We Just Fell Down the Stairs at the Met Gala

Summary

House of Maher Podcast - Episode: We Just Fell Down the Stairs at the Met Gala

Introduction

In the latest episode of House of Maher, hosted by the dynamic trio of sisters—Olympic rugby player Ilona Maher, “Girl Dinner” creator Olivia Maher, and human rights advocate Adrianna “Dre Baby” Maher—the sisters delve into a myriad of topics that blend their professional lives with personal anecdotes. From the intricacies of mocktail pricing to the glitz of the Met Gala, the episode offers listeners an engaging mix of humor, insights, and heartfelt conversations.

Mocktails and Their Worth [01:17]

The episode kicks off with a heated discussion about the rising prices of mocktails. Olivia introduces the topic by expressing her frustration with the cost and composition of non-alcoholic cocktails served at venues.

Olivia:
"I'm going to start strong with a touch grass that we were recently talking about here. I think everyone needs to touch grass when it comes to the price of mocktails." [01:17]

Adriana echoes Olivia's sentiments, questioning the value of a $14 mocktail when a shot of vodka only costs $4. The sisters debate the excessive use of ice in mocktails, which they feel dilutes the drink without adding real value.

Adriana:
"Why is it $14 for a mocktail, right?" [01:28]

Olivia further critiques the trend of overcomplicating mocktails, suggesting that sometimes a simple drink like a Coca-Cola or lemonade would suffice. They discuss the balance between enjoying a crafted beverage and maintaining affordability.

Olivia’s Car Battery Mishap [03:10]

Shifting gears, Olivia recounts a frustrating experience with her car's battery. After having a new battery installed, Olivia's car dies again shortly after, leading her to discover that her battery was stolen from her locked, gated garage. This incident sparks a discussion on security and the frustration of dealing with recurring car issues.

Olivia:
"Clean out. Someone got into my gated garage, opened my old Honda's hood somehow, without unlocking the car, and took my brand new battery." [04:29]

The sisters brainstorm possible scenarios, including the possibility of an inside job, and share their own experiences with car troubles, adding humor and solidarity to the conversation.

Met Gala: Style, Themes, and Favorites [07:43]

The conversation seamlessly transitions to fashion as the sisters prepare for the Met Gala. Adriana expresses her admiration for past themes, particularly highlighting the "Heavenly Bodies" theme, which melded Catholicism with high fashion, creating some of the most memorable looks on the carpet.

Adriana:
"The Catholicism one—the looks on that carpet were crazy. Like, still some of the best, in my opinion." [08:38]

Olivia adds her favorite moment, praising the aesthetic choices that dripped in gold and showcased intricate designs. The sisters discuss their anticipation for various celebrity outfits and the excitement of seeing their favorite stars make bold fashion statements.

The Art of Tailoring and Personal Style [11:36]

Delving deeper into fashion, the sisters discuss the importance of tailoring and developing a personal style. Alona shares her passion for wearing clothes that fit perfectly, emphasizing how tailored outfits can enhance confidence and express individuality.

Alona:
"There's something that feels so good when something's made perfectly for you." [12:13]

Adriana concurs, appreciating the craftsmanship behind tailored garments and the significance of personal style in defining one's identity. The conversation also touches on the relevance of trade schools in teaching valuable skills like tailoring, advocating for vocational training as a viable career path.

Advocating for Trade Schools [13:13]

Adriana and Olivia highlight the importance of trade schools, encouraging listeners to consider vocational training as an alternative to traditional four-year degrees. They emphasize the enduring demand for skilled tradespeople, such as plumbers, electricians, and mechanics.

Olivia:
"We need plumbers, electricians, and mechanics. Please stop becoming DJs." [13:41]

Adriana adds that trade schools offer guaranteed employment opportunities and financial stability, making them an attractive option for many individuals seeking practical and lucrative careers.

Adriana:
"Everyone should have the option to attend trade school. You don't need to feel pressured to pursue a four-year degree." [14:02]

Personal Styling and Makeup in Sports [17:08]

Alona brings a unique perspective by discussing the integration of makeup into her athletic routine. Breaking stereotypes, she shares how wearing lipstick has become her signature style on the rugby field, challenging the notion that femininity and sports cannot coexist.

Alona:
"It has become my signature style, which sets me apart. Wherever I go, people think of me as the girl with the lipstick." [17:45]

Olivia and Adriana applaud Alona's confidence, noting the positive impact of personal expression in traditionally masculine environments. They celebrate the growing trend of female athletes embracing makeup and style, fostering a more inclusive and expressive sports culture.

Clothing Rentals and Style Evolution [25:12]

The sisters explore their experiences with clothing rentals, highlighting the benefits of trying new styles without significant financial commitments. Adriana shares her love for experimenting with different outfits through rentals, which has allowed her to expand her wardrobe and discover new fashion preferences.

Adriana:
"I love my clothing rentals because I'm trying so many things I would have never done before." [26:11]

Olivia adds that clothing rentals offer a fun and cost-effective way to stay fashionable, especially for special occasions or experimenting with bold looks. The sisters encourage listeners to embrace clothing rentals as a way to enhance their personal style and reduce fashion-related expenses.

Listener Submission: Resolving Sister Conflicts [41:35]

Towards the end of the episode, the sisters address a listener's concern about a sibling's lack of respect for shared spaces. Anna T. shares her frustration with a sister who disregards common areas like the bedroom and bathroom, seeking advice on resolving the ongoing conflict.

Anna T.:
"My sister has no respect for our common areas... I'm losing my mind over this and do not know how to resolve this issue." [41:35]

The sisters offer compassionate advice, suggesting that Anna and her sister might have different love languages and emphasizing the importance of communication and understanding. They explore strategies such as setting clear boundaries, finding mutual compromises, and recognizing individual differences in maintaining a harmonious living environment.

Adriana:
"Continue to advocate for yourself." [42:12]

Alona:
"Maybe she will start to come around as you both grow older and understand each other better." [44:10]

Conclusion

House of Maher wraps up the episode with the sisters encouraging listeners to reach out with their own stories and to engage with the podcast through social media. They emphasize the importance of sisterhood, personal growth, and supporting one another through life's various challenges.

Olivia:
"Be sure to watch, subscribe on YouTube and listen wherever you get your podcasts." [46:59]

The episode concludes on a high note, leaving listeners with valuable insights, relatable stories, and a sense of camaraderie among the Maher sisters.

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Transcript

[Adriana]

I remember just going over to your place and just your ground turkey meal prepped in the fridge. I was like, what?

[Olivia]

I probably had hair rollers in my hair too, because I was practicing how to do that.

[Adriana]

Just coming from our household, we've never had ground turkey.

[Olivia]

Yeah.

[Adriana]

And I was like.

[Olivia]

Cuz it was.

[Adriana]

I. I remember it so vividly. Olivia was in a Tupperware and it was like half ground turkey, half, like, vegetables. And I was like, what is she eating?

[Olivia]

Is she doing?

[Adriana]

Do you need help? Like twice? I.

[Alona]

Welcome back to House of Mar, a Wave original presented by the new Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra. Help yourself to anything in the fridge. The WI FI password is hockey smart, all uppercase. And I am Alona.

[Olivia]

I'm Olivia.

[Adriana]

And I'm Adriana.

[Olivia]

And that WI FI password was for you.

[Adriana]

No, it wasn't. Actually. No. I don't claim that WI FI password.

[Olivia]

Oh, okay.

[Adriana]

It's. You named it Hockey Loves stories, actually.

[Olivia]

Right, right, right, right. Deep, intimate. Yeah, right. Nothing biblical, of course.

[Adriana]

Coming up on today's episode of House of Mar, we have tea time. We're talking all things style, makeup on the field or pitch, and our pageant talents. We also have a sister settlements mission about respecting common areas. So stay tuned.

[Olivia]

I'm going to start strong with a touch grass that we were recently talking about here. I think everyone needs to touch grass when it comes to the price of mocktails. All right, what are your thoughts on this?

[Adriana]

Why is it 14 for a mocktail, right?

[Olivia]

Yeah. You're telling me the shot of vodka was only $4 adding to that. Right, Right.

[Alona]

What did you just pay yesterday for a mocktail?

[Adriana]

12 for juice. I'm going to be honest, though, that one was incredible. Okay, so like, outside of this conversation, that one I would spend $12 again for. Really? But it was so good for.

[Olivia]

Like you said, there was too much ice in it, though. That's the other thing. They pack it with ice because I'm like.

[Adriana]

I get it with like, cocktails of how you're. You're doing like 1.5 ounces in this, so of course it's not gonna be a lot of liquid. You can do a lot of liquid with a mocktail. Why are we filling it up with ice?

[Olivia]

They are like a crafted thing. Like, they're adding the rosemary essence and the this, and they're really. They're getting. They're doing their mix all. They're doing their big mixology thing with it. But I think big mocktail has gone too far.

[Adriana]

Big mocktail.

[Alona]

At what point do you just order a Coca Cola? Yeah, I do.

[Olivia]

Lemonade.

[Alona]

If I am not drinking, I'll try to get like a kombucha or something like that.

[Adriana]

Good for your gut.

[Alona]

Good for my gut. But I think then it works out because you're. Because I do. We here like the act of drinking. We like, like coming around, having a.

[Olivia]

Cocktail created, like, we love aspect of it.

[Alona]

Love the social aspect. But it. It can be hard to, you know, not drink at that time. So I do like to have something in my hand that does feel like it. So I do like, I love to have a mocktail, but I. It needs. Something needs to change.

[Olivia]

We were just at a birthday party and you were drinking kombucha out of a wine glass.

[Alona]

Delicious.

[Olivia]

So you still felt like aesthetically involved and you were part of the. The culture. But, you know, just having your little boo.

[Alona]

That's what I think. For else. For people who aren't drinking, if you're at a bar or you're out with friends, order like a, you know, club soda in a glass or even water in a glass and just put a single lime in there. They'll think it's a vodka soda and they won't ask you questions.

[Olivia]

Yeah, exactly.

[Alona]

I want to talk about this story that I think is hilarious. I think you can tell it better. I'll jump in when I need to. But this was really a moment where we were just like, all right. Oh, my God, that's crazy.

[Olivia]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, we on the move. I'm traveling, wasn't using my car. And so it was sat for a little while, and when I finally went to use it, the battery was dead, right? So I call roadside assistance. A wonderful man comes to the truck. He to jump my battery, but he does the test on it, and he's like, hey, this thing is actually just like dead. Like, you need a new one. This has been in here too long. I was like, all right, fair. So I pay the $200 or whatever it is, and I get a brand new battery put into my car. I do a little bit more traveling. I come back, battery is dead again. I'm like, no freaking way. But I'm about to do some more traveling. So I'm like, I'm not going to jump it yet. I'm just going to let it sit here in my garage, my gated gar. And I'll do it when I come back. Flash forward. Here's alone. And I coming back to like, well, we got to jump my battery. Let's get My roadside assistance back in here. Roadside assistance comes, he's going over to open up the hood. I'm explaining. Yeah, I just got a brand new battery in here. Isn't that crazy? Like you just. Why would. Like, I can't believe this would happen. I can't believe this battery would die so soon. And he goes, what battery? There's a hole in my engine.

[Alona]

Right.

[Olivia]

Clean out. Someone got into my gated garage, open my old ass Honda's hood somehow, without unlocking the car, and took my brand new battery.

[Adriana]

Yep, you were on someone's robless.

[Olivia]

I'm convinced it was an inside job.

[Alona]

Well, inside of where I possibly know you had a new battery in too, Maybe.

[Adriana]

Did you get it installed in the same garage?

[Olivia]

Yeah, so someone might have seen. But I asked the guy. Well, he said, what battery? I was like, okay, sassy. I was like, that's interesting. Are you selling any batteries today, sir? And he said, yes, I am. So then I'm like, have you what? How did they get into the hood? Like, how did they pop the hood without having a. The car unlocked? He goes, I'll be honest, I've never seen this before. Okay, cool. Love being. Love being the first. So $200 more. He then goes, you also have to pay this fee because it's the battery recycling fee. I'm like, but there's no battery to recycle. He was like, yeah, exactly. Like, you're not giving me a battery to recycle, so you have to pay this fee. I was joking. So I had to pay an extra fee on top of this brand new battery to be put into my car. But if that, you know, that really, that really grounds you, that brings you back to reality.

[Alona]

But I will say so. It was interesting. So it's a locked g. It's a gated place. We were like, what the heck? But I started to do some snooping around.

[Olivia]

She went full Nancy Drew. Frick full Nancy.

[Alona]

What the heck? And my roommate. A couple years ago, I was living in a house with a girl and I guess she'd heard noises outside. Thankfully she didn't go out. But in like within five minutes, these people had come, lifted up her Prius, stolen her catalytic converter and gotten out of there. So I knew the Priuses were big. People love taking a Prius, a Pierce catalytic converter. So I over like spots over from Olivia is like this dusty Prius. So I'm like snooping around. I'm like, like checking out the dust.

[Olivia]

She's swabbing for fingerprints.

[Alona]

And I Notice on the hood of this Prius, there's, like two handprints like this, which isn't where you. Catalytic converter. You get the catalytic converter underneath as well. But I was like, I would bet money that car does not have a catalytic converter. And if they were able to get in the hood does not have a battery.

[Olivia]

Something else is gone.

[Alona]

Literal handprints right on the. On the hood of that car.

[Adriana]

Crazy.

[Alona]

So then I go and park my car on the street, and Libby's like, are you sure you don't want to move to the garage? I was like, is it even safe in there? Safer out in public?

[Olivia]

Why, y'all? So.

[Alona]

No, nothing safe is what we're saying.

[Olivia]

That wasn't a welcome home to la.

[Alona]

Nothing is safe.

[Olivia]

Nothing is safe. But I have a new battery. But don't tell anybody.

[Adriana]

Don't, guys, don't.

[Olivia]

I seriously don't tell anyone.

[Alona]

And also, I'm selling a battery. Oh.

[Olivia]

And then we pull back in, like, the next day, and I was like, really hope that battery's still in there. The lights are fulling on inside of my car, so.

[Alona]

To the point where I feel like someone's messing with you. When I saw it, I was like, what the heck?

[Olivia]

There's a poltergeist for sure. Like, someone's trying to get me. Like, the lights were fully on inside of my car. Draining the battery. This brand new battery. So I was like, on the plus side, I still have a battery in that car.

[Adriana]

You left it on just to know those lights.

[Olivia]

On the bummer side, those lights have been on for two days. So. Brand new battery, though.

[Adriana]

This is why I'm glad I live in New York.

[Olivia]

Right. Speaking of New York, we recorded this before the Met Gala, but we know for you all, it's just happened. So we wanted to have a big style gab sesh.

[Adriana]

I do love the Met Gala.

[Olivia]

Do you?

[Adriana]

I don't know much about fashion, but I'm the number one critique, actually.

[Olivia]

Really?

[Adriana]

I'm, like, on, like, any social media, waiting for, like, the drops of the celebrities and, like, let me see their outfits.

[Olivia]

Do you watch the people that review the outfits, like, on Tick Tock or they're critique it?

[Adriana]

Yeah, I'm not, like, commenting on it, but I'm reading all the comments and.

[Olivia]

Okay, you're so right. So have you had some favorite Met Gala themes?

[Adriana]

Yeah, well, themes, of course. I still think one of the best.

[Olivia]

Was Looking Camp right in the Eye.

[Adriana]

That was a great one. Yeah. Sorry. But Heavenly Bodies, the. The Catholicism one The looks on that carpet were crazy. Like, still some of the best, in my opinion. My limited opinion.

[Olivia]

Just dripped in gold.

[Alona]

God.

[Adriana]

And just the imagery and, like.

[Olivia]

Yeah.

[Adriana]

I think people. Because, like, a history of Catholicism and, like, the culture and, like, it's it. They do know how to make pretty.

[Olivia]

Quite the aesthetic. Yeah.

[Alona]

Same glass.

[Adriana]

They've got it.

[Olivia]

Yeah.

[Adriana]

And so I did love that theme.

[Olivia]

But is there someone you're always anticipating on the carpet you're excited to see?

[Adriana]

It is. And it's. It's Emma Chamberlain.

[Olivia]

Oh. Whatever she's wearing.

[Adriana]

I just love her so much. I think we all kind of have a. What do they call it? Like, a parasocial relationship.

[Olivia]

Yeah.

[Adriana]

This is like, that's my best friend. Gotta see what she's doing on the carpet.

[Olivia]

That's up to.

[Adriana]

And that one, I can't remember which year it was. Is when she was, like, in that, like, almost, like, 1920s esque one with, like, the little bit of green liner. Amazing. Perfect. No notes. Think if I ever went to the Met Gala, I don't think I live up to the expectations that I would have for myself.

[Olivia]

Right.

[Alona]

What do you mean?

[Adriana]

Like, I don't. Because I'm so judgmental of everyone else that I'm like. I only find, like, 1 out of 10 looks to be, like, on theme and.

[Olivia]

Good.

[Adriana]

I know I'd be one of the nine.

[Olivia]

Right. Unfortunately, if you went to the Met gala, are you performing? Are you falling down the stairs, or are you making the biggest splash with your outfit?

[Adriana]

I'm gonna be so honest. Maybe this. I need to, like, be more confident. I think I'm just gonna, like, blend in. Oh, I don't think.

[Alona]

I don't think you're gonna hear much about the biggest splash.

[Adriana]

I think if you go, you should try.

[Alona]

Should try?

[Adriana]

Yes.

[Alona]

But I don't.

[Adriana]

It's a night of fashion. Like, try as big splash.

[Alona]

But I feel like when I hear big splashes, I think, like, crazy outfits are just, like, insane. Like, I think you should try and.

[Adriana]

As hard as you can to do something big and to be on theme.

[Alona]

Okay.

[Adriana]

People who aren't on theme.

[Olivia]

Boring. What's the point of going?

[Adriana]

I've never been all the men. Most of the men.

[Olivia]

Yeah.

[Adriana]

Get me something different than a suit, please.

[Olivia]

And then people say, like, oh, there's not many options for them. You can still wear whatever just because you're a man. How about it?

[Adriana]

Let's get some more prints. Let's do something.

[Olivia]

Yeah, right. You can wear a skirt.

[Alona]

No loan.

[Olivia]

I think you could make a splash. Like, you should do something that people talk about. Right. Like, that leaves an impression. You don't want to just be, like, forgot. Like, you don't want people to forget that you were there.

[Alona]

And I understand, but there's, like, so many.

[Olivia]

Right.

[Alona]

And there's gonna be people who are just gonna go crazy with it, you know, of course, like, Rihanna with, like, a cape, whatever, that goes down the stairs, you know, Like, I don't see myself at that level to do that.

[Olivia]

Right.

[Alona]

But I also. Cause I. With that, I think it's also about how good I feel in it. And I don't know if I would feel as confident. Something that's a little bit out there.

[Olivia]

Drawing all the attention to you.

[Alona]

No, I don't mind the attention on me, but if I just don't feel good enough in it. Like, if it's something, like, just weird and boxy or this, like, I don't want to wear it just because it's, like, people are going to take a look at it. I'd want to feel good in it. So even if that means, like, taking back the splash a little bit.

[Olivia]

Okay. As long as you feel good.

[Alona]

Yeah.

[Olivia]

Yeah. Because it is about your energy, too, and the way you embody it and present yourself. What is the theme this year?

[Adriana]

So the theme is super fine tailoring, black style. But the dress code is tailored to you.

[Alona]

It sounds like you have a little bit freedom to, like, dress how you would, but bring in those inspirations in, like, I guess when I hear tailoring, I think very well done. Precise, clear measurements.

[Olivia]

Yeah.

[Adriana]

Kind of. You're rocking it right now.

[Olivia]

Yeah. Honestly, this thing is gosh dang.

[Adriana]

You love a suit like this.

[Alona]

I live. I like things that are tailored. Yeah. I've gotten into having outfits that are made for my body. And there is something that feels so good when something's made perfectly for you.

[Olivia]

Yeah.

[Alona]

Like a dancer. The stars that. The wardrobe department, they had a manic in my body. And then they make things, like, perfectly to fit your body. And there's something about that. Like, something that's made for you just slips on it, makes you feel good immediately. So I'm interested to see what that'll be for some people. Like. Well, some people just take it off the rails then. And because. Because there are always those people who just don't even. Aren't even close to it, which is.

[Olivia]

Like, I guess it's up for interpretation, but also.

[Alona]

Yeah, yeah.

[Olivia]

Like, do what you gotta do. Yeah.

[Alona]

Who are the co chairs? I think we have Colman, Domingo, ASAP. Rocky, Lewis, Hamilton.

[Olivia]

Pharrell. Okay, Pharrell.

[Adriana]

And then Ms. Anna.

[Olivia]

Anna went to her. Interesting.

[Alona]

Very cool. That's a solid group.

[Olivia]

Yeah. The tailoring, I guess. Yeah. They call it tailoring with Dancing with the Stars. Those women were unbelievable. They didn't even measure you right. They sort of got a feel for your body.

[Alona]

Felt me and then did it up.

[Olivia]

And then did it. And like, they might make adjustments, but it was pretty spot on every time.

[Alona]

Yeah.

[Olivia]

That is such a absolute skill.

[Adriana]

Actually.

[Alona]

It's crafts. It's truly a craft to like, to do that sewing and like measuring and. And all that sort of stuff. Like my friend Anna does it. But like, it's. It's. You have to learn. You have to. Like it's a trade, you know, and sometimes people think so don't go into trades. But some of those are so important, impactful, like for her to do a job like that that not many people do. I mean, it's so many people. We need that.

[Olivia]

We need that.

[Adriana]

You need.

[Olivia]

That was. That tweet. That was like, men, Please stop becoming DJs. We need plumbers. Like, we need people in the trades. Like, we need people to learn these things, like electricians, like, you know, mechanics. We have enough DJs.

[Adriana]

We haven't.

[Olivia]

We're okay for now.

[Adriana]

Mom was always great about encouraging us, like, if we wanted to go to trade school.

[Olivia]

Oh, yeah.

[Adriana]

She's like, it's a great option. You can make a lot of money.

[Olivia]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Adriana]

I think everyone should have that. Like, especially if you don't want to say if you're feeling pressured to do a four year degree, you don't need to. You could have such an amazing career with a trade, you know, and it's like being pretty guaranteed that you're going to make money.

[Olivia]

Absolutely.

[Adriana]

You're always going to need a plumber.

[Olivia]

Always need a plumber. Always need an electrician. Always need someone to put right on a dress. Airplane mechanic.

[Adriana]

That one. I do feel I'm like, you don't go to the four year and then do more for airplane mechanic.

[Olivia]

Yeah.

[Adriana]

Trade school. Right. Okay. Add on, I don't know anything about this.

[Alona]

Yeah.

[Olivia]

Yeah.

[Alona]

So speaking of, like, style and tailoring, I wonder, like, how all our styles have changed throughout the decades from, you know, middle school to high school to whatnot. I mean, how we've had to learn and grow about, like, figuring out what looks good on our bodies.

[Olivia]

Yeah. And also, like. Yeah. Finding a personal style. Having come from so many years in Catholic school. Where we didn't dress ourselves.

[Adriana]

Like, we talked about the uniform.

[Olivia]

The uniform and like, which was helpful in those ages. But then like growing up and having to figure out what that looked like for each of us was obviously a process for anyone. But I loved a hand me down.

[Adriana]

Love a hand me down. Because then also if it fits you guys, I know, I know it's gonna fit.

[Olivia]

Yeah.

[Alona]

Right?

[Adriana]

And like, I think when we were younger too, it was so hard to dress our bodies and that might have been because there was like more limited options that everything I felt didn't fit right. Like, there's always a little off in like some department that like, I think you now have like access to all these like Internet sites where you can get it in tall or, you know, you can try things on a little easier and return them. And so like, I've have, I've had an easier time to dress myself.

[Olivia]

Right.

[Adriana]

And things that actually fit that make me then feel better. Like, it took me until maybe like three years ago till I found like jeans that actually fit.

[Olivia]

Yeah.

[Adriana]

And that was a game changer, you know, not having to go to our OMA to be like, can you tailor this?

[Alona]

Can you fix this?

[Adriana]

And it was just like she'd make like little pleats on the side and they'd still be sticking out. Bless her heart.

[Olivia]

Yeah.

[Adriana]

But like, of course it was, it still just didn't fit right, you know.

[Olivia]

Like, do you have any style inspirations?

[Alona]

I think like whenever I get the chance to look put together, I try to use it because in my job it's like I'm never able to, you know, I'm wearing team issued gear, I'm wearing jerseys and whatnot. I mean, we don't even do like, you know, WNBA has gotten into like doing their walks into games where they have style and get to show their personality. I think in our sport it's not really a thing. It's very much so where what the team issued to this meeting to there they there. Only recently for the Bristol Bears did we do a day where we got to dress up and walk into the stadium together. Like walk in wearing our outfits. But I think style has been kind of like left out of rugby and I, I think it's slowly making its way in because as we know, like, style can be such a way to show your personality as well. And rugby at times, especially in men's rugby and and women's as well. It's like you will. You're a team, so you all should be connected and wearing the same Stuff, and no one should be higher than the other. We're working together, but the team is full of individuals who want to show off themselves. And, like, at the end of the day, we also have all have a brands we're trying to put out there.

[Olivia]

Yeah.

[Alona]

And trying to get people to notice. So I think, like, those little moments where I can show myself off wearing, you know, what I want to is really impact is important for me. I mean, one thing I do is, like, I wear lipstick when I play, which you all know, because I've always found, like, especially being put in that box of rugby player. It's like, you know, you have to be big and masculine, and they just go on there and play. But I never liked that I was told to be this certain way when I played a sport. And so I think I started wearing lipstick. I would always wear makeup, but I think I started wearing lipstick, like, 20, 21.

[Olivia]

Okay.

[Alona]

And I just. I've started out with a little bit of less bold lip, and then I got a little bit bolder with my lip, and now I just love wearing it because I think it's like, you get to take that little bit of beauty into the game that it's sometimes missing or that you sometimes thought of, like, it shouldn't be there. And so it's kind of become my signature style, which is so funny. Wherever I go, people like, okay, do you want to wear the bold lip? Yeah, but I actually don't. I don't usually wear fully. Bold lip.

[Olivia]

Yeah.

[Alona]

I love to wear lipstick, but I never, like, don't usually wear a bright red. But it's become. Everyone thinks of it as my style. So whenever I'm, like, on a shoot, they're like, okay, I have this color red for you. And this. I'm like, okay, okay, I love it.

[Adriana]

How about a berry?

[Alona]

A berry? Yeah. So it is interesting how maybe you do something a certain amount of times becomes your style. Like, it becomes the thing you're known for. So the lipstick has become a thing I know him for, which is also really been a great move for me. I mean, it's been like, not only cut, become a signature, but, like, brands want to work with me because of it. And, you know, you're known as. You're known as the girl with the lipstick. It sets you apart from people. You're wearing lipstick out in the field. One thing I have loved is seeing more women's rugby players putting on makeup to where rugby. And, like, not being ashamed about it. Like, I see girls just putting on a Full face before they go play. Because I think it's us kind of like taking back our own narrative and saying like an F you to those who think that we have to leave our. Our beauty, our femininity at the door when we go play this tough sport. It's like, I know the best work players in the world who have a full beat on.

[Olivia]

Yeah.

[Alona]

Yet are still an amazing rugby player. So I am loving that. I think rugby should get more into that style now of showing outfits off and of getting to wear that because again, it's a. It's a little thing that just can tell you about somebody and to get.

[Olivia]

To know them through that.

[Alona]

Yeah.

[Olivia]

Really show yourself and then other people get to love you more for it or get to hold on to you. Like, oh, that's that. That wore that crazy thing that I saw or whatever. And I'm so.

[Adriana]

Had the little bows in her hair.

[Olivia]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Something to grab onto. My favorite like, trend or not even trend, but style thing is during the Olympics is when everyone reports on all the nails of the. Of the female Olympian and athletes and people reporting on your nails. Like, you and your teammates went and got your little stars and stripes. And there was an article about how to get Alona Mars exact. Like manicure. No. And it was like, right pinky. A white star with a blue background and a. And it was like. And then it was like left ring finger. I was like, what.

[Alona]

What's so funny that I had to take those off before I play because you know me and nails.

[Olivia]

Oh, yeah. Yeah.

[Alona]

But I not. I just like, I'm a. I'm a picker. But I got my nails done because it is. It's a way you can personalize yourself and send. You know, some people will wear eye makeup and glitter and whatnot. I think that we want to set ourselves apart. You know, it's becoming more so is like you have to also take care of yourself and. And. And put yourself out there in a certain way.

[Olivia]

Literally look good, feel good, play good.

[Alona]

Yeah.

[Olivia]

That rhetoric and I just. For the Olympics. I love how far we can. We can go with stars and stripes. Like the amount of cool designs and how they're still coming up with new fun things is just every year. I love seeing all the slideshows of those at the Olympics.

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[Adriana]

Can I ask a little silly question?

[Alona]

Yeah, you can ask the question for.

[Adriana]

The women who are wearing the full faces of makeup for rugby. Obviously it's such a high contact sport. Do you ever leave with makeup on your kit?

[Olivia]

Oh, interesting.

[Alona]

Girls will first off, it's kind of like a tried and tested trial and error thing, you know, like they we go through, we have to figure it out what we got to wear. I remember in college there was a team, we played this girl who would wear a full face of makeup and I was like, why is she wearing makeup? I was like, what's, what's doing? I realized, oh, she just feels good at makeup. Yeah, she wants to wear makeup when she plays as well. But that did mean that her whole the neck of her like white jersey was all covered in concealer. And so I think we've had to go through that trials of figuring it out like the certain mascara wear, the certain foundation to wear. I mean one of my teammates from Bristol Bears, Holly Aitchison, does a video videos on like what she wears to keep it on. So it's definitely like you have to learn and you're. I sometimes I got like lipstick on my mouth guard. I had to learn that way. You know, it's like a learning process as style is right. It's it's as it is with clothes, you start to realize, oh, this doesn't work for me. It's the same with makeup on the field.

[Olivia]

Yeah.

[Alona]

But also great products are coming out, too, that are now built for, you know, active lifestyles, because.

[Olivia]

Absolutely.

[Alona]

It's not just rugby, but people going to the gym also want to look cool and are putting on makeup to go to the gym. So I think it's wherever we're realizing that beauty, femininity can be brought into those spaces that traditionally they weren't really.

[Olivia]

Yeah.

[Alona]

Accepted in.

[Olivia]

And if it motivates you, get into the gym, you want to look cute, you got a cute set on, it motivates you to get there.

[Alona]

I love a cute set. Yeah, we love a little athleisure.

[Olivia]

Something that gets you excited to do it, get after it.

[Adriana]

You ever match the lip with the athleisure?

[Olivia]

Oh.

[Alona]

Oh, I've never done that. I've never done that.

[Adriana]

You can use that.

[Alona]

Thank you.

[Olivia]

Yeah. You have that one so much. I love when things are kind of starting to kick off again, and you were getting so recognized for your lipstick. Any kind of branded shoot that you had, from there, they would gift you more lipstick, and you're like, this really worked out. I really.

[Alona]

That was.

[Olivia]

I was really sick that I said, I like lipstick now. I got so much cool lipstick.

[Alona]

Great. People started taking notice, all been employed.

[Olivia]

Gotcha. You've given her lipstick.

[Adriana]

You got so much lipstick that you gave it to mom to give to the nurses?

[Olivia]

Oh, I do.

[Alona]

One time, I got a ton of lipstick from a brand, and I love it all, but I gave it to my mom. I was like, mom, give this to the nurse at the hospital. The nurses were so excited. They were just picking through and getting to pick all their colors. And, like, I love stuff like that because I do get a good amount of free stuff. And the joy that I give, giving it to other people as well. Like, I now have said, like, no, it is a lot of free stuff. But when I do, I'm like. Like, if my teammates wanted, they get so excited. It's like me almost getting to pass down this joy that I'm getting from all these companies. So the lips just know the lipstick is being loved.

[Olivia]

Yeah. Well, well loved.

[Alona]

Talk about styling. How have we been styling ourselves for this pod?

[Olivia]

I mean, we. John and I love a little bit of a clothing rental. There's something so fun about it, like, just getting new things, and it just. You have such a new, like, zest for getting dressed and doing Things or going on, like, a trip. I just love having fun things, even if they're quite basic. It's new to me, so it feels, like, super fun and elevated. So we've been doing that. We were kind of going for a very cozy, kind of homey Vermont vibes, but now we're very much so branching off into, I think, personal style. Like, you mentioned, like, you love jeans and a top.

[Adriana]

Put some heels with it.

[Olivia]

Get a heel on it.

[Adriana]

God, you're dressed up.

[Olivia]

Alona power suit moment right now.

[Alona]

This is probably the best it's gonna get, right? I imagine it's only downhill for me.

[Olivia]

Downhill for me.

[Alona]

I wore a dress recently. I can't keep this up.

[Olivia]

I was wondering at what point are we getting into, like, oversized sweatshirts?

[Alona]

Yeah.

[Olivia]

It'S coming soon. Yeah. I can't pick out another pair of shoes for sure. For sure to show.

[Alona]

But I think it is like we are expressing our style. These are moments where we get to express our style as well.

[Olivia]

Yeah.

[Alona]

So it has been nice.

[Olivia]

Yeah. But to be dressed up, to get to get put together and be together instead of just our, you know, athleisure. Nothing wrong with that.

[Adriana]

I think I'm still really finding my style. I think you've nailed it. Obviously, you're not done. It's still ever growing.

[Olivia]

Right.

[Adriana]

But I've again, I love my basics. It's something, though. Like that dress. I wore that, like, episode before. Love that. But that's something I would have never picked out beforehand. And that was a clothing rental. And it's just like, I love my clothing rentals because I'm trying so many things that, like, I would have never spent 250 on.

[Olivia]

Yes.

[Adriana]

You know, like, that's never crossed my mind. It actually took me so long to pull the trigger on getting in clothing rental. Like, I. I remember I was, like, looking through their site. I had favorited stuff. Didn't do anything for six months.

[Olivia]

Oh, really?

[Adriana]

And then I came back to it, and I was like, no. Like, I really wanted this one dress for actually a different birthday.

[Olivia]

Yeah.

[Adriana]

And I was like, it's.

[Olivia]

Oh, that was a good dress.

[Adriana]

That was a good dress.

[Olivia]

Remember, you looked amazing.

[Adriana]

But I was like, you know, I think that's six items. It's gonna be worth it. You know, like, I'll try it once, and if I don't think it's, you know, does anything for me, that's that it's 100. And, like, that's okay if you get six items and then the price per wear and If I wear each twice, it's fine to spend, like, the hundred bucks.

[Olivia]

The numbers have been crunched.

[Adriana]

The numbers have been crunched.

[Olivia]

Right.

[Adriana]

And, like, you know, almost a year later, I'm still doing it.

[Olivia]

Yeah.

[Adriana]

And it's. I've only bought one thing off of it, but, like, I love it, and I've done things I would have never done before.

[Olivia]

I think it's of clothing. It's to makeup and hair. We've been doing our own hair and makeup now, and I feel a lot better. Like, I feel like myself. Like, I feel very. I've got one gear when it comes to my hair, and it's this. Like, I might throw a curl in it if Alona's dancing on national television. But, like, that's. That's about it. But I feel prettiest like this. And that's just how I. I don't know, I just feel good and I feel myself. So we've been able to kind of branch out into that as well. I have some experience doing my own hair and makeup. As you YouTube famously know. I competed in a pageant on a whim, sort of back in college, and that was. I got to learn a lot about I. Not even really personal style, but just, like, style of that world, pageantry and, you know, hair and makeup, and doing it well and doing it right. And it's talk about a. Like a skill, talk about a trade. Like, doing your own hair and makeup to a level like, that was something very cool to experience. But I did the Miss Vermont pageant, and I got first runner up and Miss Photogenic, and then I never did another pageant ever again. But I just wanted to experience it and just be able to say that I did it. You know, one day when I had a show with my sisters, I wanted to be able to sit here and say, yeah, I did a pageant.

[Adriana]

Yeah, she's an Olympic medal Miss Runner up.

[Alona]

Yeah.

[Adriana]

Ms. First Runner Up.

[Olivia]

Right before girl dinner. It was the daughter that did the pageant. Right. But it was. It was a really cool experience because I just threw myself into it. I. The kind of, I guess is the word impetus for it. The. Where it came from was I went to a. Like, a triple. A baseball game with my dad, and the person throwing the first pitch was Miss Vermont. Whatever. Don't know who you were. Sorry if this was you at the time. It was a bad throw. It was a bad throw. And I remember I was, like, eating a hot dog with, like. And just having a day with my dad, and I was like, I could do that. And he's like. He was like, yeah, you'd be great at it. I think he meant the actual throw, not, like, pageantry. But my brain ran with that, and I. And I was like, yeah, I would be good at that. And I locked in for several months. All I consumed was pageantry, media, podcast, learning, YouTube. Like, I watched Miss Congeniality. Don't know how much that helped, but I got the dress and the shoes and the. The. The butt glue to keep your swimsuit down. I learned which swimsuits were the best to be on stage, how to do my hair. I had help from lots of people that I would, like, reach out to. I learned how to walk and how to pose. I threw myself into it for months. It was all I thought about. I, like, lived and breathed it. And I came out and I was first runner up. I also love that they call it first runner up and not second place. Sounds better, right?

[Adriana]

Yeah.

[Olivia]

But it was cool to experience. What was that? My journey with that, like, for you guys watching that happen.

[Adriana]

Well, I was there because we were both at college at the same time, especially when you were a senior. And I remember just going over to your place and just your ground turkey meal prepped in the fridge.

[Olivia]

I was like, I probably had hair rollers in my hair, too, because I was practicing how to do that.

[Adriana]

Just coming from our household, we've never had ground turkey.

[Olivia]

Yeah.

[Adriana]

And I was like.

[Olivia]

Because it was.

[Adriana]

I remember it so vividly, Olivia. I was in a Tupperware, and it was, like, half ground turkey, half, like, vegetables. And I was like, what is she.

[Olivia]

What is she doing?

[Adriana]

Do you need help? Like, twice I did, but, like, I. I went to the. What was it, the pageant day? Page two.

[Alona]

You went to the pageant?

[Adriana]

Yeah, I was there. I was in the audience. And I do. Like, it was so fun and just, like, interesting to see you up there. But I remember when it was, like, down to you and the. The one who won. I don't remember her name. We were all kind of there, and we're like, I don't know if we want her to win because it's such a time commitment afterwards.

[Alona]

Yeah.

[Olivia]

Right.

[Adriana]

Like, you're gonna have to go the even, like, the US Competition. Like, and then if. Like, what's that going to be like, Right?

[Olivia]

I got to go to this universe. Of course.

[Adriana]

And so we were all kind of there. Like, we're like, is it bad that we kind of hope she doesn't win?

[Olivia]

Thanks, guys. Plotting on my downfall.

[Adriana]

Talked about that, too.

[Olivia]

I do. I fully admit. Now I'm like, it's. I think it's kind of, you know, everything happens the way it's supposed to. It's good that it didn't, because I got to then graduate school, moved to New York City, and launched my life the way that I did. Instead of being kind of. Kind of trapped in the state of Vermont doing visits or whatever Ms. Vermont has to do from there. Yeah, she has to, like, be locked in for a year, but, like, I guess if anything had happened to her, I would have had to step up into that role.

[Alona]

So did you have to do a talent?

[Olivia]

No, this was not the one. This was the Miss usa. Whereas Miss America is where you do the talent. But I always say everyone asked me that instead. My talent was walking in a bikini. Because you took a lot of strength.

[Alona]

What if you had to do one? Do you know what talent you choose is?

[Adriana]

I think you do, like, a big shuri board.

[Olivia]

Like, you just give her a.

[Alona]

She's like, over, like.

[Adriana]

And then there's a camera mounted above, and you're like.

[Olivia]

I'm like, folding salami hyper speed. That's a good one.

[Alona]

Yeah. I think that should be it. Charcuterie or grazing board? Yeah.

[Olivia]

Timed grazing board time. Grazing creation. It's like those cup things. You know, the cup stackers? Well, that's me stacking brie.

[Alona]

I love that. If you had a talent, what would you do?

[Adriana]

Get an Excel sheet.

[Olivia]

I was about to say get freaking the sheets.

[Alona]

Excel sheets.

[Adriana]

You're watching me sort data.

[Olivia]

Yeah. Really quickly.

[Adriana]

I'm color coding it.

[Olivia]

There's different tabs you're using. You're using shortcuts on the keyboard. Right. I like that one. What else could you do?

[Adriana]

What else could I do? Not to take alone this thing, but yeah. I took two dance classes in college.

[Olivia]

Yeah.

[Adriana]

The first one was mandatory for gen ed. The second one was for fun.

[Olivia]

You did that for your own?

[Adriana]

I said, Let me spend $2,000 on this.

[Alona]

Oh, my gosh.

[Adriana]

There's nothing else to do with that school.

[Alona]

I had to.

[Olivia]

You're right. You're right.

[Adriana]

And so, like, I could pull out that routine.

[Olivia]

Yeah.

[Alona]

You still remember it?

[Adriana]

I think I could get into it. Like, I've got the video on my phone.

[Olivia]

Would you teach it to Alona?

[Adriana]

No, because actually, I had to choreograph it.

[Olivia]

Okay. So it's not good, right? Alona, what's your talent, babe? I don't say.

[Alona]

Right here.

[Olivia]

Putting on lipstick.

[Alona]

Putting on lipstick. I. I wouldn't say we're a talented, like, bunch like in terms of bunch, you know, like it's something, right.

[Olivia]

A niche thing.

[Alona]

It's like one thing that we're good at.

[Olivia]

I really do consider us to be like jacks of all trades. Like masters of none. Except for Lona. She's quite the master view things of rugby. Yeah.

[Alona]

Social media, people up there.

[Olivia]

Stiff farming.

[Alona]

I don't really know. Yeah, I guess I could maybe tackle people. Would love to. It's like a. The Miss Congeniality where she fights him on stage.

[Olivia]

That'd be kind of good actually. How to tackle a bag and get up quickly again.

[Alona]

I think I did hear though that at your. At your pageant for the big like didn't dad and your, your, your boyfriend come and watch? Oh yeah.

[Olivia]

Everyone came out to support big ups. That was your rugby.

[Alona]

That was your.

[Olivia]

That was. That was my Olympics. For real. No, that was fine. That was fine. I mean I was truly. I had another friend come out to support. It was quite nice actually that we get to random. We went to Stowe, Vermont. So obviously gorgeous. But that was. Yeah, that was wild because it was this journey that I'd been so like tunnel vision on for so long and now other people were seeing it in person. I was like, get out of here. This is my thing. What are you guys doing here? I'm on a stage. What's happening?

[Adriana]

What was it like when it was just done and you weren't doing another pageant? Like you were kind of free.

[Olivia]

I felt crazy.

[Adriana]

Yeah.

[Olivia]

Because I'd been so hyperfocused on something for so long that all of a sudden it was over and it had a great like ending. You know what I mean? That I was kind of like, okay, what now? Because I've been in that, that zone of it. But it was fine. But also we were sports people. We never really. We did. We didn't do theater. We didn't do anything stage or show wise like that. So it was my first sort of venture into that. So I basically paved the way for a lot of Dancing with the Stars. Right, right.

[Alona]

But we also didn't do any sports where it was like you have to do your hair first. Like no gymnastics, figure skating or anything like that. It was none in that way where they had to be like prep for it, I guess.

[Adriana]

I did a little theater.

[Olivia]

Oh right. Yeah.

[Adriana]

I was Paris and Romeo and Juliet.

[Alona]

Who is Paris? When did you do theater?

[Adriana]

Well, thing is we had to do basketball in our household. So that kind of was a short lived.

[Alona]

But would you have wanted to really go all in as A theater kid.

[Adriana]

Yeah.

[Alona]

What?

[Adriana]

Alas, that was a huge thing with Dad. I was so. I was like, I want to do theater. But he was like, no.

[Olivia]

And so actually, it's funny because that man loves the theater.

[Alona]

Yeah. He loves. Meant for the stage.

[Olivia]

This is my dream, dad, not yours.

[Adriana]

But that's actually sixth grade. I was able to do the Sound of Music production.

[Olivia]

Wow. Oh, I had to go to that. I just had a visceral memory of that.

[Adriana]

Oh, and I'm sorry, every weekend basketball game, I had to go to.

[Olivia]

Of yours. Ooh, how exciting.

[Adriana]

You got to see and watch.

[Olivia]

Sounds awesome. We were great at basketball because I.

[Adriana]

Was able to do a CYO Catholic Youth Organization basketball on the weekends. So that's when dad and I shook hands. And then the year after, he was like.

[Olivia]

We were dealing with.

[Alona]

You were Dad's number one off.

[Adriana]

He was my number one off.

[Alona]

A lot of our childhood love me in theater.

[Olivia]

He's like. She was like, dad, let me go find out if those hills are alive with music, and I'll go dribble a ball.

[Alona]

They need to stick him up to the table. The other hand steepled like. Here's what I'll give you. I propose Wednesday night CYO basketball. If you let me.

[Olivia]

Mediocre production.

[Adriana]

I think it was a pretty good production.

[Olivia]

It's three hours long, so I'll also go to Sunday school for confirmation.

[Adriana]

Right?

[Olivia]

Yeah.

[Alona]

Oh, she always added that into the mix, huh? You got some stuff out of that.

[Olivia]

For.

[Alona]

What did you make him do? To do. Because he made you do catechism. Yeah. What did you get out of that? You definitely swindled you. Right. I remember.

[Olivia]

What did you do?

[Adriana]

I got.

[Olivia]

What did you do?

[Adriana]

I got a milkshake from Cumby's, Cumberland Farms.

[Alona]

Cumberland Farms.

[Olivia]

The.

[Alona]

Got to say, the whole name Cumbies is tough.

[Olivia]

Cumberland Farms, Cumberland Farms.

[Alona]

Like a milk brand, but also like a. A.

[Olivia]

Like a gas station.

[Alona]

Gas station? Yeah.

[Adriana]

Like the free reel ones.

[Alona]

Oh, you. You open these frozen things, put it in this machine.

[Olivia]

You choose if you want it thick.

[Adriana]

And so the deal was, if I didn't complain about seawater CCD Sunday school, I'd get a milkshake after. Catechism is the Sunday school. The lessons they have to do in order to get confirmed, which is a step in Catholicism. So it's baptism first, reconciliation first. When you have first communion, then I think it's confirmation.

[Olivia]

And then it says you get married.

[Alona]

Get married in the Catholic Church.

[Adriana]

Yes, I forgot about that. Yeah.

[Olivia]

So that was our dad's Big thing. He was like, just do it and I'll leave you alone. Gabbit. Get it done. Get it under your belt. I'll leave you alone. Oh, except my big. Like, my biggest issue with. With that Sunday school is that it cut into the Amazing Race on Sundays and I was pissed. And I was mostly pissed because I was like, fine, I'll go to it, but I gotta get to Amazing Race because I love that show. And then our lovely family friend's father would drive us home. The slowest, safest driver you've ever met. Oh, my God. I was late for Amazing Race for several Sundays in a row, and it was not okay with me.

[Adriana]

I'm glad I did it for dad. That's something that was important to him. I really wanted that other middle name, and I got that because with confirmation, you get like a saint name.

[Olivia]

You pick a saint name. So that would make us. That would tally us up to three.

[Adriana]

I know each. So sometimes I introduce myself with it.

[Olivia]

Right. Wow.

[Adriana]

It's fun.

[Olivia]

So it was worth it in the end.

[Adriana]

Yeah. For the milkshakes and the extra name.

[Alona]

That's what she got out of it.

[Olivia]

Good on you.

[Adriana]

My confirmation name. Oh, this is my Russian face.

[Olivia]

You're what?

[Alona]

You're what?

[Adriana]

I call it my Russian phase. But I was really just watching Nikita, which was like the spy show. Okay.

[Alona]

It was a really good show.

[Olivia]

I never watched that one.

[Adriana]

And one of the characters, her name was, like, Alexandra. And so that's what I picked.

[Olivia]

Alexandra.

[Adriana]

Yeah.

[Olivia]

But you had to learn all about the saint who had that.

[Adriana]

And actually it worked out really well. That's a great saint. She was fighting for people's, like, religious rights to, like, have different religions. And I was like, well, yeah, good for you.

[Olivia]

Yeah.

[Adriana]

St. Alexandra of Rome.

[Olivia]

Good on you.

[Adriana]

What about you?

[Olivia]

Oh, Maria.

[Adriana]

That was going to be mine, actually. And then you took it.

[Olivia]

Sorry. Put a lot of thought into it. You can tell.

[Alona]

Adrian.

[Olivia]

Whoa.

[Adriana]

Wow.

[Alona]

For our opa.

[Adriana]

Yeah.

[Olivia]

And the Adriana's name sake, no.

[Alona]

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[Olivia]

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[Adriana]

Our phones work as hard as we do, sometimes even harder so we don't have to. Basically our lives move fast and our S25 Ultra moves right with us. 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. Audio erasers compatible with common video formats. Accessible in gallery helps minimize sick select sounds. Results vary. Galaxy AI features by Samsung are free through 2025 and require Samsung account login. We've been sisters for a while now and we'd like to think we're pretty good at it. So if you need advice, send us a DM or voicemail at House of Mar for a chance to be featured on the show. Show now. This is a listener submission from Anna T. And she says to put it simply, my sister has no respect for our common areas, I. E. Our bedroom or bathroom. I've spoken to her on so many occasions about this issue, but she never listens to me or my parents. I'm losing my mind over this and do not know how to resolve this issue. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. She also never does me any favors with a U.

[Olivia]

Sounds British low Immediate thoughts straight off the dome.

[Alona]

It's not a solid thought.

[Olivia]

Okay.

[Alona]

Is it possible your sister's just not a good person?

[Olivia]

Oh yeah. How old is said sister too?

[Alona]

It seems like I don't want to say that but like that's really tough.

[Olivia]

Yeah.

[Alona]

If you've spoken to her on many.

[Olivia]

Occasions and have and your parents isn't.

[Alona]

Listening to you or your parents, that's really tough. But again, I don't know what she's going through. That's hard for you. I'm sorry Anna, but great for you.

[Adriana]

For advocating for yourself.

[Alona]

Yeah, continue to do that. She says she never does me any favors. Is that possible that you Just have very different love languages. Oh, you, you maybe are more acts of service. You want that?

[Olivia]

Yeah.

[Alona]

Your sister is right. Time maybe or something or words of affirmation or something like that. I mean, I think. Think that could be interesting to get to know like her on that level.

[Olivia]

Yeah. Like to you. To her maybe it's acts of service. Like she keeps things clean because that's how she feels love. But her sister doesn't do that back for her. Whereas her sister likes, you know, quality time. So she's playing music and she's like, come hang out. But she doesn't like the loud music. So they're not seeing each other eye to eye.

[Adriana]

I've had friends who've like it's a roommate situation for them of like they've expressed so many times. But just levels of cleanliness is so different of like for them. They think it's so normal.

[Olivia]

Yeah.

[Adriana]

They're like, yeah, I like wipe a little bit, but I'm not deep cleaning. But for the other person it's like it's deep clean or nothing.

[Olivia]

Right.

[Adriana]

And so I think that should also be taken into consideration.

[Olivia]

Yeah.

[Adriana]

And so I, I would like to know like what the sister has said back when Anna brings this up.

[Olivia]

Interesting. Yeah, I'll do it.

[Adriana]

Yeah.

[Olivia]

Or did she.

[Adriana]

And then just disregarding.

[Olivia]

Interesting yet.

[Adriana]

That's a tricky situation.

[Olivia]

That is tricky. But like sharing space is not easy. It's not easy.

[Alona]

It sounds like you share a bedroom in y.

[Olivia]

We only did that for a little bit. We had bunk beds way back in the day. Party, party, party.

[Alona]

She had the back street. We had each of our members of the back street Boys.

[Olivia]

Yeah. Little posters up. Either I'd be throwing a temper chance or she would. It was great.

[Alona]

We loved it.

[Olivia]

So Adriana had her own bedroom. Cuz she was like a newborn or whatever.

[Adriana]

What the frick?

[Olivia]

Sorry.

[Adriana]

Guys, guys.

[Olivia]

VIP over there. Right, Right. Yeah.

[Alona]

Anna, that's really tough. I don't know what to say. Thankfully, like community, I think continue to communicate though.

[Olivia]

Yeah.

[Alona]

Hope maybe you'll make a breakthrough at some time.

[Olivia]

Especially as you guys get older and you keep growing. You learn more about yourselves and your relationships to others and how what you do affects other people. Maybe she will start to kind of come around.

[Adriana]

Maybe don't show her this then she's one for sure.

[Alona]

She's probably not that bad a person. She's listening.

[Olivia]

We all approach things differently. So it is. But it is tough to be patient all the time.

[Adriana]

I feel like I'm a therapist on this Couch.

[Alona]

Talking about this, I feel like an action that Anna could take, though, is, in a way, it's not fun action, but you almost have to take care of it yourself. There's times when I think if you want the room a certain way, maybe you have to tidy it up a certain way for you. If your sister's not gonna, like, for your own mental clarity and happiness.

[Olivia]

Right. But that's knowing that it's not your mess.

[Alona]

Yeah, but she's. This is just not going to do it anyway.

[Olivia]

Yeah.

[Alona]

So then either you live in this. A room that doesn't make you feel good, probably mentally, or you take control, which is making your sister kind of like you're enabler.

[Olivia]

Yeah.

[Alona]

But also, is it for your own personal well being.

[Olivia]

Right.

[Adriana]

I hear you. I kind of went to this might be the younger sister in me. Take all their mess and leave, like, put it in a pile. Put it under their bed to be like, I told you to clean it up. So I don't want to put it on their bed. Tuck it in, put it under the COVID And I think, like, that's making it known. I don't know if I'd recommend it.

[Olivia]

But, like, such a sister thing to do. Yeah.

[Adriana]

If, like, if I was sharing a room with one of you guys and you guys had your mess everywhere and I got fed up, I could easily see myself, like, grabbing your towel that's on the floor, like, grabbing all your makeup and just shoving it somewhere out of what? Out of the way.

[Olivia]

Respectfully, but shoving it out.

[Adriana]

Not so respectfully, but.

[Olivia]

Right.

[Alona]

I think, Olivia, you clean up to make your spaces better for your own mind. If we're in there.

[Olivia]

True.

[Alona]

You know, you make sure that it's true.

[Olivia]

Because I'll delegate, though. And you guys do listen, like, if I'm saying, like, I'm losing my mind. This needs to be cleaned up. Adriana's good at getting into action about that. Thank you.

[Adriana]

I also know when to get out of your way. You put on those headphones, and I'm.

[Olivia]

Like, oh, yeah, sit in the corner.

[Adriana]

Don't. I'm not gonna get up from this couch. Actually, I love it when she gets.

[Alona]

Her headphones on because that means she gonna start work. She gonna get to work, and I can just sit there. She starts folding and cleaning. She'll make a pasta. She's in her mind palace. I don't even correct her. Yay.

[Olivia]

I'm figuring out the secrets of life. Yeah. Just gotta lock in. Noise canceling headphones.

[Adriana]

Love.

[Olivia]

Try that. Noise canceling headphones and cleaning up her mess. No.

[Adriana]

And that's it for sister. Settle it.

[Alona]

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

[Adriana]

Mother's Day is Sunday. Don't be a slouch. Get your mom something nice or do something nice for her. If you have siblings, check with them. Organize. Maybe. Don't always leave it to the eldest.

[Olivia]

Yeah, or do.

[Adriana]

Or Olivia, what are we doing? Actually?

[Olivia]

Fine, guys, I'm on it. Be sure to watch, subscribe on YouTube and listen wherever you get your podcasts. Plus, follow the show on social media at HouseOfMar for clips and behind the scenes content. We'll see you next time. Bye. Thanks for coming over.