July 1, 2025 • 49 mins
#179: There's something magical about reuniting with friends who've known you since elementary school – people who witnessed your awkward phases, knew your family dynamics, and remember details about your childhood that even you've forgotten.
In this laughter-filled episode, I'm joined by my two oldest friends in the world, Lori and Lauren, whom I've known since second grade. Together, we answer questions submitted by listeners about everything from our earliest memories together to relationship advice based on our collective decades of experience.
We dive deep into childhood memories – like the time I was terrified at Lorie's slumber party and called my mom to pick me up, or when Lauryn's dad (who was a police officer) would let us watch his work tapes. We discuss who had the strictest parents (definitely Lorie), who was most likely to get arrested first (also Lorie!), and what we were jealous of about each other growing up. There's something uniquely honest about perspectives from people who've known you since you were eight years old.
The conversation takes fascinating turns as we explore how our childhood experiences shaped our adult lives. We talk about career paths none of us expected to take, relationship patterns we've observed in ourselves and each other, and what we wish we could tell our younger selves now. Through fits of giggles and occasional moments of profound reflection, we unpack how growing up in a small town with just "four stoplights" created bonds that have withstood three decades of life changes.
What makes this episode special isn't just the nostalgic stories or the embarrassing revelations – it's the demonstration of how childhood friendships provide a unique mirror to our growth. As we put it near the end, "we went through a lot of tragic stuff at a younger age that most people don't," creating connections that remain strong despite physical distance and busy adult lives. Listen in to this intimate conversation that might inspire you to reach out to your oldest friends and reminisce about the people you were and the adults you've become.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What is up everyone?
Welcome back to another episodeof the Babbles Nonsense Podcast
.
On today's episode, I have myoldest friends, lori and Lauren,
here answering all yourquestions that you submitted on
the Q&A box on Instagram, and weare answering everything from
like childhood questions torelationships to pretty much
(00:20):
anything.
So if you are interested andyou want to hear a good laugh,
this episode is for you.
(00:48):
I was nonsense podcast.
If you're highly offended,easily turn it off now, because
I have my two oldest friendsfrom elementary school on
today's episode.
My headphones are entirely tooloud, so let me turn that down,
okay, and we have some questionsfrom y'all's q a this past
weekend.
Lori and lauren are with metoday.
(01:11):
Hello, what's up if they actcrazy, y'all don't judge me,
because I have been trying togive them podcast podcast
etiquette and we can't followdirections.
So we'll, we'll see.
We'll see how this goes.
We have some questions from theaudience that they want
answered and we're going tostart with the ones that they
(01:33):
asked about y'all'sinterpretation of me.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Oh, yeah, I'm ready.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
I'm not ready for this.
All right, so we're just goingto start.
What's your?
Speaker 3 (01:49):
first memory of us hanging out.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
I don't know we were talking about this at lunch.
Now I don't know either.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
I can remember playing on the playground with
you one, two, three.
I'm not your friend, I was ajerk.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
I didn't know what are you talking about.
On the swing set, yeah, oh yeah, I didn't know what are you
talking about On the swing set.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Yeah, oh yeah, I dropped the other person, but
they can't take up forthemselves.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Really Uh-huh.
I don't remember that.
So you decided to be my friend,but you didn't want to like,
take up for me on the playground.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
I didn't really.
No, I said one, two, three.
I'm not your friend.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
I liked you.
Okay, so first of all let'sback it up a little bit.
You and Lauren knew each othersince what?
Kindergarten, age three.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
We took dance together, so when?
Speaker 1 (02:31):
I came in.
I moved in to y'all'selementary school in second
grade.
Do y'all remember that?
Speaker 3 (02:38):
No, I remember you being in school with us, but I
don't remember what grade.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
I don't remember you being the new kid but I came in
in second grade.
I don't remember being the newkid, I don't know how we became
friends, but you took me in.
Yeah, you were just there.
Well, lauren was my neighbor.
Yeah, lauren was my neighbor.
Laurie took me in.
I don't remember how we becamefriends, but then amy then came
along later, which I introduced,amy to la, to Lori and, I think
(03:07):
, fourth grade no, this wasskating or sixth grade, sixth
grade, seventh grade it had tohave been going into junior high
because I didn't like her.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
What do you mean?
Speaker 1 (03:17):
you didn't like her, y'all literally left me out of
everything.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Listen, she had bangs and she thought she's better
than everybody.
And I did not like her.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Until seventh grade you literally blocked me out of
everything in y'all's friendgroup because I was so jealous
of y'all all the time that's allin your head no, I wasn't in
the skating.
I've always loved you long timeso your first memory of uh of me
was on the playground.
I don't even know if I haveokay, the only might not have
been you, I might be lying.
(03:45):
So the first memory that Ibelieve I have wasn't when I
came to your slumber party andyour older brother made us play
that stupid crazy game.
That was scary af.
What was that game that we hadto play?
Speaker 2 (04:00):
yeah, it was nightmare.
What grade was that?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Oh gosh, probably second I feel like that was
third, Third or fourth yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
And I remember coming and I was like I don't do scary
stuff, I just don't.
I remember you freaking out.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
And I probably called my mom to come get me.
You did.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
I do remember that you did, you left, I remember.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Yeah, sounds about right.
Checks out, checks out, okay.
Next question sorry, my phonefell over um.
What did you think you'd growup to be?
Speaker 2 (04:34):
well, I thought that I was going to be a
cosmetologist, but I got kickedout of cosmetology.
That is a lie.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
That is not what you thought you were going to be a
nurse.
No, that was after cosmetology.
Oh so, so you initially wantedto be cosmetology.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Okay, I'll still cut your hair lauren, what did you
want to be?
I don't know.
Um, I thought like in highschool I'd be a pharmacist, and
then I got into that and what doyou think?
Speaker 1 (05:02):
a teacher.
Can you imagine my patience no,and now, and now, what are?
you a nurse practitioner andlauren city recorder, and I'm a
banker yeah, wild, wild, um,yeah, I wanted to be a teacher
and I practiced in my room withdo you remember when we were in
choir and we got those um whatare they called?
(05:23):
Like, where you hold the sheetmusic?
Um, but you know what I'mtalking about.
Like I held the sheet music, Iwould practice in my room.
I had very imagination as achild.
I would literally like just beinstructing kids like imaginary
there were too many kids in myhouse.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
I was trying to ignore other children all right.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
So the next question was what's something we thought
was normal as children butrealize now is weird trauma
period end of discussion bottomline yeah no, like something we
did, what was something we didthat we thought was normal.
That is now weird oh man I don'tknow either, because I feel
(06:11):
like we just had imagination.
I know, at lauren's house Idon't know if you were there or
not, but we played a lot becausewe were neighbors we would play
like there was dead bodies,there was some kind of dead body
, there was some kind of deadbody game that we played.
I don't remember, but Iremember there was some kind of
dead body and your grandmotherplayed.
I don't remember, but Iremember there was some kind of
dead body and your grandmotherrest in peace.
Love your grandmother.
But also scared us the bejesus,because she literally would
(06:33):
come chasing after us all thetime because we were in that
haunted house down the streetfrom you.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
That was not haunted.
That's still there.
Yeah, we found his wife's graveand made up this big story.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Yeah, the last name started with a z I don't
remember, because I was scaredof everything and I hated y'all
for that we were obsessed.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Remember when we left her brother in the cemetery yes
, he was trying to aggravate usand our mom's left yeah, all
right.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Next question what was the dumbest fight we ever
had?
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Oh, we've had a few.
We always work it out, though.
I think it's just difference ofopinion.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Well, I can remember.
The one that stands out themost to me is when and we just
talked about this at lunch waswhen we were in high or not in
high school, in junior high,high school, high school or not
in high school.
In junior high, high school,high school.
Lori just got her driver'slicense and her and Amy were
friends, which I introduced, herand Amy and they became best
friends, whatever and she's notsalty at all and I was in the
(07:36):
back seat and we, like, all wehad to do in our small town
because we're from a small town,if we didn't mention that we're
from a small town and all wehad to do was like rip and rot
up and down the roads that wasall there was to do or drugs,
but we decided to forgo thedrugs and just to ride up and
down Until after high school.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
I'm dead.
Let's be honest, I did not dodrugs.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Anyway, speak for yourself.
Well, I did not because I wasterrified because my family,
where it was really big, intodrugs and I was terrified, but
anyways, um, lori was drivingcrazy when she got her driver's
license and I was, we wereriding.
So basically the way it went isthere was like a loop we'd go
through Sonic, up through toWalmart, come back to Sonic and
(08:18):
then go to Walmart.
So Lori was at Sonic and I waslike let me out, you're acting
crazy, I'm going, you're goingto wreck.
I just know you're going towreck.
I just know you're going towreck and I have a very good
intuition.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
It's very psychedelic .
Speaker 1 (08:32):
And I saw my brother's friend there and I was
like, let me out, this personwill take me home.
You let me out and you're like,whatever, you're crazy.
What happened?
Speaker 2 (08:41):
five minutes later, Lori, In my defense when she got
out of the cars because Ipulled into Sonic in front of
someone and she said you'regoing to kill us, but we did not
die, obviously.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
And then later that night, Not later that night, it
was literally 15 minutes later.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Later that night from my version of the story one of
my friends was coming up.
It was really stupid.
We were racing uphill and a carwas coming and I was in the
wrong lane so I thought he wasgoing to let me get in front of
him.
He thought I was getting behindhim and so I ran him off into a
ditch, but neither one of uswere hurt and my mom did not
know until literally herdeathbed when my sister ratted
(09:20):
me out.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Regardless, I had a good we did not die.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
You could have, but we didn't.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
And you literally texted me 15 minutes after I got
a car and you said we were in awreck.
And I was like yeah, figurestracks, story tracks.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
She's fine.
What about you, Lauren?
Trauma builds character.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
What about you, Lauren?
Do you remember any fights?
I don't.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
I don't, I don't know I don't either.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
I don't feel like we ever got in a really fight I
think, it was just me and lauriealways fighting yeah, I don't
feel like me and laurie haveever really been in a fight.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
I was always in a fight with laurie because of
jealousy.
I was like why do you like themover me?
And yet here I am in your houseright now, loving you the most
is it all right question for allthree of us who had the
strictest parents?
Listen, denise was crazy.
Laurie definitely had thestrictest parents just one, just
(10:12):
one parent.
Yeah, I think I think it wasprobably laurie then mine than
yours lauren, because lauren'sparents literally was like
whatever but I think werespected them because they
weren't so crazy on us.
You know which is crazy becauselauren's dad was a cop, so you
would think that her parentswould be the most strict right,
like when y'all went skating.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
I wasn't allowed to do that yeah I wasn't allowed to
do that.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
But then but I think because your dad was a cop.
He knew we were gonna do thosethings.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
So right, which I wasn't allowed to go skating,
but like my mom was like only ifyou find a ride home, and I
think I was like 12 years oldyeah, we were 12 years old at
the sonic at midnight that'sprobably why I wasn't allowed to
goyeah, that's very true.
Like my mom was, like as longas you have a ride home, as long
as I don't have to get outremember that time I flipped
that guy off and he followed usto your house no, I don't regina
(10:59):
was so mad at me and I wasscared.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
that's the last time I threw a bird in public.
How old were you?
Well, we were riding withRegina, so we had to be junior
high we went to your house.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Maybe that is hilarious.
Okay, so what was your biggestfear as a child?
I'll go first the dark.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Checks out.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
I was always scared of the dark.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
I had to sleep with my tv on.
I was scared of people.
Yeah, well, because, of traumathat happened in my life, like I
knew what people were capableof okay, do you want to
elaborate or no?
No, okay, that'll be anotherpodcast.
We can all cry together.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Therapy session I don't really know um.
I was scared of snakes and likepeople also my dad made me
scared to death of likestrangers see, and I had no
stranger danger.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
I was just like, oh the dark.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
I was like I was scared of guns too also well,
your dad had one yeah, but hemade me scared to death of him
okay well, I remember he used tomake us watch his tapes after
he would get off work.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
really, yeah, I didn't get to watch.
I don't tapes after he wouldget off work.
Really, yeah, I didn't get towatch those.
I don't actually think he madeus, I think we snuck in there
and watched them.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
You begged him to handcuff you to the door one
time I begged other people tohandcuff me to the door too,
okay so who was the class clownin the group?
Speaker 1 (12:24):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Probably me.
We're all really funny.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
I think we're all pretty funny equally yeah, like
I think I was in trouble a lotfor always, like trying to like
just make people laugh I wasjust talking about you the other
day what were you saying?
Speaker 3 (12:37):
in economics class.
How much god, but scotty, oh mygod.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
And then how much hell we gave mr smith yes, me
and scotty were always, alwaysdoing something okay.
So this one's a question fory'all about me and screw whoever
wrote this.
But what was jonna like inschool, smart?
Speaker 3 (13:00):
was I?
Yeah, I don't remember.
I've always been type a too andvery determined, organized that
was not what I was expecting.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
I was expecting laurie to talk about how, like
after school, I literally forcedher.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
You were annoying as shit.
Jonah thought she was going togrow up to be mariah carey and I
supported her dreams her inthat portable cd player yes I
supported her dreams and Ilistened and I'm pretty sure I
applauded her and did a standingovation at times.
But no, I really that I didn'tdeserve.
I looked up to your drivebecause you had to do everything
(13:34):
yourself, like there wasn'tnobody there pushing you.
Like my mom was like oh you gota 95, you better get a 98 next
time.
And you gotta do this, yougotta do this.
And I didn't give a crap but Ihad to because I was scared of
her.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
You drove yourself because you wanted to beat the
statistics yeah, you were adriving force yeah, I mean, I
remember that, like I've talkedabout this on the podcast before
, like I've literally like mylike, not saying my parents
didn't care, but my parentsdidn't care, like if I would
have brought home straight upsthey would have been like, well,
you know, you did the best youcould.
(14:05):
Yeah yeah, you know I didn'thave parents like like laurie or
lauren, that were like uh-uh,uh-uh, you ain't bringing that
in this house, not happening.
Um, I just remember likeliterally forcing laurie bless
her heart.
I thought I was the nextamerican idol.
I don't know.
I was here to support you.
So you say okay.
(14:26):
So let's see what else somebodysaid to say what would you tell
your younger self now for themost advice or the best advice
that you would give?
Speaker 2 (14:45):
honestly, I think that everything that we did good
and bad shaped us, so I don'tknow.
I feel like you had to gothrough those things to be who.
You are right, so I I drank alot in junior high and high
school and I did not, which isnot normal yeah she did I can
remember jonna telling me that Iwas an alcoholic.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
I remember that.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, because but, if I wouldn't have
done those things when my lifeturned out like this.
I mean it could have turned outopposite.
I could be an alcoholic, andI'm not.
But I just feel like all thosethings and all those situations
that you get yourself into shapeyou into the person you are.
You just have to choose whichpath you're going to take.
You're gonna keep down thatroad, or if you're gonna do
better for yourself.
But I wish I.
(15:29):
I mean, my mom was nuts, but Iwish I would have loved her a
little harder.
You know what I mean.
Like yeah well looking.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Okay, for example, let's let's elaborate that.
So your mom recently passed andso, like I know, we all used to
think like your mom was verystrict.
Your mom was very like hard onus or hard on you, but like,
looking back, like in the moment, I think we were like god,
she's just so strict, she's sohard, but like now that we know
what we know now, and like whatshe was trying to teach you
(15:56):
because we're older now it wasmore that she wanted the best
out of you.
She wanted you to the to be thebest version of yourself, and
she knew what your capabilitieswere oh yeah, I definitely think
she could have went aboutthings better.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
But the stress that she was under I understood when
I became a single mom and Itotally get it.
And and now that I know moreabout my dad, even though he's
passed just stories people havetold me that they think is funny
.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
But I'm like, yeah, selling drugs is cool, not, you
know, like no wonder my mom wascrazy well, and when we were,
when we were younger, I rememberlike you idolized your dad a
lot and like you thought yourmom was just very strict on you.
So like, look like in thatmoment when we're 12, 15 years
old and you're like god, mom,like why are you so strict?
But like my dad over here, he'sso cool, like he's so this.
(16:41):
But then you hear the storiesnow, because we're almost in our
40s.
That is a little bit different.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
You don't have to say that so loud well, I think I
look good for almost being 40,so I don't care.
You do you?
Know, definitely what about you, lauren.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
I think my advice would be we were in such a hurry
to grow up that is literally,and I think that it would be.
I would tell myself slow down,enjoy it while we have it,
because adulthood is not thebest.
It's not that great.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
I think it's the same .
Like I don't remember beingvery smart in school, but I do
know like in college I was verystringent and type A, so I guess
I was that way when I was inschool with y'all.
I wish I would have stopped andjust enjoyed the moment a
little bit more, but I don'tfeel like I had that opportunity
.
Like enjoyed the moment alittle bit more, but I don't
(17:32):
feel like I had that opportunity.
Like I've talked about this onmy podcast before like my sister
always was in trouble and Ialways felt like I had to be so
good and I had to do everythingso right to not like make my
parents upset with me.
So I felt like I didn't havethat opportunity to be a kid.
And so like I think I wish,like knowing now, I wish I would
have looked back and been ableto say it's okay to just screw
up every now and then, it's okayto have fun, it's okay to just
sow your wild oats right.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Yeah, that was probably part of my problem.
I think I had a little too muchfun and I wasn't and I didn't.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Yeah, and I still don't.
I should have been, I didn'tuntil after my divorce that I
had a lot of fun, all right.
So the next question is who hadthe worst taste in crushes back
then, and do they still?
Speaker 2 (18:15):
I was not boy crazy.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
I don't think I was either I wasn't boy crazy either
, but all the crushes I had arenow into men, so I don't know if
that says about me.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
You did have the worst taste and probably still
do well, except for one.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
He was precious mine haven't been great.
Who was?
Speaker 2 (18:33):
precious you can say that andrew, yeah, rip andrew,
yeah, we loved him loved andrew.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
That's probably the normal crush I probably had.
He was my first love, love him.
He was a sweetie he was, butlike the other guys that I was
like high school and junior highwas either turned out to be gay
nothing wrong with gay, notsaying that, I'm just saying
like, but obviously not intobeing and then or like the bad
(19:04):
boys that really don't want agirlfriend yeah, it's a good
thing that those did not turninto more than they were yeah,
but still going down that path.
So, um, maybe more therapy wouldhelp yeah, we'll venmo you
venmo me some therapy monday tobe fair.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
We didn't have a lot of options no, I mean yeah, it
was bad boys or gay boys.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Yeah, pretty much.
I mean okay, in all fairness, Ididn't know they were into men.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
We didn't know.
We didn't know Like it came outlater.
I knew, Lori knew.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
I knew Lori didn't tell me as my best friend, oh, I
did, you just weren't listening.
No, you didn't.
Yeah, one for sure, your cousin.
He is not my cousin.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Yes, he is.
He was married in.
Who are we talking?
Speaker 2 (19:50):
about.
We'll tell you off the podcast.
Okay, so what's the biggestsecret?
We never told our parents.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Well, until my mom was dying when I wrecked my car.
Thanks, Kaylee.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
I think I told my mom everything in high school.
I did not.
Yeah, I told my mom everythingin high school.
I did not.
I, yeah, I told my momeverything.
What's the biggest secret?
The double life.
What's the?
Speaker 1 (20:14):
biggest thing that does?
She still not know.
Can you say it on this podcast?
I don't really talk to her thatmuch now she's not, she doesn't
listen to this podcast, I canpromise you.
I can see who listens fromwinchester.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
But I mean, I mean I talk to her, but like I don't
talk to her, so I don't reallyknow do you like?
Speaker 1 (20:28):
do you think of anything like back that you did
in high school, junior high,that you're just like?
Speaker 3 (20:34):
I mean, I've lived a double life no, you didn't.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
What are you talking about?
Oh yeah, her parents have noidea and I drank heavy from 14
until like laurie's like I'mtelling it all.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Both my parents are dead.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Nobody's listening everyone's dead, so there's that
, but honestly.
I mean tore down, and shethought I was just babysitting
weren't you drunk in the frontyard once?
Speaker 1 (20:55):
listen, I went over there while she was babysitting
and she was.
She was like here, do you wantthis peach schnapps?
Speaker 2 (20:59):
I was like no, I don't the kids are still alive,
for the record.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
They're thriving adults who love the lord, but
wasn't it like 9 am and you werepassed out in the yard?
Speaker 1 (21:10):
no, it was probably getting close to evening you
can't think of a secret, laurenno other than like hiding
boyfriends and what do you mean?
Hiding boy?
Oh yeah, all right, let's seewhat is the next question.
Who would have gotten arrestedfor?
Who would have gotten arrestedfirst in high school if we were
(21:32):
in a movie?
Lori for sure she was alwaysthe instigator.
I still am.
No, you're not.
You have children.
You should work with me, you'relike they're responsible.
You're both responsible now I amresponsible I have children I'm
only responsible because I'masleep by 6 30 pm I'm still not
responsible you're responsiblefor people's lives every day.
(21:54):
What do you mean?
Not anymore when I worked inthe hospital, like now, I do
disability exams and you'reresponsible.
You go to work every day.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
I'm responsible from 8 to 4, 30 that's all that
matters don't ask me for nothing, all right, next question what
rumor did you hear aboutyourself growing up?
Speaker 2 (22:14):
that was totally false or totally true that I was
a lesbian, and I was notnothing wrong with being a
lesbian, but I wasn't I neverheard that rumor yes, when was
that in high school?
Speaker 1 (22:26):
yes, who started?
Speaker 2 (22:27):
I don't remember that I'm not gonna say her name on
here, but it sign language oh,oh yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
I don't remember a rumor about myself.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
I was pregnant, evidently her entire senior year
.
Yeah, oh, I remember.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Yeah, I don't know if this was rumor y'all, maybe I
made this up in my head.
But after, like, I got likewhen I developed, um, and you
know my sister was verypromiscuous like there was a lot
of rumors around me that I waspromiscuous when I was very not
promiscuous I was the mostprudest person you'll ever meet
in your entire life, but I thinkthat rumor went around about me
(23:04):
in high school yeah yeah, sothat was just based off family
history.
Family history and people justassumed but jealous virgin still
am okay right um, next questionwhat was something you were
jealous of, and of each otherback then?
I don't know.
(23:28):
I'll go, so she's like I've beenwaiting for this so lauren I
was very jealous because we wereneighbors and you did seem to
have such a good family dynamicuntil we, like we opened up, we
talked about your family dynamicbut from the outside, looking
in, you look like you have theperfect family, and so that was
like something I really wasjealous of, because you had this
(23:50):
perfect mom, perfect dad.
It was almost like the steffordwife family that you y'all
portrayed to have, yeah.
But you know we've talked sincethen, laurie, you know we
talked about this at lunch today.
I was very jealous the factthat I brought amy into our
circle she's still not lettinggo
Speaker 2 (24:07):
listen, everybody loves them.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Some laurie and you we were best we were besties for
the resty and you cut me out ofyour life for old amy.
I didn't cut you out, you cutme out for making stuff.
No, no no, no, for a briefmoment in time, because you
didn't like the fact that I wasreal and told you how it was.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
no, she did tell me how it was, and, and I was not
trying to hear that- Lori, canyou think of?
Anything.
No, I mean, I loved Lauren'sfamily but I feel like they
treated me just like I wastheirs and I loved that and I
craved that.
And then like I felt like yourhouse was just so fun because
nobody gave a crap aboutanything.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
My mom didn't even notice.
I was there half the time.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
So I don't really think I was ever jealous of
y'all.
I just loved, having y'all.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Like y'all benefited my life.
I was jealous, but I lovedcoming to Lori's house because
it was chaos all the time.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Do y'all watch Jenny in Georgia?
Speaker 2 (25:03):
No, it scares me.
I like feel good stuff.
I've had enough drama in mylife.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
It's really good.
Anyways, I relate the secondseason.
Spoiler alert.
Turn it off if you don't hear.
So there's a girl in there andI can't remember her name, but
she's best friends with Jennyand she is very jealous because,
like Jenny starting to becomefriends with her friends and I
was like, yeah, rings a bell.
I literally started cryingduring it.
(25:29):
Dead serious, lauren, can youthink of any jealousy moments?
Speaker 3 (25:34):
I was just jealous of like how y'all's houses you got
to do what you wanted.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Like going skating at 11 o'clock at night yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Being on the phone after 10 o'clock.
It was trouble.
It was I acted out later.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
I was sneaking around , though, yeah, it was trouble,
it was.
There was a lot of sneakingaround, though, yeah, okay.
Um, next question who wouldhave gotten arrested first in
high school if we were in amovie?
Definitely lori.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Yeah, it's still questionable, did you?
Speaker 1 (26:01):
ever get arrested.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
I feel like.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
No.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
No.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
I've gotten tickets for reckless driving and, funny
enough, actually, I only got onefor reckless driving.
Did I tell y'all what happenedto me in?
Speaker 1 (26:14):
college before I was 21?
.
I don't know if I've told thisstory on the podcast, so I know
I've talked about like myex-lover of 17 years we won't,
you know, know name to me, notspoken, but y'all know who I'm
talking about.
So I was on the way to hishouse and my friends were there
like sorority friends andeverything was not drinking.
I did not drink until I was 21,um, and I was driving down the
(26:36):
street like 25 miles an hour andmy phone went off and it fell
into the floor and I was tryingto reach over to get it out of
the passenger side and Iobviously swerved up into
someone's yard and hit a tree, avery small tree, did no damage
to my car, did no damage to thetree right, panicked, backed up
left, went to my friend's housethat was around the corner.
Little did I know cop livedacross the street and apparently
(26:59):
like backwoods cop, like almostretired, like thought he had
all this authority, comes aroundlike probably five minutes
later and he was like whowrecked into this car?
Like obviously I went inside andtold everybody right and, um, I
come out, and I was like I didit or whatever, and he was like
get in the back of the cop carright now you've been drinking,
did it?
I was like I I haven't beendrinking.
(27:21):
Actually I was like I wastexting and driving.
But um, actually I wasn'ttexting.
I was trying to reach for myphone and all I was leaning over
into the passenger seat and Iremember this guy that I was in
love with at the time.
He was like get your ass in thehouse, don't answer anybody
that says anything.
I was like I don't know what todo.
I've never been in trouble bythe law.
But then I had to get back inthe cop car, handcuffed, really
(27:42):
yes terrified.
Then after that um, you know,obviously he had no authority to
like arrest me.
I didn't do anything like itliterally did no damage to the
tree.
I didn't hurt anyone, did nodamage to the car.
I was going 20 miles an hour.
The tree was like a.
It was like it wasn't like anoak tree, it was like a little
twig.
It was like.
It was like he was just being adick.
He thought he was gonna findsomebody drinking he thought he
(28:04):
thought I was drinking and Iwasn't, and I think he even even
made me like blow into thewhatever and I I wasn't drinking
, and um, because I typicallyalways drove everyone downtown
because I wasn't drinking and um, I remember when we went
downtown it was just like moodkill, like everybody was just
like okay, this is not as fun aswe thought.
Did I never told you all that?
(28:25):
No, I don't think so.
All right, so the next one iswhat rumor did you hear about
yourself growing up that wastotally false or totally true.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
We already did this one no, we didn't we did both of
those already not a rumor.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Yeah, we did okay.
Well, uh, maybe I read it.
Okay, what was something youwere jealous of?
Oh, we already did that one too.
These are duplicates.
Um, who was actually thequote-unquote mean kid but
pretended they weren't?
Speaker 2 (29:02):
john's looking at me like it's me.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
No, I thought you were looking at me like it was
me, no.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
I don't think any of us were mean to each other.
I don't either.
We might have been mean toother people, I'm still mean.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Alright, what's?
One thing we still haven'toutgrown, for better or worse?
Speaker 2 (29:19):
How giggly we are we have laughed this whole time and
it has been so good for my soul, my anxiety.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Trauma.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Trauma.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Trauma is what makes us so funny.
It is what's something you wishwe could say to our childhood
selves now, even if it wouldbreak their hearts.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Respect your parents Everyone gonna die.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
It will happen to you , even if you think it won't
yeah, and he doesn't love youyeah yeah, that one.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Um, I think, because I had such, like you know,
different relationships with myparents, I think the biggest
thing if it, even if it theirheart, would be like your
parents are doing the best theycan, and sometimes it's not what
you want to hear and sometimesyou have to just realize, like
you are still loved and, youknow, cared for, but maybe not
in the way that you want to be.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Yeah, I need my daughter to listen to this and
hear that my mom is actuallydoing the best for you, I
promise, and it and you knowI've talked about this in my
podcast before.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
I've been very vulnerable about like how me and
my mom are best friends.
Lori knows it Like I would stayat home and watch Lifetime
movies with my mom instead ofgoing to football games.
But then it became like more oflike my mom choosing my sister
over me, but it was becausemom's sister was in a lot of
trouble all the time.
But but really like, lookingback, like I know she cared for
me, but her mindset was you'redoing good, you can handle
(30:52):
yourself.
Like your sister needs me morethan you, but in my mindset,
because I am still single, Idon't have a family.
It's like what child doesn'tneed their mom?
Oh yeah.
So my advice not from a childperspective, but if a parent's
listening to this stop choosingfavorites in your children and
stop thinking that a child whodoes well doesn't need you,
(31:14):
because honestly, they probablyneed you more than you think.
Just because a child is strongdoes not mean that they don't
have weak moments or a weak mind.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
And I think that goes for all three of us in our
spots, in our family, because Ithink a lot was put on me
because my mom was like, you canhandle this you're okay yeah,
when deep down, I was like I'mnot okay, right, I need you to,
to just hold it all on your ownand not put it on me right Right
.
I agree.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
All right.
So then, if our friend groupwas a reality show, what would
it be called and who would bethe villain?
It would definitely be calledthe Giggly Squad.
Sorry, paige, we're stealingyour name.
Who would be the villain, lorifor?
Speaker 2 (32:00):
sure, yeah, I like to stir stuff up.
I wouldn't say villain.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
I'm not saying villain in a mean person, but I
think that you would be thedramatic character that would
keep the reality drama going.
Yeah, y'all are welcome.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
You're welcome.
Who wants to watch a showwithout that?
Speaker 1 (32:15):
You're welcome for that paycheck I gave you.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Yeah, I'm not saying like you would be like mean or
anything but all right, let'ssee who secretly hooked up with
someone and never told anyone.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Spill it now I'm married, love you guys.
Jesse is not gonna listen tothis she said I kissed brandon
in the back of virginia's carbrandon who still spill the tea.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
I mean, it wasn't like hook up.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Hook up because I was very innocent but we did kiss
in the back of virginia's car onthe way to sonic after skating
ring went up.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
I was very innocent.
In high school I had a highschool sweetheart, like you were
.
You were basically married inhigh school until after I was 21
, almost 22, yeah really okay Iwas wilding out yeah, you are
tell us give initials.
Is there something we don'tknow?
Speaker 1 (33:09):
I'm sure there is and you're not going to spill it
now I need to think about itfirst, she said when everyone's
dead yeah, all right, now I havea few questions that people ask
.
That's not necessarily likeabout us growing up or whatnot,
but they're just questions.
So someone asked what'ssomething guys do that they
(33:31):
think is a flex, but womenactually find cringy Everything.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Oh my gosh.
Well, coming from where I workin the bank, I don't care how
much money you have, Like you'renot that I think talking about
your money is disgusting.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
Yeah, I do.
I think that, like, talkingabout money is cringy, like if
you think that, oh, this isgoing to impress me, but also,
at the same time, like if you'rejust over talking women in
general, like if you think, likeI'm such a high masculine
energy and you don't bringnothing to the table.
It's a vibe, right, like it'shard to explain, but women can
(34:12):
sense it automatically.
It's like, wow, okay, you'rejust nah, we're not doing this.
Do y'all know what I'm talkingabout?
Speaker 3 (34:20):
Oh yeah, I work with all guys.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
So Do y'all know what I'm talking about?
Oh yeah, I work with all guys,so I mean I get it.
I think it's attractive for aman to act like, even if he's
not, that he's impressed withyou and your accomplishments.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
You know what I mean, you know what I think just
gives me the ultimate ick issending unsolicited pics.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
It's not cute.
Nobody wants to see that.
Nobody wants to see it.
Also, I haven't had that happena lot.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
But yeah, like I'm sorry, like okay, let's just put
this out there the women, the,the female body, the reason why
women send nudes is becausefemale bodies are just more
attractive than male bodies andand I'm clearly heterosexual I
think that I'm very attracted tomen.
But when it comes to likeunsolicited dick pics is what
you're talking about, like I'msorry, there has never been
(35:02):
someone that sent me that.
That I'm like, yes, let's jumpin the bed right now, because
women are not visual creatures.
Women are turned on by theirmind, emotions, things like that
.
Compliments will get youeverywhere yeah, stimulate my
brain stimulate my brain, have adeep conversation, and I'm just
like you.
I don't even know what you looklike.
If you're intellectually like,just yeah with it yes, let me
(35:25):
talk now.
I get it cook like I get itfrom a man's perspective, like
if they're like, if I, if you,you send a unsolicited nude,
they're just like well, allright, then it's like but?
But also, men have tounderstand that we're wired
differently and the visual doesnot do it for women.
Women are wanting you to saysomething back like oh yeah, you
(35:48):
look great something or if,even if it's just like foreplay
through a text message, likeit's more about that mental
stimulation than just trying tolike be like hey, hon, I'm gonna
come home, I'm gonna wash thedishes for you, I want you to
kick your feet up, I'm gonnagive you a foot massage.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
Justin Moore, do you hear this?
You?
Speaker 3 (36:06):
know, what.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
I'm saying, and then you're just like what Okay, okay
, daddy, okay.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Zeddy, zeddy.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
Zeddy, all right.
So the next question was if youhad to pick one quotequote red
flag that women secretly love,what would it be?
Well, I, since I go for all thered flags, let's just throw it
(36:34):
out there.
Red flags that I probably like,that I ignore is probably that
over masculine energy thatliterally does cut me off, cuts
me down, you know, not saying Ilove it, but that I ignore it,
like.
Sometimes it's a turn on likebecause in the beginning it
seems like it's a very likemasculine thing, you're taking
charge, it's intriguing, butreally at the end of the day,
like, the longer it goes on,it's more that you're just
(36:55):
putting me down yeah, see, andmy husband is the total opposite
of red flag he is a giant greenflag.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
And at first I was like no, sir, you are way too
nice.
There ain't no way that you arereally into me, because I am
not that nice, and thank Godthat he stayed around, but he's
just, he's so nice.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
Another red flag too attractive.
If you're too attractive, Ithink in my mind, like all of a
sudden, I go player player.
Yeah, I think in my mind, likeall of a sudden, I go player
player.
Yeah, and are you looking at me?
Yeah, like, why are you lookingat me like I'm not at your
level, like you're.
You're a 10, I'm a 7, you, youplaying somebody.
Speaker 2 (37:32):
John, you are a solid 9.75, sweet, but no sweet, but
no.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
Next question what's the most hilarious or bizarre
misconception you think men haveabout women?
That we need them yes and no, Idon't.
I think men are becoming moreaware that we don't with social
media, I'm trying to think whatdo men that will never leave?
(38:01):
Yeah right, the bigmisconception with men is that
women will never leave.
I can treat them how I want totreat them I can.
I can keep doing this, I cankeep getting away.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
They'll never leave me and here's the thing women
are done before you know they'redone.
Yep, so don't let it get tothat.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
We've already checked out way before you know it
right, and women do givemultiple chance after chance,
after chance after chance, andyou never know when that chance
is going to be up.
You just don't.
But I think we, we clock itright, like we clock it
internally and like we, we getto the point where our belly is
full and then it's like I'm full, I'm good, I'm gone, yeah, and
then it's too late, there'snothing you can say, nothing you
(38:37):
can do, there's nothing you cando to change your mind.
But then, on the flip side ofthat, I'll also all answer this
for men, men.
So women think that men willnever.
No, wait, men think that womenwill never change.
Right, leave, women think thatmen will never change.
(38:58):
So it's that, that's thatcounterintuitive like.
So men, men will sit there andthey won't change and they'll
keep doing what they're doingand doing, and doing, and doing.
And women are over there hopingthey'll change.
They'll change, they'll be that, that, that vision that I have
for them.
They'll be that.
Um, what's the word?
Not vision?
Um, oh god, now it can't cometo me.
(39:19):
Um, we seek potential, likewomen, seek potential, potential
, potential, potential, and thenit's never coming to fruition.
So women keep trying to seekthat potential and it's like
this this, this circle, you know, but then eventually the woman
changes and or the woman leavesand the man never changes.
(39:40):
So yeah next question if youcould put one universal rule in
the quote-unquote datinghandbook for men, what would it
be?
And why be honest?
Just be honest.
So, like I am in the datinggame Lauren, you're seeing
someone, um, laura, you'remarried.
I'm always dating.
(40:04):
My thing is just be very honestup front, like if you know for a
fact that you don't want todate, you want to hook up.
You maybe just want a friendand you don't want to go any
further.
Just be honest.
Like I get it.
It's not going to take you alot with with a lot of women,
but there are some women thatrespect that.
Like I was on a dating apprecently and this man literally
(40:26):
like we matched and he was likeI just want you to know I'm not
looking for anything.
I just got out of a long-termrelationship, but I am just
looking like either for hookupsor whatever.
If you're down for that, let'scontinue to talk.
And I literally respected it.
I was like it's not what I'mlooking for, but thank you so
much for not wasting my time.
Speaker 2 (40:46):
And obviously I'm married.
I'm not dating anymore, buteven just friends in general.
If I catch somebody lying aboutsomething stupid, immediately
I'm like we ain't, we ain'tfriends.
I cannot handle it.
I don't care what you did, justbe honest.
I hate to catch somebody in astupid lie.
Speaker 3 (41:05):
Yeah.
Yeah, I'm a big communicatortoo.
Speaker 2 (41:06):
like just communicate with me yeah, because what if
something big does happen?
Speaker 3 (41:09):
then I really am not gonna believe you, yeah, don't
lie to me or on me.
Speaker 1 (41:13):
Yes, yes okay, whoever wrote this next one,
screw you.
Why is jonna single and why doyou guys think jonna is single?
Well, I'm single because I keepgoing for situationships for
guys that think make me thinkthat they want to be with me.
That's my story and I'msticking to it I think jonna is
(41:34):
for one.
Speaker 2 (41:35):
She stays single because she doesn't settle,
which I respect yeah, I thinkit's wonderful.
I don't think you should,because then you're just in an
unhappy marriage.
But I think that Jonna alsodoesn't see her full worth, a
thousand percent, and I thinksometimes she doesn't give men
like she settles for the onesthat put her in this situation.
(41:57):
But there are some men that Idon't think she gives enough
time to get to know them.
She's immediately like no, thatI'm not into that type or I'm
not into this, and I'm like justlet it, let it simmer a minute,
just see you might end upliking it yeah yeah, maybe I
didn't think my husband and Iwould be married with a mortgage
and two kids, so all right, afew more questions, um.
Speaker 1 (42:23):
What did you study in college, what was your career
goal and how did you get here?
Speaker 2 (42:29):
so I did not, I didn't go to college right out
of high school.
Well, I did for three days,because I like to drink and
party yeah but I went back as asingle mom, working full-time
and overtime and doing all on myown, and I went for um.
I have my bachelor's inbusiness oh, I thought you had
accounting.
(42:49):
Well it well.
My associate's degree is inaccounting.
My bachelor's degree is inbusiness okay, lauren.
Speaker 3 (42:56):
I went to four-year and a university I can't talk um
for accounting.
Enjoyed college way too much sodid not finish.
But now I work um in accounting.
Really, I didn't know it wasaccounting.
Yeah, recorder, the cityrecorder, like I record
everything the city brings in ohokay, keep up with all the
finances well, I studied collegeor studied college.
Speaker 1 (43:19):
I studied nursing in college, um, but that was not my
career goal.
I really thought I was going tobe a teacher.
I almost quit nursing school500 times my my grade though
what?
Speaker 3 (43:29):
what grade did you want to teach?
Speaker 1 (43:32):
probably junior high high school, because I
definitely don't have thepatience for elementary.
I can see you with older kidsyeah, um, but I, um, all my
friends, it was like no, you'vecome this far in nursing, you
can't quit.
And so how did I get there?
I literally got there becausewe lived in a small town and I
had a lot of older brothers andsisters that were always in and
(43:53):
out of trouble and I knew that Idid not want to stay.
So I knew I had to figure out away out, and so nursing was a
way out.
We had an associate's degreenursing in town.
But then, you know, I followedthe guy that I was in love with
for 17 years down to auniversity college and I'll be
honest, like I cannot regretdoing that, because I would not
(44:15):
be where I was if I didn't dothat.
I would probably still be in mysmall town, and who knows where
I would be.
Speaker 2 (44:21):
I loved your college experience too.
What when I would come down andhang out with you and your
sorority sisters?
Speaker 1 (44:27):
it was a great time I mean, yeah, we had a good time,
we had fun, we had fun.
All right, let's see.
Um, we already did remind me,if we answer this, because this
is a different person that askedwhat advice would you give to
your younger?
Self that we okay, I thought wedid what twist and turns has
your professional career taking?
Speaker 2 (44:48):
well, I almost quit twice and I've been at my job
for 17 years, not because ofanything they did, just because
I thought okay, I'm gonna go,I'm gonna go into nursing this
time.
Speaker 1 (44:58):
And then I got a promotion and I was like okay,
I'm just gonna stay here youdidn't answer the last question
then, because the last questionsaid um, what was your career
goal?
So your career goal was not tobe in what you're in, no, no, it
wasn't.
Speaker 2 (45:13):
But my ex-husband had a wreck In high school.
I wanted to be a nurse at theend of high school and then I
was like, no, I don't want to dothat, I just want to get a job,
because I already lived on myown when we were in our senior
year and I just needed to makemoney.
And then he had a wreck and wasstill paralyzed from the waist
(45:33):
down and I thought, okay, I takecare of him, I could definitely
go into nursing, I'm gonna dothat.
Well then, I ended up not doingthat, and I'm glad, because
when you take care of someoneyou love, it's totally different
than taking care of strangerslet's just even back it up even
further.
Speaker 1 (45:45):
Before that you, literally throughout high school
, said you were going to be anurse yeah, yeah, like that was.
You always wanted to be a nursealways, always, always wanted
to be a nurse, and then all thathappened.
Speaker 2 (45:56):
And then you were like, no, this isn't well, I
decided no before that, becauseI remember in clinicals we were
in the emergency room and thislittle old lady came in and they
had to put a catheter in herand they let us watch me.
And who was my partner?
It wasn't me, cause I rememberI was in the nursing home, not
the ER, but um that little ladycried while they put her
(46:19):
catheter in and it broke me andI was like no my grandmother bit
somebody when they put acatheter in her.
Speaker 3 (46:25):
I would too, and they had to get a tetanus shot.
Four nurses for my littlegrandmother, let me tell you.
Speaker 1 (46:31):
No, no, no, no, no, no.
I was about to say these littleold people are stronger than
the Hulk.
Yeah, they are.
Like you literally have to getlike five, six people to hold
down.
Speaker 3 (46:41):
She hulked out all 90 pounds of her, yeah.
Speaker 2 (46:43):
Yeah, I was like I can't do that.
Speaker 1 (46:46):
That broke me I still think that you should be a
nurse.
That's just anyways.
The last question was not fory'all, it was for me.
How has the house issues beengoing?
Is it resolved?
No, unfortunately it has not.
I really can't talk about it atthis moment.
So as soon as I can talk aboutit, I will definitely update you
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all when I can.
So it's all I can say is it'sjust not resolved as of yet.
So that's all I can say.
So well, thank y'all so much fordoing this podcast with me.
That's all the questions thatanyone has um asked.
Is there anything else so thatwe need to tell anybody that we
left out?
Keep your friends close.
Yeah, I mean I think that we'revery lucky in the fact that I
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know a lot of people say thatthey don't have a lot of close
friends, but like we, there'sthe core four of us that from
you know.
Like I said, I've known y'allsince second grade and we've
grown up together, and even thepeople that I have in college,
like Megan and Mal and them,like I've known them from over
10 years, and that's very rareto have friends that last over
10 years, right well, we don'tsee each other all the time.
Speaker 2 (47:48):
Even Lauren and I live in the same town, yeah, and
we don't see each other verymuch at all, and then you're in
Huntsville, so we don't see youa lot either, but it's like we
never skip a beat no right.
Speaker 1 (48:00):
But also even the fact that, like me and Lauren
don't talk a lot about we catchup on beat no right.
But also even the fact that,like me and lauren don't talk a
lot about we catch up onfacebook and stuff, but, like
laurie and me snapchat everysingle day.
It's almost like I talk to youmore than anyone I've ever
talked to and I almost like likebecause it's video chat.
It's like I see you, like I seeyour kids, like you know I've
talked, like your daughter willbe like who are you talking to?
Yeah, so I love that and I lovethat.
(48:23):
You know, we do have a goodfriendship that has lasted, you
know, the test of time, becausethat is very rare we've been
through it all we have literallyyou guys are my childhood.
Yeah, agreed, yeah and there's,and you know, people do grow
apart and that's okay, you knowwhatnot.
But also at the same time, Ithink we went through a lot of
like tragic stuff at a youngerage that most people don't and
(48:45):
maybe we should have gotten alittle bit deeper on this
podcast.
But maybe this is just thewarm-up, but we did go through a
lot of tragic things aschildren together so I think it
kind of bonded us for life.
Um, and also we were from avery small town, so I know a lot
of people that listen to thispodcast are in huntsville.
So huntsville is not really I'msure it was considered a small
town at one point, but it's notreally a small town anymore.
Speaker 3 (49:06):
Um, but like when we say small town, like like four
stoplights- yeah, like wegraduated with like what 200 and
something and that's the wholecounty yeah, minus, yeah, I mean
it was small and they only hadlike 30 yeah, yeah, but thank
you so much for doing this,because people put in and thank
you guys for sending in thequestions for us.
Speaker 1 (49:23):
We enjoyed answering them.
Is there anything else y'allwant to say?
Speaker 3 (49:26):
we love you, yeah, we love you all right, love y'all
too all right guys, until nexttime.
Speaker 1 (49:31):
Bye, thank you.
What is up everyone?
Welcome back to another episodeof the Babbles Nonsense Podcast
.
On today's episode, I have myoldest friends, lori and Lauren,
here answering all yourquestions that you submitted on
the Q&A box on Instagram, and weare answering everything from
like childhood questions torelationships to pretty much
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anything.
So if you are interested andyou want to hear a good laugh,
this episode is for you.
(00:48):
I was nonsense podcast.
If you're highly offended,easily turn it off now, because
I have my two oldest friendsfrom elementary school on
today's episode.
My headphones are entirely tooloud, so let me turn that down,
okay, and we have some questionsfrom y'all's q a this past
weekend.
Lori and lauren are with metoday.
(01:11):
Hello, what's up if they actcrazy, y'all don't judge me,
because I have been trying togive them podcast podcast
etiquette and we can't followdirections.
So we'll, we'll see.
We'll see how this goes.
We have some questions from theaudience that they want
answered and we're going tostart with the ones that they
(01:33):
asked about y'all'sinterpretation of me.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Oh, yeah, I'm ready.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
I'm not ready for this.
All right, so we're just goingto start.
What's your?
Speaker 3 (01:49):
first memory of us hanging out.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
I don't know we were talking about this at lunch.
Now I don't know either.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
I can remember playing on the playground with
you one, two, three.
I'm not your friend, I was ajerk.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
I didn't know what are you talking about.
On the swing set, yeah, oh yeah, I didn't know what are you
talking about On the swing set.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Yeah, oh yeah, I dropped the other person, but
they can't take up forthemselves.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Really Uh-huh.
I don't remember that.
So you decided to be my friend,but you didn't want to like,
take up for me on the playground.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
I didn't really.
No, I said one, two, three.
I'm not your friend.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
I liked you.
Okay, so first of all let'sback it up a little bit.
You and Lauren knew each othersince what?
Kindergarten, age three.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
We took dance together, so when?
Speaker 1 (02:31):
I came in.
I moved in to y'all'selementary school in second
grade.
Do y'all remember that?
Speaker 3 (02:38):
No, I remember you being in school with us, but I
don't remember what grade.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
I don't remember you being the new kid but I came in
in second grade.
I don't remember being the newkid, I don't know how we became
friends, but you took me in.
Yeah, you were just there.
Well, lauren was my neighbor.
Yeah, lauren was my neighbor.
Laurie took me in.
I don't remember how we becamefriends, but then amy then came
along later, which I introduced,amy to la, to Lori and, I think
(03:07):
, fourth grade no, this wasskating or sixth grade, sixth
grade, seventh grade it had tohave been going into junior high
because I didn't like her.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
What do you mean?
Speaker 1 (03:17):
you didn't like her, y'all literally left me out of
everything.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Listen, she had bangs and she thought she's better
than everybody.
And I did not like her.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Until seventh grade you literally blocked me out of
everything in y'all's friendgroup because I was so jealous
of y'all all the time that's allin your head no, I wasn't in
the skating.
I've always loved you long timeso your first memory of uh of me
was on the playground.
I don't even know if I haveokay, the only might not have
been you, I might be lying.
(03:45):
So the first memory that Ibelieve I have wasn't when I
came to your slumber party andyour older brother made us play
that stupid crazy game.
That was scary af.
What was that game that we hadto play?
Speaker 2 (04:00):
yeah, it was nightmare.
What grade was that?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Oh gosh, probably second I feel like that was
third, Third or fourth yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
And I remember coming and I was like I don't do scary
stuff, I just don't.
I remember you freaking out.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
And I probably called my mom to come get me.
You did.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
I do remember that you did, you left, I remember.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Yeah, sounds about right.
Checks out, checks out, okay.
Next question sorry, my phonefell over um.
What did you think you'd growup to be?
Speaker 2 (04:34):
well, I thought that I was going to be a
cosmetologist, but I got kickedout of cosmetology.
That is a lie.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
That is not what you thought you were going to be a
nurse.
No, that was after cosmetology.
Oh so, so you initially wantedto be cosmetology.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Okay, I'll still cut your hair lauren, what did you
want to be?
I don't know.
Um, I thought like in highschool I'd be a pharmacist, and
then I got into that and what doyou think?
Speaker 1 (05:02):
a teacher.
Can you imagine my patience no,and now, and now, what are?
you a nurse practitioner andlauren city recorder, and I'm a
banker yeah, wild, wild, um,yeah, I wanted to be a teacher
and I practiced in my room withdo you remember when we were in
choir and we got those um whatare they called?
(05:23):
Like, where you hold the sheetmusic?
Um, but you know what I'mtalking about.
Like I held the sheet music, Iwould practice in my room.
I had very imagination as achild.
I would literally like just beinstructing kids like imaginary
there were too many kids in myhouse.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
I was trying to ignore other children all right.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
So the next question was what's something we thought
was normal as children butrealize now is weird trauma
period end of discussion bottomline yeah no, like something we
did, what was something we didthat we thought was normal.
That is now weird oh man I don'tknow either, because I feel
(06:11):
like we just had imagination.
I know, at lauren's house Idon't know if you were there or
not, but we played a lot becausewe were neighbors we would play
like there was dead bodies,there was some kind of dead body
, there was some kind of deadbody game that we played.
I don't remember, but Iremember there was some kind of
dead body and your grandmotherplayed.
I don't remember, but Iremember there was some kind of
dead body and your grandmotherrest in peace.
Love your grandmother.
But also scared us the bejesus,because she literally would
(06:33):
come chasing after us all thetime because we were in that
haunted house down the streetfrom you.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
That was not haunted.
That's still there.
Yeah, we found his wife's graveand made up this big story.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Yeah, the last name started with a z I don't
remember, because I was scaredof everything and I hated y'all
for that we were obsessed.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Remember when we left her brother in the cemetery yes
, he was trying to aggravate usand our mom's left yeah, all
right.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Next question what was the dumbest fight we ever
had?
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Oh, we've had a few.
We always work it out, though.
I think it's just difference ofopinion.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Well, I can remember.
The one that stands out themost to me is when and we just
talked about this at lunch waswhen we were in high or not in
high school, in junior high,high school, high school or not
in high school.
In junior high, high school,high school.
Lori just got her driver'slicense and her and Amy were
friends, which I introduced, herand Amy and they became best
friends, whatever and she's notsalty at all and I was in the
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back seat and we, like, all wehad to do in our small town
because we're from a small town,if we didn't mention that we're
from a small town and all wehad to do was like rip and rot
up and down the roads that wasall there was to do or drugs,
but we decided to forgo thedrugs and just to ride up and
down Until after high school.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
I'm dead.
Let's be honest, I did not dodrugs.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Anyway, speak for yourself.
Well, I did not because I wasterrified because my family,
where it was really big, intodrugs and I was terrified, but
anyways, um, lori was drivingcrazy when she got her driver's
license and I was, we wereriding.
So basically the way it went isthere was like a loop we'd go
through Sonic, up through toWalmart, come back to Sonic and
(08:18):
then go to Walmart.
So Lori was at Sonic and I waslike let me out, you're acting
crazy, I'm going, you're goingto wreck.
I just know you're going towreck.
I just know you're going towreck and I have a very good
intuition.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
It's very psychedelic .
Speaker 1 (08:32):
And I saw my brother's friend there and I was
like, let me out, this personwill take me home.
You let me out and you're like,whatever, you're crazy.
What happened?
Speaker 2 (08:41):
five minutes later, Lori, In my defense when she got
out of the cars because Ipulled into Sonic in front of
someone and she said you'regoing to kill us, but we did not
die, obviously.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
And then later that night, Not later that night, it
was literally 15 minutes later.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Later that night from my version of the story one of
my friends was coming up.
It was really stupid.
We were racing uphill and a carwas coming and I was in the
wrong lane so I thought he wasgoing to let me get in front of
him.
He thought I was getting behindhim and so I ran him off into a
ditch, but neither one of uswere hurt and my mom did not
know until literally herdeathbed when my sister ratted
(09:20):
me out.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Regardless, I had a good we did not die.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
You could have, but we didn't.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
And you literally texted me 15 minutes after I got
a car and you said we were in awreck.
And I was like yeah, figurestracks, story tracks.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
She's fine.
What about you, Lauren?
Trauma builds character.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
What about you, Lauren?
Do you remember any fights?
I don't.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
I don't, I don't know I don't either.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
I don't feel like we ever got in a really fight I
think, it was just me and lauriealways fighting yeah, I don't
feel like me and laurie haveever really been in a fight.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
I was always in a fight with laurie because of
jealousy.
I was like why do you like themover me?
And yet here I am in your houseright now, loving you the most
is it all right question for allthree of us who had the
strictest parents?
Listen, denise was crazy.
Laurie definitely had thestrictest parents just one, just
(10:12):
one parent.
Yeah, I think I think it wasprobably laurie then mine than
yours lauren, because lauren'sparents literally was like
whatever but I think werespected them because they
weren't so crazy on us.
You know which is crazy becauselauren's dad was a cop, so you
would think that her parentswould be the most strict right,
like when y'all went skating.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
I wasn't allowed to do that yeah I wasn't allowed to
do that.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
But then but I think because your dad was a cop.
He knew we were gonna do thosethings.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
So right, which I wasn't allowed to go skating,
but like my mom was like only ifyou find a ride home, and I
think I was like 12 years oldyeah, we were 12 years old at
the sonic at midnight that'sprobably why I wasn't allowed to
goyeah, that's very true.
Like my mom was, like as longas you have a ride home, as long
as I don't have to get outremember that time I flipped
that guy off and he followed usto your house no, I don't regina
(10:59):
was so mad at me and I wasscared.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
that's the last time I threw a bird in public.
How old were you?
Well, we were riding withRegina, so we had to be junior
high we went to your house.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Maybe that is hilarious.
Okay, so what was your biggestfear as a child?
I'll go first the dark.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Checks out.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
I was always scared of the dark.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
I had to sleep with my tv on.
I was scared of people.
Yeah, well, because, of traumathat happened in my life, like I
knew what people were capableof okay, do you want to
elaborate or no?
No, okay, that'll be anotherpodcast.
We can all cry together.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Therapy session I don't really know um.
I was scared of snakes and likepeople also my dad made me
scared to death of likestrangers see, and I had no
stranger danger.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
I was just like, oh the dark.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
I was like I was scared of guns too also well,
your dad had one yeah, but hemade me scared to death of him
okay well, I remember he used tomake us watch his tapes after
he would get off work.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
really, yeah, I didn't get to watch.
I don't tapes after he wouldget off work.
Really, yeah, I didn't get towatch those.
I don't actually think he madeus, I think we snuck in there
and watched them.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
You begged him to handcuff you to the door one
time I begged other people tohandcuff me to the door too,
okay so who was the class clownin the group?
Speaker 1 (12:24):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Probably me.
We're all really funny.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
I think we're all pretty funny equally yeah, like
I think I was in trouble a lotfor always, like trying to like
just make people laugh I wasjust talking about you the other
day what were you saying?
Speaker 3 (12:37):
in economics class.
How much god, but scotty, oh mygod.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
And then how much hell we gave mr smith yes, me
and scotty were always, alwaysdoing something okay.
So this one's a question fory'all about me and screw whoever
wrote this.
But what was jonna like inschool, smart?
Speaker 3 (13:00):
was I?
Yeah, I don't remember.
I've always been type a too andvery determined, organized that
was not what I was expecting.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
I was expecting laurie to talk about how, like
after school, I literally forcedher.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
You were annoying as shit.
Jonah thought she was going togrow up to be mariah carey and I
supported her dreams her inthat portable cd player yes I
supported her dreams and Ilistened and I'm pretty sure I
applauded her and did a standingovation at times.
But no, I really that I didn'tdeserve.
I looked up to your drivebecause you had to do everything
(13:34):
yourself, like there wasn'tnobody there pushing you.
Like my mom was like oh you gota 95, you better get a 98 next
time.
And you gotta do this, yougotta do this.
And I didn't give a crap but Ihad to because I was scared of
her.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
You drove yourself because you wanted to beat the
statistics yeah, you were adriving force yeah, I mean, I
remember that, like I've talkedabout this on the podcast before
, like I've literally like mylike, not saying my parents
didn't care, but my parentsdidn't care, like if I would
have brought home straight upsthey would have been like, well,
you know, you did the best youcould.
(14:05):
Yeah yeah, you know I didn'thave parents like like laurie or
lauren, that were like uh-uh,uh-uh, you ain't bringing that
in this house, not happening.
Um, I just remember likeliterally forcing laurie bless
her heart.
I thought I was the nextamerican idol.
I don't know.
I was here to support you.
So you say okay.
(14:26):
So let's see what else somebodysaid to say what would you tell
your younger self now for themost advice or the best advice
that you would give?
Speaker 2 (14:45):
honestly, I think that everything that we did good
and bad shaped us, so I don'tknow.
I feel like you had to gothrough those things to be who.
You are right, so I I drank alot in junior high and high
school and I did not, which isnot normal yeah she did I can
remember jonna telling me that Iwas an alcoholic.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
I remember that.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, because but, if I wouldn't have
done those things when my lifeturned out like this.
I mean it could have turned outopposite.
I could be an alcoholic, andI'm not.
But I just feel like all thosethings and all those situations
that you get yourself into shapeyou into the person you are.
You just have to choose whichpath you're going to take.
You're gonna keep down thatroad, or if you're gonna do
better for yourself.
But I wish I.
(15:29):
I mean, my mom was nuts, but Iwish I would have loved her a
little harder.
You know what I mean.
Like yeah well looking.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Okay, for example, let's let's elaborate that.
So your mom recently passed andso, like I know, we all used to
think like your mom was verystrict.
Your mom was very like hard onus or hard on you, but like,
looking back, like in the moment, I think we were like god,
she's just so strict, she's sohard, but like now that we know
what we know now, and like whatshe was trying to teach you
(15:56):
because we're older now it wasmore that she wanted the best
out of you.
She wanted you to the to be thebest version of yourself, and
she knew what your capabilitieswere oh yeah, I definitely think
she could have went aboutthings better.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
But the stress that she was under I understood when
I became a single mom and Itotally get it.
And and now that I know moreabout my dad, even though he's
passed just stories people havetold me that they think is funny
.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
But I'm like, yeah, selling drugs is cool, not, you
know, like no wonder my mom wascrazy well, and when we were,
when we were younger, I rememberlike you idolized your dad a
lot and like you thought yourmom was just very strict on you.
So like, look like in thatmoment when we're 12, 15 years
old and you're like god, mom,like why are you so strict?
But like my dad over here, he'sso cool, like he's so this.
(16:41):
But then you hear the storiesnow, because we're almost in our
40s.
That is a little bit different.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
You don't have to say that so loud well, I think I
look good for almost being 40,so I don't care.
You do you?
Know, definitely what about you, lauren.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
I think my advice would be we were in such a hurry
to grow up that is literally,and I think that it would be.
I would tell myself slow down,enjoy it while we have it,
because adulthood is not thebest.
It's not that great.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
I think it's the same .
Like I don't remember beingvery smart in school, but I do
know like in college I was verystringent and type A, so I guess
I was that way when I was inschool with y'all.
I wish I would have stopped andjust enjoyed the moment a
little bit more, but I don'tfeel like I had that opportunity
.
Like enjoyed the moment alittle bit more, but I don't
(17:32):
feel like I had that opportunity.
Like I've talked about this onmy podcast before like my sister
always was in trouble and Ialways felt like I had to be so
good and I had to do everythingso right to not like make my
parents upset with me.
So I felt like I didn't havethat opportunity to be a kid.
And so like I think I wish,like knowing now, I wish I would
have looked back and been ableto say it's okay to just screw
up every now and then, it's okayto have fun, it's okay to just
sow your wild oats right.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Yeah, that was probably part of my problem.
I think I had a little too muchfun and I wasn't and I didn't.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Yeah, and I still don't.
I should have been, I didn'tuntil after my divorce that I
had a lot of fun, all right.
So the next question is who hadthe worst taste in crushes back
then, and do they still?
Speaker 2 (18:15):
I was not boy crazy.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
I don't think I was either I wasn't boy crazy either
, but all the crushes I had arenow into men, so I don't know if
that says about me.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
You did have the worst taste and probably still
do well, except for one.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
He was precious mine haven't been great.
Who was?
Speaker 2 (18:33):
precious you can say that andrew, yeah, rip andrew,
yeah, we loved him loved andrew.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
That's probably the normal crush I probably had.
He was my first love, love him.
He was a sweetie he was, butlike the other guys that I was
like high school and junior highwas either turned out to be gay
nothing wrong with gay, notsaying that, I'm just saying
like, but obviously not intobeing and then or like the bad
(19:04):
boys that really don't want agirlfriend yeah, it's a good
thing that those did not turninto more than they were yeah,
but still going down that path.
So, um, maybe more therapy wouldhelp yeah, we'll venmo you
venmo me some therapy monday tobe fair.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
We didn't have a lot of options no, I mean yeah, it
was bad boys or gay boys.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Yeah, pretty much.
I mean okay, in all fairness, Ididn't know they were into men.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
We didn't know.
We didn't know Like it came outlater.
I knew, Lori knew.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
I knew Lori didn't tell me as my best friend, oh, I
did, you just weren't listening.
No, you didn't.
Yeah, one for sure, your cousin.
He is not my cousin.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Yes, he is.
He was married in.
Who are we talking?
Speaker 2 (19:50):
about.
We'll tell you off the podcast.
Okay, so what's the biggestsecret?
We never told our parents.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Well, until my mom was dying when I wrecked my car.
Thanks, Kaylee.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
I think I told my mom everything in high school.
I did not.
Yeah, I told my mom everythingin high school.
I did not.
I, yeah, I told my momeverything.
What's the biggest secret?
The double life.
What's the?
Speaker 1 (20:14):
biggest thing that does?
She still not know.
Can you say it on this podcast?
I don't really talk to her thatmuch now she's not, she doesn't
listen to this podcast, I canpromise you.
I can see who listens fromwinchester.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
But I mean, I mean I talk to her, but like I don't
talk to her, so I don't reallyknow do you like?
Speaker 1 (20:28):
do you think of anything like back that you did
in high school, junior high,that you're just like?
Speaker 3 (20:34):
I mean, I've lived a double life no, you didn't.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
What are you talking about?
Oh yeah, her parents have noidea and I drank heavy from 14
until like laurie's like I'mtelling it all.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Both my parents are dead.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Nobody's listening everyone's dead, so there's that
, but honestly.
I mean tore down, and shethought I was just babysitting
weren't you drunk in the frontyard once?
Speaker 1 (20:55):
listen, I went over there while she was babysitting
and she was.
She was like here, do you wantthis peach schnapps?
Speaker 2 (20:59):
I was like no, I don't the kids are still alive,
for the record.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
They're thriving adults who love the lord, but
wasn't it like 9 am and you werepassed out in the yard?
Speaker 1 (21:10):
no, it was probably getting close to evening you
can't think of a secret, laurenno other than like hiding
boyfriends and what do you mean?
Hiding boy?
Oh yeah, all right, let's seewhat is the next question.
Who would have gotten arrestedfor?
Who would have gotten arrestedfirst in high school if we were
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in a movie?
Lori for sure she was alwaysthe instigator.
I still am.
No, you're not.
You have children.
You should work with me, you'relike they're responsible.
You're both responsible now I amresponsible I have children I'm
only responsible because I'masleep by 6 30 pm I'm still not
responsible you're responsiblefor people's lives every day.
(21:54):
What do you mean?
Not anymore when I worked inthe hospital, like now, I do
disability exams and you'reresponsible.
You go to work every day.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
I'm responsible from 8 to 4, 30 that's all that
matters don't ask me for nothing, all right, next question what
rumor did you hear aboutyourself growing up?
Speaker 2 (22:14):
that was totally false or totally true that I was
a lesbian, and I was notnothing wrong with being a
lesbian, but I wasn't I neverheard that rumor yes, when was
that in high school?
Speaker 1 (22:26):
yes, who started?
Speaker 2 (22:27):
I don't remember that I'm not gonna say her name on
here, but it sign language oh,oh yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
I don't remember a rumor about myself.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
I was pregnant, evidently her entire senior year
.
Yeah, oh, I remember.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Yeah, I don't know if this was rumor y'all, maybe I
made this up in my head.
But after, like, I got likewhen I developed, um, and you
know my sister was verypromiscuous like there was a lot
of rumors around me that I waspromiscuous when I was very not
promiscuous I was the mostprudest person you'll ever meet
in your entire life, but I thinkthat rumor went around about me
(23:04):
in high school yeah yeah, sothat was just based off family
history.
Family history and people justassumed but jealous virgin still
am okay right um, next questionwhat was something you were
jealous of, and of each otherback then?
I don't know.
(23:28):
I'll go, so she's like I've beenwaiting for this so lauren I
was very jealous because we wereneighbors and you did seem to
have such a good family dynamicuntil we, like we opened up, we
talked about your family dynamicbut from the outside, looking
in, you look like you have theperfect family, and so that was
like something I really wasjealous of, because you had this
(23:50):
perfect mom, perfect dad.
It was almost like the steffordwife family that you y'all
portrayed to have, yeah.
But you know we've talked sincethen, laurie, you know we
talked about this at lunch today.
I was very jealous the factthat I brought amy into our
circle she's still not lettinggo
Speaker 2 (24:07):
listen, everybody loves them.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Some laurie and you we were best we were besties for
the resty and you cut me out ofyour life for old amy.
I didn't cut you out, you cutme out for making stuff.
No, no no, no, for a briefmoment in time, because you
didn't like the fact that I wasreal and told you how it was.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
no, she did tell me how it was, and, and I was not
trying to hear that- Lori, canyou think of?
Anything.
No, I mean, I loved Lauren'sfamily but I feel like they
treated me just like I wastheirs and I loved that and I
craved that.
And then like I felt like yourhouse was just so fun because
nobody gave a crap aboutanything.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
My mom didn't even notice.
I was there half the time.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
So I don't really think I was ever jealous of
y'all.
I just loved, having y'all.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Like y'all benefited my life.
I was jealous, but I lovedcoming to Lori's house because
it was chaos all the time.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Do y'all watch Jenny in Georgia?
Speaker 2 (25:03):
No, it scares me.
I like feel good stuff.
I've had enough drama in mylife.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
It's really good.
Anyways, I relate the secondseason.
Spoiler alert.
Turn it off if you don't hear.
So there's a girl in there andI can't remember her name, but
she's best friends with Jennyand she is very jealous because,
like Jenny starting to becomefriends with her friends and I
was like, yeah, rings a bell.
I literally started cryingduring it.
(25:29):
Dead serious, lauren, can youthink of any jealousy moments?
Speaker 3 (25:34):
I was just jealous of like how y'all's houses you got
to do what you wanted.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Like going skating at 11 o'clock at night yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Being on the phone after 10 o'clock.
It was trouble.
It was I acted out later.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
I was sneaking around , though, yeah, it was trouble,
it was.
There was a lot of sneakingaround, though, yeah, okay.
Um, next question who wouldhave gotten arrested first in
high school if we were in amovie?
Definitely lori.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Yeah, it's still questionable, did you?
Speaker 1 (26:01):
ever get arrested.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
I feel like.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
No.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
No.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
I've gotten tickets for reckless driving and, funny
enough, actually, I only got onefor reckless driving.
Did I tell y'all what happenedto me in?
Speaker 1 (26:14):
college before I was 21?
.
I don't know if I've told thisstory on the podcast, so I know
I've talked about like myex-lover of 17 years we won't,
you know, know name to me, notspoken, but y'all know who I'm
talking about.
So I was on the way to hishouse and my friends were there
like sorority friends andeverything was not drinking.
I did not drink until I was 21,um, and I was driving down the
(26:36):
street like 25 miles an hour andmy phone went off and it fell
into the floor and I was tryingto reach over to get it out of
the passenger side and Iobviously swerved up into
someone's yard and hit a tree, avery small tree, did no damage
to my car, did no damage to thetree right, panicked, backed up
left, went to my friend's housethat was around the corner.
Little did I know cop livedacross the street and apparently
(26:59):
like backwoods cop, like almostretired, like thought he had
all this authority, comes aroundlike probably five minutes
later and he was like whowrecked into this car?
Like obviously I went inside andtold everybody right and, um, I
come out, and I was like I didit or whatever, and he was like
get in the back of the cop carright now you've been drinking,
did it?
I was like I I haven't beendrinking.
(27:21):
Actually I was like I wastexting and driving.
But um, actually I wasn'ttexting.
I was trying to reach for myphone and all I was leaning over
into the passenger seat and Iremember this guy that I was in
love with at the time.
He was like get your ass in thehouse, don't answer anybody
that says anything.
I was like I don't know what todo.
I've never been in trouble bythe law.
But then I had to get back inthe cop car, handcuffed, really
(27:42):
yes terrified.
Then after that um, you know,obviously he had no authority to
like arrest me.
I didn't do anything like itliterally did no damage to the
tree.
I didn't hurt anyone, did nodamage to the car.
I was going 20 miles an hour.
The tree was like a.
It was like it wasn't like anoak tree, it was like a little
twig.
It was like.
It was like he was just being adick.
He thought he was gonna findsomebody drinking he thought he
(28:04):
thought I was drinking and Iwasn't, and I think he even even
made me like blow into thewhatever and I I wasn't drinking
, and um, because I typicallyalways drove everyone downtown
because I wasn't drinking and um, I remember when we went
downtown it was just like moodkill, like everybody was just
like okay, this is not as fun aswe thought.
Did I never told you all that?
(28:25):
No, I don't think so.
All right, so the next one iswhat rumor did you hear about
yourself growing up that wastotally false or totally true.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
We already did this one no, we didn't we did both of
those already not a rumor.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Yeah, we did okay.
Well, uh, maybe I read it.
Okay, what was something youwere jealous of?
Oh, we already did that one too.
These are duplicates.
Um, who was actually thequote-unquote mean kid but
pretended they weren't?
Speaker 2 (29:02):
john's looking at me like it's me.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
No, I thought you were looking at me like it was
me, no.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
I don't think any of us were mean to each other.
I don't either.
We might have been mean toother people, I'm still mean.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Alright, what's?
One thing we still haven'toutgrown, for better or worse?
Speaker 2 (29:19):
How giggly we are we have laughed this whole time and
it has been so good for my soul, my anxiety.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Trauma.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Trauma.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Trauma is what makes us so funny.
It is what's something you wishwe could say to our childhood
selves now, even if it wouldbreak their hearts.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Respect your parents Everyone gonna die.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
It will happen to you , even if you think it won't
yeah, and he doesn't love youyeah yeah, that one.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Um, I think, because I had such, like you know,
different relationships with myparents, I think the biggest
thing if it, even if it theirheart, would be like your
parents are doing the best theycan, and sometimes it's not what
you want to hear and sometimesyou have to just realize, like
you are still loved and, youknow, cared for, but maybe not
in the way that you want to be.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Yeah, I need my daughter to listen to this and
hear that my mom is actuallydoing the best for you, I
promise, and it and you knowI've talked about this in my
podcast before.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
I've been very vulnerable about like how me and
my mom are best friends.
Lori knows it Like I would stayat home and watch Lifetime
movies with my mom instead ofgoing to football games.
But then it became like more oflike my mom choosing my sister
over me, but it was becausemom's sister was in a lot of
trouble all the time.
But but really like, lookingback, like I know she cared for
me, but her mindset was you'redoing good, you can handle
(30:52):
yourself.
Like your sister needs me morethan you, but in my mindset,
because I am still single, Idon't have a family.
It's like what child doesn'tneed their mom?
Oh yeah.
So my advice not from a childperspective, but if a parent's
listening to this stop choosingfavorites in your children and
stop thinking that a child whodoes well doesn't need you,
(31:14):
because honestly, they probablyneed you more than you think.
Just because a child is strongdoes not mean that they don't
have weak moments or a weak mind.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
And I think that goes for all three of us in our
spots, in our family, because Ithink a lot was put on me
because my mom was like, you canhandle this you're okay yeah,
when deep down, I was like I'mnot okay, right, I need you to,
to just hold it all on your ownand not put it on me right Right
.
I agree.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
All right.
So then, if our friend groupwas a reality show, what would
it be called and who would bethe villain?
It would definitely be calledthe Giggly Squad.
Sorry, paige, we're stealingyour name.
Who would be the villain, lorifor?
Speaker 2 (32:00):
sure, yeah, I like to stir stuff up.
I wouldn't say villain.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
I'm not saying villain in a mean person, but I
think that you would be thedramatic character that would
keep the reality drama going.
Yeah, y'all are welcome.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
You're welcome.
Who wants to watch a showwithout that?
Speaker 1 (32:15):
You're welcome for that paycheck I gave you.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Yeah, I'm not saying like you would be like mean or
anything but all right, let'ssee who secretly hooked up with
someone and never told anyone.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Spill it now I'm married, love you guys.
Jesse is not gonna listen tothis she said I kissed brandon
in the back of virginia's carbrandon who still spill the tea.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
I mean, it wasn't like hook up.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Hook up because I was very innocent but we did kiss
in the back of virginia's car onthe way to sonic after skating
ring went up.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
I was very innocent.
In high school I had a highschool sweetheart, like you were
.
You were basically married inhigh school until after I was 21
, almost 22, yeah really okay Iwas wilding out yeah, you are
tell us give initials.
Is there something we don'tknow?
Speaker 1 (33:09):
I'm sure there is and you're not going to spill it
now I need to think about itfirst, she said when everyone's
dead yeah, all right, now I havea few questions that people ask
.
That's not necessarily likeabout us growing up or whatnot,
but they're just questions.
So someone asked what'ssomething guys do that they
(33:31):
think is a flex, but womenactually find cringy Everything.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Oh my gosh.
Well, coming from where I workin the bank, I don't care how
much money you have, Like you'renot that I think talking about
your money is disgusting.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
Yeah, I do.
I think that, like, talkingabout money is cringy, like if
you think that, oh, this isgoing to impress me, but also,
at the same time, like if you'rejust over talking women in
general, like if you think, likeI'm such a high masculine
energy and you don't bringnothing to the table.
It's a vibe, right, like it'shard to explain, but women can
(34:12):
sense it automatically.
It's like, wow, okay, you'rejust nah, we're not doing this.
Do y'all know what I'm talkingabout?
Speaker 3 (34:20):
Oh yeah, I work with all guys.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
So Do y'all know what I'm talking about?
Oh yeah, I work with all guys,so I mean I get it.
I think it's attractive for aman to act like, even if he's
not, that he's impressed withyou and your accomplishments.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
You know what I mean, you know what I think just
gives me the ultimate ick issending unsolicited pics.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
It's not cute.
Nobody wants to see that.
Nobody wants to see it.
Also, I haven't had that happena lot.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
But yeah, like I'm sorry, like okay, let's just put
this out there the women, the,the female body, the reason why
women send nudes is becausefemale bodies are just more
attractive than male bodies andand I'm clearly heterosexual I
think that I'm very attracted tomen.
But when it comes to likeunsolicited dick pics is what
you're talking about, like I'msorry, there has never been
(35:02):
someone that sent me that.
That I'm like, yes, let's jumpin the bed right now, because
women are not visual creatures.
Women are turned on by theirmind, emotions, things like that
.
Compliments will get youeverywhere yeah, stimulate my
brain stimulate my brain, have adeep conversation, and I'm just
like you.
I don't even know what you looklike.
If you're intellectually like,just yeah with it yes, let me
(35:25):
talk now.
I get it cook like I get itfrom a man's perspective, like
if they're like, if I, if you,you send a unsolicited nude,
they're just like well, allright, then it's like but?
But also, men have tounderstand that we're wired
differently and the visual doesnot do it for women.
Women are wanting you to saysomething back like oh yeah, you
(35:48):
look great something or if,even if it's just like foreplay
through a text message, likeit's more about that mental
stimulation than just trying tolike be like hey, hon, I'm gonna
come home, I'm gonna wash thedishes for you, I want you to
kick your feet up, I'm gonnagive you a foot massage.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
Justin Moore, do you hear this?
You?
Speaker 3 (36:06):
know, what.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
I'm saying, and then you're just like what Okay, okay
, daddy, okay.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Zeddy, zeddy.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
Zeddy, all right.
So the next question was if youhad to pick one quotequote red
flag that women secretly love,what would it be?
Well, I, since I go for all thered flags, let's just throw it
(36:34):
out there.
Red flags that I probably like,that I ignore is probably that
over masculine energy thatliterally does cut me off, cuts
me down, you know, not saying Ilove it, but that I ignore it,
like.
Sometimes it's a turn on likebecause in the beginning it
seems like it's a very likemasculine thing, you're taking
charge, it's intriguing, butreally at the end of the day,
like, the longer it goes on,it's more that you're just
(36:55):
putting me down yeah, see, andmy husband is the total opposite
of red flag he is a giant greenflag.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
And at first I was like no, sir, you are way too
nice.
There ain't no way that you arereally into me, because I am
not that nice, and thank Godthat he stayed around, but he's
just, he's so nice.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
Another red flag too attractive.
If you're too attractive, Ithink in my mind, like all of a
sudden, I go player player.
Yeah, I think in my mind, likeall of a sudden, I go player
player.
Yeah, and are you looking at me?
Yeah, like, why are you lookingat me like I'm not at your
level, like you're.
You're a 10, I'm a 7, you, youplaying somebody.
Speaker 2 (37:32):
John, you are a solid 9.75, sweet, but no sweet, but
no.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
Next question what's the most hilarious or bizarre
misconception you think men haveabout women?
That we need them yes and no, Idon't.
I think men are becoming moreaware that we don't with social
media, I'm trying to think whatdo men that will never leave?
(38:01):
Yeah right, the bigmisconception with men is that
women will never leave.
I can treat them how I want totreat them I can.
I can keep doing this, I cankeep getting away.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
They'll never leave me and here's the thing women
are done before you know they'redone.
Yep, so don't let it get tothat.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
We've already checked out way before you know it
right, and women do givemultiple chance after chance,
after chance after chance, andyou never know when that chance
is going to be up.
You just don't.
But I think we, we clock itright, like we clock it
internally and like we, we getto the point where our belly is
full and then it's like I'm full, I'm good, I'm gone, yeah, and
then it's too late, there'snothing you can say, nothing you
(38:37):
can do, there's nothing you cando to change your mind.
But then, on the flip side ofthat, I'll also all answer this
for men, men.
So women think that men willnever.
No, wait, men think that womenwill never change.
Right, leave, women think thatmen will never change.
(38:58):
So it's that, that's thatcounterintuitive like.
So men, men will sit there andthey won't change and they'll
keep doing what they're doingand doing, and doing, and doing.
And women are over there hopingthey'll change.
They'll change, they'll be that, that, that vision that I have
for them.
They'll be that.
Um, what's the word?
Not vision?
Um, oh god, now it can't cometo me.
(39:19):
Um, we seek potential, likewomen, seek potential, potential
, potential, potential, and thenit's never coming to fruition.
So women keep trying to seekthat potential and it's like
this this, this circle, you know, but then eventually the woman
changes and or the woman leavesand the man never changes.
(39:40):
So yeah next question if youcould put one universal rule in
the quote-unquote datinghandbook for men, what would it
be?
And why be honest?
Just be honest.
So, like I am in the datinggame Lauren, you're seeing
someone, um, laura, you'remarried.
I'm always dating.
(40:04):
My thing is just be very honestup front, like if you know for a
fact that you don't want todate, you want to hook up.
You maybe just want a friendand you don't want to go any
further.
Just be honest.
Like I get it.
It's not going to take you alot with with a lot of women,
but there are some women thatrespect that.
Like I was on a dating apprecently and this man literally
(40:26):
like we matched and he was likeI just want you to know I'm not
looking for anything.
I just got out of a long-termrelationship, but I am just
looking like either for hookupsor whatever.
If you're down for that, let'scontinue to talk.
And I literally respected it.
I was like it's not what I'mlooking for, but thank you so
much for not wasting my time.
Speaker 2 (40:46):
And obviously I'm married.
I'm not dating anymore, buteven just friends in general.
If I catch somebody lying aboutsomething stupid, immediately
I'm like we ain't, we ain'tfriends.
I cannot handle it.
I don't care what you did, justbe honest.
I hate to catch somebody in astupid lie.
Speaker 3 (41:05):
Yeah.
Yeah, I'm a big communicatortoo.
Speaker 2 (41:06):
like just communicate with me yeah, because what if
something big does happen?
Speaker 3 (41:09):
then I really am not gonna believe you, yeah, don't
lie to me or on me.
Speaker 1 (41:13):
Yes, yes okay, whoever wrote this next one,
screw you.
Why is jonna single and why doyou guys think jonna is single?
Well, I'm single because I keepgoing for situationships for
guys that think make me thinkthat they want to be with me.
That's my story and I'msticking to it I think jonna is
(41:34):
for one.
Speaker 2 (41:35):
She stays single because she doesn't settle,
which I respect yeah, I thinkit's wonderful.
I don't think you should,because then you're just in an
unhappy marriage.
But I think that Jonna alsodoesn't see her full worth, a
thousand percent, and I thinksometimes she doesn't give men
like she settles for the onesthat put her in this situation.
(41:57):
But there are some men that Idon't think she gives enough
time to get to know them.
She's immediately like no, thatI'm not into that type or I'm
not into this, and I'm like justlet it, let it simmer a minute,
just see you might end upliking it yeah yeah, maybe I
didn't think my husband and Iwould be married with a mortgage
and two kids, so all right, afew more questions, um.
Speaker 1 (42:23):
What did you study in college, what was your career
goal and how did you get here?
Speaker 2 (42:29):
so I did not, I didn't go to college right out
of high school.
Well, I did for three days,because I like to drink and
party yeah but I went back as asingle mom, working full-time
and overtime and doing all on myown, and I went for um.
I have my bachelor's inbusiness oh, I thought you had
accounting.
(42:49):
Well it well.
My associate's degree is inaccounting.
My bachelor's degree is inbusiness okay, lauren.
Speaker 3 (42:56):
I went to four-year and a university I can't talk um
for accounting.
Enjoyed college way too much sodid not finish.
But now I work um in accounting.
Really, I didn't know it wasaccounting.
Yeah, recorder, the cityrecorder, like I record
everything the city brings in ohokay, keep up with all the
finances well, I studied collegeor studied college.
Speaker 1 (43:19):
I studied nursing in college, um, but that was not my
career goal.
I really thought I was going tobe a teacher.
I almost quit nursing school500 times my my grade though
what?
Speaker 3 (43:29):
what grade did you want to teach?
Speaker 1 (43:32):
probably junior high high school, because I
definitely don't have thepatience for elementary.
I can see you with older kidsyeah, um, but I, um, all my
friends, it was like no, you'vecome this far in nursing, you
can't quit.
And so how did I get there?
I literally got there becausewe lived in a small town and I
had a lot of older brothers andsisters that were always in and
(43:53):
out of trouble and I knew that Idid not want to stay.
So I knew I had to figure out away out, and so nursing was a
way out.
We had an associate's degreenursing in town.
But then, you know, I followedthe guy that I was in love with
for 17 years down to auniversity college and I'll be
honest, like I cannot regretdoing that, because I would not
(44:15):
be where I was if I didn't dothat.
I would probably still be in mysmall town, and who knows where
I would be.
Speaker 2 (44:21):
I loved your college experience too.
What when I would come down andhang out with you and your
sorority sisters?
Speaker 1 (44:27):
it was a great time I mean, yeah, we had a good time,
we had fun, we had fun.
All right, let's see.
Um, we already did remind me,if we answer this, because this
is a different person that askedwhat advice would you give to
your younger?
Self that we okay, I thought wedid what twist and turns has
your professional career taking?
Speaker 2 (44:48):
well, I almost quit twice and I've been at my job
for 17 years, not because ofanything they did, just because
I thought okay, I'm gonna go,I'm gonna go into nursing this
time.
Speaker 1 (44:58):
And then I got a promotion and I was like okay,
I'm just gonna stay here youdidn't answer the last question
then, because the last questionsaid um, what was your career
goal?
So your career goal was not tobe in what you're in, no, no, it
wasn't.
Speaker 2 (45:13):
But my ex-husband had a wreck In high school.
I wanted to be a nurse at theend of high school and then I
was like, no, I don't want to dothat, I just want to get a job,
because I already lived on myown when we were in our senior
year and I just needed to makemoney.
And then he had a wreck and wasstill paralyzed from the waist
(45:33):
down and I thought, okay, I takecare of him, I could definitely
go into nursing, I'm gonna dothat.
Well then, I ended up not doingthat, and I'm glad, because
when you take care of someoneyou love, it's totally different
than taking care of strangerslet's just even back it up even
further.
Speaker 1 (45:45):
Before that you, literally throughout high school
, said you were going to be anurse yeah, yeah, like that was.
You always wanted to be a nursealways, always, always wanted
to be a nurse, and then all thathappened.
Speaker 2 (45:56):
And then you were like, no, this isn't well, I
decided no before that, becauseI remember in clinicals we were
in the emergency room and thislittle old lady came in and they
had to put a catheter in herand they let us watch me.
And who was my partner?
It wasn't me, cause I rememberI was in the nursing home, not
the ER, but um that little ladycried while they put her
(46:19):
catheter in and it broke me andI was like no my grandmother bit
somebody when they put acatheter in her.
Speaker 3 (46:25):
I would too, and they had to get a tetanus shot.
Four nurses for my littlegrandmother, let me tell you.
Speaker 1 (46:31):
No, no, no, no, no, no.
I was about to say these littleold people are stronger than
the Hulk.
Yeah, they are.
Like you literally have to getlike five, six people to hold
down.
Speaker 3 (46:41):
She hulked out all 90 pounds of her, yeah.
Speaker 2 (46:43):
Yeah, I was like I can't do that.
Speaker 1 (46:46):
That broke me I still think that you should be a
nurse.
That's just anyways.
The last question was not fory'all, it was for me.
How has the house issues beengoing?
Is it resolved?
No, unfortunately it has not.
I really can't talk about it atthis moment.
So as soon as I can talk aboutit, I will definitely update you
(47:06):
all when I can.
So it's all I can say is it'sjust not resolved as of yet.
So that's all I can say.
So well, thank y'all so much fordoing this podcast with me.
That's all the questions thatanyone has um asked.
Is there anything else so thatwe need to tell anybody that we
left out?
Keep your friends close.
Yeah, I mean I think that we'revery lucky in the fact that I
(47:27):
know a lot of people say thatthey don't have a lot of close
friends, but like we, there'sthe core four of us that from
you know.
Like I said, I've known y'allsince second grade and we've
grown up together, and even thepeople that I have in college,
like Megan and Mal and them,like I've known them from over
10 years, and that's very rareto have friends that last over
10 years, right well, we don'tsee each other all the time.
Speaker 2 (47:48):
Even Lauren and I live in the same town, yeah, and
we don't see each other verymuch at all, and then you're in
Huntsville, so we don't see youa lot either, but it's like we
never skip a beat no right.
Speaker 1 (48:00):
But also even the fact that, like me and Lauren
don't talk a lot about we catchup on beat no right.
But also even the fact that,like me and lauren don't talk a
lot about we catch up onfacebook and stuff, but, like
laurie and me snapchat everysingle day.
It's almost like I talk to youmore than anyone I've ever
talked to and I almost like likebecause it's video chat.
It's like I see you, like I seeyour kids, like you know I've
talked, like your daughter willbe like who are you talking to?
Yeah, so I love that and I lovethat.
(48:23):
You know, we do have a goodfriendship that has lasted, you
know, the test of time, becausethat is very rare we've been
through it all we have literallyyou guys are my childhood.
Yeah, agreed, yeah and there's,and you know, people do grow
apart and that's okay, you knowwhatnot.
But also at the same time, Ithink we went through a lot of
like tragic stuff at a youngerage that most people don't and
(48:45):
maybe we should have gotten alittle bit deeper on this
podcast.
But maybe this is just thewarm-up, but we did go through a
lot of tragic things aschildren together so I think it
kind of bonded us for life.
Um, and also we were from avery small town, so I know a lot
of people that listen to thispodcast are in huntsville.
So huntsville is not really I'msure it was considered a small
town at one point, but it's notreally a small town anymore.
Speaker 3 (49:06):
Um, but like when we say small town, like like four
stoplights- yeah, like wegraduated with like what 200 and
something and that's the wholecounty yeah, minus, yeah, I mean
it was small and they only hadlike 30 yeah, yeah, but thank
you so much for doing this,because people put in and thank
you guys for sending in thequestions for us.
Speaker 1 (49:23):
We enjoyed answering them.
Is there anything else y'allwant to say?
Speaker 3 (49:26):
we love you, yeah, we love you all right, love y'all
too all right guys, until nexttime.
Speaker 1 (49:31):
Bye, thank you.
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