January 23, 2024 • 34 mins
Ever find yourself laughing in the face of a robot cat dishing out pizza? We did just that and more on a recent jaunt to the bowling alley, where nostalgia meets neon-lit novelty. This week on Sister Shit, we're rolling strikes and sharing stories, from the automated attendants to our unabashed love for arcade nostalgia. We're also hitting the laser tag arena, proving that some things are just better when you're not a teenager anymore.
Bowling might seem like a simple pastime, but we're peeling back the layers, revealing how it can be a snapshot of our journey from clammy-handed youth to confident adults. We'll get candid about how adulthood has oddly made us better at games and life, and why a dry pretzel can launch a thousand ships of emotion. Plus, we're unpacking the creep of technology into our social spaces—yes, even our beloved bowling alleys—and why those silent, serving robots might just be throwing us a curveball.
As we wrap up, remember that Sister Shit is all about the unexpected tangents, from flu fiascos to HVAC hijinks. Your stories fuel our fires, and we're eager for the spark of your ideas to light up our next chat. Whether it's strikes, stories, or sisterly banter you're after, we're here dishing it out weekly, ready to keep the conversation right up your alley.
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Speaker 2 (00:03):
Hello.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
Hi, welcome to Sister Shit.
I'm Meredith.
I'm.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Caroline and today.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
We're talking about bowling alleys.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
We both, like recently, had bowling alley
experiences and I truly haven'thad a bowling alley experience
in probably like 10 years Same.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Actually, I've had two recently.
I'm just laughing because I'mlike you guys thought we were
going to run out of things totalk about.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Here we are.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
We can talk about anything for any amount of time
Really, oh my gosh.
Okay.
So I have been two bowlingalleys recently.
One was very different fromthose of Lore Lore.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
What the heck does that mean?
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Like folklore days of lore.
Did I make that up?
I've been reading Secret Garden, okay, so, oh my gosh.
One was very different, almostfor a birthday party.
They were robot cats serving uspizza.
Wait, wait, wait wait, wait.
There was laser tag.
(01:28):
There were arcade games.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Meredith, you never mentioned one single thing about
a robot cat.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Listen, it was more like Imagine if a Roomba had
your height, basically, and hadshelves in it that pizza could
be slid into.
Wait, a robot was.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
My height.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Yes, yes, like almost your height, tall as the kids,
and it had shelves that justlike spare pizza, like raw dog
in it in the cat when it was inthis tower.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Wait, did it look like a cat?
Speaker 1 (02:19):
It had the face of a cat and it sang happy birthday
and it talked and it kept likethis is grim as shit.
This was a birthday party thatI didn't know any of the parents
.
It was like the first classbirthday party of the year that
we've been to, so it was alreadyawkward.
(02:40):
And then this robot pizza catkept awkwardly lingering.
It would come to deliver foodand then it wouldn't leave.
It would stand behind you andget way too close and the dad
that was there kept gettingstalked by the pizza cat and it
(03:05):
had like someone that would walk.
The thing about the pizza catis that it had someone that
walked next to it that wouldserve the pizza.
Why is the person just not?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
serving the pizza.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
What is the point of the freaking cat?
It was singing.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
It was singing.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
I think it was for like the birthday element in
like the future, I'm sorry, butwhat happened to the people that
come out and say happy, happybirthday?
Speaker 1 (03:38):
We got shortages, caroline, there aren't people to
do that right now.
So we got the cats.
We got the robot cats.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Too many people have gone into STEM and are making
robots, and not enough peopleare singing happy birthday at
Mexican restaurants.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
We never saw this coming.
We never stopped STEMimmediately.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
We need more birthday singers at restaurants.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
More people go into performing arts.
Right now, we need more failedBroadway performers in our
bowling alleys.
Oh my gosh, I am.
This is amazing.
Okay, so.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Like I just can't believe that that wasn't
something that you didn't callme about immediately.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
I am, you know it happened, so it was just one of
those experiences that I justlet wash over me.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Yeah, I get that.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
And then I emerged from the sliding glass doors of
that bowling alley and I saiddid that Done?
Speaker 2 (04:45):
I think that feels sensitive to the robots because
I recently, today, I watched amovie with Sim called like
Mitchell's versus the Machines.
Have you seen this?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
No.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
It's on Netflix and it's actually like very funny,
like Jay and I were laughing outloud.
But it's like anyways, theMachines.
I mean, it's like every robotmovie that is ever existing,
they take over.
They take over the world.
But kid version which is, itwas really interesting watching
like a dystopian apocalypse withmy four-year-old.
(05:18):
Yeah, that was like comedy andlike geared towards kids.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
I mean I think it washed over his head, but he
kept just saying like I thinkit's funny that the dog is a
policeman.
That was like all that he tookfrom the movie.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
I mean you would.
Yeah, that's pretty funny.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
But I'm like I mean, the movie is like four children
and he's literally talking abouthow, like this, basically their
version of Siri takes over, andlike it's wild.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Like smart house Like they like.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Yes, like.
The robot takes revenge on thehumans and like captures all of
them.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
And so I'm like man what?
Well, I'm no, that's not givingit away at all.
That happens in like the veryfirst one.
And we started the movie andsaid I'm like, yeah, the robots
are going to capture the humans.
And I was like, okay, cool,he's in that age of like.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Just tells me the whole movie yeah, he saw it
already, but yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
So, anyway, bowling at me.
So what's going to happen withthe robot cats?
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Yeah, I don't know.
They had a pretty friendlydemeanor.
They just don't have any socialcues.
So Gosh I, they fit right inwith the kids at the birthday
party.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Oh, my gosh Wait.
So what bowling alley was this?
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Stars and Strikes Okay, it was nice.
Like I was like, oh gosh, abowling alley is going to be
sticky and gross and it's likethey're doing the most.
I was actually very impressed.
I was like, dang, this is agreat place to have a birthday
party.
They had laser tag too.
The kids.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
I love laser tag.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
I know when can we go as adults and play laser tag.
Can we not play it there?
I don't know.
I don't know.
I love should we go?
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Like I.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
we really should the only time I played Later Tag.
It was one time I was at like ayouth group lock-in and I was
so scared, but it was so fun.
It's like a, it's like a thrill.
You don't get anywhere else Anabsolute thrill.
An absolute thrill, you justfeel like the stakes are so high
.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
I played.
I went through this phase where, like whenever I was in a
church group, we were going likekind of frequently Mm-hmm, and
we got really good at this likeone place and we like knew the
inside pretty well.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Oh, that's fun.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
And we like dominated a group of Marines, and the
Marines literally quit halfwaythrough and started yelling at
us.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
This is so dorky no.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
But they took off their vest and were like you
guys are cheating, they'reMarines and they have that
attitude.
Yeah, I don't know if they wereMarines, I should just say
military.
I assume they're Marinesbecause of where we're from.
But yeah, but it was very funnythat's embarrassing for
everyone involved.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
I know I can't believe.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
I just told that that's funny.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
I'm embarrassed on my end Also everyone.
She was an adult.
She was not in middle school.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Yeah, I think I was probably like 19.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
But you were like a leader, you were like bringing
middle school kids.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
yeah, no, no, no, no.
Yeah, okay, just going on youroff time.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
It was me and my friends.
Oh, okay, just in your freetime.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Yeah, we were like, let's go laser tag, I want to do
that.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
It didn't happen that often it happened like three
times.
It happened enough for you toknow the lay of the land.
So that's a lot.
Don't backpedal, do notbackpedal.
You came in with so much prideand there is no turning back.
Okay so, okay, second bowlingalley.
Second bowling alley experienceI had was this past weekend.
(09:07):
It was exactly what you wouldexpect.
I mean, this place we pulled upto an unmarked building.
There was not a single sign onthe door, so we walked in.
There was a guy smoking outsideat 2 pm on a Sunday.
We walk in.
I mean, it was like steppingback in time.
(09:28):
It is exactly like everybowling alley you remember as
you went to as a child.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Yeah, I'm like that's when they're not surprised
Without the smoke, without theindoor smoke.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Yeah, I know so it was very interesting.
I was like okay, so the bowlingalley industry hasn't changed
completely, it was just the onethat's doing great, the other
one is also doing great.
I mean, it was packed.
There was a 30 minute wait forElaine.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
I think it was Sunday's discount day and there
were regulars Like I sawmultiple.
I saw more pairs of like ownedshoes than rented shoes.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Mayor, there is nothing like being at the
bowling alley and seeing someonecarry in their ball.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Oh Carol we're talking majority.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Which I can't say anything because I went through
a laser type face Girls guyslike there's a lot of regular
bowlers apparently in my areaInteresting.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
It was in all tight, all walks of life, all walks of
life.
It was an interesting meltingpot.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Well, I don't know if you know this about me, but I
fucking hate bowling.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
I didn't know that until you just said that before
we started I found a new.
I'm not gonna lie, I loved itoh.
I hate it, I bowled a 128.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
We didn't have the car, we didn't have the bumpers
up.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Because we were playing with children and they
didn't have the ones that couldgo up and down between turns.
But I bowled a 128 with bumpers.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
I don't know what's considered good.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
I think a 300 is like really high, like there were
pictures of people on the wallthat were like a 300.
Is that a perfect score?
Speaker 2 (11:12):
I don't know, I think that's like a strike every time
or something.
Okay.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
So, but what I was gonna say, my take, my recent
take, on bowling is that I thinkI could have always been good,
caroline, the last time I wentbowling I was in high school and
you are so terrified ofeveryone looking at you that you
cannot focus on the task athand.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
That was one of my.
The task at hand yes.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
And now I don't know.
I'm just like 34 and I'm doingwell, almost 34 and I'm a much
better bowler, so I'm doinggreat.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Maybe I should try again.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
I think you should try again, as an adult and not
as like a crippled, but notcrippled like a middle schooler,
with like crippling anxietyabout everyone looking at you
and you have like period of yourgenes.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
I will.
I have like perform likeathletic performance, anxiety,
okay, like.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Wait, since when Like what?
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Mayor, you've known this about me I hate team sports
because I like hate lettingpeople down.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
And I get like very embarrassed because I'm not good
and so I'm always notcompetitive.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
I've never, ever heard you label it, as I haven't
let it perform anxiety.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
I just made that up, but it rolled off the tongue.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
It did.
I mean you said that likeyou've been saying at your whole
life.
No, I typically just say I hatesports but, I, think I like
saying that better 2024, we gotto label it with a certain type
of anxiety.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Yeah, because I don't like letting people down.
I'm a people pleaser.
I also get like I'm terrifiedof failure.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
You're playing your own game and bowling.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
No, but that's the thing I'm terrified of failure.
It was like it's the walking upand everyone watching you and
like seeing how shitty you do.
That Got her ball, oh hell.
Then you got to turn around andface everyone and walk back,
but you know what?
Speaker 1 (13:16):
No one's watching.
That's what I learned on Sunday.
No one cares, no one's watching.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
In middle school you think everyone is and they
really never will.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
But then it's awkward when you get a strike and
you're excited and no one'swatching.
It's awkward when you get astrike, and not that I've ever
once in my life gotten a strike.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
You do like a little.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Sim when we went my recent time.
Bowling was also a birthdayparty.
We went to Bolero, okay, and itwas actually.
It was really nice too.
I was very impressed.
They had like a decent littlearcade situation that Sim liked
way more than the bowling.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Yeah, bro, I was thankful there was not an arcade
on Sunday, because that wouldhave been the whole we would
have been.
There was a claw machine thatmy girls were begging me to do
and I was like not a chance, nota chance.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Yeah.
So this birthday party it waskind of nice because you just
pay and then every kid thatcomes gets like a 15 point 15
and swiper card thing.
So we just played all thearcade games and then we all
bowl.
But the problem was is that it'sa bunch of four and five year
olds bowling and it took so longand Sim was so over it and I
(14:25):
was like buddy, I get it, but Iwill say it changed my mind
about bowling.
He's, the bowling alley wasnice.
It was also like, as I wasbowling for Sim, like helping
him put the little slidey thingin the right spot.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
I was like I kind of want to try this, yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
So I'm like maybe I do need to go we should go, I
would go back.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
I honestly was thinking like I wonder if I
could drag anyone here becauseit would be fun to go with the
preference.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Yeah which like and they also have like premium
fried food.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Also my key soft pretzel and he picked it up at
the window and he was like, doy'all have any like sauce or
mustard or anything?
And the lady she, he said thelady was like, oh, like, looked
at him.
Like what do you think this isDisney World?
Like she gave him the draw andit was.
That thing had been spinningaround in that glass box since
1984.
It was the driest.
(15:22):
I kept having to turn around tocheck on Kit behind me to make
sure she wasn't choking becauseit was so dry.
They didn't have mustard, no,no mustard.
And they serve burgers, that isthe easiest shit to get.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
You just get in a little package.
I know, I know Like I get it ifthey don't have hot cheese but
mustard.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Maybe he's lying, maybe he asked for like beer
cheese and she was like no, buthe said he asked for mustard.
Gosh, I love a soft pretzelwith mustard.
I don't know this one.
You looked you could, you couldtaste it just looking at it and
it was not good.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Remember that phase we went in.
We were in whenever we wouldjust go walk around Target and
eat hot pretzels.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Yeah, I'm so mad they got rid of those.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
We would literally be like want to go to Target and
get a hot pretzel.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Yeah, were we pregnant?
Speaker 2 (16:13):
One of us was pregnant I think one of us was,
I think checks out?
Speaker 1 (16:19):
No, I think me.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
It must have been me, I think.
I ate a lot of pretzels when.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
I was pregnant.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
So might have been me .
Oh, man, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
I was going to say we got to go back to a bowling
alley.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
We got to go back to a bowling alley, but also with
the robot situation.
I can't move on.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Clearly I'm shook from the robot movie that I
watched.
It wasn't as cool.
I mean, like I didn't even tellyou afterwards, because it was
like so unnotable.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
But I feel like we need to talk about the little
things that sit on tables at.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Like restaurants?
Do we Like Olive Garden?
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Yeah, where were we?
Red Robin, I don't know.
You want to get dark, becausethat's the darkest we're ever
going to get on this podcast.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
I like how to panic attack.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Like, yeah, we went recently to a Red Robin.
It was like a.
It was like we had other plans.
We didn't have time because wehad to get back for the sitter.
We were like, okay, Red Robin'sright there.
We used to go a lot.
It's good, let's go.
And Caroline had like a momentin the restaurant Like she was
like I just don't like like,like the vibes are.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
so I was really stressed about the vibes, which
is so extra because, like I loveWaffle House Okay, I don't have
like the super, I'm not bougieor by any means, but for some
reason the vibes of a Red Robintype restaurant, yeah, they are
really bad and heavy.
Like Waffle House and more waysthan one, but like the, the
(17:55):
thing on the table where yourkid can just stare into the
abyss and play games yeah.
And then the server is like okay, just like, swipe your card on
that.
And the server like doesn'teven really have to do anything.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
No, again too many robots.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Too many robots and again a robot with a person.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
We don't.
We don't even have a robot, wedon't need the person.
No, don't give me the robotuntil it's good enough to take
up the place of a person.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
I don't even want that.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
I feel like the person is just there to make us
feel like the robot's not fullyin charge.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
The person is like just hanging out.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
And, like the crumble cookie, you walk in, you order
on a screen and then it asks youto leave a tip.
Yeah, and you're like leave atip for who?
I haven't even talked to anyone.
Yeah, Like who am I leaving atip to this machine?
Am I helping you pay off yourmachine?
It's so weird.
(18:57):
That's a whole other episode oftip, fricking tips these days.
I mean that's been talked about,but it's you know, it's I know,
and don't get me wrong, I loveto leave a tip, but I'm not
leaving a tip on a machine whenI haven't even seen a person's
face.
But yeah, they're alreadygetting paid to make the cookies
.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
If you haven't been to an olive garden, a red robin,
an Applebee's lately, you mightnot know what we're talking
about.
Chili's, a Chili's, I mean,just take your pick, but they
all have these like reallyclunky iPads at the table that
have like game games and menusand it's.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
You can like order from them and then you pay from
them.
Yes, it's so weird.
I don't know why it made me.
I think we'd already gone andseen Iron Claw, which, like that
, is a whole episode in itself.
Yeah, like so much easy briefthere.
Meredith and I stopped throughthe entire ending, while our
(19:59):
husbands just stared at thescreen.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
But I think there was a glisten in Keith's sigh.
Yeah, I can see that.
If you haven't seen Iron Claw,you really should.
It was honestly really good.
It's just it's intense, but itwas so good.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
It was so good and we had no idea what it was about.
But, like Jeremy Allen White,Zac Efron, Sonia Baby yeah.
And so we had this whole plan,like Meredith said, to go see
that and then go eat at a K-popplace Didn't have time for that
Ended up with a Red Robin.
So I think that my panic wasnot only from the clunky machine
(20:40):
on the table and like the badcock.
We didn't even order cocktails,but just like seeing bad
cocktails on the menu and thenspending like 50 bucks.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
I think that's what it is.
I think that's what it is.
Okay, that's what it is for me.
You go to Waffle House.
Waffle House prices have goneup, but like rightfully so it
was.
You know the economy.
But like you go to Waffle House, you eat really mediocre food
and a really mediocre restaurantand you pay so little so you're
(21:11):
like this was awesome, what adeal.
Yeah, If Waffle House priceswere and you get a hat and you
get a hat and yes, but I'm likeit's honestly that at the end of
the day, that's what it is.
For me, it's the fact thatyou're paying what you would pay
for like a nice experiencesomewhere else and you're,
(21:35):
you're like bad service, stickytables, bad music, bad company,
like it's, like you're justgetting gypped in all the ways.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Our water had like a bunch of crap floating.
Yes, it's like my burger was sogross and like rightfully, I
mean, I don't eat burgers I gota turkey burger, so like that's
on me.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Yeah, you don't do that at Red Robin.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
But like it was so oddly colored, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
So I think you always your expectations for Turkey is
too high.
It is always gray.
I know, it's always gray,Caroline.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
All that to say, I think my panic stemmed from like
sad movie yes, go and broke atthe Red Robin and then have him
to check out on a motherfuckingiPad I know, Not even an iPad
and Android.
It's like the equivalent to anAndroid.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
That's too heavy to steal, as if anyone would want
that thing.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Oh, man, so why do?
Speaker 1 (22:39):
we go back there.
Caroline, you just took us to adark place.
I had written that.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
I'm sorry, I know, I think I'm just like really
honing in on the like anti-robotthing.
Do I use my phone.
I know when you think aboutwhere.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
When you think about where we thought we would be in
2024,.
Do we have robots?
Yes, are they doing anythingthat really matters for a day to
day person?
I know there are like,extremely like.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
I know there are surgery robots and stuff.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Yes, like there are robots that are like doing
incredible things, but I'mtalking like day to day layman's
robots.
They're not there.
You, we don't need them, wedon't need them.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
We thought the future was going to be like.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Xenon, the Z-Qual, and it is like idiocracy.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
I can't even fly in a jet pack.
So like.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Also, when do we think hologram?
Or is anyone prioritizingholograms?
Because that was also anotherpromise that was really made in
all the movies we watchedgrowing up that we'd be like
basically FaceTime would be how.
You know what I mean We'd beusing holograms.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Yes, I wish.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
I don't know that anyone's really trying to do
that.
There were like a few.
Didn't Michael Jackson comeback as a hologram?
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Tupac and maybe Michael Jackson too, but I know
Tupac did Okay.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
But it wasn't like.
It was like I'm talking like,like on Xenon when her teacher
shows up in the middle of theroom and it's a hologram and
it's live.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Yeah, I just feel like we're not taking advantage
of what we could be doing.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
We're prioritizing the wrong things.
Yes, yes.
I mean not that that would haveany serve any purpose, but
neither do the iPads on thetables at Red Robin is what I'm
saying.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Yes, agreed, and like even Siri.
I feel like like Jay's a Siri alot, but I'm like I don't need
to talk to my phone, I can justtype it in.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
I did just start.
I've been using Siri more Ifeel like I've had I never
really used it a lot and I'vebeen using it more to like do
hands free in the car because Idon't know, it is easier
sometimes, although not reallyshe doesn't understand anything
I say, which is reallyfrustrating.
Anyway, we could talk.
(25:13):
This is.
You know, I don't know this iskind of boring, but we got
qualms.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Yeah, we got qualms with the robots.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Mm-hmm, um, but yeah, anyway, we also.
We're planning to talk aboutbaby animals, so let's turn this
ship around.
Yes, let's do it.
Um, I saw a video today ofsomeone rolling an ornament at
their armadillo.
Armadillo was like rolling upwith the ornament and like
(25:43):
playing with it, and I actuallymade a video on the armadillo on
the internet today, being likesomebody tell me how I can
become one of these people thatget to keep the rescue animals
that, like aren't allowed to bereleased into the wild.
And within like two minutes,someone in Wisconsin who, like
rescues birds, responded withthis like super in-depth
(26:06):
response about, like how you getregistered with DNR.
You have to, like, if you'regonna work with birds, you get
this kind of certification and Iwas thinking that is not my
thing.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
I want some record, I want some fur.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Yeah, if you work with mammals, it's more of like
a state regulated thing, I guess, because there's different
states.
Different states have differentmammals and birds migrate maybe
.
But yeah, okay.
So I'm reading this and I'mlike, uh, sounds like a lot of
work.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
So okay, this starts too, because I wanted to rent a
raccoon for my 30th birthday.
I'm like because, I mean, Iknow that I'm not famous, but
Kristen, what's her name?
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Bella Anna Kristen Bell.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
I saw that she got the sloth for her birthday like
rented a sloth situation, slothexperience.
So I'm like can I do this witha raccoon?
And so Meredith like did thedeep dive?
I did, and it's not, it's not athing which like, maybe that's
good.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
I found one company that, like, rents raccoons for
like acting like, if you need araccoon for a movie.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Like, because I don't know how I'd necessarily feel
about like renting raccoons orlike animals unless they, like,
genuinely need like, love.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
You know it's like.
Is it stressing them out?
Most likely yeah, so that'sprobably not good but there's
the rabies factor.
How can I encounter some?
I know, caroline, sweet cuteanimals.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
I mean, you know this about me, but like both of us
think and daydream often aboutjust like stumbling upon a baby
animal.
That's like falling out of thenest.
Mom's, nowhere to be seen.
It needs a few days in my homeand my love.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Before it can like go to a rescue or like in the wild
or whatever.
Like I just want torehabilitate a wild animal, I
want to be mama.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
I think we got unrealistic expectations because
it happened to our families sooften as kids.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
We had three squirrels.
We had a hookup.
We had a hookup.
There was a lady who rescuedsquirrels and whenever she had
too many squirrels we'd get theoverflow.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Yes, and our dad like loves our mom too.
They like love animals, so wewere always doing that stuff.
So I'm like we just need thehookup.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
I know, but I think it's.
I don't know how we get thehookup now.
There is a wildlife rescueright up the road for my house
and I'm like, should I juststart volunteering there?
Speaker 2 (28:44):
I tried to volunteer there in college.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Remember the wildlife yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
But they were like it's not baby squirrel season,
reapply during baby squirrelseason, because we need more
people then when it's babysquirrel season.
I can't remember, but.
I couldn't reapply because Ihad a full time internship or
like a really busy internship.
So we need to look up when babysquirrel season is, because I
think that they need like extrahands during the season.
Stop it.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Well, you never told me this?
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Yes, I swear I did, meredith.
It was when I was looking forvolunteer hours for school and I
tried to volunteer there, butthe timing didn't line up.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Okay, okay, okay.
Wait, I'm very excited.
I'm going to look into that.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
No, we need to look up the dates.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
But I have, like it's pretty magical, because I was
at Disney world and I wassitting out of a ride while my
friends went on a roller coaster, cause I was pregnant and I had
a squirrel come up to me andlook into my eyes and I reached
down and I handed it.
I don't remember what I waseating.
(29:49):
I handed it a piece of what Iwas eating, which I don't know
if you're supposed to do that,but I'm pretty sure Disney
squirrels are used to it, thesquirrels with Disney are made,
built different.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
They they're raised on that stuff.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
And it literally grabbed my hand and took it and
then ate it.
I have it on video.
Have I not showed you this?
I think I've seen it.
I forgot about it.
And it, I was like this.
Nothing gets more magical thanthis, Like I am in Disney world
and the squirrel just came up tome and asked me for food.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Oh my, gosh, that's what.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
I want.
Yeah, that's what I wantSquirrels or raccoons.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Sign me up.
I know when we were in Englandlast summer.
There's a park there's like isit?
I can't remember the name ofthe park, but it's basically
like London's equivalent ofCentral Park, but there's one
part of it where no dogs areallowed.
It's like a clothe, it's like agated path that you walk
through and it is like I meanthe like both of my girls say it
(30:47):
was like their favorite part ofthe trip because there's signs
everywhere that's like don'tfeed the birds and squirrels and
like everyone is feeding thebirds and squirrels.
And these people were like, doyou guys want some nuts to give
them?
And we were like yes, and soit's like Laura Keats, like
those green, yes, they're justlike wild at this part of the
(31:08):
park.
And there were squirrels and,um, pigeon might get like had
was like Pigeon, lady fromwhat's it called?
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Home Alone, like she was like letting Pigeon land on
her arms.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
I was like we're going to need to.
We're going to need a lot ofsanitizer.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
But anyway it was so magical.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
There were so many animals.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Oh, that is so magical.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
It was like very, yeah, it was very cool.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Well, do you remember the phase where the squirrels
at USC had like a Twitteraccount?
No, like the college that Maryand I went to, like we, our
squirrels on the horseshoespecifically, are so cute and so
friendly, like they let you getso close to them.
And at one point there waseither a Twitter page or like an
Instagram page of like thesquirrels of the horseshoe or
(31:55):
something.
This is after, by time, andlike people would document their
experiences with the squirrels.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Wait, I is it still existing?
Speaker 2 (32:05):
I don't know and I don't even.
I just remember like seeing itand being like this is amazing.
Our squirrels are amazing.
We have the superior squirrels.
Our football team might suck,but like, how are your squirrels
?
Our squirrels are the best.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
That's so funny.
Our brother in law is from theDominican Republic and he I just
remember when one of the firstthings like when he moved here
was like he thought thesquirrels were so creepy because
they don't have squirrels inDominican, and so he was like so
freaked out about like theserats just like climbing
everywhere and people not beinglike grossed out by them and
(32:43):
we're, we're like I really wishthat one would just crawl into
my home, okay.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Also, whenever we were raising one as a kid, one
literally crawled up my dad'spant leg and like stuck in his
pants and I remember I was onthe back porch with I think I
was either okay, this might beone of those things where I've
heard the story so much Ithought that I was there or I
(33:10):
really was there, but we werelike on the back porch and I
remember Emily and dad just likescreaming because dad was like
get it out, and Emily is likeI'm not putting my hand up your
pants.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
Oh my gosh, oh man.
Well, this was fun.
I know it was.
Thank you guys, so much forlistening and for tuning in
every week Not knowing what thehell we're going to talk about
and then writing it out.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Writing it out.
And if you guys are like Holyshit, please talk about
something different, Send us anidea where we're just going to
keep talking about shit that wetalk about every day life, Maybe
our next.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
we need to do another bad date episode.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Yeah, we have so many bad dates to go through, yep,
okay.
Yeah, we'll have to do thatsoon.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Well, hi.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Hope you have a great week.
Yes, hope you have a great week.
My week is literally on fireright now.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Oh yeah, caroline's house is infested with the flu.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
The flu and my age back when out for three days my
heat, and so if that's finallyback and we are halfway back in
action, but I hope your week'sgoing much better than mine, yep
, and we will see you nextTuesday.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Bye.
Hello.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
Hi, welcome to Sister Shit.
I'm Meredith.
I'm.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Caroline and today.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
We're talking about bowling alleys.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
We both, like recently, had bowling alley
experiences and I truly haven'thad a bowling alley experience
in probably like 10 years Same.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Actually, I've had two recently.
I'm just laughing because I'mlike you guys thought we were
going to run out of things totalk about.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Here we are.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
We can talk about anything for any amount of time
Really, oh my gosh.
Okay.
So I have been two bowlingalleys recently.
One was very different fromthose of Lore Lore.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
What the heck does that mean?
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Like folklore days of lore.
Did I make that up?
I've been reading Secret Garden, okay, so, oh my gosh.
One was very different, almostfor a birthday party.
They were robot cats serving uspizza.
Wait, wait, wait wait, wait.
There was laser tag.
(01:28):
There were arcade games.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Meredith, you never mentioned one single thing about
a robot cat.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Listen, it was more like Imagine if a Roomba had
your height, basically, and hadshelves in it that pizza could
be slid into.
Wait, a robot was.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
My height.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Yes, yes, like almost your height, tall as the kids,
and it had shelves that justlike spare pizza, like raw dog
in it in the cat when it was inthis tower.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Wait, did it look like a cat?
Speaker 1 (02:19):
It had the face of a cat and it sang happy birthday
and it talked and it kept likethis is grim as shit.
This was a birthday party thatI didn't know any of the parents
.
It was like the first classbirthday party of the year that
we've been to, so it was alreadyawkward.
(02:40):
And then this robot pizza catkept awkwardly lingering.
It would come to deliver foodand then it wouldn't leave.
It would stand behind you andget way too close and the dad
that was there kept gettingstalked by the pizza cat and it
(03:05):
had like someone that would walk.
The thing about the pizza catis that it had someone that
walked next to it that wouldserve the pizza.
Why is the person just not?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
serving the pizza.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
What is the point of the freaking cat?
It was singing.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
It was singing.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
I think it was for like the birthday element in
like the future, I'm sorry, butwhat happened to the people that
come out and say happy, happybirthday?
Speaker 1 (03:38):
We got shortages, caroline, there aren't people to
do that right now.
So we got the cats.
We got the robot cats.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Too many people have gone into STEM and are making
robots, and not enough peopleare singing happy birthday at
Mexican restaurants.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
We never saw this coming.
We never stopped STEMimmediately.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
We need more birthday singers at restaurants.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
More people go into performing arts.
Right now, we need more failedBroadway performers in our
bowling alleys.
Oh my gosh, I am.
This is amazing.
Okay, so.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Like I just can't believe that that wasn't
something that you didn't callme about immediately.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
I am, you know it happened, so it was just one of
those experiences that I justlet wash over me.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Yeah, I get that.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
And then I emerged from the sliding glass doors of
that bowling alley and I saiddid that Done?
Speaker 2 (04:45):
I think that feels sensitive to the robots because
I recently, today, I watched amovie with Sim called like
Mitchell's versus the Machines.
Have you seen this?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
No.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
It's on Netflix and it's actually like very funny,
like Jay and I were laughing outloud.
But it's like anyways, theMachines.
I mean, it's like every robotmovie that is ever existing,
they take over.
They take over the world.
But kid version which is, itwas really interesting watching
like a dystopian apocalypse withmy four-year-old.
(05:18):
Yeah, that was like comedy andlike geared towards kids.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
I mean I think it washed over his head, but he
kept just saying like I thinkit's funny that the dog is a
policeman.
That was like all that he tookfrom the movie.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
I mean you would.
Yeah, that's pretty funny.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
But I'm like I mean, the movie is like four children
and he's literally talking abouthow, like this, basically their
version of Siri takes over, andlike it's wild.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Like smart house Like they like.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Yes, like.
The robot takes revenge on thehumans and like captures all of
them.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
And so I'm like man what?
Well, I'm no, that's not givingit away at all.
That happens in like the veryfirst one.
And we started the movie andsaid I'm like, yeah, the robots
are going to capture the humans.
And I was like, okay, cool,he's in that age of like.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Just tells me the whole movie yeah, he saw it
already, but yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
So, anyway, bowling at me.
So what's going to happen withthe robot cats?
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Yeah, I don't know.
They had a pretty friendlydemeanor.
They just don't have any socialcues.
So Gosh I, they fit right inwith the kids at the birthday
party.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Oh, my gosh Wait.
So what bowling alley was this?
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Stars and Strikes Okay, it was nice.
Like I was like, oh gosh, abowling alley is going to be
sticky and gross and it's likethey're doing the most.
I was actually very impressed.
I was like, dang, this is agreat place to have a birthday
party.
They had laser tag too.
The kids.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
I love laser tag.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
I know when can we go as adults and play laser tag.
Can we not play it there?
I don't know.
I don't know.
I love should we go?
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Like I.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
we really should the only time I played Later Tag.
It was one time I was at like ayouth group lock-in and I was
so scared, but it was so fun.
It's like a, it's like a thrill.
You don't get anywhere else Anabsolute thrill.
An absolute thrill, you justfeel like the stakes are so high
.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
I played.
I went through this phase where, like whenever I was in a
church group, we were going likekind of frequently Mm-hmm, and
we got really good at this likeone place and we like knew the
inside pretty well.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Oh, that's fun.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
And we like dominated a group of Marines, and the
Marines literally quit halfwaythrough and started yelling at
us.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
This is so dorky no.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
But they took off their vest and were like you
guys are cheating, they'reMarines and they have that
attitude.
Yeah, I don't know if they wereMarines, I should just say
military.
I assume they're Marinesbecause of where we're from.
But yeah, but it was very funnythat's embarrassing for
everyone involved.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
I know I can't believe.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
I just told that that's funny.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
I'm embarrassed on my end Also everyone.
She was an adult.
She was not in middle school.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Yeah, I think I was probably like 19.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
But you were like a leader, you were like bringing
middle school kids.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
yeah, no, no, no, no.
Yeah, okay, just going on youroff time.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
It was me and my friends.
Oh, okay, just in your freetime.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Yeah, we were like, let's go laser tag, I want to do
that.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
It didn't happen that often it happened like three
times.
It happened enough for you toknow the lay of the land.
So that's a lot.
Don't backpedal, do notbackpedal.
You came in with so much prideand there is no turning back.
Okay so, okay, second bowlingalley.
Second bowling alley experienceI had was this past weekend.
(09:07):
It was exactly what you wouldexpect.
I mean, this place we pulled upto an unmarked building.
There was not a single sign onthe door, so we walked in.
There was a guy smoking outsideat 2 pm on a Sunday.
We walk in.
I mean, it was like steppingback in time.
(09:28):
It is exactly like everybowling alley you remember as
you went to as a child.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Yeah, I'm like that's when they're not surprised
Without the smoke, without theindoor smoke.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Yeah, I know so it was very interesting.
I was like okay, so the bowlingalley industry hasn't changed
completely, it was just the onethat's doing great, the other
one is also doing great.
I mean, it was packed.
There was a 30 minute wait forElaine.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
I think it was Sunday's discount day and there
were regulars Like I sawmultiple.
I saw more pairs of like ownedshoes than rented shoes.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Mayor, there is nothing like being at the
bowling alley and seeing someonecarry in their ball.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Oh Carol we're talking majority.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Which I can't say anything because I went through
a laser type face Girls guyslike there's a lot of regular
bowlers apparently in my areaInteresting.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
It was in all tight, all walks of life, all walks of
life.
It was an interesting meltingpot.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Well, I don't know if you know this about me, but I
fucking hate bowling.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
I didn't know that until you just said that before
we started I found a new.
I'm not gonna lie, I loved itoh.
I hate it, I bowled a 128.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
We didn't have the car, we didn't have the bumpers
up.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Because we were playing with children and they
didn't have the ones that couldgo up and down between turns.
But I bowled a 128 with bumpers.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
I don't know what's considered good.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
I think a 300 is like really high, like there were
pictures of people on the wallthat were like a 300.
Is that a perfect score?
Speaker 2 (11:12):
I don't know, I think that's like a strike every time
or something.
Okay.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
So, but what I was gonna say, my take, my recent
take, on bowling is that I thinkI could have always been good,
caroline, the last time I wentbowling I was in high school and
you are so terrified ofeveryone looking at you that you
cannot focus on the task athand.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
That was one of my.
The task at hand yes.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
And now I don't know.
I'm just like 34 and I'm doingwell, almost 34 and I'm a much
better bowler, so I'm doinggreat.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Maybe I should try again.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
I think you should try again, as an adult and not
as like a crippled, but notcrippled like a middle schooler,
with like crippling anxietyabout everyone looking at you
and you have like period of yourgenes.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
I will.
I have like perform likeathletic performance, anxiety,
okay, like.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Wait, since when Like what?
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Mayor, you've known this about me I hate team sports
because I like hate lettingpeople down.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
And I get like very embarrassed because I'm not good
and so I'm always notcompetitive.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
I've never, ever heard you label it, as I haven't
let it perform anxiety.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
I just made that up, but it rolled off the tongue.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
It did.
I mean you said that likeyou've been saying at your whole
life.
No, I typically just say I hatesports but, I, think I like
saying that better 2024, we gotto label it with a certain type
of anxiety.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Yeah, because I don't like letting people down.
I'm a people pleaser.
I also get like I'm terrifiedof failure.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
You're playing your own game and bowling.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
No, but that's the thing I'm terrified of failure.
It was like it's the walking upand everyone watching you and
like seeing how shitty you do.
That Got her ball, oh hell.
Then you got to turn around andface everyone and walk back,
but you know what?
Speaker 1 (13:16):
No one's watching.
That's what I learned on Sunday.
No one cares, no one's watching.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
In middle school you think everyone is and they
really never will.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
But then it's awkward when you get a strike and
you're excited and no one'swatching.
It's awkward when you get astrike, and not that I've ever
once in my life gotten a strike.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
You do like a little.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Sim when we went my recent time.
Bowling was also a birthdayparty.
We went to Bolero, okay, and itwas actually.
It was really nice too.
I was very impressed.
They had like a decent littlearcade situation that Sim liked
way more than the bowling.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Yeah, bro, I was thankful there was not an arcade
on Sunday, because that wouldhave been the whole we would
have been.
There was a claw machine thatmy girls were begging me to do
and I was like not a chance, nota chance.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Yeah.
So this birthday party it waskind of nice because you just
pay and then every kid thatcomes gets like a 15 point 15
and swiper card thing.
So we just played all thearcade games and then we all
bowl.
But the problem was is that it'sa bunch of four and five year
olds bowling and it took so longand Sim was so over it and I
(14:25):
was like buddy, I get it, but Iwill say it changed my mind
about bowling.
He's, the bowling alley wasnice.
It was also like, as I wasbowling for Sim, like helping
him put the little slidey thingin the right spot.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
I was like I kind of want to try this, yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
So I'm like maybe I do need to go we should go, I
would go back.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
I honestly was thinking like I wonder if I
could drag anyone here becauseit would be fun to go with the
preference.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Yeah which like and they also have like premium
fried food.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Also my key soft pretzel and he picked it up at
the window and he was like, doy'all have any like sauce or
mustard or anything?
And the lady she, he said thelady was like, oh, like, looked
at him.
Like what do you think this isDisney World?
Like she gave him the draw andit was.
That thing had been spinningaround in that glass box since
1984.
It was the driest.
(15:22):
I kept having to turn around tocheck on Kit behind me to make
sure she wasn't choking becauseit was so dry.
They didn't have mustard, no,no mustard.
And they serve burgers, that isthe easiest shit to get.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
You just get in a little package.
I know, I know Like I get it ifthey don't have hot cheese but
mustard.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Maybe he's lying, maybe he asked for like beer
cheese and she was like no, buthe said he asked for mustard.
Gosh, I love a soft pretzelwith mustard.
I don't know this one.
You looked you could, you couldtaste it just looking at it and
it was not good.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Remember that phase we went in.
We were in whenever we wouldjust go walk around Target and
eat hot pretzels.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Yeah, I'm so mad they got rid of those.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
We would literally be like want to go to Target and
get a hot pretzel.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Yeah, were we pregnant?
Speaker 2 (16:13):
One of us was pregnant I think one of us was,
I think checks out?
Speaker 1 (16:19):
No, I think me.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
It must have been me, I think.
I ate a lot of pretzels when.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
I was pregnant.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
So might have been me .
Oh, man, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
I was going to say we got to go back to a bowling
alley.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
We got to go back to a bowling alley, but also with
the robot situation.
I can't move on.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Clearly I'm shook from the robot movie that I
watched.
It wasn't as cool.
I mean, like I didn't even tellyou afterwards, because it was
like so unnotable.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
But I feel like we need to talk about the little
things that sit on tables at.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Like restaurants?
Do we Like Olive Garden?
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Yeah, where were we?
Red Robin, I don't know.
You want to get dark, becausethat's the darkest we're ever
going to get on this podcast.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
I like how to panic attack.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Like, yeah, we went recently to a Red Robin.
It was like a.
It was like we had other plans.
We didn't have time because wehad to get back for the sitter.
We were like, okay, Red Robin'sright there.
We used to go a lot.
It's good, let's go.
And Caroline had like a momentin the restaurant Like she was
like I just don't like like,like the vibes are.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
so I was really stressed about the vibes, which
is so extra because, like I loveWaffle House Okay, I don't have
like the super, I'm not bougieor by any means, but for some
reason the vibes of a Red Robintype restaurant, yeah, they are
really bad and heavy.
Like Waffle House and more waysthan one, but like the, the
(17:55):
thing on the table where yourkid can just stare into the
abyss and play games yeah.
And then the server is like okay, just like, swipe your card on
that.
And the server like doesn'teven really have to do anything.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
No, again too many robots.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Too many robots and again a robot with a person.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
We don't.
We don't even have a robot, wedon't need the person.
No, don't give me the robotuntil it's good enough to take
up the place of a person.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
I don't even want that.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
I feel like the person is just there to make us
feel like the robot's not fullyin charge.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
The person is like just hanging out.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
And, like the crumble cookie, you walk in, you order
on a screen and then it asks youto leave a tip.
Yeah, and you're like leave atip for who?
I haven't even talked to anyone.
Yeah, Like who am I leaving atip to this machine?
Am I helping you pay off yourmachine?
It's so weird.
(18:57):
That's a whole other episode oftip, fricking tips these days.
I mean that's been talked about,but it's you know, it's I know,
and don't get me wrong, I loveto leave a tip, but I'm not
leaving a tip on a machine whenI haven't even seen a person's
face.
But yeah, they're alreadygetting paid to make the cookies
.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
If you haven't been to an olive garden, a red robin,
an Applebee's lately, you mightnot know what we're talking
about.
Chili's, a Chili's, I mean,just take your pick, but they
all have these like reallyclunky iPads at the table that
have like game games and menusand it's.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
You can like order from them and then you pay from
them.
Yes, it's so weird.
I don't know why it made me.
I think we'd already gone andseen Iron Claw, which, like that
, is a whole episode in itself.
Yeah, like so much easy briefthere.
Meredith and I stopped throughthe entire ending, while our
(19:59):
husbands just stared at thescreen.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
But I think there was a glisten in Keith's sigh.
Yeah, I can see that.
If you haven't seen Iron Claw,you really should.
It was honestly really good.
It's just it's intense, but itwas so good.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
It was so good and we had no idea what it was about.
But, like Jeremy Allen White,Zac Efron, Sonia Baby yeah.
And so we had this whole plan,like Meredith said, to go see
that and then go eat at a K-popplace Didn't have time for that
Ended up with a Red Robin.
So I think that my panic wasnot only from the clunky machine
(20:40):
on the table and like the badcock.
We didn't even order cocktails,but just like seeing bad
cocktails on the menu and thenspending like 50 bucks.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
I think that's what it is.
I think that's what it is.
Okay, that's what it is for me.
You go to Waffle House.
Waffle House prices have goneup, but like rightfully so it
was.
You know the economy.
But like you go to Waffle House, you eat really mediocre food
and a really mediocre restaurantand you pay so little so you're
(21:11):
like this was awesome, what adeal.
Yeah, If Waffle House priceswere and you get a hat and you
get a hat and yes, but I'm likeit's honestly that at the end of
the day, that's what it is.
For me, it's the fact thatyou're paying what you would pay
for like a nice experiencesomewhere else and you're,
(21:35):
you're like bad service, stickytables, bad music, bad company,
like it's, like you're justgetting gypped in all the ways.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Our water had like a bunch of crap floating.
Yes, it's like my burger was sogross and like rightfully, I
mean, I don't eat burgers I gota turkey burger, so like that's
on me.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Yeah, you don't do that at Red Robin.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
But like it was so oddly colored, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
So I think you always your expectations for Turkey is
too high.
It is always gray.
I know, it's always gray,Caroline.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
All that to say, I think my panic stemmed from like
sad movie yes, go and broke atthe Red Robin and then have him
to check out on a motherfuckingiPad I know, Not even an iPad
and Android.
It's like the equivalent to anAndroid.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
That's too heavy to steal, as if anyone would want
that thing.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Oh, man, so why do?
Speaker 1 (22:39):
we go back there.
Caroline, you just took us to adark place.
I had written that.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
I'm sorry, I know, I think I'm just like really
honing in on the like anti-robotthing.
Do I use my phone.
I know when you think aboutwhere.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
When you think about where we thought we would be in
2024,.
Do we have robots?
Yes, are they doing anythingthat really matters for a day to
day person?
I know there are like,extremely like.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
I know there are surgery robots and stuff.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Yes, like there are robots that are like doing
incredible things, but I'mtalking like day to day layman's
robots.
They're not there.
You, we don't need them, wedon't need them.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
We thought the future was going to be like.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Xenon, the Z-Qual, and it is like idiocracy.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
I can't even fly in a jet pack.
So like.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Also, when do we think hologram?
Or is anyone prioritizingholograms?
Because that was also anotherpromise that was really made in
all the movies we watchedgrowing up that we'd be like
basically FaceTime would be how.
You know what I mean We'd beusing holograms.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Yes, I wish.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
I don't know that anyone's really trying to do
that.
There were like a few.
Didn't Michael Jackson comeback as a hologram?
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Tupac and maybe Michael Jackson too, but I know
Tupac did Okay.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
But it wasn't like.
It was like I'm talking like,like on Xenon when her teacher
shows up in the middle of theroom and it's a hologram and
it's live.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Yeah, I just feel like we're not taking advantage
of what we could be doing.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
We're prioritizing the wrong things.
Yes, yes.
I mean not that that would haveany serve any purpose, but
neither do the iPads on thetables at Red Robin is what I'm
saying.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Yes, agreed, and like even Siri.
I feel like like Jay's a Siri alot, but I'm like I don't need
to talk to my phone, I can justtype it in.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
I did just start.
I've been using Siri more Ifeel like I've had I never
really used it a lot and I'vebeen using it more to like do
hands free in the car because Idon't know, it is easier
sometimes, although not reallyshe doesn't understand anything
I say, which is reallyfrustrating.
Anyway, we could talk.
(25:13):
This is.
You know, I don't know this iskind of boring, but we got
qualms.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Yeah, we got qualms with the robots.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Mm-hmm, um, but yeah, anyway, we also.
We're planning to talk aboutbaby animals, so let's turn this
ship around.
Yes, let's do it.
Um, I saw a video today ofsomeone rolling an ornament at
their armadillo.
Armadillo was like rolling upwith the ornament and like
(25:43):
playing with it, and I actuallymade a video on the armadillo on
the internet today, being likesomebody tell me how I can
become one of these people thatget to keep the rescue animals
that, like aren't allowed to bereleased into the wild.
And within like two minutes,someone in Wisconsin who, like
rescues birds, responded withthis like super in-depth
(26:06):
response about, like how you getregistered with DNR.
You have to, like, if you'regonna work with birds, you get
this kind of certification and Iwas thinking that is not my
thing.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
I want some record, I want some fur.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Yeah, if you work with mammals, it's more of like
a state regulated thing, I guess, because there's different
states.
Different states have differentmammals and birds migrate maybe
.
But yeah, okay.
So I'm reading this and I'mlike, uh, sounds like a lot of
work.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
So okay, this starts too, because I wanted to rent a
raccoon for my 30th birthday.
I'm like because, I mean, Iknow that I'm not famous, but
Kristen, what's her name?
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Bella Anna Kristen Bell.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
I saw that she got the sloth for her birthday like
rented a sloth situation, slothexperience.
So I'm like can I do this witha raccoon?
And so Meredith like did thedeep dive?
I did, and it's not, it's not athing which like, maybe that's
good.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
I found one company that, like, rents raccoons for
like acting like, if you need araccoon for a movie.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Like, because I don't know how I'd necessarily feel
about like renting raccoons orlike animals unless they, like,
genuinely need like, love.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
You know it's like.
Is it stressing them out?
Most likely yeah, so that'sprobably not good but there's
the rabies factor.
How can I encounter some?
I know, caroline, sweet cuteanimals.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
I mean, you know this about me, but like both of us
think and daydream often aboutjust like stumbling upon a baby
animal.
That's like falling out of thenest.
Mom's, nowhere to be seen.
It needs a few days in my homeand my love.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Before it can like go to a rescue or like in the wild
or whatever.
Like I just want torehabilitate a wild animal, I
want to be mama.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
I think we got unrealistic expectations because
it happened to our families sooften as kids.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
We had three squirrels.
We had a hookup.
We had a hookup.
There was a lady who rescuedsquirrels and whenever she had
too many squirrels we'd get theoverflow.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Yes, and our dad like loves our mom too.
They like love animals, so wewere always doing that stuff.
So I'm like we just need thehookup.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
I know, but I think it's.
I don't know how we get thehookup now.
There is a wildlife rescueright up the road for my house
and I'm like, should I juststart volunteering there?
Speaker 2 (28:44):
I tried to volunteer there in college.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Remember the wildlife yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
But they were like it's not baby squirrel season,
reapply during baby squirrelseason, because we need more
people then when it's babysquirrel season.
I can't remember, but.
I couldn't reapply because Ihad a full time internship or
like a really busy internship.
So we need to look up when babysquirrel season is, because I
think that they need like extrahands during the season.
Stop it.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Well, you never told me this?
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Yes, I swear I did, meredith.
It was when I was looking forvolunteer hours for school and I
tried to volunteer there, butthe timing didn't line up.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Okay, okay, okay.
Wait, I'm very excited.
I'm going to look into that.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
No, we need to look up the dates.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
But I have, like it's pretty magical, because I was
at Disney world and I wassitting out of a ride while my
friends went on a roller coaster, cause I was pregnant and I had
a squirrel come up to me andlook into my eyes and I reached
down and I handed it.
I don't remember what I waseating.
(29:49):
I handed it a piece of what Iwas eating, which I don't know
if you're supposed to do that,but I'm pretty sure Disney
squirrels are used to it, thesquirrels with Disney are made,
built different.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
They they're raised on that stuff.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
And it literally grabbed my hand and took it and
then ate it.
I have it on video.
Have I not showed you this?
I think I've seen it.
I forgot about it.
And it, I was like this.
Nothing gets more magical thanthis, Like I am in Disney world
and the squirrel just came up tome and asked me for food.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Oh my, gosh, that's what.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
I want.
Yeah, that's what I wantSquirrels or raccoons.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Sign me up.
I know when we were in Englandlast summer.
There's a park there's like isit?
I can't remember the name ofthe park, but it's basically
like London's equivalent ofCentral Park, but there's one
part of it where no dogs areallowed.
It's like a clothe, it's like agated path that you walk
through and it is like I meanthe like both of my girls say it
(30:47):
was like their favorite part ofthe trip because there's signs
everywhere that's like don'tfeed the birds and squirrels and
like everyone is feeding thebirds and squirrels.
And these people were like, doyou guys want some nuts to give
them?
And we were like yes, and soit's like Laura Keats, like
those green, yes, they're justlike wild at this part of the
(31:08):
park.
And there were squirrels and,um, pigeon might get like had
was like Pigeon, lady fromwhat's it called?
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Home Alone, like she was like letting Pigeon land on
her arms.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
I was like we're going to need to.
We're going to need a lot ofsanitizer.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
But anyway it was so magical.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
There were so many animals.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Oh, that is so magical.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
It was like very, yeah, it was very cool.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Well, do you remember the phase where the squirrels
at USC had like a Twitteraccount?
No, like the college that Maryand I went to, like we, our
squirrels on the horseshoespecifically, are so cute and so
friendly, like they let you getso close to them.
And at one point there waseither a Twitter page or like an
Instagram page of like thesquirrels of the horseshoe or
(31:55):
something.
This is after, by time, andlike people would document their
experiences with the squirrels.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Wait, I is it still existing?
Speaker 2 (32:05):
I don't know and I don't even.
I just remember like seeing itand being like this is amazing.
Our squirrels are amazing.
We have the superior squirrels.
Our football team might suck,but like, how are your squirrels
?
Our squirrels are the best.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
That's so funny.
Our brother in law is from theDominican Republic and he I just
remember when one of the firstthings like when he moved here
was like he thought thesquirrels were so creepy because
they don't have squirrels inDominican, and so he was like so
freaked out about like theserats just like climbing
everywhere and people not beinglike grossed out by them and
(32:43):
we're, we're like I really wishthat one would just crawl into
my home, okay.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Also, whenever we were raising one as a kid, one
literally crawled up my dad'spant leg and like stuck in his
pants and I remember I was onthe back porch with I think I
was either okay, this might beone of those things where I've
heard the story so much Ithought that I was there or I
(33:10):
really was there, but we werelike on the back porch and I
remember Emily and dad just likescreaming because dad was like
get it out, and Emily is likeI'm not putting my hand up your
pants.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
Oh my gosh, oh man.
Well, this was fun.
I know it was.
Thank you guys, so much forlistening and for tuning in
every week Not knowing what thehell we're going to talk about
and then writing it out.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Writing it out.
And if you guys are like Holyshit, please talk about
something different, Send us anidea where we're just going to
keep talking about shit that wetalk about every day life, Maybe
our next.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
we need to do another bad date episode.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Yeah, we have so many bad dates to go through, yep,
okay.
Yeah, we'll have to do thatsoon.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Well, hi.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Hope you have a great week.
Yes, hope you have a great week.
My week is literally on fireright now.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Oh yeah, caroline's house is infested with the flu.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
The flu and my age back when out for three days my
heat, and so if that's finallyback and we are halfway back in
action, but I hope your week'sgoing much better than mine, yep
, and we will see you nextTuesday.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Bye.
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