January 17, 2026 • 52 mins
Amy and Kat are feeling excited and they have both been bitten by the ‘Courtney Cooks’ bug (like Weetabix dipped in chocolate and sweet potatoes with cheese). They break down why viral sensation Courtney Cook Bales has the internet hooked on her unconventional lunches and ponder why her content feels so safe and soothing. Amy also shares a recent book-and-movie spiral sparked by People We Meet on Vacation (the new Netflix movie). After watching the movie, she ordered 4 of Emily Henry’s books and cannot wait for them to arrive! This episode weaves in pop culture, parasocial emails, and a powerful reminder of perspective from Human School Official on IG.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Good.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
All right, break it down. If you ever have feelings
that you just won't Amy and Cat gotcha covin locking no, brother,
ladies and fels, do you just follow Anna spirit where
it's all the front over real stuff, tell the chill
stuff and the m but Twayne, sometimes the best thing
you can do it jes stop you feel things. This
(00:27):
is feeling things with Amy and Kat.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Happy Tuesday. Welcome to feeling things. I'm Amy and I'm
Cat And my feeling of the day is excited times two.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Ooh, okay, Yeah, my feeling is excited and proud and
a little bit caddie.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Okay, do you want to go first? You want me
to go first?
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Well, I can do one excited and then you go
and I'll do the second excited. Okay, So my first
excited has to do with weed of vix because Cat
showed up at my house today with whet of pit
weat a bix wheat uh wheata bix from Courtney Cooks
on TikTok and Instagram. Courtney is a viral sensation. At
(01:11):
the moment you maybe first came across her videos, if
you haven't yet, they will start to show up in
your feed because we're talking about it now. But she
has a sweet potato and she sticks cheese in the
hole and then she just eats it. Or she has
onion cups and she eats it. Which I've tried the
sweet sweet potato and cheese. Nah, it's okay. I was
underwhelmed at first, but then I had the whole block
(01:33):
of cheese because it's a specific hone of cheese, and
I bought sweet potatoes and I was like, well, I'm
not gonna let this go to waste. I'm just gonna
keep eating it.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Do you like that cheese on its own? Would you eat? No? Oh? Really,
you would never like eat that with the crap.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
I've never bought that cheese and I probably won't buy
it again unless I get a handkre ing to put
it in the sweet potato, or I might try a
different kind of cheese than the sweet potato, because I
do have other cheeses that I like. But she likes
the texture of it, which is very America cheese type texture,
and whenever she talks about it, she was like, and
I say that in the best way. I love American cheese,
(02:07):
is what she says. So that's how she first showed
up in my algorithm. Then we started seeing her eating
Wieda Bix. Then she started dipping her Wieda Bix in chocolate.
And Kat showed up at my house today with chocolate
dipped Wata bix and I am so excited that we
got to try it. And I must say it was yummy.
(02:28):
But then I was like, well, a lot of things
dipped in chocolate would be yummy.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Great. Yeah, it's kind of like flaky cardboard dipped in chocolate.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
But the way good Meata bix just kind of dissolves
in your mouth you dip it in milk. I found
it to be lovely.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
It's good.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
I probably won't make it again. It's expensive. A box
of Weieda Bix is like fifteen dollars.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Where is it coming from? I got it from Amazon,
but I mean originally is it from Europe?
Speaker 1 (02:53):
I feel like she said it's like an English neack.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
But she said there's like Australian Weaeda Bix and there's
African Weata Bix.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
There's like different kinds of.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Weat of b Which one did we get?
Speaker 1 (03:02):
I think we got the English one maybe, okay, but
I don't think our box specifically came from England.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
You're telling me one box was fifteen dollars and.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
There's two sleeves of them.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
It's comparable probably to the amount of servings that are
in a box of cereal. Like it, it's like a
fifteen dollars box of cereal. It was worth it for
the social experiment.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Yeah, because I found it to be quite tasty. It
was fun to have that little, you know, taste with you,
which we'll put it on our Instagram, which is feeling
things podcasts. But Courtney were enamored with her. I didn't
know you were already watching her, and I re shared
one of her things in my stories and then you
replied to that, and you're like, oh my gosh, I
can't stop watching or eat. Wea a mix. And that's
the thing. No matter what she's eating, when you come
(03:44):
across it, you just get drawn in. Yeah, and you
can't stop watching it. I said.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
I watched her eat a hard boiled egg and I
was like, that looks like it's really good. I don't
want to eat that.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Please hear me say, I'm never eating what the hard
boiled egg and the soy sauce with green onion. She
ate the whole green onion, Like the whole green onion,
she just ate it. I think this is what my
thought because a lot of people are trying the foods
that she's been eating.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
A lot of people like and that thousands and thousands
of people.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
And here's what I'm finding as a response is that
like the things she's eating, some of them are good,
like the way to make it's not bad, but it's
not as like fabulous as she says it is.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
But I love that she's fabulous.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
So this is my I'm just have this working theory
right now because even the sweet potato, you had a
better reaction than a lot of people that I've seen
eat the sweet potato with the cheese in the middle
are like this is disgusting, Like people are hating it.
So I wonder because Courtney has such a positive like
light and fun. She seems so sweet, like zest for life.
(04:53):
She probably like she reminds me of Missed Frizzle. She's
probably the best teacher ever, Like I wish she was
my teacher. I wonder if because she has such a
positive outlook on life, it makes the food she eats
tastes better for her. Yes, yeah, like I wonder because
she seems like, I mean, everybody has a bad day.
(05:14):
She seems like she doesn't have a bad day, and
so I feel like she could eat gravel and be
like mmmmmm, this is crunchy.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
I know. I feel like in December, I came across something.
I finally started following her. Her stuff was just popping
up on my feet and I was like, Okay, I'm
gonna just start following her now. And I think her
laundry room flooded or something. And she was making some
video I think coffee or some maybe some weaeda bits.
And she's at her kitchen a lot of times, she's
at her desk at school as a teacher. She's eating breakfast,
lunch or a snack. This was in her home, and yeah,
(05:44):
she was just like, my laundry room flooded. There is
stuff everywhere, you know, just still She's like, but she's like,
but life is good.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Her whole demeanor is just great. She has a good vibe.
She's high vibes.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
She's a bar So even if you don't and I'm
if you don't know who this person is, some of
the stuff she eats his gross. But I promise you're
going to watch it and be intrigued, So don't let
that stop you.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Which I have fun facts about Courtney coming up, I'll
say them. But I did a deep dive into Courtney.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Oh my gosh, It's like I did a deep dive
on Mount Robins.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
You Courtney Cooks.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Okay, well do you want to go into that.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Well, I'm going to get to your feeling and let's
finish feelings of the day and then we can get
into Okay.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
I'm just excited to learn more about her. I told
you I was like, we should have her on the podcast,
because I feel like that would sore us in to like,
what is it, top ten?
Speaker 3 (06:38):
I mean, we'd have to have her, she would have
to eat on the podcast.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Like I think people would just want to hear from
her if we asked her some like hard hitting questions.
This could that could catapult us into like the top
ten podcast, which could eventually earn us a Golden Globe
because did you know that is a category. Now, Oh
I didn't know the best podcast?
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Okay, so you don't know. I'm about to tell you.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
No, I want you to guess who won best podcast,
not best New Podcast or best this podcast?
Speaker 1 (07:06):
What podcast won?
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Was it? Mel?
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (07:09):
I did know they did have that category because I
did see that Mel postedd nomination video of like her
being so excited that she got nominated. I hope you
didn't get that on camera. Cat just made a face. Okay,
you can't gather. Cat's not like the biggest Mel.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
She was nominated, but she didn't win. So let's let's
say the nominated was he wasn't nominated. So the people
nominated and Shannon, you can double check in case I
missed one. It was Mel Robbins, call her daddy, SmartLess,
Dak Shepherd a armchair expert, and good hang with Amy Poehler.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Okay, all of those Okay.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Are those the only things? Oh I didn't do? Up first,
I don't think I have ever listened to that. Okay,
so up first, who do you think one? Did?
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Amy Foller?
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Yeah, which, like, okay, I love Aman Pohler, so like
I always want her to win in think that she's
dominated in. But Patrick pointed out and I was like,
oh Amy Polar won. I thought car her daddy was
gonna win because.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
She's so popular and she had her documentary. Yeah, like
people learned more about her. She said, so many great
guests lately.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
She gets always also like okay, so Patrick was like, oh,
that's crazy. I wonder how what's his name? Amy Pohler's
ex is part of SmartLess.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
What's his name?
Speaker 4 (08:26):
It's not Jason Bateman, It's it's not Sean Hayes, it's
the other guy. Well, yeah, yeah, So I don't know
what their relationship is. I don't know, like what they're
like a cookable yeah, because I'm pretty sure they have
kids together.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
But they've had their podcast for a while and it's
been at the top for a while, and then she
just started her podcast and boom, out of nowhere is
like top and then won this award that has never
been an award before. Like she's gonna she's made history.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Like, I just wonder if Will's like, dang it or
if he's like, she deserves it. I'm really happy for her.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
I hope it's the latter.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Yeah, we'll never know, because he has to say he's
happy for her.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Yeah. Wait, So does this have to do with your
feeling of the day.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
Yes, that's why I was feeling proud. I don't know
why I feel proud. For it's like my daughter.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Yeah, and excited because because I really liked that podcast.
So I was glad at one, and then I was
feeling catty because I was like, take that ex husband.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Yeah, well they do co parent together. They have two kids,
Archie and Abel. They maintain a close, respectful, and even
weirdly friendly relationship.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Oh so he probably was really happy.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
I mean that's just what Google says, right, But let's.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Hope Archie's a really cute name.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Archie and Abel, Yeah, like they're both there, does at
least go really cute together? Okay, so you had your
feelings of the day about that. My excited times too.
So first one was Weeda Bix. The second reason why
I'm excited is I ordered four books. Did you finish
tis the Year of Reading? Did you finish The Nightingale?
Speaker 1 (10:01):
You finish it?
Speaker 3 (10:02):
No, I'm still reading it.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Okay. Did you finish the one that you bought us,
Family of Lies? No?
Speaker 3 (10:08):
I can't. I guess it's just not it's not working
for me.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Dive into it.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Yeah, I try, And then I've moved on to the
Nightingale and I'm giving this period piece a try, and
then I'm just moving on to the good old rom
com category because I watched you know what I'm about
to say. Okay, I watch People we Meet on Vacation
on Netflix, and as I'm watching it, I am pretty
(10:35):
much smiling the entire time. I am obsessed with the storyline,
the characters, everything, and I'm thinking, dang, I wish I
would have read the book. Oh, but now I've already
watched the movie, so it's too late. I can't go back.
So I just look up in Emily Henry who is
the author of that book. And there was a four
pack on Amazon of four of her books, and you
(10:56):
got them in a discount, like a deal if you
bought all four. And I've all four because tis the
year of reading. I bought Happy Place, Book, Lovers Beach Read,
and You and Me on Vacation.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Oh is that a sequel?
Speaker 3 (11:10):
I don't know. I don't know, Okay, I don't know.
All I know is there Emily Henry is supposed to
be the same vibe. And I loved the movie so much.
I give it five out of five. The movie was Vacations.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
So what did you say, Summer vacations.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Yeah, because that's what they did. They want summer vacations together.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Yeah, so am I Henry.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
You'll like these books because all of her books are
just like an easy read and they're like pretty upbeat
versus like the Nightingale, like grab your tissues right.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Yeah, like right now her husband has gone off to
or Hitler's taking over and it's heavy, and so now
I'm like what why, Sure, there's a time and place
for this, but I think right now I need Emily
Henry vibes. I need Poppy and was it Alex?
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Yeah? Poppy?
Speaker 3 (12:00):
What a cute main character name. So yeah, that's Poppy
and Alex opposite to become best friends in college and
take an annual summer vacation for like almost a decade.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
So I read that book. You did well. Anytime I
say I read a book, I want everybody to know
I listened to it on audio.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
That's okay.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
The audible counts, Yeah, it counts.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
So interesting that you said you wish you read the
book because the book was like I was shocked when
I saw that they were making a movie out of
it because the book was just like.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Like it was an easy read. It would be a
good book to read on the beach. That order. No, no, no, no,
no books that are like no, because her well, her
books are like.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
Easy to read and they're entertaining, but they like you're
gonna know what happens in the end kind of thing.
They're feel good I guess.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Yeah. But what was interesting to me is this book
that was like I think mid As Stevenson would say,
or his friends would say, or the kids would say,
that movie top tier, Netflix movie top like it was Netflix,
and that could have been in the movie theaters, don't
you think, Oh.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
For sure, it was really good. The main character guy
who's Alex, who played Alex. Let's look him up, so
because I'm how cute he was, I know, and then
and then he could dance. I was like, what, yeah,
he he's like funny, cute.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
So cute.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
I know that you're married and I have a boyfriend,
but he's only two, he's only thirty. I mean, well,
there's no nothing, there's no chance for anything anyway. But
I'm like, oh, yeah, like I want to be Poppy now.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Poppy was so annoying. What I liked her well, she
became endearing through the movie, but at the beginning, I
was like with the burrito.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Oh, I thought that that was so funny, and I
was like, I love her personality. I would love to
be more like her, just like she is who she is.
You got to show up as she is, and that
was part of the storyline. Is for a lot of
people she was quote too much.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Oh sorry, Poppy, I will say as you get to
know her, I don't want to say too much anyway.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
My point is you do not miss out on anything
by not reading the book.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Okay, Well, I have four books coming my way from
Emily that.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
I'm kind of sad because the one Emily Henry book
I would have recommended isn't in your four pack?
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Oh which one?
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Is it? Funny story?
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Okay, I came across that one, but you're right, it
wasn't in the four pack. But I'll order another one.
I need a little library.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Yeah, color code your books because.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Her artwork is very fun and cute.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Every book cover is so yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
So tom Blythe played Alex and Emily Bader played Poppy.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Have they been in stuff before?
Speaker 3 (14:39):
They didn't familiar to me, but I was like, they
are really good breakout roles and maybe also too. I've
been watching a lot of holiday Christmas movies. I mean, granted,
I know we're in January, but I spent much of
November in December watching cheesy Christmas Hallmark type movies. And
when I was watching this, I was like, Okay, yeah,
(14:59):
the acting is this is better. We've gone up a
few notches, Like they are killing it.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Speaking of good acting, I've seen, like weirdly a lot
of movies in theaters recently, or just movies that are
in theaters. You know you can rent movies at your
house that are still in the theaters.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Yeah, but you have to pay premium price like twenty something.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
By Yeah, I learned that. But it's cheaper than going
to the movie theater.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Well m m. If you're going by yourself, it's not.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Oh that's true. What's true? Good acting? The Housemaid, which
is also a book. Did you read that? No?
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Oh, read that book. You need to read that book
before you see the movie. A Man of Sifred? Is
that how you say your name or Sefred?
Speaker 3 (15:40):
I say both, Seifred, Seffred.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
Okay, incredible. Usually when I love a book, the movie disappoints.
Doesn't I have a movie that I want to warn
people about watching, like, maybe don't watch it.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Okay, what is it?
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Have you heard of Bogonia.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Never? Okay, is it in theaters?
Speaker 4 (15:59):
It might be still in theaters. We watched it on
like some streaming service, but it's been recently in theaters.
It's the one where Emma Stone's head gets shaved off.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Oh I do know about that, but I didn't know
the title.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
Okay, I got duped because speaking of Armchair Expert, I
was listening to an episode of that with Alicia Silverstone.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Are you familiar with the episode or Alicia's Silverstone?
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Alicia? Okay, of course she was Alicia or Alicia, I say.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Alicia, but Alicia Alicia, Alicia. Okay, maybe it's Alicia. I'm
not saying I'm right. I'm just telling you what I say.
But also, she was in Clueless, okay, and she was
in that Netflix Christmas movie.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Yes it was yes cute, yes, yes, yeah Okay. So
in this interview, she was talking about how she loves
talking about Clueless, but she gets kind of sad because
people don't, like ever want to talk about the things
that she's in now, and she's doing like really cool
things now.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
She wants to talk about those things. One of those
things was this movie Pogonia. So they're talking about that,
and I was like, oh, I want to support her
and like the new stuff she's doing. I didn't even
know Emmastone, and I think Jesse Palmer or some another
really famous actor that I guess is really good actor.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
He's very good actor.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
So I'm like, Patrick, I really want to watch Pegonia
and he's like, what, Like, this doesn't seem like you.
It's about somebody who is a conspiracy theorist who thinks
that Emmastone is a alien. That's the premise of them.
Does do you want to watch that? When I say that, no, okay?
But I was like, but Alicia or Alishoor whatever her name.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Well Shannon fact checked how to say her name and
it is Licia. Oh okay, so you were right. I
was wrong.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
So I want to support her and like good for her.
And I loved her in that Christmas movie.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Also fun fact, you know how she's like very environmental
friendly in that Christmas movie.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
That's her real life.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Say yeah, she's crunchy yeah or granola yeah, because she
I remember we had a story about her on the
Bobby Bone Show. Was like a big thing in the
news when she was like bird feeding her children. Like
where you would like know food and then you put
it in your kid's mouth and it's called a baby bird. No.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Yeah, she didn't talk about that on this podcast.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Well, so the Alien movie's not good.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Uh. I don't want to say it's not good, but
please do not be duped like I was. Alicia was
in it for thirty seconds.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
I'm not even kidding.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
Thirty seconds is like maybe thirty seconds now that scene
she did, she did a impeccable job. She hit her
character correctly. But if you're watching it for her, watch clueless.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
I don't know if maybe she like edited it or
like was a producer, but like she was not like
a huge part of that movie, and I hated it.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Speaking of actresses from back in the day that I
think the like the same time, when was Who's the
Boss out? Probably before Blue Liss, probably before your time?
Did you ever watch Who's the Boss? Growing up? Okay,
so Alicia Silverstone And now I'm like, is that how.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
You say her name? Alicia or Alicia Alicia?
Speaker 3 (19:13):
No, not Alicia Silverstone. No, that's who we're talking about now, No,
my brain, Alyssa Milano.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Oh I know who that is.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
That's what I'm talking about. Yeah, from Who's the Boss.
She is executive producer on a new documentary coming out
about perimenopause called Beyond, and I cannot wait for that.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Oo ooh ooh. Executive producer, so she in her I.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
Think she's also in it. And then there's like doctors
and other experts people sharing their real life experience. But
it's like a deep dive into what is really happening
with perimenopause on what we know today that like the
generation before us just had no infos. So I'm very
excited about that. And that's coming out I think on
January thirtieth or something. Shannon, if you can find out
(19:55):
where people can watch that. Yeah, So Who's the Boss
was on ABC in nineteen eighty four to nineteen ninety two.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
I was a little baby.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Do you know Tony Danza and he was the housekeeper.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
I've never watched that show, so I know who Tony
Danza is, Like, his name is familiar to me, but
if I saw him, I don't know that I would
know that's him.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Tony Danza Is that like a thing?
Speaker 3 (20:19):
I don't know. I just feel like just such a
huge part of my childhood. Okay, and now what is
going to be a part of a lot of people's
childhood is like fast forward twenty years and be like,
remember Courtney Cooks. Remember Courtney Cooks. I remember his mom
was eating those sweet potatoes and stuffing them with cheese that.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Weird juice and she eats the skin of the sweet potato. Ooh.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
I love the skin of a sweet potato. But what
you got to do before you bake it is you
got to oil it down and put some salt and
pepper on it. Okay, so yummy.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
I love the skin of a baked potato, the sweet potato.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
What's the difference.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
It's different.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
It's not different. Different, It's not different. I mean the
inside is different.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Skin it's more earthy.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Are you you're sot shit? It gets That's not what
I mean.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Like it tastes like dirt. I mean it's like more
like bark to me.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Interesting. I'm gonna have to make you one, okay, but
you need to like rub it down.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
I don't usually do that. All in the oil issue.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
And then put some salt and pepper and it is
so yummy.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Balance is coming out. I know it's January thirtieth. I
think Apple TV and Amazon Prime Shannon, and I don't
know what you looked up, but it says early twenty
twenty five, aren't we in twenty twenty six?
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Yeah, January thirtieth, Apple TV and Amazon Prime. So are
we gonna have to pay for it? Probably? But that's okay?
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Wait Apple TV?
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Well, sometimes on Apple and Amazon you have to buy
or rent even if.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
You have Okay, what is the deal with I'm sorry,
this really is grinding my gears? What is the deal
with you pay? You're looking at it like you're scared.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
No, I get what you're gonna say is you're already
paying for a streaming service, and then you have to
pay on top of that.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Well, and you pay for streaming services, and now there's commercials.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Now you have different paths?
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Yeah, like yeah, but if I'm paying at least fifteen
dollars or more for something wide.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
No, not in today's day and age cat because fifteen
is going to get you the commercials, You're gonna need
to up it to twenty something if you want no commercials.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
That to me is isn't that wild?
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Though?
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Well? I think it's inflation you were just standing up for.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Like, no, I'm not, but I pay it too, and
I get it, and I opt for the commercials.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Are you making money off these commercials or something? What's
going on here? No?
Speaker 3 (22:30):
But I opt for the commercials. I guess I just
understand if it's free. Like, I don't want to get
worked up about it because I get it.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
I get it too.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
Money we have, like businesses whatever. If I'm watching TV
and it's free, I understand the commercial. Or if like
I'm listening to a podcast, they're free, and then you
listen to the commercial and then you can there's people
that you can buy something and then you have the
commercial free version.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
That's the point is like, if you pay the money,
then you should get a reward.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Yeah, it depends on which level you want to pay.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
You're the wrong audience for me to talk about.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
He's trying to speak reason into my brain and I
just want to be upset. You know, I'm sorry for that. Okay, Well,
then let's shift gears to Courtney and I'm going to
teach you about her and that'll make me happy. And
who is Courtney? If you're like what I STI don't
understand who this girl is? What is she about? And
why are people obsessed? So Courtney Cook Bales is a
high school English teacher and mom of four from Do
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you know.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
What state somewhere in the south Georgia. I was gonna
say West Virginia. That's not really the south? Is it
is West Virginia? The South? I don't know. It's the west.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
It's not the north, that's for sure. Is it like
its own thing? It's definitely not the west. Did you
just say, is it west?
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Why is it called West Virginia because it's the west
of Virginia.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
It's there's Virginia.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Is it the west of Virginia.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Yeah, but they're both east.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Okay, so the West in summ regard exactly, Okay, it's
the south.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
Yeah, because well I always think in terms of like
the war, the Civil War, like I divide it like
north south.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
What's Virginia considered? Because it's northern to me.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Virgin really even Virginia Regin.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
But they are not southern, right because West Virginia I
wouldn't consider southern. I would consider them country. I can
say that because my family's from there. Yeah, you're like,
I'm not Yeah, I'm not hating on them. Yeah, I'm
from there.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
Okay. She is thirty six years old, and she's gone
viral on TikTok and Instagram for her very specific teacher lunches,
which now.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
She also and she's expanded.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
She's expanded, and maybe she already had those videos anyway,
but her lunches at school or will put her on
the map, and then she has dinners at home.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
I gotta say the lunches are what started me, because yeah,
she would have like a hunk of bread, a like
whole carrot, not a baby carrot, oh, full carrot.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Then all these weird I say that in an endearing way.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
I guess sauces and spreads, and then like a random
hunk of a random piece of cheese, and then like sometimes,
oh my gosh, did you see the one where she
ate Brussels sprouts on the vine?
Speaker 1 (25:17):
What is it called the stock?
Speaker 3 (25:18):
I have a corner lookingly called those like bone in
Brussels sprouts, because you know, like when you there's meat
on the bone, it's like brustles, like random bone.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
Her lunches often include baked sweet potatoes with cheese, whole
green onions, onion cups, which are sweet onions where she
just cuts in half and then takes the little onion
cup and to fill it with stuff and eat it
marinated eggs, lots of mayonnaise, and Weeda Bix. People are
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addicted to her content, like they can't get enough of it.
She realized her taste buds were different back in college
when she shocked her roommates by eating ham with apricot jelly.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Actually doesn't sound that crazy.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Now. The inside of her lunch box has become daily
comfort viewing for people online. Her food philosophy is simple.
Your meals need to hit four needs, sweet, savory, crunchy,
and creamy.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
M she's doing so that's what she abides by, and.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
She keeps her lunches quick and uncomplicated because she's juggling
a full time job and four kids. When grocery shopping,
she grabs whatever looks good and she trusts herself to
just make it work. One example is she saw a
macaroni salad at the deli and immediately knew that it
belonged inside an onion cup. Again, it's a raw, sweet onion,
and it's got to be sweet onion. I saw people
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in the comments one time being like I tried this
with just like a white onion. Yeah, No, it's got
to be the sweet onion and you use that. Yeah,
it's the spoon basically, and you bite into it. Her
favorite foods include bread and butter, spicy ramen, raisins, sweet potatoes,
and basically every cheese ever.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
One of her favorite foods is raisin.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Yeah. I don't know, I've heard that. I did see that.
She You know, pomegranate seeds are so yummy, but they're
so expensive or if you buy the pomegranate, you have
to take the time to like soak it in water
and do all the things to get the seeds out.
But then if you buy them in refrigerated section, they're pricey. Well,
I saw she gets some frozen in a bag a
Walmart for like four bucks.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
Here's my question about the pomegranate seeds. The seed is
still in there with it, like it's a seed. It's
like eating a grape with a seed in it.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Yeah, but you eat the seeds, but yeah, you don't
spit out the hard part, right, No, you just eat.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
You're looking like I'm well, I don't know where you're going,
and I don't know who I've no, no, no, no, no,
I'm not looking at you. Like sometimes when I'm looking
at you. I'm thinking like, where is she gonna go?
So maybe if I scarcer? Well no, because I'm like
have And then I'm also thinking like am I eating
pomegranate seeds wrong or no?
Speaker 4 (27:52):
I think you're supposed to eat the seed, But I've
never been a fan of pomegranates because I'm like, well,
this is like eating a grape and eating the seed with.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
It, Like it's just like that's interesting.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
The only thing I eat of a pomegranate is the seeds.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
I think that's the only thing anybody eats.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
You have a seed with a grape you eat. You
don't just like eat the seeds of a grape, like
the pomegranate, that's the part you eat.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
I know that's confusing. I just don't.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
I wish it was just I wish it was just
the fruity part and the seed was not there. I
just like because it's crunchy and it's like kind of
like again like bark. I guess I have a thing
with like bark tasting foods.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Yeah, like what I wish we could remove the seed
and it just be like the red I.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
Mean, the little teeny teeny hard part that's barely noticeable.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Yes, I don't like.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
I had a dinner the other night where there was
couscous so it was a savory couscous dish and they
threw in pomegranate seeds and it was so delicious. You
give perfect combo of so I mean, Courtney, Oh, I
should DMR and be like if you ever tried pomegranate
seeds and couscoasts because it was so that do sweet, savory, crunchy.
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And then if she puts some mayonnaise on top, creamy.
Speaker 4 (29:04):
And that's the other thing about her is I don't
like mayonnaise, and for some reason I can watch her
eat this. It's a little I wish she would do
a little bit less mayonnaise, but it makes her happy,
so I go for it.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
She loads those when she does the soup dumpling cups. Yeah,
here's another fact.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
It's more than a table swooner bite.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
Oh yes, so much mayonnaise. But she puts the whole
When you said she does these onion cups, she puts
the whole thing in her mouth at once.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Like. That's the other thing that I love about her
is she does not care what she looks like when
she's eating like she's just.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Like cute eating though I don't look cute eating.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
She yeah, she does, you look cute?
Speaker 3 (29:46):
Oh thank you?
Speaker 1 (29:46):
But I do not think so she can just like
enjoy I just like love her. What is her like
energy around it? But she puts the whole thing in
her mouth. She's not taking a bite, She's going for it.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
Yeah, she goes for it. The onions, the mayonnaise, the
green onions. I've never eaten a green onion that way.
Should we try?
Speaker 1 (30:06):
No?
Speaker 3 (30:07):
What if she's onto something? And then I need to
know her dental hygiene situation. When she's at school and
she's eating all these onions and then she has to
go teach kids, what does she do? Do we she
brush her teeth after? You know?
Speaker 4 (30:21):
She also has a really good attitude around like her
just said stuff in general, because she'll talk about her
outfits and she'll talk about how.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Her students make fun of her and like say that
she looks like whatever.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
Yeah, like Christmas time, she was like one of my
students just wand me look like a nutcracker.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
And I'm like, okay, yes, does it say what grade
she teaches?
Speaker 3 (30:43):
I know that it's high school. But yeah, it's high
school English British.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
I found in English history.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
I know this from People magazine. Don't blame me, Okay,
they featured her in December. But then I saw BuzzFeed
just had an article about her too.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Did she's taken off, stop being a teacher and just
be a TikTok?
Speaker 3 (31:00):
I don't think so. I think she really enjoys her job.
Who knows. Maybe she's too big and she's like going
all these interviews, maybe like when she flies to come
sit here and do an interview with us. Yeah, cat's
big plan. Yeah, I did see something which speaking of Instagram,
there's an account human school official And speaking of perspectives,
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because she seems to have like a whimsical one. You
know what she is.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
She's whimsicol.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
Oh, and that's something we have tried from time to time,
you know, like when we're taking off, like when we're
cooking with garlic and we smash it and we're like,
time to take your coat off.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
She's so whimsical, she's like naturally, she's not trying.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
She likes that way like so, but who knows, maybe
she had to. There was a point where she was like,
I'm just going to live life with whimsy. There was
a time she was doing the egg thing you were
talking about where she puts the hard boiled eggs marinated
and the so I saus and she pulled it out
and there was two eggs stuck together her and she
pulled it out and she goes, oh, they were hugging
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and she pulled it apart. She's like so cute, and
that is it. That's probably also too why she's so
people kids up watching her.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
She's just like, gives you a goal and she gives you, like,
I feel like, a emotional hug that you need, especially
on the internet right now. Yeah, an emotional hug you
just said, Yeah, like she does and she's.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Like yeah, yeah, okay, okay, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
So this is stuff that it's guaranteed to change your perspective.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
So, what a privilege to be tired from the work
you once begged the universe for which I needed that
reminder the other day because I was just not in
a good headspace about some stuff and I'm like, hmm
mmm mmmm, We're not gonna have that attitude. Would I've
had that early on in my days? No, Because I
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was just so stinking excited to do what I do
just a little way to. I mean, of course you're
gonna have good days and bad days, but I like
that perspective to feel overwhelmed by the growth you used
to dream about. What a privilege to be challenged by
a life you created on purpose? And then what a
privilege to outgrow things you used to settle for.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Ooh, that's a good one. The last one hits Yeah,
wait say that again?
Speaker 3 (33:23):
What a what a privilege to outgrow things you used
to settle.
Speaker 4 (33:28):
For instead of being like mad at yourself too? But
I can't believe It's like, what a privilege that I grew?
Speaker 3 (33:34):
And I yeah like it and that yeah, you had
the awareness to not stay stuck. Yeah, there's a lot
of ways you could look back on something and pick
at it, but just to have that perspective shift of Wow,
what a privilege? What a privilege?
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Yeah sounds like something that Courtney Cook would say.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
I know, Ah, Courtney. I mean she only came into
our lives like a month ago.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
I wonder when she started posting good questions because I
started seeing and I think like a week after I
started seeing her videos, you posted one on Instagram and
I was like, oh my gosh, I thought I was
in like a corner of the Internet people didn't know
about because it seems so like what's the word specific, niche,
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It seems so niche that like this.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
Well, she's growing at a rapid rate. For example, I
pulled up her Instagram a few hours ago when I
was prepping this stuff to do a little fun facts
about Courtney for you, And since I pulled it up
a few hours ago to now, she's already gone up
four thousand followers. So wow, that's pretty quick. Let's see,
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I see a post oh, June twenty twenty five, June thirteenth,
twenty foot five, at least that's on Instagram.
Speaker 4 (34:48):
So she started posting then, But I wonder when, like
she started going viral, and like, how quick from the
moment to now?
Speaker 3 (34:55):
So if I go back, well, I mean, I'm sure
people have gone back to watch all yeah videos from
the beginning, but I would say, okay, in this is
her voice, best Mind of the Week, cauliflower cheese mash.
She loves cauliflower cheese, so that's This is her first
reel and it has one hundred and sixty seven thousand views.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
I'm sorry, Wait, you lost me at cauliflower cheese.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
It's a cauliflower dish where there's she's baked.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
It in with cheese. I thought it was like a
type of cheese something weirdly, Okay, it's like a cauliflower
with cheese.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
That's the one where I was telling you that I
couldn't think of what food it was. But this is
a video she posted just I think, like yesterday, and
she was like, if you don't like cauliflower cheese, She's like, well,
then I don't like you. And then she's so sweet,
like she couldn't even handle that. She said that She's like,
just kidding, just kidding. I like you, I like you,
I like you.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
She's so sweet.
Speaker 3 (35:50):
So I would say she's got about on average these
early videos like one hundred and seventy to two hundred
thousand views, and then any thing after that one million,
two million, one million, one million, eight hundred thousand, the
seven hundred thousand, one million.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
I wonder what her first brand sponsorship is going to be, like,
is it going to be Weeda bis Well?
Speaker 3 (36:13):
What I think is so cute and what she's been
doing is people are sending her stuff that have small
businesses and in her video she'll be like, oh, these
are some you know, pickled celery from and she's like, oh,
so cute. And so she's just shouting out these brands.
I don't know, good question. Weeda Bix surely has reached
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out to her.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
You know what is really weird is this is my
own assumption because I ordered them off of Amazon. I
feel like Amazon has picked up that she is promoting this,
(37:00):
and it's a thing. Doesn't Amazon do that? Like they'll
stay on top of viral trends? Right?
Speaker 3 (37:05):
I mean, yeah, you think, Okay, here we go at Walmart,
a fourteen out bounce box might be anywhere from eleven
to nineteen dollars, so maybe you paid okay, Weed to Bix.
Prices vary by retailer. A small pack might be like
four bucks, but larger boxes are gonna be over ten dollars,
and it says here in the UK you can find
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them for cheap. They're from right, we talked about this,
They're from the UK, right, so we're paying because it's
weed to bis w ee t a b i X
not like wheat like.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
Whe a T What do you think that stands for?
Speaker 3 (37:41):
Then? I just figured it was some European thing.
Speaker 4 (37:43):
But she also said that they have them in like
there's South African or there's Australian weed to bix two. Also,
somebody told me that they dip there's an eggnog.
Speaker 3 (37:51):
Okay, I don't like egnog, but I don't hate the
idea of that.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
I don't either.
Speaker 3 (37:55):
I think sounds kind of good.
Speaker 1 (37:56):
Well, it's like another milk based thing.
Speaker 3 (37:58):
But it's like a thick milk. That's what I think.
The half and half might be good, although I will
say I dipped mine in coffee creamer or vanilla and
it just like.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
Wasn't that great? Yeah, that didn't look like a good option.
Speaker 3 (38:08):
Well, so yeah, I don't to your point, I don't
know that Amazon price scouged.
Speaker 1 (38:11):
Do y'all know what I was gonna say, is I Well,
I just think that yeah, it's expensive.
Speaker 4 (38:15):
But I think that Amazon is on top of the
trend that she's making Weeda bix popular because when I
searched it, this might not mean anything. When I searched
it right next to Weeda bix, was this might just
because it's similar names. The what's it called? Like, it's
like not Wheati's and it's not what are the little
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ones that frost in mini wheats?
Speaker 1 (38:39):
It's like, could you look this up, Shannon?
Speaker 4 (38:42):
They were like that, just look up weaed to Bix
on Amazon, and there's one that's like she did a
video on this that was like compared this wheet thing
to Weeda Bix. And then when I searched Amazon, those
are the first two things that showed up.
Speaker 3 (38:55):
But Wheat Bix, No, I did see that Wata Bix,
the wheat bis Quaker.
Speaker 1 (39:02):
There's there's not like an American like shredded wheat, shredded wheat.
Speaker 3 (39:07):
I'm just thinking something like way more.
Speaker 4 (39:08):
Okay, actually I'm rethinking this thought because I was thinking
Amazon was like, oh, Courtney Cook did a video with
shredded wheat and weaed to Bix, so we're gonna make
them both pop up.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
But I bet people were looking for Weeda bucks. We're
seeing shredded wheat and then so she did a video
comparing them.
Speaker 3 (39:24):
Okay, maybe I think before Courtney came on the scene
a long time ago, like maybe before June twenty twenty five,
if you would have searched Weta Bix, you would get
shredded wheat shredded wheat my pop up because they're both
like shredded wheat.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
Yeah, she did say in a biscuit form. She said,
it's not she said it's not the same.
Speaker 3 (39:40):
I get that they're not the same, but like they
have yeah, yeah, okay, you know, like a reine, like
a red grape and a green grape, they're not the same.
Trust me, my kids will tell you. Wow, like yeah,
which the red red? If by green?
Speaker 1 (39:56):
Really?
Speaker 3 (39:57):
They're like, why didn't you get the red grapes? And
I'm like, well, rhetoricora, they are. Sometimes they just taste
different to the cotton candy grapes.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
Those are green.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
They're not huge fans. I bought those too, but sometimes
grapes can vary in price drastically, so I'm like, okay, fine,
I'll just get the green ones because they're less than
the red today, and you know they don't want anything
to do with that. I do have a parasocial email
from one of our listeners, Michelle. Okay, so obviously you
know we're about to talk about Bestead.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
Wait are we having a parasocial relationship with Courtney? Yes,
we are.
Speaker 4 (40:34):
I haven't interacted with her, like the commented on anything
or messaged her, but like I'm not saying I won't right.
Speaker 3 (40:41):
Well, you said you were going to reach out to
her to see if she would have to come over,
then that would be a real relationship eventually. Okay, carry on, Hey,
Amy Kat and Cat, she's addressing cryocat who's doing our video?
So she's very parasocial.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
I thought she were just like saying really loud and Cat,
I don't hear.
Speaker 3 (40:58):
That, Amy Kat and Cat. Well, here I am sending
my very first parasocial email about a parasocial relationship to
my parasocial friends. Thank you, Kat for making me feel
a little less crazy, and please don't feel bad for
your assessment of the outcome of Beth's debt. I had
the same thoughts. One thing I haven't heard anyone address.
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The detective actually spoke with the dad in the initial investigation.
The dad then told the detective that he had a
troubled son. Therefore, the dad would have already been aware
of the situation. The son said in the interview that
he didn't want his dad to know about this, and
also said that it was him, the son that spoke
to the detective. I need to go back and listen
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to the episode where they addressed this, because yeah, who
did the detective originally talk to?
Speaker 1 (41:46):
What?
Speaker 3 (41:46):
Because you would think they would have put together that
he originally talked to the dad.
Speaker 1 (41:52):
So did this Wait, I'm confused. Did the son say
that he was the one that saw the detective even
though the detective said he spoke the dad.
Speaker 3 (42:00):
I believe the son said, yeah, I'm the one that
talked to him. Okay, well, so here's my thoughts on that,
and then I'll get back to the amount now that
I'm thinking about it. Could the son have been acting
like the dad to be called because the reason why
it has to be the dad, whoever it was, whether
it was the dad or the son acting as the
dad to say I have a troubled son, is now
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that you're on the phone with the dad. But then
in the interview when they got on the voice changer
with him, he's the one that talked to right, So
I think it's valid point. Yeah, interesting because she says
here the son said in the interview that he didn't
want his dad to know about this and also said
that it was him the son that spoke to the detective. Huh,
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So who did the detective actually speak to in the
initial investigation. Was it both of them? Possibly? Is there
a possibility they acted together like not like sick how
we say sick, but like sickck. That's weird if they
did that, I.
Speaker 1 (42:57):
Don't think does she mean acting together as like they
made all these the whole thing they're doing it that
is that would okay?
Speaker 3 (43:05):
Uh huh, like they scheme the whole thing. Like many
have said, something isn't adding up. Also me forty one
a double spacer myself because that is how we were
taught in APA formatting. Wonders if the reply emails back
from the Sun about appearing on the podcast were double spaced.
So many questions. Hope we all have the day you
need to have Michelle your parasocial friend in Knoxville and
(43:27):
Avid Part twour of the Bobby Bone Show.
Speaker 4 (43:30):
Okay, I'm just thinking to myself, there are so many ways,
easy ways we could like want poke holes in this.
But it doesn't take an expert to like come up
with ideas to figure this out. Why couldn't they just
see whose phone number that was? Like, that's what's so confusing,
the phone number that he was giving to them. The
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Sun says it was his Why couldn't you just reverse
look that up on the internet and look at who
that phone number belongs to.
Speaker 3 (43:58):
Which is dat I'd be under his dad's name.
Speaker 4 (44:01):
Yeah, but like when I was on my mom's plan,
it was on her plan but had my name on it.
If you looked at up, like I think that there's
something on the foot here.
Speaker 1 (44:10):
Like I just think that. Yeah, thank you for your email,
because I like hearing that I was not being too judgmental,
even though I also feel solid in my feelings.
Speaker 3 (44:21):
No, every correspondence we got, which I think, no, I
don't think. I know one hundred percent of them were
on your side. So you know there's more, way more
out there. Because I understand what it takes to call
in an email. That's not lost on me, Like it
takes a lot to call in an email. So thank
y'all so much for those of you that do want
to interact. And I don't want the parasocial best said stuff.
(44:44):
I keep saying this, but I don't want us to
change our relationship with our listeners for them to be
like I don't want to be weird.
Speaker 1 (44:49):
That's very different. It's very very different.
Speaker 3 (44:52):
Well, I know, but because we talk about having these
relationships and we keep talking about parasocial and it's like, yeah,
you don't know these people, and it's like, well, why
I would I interact? But don't ruin the fun. Like
we can still have great correspondence, and that's what we
want this to be. Like we're all talking as friends,
and so that doesn't work if y'all don't send stuff
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in as our friends and stuff that we can share
with others and then y'all can even connect in other ways,
it doesn't work.
Speaker 4 (45:22):
And I was gonna say, sometimes when we get stories
from people, especially like couch Talks questions, I like getting.
Speaker 1 (45:28):
A update an update.
Speaker 4 (45:30):
Oh yeah, I like getting an update, and so that's
not weird. I think the best stead thing that was
just too much up. It went from update to like
that person was emailing every day trying to like get
connection every single day from them, versus like you're just
giving us an update on something that like we put
energy into and we now know about and we care about.
Speaker 1 (45:53):
That's very different.
Speaker 3 (45:54):
Yeah, So keeps me compdates, Yeah, keep them coming. Hey,
they're at Feeling Things podcast dot com or you can
call us eight seven seven two oh seven two oh
seven seven We also have a newsletter, which is another
way to get connected to us, and I have an
email from Mary saying, hey, I signed up for the
newsletter and I've only gotten one on November nineteenth. Kat
mentions it from time to time on the podcast, but
(46:15):
I have not received any new ones. I've checked my
spam folder and nothing's in there either. Is there a
way to see if I'm still on the list? Thanks?
Speaker 1 (46:22):
Mary? Are you asking me that?
Speaker 3 (46:24):
Well's just I don't know what if somebody else is like, oh,
I've only gotten I thought they only sent out one newsletter.
You know they're going out every other week.
Speaker 1 (46:32):
Well, we took a little bit of a break in December.
There'll be one tomorrow. Okay, so Wednesday, this Wednesday, they'll
be one tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (46:39):
Don't get one.
Speaker 4 (46:40):
If you don't get one tomorrow, then send us something.
I have to like move the emails from one sign
up to another. They're probably easier way to do it,
but I'm learning as I go.
Speaker 1 (46:50):
But this is Mary. I'll check yours before I send
the email. Sometimes.
Speaker 4 (46:56):
When you also, if you've ever especially if you ordered
something from us too, if you unsubscribe from like that,
it might unsubscribe from like the newsletter too.
Speaker 1 (47:08):
Does that make sense?
Speaker 3 (47:09):
Yeah, I mean I get it, but I don't know.
Speaker 1 (47:12):
I don't know, and then we'll figure it out.
Speaker 3 (47:13):
I've done that, so we'll we'll work on that. Note
that you can still sign up and we'll fix it.
Fix it and try to keep our newsletters coming and exciting.
We include like fun little things like links to stuff
for loving and nothing like crazy or expensive, like it
might be like my favorite Q tip, Like it's not. No,
it literally was your favorite Q tip yeah, because it's
(47:35):
got a pointed end. And I was like, this is
a game changer. I actually just ordered another box should
be coming arriving today on the porch because I was
out and I was like, Okay, once you go pointy
one side, round tip the other, you can't go back.
I can't go back to round round. It's gotta be
a pointy round.
Speaker 1 (47:50):
Well, I haven't gone there yet, so I'm living in
the olden days.
Speaker 3 (47:54):
Yeah. I can give you some from my new box
when it arrives if you want to get my own,
since you shared your wid a box with me, I
can trade you Q tips for.
Speaker 4 (48:05):
But if we ever talk about something on here, like
your Q tips or something like that. If it's that week,
I'm trying to link that thing in the newsletter.
Speaker 3 (48:14):
So yeah, are like what we're reading, what we're watching,
another encouraging note or things that. Some of it also too,
is completely separate from the podcast, like you won't hear
it on the podcast. It's just like an extra little surprise.
But it's also nothing crazy or overwhelming. Yeah, at the
little note at the beginning is nothing too. Like sometimes
I've opened up a newsletter from some people and while
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it's great, it's a lot, and then I'm like, oh,
I have time to read that.
Speaker 1 (48:40):
You'll always have time to read our blurb at the
top because it's only gonna be a couple of sentences.
Speaker 3 (48:44):
Oh yeah, yeah, and you never know, it might be
exactly what you need for the day.
Speaker 1 (48:49):
Fabulous, fabulous.
Speaker 3 (48:52):
I kind of do want to try the macaroni salad
and an onion cup.
Speaker 1 (48:55):
I'm not again mayonnaise. I can't be doing that.
Speaker 4 (48:57):
I might try the soup dumpling in the onion cup, yeah,
because I have to just have those soup dumplings in
my freezer right now, but I'm not going to put
the mayonnaise on top.
Speaker 3 (49:08):
Did you say Trader Joe's actually like put up a
picture of Courtney at their story.
Speaker 1 (49:11):
Yes, yes, okay, I saw. I must have saw that
on Instagram. But I think near that. What's the cheese
called in the potato?
Speaker 3 (49:18):
Oh, butter casse? I don't, I don't. That's not how
you say it, but that's how I say it. It's
butter and then ka s e with an accent. Okay, well,
with an or two dots or something.
Speaker 4 (49:28):
Near I think at that cheese there's you know how
Trader Joe's like draws pictures and like they have things.
Speaker 1 (49:34):
They drew a picture of her at the cheese.
Speaker 4 (49:36):
How cool if you walked into Trader Joe's and your
face was next to your favorite Trader Joe's.
Speaker 3 (49:41):
Food, that'd be pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (49:43):
I wonder what my Trader Joe's cartoon would look like? Well,
never know, probably, Well.
Speaker 3 (49:48):
If you want me to go, If you want me
to go, put you up at the Trader Does on
the street.
Speaker 1 (49:52):
I way, can you commission a.
Speaker 3 (49:53):
Trader want me to put you by?
Speaker 1 (49:55):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (49:56):
I can do a little cat character and put it
by something. But what item would we have?
Speaker 1 (50:00):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (50:00):
Let me think I love their soup dumplings I love
their soyake karaoke sauce. I love their frozen pet tie
so good. I love their everything, But the elote.
Speaker 3 (50:13):
That's where mine. I was gonna say, are you taking
that one? Because you already have I'll take that low Ta.
They're the corn chips.
Speaker 4 (50:19):
Yes, I know what I want. All those things I'd
be fine with, but this is what I really want.
I want my face next to the cookie butter ice cream.
Speaker 1 (50:28):
Okay, have you had it?
Speaker 3 (50:29):
Yeah, it's so good, it's so good.
Speaker 1 (50:31):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (50:32):
I would choose the elotation chips over if.
Speaker 4 (50:34):
I want to say free, Okay, I want that. So
if Trader Joe's, if you're listening, feel free to put
my picture next out of ice cream. And I love
like some kind of partnership where like I get a
free supply for the rest of my life.
Speaker 1 (50:45):
Okay, cool?
Speaker 3 (50:48):
They in turn want you to. I don't think you
post enough on your socials to garner people writing to Trader.
Speaker 1 (50:55):
Joe's to start. I see a little motivation. Sometimes I'm
just like, who cares about you?
Speaker 3 (51:02):
Won't I don't think that's not your ribe. You're like
not that girly, which I we're just not. It's Okay,
it's not our thing.
Speaker 1 (51:09):
Okay, well you're hurting my chances right now.
Speaker 3 (51:11):
Sorry, we could evolve. I need to have a different perspective.
Speaker 1 (51:15):
I have it in me for the right price.
Speaker 3 (51:20):
But that's the thing. See, Courtney was doing it for nothing.
Speaker 1 (51:22):
Because she's a good, better person than me. I really
do think she is.
Speaker 3 (51:26):
She is No, I mean, not just you. I just
mean she is like such a.
Speaker 1 (51:34):
That's not what I mean.
Speaker 2 (51:35):
I'm not.
Speaker 3 (51:36):
She's just a ray of light.
Speaker 1 (51:38):
So are you.
Speaker 3 (51:39):
It's okay, I put me with you, like we're in
the same category.
Speaker 1 (51:42):
She's always no. I'm sure she has her days too,
but like I'm not that positive. You know that I
liked upset all.
Speaker 3 (51:52):
Right, But that's that's what it is. Because you have
the day you need to have, right, That's so we'll
close that half the day you.
Speaker 1 (52:01):
Need to have.
Speaker 3 (52:01):
Bye bye.
Speaker 1 (52:09):
Mhm.
Good.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
All right, break it down. If you ever have feelings
that you just won't Amy and Cat gotcha covin locking no, brother,
ladies and fels, do you just follow Anna spirit where
it's all the front over real stuff, tell the chill
stuff and the m but Twayne, sometimes the best thing
you can do it jes stop you feel things. This
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is feeling things with Amy and Kat.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Happy Tuesday. Welcome to feeling things. I'm Amy and I'm
Cat And my feeling of the day is excited times two.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Ooh, okay, Yeah, my feeling is excited and proud and
a little bit caddie.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Okay, do you want to go first? You want me
to go first?
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Well, I can do one excited and then you go
and I'll do the second excited. Okay, So my first
excited has to do with weed of vix because Cat
showed up at my house today with whet of pit
weat a bix wheat uh wheata bix from Courtney Cooks
on TikTok and Instagram. Courtney is a viral sensation. At
(01:11):
the moment you maybe first came across her videos, if
you haven't yet, they will start to show up in
your feed because we're talking about it now. But she
has a sweet potato and she sticks cheese in the
hole and then she just eats it. Or she has
onion cups and she eats it. Which I've tried the
sweet sweet potato and cheese. Nah, it's okay. I was
underwhelmed at first, but then I had the whole block
(01:33):
of cheese because it's a specific hone of cheese, and
I bought sweet potatoes and I was like, well, I'm
not gonna let this go to waste. I'm just gonna
keep eating it.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Do you like that cheese on its own? Would you eat? No? Oh? Really,
you would never like eat that with the crap.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
I've never bought that cheese and I probably won't buy
it again unless I get a handkre ing to put
it in the sweet potato, or I might try a
different kind of cheese than the sweet potato, because I
do have other cheeses that I like. But she likes
the texture of it, which is very America cheese type texture,
and whenever she talks about it, she was like, and
I say that in the best way. I love American cheese,
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is what she says. So that's how she first showed
up in my algorithm. Then we started seeing her eating
Wieda Bix. Then she started dipping her Wieda Bix in chocolate.
And Kat showed up at my house today with chocolate
dipped Wata bix and I am so excited that we
got to try it. And I must say it was yummy.
(02:28):
But then I was like, well, a lot of things
dipped in chocolate would be yummy.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Great. Yeah, it's kind of like flaky cardboard dipped in chocolate.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
But the way good Meata bix just kind of dissolves
in your mouth you dip it in milk. I found
it to be lovely.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
It's good.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
I probably won't make it again. It's expensive. A box
of Weieda Bix is like fifteen dollars.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Where is it coming from? I got it from Amazon,
but I mean originally is it from Europe?
Speaker 1 (02:53):
I feel like she said it's like an English neack.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
But she said there's like Australian Weaeda Bix and there's
African Weata Bix.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
There's like different kinds of.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Weat of b Which one did we get?
Speaker 1 (03:02):
I think we got the English one maybe, okay, but
I don't think our box specifically came from England.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
You're telling me one box was fifteen dollars and.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
There's two sleeves of them.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
It's comparable probably to the amount of servings that are
in a box of cereal. Like it, it's like a
fifteen dollars box of cereal. It was worth it for
the social experiment.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Yeah, because I found it to be quite tasty. It
was fun to have that little, you know, taste with you,
which we'll put it on our Instagram, which is feeling
things podcasts. But Courtney were enamored with her. I didn't
know you were already watching her, and I re shared
one of her things in my stories and then you
replied to that, and you're like, oh my gosh, I
can't stop watching or eat. Wea a mix. And that's
the thing. No matter what she's eating, when you come
(03:44):
across it, you just get drawn in. Yeah, and you
can't stop watching it. I said.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
I watched her eat a hard boiled egg and I
was like, that looks like it's really good. I don't
want to eat that.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Please hear me say, I'm never eating what the hard
boiled egg and the soy sauce with green onion. She
ate the whole green onion, Like the whole green onion,
she just ate it. I think this is what my
thought because a lot of people are trying the foods
that she's been eating.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
A lot of people like and that thousands and thousands
of people.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
And here's what I'm finding as a response is that
like the things she's eating, some of them are good,
like the way to make it's not bad, but it's
not as like fabulous as she says it is.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
But I love that she's fabulous.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
So this is my I'm just have this working theory
right now because even the sweet potato, you had a
better reaction than a lot of people that I've seen
eat the sweet potato with the cheese in the middle
are like this is disgusting, Like people are hating it.
So I wonder because Courtney has such a positive like
light and fun. She seems so sweet, like zest for life.
(04:53):
She probably like she reminds me of Missed Frizzle. She's
probably the best teacher ever, Like I wish she was
my teacher. I wonder if because she has such a
positive outlook on life, it makes the food she eats
tastes better for her. Yes, yeah, like I wonder because
she seems like, I mean, everybody has a bad day.
(05:14):
She seems like she doesn't have a bad day, and
so I feel like she could eat gravel and be
like mmmmmm, this is crunchy.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
I know. I feel like in December, I came across something.
I finally started following her. Her stuff was just popping
up on my feet and I was like, Okay, I'm
gonna just start following her now. And I think her
laundry room flooded or something. And she was making some
video I think coffee or some maybe some weaeda bits.
And she's at her kitchen a lot of times, she's
at her desk at school as a teacher. She's eating breakfast,
lunch or a snack. This was in her home, and yeah,
(05:44):
she was just like, my laundry room flooded. There is
stuff everywhere, you know, just still She's like, but she's like,
but life is good.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Her whole demeanor is just great. She has a good vibe.
She's high vibes.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
She's a bar So even if you don't and I'm
if you don't know who this person is, some of
the stuff she eats his gross. But I promise you're
going to watch it and be intrigued, So don't let
that stop you.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Which I have fun facts about Courtney coming up, I'll
say them. But I did a deep dive into Courtney.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Oh my gosh, It's like I did a deep dive
on Mount Robins.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
You Courtney Cooks.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Okay, well do you want to go into that.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Well, I'm going to get to your feeling and let's
finish feelings of the day and then we can get
into Okay.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
I'm just excited to learn more about her. I told
you I was like, we should have her on the podcast,
because I feel like that would sore us in to like,
what is it, top ten?
Speaker 3 (06:38):
I mean, we'd have to have her, she would have
to eat on the podcast.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Like I think people would just want to hear from
her if we asked her some like hard hitting questions.
This could that could catapult us into like the top
ten podcast, which could eventually earn us a Golden Globe
because did you know that is a category. Now, Oh
I didn't know the best podcast?
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Okay, so you don't know. I'm about to tell you.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
No, I want you to guess who won best podcast,
not best New Podcast or best this podcast?
Speaker 1 (07:06):
What podcast won?
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Was it? Mel?
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (07:09):
I did know they did have that category because I
did see that Mel postedd nomination video of like her
being so excited that she got nominated. I hope you
didn't get that on camera. Cat just made a face. Okay,
you can't gather. Cat's not like the biggest Mel.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
She was nominated, but she didn't win. So let's let's
say the nominated was he wasn't nominated. So the people
nominated and Shannon, you can double check in case I
missed one. It was Mel Robbins, call her daddy, SmartLess,
Dak Shepherd a armchair expert, and good hang with Amy Poehler.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Okay, all of those Okay.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Are those the only things? Oh I didn't do? Up first,
I don't think I have ever listened to that. Okay,
so up first, who do you think one? Did?
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Amy Foller?
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Yeah, which, like, okay, I love Aman Pohler, so like
I always want her to win in think that she's
dominated in. But Patrick pointed out and I was like,
oh Amy Polar won. I thought car her daddy was
gonna win because.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
She's so popular and she had her documentary. Yeah, like
people learned more about her. She said, so many great
guests lately.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
She gets always also like okay, so Patrick was like, oh,
that's crazy. I wonder how what's his name? Amy Pohler's
ex is part of SmartLess.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
What's his name?
Speaker 4 (08:26):
It's not Jason Bateman, It's it's not Sean Hayes, it's
the other guy. Well, yeah, yeah, So I don't know
what their relationship is. I don't know, like what they're
like a cookable yeah, because I'm pretty sure they have
kids together.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
But they've had their podcast for a while and it's
been at the top for a while, and then she
just started her podcast and boom, out of nowhere is
like top and then won this award that has never
been an award before. Like she's gonna she's made history.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Like, I just wonder if Will's like, dang it or
if he's like, she deserves it. I'm really happy for her.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
I hope it's the latter.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Yeah, we'll never know, because he has to say he's
happy for her.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Yeah. Wait, So does this have to do with your
feeling of the day.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
Yes, that's why I was feeling proud. I don't know
why I feel proud. For it's like my daughter.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Yeah, and excited because because I really liked that podcast.
So I was glad at one, and then I was
feeling catty because I was like, take that ex husband.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Yeah, well they do co parent together. They have two kids,
Archie and Abel. They maintain a close, respectful, and even
weirdly friendly relationship.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Oh so he probably was really happy.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
I mean that's just what Google says, right, But let's.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Hope Archie's a really cute name.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Archie and Abel, Yeah, like they're both there, does at
least go really cute together? Okay, so you had your
feelings of the day about that. My excited times too.
So first one was Weeda Bix. The second reason why
I'm excited is I ordered four books. Did you finish
tis the Year of Reading? Did you finish The Nightingale?
Speaker 1 (10:01):
You finish it?
Speaker 3 (10:02):
No, I'm still reading it.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Okay. Did you finish the one that you bought us,
Family of Lies? No?
Speaker 3 (10:08):
I can't. I guess it's just not it's not working
for me.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Dive into it.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Yeah, I try, And then I've moved on to the
Nightingale and I'm giving this period piece a try, and
then I'm just moving on to the good old rom
com category because I watched you know what I'm about
to say. Okay, I watch People we Meet on Vacation
on Netflix, and as I'm watching it, I am pretty
(10:35):
much smiling the entire time. I am obsessed with the storyline,
the characters, everything, and I'm thinking, dang, I wish I
would have read the book. Oh, but now I've already
watched the movie, so it's too late. I can't go back.
So I just look up in Emily Henry who is
the author of that book. And there was a four
pack on Amazon of four of her books, and you
(10:56):
got them in a discount, like a deal if you
bought all four. And I've all four because tis the
year of reading. I bought Happy Place, Book, Lovers Beach Read,
and You and Me on Vacation.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Oh is that a sequel?
Speaker 3 (11:10):
I don't know. I don't know, Okay, I don't know.
All I know is there Emily Henry is supposed to
be the same vibe. And I loved the movie so much.
I give it five out of five. The movie was Vacations.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
So what did you say, Summer vacations.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Yeah, because that's what they did. They want summer vacations together.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Yeah, so am I Henry.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
You'll like these books because all of her books are
just like an easy read and they're like pretty upbeat
versus like the Nightingale, like grab your tissues right.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Yeah, like right now her husband has gone off to
or Hitler's taking over and it's heavy, and so now
I'm like what why, Sure, there's a time and place
for this, but I think right now I need Emily
Henry vibes. I need Poppy and was it Alex?
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Yeah? Poppy?
Speaker 3 (12:00):
What a cute main character name. So yeah, that's Poppy
and Alex opposite to become best friends in college and
take an annual summer vacation for like almost a decade.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
So I read that book. You did well. Anytime I
say I read a book, I want everybody to know
I listened to it on audio.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
That's okay.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
The audible counts, Yeah, it counts.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
So interesting that you said you wish you read the
book because the book was like I was shocked when
I saw that they were making a movie out of
it because the book was just like.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Like it was an easy read. It would be a
good book to read on the beach. That order. No, no, no, no,
no books that are like no, because her well, her
books are like.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
Easy to read and they're entertaining, but they like you're
gonna know what happens in the end kind of thing.
They're feel good I guess.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Yeah. But what was interesting to me is this book
that was like I think mid As Stevenson would say,
or his friends would say, or the kids would say,
that movie top tier, Netflix movie top like it was Netflix,
and that could have been in the movie theaters, don't
you think, Oh.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
For sure, it was really good. The main character guy
who's Alex, who played Alex. Let's look him up, so
because I'm how cute he was, I know, and then
and then he could dance. I was like, what, yeah,
he he's like funny, cute.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
So cute.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
I know that you're married and I have a boyfriend,
but he's only two, he's only thirty. I mean, well,
there's no nothing, there's no chance for anything anyway. But
I'm like, oh, yeah, like I want to be Poppy now.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Poppy was so annoying. What I liked her well, she
became endearing through the movie, but at the beginning, I
was like with the burrito.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Oh, I thought that that was so funny, and I
was like, I love her personality. I would love to
be more like her, just like she is who she is.
You got to show up as she is, and that
was part of the storyline. Is for a lot of
people she was quote too much.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Oh sorry, Poppy, I will say as you get to
know her, I don't want to say too much anyway.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
My point is you do not miss out on anything
by not reading the book.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Okay, Well, I have four books coming my way from
Emily that.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
I'm kind of sad because the one Emily Henry book
I would have recommended isn't in your four pack?
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Oh which one?
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Is it? Funny story?
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Okay, I came across that one, but you're right, it
wasn't in the four pack. But I'll order another one.
I need a little library.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Yeah, color code your books because.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Her artwork is very fun and cute.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Every book cover is so yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
So tom Blythe played Alex and Emily Bader played Poppy.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Have they been in stuff before?
Speaker 3 (14:39):
They didn't familiar to me, but I was like, they
are really good breakout roles and maybe also too. I've
been watching a lot of holiday Christmas movies. I mean, granted,
I know we're in January, but I spent much of
November in December watching cheesy Christmas Hallmark type movies. And
when I was watching this, I was like, Okay, yeah,
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the acting is this is better. We've gone up a
few notches, Like they are killing it.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Speaking of good acting, I've seen, like weirdly a lot
of movies in theaters recently, or just movies that are
in theaters. You know you can rent movies at your
house that are still in the theaters.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Yeah, but you have to pay premium price like twenty something.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
By Yeah, I learned that. But it's cheaper than going
to the movie theater.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Well m m. If you're going by yourself, it's not.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Oh that's true. What's true? Good acting? The Housemaid, which
is also a book. Did you read that? No?
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Oh, read that book. You need to read that book
before you see the movie. A Man of Sifred? Is
that how you say your name or Sefred?
Speaker 3 (15:40):
I say both, Seifred, Seffred.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
Okay, incredible. Usually when I love a book, the movie disappoints.
Doesn't I have a movie that I want to warn
people about watching, like, maybe don't watch it.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Okay, what is it?
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Have you heard of Bogonia.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Never? Okay, is it in theaters?
Speaker 4 (15:59):
It might be still in theaters. We watched it on
like some streaming service, but it's been recently in theaters.
It's the one where Emma Stone's head gets shaved off.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Oh I do know about that, but I didn't know
the title.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
Okay, I got duped because speaking of Armchair Expert, I
was listening to an episode of that with Alicia Silverstone.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Are you familiar with the episode or Alicia's Silverstone?
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Alicia? Okay, of course she was Alicia or Alicia, I say.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Alicia, but Alicia Alicia, Alicia. Okay, maybe it's Alicia. I'm
not saying I'm right. I'm just telling you what I say.
But also, she was in Clueless, okay, and she was
in that Netflix Christmas movie.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Yes it was yes cute, yes, yes, yeah Okay. So
in this interview, she was talking about how she loves
talking about Clueless, but she gets kind of sad because
people don't, like ever want to talk about the things
that she's in now, and she's doing like really cool
things now.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
She wants to talk about those things. One of those
things was this movie Pogonia. So they're talking about that,
and I was like, oh, I want to support her
and like the new stuff she's doing. I didn't even
know Emmastone, and I think Jesse Palmer or some another
really famous actor that I guess is really good actor.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
He's very good actor.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
So I'm like, Patrick, I really want to watch Pegonia
and he's like, what, Like, this doesn't seem like you.
It's about somebody who is a conspiracy theorist who thinks
that Emmastone is a alien. That's the premise of them.
Does do you want to watch that? When I say that, no, okay?
But I was like, but Alicia or Alishoor whatever her name.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Well Shannon fact checked how to say her name and
it is Licia. Oh okay, so you were right. I
was wrong.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
So I want to support her and like good for her.
And I loved her in that Christmas movie.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Also fun fact, you know how she's like very environmental
friendly in that Christmas movie.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
That's her real life.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Say yeah, she's crunchy yeah or granola yeah, because she
I remember we had a story about her on the
Bobby Bone Show. Was like a big thing in the
news when she was like bird feeding her children. Like
where you would like know food and then you put
it in your kid's mouth and it's called a baby bird. No.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Yeah, she didn't talk about that on this podcast.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Well, so the Alien movie's not good.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Uh. I don't want to say it's not good, but
please do not be duped like I was. Alicia was
in it for thirty seconds.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
I'm not even kidding.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
Thirty seconds is like maybe thirty seconds now that scene
she did, she did a impeccable job. She hit her
character correctly. But if you're watching it for her, watch clueless.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
I don't know if maybe she like edited it or
like was a producer, but like she was not like
a huge part of that movie, and I hated it.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Speaking of actresses from back in the day that I
think the like the same time, when was Who's the
Boss out? Probably before Blue Liss, probably before your time?
Did you ever watch Who's the Boss? Growing up? Okay,
so Alicia Silverstone And now I'm like, is that how.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
You say her name? Alicia or Alicia Alicia?
Speaker 3 (19:13):
No, not Alicia Silverstone. No, that's who we're talking about now, No,
my brain, Alyssa Milano.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Oh I know who that is.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
That's what I'm talking about. Yeah, from Who's the Boss.
She is executive producer on a new documentary coming out
about perimenopause called Beyond, and I cannot wait for that.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Oo ooh ooh. Executive producer, so she in her I.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
Think she's also in it. And then there's like doctors
and other experts people sharing their real life experience. But
it's like a deep dive into what is really happening
with perimenopause on what we know today that like the
generation before us just had no infos. So I'm very
excited about that. And that's coming out I think on
January thirtieth or something. Shannon, if you can find out
(19:55):
where people can watch that. Yeah, So Who's the Boss
was on ABC in nineteen eighty four to nineteen ninety two.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
I was a little baby.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Do you know Tony Danza and he was the housekeeper.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
I've never watched that show, so I know who Tony
Danza is, Like, his name is familiar to me, but
if I saw him, I don't know that I would
know that's him.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Tony Danza Is that like a thing?
Speaker 3 (20:19):
I don't know. I just feel like just such a
huge part of my childhood. Okay, and now what is
going to be a part of a lot of people's
childhood is like fast forward twenty years and be like,
remember Courtney Cooks. Remember Courtney Cooks. I remember his mom
was eating those sweet potatoes and stuffing them with cheese that.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Weird juice and she eats the skin of the sweet potato. Ooh.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
I love the skin of a sweet potato. But what
you got to do before you bake it is you
got to oil it down and put some salt and
pepper on it. Okay, so yummy.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
I love the skin of a baked potato, the sweet potato.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
What's the difference.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
It's different.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
It's not different. Different, It's not different. I mean the
inside is different.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Skin it's more earthy.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Are you you're sot shit? It gets That's not what
I mean.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Like it tastes like dirt. I mean it's like more
like bark to me.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Interesting. I'm gonna have to make you one, okay, but
you need to like rub it down.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
I don't usually do that. All in the oil issue.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
And then put some salt and pepper and it is
so yummy.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Balance is coming out. I know it's January thirtieth. I
think Apple TV and Amazon Prime Shannon, and I don't
know what you looked up, but it says early twenty
twenty five, aren't we in twenty twenty six?
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Yeah, January thirtieth, Apple TV and Amazon Prime. So are
we gonna have to pay for it? Probably? But that's okay?
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Wait Apple TV?
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Well, sometimes on Apple and Amazon you have to buy
or rent even if.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
You have Okay, what is the deal with I'm sorry,
this really is grinding my gears? What is the deal
with you pay? You're looking at it like you're scared.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
No, I get what you're gonna say is you're already
paying for a streaming service, and then you have to
pay on top of that.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Well, and you pay for streaming services, and now there's commercials.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Now you have different paths?
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Yeah, like yeah, but if I'm paying at least fifteen
dollars or more for something wide.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
No, not in today's day and age cat because fifteen
is going to get you the commercials, You're gonna need
to up it to twenty something if you want no commercials.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
That to me is isn't that wild?
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Though?
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Well? I think it's inflation you were just standing up for.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Like, no, I'm not, but I pay it too, and
I get it, and I opt for the commercials.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Are you making money off these commercials or something? What's
going on here? No?
Speaker 3 (22:30):
But I opt for the commercials. I guess I just
understand if it's free. Like, I don't want to get
worked up about it because I get it.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
I get it too.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
Money we have, like businesses whatever. If I'm watching TV
and it's free, I understand the commercial. Or if like
I'm listening to a podcast, they're free, and then you
listen to the commercial and then you can there's people
that you can buy something and then you have the
commercial free version.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
That's the point is like, if you pay the money,
then you should get a reward.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Yeah, it depends on which level you want to pay.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
You're the wrong audience for me to talk about.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
He's trying to speak reason into my brain and I
just want to be upset. You know, I'm sorry for that. Okay, Well,
then let's shift gears to Courtney and I'm going to
teach you about her and that'll make me happy. And
who is Courtney? If you're like what I STI don't
understand who this girl is? What is she about? And
why are people obsessed? So Courtney Cook Bales is a
high school English teacher and mom of four from Do
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you know.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
What state somewhere in the south Georgia. I was gonna
say West Virginia. That's not really the south? Is it
is West Virginia? The South? I don't know. It's the west.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
It's not the north, that's for sure. Is it like
its own thing? It's definitely not the west. Did you
just say, is it west?
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Why is it called West Virginia because it's the west
of Virginia.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
It's there's Virginia.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Is it the west of Virginia.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Yeah, but they're both east.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Okay, so the West in summ regard exactly, Okay, it's
the south.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
Yeah, because well I always think in terms of like
the war, the Civil War, like I divide it like
north south.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
What's Virginia considered? Because it's northern to me.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Virgin really even Virginia Regin.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
But they are not southern, right because West Virginia I
wouldn't consider southern. I would consider them country. I can
say that because my family's from there. Yeah, you're like,
I'm not Yeah, I'm not hating on them. Yeah, I'm
from there.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
Okay. She is thirty six years old, and she's gone
viral on TikTok and Instagram for her very specific teacher lunches,
which now.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
She also and she's expanded.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
She's expanded, and maybe she already had those videos anyway,
but her lunches at school or will put her on
the map, and then she has dinners at home.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
I gotta say the lunches are what started me, because yeah,
she would have like a hunk of bread, a like
whole carrot, not a baby carrot, oh, full carrot.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Then all these weird I say that in an endearing way.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
I guess sauces and spreads, and then like a random
hunk of a random piece of cheese, and then like sometimes,
oh my gosh, did you see the one where she
ate Brussels sprouts on the vine?
Speaker 1 (25:17):
What is it called the stock?
Speaker 3 (25:18):
I have a corner lookingly called those like bone in
Brussels sprouts, because you know, like when you there's meat
on the bone, it's like brustles, like random bone.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
Her lunches often include baked sweet potatoes with cheese, whole
green onions, onion cups, which are sweet onions where she
just cuts in half and then takes the little onion
cup and to fill it with stuff and eat it
marinated eggs, lots of mayonnaise, and Weeda Bix. People are
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addicted to her content, like they can't get enough of it.
She realized her taste buds were different back in college
when she shocked her roommates by eating ham with apricot jelly.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Actually doesn't sound that crazy.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Now. The inside of her lunch box has become daily
comfort viewing for people online. Her food philosophy is simple.
Your meals need to hit four needs, sweet, savory, crunchy,
and creamy.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
M she's doing so that's what she abides by, and.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
She keeps her lunches quick and uncomplicated because she's juggling
a full time job and four kids. When grocery shopping,
she grabs whatever looks good and she trusts herself to
just make it work. One example is she saw a
macaroni salad at the deli and immediately knew that it
belonged inside an onion cup. Again, it's a raw, sweet onion,
and it's got to be sweet onion. I saw people
(26:38):
in the comments one time being like I tried this
with just like a white onion. Yeah, No, it's got
to be the sweet onion and you use that. Yeah,
it's the spoon basically, and you bite into it. Her
favorite foods include bread and butter, spicy ramen, raisins, sweet potatoes,
and basically every cheese ever.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
One of her favorite foods is raisin.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Yeah. I don't know, I've heard that. I did see that.
She You know, pomegranate seeds are so yummy, but they're
so expensive or if you buy the pomegranate, you have
to take the time to like soak it in water
and do all the things to get the seeds out.
But then if you buy them in refrigerated section, they're pricey. Well,
I saw she gets some frozen in a bag a
Walmart for like four bucks.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
Here's my question about the pomegranate seeds. The seed is
still in there with it, like it's a seed. It's
like eating a grape with a seed in it.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Yeah, but you eat the seeds, but yeah, you don't
spit out the hard part, right, No, you just eat.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
You're looking like I'm well, I don't know where you're going,
and I don't know who I've no, no, no, no, no,
I'm not looking at you. Like sometimes when I'm looking
at you. I'm thinking like, where is she gonna go?
So maybe if I scarcer? Well no, because I'm like
have And then I'm also thinking like am I eating
pomegranate seeds wrong or no?
Speaker 4 (27:52):
I think you're supposed to eat the seed, But I've
never been a fan of pomegranates because I'm like, well,
this is like eating a grape and eating the seed with.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
It, Like it's just like that's interesting.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
The only thing I eat of a pomegranate is the seeds.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
I think that's the only thing anybody eats.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
You have a seed with a grape you eat. You
don't just like eat the seeds of a grape, like
the pomegranate, that's the part you eat.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
I know that's confusing. I just don't.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
I wish it was just I wish it was just
the fruity part and the seed was not there. I
just like because it's crunchy and it's like kind of
like again like bark. I guess I have a thing
with like bark tasting foods.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Yeah, like what I wish we could remove the seed
and it just be like the red I.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
Mean, the little teeny teeny hard part that's barely noticeable.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Yes, I don't like.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
I had a dinner the other night where there was
couscous so it was a savory couscous dish and they
threw in pomegranate seeds and it was so delicious. You
give perfect combo of so I mean, Courtney, Oh, I
should DMR and be like if you ever tried pomegranate
seeds and couscoasts because it was so that do sweet, savory, crunchy.
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And then if she puts some mayonnaise on top, creamy.
Speaker 4 (29:04):
And that's the other thing about her is I don't
like mayonnaise, and for some reason I can watch her
eat this. It's a little I wish she would do
a little bit less mayonnaise, but it makes her happy,
so I go for it.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
She loads those when she does the soup dumpling cups. Yeah,
here's another fact.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
It's more than a table swooner bite.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
Oh yes, so much mayonnaise. But she puts the whole
When you said she does these onion cups, she puts
the whole thing in her mouth at once.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Like. That's the other thing that I love about her
is she does not care what she looks like when
she's eating like she's just.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Like cute eating though I don't look cute eating.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
She yeah, she does, you look cute?
Speaker 3 (29:46):
Oh thank you?
Speaker 1 (29:46):
But I do not think so she can just like
enjoy I just like love her. What is her like
energy around it? But she puts the whole thing in
her mouth. She's not taking a bite, She's going for it.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
Yeah, she goes for it. The onions, the mayonnaise, the
green onions. I've never eaten a green onion that way.
Should we try?
Speaker 1 (30:06):
No?
Speaker 3 (30:07):
What if she's onto something? And then I need to
know her dental hygiene situation. When she's at school and
she's eating all these onions and then she has to
go teach kids, what does she do? Do we she
brush her teeth after? You know?
Speaker 4 (30:21):
She also has a really good attitude around like her
just said stuff in general, because she'll talk about her
outfits and she'll talk about how.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Her students make fun of her and like say that
she looks like whatever.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
Yeah, like Christmas time, she was like one of my
students just wand me look like a nutcracker.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
And I'm like, okay, yes, does it say what grade
she teaches?
Speaker 3 (30:43):
I know that it's high school. But yeah, it's high
school English British.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
I found in English history.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
I know this from People magazine. Don't blame me, Okay,
they featured her in December. But then I saw BuzzFeed
just had an article about her too.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Did she's taken off, stop being a teacher and just
be a TikTok?
Speaker 3 (31:00):
I don't think so. I think she really enjoys her job.
Who knows. Maybe she's too big and she's like going
all these interviews, maybe like when she flies to come
sit here and do an interview with us. Yeah, cat's
big plan. Yeah, I did see something which speaking of Instagram,
there's an account human school official And speaking of perspectives,
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because she seems to have like a whimsical one. You
know what she is.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
She's whimsicol.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
Oh, and that's something we have tried from time to time,
you know, like when we're taking off, like when we're
cooking with garlic and we smash it and we're like,
time to take your coat off.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
She's so whimsical, she's like naturally, she's not trying.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
She likes that way like so, but who knows, maybe
she had to. There was a point where she was like,
I'm just going to live life with whimsy. There was
a time she was doing the egg thing you were
talking about where she puts the hard boiled eggs marinated
and the so I saus and she pulled it out
and there was two eggs stuck together her and she
pulled it out and she goes, oh, they were hugging
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and she pulled it apart. She's like so cute, and
that is it. That's probably also too why she's so
people kids up watching her.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
She's just like, gives you a goal and she gives you, like,
I feel like, a emotional hug that you need, especially
on the internet right now. Yeah, an emotional hug you
just said, Yeah, like she does and she's.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Like yeah, yeah, okay, okay, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
So this is stuff that it's guaranteed to change your perspective.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
So, what a privilege to be tired from the work
you once begged the universe for which I needed that
reminder the other day because I was just not in
a good headspace about some stuff and I'm like, hmm
mmm mmmm, We're not gonna have that attitude. Would I've
had that early on in my days? No, Because I
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was just so stinking excited to do what I do
just a little way to. I mean, of course you're
gonna have good days and bad days, but I like
that perspective to feel overwhelmed by the growth you used
to dream about. What a privilege to be challenged by
a life you created on purpose? And then what a
privilege to outgrow things you used to settle for.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Ooh, that's a good one. The last one hits Yeah,
wait say that again?
Speaker 3 (33:23):
What a what a privilege to outgrow things you used
to settle.
Speaker 4 (33:28):
For instead of being like mad at yourself too? But
I can't believe It's like, what a privilege that I grew?
Speaker 3 (33:34):
And I yeah like it and that yeah, you had
the awareness to not stay stuck. Yeah, there's a lot
of ways you could look back on something and pick
at it, but just to have that perspective shift of Wow,
what a privilege? What a privilege?
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Yeah sounds like something that Courtney Cook would say.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
I know, Ah, Courtney. I mean she only came into
our lives like a month ago.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
I wonder when she started posting good questions because I
started seeing and I think like a week after I
started seeing her videos, you posted one on Instagram and
I was like, oh my gosh, I thought I was
in like a corner of the Internet people didn't know
about because it seems so like what's the word specific, niche,
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It seems so niche that like this.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
Well, she's growing at a rapid rate. For example, I
pulled up her Instagram a few hours ago when I
was prepping this stuff to do a little fun facts
about Courtney for you, And since I pulled it up
a few hours ago to now, she's already gone up
four thousand followers. So wow, that's pretty quick. Let's see,
(34:43):
I see a post oh, June twenty twenty five, June thirteenth,
twenty foot five, at least that's on Instagram.
Speaker 4 (34:48):
So she started posting then, But I wonder when, like
she started going viral, and like, how quick from the
moment to now?
Speaker 3 (34:55):
So if I go back, well, I mean, I'm sure
people have gone back to watch all yeah videos from
the beginning, but I would say, okay, in this is
her voice, best Mind of the Week, cauliflower cheese mash.
She loves cauliflower cheese, so that's This is her first
reel and it has one hundred and sixty seven thousand views.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
I'm sorry, Wait, you lost me at cauliflower cheese.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
It's a cauliflower dish where there's she's baked.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
It in with cheese. I thought it was like a
type of cheese something weirdly, Okay, it's like a cauliflower
with cheese.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
That's the one where I was telling you that I
couldn't think of what food it was. But this is
a video she posted just I think, like yesterday, and
she was like, if you don't like cauliflower cheese, She's like, well,
then I don't like you. And then she's so sweet,
like she couldn't even handle that. She said that She's like,
just kidding, just kidding. I like you, I like you,
I like you.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
She's so sweet.
Speaker 3 (35:50):
So I would say she's got about on average these
early videos like one hundred and seventy to two hundred
thousand views, and then any thing after that one million,
two million, one million, one million, eight hundred thousand, the
seven hundred thousand, one million.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
I wonder what her first brand sponsorship is going to be, like,
is it going to be Weeda bis Well?
Speaker 3 (36:13):
What I think is so cute and what she's been
doing is people are sending her stuff that have small
businesses and in her video she'll be like, oh, these
are some you know, pickled celery from and she's like, oh,
so cute. And so she's just shouting out these brands.
I don't know, good question. Weeda Bix surely has reached
(36:35):
out to her.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
You know what is really weird is this is my
own assumption because I ordered them off of Amazon. I
feel like Amazon has picked up that she is promoting this,
(37:00):
and it's a thing. Doesn't Amazon do that? Like they'll
stay on top of viral trends? Right?
Speaker 3 (37:05):
I mean, yeah, you think, Okay, here we go at Walmart,
a fourteen out bounce box might be anywhere from eleven
to nineteen dollars, so maybe you paid okay, Weed to Bix.
Prices vary by retailer. A small pack might be like
four bucks, but larger boxes are gonna be over ten dollars,
and it says here in the UK you can find
(37:27):
them for cheap. They're from right, we talked about this,
They're from the UK, right, so we're paying because it's
weed to bis w ee t a b i X
not like wheat like.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
Whe a T What do you think that stands for?
Speaker 3 (37:41):
Then? I just figured it was some European thing.
Speaker 4 (37:43):
But she also said that they have them in like
there's South African or there's Australian weed to bix two. Also,
somebody told me that they dip there's an eggnog.
Speaker 3 (37:51):
Okay, I don't like egnog, but I don't hate the
idea of that.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
I don't either.
Speaker 3 (37:55):
I think sounds kind of good.
Speaker 1 (37:56):
Well, it's like another milk based thing.
Speaker 3 (37:58):
But it's like a thick milk. That's what I think.
The half and half might be good, although I will
say I dipped mine in coffee creamer or vanilla and
it just like.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
Wasn't that great? Yeah, that didn't look like a good option.
Speaker 3 (38:08):
Well, so yeah, I don't to your point, I don't
know that Amazon price scouged.
Speaker 1 (38:11):
Do y'all know what I was gonna say, is I Well,
I just think that yeah, it's expensive.
Speaker 4 (38:15):
But I think that Amazon is on top of the
trend that she's making Weeda bix popular because when I
searched it, this might not mean anything. When I searched
it right next to Weeda bix, was this might just
because it's similar names. The what's it called? Like, it's
like not Wheati's and it's not what are the little
(38:37):
ones that frost in mini wheats?
Speaker 1 (38:39):
It's like, could you look this up, Shannon?
Speaker 4 (38:42):
They were like that, just look up weaed to Bix
on Amazon, and there's one that's like she did a
video on this that was like compared this wheet thing
to Weeda Bix. And then when I searched Amazon, those
are the first two things that showed up.
Speaker 3 (38:55):
But Wheat Bix, No, I did see that Wata Bix,
the wheat bis Quaker.
Speaker 1 (39:02):
There's there's not like an American like shredded wheat, shredded wheat.
Speaker 3 (39:07):
I'm just thinking something like way more.
Speaker 4 (39:08):
Okay, actually I'm rethinking this thought because I was thinking
Amazon was like, oh, Courtney Cook did a video with
shredded wheat and weaed to Bix, so we're gonna make
them both pop up.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
But I bet people were looking for Weeda bucks. We're
seeing shredded wheat and then so she did a video
comparing them.
Speaker 3 (39:24):
Okay, maybe I think before Courtney came on the scene
a long time ago, like maybe before June twenty twenty five,
if you would have searched Weta Bix, you would get
shredded wheat shredded wheat my pop up because they're both
like shredded wheat.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
Yeah, she did say in a biscuit form. She said,
it's not she said it's not the same.
Speaker 3 (39:40):
I get that they're not the same, but like they
have yeah, yeah, okay, you know, like a reine, like
a red grape and a green grape, they're not the same.
Trust me, my kids will tell you. Wow, like yeah,
which the red red? If by green?
Speaker 1 (39:56):
Really?
Speaker 3 (39:57):
They're like, why didn't you get the red grapes? And
I'm like, well, rhetoricora, they are. Sometimes they just taste
different to the cotton candy grapes.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
Those are green.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
They're not huge fans. I bought those too, but sometimes
grapes can vary in price drastically, so I'm like, okay, fine,
I'll just get the green ones because they're less than
the red today, and you know they don't want anything
to do with that. I do have a parasocial email
from one of our listeners, Michelle. Okay, so obviously you
know we're about to talk about Bestead.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
Wait are we having a parasocial relationship with Courtney? Yes,
we are.
Speaker 4 (40:34):
I haven't interacted with her, like the commented on anything
or messaged her, but like I'm not saying I won't right.
Speaker 3 (40:41):
Well, you said you were going to reach out to
her to see if she would have to come over,
then that would be a real relationship eventually. Okay, carry on, Hey,
Amy Kat and Cat, she's addressing cryocat who's doing our video?
So she's very parasocial.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
I thought she were just like saying really loud and Cat,
I don't hear.
Speaker 3 (40:58):
That, Amy Kat and Cat. Well, here I am sending
my very first parasocial email about a parasocial relationship to
my parasocial friends. Thank you, Kat for making me feel
a little less crazy, and please don't feel bad for
your assessment of the outcome of Beth's debt. I had
the same thoughts. One thing I haven't heard anyone address.
(41:19):
The detective actually spoke with the dad in the initial investigation.
The dad then told the detective that he had a
troubled son. Therefore, the dad would have already been aware
of the situation. The son said in the interview that
he didn't want his dad to know about this, and
also said that it was him, the son that spoke
to the detective. I need to go back and listen
(41:40):
to the episode where they addressed this, because yeah, who
did the detective originally talk to?
Speaker 1 (41:46):
What?
Speaker 3 (41:46):
Because you would think they would have put together that
he originally talked to the dad.
Speaker 1 (41:52):
So did this Wait, I'm confused. Did the son say
that he was the one that saw the detective even
though the detective said he spoke the dad.
Speaker 3 (42:00):
I believe the son said, yeah, I'm the one that
talked to him. Okay, well, so here's my thoughts on that,
and then I'll get back to the amount now that
I'm thinking about it. Could the son have been acting
like the dad to be called because the reason why
it has to be the dad, whoever it was, whether
it was the dad or the son acting as the
dad to say I have a troubled son, is now
(42:23):
that you're on the phone with the dad. But then
in the interview when they got on the voice changer
with him, he's the one that talked to right, So
I think it's valid point. Yeah, interesting because she says
here the son said in the interview that he didn't
want his dad to know about this and also said
that it was him the son that spoke to the detective. Huh,
(42:44):
So who did the detective actually speak to in the
initial investigation. Was it both of them? Possibly? Is there
a possibility they acted together like not like sick how
we say sick, but like sickck. That's weird if they
did that, I.
Speaker 1 (42:57):
Don't think does she mean acting together as like they
made all these the whole thing they're doing it that
is that would okay?
Speaker 3 (43:05):
Uh huh, like they scheme the whole thing. Like many
have said, something isn't adding up. Also me forty one
a double spacer myself because that is how we were
taught in APA formatting. Wonders if the reply emails back
from the Sun about appearing on the podcast were double spaced.
So many questions. Hope we all have the day you
need to have Michelle your parasocial friend in Knoxville and
(43:27):
Avid Part twour of the Bobby Bone Show.
Speaker 4 (43:30):
Okay, I'm just thinking to myself, there are so many ways,
easy ways we could like want poke holes in this.
But it doesn't take an expert to like come up
with ideas to figure this out. Why couldn't they just
see whose phone number that was? Like, that's what's so confusing,
the phone number that he was giving to them. The
(43:50):
Sun says it was his Why couldn't you just reverse
look that up on the internet and look at who
that phone number belongs to.
Speaker 3 (43:58):
Which is dat I'd be under his dad's name.
Speaker 4 (44:01):
Yeah, but like when I was on my mom's plan,
it was on her plan but had my name on it.
If you looked at up, like I think that there's
something on the foot here.
Speaker 1 (44:10):
Like I just think that. Yeah, thank you for your email,
because I like hearing that I was not being too judgmental,
even though I also feel solid in my feelings.
Speaker 3 (44:21):
No, every correspondence we got, which I think, no, I
don't think. I know one hundred percent of them were
on your side. So you know there's more, way more
out there. Because I understand what it takes to call
in an email. That's not lost on me, Like it
takes a lot to call in an email. So thank
y'all so much for those of you that do want
to interact. And I don't want the parasocial best said stuff.
(44:44):
I keep saying this, but I don't want us to
change our relationship with our listeners for them to be
like I don't want to be weird.
Speaker 1 (44:49):
That's very different. It's very very different.
Speaker 3 (44:52):
Well, I know, but because we talk about having these
relationships and we keep talking about parasocial and it's like, yeah,
you don't know these people, and it's like, well, why
I would I interact? But don't ruin the fun. Like
we can still have great correspondence, and that's what we
want this to be. Like we're all talking as friends,
and so that doesn't work if y'all don't send stuff
(45:13):
in as our friends and stuff that we can share
with others and then y'all can even connect in other ways,
it doesn't work.
Speaker 4 (45:22):
And I was gonna say, sometimes when we get stories
from people, especially like couch Talks questions, I like getting.
Speaker 1 (45:28):
A update an update.
Speaker 4 (45:30):
Oh yeah, I like getting an update, and so that's
not weird. I think the best stead thing that was
just too much up. It went from update to like
that person was emailing every day trying to like get
connection every single day from them, versus like you're just
giving us an update on something that like we put
energy into and we now know about and we care about.
Speaker 1 (45:53):
That's very different.
Speaker 3 (45:54):
Yeah, So keeps me compdates, Yeah, keep them coming. Hey,
they're at Feeling Things podcast dot com or you can
call us eight seven seven two oh seven two oh
seven seven We also have a newsletter, which is another
way to get connected to us, and I have an
email from Mary saying, hey, I signed up for the
newsletter and I've only gotten one on November nineteenth. Kat
mentions it from time to time on the podcast, but
(46:15):
I have not received any new ones. I've checked my
spam folder and nothing's in there either. Is there a
way to see if I'm still on the list? Thanks?
Speaker 1 (46:22):
Mary? Are you asking me that?
Speaker 3 (46:24):
Well's just I don't know what if somebody else is like, oh,
I've only gotten I thought they only sent out one newsletter.
You know they're going out every other week.
Speaker 1 (46:32):
Well, we took a little bit of a break in December.
There'll be one tomorrow. Okay, so Wednesday, this Wednesday, they'll
be one tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (46:39):
Don't get one.
Speaker 4 (46:40):
If you don't get one tomorrow, then send us something.
I have to like move the emails from one sign
up to another. They're probably easier way to do it,
but I'm learning as I go.
Speaker 1 (46:50):
But this is Mary. I'll check yours before I send
the email. Sometimes.
Speaker 4 (46:56):
When you also, if you've ever especially if you ordered
something from us too, if you unsubscribe from like that,
it might unsubscribe from like the newsletter too.
Speaker 1 (47:08):
Does that make sense?
Speaker 3 (47:09):
Yeah, I mean I get it, but I don't know.
Speaker 1 (47:12):
I don't know, and then we'll figure it out.
Speaker 3 (47:13):
I've done that, so we'll we'll work on that. Note
that you can still sign up and we'll fix it.
Fix it and try to keep our newsletters coming and exciting.
We include like fun little things like links to stuff
for loving and nothing like crazy or expensive, like it
might be like my favorite Q tip, Like it's not. No,
it literally was your favorite Q tip yeah, because it's
(47:35):
got a pointed end. And I was like, this is
a game changer. I actually just ordered another box should
be coming arriving today on the porch because I was
out and I was like, Okay, once you go pointy
one side, round tip the other, you can't go back.
I can't go back to round round. It's gotta be
a pointy round.
Speaker 1 (47:50):
Well, I haven't gone there yet, so I'm living in
the olden days.
Speaker 3 (47:54):
Yeah. I can give you some from my new box
when it arrives if you want to get my own,
since you shared your wid a box with me, I
can trade you Q tips for.
Speaker 4 (48:05):
But if we ever talk about something on here, like
your Q tips or something like that. If it's that week,
I'm trying to link that thing in the newsletter.
Speaker 3 (48:14):
So yeah, are like what we're reading, what we're watching,
another encouraging note or things that. Some of it also too,
is completely separate from the podcast, like you won't hear
it on the podcast. It's just like an extra little surprise.
But it's also nothing crazy or overwhelming. Yeah, at the
little note at the beginning is nothing too. Like sometimes
I've opened up a newsletter from some people and while
(48:35):
it's great, it's a lot, and then I'm like, oh,
I have time to read that.
Speaker 1 (48:40):
You'll always have time to read our blurb at the
top because it's only gonna be a couple of sentences.
Speaker 3 (48:44):
Oh yeah, yeah, and you never know, it might be
exactly what you need for the day.
Speaker 1 (48:49):
Fabulous, fabulous.
Speaker 3 (48:52):
I kind of do want to try the macaroni salad
and an onion cup.
Speaker 1 (48:55):
I'm not again mayonnaise. I can't be doing that.
Speaker 4 (48:57):
I might try the soup dumpling in the onion cup, yeah,
because I have to just have those soup dumplings in
my freezer right now, but I'm not going to put
the mayonnaise on top.
Speaker 3 (49:08):
Did you say Trader Joe's actually like put up a
picture of Courtney at their story.
Speaker 1 (49:11):
Yes, yes, okay, I saw. I must have saw that
on Instagram. But I think near that. What's the cheese
called in the potato?
Speaker 3 (49:18):
Oh, butter casse? I don't, I don't. That's not how
you say it, but that's how I say it. It's
butter and then ka s e with an accent. Okay, well,
with an or two dots or something.
Speaker 4 (49:28):
Near I think at that cheese there's you know how
Trader Joe's like draws pictures and like they have things.
Speaker 1 (49:34):
They drew a picture of her at the cheese.
Speaker 4 (49:36):
How cool if you walked into Trader Joe's and your
face was next to your favorite Trader Joe's.
Speaker 3 (49:41):
Food, that'd be pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (49:43):
I wonder what my Trader Joe's cartoon would look like? Well,
never know, probably, Well.
Speaker 3 (49:48):
If you want me to go, If you want me
to go, put you up at the Trader Does on
the street.
Speaker 1 (49:52):
I way, can you commission a.
Speaker 3 (49:53):
Trader want me to put you by?
Speaker 1 (49:55):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (49:56):
I can do a little cat character and put it
by something. But what item would we have?
Speaker 1 (50:00):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (50:00):
Let me think I love their soup dumplings I love
their soyake karaoke sauce. I love their frozen pet tie
so good. I love their everything, But the elote.
Speaker 3 (50:13):
That's where mine. I was gonna say, are you taking
that one? Because you already have I'll take that low Ta.
They're the corn chips.
Speaker 4 (50:19):
Yes, I know what I want. All those things I'd
be fine with, but this is what I really want.
I want my face next to the cookie butter ice cream.
Speaker 1 (50:28):
Okay, have you had it?
Speaker 3 (50:29):
Yeah, it's so good, it's so good.
Speaker 1 (50:31):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (50:32):
I would choose the elotation chips over if.
Speaker 4 (50:34):
I want to say free, Okay, I want that. So
if Trader Joe's, if you're listening, feel free to put
my picture next out of ice cream. And I love
like some kind of partnership where like I get a
free supply for the rest of my life.
Speaker 1 (50:45):
Okay, cool?
Speaker 3 (50:48):
They in turn want you to. I don't think you
post enough on your socials to garner people writing to Trader.
Speaker 1 (50:55):
Joe's to start. I see a little motivation. Sometimes I'm
just like, who cares about you?
Speaker 3 (51:02):
Won't I don't think that's not your ribe. You're like
not that girly, which I we're just not. It's Okay,
it's not our thing.
Speaker 1 (51:09):
Okay, well you're hurting my chances right now.
Speaker 3 (51:11):
Sorry, we could evolve. I need to have a different perspective.
Speaker 1 (51:15):
I have it in me for the right price.
Speaker 3 (51:20):
But that's the thing. See, Courtney was doing it for nothing.
Speaker 1 (51:22):
Because she's a good, better person than me. I really
do think she is.
Speaker 3 (51:26):
She is No, I mean, not just you. I just
mean she is like such a.
Speaker 1 (51:34):
That's not what I mean.
Speaker 2 (51:35):
I'm not.
Speaker 3 (51:36):
She's just a ray of light.
Speaker 1 (51:38):
So are you.
Speaker 3 (51:39):
It's okay, I put me with you, like we're in
the same category.
Speaker 1 (51:42):
She's always no. I'm sure she has her days too,
but like I'm not that positive. You know that I
liked upset all.
Speaker 3 (51:52):
Right, But that's that's what it is. Because you have
the day you need to have, right, That's so we'll
close that half the day you.
Speaker 1 (52:01):
Need to have.
Speaker 3 (52:01):
Bye bye.
Speaker 1 (52:09):
Mhm.
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