April 29, 2024 • 27 mins
It's been a while dear listener! Lauren and Aly have some varying life updates: a move, a trip, new work dynamics, and more!
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Welcome to Buns and Banter, apodcast by work Busties for work Busties.
Hey, I'm Lauren and I'm Ali. We're both morning show hosts for iHeartMedia.
We're both millennials, and we're bothtrying to figure out how to build
the lives we dream about, dating, marriage, career, career and being
a mom, how to get througha week without crying. Welcome to Buns
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and Banter. We're glad you're here, rented and so good. It's been
a minute. It's ben a minute. Oh, it's been a minute.
People, it's been such a minute. Maybe two people are asking if this
is done. I know I gotvery, very nervous about that, but
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it's just I'm trying to think wedid. We got a couple in February.
Yeah, and then from there it'sjust like everything here for us together
and separately, has just skyrocketed.It's shit. Hit the fan, yes,
the most diplomatic way to say it. She'd hit the fan, boom,
spin, and then kind of showeredaround. Then we had to clean
that up too. So that's whatwe've been. That's where we've been.
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I lost my co host on mymorning show, which was a big ass
bummer. It's a ba B AB A B Yeah and banter, big
ass bummer. Yes, yeah,that's you got some change. Yeah,
there's been a lot of change,some great, some not so great.
But you know, we persist.Oh my god, that's my new favorite
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saying. We persist right, likewe do? Yep, like we do.
So picking up the pieces, planningand scheming for future things, which
I'm excited about. Yes, soI think that we'll have some good updates,
very excited over the next couple weeksand stuff. But I had my
first I think I would call itforay into illegal activity. I got banned
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from TikTok, and I know I'vetalked to you about this endlessly because it's
been If it doesn't make me soundlike I was completely obsessed, I think
I'm on day eleven of not havingaccess to TikTok at all. And how
does it feel it? I don'tlike it. I don't I really.
I liked the app and I feelvery out of it because no offense.
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If this is how you live yourlife. But now I'm seeing tiktoks that
were cool a month ago on Instagramreels and see there's the face I know,
I have no idea why I gotbanned. They don't give you just
heads up, they don't give youany reason. They just you literally go
to sign into your account and youare upgraded with a white dialogue box in
gray lettering that says Schmidt in themitt you have been banned from TikTok.
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If you would like to appeal this, click here. So I did,
and I wrote this little message that'slike, could not imagine what I did.
I know your content is so unproblematic, Like it's just nothing that you
would ever post on a nonline forum. Would I'm nervous if I've cleaved out
too much on TikTok. Yeah,I do. You do. Gotta worry,
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you know. I talk a littlebit about funny things my kids say
and the dumpster fire that is life. Okay, So one time I was
I fall asleep scrolling TikTok. Soif you get like a really random ass
video in your TikTok dms from me, I was falling asleep and like my
finger like slipped or whatever, Iwould feel so pleasured to do that.
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No, they're like weird ass likevideos like ASMR and like people have been
like uh, I answered, butone time I did wake up and it
was like, do you actually wantto report this person? And I was
like, oh god no. Ohso I'm wondering if someone had like the
slip of a digit, But doyou get one strike and you're done.
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I don't know how TikTok works becausethen you appeal it. And they sent
me an email the next day thatwas like, we got your appeal,
still banned. Oh, they don'ttell you what video or videos it was,
tell you like what someone's I don'teven need to know who the someone
is. But if you have toreport someone, I think you should have
to explain their problem, so youknow what, you know what it probably
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is. They probably shut your accountdown because they stole your image and likeness
for AI. Have you read aboutthis stuff happening online? I just saw
an article the other day. Ican't remember if it was like, it
was a pretty reputable news organization andit was documenting like a bunch of Russian
women whose like faces and likenesses werestolen for AI to sell boner pills.
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Oh my god, what Yeah?And they were like, this is not
cool. It's not this is notcool. I don't know what it says
about my confidence level. But whenyou first said maybe they stole your name
and likeness for AI, I waslike, you, guys, you could
totally just have it, like that'sbad actual and boner pills if I'm not
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getting paid for it, if you'renot getting paid for it, And there
it is. Wow. Details.So I'm not on TikTok, but we
have talked about launching a Buns andBanter TikTok, which I think will be
coming very very soon, which I'mreally really excited about. Yeah, because
I think we'd share up because theother thing that is so irritating, I've
lost my algorithm. Yes, everybody, I was following things that it started
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to learn that I liked to seeand would serve me gone wiped out.
I don't exist, And to behonest with you, I do not memorize
and associate user names on TikTok withcreators that I like, like I do
on Instagram exactly, so I wantto I don't know that i'd be able
to like find my favorite people again. Yeah, And I remember getting on
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TikTok and it was like, whatare some of these videos? Yes,
Oh, I'm just it's frustrating becauseit was almost five years of work of
work of content creation, and theydon't give you any of your stuff back
either. It's not like you getto go into your count so just nobody
can see it. It's just allgone. You have no access to it
at all. That's super annoying.So I think it would be really fabulous.
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I would love to start TikTok Livingour pod again. Yes, we
loved doing that and we got somereally great ideas when people are watching.
Yeah, and I have started TikTokLiving my morning show since I had to
watch that. Since I've been alonein the studio, I need someone to
talk to, So I've been talkingto TikTok Live, and honestly, it
has been a ton of fun.See, it's been a ton of fun.
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Which the logistics are kind of confusingto me because how are we going
to like film it but also beable to see because that's the whole fun
of it is like talking live withpeople. I think maybe we set up
some kind of like I have thetripod for mine at home, yeah,
and we can like we'll have adifferent angle, yeah, but still be
able to I think you can alsojack the text up like Reader's Digest edition.
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Oh hell yeah, I mean we'renot above it. Hell yeah,
I'm pretty sure you can like increasethe text size so we'll be great,
because not only can I not hearshit anymore, I can't see anything.
No, I am subtitles and sizethirty six. You guys, we have
entered our Golden Girls era sooner thanI think most people expected. But we're
loving it. I'm great with that. Bring it on. So, speaking
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of Golden Girls, pardon me yourgolden glow? Oh maam much. You
look so great? Thank you?Your vak looked top notch. Chef's kiss
good. You are the best hypegirl. Oh I loved it the best.
I went to Florida with my niecesand my new nephew and then my
sister and brother in law their parentsand we hung out with my grandma for
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a week, which was so muchfun. And we took the kids to
Disney for a day. I thought, I saw that was it epic?
It was epic. And let mejust say, I am not a Disney
person. Yeah, I am nota Disney adult. You would never catch
me dead at Disney. But goingwith the little ones completely changes the experience
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and like, I want to goevery year now because it was watching them
have so much fun. It wasworth the one hundred and seventy five dollars
a day ticket for one ticket.Oh there were and it was a two
dollars discount for the kids. Oh, come on, House of Mouse,
That's insane. It was. Imean I was shocked at the price.
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You know what else shocked me though? How clean it was? Oh yeah,
Oh my, Like I'd like tohear that I would have eaten off
of the ground. Oh, I'dsay that video of you and your niece
watching the fireworks, Oh my god, should be on like the start of
every Disney Plus streaming episode of anything. Oh, I'm so glad. It's
really good. I'm so glad westayed for those, Yeah, because they're
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at like eight thirty I think iswhen they start, And we got there
at like ten thirty eleven, andI was like, I'm sorry, we're
saying for a fireworks at eight thirty. I thought this was like a four
hour thing, and we're out likehalf a day here, like breakfast,
lunch, dinner here, but likethe day flew by. So did you
want Magic Kingdom or did you domultiple it's just one part magic King.
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Yeah, that's where all the princessesare. Yeah, that's where all the
cool stuff is. So yeah,I would like to definitely don't go if
you're outnumbered by children. No.No, that's one of the things we
said. When I remember specifically,like a year ago, Will asked if
he was going to get another sibling. He said, another little brother or
sister, and I said, notif you want to go to Disney.
Yeah. Oh, we got todo a man to man because we're starting
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to talk about it in the nexttwo to three years. One of Chris's
cousins or like, they'd love todo it all together. But I wanted
to make sure Sophia was old enoughbecause like, once we're going you guys
I work in radio. Oh youmean going to Disney? Yeah? Oh
oh no, my god, anotherchild? No no no no. I
was like, oh my god,no, I'm not going to do the
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age gap. I met like ifwe had another child, who wouldn't go
to Disney because right now it's fourof us. So like Chris grabs one,
I grabbed the other and we makeit through. No, no,
no, And that's like this wombis a tomb from here on understood,
Respect it, respect it. Yeah, we're good man. That is tough.
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You know. We drove to Floridaand my nieces are really good about
the bathroom. And one of thehabits and rituals that they have on long
car rides and that they use foremergencies is the travel potty. Oh talk
to me. I know your pottytraining right now just started. So let
me. Do you use a travelpotty? We have it, yeah,
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but we haven't really left the houseand we're headed on a road trip tomorrow.
Okay, I mean I in theory, brilliant idea, like the kids
never have to leave the car atfour am at a random truck stop in
Georgia after you've been driving all night. A little bit harder logistically than you
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would think to like set it upand like do the whole thing. And
I'm not gonna say that there wasn'tp all over the car at one point.
Not a problem. Not a problem. We can clean that up.
We had chlorox wipes at the ready. But okay, a brilliant invention and
if if you can get the mechanicsdown, would recommend I love this coming
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from an ant perspective. Yeah,I don't want it from a parent.
I want it from like I drovein this car for multiple hours, yeah,
with said travel potty. Yeah.Well, especially if you have a
kid who's kind of in the stageswhere it's like they're just starting to become
more in tune with their body,but they're not super good at forecasting,
like, hey, in fifteen minutesfrom now, I'm gonna have to go.
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Yeah, it's like I'm gonna goin the next minute. You have
sixty seconds counting down now, right, And I think for those occasions it
is very, very helpful. Butlike I I did not grow up with
a travel potty. That's a newthing. It's new, I think.
So I never knew anybody with thetravel potty situation until like my friends started
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having kids. Okay, that makessense because I mean, like I grew
up, my mom would just likehold us over the toilet at the truck
stop, yeah, or like onthe side of the road. And that's
why, like you learned those bluerest area signs real early on, because
that's when you were stopping. Yeah, it's like you'd always got the guys,
you have to go because the nextone's another forty seven miles, which
like as a kid, you're like, that's like, yeah, no,
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I can't hold it. It's acouple of minutes. So we oh,
we are potty training in the newhouse. In the new house, I
make that noise. But it's beengoing, like I think it's been going
pretty well. I'd give it asix to seven out of ten. I
think Sophia's doing really great. Sheturns three in a week and a half,
so we figured, you know,she's getting the pee down. She's
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excited, like she's got frozen undies. That was some like one of the
tips someone gave me. You gottahave them pick out their underwear and like
make it fun that way they won'twant it to get messy. Oh okay,
she is not pooping on the potty, so it feels like the number
one is good to go. Butthen she just holds set so fascinating.
Yeah. Brother, that's like heloves nothing more than a big deuce and
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we'll talk about it. Yeah,very excited to be like, hey,
I'm I'm doocent and I'm like,you're six, don't say that, so
crows. So she'll hold it becauseat night she's still in a diaper,
but like the other day, shehad a three and a half hour nap
in undie's dry the whole time.Woke up and was like, I'm gonna
go use the potty, but she'llwait till you put a diaper on,
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and then it's like the entire dayon loads. Yeah. So I get
this text from Chris. I'm notjealous. I don't think she feels good
though, like you know you wantto you should let it feel good either.
What if we always say? Whatdo we say? Like we are
girls with digestive problems? How girlshave tummy issues? Girls? So I
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get this text from my husband andhe's like, cool. So she had
pooped in one of her undies andI'm not gonna call him, but I
wasn't home and I don't know thecleanup process. But we would never call
him out. We would long sin, We would never I don't know what
the cleanup process was. But heput it in the washing machine. You
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know what, that's not your business. It's not my business. You were
at home, it's not my business. So it was in the washing machine
and I get home and he said, oh, hey, I just did
a load of her undies. Soshe has brush onndies to get into mine,
switching them over to the dryer,No problem. That was the end
of communication. If you tell methere was a turd in your washing machine,
I'll die. Nope, in thedryer, Oh, petrified turd.
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Petrified. I get a text andhe goes, hold on, let me,
let me. I don't want todisparage the exact words, as I
was ready to kill him. Wewould never misquote someone quote. So those
ship filled undies didn't wash out andwent in the dryer, just finished washing
the inside of the dryer out andvacuuming shit nuggets out of the vent just
in case you're curious about why yourclothes smell like poop for the next few
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cycles. And I feel like hewas giving me shade about that because I
switched it over. And so Iwrote back and said, well, I
guess the new rule is just throwthe poop ondies away, loosen the purse
strings a bit, babe. Oh. So, if you're wondering how our
relationship is doing through the potty tree, other than that, I feel like
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it's been going really well. Youknow, kids and dogs are really not
that different. No, And themore you parent, the more you realize
that you're like, oh my god, you guys are the same exact I
don't know when that bond breaks,but I mean Toby and Sophia are pretty
much on the same page. Oh, but it's gonna be fine. We're
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leaving town and we're gonna hope itcontinues to go well or else we're going
to Frank and Mooth. So I'lljust like take her to the cheese house
and like shove full of it soshe doesn't have to poop for the weekend.
Oh great, great idea. Followme for more parenting tips. Auchi.
I don't know, it's hard.It's hard to talk to them.
Oh speaking of must have heard metalking shit in the podcast. His ears
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were ringing. So it's all right, But I appreciate I might need more
advice from your perspective on as we'reabout an aunt as an aunt, because
we're about to spend an entire weekendwith my entire family, two of the
aunts of which do not have kids, and but now your brother does,
like you do have a nephew.Yeah, are they going, Yes,
that'll be nice. It will beBut like I'm sure Sophia is going to
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look at Ledger as his name andbe like, oh, enjoy that diaper
life, man, because one daythey wake up and just rip it right
out from under you. Let's begreat. I'm leaving my house because my
mom doesn't love me anymore. Nope, just said you had to go poop
on the potty. That's it.And you know what, everybody else in
the world is going to be excitedabout that too. So I'm making you
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the not weird kid. Sorry Ishared with you this tidbit. Catherine Ryan,
the comedian, Yes, hilarious,but her big brad is that both
of her kids were potty trained likebefore they were like one or two,
like some ridiculous age. She's wow, how I have to imagine that employing
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some sort of staff in your homecomes into play there. Yeah, and
also she said that at least theclip I saw of her on the talk
show said, the human condition isnot to sit in your own mess.
So if you just take the diapersand the underwear away from these kids,
they will learn that they do notwant to make a mess in their vicinity
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and they will want somewhere to putthat. That's her, that's her claim.
What's in your way? You're cleanin the vicinity, claim to the
body dream, but then you're cleaningthat vicinity up all the time. Yeah,
and I feel like that's where thestaff comes in. Oh thank you.
Yeah. Okay, do I knowfor certain that she has a staff?
I don't. I don't, butyeah, I guess. Yeah,
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Catherine, if you'd like to comeon and to find yourself, absolutely,
I'd love to have you. Iwould. I'd take all of the advice
and how you got a one totwo year old able to potty train mm
hmm, because there's a lot thatgoes into it. Like I'm trying to
be gentle and understanding about it,because I'm like, man, yeah,
you've got to figure out what itfeels like. I mean, it takes
years to figure out how long youcan really hold it right. You have
to be in that trial by firemoment where it's like there is nowhere to
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go, You're gonna burst at theseams. Can you make it another minute?
Right? And you really don't havetoo many of those years. No,
Like, once you hit your thirtiesor have a kid, you're right
back to your two year old incontinentbladder. You don't have to be I'm
very proud of my downstairs after twokids. Yes, yes, I don't
even you got a regimen or likewhat I I did a lot of the
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keegels, but I also, yeah, you mean you can do them sitting
in your studio chair. But I'mlike, very I don't even not a
drop when I sneeze. I justI feel like I'm not doing them right.
I feel like I'm just like tighteningand untightening my bee hole. It
feels like it's the wrong hole thatI'm working on. Yeah, I think
I just I just try to doall the holes and that's not okay.
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I don't know if I am,but I feel like everything below is tight
and you don't you don't pee whenyou sneeze, Nope, never have dang
girl, I know so. Butto be fair, I also my second
one came out like a football aftertwo pushes because she didn't have a timeline.
So maybe that was part of ittoo, That just really quick.
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There wasn't a lot of time todo much because she was here, that's
right. She almost came out inthe truck. Almost forgot about that.
Oh yeah, and you want totalk about a bigger mess than potty training?
What about that not your truck,not my problem. Right. So
on that note, how's the relationshipwith the going through all of me?
So I love you? Seem likeit? Oh? So that that was
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my new house, Yeah, closingup the old house, potty training,
new schools. We get into nowfor the fall, which is insane.
So much time for you and Chrisjust to luxuriate in romance. Oh luxuriate.
That's a good word. Yeah,that's a good speaking of luxuriate.
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How's your luxuriating situation? My luxuriatingsituation is fourteen out of ten? Oh
my god, fourteen out of ten. I love that number. I'm having
a great time. Yes, yeah, da was. I was gonna ask
when I first heard about the Floridatrip. Yeah, and you were road
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tripping down I was like, isthe gentleman going because I think that is
a fabulous relationship builder. Yes,well he did not go to Florida.
There was a not room in thecar, be not room in the house.
Yeah, there was a lot ofyou there where. There were six
of us total that road trip downthere, and then my grandma's condo that
she rents in Florida for a couplemonths every winter. It's two bedrooms.
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It's one king bed. That's whereshe sleeps in, one queen bed,
so like between just their family offive. Oh yeah, it was already
packed. Yeah. And by thetime that we had, you know,
put this all together, finding airbnbsor like another situation was either non existent
or way too expensive, right,so it was just like was not it
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didn't The stars didn't a line onthis one. Okay, stars didn't a
line on this one. Still fourteenout of ten and still fourteen out of
ten. But we did a coupleweeks before I rode trip to Florida,
the girls, my nieces six andfour, came to Grand Rapids for their
first overnight oh alone. That wasso cute, and Jimmy and I took
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them to see a play and likeout to dinner, so like we played
house for the weekend. And stillfourteen out of town and still after fourteen
out of ten. That is agood launch, I know, I know,
I mean that's in it. Ilove it. Yeah, it's going
very very well. Yeah. Istill feel like one of these days he's
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gonna wake up and be like,got you, Oh and now you're stuck
Just kidding, babe, because helistens and watches our podcast. So yeah,
but I think people are starting tocatch on on social media because I
have posted a couple of pictures ofus, but like, we haven't.
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We don't have any pictures of justthe two of us where we like look
nice or we're doing something okay,Like our favorite activity is coutrot. Oh,
but it's a good one and it'slike so necessary to be able to
couchrot with someone. Mm hmm.Yeah, that's top three for me and
in a person. Yeah, butwe're trying to figure out I'm trying to
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like navigate this because I feel likepeople online are they kind of secretly love
like the secrecy that I'm like holdingback the details a little bit. I'd
like what you've posted so far,it feels like a were's waldough, how
do we keep this going? Butpeople on TikTok live have been like,
what are you going to post picturesof him? What are you gonna put
And that's admittedly what I look foron other people's social media, like I
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want to see your husband, Iwant to know what he does. I
want to know what your house lookslike, I want to know what you
where you go on vacation. Letme see your closet, show me your
life. Instagram to me is likeyou better leave your blinds open at night
and you have your lights on.Yes, I want to drive by and
be like, oh yeah, andthat's stock Creaway. Yeah. And like
Jimmy is all in on it,and like he's all for it. He's
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like, yes, let's scheme.How do we do this? So I'm
like, let's plan the launch,legit social launch. Yeah. Oh my
god, I don't. I don'tknow, but you know, we're having
We're having a ton of fun despitenot photographing any of it, which I'm
so happy to hear that because I'mlike, oh, this is a legit
relationship. Yeah, you know.I mean we talk about that a lot.
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It's you know, I've had tworeally really good friends that when you
would look from the outside, it'slike perfection and both of them have divorced.
Oh you know, it's like Ilove that. You're like, oh,
we've had a ton of fun.We just haven't boasted it. Fucking
awesome. Yeah we have. Ijust was on a zoom call last night
with all of my college friends andof course we're like talking about huge life
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updates. And my friend Amy isabout to have her first baby. Oh.
Amy, and my friend Angela justgot engaged, and like my friend
Brian is looking for houses and likethey're doing all of these big things.
My friend Renee just celebrated her oneyear anniversary of getting married, and I'm
like, yeah, I get itout of the way. Oh, out
of the way, because someone's steppinginto this spot life. But like I
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just like don't have any updates.I'm like, you, guys, I
have a boyfriend that I lov andthey're like, that's nice. Oh,
it's so good. No, itis. They're excited, but it's just
like, you know, there's justnot it's it. We've been dating since
like right before Christmas. Yeah,and it's going really really well. But
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I just don't have many updates onit because I'm like, you're blissful.
You were just enjoying very much inthe honeymoon stage of our relationship. So
we like talk very nicely to eachother. We don't really fight. Nobody
has found a petrified turd in thedryer yet. Nobody has found a petrified
turd in the proverbial or literal dryeryet. You know, I'm so stoked
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though, because you have like yourfirst summer coming up together. Yeah.
Oh, you guys are gonna beso pretty in the summer. Yeah,
that's the pictures are gonna be.He does love that you hype us and
him up so hard because I'm alwaystelling him. I'm always like yesterdays when
he told me that we would havebeautiful children. I stand by that.
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I do. I was like,oh my god, genetically, are you
kidding me? O l ov though, I know it's it's it's nice,
it's awesome. I have it too, and I talked so much about it
for so long, and here Iam eating my words. But you know
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what, they taste delicious. Ithink it's even more romantic. Oh so
we're gonna do a bunch of mantraTikTok. We are, And then we
have to I think we have tolaunch Jimmy and Chris into the TikTok at
least occasionally occasionally. If Jimmy isChris definitely has to. Yeah, oh
yeah, it'll be I mean,Jimmy's probably interesting. Chris will be in
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most frames holding either a Walleye ora salmon. But I do think there's
a very niche part of TikTok.That could get us some extra followers with
that. Yeah, people are intoweirdly survival and yeah, so I'm just
saying like I would love for bothof our men to do that. I
just not tremind has a ton tooffer outside of like north Face tents and
and Glowing the Dark Lores. Jimmy'sin finance, so we've got a real
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hunter gatherer. Oh my god,dynamic. If the apocalypse comes for us,
we are set. We just haveto bother ourselves together and be like
Jimmy saved all of the gold andChris knows how to grow vegetables. Honestly,
that sounds really nice. I wouldcouch rotten the apocalypse to that all
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day. Oh yeah,
Welcome to Buns and Banter, apodcast by work Busties for work Busties.
Hey, I'm Lauren and I'm Ali. We're both morning show hosts for iHeartMedia.
We're both millennials, and we're bothtrying to figure out how to build
the lives we dream about, dating, marriage, career, career and being
a mom, how to get througha week without crying. Welcome to Buns
(00:26):
and Banter. We're glad you're here, rented and so good. It's been
a minute. It's ben a minute. Oh, it's been a minute.
People, it's been such a minute. Maybe two people are asking if this
is done. I know I gotvery, very nervous about that, but
(00:46):
it's just I'm trying to think wedid. We got a couple in February.
Yeah, and then from there it'sjust like everything here for us together
and separately, has just skyrocketed.It's shit. Hit the fan, yes,
the most diplomatic way to say it. She'd hit the fan, boom,
spin, and then kind of showeredaround. Then we had to clean
that up too. So that's whatwe've been. That's where we've been.
(01:07):
I lost my co host on mymorning show, which was a big ass
bummer. It's a ba B AB A B Yeah and banter, big
ass bummer. Yes, yeah,that's you got some change. Yeah,
there's been a lot of change,some great, some not so great.
But you know, we persist.Oh my god, that's my new favorite
(01:33):
saying. We persist right, likewe do? Yep, like we do.
So picking up the pieces, planningand scheming for future things, which
I'm excited about. Yes, soI think that we'll have some good updates,
very excited over the next couple weeksand stuff. But I had my
first I think I would call itforay into illegal activity. I got banned
(01:57):
from TikTok, and I know I'vetalked to you about this endlessly because it's
been If it doesn't make me soundlike I was completely obsessed, I think
I'm on day eleven of not havingaccess to TikTok at all. And how
does it feel it? I don'tlike it. I don't I really.
I liked the app and I feelvery out of it because no offense.
(02:20):
If this is how you live yourlife. But now I'm seeing tiktoks that
were cool a month ago on Instagramreels and see there's the face I know,
I have no idea why I gotbanned. They don't give you just
heads up, they don't give youany reason. They just you literally go
to sign into your account and youare upgraded with a white dialogue box in
gray lettering that says Schmidt in themitt you have been banned from TikTok.
(02:44):
If you would like to appeal this, click here. So I did,
and I wrote this little message that'slike, could not imagine what I did.
I know your content is so unproblematic, Like it's just nothing that you
would ever post on a nonline forum. Would I'm nervous if I've cleaved out
too much on TikTok. Yeah,I do. You do. Gotta worry,
(03:05):
you know. I talk a littlebit about funny things my kids say
and the dumpster fire that is life. Okay, So one time I was
I fall asleep scrolling TikTok. Soif you get like a really random ass
video in your TikTok dms from me, I was falling asleep and like my
finger like slipped or whatever, Iwould feel so pleasured to do that.
(03:27):
No, they're like weird ass likevideos like ASMR and like people have been
like uh, I answered, butone time I did wake up and it
was like, do you actually wantto report this person? And I was
like, oh god no. Ohso I'm wondering if someone had like the
slip of a digit, But doyou get one strike and you're done.
(03:47):
I don't know how TikTok works becausethen you appeal it. And they sent
me an email the next day thatwas like, we got your appeal,
still banned. Oh, they don'ttell you what video or videos it was,
tell you like what someone's I don'teven need to know who the someone
is. But if you have toreport someone, I think you should have
to explain their problem, so youknow what, you know what it probably
(04:11):
is. They probably shut your accountdown because they stole your image and likeness
for AI. Have you read aboutthis stuff happening online? I just saw
an article the other day. Ican't remember if it was like, it
was a pretty reputable news organization andit was documenting like a bunch of Russian
women whose like faces and likenesses werestolen for AI to sell boner pills.
(04:36):
Oh my god, what Yeah?And they were like, this is not
cool. It's not this is notcool. I don't know what it says
about my confidence level. But whenyou first said maybe they stole your name
and likeness for AI, I waslike, you, guys, you could
totally just have it, like that'sbad actual and boner pills if I'm not
(04:58):
getting paid for it, if you'renot getting paid for it, And there
it is. Wow. Details.So I'm not on TikTok, but we
have talked about launching a Buns andBanter TikTok, which I think will be
coming very very soon, which I'mreally really excited about. Yeah, because
I think we'd share up because theother thing that is so irritating, I've
lost my algorithm. Yes, everybody, I was following things that it started
(05:18):
to learn that I liked to seeand would serve me gone wiped out.
I don't exist, And to behonest with you, I do not memorize
and associate user names on TikTok withcreators that I like, like I do
on Instagram exactly, so I wantto I don't know that i'd be able
to like find my favorite people again. Yeah, And I remember getting on
(05:41):
TikTok and it was like, whatare some of these videos? Yes,
Oh, I'm just it's frustrating becauseit was almost five years of work of
work of content creation, and theydon't give you any of your stuff back
either. It's not like you getto go into your count so just nobody
can see it. It's just allgone. You have no access to it
at all. That's super annoying.So I think it would be really fabulous.
(06:04):
I would love to start TikTok Livingour pod again. Yes, we
loved doing that and we got somereally great ideas when people are watching.
Yeah, and I have started TikTokLiving my morning show since I had to
watch that. Since I've been alonein the studio, I need someone to
talk to, So I've been talkingto TikTok Live, and honestly, it
has been a ton of fun.See, it's been a ton of fun.
(06:24):
Which the logistics are kind of confusingto me because how are we going
to like film it but also beable to see because that's the whole fun
of it is like talking live withpeople. I think maybe we set up
some kind of like I have thetripod for mine at home, yeah,
and we can like we'll have adifferent angle, yeah, but still be
able to I think you can alsojack the text up like Reader's Digest edition.
(06:46):
Oh hell yeah, I mean we'renot above it. Hell yeah,
I'm pretty sure you can like increasethe text size so we'll be great,
because not only can I not hearshit anymore, I can't see anything.
No, I am subtitles and sizethirty six. You guys, we have
entered our Golden Girls era sooner thanI think most people expected. But we're
loving it. I'm great with that. Bring it on. So, speaking
(07:08):
of Golden Girls, pardon me yourgolden glow? Oh maam much. You
look so great? Thank you?Your vak looked top notch. Chef's kiss
good. You are the best hypegirl. Oh I loved it the best.
I went to Florida with my niecesand my new nephew and then my
sister and brother in law their parentsand we hung out with my grandma for
(07:30):
a week, which was so muchfun. And we took the kids to
Disney for a day. I thought, I saw that was it epic?
It was epic. And let mejust say, I am not a Disney
person. Yeah, I am nota Disney adult. You would never catch
me dead at Disney. But goingwith the little ones completely changes the experience
(07:51):
and like, I want to goevery year now because it was watching them
have so much fun. It wasworth the one hundred and seventy five dollars
a day ticket for one ticket.Oh there were and it was a two
dollars discount for the kids. Oh, come on, House of Mouse,
That's insane. It was. Imean I was shocked at the price.
(08:13):
You know what else shocked me though? How clean it was? Oh yeah,
Oh my, Like I'd like tohear that I would have eaten off
of the ground. Oh, I'dsay that video of you and your niece
watching the fireworks, Oh my god, should be on like the start of
every Disney Plus streaming episode of anything. Oh, I'm so glad. It's
really good. I'm so glad westayed for those, Yeah, because they're
(08:37):
at like eight thirty I think iswhen they start, And we got there
at like ten thirty eleven, andI was like, I'm sorry, we're
saying for a fireworks at eight thirty. I thought this was like a four
hour thing, and we're out likehalf a day here, like breakfast,
lunch, dinner here, but likethe day flew by. So did you
want Magic Kingdom or did you domultiple it's just one part magic King.
(09:00):
Yeah, that's where all the princessesare. Yeah, that's where all the
cool stuff is. So yeah,I would like to definitely don't go if
you're outnumbered by children. No.No, that's one of the things we
said. When I remember specifically,like a year ago, Will asked if
he was going to get another sibling. He said, another little brother or
sister, and I said, notif you want to go to Disney.
Yeah. Oh, we got todo a man to man because we're starting
(09:24):
to talk about it in the nexttwo to three years. One of Chris's
cousins or like, they'd love todo it all together. But I wanted
to make sure Sophia was old enoughbecause like, once we're going you guys
I work in radio. Oh youmean going to Disney? Yeah? Oh
oh no, my god, anotherchild? No no no no. I
was like, oh my god,no, I'm not going to do the
(09:46):
age gap. I met like ifwe had another child, who wouldn't go
to Disney because right now it's fourof us. So like Chris grabs one,
I grabbed the other and we makeit through. No, no,
no, And that's like this wombis a tomb from here on understood,
Respect it, respect it. Yeah, we're good man. That is tough.
(10:07):
You know. We drove to Floridaand my nieces are really good about
the bathroom. And one of thehabits and rituals that they have on long
car rides and that they use foremergencies is the travel potty. Oh talk
to me. I know your pottytraining right now just started. So let
me. Do you use a travelpotty? We have it, yeah,
(10:28):
but we haven't really left the houseand we're headed on a road trip tomorrow.
Okay, I mean I in theory, brilliant idea, like the kids
never have to leave the car atfour am at a random truck stop in
Georgia after you've been driving all night. A little bit harder logistically than you
(10:52):
would think to like set it upand like do the whole thing. And
I'm not gonna say that there wasn'tp all over the car at one point.
Not a problem. Not a problem. We can clean that up.
We had chlorox wipes at the ready. But okay, a brilliant invention and
if if you can get the mechanicsdown, would recommend I love this coming
(11:16):
from an ant perspective. Yeah,I don't want it from a parent.
I want it from like I drovein this car for multiple hours, yeah,
with said travel potty. Yeah.Well, especially if you have a
kid who's kind of in the stageswhere it's like they're just starting to become
more in tune with their body,but they're not super good at forecasting,
like, hey, in fifteen minutesfrom now, I'm gonna have to go.
(11:37):
Yeah, it's like I'm gonna goin the next minute. You have
sixty seconds counting down now, right, And I think for those occasions it
is very, very helpful. Butlike I I did not grow up with
a travel potty. That's a newthing. It's new, I think.
So I never knew anybody with thetravel potty situation until like my friends started
(11:58):
having kids. Okay, that makessense because I mean, like I grew
up, my mom would just likehold us over the toilet at the truck
stop, yeah, or like onthe side of the road. And that's
why, like you learned those bluerest area signs real early on, because
that's when you were stopping. Yeah, it's like you'd always got the guys,
you have to go because the nextone's another forty seven miles, which
like as a kid, you're like, that's like, yeah, no,
(12:20):
I can't hold it. It's acouple of minutes. So we oh,
we are potty training in the newhouse. In the new house, I
make that noise. But it's beengoing, like I think it's been going
pretty well. I'd give it asix to seven out of ten. I
think Sophia's doing really great. Sheturns three in a week and a half,
so we figured, you know,she's getting the pee down. She's
(12:41):
excited, like she's got frozen undies. That was some like one of the
tips someone gave me. You gottahave them pick out their underwear and like
make it fun that way they won'twant it to get messy. Oh okay,
she is not pooping on the potty, so it feels like the number
one is good to go. Butthen she just holds set so fascinating.
Yeah. Brother, that's like heloves nothing more than a big deuce and
(13:05):
we'll talk about it. Yeah,very excited to be like, hey,
I'm I'm doocent and I'm like,you're six, don't say that, so
crows. So she'll hold it becauseat night she's still in a diaper,
but like the other day, shehad a three and a half hour nap
in undie's dry the whole time.Woke up and was like, I'm gonna
go use the potty, but she'llwait till you put a diaper on,
(13:26):
and then it's like the entire dayon loads. Yeah. So I get
this text from Chris. I'm notjealous. I don't think she feels good
though, like you know you wantto you should let it feel good either.
What if we always say? Whatdo we say? Like we are
girls with digestive problems? How girlshave tummy issues? Girls? So I
(13:52):
get this text from my husband andhe's like, cool. So she had
pooped in one of her undies andI'm not gonna call him, but I
wasn't home and I don't know thecleanup process. But we would never call
him out. We would long sin, We would never I don't know what
the cleanup process was. But heput it in the washing machine. You
(14:13):
know what, that's not your business. It's not my business. You were
at home, it's not my business. So it was in the washing machine
and I get home and he said, oh, hey, I just did
a load of her undies. Soshe has brush onndies to get into mine,
switching them over to the dryer,No problem. That was the end
of communication. If you tell methere was a turd in your washing machine,
I'll die. Nope, in thedryer, Oh, petrified turd.
(14:35):
Petrified. I get a text andhe goes, hold on, let me,
let me. I don't want todisparage the exact words, as I
was ready to kill him. Wewould never misquote someone quote. So those
ship filled undies didn't wash out andwent in the dryer, just finished washing
the inside of the dryer out andvacuuming shit nuggets out of the vent just
in case you're curious about why yourclothes smell like poop for the next few
(14:58):
cycles. And I feel like hewas giving me shade about that because I
switched it over. And so Iwrote back and said, well, I
guess the new rule is just throwthe poop ondies away, loosen the purse
strings a bit, babe. Oh. So, if you're wondering how our
relationship is doing through the potty tree, other than that, I feel like
(15:20):
it's been going really well. Youknow, kids and dogs are really not
that different. No, And themore you parent, the more you realize
that you're like, oh my god, you guys are the same exact I
don't know when that bond breaks,but I mean Toby and Sophia are pretty
much on the same page. Oh, but it's gonna be fine. We're
(15:43):
leaving town and we're gonna hope itcontinues to go well or else we're going
to Frank and Mooth. So I'lljust like take her to the cheese house
and like shove full of it soshe doesn't have to poop for the weekend.
Oh great, great idea. Followme for more parenting tips. Auchi.
I don't know, it's hard.It's hard to talk to them.
Oh speaking of must have heard metalking shit in the podcast. His ears
(16:08):
were ringing. So it's all right, But I appreciate I might need more
advice from your perspective on as we'reabout an aunt as an aunt, because
we're about to spend an entire weekendwith my entire family, two of the
aunts of which do not have kids, and but now your brother does,
like you do have a nephew.Yeah, are they going, Yes,
that'll be nice. It will beBut like I'm sure Sophia is going to
(16:30):
look at Ledger as his name andbe like, oh, enjoy that diaper
life, man, because one daythey wake up and just rip it right
out from under you. Let's begreat. I'm leaving my house because my
mom doesn't love me anymore. Nope, just said you had to go poop
on the potty. That's it.And you know what, everybody else in
the world is going to be excitedabout that too. So I'm making you
(16:51):
the not weird kid. Sorry Ishared with you this tidbit. Catherine Ryan,
the comedian, Yes, hilarious,but her big brad is that both
of her kids were potty trained likebefore they were like one or two,
like some ridiculous age. She's wow, how I have to imagine that employing
(17:11):
some sort of staff in your homecomes into play there. Yeah, and
also she said that at least theclip I saw of her on the talk
show said, the human condition isnot to sit in your own mess.
So if you just take the diapersand the underwear away from these kids,
they will learn that they do notwant to make a mess in their vicinity
(17:36):
and they will want somewhere to putthat. That's her, that's her claim.
What's in your way? You're cleanin the vicinity, claim to the
body dream, but then you're cleaningthat vicinity up all the time. Yeah,
and I feel like that's where thestaff comes in. Oh thank you.
Yeah. Okay, do I knowfor certain that she has a staff?
I don't. I don't, butyeah, I guess. Yeah,
(18:00):
Catherine, if you'd like to comeon and to find yourself, absolutely,
I'd love to have you. Iwould. I'd take all of the advice
and how you got a one totwo year old able to potty train mm
hmm, because there's a lot thatgoes into it. Like I'm trying to
be gentle and understanding about it,because I'm like, man, yeah,
you've got to figure out what itfeels like. I mean, it takes
years to figure out how long youcan really hold it right. You have
to be in that trial by firemoment where it's like there is nowhere to
(18:22):
go, You're gonna burst at theseams. Can you make it another minute?
Right? And you really don't havetoo many of those years. No,
Like, once you hit your thirtiesor have a kid, you're right
back to your two year old incontinentbladder. You don't have to be I'm
very proud of my downstairs after twokids. Yes, yes, I don't
even you got a regimen or likewhat I I did a lot of the
(18:44):
keegels, but I also, yeah, you mean you can do them sitting
in your studio chair. But I'mlike, very I don't even not a
drop when I sneeze. I justI feel like I'm not doing them right.
I feel like I'm just like tighteningand untightening my bee hole. It
feels like it's the wrong hole thatI'm working on. Yeah, I think
I just I just try to doall the holes and that's not okay.
(19:04):
I don't know if I am,but I feel like everything below is tight
and you don't you don't pee whenyou sneeze, Nope, never have dang
girl, I know so. Butto be fair, I also my second
one came out like a football aftertwo pushes because she didn't have a timeline.
So maybe that was part of ittoo, That just really quick.
(19:25):
There wasn't a lot of time todo much because she was here, that's
right. She almost came out inthe truck. Almost forgot about that.
Oh yeah, and you want totalk about a bigger mess than potty training?
What about that not your truck,not my problem. Right. So
on that note, how's the relationshipwith the going through all of me?
So I love you? Seem likeit? Oh? So that that was
(19:49):
my new house, Yeah, closingup the old house, potty training,
new schools. We get into nowfor the fall, which is insane.
So much time for you and Chrisjust to luxuriate in romance. Oh luxuriate.
That's a good word. Yeah,that's a good speaking of luxuriate.
(20:11):
How's your luxuriating situation? My luxuriatingsituation is fourteen out of ten? Oh
my god, fourteen out of ten. I love that number. I'm having
a great time. Yes, yeah, da was. I was gonna ask
when I first heard about the Floridatrip. Yeah, and you were road
(20:33):
tripping down I was like, isthe gentleman going because I think that is
a fabulous relationship builder. Yes,well he did not go to Florida.
There was a not room in thecar, be not room in the house.
Yeah, there was a lot ofyou there where. There were six
of us total that road trip downthere, and then my grandma's condo that
she rents in Florida for a couplemonths every winter. It's two bedrooms.
(20:56):
It's one king bed. That's whereshe sleeps in, one queen bed,
so like between just their family offive. Oh yeah, it was already
packed. Yeah. And by thetime that we had, you know,
put this all together, finding airbnbsor like another situation was either non existent
or way too expensive, right,so it was just like was not it
(21:18):
didn't The stars didn't a line onthis one. Okay, stars didn't a
line on this one. Still fourteenout of ten and still fourteen out of
ten. But we did a coupleweeks before I rode trip to Florida,
the girls, my nieces six andfour, came to Grand Rapids for their
first overnight oh alone. That wasso cute, and Jimmy and I took
(21:41):
them to see a play and likeout to dinner, so like we played
house for the weekend. And stillfourteen out of town and still after fourteen
out of ten. That is agood launch, I know, I know,
I mean that's in it. Ilove it. Yeah, it's going
very very well. Yeah. Istill feel like one of these days he's
(22:06):
gonna wake up and be like,got you, Oh and now you're stuck
Just kidding, babe, because helistens and watches our podcast. So yeah,
but I think people are starting tocatch on on social media because I
have posted a couple of pictures ofus, but like, we haven't.
(22:29):
We don't have any pictures of justthe two of us where we like look
nice or we're doing something okay,Like our favorite activity is coutrot. Oh,
but it's a good one and it'slike so necessary to be able to
couchrot with someone. Mm hmm.Yeah, that's top three for me and
in a person. Yeah, butwe're trying to figure out I'm trying to
(22:52):
like navigate this because I feel likepeople online are they kind of secretly love
like the secrecy that I'm like holdingback the details a little bit. I'd
like what you've posted so far,it feels like a were's waldough, how
do we keep this going? Butpeople on TikTok live have been like,
what are you going to post picturesof him? What are you gonna put
And that's admittedly what I look foron other people's social media, like I
(23:15):
want to see your husband, Iwant to know what he does. I
want to know what your house lookslike, I want to know what you
where you go on vacation. Letme see your closet, show me your
life. Instagram to me is likeyou better leave your blinds open at night
and you have your lights on.Yes, I want to drive by and
be like, oh yeah, andthat's stock Creaway. Yeah. And like
Jimmy is all in on it,and like he's all for it. He's
(23:37):
like, yes, let's scheme.How do we do this? So I'm
like, let's plan the launch,legit social launch. Yeah. Oh my
god, I don't. I don'tknow, but you know, we're having
We're having a ton of fun despitenot photographing any of it, which I'm
so happy to hear that because I'mlike, oh, this is a legit
relationship. Yeah, you know.I mean we talk about that a lot.
(24:00):
It's you know, I've had tworeally really good friends that when you
would look from the outside, it'slike perfection and both of them have divorced.
Oh you know, it's like Ilove that. You're like, oh,
we've had a ton of fun.We just haven't boasted it. Fucking
awesome. Yeah we have. Ijust was on a zoom call last night
with all of my college friends andof course we're like talking about huge life
(24:23):
updates. And my friend Amy isabout to have her first baby. Oh.
Amy, and my friend Angela justgot engaged, and like my friend
Brian is looking for houses and likethey're doing all of these big things.
My friend Renee just celebrated her oneyear anniversary of getting married, and I'm
like, yeah, I get itout of the way. Oh, out
of the way, because someone's steppinginto this spot life. But like I
(24:48):
just like don't have any updates.I'm like, you, guys, I
have a boyfriend that I lov andthey're like, that's nice. Oh,
it's so good. No, itis. They're excited, but it's just
like, you know, there's justnot it's it. We've been dating since
like right before Christmas. Yeah,and it's going really really well. But
(25:08):
I just don't have many updates onit because I'm like, you're blissful.
You were just enjoying very much inthe honeymoon stage of our relationship. So
we like talk very nicely to eachother. We don't really fight. Nobody
has found a petrified turd in thedryer yet. Nobody has found a petrified
turd in the proverbial or literal dryeryet. You know, I'm so stoked
(25:34):
though, because you have like yourfirst summer coming up together. Yeah.
Oh, you guys are gonna beso pretty in the summer. Yeah,
that's the pictures are gonna be.He does love that you hype us and
him up so hard because I'm alwaystelling him. I'm always like yesterdays when
he told me that we would havebeautiful children. I stand by that.
(25:57):
I do. I was like,oh my god, genetically, are you
kidding me? O l ov though, I know it's it's it's nice,
it's awesome. I have it too, and I talked so much about it
for so long, and here Iam eating my words. But you know
(26:17):
what, they taste delicious. Ithink it's even more romantic. Oh so
we're gonna do a bunch of mantraTikTok. We are, And then we
have to I think we have tolaunch Jimmy and Chris into the TikTok at
least occasionally occasionally. If Jimmy isChris definitely has to. Yeah, oh
yeah, it'll be I mean,Jimmy's probably interesting. Chris will be in
(26:40):
most frames holding either a Walleye ora salmon. But I do think there's
a very niche part of TikTok.That could get us some extra followers with
that. Yeah, people are intoweirdly survival and yeah, so I'm just
saying like I would love for bothof our men to do that. I
just not tremind has a ton tooffer outside of like north Face tents and
and Glowing the Dark Lores. Jimmy'sin finance, so we've got a real
(27:03):
hunter gatherer. Oh my god,dynamic. If the apocalypse comes for us,
we are set. We just haveto bother ourselves together and be like
Jimmy saved all of the gold andChris knows how to grow vegetables. Honestly,
that sounds really nice. I wouldcouch rotten the apocalypse to that all
(27:23):
day. Oh yeah,
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