MASH, Mountain Dew & Mayhem

Summary

Podcast Summary: "You Had 2 Be There"

Episode: MASH, Mountain Dew & Mayhem

Date: June 18, 2026
Hosts: Erin Miller, Kate Steinberg, Nicole Story Dent
Podcast Description: A celebration of the wild, weird, and wonderful moments of the '90s and 2000s—pop culture, sleepover lore, nostalgic trends, and all the formative chaos of growing up pre-TikTok.

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Episode Overview

The inaugural episode of "You Had 2 Be There" dives deep into the golden age of sleepovers, pranks, awkward adolescent moments, and iconic ‘90s/2000s pop culture touchstones. With a mix of laugh-out-loud confessionals, listener stories, and sentimental looks back at mall culture, Blockbuster runs, AIM drama, and elaborate sleepover rituals, Erin, Kate, and Nicole set the stage for a show tailor-made for nostalgia junkies.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Sleepovers: Rituals, Pranks & Parental Roles

• Pets and Wild Sleepover Stories: The episode opens with Kate’s stories about her famously mischievous pets, especially Dodger the cat (“if he comes on your chest, just, like, swat him away,” Kate, [02:16]). The hosts riff on animal chaos at sleepovers, pet birds, and even viral hamster TikToks ([05:32]).
• Sleepover Culture: Each host recounts their own approach to sleepovers—Kate noted she was “the girly pop who called my mom to pick me up early," [08:05], while Erin relished hosting annual birthday sleepovers. Nicole describes being a non-partier with a crafty streak ([09:30]) and waxes artsy about her quiet nights in.
• Blockbuster & Snack Hierarchies: The hosts fondly recall the ritual of choosing movies (and uncovering hidden gems like Nintendo games) at Blockbuster prior to sleepovers. The status of one’s sleeping bag or access to the “best snacks” (e.g., Doritos, Goldfish, Mountain Dew) become clear signs of a “top tier” sleepover ([11:56], [29:11]).
• Movie Choices and Night Terrrors: Sleepovers were often the stage for traumatizing scary movies; Nicole remembers picking “Scream” only to be terrified later ([11:13]).

2. Pranks, Mischief, and Questionable Decisions

• Classics and Crimes: Frozen underwear, prank calls (sometimes to boys, sometimes even to 911; Erin, [17:04]), Ouija boards (“I was busting that thing out at every sleepover,” Erin, [27:42]), and choreographed dances (“that was the bread and butter,” Kate, [35:41]) are dissected with equal parts horror and delight.
• Listener Stories: Wild submissions bring the chaos: one listener details elaborate TP wars, complete with pig’s legs, fish heads, and glitter as weapons ([41:01]). Another suffered Taco Bell hot sauce in their eyes ([43:11]), while one girl dared herself to a swirly—an act that gets special incredulity ([45:13]).
• Parents Then and Now: Nicole shares modern parenting angles, acknowledging the different levels of sleepover anxiety today and questioning the wisdom of the hands-off ‘90s approach ([13:10]). The group marvels at parents’ ability to either “turn a blind eye” or quietly support their kids’ mayhem.

3. Growing Up in the ‘90s/2000s: Pop, Fashion, and the Early Internet

• AIM, Crushes & Three-Way Calling: Three-way calling “in mute” heartbreaks (“you’d have your friend ask ‘do you like Erin?’ and they’d say no, and you’d cry quietly,” Erin, [31:29–31:44]) and prank calls with *67 are lovingly revisited, with Nicole lamenting on caller ID workarounds ([32:24]).
• MASH and Future Fantasies: The classic MASH paper game returns as a topic of deep nostalgia (“that’s where people would reveal their crushes,” Kate, [30:53]), alongside other crafts and fortune-telling games.
• Movie Memory Lane: Erin and Nicole challenge Kate’s movie knowledge (“have you seen Bring It On?”) and bond over their mutual need to study song lyrics before concerts ([24:53]).

4. Hazardous Trends and Group Dynamics

• Peer Pressure and Group Drama: From “grind trains” at middle school dances (“you just need to connect your booty to someone else’s duty,” Kate, [48:35]) to choreographing dance routines, the hosts highlight how girl world could teeter between inclusive fun and exclusionary drama (“I was probably highly opinionated ... that’s where the drama came for me,” Nicole, [36:19]).
• Consequences and Reflections: The hosts reflect on how the fun sometimes crossed a line (“it was mean. I never did that … my friends and I would prank call other girls not invited,” Kate, [16:17]) and ponder why some pranks left lasting marks, both physical and emotional.

5. Listener Mailbag: Most Unhinged Sleepover Stories

• Most Memorable Submissions:
  • TP and Animal Remains War ([41:01])
  • Hot Sauce in Eyes ([43:11])
  • Tied to Chairs, Forced to Watch 'Saw' ([44:23])
  • Self-inflicted Swirlies ([45:13])
  • Joyriding Mom’s Car into Garage Door ([46:35])
• The hosts react with a blend of awe and horror, admiring the audacity (and criminal ingenuity) displayed in the stories.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Dodger the couch cat: “If he comes on your chest, just, like, swat him away because he’s not afraid.” – Kate, [02:16]
• On Blockbuster runs: “Honestly, out of all the things of the ‘90s, or 2000s, Blockbuster—I miss going to a store and picking out a movie so much.” – Aaron, [11:13]
• On prank calls: “One time I prank called 911 at one of my birthday parties… picked up and called 911. No one knew I was doing it. And I turned the phone to everyone and I just said, ‘scream.’ And everyone screamed, and then I hung up.” – Aaron, [17:04]
• On sleepover snacks: “There was one house that always had, like, the best snacks… Doritos and Goldfish, fridge full of Hi-C.” – Kate, [29:11]
• On TikTok hamster fame: “I adopted the hamster because I was bullied on TikTok.” – Kate, [06:40]
• On grinding at dances: “You do not need to have rhythm. You do not have to have dance lessons… you just need to know to connect your booty to somebody else’s duty.” – Kate, [48:35]
• On modern vs. retro sleepovers: “Now it’s all TikTok dances, back then it was all about pushing boundaries, a little inappropriateness…” – Nicole, [50:46]
• On troublemaking: “We would just star six seven… calling people we went on dates with, just being like, ‘This is Quispy.’” – Kate, [33:14]

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• [01:06] – "Dodger the Cat" and Pet Sleepover Chaos
• [05:11] – The TikTok Hamster Saga
• [07:23] – Sleepover Dynamics: Who Stayed, Who Left
• [10:29] – Blockbuster Memories
• [16:08] – Prank Calls: Frozen Underwear to 911
• [21:11] – Iconic 2000s Movies & Peer Pressure
• [29:11] – Snack Politics & Sleepover Social Status
• [31:13] – MASH, Crush Confessions & Three-Way Calls
• [35:41] – Choreographed Routines and Sleepover Drama
• [41:01] – Listener Unhinged Sleepover Story #1 (EPIC TP'ing)
• [43:11] – Listener Story #2 (Hot Sauce Prank)
• [44:23] – Listener Story #3 (Saw Movie Torture)
• [45:13] – Listener Story #4 (Self-Dared Swirly)
• [46:35] – Listener Story #5 (Joyriding into Garage)
• [48:33] – Game Segment: "Hear Me Out" (Grinding Should Come Back)

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Tone, Atmosphere, and Final Thoughts

The episode perfectly encapsulates the chaotic, messy, and magical world of '90s/'00s adolescence. The hosts are candid, hilarious, occasionally raunchy, and always operating from a place of self-aware nostalgia. Their authenticity and willingness to spill both the cringe and the glory of their pasts make for rich storytelling that feels like an energetic group chat come to life.

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Useful For:

• Anyone nostalgic for pre-social media youth culture
• Listeners seeking to recall or better understand sleepover rituals, prank lore, and the magic of Blockbuster
• Millennials and elder Gen Zers eager for a laugh, or for permission to forgive their younger selves for that time they prank-called a crush—or 911

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Quick Reference

• Notable Quote:
  “You do not have to have rhythm... just connect your booty to someone else’s duty.” – Kate, on grinding, [48:35]

• Top Listener Story:
  “My friend’s mom took us to the Asian market to buy chicken feet, pig’s legs, eels, fish heads... We put the fish heads in mailboxes… pig legs would rest upright on the door... corn flakes made the lawns smell awful. It was pretty epic. We never got caught.” – [41:01]

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Next Episode Teaser

They hint at future themes (Spring Breaks, making friends in adulthood), urging listeners to submit their own stories for the next nostalgic deep-dive.

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For full effect: throw on a Lisa Frank tee, crack open a Shasta, and relive the sleepover chaos you know you’d do all over again.

Transcript

[Kate]

You had to be there, baby. You had to be there, baby. You had to be there, baby. You had to be there, baby. You had to be there, baby. You had to be there, baby. You had to be there, baby. You had to be there, baby. Now what you know about lean with it, rock with it, baby.

[Nicole]

We have a theme song that would

[Aaron]

have been top of the Billboard charts back in 2004 that was clean.

[Kate]

That is a lean with a rock with it, pop like a drop with it.

[Nicole]

Oh, we have to be here.

[Aaron]

We're gonna get. We're gonna get right into it, you guys. Okay. Welcome to our first podcast episode. This is. You had to be there.

[Kate]

You had to be there, baby.

[Aaron]

Oh, yeah.

[Nicole]

Hold on.

[Aaron]

He needs a solo moment. Hold on.

[Kate]

You had to be there, baby. You had to be there, baby. You had to be there, baby. You had to be that, baby.

[Nicole]

She's still going.

[Kate]

Okay, so I'm. I'm Kate.

[Nicole]

And I'm Nicole.

[Aaron]

Did I say I'm Aaron. Okay. Anywho, what's the 41 1? I have a story. I don't. Can I talk about this? We were recently, you know, spending the night at Kate's house, Kate Tumble Road in Los Angeles.

[Nicole]

Oh, my God.

[Aaron]

I just want to talk about this funny thing that happened that just makes me giggle every time I think about it. Kate has pets. She has four pets. Okay? Two dogs, two cats. Well, we got Bob. We got my Mike, Dodger, Dodger, and Lincoln. Which cat lives under the couch?

[Kate]

Dodger.

[Nicole]

When you say under the couch, Aaron, you mean in the couch?

[Aaron]

So Kate has a cat, Dodger, who lives in the couch under the cat. And we imagine there's a whole village going on under there. You know, we're not really sure what's going on under there. It could be a nightclub. We don't know. And our first night there, Kate was like, so, you know, like, when you guys are sleeping, like, Dodger might, like, creep in and don't be alarmed, and he might poop on you in the middle of the night.

[Nicole]

Like, on your chest.

[Aaron]

On your chest.

[Nicole]

Like, have you guys ever.

[Aaron]

I was just gonna say that. Have you ever heard of poop on your steamer? My. My cat might do a little Cleveland steamer on your chest.

[Nicole]

But the way she said it, like, hi, welcome to my house. Here's the bathroom. My cat might shit on your chest. The fridge is over there.

[Kate]

I was like. I'm like, don't be alarmed. Like, if he comes on your chest, just, like, swat him away because he's not afraid. What's he doing now? What?

[Nicole]

You'll. You'll hear it. When you listen back, you'll hear what you just said.

[Kate]

But Dodger has a history of just, you know, if you're in that guest room, he'll. On your chest.

[Nicole]

How many. How many of your guests has he pooped on?

[Kate]

So I was really cautious because, like, going into it, even when we're cleaning your room. So Chad and I were in there making the bed. You guys were in the living room, and Chad was like, did you tell them yet? I'm like, shut the up. Shut up. No, I didn't tell.

[Nicole]

Let me.

[Kate]

Let me just, like, take him to dinner first. Then I'm gonna let them know, like,

[Nicole]

what my cat does as we're being tucked in.

[Kate]

Let me. No, I'm like, chad, shut up. I was like, lower your voice. So we're making your bed. He's like, okay, well, maybe you should tell them that dodger might, like, poo on them. And so I just was kind of like, we're at dinner. We're having such a good time. It's not the time to bring it up yet, but I don't even know what. I brought it up to you guys, But I was just like, if this little guy comes into there, like, he's clocking off his shift. It's been a long day underneath that couch. Oh, my God. You might need to do, like, he

[Nicole]

can't poop in the couch. That would be disrespectful of him.

[Kate]

But it's okay. You guys missed the bird that he brought in last week, so it's all good. He brought a little bird.

[Aaron]

Oh, birds freak me out. Like, I like watching birds, but if you've ever been encountered with, like, a bird getting stuck in your garage or something, then it's, like, extreme. I. I'm, like, actually afraid of birds. Have you ever had, like, one in your, like, close quarters?

[Nicole]

I literally had to grip one from our garage and like, a week ago.

[Aaron]

I love birds, though.

[Nicole]

I do. I love birds, but not, like, when

[Aaron]

one's, like, in a room with me. You know, like, oh, no, no.

[Kate]

I need a cockatoo immediately. Like, that's next. I go to. I go to petsmart, like, very often, and when I go to the cat section to get my cat food, I will look in the birds, and I'm just looking for that one. I mean, they all need a home, but, like, I. Oh, my God, if I could just have a bird. But they are extremely messy, and, like, how much more poo can I Deal with not to bring up poo again. You know what?

[Aaron]

Get one. It's what your house is missing. I've decided, I feel like, yeah, Pet

[Nicole]

petsmart hates to see Kate coming. Like, Kate's in there.

[Kate]

Like, oh, well, we know I had a hamster two years ago. All my friends at 32 year old were like, they're like, why do you have a sixth grade hamster?

[Aaron]

I didn't know you had a hamster.

[Kate]

Yeah, he passed away two years ago.

[Nicole]

I was gonna ask the past tense of it all.

[Aaron]

Schnitzel.

[Kate]

Yeah, schnitzel passed away two years ago.

[Nicole]

I had it for schnitzel.

[Kate]

Schnitzel. And I mean, I learned a lot about hamsters and they are so much work. So I. But you know, at this point, I'm like, whatever.

[Aaron]

How old was the hamster?

[Kate]

The hamster was like a baby. So the reason why I got it though was because when I went into petsmart and I saw this hamster going back and forth in the cage and I didn't know much about hamsters, so I took a video of it and put it on TikTok. I don't know if anyone.

[Aaron]

Oh, I want to. I want to watch it. I'm going to find it later.

[Kate]

Oh, you guys. The video did not only go viral, it was my most viral video. Oh. Probably had eight. It had 8 million views. And everybody was like, how dare you leave this hamster. You got to go get this hamster. I had no reason to get a hamster when I was in Chicago. So now at this point, it's. It's kind of like building up where people are like, I got to contact PETA and let them know that, like, you're love. So now I'm having a one on one with Chad. And he's like, also, Chad has this thing. He says I talk very high level with him. So I'll tell him like, we're having a one on one. He's like, why can't you just say we're chatting?

[Nicole]

Like he thinks you're about to break up with him every time you just want. I don't know.

[Kate]

I use like, I, I use like, I use like corporate terms with him. I'm like, hey, let's have a high level chat. He's like, we just talk like. So I'm one on one with Chad and I'm like, I think we got to get this hamster. And he's like, Kate, like, I don't. We have no room in this one bedroom. 500 square feet. In Chicago, But I was getting so painfully attacked on Tick Tock, my mom's calling me up. She's like, cnn's gonna contact you soon. Like, they need. You need to get this hamster. I adopted the hamster because I was bullied on TikTok.

[Aaron]

First thing I'm doing after this is watching that video. I have no. Like.

[Kate]

Yeah.

[Nicole]

What year was this?

[Kate]

This was, I think, 2021.

[Aaron]

Okay. Okay.

[Kate]

Probably that was funnier.

[Aaron]

Are you serious?

[Kate]

After my American Girl doll video like that, I was like, wow. All this hard work and all I have to do is film a hamster.

Wow.

[Aaron]

Yeah. Okay, guys, hamster rights. Okay?

[Nicole]

Do it for shots for shit.

[Aaron]

Yeah. Oh, I also love that name for a hamster. My God, is she wearing the new Juicy Couture? Guys, should we get into it?

[Kate]

Get into what? Are we talking about?

[Aaron]

Let's get into the chat room. Okay. We're gonna get into sleepovers.

[Nicole]

Okay. Speaking of, we, you know, earlier this year went on our own little adult sleepover with a bunch of other content creators. And I know for me, it just, like, brought back, like, so many memories of staying up too late. And granted, you know, back then we weren't, like, drinking or anything, but were you guys big sleepover people? I had. I did sleepovers all the time. All the time. I feel like if there was somebody's birthday, like, it was a sleepover. It was just a given.

[Aaron]

Tons of sleepovers. I had a sleepover for my birthday every year from, like, second grade to eighth grade. It was like a big thing. Aaron's birthday party was a sleepover. Okay. Yeah, I loved sleepovers. Kate. Did you.

[Kate]

So I love sleepovers, but I think I definitely was the person. I don't think. I know. I was definitely the person calling up my mom, being like, chicken coop. That was like our password or something. And then once she.

[Aaron]

And when she knew.

[Kate]

Yeah, once she heard that word, she's like, I'm going to be there. I. I left sleepovers early. I was that girly pop. Did you.

[Aaron]

Did you ever stay? Never.

[Kate]

I did, like, there was, like, two people. I remember her name was, like, Lindsay and then my cousin. And then there was sometimes, you know, you would stay there for, like, three days in a row. But did sleepover stop for you guys at middle school? Like, did you guys do high school sleepovers?

[Aaron]

I feel like, for me, they kind of stopped after middle school, and then it kind of turned into, hey, Mom, I'm sleeping over at Jenny's tonight. And I wasn't really sleeping over at Jenny's, you know. Yeah, it was like that sort of thing, but it was more of a cover story. Yeah. It wasn't like 10 girls sleeping over, you know. Yeah, they kind of stopped after 8th grade.

[Kate]

I also wasn't sneaking out in high school. Like, I was never that person to be like, oh, I'm sleeping over at like Stephanie's. No, I was literally always just home, which is kind of like a bummer. I'm like, I wish I took more advantage of like, Well, I didn't drink in high school.

[Nicole]

I didn't either. I didn't either. Really, I didn't.

[Kate]

Nicole.

[Nicole]

Well, I gave off this at college. I went like, I was so straight laced and good in high school. Even my parents literally worked out of state between my senior year. My brother had moved out. My parents worked in Oklahoma. I live in Dallas. They were three hours away and they would leave Monday through Thursday and I would be responsible. And I never did anything. I never granted. I just wasn't a partier. I didn't have a ton of friends. I just watched TV and probably was crafting and sewing and rearranging my room or painting it for the 700th time.

[Kate]

Ah, so this makes sense now.

[Aaron]

Yeah, it does.

[Kate]

You're so artsy. Oh, this is why you're starting crafts at 10pm at night every day.

[Nicole]

There was some, you know, undiagnosed ADHD in there too. But no, I was never like, I would sneak out maybe like during the day, but overnight. That felt, that feels. But granted, you know, we didn't have trackers and phones and stuff that our parents could track us down. They were just counting on. But also, like, why didn't they ever call? Like, if you say you're with Jessica's, why didn't your mom ever call Jessica's mom?

[Aaron]

I feel like my mom, my mom knew I wasn't like, it was always my friend. She's still one of my best friends. Jenny, shout out. Jenny, if you were listening to this, she's probably not rude. It was always, I'm spending the night at Jenny's. I always said, I'm spending the night at Jenny's. I think my, my parents knew I wasn't spending the night Jenny's, but they just turned a blind eye, you know, Good for them. Does.

[Kate]

Did you guys ever before sleepover go to Blockbusters?

[Aaron]

Of course that was like, that.

[Nicole]

Maybe the most important decision of the sleepover was what movie are you going to be watching? And I was always this the idiot who was like, let's watch A scary movie. Knowing good and well it was going to make me call my mom at 1am But I was like, guys, don't be. Don't be babies. We're going to watch Scream. Yeah.

[Aaron]

And then you were scared.

[Nicole]

And then I was terrified.

[Aaron]

Out of all the things of the 90s, honestly. Or 2000s blockbuster. I miss going to a store and picking out a movie so much.

[Kate]

That was like the prime of it all. Lizzie McGuire movie. I remember trying to get that one. That one was always sold out. And also do you remember that they would have Nintendo games like they had. I totally forgot until the other day. I'm like, oh my God. I used to go there for like Britney Spears for PS PS1, PS1 or something like the dancing games or something. I don't know. Like, oh, that was just such a time. But then like my parents, not my parents, but I always had a friend's parents that would like buy us candy or popcorn. Like my parents were never the type. But I Blockbuster. Like that was our treat and it was so.

[Aaron]

Oh that's. That's amazing. We were like the house that always had caffeine free soda. So that was like the one thing my mom was like. We always had like we were stocked with soda like Mountain Dew and all that. But it was always caffeine free. And I was so embarrassed. I'm like, sorry guys.

[Nicole]

I didn't know they even made. That's an oxymoron. That's.

[Aaron]

It was. She like would not get the caffeinated pop.

[Nicole]

I called understandably though. Understandably. My daughter just went to her first sleepover. We have some neighbors across the street and it was like is a. It was a birthday party. She was seven. It was a six, six year old turning seven birthday party. And the mom like a few moms stayed. Like the dads got out of the house and it was just like a. A girls only mom situation. And not everybody stayed the night because it is. It's like it's a thing now where it's you. You've got to decide as a parent. Like do we. Don't we. If we say who do we say yes to? Like what's the. Yeah, what does that look like? But she was like they didn't go to bed until 10:30 and they were up at like 4am so that's why your mind. That was without caffeinated beverages. That was all the organic snacks. And that's the part of it that now on the other side I'm like, I feel for the parents that were at those sleepovers because we were giggling and they would have to stick their head up the stairs and be like,

[Kate]

would y' all be quiet?

[Nicole]

And I get it, I get it.

[Aaron]

Yeah.

[Nicole]

Yeah.

[Kate]

Were you nervous, like, having your daughter across the street? Really? Were you? I always wonder, like, was my mom relieved to have me out of the house? Or was it like, kind of like, was she thinking about me all night? Well, she'd see me at 4am asking her to pick her up and pick me up, so. But were you scared?

[Nicole]

I think if anything, I just felt like maybe if she were to, like, abort mission. Abort mission. Like, we're literally across the street. Like, she could shout at mom, come get me. And I would hear. But no, she had a blast immediately. She was like, I want to do this.

[Kate]

I feel like Aaron gets up at 4am Though, naturally, every day. So that would have been her with

[Aaron]

the kids, like 5:00am Your body clock

[Nicole]

does that by itself?

[Aaron]

No, no, no, no. I just. Well, I. I would probably naturally get up at 6 maybe if I didn't set an alarm.

[Nicole]

Were you also getting up that early at sleepovers as a child?

[Aaron]

Yes, I was the. Oh, I'm always the first one up. And even in college, like, after a night, a late night out, I'm the first one up. I was cleaning the apartment before anyone even opened an eyeball. Like, oh, yeah, I was the first one awake one at sleepovers up with me and the mom, like, always. Always. I don't know what it is.

[Nicole]

Just drinking coffee with Ms. Smith.

[Aaron]

Drinking black coffee with.

[Nicole]

Yeah, no, she probably offered you a cigarette too.

[Aaron]

Oh, my God. Were you the first to fall asleep, though? No. Oh, my God, never.

[Nicole]

That was death sentence. If you were the first.

[Aaron]

Yes. You cannot be the first to fall asleep. Oh, yeah, no, I. I was always trying to stay up. The latest, of course. Like, I love to sleep over. I feel like if I. If I would have called my parents to have them come pick me up, they would have said, too bad.

[Nicole]

Yeah. Like, no, mom and dad need a night to themselves.

[Aaron]

Sorry. Sorry. But. But I would never. My sister. I think my older sister would sometimes call to get picked up. But I loved sleepovers.

[Kate]

I actually just watched a movie called Sleepover, and one of the things that they did in this movie was freeze bras. Did anyone else do that? Or is that like a legend again? Like, is that.

[Nicole]

Well, we must have all been late bloomers because we weren't wearing bras, but we did freeze underwear.

[Aaron]

Oh, I didn't personally.

[Nicole]

One time, a Girl got really upset that we had done that to her. She was the first one to fall asleep, and she. She did not think it was funny. So I think. I don't think we did it again after that.

[Kate]

That a. Yeah. I think I would have cried my entire way. Like.

[Aaron]

Yeah.

[Kate]

I don't know if I would have.

[Aaron]

It was mean. I never did that at a sleepover, but my sister did that to a girl at a sleepover. I don't know who did it. I don't know if it was my sister, but did it to this girl Stephanie. And I, like, remember it, and she was so upset.

[Nicole]

Can I say why people got so upset about that? Doesn't seem like something that I know.

[Aaron]

I'm like, big father.

[Nicole]

Okay, set it outside. Honestly, five minutes.

[Aaron]

Like, get over it, Stephanie.

[Nicole]

Yeah. No, with an.

[Kate]

I'm sure. I'm sure that person, you know, I'm sure that person maybe took it personally. I don't. Yeah, I don't.

[Aaron]

It's just like, a joke. Like, I don't know.

[Nicole]

And if you want to. I think, like, sleepovers are not the environment for you if you can't take a prank anytime there was, like, an older sibling or, like, pranks were a

[Kate]

big part of it.

[Nicole]

Trying to scare each other in the middle of the night. Prank calling. I mean, if you can't handle some frozen underwear, sleepovers are gonna be rough.

[Kate]

I will say, thinking back, the prank calling was mean. I didn't freeze underwear, but my friends and I would, like, call other girls and be like, I don't know, girls that weren't invited, like, calling them and, like, prank calling. Like that.

[Nicole]

Okay.

[Kate]

Oh.

Oh.

Now this is where we draw the line.

[Nicole]

I never.

[Aaron]

I mean, I never called someone who wasn't invited and was like, what would you say to them?

[Kate]

Just like, hi. Like, we're part of the. Like, this is. I don't know. We, like, probably, like, make up somebody. Like, what are you doing? I don't know. Yeah, I remember. Okay. Oh, I love that. This is where we're at now.

[Aaron]

We were prank calling boys.

[Nicole]

We was called boys. We was prank called boys.

[Kate]

Oh. Oh. That's what you were supposed to do.

[Nicole]

Someone is in therapy because of that. Still.

[Kate]

Kate.

[Aaron]

Okay, you guys, one time I prank called. This isn't funny. I don't know if you guys remember this story, but I'm sure you do. I prank called 911 at one of my birthday parties because I was stupid. Okay? I phoned. There was a. You know, a classic phone on the wall in My basement. Okay. And I, out of nowhere, didn't tell anybody I was doing it. Went over to it at one of my birthday parties and picked it up and called 91 1. No one knew I was doing it. And I turned the phone to everyone and I just said, scream. And everyone screamed, and then I hung up.

[Nicole]

So they didn't even know that they were committing?

[Aaron]

No one knew. No one knew.

[Nicole]

Okay.

[Aaron]

Literally, I think I was eight, seven or eight, something like that. And they called back. So, you know, 10 seconds later, my mom comes down and she's like. And I was like, you know what?

[Kate]

That sounds worse than calling a girl that wasn't invited. I don't know. I don't know. That sounds worse. So I think.

[Aaron]

I don't know. Let us know in the comments. Which one's worse?

[Kate]

I don't.

[Nicole]

I know.

[Kate]

I know. Wait, that's crazy. That is crazy. So, wait, you said they showed up?

[Aaron]

No, no, they just called back. Which I didn't know they called back. And I was like, shoot.

[Nicole]

You mean they couldn't tell that it was just a bunch of 8 year olds giggling and screaming? Everyone screams are like, ah, yeah.

[Aaron]

Come on. You know, the first time I had alcohol was at a sleepover. You guys, really? Seventh grade.

[Nicole]

Was it like a beer? Like you, like, snuck a dad's beer?

[Aaron]

No, that was in eighth grade. We'll get to that. But in seventh grade, I was at my friend. Friend's house. I need to stop dropping names. I'm gonna stop dropping names. Jennifer.

[Nicole]

No.

[Aaron]

Allison. She's not listening. Allison. And her parents. I don't think her parents were home. And we just raided their liquor cabinet and just started taking shots.

[Nicole]

Wait, her parents weren't home? What do you mean? Y' all were. Y' all were there with no adult supervision whatsoever.

[Aaron]

I don't think they were home. Maybe one of them was. They were loosey goosey. And we took a bottle of whiskey to her bedroom and just started taking sips of it. And I can remember it still to this day, how it burned my throat and. And I remember later that night we went to TP somebody and I couldn't feel my legs. I rem. I remember this like it was yesterday. I didn't like, black out or anything, but I could not feel my legs. And I just kept trying to stand up and I kept falling over. It was the. This has never happened to me again. The way I couldn't feel my legs. Okay. And my friend just kept trying to hold me up and she would let go of me And I would just fall over in the grass. And I had like a soccer game, like, the next morning.

[Nicole]

Yeah, you learned that lesson hard. Did the parents come back and realize, oh, something's wrong with the children?

[Aaron]

Not that I recall, no.

[Nicole]

Who took you tping?

[Aaron]

Oh, we just, like, walked around the neighborhood.

[Nicole]

Okay. Because we had. That was one thing I remember doing. Rebecca. Shout out Rebecca. Her older sister would be the. She was so cool. I was like, if they had a cool older sister. Oh, my gosh.

[Aaron]

You just wanted to, like, that was the best.

[Nicole]

Tell me what it's like to be a young adult. Like, just tell me your story. Like, what all have you done?

[Aaron]

Like, and they're only like 18 months older than you.

[Nicole]

They're like in the next grade up. But she would drive us in her pickup truck. We'd get in the back and we would tp. We did egg. And I feel bad about that now knowing, like, do to houses. Yeah, well. And they're so expensive now. Kids aren't egging anymore. But we still in our neighborhood randomly. I hear all about it in the Facebook group of the neighborhood. But kids still tp, which I was excited.

[Aaron]

Really?

[Kate]

I kind of love that. Okay, were any of you two cheer. Cheerleaders?

[Nicole]

I was not.

[Aaron]

I can't even touch my toes girl.

[Kate]

No, I was a cheerleader. No big deal.

Oh,

[Aaron]

you knew this.

[Nicole]

I'm cute. I'm popular. To.

[Kate]

Popular to.

[Aaron]

Were you a big fan of Bring it On then?

[Kate]

Yeah.

[Aaron]

If you say I haven't seen Bring it on. Okay. Thank God.

[Kate]

I swear to God, I've seen.

[Aaron]

I'm gonna jump through the screen.

[Kate]

But I. Okay. Actually, I would like you guys. Cuz there's so many movies from the 2000s that I have not seen. I love if you guys. Homework. So start with one by one. And the first one actually has to be. What's that magic movie with witches?

[Nicole]

Oh, practical magic.

[Kate]

I am. And everyone's been talking about practical magic, and I just feel like that's one of the first ones I need to see.

[Aaron]

Okay. I don't know if I'd make that number one, but that's okay. You can make it number one.

[Kate]

Have you seen 13 go on 30? Sorry, Is that the decom movie? The fish one?

[Aaron]

No.

[Kate]

Oh, that's the 13 threes are.

[Aaron]

No, 13. It's with Evan Rachel Wood and Nikki Reed, and It's like they're 13 years old and they're. Oh, my God, you.

[Kate]

Oh, that movie's crazy.

[Aaron]

I watched it when I was 13 and it made me that's what made me want to pierce my belly button. Like. No, it made me want to pierce my tongue. Oh, my God. You need to watch that movie.

[Kate]

I think it's available. I never understood the lore of, like, piercing a tongue.

[Aaron]

I. I went through a phase where I wanted my tongue pierced. Yeah.

[Nicole]

I don't surprise you didn't. I wouldn't. That. That tracks that you had your tongue pierced.

[Aaron]

My parents would have never let me.

[Nicole]

So when did that ever stop you doing anything during.

[Aaron]

Well, you know, didn't you have to be like.

[Nicole]

Well, well.

[Aaron]

But that was kind of hard to, like, get a piercing. I guess I could have gone down a dark alley.

[Nicole]

I just. Spring break was where I got my belly button pierced.

[Aaron]

See, I didn't go on spring break until I was in college, though.

[Nicole]

Yeah, that's true.

[Aaron]

Yeah.

[Kate]

I still have to experience spring break, so I would love to do again Cabo Waba with you guys. I've never done it. I was actually Laguna beach the other day, and, like, they went to Cabo, and Kristen's on the table, like, she's, like, dancing, and Steven's like, slot.

Yes.

I'm like, yes. I was like, this is insane. Like, I just want to experience that. And I.

[Aaron]

What's the other bar? There's a Cabo Wabo, and there's another one.

[Nicole]

And my husband would know his. We need to do a whole episode on just spring break. My husband went to Mexico in high school. Oh, Squid Rose.

[Aaron]

Sorry.

[Nicole]

Squid Row.

[Aaron]

That's where I got drunk.

[Kate]

Squid Row.

[Aaron]

Sorry. Squid.

[Nicole]

That's Squid. That's a name that.

[Aaron]

They went there. Laguna beach, you guys. They went. That might have been where she was dancing on the table. On the thing at Squid Row. Seriously?

[Nicole]

Sorry.

[Aaron]

Sorry to cut you.

[Kate]

I just want to dance on the table one more time. Yeah. What were you saying, Nicole?

[Nicole]

Back to movies. Did you guys ever write down, like. I know we used to write down, like, lyrics to songs. Did you guys ever write down, like, movie scripts?

[Aaron]

No.

[Nicole]

I don't know why, but I scream. A girl named Jenny in my class, she wrote down. There's a scene from Scream. I mean, every other word's the F word. And it's one of the murder scenes. And for some reason, she wrote it in her notebook, and I took it home with me, and my mom found it. I don't even know if I'd seen the movie yet at this point. Point, because obviously it was rated R. And I got in so much trouble. My mom sat me down because I got in so much trouble. When she found that, because it was just like, this description of a really grues. I don't know if she even recognized that it was a reference from a movie.

[Aaron]

Okay, that's funny. I. I email trouble for that. I. I emailed my friend in, like, fifth grade lyrics to, like, a rap song. Don't know why. And my dad, like, saw it and I got in trouble. Why did I email lyrics to a rap song to my friend? I don't know.

[Kate]

But it just reminds me, though, like, we used to. I used to, like, print out lyrics, though, and sit in the bedroom and try to, like, memorize lyrics. That was. I still do that.

[Nicole]

I still do that for concerts because the most embarrassing thing is to not know the words at a concert. I'm a bit.

[Aaron]

Yes. If I'm going to a concert, I'm gonna know every lyric. Okay.

[Nicole]

I studied.

[Aaron]

Me too. Me too. I make a whole playlist in, like, three months before. I'm listening to that playlist every day. I'm gonna know every song.

[Nicole]

Song. Yeah. I'm not gonna be the loser.

[Kate]

Can I be honest? When you got. When we were at Backstreet Boys, there were some songs that I didn't know, and you guys were singing word for word, and I kind of was like, no.

[Nicole]

It.

[Aaron]

Like, I'm telling you, it makes it such a better experience just knowing.

[Kate]

That's true.

[Nicole]

Yeah, it's worth. It's worth the studying.

[Aaron]

Yeah. Anyway, Kate, I recently made this, like, giant list of movies that I. There's a lot that I want to like re watch that I haven't seen in, like, 20 years and.

[Nicole]

Yeah.

[Aaron]

So I. I should just send it. It's the longest effing list.

[Nicole]

I feel like 9 out of 10 times we were trying to watch a scary movie like Pet Sematary, Michael Myers. I don't know. I. I think it. Maybe it was the crowd. I was with my friends, happy stuff.

[Aaron]

I would force my friends to watch Poltergeist. I don't even know what that is,

[Kate]

but that sounds horrible. Like, that sounds scary. I was like, in the definitely Lizzie McGuire, Mary Kay and Ashley Passport to Paris Realm. Never went scary.

[Aaron]

Yeah, no.

[Nicole]

Sleepovers were a way happier experience than mine.

[Aaron]

Well, we were Jawbreaker. Oh, that's another one. Have you seen Jawbreaker? That was a sleepover.

[Kate]

Scary.

[Aaron]

No. It's a little traumatizing because I won't tell you why, but I.

[Kate]

No, no, no. I'm not a scary person, and I think that's scary. Even if it's, like, mental.

[Nicole]

It's Like a dark comedy.

[Aaron]

Yeah, but you should watch it because, like, the stuff fun.

[Kate]

No, I know. You guys are like, it's not scary. It's dark. Like, that doesn't sell me. I don't really know really want to watch it.

[Aaron]

Can I just tell you why? It's a little dark?

[Kate]

Sure. I'm not gonna watch it.

[Aaron]

Yeah, why aren't you gonna watch it? It's, like, classic. The girl chokes on a jawbreaker and dies in the trunk of the car.

[Kate]

Why is she in the trunk already?

[Aaron]

It's like they're playing this, like, prank on her. I don't even remember right. Nicole. They're, like, playing a prank on their friend. They put this giant jawbreaker. So, like. And they put her in the trunk, and then she.

[Kate]

But the rest of it's fine.

[Aaron]

But, yeah, I was a little traumatizing thinking back, though.

[Kate]

Sorry. This game we used to play, Chubby Bunny, like, also a super dangerous game. Do you guys ever play that where you put all, like, the marshmallows in your mouth?

[Aaron]

Yeah.

[Nicole]

That's so cute that you were doing that at sleepovers. We were doing seances. We had Ouija boards. We were trying to reach the other side. We were doing Lies and featherstiff as a board. Oh, candles and.

[Aaron]

Yes.

[Kate]

Did you guys do the one There's a knife down your back?

[Nicole]

Yes.

[Kate]

Oh, my God. I was like, I can't move someone. You're like, sand. Sandman. Was that the other one?

[Aaron]

I don't remember. Or it's like.

[Kate]

Yeah. Anyways, you feel you're someone else. Yeah.

[Aaron]

I was like, the one house that had the Ouija board, and I would always bust it out. And then just recently, I discovered. I thought this was, like, our Ouija board that my parents owned. And I recently discovered that it was in the house when my parents moved in.

[Nicole]

Oh, hell, no.

[Aaron]

By itself. In the basement, I just discovered this. I was like, excuse me. That's the beginning of a horror movie. You're not leaving.

[Kate]

You're not leaving a Ouija board behind for no reason. Like, there's no reason.

[Aaron]

I was busting that thing out at every sleepover, having no idea. I mean, nothing ever happened.

[Nicole]

But, no, I know. There was always the same girl that was like. I was like, you're moving. Moving it. Yeah, I know you're moving, Sarah. You're moving it.

[Aaron]

We can all see it.

[Nicole]

I was like, magically, whenever you're not in the session, nothing happens. So thanks for doing it. You know, for the plot.

[Aaron]

But, like, what do you guys Think the ultimate sign that, like, a sleepover was going to be, like, elite versus mediocre. You know, you just knew whose house it was at.

[Nicole]

If the parents were.

[Aaron]

How involved the parents were. Yeah.

[Kate]

I would say snacks. Like. Like, there's one house that always had, like, the best snacks. Like, they'd have, like, the Doritos and Goldfish. I'm like, yeah, like, a fridge full of high sea. Like, that was like. Also, I felt like it was going depending on the house, but also, like, when people, like, bred out, like, they're limited to pajamas and, like, they're really good. Sleep. Sleeping bags. I'm like, oh, we're at a good. We're at a good house.

[Aaron]

Like, did you have a good sleeping bag?

[Kate]

No.

[Aaron]

No. Me neither.

[Nicole]

No, I feel like I just took my dad's camping bag.

[Aaron]

Yeah, mine was just, like, navy blue.

[Kate]

Like, mine was maroon. Everybody else would come with, like, these cute ones with, like, frogs or, like, little mermaids. And then I would be, like, an insulated Sam's Club bag that's, like, ready for, like, hypothermia.

[Nicole]

Like, it smells like campfire.

[Kate]

No, literally, I was like. And I was so aware of it because I wanted a cute bag. But mine was, like, the official camping gear because we grew up camping. So I'm like, kate, this one's gonna be more comfortable.

[Aaron]

I loved sleeping in a sleeping bag, though. At sleepovers, I thought it was so fun. Now I could never.

[Nicole]

But, okay, this is something that blew my mind whenever I've posted about creating a palette on the floor. Have you guys heard of that expression before to create a palette on the floor?

[Kate]

No.

[Aaron]

No.

[Nicole]

Okay. It must be a Southern thing, because I said this, and people were like, what do you mean you're putting wood on the floor for your kids to sleep on? It's. It's basically. It's just throwing a bunch of pillows and blankets and comfy stuff on the floor to make a palette to, like, either sleep on, watch tv. But nobody had heard that term. What do you call. What do you. Do you have a word for that? What do you call that?

[Aaron]

I would just call that a fort. I know it's technically not, but.

[Kate]

Okay, I would say a four. Like, which. That was the ultimate sleepover move, when you would start putting, like, sheets above you and you created a fort. Like, you'd have. That was my man version of a mansion, for sure was. You'd have quarters. Like, this is, like the. Well, you know, you have, like, a reading room, and then, like, the sleep room. I don't know. It was so much fun.

[Nicole]

Speaking of mansions, did you guys play mash?

[Aaron]

Of course.

[Nicole]

Of course.

[Aaron]

Of course. Mostly at school. Honestly, I feel like I played at school more so than sleepovers, but.

[Kate]

Yeah, mine was at sleepovers. I feel like that's where I was actually talking about this with Chad the other day. Because I was saying at sleepovers people would, like, reveal their crush. And then if your crush, like, was. Was some, like, my friend would be like, oh, I have a crush on, like, Jeff. And I'm like, that's my crush. And then Chad was.

[Aaron]

You should have called Jeff then.

[Nicole]

Yeah, that's. That's what I was thinking. The. The logical next step is we're pranking Jeff.

[Kate]

Yeah.

[Nicole]

We're gonna get on three way with Jeff and we're gonna go, hey, Jeff, do you like Jenny or. Yeah.

[Kate]

More.

[Nicole]

Yeah. And it's gonna break somebody's heart in real time.

[Aaron]

Yeah.

[Kate]

Did you guys ever do that? Like, did you ever.

[Aaron]

Oh, three way calling when you were on mute. I'm still traumatized from some of the. You know, I'd have my friend call this guy and he'd be like, you know, do you like Aaron? They'd be like, no. And you're like, okay with that.

[Nicole]

Crying. I hear a faint sound of somebody crying on the phone.

[Aaron]

Yeah.

[Kate]

Oh, my God.

[Aaron]

Three way call.

[Kate]

Damn. We. We. Honestly, if you're catching any theme, like, my friends and I did not have any numbers of guys. Like, we just. I truly just wasn't in that world. I really was like, in this Barbie, Polly Pocket, Lizzie McGuire World way too long.

[Nicole]

I love your innocence. No, I hope that. I wish that for my daughter. I do.

[Kate]

I definitely stayed in that world until. You know how you said, like. I think you mentioned Nicole in college. Like, then that's when you really started drinking. That's like, then. Because I think I was so sheltered the amount of times I blacked out with the calling.

[Nicole]

There was also star six seven.

[Aaron]

Yeah.

[Kate]

Oh, yeah. Yeah.

[Nicole]

So that you would block your caller id.

[Aaron]

Yes.

[Nicole]

Because at that guess some of it that didn't exist yet. I feel like some of we didn't have to worry about that. That was more like later for me.

[Kate]

Yeah.

Yeah. Wait. My friends and I, this was like two years ago, we rented a house in Michigan and we were just star617. Or it still works. Oh, my God. We were calling people we went on dates with. We were calling. I don't know. We were just calling, like random people and being like, this is quits. Be like, we were Unhinged. We were also being.

[Nicole]

Slow down, Kate.

[Kate]

Sorry. This is crispy. Like, that's. What does that even mean?

What?

Who? I don't know.

[Aaron]

Is their response to that?

[Kate]

Like, I don't even know what that'd be like. Okay, yeah, now it's called.

[Nicole]

Got him.

[Kate]

Wait, now that I say this out loud, like. Yeah, maybe it's not as wild as I think, but this is us after, like, two bottles of like, red wine, you know, you're just calling people. Well, one of the girls had a really funny voice and she'd be like, this is quispy. I don't know. We were gonna. We were having a good time.

[Aaron]

Okay.

[Kate]

Okay.

[Nicole]

Star six seven is hide your caller id. Star six nine is call back the number that just called you. Is that right?

[Aaron]

I can't.

[Nicole]

Am I getting those back? Remember?

[Aaron]

It's, you know, it's hard to remember. I don't know. One of them. Something.

[Nicole]

Okay.

[Aaron]

I don't know, but I will.

[Kate]

This is random, but I feel like I now on my phone, I get at least 20, like, soliciting calls a day. I feel like that's like. You guys don't get solicitors every 10 minutes?

[Aaron]

Not every 10 minutes.

[Kate]

Oh, no. If I could go through my phone every single day. It almost feels like I'm being pranked because my phone number must have been leaked in something extensive undercover. Because the CIA is after you.

[Nicole]

The government's definitely behind us. Kate, you should just answer. Hi, this is Crispy.

[Kate]

You won't get someone.

[Nicole]

Ask for Crispy.

[Kate]

Yes, you got the right number.

[Nicole]

Call back.

[Aaron]

Bye.

[Nicole]

Crispy here.

[Kate]

Hi.

Oh, yes, it's a quispy. Quispy.

[Nicole]

That's quispy today. Yes, I did my taxes. Oh, yes, this is. Okay. Yeah, my taxes are done.

[Kate]

Yes, I did my ein. Oh, I hold them up. Yeah, they definitely won't call back that.

[Aaron]

Please do that next time and have

[Kate]

Chad record you doing that.

[Aaron]

Thank you.

[Kate]

We did actually prank Chad too. And we did. That was what the other ones we said. Cuz we were in the middle of a move and we said that. I think we called him and said there was like, we had. They detected like, bedbugs, like the movers. We were in the middle of the move, they took our mattress already, and we pretended that the movers were like, you have bedbugs in your bed? Like, how would you like to proceed?

[Nicole]

I remember a big part was we would always have to choreograph a dance routine.

[Aaron]

Of course. Yeah, that was a big part.

[Nicole]

I don't I wish we would. That's the one thing I wish we had done at our adult sleepover. Was that because that I could. That would. That would bring.

[Aaron]

We should have done that.

[Nicole]

Save me a lot of money on therapy. If we could just, next time, choreograph a dance routine.

[Aaron]

Next time we're gonna do that.

[Kate]

That's where I come alive. Like, that was the bread and butter and the eye cheerleader. And I also like thinking back how we would perform in front of, like, a mom and dad. I was so brave. But I just, like, remember being like, I am the best out of, like, all these girls. Like, these parents are so impressed about, like, of me. Like, they probably, like, their daughter sucks. Like, this girl. Our daughter.

[Nicole]

I wish our daughter were as cool as cake. God.

[Kate]

Like, we were. I remember specifically it was to Weatherman by Bewitched. I don't know if anyone remembers.

[Aaron]

Of course I had that cd. Thank you.

[Kate]

Blame it on the Weatherman or something. It was like that.

[Nicole]

But did you guys fight over who got to be, like, the lead role or who got to be the court? Like, I do remember there would always be, like, some highly opinion. I was probably one of them. I do feel like I was highly opinionated when it came to choreography. And. And I was not very good at. Yes. And they're like, oh, we could do this. I'd be like, or we could do this, Jessica. Like, you're in the back. Like, I do feel. Feel like I probably took it a little too far. If I owe anyone an apology, consider this that. But I feel like it got a little. That's where the drama came from for me was the routine.

[Aaron]

Yeah, I get it. Yeah.

[Kate]

Wait, that's hilarious that you weren't. Yes. Anding anybody back in the day. You were just like.

[Aaron]

Because I remember.

[Kate]

I remember people like you. Like, that would just. I know their way or the highway.

[Nicole]

I was real. But I was. I was real passive aggressive about it.

[Aaron]

Like, okay, I was scared of you idea.

[Nicole]

You probably were. I was probably the worst. That's amazing. That's why I stopped having sleepovers in middle school, because I stopped being invited. But nobody ever called me and was like, hey, Nicole, guess what? You're not invited because you suck.

[Kate]

You know what? Just so you know, I feel like this. This is the way it is now as an adult. Like, well, I don't know. Especially just being here in la. It's just definitely. I feel like. I don't know. Oh, no, it's gonna get dark.

[Nicole]

It's like the same. But Different. It's like, yeah, now.

[Kate]

Now I'm like, oh, I'm not getting called. Like, it's just like with friends. Because I just. I don't have many friends out here. So it's just like a different type of thing.

[Aaron]

Making friends in your 30s is really hard. But that's. That's for another episode.

[Kate]

That's. Yeah, let's just save this topic for another episode.

[Nicole]

Yeah. In la, instead of doing dance routines for parents, you're having to do them for casting directors. And see, it's all the same. It's all the same.

[Kate]

So you know, that frog is like, hello, my darling. Hello, my baby. Hello, my showcup. That's how I feel sometimes here in la, it's like you really got to put on an act. Like, hello, my darling. Like, across the screen.

[Aaron]

Back to sleepovers. I was just remembering a story. At my. At my 12th birthday party, my friend brought. Stole one of her dad's cigars. And we. At my sleepovers, we would always take like a walk around my neighborhood. I don't know if you got like, you know, just like, see what's going on. Like, I remember there was this one cute boy that was like one of my neighbors I thought was cute. And I told every. All my friends that he was like my boyfriend. He, like, was not. I told. I didn't know you existed. Yeah, I kept that story going for like, a long time that, like, me, he was like, older and I was like, like, yeah, that's my boyfriend. I think they all believe me, but that was like a total lie. So anyway, we were walking around the neighborhood and my friend was like, oh, my God. I like, I stole one of my dad's cigars and we went and smoked it in the cornfield, me and her and my other friend got mad at us, obviously thought it was wrong that we were smoking a cigar like 12 years old. And emailed me. I. I was big in the emails, emailed me how disappointed she was in me like, a couple days later. And of course my parents saw the email.

[Nicole]

Oh, no.

[Aaron]

And I trouble. I know I'm like, get over it.

[Nicole]

But you're. That's like what my dad would say. I'm not mad at you, Nicole. I'm disappointed in you.

[Kate]

But also, you were smoking at 12.

[Nicole]

My first time to smoke a cigarette was at a. A sleepover grant because their, their mom used to bury their cigarettes in the backyard and she knew where her mom would bury. I think she was trying to hide it from her husband. She was still smoking. So her mom would see smoke outside and then bury her cigarettes, so we went and dug them up so they were like half. I don't think it even worked. But yeah, we went and dug up her mom's smoked cigarettes and tried to smoke cigarettes at a sleepover.

[Aaron]

That's funny. My God, is she wearing the new couture? You thought our sleepovers were unhinged? Wait until you hear what you guys submitted. Which brings me to our next segment. Asl our anonymous story lounge. I put a prompt on my Instagram stories, and you submitted your most unhinged sleepover stories. Let's start with this one. I find this one quite crazy. It takes TP to a whole new level. Okay, are you guys ready for this one? Okay. Also, no judgment here. And these will remain anonymous. Just so everyone knows, don't be afraid to submit your stories, okay? This is a safe space. Okay. We used to have TP wars in middle school, and one night I had six of my girlfriends over so we could go hit all the boys and girls houses that we didn't like in my neighborhood. My friend's mom took us to the Asian market to buy chicken feet, pigs legs, eels, fish heads, and all kinds of crazy stuff, along with tipi, eggs, flour, corn flakes, and glitter. We would put the fish heads in the mailboxes. Pig legs would rest upright on the door, so when they opened them, the leg would fall into the house. Chicken feet in the gardens, corn flakes made their lawns smell awful. Egged, then flowered the cars. It was pretty epic. And we never got caught. But one time, teepeeing the boy's house down the street. We almost got caught and took off running. And I managed to clothesline myself in a neighbor's yard where they had fishing lineup. And I had a bad cut along my neck and people thought someone tried to kill me.

[Nicole]

That's some karma. Gee, was mom in the mafia? How did mom know how to do all that?

[Aaron]

I've never heard of someone doing all of this.

[Nicole]

Fish heads in the mailbox. How do they know that? Cornflakes, Major yards. I'd never heard of that.

[Kate]

This is slightly criminal, but we don't judge. But this was this.

[Nicole]

Oh, yeah, we're not judging.

[Kate]

Yeah, they're not judging. But this, you might have. This was like 20, 26 and people were doing this. I'm pretty sure you could, like, I

[Nicole]

don't know, you seek legal action. Can you imagine with the front door cameras? Like with. There's none. There's none ever happening these days.

[Kate]

Wow. It's almost genius level, though. The core place.

[Aaron]

It's insane. Like, glitter.

[Nicole]

Did y' all hear two Glitter.

[Aaron]

I know. Then she didn't say what they did with the glitter.

[Kate]

Just. Oh, the glitter. You're not getting out, like, wherever you put that glitter. Imagine if you put that on a driveway or like, you must have really

[Aaron]

not liked these people.

[Kate]

Yeah.

[Aaron]

Okay. What did they do to you?

[Nicole]

That also sounds expensive.

[Kate]

Like, oh, my God, the detail of the chicken leg propped against the door so when you open, it falls in. That's poetic.

[Aaron]

I.

[Nicole]

You got to respect the game. You got to respect the game.

[Aaron]

You always do. I hope the people who they did this to were like, deserved it or something. Not deserve, but you know what I mean?

[Kate]

We're like me just for the time.

[Aaron]

Okay.

[Nicole]

If it was a boy, they probably didn't deserve it.

[Aaron]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's just go with that.

[Kate]

Just reminds me of like, there was one time at our school used to do these, like, theater movie nights in the gymnasium. And I remember there was this one girl that was mean to me and my mom. We had popcorn. Like your parents would come to to these movie nights. You set it up in a blanket in gymnasium. I remember my mom would flick. She would flick a popcorn at the girl. The girl was really mean to me. So that I'm just thinking, like, you gotta have a mom sometimes.

[Nicole]

Kate's mom. How dare not do nothing with that. Colonel you're so we need to have Kate's mom on the podcast at some point.

[Aaron]

We really do. You guys. I don't know. I don't know how many to do because I have five really good ones. But.

[Nicole]

Okay, let's see. Let's hear.

[Aaron]

Okay, here's another one. When I was in seventh grade, there were only nine girls in my class. So I tried to be friends with all of them, despite the popular one being a horrible person. I went to a sleepover. Classic. I went to a sleepover and happened to fall asleep first. And they thought it would be hilarious to to put Taco Bell hot sauce in my eyes and wake me up. I woke up and started screaming from the burning. The mom had to run me to the sink and flush out my eyes with water. I almost lost the my vision and had giant red circles around my eyes for the next several days.

[Kate]

Again, criminal that those girls could have gone to jail.

[Aaron]

That is Savage who when it never crossed my mind to put Taco Bell hot sauce in somebody's eyes.

[Nicole]

Are you girl was like, hey, guys, I found this hot sauce and some other Little girl was like, we should totally squirt it in her eye. Guys, I'm scared of my daughter. I. I'm.

[Aaron]

I'm sorry. I'm like, you guys, these stories.

[Nicole]

Frozen. Frozen underwear.

[Aaron]

No, exactly. This is making like. Yeah, you guys, the frozen bras. Okay, that's like a level.

[Kate]

Wait to another one.

[Aaron]

This is good. Okay, next story. When I was in eighth grade, my friend's older brother and his friends tricked all of the girls into coming into the basement. And we thought we were going to be hanging out with the cute older boys, and instead, they tied us to chairs, turned out the lights, and left and made us watch the first Saw movie.

[Nicole]

Classic older brother.

[Aaron]

Oh, I thought that was fun.

[Nicole]

And they probably still had crushes on all of them.

[Aaron]

Yeah, they're like, oh, my God, did you see Jason, Timmy? This cherry must like me. This one's. This one's a short one, but I just. Okay. Ninth grade, we were all sober, playing truth or dare, and a girl dared herself to give herself a swirly hand to the good Lord. She walked to the toilet, stuck her head in and flushed. Last I heard, she was arrested for stealing a vacuum.

[Kate]

Guys, if you're daring yourself. Oh, I double dog dare myself to, like, what are we doing? Did anyone A swirly.

[Aaron]

Did anyone. I've never witnessed someone actually getting one of those.

[Nicole]

No, I know people actually. Boy thing. I think it was more of a boy thing because also, can you imagine trying to hoist up a ninth grader in the bathroom? Like, that wasn't happening. Also, I like that she had to clarify. We were ninth grade, we weren't drunk. Like, I love that. Fourteen. But she still.

[Aaron]

You're sober, by the way.

[Nicole]

That was a sober decision for her. I do remember truth or dare.

[Aaron]

Oh, yeah.

[Kate]

Yeah.

[Nicole]

Amazing.

[Aaron]

Yeah. We didn't even talk about that. Yeah. And I feel like a lot of

[Nicole]

the times it was like, truth, who do you have a crush on? Or dare I dare to call who you have a crush on? Like, it resulted in the same things. It was just like.

[Aaron]

No, I was to be like, dare scoop down the street.

[Nicole]

Oh, okay.

[Kate]

I feel like. Well, I feel like now, as an adult, though, we play like, odds are. Like, that's the adult version of odds are.

[Nicole]

I never played odds are. Oh, how do you play odds are?

[Aaron]

We need to play it in Cabo.

[Kate]

It's like, you give somebody on a scale, like, odds are 1 to 50 that you're gonna go up there and pull that girl's hair. And if you guess the number, if you get the number. So like say Aaron says 25 and I had 25 of have. I had it in my hands.

[Nicole]

You have to do it.

[Kate]

Yes.

[Aaron]

My husband and his friends play that out whenever they're out at a bar.

[Kate]

I do it too. I feel like I need to hang out with them.

It is.

It gets a good laugh. At this age.

[Aaron]

You should. Okay, guys, last story. A few of my girlfriends slept over in eighth grade when my parents were out for the night. They trusted us to watch a movie till they got home, which was only a few blocks away. I had the bright idea to take my mom's car that they weren't using out for a joyride. We did and drove around the neighborhood blasting NSync. And when I pulled back in the driveway, my foot accidentally hit the garage, the gas and I drove through the garage door.

[Nicole]

Yay. I love that.

[Aaron]

We panicked and started crying. My friends hid in my bedroom. It was madness. When my parents got home, they didn't even yell. My mom made us a chocolate cake and the night went on like nothing happened. The next day, my parents grounded me for three months. I always appreciated that they did me a solid and let us finish a sleepover. I thought that was like such a

[Nicole]

cute ending and not embarrass her front of all of her friends, but like, that's.

[Aaron]

I would have. If I would have ran through the.

[Nicole]

Oh my God. I once. My friend and I once took a car. Her mom was on painkillers after back surgery and we had met some boys on the Internet that lived an hour away that we wanted to go meet. So we took her station wagon in the middle of the night and luckily did in fact go meet up with some 12 year old boys.

[Kate]

What?

[Aaron]

Nice.

[Nicole]

I remember she was driving like 30 on the highway with her brights on the whole time. How we didn't get pulled over, I don't know, but survives to tell the tale.

[Kate]

Wow.

[Aaron]

Oh, my God.

[Nicole]

Yeah. I don't know if I've ever told my mom that, so. And my mom probably will listen to this podcast.

[Aaron]

Sorry, Mom. Surprise.

[Nicole]

You probably know which friend it was.

[Kate]

Aaron, those were good. Those are like really good. I'm still not over the feeds.

[Nicole]

Oh, my God.

[Aaron]

Is she wearing the new.

[Kate]

Do I play a game?

[Aaron]

Yes.

[Kate]

Yeah. Okay. This is a PG game that would have been played at my sleepovers. It's called hear me out. So you're gonna have like 30 seconds to, you know, say. To try to convince somebody of your thought. No judgment. So whatever you say, just, you know, I have one. Can I start.

[Aaron]

Absolutely. Let's hear it.

[Kate]

Hear me out. Grinding. We need to bring it back. Full sweaty bodies on the dance floor. The one thing about grinding is that you do not need to have rhythm. You do not have to have dance lesson. No personal experience. You just need to know to connect your booty to somebody else's duty. And then you put together and then you sway back and forth. And you cannot tell me that you did not feel hot, sexy, just like, it just was full. You could just fully be yourself when you were grinding. And if you don't have anybody, you can do grind trays. We can bring back grind trays,

[Nicole]

You know? You know, I think you felt hot because you felt boners on you.

[Kate]

Wait, can I tell you something, though?

Wait.

[Nicole]

And you're like, oh, it must be me, not the constant friction.

[Kate]

I first grinded freshman year, and as we know, I was very innocent. And I remember grinding with this guy. He was my date. And all of a sudden I felt something poke me from behind. And I had no clue what was happening. I just thought grinding was purely just two people swaying. I had no clue about the friction of it all. I.

[Nicole]

That was not his Nokia in his pocket, I think, is it? But also, you were single right away. How would grind trains work when you're not single? And it. It's just like you find a. A plug and an outlet to put together. Like, we would grind with our girls too, but I. When I hear you say, like, bring grinding back, I'm thinking, like, attraction, like sexual. How does that work when you're in a committed relationship? You can only grind with chat.

[Kate]

Exactly. We'll grind together.

[Aaron]

Okay.

[Nicole]

And you do. I do feel like you find any excuse to grind in your videos. This isn't.

[Aaron]

Okay, wait a second. That's a good point.

[Nicole]

That's crazy.

[Kate]

The one thing is, though, when I do grind with Chad, like, he'll, like, I could hear his breathing in my right ear, so that's the only thing that freaks me out. It's just like this heavy breath. And like, he gets really into it. And I'm like. Like, you've been here before. This is.

[Nicole]

You're dry humping. That's why you're dry humping.

[Aaron]

But are people. Are people grinding at dances anymore? Probably not, right? Are they doing, like, TikTok dances?

[Nicole]

I'm with you. That needs to. There needs to be like, this level of inappropriateness where you're pushing the boundary.

[Aaron]

Let loose, guys. Let loose.

[Nicole]

You're in your little pubescent bodies. You know, I get that in a way that's not going to get anybody pregnant. Right.

[Kate]

It's so true. But you're right, though. Everything now is like a tick tock dance. You hear a song and.

[Aaron]

Or people are too embarrassed to be filmed. Like, it's just. It's just how it is. It's sad. But like, you know, well, whenever you

[Nicole]

ungrind, you'd be filmed with a 100% flagpole is up. Like you can't.

[Aaron]

And it would get posted on social media.

[Nicole]

Yeah, it was dark back then. You didn't even know half of you were grinding with half of the time you would just be dancing and then there would be those.

[Aaron]

The lights would come on behind you and then they believe.

[Nicole]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Terrifying. But I. That feeling of like. I think what makes me feel a little claustrophobic about bringing grinding back in the Lord's year of 2026 is the heat, the sweat, the hot breath. Like, I don't do saunas, like hot saunas very well. And I. That's the feeling. I would imagine if. If I were in a full dance floor grinding, I might. I might have a panic attack.

[Aaron]

I just remember being barefoot all the time and then other girls stepping on my feet with their heels. I never take my shoes off.

[Nicole]

That was for some reason. That was my moral. That was. My line was like, I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna be the girl who takes her shoes off for some reason.

[Aaron]

It was gross. All right, guys. You know, I feel like we've officially been exposed by everything basically that we've been talking about. So this feels like a good place to stop before it gets worse.

[Kate]

I agree.

[Aaron]

This was fun.

[Kate]

I liked it.

[Aaron]

This one. We should do this again, like next week maybe. I don't know.

[Kate]

Yeah, let's do it.

[Nicole]

Maybe like, maybe like. And then maybe we could like release a new episode every, like, Thursday.

[Aaron]

Oh, that sounds like a great idea.

[Nicole]

Thursday. Should we do that?

[Aaron]

Yes.

[Kate]

Oh, I like that. I like that. Let me just ask my mom first though, see if she's.

[Aaron]

Of course.

[Kate]

Right, right.

[Nicole]

Crispy.

[Aaron]

Make sure it's okay with crispy.

[Kate]

Oh, yeah. I'll call crispy up right now and let it be. No, every Thursday I'm blocked from five to two.

[Nicole]

Scared. Scared.

[Aaron]

I'm scared.

[Kate]

I'm scared too. I'm actually scared too. This is why I have to shut myself off.

[Nicole]

Yeah. And I need to go. I've been.

[Aaron]

I've got.

[Nicole]

I need to go pee. I think I need to be.

[Aaron]

No, so do I. So do I. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah. Thank you guys for listening. Don't forget to submit your stories to our One of us will post a question on our Instagram stories. Don't forget to submit your stories to whatever prompt voting, whatever polls. Follow us on socials, leave us a review.

[Nicole]

Find us at yh2bt. Pod you had to be there pod we'll put it on the screen because it's a mouthful.

[Kate]

Sign off touch grass in ttyl Bye bye bye bye Christmas.

You had to be there baby. You had to be there baby. You had to be there baby. You had to be there baby.

[Nicole]

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