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Welcome to the carpool podcast with Kelly.
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I opened my app one day to Robert Irwin's underwear ad, and it is incredibly confusing. Like he Steve Irwin's son. Like, it was fine, and now I don't even know who I'm following anymore.
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A
And Liz, things that I just don't feel a part of at all. The masters have. Don't know anything about it. Coachella. Seeing it everywhere feels so not a part of it. Your mom time off starts now. Now.
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B
Welcome back to the carpool podcast with Kelly and Liz.
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A
What a weekend. It was a weekend.
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B
It was. And it's Holy Week this week, which means it's Easter on Sunday.
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A
Yeah. Excited. Easter bunny is gonna be right around the corner. You have, like, such good ages of kids for Easter Bunny.
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B
I have such good ages of kids. I'm very, very excited. We kind of toy with the idea of the Easter bunny, like, bringing friends for us to keep, as in bunnies.
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A
Oh, yeah.
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B
Because Hattie really wants a bunny. And, you know, it's hard because we very much just like, encourage any and all reptiles with George. And then like, Hattie is said bunny, and I was like, tell her we have to get her a bunny. Like, George has everything. I mean, George catches a lot of his creatures, but he's got the bearded dragon, he has fish, he has lizards he caught. This past weekend, George caught a garter snake, an aggressive garter snake. It bit him two times.
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A
Yeah, that boy.
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B
Yeah. So anyway, all to say, I don't think that's going to happen this year because another thing is H is a little bit of a. Bit of a fair weather fan. Like, it sounds fun now, but, like, to George's credit, like, he cleans the poop out of the cages. He feeds them. Like, he really does. Like, tell her I don't touch any of the reptiles.
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A
Yeah.
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B
So we'll see.
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A
So maybe we need to start with something like. Like a hamster or something. Are people getting kids hamsters nowadays?
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B
No, I think that's worse because a rabbit could live in the barn, like in a cage in the barn, though. I just. I don't know. I feel. I don't know. Yeah, maybe. Don't know. Probably not gonna happen. More excited about just. I also like the food on Easter. Like Easter verse Thanksgiving. It's really tough for me. But, like, we just. The problem is it's like I'm just not eating enough, like, delicious brunchy items throughout the year.
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A
Yeah, I'm not brunching enough.
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B
I'm not brunching enough. So that's why I think Easter feels so special. Not that I'm, like, having turkey and stuffing multiple times a year, but I'm having a nice dinner multiple times a year. But to sit down at a brunch with a deviled egg and a honey ham and, like, some sort of, like, cinnamon, like, French toast casserole.
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A
So good.
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B
I'm sat with a mimosa.
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A
I'm super sad.
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B
There needs to be a restaurant called, like, Easter Brunch where you can just go get, like, Easter brunch foods. I mean, does everyone do brunch for Easter, or is this just our family?
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A
I think a lot of people do brunch for Easter. I do think that there are a lot of places that offer brunch.
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B
Yeah.
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A
But I don't think we're in our brunching phase.
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B
I don't want. Here's what. Here's where I think brunch and I, again, we. We're not brunching. We're not brunching. I went right from selling cars to having kids. Like, I totally missed my weekend brunches. But I'm just wondering. I feel like at a brunch, I don't just want to order one thing off the menu. I want a brunch buffet. Because the whole point of brunch is that you're eating breakfast and lunch, and then if you give me a menu, then I have to choose, and then I could go to breakfast or for lunch. So I want a brunch buffet.
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A
Yeah, a brunch buffet is excellent. Anyway, enough about brunching and buffets. This past weekend, Kelly and I did something crazy.
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B
So Maddie, was it crazy? I guess it was kind of crazy.
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A
We did something crazy, and Kelly and I went to the zoo with my two kids and her two youngest kids. So Maddie and Tyler were both out of town. Tyler had the two bigs. Maddie was doing marine stuff. And so Kelly and I just found ourselves home alone with our two. Her littles. My kids. And we were like, what should we do? We thought about. We toyed with the idea of going to a park, but James and Fred are not, like, at a very good park age. And honestly, just in sound park age is.
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B
I'm not going down the slide. They're trying to do the monkey. Like, it's too. A park is so active. The park is too active for me with. With a baby.
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A
With the baby. So we were like, what if we just did something so crazy and went to the zoo? Now, St. Louis has an excellent, excellent zoo. One of the best Zoos. And we're like, well, we're not going to drive to the zoo separately and meet there. That's crazy. Kelly had.
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B
I just don't like to do that. I don't like the coordinate. Where'd you park?
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A
Where did I park?
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B
I just. I don't. I, I. And I love. First of all, the only time we got to talk was the drive there and the drive back, because every other time, we were, like, super busy. So, like, that was our time.
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A
Yeah. So we took the Sienna press car that Kelly happens to have this week, which couldn't have worked out better because I'm not sure we could have pulled it off with the expedition.
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B
We totally could have.
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A
Okay. I think it would have been a little bit harder anyway.
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B
I don't think so at all. I think we should try it next time.
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A
Okay. Do you. Do you just want to tell the park story or the zoo story?
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B
No, I'm sorry.
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A
Okay, so we load up the kids. We got the boys in the back rear facing. We are the girls in the captain chairs in their infant seats. We load up two or one single mockingbird stroller, one double mockingbird stroller in the trunk, and we go to the zoo, and we have a great time.
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B
Yeah, we also. It was honestly, though, such an incredible time.
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A
Yeah, it was. It was fun. We went on the. We saw the animals. We went on the train. When Sloan started to get fussy, we said, let's get out of here. And that's the beautiful thing about the St. Louis Zoo is it's free. So you can go for. You can go for five hours, you can go for 30 minutes. And, you know, maybe you lost a couple. Couple bucks in. In parking if you're a zoo member.
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B
Yeah. And it's like, it was also fun because it was such an. It was like a workout for us. Like, we were just, like, pushing the kids around in the stroller. The animals were performing.
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A
The animals were on. We caught a very good day for the animals.
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B
They looked happy to be there, which I hope that they are. I think they get well taken care of that. We saw a baby yak. Could it have been. Yeah, the elephants were putting on a show.
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A
Yeah, the elephants were putting on a show. The giraffes. It was. It was great. We had a wonderful time. But speaking of zoos, Kelly had to show me something so crazy, and that was Robert Irwin's Thirst trap photo shoot in his.
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B
Okay, wait, sir, hold on, hold on. So I started following Robert Irwin on Instagram probably a year ago, because I Sometimes, like, to.
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A
I would.
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B
You know, I'm just trying to just see what. What the snake guys are up to. So I could sometimes show George, like, oh, like, look at this funny vid. Like, look at this cool video. Like, he's picking up this snake. So I'm just, like, mindlessly following Robert Irwin, like, thinking it's a safe place. I opened my app one day to Robert Irwin's underwear ad, and it is incredibly confusing because he is supposed to be. I mean, he's Steve. Like, he's Steve Irwin's son. Like, it was fine, and then he was, like, this guy who was, like, into reptiles, and it was fine. And now I don't even know who I'm following anymore.
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A
It. He's. It's so confusing. He's got, like, a snake. You need to look it up. But, like, caution. He's got, like, a snake wrapped around his neck. He's got freaking abs. He's in his underwear, and then there's a tarantula crawling up his thigh. And you're like, I didn't want to look there. Like, you think we have a problem seeing men in pajamas? Imagine Robert Irwin in underwear.
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B
And then. How old is Robert Irwin?
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A
He's got. He's in his 20s.
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B
He's 21. He's a pop.
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A
He's a pop.
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B
He's only 21.
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A
Hoping he was older.
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I was hoping he was older, too, because I can't tell you how old I feel. I'm 10 years older than Robert Irwin. I'm a decade older.
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A
Oh, my gosh.
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B
Well, anyway, I called Sid because I'm like, hey, Sid, I know you're in Australia. Maybe hit up Robert Irwin, but now that he's only 21, I'm not sure.
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A
Yeah, that's. That's a. Should be a bit older than him.
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B
Oh, my gosh. Anyway, I don't. I don't know how we got there, how we got out, but, like, I had to, like, tell Elizabeth because I was like. I had. Like, this is.
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A
This was.
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B
It was just.
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She was like, I'm so confused. I'm so confused. I'm like, I don't understand what you're talking about. And she pulled it up, and I was like, I understand the confusion. And then I showed it to Grayson.
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B
And Grayson goes, that's AI. And I'm like, no, it's not AI.
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A
Well, you said that it was part of a campaign, and he. What did he say after he posted the.
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B
Oh, so then. So anyway, I still follow Robert Irwin because he. For the Most part is very famous. Well no, no, for the most part it's very family friendly content. And then he posts G'day America. Now that I got your attention, I'd like to tell you about our charity gala. It's like now that I have your.
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A
Attention, I'm like Robert Irwin, Rob Robbie.
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B
Anyway, anyway, here nor there but look it up anyway.
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A
Look it up something else.
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B
Anyway, speaking of zoo. Oh no, I have a better transition. Liz came over yesterday to the Stumpy Farms, AKA my zoo and we did something that's been on my bucket list for a very long time and that is to make her to perfect a hard boiled egg.
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A
Yes.
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B
I feel like I've just been so. I just feel like I've been so gaslit throughout. I'm, I'm not kidding. Like I'm 31 years old. I've been consistently trying to make hard boiled eggs every couple of months for the last seven years. I've never been able to do them right. Like I just don't ever. They never peel. I'm like doing like a chip at a time and then like the egg is, it takes forever and then the egg looks horrible after. Well, I go to old chat GPT because then Liz says, do you have eggs? And I'm like yeah. She goes, I want a hard boil some. I'm like, well we're going to do it together because I can't figure this out. And if you can do it, no offense, if you can do it, I can do it.
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A
Yeah.
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B
So I chat GPT it gave me some good tips. I always thought that you had to put them in cold water and bring it to a boil. But Chat GPT said one use older eggs. So I didn't use my farm, my like my, my freshest farm eggs and then I put it in boiling water for 10 minutes. Ice bath for 10 minutes came right off.
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A
You don't need to do the ice bath for 10 minutes. You just have to do like a little ice bath. But yeah, I think that that's the problem is putting it, because I used to do that too is putting it in the cold water and then bringing it to a boil. Don't do that. Put it in boiling water and then I do this trick where I will like crack it down the, the middle of the egg like a couple times around and then I like twist the shell and the shell comes right off.
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B
It was, it was incredible. Like I'm about to make deviled eggs for Easter.
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A
Yeah.
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B
What an interesting like name. Kind of like a weird dish to Bring deviled eggs.
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A
Yeah. Weird Easter dish. We need to.
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B
Why are they called deviled eggs?
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A
We might need to rebrand that.
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B
Resurrection eggs, perhaps.
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A
Resurrection eggs.
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B
Yeah. So anyway, we have now hard boiled eggs. Now I feel.
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A
Okay, this actually makes sense. Deviled eggs are called that word because deviled in culinary context means seasoned with hot spices or cooked with a spicy sauce.
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B
That's fine, thanks to multiple means. But now I'm so excited that, like, I have this tool in my tool belt and because now I feel like my hard boiled egg recipes are endless. Like, I feel like I have endless possibilities. I want to make an egg salad sandwich. I've never wanted that. But now that I. It feels within reach, I feel like I may enjoy it. And I feel like everyone was talking about it because the Masters were this past week. Like, everyone's talking about egg sandwiches, pimento sandwiches, stuff like that.
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A
Things that I just don't feel a part of at all. The Masters have. Don't know anything about it. Coachella, seen it everywhere. Feel so not a part of it. Don't care.
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B
What do we have going on right now?
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A
Would you ever go to Coachella?
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B
I would go to the Masters. I would not go to Coachella.
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A
I agree.
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I would not go to Coachella because even, like, the tippity top, most famous influences, influencers and celebrities still look like it's work.
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Yeah.
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I can't imagine going as, like, a commoner.
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Yeah. Sounds like a lot of, like, lines and expensive Uber when I just don't.
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B
Really like music that much. I don't like. I'm. I don't know.
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Hey, I think it'd be hard. I think you won't probably ever find me at a music festival.
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B
No. I don't know. I'll go to music, so I would like to go to the Masters one day, though. That sounds like something I would enjoy.
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A
Yeah, I would do.
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I would like a cute athleisure outfit, a little cocktail and egg salad sandwich. Like, I could. I could see myself liking that. Now it's kind of sassy because, like, Mercedes took a couple of influencers, which, like, I don't know, feels like they could have taken me.
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A
Yeah. What was.
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They weren't car influence. They weren't car influencers.
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A
But, you know, what was the. It wasn't the mass. The Masters is always in the same spot.
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B
Yeah. In Augusta.
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A
Oh, in Augusta. Well, I went to the PGA Championship when It was in St. Louis.
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B
Was it fun?
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Yeah. Yes. Because I like the thing. I like dressing up in the cute Athleisure. Outfits. I like looking at all the. All the girls and their cute outfits.
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B
Yeah. I think for me, an event only is fun. As much as I like the outfit.
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A
Totally. And I. I have nothing to wear to Coachella, but I am. I'm kind of. We have.
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B
I don't think we can share yet, but we have a really iconic event that we're going to.
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A
I was gonna.
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We have looks for.
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I was gonna say. Can we share it? I have it on my things to share about.
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B
I guess we can share where we're going. Maybe just not like who.
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A
Okay. So we are going to. We're out on a brand trip, and we are going to the Kentucky Derby to see a really fantastic car. So we need our derby fits. And. Yeah, Kelly just brought Libby on the screen.
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B
Sorry. I do have Libby recording with me today. So. Quick story. Our podcast room is the only room with carpet in our house because this was like, basically when we redid the house, like, this was one floor we couldn't save, so we just put the cheapest option, which was carpet. And Lou's obsessed. She just took her first crawl, like, live on this podcast. I didn't have much of a reaction because, you know, she's my fourth.
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A
Well, yeah. And she's been. She's kind of been like, toying around with doing it for a while anyway, so.
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B
No, she does things. She'll like downward dog, and I'm like, that's more impressive than crawling at this point.
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A
No, she's. She's like, planking and doing downward dog, and it just feels like that is harder than just taking a crawl. So I'm happy. I'm happy she did it when she was on carpet. Anyway, we're going to the Kentucky Derb, and we are. We're actually going to the. Oh. We're supposed to be going to the Oaks and also the Derby, which. That's, like two looks.
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B
No, I know, I know.
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A
And that's kind of stressful.
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B
It's. I'm so excited to share more about the event. Like, it's. I mean, let's just say that, like, it's iconic. I couldn't plan. Elizabeth and I, we. We are not. We prioritize these kind of like, car brand trips because I just. I hate to travel. We don't. We. So hard to leave the kids. I. I would. This is. This is true.
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I mean, it's. It's a great car. And also, it's scratching the itch of Kelly's inner horse girl, because we all know Kelly is a horse Girl. And it's just. It's an iconic. It's an iconic trip. And to make things even better, we are driving because it's within a driving distance from St. Louis. So we don't have to get on a flight, we don't have to take connecting flight. So that's gonna be a lot of fun. So stay tuned.
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B
Yeah. So we also get to do road trip content. Like, it's just gonna be such an iconic weekend. So first weekend of May catch us doing fun stuff. I'm so excited. We're like. And we're not pregnant. I don't know if we. Have we ever been on a brand trip together where we haven't been pregnant since the Infinity QX60, aka our first one?
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A
No. No, we haven't, right? No, we haven't. That's crazy. Yeah. It's gonna be a good time. It's gonna be a good time.
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B
Okay. I have a couple of housekeeping items.
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A
Okay.
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B
And when I say housekeeping, I mean the keeping of my house. I don't know if you saw my Instagram story. You know when you like, make a really good Instagram story and you're like, I should have made that a real.
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A
Yeah, totally.
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B
Okay. So we have changed how we've been doing our children's pajamas. And it is probably one of the most iconic things that we ever came up with. So I like a matching jammy. Like, I know it's not necessary, but, you know, at the end of the night, I like to feel like I have my life together enough that my kids pajamas match. You know, I also like, I think a kid in a matching jammy is so cute. For as much as I love matching jammies on kids, I equally hate them that much on adults, specifically men. Haven't seen Robert Irwin wear them yet, but I imagine I would say. Anyway, so we used to like, I. I stopped holding my kids clothes probably like, you know, two kids ago, but we would still like, just group them together. But then I'm telling you, my kids would get in there and like, just. It was. It was such a pain to find them. Well, we started tying their pajamas together. Just simple as that. You just tie the legs on the arms and it's a one piece. And then I can even tell Fred, Fred, go get pajamas for Hattie. And he can go to her because he just picks up one thing and they're connected.
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A
Yeah. So I do something similar, actually. This is something that Maddie learned in the Marine Corps. And the tying is nice. Cause it's, you know, a Kid can throw it around and it's not going to come apart. But what we do is we fold the shirt up, we like roll the shirt and then we take the pants and we roll the pants around the shirt so they're in this like nice little tube. And then we just have like.
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B
You'll need to see that. I can't really conceptualize that.
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A
Okay, so think about this shirt. Rolling it like you roll like your shirts, pants, folding them so they're one long strip and then rolling the pants around the rolled shirt so they can come enrolled. Yeah, but they're, they're rolled pretty tight. Like if a, if a kid, they could, they could come unrolled if a kid's like throwing them around. But if a parent's just going in and like picking up, it's, it's fine. And it looks, it looks neat and tidy.
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B
Okay, that's interesting. So however it is, I just think like we've been gaslit and thinking like folding's the only way to organize clothes and it's not tire roll. Pick your plural, Pick your poison.
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A
Totally.
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B
Okay. Something else. I mean, I'm gonna be honest with you. Libby's in the crawling phase right now. Like I, I can see the next like six months of my life and I'm not a fan of them. Yeah, nine to 18 months. Not my favorite age. I think it's probably the heart that's the most active year of your kids lives. Nine to 18 months. It's tough.
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A
Well, it's the fact that they can just get hurt all the time. Right. Like you have to be there watching them constantly.
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B
I mean, I saw the funniest thing. I'm sorry. We're like all over the place today. This will happen. We just don't. When we go so long without recording, like the amount of effort it takes to maintain a semi clean home.
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A
No, yeah, I saw that. It was like to kind of stay in shape and maintain a semi clean home, it takes like a concerning amount of work.
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B
It's so hard.
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A
It's so hard.
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B
So anyway, speaking of maintaining a semi clean home, one thing I dread up and down, forward and backwards is the dishes. It is my I. Unloading a dishwasher, doing a dishwasher, it just. And I dish. But dishes also unfortunately bother me so bad. Like I barely like to sit down for a meal when I have a ton of dishes to do because like I can't even enjoy the meal because of all the dishes. Yeah, like I'm actively trying to make the least amount of dishes. As possible. I just. I hate dishes. Hate them, hate them, hate them. But of course, they're part of. They're part of life. And I was just one day thinking, like, is there something I could do to make, like, just the dish experience more enjoyable? Because in every other, like, capacity in my life, like, things I don't like, I try to make them more fun, like working out. I'll try a new class, do a new playlist, like, drink a fun, like, you know, pre workout drink or like, whatever. So, like, what can I do to make dishes feel like a more of like, not even like a luxury experience, like a fun experience. And part of me things I need to get better. Dish accessories.
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A
Dish accessories?
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B
No, I'm not much of a dish connoisseur. I recently discovered the geometry dish towels, and those have changed my life. But I only have one.
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A
Okay.
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B
And I don't, like, love the print. They have this really cute cherry and lime one. I love cherries and limes. And I'm like, if I had those, like, that would bring me, like, a little joy while I'm doing the dishes.
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A
Mm.
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B
You know, I've just been using, like, the Blue dawn dish soap, but, like, would agree with the green apple scent. Just kind of give. Elevate the experience, Give me something different.
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A
Yeah.
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B
I've got like a crusty, dusty old dish brush. Would I would a nice one, maybe like, lights up or like a handle, a grip. What if I got gloves? What if I got a new scrubby daddy thing? What if I got a great dish? I'm just. I'm just saying, like, are there dish accessories that would make it more fun or is it a lost cause and I'll hate the dishes either way?
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A
Yeah, no, for sure. I think it's worth a shot trying. I think that the. I think it would wear off. I think after a while you'd be like, I hate the stupid cherry lime print. But I think it's. If it buys you a few weeks or a couple of months of less terrible dishes, then I think it's 100% worth trying. Now, the chore that I hate more than anything is folding laundry. And I don't know how I can hack that one out because there's no laundry accessories, it seems.
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B
So I do think it's adjusting the system a little bit.
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A
Kelly, when you. It feels like years ago. I don't know how long we've been doing this podcast, but when you went on your rant about how to do laundry better, I did not give you the time respect or care. I was like, okay, whatever. You just, like, do your laundry. Now that I'm doing laundry for more people, it's insane the amount of laundry that these little kids can create. And I just. I. I see you and I hear you finally.
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B
Well, I think also with laundry, it's getting comfortable with the fact that laundry doesn't ever really have to be done. Like, the dishes, you know, have to be done to completion. You can make the. I mean, laundry. You got to stay on top of it. But people have clean clothes. They have clean clothes.
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A
Yeah.
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B
But sometimes mom, which I'm. There's. I'm. For some reason in my. I haven't totally gotten, like, back into my laundry marathon rhythm, which I don't really know why I need to get back to it. I think it's just like, Libby makes so much. Libby makes so much laundry, and she doesn't have as many clothes. So I, like, couldn't just do her laundry once a week, like, I have to do. So I'm. So I'm running her load. So I'm just not really, like, doing my. I still do a lot of laundry on Fridays, but not all of the laundry on Fridays. But like, mom said that when she was in the thick of it, like, her and Mama J, her best friend, they just went to the laundromat because they're just huge. And you just bring, like, baskets and baskets of your dirty clothes and just wash them all at one time.
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A
Really?
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B
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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A
They both had five kids, so it was like, a lot.
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B
But I'm with you. Like, the washing isn't the problem for me. It's the putting away.
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A
Folding isn't a problem for me. It's the putting everything. And maybe. So maybe I need better systems.
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B
You need better stuff.
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A
But I need.
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B
And it's still. It's still a to do. Like, don't mistake it for. I mean, it's still a to do. But I do think there's ways that I just. And I kind of just have been feeling this way lately, as you know. Now we've been in our new house for a year. I feel like if there's something that you're constantly struggling with or constantly picking up, like, try to just change the system. So, like, for example, our kids get dressed in the kitchen. Like, it's just. It's what happens. They go get their clothes. Sometimes I still have to help them. They bring their clothes to the kitchen, and then they get dressed, like, at the kit, basically at the kitchen table. And it's just what's happening. So then what does that equal? That equals laundry. Dirty laundry in my kitchen.
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A
I was wondering why there was a new laundry basket in your kitchen the other day.
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B
Yeah, so I bought one of those nice, like, Amazon ones that I, that I love. And I was like, okay, and now at least I don't have laundry because, like, we, we just needed that system now. Could I have just walked it to their bedroom? Yes, but like, the point is, it's just. That's not that. Yes, I could do that, but I could also get a laundry basket in the kitchen. And guess what's in that laundry basket? Just pajamas. Or if they come in really dirty from the barn and I'll just wash that load.
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A
I saw, I saw something similar and I can't remember what it was called, but it was something about like unpaved roads or something. And you'll see, like humans naturally go go the course of least resistance. So the example being if you see like a college quad and they have a bunch of sidewalks and ways to walk, but there's this one rut right down the middle because it's the easiest way to get there and always walk through the grass. So why isn't there a sidewalk there? So it's the same thing, like you're saying. So like, something that I've been dealing with is when I put give my kids a bath, I always end up having not dirty, but like lightly peed diapers in the bathroom. I'm like, I need to put a diaper caddy in the bat in that bathroom because I'm always changing diapers and I can't leave the bathroom once they're in the bath to go put it somewhere. So I've been doing the same thing. I'm like, how can I need to get a diaper caddy? I need to get some better system in here. And it's just like, where are you doing things? Where are your pain points? This is not the time for us to have, like, beautiful, well put together homes. I mean, like, they're going to be clean homes. But it's okay if you have, you know, a laundry hamper in the middle of your kitchen because who cares? You put it away when you have guests come. But it works for your family.
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B
Whatever works and makes you feel serene in peace. I think is important because I agree, like, there's things. If company came over, I'd move it. Like, for example, boxes of tissues. Fred. Fred has horrible allergies. His nose is a faucet. We need boxes of tissues in every single Room of the house.
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A
Yeah.
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B
Like to the point where like they're on the kitchen counter and on the kitchen table. Because I just want to go grab the one that's the closest.
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A
Totally.
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B
But yeah, I'm inspired.
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A
That's so good. I'm like so inspired to think of new systems in my house.
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B
Yeah. I just think that's kind of one. One thing I love. I think I got it from nap time kitchen is. It's having a return basket. Return or return to like a person. So I feel like I constantly. Especially because like, you know, our kids are in slightly different sizes. My sister in law's kids are in.
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A
Slightly different sizes. Kelly's always giving clothes to people. So she keeps a basket in her laundry room where she can put any clothes she wants to give to me. If, if we get PR or something and they send it to your address and it's for me, she puts it in there like anything that she likes. I always check this basket before I leave her house because without a doubt, there's something in there for me.
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B
Yeah.
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A
And you would if you're like, oh, where's that thing? I don't know where I put it. Like just put it in the basket.
- [29:13]
B
Exactly. So. But I'll also do it a step further. Like if I have like a return, just like a return I have to make. Like sometimes I'll put it in my car, but sometimes it's just like it's my returns basket. It has stuff that goes to my mother in law, stuff that goes to our mom. And I love it. And that's been like really crucial and having just less piles around.
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A
Yeah.
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B
And I just think it's always nice. I have an ongoing donations basket and I. It's a laundry basket. I keep it on the floor of my closet. Like it's not even put away. And like things just go in there when I'm feeling done with, done or overstimulated by them. And sometimes I'll be like, okay, that was dramatic. They play with this toy.
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A
Yeah, I'll pull that one out.
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B
You know what, I'll go ahead and pull that one back out. But that's also like a really good way to just have a thing for places to go.
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A
A thing for places to go here.
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B
Or a place for things to go.
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A
Depending on how you like place for things to go. You heard it here first. Carpool podcast 20 April. April 15, 2025. Okay, Cal, it's tax day. Oh, it's tax day.
- [30:17]
B
Oh, you just said that I had.
- [30:19]
A
To do an extension oh, hate taxes.
- [30:24]
B
Sorry.
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A
Hate figuring it out.
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B
Well, I have this new thing and I'm sorry that this doesn't totally relate to you, but, you know, there's like, things that Tyler does and there's things that I do in the house. And over the years we've just gotten really good at like, staying in our own lanes, you know, and now we have this new. You know how just like, couples get, like, inside jokes. I'm just going to tell you. Ours have this new inside joke called La la la. So if he's like trying to talk to me about taxes and if I just don't care or want to hear about it anymore, I'll just be like.
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A
La la la la la.
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B
Because, like, I'm in la la land. Like, that's just. And then he'll just stop talking. Like he was trying to explain, like our new tankless water heater to me. And I'm like, la la la. Like, don't fill my brain with that. I don't need to know that. Like, you know, I've got enough things going on. And I was trying to explain to him, I don't know, probably like what size or I'm with the kids and he just hit me with the La la la.
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A
You're like, okay, but it's good to know.
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B
Okay, you know what? I just got that.
- [31:22]
A
Yeah. Yeah, that's nice. Okay, Cal. Well, we have some hot tea in the auto industry to get to, so I think it's time for industry news.
- [31:33]
B
And Elizabeth sourced the stories because as you can tell by liberty here, I've been a little booked and busy. We're gonna start with this Tesla story because I actually did pull this one as well. Very interesting. Tesla launches a stripped down base cyber truck at 72, 000amid disappointing sales. The cyber truck, it was already a stupid car and now it's a stupid polarizing car, like it or not.
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A
Yeah.
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B
And I'm so worried for all the people who have cyber trucks. I follow this guy on Instagram and during like the, the. The height of like cybertruck, what's like, I guess fandom, like when everyone wanted one, like when they first came out, he was buying and selling them and making so much money, people were paying a stupid amount of money for them. And now it's literally he's like passing on like people are already upside, like crazy upside down in their cybertruck. Kind of the same thing happened with like the GMC Hummer Ev. Like that thing came out and it was so unique. Such a Collector's item. People were spending $100,000 over sticker to get it. And like now you can like just like go buy one. Like now they're just like, not now. Like they're trying to sell them.
- [32:47]
A
That's crazy. Like, just wait people.
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B
The Ford Bronco was the same thing. People were spending so much money to get the Ford Bronco and now like, yeah, like dollars, like a ton on the lot. It's just people need to take a freaking beat. Like, it's not like even getting the latest to being the first one to get the latest iPhone. Like it. These cars depreciate so fast. So fast. I don't like. I just don't like any of that.
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A
Yeah, I don't like any of it too. That's. Yeah. The thing that their lower cost version of the cyber truck, they're taking out of their. Their all wheel drive and air suspension which the cybertruck to me looks like a car that can probably only run with air suspension and all wheel drive. It just looks heavy and I'm just like kind of. I just thought that was kind of like.
- [33:43]
B
Is that the point of a truck too?
- [33:45]
A
Well, exactly. Exactly.
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B
I don't get it.
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A
I'm gonna either.
- [33:50]
B
I just think it's like so it's just gonna be so weird to see. Like weird. Like it's just interesting.
- [33:58]
A
Won't it be weird when you like four years from now and you go on like a used car lot and there's like a used cyber truck there? Doesn't that just feel strange?
- [34:07]
B
It'll be really weird. Like just a used.
- [34:10]
A
Next to a Honda Civic, you know.
- [34:12]
B
Next to a Honda Civic on the used car lot.
- [34:14]
A
Yeah.
- [34:15]
B
Yeah. That's kind of crazy. I'd still like to drive one. We. I mean, we put three car seats across. Like, I mean I. And I liked it when it first came out. Everyone hated it. I kind of liked it. I still kind of like it. It's just. It's just so niche though.
- [34:37]
A
I'm like afraid to get too close to one because I feel like I'm going to stub my toe on it.
- [34:41]
B
Totally.
- [34:42]
A
It's so pointy. I feel like it's going to poke my eye out.
- [34:46]
B
Yeah. Anyway, let's talk about. This is just. I can kind of came up with a funny joke for our next story. Oh, and it's regarding the 2026 Honey Palisade and the next gen Kia Telluride. And I feel like Hyundai and Kia are the automotive versions of the Kardashians doing Anything they can to make a headline. Oh, don't you agree with me?
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A
They're just.
- [35:10]
B
They're always reinventing themselves. They're always. I'm not. And I'm not mad. I mean, I like, I watch the Kardashians. Like, I'm not necessarily mad at it. Like, I think they're pretty good business people, but it's just they're always trying to make a headline.
- [35:24]
A
Yeah, but this headline's actually good.
- [35:26]
B
This headline is actually good. But I'm just saying it would have a little bit more. I feel when we start talking about Honey and Kia, sometimes people just turn their ears off because, like, they're always up to something. But let's talk about it. So the 2026 Hyundai Palisade is here.
- [35:41]
A
It's going to be released at the New York Auto Show. Which we're not going to.
- [35:46]
B
Which we're not going to. But that's okay. We'll get. We'll get them next time. What do you think of the picks? You're gonna kind of need to, like, see the pictures to kind of be able to have this conversation with us.
- [36:00]
A
Okay. So I think looking at the pictures, I think that the Santa Fe is making a lot more sense now.
- [36:07]
B
I would agree it's. It's. But it's not as jarring looking as the Santa Fe to me.
- [36:12]
A
No, it's not. It's not as jarring. The inside looks super cool. I mean, the inside looks very different, but in a very cool way. I mean, these, like, press photos that they have. Does that not kind of look like it has a fireplace in it? Don't you think? Yeah, I can see that. I like it. I think it looks cool.
- [36:37]
B
I think the interior is definitely reading like more. More Genesis. So it's kind of giving a little bit more luxury.
- [36:44]
A
Yeah.
- [36:45]
B
We haven't heard about a hybrid yet, so fingers crossed.
- [36:48]
A
Yeah. I think it said rumored of a.
- [36:52]
B
It looks like on these press photos they have at. This is big for us. They still have the third middle seat. It looks smaller somehow. But they've added lower anchors to both outboard seats in the third row now, which is kind of iconic. But I'm trying to find a back of trunk pick to see about the tether anchor situation, because that's really what I care about. Yeah, they don't have one. That would be the hot tea if they had another tether anchor. I'm sad.
- [37:21]
A
Yeah, I like it. I like it. In that same breath, they also spotted like a camouflage 2026 Kia Telluride so redesigns for both the Palisade and the Telluride, which is kind of crazy, but we're not really sure what the Telluride is going to look like. Which will be interesting because I actually think that this new Palisade is kind of reading. It's, it's boxy kind of reading Telluride.
- [37:52]
B
It's kind of reading EV9. To me.
- [37:54]
A
It's kind of reading EV9. Yeah. So I'll just be cur. I'll be curious to see how they're gonna make them look different because you could easily have. They could have easily come out with that same Palisade and said it was a Telluride and I would have. That would have made sense to me.
- [38:08]
B
I totally agree. That's a good take.
- [38:11]
A
So I'll be very curious to see how they intentionally make them look different because, I mean, the Palisade and the Telluride, they're so similar that it really just kind of comes down to aesthetics. And do you like a rounded car or a boxy car at this point? But they might just both be boxy. And so then Pathfinder's back on the table. So that is our industry news, hot off the press. So now it is time for Ditch the Drive Thru where we give you an easy dinner recipe to mix it up to get you out of your dinner rut. And I can't believe that on our. One of our last episodes, we were just making fun of Tyler for when he goes out to a nice restaurant, he orders a Caesar salad with steak on it. Because we were eating our words when we made steak salads this past weekend.
- [38:56]
B
I thought the exact same thing.
- [38:58]
A
Yeah. Yeah.
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B
A steak salad is delicious.
- [39:04]
A
It's good. So here's what we made. We obviously we had the hard boiled eggs. Kelly also happened to kind of jack her bacon up that morning, so she had to turn her bacon into bacon bed. So we were like Cobb salads. So we cut up some lettuce. We did our. We cut up a hard boiled eggs, we put some bacon bits. You had cucumber, you had tomato. We just kind of threw whatever we had. And she didn't have a good dressing. So we made like kind of a homemade ranch dressing with Greek yogurt, mayo, milk to thin it out, and ranch seasoning. And it was great.
- [39:38]
B
It was slightly elevated. It was just like a slightly. It was killing me.
- [39:42]
A
I know. It's, it's, it's elevated from just regular old ranch out of the, out of the bottle. It tastes better and we put steak on top and it was excellent. So this is everyone's sign to go make a steak salad because who doesn't like it?
- [40:02]
B
Well, and I felt like I then had it for dinner and if it just felt like if I wouldn't have been serving so many people. It's a really good thing where you can prep all the ingredients ahead of time and then just like pull it.
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A
Out later because you can have steak.
- [40:13]
B
Because the steak can be cold. The dressing's pre made.
- [40:16]
A
Blue cheese. Blue cheese crumbles would have been a nice addition, but this was very much a. We just kind of threw whatever Kelly happened to have in her fridge at it. But blue cheese would have. Blue cheese crumbles would have elevated it. So I would probably do that in the future, but it was great. So guys, with that, that is going to be our episode. So thank you so much for listening to this chaotic all over the place episode of the Carpool Podcast. Hopefully on Thursday will be a little bit more organized for you. So have a great Tuesday and we'll talk to you next time. Thank you for listening to the Carpool Podcast with Kelly and Liz. Make sure you're subscribed so you never miss miss an episode. And if you enjoyed riding with us, tell everybody you know there's room in the car for everyone.