← The Southern Tea
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Maybe I'm just like weird. Maybe I'm crunchy. This is the Southern Tea with Lindsay Chrisley. I think it's so funny when you get Christmas cards and all of these people write their children's accomplishments on the back. I don't love them. A southern girl and a boy mom who's trying to navigate life while staying.
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True to her roots.
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I am a functioning, non functioning human being right now. Join Lindsay each week as she swears to spill the tea, the whole tea and nothing but the tea.
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Tea.
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That is the tea. Here's Lindsay. Good morning and welcome back to another episode of the Southern Tea. I am not on camera today because I have on a face mask and I feel like I look like the doubt buyer.
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B
Hello, Hello, Lindsay Chrisley. I love the face mask vibe.
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I sent it to one of my girlfriends and she said a midday face mask is for people who literally do not care about anything else in the world. World.
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I have not done a face mask in so long and I really, really need to. My skin has been like freaking out cuz I've been lapsing on my skin care for the last two weeks and it's really showing.
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I love that for you, but also hate that for you. I have also reached the time of the year where it's become like a full blown purge around here.
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Okay. Okay.
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And I'm pretty sure that when my lovely cleaners that I love so much that I feel like keep this house afloat, when they showed up this morning and saw all of the boxes, I'm pretty sure they were like what actually is happening, but I'm just like purging my entire life.
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B
You do this every year and I love it. You're not a spring cleaner, you're an end of year cleaner.
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I'm actually an all the time cleaner but like for some reason the bulk of my cleaning always is ends up like sometime around like December, January.
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I would say yes, probably because that's like you closed down and like that's when you have time.
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Well, I thought I was closing down until I woke up and saw my phone this morning. And I think that people really just don't get the vibes that number one, a goes to bed and number two, someone sending me paragraphs of text messages at any point of any time of day, on any day that ends in y is not going to result in a.
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B
A good answer. No, you're not really a text message girly. You're more of like a. If you have a long thing to say to me, get on the phone at a scheduled time?
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Yep. You said at a scheduled time.
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Absolutely not.
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Rogaly not send me a calendar invite, please. Literally reading paragraphs of text messages and I'm like, oh, Happy Monday.
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Oh my God. It's truly like the busiest time of the year. And I don't even just mean personally, I haven't even thought about. I will tell you, I have much improved my Christmas tree. My brand new Christmas tree from downstairs is up. It's about 60 fluffed. I would say this one's a beast. I have to send you a photo. I got a brand new Christmas tree from Balsam Hill. I spent a lot of money on it. I waited until it was on sale. But they last a really long time. And she is a wide girly with like over 2000 lights on her.
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I love it. I love a beautiful like fluffy Christmas tree. Actually my mom called me the other day and she was like, do you remember when we went to Highland, North Carolina when you were a kid and you know, picked out Christmas Christmas tree and they cut it and put it on top of the car. I'm like 90s people truly were next level of psychotic. Because there is never a day in 365 that I'm going to think that it's a good idea to take Jackson to a Christmas tree farm and cutting down a real tree and putting that in my house.
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So I loved it as a kid. I didn't love the whole losing of the needles though. Like where it just drops all the needles. I didn't like that. And then having to make sure that it was watered and all those things. Didn't love that part. But that was until we got a Christmas tree that had a spider's nest in it. We immediately switched to artificial after that. And Corey's family was a real tree family. And then they adopted the artificial tree method the last couple of years. But Corey was definitely like, oh, we're gonna go cut a tree. And I was like, we have animals. No, we're not gonna do that. So we've been artificial. Corey and I are. Our little family has been artificial the whole time.
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So when Will and I first got married, we did used to go to like a little tree farm and get a tree. And like when I tell you a tree, like we're talking like Charlie Brown. Okay. Like I loved the ugly like little tree. But I do think it was probably a time in my life that I hadn't really like accumulated enough ornaments to have a large tree. And I'm not a big One to do, like, the filler ornaments and stuff. My parents have always had the most gorgeous Christmas trees in their home. Like six Christmas trees, all themed. One of the trees is a family tree that has, like, all of, like, the childhood stuff on it. And then all the other trees have a theme.
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Oh, cool.
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And it's like, I would love to be those people. It just. It's not something that I'm necessarily interested in. And I feel like it takes such a long period of time. And then I also am an overstimulated person, so a lot of clutter in my house feels like it shouldn't be there. So I have yet to put up my tree. I was planning on doing that on Black Friday, and then I decided to bedrot with Jackson, and we watched movies and I read a little bit, and we had leftovers. I went from not cooking a lot to cooking a lot, and that took an extended period of time. But what I will tell you is that cooking by yourself is so healing.
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I want to know how it went. I want to know how it felt. I want to know, like, what you were thinking about while you were doing the cooking. Did Jackson help you? Like, what was your Thanksgiving like? I want to know all the things.
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Okay, so Jackson was my taste tester, which I love.
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That's also my role with what my mom makes.
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Okay, so number one, this was the first year, like I said before, that I have cooked, like, in a home that I have been in, done, like, full blown Thanksgiving for Jackson. And I. I feel like it went really well until it got to the chopping part. And I bought this, like, little gadget on Amazon, and it kept coming up as, like, a recommended item or whatever. And it was telling me about how many people had, like, purchased it. And it had these fantastic reviews. Okay, well, I obviously bought it knowing that I didn't have anything to chop, but I got that thing out, and I was at Will's a couple months ago waiting on Jackson to get off the bus, and he was making homemade salads and, like, chopping all this stuff up on a chopper like that. But he told me that his was, like, the cheaper version of mine. So when I got it out, it was the first time that I had ever used it. So I actually had to FaceTime him to ask him how to use the grates because I didn't know how to do it. And Will was my chopper, like, back in the day. Like, he would do the chopping, and that was really nice. Like the onions and all this stuff. Yeah, all of My recipes turned out really good. Jackson ate for the first time, maybe the first time like ever at my house on a not divided plate.
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Oh, my God. How did it go?
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It went really well. Like, I went to go get out the divided plate. We've had this conversation a plethora of times, but I went to go and get it out and he was like, no, mom, I want a regular plate like you, okay? And I'm like, I know, but it's gonna touch. And he's like, it's okay. And so he ate it and he was eating like little bites of dressing with sweet potato souffle. It was really nice. What I will say is I don't cook a lot, just in general and using my oven and the splatter, I can't stand it. Like, I know no one can see in there. You know what I mean?
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Like, you know it's there.
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I realize that no one's actually coming to my house at all and no one can see it, but I know it's there. So. I was losing sleep last night. I was like, I've got to do like the self cleaning mode on this oven today and I need it to be back in like pristine condition. So I chose violence. This morning. I. I got Jackson up, got him to school, was stripping bed sheets by 6am, have done six loads of laundry, cleaned my oven, went to Pilates, went to the car wash, went and had my nails done. Argued with somebody over text message. It was a great day.
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B
I feel like you need to restate the whole. I woke up and chose violence. I think violence was chosen for you.
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I would tend to agree. And I also need to know other people who have their kids at home on like school holiday breaks. I try really hard for roughly like the first two days that I have him home, like, trying to keep everything picked up and the counters wiped off and whatever. And then you get into like that third day lull where it's like, everything's gonna be up anyway, so you might as well just let it ride until they're back at school.
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And what do you say?
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No, no, no, no, no. The thoughts of me thinking that I'm gonna be a homeschool mommy. Yeah, that went out the window on like day four.
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Okay. So I wanted to circle back on that anyway. So I'm really glad you brought that up. At what point, like, at what point did you think that you could do the whole homeschooling?
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No one ever qualified me for that.
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Okay.
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Like, no one, including myself. I just feel like public school is so great for so many reasons, and then, you know, need some improvement and a lot of other areas that I see. And it's common things that I see with other parents, you know, voicing their concerns and stuff on the local, like, county pages and whatever. And so it's like, the idea of homeschooling to me is so great. In fact, I brought up to Will the other day, I was like, hey, what do you think about me and Jackson getting, like, an rv, like the type that you, like, drive down the highway and pulling him out of school for a year, and we'll go and visit, like, all the national parks, and Will just, like, school on the bus. He's like, lindsay, that sounds like the most terrible idea with you ever. Like, who's driving that? Like, I mean, obviously, I'm pretty sure you have to get a different type of, like, driver's license.
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Oh, yeah. I mean, for sure. But I think you probably assumed that that would be Will.
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Yeah, he was just gonna be our chauffeur and basically not talk to us.
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Okay. I mean, I like. I like the dreaming, but I commend parents who do the homeschooling thing because, like, the new math itself would take me out. Lindsay, I have a question for you. If Cash App could add the perfect discount to its card for you based on your favorite place to spend money, where would it be?
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I would have to say, biggest place that I spend money is Dick Sporting Goods.
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I would agree. Like, I almost feel like you should. You should teach them how to use it for research purposes and things like that. But I will say, like, you have to double check the stuff Chachi BT is telling you for sake. Like, it could make up case law that doesn't even exist and cite it and going to court with that, and it's not even accurate, dude.
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Speaking of Chat gbt, have you heard of the AI chatbots?
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No.
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Okay, so apparently they're becoming teens secret therapists. And the data regarding the AI chatbots is terrifying. It says the Common Sense Media study found that three and four teens are using AI for companionship, including emotional conversations.
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Okay, so you and Kale talked about a situation like this. I feel like, on coffee combos, where somebody was, like, talking to it as if it was their friend and the mom found the text messages.
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Yeah.
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So is this like that, like, they were using ChatGPT or there's other AI bots out there?
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I think there's, like, actual AI chat bots that they're. They're using. And it's like these emotional conversations that these teens are having and. And using it for companionship purposes. That's terrifying.
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You know what's going to end up happening? That documentary that you had me watch where the mom was, like, catfishing the girl.
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Yeah.
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Someone's gonna pretend to be an AI chatbot next.
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I know. And then there's gonna be a documentary about that. It's just terrifying. The resources that our youth now have that. That they don't understand the risk that that's associated with it. And it's truly because they're not properly taught how to use these things. Like, it's just out there on the Internet that they can have access to and they dip their toes into it. And you've got kids out here plagiarizing, using chat GPT and you've got other kids out here on AI Chatbots having, yeah. Making conversations like, as if they're friends. It also says in the study, researchers posed as teens mentioned the following. Hearing voices, believing they were chosen by God, purging after meals, staying awake for days, not feeling real lately. And each of the scenarios, chatbots either glossed over the severity, changed the topic, or validated dangerous behavior.
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Oh, okay, that's terrifying. Like, as a parent, how does that make you feel? And do you monitor? Like, are you going to start monitoring for, like, chat bot usage?
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I think over the holiday, you know, that we go back and forth with the phone and it was taken and then given back because, you know, I have a completely different outlook on the phone than I think Will does in regards to taking it to school. Now that he's in middle school, they're allowed to have their phones, like, on their person as long as they're in their backpacks and they are turned off. They have to turn them off at the first bell ring, which is at nine in the morning. And then they can turn them back on at 4, which is the last bell rang for dismissal. There have been two different occasions that Jackson has been involved in. One was the bus catching on fire, and the other was he was dropped off by a substitute bus driver at a bus stop that was not his. That was over a mile down the road. Had he not had his phone number one, we wouldn't have been able to find him. Number two, I wouldn't have been alerted immediately. Like, when the bus started catching on fire. I wouldn't have been alerted had he not had the phone.
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I feel like in this day and age, I would give my child a phone.
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Will doesn't like it. Going to school with him for, you know, various reasons, like if he's on it at improper times or whatever. And I'm like, okay, well, that's a different element of parenting that we have to do, like, the proper use of the phone. But I do think that I'm gonna take it for a week over Christmas break. And I do think that we are gonna have some serious conversations of how to use the Internet and like, what sites we are using. Like, are we Talking to AI chatbots. Are we using Chat GPT just to open those conversations when he's not already overstimulated from being in school? I think it's a good idea.
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Yeah.
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And I mean, truly. There have been multiple articles that I've seen over the last year about these AI chatbots and its correlation to suicide.
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I feel like anything that you. Because you don't know what the chatbot is going to respond.
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I know, and that's the scariest part.
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It's not predictable.
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But then it made me start thinking. When I saw this study, it made me start thinking, like, back in the day when we first got emails and we all had, like, AOL accounts and we used AIM or aim, and you could, like, go into chat rooms. Do you remember this?
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Oh, I remember because I was going in there and this was in the age of To Catch a Predator, and I thought that I was going to catch predators and I was going in all the chat rooms that I should not be in.
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Literally, you didn't even realize what you were probably being preyed on, honestly.
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Probably, like, probably talking to people that I should not have been talking to. Remember, ASL did not mean American Sign Language at that time.
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Wait, what did it mean?
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Age, sex, location.
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Oh, I didn't even know that. Nobody told me.
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What?
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Nobody told me.
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So then when they were saying that to you, did you think that they were asking you if you communicated using asl?
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I don't know that anybody ever said that to me because I don't know that I ever was in those chat rooms.
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Like, you were definitely. You were being a good, behaved girl.
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Yeah. I mean, I felt like AIM was like. Or aim, whatever we're calling it. I felt like that was risky enough. Like, did anybody else get grounded and immediately, like, you run to your computer and you put up an away message. Grounded. Don't contact me.
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Oh, my God. Yeah. Yep. If you get a call, don't answer it. Not me.
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Or, like, the.
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The weirdest quote that I could find.
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Todd has my pink razor in his dresser drawer. Please not send me any messages. Do not try to call.
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Right. I remember those damn away messages. You put up, like, the craziest quote of, like, all time besties initials in the away message. And if they didn't. If they. If you weren't in theirs, it was, like, worse than the MySpace saga.
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Like, best friends or whatever. Yeah.
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Or whatever it was.
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Listen, I am. Was truly the OG of text messaging. Like, when you got home from school, you immediately tried to log on that computer and you were chatting with your friends like you were texting before you even knew what texting was.
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Yeah. And then my favorite part was when the ipod touches came out that connected to WI fi and you could get aim on that. And it basically was texting.
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Like, we lived in the coolest time ever. Like, I don't care what anybody says, growing up in the 90s needs to be brought back.
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I would agree. I think about that all the time. I'm like, what do I just. I don't know. I just feel like everything. This sounds so cheesy, but it's like everything looked different, it's smelled different, it was different. I don't know. Or it was just like the inner. Not inner child, but basically was like just our childhoods and we thought that it was like that. But maybe our parents feel. Felt like then how we feel now.
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I definitely feel like that's the one. Like, I think because we were children experiencing the stuff in the 90s at that time, everything felt so great to us, but to our parents, it probably was not like that. Like now whenever I eat certain things, I used to eat them as a kid on like, tgif. Like, it was like a special, you know, something you got to get snacks and stuff to watch. Goosebumps and okay, if I ate some of those same snacks today, it doesn't hit the same.
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Oh, my God. No. I think this about every, like, nostalgic snack. Like, Corey got me a baby bottle pop. A couple, actually, at this point, it's probably a couple months ago, we were at our nephew's soccer game and he got me a baby bottle pop. And I was like, this is like, this tastes terrible. I did not remember it tasting like this. And then remember the kid cuisine meals?
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Oh, yeah, of course.
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With like the brownies or whatever. I remember eating one of those, like, when I got older and it did not taste the same. I feel like that's pretty much anything does not taste the same.
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It's so crazy. Like, you. You remember, like, how Lunchables was truly like the broke down version of like, charcuterie.
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Abso freaking lutely.
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Okay. Lunchables used to taste so different when we were kids than you eat it now. Like, I'm not gonna lie, I will pop a lunchable sometimes, but it does not taste like what I remember it tasting like when I was a kid.
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No, I only eat two kinds and they don't hit the same. And it's the pizza and it's the nachos.
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I love IQ Mix so much. It's how I start pretty much every morning unless I am out of IQ Mix. And I experienced that over the weekend and it truly was tragic for me. I know that you also said that Corey loves the IQ Joe and some of his work friends do too. I have IQ Joe in my pantry for whenever people come over if they're like coffee lovers. And I have heard great feedback. And right now, IQ Bar is offering our special podcast listeners 20% off all IQ bar products, including the sampler pack, plus free shipping. To get your 20% off. Text T to 64,000. Text T to 64,000. That's T to 64,000. Message and data rates may apply. See terms for details. I have to tell you about this news that has been all over. Like, I cannot get away from it. Every app that I have freaking been on, this is breaking news. A woman in Thailand, she was alive in her coffin.
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B
What?
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She was being brought in for cremation.
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B
Oh, my God. No, I haven't seen this at all. At all.
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Yeah, so it says that they heard like a faint knocking coming from the coffin. And in a quote, it says, I was a bit surprised, so I asked them to open the coffin. And everyone was startled. I saw her opening her eyes so slightly and knocking on the side of the coffin. She must have been knocking for quite some time. So according to her brother and sister, it says that the woman had been bedridden for about two years and her health had deteriorated. She became unresponsive, appearing to stop breathing for Two days. Her brother placed her in the coffin. They already had a coffin. Okay.
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B
And they thought she was dead or this was on purpose?
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No, like they're saying that they thought that she was dead. They said that she appeared to stop breathing for two whole days.
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Oh my God.
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So I don't know who just has a coffin laying around. Like that is a little sus to me. And this story, okay, says that they made the drive, which was roughly 300 miles to a hospital in Bangkok. And the woman had previously expressed a wish to donate her organs. So the hospital refused to accept the brother's offer as he did not have an official death certificate. So they did offer a free cremation service. And that's when the brother approached them. But they refused because there was some type of like missing document or something. And when he was explaining, when they were explaining like how to get the death certificate, that's when they heard the knocking.
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That is absolutely terrifying. And leads me to a question that's like a internal question that I always have. And I don't say it out loud because people would think I was weird, but I'll say it now. I just wonder how many people this actually happens to.
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Likewise, because I mean this can't just be like a one off type situation. And you know how I feel about cremation and burial. And we've talked about it and I've been totally against cremation. And I'm like, no, I'm gonna be buried and maybe I'll go in a mausoleum. And you know all of these things.
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B
Yes.
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At this point, after reading this story, I am second guessing all of that because I need to make sure I am for sure.
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Like dead. Yeah. I'm like, how, how do we make sure that that is for sure? Because that's. How do you think that someone stops breathing for two days and then the lady's knocking like, hello, someone let me out. Did.
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Was there no like medical professional that was a part of this that you know, checked her heart or I mean maybe she was just like slow breathing.
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You, I mean, but you don't stop.
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Breathing for two days and then all of a sudden you're just like knocking on a friggin coffin. No.
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And this was in Thailand, right? So like obviously we know how it goes down here. Like there's like a actual process of pronouncing someone dead. I don't know, I kind of. Look, I just want to see Thailand. Process of.
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It's like now we're using chat GPT death, foreign. Let's See, I'm, like, trying to wear this jelly mask on my face and it's, like, sliding off. And that is. That is on being cheap and trying to buy the jelly mask that you love from TJ Maxx and realize that it's defective, so it could also be.
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Expired, which is terrifying. Yep.
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Never doing that again.
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B
Okay, so this is interesting to me. So I looked up on just Google Thailand, process of pronunciation of death. This is what it comes back with. So I feel like we could already be confused here, but it's fine. The process of pronunciation of death in Thailand does not refer to the literal speaking of the word death. Instead, it refers to the process of death acceptance within. Within Thai Buddhist culture, which involves acknowledging death as a natural part of life, making peace with it, and engaging in Buddhist practices to prepare for it, such as making good karma and understanding concepts like whatever, whatever. So it says death acceptance process is mindfulness and Buddhist philosophy. Good death, which they said is defined as passing away with a peaceful and pure mind, which is believed to lead to a better rebirth. Focus on making merit acceptance and practical planning. The funeral process is notification and legalities within 24 hours of death. The family must report the death and obtain a death certificate. Bathing and dressing, they bathe and dress the body. Monastic rituals, cremation and memorial services. So I guess the cremation is part of the Buddhist tradition. So I'm not seeing in there where anyone is actually pronouncing anyone dead or confirming. I'm seeing that they're just accepting.
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A
You know what this is? Giving. It's giving that follow the bouncing ball.
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B
Huh?
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A
That cult leader that turned, like, purple or gray and they, like, drove around with her body and they said that she, like, came back alive or something.
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B
Let's see. Remember this?
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A
It was a documentary.
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B
I don't. Wait, wait. You and Kale watch this? Yes, I remember you talking about it. I never didn't strike my fancy, so I did not participate in Montana.
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A
That's absolutely what this is giving.
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B
Well, so for me, I'm just curious of, like. So if someone just says someone's dead or they think they're dead, they just go about their merry way of, like, saying that they're dead instead of confirming.
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A
I mean, this might be a stupid question and already know it is before I ask it, but do they not believe in modern medicine there? How is it?
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B
I don't know.
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A
It's like, by the time we get done recording, we know everything about Thailand.
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B
Okay, hold on. Death in Thailand is confirmed by a medical professional at a Hospital or if at home by police and a doctor's investigation, which I'm saying that this sounds like foul play. This sounds like the brother was trying to get rid of the sister.
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A
That's what it's giving. Because number one, how did the brother just have a coffin to drive the body 300 miles?
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B
That is a great. That is a great. He was. This is. You know, what is that called? It's like mens rea. It's like motive.
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A
And I mean, I don't know what kind of cars they have in Thailand, but, like, did he just sling it in the back of a pickup?
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B
Like.
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A
Because I don't know of any vehicle that could house a coffin.
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B
No, I mean, like, the hearse is like a elongated. I wonder if like a Denali or the big Suburban could put a coffin in it.
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A
I mean, if you lay all the seats down, I do think that it's probably possible. Dude, I have to tell you this crazy thing that I have gotten hooked on and I don't even know the girl's name, but somebody listening to this is going to know what I'm talking about. It's on Tick Tock. And I follow all of these girls. This girl's videos. She lives in the back of a Honda Civic. Have you seen this?
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B
I feel like I have seen quite a few people living in their vehicles come up on my TikTok. So keep going. And I'll tell you if it's refreshing my memory.
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A
Okay. So she is absolutely like one of the cutest girls ever. Like, so clean, looking pretty put together from what I can tell from the videos. And she drives around to, I guess, places that have showers and, like, where you can clean up truck stops.
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B
But I know what you're. I know exactly who you're talking about. It's rest stops. It's like rest stops with bathrooms and, like, showers.
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A
Yes. And she drives around to these places and then she parks her car somewhere else sometimes at some of these places, like where she's showering and she shows you basically, like her whole process of how she's living out of the car. And it's quite concerning. Like, reading through the comments, I don't think that probably because she's living it, she would understand some of the concern that's in the comments coming from mothers. But it's like she has blinds, like where she can pull it over the windows.
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B
Yeah.
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A
But then there's like no blinds on the hatch part that you can see directly in the back, which is scary, which is super terrifying. And she Keeps all of her clothes in a suitcase, like on one side of the back of her car. I guess in this version of a Honda Civic, or maybe all Honda Civics do it like the seats go all the way down.
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B
Okay.
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A
Which I didn't know that that was like an option in cars. I thought that was like more of an SUV thing. But yeah, same because, like, seats go all the way down. She has a suitcase with like all of her clothing, like belongings in it, and she takes the stuff out for the week and puts the those like in bins in the back of her car. And she showers at like these rest stops and stuff. She's a caregiver for some person that needs like overnight care. So sometimes she sleeps at this overnight care place and the other times she sleeps in her vehicle. And I just wonder how many people actually are doing that.
- [36:20]
B
There are a lot of people living out of their vehicles. I've also seen a lot of, like, not exactly an Airstream, but like making homes out of things like very old school buses and like renovating them and making that their home because it's not affordable to own a home. It's very difficult to even qualify to own a home. Rent is completely outrageous. And a lot of people also just don't have the interest in the maintenance and all that stuff too. That like, I have seen that as a reason when people are asked, like, they'll say, say, like, well, we want to travel, we don't want to spend that much money on housing. We want to be able to do X, Y and Z. But unfortunately, I think there's a lot of people doing it due to literally the inability to afford life.
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A
And I mean, it made me think, you know, where is this girl's parents? Like, does she have family? Does she not? Most all of the content is just like her life of living out of her car. And it caused me to be like a bit concerned as a mom because she is posting kind of like where she stays and where she showers and stuff. So I understand that she's making content and monetizing the content and all of that, but it just doesn't sound very safe because if somebody is consuming that and they wanted to find her, it would be pretty easy to find her.
- [37:45]
B
And that's one of the scary things about social media. People do not pay attention to, to how noticeable their whereabouts are or they are very dumb and can and constantly are tagging where they are or doing whatever it is and it's not safe.
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A
That's why Kayl and I both have Our locations off on our Instagrams because I had no idea until somebody told me that they could see my location on my Instagram.
- [38:11]
B
Oh, everybody should have it off. And your. If you have Snapchat, that should also be off because the Snap map is terrifying.
- [38:18]
A
Wait, what's the Snap map?
- [38:20]
B
There's like a map, like anybody that has their location accessible, like, you can see where they are at.
- [38:26]
A
Please tell me why I thought Snapchat was like a dead thing for our generation.
- [38:33]
B
It is, but for Gen Zers, they love it.
- [38:37]
A
No. So remember me telling you that I like, lost my Twitter password at some point and then once it became X, I just, like, never re logged in.
- [38:46]
B
Yes.
- [38:47]
A
Okay. That's when I thought that Snapchat went out the door. I see all these creators out here saying follow me on Snap or whatever, and I'm like, I literally thought that that app died and went away. And somebody was on Tick Tock talking about how much they monetized their Snapchat.
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B
Oh, yeah.
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A
And I'm like, what kind of photos are they sending? Like, is it like new?
- [39:13]
B
It's videos. It's more so videos than photos.
- [39:16]
A
But like, videos of what? Like coochie?
- [39:19]
B
No, I mean, maybe some people, but mostly like, basically what you would put on your Instagram stories on Snapchat. Because what they do is not trying to give anyone secrets out here, but they put ads in between the videos.
- [39:35]
A
Got it. Okay, that makes sense. And that's how people are monetizing it.
- [39:38]
B
Yes. It's like a rev share, basically.
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A
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- [40:18]
B
My nephew also takes these and I'm very glad that they're not filled with candy or have the nutritional value of candy, but they taste like candy. And I know this because I have had a few just to make sure that they tasted good. They really, really do. I wish they made them for adults. Hyatt is so cool. They fill in the most common gaps in modern children's diets. To provide the full body nourishment your kids need with a yummy taste they love. Formulated with the help of nutritional experts, Haya is pressed with a blend of 12 organic fruits and veggies, then supercharged with 15 essential vitamins and minerals including vitamin D, B12C, zinc, folate and many others to help support immunity, energy, brain function, mood, concentration, teeth, bones and more. I also recommend checking out their new kids probiotic and nighttime essentials. My sister in law has had our nephew on them for quite a few months now and she's having a great experience.
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A
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B
Yeah, they dupe you, you, they think you only have to sign up for the email and then they want your phone number.
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A
Yeah.
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B
Okay.
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A
Well evidently I have been duped like several hundred times, so don't get me started because the amount of text messages that I have received and I'm like, I am so overstimulated and I know other people are experiencing this as well. And it's just if it's not coming through on your text messages, it's definitely coming through to your email and I don't know if anyone else feels this way, but it almost makes me feel like I'm starting to hate the holidays because there is such like this overstimulation effect that everybody's focused on what we're buying and not the true reason for the season.
- [42:49]
B
I would agree. I already saw and I, I want to say it was you and I that talked about this last year. Or it might have been you and Kale, I can't remember. But there was a person on Tick Tock and I know a ton of people were doing this, but it was one specific person that was wrapping literally every single individual gift to make it look like there was like all of these gifts filling up like, an entire room. It was insane.
- [43:11]
A
Oh, wow.
- [43:13]
B
And they literally already started for this year. And it's. That's not what the holiday is about at all. And it shouldn't be.
- [43:24]
A
I just, you know, that we have talked about before, doing experiences and limiting the amount of, like, actual physical gifts. Never gonna be the parent that doesn't have something for my kid to unwrap.
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B
Yeah. No.
- [43:44]
A
But I also think that sometimes kids just. They want what everybody else has, too, because they, like, see it at school or they go to their friend's house and they see it, and it's not something that they really actually want. It's something that they know somebody else has. So it's like the Keeping up with the Joneses mentality. Like the Oculus, for example. Jackson wanted an Oculus so bad for probably an entire year. He was talking about the Oculus. Will's parents ended up purchasing it for him a couple Christmases ago. And that child is probably paid. Played with that Oculus maybe four or five times. And that's, like, a 600 gift.
- [44:32]
B
Yeah, it's expensive.
- [44:33]
A
And so I was talking to Jackson over the weekend, and I said, you really need to put your wish list together, and I need to see what it is, because we're going to be gone on our Disney trip, and by the time we get back, it's going to be Christmas Eve, and then it's going to be Christmas Day. Like, I need to do all of this stuff literally this week.
- [44:54]
B
I don't know about you, but the older that I've gotten, the less things that I want. One, I don't want the clutter. And two, I want things that money cannot buy. And I never thought that I would understand the meaning of that until my mom, like, was like. Until my mom was saying it, and I was like, oh, that doesn't make sense. Like, you've got to want something. No, now I'm definitely on the train of, like, I want things that money can't buy. I want, like, I don't know, inner peace. I want lower stress health. Like, just things like that. Quality time with people. That's not stuff that money can buy.
- [45:30]
A
And our certificate to sleep for an entire week without any notifications. That would be absolutely wonderful. I'm in complete agreement with you. However, Jackson does have this wish list, but it's like, sports stuff that really. I mean, sports stuff can get expensive, but we're talking, like, branded pajama pants and, like, stuff like that, so that'll be easy stuff to get. I have just Been so overwhelmed with the noise around all of these sales. And if it's on sale this many times throughout the year, then why isn't it just that price? Like, that's the first question that I have.
- [46:15]
B
Well, it's also a lot of times, like you actually need to start paying attention to pricing. Like the week, like two weeks before Thanksgiving, a week before Thanksgiving. Because a lot of times you're not paying attention to see what original priced items are. And then they go on Black Friday sales or Cyber Monday sales or whatever, and actually all they did was jack up the original cost and you're not getting a discount.
- [46:40]
A
I saw this video and I can't remember what retailer was at. I'm pretty sure it was Target, but don't quote me on that to where people were in the stores on Black Friday. And it had markdown. So like the sign would say 40 off. And it was like the onesie zip ups for the kids. And there were stickers that were placed on top of the original tag with like a new price to make it look like. Which was a higher price than the original price, but to make it look like when you got the 40% off, you were getting a deal.
- [47:15]
B
I saw this specifically at Victoria's Secret too. Like, I literally watched a video of somebody in Victoria's Secret removing a tag that was covering another tag.
- [47:25]
A
I just feel like when we were growing up, obviously we had, you know, wish list. If you were anything like me. The sales papers came out and this was like back in the time that we were still getting like actual physical copies of papers. And so it would be like Toys R Us and Walmart and like all the things. And it was like a fun activity that we did that. We sat down at the table and we looked at all of the items, you know, that were the hot items, you know, for kids to have for Christmas. And we went through and we like circled. And then once we got all the way through, we went back and like made a condensed list. Like, it was this whole activity that we did and we never really knew what we were gonna get, which I felt like was fun. Also, I believed in Santa until I was going into sixth grade. I feel like the kids, because of the Internet, have so much more access to things now that, like, the magic of Christmas got gone in my house way sooner than it did for me. Like, Elf on the Shelf found out last year that we know that that I'm the one making all the messes. So, you know, I just feel like the magic isn't there. As much. And my dad's parents always gave us 100 or $200, I can't remember for Christmas. Like, each of each of their grandkids got the same thing and they always gave money. And my mom's grandparents always did, like, holiday pajamas. And it was always like gathered around eating, like everything was around, like family gathering and eating. And it didn't feel like there was so much emphasis on like, what you're getting or the gift. And now I feel like it has completely changed.
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B
I would agree. I also feel like there was a lot more belief in the magic of Christmas around. I think it all. It felt like things slowed down around this time of year when we were younger. At least it did for me. Like, it felt like that for me where now as an adult I'm like, I have no idea how my mom and dad got all the things done that they got done for the holidays to make them feel the way they felt while also doing all of the shit. Because it really comes down to, like, there are only so many hours in a day.
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A
But do we think it's because truly the Internet and us being overstimulated and everything, having so much access to us, like, even if we're not intentionally seeing, seeking out, if we're talking about like these major companies that are pumping out like all these ads and stuff, do you think it's because even though we're not seeking it out, they still have a way to get to us? Because think about it, they now can get to us through email, they can get through us, through text message, through ads on social media. Like, it's just constant.
- [50:32]
B
I counted one company sent me literally six newsletters, like sale things in one day on Friday. I was like, absolutely not. Now you've pissed me off and I'm unsubscribing. So that's not good for you.
- [50:49]
A
You're like, actually, I wasn't buying anything anyway, so I'm just saving you some time.
- [50:53]
B
Yeah, it's. It's infuriating like how much people are inundated with the. And I think it goes. It's directly hand in hand with the, you know, over consumption problem that I would say a lot of our country has.
- [51:09]
A
I think I've just come to the realization that we're probably just going to do very simple gifts this year. Things that aren't truly like, really worthy to talk about, but things that are usable items. Jackson pretty much wears a sports jersey every single day of his life. Honey, does not matter if it is 20 degrees outside. He's going to be wearing a short sleeve sports jersey.
- [51:33]
B
Yeah.
- [51:34]
A
You will also be in shorts, which also alarms me. Probably going to do that. And now that Clemson beat South Carolina over the weekend, they're going to a bowl game. So we don't know where the bowl game is going to be held, but it's going to teeter between the days of us being home and the new year. So Will and I are talking about taking him, depending on location, taking him to do that. So that would be another experience. And it's also just hard because when you have Christmas and then you have a birthday four days after, like that's a hard one.
- [52:13]
B
Oh, it's Corey's mom is December 16th, Corey is the 21st. And then obviously we have Christmas.
- [52:19]
A
Yeah, it's just, it's really, really hard a lot of times with his birthday being so, so close to Christmas Day. I just always tell family and friends, like if you don't feel inclined to get him something, but if you do and you're going to please just like an Amazon gift card because I can put those up and give them to him a couple of months from now and he wants something different.
- [52:49]
B
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- [53:18]
A
I just got out my second one and put it in my living room. I was trying to find the perfect place for it and I love it so much because I do not like a whole bunch of clutter around. And I just think that you get the best of both worlds. Like you have all of the things that you want to be able to see in a home, but you don't have to see like cluttered shelves. I love the idea of the unlimited free photos and videos. So you just download the Aura app and then connect it to Wi Fi. You can also preload photos before it ships if you're giving this as a gift. And you can also keep adding from anywhere, anytime. You can also personalize the gift if you're doing it as a gift and add a message before it arrives, so do not wait. Win the holidays now with Aura Frames.
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B
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A
I don't understand it because I feel like gift cards are so practical if you're giving a gift card from a practical place. But this goes back to conversations that we've had before regarding love languages and how people, you know, receive those things. So just because you're giving something and you're a practical person who's giving it and the receiver is more of oh, you didn't think of me type person, I could see why that might upset someone like that. But I mean, even when I was married, I wouldn't care if Will gave. Like, he always used to give me gift cards to like the nail salon or for a massage or something like that. And I absolutely loved it.
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B
So for a long time I have gotten bitched at because the only things that I request, I'm not into material, right? So I like practical. I want a gift card to my hair salon because then I don't have to pay for one time of getting my hair done. I want a gift card to my medical spa so that when I'm going and I'm getting my freaking dysport, that's less money that I need to pay. Like, save me money because I don't care about anything else. Realistically, I can't tell you. Like, I literally have not asked for a physical gift of anything in years because I genuinely, there's nothing physical that I want. I'm just like, here's the things that I do get me gift cards to those things. And I was always getting talked about it by somebody in the family. And then the same individual has issues with being given gift cards, even if they are two specific places. Because what I try to do is I'll do like a gift card tree vibe.
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A
So I'll get gift card trees.
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B
Yeah. So I'll do like some money to this place because I know you shop there, and some money to this place because I know that you get your gas and coffee there and like things like that. Again, I try to give practically because I feel like that's really helpful to people. And I feel like it's. I try to personalize it so it doesn't just feel like I just got you a Visa gift card. Caught a lot of shit for that. Have also grouped that person in to receive group presence before that wasn't good enough. So at this point I am resigned to the fact that. And I will say I'm a pretty good gift giver. So not everybody gets gift cards. But if you, if, if you have not made mention throughout the year of things that you would like, I'm not going to go to you and ask you what you want for Christmas. I don't like that because I don't want people to know what they're getting. And like most adults are not having a list 12 miles long. So if you tell me three things and I know that there's five people buying presents for you and so do you, you know that you're getting all the things.
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A
Okay, so this makes me think of the type of women, and it's mostly women who are so good about going into their notes app on their phone and when they think of something that they don't really want to buy for themselves, but they know that they want it, they put it on this notes app and then they have like a running list. I say every single year I'm gonna do that and never one time have I done it. Like never once. I don't ask people for things. In fact, mine and kills Intro to Coffee Combos is about receiving gifts being weird. Like as an adult, I don't really care. I'm gonna budget for my own self. And it doesn't matter to me if I get a gift or if I don't. Some people really love receiving gifts and some people really love giving gifts. I don't love receiving and I don't love giving. I think it's like a weird thing. I'm also the type of person that if Jackson would be okay with it, I would just go to Dick's Sporting Goods and let him pick everything out that he wanted. And then we come home and that's it.
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B
I try to pay attention all year long of like what people are saying and what they have told me that they wanted and things like that. And like, very good gift giver for the majority of people that I buy gifts for. The worst person to try to buy. I'm the worst person for someone to Try to buy a gift for that is not a gift card. Truly. Like, I literally mean, I don't want anything physical, but I like to really put thought into presents that I'm gonna give. Like, my mom doesn't listen. Well, let me not say that, because other people listen to my mom. Listen and tell my mom about what we talk about on here. Remember that thing, that idea for her gift that I talked to you about?
- [59:29]
A
Yes.
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B
So I'm definitely doing it.
- [59:32]
A
I mean, I think it's perfect. I also think that it's practical, and I would love to know the people who are listening if you are. And I feel like in this day and time, like, we should be thinking of more practical things. And for me, if I get a gift card for the nail salon, one thing about me is I'm always gonna have my hair done, and I'm always gonna have my nails done. So it doesn't matter. My life can be in shambles. But you will find me at the nail salon, and you will find me at the hair salon.
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B
Right?
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A
So, like, something about going to do that and having a gift certificate to do it and not swiping your card feel so special to me. So I love stuff like that, right?
- [60:15]
B
Like, you're saving me money, and I'm gonna think of you like, oh, my God. I did not have to get, like, perfect example, Mom. And I went and got her hair done on Saturday. I still had a gift card from her that I found. I had lost it. Found it when? And I was like, what a surprise. Like, I don't have to pay to get my hair done. Thank you, Mom.
- [60:32]
A
Like, even. Even when David and I were together, I'm pretty sure outside of Will gifting me gift cards for, like, special events and stuff for our special occasions, I guess he would gift me for, like, the nail salon, but David would go with me to the nail salon and pay for my nails. And, like, thank you, King.
- [60:55]
B
You're right. You're just like, okay. Like, thank you so much. I just. It infuriates Corey to no end that I am not, like, a jewelry girl, and I'm not, like, you know, a purse girl. I'm not. I used to be all those things, and I just don't give a anymore because it doesn't matter to me.
- [61:14]
A
It's like, where am I actually going that I'm gonna wear this purse?
- [61:19]
B
Not even just that, but it's just, like, more stuff to have to, like, put in a closet. And, like, I sound ungrateful because. And I get that. But, like, I would rather something that I, like, love doing is going and, like, creating Christmas for people who can't afford Christmas, like to do a Christmas, especially if they have kids. I would rather use our money to go do that than you buy me a present.
- [61:41]
A
Like, I'm looking more at the time spent with the people that I like to surround myself with. So, like, yeah, it's you. And like, what did you say?
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B
I said yes. Few and far between.
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A
I'm like, I'm trying to think right now who I like to spend time with. No, I love just at Christmas. I feel like it's appetizers and, like, all of the finger foods and stuff like that and people being in the same house. Just, like, not my house, but, like, people being in the same house and just playing board games and having a good time and enjoying each other's company and not worrying about the freaking gift. Let me tell you about this one thing that I saw, and you were literally going to fall out.
- [62:29]
B
Oh, crap.
- [62:31]
A
Have you ever heard of someone, someone or anyone getting Botox in their scrotum?
- [62:37]
B
Yes, I have.
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A
Okay, so it is called Scrotox. It says millennial men are Botoxing their balls. And here's why. It says Botox is popular among people looking to improve appearance of their face. But there is an emerging trend in the world of plastic surgery that gives Botox a new purpose. It is called Scrotox, and the name suggests it's for your balls, guys. According to experts, more millennial men are jumping on the ball Botox bandwagon and taking manscaping to a whole new level. Scrotox is a non surgical cosmetic treatment of the scrotum with neurotoxin or Botox injections. Botox is used to inject directly into testicles to decrease sweating, reduce wrinkles, and make the scrotum appear larger due to the relaxation of the muscles. The result, doctors say, is an improved aesthetic appearance. Number one. Number one, if your hang dang ain't danging. Like, it doesn't matter if you have Botox in the balls. Like, it's just not.
- [63:44]
B
Okay, here's my thing. We know from health class, at least I do, that the balls will rise up when it's cold and drop down low when it's hot. So for me, I would assume that would have something to do with the muscles, like the musculoskeletal system, whatever. If you paralyze said muscles with Botox, they're gonna be dropped down. So they're like, not. They're like malfunctioning at that point. Like, they can't crawl up to where they need to be. So I am concerned about the balls, like, health of the balls, and more particularly, like, sperm.
- [64:28]
A
I mean, I have never heard of anybody doing this. I have heard of men getting Botox in their armpits for the reduction of sweating, and I have heard that it works. I don't know how much Botox has to go into the pits for that to transpire, but using Botox to reduce wrinkles or to make a scrotum appear larger, if that's what you are using it for, go to bed.
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B
But here's the thing. Yes, Botox absolutely helps with sweating, but it comes out somewhere else. So it's like you're. You're stopping it from one area, you're sending it to another, and I think your body just determines on where it's going to go. Like, I don't even give a. I'll say this. I get micro dose of, like, micro units of Botox or whatever in my bridge of my nose because for some reason, that sweats and it messes up my makeup. So, like, when I get the rest of my discord, I get it right there and that helps. So, like, I'm all for it. But you would think, like, do the balls actually sweat or is it, like, the inner thighs?
- [65:40]
A
No, I'm pretty sure balls do sweat. Like, I clearly don't have them, but I have heard. I'm just gonna say, multiple people say my balls are sweating. So I'm thinking that the balls actually do sweat. I just feel like the testicles are outside of the body for a reason. So to your point, saying that sperm would function better at a lower temperature. I. I do think that. That there could be some negative side effects of this.
- [66:15]
B
I would agree. I think that it's like, I don't know if someone is really con. Like, insecure about the size of their scrotum and wrinkles on their scrotum. Like, sure, by all means, like, maybe go for it. But I would be curious to see, like, But I mean, like, what type.
- [66:32]
A
Of balls are we looking at?
- [66:34]
B
Like, some balls are just wrinkly. Is.
- [66:37]
A
Does that happen with age?
- [66:39]
B
Like, oh, I'm sure it probably hangs and wrinkles the older you get is my assumption. It's like boobs.
- [66:44]
A
Well, remember that one time that you and I were talking with your mom and was it her that told us that men lose like, an inch off of their hang? Dang.
- [66:56]
B
Yeah, it had something to do with, like, there was, like, so Some percentage of an inch, like per year or something, like as they get older. And you and I were shell shocked.
- [67:06]
A
I was like, wow, that's definitely a bamboozle. Like you get with someone and you're like, okay, everything's working and it's great and it's fine. And then all of a sudden, I'm pretty sure it was like seven years or something. Like every seven years or something like that. And then it just shrinks up and shrivels away. Like, what are you supposed to do with that?
- [67:26]
B
I don't even know. I really don't even know what you do.
- [67:31]
A
Could you imagine though? I mean, obviously you can't because you're married, but like, if some man came to me and told me that they had a doctor's appointment and I was like, oh, yeah, what for? And they said, botox in my scrotum. Goodbye. Goodbye.
- [67:50]
B
Oh my God.
- [67:52]
A
I did see this one quote before we do weekly devotional. I loved it. It says, on the first day of December, the twelfth month begins. Think of this month as a filter. Keep what feels good, release what feels heavy. This month isn't about chasing more. It's about finishing well with clarity, calm, and the kind of energy that you actually want to bring into 2026. And I could not freaking relax a lot more. This week's weekly devotional. Evidently God is preparing me for a major upgrade because I have met all six of these signs. Okay, number one. God pulls you into solitude. You don't crave people, you crave his presence. He's detoxing you from noise so that he can reset your spirit. Two, you feel like resting more, but rest isn't regression. God used. God uses stillness to strengthen you for what's next. Even Jesus withdrew to reset before major moments. Number three. Your desires, style and interest are shifting. That's the Holy Spirit trimming old layers. Who you were can't carry where God is taking you. Four things you used to love no longer satisfy you. This isn't lost. God is emptying your hands so that he can fill them with purpose. Five, you're questioning your job, friendships, habits. This is spiritual clarity. God reveals misalignment before he releases the assignment. Six, you feel like you're pulling back from the world. You're not retreating, you're being hidden. Sometimes God protects you by pulling you away so that he can pour into you.
- [69:30]
B
I would say I can align with a lot of those as well.
- [69:33]
A
I love that for us. And on that note, I'm going to to keep doing laundry and keep piling up boxes. So I will be busy for the rest of the afternoon. If you guys have not followed us on at the Southern Tea Podcast on Instagram, you can follow us there. You can also join our official Facebook group. If you have not subscribed to the show, you can do that from any podcast app. Wherever you get your pods, always first at Podcast One. We hope you guys have a great week and we'll talk to you soon.
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B
Bye.
- [70:04]
A
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C
Hey everyone, it is Sean D. Nelson, author, entrepreneur and CEO. You know that love sack guy? I've got some exciting news. Season two of the Let Me Save youe 25 Years podcast is finally here. We are back with more incredible insights, powerful stories, and expert advice to help you navigate business and life. Get ready for for fresh topics, actionable takeaways, inspiring journeys that will save you years of guesswork. We go deep on topics that no one else wants to talk about, right? We're not talking about successes. We're talking about failures, mistakes. The stuff where the real lessons are learned along the way. Because even when we fall flat on our face, we're still moving forward. Whether you're an aspiring entrepreneur, business leader, or just looking to enhance your personal growth, we have something for everyone on this podcast. It's season two of the Let Me Save youe 25 Years podcast, with new episodes every Thursday. Subscribe now on your favorite podcast app.
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D
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