivia]

Right, Right, Right.

[Alona]

That's a tough. Yeah, I feel you.

[Adriana]

But I do think sometimes she would let me blow them out myself. So thank you.

[Alona]

Why are you eating it like that?

[Adriana]

It to me.

[Alona]

Pretty good.

[Adriana]

Oh, it's cinnamony, kind of dry, but delicious.

[Olivia]

You feel like you need a coffee with that now Adriana's taking a bite. Be really quiet.

[Adriana]

And now that's a good glaze.

[Alona]

Bite of a glazed donut.

[Adriana]

Libby.

[Olivia]

Debbie, she's chewing it.

[Alona]

Adriana, focus on our segment.

[Adriana]

Sorry.

[Olivia]

Please introduce the next segment.

[Adriana]

So there's no sister. Settle it today because there's nothing to settle besides settling in with a good book. And I. I would say we are all resident book readers, book leaders. But I get to talk today. So I've got two for you. I'm a huge fiction, fantasy, romance novel person. Books. So I'm first gonna start on one of my favorite books that I've ever written that really read. That I read. Are you saying audiobooks aren't real?

[Alona]

No, you said written.

[Olivia]

You said written.

[Alona]

Yeah.

[Adriana]

So I wrote this.

[Alona]

It's your donut.

[Adriana]

My favorite book. Okay.

[Olivia]

You need blood sugar.

[Adriana]

One of my favorite books that I've ever read. I read in a point that I didn't know that I really needed it. And so it changed me and changed my perspective so much. It was Everything I Know about Love by Dolly Alderton.

[Alona]

You guys love that one.

[Adriana]

Love that book. And you're gonna think it's so much about, like, romance with men or just romantically. And she does speak on that. But there's so much about it of just friendship and the love you find with friendship and the struggles of female friendships. And I read at a time where I was really going through something with a friend, and she was experiencing the same thing in her book. And I think just seeing it written down was just made me feel so, like, assured that I was like, I'm not crazy.

[Olivia]

Yeah.

[Adriana]

And it's. I think every woman should read it. Like, it's just so well done. It's so funny. It's so. Just quick. Like, I love was also the book that got me to go back to therapy because she. She talks about therapists.

[Alona]

Yeah.

[Adriana]

What it did for her. And I was like, I think that would be good for me. And it was great, actually. So I attribute a lot to that book. And I think you've read it. You have it. Hard copy, too. Like, it's such a great book.

[Olivia]

You can just read it in different phases of life. And you'll find something that applies to you, and you can highlight and mark down different lines and passages. She's a genius. She is incredible. And the first time I read it was actually listening to it. And she reads it. So there is something really nice about hearing it in her accent, talking about the structures of school over in the uk, which is very kind of different to what we have here. But it just makes sense coming from someone that's from there and hearing them read it and tell her own stories. And that book shook me to my core. I love it. And then I read it again recently because I wanted to physically hold it and highlight and read and, like, take my time with it. And I. Yeah, no matter where you are in life, it will speak to you in a certain way. So that's an excellent call out for.

[Adriana]

Dre's Book Club today.

[Olivia]

What else you got for us?

[Adriana]

Okay. My fun romance one. And I'm probably so many of you have read it if you're at least reading. If you're on Booktok. And so I'm sorry if it's repetitive.

[Olivia]

I'm nervous.

[Adriana]

But I read this.

[Olivia]

Ice Planet Barbarians.

[Adriana]

No, I love those.

[Alona]

I love them.

[Adriana]

That can be their segment. I read half of that book and I couldn't. And also, I refused to read that book because I was like, I don't need that on my Kindle. I don't need that on my Internet.

[Olivia]

Boring.

[Adriana]

So as a gag gift for my birthday, Olivia got me Ice Planet Barbarian so I could read it.

[Alona]

And you only got halfway into it.

[Adriana]

Yeah, I couldn't.

[Olivia]

I bought her a physical book and she disrespects me like that.

[Alona]

I love that.

[Adriana]

And then I was trying to give it away recently. I'm going to keep putting that on my shelf. I'm sorry.

[Alona]

Okay, re gift it.

[Olivia]

Someone will enjoy that.

[Adriana]

Here's the problem that I ran into, is that the bookstore. I went to that to buy books. Weren't purchasing books that day. And I was like, I'm not lugging this back to my apartment. And so we were trying to find, like, a free little library nearby to drop it off at. And then we found one. We walked to it the way it was inside a kid's playground.

[Alona]

Oh.

[Adriana]

So I was like, I gotta hang on to this.

[Olivia]

You gotta hang on to that.

[Adriana]

I don't know where it is now, actually.

[Olivia]

The gift that just keeps on giving.

[Alona]

You should have signed it, like, Adriana's explanation of barbarians.

[Adriana]

Yeah. If found, please return. No, my book. I found I think maybe during the pandemic. And it consumed me. It was the Deal by Elle Kennedy. It's a hockey romance series.

[Alona]

Adriana loves a hockey romance.

[Adriana]

I love a sports romance. I love a fake marriage romance, all of that.

[Alona]

I can't read sports romances because I'm like, that would not happen. That's actually against safe sport.

[Olivia]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Alona]

The team doctors doing what? That is really not good.

[Olivia]

That's crazy.

[Alona]

That's illegal.

[Olivia]

That's a lawsuit.

[Alona]

So I try reading these and I cannot get down with it.

[Adriana]

It's tough. This one was. Sometimes when it's like they're in college, it's a bit better because it's not like I feel like I less know or Whoa. I feel like I know less about, like the. The systems for that. So I'm not like, oh, couldn't it be that?

[Alona]

Right, Right.

[Adriana]

Ncaa. I don't know enough.

[Olivia]

Literally. Bliss. In this case, Ilona knows too much.

[Adriana]

But I've read all of those and then I've started to read the spin offs. Like it's.

[Olivia]

What are the spin offs about? Hockey.

[Adriana]

Kids.

[Alona]

Their kids fall in love.

[Adriana]

It's multi generational.

[Alona]

20 years in the future.

[Olivia]

Reading is a hobby to a point. That's crazy.

[Adriana]

No, it's. And I will say, when I read those books, I was like, this is the best series I've ever read. Eating it up. Like, I was like, this is entertainment. This is so good. And then I do love. I reread those sometimes.

[Alona]

Have I read it? I don't know. Have you read it?

[Olivia]

No, the deal.

[Adriana]

That's not my favorite one, though. That's.

[Alona]

That's the star.

[Adriana]

I think that's the first one. Yeah. What's the one? I can't remember the one with the Brianna, I think I can't remember them because they all have like, the deal, the score, the goal. And so I. I can't also even sometimes remember the characters names. I'm gonna be like, was it the insecure freshman one?

[Olivia]

Yeah, right, that one. Right, right, right, right. And all the characters present in this universe, like, you'll hear mention of other characters from other books in other books.

[Alona]

I love when they're connected like that.

[Adriana]

No. And it's like that.

[Olivia]

And do you love it? Are you like, hey, bookies, when you see.

[Adriana]

When you see your favorite character, they're in the relationship and I'm like, oh, my God, they're so happy together still. But what I was saying is I sometimes reread them and I'm like, ooh, this Isn't what I. Well, I told too many people about this. Yeah, and now I'm telling more people about it. But I think it's a good, like, entrance.

[Olivia]

Okay. Into. Into hockey romances.

[Adriana]

Hockey romances?

[Olivia]

Or just a quick.

[Adriana]

A quick read.

[Olivia]

Okay.

[Adriana]

You need something fun.

[Olivia]

Yeah. That's how I feel. The way Ilona feels about sport romances in that way. It's how I feel about, like, office romance culture. Ones where, like, I'm like, no, no, no, no, no, no, that's wrong.

[Adriana]

Any pregnancy trope?

[Alona]

The hallway.

[Olivia]

No, I mean the stairwell. No.

[Adriana]

HR Sometimes when I'm reading a book and you ask me about it and then you read it, I'm like, olivia critiques them sometimes a little too much, and I'm like, it seems like all.

[Olivia]

Of your own taste.

[Alona]

She does.

[Olivia]

I read stuff that you guys don't like.

[Adriana]

It's a little judgmental.

[Olivia]

Sorry. You guys judge my books too.

[Alona]

We also don't read the best books. Like, I think Adriana and I read. She probably reads the worst sort of books.

[Olivia]

I read all the worst books. I don't judge it.

[Alona]

She also will read, like, autobiographies, memoirs.

[Adriana]

I read real books, too. Do you? Yes, I do.

[Alona]

Okay, name the line.

[Adriana]

Five broken Blades. Great book, actually.

[Alona]

When did you read that?

[Adriana]

A month ago.

[Alona]

Okay, fine.

[Olivia]

Okay.

[Adriana]

Yes. That's why my Libby app. And so whenever I get something off hold, that's my real book time.

[Olivia]

What hurts for me is when I do read something that isn't considered, like, highbrow and it is, like, a romance. And I'm like, oh, my sisters would love this because they read trash, like. And then they both are like, wasn't that good?

[Alona]

I'm like, what? That's amazing. Which one did you really like? Like that? We did.

[Olivia]

Sexy Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

[Alona]

Oh, she loved that one. Those books were so good. Tell them the theme of that, because that's kooky.

[Adriana]

No go.

[Olivia]

Basically. Right. Four or similarly apocalypse, famine. What is it? Famous Pestilence, death and war.

[Alona]

Right. Now imagine is plague and Pestilence one?

[Adriana]

Because I think it's Pestilence.

[Alona]

Are they the four Horsemen?

[Olivia]

Yeah, yeah. It's four Horsemen.

[Alona]

So Pestilence and plague.

[Olivia]

Famine. Famine.

[Adriana]

Is famine, pestilence, war, death.

[Olivia]

Yeah.

[Alona]

Anyway, you get it. Those. The.

[Olivia]

The four. The four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. But imagine them hunky, right? And handsome, and they're gonna destroy the earth like it's an apocalypse. That's crazy. Except they fall in love with a human woman and that she changes their.

[Alona]

This is Insane.

[Olivia]

They're like their quest to destroy. And they realize, like, love and human. The human race deserves to exist. And they are so good.

[Adriana]

It's usually after they've killed, like.

[Olivia]

Killing.

[Alona]

Killing thousands of people.

[Olivia]

They're not killing her.

[Alona]

You know what I mean? War beats her.

[Olivia]

No, he didn't. Did.

[Alona]

He doesn't. No. I mean, read your own Risk. That's some sort of stuff that the girls would love, though. That's the kind of thing they read. Two or three of them.

[Olivia]

They were good. I loved him, but that's the kind.

[Alona]

Of thing that I read that I was like, my sisters are gonna love this. This is right up their alley.

[Olivia]

And they were both so judgmental of it. I was like, okay, Adriana, I'm not gonna put you on blast for this. I know you're reading, but. Yeah, what the hell?

[Adriana]

I did read this.

[Olivia]

You did read them, right?

[Adriana]

Yeah, and I was reporting back to you.

[Alona]

They got a little crazy.

[Olivia]

Not really. Maybe I don't remember them. So please don't take my word for it. You know, if you go and read.

[Adriana]

This isn't an official recommendation.

[Olivia]

This is not official recommendation. I do not condone anything that has happens in these books.

[Adriana]

That's the main character. I just remember having. We don't condone these books.

[Olivia]

They were fun.

[Adriana]

Yeah. Sometimes you need just like a little crazy book.

[Olivia]

Yeah.

[Alona]

And we have much more for you.

[Adriana]

Yeah.

[Alona]

Because already I'm thinking about so many others, but I don't want to share more.

[Olivia]

Give us a taste of one. We both gave one here my series.

[Alona]

That I can read front to back.

[Olivia]

Oh, no.

[Alona]

Which one? Billionaire Boys Club. It's these. These billionaires.

[Olivia]

Right, Right.

[Alona]

They're in a. They're in a club together. They got, like, tattoos. They're all in club. And then they find their ladies. My favorite one. I can know Joe. I could probably read this one once a month. I love it so much. And of course, it's smut. He is a scarred billionaire in a mansion. Can't get anyone to love him. A lonely virgin. She out there. Ghost Rider. He sets up this scheme to get her to come to his mansion because he has secret letters in the library. Turns out he paid for those letters to be there just so he could spend time with her. And then a lot ensues. A lot ensues. You get what I'm saying? I even read it during Christmas. I read it over Christmas again. I've probably read that 15 times.

[Olivia]

You're forgetting the name. Oh.

[Alona]

Beauty and the Billionaire.

[Olivia]

Aptly named Beauty and the Billionaire and.

[Alona]

It'S from the billionaires Boys Club.

[Olivia]

One of those ones that I read that she loves and I read and I was like, what are my sisters doing here?

[Alona]

What do they got going on happening upstairs?

[Olivia]

Are gonna let the Apocalyp books that.

[Alona]

I like if they reading this stuff. Nope, nope, nope.

[Olivia]

She loves those though. Have you read all of them?

[Alona]

I've read most of them. Yeah. Yeah.

[Adriana]

Wow. And later I'll get into werewolf books.

[Olivia]

Not just shape shifters in general. Right? It's a whole.

[Alona]

I. No, no. I've read some shapeshifter stuff.

[Adriana]

I'm a werewolf purist. For me, I'm like a bear shift shifter. That's too freaky.

[Alona]

That's crazy. That's crazy. I read bear shift. No ifs, ands or bears about it. I love that one. I love it. I love it.

[Olivia]

I think I called it one time. I was like, I was like, what are you reading? She's like, I said to put one down. It was about a like a mountain lion shift or that's two out there. She knows like, you know like all the terms for it too.

[Adriana]

Can I also clarify? I'm not reading those freaky deaky werewolf ones. What are you reading? Because there's levels to the werewolves and I. I was raised on a watt pad.

[Alona]

Right.

[Adriana]

And that is very just like normal. It's kind of like you only see like the hierarchical, like. Yeah, there's the hierarchy and that's really. And they just shift and that's it. None of the freaky sexual stuff. But I just read the very like classic, like simple.

[Alona]

It's like a twilight.

[Adriana]

Not.

[Alona]

Not that way, but like a twilight. Like Jacob turns into a wolf and.

[Adriana]

He loves and they have mates. That's it.

[Olivia]

There you go.

[Alona]

Yeah, that and that's it. And that's it.

[Olivia]

You dirty minded weird.

[Alona]

Nothing more.

[Olivia]

You're a bunch of freaks.

[Alona]

Stop judging us.

[Olivia]

Yeah.

[Alona]

Thank you so, so much for coming over to House of Mar A Wave original presented by the new Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra.

[Adriana]

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