June 26, 2026 • 25 mins
Lauren Lapkus is back and desperately trying to be a “cool parent,” as long as no one finds out she used to kiss the TV when Brandon was on 90210.
Plus, Danielle and Lauren dive into the challenge of finding clothes your kids will like, and a listener shares a story that proves there’s no limit to the level of embarrassment a parent can bestow upon their kin.
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
That's that's okay.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Because no one here is.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Every week I ask my listeners, the residents of Beete Street,
if you will to send in their own embarrassing stories
from childhood in hopes that it will make us feel
less alone and put in shame. This week we hear
about a diner debacle from Rachel.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Hello everyone, my name is Rachel. I'm forty two years
old from Omaha, Nebraska. When I was a teenager, I
was out to lunch with my dad at a really
small diner in a small town in Iowa. Across the
room there was a really cute boy sitting directly across
from me. We kept making eye contact. He started smiling
(01:05):
and then eventually was winking at me. I was already
mortified because I was there with my dad, so I
told him, do not turn around, Please do not embarrass me.
Now there's an important detail you must know. My dad
has had faked teeth for almost his entire life since
he was a child. So we're eating lunch. Everything's going fine,
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and then suddenly, without warning, my dad's entire top row
of teeth just falls out of his mouth straight into
his mashed potatoes. Mashed potatoes, splash, all over the table.
I watched it happen in slow motion. The boy watched
it happen in slow motion. There's no recovery from that,
(01:51):
and I never saw that boy again.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Oh that's cute. Oh my god, that's so funny. That's crazy.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
I thought it was going to be soup.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I feel like, I say, he was going to take
him out and go like, hey, yeah, I know.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Thought for sure it was going to be something he
purposefully did to embarrass her.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Did you feel like your parents were embarrassing when you
were a kid.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
I remember telling them to stop and shut up, and
I don't know what they were doing. Actually, I'm sure
they were fine. But yeah, no, yeah, I don't really
remember them embarrassing me too much, which is pretty good.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
It is good.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Yeah, were yours?
Speaker 3 (02:26):
No, I didn't think my parents were embarrassing. I actually
thought my parents were really cool. It was good. Yeah,
it's great. I mean, my kids are not going to
feel that way about me. I just know it's so weird.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
I mean, I don't know what. I don't know how
they're going to perceive. I feel weird about like what
I do with what my kids. YEA, like think of
the world and stuff, and so that's like something I
try to I'm trying to figure out, like how do
you explain this? And like, I don't know, it's a
weird job. Like she's come to set and she really
enjoyed it and had a great time. Then I was
like ash and then she was like, I want to
be an actor, and I was like.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
You and here we are. Yeah, I know, but also if.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
She wants to and she's good, that's I mean, you.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Know exactly the thing.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
I know. Adler has started to It's a little better now.
I think I'm grateful that I waited to have kids
until the industry and my career was in a place
where I do so many different things, yes, and that
there isn't just one thing mommy does for work, because
if say I were still on something like Boy Meets
World and my job was mostly of actor, I think
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it would be harder for me to explain it to
him because he does wonder like why do some why
do people want to take pictures with you? And I
tell him, well, because remember, mommy was on a TV show,
So as far as they're concerned, I was in their house.
I was on their television in their own home. They
feel like they grew up with me, and so that's
a way to explain it. They want to take a
picture with me because they feel like they know me
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because I was on their TV screen, and he's like, right, okay.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
But then he also gets to see me direct.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
So when I go to sets and now I'm a director,
I take videos of the different sets that were on.
I'm like, and this is what's happening in this scene,
and I can send that to him. He also so
knows I host podcasts, so I get to talk and
like share my opinions on things for a living. So
I'm there's so many things we do.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Yeah, yeah, it's true because I mean when I go like, Okay,
I'm gonna go do a show tonight. I'm gonna go
make people laugh at the audience or whatever, and it's like,
that's different than what I'm doing when I'm pretending to
be this character. And I showed her like a bit
of the new show that I'm doing, and she was
like she had come to set. So I was like
wanted to show her and she was like, are you pretending?
Like that's pretend because there was like some kind of
intense things She's like, let's pretending, right, I'm like, oh, nobody,
(04:29):
it was all pretending, Like remember how you saw us.
It's kind of helpful to like bring her to let
her see that we're just kidding and we're just you know,
in between these moments, we're just standing around talking.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
But it's also good if you show something to them
that's a little scary or because either that was something
I was very much. I was like, we could pause
and I could go, you know how mommy directs direct stuff.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Yeah, there was a director.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Who was telling them to act this way, and there
was and so all of everything you're.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Seeing is fake. It's all fake. It's makeup, it's this,
it's that, and it's it actually goes a long way.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
But I walk a fine line with that because I
sort of enjoy how I didn't understand that at all
as a kid, right, And so I'm like, you know,
we'll hear like we're watching a cartoon with her and
we're like, oh, that's our friend. And I'm like, I'm
I don't tell her that that's our that's our friend,
Like that's so weird, like that's our friend doing that,
Like you no, it's just the character. Like I don't
know it's weird.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
No, you're right, And there have been moments that, even
with wrestling, because my kids are very into wrestling, where
I feel a little like the mystique is gone because
they're like, mom, it's your friend, right, I mean, no,
that's world wrestling champion, you know, like, yes it is.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
But but.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
You and your husband, Mike Castle are both universally considered
funny people, and your kids will probably think you're painfully unfunny,
but right now they do think you're very funny.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
I'm assuming do you plan to be embarrassing on all
my guests to your kids? Do you want to?
Speaker 2 (05:52):
I don't want to be embka, I don't want to.
I want to be chill. I'm sure I will be
embarrassing just by the fact that I'm how I am,
and I'm sure i'll say something weird. So I don't know. So,
I mean, I can't even predict how it'll come to pass.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
But you know, some parents really do want to, like, yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Know, I don't want them to be upset from something
I'm doing on purpose, like exactly, No.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Okay, yeah, I don't want I don't know. I can't
even I can't even imagine wanting to want to do that.
I wish my kids trusted that I had good style. Yeah,
because I buy very cool clothes for my kids.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
My kids won't wear any of the cool stuff that
I wear. I buy that I buy them. I buy
them like wide leg pants, like really cute. Like I
love when little kids wear this stuff. I think it's
like the cutest thing ever. They will not nothing that
is like cool at all, nothing fashionable, nothing fashionable. They
so I try to lean into like the characters they
like and just get them whatever characters, because I just
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then they'll be excited about it. But anything I've bought,
anything I spend money on or go out of my
way to get, like even like things that aren't that expensive,
but like Zarro or something, I'm like, that's so cute.
It's all just has the tags on, it's never worn,
and then I give it to somebody else and hope that.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
They get to wear it, and hope that they will
their kids will wear it. I know it drives me insane.
Adler recently decided he no longer wants character underwear. He
wants blank underwear like grown ups wear. Okay, and I said,
all right, got it? I wrongly assumed that that would
(07:25):
translate into bathing suit shorts, right that the Pokemon bathing
suit shorts out like Pokemon underwear is out. So I
bought him generic just like stripes cool, you know, just
normal bathing suit shorts. And then I handed him a
pair today and I was like, here you go. He's
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going to camp and he's like, what these?
Speaker 1 (07:48):
What are these?
Speaker 3 (07:49):
And I was like, they're like shorts like Daddy would wear,
you know, like the same way you wanted underwear. And
he was like, I don't want to wear these. I
don't like stripes. Stripes aren't my thing.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
And I was like, see, those moments are so funny
to me because they're like you don't understand me. Yeah,
you don't understand, Like I actually thought, I really did.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
I really took what you said.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Apparently I tried to go above and beyond correct. He
then put on his Pokemon bathings.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
What is this?
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Is there anything else like that you've tried to get
your kids into that they just don't connect with m
other than fashion, Like have you.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Ever tried to guide them into a hobby?
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Yeah, I think we're getting into that a little bit,
where like there's certain shows, like we want them to
watch things that are that we can enjoy a little more.
And Mike put on Bob's Burgers.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
Yes, she was loving, but it's got such adult jokes
so that we were like, you don't really think about
it when you're watching it, And then we were like,
oh my god, every don't try to explain that, like
that's not good.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
So that's tough because I let her watch a lot
of what she wants to watch, but I try to.
Like the one thing I'm trying to get her away from,
which is really hard to do, is like that animation
from like two thousand and seven where it's like if
everyone first got a computer or something, right, yes, and
it's just like I hate how it looks, and usually
it's not very good, like in general, and she will
(09:24):
get very addicted to some of those shows and I'm like,
you know, MoMA doesn't like this one. I don't like
these yeah, And then I still can't. I have a
hard time really turning it off right now. I let
I just let it happen.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Yeah, You're like, I don't like it, but maybe next
time I'll just make a different choice. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Yeah, I think when I was growing up like we
could watch anything, and I'm fine. So I watched Nanoto
and O when I was like five. I remember kissing
the TV when I saw Brandon. Oh my gosh, did.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
You get a static shock? Oh?
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Oh god, yeah, I remember that. Oh my god. Yes,
but I remember doing that and my mom was never
in the room. I was always watching Nanoto, yeah whatever.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
I had all the dolls, famously not allowed to watch
even in junior high.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Oh wow, I mean it's not It wasn't good information
that I was.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
But what I'm just look at both of us, we
both it doesn't so it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
I had my godfather who owned some burging franchises, which
isn't a side, but it was cool because I would
always get the coolest toys. I got all the Simpsons
dolls when they had those plushy Yes, I still have,
of course Maggie. But he got me who always buy
me the most of whatever. The thing was so like,
I got all the nine, O, two and O dolls
for one Christmas, you know, and it was I still
(10:33):
have Brenda and Dylan. I have no clothes and I
really need to figure this out. You're learning they were
doing that.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
That's why you collect those little naked baby dolls.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
I love my sunny angels. I have of sunny angels,
which are amazing. I still connect those to this day
and my kids try to play with them, and I'm like, again,
these are toys. I want these. I want a display case.
I need like a really good do.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
You guys talk about it? Safe? Oh angels?
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Right now, they're a mixing bowl in a clauset. It's
not ideal.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
I was like, yeah, you know what, maybe you need
What if you got them all individual like Funko style
loose cases, think them.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
I probably I kind of want one long thing where
they can all be standing, much like my display that
I had when I was a kid.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Okay, something else you can bring back home?
Speaker 2 (11:24):
When you bring them little like sticky stuff and make
them all stand up, that would be really fair.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Pot gravels.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
I kept those for a long time too. I kept
I kept a collection of soaps forever, and I actually
recently got rid of them because they'd all shrunk down
to like ip shring I don't know, it's like dehydrates.
They were all different shapes like I had, like you know, animals,
and that's my sub collection. Yeah, and that and I
(11:56):
have that furniture still, so that was pretty recently that
I got rid of them. But yeah, they Yeah, I
had Mickey Mouse that was a really good one. That
was the top left. Yea, there was a sheep that
I just loved so much. It smelled so good.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
I love the fish right in the center.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Yeah, I would put them in this box. I had
this like special Ralph Lauren box that said Lauren on
it that had like it was like a oval like
a brown oval box with like a ribbon that tied,
and I kept my soaps there, each wrapped in an
individual tissue, and then I would take them out and
smell them and look at them. I love them.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
I love looking at that at that.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
That's good.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Man, you have some great you have great colluttioning stories.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Yeah, it made me.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Feel like I should collect things.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
I think I probably have more than I'm not even
remembering right now. I mean I had journals that was
I journaled all my life, and I have all my
journals that they're good stuff. Yeah, a lot of times
I would journal, and this probably I probably did have
OC would still have it, huh. But I would write
down what I did that day more than like feelings.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
That's what I thought journals were for. Today, I went
to school, I did my homework. My mom and I
got in a fight.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Yes, it was just like.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
I wish I wrote more like what I was feeling,
or like weird things that happened, because it's it's not
as like interesting to look back at. But I like
having them.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
That's so great.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
I send my kids emails.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
I got them their their email addresses, their names, and
then I whenever one of them says something really funny
or does something amazing, or or something just super mundane
but that I know, like I want to remember this,
I will send it to them in an email. And
I also started to make it easier sending via email
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voice notes.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
So man, so important. This is going to be the
most amazing thing for them when they get older.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Yeah, so that they have my voice instead of just
reading an email.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Because I think about the fact that, like I still
have a voicemail from my grandfather, all.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
My voicemails from people like that.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Yeah, and I think, like I wish I you know.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
So anyway, Yeah, great, great thing to do to kickstart
the journal idea for your kids.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
I love. I have a little notebook that's like like
I write down things that they say, but I don't
often remember to do it. I think an email is
better because you can just do it when you're on
the go.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Exactly the minute it happens. Yeah, you're like, I'm going
to send that in an email. This just happened. Like
little things they say that you know once they go away,
like Keaton calls a trampoline a bounce Selene, and I like, yeah,
that's what it should be called, or it should be
a bounce Selene. I think that's so cute. We as
a family go to the mall every weekend. Did you
(14:39):
go to the mall growing up near Chicago? Was that
a thing you did as a kid.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Yes, my mom loves the mall. My mom and I
would go to the mall with my mom all the time.
I love shopping now, but yes, we always went to
the mall. And then as a teen, we would get
dropped off of the mall and wander around and our
mom was an outdoor mall. Okay, so the winter not great,
not so, but there were time of the year where
we would go see a movie or like then walk
around or whatever and go shopping, bath and body works.
(15:05):
Oh yeah, cucumber mellen That still reminds me of that
time in my life. I remember I went on a
school trip that was a very special trip where I
got to go to London in Scotland with like my
reading club or something. Who knows.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Oh my gosh, that sounds fine.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Yeah, it was really cool and that's actually got an
award during the trip for me doing an impression of
our tour guide. Everyone loved me so much that at
the end we were given awards, and mine was for
making fun of this poor man. Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Your teachers were very They were like, this is a
real talent.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
They I also always did Judge Judy and they loved that.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
But can we see a little of Judge Judy now?
Speaker 2 (15:42):
No, you know what it was really me at thirteen
got it all right? I don't. I haven't tried it
since then, and I don't know. But no, that trip, wait,
what was I going to say?
Speaker 1 (15:51):
There was a point London in Scotland won an award.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
So we shared a room with other kids from the
group and they were friends of mine or whatever, and
this girl had she brought the cucumber mellon. I didn't
even ever think to travel with so I also didn't
travel at all, but I didn't think to like bring
that with me or something that's a home thing. Yeah,
and it smelled so good and the room smelled so
much like it that it always reminds me of that trip,
and it was like such a special time.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
The vanilla there was a vanilla that Bath and Bodyworks
used to make that was the signature scent of my
dear friend Vanessa Evigan in high school.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
And Vanessa Evigan's.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Ford Explorer reeked in the best way possible of vanilla.
And every time I smell that that vanilla bean scent, yes,
and I hear sublime. I am instantly in a Ford
Explorer driving down Pacific Coast Highway on my way to Malibu.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
I again, that was my set.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
That sounds amazing. It was in I feel like, I
don't know if you relate to this, but I feel
like at this age of now that I'm forty, I
don't know if that's if it's a nostalgia thing at
this age, but I've started really listening to the music
from like that time period and it's kind of all
I want to listen to, and I love it and
it's making me feel so good. And then I'm like, oh,
this is how people get old and they only listen
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to the stuff they liked when they were a teenager.
They were like, oh no, I'm doing it. I'm doing
it here.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
It is.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
I barely know new songs like they'll get introduced to me.
I'm like, oh, that's great. I should have heard that.
I'll learn them on you know, Instagram. And I'm like,
how do people know about songs like I don't because
also I don't listen to the radio.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Oh I know, but we also used to have MTV.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
That we were all united.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
We were united in like bring us the new music
this week.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Yes, And I feel also I think listening to the
regular radio is good, Like I should do that more
because you get you just get hip to what's going on,
getting hip to it, getting one hundred and even. I
know it's not good, no, but I do like I
like Green Day. I'm like putting back on these.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Old might I suggest pop rocks serious?
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Ex Oh okay, it's nineties and early two and two thousands,
uh pop?
Speaker 2 (17:55):
You know even serious. I used to listen to so
much and now I'm so in my phone that it's
like not even fun. Oh, it's almost like your algorithm
knows you so well. They only play you never hear
something unusual on your on my phone. Like I'm like,
I need to get back into the radio. Yeah, get
back into the radio.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
I enjoy that because it Like Also, Adler was in
the car with me the other day and I turned
on we were coming back from the doctor and I
turned on Pop Rocks and I got to I was like,
this is blank one eighty two and you can introduce it, yes,
And he was like I really like this. I was like, yes, okay, good,
this is fun. This was a fun little experience for us.
In what way would you say you are most different
(18:30):
from teenage Lauren to now forty year old Lauren M.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Hopefully a good amount of ways, but also probably not
that many. I feel like I my confidence is so
much better that I just I'm like fine with myself. Yeah,
where I think then there's so much that you're like
grapplnk with that you're just like oh my god, or
like I don't know how to talk to it. Like
all the things that give you anxiety or me gave
me anxiety. Yeah, and I would stress about I don't
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feel at all, and I feel like I have improv
to think for so much of that because it was
like that that got me at such a young age,
where it was like you were gonna look stupid, You're
gonna say something that's wrong, and then everyone's gonna forget
like it doesn't matter, like yeah, and moving on as
fast as you can from the last thing to the
next thing, and just like letting it go. I still
ruminate on things, but I feel like it's that that
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difference feels huge to me, where I'm like, well, I'm
I know, I'm a good person, and like I'm nice
and I'm curious about people, and like I don't have
to be self conscious and then you don't have to
perform that.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Yeah, it just is who I am.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
I don't have to perform it and worry that everyone
sees it.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Yeah, that is for me.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
The greatest thing about getting older is like it doesn't
mean I don't care.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
No, I care still very much.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
About people and about things, but I can soften to
the idea that if someone does.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Not like me, that is okay. Yeah that's okay. Yeah
I don't like some people too.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
That's the thing that's the thing. It goes both ways.
Speaker 6 (19:57):
It's okay, it's okay, it's totally fine.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Are you when you're thinking about the future and your kids,
are you nervous about social media?
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Totally?
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
I don't want that to even exist. I think it's
I mean, I think I will not let them have
it until I feel like eighteen.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
I think if I had had this when I was
that age, that would have been so damaging because we
had AOL and we I got bullied on AOL by
people at school. Really, yes, there were Oh my god.
So my friends and I would always go, you know,
we go to each other's house and stead at the
computer and go online. It was a very big event,
and I was like all we wanted to do. And
then you see who's signing on and chat with them,
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and like there's always like the boy you like or
just like someone you're friends with or whatever, and so
you you're just like waiting and then suddenly, out of nowhere,
there was a name we didn't know that was messaging everyone.
It was a face. I'll say it now, silly willy seven.
I didn't forget. Do you think you know I know
who you are?
Speaker 1 (21:05):
To do you?
Speaker 4 (21:07):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Say it. Well, what, we'll believe it. We'll believe it. Wow,
what did they say? What did they say?
Speaker 2 (21:20):
No, they would be so mean and they bullied a
bunch of us, but they would I was very skinny
and they would say I was anorexic. I mean there's
things like that. There's really mean shame to show or
make fun of, like my friend for like who she
had a crush on. But like we didn't know who
they were. Yeah, so it was very scandalous because it
was like we would go on and they'd be like,
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oh my god, are they're gonna be there? And then
they would be and then they're talking to us and
you but you would let it happen, like you wouldn't
bother them never. I don't know if you could.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
I know, I don't know if that was.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
But you know, hearing that creaking door from all I
remember that it can be a haunting sound. You gonna blantern.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
You need to write, you need to write this horror movie. Okay,
the creaky door. I'm gonna get creaky.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Yeah, I love.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
That, silly Willy seven. Yeah, we now remember how'd you
figure out who they were?
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Someone told me years later it was like that kind
of thing.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
I don't that wasn't as good of a story. As
I cut that part.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Someone told me I never in front of them, nothing happened.
They got away with it.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Oh my gosh, speaking of social media, and this is
a good content making opportunity that I'm just dying to
do with you and Mike.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Can we lock in a Japan trip with our families?
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Oh my god, that would be the best thing ever.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
I'm dying to go to Japan.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Your husband and you guys are obsessed with Japan's.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
And he's going again this summer, and we were gonna
take the kids, but then we ended up not he's
in a wedding in Japan, Oh my gosh. And so
he's actually going with my dad randomly. Oh see, your
dad is his plus one? Yeah, okay, my dad's gonna
go to Japan with him and then go to the
wedding and everything. But which my dad's never been there
and we wanted him to go, So it was gonna
be like a whole big family thing. And then it's
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going to be an aug I was like two and
a five year old in August heat. It's really really
hot there at that time. We've been there before then
and it's like kind of unbearable, and I know that
they'll just be complaining. I would go there, but like
they'll just be complaining the whole time. So I want
to go when my younger one is like four. So
in like two years, if we do that, listen, know
how fun that would be? That would be insane.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Let's I am on board.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
I know two years in advances a little too early
to start planning something, but let must be the way
to do it.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
I'm all for it.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
And in two years, I think it'll be perfect because
Adler will be almost nine, that's creating will be almost seven, and.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Hell it will be seven. And then you be four,
which I think is old enough to go along.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
The very earliest time to make that kind of big
travel with it. Four is four is going to be great?
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Yeah, because I think I want to be the kind
of person who just does anything and goes wherever. But
I like, I'm like, or I'll be so miserable that
like it's not even fun at all. Like they'll be
screaming and tired and sleeping at the wrong time.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Yes, and you're gonna be like it's time for a
nap and I do want to get them to lay down.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
You don't want to do it. Two years is perfect. Okay.
What is your favorite thing about your pan?
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Oh my gosh, it's so quiet. That's one thing I
really love about it. It's like unexpected to me. I
didn't know what to expect when I was first going,
and like it was just so peaceful. It's so clean,
it's so it's all the culture is amazing, I mean
from but I think one thing I really enjoy is
how much they enjoy like like anime and like characters,
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and they celebrate all that stuff so much, and like
I just always have loved those things. So it's really
fun to go to like any adult store and be
able to buy like cool hello kitty stuff or whatever
you like. I just love that. But everything about it,
the food, the people, like everyone's so nice. Like it
was just we've we had We've gone a couple times
together and Mike's gone a cup now this will be
(24:43):
his second time without me always, but I want him
to go. But it's like just the best. We just
can't wait to get back every time.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
We all right, two years from now, I am in.
Are we gonna go?
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Win?
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Cherry blossoms.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
I mean it's really pretty at that time. It's amazing.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Yeah, okay, I'm very, very very excited. Well, thank you
all for listening to teen Beat.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Make sure to watch Lauren on Stuart Fails to Save
the Universe starting July twenty third on HBO Max. Even
if her kids won't think she's funny, I can promise
she is one of the funniest people on this planet.
And please send in your embarrassing childhood memories in the
form of a voice memo one to two minutes long.
Email it to Teenbeatpod at gmail dot com and you
could hear it on the show. Teenbeat is an iHeart
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Karp and Amy Sugarman, Executive in charge of production Danielle Romo,
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Mark Coppis Yes that Mark Coppus. Follow us on Instagram
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That's that's okay.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Because no one here is.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Every week I ask my listeners, the residents of Beete Street,
if you will to send in their own embarrassing stories
from childhood in hopes that it will make us feel
less alone and put in shame. This week we hear
about a diner debacle from Rachel.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Hello everyone, my name is Rachel. I'm forty two years
old from Omaha, Nebraska. When I was a teenager, I
was out to lunch with my dad at a really
small diner in a small town in Iowa. Across the
room there was a really cute boy sitting directly across
from me. We kept making eye contact. He started smiling
(01:05):
and then eventually was winking at me. I was already
mortified because I was there with my dad, so I
told him, do not turn around, Please do not embarrass me.
Now there's an important detail you must know. My dad
has had faked teeth for almost his entire life since
he was a child. So we're eating lunch. Everything's going fine,
(01:27):
and then suddenly, without warning, my dad's entire top row
of teeth just falls out of his mouth straight into
his mashed potatoes. Mashed potatoes, splash, all over the table.
I watched it happen in slow motion. The boy watched
it happen in slow motion. There's no recovery from that,
(01:51):
and I never saw that boy again.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Oh that's cute. Oh my god, that's so funny. That's crazy.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
I thought it was going to be soup.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I feel like, I say, he was going to take
him out and go like, hey, yeah, I know.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Thought for sure it was going to be something he
purposefully did to embarrass her.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Did you feel like your parents were embarrassing when you
were a kid.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
I remember telling them to stop and shut up, and
I don't know what they were doing. Actually, I'm sure
they were fine. But yeah, no, yeah, I don't really
remember them embarrassing me too much, which is pretty good.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
It is good.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Yeah, were yours?
Speaker 3 (02:26):
No, I didn't think my parents were embarrassing. I actually
thought my parents were really cool. It was good. Yeah,
it's great. I mean, my kids are not going to
feel that way about me. I just know it's so weird.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
I mean, I don't know what. I don't know how
they're going to perceive. I feel weird about like what
I do with what my kids. YEA, like think of
the world and stuff, and so that's like something I
try to I'm trying to figure out, like how do
you explain this? And like, I don't know, it's a
weird job. Like she's come to set and she really
enjoyed it and had a great time. Then I was
like ash and then she was like, I want to
be an actor, and I was like.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
You and here we are. Yeah, I know, but also if.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
She wants to and she's good, that's I mean, you.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Know exactly the thing.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
I know. Adler has started to It's a little better now.
I think I'm grateful that I waited to have kids
until the industry and my career was in a place
where I do so many different things, yes, and that
there isn't just one thing mommy does for work, because
if say I were still on something like Boy Meets
World and my job was mostly of actor, I think
(03:24):
it would be harder for me to explain it to
him because he does wonder like why do some why
do people want to take pictures with you? And I
tell him, well, because remember, mommy was on a TV show,
So as far as they're concerned, I was in their house.
I was on their television in their own home. They
feel like they grew up with me, and so that's
a way to explain it. They want to take a
picture with me because they feel like they know me
(03:45):
because I was on their TV screen, and he's like, right, okay.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
But then he also gets to see me direct.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
So when I go to sets and now I'm a director,
I take videos of the different sets that were on.
I'm like, and this is what's happening in this scene,
and I can send that to him. He also so
knows I host podcasts, so I get to talk and
like share my opinions on things for a living. So
I'm there's so many things we do.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Yeah, yeah, it's true because I mean when I go like, Okay,
I'm gonna go do a show tonight. I'm gonna go
make people laugh at the audience or whatever, and it's like,
that's different than what I'm doing when I'm pretending to
be this character. And I showed her like a bit
of the new show that I'm doing, and she was
like she had come to set. So I was like
wanted to show her and she was like, are you pretending?
Like that's pretend because there was like some kind of
intense things She's like, let's pretending, right, I'm like, oh, nobody,
(04:29):
it was all pretending, Like remember how you saw us.
It's kind of helpful to like bring her to let
her see that we're just kidding and we're just you know,
in between these moments, we're just standing around talking.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
But it's also good if you show something to them
that's a little scary or because either that was something
I was very much. I was like, we could pause
and I could go, you know how mommy directs direct stuff.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Yeah, there was a director.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Who was telling them to act this way, and there
was and so all of everything you're.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Seeing is fake. It's all fake. It's makeup, it's this,
it's that, and it's it actually goes a long way.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
But I walk a fine line with that because I
sort of enjoy how I didn't understand that at all
as a kid, right, And so I'm like, you know,
we'll hear like we're watching a cartoon with her and
we're like, oh, that's our friend. And I'm like, I'm
I don't tell her that that's our that's our friend,
Like that's so weird, like that's our friend doing that,
Like you no, it's just the character. Like I don't
know it's weird.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
No, you're right, And there have been moments that, even
with wrestling, because my kids are very into wrestling, where
I feel a little like the mystique is gone because
they're like, mom, it's your friend, right, I mean, no,
that's world wrestling champion, you know, like, yes it is.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
But but.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
You and your husband, Mike Castle are both universally considered
funny people, and your kids will probably think you're painfully unfunny,
but right now they do think you're very funny.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
I'm assuming do you plan to be embarrassing on all
my guests to your kids? Do you want to?
Speaker 2 (05:52):
I don't want to be embka, I don't want to.
I want to be chill. I'm sure I will be
embarrassing just by the fact that I'm how I am,
and I'm sure i'll say something weird. So I don't know. So,
I mean, I can't even predict how it'll come to pass.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
But you know, some parents really do want to, like, yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Know, I don't want them to be upset from something
I'm doing on purpose, like exactly, No.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Okay, yeah, I don't want I don't know. I can't
even I can't even imagine wanting to want to do that.
I wish my kids trusted that I had good style. Yeah,
because I buy very cool clothes for my kids.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
My kids won't wear any of the cool stuff that
I wear. I buy that I buy them. I buy
them like wide leg pants, like really cute. Like I
love when little kids wear this stuff. I think it's
like the cutest thing ever. They will not nothing that
is like cool at all, nothing fashionable, nothing fashionable. They
so I try to lean into like the characters they
like and just get them whatever characters, because I just
(06:50):
then they'll be excited about it. But anything I've bought,
anything I spend money on or go out of my
way to get, like even like things that aren't that expensive,
but like Zarro or something, I'm like, that's so cute.
It's all just has the tags on, it's never worn,
and then I give it to somebody else and hope that.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
They get to wear it, and hope that they will
their kids will wear it. I know it drives me insane.
Adler recently decided he no longer wants character underwear. He
wants blank underwear like grown ups wear. Okay, and I said,
all right, got it? I wrongly assumed that that would
(07:25):
translate into bathing suit shorts, right that the Pokemon bathing
suit shorts out like Pokemon underwear is out. So I
bought him generic just like stripes cool, you know, just
normal bathing suit shorts. And then I handed him a
pair today and I was like, here you go. He's
(07:45):
going to camp and he's like, what these?
Speaker 1 (07:48):
What are these?
Speaker 3 (07:49):
And I was like, they're like shorts like Daddy would wear,
you know, like the same way you wanted underwear. And
he was like, I don't want to wear these. I
don't like stripes. Stripes aren't my thing.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
And I was like, see, those moments are so funny
to me because they're like you don't understand me. Yeah,
you don't understand, Like I actually thought, I really did.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
I really took what you said.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Apparently I tried to go above and beyond correct. He
then put on his Pokemon bathings.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
What is this?
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Is there anything else like that you've tried to get
your kids into that they just don't connect with m
other than fashion, Like have you.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Ever tried to guide them into a hobby?
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Yeah, I think we're getting into that a little bit,
where like there's certain shows, like we want them to
watch things that are that we can enjoy a little more.
And Mike put on Bob's Burgers.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
Yes, she was loving, but it's got such adult jokes
so that we were like, you don't really think about
it when you're watching it, And then we were like,
oh my god, every don't try to explain that, like
that's not good.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
So that's tough because I let her watch a lot
of what she wants to watch, but I try to.
Like the one thing I'm trying to get her away from,
which is really hard to do, is like that animation
from like two thousand and seven where it's like if
everyone first got a computer or something, right, yes, and
it's just like I hate how it looks, and usually
it's not very good, like in general, and she will
(09:24):
get very addicted to some of those shows and I'm like,
you know, MoMA doesn't like this one. I don't like
these yeah, And then I still can't. I have a
hard time really turning it off right now. I let
I just let it happen.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Yeah, You're like, I don't like it, but maybe next
time I'll just make a different choice. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Yeah, I think when I was growing up like we
could watch anything, and I'm fine. So I watched Nanoto
and O when I was like five. I remember kissing
the TV when I saw Brandon. Oh my gosh, did.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
You get a static shock? Oh?
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Oh god, yeah, I remember that. Oh my god. Yes,
but I remember doing that and my mom was never
in the room. I was always watching Nanoto, yeah whatever.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
I had all the dolls, famously not allowed to watch
even in junior high.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Oh wow, I mean it's not It wasn't good information
that I was.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
But what I'm just look at both of us, we
both it doesn't so it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
I had my godfather who owned some burging franchises, which
isn't a side, but it was cool because I would
always get the coolest toys. I got all the Simpsons
dolls when they had those plushy Yes, I still have,
of course Maggie. But he got me who always buy
me the most of whatever. The thing was so like,
I got all the nine, O, two and O dolls
for one Christmas, you know, and it was I still
(10:33):
have Brenda and Dylan. I have no clothes and I
really need to figure this out. You're learning they were
doing that.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
That's why you collect those little naked baby dolls.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
I love my sunny angels. I have of sunny angels,
which are amazing. I still connect those to this day
and my kids try to play with them, and I'm like, again,
these are toys. I want these. I want a display case.
I need like a really good do.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
You guys talk about it? Safe? Oh angels?
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Right now, they're a mixing bowl in a clauset. It's
not ideal.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
I was like, yeah, you know what, maybe you need
What if you got them all individual like Funko style
loose cases, think them.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
I probably I kind of want one long thing where
they can all be standing, much like my display that
I had when I was a kid.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Okay, something else you can bring back home?
Speaker 2 (11:24):
When you bring them little like sticky stuff and make
them all stand up, that would be really fair.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Pot gravels.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
I kept those for a long time too. I kept
I kept a collection of soaps forever, and I actually
recently got rid of them because they'd all shrunk down
to like ip shring I don't know, it's like dehydrates.
They were all different shapes like I had, like you know, animals,
and that's my sub collection. Yeah, and that and I
(11:56):
have that furniture still, so that was pretty recently that
I got rid of them. But yeah, they Yeah, I
had Mickey Mouse that was a really good one. That
was the top left. Yea, there was a sheep that
I just loved so much. It smelled so good.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
I love the fish right in the center.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Yeah, I would put them in this box. I had
this like special Ralph Lauren box that said Lauren on
it that had like it was like a oval like
a brown oval box with like a ribbon that tied,
and I kept my soaps there, each wrapped in an
individual tissue, and then I would take them out and
smell them and look at them. I love them.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
I love looking at that at that.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
That's good.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Man, you have some great you have great colluttioning stories.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Yeah, it made me.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Feel like I should collect things.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
I think I probably have more than I'm not even
remembering right now. I mean I had journals that was
I journaled all my life, and I have all my
journals that they're good stuff. Yeah, a lot of times
I would journal, and this probably I probably did have
OC would still have it, huh. But I would write
down what I did that day more than like feelings.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
That's what I thought journals were for. Today, I went
to school, I did my homework. My mom and I
got in a fight.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Yes, it was just like.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
I wish I wrote more like what I was feeling,
or like weird things that happened, because it's it's not
as like interesting to look back at. But I like
having them.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
That's so great.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
I send my kids emails.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
I got them their their email addresses, their names, and
then I whenever one of them says something really funny
or does something amazing, or or something just super mundane
but that I know, like I want to remember this,
I will send it to them in an email. And
I also started to make it easier sending via email
(13:46):
voice notes.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
So man, so important. This is going to be the
most amazing thing for them when they get older.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Yeah, so that they have my voice instead of just
reading an email.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Because I think about the fact that, like I still
have a voicemail from my grandfather, all.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
My voicemails from people like that.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Yeah, and I think, like I wish I you know.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
So anyway, Yeah, great, great thing to do to kickstart
the journal idea for your kids.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
I love. I have a little notebook that's like like
I write down things that they say, but I don't
often remember to do it. I think an email is
better because you can just do it when you're on
the go.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Exactly the minute it happens. Yeah, you're like, I'm going
to send that in an email. This just happened. Like
little things they say that you know once they go away,
like Keaton calls a trampoline a bounce Selene, and I like, yeah,
that's what it should be called, or it should be
a bounce Selene. I think that's so cute. We as
a family go to the mall every weekend. Did you
(14:39):
go to the mall growing up near Chicago? Was that
a thing you did as a kid.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Yes, my mom loves the mall. My mom and I
would go to the mall with my mom all the time.
I love shopping now, but yes, we always went to
the mall. And then as a teen, we would get
dropped off of the mall and wander around and our
mom was an outdoor mall. Okay, so the winter not great,
not so, but there were time of the year where
we would go see a movie or like then walk
around or whatever and go shopping, bath and body works.
(15:05):
Oh yeah, cucumber mellen That still reminds me of that
time in my life. I remember I went on a
school trip that was a very special trip where I
got to go to London in Scotland with like my
reading club or something. Who knows.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Oh my gosh, that sounds fine.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Yeah, it was really cool and that's actually got an
award during the trip for me doing an impression of
our tour guide. Everyone loved me so much that at
the end we were given awards, and mine was for
making fun of this poor man. Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Your teachers were very They were like, this is a
real talent.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
They I also always did Judge Judy and they loved that.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
But can we see a little of Judge Judy now?
Speaker 2 (15:42):
No, you know what it was really me at thirteen
got it all right? I don't. I haven't tried it
since then, and I don't know. But no, that trip, wait,
what was I going to say?
Speaker 1 (15:51):
There was a point London in Scotland won an award.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
So we shared a room with other kids from the
group and they were friends of mine or whatever, and
this girl had she brought the cucumber mellon. I didn't
even ever think to travel with so I also didn't
travel at all, but I didn't think to like bring
that with me or something that's a home thing. Yeah,
and it smelled so good and the room smelled so
much like it that it always reminds me of that trip,
and it was like such a special time.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
The vanilla there was a vanilla that Bath and Bodyworks
used to make that was the signature scent of my
dear friend Vanessa Evigan in high school.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
And Vanessa Evigan's.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Ford Explorer reeked in the best way possible of vanilla.
And every time I smell that that vanilla bean scent, yes,
and I hear sublime. I am instantly in a Ford
Explorer driving down Pacific Coast Highway on my way to Malibu.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
I again, that was my set.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
That sounds amazing. It was in I feel like, I
don't know if you relate to this, but I feel
like at this age of now that I'm forty, I
don't know if that's if it's a nostalgia thing at
this age, but I've started really listening to the music
from like that time period and it's kind of all
I want to listen to, and I love it and
it's making me feel so good. And then I'm like, oh,
this is how people get old and they only listen
(17:10):
to the stuff they liked when they were a teenager.
They were like, oh no, I'm doing it. I'm doing
it here.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
It is.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
I barely know new songs like they'll get introduced to me.
I'm like, oh, that's great. I should have heard that.
I'll learn them on you know, Instagram. And I'm like,
how do people know about songs like I don't because
also I don't listen to the radio.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Oh I know, but we also used to have MTV.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
That we were all united.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
We were united in like bring us the new music
this week.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Yes, And I feel also I think listening to the
regular radio is good, Like I should do that more
because you get you just get hip to what's going on,
getting hip to it, getting one hundred and even. I
know it's not good, no, but I do like I
like Green Day. I'm like putting back on these.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Old might I suggest pop rocks serious?
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Ex Oh okay, it's nineties and early two and two thousands,
uh pop?
Speaker 2 (17:55):
You know even serious. I used to listen to so
much and now I'm so in my phone that it's
like not even fun. Oh, it's almost like your algorithm
knows you so well. They only play you never hear
something unusual on your on my phone. Like I'm like,
I need to get back into the radio. Yeah, get
back into the radio.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
I enjoy that because it Like Also, Adler was in
the car with me the other day and I turned
on we were coming back from the doctor and I
turned on Pop Rocks and I got to I was like,
this is blank one eighty two and you can introduce it, yes,
And he was like I really like this. I was like, yes, okay, good,
this is fun. This was a fun little experience for us.
In what way would you say you are most different
(18:30):
from teenage Lauren to now forty year old Lauren M.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Hopefully a good amount of ways, but also probably not
that many. I feel like I my confidence is so
much better that I just I'm like fine with myself. Yeah,
where I think then there's so much that you're like
grapplnk with that you're just like oh my god, or
like I don't know how to talk to it. Like
all the things that give you anxiety or me gave
me anxiety. Yeah, and I would stress about I don't
(18:57):
feel at all, and I feel like I have improv
to think for so much of that because it was
like that that got me at such a young age,
where it was like you were gonna look stupid, You're
gonna say something that's wrong, and then everyone's gonna forget
like it doesn't matter, like yeah, and moving on as
fast as you can from the last thing to the
next thing, and just like letting it go. I still
ruminate on things, but I feel like it's that that
(19:19):
difference feels huge to me, where I'm like, well, I'm
I know, I'm a good person, and like I'm nice
and I'm curious about people, and like I don't have
to be self conscious and then you don't have to
perform that.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Yeah, it just is who I am.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
I don't have to perform it and worry that everyone
sees it.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Yeah, that is for me.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
The greatest thing about getting older is like it doesn't
mean I don't care.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
No, I care still very much.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
About people and about things, but I can soften to
the idea that if someone does.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Not like me, that is okay. Yeah that's okay. Yeah
I don't like some people too.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
That's the thing that's the thing. It goes both ways.
Speaker 6 (19:57):
It's okay, it's okay, it's totally fine.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Are you when you're thinking about the future and your kids,
are you nervous about social media?
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Totally?
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
I don't want that to even exist. I think it's
I mean, I think I will not let them have
it until I feel like eighteen.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
I think if I had had this when I was
that age, that would have been so damaging because we
had AOL and we I got bullied on AOL by
people at school. Really, yes, there were Oh my god.
So my friends and I would always go, you know,
we go to each other's house and stead at the
computer and go online. It was a very big event,
and I was like all we wanted to do. And
then you see who's signing on and chat with them,
(20:49):
and like there's always like the boy you like or
just like someone you're friends with or whatever, and so
you you're just like waiting and then suddenly, out of nowhere,
there was a name we didn't know that was messaging everyone.
It was a face. I'll say it now, silly willy seven.
I didn't forget. Do you think you know I know
who you are?
Speaker 1 (21:05):
To do you?
Speaker 4 (21:07):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Say it. Well, what, we'll believe it. We'll believe it. Wow,
what did they say? What did they say?
Speaker 2 (21:20):
No, they would be so mean and they bullied a
bunch of us, but they would I was very skinny
and they would say I was anorexic. I mean there's
things like that. There's really mean shame to show or
make fun of, like my friend for like who she
had a crush on. But like we didn't know who
they were. Yeah, so it was very scandalous because it
was like we would go on and they'd be like,
(21:40):
oh my god, are they're gonna be there? And then
they would be and then they're talking to us and
you but you would let it happen, like you wouldn't
bother them never. I don't know if you could.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
I know, I don't know if that was.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
But you know, hearing that creaking door from all I
remember that it can be a haunting sound. You gonna blantern.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
You need to write, you need to write this horror movie. Okay,
the creaky door. I'm gonna get creaky.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Yeah, I love.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
That, silly Willy seven. Yeah, we now remember how'd you
figure out who they were?
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Someone told me years later it was like that kind
of thing.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
I don't that wasn't as good of a story. As
I cut that part.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Someone told me I never in front of them, nothing happened.
They got away with it.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Oh my gosh, speaking of social media, and this is
a good content making opportunity that I'm just dying to
do with you and Mike.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Can we lock in a Japan trip with our families?
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Oh my god, that would be the best thing ever.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
I'm dying to go to Japan.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Your husband and you guys are obsessed with Japan's.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
And he's going again this summer, and we were gonna
take the kids, but then we ended up not he's
in a wedding in Japan, Oh my gosh. And so
he's actually going with my dad randomly. Oh see, your
dad is his plus one? Yeah, okay, my dad's gonna
go to Japan with him and then go to the
wedding and everything. But which my dad's never been there
and we wanted him to go, So it was gonna
be like a whole big family thing. And then it's
(22:59):
going to be an aug I was like two and
a five year old in August heat. It's really really
hot there at that time. We've been there before then
and it's like kind of unbearable, and I know that
they'll just be complaining. I would go there, but like
they'll just be complaining the whole time. So I want
to go when my younger one is like four. So
in like two years, if we do that, listen, know
how fun that would be? That would be insane.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Let's I am on board.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
I know two years in advances a little too early
to start planning something, but let must be the way
to do it.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
I'm all for it.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
And in two years, I think it'll be perfect because
Adler will be almost nine, that's creating will be almost seven, and.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Hell it will be seven. And then you be four,
which I think is old enough to go along.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
The very earliest time to make that kind of big
travel with it. Four is four is going to be great?
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Yeah, because I think I want to be the kind
of person who just does anything and goes wherever. But
I like, I'm like, or I'll be so miserable that
like it's not even fun at all. Like they'll be
screaming and tired and sleeping at the wrong time.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Yes, and you're gonna be like it's time for a
nap and I do want to get them to lay down.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
You don't want to do it. Two years is perfect. Okay.
What is your favorite thing about your pan?
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Oh my gosh, it's so quiet. That's one thing I
really love about it. It's like unexpected to me. I
didn't know what to expect when I was first going,
and like it was just so peaceful. It's so clean,
it's so it's all the culture is amazing, I mean
from but I think one thing I really enjoy is
how much they enjoy like like anime and like characters,
(24:22):
and they celebrate all that stuff so much, and like
I just always have loved those things. So it's really
fun to go to like any adult store and be
able to buy like cool hello kitty stuff or whatever
you like. I just love that. But everything about it,
the food, the people, like everyone's so nice. Like it
was just we've we had We've gone a couple times
together and Mike's gone a cup now this will be
(24:43):
his second time without me always, but I want him
to go. But it's like just the best. We just
can't wait to get back every time.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
We all right, two years from now, I am in.
Are we gonna go?
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Win?
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Cherry blossoms.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
I mean it's really pretty at that time. It's amazing.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Yeah, okay, I'm very, very very excited. Well, thank you
all for listening to teen Beat.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Make sure to watch Lauren on Stuart Fails to Save
the Universe starting July twenty third on HBO Max. Even
if her kids won't think she's funny, I can promise
she is one of the funniest people on this planet.
And please send in your embarrassing childhood memories in the
form of a voice memo one to two minutes long.
Email it to Teenbeatpod at gmail dot com and you
could hear it on the show. Teenbeat is an iHeart
(25:28):
podcast produced and hosted by Danielle Fischel, Executive producers Jensen
Karp and Amy Sugarman, Executive in charge of production Danielle Romo,
producer and editor Tara Suboch. The theme song is by
Mark Coppis Yes that Mark Coppus. Follow us on Instagram
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