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Welcome to the carpool podcast with Kelly. Well, I can only think of one. What's like the only YouTube video you could think of that's age appropriate?
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Charlie bit my finger.
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Charlie bit my finger.
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And Liz, why did you choose to get a dog right now? And that sounds really hard. And I did cry last night. Really overwhelmed. And then I woke up today. Fine. So I just also think that sometimes you just have to cry and then you'll be okay.
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Your mom time off starts now. Welcome back to the carpool podcast with Kelly and Liz. And we're doing something crazy today.
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We are recording in person for the first time in like over a year.
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Probably definitely over a year.
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When we, before we both happened to move, we lived like 12 minutes from each other and had an in studio podcast. Didn't know how to record virtually, so could only record in person. And for the past year and a half, we've just been doing virtual recordings. This is so weird to like see you in person and like not have a screen buffering.
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I agree. I like seeing you in full. In.
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In.
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I like seeing you not pixelated.
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Yeah, I know.
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It's really refreshing.
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Yeah.
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Story time. Libby was being so cute yesterday and she was like, granted she was on the counter because that's her happy place. Like she prefers to stand on the counter.
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Sure.
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But I was right next to her and she had my phone and she was being silly, like pretending she was like, haha, like pretending she was on the phone. It was so cute. Before I could register what was happening, she looked at me, took my phone and threw it as hard as she could on the ground from the counter. My phone shattered. So I've been without a phone in a formal sense for like 24 hours.
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Libby bricked. You
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bricked.
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You didn't need to pay for it. Libby was happy to do the work for you.
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No, it's been so. So like my phone kind of worked. So like if someone called me, I could answer and like sometimes I could siri text back. And then I had my laptop that I could text on and then I had my content phone that I can get on Instagram on. So I was like walking around my house yesterday with like three devices at all.
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Now you have more devices.
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I know, I know. So I had to bring up drive up to close to Elizabeth's house to get my phone fixed and they were like, what's. What number can we call when it's done? Luckily, the only numbers in the world I have memorized are yours and Tyler's.
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Oh, wow. Okay.
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And that made me think of a fun thing that I think I've shared this on the podcast before, but if you have not taught your kids your phone number in in song form, now's the time. May I suggest doing it? I'm going to sing you not my number. I'm going to change the numbers, but I'm going to sing it to you. And this is a song that I taught my kids. Okay, Okay, I got to think of a fake number. Hold on.
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Just use the phone number mom taught us.
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No, I want to do mine. It goes like this. 3, 1, 4, 220, 46 and 62. That's my mom's cell phone. Can you call her on the phone? That is my mom's cell phone. So I taught. And so I taught them. You know, if you ever get lost, you find a mommy and you sing 31422. Oh, 46 and 62. That's my mom's cell phone. Can you call her on the phone? That is my mom's cell phone. And Tyler, funny enough, also learned my phone number that way.
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Oh, perfect.
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And George and Hattie would sing that so often that that where we used to go to, like, an in home daycare. Their kids learned my phone number.
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Oh, my gosh. That's funny.
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So I didn't have. Luckily, I just had yours memorized. But this is something that mom taught us.
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Yeah.
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Because we used to have 909-1690. That's my phone number. I know. 909-1690 is my phone number. I know. Which also banging phone number. 909-1690.
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No, that's a good phone number. Such a good phone number. You know, it will be crazy because I have your phone number, mom and dad's phone number, and Maddie's phone number memorized is the only ones that I know. Like, when my kids get a cell phone, I'm going to have to memorize their phone number facts.
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You are. You are. Something funny about Tyler's phone number is I'm not going to give all the letters, but it's something along the last four spell stud.
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Oh.
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So it's like his area code and then three numbers and then St. Ud. And that's because his mom, when she went to his phone, picked that out for you. Like, it's intentional. So it's like 4, 478 stud. Like, that's Tyler's phone number call now.
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4078 stud.
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We should bring back more like, I wonder if my phone number spells anything.
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I'VE never thought about this because we don't use numbers and letters anymore.
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No, but it was a good way to do it because, like, you could argue that would be an easier way to, like, remember.
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Well, this is true.
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I've never thought, how do I go to them?
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Oh, you know what? No, because there's a zero in mine, so zero does not have anything associated with it.
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Well, they should change that. Yeah, I'm calling for.
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Oh, and neither does one, really. Kelly, you. I love you. You'll never be able to figure out if your phone number spells anything because you have to look at four different numbers and they each have three letters, and then you also have to put words together.
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I see what you mean. Yeah, my. I don't look like I spelled. Because you gotta have the vows. If you don't have the vowels, you don't have anything.
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Yeah.
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Okay. Just saying something to consider. It would be easier to like. So maybe when I take my kids to get their phone number, even if it doesn't spell anything cool. Like, it'd be nice if it spelled something.
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Sure. Yeah. No, that's a good. That's a good thought.
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It's. Yeah, that's my. That's my tangible takeaway of the day. So anyway, all to say, we're in
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person and it actually worked out. You got to come over and meet my new puppy.
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Well, that's true. Which is so exciting. I'm absolutely like. The way that I don't at all have baby fever based on your pregnancy, but the way I'm sick.
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I know.
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With puppy fever right now.
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I know. I think it's hard to avoid puppy feeder puppy fever.
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Well, I feel very robbed of the fact that I've never. We got Tommy when George was three weeks old, so I've actually never seen my kids with a puppy before.
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Oh, yeah, sure. You know, well, yeah. And this is my first time seeing my kids with a puppy. But, yeah, we kind of have had, like, a wild, emotional ride with dogs lately. In 2025, both of our dogs, like, suddenly and tragically passed at two separate times. And I'm not going to get into what happened because, again, it was, like, literally so sudden and tragic. I. It's very personal and, like, I don't want to get into it all to say we found ourselves without any dogs. And we always said we will always have a dog. And it was just, like, really hard to think about getting another dog after what happened. So I thought we were just gonna kind of be like, okay, let's just wait a Few years, Wait till our kids are older, get through the baby phase. Like, we were due in August with another baby. Like, I thought we were just gonna wait. Maddie and I never had a convers because, again, we just, like, couldn't talk about dogs. And about three weeks ago, I make a comment and because I see on tv, like, a kid opening a pre. A Christmas present, and it's a puppy. And I'm like, oh, Maddie, when we get another dog, we should totally do it, like, on Christmas or something and reveal like this. And Maggie goes, no, I know when we're gonna get another dog. And I'm like, what? He's like, yeah, I've actually been in contact with a breeder. I thinking, we're not getting a dog for years. And I'm like, what in the world are you talking about? Maddie leaves, like, once a month for the Marine Corps. So he, like, hates leaving us here without a dog. And he. He can't sleep well without a dog. Like, whatever, whatever. He has ptsd. He doesn't like, sleeping. Like, whatever, whatever.
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He's a veteran. It's fine.
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Whatever. He's like, been to war.
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It's a service dog. Yeah, he's been to war.
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Like, it's not a big deal. So he has just. I didn't realize how much he. I've hated not having a dog, but I'm fine. I did not realize how much he's hated not having a dog. So he tells me he's decided on the breed and where we went with a red golden retriever because they are excellent family dogs. I like fluffy dogs. I like that coat consistency. And he found a breeder, literally 20. Or he found a breeder in Oklahoma. He's like, they're going to be ready in the fall. And I'm like, like, freaking out. I'm like, we can't get a dog. Like, this is a puppy stage. Like, then they. Then they become teenagers. Like, this is going to be too much. And Maddie's, like, all lathered up about it. Then, like, a week passes, and he's like, hey, just found a breeder 25 minutes from our house. They have one male left or a male dog family. We can pick him up in a week. I'm like, what are you talking about? And then I'm. I'm thinking on it. I'm realizing that there's no way of getting out of getting a dog. Like, I realize that now this is happening, and I'm thinking. I'm like, you know, what if we get a dog now? We've got all summer to potty train. Which summer's the best time to be outside with a dog.
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Good point.
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I don't have a third baby yet.
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Good point.
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When my baby is born, we will have to throw to that, like, teenager dog who's got to burn a lot of energy, needs to go on a lot of walks. And I will be on maternity leave. So pending that I'm feeling good from giving birth, that could be a good reason to, like, get me out of the house and get me moving, taking a dog on walks, and I'll just have more free time because I'll be on mat leave. So I'm like, maybe, all things considered, maybe this is a good time. So then Maddie tells me, well, perfect, because I already have this book to go see them this Friday.
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So we go to see the dogs
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and we all fall in love.
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He's the cutest pupper I've ever seen. Well, that's not true. I think Aussies are actually cuter puppers. But he's a really cute pupper.
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His name is Indiana Jones. Butter St. John. Our first dog Maddie and I had together, we named him Texas Ranger. So we decided we'd call him Tex. So we decided we're gonna name all of our dogs after states. So now we have Indy, and we
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name all of our dogs after presidents. So our first dog was James Madison. And now we have Thomas Jefferson, AKA Tommy. And we're a boy dog family, too. I feel like you're one or the other.
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No.
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And that's what the. That's what the breeder was telling me because he has a female. And I was curious, like, so why did you. He knows so much about dogs. I was like, why did you choose a female? Like, are females better? And he's like, I grew up with females. And I'm like, oh, I grew up with males. He goes, everyone who comes in, everyone who talks to me about it. You either grew up with males. Yeah.
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You're not going there being like, I don't know which one. Like, you know if you want a boy or a girl dog.
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Yeah.
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Which I have. I mean, I literally have no experience with a girl dog. Like, no idea.
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I know. I have no idea either. We're just such a boy dog family.
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Yeah. Indy's such a cute name.
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Thank you.
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So glad you got one thing named this year.
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Yeah, we knew that. Yeah, we. We knew the dog. We did have the dog name secured.
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So now I feel like we need to take that into consideration when thinking about the kids names.
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Oh my gosh. No. Everyone was so helpful though.
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You got some incredible wrecks.
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I know. Now I just need to sit with them all. I, there was one that I actually loved and Maddie shot down immediately.
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Well, and people, there's people like writing for like, like everyone wants us like, try again with the Blair and the Gwen. Like, what can we do to try to convince because like, people actually feel like those are the names and it's a matter of like, how do we get it past Maddie?
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I don't know. I think, I think, I think Gwen is out. I think his reasoning for not liking Gwen is more hard to change than him just not liking Blair from Gossip Girl or.
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Oh, it was the Gwen. The Welsh thing.
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The Welsh thing. I think he's just like stuck on that. And I was thinking about it because he was saying like, he's Hans male example. And I'm like, it made me think of frozen and I'm like, yeah, like I could never have like a Kristoff or Sven. Like you couldn't name your kids that. But Gwen does not fall under that category.
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Well, of course I do think there's, I think we can make headway on Blair.
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I don't know.
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But we can see.
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Well, but I don't know.
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But you don't know.
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I don't know.
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You don't know. Yeah, I don't know.
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I see. I, I, I hate talking about it because I have.
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I know. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
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I don't know what to say, but
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I just want to say don't stop sending the names because I'm really enjoy looking at. Our mom's really enjoying looking at them. She's like constantly sending them to us. So we're having fun and I think we're just like really building the anticipation to see what you're going to name her.
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I think we're all on the edge of our seats.
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It's kind of going like so fast for me. You're almost at the halfway mark.
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I know. I actually woke up today. The last two days I woke up and I felt a lot less nauseous than I had. And I had pot coffee this morning. That's amazing.
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Such a sign.
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I haven't had that for months. It's been so exciting. It's been. I haven't door dashed once today.
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Wow.
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I've just been eating the food I have in my fridge.
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Wow.
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So you could say I am trending up.
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I'd say you're over the hump.
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I would Say so. Which is so funny because literally last week, I'm like, I will never feel better. I'm gonna feel like this for the rest of my life.
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Lol.
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When you're in it, you're just like,
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well, it's always the reminder, like, whether you're sick or pregnant or whatever. Like, when you feel not 100%, you're like, I will never take it for granted.
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I will never take it.
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I know.
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And then you do. I know.
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The funniest reel came across my desk, and it was just like, this girl being like, hey, does your throat hurt? No. Recognize this feeling? I'm like, you're right. My throat doesn't hurt. Thank you. I needed that.
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I know.
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I needed that. Well, anyway, speaking of, like, things, like, kind of, like, popped. Like, last episode was so good. Kind of the pressure to top. We were just like, baby names. Like, I dropped a huge bomb that I had been keeping a secret from, like, everybody for, like, over a year. Like, first of all, good to know I can do that.
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I know. Yeah. People were. I. It made me feel good because I feel like there's such a lot you just never know on the Internet. Like, it's like, moms are the most supportive people on the Internet and also sometimes, like, the worst people on the Internet, and you just never know. Like, child care is, like, such a touchy subject, so you just never know. But I'm happy that people resonated with your story, and, like, we're curious to learn more. And I think the reason maybe you were so scared to talk about it
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is because I do think that there
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are au pair situations done incorrectly and that do go badly. You're. You just did everything right and have a wonderful young girl living with you.
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Yeah. And I think sometimes I, like, I get hesitant to. I just don't always. Don't always identify as a working mom because we just work from our phones, which is, like, kind of crazy because. And I'm not, like, even trading other influencers, but, like, we are so much more than, like, the. The quote unquote, like, typical influencer. Like, we do so much. Like, bt like, we do so much more written content that that takes a lot of time. I mean, like, we spend hours in front of our computers every day, and, like, you know, then we pop on stories, and it looks like we're doing this. So people don't always see that behind the scenes of what it takes to run the karma.
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And I just. I don't think. I think that's just for influencer influencers. Across the board. I don't think people know what it takes. People don't always see what it takes.
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Yeah, they don't see what it takes.
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It's not.
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I don't think that's exclusive to us,
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especially when you're doing it like full time and like when you. I mean, we have a team that we manage, so. But also say none of that matters because I feel like I still have sometimes have trouble identifying as a working mom. So I think talking about my child kind of makes me feel like. Oh, like you, like, like you're home. Like, like you. Yeah, like you don't deserve that. You don't deserve to have that kind of child care. And that's just like. I mean, that's not. I shouldn't feel that way, but I do. And like, this, this week, this coming week on Thursday, I'm going to speak to like a, at like a working mom's luncheon. And I'm like, why did they want me at this thing? And like, it's funny. Like, I am a working mom. Like, I get it. I'm an entrepreneur. I'm all these things. But I'm also not a mom who has to leave the house and clock in from a nine to five every day.
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Yeah, it's very different.
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It is very different. So. And I'm not saying like one's. I mean, I'm not. They're just different. So I think that's why I was like, truthfully, a little hesitant to share. And I'm still not gonna.
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No, you're just saying you're living a different experience than the traditional working. So then you feel like an imposter on that front. No.
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Isn't that so fun? So I, I feel like an imposter.
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An imposter on the stay at home mom. Because you're not a stay at home mom. So basically, you can't win anywhere.
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Anyway, I'm still not going to share a lot about it because it just is a personal experience. But everyone wants to know what car she has.
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B
Oh.
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A
Which like makes sense. So she does not drive our kids, we didn't get one for like a lot of people like the idea of having an au pair to help with the driving. And I could see when we have older kids I would have prioritized someone who like had more driving experience. She didn't have a lot of driving experience when she got here. It was honestly like teaching a 16, 16 year old to drive. So that will come in handy one day. But she wasn't a good driver.
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You guys got her lessons.
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We got her, taught her so great driving lessons. Like they were such good driving lessons. She got her driver's license. She is fine. Like she's, she's fine. She can drive now but I just don't let her drive the kids. We also just don't need her to drive the kids. So all that being said, she has a Kia Sportage.
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Yeah.
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So.
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Yeah.
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And it's like so good. It's a 2015 Kia Sportage. 180000 miles on it. We've had literally no problems with it.
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Yeah.
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Like it's actually because I drive it sometimes if like Tyler needs to take the kids in like my car. It's like such a good car.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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So I mean it's fun when you just don't have like it's fun to just go find a fun, a good car on the lot when you don't have.
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Yeah.
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To consider car seats.
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Yeah. We just like, we just like one. We just bought a used one from the dealership that like had a really clean shop bill. I mean it was like a one owner. It was, it was honestly a great car. It's been a great car for her. And I will just say like a few more things then I'm gonna move on from it. Like the selection process was like very interesting and I was very. I wanted this to be like such a success. I wanted this to be a success on both of our ends, both for the au pair and for our family. So I did. It was. I was pretty particular with like what I was looking for their sake, not so much for mine. And when you like go through one of these agencies, they do you have like a dead, A dedicated contact who did a really good Job of helping us. Like hey, here's what I think you should look for. So for example, one of the tips she gave us is she's like, you have four kids. Do not get an only child. Look for an au pair that has a big family because like they just won't, they don't know what that is like necessarily. Even if they have all this childcare experience, they're not used to living in a house with a lot of people. So they go, hey, that's a good tip. So our au pair is the youngest of four. Yeah. Like, so she totally like gets that kind of vibe. And then she also like lives. She's from like a farming community.
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So she like she gets the farm,
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she gets the rural vibes a little bit more. I would say the only like if you can even. Oh, and I also wanted one of drinking age in this country because I just like didn't want to deal with that. Yeah, yeah, but and I and 1 had to be infant qualified and a lot of the au pairs do a good job being like I don't want more than two kids, I only want to live in a city. So like I'm not saying we had slim pickings, but like we didn't. I mean there a lot of people who are like, yeah, I'm not coming to this.
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No, I mean cuz you're to take
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care of your four kids. I want to go to New York and take care of two 8 year olds.
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Right, exactly.
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Which fair.
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B
Yeah.
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A
But ours, she didn't speak very good English at all. Like that was like seriously no English. And I'm really happy I didn't let that stop us because she told me that she like her goal was to learn English. Like I knew that was really important to her. But like truthfully like for the first three months we Google translated just about everything to each other.
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B
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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A
But now even the tech has come so far. If I ever do it again, we'll get AirPods and we'll just talk to each other that way.
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B
Yeah, I wonder if that would be a hindrance though cuz a lot of them want to come and like learn English.
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A
Well sure.
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B
When she came she, she said my goal is to be able to talk as fast as you, as fast as Kelly. And I'm like sister, no one can talk English about this is Kelly.
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A
So anyway, but she's worked really hard at it and like honestly her English is incredible now.
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B
Yeah, no, she's come a really long way.
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A
Yeah, really long way. So I'm really Happy that I didn't let that stop us. But it was interesting because, like, I really did. We didn't really have a lot of conversations in English before she got here. And it has just been, like, my favorite part about it is. Oh, you mean just. I love having a person in my house. Like, it's just. I like having a lot of people around.
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B
Yeah.
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A
And the cultural immersion it's been for my children is unbelievable. Like, we love hearing about her culture, the foods that she eats, the language she speaks about her family. We FaceTime with her family a lot. And then she has nieces and nephews who are the same age as George and Hattie. So, like, they're kind of like pen pals. They're always, like, sharing each other, like, pictures of what they're doing. So, like, it has been. If you have a good spot for them in your house, like, I do think the. The agency only requires that they have their own bedroom and they can share a bathroom. Ours. Ours is in our basement, and she has a great bedroom and a great bathroom. And, like, I love that we have that separation of space for both of our sakes, and. But if you can do that, it's just really been, like, just such. It's the best experience, and it's been so helpful, especially as I travel a lot for work and all the travel I have coming up just to, like, not have to rely on a grandparent all the time. Just, like, someone to help Tyler out who knows. Who lives with us, so knows exactly how we do everything. So, like, it doesn't disrupt anybody's schedule.
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B
Yeah.
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A
So.
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B
Yeah.
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A
Feels so good to get that off my chest.
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C
Yeah.
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B
We started the process of looking for an au pair, too, but we were gonna have to add a bedroom in our basement, which was, like, an additional cost. I was talking with a girl that I loved, and, like, we met where we. We talked on the phone, like, multiple times. And then we, like, made her an offer, and she, like, went with another family. And I was, like, gutted because we had talked so much. Like, I was so lathered up about her, and I was like, I can't. I can't go through this process again. Like, it was really emotionally draining, and again, I would have to put a basement and a bathroom in my bedroom or all that stuff. Might be the match process, but the match process was draining.
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A
Yeah, it's very draining. It's not. I'm not. Yeah, it was not fun.
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B
Yeah.
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A
And it has been so fun to. Actually. Hasn't been fun. It's Been very sobering to try to teach somebody English.
- [25:27]
B
Yeah.
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A
Because so many times she will ask me a question, and she'll be like, well, like, for example, she's like, when do you say a lot? And when do you say many? I'm like, I don't know, girl. When it makes sense. And she's like, you have many snacks. And I'm like, no, I have a lot of snacks. She's like, why? I'm like, I don't know.
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B
Yeah, no clue.
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A
Like, I actually can't.
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B
It sounds right.
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A
I actually can't explain to you when you use the separate ones.
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B
Yeah.
- [25:56]
A
Just like, when the vibes are there.
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B
Yeah. Just, like, read the room a little bit about it.
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A
And she's like, when do you use his and when do you use him?
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B
And I'm like, again, you're, like, racking your brain on one example of using his versus him.
- [26:09]
A
Yeah, it was hard. Hard.
- [26:10]
B
Yeah. That is hard.
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A
Like, is it his or is it. Was it him? So I guess it's him. Past tense. Like, I have no idea.
- [26:18]
B
No. Yeah, I'd have to, like, Google it.
- [26:20]
A
No, I'd have to Google it. So it's just been so funny.
- [26:23]
B
We just memorize the rules, I guess.
- [26:25]
A
She's like, you don't know. Like, I have no idea. So sorry. Yeah, no, I don't know. Don't know.
- [26:34]
B
So it feels good to get off your chest.
- [26:38]
A
Also, this was so funny last night. 180 on the convo, but. So George and Hattie and Fred now have a hyper fixation of what I did when I was a little girl. Like, they always want to hear tell us a story from you were a little girl. Let's watch a movie from when you were a little girl. Like, they're obsessed with the 90s. That's why I. Oh, I have to talk about my dollhouse, too.
- [26:54]
B
Oh, my God. All right, I'm just gonna buckle up, and this is gonna. It's gonna be a listening show.
- [26:58]
A
No, no, no, no, no. You'll like this. So they're like, did. Was YouTube around when you were a little girl? And I'm like, yes, YouTube was around. They're like, what was your favorite YouTube video? Video.
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B
Oh, gosh.
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A
And I was like, I got it. Well, I can only think of one. What's, like, the only YouTube video you could think of that's age appropriate?
- [27:16]
B
Charlie bit my finger.
- [27:17]
A
Charlie bit my finger.
- [27:21]
B
Did they think it was funny?
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A
Elizabeth, let me tell you, something stands the test of time. It is. My three big kids were BELLY laughing Play it again. Play it again. It goes. Charlie, that really hurt. And then the baby. CHARLIE laughs oh, my gosh. Let me just tell you. Stands the test of time.
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B
Okay, good to know.
- [27:46]
A
I was like, there's no way, like, with TikTok and Instagram, I'm still gonna find this video funny. I. It was. It's such a fun video.
- [27:53]
B
Okay, okay.
- [27:54]
A
Yeah. Bring those two boys back. Like, where are they now?
- [27:57]
B
Where are they now?
- [27:59]
A
Interesting.
- [28:01]
B
I wonder if they're on. I bet they've recreated it by now
- [28:05]
A
and it hasn't come across my desk.
- [28:07]
B
Well, because there's no. You can't make it as good as the original.
- [28:09]
A
Do you think, like, they're still monetizing on it? It had, like, eight. It had, like, 800 million views.
- [28:14]
B
I have no idea.
- [28:16]
A
Yeah, that's so interesting, because. I don't know, because you could argue like, that could just. I don't know how long that. I don't know how long you could live off just that one video.
- [28:24]
B
Probably not long. Okay, so now let's talk about your dollhouse.
- [28:29]
A
I don't just want this to be a talking show. So do you want to talk about something?
- [28:32]
B
Let me think. I guess just back on the dog thing, I will say, because some people were, like, messaging me, like, why did you choose to get a dog right now? And that sounds really hard. And I did cry last night. Really overwhelmed, and then I woke up today fine. So I just also think that sometimes you just have to cry and then you'll be okay.
- [29:00]
A
Yeah, no, I, like, normalize a good cry, and sometimes you just need to cry. I cried this morning.
- [29:07]
B
I sometimes, like, sometimes, man. He's like, what's wrong? And I'm like, I can just feel a cry of ruin. And so just. I need you to know that I am gonna cry tonight. So just don't. Don't worry, don't be alarmed, but it's going. It's gonna go down.
- [29:25]
A
Yeah. I mean, if I think about how much like. Like, you feel good after a cry,
- [29:31]
B
you do feel good. We bottle, we bought. And I also just had. Had a.
- [29:36]
C
A solo parenting week.
- [29:37]
B
I. I picked up the dog during my solo parenting weekend. So you could say my nerves were a little bit fried, a little bit shot. Sometimes I just cried. My son was an angel and very sweet. He comes up to me, he goes, mommy, are you hungry?
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A
You trained him well.
- [29:56]
B
You know, I'm like, that's a really good guess. But in this present moment. No.
- [30:01]
A
Yeah.
- [30:03]
B
So no, that's. That's All I have going on. I just, like, got a dog and cried this weekend, so.
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A
Well, I had kind of a crazy Saturday. I spent a lot of money on Saturday.
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B
I know. You had a dinner auction.
- [30:12]
A
A dinner auction. And I finally pulled the trigger on the 1993 loving family dream house.
- [30:19]
B
You are cr. You are kind of, like, crazy for this.
- [30:23]
A
No, I know.
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B
Okay.
- [30:25]
A
I feel. I feel that I'm fine with being crazy. I don't want to come across as creepy. Like, I'm not. I'm gonna let my kids play with the dollhouse.
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B
It's not for you to play with.
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A
It's not for me to play with.
- [30:35]
B
Yeah.
- [30:35]
A
It's not even for me to collect. I just want to have it.
- [30:39]
B
That sounds like a collection.
- [30:40]
A
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I want my kids to play with it. It. And I really firmly believe it's just one of the best made dollhouses ever made. Like, that's just what it comes down to. I like them better than Barbies. I like them better than Gabby's dollhouse. I like them better than, like, the aesthetic wooden ones. Like, I just like everything about them.
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B
I'm just not sure I've ever seen you spend, like, 500 on, like, anything just, like, flat out.
- [31:08]
A
No, I know. Like, that's so not like, me, especially toys.
- [31:13]
B
Like, you're very. I mean, you talk about all the time, like, you're very bare minimum on your. Your toys.
- [31:17]
A
Like, oh, and I, like, love, like, the way that we do toy rotation is we go to Goodwill, buy things, take them back to Goodwill, buy something else. Like, that's like, my version of toy rotation. So for me to just like, seek something out, like, this was a really big deal. And so, Yeah, I spent 500. Now it's 42 pieces. So the dollhouse, first of all, is in great condition because, like, I wanted the carpets intact. Like, that was important to me. And I wanted, like, the. The sticker carpets, and I wanted some of the beds. Like, that was, like, what I was really looking for.
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B
Okay, so five. Oh, you said it was 42 pieces.
- [31:50]
A
Yeah.
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B
Comes out to 11 a piece. Then that includes the house.
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A
So what is that?
- [31:56]
B
So 500 divided by 42 is a.
- [31:58]
A
Is 11 a piece. That feels good. No, I'm telling you, that feels good because, like, if I bun. If I wanted to sell, if times got hard, hard, and I had to sell it, I would just break. I would either sell it as a giant bundle for, like, I mean, there are some listed for, like, 900 bucks, or I would just start breaking it up for like 20 a piece.
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B
Yeah.
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A
And like I think it's 20 a piece all day. I know the market. I know the market.
- [32:22]
C
Okay.
- [32:23]
A
I'm so excited about it. I'm going to let my kids play with it and then when my kids have outgrown it, I'm gonna take it to the farm and let it be like the farm toy.
- [32:30]
B
Okay.
- [32:30]
A
And then when all of my siblings kids have outgrown it, then I'm taking it and putting in my basement and saving it for my grandchildren.
- [32:35]
B
Okay. It's gonna be like so vintage by then.
- [32:37]
A
Yeah, it's a, it's a, it's an investment like some women invest in like purses that retain value. Not I.
- [32:43]
B
No. Imagine what it'll be worth by the time you have grandkids.
- [32:48]
A
I know. I really want to find.
- [32:50]
B
That's your retirement fund.
- [32:51]
A
Totally. You know how much vintage toys I have. Clip clop McDonald's Little Plaguarden. Like I'm ready. Like that's my retirement fund.
- [33:01]
B
I had a dream about the McDonald's one. I had a dream that I went to someone's house and they had it brand new, mint, life size. It was even bigger than yours and it was amazing. Mint, mint, crazy mint condition.
- [33:15]
A
So that's what I woke up to and did Saturday morning. Like I literally was like, I saw it. I was like, should I do this? And they made the checkout process a little too easy. Which take note online retailers, it was like click to pay with PayPal. And I'm like, you mean you already have my PayPal? PayPal is so dangerous for me.
- [33:30]
B
I know.
- [33:31]
A
So I click. So I clicked to paid with PayPal.
- [33:33]
B
Okay.
- [33:35]
A
I haven't regretted it since I've done it. So that's good. I'm not having buyers remorse. It's not even in yet.
- [33:40]
B
You know you're excited about it.
- [33:41]
A
I'm so excited about it. I mean how are you are going to do an unboxing?
- [33:44]
B
Okay, perfect.
- [33:45]
A
And then that night, that evening, we went to another grade school dinner auction. Okay, last one, triple crown. So it's ours. And then my two sister in laws and this one was actually so fun. The silent auction items were it.
- [33:58]
B
Okay.
- [33:59]
A
I really like to judge a dinner auction on what ratio they do their silent to their live auction items. And I'm always judging like what they decided to put on alive and like if I think they could have gotten more on the silent and vice versa because for me I prefer the silent. I don't always want the attention of like I'M raising my paddle, and then I don't want people to know that I lost. Like, I actually find that to be embarrassing.
- [34:18]
B
Okay. Yeah. I don't think I've. I've never partook in a. In a live auction.
- [34:24]
A
It takes a lot for someone to raise a paddle.
- [34:27]
B
Yeah.
- [34:27]
A
When. Now, some of the big items, of course, should be on there, but, like, when it goes for, like.
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B
Like, I'm.
- [34:32]
A
I get crazy on the silent.
- [34:34]
B
Yeah.
- [34:36]
A
I mean, I'm not scared of a silent, so.
- [34:39]
B
I mean, you'll pay 500 for a vintage, and, like, that's just because they had your PayPal. Imagine if you didn't have even have to raise a paddle.
- [34:47]
A
I just dragged on my number right in the money field.
- [34:49]
B
Well, maybe that's why they do the paddle, though. Maybe that's easy for people, though. They're just like, whatever. They're getting the key to them.
- [34:54]
A
Yeah, but then it's like, eyes on you, and then you have to do the whole hubba blue when the guys are.
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C
Come on, come on.
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A
50 more. 50 more. And you're like, no, I'm out. I'm out. Like, that's so embarrassing, though.
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B
No, I know.
- [35:03]
A
Like, I'm telling pressure. I find it embarrassing. Okay, so you wouldn't.
- [35:06]
B
That wouldn't. No. I know you. If someone's like, come on, come on, you're not gonna say this is embarrassing. I'm. I'm out.
- [35:12]
A
No, I'm gonna win.
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B
You're going till the end.
- [35:13]
A
I'm going to the end.
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B
I know. That's why they do it, Kelly, for suckers like you.
- [35:18]
A
I know, I know. It's so bad.
- [35:21]
B
So that's why you personally need to stay in the silent world.
- [35:23]
A
So I like the silent world. Now, this one that I was at, normally, I'm like. Like, a lot of the times if it's, like, not a basket I want but, like, I want to make a donation, I'll, like, buy a basket I'm not super passionate about, and, like, I'll just literally save it and give it to, like, another dinner auction. Okay, good idea, because it's like, oh, I'm just here to, you know. But this one, I was like, I want these baskets. So I ended up walking away with three baskets, but I lost one item that has been haunting me. Me.
- [35:48]
B
It sucks to lose an item at an auction.
- [35:50]
A
Well, it's ridiculous, and I honestly got robbed. This is why silent auctions are not good.
- [35:53]
B
Okay, so we're back to the live auctions being better.
- [35:57]
A
They said the pink Table is closing in one minute. I run to the pink table where this beautiful hand done quilt was. That quilt was.
- [36:05]
B
Oh, love it.
- [36:06]
A
It was stunning. It would have gone with the girl's room perfectly with their little flower rug. Like it was the right pastel colors. I was like, this is going to be Hattie's new quilt. Like, I'm lathered up. I was at 105 bucks. Bucks for a hand quilt, For a homemade quilt. I go to it. It's one minute, I have the bid walk away to get a water. Number 47 bumped me by five bucks.
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B
Oh, that sucks.
- [36:30]
A
Had I known, you would have gone to 150 easily. Yeah, no, I was gonna walk away with it.
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B
Yeah.
- [36:38]
A
And this is what I like to do at dinner auctions. Tyler tells me my budget before we go in, and then I cause mass chaos with that budget.
- [36:44]
B
Yeah, it's good to set your budget beforehand.
- [36:46]
A
No, it is good to set your budget budget. So I was mad. I was big mad. So I was like, well, I'm not walking away with nothing. And Tyler was telling me that I was doing a good thing because even if I didn't get a lot of things, I was getting people to spend more money because I was causing so much chaos. So it was like I was still helping, But I ended up buying an entire Reese's basket for the kids. Because when mom and dad used to go to dinner auctions, remember when they would, like, bring home a basket sometimes, and it was like the most exciting thing in the world.
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B
That's true. That's true. Yeah.
- [37:13]
A
So I was like, I want to get something for the kids. So I bought The Reese's basket. $73.
- [37:16]
B
Okay.
- [37:17]
A
Feels, I mean, definitely not value, but was fun to bring home. Fun for them with the kids. Then there was this, like, basket that had like a Stanley and an ander wallet. Paid 80 bucks. Okay. Like, not even that value yet. So I felt good. And then there was this gift card basket and the gift card baskets I love. There was. It was gift. It was 250 worth of gift cards to places like Texas Roadhouse, Olive Garden.
- [37:41]
B
Those are good.
- [37:41]
A
And three big scratchers and a cool cooler.
- [37:44]
B
Okay.
- [37:44]
A
So I paid 245 for that.
- [37:46]
B
Okay.
- [37:46]
A
But I got the gift cards, which is 250. And I like them because they were broken up into 25 increments. So I'm gonna save them for Christmas.
- [37:53]
B
Good thing to save for gifts. Good thing to just, like teachers, pull out yourself. Yeah.
- [37:58]
A
So that felt productive. So all to say, I spent $400 there on all my baskets.
- [38:02]
B
Oh, my gosh.
- [38:04]
A
I got it. I got it. But my budget was 500, so I came in under. Under a hundred dollars.
- [38:13]
B
Oh, my gosh.
- [38:13]
A
But yeah, like, that's why. So yeah, those were my last transactions.
- [38:18]
B
We weren't even doing last three transactions. Good to know.
- [38:25]
A
But I'm excited about my dollhouse. And again, it was a donation.
- [38:28]
B
It was not the dollhouse.
- [38:30]
A
Not the dollhouse. But it was a donation. That's why dinner auctions are so fun. And if you don't have dinner auctions. Right, love. I'm so sorry. Like, start one at your school. You're leaving money on the table.
- [38:37]
B
Yeah.
- [38:37]
A
And it's not just a private school thing because I go to public school ones all the time.
- [38:40]
B
Time. Okay. I can't wait for dinner auctions.
- [38:42]
A
It might be a small school thing. Like all the schools I'm going to are pretty small.
- [38:46]
B
Okay.
- [38:48]
A
Yeah, but.
- [38:49]
B
But just sounds like bigger school, bigger funds, bigger prices.
- [38:55]
A
And I love when like, the parents get creative with like, what they can give. Like what they can give away for the school. Like front row tickets to the concert parking spots. This inter auction did something fun because all the kids made artwork and it was hanging on the walls and you could buy your kids artwork for $10. And then they told all the kids, like, make sure your parents pay for your artwork. I love it.
- [39:12]
B
Yeah. It'd be so offended if they didn't.
- [39:15]
A
That's what I'm saying. I think they know that. I think they're leaning into that.
- [39:18]
B
Yeah. Yeah.
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C
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A
so it was kind of like a big weekend for us.
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B
Yeah, you guys did have a big
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A
weekend and amidst all this Libby threw my phone off the counter. Yeah, but you got a puppy so it's kind of hard to say whose weekend Was bigger.
- [42:35]
B
Yeah, I would say mine probably because I have like a new and like a third child, essentially yours.
- [42:40]
A
Faltering, of course. I'll have the dollhouse probably longer than you'll have the puppy.
- [42:43]
B
Sounds like you will definitely have the dog. The dollhouse longer than I have the puppy. But it does feel as though the dog requires a tad more maintenance than the doll house.
- [42:50]
A
Did you pay more for the dollhouse than I did? You mean for the puppy than I paid for the doll house?
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B
We did pay more for the puppy. Yeah. No, I very much. I very much have had nothing to do with the purchase of this dog. This is really all Maddie's doing. And I am just.
- [43:06]
A
Just being a supportive wife.
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B
I'm just being a supportive wife because here's the thing. In my household, I make every decision about everything. Maddie, here's what I love about him. He does not have an opinion about most things on a day to day life. He's got a lot of opinions about a lot of other things, specifically baby girl names. But he's got none. He's got none about like anything else. It's. It's Liz's show. So when he comes to me, he's like, I want to get a dog. What am I supposed to say? No? Like I make. I do. You let me be in charge of everything. We do what I want to do 100 of the time.
- [43:46]
A
Yeah, no, I don't have that.
- [43:47]
B
Oh, I want to spend Saturday lugging our entire family to a farmer's market and then to home goods and then to wherever I want to go. Maddie would be like, okay, let's do it.
- [43:56]
A
No, not Tyler. He would shut that down real quick.
- [43:58]
B
See, that's why, like, I know what I have have and I know I have a good thing. And so that's why I was like,
- [44:04]
A
okay, let me ask you this. Not that I'm trying to bring up the baby girl name again, but like, does Maddie have a name that he could pick tomorrow that he's like still trying to campaign for you?
- [44:12]
B
He does. Yeah, but I don't like it.
- [44:15]
A
Can you mouth it to me?
- [44:16]
B
You're not going to be able to tell.
- [44:18]
A
Can you mute your mic?
- [44:19]
B
Yeah,
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A
and that's horrible. I can't believe he can suggest that name.
- [44:27]
B
I know, but it's because it has history. It has to do with history.
- [44:30]
A
Okay, so why don't you find like an incredible Blair of in history and bring it to him? That's not the worst idea.
- [44:36]
B
Layers of hit. Well, now he listens to the Podcast. So now that he knows that we're campaigning for Blair, he's going to be adamantly.
- [44:41]
A
We'll steal his phone 6am on Wednesday and delete this podcast from his and say we didn't drop one Blair.
- [44:47]
B
Famous Blairs. I don't know if I like, but Blair's been really popular.
- [44:53]
A
I don't think so. Is anything coming up foreign?
- [44:59]
B
Not good.
- [45:01]
A
It's all coming up. Waldorf.
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B
UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, actress Linda Blair, the exorcist Blair Waldorf, YouTuber Blair White, and journalist Jason Blair. Okay, there's, like, no one. No one.
- [45:15]
A
Not yet. It could be our daughter.
- [45:16]
B
It could be Blair St. John.
- [45:18]
A
It could be Blair St. John. The Blairs need help. Okay, that's interesting. Yeah, that's interesting. Interesting. Well, what else? Is it time for industry news or
- [45:25]
B
just the drive through? Yeah. Do you have any issues?
- [45:28]
A
Yeah, I've got industry news. And now it's time for industry news, where I spell the hot tea going on in the auto industry.
- [45:34]
B
Okay, Remix.
- [45:35]
A
George's doing the most. George is doing the most annoying thing lately. That's why I just said it like that.
- [45:40]
B
I guess he's like, stuttering things.
- [45:42]
A
No. So he's learning to read. So he sounds out everything. Single thing he reads. Well, now he talks like that. So be like, hey, can I have a snack? And like, it's funny for a second,
- [45:57]
B
but then I'm like, spit it out, spit it out.
- [45:59]
A
What do you like?
- [46:00]
B
Libby's on the counter. What do you need?
- [46:01]
A
Like, literally, that's my life. Libby just shattered my phone, and George is like, hey. Okay,
- [46:12]
B
okay. Anyway, what's your industry notes?
- [46:15]
A
Well, we completely missed the Atlas redesign. I feel like the world. World's worst journalist, but also like that. If that.
- [46:23]
B
It appeared nowhere.
- [46:25]
A
First of all, Volkswagen, I want to say a bad word, but this is a clean podcast. You. You're not. First of all, they had. They brought journalists out for a look, and they did not invite me.
- [46:35]
B
Yeah.
- [46:36]
A
So I'm already peeved. Yeah, I'm already peeved. But unfortunately for me, I have too high of standards and principles for myself to let it cloud my judgment on what they think of this car.
- [46:47]
B
Do you think that because we have a. A. A part of our podcast dedicated to spilling tea in the auto industry, they were like, maybe this girl's not the best person to invite to a private reveal where you can't say a lot.
- [47:00]
A
No, I don't think I'll sign anything.
- [47:02]
B
Okay.
- [47:03]
A
I'm not going to illegally spill the beans. Give me an NDA. I. I've sent NDAs for manufacturers before.
- [47:08]
B
Okay.
- [47:11]
A
And that's the other thing. We are the number one auto podcast.
- [47:14]
B
Are we number one?
- [47:15]
A
Check right now.
- [47:15]
B
Now I don't know that we are.
- [47:17]
A
We weren't invited to that. To that, which really peeved me. We've also yet to be invited. Now they're revealing it at the New York Auto show, of which we've yet to be invited to that event as well. But I know it's going on and we will get there. It's like Volkswagen, if you're listening, it's not too late to do the right thing.
- [47:35]
B
What do you mean we haven't been invited yet? We're going.
- [47:38]
A
No, they. They have a separate invitation on the night.
- [47:42]
B
Oh, on the. On that. For the.
- [47:44]
A
For the.
- [47:44]
B
We are number one in auto.
- [47:46]
A
We're number one in auto. And also, I love the atlas.
- [47:51]
B
Okay, so Volkswagen is having a private reveal of the Volkswagen Alice, the New York Auto show, of which we are already attending the New York Auto show. And we're not invited to that.
- [48:02]
A
I don't have an invitation as of today.
- [48:06]
C
Wow.
- [48:09]
A
Like I said, unfortunately, that's no one's problem but ours because no matter what, I'll never let it cloud my judgment because I'm again, a woman of principles. Now also, you guys did a horrible job, like, with your soft promotion of this because I didn't know about it and if anyone should know about it, should be me. So I didn't know about this, but like I said, they invited some journalists out to, like, see the wrapped version of it and, you know, just schmooze. I'm a bit. Mm. Maybe they know schmoozing doesn't work on me.
- [48:36]
B
I'm not sure I would have gone to a wrapped version reveal.
- [48:39]
A
No, I wouldn't have either. But it's nice to be included.
- [48:41]
B
Yeah, sure.
- [48:42]
A
It's nice to be included. Sure.
- [48:43]
B
Yeah.
- [48:44]
A
Any who's. So let's talk predictions. Now, the wrapped version, I don't think exterior body, metal wise, it's going to be a lot different looking. I think we're gonna see like a totally refresh. I know we're gonna see a totally refreshed front and tail end blend. I think it's fine. I think it's gonna look like. I don't think it's gonna be as dramatic as like the Palisade and the Telluride reveals. Yeah, I think it'll still look like an atlas, just better. So I'm excited for that. The question is what are they going to do to the interior now? What they shouldn't do. They shouldn't touch much of it because it's the best bench seat. It's a great. If they had. If they should add lower anchors to the third row of which I'm predicting that they will do that.
- [49:29]
B
That. Okay.
- [49:31]
A
They should add ceiling vents. I don't think they will. My prediction is we will not see ceiling vents. And there's one more thing I wanted.
- [49:41]
B
You wanted. Did you want it? Was it the three separate seats?
- [49:43]
A
Oh, yeah, the three separate seats in the bench. I don't. I, I could. That. That's last on my list.
- [49:47]
B
Okay. You mean like each seat is separate from each other?
- [49:51]
A
Could be on track, like in the Expedition.
- [49:53]
B
Yeah, that I feel like we don't see very often in the. That in midsize cars.
- [49:57]
A
Volvo has it, XC90, but yeah, we don't see very often. Honda Pilot. Honda Pilot, but yeah, we don't see very often. I'm really excited though.
- [50:07]
B
Yeah, me too.
- [50:08]
A
And so nonetheless, even if we don't get invited to the event, we will see it with the rest of the common people at the New York Auto show and we will do our video then.
- [50:18]
B
Well, we'll, we'll, we'll just get the tea and we'll wait for it to be on the dealer. I'll ask you like a proper tour.
- [50:23]
A
Oh, totally, totally, totally, totally.
- [50:25]
B
But we'll get the details, we'll get the info.
- [50:28]
A
And this week my car is a Grand Highlander, which I'm really excited to be playing with. I'm really feeling blessed to have that in my driveway this week.
- [50:35]
B
Yep.
- [50:39]
A
You know, some days I think it's a car I don't probably give enough attention to. Some days I feel like that's okay. Some days I feel like I should do more.
- [50:45]
C
I agree. I agree.
- [50:48]
B
Me too.
- [50:49]
A
Get. Yeah.
- [50:50]
B
I feel like when we're with it, we're. We remember why we don't like to give it a lot of attention and then we forget and then we come back to it.
- [51:00]
A
Well, what it is, at least the Grand Highlander, like serves a purpose. Like it's reliable, it has a hybrid and it's. There are Toyota only people in this world.
- [51:09]
B
Yeah.
- [51:09]
A
And for the Toyota only people, it's a much better option than what you had without the Grand Highlander. So I always need to remind myself of that.
- [51:15]
C
That.
- [51:16]
B
Yeah.
- [51:18]
A
So that's industry news.
- [51:20]
B
Okay, well, are you ready for just a drive thru?
- [51:22]
A
I am. And I have one. Unless you have one.
- [51:25]
B
Sorry. I started yachting. Where we give you an easy dinner recipe to mix it up to get
- [51:29]
C
you out of your dinner.
- [51:29]
A
Dinner rut I'm sure ain't ready.
- [51:31]
B
Okay. Yeah. You have one.
- [51:33]
A
So classic or fun spin on a classic cut of meat.
- [51:39]
B
Okay.
- [51:40]
A
Okay. What's the classic cut of. Of meat? You know it.
- [51:43]
B
Classic cut of meat.
- [51:44]
A
You love it. It's always coming up. It's always coming up for us. What's like one of our favorite cuts of meat? So versatile.
- [51:50]
B
Is it a strip steak?
- [51:53]
A
No.
- [51:54]
B
A flank steak.
- [51:54]
A
Think crock pot.
- [51:55]
B
A Mrs. Or a Chuck roast.
- [51:58]
A
A chuck roast.
- [51:58]
B
That was gonna be my first guess. I know.
- [52:00]
A
I feel like everyone else. Everyone else in the car said that. Guess.
- [52:03]
B
I know. But then the way you looked at me made me think flank steak.
- [52:06]
A
So I had a chuck roast. And I'm like, why don't we do another chuck roast? I want something different. I went Asian with the chuck roast.
- [52:18]
B
Okay. That is different.
- [52:19]
A
So I put my chuck roast in the crock pot. I did about a fourth. A cup of soy sauce, garlic, and then I did probably about a half a cup of Japanese barbecue sauce, which it does have added sugar, so I only tried a little bit of it and I fed it to the kids and Tyler and I had something else.
- [52:35]
B
Okay.
- [52:35]
A
Because obviously I can't believe I had gone this whole episode and not brought up the fact that I'm still sugar free. That was crazy.
- [52:40]
B
Yeah.
- [52:40]
A
I have. I. I have something. I'll say about that in a second.
- [52:42]
B
Okay.
- [52:44]
A
Cooked it on high. I've been kind of on my high grind lately with the crock pot.
- [52:48]
B
I think that's a mistake with. With roast. I think you always got to go slow.
- [52:52]
A
I didn't have the time.
- [52:53]
B
Okay.
- [52:54]
A
And it turned out fine.
- [52:55]
B
Okay.
- [52:57]
A
We eat dinner early. Like, I like having things ready by 4:00 clock at the latest too. I didn't get until 10, so that's so. So those were the cards. I was.
- [53:04]
B
I probably wouldn't have gone chuck roast at that point.
- [53:06]
A
I know. But those. That's what I had thought.
- [53:07]
B
You're crazy.
- [53:09]
A
So anyway, put it. And put it with that. Made some rice, steamed some broccoli, put it all in a bowl topped with more Japanese barbecue sauce and soy sauce. Unbelievable. Unbelievable.
- [53:21]
B
Yeah, it sounds good.
- [53:22]
A
It didn't sound like it was gonna work because. But I'm like. I just have it in my head that chuck roast, like, tastes a certain way because of how I always season it.
- [53:28]
B
But it's just because it's. That's how you season it.
- [53:30]
A
It's. It's just. It's beef and like broccoli. Beef is a popular Asian dish, so why wouldn't it work?
- [53:34]
B
Yeah.
- [53:35]
A
And I'm happy to report that it worked.
- [53:36]
B
Okay, that's good to know.
- [53:37]
A
Super good to know. Like, it was so good. So good.
- [53:41]
B
I'm actually pulling one out of my deep freeze this week to make. I don't think I'll go the Asian variety, but something to keep in your back pocket. Yeah, no, for sure.
- [53:52]
A
That was a big ticket at the dinner auction. That was in the live auction. They did. Well, someone did like half a cow plus processing.
- [53:58]
B
Nice.
- [53:58]
A
And someone did a whole hog plus processing.
- [54:00]
B
Yeah. I would like first. Was that silent or live?
- [54:03]
A
That was live. I did bid.
- [54:04]
B
Yeah, I'd for sure bid on that.
- [54:05]
A
And then Tyler told me to stop because we're getting pics.
- [54:08]
B
Boo. He's no fun. But yeah, he's.
- [54:12]
C
You know what?
- [54:13]
B
Here's a dinner hack. I recently in my, like, clean out also can't believe I've gone this whole episode without talking about 40 days of less. I didn't film this one, but I did clean out my refrigerator. And then I just like was aware of all the condiments and whatnot I have. And then I was like, okay, how can I use these condiments up? Like, what can I make this week? Week that can.
- [54:35]
A
It's a good exercise to do.
- [54:37]
B
Use these condiments up. So, you know, I've got like these like little sport peppers because one time I wanted to make Chicago style hot dogs and I'm the only one who's eating the sport pepper. So I'm swimming in sport peppers. So I'm like, what else can I make that has a sport pepper? So that's what I'm doing this week with my chuck roast.
- [54:56]
A
Oh.
- [54:57]
B
Making that like Italian, like hoagie sandwich. And I like to put sport peppers on it. I'm like, so Chicago.
- [55:03]
A
Yeah. I've got to get. They need to sell some condiments in a smaller size.
- [55:06]
B
Yeah, they do.
- [55:07]
A
I'm looking. And that's coming from a family of six, seven.
- [55:10]
C
Yeah.
- [55:10]
A
And I'm just saying I'm looking for one meal size condiments on certain things.
- [55:15]
B
Yeah, I agree.
- [55:16]
A
Not a ketchup, not a barbecue sauce.
- [55:19]
B
And now when you make pasta, like, you're making just like jarred spaghetti for your family. Are you using a whole jar?
- [55:24]
A
Yeah.
- [55:25]
B
Of marinara. Okay, that's good to know because I'm never using a whole jar marinara. And marinara is one of those things, like once you open it, you only have like a few days.
- [55:31]
A
I know. What's that about?
- [55:33]
B
Well, because it's canned. So like anything that's like canned like that, it's gonna go bad. Once you open it.
- [55:39]
C
Yeah, you don't.
- [55:39]
B
You get the expiration date.
- [55:41]
A
You think we should. We should look at more like resealing technology. Like, you know how you can like half open a bottle of wine?
- [55:47]
B
Yeah, but only. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- [55:49]
A
Like, I'd like to see that technology hit our pasta sauces.
- [55:51]
C
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- [55:52]
B
For sure.
- [55:52]
A
It's just something for that people to think about.
- [55:54]
B
Yeah.
- [55:55]
A
Yeah. Okay. Well, hold on. Now I'm sugar free.
- [55:59]
C
Oh, yeah.
- [55:59]
A
Okay, sure. Three weeks. I am so sad to report the cravings have come back.
- [56:05]
B
Okay, I call this is what it was. Because I have been. I think we've all been you when we're like, I. You want a sweet treat. Not me. Not today. I don't. I don't need it. It's because of. That's where you were on your cycle 100. It has nothing to do with the fact that you were ten days sugar free. You were just like. You're like luteal phase or whatever the heck it is. You were just like. Like everything is good. You're perfectly regulated. You don't need sweets. Like, your hormones are imbalanced. And then, like, you moved on with your life and.
- [56:35]
A
Yeah, now I'm in the, I believe, the follicular phase and I'm not enjoying my life.
- [56:39]
B
Yeah. And then that's all that you want.
- [56:42]
A
I have had. I've been. It's also such a sobering time to go sugar free. Which is maybe why it's so important to do this during Lent. Because here's what I'm faced with. One dinner auction season. And you guys know I love the dessert auction.
- [56:54]
B
Yeah.
- [56:55]
A
So can't have. I didn't get any of the desserts at the dinner auctions.
- [56:57]
B
Yeah.
- [56:58]
A
Girl scout cookies are out.
- [57:00]
B
Yeah. That's crazy.
- [57:01]
A
All the Easter candy.
- [57:03]
B
Yep.
- [57:04]
A
And the weather's changing. And I want like, you know, a fat iced coffee with honey.
- [57:08]
C
That temptation.
- [57:11]
B
This is why I think actually the 40 days. I mean, we are doing it for 40 days of. Of lent. But your girl's book.
- [57:19]
C
40 days.
- [57:20]
B
Days. It's probably because you have to get through a whole cycle.
- [57:24]
A
No, totally.
- [57:25]
B
I'm like, really stuck on that. Like, that's totally what it is. And that's really annoying. Like that we just deal with this.
- [57:31]
A
Maybe I should have done it pregnant.
- [57:34]
B
You could never do it pregnant.
- [57:35]
A
Oh, maybe. But I actually think I could have.
- [57:38]
B
Don't say that to a pregnant woman. You have no idea. To get through my morning so I could, like, change my child.
- [57:46]
A
Watch this pregnant woman.
- [57:47]
B
My child's diapers. I was like, I have to have a sweet carb. Like, there's nothing else I can have in the morning that a. I have the time to like, I had. It's survival mode over here. You think I like. You think I like having Nutella every morning? I don't stop.
- [58:01]
A
I want a sweet carb so bad. I've taken in kind of the opposite way of you. I've actually really enjoyed watching people eat things that I cannot.
- [58:08]
B
Okay.
- [58:09]
A
It, like, does something to me.
- [58:11]
B
Yeah.
- [58:12]
A
Makes me feel a certain way. I'm enjoying join. I watched this. Really A fat cinnamon roll the other day.
- [58:16]
B
Like, I'm telling you, like, my favorite videos to watch on the Internet.
- [58:24]
A
I think we need to get off the Internet.
- [58:27]
B
Oh, that's for sure. For a lot of reasons, I actually think that's the one bright spot of the Internet for me. But like, everything else, I could do without but, like, keep my. Keep my food challenges, keep my mukbangs.
- [58:40]
A
I almost broke two times this past weekend. One was I was really wanting a diet Coke. I woke up with a little tickle in my throat. And you know how, like, when you're sick, sometimes you just want, like a syrupy soda? Yeah, I wanted that. Didn't do it. And then last yesterday. Yesterday we had our chicken dinner at our church, which is like when we serve like 4,000. I don't. But the men of the parish serve like 4,000 people. Chicken. Fried chicken. And we went with Tyler's parents. Tyler was working. And you eat your fried chicken. Like, it hit the spot, you know, I was doing good. Sugar free fried chicken. Okay. Delicious. Very, very unhealthy, but sugar free. And then there's this little boy with this cart passing around fresh apple pie. Yeah. And coffee. And you know one thing about me.
- [59:27]
B
Yeah. You love. I love a decaf coffee and a dessert.
- [59:31]
A
I love a decaf coffee and dessert. I wouldn't even say apple's my favorite pick.
- [59:35]
B
Yeah.
- [59:36]
A
But it was my pick.
- [59:36]
B
Yeah.
- [59:37]
A
And I didn't. Didn't taste it. And it was so sad. Yeah. It's very interesting. Libby ate a cookie and then backwashed in my water. And then I didn't realize and I drank the water. I realized, like, I hate to say I enjoy.
- [59:50]
B
Oh, Kelly, that's terrible.
- [59:53]
A
But like, the sip was like. That was so sweet.
- [59:56]
B
What a rush. Ew, gross.
- [59:58]
A
Yeah. So I have bad. I did a cheat with Oreo1. Wow. And that's our episode. So thank you guys so much for listening to the carpool podcast where we just, like, really spill it all out and complain about Volkswagen not inviting us to their event. Yeah, but like I said earlier, it's not too late to do the right thing.
- [60:16]
B
It's not too late. So can hit us up. We'll be there. Thank you so much for listening to the carpool podcast and we'll talk to you next time.
- [60:25]
A
Love you.
- [60:25]
C
Bye.
- [60:26]
A
Thank you for listening to the carpool podcast with Kelly and Liz. Make sure you're subscribed so you never miss an episode. And if you enjoyed riding with us, tell everybody you know there's room in the car for everyone.