Unplugging Our Season Finale: With Heart and Humor

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
always be iconic, yeah, but she's the iconic champ
I like it.
I like controversy containsinformation.

Speaker 3 (00:12):
I am drinking kombucha you're listening to
orlando unplugged, celebratinglife in living color with dustin
and ashley.
Grab a cocktail or a mocktailand let's get unplugged, orlando
welcome back, guys no, I don'teven know if I was recording.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
I think you started talking in the middle of that.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
Really yeah Of me no, of saying no.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
Saying what's up, guys?

Speaker 1 (00:49):
Oh, what is up guys?

Speaker 2 (00:51):
It's Dustin.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
That's not how we start the podcast episode, so
I'm gonna need you to fix thatand do better.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
I forgot.
It's been so long.
What do I say?
What's up Unplugged fam?

Speaker 1 (00:58):
No, you call everybody besties.
No, I don't, you did do thatfor a minute.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
What's?

Speaker 1 (01:01):
up besties?
No, I don't.
You did do that for a minutewhat's up, besties?

Speaker 2 (01:04):
I do that at work too , god I hate that remind me to
get well.
Hey, there guys, it's justinand ashley coming at you in the
middle of a hurricane.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
Hurricane is it helen or helena helene helene, where
do they come up with these names?
I?

Speaker 2 (01:18):
don't know, nor do I care, but we are actively
sitting in the studio watchingthe trees go sideways.
It's not raining yet yet itrained some this morning, but as
of the time that we areactively sitting in the studio
watching the trees go sideways,it's not raining yet.
Yet it rained some this morning, but as of the time that we are
recording this, the hurricanehas just made landfall in Tampa
and it's like 530, September26th.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
Wow, you're so on the dot.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
It's because my iPad shows me the time right there
and the date and then forcontinuity.
So people know like 50 yearsfrom now when they're listening
to this and they hear ourhurricane ride out episode you
really think podcasts are gonnabe a thing in 50 years?
Why would they not be?

Speaker 1 (01:56):
do you think they're going to be?

Speaker 2 (01:57):
books a thing 50 years after they became popular?
Yes, but books and podcasts aretwo different things exactly
this is the technology maybethey're gonna call them earcasts
, like a different name well,anywho, now that we've had a fun
little intro there, guys,welcome back to the 30th episode
oh of orlando unplugged podcastlife in living color.

(02:21):
For now, there's a reason.
There's a reason.
We said it that way this time.
Um, I'm very sad.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
I'm very sad the 30th and final episode of season one
of oh you podcast.
This is.
This is a very sad, sad momentfor me.
I'm very, I'm gonna miss ityeah, like I know we're getting
right back into it next year injanuary and there might be like
some like fun, little, liketidbit episodes.
Hey, we might just pull out themic and talk about things.
I think I'm trying to convinceDusty to do a mini mic episode

(02:52):
at Halloween Horror Nights, whenwe go in two weeks.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
I don't know if I want to do a mini mic episode.
I don't like the sound qualityof those mini mics and I just
don't think it would be good.
But we might do a bonus contentepisode between now and
Christmas.
You, but we might do like abonus content episode between
now and Christmas.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
You know what I think we should do?
What?
Some more TikToks.
I feel like we're doing great.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
You know, we did a TikTok and I was so proud and I
was like we're going to beTikTok famous for this and it's
had like 150 views.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
We are, we are.
That's 150 people that haveseen us rock out to that song,
and only like three people haveactually liked it I don't know
what the black parade.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
My father.
Fun fact it's uh, us watchingum nightmare fuel nocturnal
circus at halloween, horrornights from the behind row.
Um, and you're just gonna haveto go watch the tiktok if you
want to know what the behind rowis that's all I can say that's
it, uh, but yeah, guys.
So we've got an interestingepisode planned today.
Um, for those of you that maybehaven't listened to us before,

(03:47):
maybe you're just joining us um,this is obviously our final
season, or final episode ofseason one.
We're going to take a littlebit of a break.
Those of you that listen to usall the time.
You know, it has been like amonth since you've heard from us
last yeah, it's been a minute,guys.
Life has been lifing well, thisis the exact reason we made the
decision to round off season one, um, and take a break was

(04:07):
because we knew, rolling intothis season that um and the
holidays just our time was goingto be super demanding, and it
became super demanding before wewere able to crank out this
last episode.
So we've taken some time justto to get everything planned
together, um, but I had animpromptu day off today so we
decided to get together.

(04:28):
Thank, you hurricane um yeah,what's going on in orlando like
so we woke up.
So yesterday yeah um waltdisney world resort made an
announcement that the mickey'snot so scary halloween party set
for tonight, september 26th,would be canceled, but the theme
park Walt Disney World wouldstay open until 8 pm.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
And now Halloween, Horror Nights.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
And then we woke up this morning and Universal's
like hey, halloween HorrorNights is canceled tonight.
The Universal closes.
Well, closed at 5, because thatwas its scheduled closure time.
And then what Studios closed?
Or Islands closed at 5 becauseit was it's scheduled closure
time and then what Studiosclosed or Islands closed at 8.
Islands closes at it'sscheduled time of 8, but along
with it, city Walk will alsoclose at 8 o'clock, so this is

(05:15):
wild.

Speaker 1 (05:15):
I guess it is hurricane season after all yeah,
I know you know who I blame forthis who the corn.
I blame the corn.

Speaker 2 (05:23):
I blame the corn.
You know they need to find hewho walks behind the row and
tell them to stop renting outthat corn correct if you know,
you know.
If you don't sorry, you're notallowed that's it.

Speaker 1 (05:34):
Hey, you know what I?
I kind of do want to chat about, though, one more time what,
what are you drinking?

Speaker 2 (05:41):
um, I don't know the brand because the bottle's
sitting all the way over there,but since we decided that we
were going to do this, hurricaneran out together.

Speaker 1 (05:47):
We're having a hurricane party we.

Speaker 2 (05:49):
I grabbed another one of those delicious strawberry
margarita wine cocktails fromthe wally world today yes, but
this one didn't come from aldiso I was quite sad people and
someone walked by.
Yeah, you gotta love this big.
I feel like we're on the todayshow, like we have this big
double gliding double slidingglass door behind, big.
I feel like we're on the TodayShow.
We are Like we have this bigdouble sliding glass door behind
us and I feel like we're theanchors on the Today Show, with

(06:10):
the big windows of RockefellerPlaza behind them, like people
walk by and see us recording andthey're just like.

Speaker 1 (06:14):
I really wanna do one of these episodes on the patio,
now that the patio is likeslowly coming together, even
though the patio is empty rightnow.
Well, yeah, thank you,hurricane helene.
I want to say helen, but, um,what do you call it?

Speaker 2 (06:31):
I kind of want to do it out there, but I'm so afraid
that, like, the noise would beso potent I mean, the noise
wouldn't be too bad because ofthe software that we use to edit
, but it's um, it's just not, Idon't know.
I don't know if we were to besomewhere like a convention and
record.
That would be cool but, hey,creepy con 2025 yeah, we have

(06:52):
nothing to do with halloween andhorror, but okay, um fine, we
do a choco vest 2025 episode inchoco vest.
There we go, all right guys,well, before before we jump in
and we dive in um, we want togive a couple of shout outs, a
couple of thank yous um who arewe thanking first?
I think, the incredible and theamazing and iconic and iconic

(07:12):
shan shan uh.
Thank you, shan, for being oneof our most devoted, devoted.
Thank you I think, I'm having athree-day stroke.
I'm struggling to pronouncewords recently you are um, it's
okay, but yeah, huge thank youto miss shan.
Um, thank you for being on thepodcast with us at the beginning
.
That was probably one of thefunnest episodes I think we did.

(07:34):
We laughed so much and so hardthat we kept like giving
feedback so it stopped recording.
So we were laughing so hard andthe episode sounds like total
garbage.
If you haven't listened to it,go back and listen to it.
Um, because it was the firsttime we had a guest and we had
to use the mini mic along withit and the mini mic quality was

(07:54):
it picked up so much more?
So, like you hear us speakingdouble because it's coming in
the normal mics and the mini mic.

Speaker 1 (08:02):
Um, but it was a lot of fun that was so cool I've
never, you know, like when wefirst started orlando unplugged,
I never thought that, you know,having a guest speaker was
going to be something we woulddo.
I never even thought like to beblunt, I never thought we'd
even make it past like fiveepisodes, because I was like, oh
my gosh, this is neversomething I've ever done before.
This is going to be crazy.
And then when we decided to notonly make it past five episodes

(08:23):
but to include my mom in it, Iwas like, oh my gosh.
At this moment I was like thisis so real like I think that's
when I was like this, arlena,one plug could be something like
my mom is a guest speaker andwe'll talk.

Speaker 2 (08:36):
We'll talk more about sham when we talk about guest
speakers, um, but I also want tothrow a special thank you out
to a colleague of mine, nickNick, who just in random
conversation we talked about thepodcast and he was like, oh,
what's the name of it?
I'll listen to it and for thoseof you that don't know, which
everyone should at this point, Ialso write record produce in
all aspects.
Tennessee Road podcast, whichis a historic podcast about East

(08:58):
Tennessee and the Appalachianregion.
Tennessee Road podcast, whichis a historic podcast about East
Tennessee and the Appalachianregion.
He followed both of theepisodes and listened to every
episode that I had on TennesseeRoads and every episode that we
had up until that point ofOrlando Unplugged podcast, in
like a week and a half.

Speaker 1 (09:19):
Is it Didn't.
And what was crazy is that,like OU podcast had like what?
20 episodes at this point whennick started listening to us, I
believe.

Speaker 2 (09:27):
So it was about that, yeah that's wild to me.

Speaker 1 (09:29):
That's wild because an average episode is what like
an hour hour and a half long,depending on if we just rambled.

Speaker 2 (09:35):
Yeah, correct um, but that uh nick, if you're
listening and I know you aretruly, though, thank you,
because you, like he would comeup to me at work and he would
just be like so what's thepodcast gonna be about this week
?
And on those weeks whereespecially these last 10
episodes, where it's been astruggle because our lives have
just been so chaotic that wehaven't had time to sit down and
devote, um, it kind of helped,like remind me of like hey,

(09:59):
there are people out there thatare actively listening to us and
they want to hear what we haveto say and they want to know
what's going on, and it wouldkind of help give me that fuel
to, like, light the fire undermy ass, and then, in turn, I
would light the fire under yourass, sometimes a little too too
bright, but a lot of brain umfast forward to or rewind to, 30
minutes ago, when we werearguing about today's episode um

(10:21):
, but always my favorite part ofgetting ready for an ou podcast
episode is that.
And then I think a huge thankyou needs to go to jennifer uh
for creating our intro I went tojennifer at, um, uh, I don't
even remember what it was, but Iwas like, hey, I'm gonna do
this new podcast.

(10:41):
Would you be interested in mehiring you to do some work for
us?
And she was, like you're notpaying me.
Like I'm doing it, tell me whatyou want.
And I kind of told her like thetwo sentences.
It was like this is what wewant it to say, but it can say
anything else.
And then she gave us that introand we immediately fell in love
.
There was no more edits.

Speaker 1 (11:05):
That's edits.
Well, that's what we rolledwith, correct, and you know it.
It was so cool to see, like Imean, I think our genuine
reaction was so real when we hadfirst listened to it and then
we did it with the very firstepisode with it and I mean it
was you could hear it like howwe I feel like we became a
podcast at that moment like wewere.
We were, at one point, just twopeople sitting on a couch
getting having conversationsabout life, liberty, liberty and
everything in between.

Speaker 2 (11:26):
In the pursuit of happiness.

Speaker 1 (11:27):
Correct.
But then, all of a sudden,jennifer added our intro and I
felt like at that moment webecame a podcast, we became like
this became real.

Speaker 2 (11:35):
Yeah, speaking of which, that reminds me I'm going
to call Jennifer, and have herwork on the next thing.
With all the exciting stuffthat we're doing in season two.

Speaker 3 (11:41):
We have so much to chat about.
We've got some stuff planned tohappen.

Speaker 2 (11:44):
But, with that said, so pretty much today's episode.
We're going to jump into ithere in just a moment, but it's
going to be mostly a recap ofsome of the most memorable
moments that we've had from thisseason and the podcast itself
and just over the last year thatwe've had because, believe it
or not, in a little over a monthwill have been in orlando for a

(12:05):
year now, which is hard to becelebrating our year-iversary of
being friends.
And we're celebrating mybirthday, our best friend
anniversary, um, and then youknow, we've got some feedback
that we're going to share withyou guys some details on some
changes coming and and somehighlights for 2025 yeah we're
getting a new co-host, are you?
No, with that being said ashley, are you ready to jump in?

(12:29):
Yeah let's go all right, herewe go okay, so we're gonna start

(13:05):
off with a disclaimer.

Speaker 1 (13:06):
The clap.
I've missed the clap.

Speaker 2 (13:09):
Ashley has the clap friends, so we're going to start
off with a disclaimer we aredrinking.
Heavily, and we are enjoyingthis hurricane right now.
So, as this episode goes, it'sgoing to be like that one we had
a couple months ago, where weprobably could just get a little
more crazy as time goes on.

Speaker 1 (13:23):
There gonna be a lot more giggling, and I make no
apologies for it.

Speaker 2 (13:26):
This is gonna be a very emotional episode because
we're gonna be right back in thesaddle in like a month and a
half girl, I know, but a monthand a half is a long way away.
I've got bruce hairs all overmy mic she loves you.

Speaker 1 (13:39):
Hey, we didn't even shout at her what's up, brucie?
I love that baby our number oneaudience.

Speaker 2 (13:44):
Member is always here every single time today she is
hunting the wild and crazy leafbecause the leaves are blowing
in the wind.
Um, there's actually a lot ofwind, like it's calm right now,
but like the trees over on onthe other side of the fence in
universal's property are likebending sideways um, I know we

(14:05):
I'd open the like the thesliding door for a second there
because I was like bruise.
Let me let mom show you the areyou talking about when I was in
the bathroom and I felt like Iwas gonna get sucked off the
toilet?
I'm not kidding.

Speaker 1 (14:13):
I thought she was gonna get sucked out like I
thought it was gonna be like a Ijust I was anticipating glenn
powell to come out of the cloudsand be like I ain't no love in
oklahoma girl I was telling youlike take.

Speaker 2 (14:25):
I heard you and rob scream, speaking of which I have
to share this fun little storyoh god so last night I get off
work at like 11 30 and I'mapproaching your front door
because I'm staying here acouple nights and I know that my
key is in the very bottom of mybackpack and I'm like I don't
want to reach for my key and Iwas like you know what, I'm
gonna reach for the door and tryto open it and I know it's not

(14:46):
going to be open but if I'mlucky, someone is in the living
room and they're going to openthe door for me.
So I grab the door and I go toopen and obviously it doesn't
open.
The deadbolts lock so the doorkind of like like jars and I
thought I heard ashley's bloodcurdling scream of feminine
murder.
Nope, nope, it was rob.
He was right by the front doorand he screamed so loud.

(15:11):
And I come in and then ashley'sface is turning blue because
you've got your.
You don't snore tape on yourmouth I don't snore.
It's called sleep tape and youcouldn't breathe because you
were laughing.

Speaker 1 (15:23):
I had to rip the tape off.
Now I'm like a double tapegirly I tape up and then I tape
across and I had to rip it off,which, in turn, you're not
supposed to rip those off, bythe way.
You're supposed to like soakthem off like a little little
more up in this thing and thenget them off.
I like ripped this thing offbecause I could not breathe,
because I was dying laughing.

Speaker 2 (15:44):
Did you at least call it daddy afterwards?

Speaker 1 (15:46):
No, I should have Double tape rip off.
I should have called it daddyBless, I like.
Ripped my whole top layer ofskin off my lip.

Speaker 2 (15:54):
You nasty.

Speaker 1 (15:55):
Well, and I have a black eye, so you know because
you threw my weighted blanket atme.

Speaker 2 (16:01):
I was helping you therapy.
It was self-care.
You just happened to be astupid millennial that held
their phone directly in front oftheir face when a weighted
blanket was coming towards them.

Speaker 1 (16:09):
And then you smashed yourself in the face I gave you
fair warning.
I told you it was happening.

Speaker 2 (16:13):
Okay, any we're.
We're bird walking over herebird walking.

Speaker 1 (16:17):
What you never heard of, that no is this one of?

Speaker 2 (16:21):
these little tennessean maybe my fifth grade
teacher said it and I was veryconfused, like I had to ask for
clarification on what that meant.
She's like it's when you getoff topic and you just like
start because you know how, likebirds just walk around and then
they're like left, then right,then left.
Can I tell?

Speaker 1 (16:32):
you something that is my favorite thing in the world
about you what?
Whenever you start drinkingalcohol, the accent comes out
thicker and thicker you'rewelcome and then the phrases
come out worse and worse birdwalking, okay all right, all
right.

Speaker 2 (16:48):
Do you want to get us started off actually with our
first little segment?

Speaker 1 (16:53):
yeah, on our personal growth and lessons learned sure
um how do you want me to dothis?
You want me to just like whatmy?

Speaker 2 (17:02):
you want to ask me a question and I'll ask you a
question.
Yeah, we can do that.
I like that.
Let's do that.
Okay, cool, what is yourquestion?

Speaker 1 (17:07):
what, what, what has life been like for you adjusting
to living in orlando, sorry,okay, episode is over so we'll
be vacating um, what has it beenlike adjusting to orlando?

Speaker 2 (17:25):
so the traffic sucks, but the traffic is just like it
is back at home really uh yeah,I mean it's, it's the same.
There's more traffic down here,but the infrastructure is
bigger.
So it's still the equivalent todriving in east tennessee or
driving in knoxville, it's justyou have more traffic lanes but
you also have more cars.
So it's equivalent valid um,you know, it doesn't take me

(17:47):
long to get from my place ofwork to my home or somewhere,
but it just it sucks.
There's a lot of traffic.

Speaker 1 (17:52):
Construction that part sucks.

Speaker 2 (17:57):
I have noticed, every couple of months I'll kind of
get homesick and I'll just startto miss the fact that, like I
can't see people that I see on adaily basis or just drive down
the road or go to fright worksor somewhere and that part.
You know that that sucks, butthat would suck regardless
because you know that's what yougrow up with and that's what
you had.
But I love, love, love, love,love, love my job.

(18:19):
I love what I'm doing down here.
Um, you love your hiccups arekicking in um, yeah, sure, um,
I'm just kidding.
Yes, I love my best friend umrude I've met a lot of people,
um, and it's been kind ofdraining at times because, like,
I'll meet people and thenthere's always that conversation

(18:42):
oh my god, we should hang out,we should do something, but I
work so much and I do so manythings that I don't have time to
keep up with relationships andfriendships that I've made down
here.
I've got plenty of people thatI've said, oh my God, we're
gonna hang out, and I've neverhung out with them ever, because
I just don't have time for it.
And part of that is I spend somuch time with, like you and Rob

(19:03):
and you know, jordan and otherpeople that we've hung out with.
But then you know, I've metsome people that when I first
moved down here, I met somepeople and was associating with
them for a little while and then, you know, they kind of just
made some really crappy commentsover a situation that wasn't

(19:23):
even regarding.
Like the statement that theymade had nothing to do with what
was actually happening in thatmoment.
Um, but I was like you barelyknow who I am, I've been here
for like two weeks, uh, and Iwas like that's kind of not
funny to me.
Um, so you know, I hadn't evenbeen here two weeks and I

(19:44):
already kind of had a bad tastein my mouth on how some people
treated me.
Um, so you know, I I justdidn't hang out with those
people anymore and chose to hangout with other people, and, and
I work seven days a week, soit's not like I've got anything
going on there, um, but then youknow, I've made some.
I've made some great work,friends, and it's interesting

(20:06):
because this is the first timein my life where my life does
not revolve around my work 24-7.
Dollywood, or we were going oncoaster trips to carowinds, but
that's just kind of how it was.

(20:26):
The people that you work withwere the people that you
associated with outside of work,and work was your life.
If you were off, my phone wasringing, people were asking me
questions.
There were call-ins that I hadto cover Down here.
Both of the jobs that I've heldare fully self-sufficient.
When I am off work, I am offwork.
I do not hear from them.

(20:46):
They do not call me.
The only time I've ever heardfrom my jobs are when they've
said hey, we're trying toprocess payroll and it looks
like the time clock didn'tcollect your punch properly.
Do you know what time youclocked out.
That is the only time I've everbeen called.
I've never been called to say,hey, can you come in?
We've had call outs.
I occasionally was getting atext message from my groups
director saying hey, we've hadsome call ins.

(21:07):
If you want to call it, come ina couple hours early so you can
leave early.
So that's been nice.
But it's been so weird becauseI've been so used to hanging out
with the people that I workwith and then you come down here
and I don't hang out with themat all, minus a few events.
But they've also work-relatedevents where, um, we're
gathering outside of work toparticipate in a work function,

(21:30):
um, so that's been interesting.
It's hot, I have no airconditioning, but it's the same
as it was up up north.

Speaker 1 (21:36):
So you survived your first florida summer I did
survive my first florida summer.

Speaker 2 (21:42):
There was a couple times I wanted to kill you when
you were like, come pick me upfrom work at one o'clock and
then you leave me sitting out inmy car for 30 minutes because
you have to go in and out, inand out kind of like you did
today.

Speaker 1 (21:50):
You'll be all right, you'll be fine I don't think I
will.

Speaker 2 (21:54):
Um, I don't know you actually what's like?
I know you've been here longerthan I have, so, like I guess,
for you, like finance wise, whathas this last year been like
for you?
Because this has been, youmoved into this apartment and
you moved back to Orlando, uh,around this time last year.
So you were already an Orlando,a Floridian, but you would come

(22:14):
back.
So what has this last year beenlike for you when it comes to
like your finances and living inthis apartment and having a
brother living with you downhere this time, I mean loaded
question.

Speaker 1 (22:25):
Yeah, very, very loaded question.
I mean, I think if you ask non,you know podcast Ashley, the
question, the statement hasalways been oh, it's fine, it is
what it is.
But I mean, I always vowed whenwe decided to do this that I
was going to be as transparentand honest, with obviously as
much discretion as I can tocertain people as I can, because
I was raised to be astransparent and honest with

(22:46):
obviously as much discretion asI can to to certain people as I
can, because I want I was raisedto have respect.
Thank you, shan, but like Inever thought this would be my
life like in, in all honesty, Inever thought that I'd be living
with Rob, I never thought Iwould be living with roommates,
I never thought that you and Iwould be friends because I
didn't see my life turning outhow it is.
But to be honest, with you.

(23:06):
I've never been more gratefulthat when I went through what I
went through, very chaotic, whatI went through has turned me
into the person I am today.
You know, I think my financesis like everybody else's
Sometimes it's good andsometimes it's an utter mess.
I think it went from.
It's good and sometimes it's anutter mess.
I think, um, it went from.
It's really weird.

(23:26):
I went from having a living ina two-income household where,
you know, I relied on a partnerto help pay bills and to help do
life and to do these things,and now I'm the one that I am.
You know, as, as Cher would say, I am the rich man.
I, I did it.
I'm doing it by myself.
You know, yes, like I have mymother and I have, you know,

(23:46):
people that that can help if Iget into sticky situations and
things like that.
But I feel like, for the mostpart, I have learned that, like
when it comes to my finances,how much alone I am when it
comes to them.

Speaker 2 (24:00):
I just want you to know when you said just like,
like Cher said, it Is it Cher.
I don't know, but it tookeverything in my body to be
polite and not go snap out of it.

Speaker 1 (24:09):
I think it is Cher that said I'm a rich man.

Speaker 2 (24:12):
That sounds like something Cher would say, I mean
when it comes to me my finances.
We know I've been very open andhonest.
It's been really hard at timesbecause I accrued a lot of debt
in my move and then the month ofthe first month of me being
here you were jobless.
I was, and I struggled,struggling a little bit still

(24:32):
like I've got my bills paid.
You know, my car is paid everymonth, my insurance is paid, my
phone bills paid, my rent ispaid.
Those are the four mostimportant bills that I think I
could have.
So I have, you know, otherobligations and credit cards and
things that you know I'm stillworking on.
However, I am a firm believerin the universe and I feel that
the universe is in my favor,moving forward.
A lot of great, amazingopportunities on the horizon and

(24:57):
conversations that I've hadwith the leaders in my workplace
lead me to believe that.
You know, I am a potential goodcandidate for some things
coming down the pipeline.
Um, you know I'm not going touh, as what is, oh god, what
does moira rose say in schitt'screek?
Um, something about it's notcount your chickens before you
hatch, because she says itbackwards.

Speaker 3 (25:16):
But I'm not gonna put all my eggs in one basket.

Speaker 2 (25:19):
I'm not.
I'm not gonna do that, um, butI am.
I'm hopeful, um, because I knowI've got a lot of experience in
the direction that I'm lookingat.
Oh, excuse me, that zaritamargarita mix has hit me um, I
know that I've got a lot ofexperience in the things coming
ahead of me, uh, and I lookforward to.

Speaker 1 (25:39):
Let's not count our poultry before it's incubated
there it is love moira rosethank you, katherine o'hare.

Speaker 2 (25:45):
Um, yeah, I already touched base on on homesickness,
so it is what it is um I gotthat.

Speaker 1 (25:53):
I've never experienced that until this year
, like I think it's because Iwas always doing something with
another person.
So then, when this year was theyear that I like I'm doing
single things and single girl,you had to, you had to go.

Speaker 2 (26:05):
You had to go three days in a row without seeing me.

Speaker 1 (26:07):
Without anybody, without seeing anybody, because
Rob was gone, zach and Juliawere gone, I had nobody.
Like it was, this year has beena lot of years of like doing
first things by myself the goingto the emergency room alone,
having surgery alone, going tothe grocery room alone, having
surgery alone, going to thegrocery store alone, going to
movies, going to dinner alone,nail salons alone.

(26:29):
Like doing life alone.
The only thing that like I wassuper homesick for was my mom.
Like there was a lot of momentsthat like I could have used
like a mom conversation or a momcup of coffee or a mom hug, and
been like okay, that's what youhave me for now, but then you
yell at me when I give you a momcup of coffee or a mom hug and
been like okay, that's what youhave me for now, but then you
yell at me when I give you a momconversation.
So because my motherconversations and you

(26:51):
conversations are not the sameconversation I just tell you
where you're wrong yes, see, mymommy doesn't do that.
The iconic shan does never tellher kid that she's wrong.
That's it.

Speaker 2 (27:02):
There you go, there's the problem, there's the
problem not a problem.

Speaker 1 (27:06):
What?

Speaker 2 (27:06):
would you say so?
Let's roll back to almost ayear ago yeah, it will be a year
when jordan yes said hey it'smy birthday can dustin come?
No, no, not, I wasn't gonna gostp no, this was.

Speaker 1 (27:21):
I met you at bowling oh yeah, bowling yes birthday
thanksgiving.

Speaker 2 (27:24):
It was his birthday well, actually, yeah, that is
where so low-key.
Do you want to know what myimmediate thought was when I met
you?

Speaker 1 (27:32):
I don't know, do I?

Speaker 2 (27:35):
do okay, go I was like, oh, she's gonna be a bitch
.
I am and you know what you are,but you know what's funny huh
is, uh, and this is likecompletely honest in my life and
when it comes to work oranywhere that I've been, and I
meet new people and I meet afemale and they give me this

(27:57):
vibe of, oh, they're gonna be abitch like, I'm not gonna like
them.
I in they end up being theperson at that social setting
that I end up liking theabsolute most yeah, and I'm
going.
I think that probably says a lotabout me no, this is because
that means I'm a bitch.
Uh, no, you are um no, but whenI first met you, I was just like
, oh, I don't.

(28:17):
I don't know the vibes on her,I don't know if I'm gonna like
this or not.
Uh.
And then, like you know, amonth and a half later, I was
like, hey, I have an idea.
You me podcast, let's go.
Yeah, you know, a month and ahalf later, I was like, hey, I
have an idea, you me podcastlet's go.

Speaker 1 (28:26):
Yeah, you know what was terrifying to me at that
moment?
I was that whole event I was soscared of.
I was so scared that was myfirst social event back in
society, like it was the veryfirst event coming back.

Speaker 2 (28:41):
I'm just going to clarify.

Speaker 1 (28:49):
I keep talking because I'm going to get up and
go grab that alcohol and morefill in the space.
Beautiful, um, that was myfirst like moment back in
society after after theseparation had happened, after
the, the breakup, so that waslike my first.
Hey, I'm gonna see all thesepeople that, like, I was friends
with when I was in thiscommitted relationship and now
I'm gonna go and see all ofthese people, single, are they
going to hate me?
Like what's going to happen?
What's going on?

(29:09):
And then here comes this mulletman coming next to me and
Jordan's like oh my God, you'lllove him.
This is my, like my funTennessee friend.
And I was like okay, and and.
And then the next thing, youknow, you and I are bonding over
over nicotine outside of what'sthat hotel called.

Speaker 2 (29:35):
Cabana Bay.

Speaker 1 (29:35):
Cabana Bay yes, we were just bonding over that.
And then I remember you walkinginto my house because it was
like we had yes, we had donelike the sloppy taco events
obviously.
And then it was my christ itwas my, my thanksgiving party,
no, well, no, it was mychristmas party.

Speaker 2 (29:52):
It was your christmas party, but you had your
christmas party like two weekslike a day after that.
It was right, it was the same.
It was thanks.

Speaker 1 (29:59):
It was the thanksgiving holiday, but we
threw a christmas party and thenyou came into my house, opened
my bathroom door as I wasgetting ready and goes I need
you to listen to something.
And I went okay, what?
What do you want me to listento?
And then played me the introfor the podcast.

(30:19):
You read it to me oh, I thoughtyou were.

Speaker 2 (30:21):
I thought you were gonna say I walked into your
christmas party and I was likehey, I killed my cat today you
did do that.

Speaker 1 (30:26):
I remember that.
Do you remember I made you signthe ornament the cat killer the
cat killer.

Speaker 2 (30:31):
Yeah, so for those of you that don't know, um uh
third 10 years ago we drank onpodcasts 10 years ago I adopted
the most.
Get it, can you not?
no uh, 10 years ago I adopted acat.
Her name was clementine, Icalled her clemmy um and I had

(30:52):
her for 10 years.
She saw me to florida and rightbefore I moved to florida she
started to show signs of anillness and I I knew it was
coming um.
So I took her to the vet and umhad.
I had the conversation with thevet and the decision was made
just to go ahead and put herdown instead of trying to extend
her life.
Because the vet was like I cango for options and I was like

(31:14):
absolutely not.
I said, if you're going to sithere and tell me that she has
terminal cancer, and it waslarge, it was like almost
softball size and it had grownin like three weeks.
I said I'm gonna try to keepher alive.
I'm not gonna give her medicineto keep her alive, because
that's evil, that is downrightevil, like I would expect any
person if their cat wasdiagnosed with something like
that and the vet looks at youand says there is not a way to

(31:36):
fix it, to put the animal downbefore they become miserable,
because that's just horrible.
But I thought you werereferring to that story that's
an iconic story, holy crap itwas um what have been the highs
and lows.
I mean we literally, though, butlike what, spent every single
moment together which leads tosome amazing fun stories and fun

(31:58):
times, but it also leads to usbecoming overstimulated and not
having enough like alone timefor us to process our own
feelings or like decompress fromour days.
Um, and I think you know wewould be lying to you all if I
said that ashley and I do notargue oh god, no, we, we have
the most perfect relationship,we bicker like siblings correct.

Speaker 1 (32:19):
Um, but you know, but we fight like a couple, we
bicker like siblings, but wefight An old married couple,
correct.

Speaker 2 (32:30):
And I think we'll get more into this as we get down
farther.
This podcast is going to berough.
I will be honest and I will saythat Ashley and I have fought,
argued a few times Very few, butwe'll get into here in a little
while why that happened because, uh, it was actually somewhat
recent that we realized why wewere doing it, um, but I think

(32:54):
the good thing for me and you is, um, like we can get an
argument and then we're likefuck you, fuck you, fuck you.
So what are we doing for lunch?
Uh, and then we just move onbecause, um, and I think that's
something that like a lot ofpeople and, that being said,
like we don't get in fights overlike political things or
religious things or like ourpersonal beliefs.

(33:14):
We get.
We get in fights over stupidshit, because we will literally
spend five days with each otherand we're with each other
constantly, like we will bothsleep on this couch at times
correct uh, and then it gets tothe point where I'm like, don't
touch me, just leave me alone,and she's like but love me.

Speaker 1 (33:28):
And I'm like fuck off , which is it's so funny though.
To me though, because I mean, Ithink at times we do we have
such opposite personalities.
My love language is very muchphysical touch and your love
language is very much notphysical touch nope so for me,
when I'm anxious, when I'm, whenI'm anything, oh my god, look
at that wind I know I'm justwaiting on one of these tree

(33:48):
branches to snap and hit.

Speaker 2 (33:50):
If we're lucky, it lands on my car pray to the tree
gods anyways, mr lorax, mrlorax, where are you?

Speaker 1 (33:59):
he's over in studio in islands.

Speaker 2 (34:01):
Oh yeah, they made him a statue his house is not
far from here, correct?
Oh no, that's the once leur'shouse no, that's lorax.

Speaker 1 (34:07):
No, yeah, the house.
The house is the once leur,though.

Speaker 2 (34:10):
Yeah, but the lorax is over there okay, we're bird
walking back on topic we alwaysdo um no, but I feel like, when
it comes to certain things, youand I react very differently.

Speaker 1 (34:18):
when, when, like when I'm anxious, hey, just like,
hold my hand for a second whenyou're overwhelmed and
overstimulated and anxious, it'sgo the fuck away from me right
fucking now.
We're also very like stubbornand hardheaded, I think, so we
both have to be very much likeright.
And I think it's so funny,though, because some of the time
we're arguing about likepodcast things, or arguing about

(34:40):
life or you know whatever itmay be, and both of us will just
look at each other and go, waitare we arguing about the same
way, like the same point, butwe're just looking at it two
different ways.

Speaker 2 (34:53):
We're like, yeah, yeah, we are okay lunch.
Let's see, I think we've gottwo more updates in lessons
learned and stuff.
Um, I think one of the biggestlessons that I have learned, um
since I've moved to florida, sowhen I moved here, I am on toot
my own horn for a moment.
I have a pretty impressiveresume.
I've got a lot of accolades onmy resume.

(35:13):
I've got a lot of opening andassisting with some of you know,
the world's first attraction,or the United States or North
America's first this or firstthat, or you know, I did a lot
of work with government clientsand political clients and I
think that my resume speaks foritself when it comes to my

(35:35):
ability to do jobs and I'vealways done really well in
interview settings.

Speaker 1 (35:40):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (35:41):
But moving down here, I know I put 12 applications in
with Universal Studios.
I put, I think, 13 or 14applications in with Disney and
didn't even get interviews forany of them.
Yeah, and that it wasdisheartening and it was also
stressful because that's what Iwas relying on moving down here.
I thought it would be super easyto get a job in these companies

(36:02):
, but I was applying forpositions that were not what a
lot of people in the industryrefer to frontline or entry
level positions, because myexperience and my age and my
knowledge puts me in a positionwhere I believe I can do higher
than that.
And after talking to severalfriends that had already lived
down here for a long period oftime, and now that I've been

(36:24):
here for a year and I've had theopportunity to speak with
leaders in my current jobs, I'velearned that, in Florida
specifically, it really doesn'tmatter what your experience is.
You can have one of thegreatest resumes in the world
and some of the most amazingexperience, but if you're
applying for a job withUniversal, someone that already

(36:50):
works for Universal, that openedan attractions with universal,
is immediately gonna get aninterview over you or be a
candidate that's gonna progressquicker because they've worked
for that company, they've workedfor that culture.
Same thing with disney, samething with the other companies
that I've looked at.
Every time I had applied I wasgetting beat out by someone who
had already worked for thatcompany.

Speaker 1 (37:07):
I think the hardest part is that outside people
don't understand this.
This area, this city is not.
Yes, it's massive and it's hugeand to most people everybody's
like oh my gosh, you don't, Iwould feel so small in this,
this environment, but you reallydon't, because it's in order to
get where you want to in, in inthe tight-knit theme park

(37:27):
community, whether it's atdisney or seaworld or at
universal.
It's all in how, who you knowand how you use that yeah I
think that you know, we, we comefrom worlds where you know,
especially for me I can't.
I can't speak with tennessee.
But for me up in michigan,nobody like to be blunt, nobody
cared that I worked for DisneyWorld.
Nobody cared that I worked for.
Universal?

(37:47):
None.
Nobody cared that, like I haveworked at the trifecta and I've
done all three, nobody caredthat my boss was making emails
for 2.2 seconds.
They cared that I showed upevery day, that I did my job,
that I do all the things that Ineed to, that I say and do what
I say I'm going to do.
You move here.
Oh no, you have disney on yourresume.
You have universal on yourresume, those that opens doors

(38:08):
that's a big deal.

Speaker 2 (38:10):
I will say once I got jobs in places and then I was
like, yeah, I worked atdollywood for like seven and a
half years.
People are like you worked atdollywood and they're like have
you ever met dolly parton?
And it just it's so funny thatpeople love dollywood so much
and I'm just like you know.
I could have used this, you know, nine months ago, when I was
for jobs nine months ago hey, doyou know, uh, what we've been

(38:31):
telling our listeners we weregoing to do for the last three
and a half months, but we didn'tI don't want to talk about it
what have we not done?
What have we not done?
We didn't go down the bayouwe've not rid ridden Tiana's
Bayou Adventure, that's correct.
We have no update on thatbecause we can't get on it.
Correct, because the few timesyou know we were originally
looking at doing it and then wewent back up.

Speaker 1 (38:52):
Then it rained.
No, no, no.
The original day we were goingto do it, it rained out.

Speaker 2 (38:56):
I went to Knoxville for.

Speaker 1 (38:58):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 2 (39:14):
That trip.
You wouldn't have enjoyed thatone.
That's fine.
Um, and then people hello,gavin, miss you a lot.
Uh, and then, uh, every time wewent, the virtual queue was
full, or the virtual queue hadnot even started boarding for
the day, and it would be likeone or two o'clock in the
afternoon.
Yeah, or the weather knocked itout.

Speaker 1 (39:23):
Yeah, or we were out of town or we were blacked out
because of our passes.

Speaker 2 (39:27):
No, I, I don't even have more blackouts next year.
I'm dropping my pass.

Speaker 1 (39:30):
I don't.
We gonna talk about that later.
I do not believe that diana'seven in our future, for 2025,
maybe 2026 is goal yeah, whichwill?

Speaker 2 (39:41):
we're gonna talk, we're gonna do a little bit
about Disney here in a littlewhile.

Speaker 1 (39:46):
Let's talk about this challenges our unexpected
successes and our pivotalmoments.
Isn't?
That a song pivotal moment no,I don't think so.

Speaker 2 (39:58):
I don't know our pivotal moments in our journey
in the last year can I?
Finish a sentence.

Speaker 1 (40:04):
I'm the one that spoke first to you guys?

Speaker 2 (40:07):
um, want to know another thing that irks me when
she finishes only half of thesentence and then I thought it
was me interrupting you no, um,so let's talk about a challenge
okay oh, we're gonna get hot,and heavy, real quick.

Speaker 1 (40:24):
Yeah, we are, I'm sweating already.

Speaker 2 (40:25):
So this goes back to when I talk about Ashley and I
arguing.
So I'm going to give a littlebit of context to this situation
and I want to say we respectall of our friends and
everyone's privacy, so we're notgoing into details and we're
not saying any names or anything.
But this is a millennialconversation.
We want to have a conversationwith you guys and we want you to

(40:48):
guys to get to know us a littlemore.
Um, so we feel that we need totalk a little bit more about our
lives and about the dirty,secret things that we don't talk
about so we decided I thinkthat's what we we kind of hit
from a little bit this seasonwas the fact that originally we,
we created oh you podcast to bevery real and very transparent,
transparent, transparent, andwe haven't really done that.

(41:10):
We've actually strayed very faraway from our personal lives.
Uh, the the good stuff is Ilike to go the stuff that people
are going to want to listen to,because we don't want to hurt
anyone's feelings and we stilldon't.
That's not our goal.
So, if you're listening to this, no, we, we hold no animosity
to anybody right now.
Right now, um, so, yeah, but uh, over the last nine months, uh,

(41:33):
at times throughout the lastnine months, there have been
drama.
Um, you know, drama it's, it'ssomething that always happens.
It happens in high school, ithappens in your workplace, it
happens everywhere, all the time.
Unfortunately for us, there wasdrama within our friend group
and on the outskirts of ourfriend group of people who

(41:53):
necessarily are not friends ofus anymore, and then people that
we've grown closer with overthe year and we respect and we
love everyone.
But when things would happen, wenoticed that the only times
that we ever argue and fight arebecause the drama comes to us
and it presents itself sometimestwo different ways we, yeah,

(42:16):
sometimes either two differentways, or in a situation where we
we have to respond like wecannot just pretend that it
doesn't exist because that's nothow it just it's.
It isn't feasible.

Speaker 1 (42:27):
No, I think to be honest with you.
I think to say in any dramathat you don't, okay, you can
sit there and say, oh my gosh,the way that to handle the drama
is just not to get involved init.

Speaker 2 (42:37):
I think that's correct in terms but it's
sometimes it's impossible whenterms.
But it's sometimes it'simpossible when when we had, you
know, people in our friendgroup, two separate parties in
our friend group, the dramasbetween the two of them, but we
can't do anything.
We can't go hang out with oneparty without the other party
being offended, or we can't hangout with one party without the,
and it just it becomes hard.

Speaker 1 (42:58):
It created a lot of animosity it created a lot of
stress.
I think it also.
You know, we we did an episodea while back on on mental health
and in hospitality industriesand I know one of the things
that that I spoke on in thatepisode was the fact that I
always relied on my circle, myinner circle, to kind of help to
to pull me out of that.

(43:18):
And I think the one thing thatwe didn't talk about in that is
it's not just mental health andin our jobs that cause us stress
and cause problems.
It's our friends can also.
Your friends, your family canalso cause you stress.
They can also, you know, play abig factor and you know, I know,
for for you and I both, ourmental state was really

(43:40):
questioned well, and it got.

Speaker 2 (43:43):
It got hard for me at times because you know, and I
was, I've been open and honestwith you, um, from the get-go.
Well, let me segue into thethis portion first, before I say
that, um, please, sir, may Ihave some more pour it yourself.
I'm gonna need it with thisepisode ashley and I realized
that the only times we werearguing was when drama presented

(44:07):
itself within the friend groupand ashley wanted to respond in
one way and I wanted to respondin another.
But because we spend so muchtime with each other, we felt
that our responses should be inline.
Yeah, the same oh, I'm sorry,the same yeah, I was holding her
mic while she poured anotherdrink.

Speaker 1 (44:28):
Um we, I think we felt like we had to be a unity
every single time.
Yeah, like if we were not onthe same page.

Speaker 2 (44:34):
But we didn't, but we didn't feel in unity because,
you know, ashley would say well,I think this is how we should
handle it, and I'm the type ofperson I as as one of her
friends told me I do not give ashit on anyone's feelings.
No, if I feel like you are inthe wrong, I'm going to tell you
that I feel like you're in thewrong because at the end of the

(44:55):
day.
I pay my bills.
My bills are paid.
You don't feed me, you don'tfund me, you don't fuck me, so
your opinion is not valid to me,ashley.

Speaker 1 (45:06):
On the other hand, I'm so glad we're an r-rated
podcast today.

Speaker 2 (45:09):
I know um, ashley, on the other hand, would look at
it in a sense of like explain.
I'll let you explain that.
Like, do you?

Speaker 1 (45:16):
know what I got told a couple days ago?
That kind of resonated a littlebit, that kind of makes perfect
sense and I hated hearing itwhat and I think I've been.
I mean, dr Gregg has told methis for quite some time and I
very much didn't want to believehim.
And then I think somebody saidthis to me and I was kind of
like okay, maybe Dr Gregg mightbe right.
I am such a people pleaser, Iwant everybody to be so I'm

(45:41):
happy all the time.
And if I'm not helping to haveeverybody be in the same mood,
everybody's not having fun,everybody's not doing the things
that they're going to enjoy.
If everybody's not doing at thatvery moment, you're not
enjoying yourself, you're nothaving any fun.
What's going on?
How can I fix that?
What am I doing wrong?
And then realizing that it'snot me, like it may not have
anything to do with me.

(46:02):
I can't control people'shappiness.
I can't control people'sfeelings.
Anything to do with me I can'tcontrol people's happiness.
I can't control people'sfeelings, and I think the
hardest part was realizing thatif you disagree with somebody in
our group about somebody'sdecision, I can't then go to you
and go no, no, they're hurt.
So we have to make them feelbetter, like that's our job and
you're allowed to disagree thatwas where we had the issue was

(46:22):
ashley is the people pleaser.

Speaker 2 (46:24):
I used to 10 years ago when in my 20, in my early
twenties, I was the peoplepleaser.
I've grown out of that phase inmy life.
You may grow out of it.
You may always be a peoplepleaser.

Speaker 1 (46:33):
I hope it's gone in 2025.

Speaker 2 (46:35):
So I will literally look at someone and be like I'm
not gonna Molly, Molly coddle,I'm not gonna Molly coddle.
What are these phrases?
Get used to it?
Um, I don't.
I don't, baby, because I had alittle bit of a different
upbringing.
You know, I lived on my ownwithin reason since I was 16, so

(46:59):
I have the mentality of here'sjust an example you get broken
up with.

Speaker 1 (47:08):
Cry about it.

Speaker 2 (47:09):
You wake up at five o'clock in the morning, you take
a shower, you put on yourclothes and you go to work.
Some people, when that happensto them, they're gonna wanna
call off work the next day.
And this is where Ashley thisis a good example, because this
is totally made up, but this iswhere Ashley and I would differ.
Ashley would be like it's not,though, they want to, they want

(47:31):
to call in.
Let them call in and go to work.
And I'm like no, they're agrown-up, you have
responsibilities as a grown, andthat and is that's what ashley
and I were realizing washappening.
Yes, and we were having twocompletely different situations.
And ashley wanted to make surepeople were happy and I was like
life is life.
You just got to grow the fuckup, grow a pair of balls and
move the fuck on well, and Ithink that was difficult.

Speaker 1 (47:47):
And then the other thing that was super difficult
for for us was we would be told,I would get told the sky is
blue, you would get told the skyis green.

Speaker 2 (47:56):
And then we would come back to each other and go,
wait, that's not what I got toldwell, no, we would argue
because we would have tolddifferent, so you were
information, so you were toldsky's blue, I'm told sky's green
, and we would argue over thefact that when the rain falls,
the grass is pink.
And I'm like the grass cannotbe pink because the sky is green

(48:17):
.
Yes, and you're going.
No, no, no, the sky was blue.
And then that's when we werelike, wait, wait, wait, wait
what sky is blue yeah, the skyis green.
I'm so confused yeah, and itjust it.
It was, it was fun, but I'mglad that, um you know, there
was where was this realization?

Speaker 1 (48:33):
like six months ago?

Speaker 2 (48:37):
but I think it was funny because you know there was
, you know, outside of that,there was a point in time where
you know, I was honest and I wasable to look at you and I was
just like we're spending so muchtime together that we were just
so kind of sick of each otherand I needed decompression time
and I was able to say I want tobe alone for a little while and
I just want to chill.

Speaker 1 (48:57):
And we did that and I feel like we are better best
friends because of it yeah Ithink the other thing that was,
that was very much somethingthat was not a very, that was
not a very good.

Speaker 2 (49:09):
Yeah, thanks, you're welcome appreciate that.

Speaker 1 (49:12):
um, I think the other thing, though, that I I really
realized, though, with ourfriendship like not so much with
, like other people that I haveis that my friendship with you
is a lot different than withothers.
I know with you, yes, you are avery much.
I don't give a fuck about youropinion or about your feelings,

(49:34):
but I feel like with mesometimes you realize that you
have to give a fuck about myfeelings, like I am not that
kind of person that you can justlook at me and go but it is
it's.
I feel like you have become abetter person because of the
friendship you have with me.

Speaker 2 (49:49):
And I have become a better person.
You're saying a lot me being abetter person.

Speaker 1 (49:53):
Well, you shut up Looking for a new co-host, but,
realistically, shut up.
I have become a better personbecause I am friends with you
and you have become a betterperson because you're friends
with me, because I think I havetaught you that people have
feelings and that people areallowed to feel those feelings,

(50:14):
and that, just because you lookat them and go hi, it's time to
suck it the fuck up and get getgoing.
I'm gonna go, you know, rightnow I need to feel this because
this is how, like, I have haveto get through this, so I have
to feel this.

Speaker 2 (50:26):
And I'm going to look at you and I'm going to say,
that's fine, you can feel that,all that you want to feel, but
we're going to go get food.

Speaker 1 (50:32):
And you still let me feel it though which I think is
is great, and I think you taughtme that, as much as I I want to
feel them, I can also be therefor somebody else and let them
have their feelings and stillvalidate my own feelings at the
same time.

Speaker 2 (50:51):
Let's get out of these feelings.

Speaker 1 (50:52):
Yeah, I'm really kind of over this.
To be honest with you, we'vegot some more to talk about,
even though we're going to talkmore about feelings.
God we are so For you, this issuch a real episode.
I'm sweating.
You're sweating over there, I'mfine.

Speaker 2 (51:10):
Maybe it's alcohol, probably so.
when I left tennessee, I leftbehind one of the most amazing
creative outlets I've ever hadin my life and it was something
that I'd participated in for 12years yeah uh, and that was
frightworks haunted house, nowknown as frightworks fear
factory, um, which wasknoxville's only fully indoor
haunted attraction, correct, um,we celebrated I believe it was

(51:32):
like I think, my last year therewas year 26 or year 25 or
something like that.
I know we celebrated 25 but Idon't remember when it was.
Um, but it was so much fun.
I was the guest service managerso I dealt with the box office,
the, the concession stands, allof our guests.
I worked hand in hand with acouple people to do our social
media.

(51:53):
I did all the like news,interviews and stuff like that
Went on Beacon House podcastlike several times as a
recurring guest to talk aboutFrightworks every year and it
was just the most amazing thingand I knew that I was going to
struggle when I left there and Italked to my roommates about,
like, the haunted houses in thisarea.

(52:13):
But it's just, it's impossible,it's infeasible for me to try to
work in a haunted attractionwith the working in the tourism
industry.
So I think that having thispodcast has been great because
I've had an opportunity.
I put Tennessee Roads on theback burner.
It's still there.
I think I might do somethingwith it.
I might not, I haven't fullydecided yet because it's much

(52:33):
harder now to do that.
So having Orlando Unpluggedpodcast where I can jump in here
with you or with a specialguest when we have them and talk
about life and the pursuit ofhappiness and all of that jazz,
I think it's been really greatfor my mental health when I'm
homesick and talk about life andthe pursuit of happiness and
all of that jazz Um, I thinkit's been really great for my
mental health when I'm homesick.
This gives me an opportunity tobe become more excited about
Orlando and what's going on inthis area.

(52:54):
Yeah.
How would um, how would you say,having the podcast has affected
your mental health, minus thethe the can we just do it
tomorrow?
I'm tired.

Speaker 1 (53:09):
Cause that's a common theme for us too.
I think that for me, I neverthought I would be juggling.
In a sense, two jobs like thisis oh you podcast is a job like
it is not.
Don't get me wrong.
We have a lot of fun and Ienjoy every single episode that
we do, and I get excited when wewe pull out the mics.
And then there's sometimes wepull out the mics and I'm like,
oh my god, if I have to look atyour face for one more minute

(53:29):
and talk about epic universewell, we've got.

Speaker 2 (53:31):
We've got some episodes in here where you can
tell like our energy levels are.
Just they're down and they'rebad but we we owe it to you guys
to put on another episode.

Speaker 1 (53:39):
So we suck it up and we put out a shitty episode but
like, at the same time, though,it's so real, because what
people don't see behind is thatlife still happens.
You know, like I was dealingwith health things and also
trying to like get back into thedating world and figure out our
friends and everything elsethat this was, this move was
throwing at me at this go aroundlearning how to live with my,

(54:02):
my, my younger brother, andlearning you know all of these
things and also working veryfull time and then going okay, I
just worked 13 hours.
We're going to come home andrecord an episode which should
hopefully only take us an hour.
Guess what?
It took us four and a halfhours.

Speaker 2 (54:17):
All right, great Love this Because we deal with.
You know the struggle of yourroommates coming home.

Speaker 1 (54:32):
And your brother sneaking out here and then
staring at us until we pause sohe can talk, or other things, or
just even like I mean, Iremember we tried to do an
episode once and I had a coldand we're doing an episode and
we're having to pause every 15minutes so I could sneeze, or
the episode where you were sick,one of them and we're having to
pause so that you could go backand forth and I'm just like
this is just like it was so much.
And then I think the otherthing that was difficult was
having to to move around ourschedules.

(54:53):
When we would plan an episode,we'd be like, okay, today we're
going to talk about the factthat we went to magic kingdom
and ate a pretzel and then allof a sudden, epic would get
announced, when we're like shitnow we now we're going to talk
about Epic.

Speaker 2 (55:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (55:05):
It was like constantly trying to get create
some sort of like routine, andthen life would happen, Epic
Universe would happen, or we'dbe like, oh my God, wait, we
have to talk about this.
Like when poor Madeline Soto'sdisappearance happened.
We were like, okay, we have toinclude this in there.

Speaker 2 (55:21):
And that was one of her most click baity things.

Speaker 1 (55:24):
But it was like, so important to us because it was
literally in our backyard, sowe're like, okay, we have to
include this in there.
And then our failed book clubthat we were like let's do this,
we're going to do this, we'regoing to jump right on top of
this.

Speaker 2 (55:37):
This is going to be something we're going to do.
Hey, we're going to take aquick pre-PA pause because my
father's calling me and it is ahurricane so I'm gonna let him
know I'm alive.
I went.

(55:58):
I couldn't find our regularpre-k pause music, so I just got
that sound bite out of ourfolder and I I thoroughly
enjoyed it.
Ashley can't breathe y'all.
So I just got that sound biteout of our folder and I I
thoroughly enjoyed it.
Ashley can't breathe y'allplease don't now.

Speaker 1 (56:13):
We have the clap and the choir, we got the that's a
soul choir like, did you hold onhold on, hold on again.

Speaker 2 (56:20):
Play it again that is a beautiful black, that is
beautiful black lady voices.
So that is actually called uhgospel, choir heaven that should

(56:42):
be what we play during thishurricane and it was gorgeous
and it was beautiful and we gotit royalty free at pixabaycom
thank you thank you.
Pixabay, pixabay.
Uh, so we were talking aboutthat filled book club.
Let's actually let's talk aboutthat for a second the orlando
unplugged podcast book club thatwas so sad it really was um

(57:03):
loki.
Neither one of us have picked upthat book.
I've picked it up once since westopped.
And I read a couple chapters in.
And I think maybe we can readit during our off time, because
you like to read books, and wecan chat about it next season.
Yeah.
But yeah, okay.
So why don't you talk about sowhen it comes to unexpected

(57:25):
successes and challenges andpivotal moments in our journey,
um I think I can definitely saythis was one of the pivotal
moment that I've seen for yousince I've met you, is bringing
you back home with me, to myhometown, to meet my friends, my
family and the most amazingcompany ever, right brain
productions, who are the ownersof chocolate fest and Creepy Con

(57:47):
, and some new ventures maybecoming our way in the future.
So why don't you talk aboutthat for a little bit?
Tell me you know what was yourfeelings on visiting Tennessee
and meeting my friends and allof that I love Tennessee, I will
.

Speaker 1 (57:59):
You know.

Speaker 2 (58:00):
You and I joke constantly about how we are
going to buy land and create acommune and it's not in wallen
tennessee wallen yeah um no Iprefer compound well, both we're
gonna buy, we're gonna build atiny home village with all of
our friends in the mountains ineast tennessee I mean and I, I

(58:21):
every once in a while, I thinkthat's our backup plan I think I
send you a text message and I'mlike hi, should we look at lane
today?

Speaker 1 (58:28):
um no, I, I, you know , I I think I said it at the
beginning of this episode and Iprobably will continue to say it
for forever I I never thoughtmy life was going to look like
this, but, by god, I am so, so,fucking grateful.
It does like Like those people,that community, that family
that I have been privileged toto meeting and experiencing and

(58:53):
getting to know and he's he'ssinging oh, thank you, it was
getting quite warm.
Um oh, thank you, it's gettingquite warm.

Speaker 2 (59:08):
Um oh, he turned the fan on, sorry I'm not at my
microphone, you gotta tell me Iforgot.

Speaker 1 (59:13):
I need you to like, get a clip microphone so then
you can always walk around.

Speaker 2 (59:17):
Let me get one of those preacher lapel microphones
.
That would be great.

Speaker 1 (59:20):
Yeah, that oh, oh, where my head, oh, instantly
cooler.
Um, no, I.
I think that the first time youtook me to tennessee at the
beginning of the year, I thinkwhat was so funny to me is we
were like hi, you're going withme to tennessee, so buy your
plane ticket.
Now I was like, um, okay, I'mgoing to tennessee.

(59:42):
What are we doing in tennessee?
Oh, we're going to like are wegoing to like, nashville?
And he's like no, we're goingto a very small town in
Knoxville and you're going tolove it.

Speaker 2 (59:52):
Okay, we're going to a very small town in Knoxville.
We're going to Knoxville.

Speaker 1 (59:55):
Yeah.
But I was like, oh okay, I hadnever been to Knoxville.
I had been to to Gatlinburg andto Pigeon Forge, but I had
never, ever been to to knoxville.
And I'm like, okay, I'm aboutto go out of state with somebody
I had only known for two months.
Yeah, that sounds like a smartmove.
My mother would be proud.
All right, buy tickets, let'sgo she was very excited oh my

(01:00:17):
god she was soexcited.
But like I remember getting onthe airplane and I was like this
could be a good idea or thiscould be a bad idea and I I got,
we got on the plane and we werethere and I just fell
absolutely in love.
Like I loved the people and Iloved not just like all of the

(01:00:37):
people of right brain production, but I also loved all of the,
the, the vendors sorry, I'mgonna cough thank you.
I need you to help with words,all of the vendors, all of the
guests.
I just love the wholeenvironment.
I love the people like theywere just so welcoming and so
friendly.
I mean I remember we on thatvery first trip do you remember
walking into that trader joe'sand I got so excited over the

(01:01:02):
guy offering me his buggy yeah,I was like guys, they don't.

Speaker 2 (01:01:06):
And you made friends with random people because you
were like this is my first timein knoxville.

Speaker 1 (01:01:10):
I did and I love those people over the over the
non-meat options.
You were talking with thatwoman listen, it was it's a big
deal, it's non-meaters, it's ahuge thing.
And then I remember gettinginvited to come to CreepyCon and
I was like I'm terrified, likeI'm so scared, halloween and I,
we don't get along.
And I have never, ever, feltmore welcome into a group of

(01:01:36):
crazy people in my entire life.

Speaker 2 (01:01:39):
And then felt like I was a member of the community.

Speaker 1 (01:01:42):
A member of the group .

Speaker 2 (01:01:43):
And we met some amazing celebrities celebrities
and and performers at creepy conthis year low-key, my favorite
year, I think, of creepy conI've ever had um, because
michelle santiago, david howard,thornton, daniel roebuck, there
was just so many amazing peopleI mean I'm friends with these
people now, like let they're,they're liking photos, I'm

(01:02:04):
posting and comments and anddoing these things.

Speaker 1 (01:02:07):
I mean I, I now am very good friends with with a
shop owner, um, through sageadvice, apothecary love you and,
like I, they are such a such agroup of people and I I said it
in the the creepy con episode, Isaid it in the chocolate fest
episode.
Brad and Deanna are, are andJennifer are are three of my

(01:02:31):
favorite people on this entireplanet and I am beyond grateful
that those three people decidedit was okay that I could tag
along and hang out with you andnow I feel like I'm not just a
member and a staff member and ateam member, but I'm family and
I appreciate it, Even though yougot a little demanding when we
were trying to take that groupphoto though.

(01:02:52):
Listen, that group photo turnedout spice and I make no
apologies Except for the fact weare not head on on the set.

Speaker 2 (01:02:59):
We're a big wall behind us, but you know what it
is, what it is.
We all make mistakes, do you?

Speaker 1 (01:03:03):
know to.
I owe it to you for introducingme to the most my two favorite
people on the entire planet whoare they?
Mercadu and gavin.
I love those people.
I know you two are listening.
I love those people more thananybody on this entire planet,
at times more than you and Iknow, for a fact, though, that

(01:03:24):
if I called both of them, theywould instantly come and do
whatever they needed for us.
And I know that for a fact,though, that if I called both of
them, they would instantly comeand do whatever they needed for
us.
And I know that for a fact, andI am so grateful that I have
them in my life, because theydon't just love me, they love
you and and Gavin has such agood relationship with my
brother and it is so important,and I just I love them.
Okay, I'm done now, becauseI'll start getting emotional.

(01:03:46):
It's getting dark outside, Iknow.

Speaker 2 (01:03:48):
I think the storm is coming.
Oh, by the way, guys, that wasmy dad earlier when he when the
phone said that.
Well, I know but I just wantedto.
He was just calling to makesure that we were all good and
all safe and uh and everything'sgoing good so as of right now,
it's still.
Just it's getting dark and alittle bit windy outside.
Um, I touched base when I gotoff the phone with a friend of
mine, cody, that lives in tampanow.

(01:04:10):
Um, he chose to stay in tampafor the hurricane.
Um, so I asked him how it was,because that was an hour ago, a
little more than an hour ago,that it made landfall.
But he's it's been nine minutesand he's not responded.
But I'm assuming he's all rightbecause he responded originally
.
Um, so, moving on in thislittle next portion here, this

(01:04:32):
one's gonna be rough this one,yeah, um.
So when it came to guests, whenwe first started the podcast, we
had zero plans to have guestson, because we didn't know what
we were doing.

Speaker 1 (01:04:43):
You're skipping things am I yeah, we have to
discuss how we feel about somany people listening to the
first episode.
Yeah, so, talking about thegrowth of the podcast, um how
our listener engagement hasincreased, certain episodes
sparking bigger conversationsthan expected, um I think that
just goes to say with on trends,though, to be honest with you,
I feel like people obviously arebig fans of how to, you know,

(01:05:05):
murder their spouses and getaway with it.
So when it came to like thetrue crime episode we did on on
madeline.
Soto case that obviously sparkeda big number of people that
were listening because it was amassive thing, especially in our
town I'm gonna call thatclickbait because very much was
we used it as a pre-show topicyeah and it wasn't actually a

(01:05:27):
big thing.

Speaker 2 (01:05:27):
And this is back when we were still trying to figure
out how to how to name ourepisodes to convey everything
that we were talking about andclearly people thought it was an
episode that was going to bededicated to madeline soto
because, outside of our veryfirst episode, which was our
largest episode thank you to allof our friends that listened
and screwed- you, if you listento the first episode and then

(01:05:48):
stop listening to the rest weknow who you are actually.
We don't um but we'll find outprocess of elimination, um, but
valid.
That was our second mostdownloaded episode, um, which
you know.
We're not gonna lie to you guys.
Our numbers are still small,we're still growing, we're still
getting out of there, andthat's why we're not gonna lie
to you guys our numbers arestill small, we're still growing
, we're still getting out ofthere and that's why we're gonna
be making some changes movinginto 2025, so people who haven't

(01:06:13):
listened to us can look at ourname and understand exactly what
it is we're trying to portray.
But at times, I think it wouldsay is a little disheartening to
see.
We came out with our firstepisode and it had a huge and I
mean huge number of downloads,and every single episode after
that it would drop five morepeople, ten more people, ten

(01:06:36):
more people, and then at onepoint it got down to I think we
have a couple episodes that onlyhave like 14 downloads ever.

Speaker 1 (01:06:43):
Yeah, it was very sad , Especially because I felt like
those were the ones that we hadput so much effort into.
And then it was the episodesthat, like, hi, welcome to
really known podcast I lost myphone somebody made out with me.
I lost my phone and then thatone would get like a hundred
downloads and we're like how?

(01:07:05):
none of us cared, but like I wasso hung over for that episode,
holy crap.
But it was like wait, we peoplecare about that.
Why do you care about that?
Or then it was like there wasanother one.
We did the the epic universeepisode that we had done so much
research on, we had worked sohard on, and then it was like 12

(01:07:26):
people listened to it.

Speaker 2 (01:07:27):
We're like you got to be kidding but the good thing
is is because I own anotherpodcast.
That gave me fuel to even talkto ashley and be like you know.
I started tennessee roadspodcast in the height of the
pandemic yeah, is when I startedit, yeah, and excuse me, and as

(01:07:48):
time progressed, I've nottouched tennessee roads.
It'll be a year this decemberand I'm getting at least 24
downloads of my podcast a week,if not more sometimes.
Sometimes I get like up to 50to 60 downloads in a week, um,
and I haven't updated it, butthat's that thing is like it.
When you start a new podcast,it takes time for your brand

(01:08:10):
awareness to get out there andfor people to start seeing it
and people like your listenersto share it with someone that
they think would find itentertaining or your friends,
your family and your favoritebartender.

Speaker 1 (01:08:21):
Hint, hint, uh, there's your call to action
friends.

Speaker 2 (01:08:27):
So you know, we know, and that's the thing is, we do
have.
It's not the largest amount offollowing, but we do have a
following there.
We know.
We see every single week in areport those of you that come

(01:08:50):
back every single week, I'mgoing to creep for a minute and
tell you that our hosting sitetells us down to the city and
state or region and country thatyou listen from, correct, so I
know, I know when edwardslistens to an episode or not,
because he's from the uk and itwould always tell me that
someone from the uk would listenand I would know when.

Speaker 1 (01:09:00):
The first time he listened to that I was like
peeing my pants.

Speaker 2 (01:09:03):
He's like the queen listens to us I know that when
he shares it with his friends,because then we have multiple
downloads coming out of londonor out of uk, uh, and I am proud
to say that our podcast hasbeen streamed on every single
continent on this planet atleast one time.
We have a couple countrieswhere we've only had one

(01:09:23):
download and we never haveanother one.
Um, but it's just so wild itcounts.

Speaker 1 (01:09:25):
We've only had one download and we never have
another one, which is just sowild it counts.

Speaker 2 (01:09:27):
We've been on all seven continents.

Speaker 1 (01:09:29):
Do you know what I'm getting for OU podcast season
two?

Speaker 2 (01:09:32):
What.

Speaker 1 (01:09:32):
I'm going to get a world map and we're going to
like start.

Speaker 2 (01:09:35):
Are they spilled?

Speaker 1 (01:09:37):
I'm just going to let you be for a minute.

Speaker 2 (01:09:47):
I'm going to like get one of those scratch off world,
ones where we can like seewho's listened to us, and like
every single city.
It'd be cool.
I want to get one of those.
Um, it also tells us like whator like what you listen to us on
, if you guys are listening tous on apple or spotify alexa,
tune in, or uh, all those things, and then it tells us um or if
you go to the website.

Speaker 1 (01:10:03):
That was really cool website.

Speaker 2 (01:10:05):
It tells us what type of devices.
If you guys are listening to uson an alexa or an iphone or an
android computer, yeah, it showsus all of these things, so
we're able to see.

Speaker 1 (01:10:14):
You know where the majority of our audience is and
where we can stalk you as muchas you stalk us.

Speaker 2 (01:10:19):
Yeah, don't forget, we're on facebook and instagram
too and twitter and tiktok.
Well, yeah, no, we're not asactive there, but we're there,
we are there.

Speaker 1 (01:10:29):
We tweet and we talk on the Tiki Talk.
Hey, let's talk about myfavorite part, though.

Speaker 2 (01:10:35):
What I want to talk about the gas, oh, my God, that
thing that I tried to talk abouta minute ago.

Speaker 1 (01:10:39):
Correct.
Then we had to talk about thesad things.

Speaker 2 (01:10:41):
So to go back to what I was saying, yes, please, we
didn't plan on having guests.
And then we were like, oh myGod, shan, be on the podcast.
And then she was the first geobe on the podcast and then Zach
and Julia be on the podcast andjust more people come be on the
podcast.
So obviously we talked aboutthis a little in the beginning
of the episode, but we had Shan.
She was first the amazingIconic.

(01:11:03):
She was first the amazingIconic, the iconic.

Speaker 1 (01:11:05):
Sean.

Speaker 2 (01:11:05):
She is who we plan to bring back for season two.
Just throwing that out there.

Speaker 1 (01:11:10):
She's my best friend, dude.
My mother is is.
I thought I was your bestfriend.

Speaker 2 (01:11:16):
You are Okay, you are .

Speaker 1 (01:11:18):
But Shan's my blood best friend.
Okay, we share blood, so wetried.
I tried to share blood with youthat one time, and then you
told me no, so that's how youcatch diseases, no my mother is,
is the epitome of iconic.

Speaker 2 (01:11:36):
You know, do you remember that time a little?

Speaker 3 (01:11:37):
while ago, when we were talking about the
challenges and I was like one ofthem.

Speaker 2 (01:11:38):
Like your roommates would come home, or your brother
would come out and like do thisthing.
So right now Rob is like he didthe Scoooby-doo walk like the
the creeping to put a can in thefridge.
And now he's grabbing a cokeout of the fridge a coke and
he's you gave up, he's closingthe fridge.

Speaker 1 (01:11:56):
Oh, we sparked his interest did you give up coke or
do we keep it red coke, you'regrounded.

Speaker 2 (01:12:04):
He's dancing his way out of the room he's such a
weirdo I love recording in aliving room.
It's so much fun, is it?
Um, you know we had zach andjulia on very impromptu, like we
just brought them in to talkabout mental health and
hospitality uh well, epic, theycame in, and oh yeah, they were
supposed to be a part.

Speaker 1 (01:12:21):
They were supposed to be a part of our epic updates,
but the last couple of oneswhich we didn't do.

Speaker 2 (01:12:26):
A harry potter, when did we rip?

Speaker 1 (01:12:29):
yes, we did harry potter yes, we did I know we did
a dark universe I don't know, Idon't know, guys, do we owe you
an epic harry potter?

Speaker 2 (01:12:37):
is this going to be 31, but they were supposed to be
a part of, like, all of ourepic updates.
But, you know, life happened.
We all worked 24 hours.
You know, 24 hours a day is whatwe pretty much work at this
point yeah, getting schedulesand everything else was very
difficult and you know we we hadto make the decision to go
ahead and continue on with thatseries without them, which kind
of sucked because I enjoyedbringing them in.
It was a fun time for all of usto bond and do something

(01:12:58):
together it was also fun to justkind of get different opinions
on things.

Speaker 1 (01:13:01):
I feel like that was kind of what I got from a lot of
it like our conversations withmy mom and then our
conversations with geo, ourconversations with zach and
jules was a lot of like poor yes, never mind sir I wasn't gonna
say sir you could have said yes,ma'am I was gonna say yes,
daddy, but I felt like that'd bea little weird strawberry
margarita oh, that's good,that's good drink more because I

(01:13:26):
feel like we've gotten uberdepressy all of a sudden, sort
of crying over tennessee peopleprobably shouldn't drink more
then, but um you know, with withno, I felt like we got um
different opinions which weresuper helpful.
I need you to stop.
You're distracting sorry we gotlike difference of opinions,

(01:13:48):
which was super nice.
Like I was able, I feel like Iwas able to kind of get a
different perspective on epic,and then with geo, geo's
conversation be quiet.
This is my episode yeah but,then at the same time, it was
right up like it matched theperson.
Geo.
I love you and you know this.
It matches the personality likegeo is very much.

(01:14:09):
Are you focusing on me?
You're not, why not?
He did very well.

Speaker 2 (01:14:13):
Geo's one of those people so good like in the
future, whenever I'm unavailableor you're unavailable geo would
be the person that I would loveto have fill in on this podcast
because he's just, he's sogreat and he's so funny and he
gets it exactly how we do.

Speaker 1 (01:14:26):
When we say there are topics that are off limits,
there are names that are offlimits and he's like, oh no, I'm
here to talk about it withouttalking about it and yeah, and
he very much draws the line onon whether or not it's this is
the line we're crossing or no,we're avoiding this like a
three-foot pole my favorite waswhen he walked into the door and
we had everything set up and hewas like, is anything recording

(01:14:46):
?

Speaker 2 (01:14:47):
and I'm like no, and he goes.

Speaker 1 (01:14:48):
Okay, we gotta talk before we start recording yeah,
and he was like and he's like,he's like let me let me see the
computer.

Speaker 2 (01:14:54):
Let me see the computer.
Okay, we're good, we're good.
Let's talk about some shitbefore we talk about shit.
Wait, wait, wait.
It was so much, I just forgot.

Speaker 1 (01:15:01):
Guess what?
We all.
What started that conversation?
What drunk brother?
Yeah, that's what we talkedabout oh god, I missed that.
I was so mad that we missedthat event.
Like I was so mad, oup wasgoing to cover a second round of
a second season of drunkbrother.
I was so disappointed that wedid not get to do that and sadly
that was the last drunk brotherthat you could qualify to go to

(01:15:25):
the all winners round.
Well, not all winners.
No, I qualified for the topthree.
Yeah, so the next drunk brotherthat you could qualify to go to
the all winners round?
Well, not all women.

Speaker 2 (01:15:28):
I qualify for it, yeah so the next drunk brother
that'll be hosted.
Only only people that haveplaced in the top three of all
the last, like 14 drunk brothers, will be able to play in this
next game.
That being said, I think thatoup is going to be there.
I'm going to lend my technologyservices to Gio to help him out
with the live recordings, butexcuse me Listen, OUP, you are

(01:15:54):
going to be there.
I have to play, oh yeah, you'llbe playing in the game which is
going to stress me out.
I'm going to offer up myservices technology-wise and
maybe use my gimbal to recordthe TV.

Speaker 1 (01:16:06):
It's so wild to me like that was, so I forgot that
that happened this year.
Gosh, that was so much fun whata hoot, minus the mosquitoes,
oh and we got to meet our goodnow good good friends, colton
and eric oh yeah, I love them oh, that was a wonderful time.
And judy, I forgot judy I lovejudy um, were there any oh and?

Speaker 2 (01:16:27):
and mama ashley rose yeah, actually I'm glad you
brought that up.
Um mama, uh, you're probablynot listening, which is totally
fine.
You're a very busy woman.
So, as you guys know, back inpride, during the pride month,
we talked about, uh, bringing ina very, very special guest and
I think it was going to be oneof the a very pivotal, pivotal,
pivotal moment for us inbringing in guests.
What is going to be one of thevery pivotal moment for us in

(01:16:49):
bringing guests.
It was going to be Mama AshleyRose, here in Orlando, who is a
drag queen and an activist, andwe were in communication back
and forth with each other.
We obviously we waited until itwas too late.
We waited until Pride Month toreach out to her and things were
just super busy and we weren'table to get everything in line.

Speaker 1 (01:17:08):
You were out of town.
It was too late.
We waited until Pride Month toreach out to her and things were
just super busy and we weren'table to get everything in line.
She got busy, you were out oftown.

Speaker 2 (01:17:11):
It was a mess and we chatted and you know the
conversation kind of fizzled out, like neither one of us ignored
each other, we just we all gotsuper busy.
You know she opened a newcommunity center, so to bring
mama in hopefully on season two,we're gonna plan ahead of time,
we can put it out during pridebut record it before.
But I'm also hoping that mamawill be able to provide us with

(01:17:33):
a lot of resources for lgbtqiaplus listeners.
Um.
So we can, you know, reach outto different companies and
different people in the orlandoarea and and bring a new guest.
So we are super excited as towhat 2025 holds when it comes to
guests, because we want toactually bring in more people
that are going to resonate withour listeners and our our mostly

(01:17:56):
millennial audience.
Um, so, if there is someone inthe Orlando area or even outside
of Orlando that you think wouldbe a great person to interview
or you would like to see them beas a special guest on the
podcast, please reach out, letus know text us text us da ding
there it is.

Speaker 1 (01:18:12):
I like text messages.
Actually, I like phone calls,but I like text messages yeah, I
hate phone calls um hey, I havea question what were there any
behind the scenes stories ormemorable moments that did not
make it into any episodes?

Speaker 2 (01:18:26):
um, I mean, I can't think of anything directly.
I know there was a lot of uslike saying, oh, let's go do
this for the podcast, and thenwe would go to disney or we
would go somewhere, we would dosomething, um, and then we would
.
We wouldn't take pictures, wewouldn't take video, because we
would get so caught up in goingand enjoying that moment that we
would forget to get the contentthat we needed you know what I

(01:18:47):
can think of as a really bigexample to that what our
enchanted rose monthly meetupsyeah that was something we we if
, for those that don't know,grand floridian over at um
universal orlando resort.
I just said it universal orlandoresort, walt disney world
resort yes, um has a bar slash,I guess, just a bar.

Speaker 1 (01:19:11):
It's not really a restaurant.
They have like some small bitesbut they don't really.
It's not a full servicerestaurant.
Um has a very, very themed umestablishment that you and I are
I wouldn't call it very themed,I would just call it very
elegant it is um enchanted roseit was all themed obviously to
um beauty and the beast okay,maybe I should take away gloria,

(01:19:35):
the margarita mix.
um, and you and I were like,okay, we are going to drink our
way through this and we're goingto like, get all these
cocktails on here and then we'regoing to review it, we're going
to talk about the podcast, andthen we get there and be like he
said what if we just made thisa you and I thing and we didn't
include the podcast and we justkind of took a break from Life,
liberty and the Pursuit ofHappiness and just kind of vibed
?

(01:19:56):
And we got the same drink everytime, every single time side and
we'd gossip and we'd chat andwe would just have and we would
dress like we wouldn't dress forthe theme parks.
We would dress like I had on mykhaki shorts, a polo shirt.
There's a cute photo of me onmy socials that I'm wearing a
blazer in that bar yeah, we,because we wanted to look the

(01:20:19):
part of grand flow.

Speaker 2 (01:20:20):
For those of you that don't know, grand flow is very
bougie grand floridian, thepolynesian resort um anything on
the, the modern and the?
Contemporary they're veryexpensive resorts.

Speaker 1 (01:20:31):
So you, if you're staying at those resorts, you
got money honey can you give mesome of it please, so then we
can stay with you?

Speaker 2 (01:20:38):
or you'd created a walt disney vacation package two
years in advance and paid itmonthly correct um which props
to you and so so we would dressthe part and we would just go
and we would have fun and wewould join, we would jump on the
monorail and we'd go to theparks for a little bit and I
think that's been one of thefunnest things about becoming a
florida resident is having two,two of the most major theme

(01:20:59):
parks that some people willliterally save for their entire
life to go to just one time youtake such advantage of it too,
and we have annual passes and wego at four o'clock in the
afternoon and we ride pirates tothe caribbean and space
mountain and then we say let's

Speaker 1 (01:21:13):
grab some casey's corner and go home yeah, or we
we eat at bento and then headinto disney world that the last
minute to go and ride pirates,and then we go home like it's
such a last minute decision.
And I think that that was thehardest part with ou podcasts is
we were like we make a lot ofsometimes a lot of last minute
decisions, like a lot of the our, our enchanted rose dates or a

(01:21:35):
lot of our our I mean, even whenwe were going up to the rooftop
bar over at aventura was verymuch last minute things going.
Hey, life is getting reallyhectic.
I want to go pretend I don'thave to be an adult right now.
Yeah, like, let's just go dothat.
And then, you know, adulting isobviously our second job of
being the podcast co-host anddoing all these things.
And you know, I think we bothjumped into this going.

(01:21:57):
I, I had this like massiveenvision that like by july, we
were going to put out 52episodes this year and we're
going to put out one everysingle week and we're gonna do
all these things.
And I remember the first timewe missed a week I was so
distraught, I was like I wasn't,I was tired but I was like I
remember looking at you andgoing, are you sure this is fine

(01:22:17):
?
like are they people gonna bedisappointed in us?

Speaker 2 (01:22:20):
and I was like it's okay, we'll call it, we'll be
like, we'll be like kindle, rayand janelle and we'll just say
we're having a dark week.

Speaker 1 (01:22:27):
Well, and I think our podcast opened me up to other
podcasts.
Like I'm now a fan of theSqueeze by the Lautner couple,
I'm now a fan of the.
Sesh, thank you.
I have so many podcasts that Ifeel like I listen to now
because of OU Podcasts, and nowI want ours to be as equally, as

(01:22:48):
massive as the Squeeze and asthe Sesh and as all of the other
podcasts out there.
Random fun fact If you arefollowing us on I believe
Spotify and I know ApplePodcasts or if you go to our
website you can see our podrolls, which are all of our
favorite podcasts, so that ifyou want to know what kind of
podcasts we're listening tocheck out our pod rolls so you

(01:23:10):
can actually see the podcastthat we recommend you also go
listen to and I think the otherthing that was a big thing for
us and in terms of we wanted sobad to I don't know if if this
is a right verbiage here when itcomes to like share the behind
the scenes story I think a lotof it was instead of saying
share the behind the scenes, Ifeel like I I am sharing the

(01:23:31):
lessons that we learned yeahlike, hey, we had all these
ideas.
I remember when we first startedit was, I mean, I was sober
when we first started- like Iwas stone cold sober.
I was the the or grab amocktail.

Speaker 2 (01:23:43):
We, we spot, we spoke to restaurants and we spoke to
bars and all these places thatwe were going to go back to and
and we just we weren't able tomake it work, and I think that's
one of the main reasons that II'm the one that proposed that
we take this break so we can,first off, yeah, put the
microphones down, put let ourbrains rest for a little bit.

Speaker 1 (01:24:02):
Take a month off on overload guys and I mean that
last episode, we were likethey've been done.
What are words?

Speaker 2 (01:24:12):
while we're going to be gone for, you know, three
months October, november andDecember.
October is really going to beour only down month, because
starting in November is when weare going to start preparing.
We've got for season two we'regoing to talk more about all
that jazz.

Speaker 1 (01:24:24):
But we've got a lot of things in the work and for us
to hit the ground running injanuary with a new episode, we
have to start well in advance,uh, to put together interviews
and put together site visits andall of these things that we
plan on doing and and some otherstuff and I think the other
thing is, is we also look atjanuary and realize that our
life is not just going to be ohyou podcast again, like we have

(01:24:47):
chocolate fest coming up, thenit's my brother's birthday, and
then it's Bruce's birthday, andthen it's it's like Epic will be
here before you know.

Speaker 2 (01:24:55):
Construction malls go up at Disney, correct?

Speaker 1 (01:24:57):
And then it's my 29th birthday, and then it's the,
and then we're back in Augustagain and I'm just like holy,
like, holy crap.
Like we have so much that youknow and I'm going, we have so
much planned for next year andat the same time it's only
October.
I'm sorry, it's September 26.
And I'm going.
In two and a half weeks I'll begoing to Halloween Horror

(01:25:17):
Nights for the first time.

Speaker 2 (01:25:18):
You and I have another trip planned, I'll be
celebrating my birthday we haveyour birthday, we have our
friendiversary.

Speaker 1 (01:25:33):
Girl two and a half weeks it's next week.
Oh, wait, no, when are yougoing?
17th, it's two weeks.
Oh, it's my birthday in a week.
Yeah, your birthday's in a weekoh shit I turned 31 y'all.
Oh my god, why did I think thisis your 30th?

Speaker 2 (01:25:39):
I don't know, god, you are so old, I know it's so
exciting well, okay, so we'rewell, I guess we're going down
this theme, this highlight plan,yeah because we've we've talked
a lot longer on things that Ididn't think that we were going
to talk about.
But it was fun to kind ofreminisce it was, but we want to
talk a little bit about some ofthe things that came up that
were highlights for us.

Speaker 1 (01:26:01):
Let's bullet these baby.

Speaker 2 (01:26:02):
Let's bullet, which we're probably going to talk a
little bit more because wedidn't we didn't talk about d23
and we're going to talk aboutdisney, so we might go into a
little detail here.

Speaker 1 (01:26:10):
All right, here we go .
Let's go with disney first.

Speaker 2 (01:26:12):
So let's let's talk about our recurring themes for
this year.

Speaker 1 (01:26:16):
Um oh I'm so sorry, but like a branch, just flew up
that tree and then flew left.
Okay, it's hurricane season,baby, where's glenn pow Powell?
I'm ready.

Speaker 2 (01:26:27):
So obviously Disney was one of our biggest recurring
themes this year.
We had annual passes.
It was free for us to go.

Speaker 1 (01:26:35):
We were going, it wasn't free for us to go.

Speaker 2 (01:26:37):
We pay a monthly fee.
You pay 50.

Speaker 1 (01:26:41):
No, I pay 100.
You pay 50.

Speaker 2 (01:26:43):
So we went a lot, but there's so much that we didn't
get to cover on Disney, so weactually want to touch base on
the few things that we didn'tget to talk about to wrap up our
season short, sweet to thepoint, let's go.

Speaker 1 (01:26:54):
It's not gonna happen that way.

Speaker 2 (01:26:56):
Um so obviously we saw the change in, uh, the
disability access pass ordisability.
What are they?
What is the form?
It's called das d-a-s.
What?

Speaker 1 (01:27:06):
is the disability access service service.

Speaker 2 (01:27:10):
So for those of you that don't know, this system
without me this system wasdevised for guests with mental,
physical, invisible and visibledisabilities or inabilities to
stand in a standard queue linefor a period of time, correct um
.
So we know people, we havefriends that had das passes um,
and we saw when disney changedthat policy.

(01:27:30):
They changed the way youqualify for a das and we saw 98
percent of visitors to universeor to disney have their das
access revoked um and I feellike the the amount of times
that we went sort of lacked whenthat happened yeah

Speaker 1 (01:27:50):
it was.
It was a big, a big change, Ithink, for for us it was.
I mean, I know, for me, Istarted watching a lot of tiktok
stories and a lot of instagramstories of people that had been
denied, and watching like howthey had been denied and what
they had been denied for, andI'm going this is gonna sound
really awful, but it's's very,very, very, very true.
My first thought was do I wantto be giving money to a company

(01:28:12):
that looked at somebody withthis disability?
That, to me, is a disability.
To the outside eye is adisability, and you're telling
them no, they're not.
It was almost like they weresaying you're not disabled
enough to get this, which, ohgod, is that?

Speaker 3 (01:28:29):
that is horrible I'm so sorry what you're saying, but
at the same time I will saythat we watched people that
truly were just lazy and didn'twant to wait in line.

Speaker 2 (01:28:40):
Yeah, and the issue was was that disney?
If you asked, you got it.
No questions asked, for so longthat it was affecting the daily
operations of their rides.
Their wait times were hoursupon hours long because so many
guests had a dash pass that the,the people that paid admission
to disney to get in, werestanding in line all day long.

(01:29:02):
Um, but I also, as someone whodoes not work for disney, does
not speak for their brand ortheir company no, we do not I
think that disney went way toofar in reverse it went very
aggressive very quicklynow.
That being said, when thedisability access service first
came around, it was mostlydesigned for guests with severe
physical limitations and guestswith cognitive disabilities.

(01:29:25):
Correct, and at this pointDisney has, from what I can tell
, has recanted and gone back tothat original idea of guests
with cognitive disabilities,people with autism or a
cognitive function, that theydon't understand what waiting in
line is.
And then, I believe, if you'rein a wheelchair or something,

(01:29:47):
you just wait in line yeah, likeyou just gotta wait in line.

Speaker 1 (01:29:50):
That's what it is.
I mean, there was friends ofours that I suffer with really
nasty anxiety, you know, likeit's to a point where they get
overstimulated, being in linesand queues and things like that
and watching them get told noand you're like, have you stood
in line with them like?

Speaker 2 (01:30:10):
which to me, it's.
It's very interesting becausethere is an option.
You can purchase lightning laneyeah because lightning lane and
disability access service arethe exact same thing.

Speaker 1 (01:30:20):
One is just free I feel like we could.
We could go on this topic forso long, because that you know,
you and I look at this sometimestwo different ways.
You know I look at it in anaspect of you shouldn't have to
pay for your disability.
You didn't choose that.

Speaker 2 (01:30:35):
I don't think we we but where do you draw the line?

Speaker 1 (01:30:38):
of, but it is.
It's such a, it's such a momentgetting I prefer the term an
accommodation.

Speaker 2 (01:30:44):
At what point do you qualify for an accommodation and
at what point because I'm afirm believer of in life you're
dealt the deck of cards a hand.
Imagine your life as a pokergame, and sometimes you're dealt
a really great hand andsometimes you're dealt a bad
hand and unfortunately that isbad.

Speaker 1 (01:31:00):
We've been swearing this entire day.

Speaker 2 (01:31:02):
Unfortunately, at times you're dealt a shit hand,
and that is just how life issometimes, and at a certain
point you have to.
At a certain point I look at itsaying this person needs this
accommodation.
I don't.
I have some medical issues.
I can deal with them on my own.

(01:31:23):
I have that ability to do so.
There are other people in thisworld that cannot, but they
deserve the same opportunity toenjoy space, mountain, as I do.

Speaker 1 (01:31:31):
I think it was just for me.
I had such a hard time,especially in the beginning of
understanding.
Who are you to say, who are youto judge?
Who are you?

Speaker 2 (01:31:41):
to determine that Occupational hazard.

Speaker 1 (01:31:42):
Yes, but, but yes, a hundred percent.
That's who decides it.
But at the same time I'm goinghow do you know?
Just by what?
A note, just by a conversation,because at that moment John
could look coherent enough to beperfectly fine.

Speaker 3 (01:32:01):
I'll tell you what it is, but how do you know?

Speaker 1 (01:32:02):
after an entire day of dealing with stupid tourists
who don't know how to walk orwho don't know how to take two
steps backwards do you want toknow?
I can tell you I'm gonna go ona rant.
You just stop my rant it'skeywords and phrases I'm a.

Speaker 2 (01:32:15):
Yes, you gotta know those correct keywords and
phrases I'm aware do you want tomove on to some happier?

Speaker 1 (01:32:19):
I really do.

Speaker 2 (01:32:20):
Let's do it so this year, at the d23 expo which
those of you that don't knowwhat d23?
It is an event that disneyholds every year to announce the
new and exciting things comingto them we learned years and
years and years in the making,we thought that disney was going
to get another gate, which ishospitality terms for another
theme park, of an entirevillains theme park but it

(01:32:42):
didn't happen.

Speaker 1 (01:32:43):
We're not getting that.

Speaker 2 (01:32:43):
But we are finally, after many, many years,
receiving a, receiving aVillain's Land and what else.

Speaker 1 (01:32:50):
A Cars Land.

Speaker 2 (01:32:51):
A Cars Land.
Now, the cool thing about theCars Land we don't know anything
about Villain's Land.
We know nothing about it.
What we know about Cars Land,it will not take place in
Radiator Springs.
Radiator Springs is at DisneyCalifornia.
Radiator Springs is at DisneyCalifornia.
The Orlando version will be theCars universe, but you are

(01:33:16):
going to be in a different partof the Cars universe.
It is actually designed to belike a I'm going to call it like
Adirondack Mountains or GreatSmoky Mountains.
You're in a completelydifferent part of Cars world and
you are at an off-road Carsrace.
So it is designed to be likeMater's going to be there and

(01:33:36):
Lightning Queen is going to bethere, but you're not going to
be in Radiator Springs.
You're going to be in acompletely different world.

Speaker 1 (01:33:41):
Oh, so we're not copying and pasting, we're not
Well we're going to copy andpaste the ride but we're going
to get a different version.

Speaker 2 (01:33:48):
This one is designed to be an off-road version, where
the one in radiator springsyou're racing on the roads in
radiator springs, this one youare racing on like dirt tracks
or something I I don't knoweverything about it, but I've
seen the concept art.
It looks pretty cool.
I'm excited for that.
Unfortunately, what does thatmean?
We're saying goodbye to tom.

Speaker 1 (01:34:04):
Tom Sawyer, bye-bye.

Speaker 2 (01:34:06):
And the rivers of America, which have been a
staple of the Magic Kingdomsince it opened, hasn't it?

Speaker 1 (01:34:11):
A yawn of Magic Kingdom since it's been opened.
I'm sorry, it was cute.

Speaker 2 (01:34:16):
I've never been to Tom Sawyer Island.

Speaker 1 (01:34:18):
Nobody has, because every single time it's been
closed, well it closes at dusk,and that's usually when we get
there, it's like two o'clock inthe afternoon.
No, no, over it Done.
You know what I am lookingforward to I'm jumping.

Speaker 2 (01:34:33):
What Is it?
Still Disney stuff, yeah, okay.

Speaker 1 (01:34:36):
I'm really excited for the Monsters Inc ride.

Speaker 2 (01:34:38):
Oh, at Hollywood.

Speaker 1 (01:34:39):
Studios.
Yeah, I'm really excited forthat.

Speaker 2 (01:34:40):
From my understanding , it's not going to be a small
land in itself well, anddisney's making some a little
bit of history for them.

Speaker 1 (01:34:47):
This is their first suspended coaster in the disney,
not in the world, not in thestate of florida, by god, all of
you theme park nerdies pleasedo not come for me at a disney
park.
Only, this is disney's firstsuspended coaster and I you know
what I, as somebody who liveswith theme park thusis, lives
with roller coaster thusis I'dlike to consider myself a theme

(01:35:08):
park enthusiast.
Um, I, I feel like disney it,without saying it too roughly
and aggressively, it's aboutdamn time like guys get on the
same page can I unpopularopinion for a minute?

Speaker 2 (01:35:20):
okay I'm just glad that we're getting an attraction
that is not frozen or in kantowe are getting in kanto we will
get there, or coco, because Ifeel that disney has for the
last 10 years it's been frozenin kanto coco.
Frozen in kanto coco, it's beenshows it's been me and it's

(01:35:41):
just been these recent ips and II get it, you're appeasing to
the audience, but at some point,my god, how many freaking
frozen movies do we?

Speaker 1 (01:35:49):
don't get me wrong, I love frozen I am and I love the
lot for frozen, like if I was alesbian it'd be elsa.
Like 110.
I love frozen.
However, by god, if I have tosee one more child sing to me,
let it go.
I'm going to let them go into ariver like I'm just so done
with it low-key.

Speaker 2 (01:36:10):
I wish.
I'm so sorry.
I wish the frozen ride was atmagic kingdom, where all the
princesses correct.
That would make more sense Iwish we still had maelstrom,
yeah, but I also think thatdisney today's fan the shit I
think that disney did an amazingjob of overlaying maelstrom
with frozen and I think thatit's been great because it does
open that conversation withsmall children correct and it

(01:36:30):
it's a part of the worldshowcase and anna and elsa, like
all of that, is designed to bearound norway.

Speaker 1 (01:36:35):
But I'm sorry, but it does not give me any history of
norway and that that is alsotrue, but like the duck ride.
Wait, the duck ride gives mehistory, you mean the three
habaneros correct gives mehistory.
That ride doesn't give me shityeah, it's true.
You know what else?
Wait, wait.
You know what else I wish theywould have?
No, I lost my whole thoughtprocess um.
You know that maelstrom ride,though I did pee my pants on I

(01:36:58):
never got to ride it another funthing coming to disney and I'm
gonna butcher this is, is it?

Speaker 2 (01:37:04):
pablo espanol, it's not pablo, because pablo is
p-a-u publo as.
But so it's the centralamericas and it is coming yes,
it is it is coming to animalkingdom in the former dino land
area, rip uh.
So we are gonna see uh, anencanto attraction where you

(01:37:26):
will actually get to go into thecasa.
Is it the casa?

Speaker 1 (01:37:33):
you'll get to go into the house, the magical house,
the madrigal, the madrigal weare also going to be saying
goodbye to dinosaur.

Speaker 2 (01:37:46):
in the coming weeks, actually, as they make way for
Indiana Jones, we're going toget our own version of Indiana
Jones down here, which makessense because it's Central
America's, and I think it'sgoing to be great because the
ride system that they use forDinosaur is the same ride system
that they use for Indiana Jones, so we're just going to be
getting a re-theme of that, butthat's some of the exciting

(01:38:08):
stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:38:09):
There's not just a re-theme.
We're not getting dinosaurs.
A little rough for me and Ihope it's not just hopefully
hopefully they get well we gotit out, redo it, we got test
track.

Speaker 2 (01:38:18):
They're gutting and redoing it.

Speaker 1 (01:38:19):
Epcot right now I know um, is it time oh, oh.

Speaker 2 (01:38:25):
There's also the last thing disney wise.
Um.
So if you follow disney, youknow that in tokyo or somewhere
they just opened a um.
Oh god, what is that movie withjudy haw, officer judy hops?

Speaker 1 (01:38:40):
it's the animals zootopia I was gonna say fox
they just opened a wholezootopia themed area I did see
that with popsicles.

Speaker 2 (01:38:48):
We're not getting that.
That's bullshit.
But we are getting a zootopiashow inside the tree of life
that's so cute.

Speaker 1 (01:38:56):
No more zipping and zapping with bugs.
Rip, not rip.
Bye-bye, have a good day.
Don't let the good lord hit youwhere the lord splits you.
Bye-bye thank you for thebackache you gave me at 12.

Speaker 2 (01:39:12):
so now are we done, are we done with?

Speaker 1 (01:39:13):
disney.
What is our other?
What is our other?

Speaker 2 (01:39:14):
big recurring theme that we've talked about epic
freaking universe, universalstudios, oh, that too universal
studios my favorite, to behonest, park.
Um it well, universal studiosis not my favorite park but the
universal company wow, I like it.

Speaker 1 (01:39:28):
I get to ride.
I know your favorite movies.
Anybody have any guess what hisfavorite park is?

Speaker 2 (01:39:32):
it starts with a d, ends with a wood um, but yeah,
we talked a lot about epic thisyear.
You know, we we wanted to kindof ride the the coattails of
success off of the announcementsand it kind of backfired for us
, like people really didn't likeit and I kind of totally
expected people to be drawn inby that they hated it, and we

(01:39:54):
put a lot of work into that.

Speaker 1 (01:39:55):
So much work, so much arguments.
I had to read script and forthose that don't know that,
don't know me, but you shouldknow, me by now yeah, I can't
speak no, you can't read whatwas it up?

Speaker 2 (01:40:11):
upended tombstone, shut up shut up.

Speaker 1 (01:40:16):
I mean, do you know, do you?
Okay, I'm gonna give you atidbit into the epic universe um
podcast episodes.
There were so many times that Iwould be like, hey, I'm not
reading this paragraph, why?
Because this is a really bigword and I don't know what it is
.
And if you can see that therewere so many times that I would
be like, hey, I'm not readingthis paragraph, why?
Because this is a really bigword and I don't know what it is
.
And if you can see that duringthe HHN episode, we did because
you go on like a 45 minute.

Speaker 2 (01:40:36):
I read the entire Monstro's thing.

Speaker 1 (01:40:38):
I was like I'm out.

Speaker 2 (01:40:41):
So if you guys are ever like God, dustin talks a
whole lot.
It's because Ashley can't read.
It's because ashley can't readit's because either ashley can't
read or ashley's not sayinganything and I have to fill the
dead space.

Speaker 1 (01:40:50):
So you're welcome I actually said some things in
dead space, but when we do likescripted podcast episodes,
ashley doesn't do any ashley.
Ashley does not do any.

Speaker 2 (01:41:01):
Dead space, I just sit there actually what happens
is we stop recording into a fiveminute argument because she's
like, I want to change this wordand I'm like no, I wrote that
word for a specific reason,because I'm trying to.

Speaker 1 (01:41:12):
The hardest part is is you and I make a lot of eye
contact during our podcastepisodes like an uncomfortable
amount of eye contact correct.
Also, I have to pee, just soyou know I sneezed and burped at
the same time and you missed it.

Speaker 2 (01:41:24):
Oh no I heard it, I just kept talking.
I'm hoping our software editsit out.

Speaker 1 (01:41:28):
I really hope it doesn't.
It was so good anyways.
Um no, there were so many timesthat like I'd be looking at you
and then you would look at meand be like I'm like stop, I
can't focus.
And then I would bust into alaughing fit for like 25 minutes
because I'd be like I'm sodrained from this so, with all

(01:41:50):
that being said, those episodestook six years to record we've
got.

Speaker 2 (01:41:53):
I want to do it.
I want to talk about it.

Speaker 1 (01:41:55):
You shush okay so we have epic universes that's
coming out in, hopefully, 2025,the beginning of 2025 spring
summer is the estimated.
I am hoping that's still thecase.
Epic, you're doing great guys.
Um then you have one of myfavorite hotels that I cannot
wait to stay in, which is HeliosGrand.
That's coming as well,massively beautiful, wait, wait.

Speaker 2 (01:42:15):
Universal's Helios Grand Hotel, a Lowe's hotel.
Yes, massively beautiful hotel,the first Universal hotel to
hold both Universal and Lowe'sat the same time, correct.

Speaker 1 (01:42:32):
I cannot wait to eat at the restaurant that is going
to be up there in the the dome,like I'm so excited for that.
Yeah, that too.
Um, and then you also have mynew I feel like my new favorite
low budget resort, which isgoing to be stella, luna and
taranova so those are the lowbudget right?

Speaker 2 (01:42:42):
I said that no so so, from my understanding,
universal and lo's just recentlyreclassified their resorts oh
god so you have the signaturecollection which are their.
There were the ones where youget like the express and stuff
which is royal pacific, hardrock and portofino bay as well

(01:43:02):
as the helios grand hotel yes.
But we do not have any detailson express accommodations or
anything like that for Heliosyet when we know, you'll know
yes.

Speaker 1 (01:43:14):
Then you have.

Speaker 2 (01:43:15):
I believe it's three levels and then you have like
Aventura and Cabana Bay no, no,no.
No, it changed.
You have Aventura Royal.

Speaker 1 (01:43:28):
Pacific.
No Royal's on the high list.

Speaker 2 (01:43:30):
Nope, nope, laurel In the new.
Oh, sapphire Falls Not.

Speaker 1 (01:43:35):
Royal Pacific.

Speaker 2 (01:43:36):
I was like I just said Royal, and Terra, luna and
Stella Nova, ah my bad and thenthe lower class is the it's
called Valuin and Suites, whichare going to be the resorts that
hold family suites, which arecabana bay and endless summer
resort, which contains surfsideand dockside oh, okay, well, the

(01:43:56):
two other expensive hotels, uh,saluna and terra nova.

Speaker 1 (01:44:00):
I'm very much looking forward to seeing.
Okay, side note.
I'm gonna side note for, like,I'm gonna pivot go for it I got
to drive past this hotel atnighttime oh my god, gorgeous
during the day.
I'm sorry, universal come.
Don't come for me.
I love you guys.

Speaker 2 (01:44:19):
I take bullets for you and your green cheese it's
ugly as sin well, no, it'spretty, but it's weird.
No, I think it's ugly.

Speaker 1 (01:44:25):
During the daytime, I think that is the ugliest hotel
I've ever seen.
But nighttime, oh my god.
I'll give you all my money likeyou guys are.
So that is so pretty.
It looks like like starstwinkling and you know, if you
live here, you know we don't getthem because our city is way
too damn bright, but like itlooks like twinkly stars and it
is so beautiful do you know whatI have in my brain when I see
those resorts?

Speaker 2 (01:44:44):
do you know what I in my brain when I see those
resorts?
Do you know what I think?

Speaker 1 (01:44:46):
Tell me.

Speaker 2 (01:44:47):
Starship Cruiser, but affordable and realistic.

Speaker 1 (01:44:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:44:52):
Because they are space themed.
It's very astrological.
All of epic.

Speaker 1 (01:44:57):
I think that's why I love it so much, me and my
astrological love.

Speaker 2 (01:45:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:45:01):
It's deep Margaritas are getting to my brain, clearly
, I really know.
To be honest with you, though,I am so freaking excited for all
the food that's going to comeout of that whole environment,
and I'm just telling you guys,right now, if you don't like
universal and you don't likeepic universe, and all this
listen.

Speaker 2 (01:45:20):
Next year don't even listen, because we're gonna talk
about it a lot, guys.
It's gonna happen because thisis the first full-size theme
park with resorts to open in theunited states since animal
kingdom, like there have beenwater parks that have opened and
there have been small themeparks that open but there has
been nothing on this caliberthat also opened, with resorts

(01:45:43):
that's wild since animal kingdom, and that was in the 90s open
with resorts.

Speaker 1 (01:45:50):
That's wild since animal kingdom and that was in
the 90s hey what?
I wonder if we're ever going togive them any any tidbit on the
other parks what other parks?
Like sea world fun spot bushmaybe let's go to lego land.
How about now?

Speaker 2 (01:46:05):
okay, let's go in the middle of a hurricane,
absolutely, um, let's go.
So yeah, so that's that's kindof that's our we're gonna wrap
up our let's talk about rightthrough our time bye what is it?
Uh?
What do they say on spaceship,earth, our journey through time?
Lord has come to an end helenalone.
Don't take helen's job.
I love her.
Helen mirren right?

(01:46:25):
Yes, I love her.

Speaker 3 (01:46:27):
Please, disney, don't ever, if you can change, you
can change that ride you canupdate the animatronics, but
please do not change that hervoice.

Speaker 1 (01:46:33):
Listen, if they can.
They got rid of the pirate rideand gave us a female.
You screw up spaceship earth.
I will wear the t-shirt andprotest yep, same um.

Speaker 2 (01:46:44):
Let's talk about the future.
Let's talk about our future,since we're talking about hell
and mirror.
Wait, are we gonna do it?

Speaker 1 (01:46:49):
what are we gonna talk about?
Why the fact that you've beenhinting at so many different
like?

Speaker 2 (01:46:55):
well, I guess, to verbiage well, well, okay, so to
clarify are you moving forward.
I won't yes and no to clarifyforward next season.
You guys don't panic when yousee Orlando Unplugged podcast A
Life in Living Color disappearfrom your library.
It is still going to be there.
We are still going to be knownas Orlando Unplugged podcast,

(01:47:17):
but we will be editing the lasthalf of our name.

Speaker 1 (01:47:20):
I'm crying.

Speaker 2 (01:47:21):
So we will be getting rid of our Life in Living Color
.
While we think that's cute andit's pretty, it doesn't convey
who we are and what our showsare about.
Oh my god.
So we've got a couple ofdifferent names that we are
looking at.
We haven't fully decided, um,but we want to encapsulate who
we are and what we are.
So when people see the name ofthe podcast it, it gives them a

(01:47:42):
reason to want to click andlisten to it versus not don't
worry, we still live very muchin in color, like oh very much.
We and I've talked with I'vetalked with some um, some of our
listeners that I know from theorlando area and I've thrown
some things out at them andwe've gotten their opinions
excuse me, god, again, you'reexcused leave, but um, but yeah,

(01:48:06):
so so that's coming.

Speaker 1 (01:48:07):
Can I also chat about the new, the new, the other new
stuff?
Yeah, go for it um, we're goingto be working with a very
wonderful, wonderful creator tochange up potentially change up
our logo and our branding.
Ou OU Podcast is going to get.

Speaker 2 (01:48:28):
Going to get what?

Speaker 1 (01:48:29):
A potential new, like I don't know what the word is
Logo thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:48:35):
Pre-K pause We'll be right back.
Okay, sorry, we're back.

Speaker 1 (01:48:47):
I literally my bladder was about to explode oh
you, podcast gets so personalall the time, every episode, hey
transparency is our life.
Listen, transparency is lifewhat else about our future
should we chat about?
Hey, you know we, we did.
We should chat about the factthat we have decided to be the

(01:49:07):
most transparent, real, honest,open, opinionated mofos that
have ever graced your eardrumsthat is one way to put it yeah,
oh you podcast next season.
Oh you pod.
Season two is going to be veryreal next year.
I think that we going to chatabout a lot of things.

(01:49:29):
I think we're going to chatabout a lot of real things, like
drama, like dating, like alleverything in between I mean the
PowerPoint, my guy, like it isgoing to be oh you podcast.
Season two is going to be wild.
I don't think it's going to beanything like season one.
I think we are now vets at this.

(01:49:50):
I think we are I'm not sayingpros, I think we are vets.
I think we know what we'rebringing and I know what we want
to do.
I think it's very clear andconcise.
This season not this seasonseason two will be very clear
and concise.
I think it's very headstrong.
I think we are coming into thisnext season very hungry, very
determined, very, very ready tocreate and put out the best

(01:50:13):
content that you and I couldpossibly put out.

Speaker 2 (01:50:15):
So what you what Ashley was referring to a second
ago is moving forward.
We have a couple of differentthings and you're going to get
to see all of this next year.
Specifically, our new corevalues moving into 2025 is to
provide you guys with accurate,entertaining and emotional
content.

Speaker 1 (01:50:32):
We're gonna cry on ou podcast season.
Two guys we're gonna cry a lot,a lot, a lot.
Um, no, we're.
I think we're just.
I mean we might cry, but Ithink we're gonna be very real.
I think they're gonna be a lotmore real conversations.
I think OU is going to be.

Speaker 2 (01:50:51):
We're going to have a lot of fun.
We're going to have a lot offun.
Yes, who knows?
We may roll out some fun thingsthat you guys can purchase,
maybe some merchandise, whoknows?
Who knows what's going on.

Speaker 1 (01:51:03):
Don't worry, we still have theme parks in it though,
oh don't worry it'll still havetheme parks in it though?
Oh yeah, most definitely, wearen't OU without it.

Speaker 2 (01:51:08):
But before we wrap up here and give a good old send
off to season one, we want tosay thank you, don't do that
ever again.

Speaker 1 (01:51:16):
A great big old send off to season one.

Speaker 2 (01:51:19):
Never mind, I quit before season two starts we want
to say thank you to you guys.
The people that have subscribedfollowed liked our content um
shared our content given usstars because none of you, mofos
, have actually left a review onour podcast, but you guys have

(01:51:39):
rated us, which we are gratefulfor we're at 10 out of 10 so if
you wanted to do us a big help,as we send off and go into a
couple months with nothing, ifyou guys wouldn't mind to hop on
over to spotify or applepodcast, which are the two
platforms that help us out theabsolute most, uh, give us a
like, follow us on thoseplatforms, even if you listen to
us somewhere else.

(01:51:59):
It'll help us out in ouralgorithm.
If you guys will follow us inthose areas.
Please rate us five stars, onestars, two stars, whatever.
Please, five stars, please, um,but please, please, please,
please.
Leave us a review, guys.
Let our other, let people knowwhat you guys enjoy about our
show and what you guys like.
Um, we are a mom and popbusiness.
I know that sounds weird, um,but we're all.

(01:52:21):
I'm a pop business, we're,we're not a corporation yeah.
Yeah, call me daddy, call herdaddy.
Another interesting podcast.
Don't listen to that unless youlike raunchy stuff.
But seriously, guys, if youwould, you know, help us out in
those aspects to help us growour audience and prepare.
So when we come back for seasontwo, we've got listeners and we
have people that are preparedand ready for excitement.

(01:52:42):
Ashley, what do you want to say?
I want to.

Speaker 1 (01:52:49):
I want to wrap it up the best way.
We know how you're going to saythank you to our listeners.
Oh, I piggybacked you.
I piggybacked off of you.
I was going to.
You spoke for both of us.
We speak sometimes for eachother well, I wasn't sure if you
wanted to say it.
No, you spoke for us and I verymuch agree with you guys, or
with you.
Thanks to everybody.
Um, thanks to our bartenders atsloppy taco who who have

(01:53:12):
listened to us cry and whine andpush for their bar and complain
about the lack of our listenersand then help share a podcast
with their, their people.
Um.
Thanks to to the random peoplethat we have met at theme parks
that we have introduced to ourour podcasts, that have listened
.
Um.
Thanks to the random peoplethat we have met at theme parks
that we have introduced to ourpodcast and have listened.
Um thanks to this is so bad.

(01:53:33):
To the men I've matched ontinder with it.
I've said, hey, you want apodcast recommendation, listen
to mine.
Um, but it's true.
Um thanks to to, you know, mymom and and everybody up in
michigan for the constant,constant support of of listening
to my mom and everybody up inMichigan for the constant,
constant support of listening tomy podcast and hearing me talk
about my podcast and sharing mypodcast on all of our social

(01:53:56):
media platforms.
Thanks to Zach and Julia, whohave put up with the fact that
our podcast equipment has beenall over our coffee table all
the time, has listened to me sayOU Podcast a thousand and one
times OU-P.
Thank you to all the friendswho I have canceled plans with
because I have been like, hey, Ihave to record for this podcast

(01:54:18):
.
This is the only day this weekwe can.

Speaker 2 (01:54:20):
Oh, you mean your Tinder dates?

Speaker 1 (01:54:21):
Yeah, a lot of those.
So, sorry guys, that's another,that's season two, uh, but
thanks to to, honestly thethanks to the theme parks for
allowing us to be okay withpeople taking photos of things
and, you know, commenting andhaving letting us have views on

(01:54:42):
on different stuff thanks fornot sending us a cease and
desist.

Speaker 2 (01:54:45):
Yeah, we appreciate that.

Speaker 1 (01:54:47):
Um, and I guess my final thank you is is to you for
for introducing podcast life tome and for coming to me with
this crazy wild idea and forchoosing me out of all of the
straight females that you couldhave picked to to be with you.
What was that word that I hatedthat we we originally was

(01:55:08):
called in the beginning I don'teven remember I don't remember
but like out of all of thepeople like thanks for saying
yes to well you just had themost unstable personality.
You're not wrong I was like justwait for season two guys.

Speaker 2 (01:55:26):
She seems chaotic.
This will be good.

Speaker 1 (01:55:29):
You know it's going to be raunchy.
Like we just talked about colordaddy being raunchy.
I feel like I want to createlike an episode trend of how to
date on Tinder.
Yeah, actually, how to faildating Tinder, because I suck at
it.

Speaker 2 (01:55:44):
Now, guys, I'm going to do this one last time for the
season oh god, and I'm gonnaask you to go just into the
description box of today'sepisode if you're on your phone
wait, I don't get a thank youthanks, uh, you're welcome for
me introducing you to thepodcast such a piece of shit

(01:56:07):
fuck you, go ahead.

Speaker 1 (01:56:10):
I just realized I didn't get it.
You got like a long assparagraph about how fucking
grateful I was for you and youjust go.
Okay, guys, we're gonna wrapthis up now.

Speaker 2 (01:56:22):
Fuck you, dustin and that, ladies and gentlemen, is
Orlando Applush, that is herfriendship.
Fuck you, dustin.

Speaker 3 (01:56:27):
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is our, is really the
reply that is her friendship.

Speaker 2 (01:56:32):
God, you're such a dick I don't know what to say no
, it's fine, just wrap it up.
We'll converse off the record.
Just wrap it up, ass.
I need no proof of my things.
Fuck you.
I don't want it to come backand bite me later.

Speaker 1 (01:56:46):
You're such a piece of shit.

Speaker 2 (01:56:48):
Well, since there's no way to recover on that, go
ahead and head over to thedescription box, if you're
listening on your mobile device,and click the text, the show
option, and we want to hear fromyou guys what was your most
favorite episode during thisseason?
You can put the episode numberin, you can tell us Most of our
episodes are unplugging and then, whatever it is, so, drop us

(01:57:10):
your favorite memory from thisseason.
If you don't do it and youlisten to the show, I'm going to
know who you are, because it'sgoing to tell me what city
you're listening from.

Speaker 1 (01:57:17):
We will write you a letter.

Speaker 2 (01:57:19):
We will not because I am not paying for postage and,
with that being said, until nexttime it it's gonna be a little
bit longer than normal.

Speaker 1 (01:57:29):
stay safe, stay educated and, of course oh, I'm
so sad and, of course, share ourpodcast with your friends, your
family and your favoritebartender peace out,
motherfuckers bye guys, see younext year.

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