February 20, 2025 • 41 mins
Have you ever found yourself itching to correct someone's grammar but held back to save a friendship? Join us on Two Voices, One Vibe as we explore the quirks that make us tick, particularly those pesky language pet peeves. We’re donning our beloved Santa-gifted hoodies, and sharing laughs about the classic mix-ups between "your" and "you're," and "then" and "than." But it’s not all fun and games—Lina, formerly a college professor, shares insights from her classroom on navigating these grammar slip-ups and making sure her students knew their "there" from their "they’re."
Brace yourself for a hilarious, grammar-filled journey with us, Nikita and Lina, your podcast besties who know how to keep it real and entertaining. We chat about how text message editing becomes a linguistic battleground, with grammar apps at the ready to correct our friends’ texts. Even if you’re not a grammar enthusiast, you’ll enjoy our stories and maybe learn a thing or two about the nuances of the English language. Whether these are your pet peeves too or you're just here for the laughs, this episode promises to keep you grinning from start to finish.
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Nikita (00:01):
Hi, I'm Nikita and I'm Lina.
We're two best friends withendless curiosity and plenty to
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Get ready for unfiltered conversations, lots of laughs
and a whole lot of heart.
(00:28):
This is Two Voices, one Vibe.
Nikita (00:37):
Welcome back, my friend.
How are you today?
Where are we?
Lina (00:39):
I am fabulous.
We are here for episode numberthree of Two Voices.
One Vibe Welcome.
Hi.
I love your hoodie,
do you?
We are here for episode number three of two voices.
One vibe, welcome.
I love your hoodie, do you?
I do?
Nikita (00:48):
I love my hoodie
Lina (00:49):
where did you go from?
Nikita (00:50):
well, santa brought it to me in the name of Lina
Lina (00:54):
oh, that's so crazy, because Santa brought me one in
the name of Nikita.
Oh, my god, so cute.
I love it, yes,
so um, I thought it might befun to talk about pet peeves
today.
Oh, I have so many of those.
Oh really, yeah.
So the first one that comes tomind that really grinds my gears
is when someone says I couldcare less, because if you could
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care less, that means you careto a certain extent and you
could care less.
But then again I'm like agrammar Nazi.
That's kind of one of my things.
You are a grammar Nazi, so itreally bothers me, so I text in
full sentences with punctuation.
Nikita (01:26):
And you edit text messages.
Lina (01:27):
I do.
I edit text messages.
I edit other people's textmessages.
Nikita (01:31):
The best is when I send you a text message and it makes
no sense and there's grammaticalissues and spelling issues and
I'm like meh, you can figure itout.
Lina (01:39):
She'll figure it out.
Yeah, I actually have an app onmy phone called grammar police
and if you use, stop I do.
And if you use the wrong umversion of the word, you're so
like you're y-o-u-r versus y-o-u, apostrophe r-e, um.
It's like a red grammarcorrection and I'll just place
it over your text message toshow you that you use the wrong
one, or there, there and there
(02:00):
see, I'm good about thosetypically and the two, two and
two, yeah those, because thoseones drive me nuts.
What about then?
And than with an a versus an e
I am not good with those
yeah, so the a is a comparison yes right, so um, I
am better than you at x, y and z.
(02:20):
The e is we're talking aboutlike a place or a time frame,
right.
So you know, I'd rather go herefirst and then go there, right?
Um, so those drive meabsolutely to the wall.
I used to be a collegeprofessor, yes, and so I used to
tell all of my kids I call themkids, most of them are older
than me I tell all my kidsyou're not going to be able to
pass my class if you don't knowbasic English.
So if you don't know thecorrect form of these words and
(02:41):
when to use them, you're in afamily class and they're like
but, professor, this has nothingto do with that.
This isn't that kind of classand I'm like yeah, but I'm the
one reading it, so it's going tobe whatever I want it to be.
Nikita (02:50):
So you must love my messages, then,
yeah they're great.
They're great.
I hold it inside of me so thatwe can speak every week and do
our podcast and still have funtext
message but in all fairness, the your, your and
your, the two, two and two.
What was the?
Lina (03:08):
other?
Well, there's only two yours.
Nikita (03:10):
Yes, yes, but regardless , yeah, I'm good about using the
right your.
I'm good about using the righttwo.
Yeah, I've never really pickedup on the then and than.
Yeah, so now I'll have to watchthat one but see.
Lina (03:23):
so now, every time you type it, you're going to be like
oh no, is this the right one?
No, I know the difference.
And like past, like P-A-S-T andpassed P-A-S-S-E-D, oh yeah,
yeah.
Nikita (03:33):
Well, that's just stupidity if you don't know the
difference between those, thosetwo up yeah.
Lina (03:42):
Laid.
That's another one too, likewhat would be the other laid?
Well, there could be likeL-A-I-D laid, there could be
like L-A-Y-E-D layed, andthere's different versions of
you know, I lay on my bed, Ilaid on my bed, I lie on my bed.
I've never screwed those up.
Yeah, I don't know, there aresome people who do.
(04:03):
It's, yeah, quite interesting.
I don't think I've ever comeacross somebody using those the
wrong way.
You obviously didn't grow up in the hood like me
no, I did not
didn't work in Corrections like me.
You should have seen some ofthe letters that my inmates used
to send me.
Nikita (04:17):
Those would be some good stories, I'm sure yeah.
Lina (04:19):
I would just read them and then give them back and laugh
because you can't keep anything.
Because then it's like I wrotemiss a letter and she kept it.
It was a love letter.
It wasn't a love letter and youdon't even know how to spell,
and so that's a problem.
Nikita (04:29):
You don't even know how to spell and Stop.
Lina (04:31):
Oh, another pet peeve, go Axe, I'm going to axe you a
question.
Oh, instead of ask, you'regoing to murder me.
You're going to axe me aquestion.
Nikita (04:40):
Well, what other pet peeves do you have that aren't
grammatical?
Lina (04:43):
Aren't grammatical.
I don't like when people haverat's nests in their hair and
they don't brush it.
Nikita (04:47):
Oh, like my little one.
Yeah, that really bothers me
.
Lina (04:50):
It's like why do you look like you don't belong to anybody
?
You?
Nikita (04:52):
know, because they're homeless.
Yeah, that bothers me.
She's not homeless, but she looks like she's homeless
more often than not
Lina (04:56):
You know what else really bothers me?
It's not okay.
No, it's not.
It's not okay.
Like it's not cute it's not thenew thing, it's
what about socks with slippers?
Um, that doesn't bother me .
Socks and slippers,
considering you have socks andslippers on right now.
Yeah, that doesn't bother me because I'm not going out in
these
(05:16):
Jesus sandals?
.
No, they're a big hot.
No, that's a hell to the no.
Okay, yeah, we don't like thejesus sandals.
Um, I'm gonna say one that'sactually really controversial.
Oh, I'm here for it
.
Two of them that are reallycontroversial.
One is men in sandals.
Nikita (05:32):
Sandals or flip-flops
Lina (05:34):
Both.
Really I don't like it.
I don't generally like toes.
It's never something that Ilook at and I'm like, ooh,
that's have a foot fetish.
I don't have a fetish, no, um,and I don't want to see them.
I just think men look better inshoes and sandals or flip-flops
.
I get it, you're going to thebeach or something and you need
to wear them, but just to belike wearing them to walk around
or like go out to eat, I don'tlike it
(05:54):
so I guess a foot only fans isnot for you
I mean, I have really nice feet.
I feel like I could do a foot,only fans yeah, because that's
not.
Nikita (06:03):
I mean, if anybody wants like a foot OnlyFans, just like
let me know, maybe we can makeit happen.
Lina (06:08):
I'm just saying, I have cute feet.
Nikita (06:09):
Well, I sent speaking of OnlyFans, I sent my boyfriend a
screenshot.
No, no, no, I sent you ascreenshot.
Lina (06:17):
Of your conversation with him.
About us, about us, and hewants to be our cameraman.
God bless that man.
I mean, I can see why who wouldn't want to be our?
cameraman.
God bless that.
I mean, I can see why.
Who wouldn't want to be ourcameraman?
But yeah, only fans is not myjam, though
, but that's what I said.
I said you have too manypermanent markings that people
would know it's you
I do,
whereas I don't well,
not on my feet though,
well, so we could still do the foot thing
Nikita (06:37):
we could.
Yeah, I don't know that I woulddo that though
Lina (06:39):
.
I'm totally doing why not
Nikita (06:40):
, hmm, what about chewing loudly
Lina (06:43):
gross,
drives me nuts.
Don't eat with me, don't sit atthe table with me, wait remember
when you went to dinner with me, my boyfriend, for the very
first time?
Yes,
Nikita (06:55):
remember.
Do you remember what you saidabout him
Lina (06:58):
I do, I do.
Nikita (06:59):
What did you say?
Lina (07:00):
I said that I really liked the fact that he was respectful
and kind to all the waitstaffbecause I hate another pet pet
peeve of mine when people treatthem as though they are
literally servers and that theyare there to wait on you.
Yes, I understand.
They are there to serve you,but they're human beings.
But they're human beings.
Yes, they please, they thankyou.
Engage with them.
I will always ask the person'sname, so if they come to the
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table and they don't introducethemselves, do you remember our
waitress's name?
No, neither do I, but Iremember that night and I asked
her.
And I called her, her name, allday.
Nikita (07:28):
You did, you did.
Lina (07:28):
Yeah, and I'll engage with them and talk to them and all
sorts of stuff.
But I hate when people don't dothat.
I find that so rude.
If I'm ever on a first datewith a guy and he is not kind to
the server or the hostess totaldeal breaker for me, totally.
Oh, so my other male pet peevebesides the no shoes Yep, men in
jewelry, I don't like it.
Any jewelry at all?
no.
If it's a watch, watches areacceptable, okay.
(07:51):
And if it's a wedding ringbecause he's married to me then
it's acceptable.
Nikita (07:54):
But since that's not a thing, Earrings necklaces.
Lina (07:58):
No, no, nope, Not a thing for me.
Nikita (08:02):
Well, I don't.
My boyfriend only wears a watch.
So there's that.
Lina (08:05):
Yeah Well, to each his own , but that's like a deal breaker
for me.
It just kind of makes me go.
I don't want my man to be morefeminine than I am.
What do?
You want your man to be
Manly as fuck.
I mean, you know what's reallyfunny?
No, tell me.
So I watched the 90 Day Fiancé series.
Nikita (08:27):
Yes, Yeah, I couldn't get into that one.
Lina (08:30):
So they're having this show now.
It's called the Last Resort andit's basically all of the
couples who have been throughthe 90 Day franchise at some
point and they're havingtroubles with their significant
other.
So most of them are spouses.
They've.
Them are spouses they've beenmarried already.
Some of them are not.
Nikita (08:42):
No wait before we go any further with 90 day fiance.
Is it normally the man is fromthe states and the woman is from
out?
Lina (08:49):
no, it could be either way , okay, yeah, um, and they have
a bunch of different versions of90 day fiance now.
Now they have a show called theother way, where it's actually
the American that's going tomove to the other country to be
with their fiance.
Okay, so in this last resort,it's couples who have been
married or been featured on theshow that are having troubles
and they're going to this lastresort.
It's literally a resort forfive or six of these couples to
(09:10):
get intensive therapy and try towork on their relationship.
Nikita (09:12):
Kind of reminds me of the Ultimatum, but go ahead
Continue.
Lina (09:15):
So there's this one scene where they're doing therapy and
they have these gigantic postersthat say yes, no and maybe.
And they'll ask a question ofall of the couples that are
there, and then each personindividually has to go and stand
next to the yes, no or maybesign if it's something that
they're willing to do, you know.
So one of the questions wouldbe would you be willing to have
a threesome and introduce athird person?
And then the couples would gostand by whichever sign it was,
(09:37):
and then some of the spouseswould look at each other and be
like, oh, my god, I can'tbelieve we're both here together
.
Why did we never talk about thisbefore?
And so one of the questions waspegging and it was would anybody
be interested in pegging?
And everybody pretty much wentto the no place.
And when they were interviewingone of the wives about it, she
was like I, like my man manly, Idon't want him to want anything
(10:00):
up his ass, whether I put itthere or he puts it there or
anybody else puts it there, likethat's not.
Nikita (10:04):
Not even if she put it there,
right, she's like no.
She's like I don't want a manwho enjoys that, because if he
enjoys that, what else can heenjoy?
And I felt that in my soul.
So, yes, I don't want a manwho's wearing jewelry.
I don't want a man who'ssharing all these things.
Could any of this be any PTSD or anything?
Lina (10:25):
It could definitely be PTSD, but I felt this way about
the shoes and sandals situationand I felt this way about the
jewelry pirate fruitcake.
Nikita (10:30):
Wow, we just outed him right there.
There's that.
What are some of your petpeeves?
I agree with you.
When I'm with somebody and theyare mean or nasty or rude to a
server or a waitress, thatdrives me bananas Hard.
Stop hard.
No see you later.
I'm done Talking with yourmouth full.
(10:52):
It's just disgusting
Lina (10:53):
, it's gross
Nikita (10:54):
.
I have no tolerance for that.
One of my pet peeves pertainsto driving.
Lina (11:02):
Okay
Nikita (11:03):
I cannot stand when people don't use their blinkers,
like I'm supposed to read yourmind and know where you're like
yeah, like I knew you were gonnaturn left when I didn't know
you were gonna turn off.
And then the other thing thatreally grinds me when I'm on,
like the turnpike or whatever,and I'm doing 75, 80.
Lina (11:22):
I got some gold cards in my pocket
Nikita (11:27):
When somebody gets in front of me and then slows down
to like 50.
I'm like why, why do we so?
Annoying, yeah.
Or the other thing that reallydrives me nuts is like if I'm
gonna stop light and the lightturns green and the person is in
gross on their phone ratherthan paying attention to the
light and the driving situationin front of them,
that's annoying,
drives me nuts
that's annoying, you know.
It also drives me nuts and thisis going to be a very unpopular
(11:49):
opinion.
Those like crew length socks
really
Lina (11:53):
with shorts.
Nikita (11:55):
Oh with shorts.
Yeah, I could totally understandthat
Lina (11:56):
yeah, so like that's the new thing all the girls are
doing so like my daughter'slighting team and everything
over leggings or with theircheerleading uniforms.
They're wearing those like crewlength socks.
That drives me up the wall
Nikita (12:06):
what's your thoughts on the no show socks?
Because now apparently that's abig thing, like wearing no show
socks is like a no-go anymore.
Oh, I'm okay with no show socks
I love my no show socks.
Lina (12:16):
Yeah, I don't see why that would be an issue at all
Nikita (12:18):
yeah, apparently I was talking to my girlfriend at work
and she's got two teenagedaughters and she was telling me
that everybody's wearing thecrew socks, like you were just
saying, and I'm like, well,don't we wear no-show socks with
sneakers?
And she's like, no, we don't dothat.
I'm like, oh, I do.
Do you know what else drives menuts.
No socks with shoes.
(12:38):
Yeah, unless you have flip-flops or sandals on, you
need to have socks on,
yeah.
I agree.
Otherwise I just feel like it'slike a breeding ground for
athletes That nasty things togrow in there.
do you think of Crocs?
Lina (12:48):
I hate them.
Do you know?
My little one had Crocs ontoday
Yes, I know you got them for her for Christmas as well.
And you wrapped them
of course your Christmas elf so, you know there's a whole
saying you ain't rocking.
Never heard that.
Yeah, that's a thing.
And what are the little thingscalled that?
They put
Nikita (13:05):
Gibbets
gibbets.
I was going to call them giblets, so that's good
that's the part of the turkey
and that's why I was going tocall it that, because I was
thinking turkey.
But no, I cannot get down withCrocs.
I don't think they're cute,comfortable.
My mom has made me try hers onprobably 57 times in the last
year.
I've never owned rocks.
Lina (13:21):
I've never owned them either, but she'll be like just
try them.
Just try them, Lena, Just trythem.
And I'll be like they're stillnot comfortable and I still
don't like them and I stillwouldn't be caught dead with
them.
I'm like but it's so cool, youcan put them in sport mode.
I'm like there's nothing.
This is going to be a reallyunpopular opinion.
I'm about to get some haters.
Oh, bring it.
(13:41):
Don't like Chick-fil-A there, I said it.
I said it.
I don't like Chick-fil-A
Nikita (13:45):
I'm not crazy about it.
I'll eat it, but it's not likeI'm not ride or die with it,
like some people are.
I do like their fries, though,see, and since we're on the top
of fast food, I'm not a big fanof McDonald's fries
Lina (14:03):
I hate McDonald's fries.
Nikita (14:04):
You know whose fries.
I like, though
Lina (14:06):
Whose
Burger King
I used to like Burger King's fries, and then they
changed them, and I used to lovetheir ranch, and then they
changed the ranch too, and nowit tastes like ass.
Nikita (14:13):
How do you know what ass tastes like?
Lina (14:18):
It would be my assumption of, if it's confirmed.
So I actually went online and Istarted Googling what happened
to Burger King's ranch and thereare petitions for people to
bring back the green tealbuttermilk ranch that Burger
King used to have Because thatwith their fries used to be my
jam.
And then when they changed theranch, they changed the fries
and now I'm not a happy camper
Nikita (14:38):
I'm sorry, I'm not a big fast food person, so I wouldn't
know.
Lina (14:42):
Oh, but I love me some Taco Bell, probably because I
can eat it, you know there's nota lot of fast food I can eat,
since I have celiac disease, buttacos generally.
There's a couple things therePower bowls and tacos with the
crunchy shell that I can havebecause they're corn based
I don't like Taco Bell.
Maybe not the middle of thenight, but you can come and pick
(15:03):
her up and take her,
but then it wouldn't be fun.
What's the point of going?
Nikita (15:06):
to Taco Bell at 2 o'clock in the afternoon instead
of 2 o'clock in the morning.
Lina (15:08):
Do you know what happened to me yesterday?
No, so I got a new mattresstopper, yes, and you ordered the
same one as well.
I whole excited, and while Iwas doing this, I took off this
grounding mat.
Have you heard of thisgrounding mat?
You?
Nikita (15:22):
know you've mentioned it to me before, but I'm not
familiar with it.
Lina (15:26):
Okay.
So this guy that I was seeinggave me this grounding mat.
So basically what he says isit's supposed to take any like
electrical volts that are insideof your body out while you're
sleeping so you can sleep morepeacefully and sleep throughout
the night without waking up.
So he actually tested thisthing out with like this
electric volt meter thing whereyou hold it and you test
yourself to see how many voltsyour body's making.
(15:47):
Um, and I think it was makinglike four volts or seven volts
or something like that.
And then when you touch thisgrounding mat and you do the
test, again, literally zero, soyour body's not having any
electricity flowing through it,so supposedly you're able to
sleep better.
So I'm not really sure how thisworks or why this works, but
grounding in and of itself iswhen people are barefoot and
they're standing on the earth orthey're standing at the beach,
(16:09):
and it's supposed to begrounding and it's supposed to
be really good for your healthand your mental health and
well-being and all that stuff.
So he buys me this grounding matand he's like it needs to be
under your bed sheet because itneeds to be as close to touching
your body as possible and yourwhole body doesn't need to be on
it, but just part of your bodyneeds to be touching it.
So yesterday, when I went toput the new topper on, I took it
off the bed and I forgot to putit back on.
So I don't know if it'scoincidence, I don't know if it
(16:35):
was just in the back of my headand subconsciously I was
thinking about it.
But I fell asleep probablyabout quarter up in the middle
of the night and I couldn't fallback asleep and I went to the
bathroom and I was reallythirsty, so I went down to the
kitchen and I got something todrink.
And then I come back upstairsand I see the grounding mat on
the side of the bed and I'm like, oh, am I not able to sleep
because it's electric.
Oh my God.
So in the middle of the night Itake off everything from my bed
(16:58):
and I put the grounding matback on and I plug it in, I plug
it into the wall and I set itback up, but at this point like
I'm awake.
So then I proceed to go onto myphone, onto Amazon, and I start
ordering outfits and clothes.
Nikita (17:08):
Oh, I thought you were going to tell me you were
Domino's pizza again.
Lina (17:11):
No, that was two nights ago.
Oh, I did.
I did.
My mom mentioned she got it andI was like fridge anyway, but I
really want a pizza.
So, yeah, I put my bed backtogether.
I start ordering things off ofAmazon.
I start ordering outfits andclothes and all sorts of things.
Why were we ordering clothesand outfits?
for anything in particular.
Oh, for new year's.
Oh, okay, yeah so then I go umand I turn my tv on and I watch
(17:35):
an episode of Dateline, becausewhat better way to relax than
watching people kill people,right?
So that's relaxing for me um,
so you're psycho
a little bit.
So, after all was said and done,I didn't go to bed until four
o'clock in the morning, but oncethe grounding mat was on, I
slept right there.
So I don't know if it's me.
I don't know if there'sactually something to the
grounding mat.
I don't know if it wassubconsciously me, knowing that
the grounding mat wasn't on thebed.
(17:55):
How long have you had thegrounding mat?
On the bed to begin with
um, I'd say mid-November, so it's probably been six weeks
or so Okay, and I have not wokenup since that grounding mat has
been on the bed.
Not once I have slept throughthe night I have had really
restful sleep.
I haven't woken up feeling likeI tossed and turned all night.
So again, I don't know, is itme?
(18:16):
It could be me, it's verypossible that it's me.
Nikita (18:17):
I don't know because I don't have a grounding mat and I
sleep like a baby,
right, or is it the placeboeffect, like I know it's there,
so I'm sleeping better.
Like I sleep like a baby .
So over the weekend I stayed bymy boyfriend's house and he had
gotten up before me.
Lina (18:33):
You stayed by his house or at his house,
by his house.
So are you sleeping with his neighbor?
No, I was sleeping outsideay.
I stayed at his house and he hadgotten up before me and he
tried to wake me up.
I have no recollection of this.
He tried to wake me up a secondtime.
No recollection
why would said boyfriend be trying to wake you up early
(18:54):
on a weekend when you have nochildren?
You can do that when you'reawake.
You don't have to wake somebodyup to do that.
Nikita (19:02):
No, but it's fun.
Lina (19:03):
Pet peeve of mine.
Oh, no I don't mind being wokenup for that.
No
no.
Yeah, no.
Nikita (19:08):
Have you ever been woken up by a man doing fellatio, yes
, eating you out, yes, and thatbothers you.
That's a pet peeve.
Lina (19:26):
No see, that wouldn't bother me so much as when you're
like scooching up behind me todo like the big spoon, little
spoon thing and like yourpeckers of my ass and it's 6 30
in the morning and I'm like,take a shit, go, rub one out.
I don't care what you do, butI'm sleeping.
You're between my legs.
Now at least you put a littlebit more effort in between.
You know, it's like that wouldmake me happier.
But I am not a morning person,I like to sleep.
So I don't have sex with youfour, five, six times in the
next five hours, but let mesleep.
Nikita (19:44):
What time do you get up on a regular basis
On a work day?
or a non-work day.
Let's start with work days.
Lina (19:49):
Work day, so if I'm going in the office I'm usually up by
7 or 7.30.
Nikita (19:53):
If you're going in the office, so you don't go into the
office every day.
Lina (19:55):
No, so I have a office in North Jersey, I have an office
in the city, and then I alsowork from home if possible, and
then I travel sometimes too.
So I usually travel about oncea month for work.
Nikita (20:06):
Okay, so on your work from home days.
What time do you get up
On my work from home days.
Usually I like to be up by 8.30, but sometimes there are times
that I don't get up until rightbefore 9 and brush my teeth and
I go downstairs and I
what time do you get up on amorning when you have to go into
the office?
be it the city, north Jersey,any office,
Lina (20:24):
usually by 7, 730.
If I need to be in the officefor like a 9 am meeting, I'm up
by 6.
Do you know what time I get upin the morning on a work day?
It's a time that isn't actually a valid time to have an
am after it.
I think it has like a 4 orsomething.
Yeah, 4 am.
And that's not okay.
Do you know what?
Nikita (20:38):
time I start work.
Do you know what else that is?
It's a pet peeve of mine thenumber four, followed by the
letters AM Pet peeve.
Yeah, do you know what time I start?
Lina (20:48):
work 6.30?
6 AM.
6 AM, that's terrible.
Nikita (20:51):
You're still sleeping,
I am still sleeping.
I'm going to start text bombing you.
Lina (21:00):
So you have the emergency bypass, but that's only for the
phone call, it's not for a textmessage
Noted.
Yeah,
Nikita (21:05):
I will start calling you every morning
Lina (21:06):
.
I'll just take you out foremergency bypass.
No big deal.
Nikita (21:09):
I mean, I have needed it ,
problem solved,
I have needed it.
So.
Lina (21:13):
Yeah, once, one time, but we took care of it, yeah
Nikita (21:18):
, so what other pet peeves do you have?
Lina (21:20):
What other pet peeves?
Okay, so back to theChick-fil-A thing and back to my
celiac disease thing.
So, Chick-fil-A actually has?
Nikita (21:26):
Is celiac a pet peeve of yours?
Lina (21:27):
No, no, no.
But what is a pet peeve of mineis that other people can't get
on board like Chick-fil-A,because Chick-fil-A actually has
gluten-free buns,
do they?
They do, oh them in a plastic bag.
That way there's nocross-contamination, so they
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won't put your grilled chickensandwich on it because they
don't want to open it up in anenvironment that's been exposed
to gluten, but they'll give itto you.
So another pet peeve of mine iswhy can't other people get on
board with this?
Why can't McDonald's, why can'tBurger King?
Why can't Wendy's havegluten-free buns for people who
have this issue?
So I'm not just doing it tostay away from it, because I
want to be on a fad diet or Ithink it's going to make me
thinner or it's going to make mehealthier.
You're going to die.
I'm doing it, because I literally have celiac disease
and it is an autoimmune disorderand it has all these different
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effects on your health andwell-being and I've had other
issues associated with it.
So why can't you just makeother people's lives easier?
No-transcript more inclusiveright you have diet soda for
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people who maybe have diabetesor they're watching your sugar.
Why can't we have gluten-freebuns?
A Chick food chains can't do it.
Nikita (22:41):
So I can completely get on board with that and
understand that.
Yeah, because even pizza placesare now doing.
Yeah, doesn't Domino's docauliflower crust pizzas?
So it's not a cauliflower crust, it's just a gluten-free crust
made with like rice flour.
But the interesting thing is,domino's will actually have a
disclaimer that says if you havecellulite disease, you
shouldn't order this gluten-freepizza, because it's made in an
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area that has othergluten-containing ingredients,
which is really any kitchen,unless you're in a dedicated
gluten-free facility.
There's going to be the chanceof cross-contamination.
So I understand that.
I get it, but I love the factthat I can call Domino's at 1230
in the morning if I want to andI can order a pizza and I can
eat it in my bed, right.
And I've never actually gottensick from Domino's pizza and I'm
really sensitive with my sleepdisease, so I don't just take
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willy nilly chances.
But again, I know that theydon't have an entire gluten free
facility, so I'm going to betaking a chance Anytime I eat
out.
I'm technically taking a chance, but a lot of places have
dedicated gluten free menus ordedicated gluten free fryers,
and then even pizza places areoffering cauliflower pizza
option or gluten-free pizzaoption.
So why more people can't do it,I don't know.
But another one of my petpeeves, also relating to this,
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is people who say they haveceliac disease or say they have
a gluten intolerance and theydon't.
So they're the people who giveus a bad name.
Because then people like it'sfine, you can just take the
bread off the sandwich and eatit, and I'm like no, I can't,
because if it touched it I'mgoing to get sick.
And they're like that's nottrue, right?
Or you'll see somebody andyou'll meet them and they'll say
oh yeah, I have saliva diseaseand I'm like, oh yeah, so do I,
and we'll start talking about it, and then I'll see them order
something and then literallytake something apart and eat it.
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And I'm like you wouldn't bedoing that.
Well, and it was a lot easier in that aspect for me
because I could do that, becauseif I got cross-contaminated it
wasn't the end of the world, Iwasn't going to die like you did
.
And I don't really follow thegluten-free thing anymore.
Lina (24:33):
But the difference is you didn't go around telling people.
You know I'm gluten intolerantand I can't have this.
You were just doing it for adifferent reason, which is fine.
But it's the people who say Ihave a gluten allergy, and then
you see them cheating and eatingsomething, that make it seem
like people like me are goingabove and beyond what we need to
.
But I actually do need tobecause it causes all sorts of
issues with my esophagus.
I've had to do surgeriesbecause of it and all sorts of
things, and it could turn intodiabetes, it could turn into
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esophageal cancer.
Nikita (24:56):
We should do a deep dive into celiacs with you.
Lina (24:59):
We should.
I really want to get my celiacshirt.
It's a t-shirt and it's a likean outline of a yak, like the
animal, the animal, and it's asilly, and it's celiac, and I
was like, oh, I really like you,so I think I'm going to do this
.
Nikita (25:09):
Yeah, we'll have to do a whole conversation about that,
because
I've been through a lot
when it comes to your parents.
Lina (25:21):
Anybody who talks shit about my mom.
I'll shank them.
That's probably my biggest petpeeve.
I'll kill you if you talk badabout my mom
Well, I think that's any kid.
I think if my kids heardsomebody talking bad about me,
they'd stick up for me too.
I think one thing with my mom which I laugh about because
my mom and I were just talkingabout this, probably within the
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last week or two weeks, she isbeginning to forget a lot and I
tell her, I just want to makesure that it's just you being
forgetful and maybe just notpaying attention and it's not
something deeper.
Because that scares me
Like the onset of dementia orsomething
Right right, Because that scares me, because I've seen my
aunt go through it, I've seenother people go through it and I
just want to be sure thatthere's no sort of intervention.
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If that is what's happening,hey, here's a pill that you
could take.
Hey, here are some memorypractice techniques that you can
work on.
If it is something else and Ijust genuinely hope it's because
she's forgetful or not payingattention but I'll tell her
something.
And she's like Lena, I had noidea.
And I'm like but I told youthis yesterday.
And she's like no, you didn't.
And then I'll find the textmessage and I'll be like look,
let's see, we had thisconversation.
She's like well, that's right Iremember.
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How do you remember now herbeing forgetful Right?
I'll go through it with her athousand times, I don't care,
it'll drive me nuts in theprocess, but I love her and I
just want to make sure thatshe'll live forever.
Nikita (26:35):
Yeah, no, I get that.
Yeah, I think one of my petpeeves my mother.
God love that woman, but shewill call me.
My mom lives in Arizona.
It's a three hour timedifference Sometimes well,
actually right now it.
And she knows this.
And she knows I'm up at 4 am,she knows I'm at work at 6 am.
She knows I'm at work until6.30, 7 o'clock at night.
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Yeah, and she insists oncalling me in the middle of the
day when I can't talk.
I'm like I can't talk right now.
Yeah, she's like, well, why not?
Lina (27:05):
Because I'm at work.
Yeah, no-transcript.
Oh, okay, be safe, and thenshe'll call me and I'll text her
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, I'm like in a meeting.
What makes me laugh too.
She did this two nights ago.
She called me, we're getting onthe phone.
She's like all right, honey,have a good night.
I'll talk to you tomorrow.
I'm like no, you won't?
you know?
You're gonna talk to me fivemore times before the night's
over.
You know you will um.
So the next time she called I'mlike hi, and she's like, oh,
shut up um.
But yeah, other other than that, no, I actually have a really
great relationship with my momand my dad.
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I know you really have arelationship with your parents
as well.
My dad's never called me petpeeve with my dad.
He doesn't tell me he loves me
Nikita (27:59):
really
Lina (28:00):
, yeah, so it's this whole like you know born in another
country, thing go for it
just reminded me of pet peevewith my dad.
I'll send him a text message andhis reply to me will be a
thumbs up.
And I'm like, why I,
thats I'm so weird
Nikita (28:12):
, like no matter what, love you dad.
Thumbs up, I'm like, yeah,
Lina (28:16):
right back at you, yeah, um, so I'll tell my dad I'll be
like I love you, and he'd belike, okay, and I'm like okay,
you heard me, so I'll be like.
Dad it's okay, you can say itand he's like.
I don't need to say it, I'mlike, but I'm asking you to say
it and he was like, but you knowthat I love you, so I don't
need to say it and I'm like.
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But how do you know that?
I know that you love you andhe's like because I've showed
you enough love throughout theyears.
You really like to make yourparents miserable, don't you?
Nikita (28:49):
And I am a physical touch.
Lina (28:52):
Me too.
Maybe that's why we love eachother so much, and I made lunch
for you today.
Nikita (28:57):
You did make me lunch.
It was tasty,
Lina (28:59):
so I'll tell my dad.
But it's one thing for you tosay you know I love you and this
isn't me, but it's anotherthing for me to feel loved and
receive love the way that I feelloved.
Nikita (29:07):
But that could also be a generational thing, because I
don't think the whole lovelanguage thing was big
Lina (29:18):
Agreed
Nikita (29:19):
.
Lina (29:19):
And I think it's a cultural thing too, because my
dad obviously grew up in anothercountry.
I'm first generation Americanhere.
It wasn't a big thing in hisfamily.
They didn't snuggle each otherand tell each other they loved
each other.
But my mom did all the time I'dsleep in my mom's bed.
Nikita (29:32):
Yeah, my kids used to sleep with me all the time, to
this day they'll.
Mom, can I sleep with youtonight?
Lina (29:36):
yeah, my daughter was 14 years old, still saying mom, can
I sleep in your bed?
So I think it's just adifferent type of relationship
and a different type ofaffection.
No, I agree with that.
But I do have really fondmemories of my dad at night
where he'd tuck me in at night.
So my mom worked three or fournights a week late at night.
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So she had a dance studio.
She still does.
People had a ballroom and Latindance so she would be there.
Obviously, when we'd be goingto bed at night for school, my
dad would put us to bed and Iwould remember my dad kneeling
at the side of the bed and we'dpray together, together and he
would tuck me in and give me akiss on my forehead.
And you know normal people whenthey kiss somebody, they go
mwah, right, they make like akissy sound.
My dad's and I don't know if itwas the language barrier or
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what my dad's is mush.
So he gives you a kiss on yourforehead and he goes mush.
I'm like what are you mushing?
But it's cute.
So it's just a differentrelationship that I have with my
dad.
Obviously that I have with mymom and I'm really close with
both of them.
But I'll tell my mom anything,you know.
I'll tell my dad Just what doyou need to know?
Nikita (30:38):
I'm still scared of my dad and my dad's 82 years old
and.
I'm 42, and I'm like afraid,
Lina (30:42):
does your dad give you the look or like what did you
Nikita (30:44):
, that was my mom,
Lina (30:45):
that was your mom the wooden spoon.
Ooh, okay, yeah, you pissedthem off and you got the wooden
spoon.
Was it thrown at you or wereyou hit with?
Nikita (30:55):
it.
No, it never got thrown.
I got cracked across the ass acouple times with it, though
Okay, my mom was always the lookLike if the look of death came
out, you knew you were introuble.
Yeah, and it was also the fullname.
Lina (31:14):
Oh, okay,
like the first name and middle.
Yeah, then you knew you were in trouble, okay, so so
neither of my parents ever put ahand on us.
That was not a thing.
We never got hit, which wasvery different than how my dad
was raised, because that was avery normal thing growing up for
him, um, but our parents neverput our hands on me or my
brother, but my dad is the onewho had to look like if looks
could kill.
There were times that I wouldget in trouble and my dad would
look at me and be like just hitme, please, please just hit me.
I would rather you hit me thanhave to deal with that.
look, I don't want any part ofthat.
Nikita (31:35):
Yeah, see, it was my mom who gave the look, and I think
I tend to give the look, more sothan my kid's father.
Yeah, even to this day, I thinkI give the look and my kids
know yeah.
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Whereas, like he'll try to givea look and they just kind of
laugh at him.
Lina (31:59):
Yeah See, I didn't even think that I had the ability to
do the look until my ex-husbandtold me.
So I gave him the look oncewhen things went really bad
between the two of us, and Iremember him saying to me
afterwards please don't everlook at me like that again.
And I, it wasn't a consciousthing, I didn't know that I did
it, but he's like I knew thatyou were serious.
He's like I can't ever dothat'll be it right and that's
what happened, because then whenI was done and I wanted a
divorce, I gave him the lookagain and he was like he said he
knew he knew he was done.
Yeah, so I wonder what my looklooks like, because I think I'm
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actually pretty friendly and
I don't think I've ever gottena look from you.
Yeah, I don't think you have, because you would have
known.
Apparently people know when Igive them the look like they
know that
Nikita (32:30):
well, and I believe that because, like, when I give the
look to the kids, yeah, theyknock their shit off.
Lina (32:35):
Yeah,
because they know
I wish I could replicate the look without being pissed
off like I don't want to have toget mad to find out what my
look looks like.
But I feel like next time ithappens I hope somebody's like
hold on stay there.
Let me take a picture like younever find your kids, like when
they were little, getting intosome trouble.
So, like one of my other reallygood friends, she's got this
little daughter who's a hot mess.
I mean, she gives her a run forher money and one day she is
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calling for her mom.
She's like mom and she's Idon't know, maybe a year, a year
and a half old, really tiny,and she's stuck in the toilet,
like literally stuck in thetoilet, feet in the toilet the
whole night and she's stuck.
And so my friend runs in andshe sees her and the kid's on
the verge of crying and she'slike, hold on one second.
And she runs and she grabs herphone and she comes back and she
takes a picture.
She's like now I'll help you.
And then she takes a kid out.
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But every year she reposts thepicture on social media and
we're like, oh, it's the badbaby and we laugh about it and
then we laugh about how it's thebad mom too, because we made
sure the kid was okay, but wetook the picture and then we
helped the kid.
Nikita (33:28):
You know, I don't have any of those stories with my
kids.
But I also have to say and I'mnot just saying it because I'm
mom, but my kids are good Like Idon't have.
They're so young, I know, giveit time
.
I know Ten and eight, I know.
Lina (33:42):
Yeah, once middle school hits.
Nikita (33:44):
That's next year.
Dun dun, dun yeah.
It's all going to go downhillfrom there.
Yeah, here, supposedly aftercollege
I wouldn't know, because Ididn't go to college
Lina (33:55):
so yeah, so supposedly the kids come back after college,
but they leave you sometime inmiddle school.
So there's that gap in therewhere I hate you.
You don't know anything oh, Ialready.
Nikita (34:02):
I already get the your, your homework pet.
You want to talk about petpeeve?
Homework is a pet peeve,specifically math homework and
the way they teach math, becausetwo plus two doesn't equal four
anymore.
Lina (34:13):
Oh yeah, this common core stuff for those bubbles drives
me crazy.
Nikita (34:17):
So my oldest will come home with math homework and
she's like I was so fourth gradelast year.
She came home and I think itwas like multiplication, like
two digit multiplication, andI'm like all right, you do, you
know.
Say it was like 10 times two,you do 10 times.
Uh, two times zero, two times's.
Like no, that's not how you doit.
I'm like, well, yeah, it is,that's the way, mommy learned
she's like well, that's not theway my teacher told me.
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And I'm like well, you're stillgoing to get the right answer.
She goes, but that's not howwe're doing it.
I'm going to get in trouble,yeah.
Lina (34:48):
Okay, homework, and I'm talking about even when she was
in elementary school, when she'sin middle school, now she's in
high school.
I'm totally lost.
But I'm like, how many degreesdo I need to have to figure out
how to do this math problem?
because it's not taught the waywe were taught and it doesn't
make any sense and I don't knowwhy we haven't looked at it and
said this is harder for childrento learn and why can't we just
do it the tried and true waythat we've done it all these
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years, where nobody's beenconfused and everybody's been
fine.
Now everybody's confused, thekids are confused, the parents
are confused, even sometimes theteachers are confused.
Teaching the kids this becauseit just doesn't make any sense.
So I'm not sure where that'scoming from, but yeah, I dread
to the educational department.
Nikita (35:22):
I dread when I get the mom.
I need help with my mathhomework.
Lina (35:26):
Yeah, I'm really good with like numbers, but when they
started mixing the numbers andthe letters like the whole
algebra,
oh, like algebra
I feel like you should leave the letters in english
class and leave the numbers inmath class, and I'll bomb both.
But once you combine them I'mlike it's a little bit of a
little sketch but they have thisapp called photomaths.
You know about it.
You mentioned this to me oncebefore.
It's the most amazing thing ever.
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You take this app and itbasically has a little camera on
it and you put it over the mathproblem and it scans it and it
gives you the answer and itshows you the step-by-step how
to solve the problem
Nikita (35:56):
oh, okay,
Lina (35:56):
it's the most amazing thing ever it's free and it is
for me.
So I always used to have thisapp on my phone, um, and then I
would look at how the problemwas solved and then I would work
with my daughter and I wouldsay, oh okay, this is the next
step you need to do, this is thenext step.
And then she's like oh, Iremember, I remember I got it
and it'd be really good to jogmemory, so I wouldn't let her
have it on her phone becausethen she would just do it for
every answer, but I actuallyused it to help me, help her,
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which is pretty sad that I havethat many degrees and I have to
use an app to help my daughterwith her math homework.
Nikita (36:23):
I have zero degrees and I don't use an app to help my
daughter with her math homework.
I just do it from how I wastaught, and if you don't like it
then well.
Lina (36:32):
Yeah, but just wait, wait until middle school next year
and then start getting mad.
No, no, no, don't call me.
I'm taking my emergency bypass.
I'm going to be like callProfessor Lena.
I'm going to be like she's outfor the day.
Nikita (36:43):
Any other pet peeves you want to talk about?
Lina (36:45):
Let's see Any other pet peeves.
I don't like when people aretoo close to me.
When I'm commuting on the train, I don't like.
Oh, my god, okay, and I'm inthe bathroom.
So this has happened to me.
I was in the mall and when youwalk into the mall there's
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probably eight stalls on eachside right nobody there,
absolutely nobody there.
So I go into one of the stallsand go to the bathroom.
Person comes in and uses thestall right next to me.
There's 15 other stalls, youhad to pick the one right next
to me, why?
So I'm going to the bathroomand all of a sudden I hear the
person talking Hello, hello,hello, can you hear me?
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So I'm like there's nobody here.
They're talking to me.
So I'm like there's nobody inhere.
They're talking to me.
So I'm like hi, I don't know,they're in a stall I can't see,
no sure?
So I'm like hi.
And they're like hey, what's up?
So I'm like nothing, just go tothe bathroom, what's up with
you?
And they're like yep, juststopped at the mall.
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So I'm like okay.
They're like do you want to gettogether later?
What?
I'm like?
I'm like what?
I think it's completelyinappropriate.
I'm like I do not want to gettogether with you and they're
like I'm gonna have to call youback because the person in the
stall next to me thinks I'mtalking to them and I'm like
what kind of psychopath gets onthe phone in the stall in the
bathroom, like who does that?
I don't talk on the phone inthe bathroom in a public place
Nikita (38:11):
.
I've talked in the bathroom ina public place.
Lina (38:13):
I don't, I don't do that and that was not okay.
And then I'm like I'm not apsychopath, you're a psychopath.
But then of course I hid in thestall until after they left,
because I was the one that wasembarrassed and I didn't want to
see them.
Nikita (38:25):
Because you're a psychopath.
Lina (38:26):
I was desperate trying to meet up and make plans.
That's a big pet peeve of minelike that's not okay that's
really weird
Nikita (38:31):
, that's, that's obnoxious,
Lina (38:32):
yeah so
I can get that, I canunderstand that
yeah, don't get too close to me.
Same thing if there's like atrain and there's other seats,
why are you gonna sit next to meon the train?
Um, just basic hygiene.
Let's make sure we're usingdeodorant.
Yeah
, brushing the teeth, especially if you're gonna be
near people.
Yep, don't touch me and don'twant to be touched.
I'm not touching you.
Yeah, see, that's okay, but like, ooh
Nikita (38:54):
, I'm not touching you.
Lina (38:55):
So when I was pregnant, I remember I was in ShopRite.
I was in the grocery store.
Do you let people touch yourbelly?
Never,
no
.
So I'm standing in line atShopRite and I'm loading all the
things onto the conveyor beltand I turn like I'm rubbing your
belly.
She's like why would you dothat?
I'm like because you're rubbingmine.
She's like but you're pregnant.
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I'm like yeah, even more of areason why you shouldn't be
touching me and my unborn baby.
Nikita (39:19):
Yeah.
And she was horrified that Iwas rubbing her
like when I'm out with my kidsand some random person tries to
come up and talk to them, I'mlike don't talk to them, don't
look at them, just keep goingyeah.
Lina (39:37):
Well, you know what's really weird for me?
So I was at the vet years agomy daughter's probably still in
elementary school and I waspaying the bill and some other
woman had come out with heranimal and was talking to my
daughter and my daughter wastalking to this woman.
I mean, they clearly knew eachother and it freaked me out that
she had a social life above andbeyond me where she knew people
that knew her that I didn'tknow.
So it turns out this was herlunch lady at school
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oh, like her lunch mom orwhatever.
So it was nothing weird, but it was just weird for me
because you didn't know,
I didn't know who she was and my daughter knew exactly who
she was, and I'm like how doesshe know people I don't know
like?
that was really weird to me.
Nikita (40:10):
It happens though,
Lina (40:11):
yeah, so I know what you mean when you're like strange
people talking to my kid.
That person actually knew mykid I just know I'm talking
about.
Nikita (40:16):
I'm talking about somebody because I will say,
like if we're out and about andmy kids see somebody that I
don't necessarily know, they'llbe like oh mom, that's so-and-so
right, you know, so thatdoesn't bother me but a complete
stranger.
Lina (40:26):
Does it bother you when complete strangers want to steal
your baby out of the babycarriage,
like you,
or you just make friends with them?
You're the only one I've madefriends with
see, because at least you know I wasn't like a weirdo I
was that, I was a mom.
I didn't know that for sure.
It would have been really weird if I didn't have any kid
and I was just at the cheerfundraiser walking around trying
to steal babies.
That probably would have raisedsome more alarms.
(40:47):
Yeah, yeah, but I'm actually acertified foster mom.
Yes, you are.
So fingerprints on file, background check the whole nine.
So the state actually trusts meto raise other people's kids.
That's how great of a mom I am.
I have no comment.
Well, you've let me raise your kids.
I've watched your kids whileyou've gone on vacations and out
of state and stuff.
Nikita (41:03):
And I've watched your daughter and even your foster
kids.
I've watched yeah, so yeah.
Lina (41:08):
See, we share all the things.
We share podcasts, we sharehoodies, we share food, we share
children
We don't share husbands
.
No, I don't share boyfriends.
That is not a thing we don't dothat.
I can't say the same for mypartners, but I don't share them
yeah,
on that note.
Do you have any other pet peevesyou'd like to talk about today.
No, I think I talked about all the things.
I'm sure I pissed a couplepeople off, but that's okay
because we promised realconversation.
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So, yeah, this is me.
Take it or leave it.
Nikita (41:33):
Well, there you have it.
Those are some of our petpeeves, so make sure you send an
email or you can catch us onTikTok or on Instagram and share
your pet peeves with us.
And until next time.
I will see you later.
Lina (41:47):
Sounds good.
Thanks for tuning in, thanksfor watching or listening, and
we will see you guys on our nextepisode.
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We're two best friends withendless curiosity and plenty to
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This is Two Voices, one Vibe.
Nikita (00:37):
Welcome back, my friend.
How are you today?
Where are we?
Lina (00:39):
I am fabulous.
We are here for episode numberthree of Two Voices.
One Vibe Welcome.
Hi.
I love your hoodie,
do you?
We are here for episode number three of two voices.
One vibe, welcome.
I love your hoodie, do you?
I do?
Nikita (00:48):
I love my hoodie
Lina (00:49):
where did you go from?
Nikita (00:50):
well, santa brought it to me in the name of Lina
Lina (00:54):
oh, that's so crazy, because Santa brought me one in
the name of Nikita.
Oh, my god, so cute.
I love it, yes,
so um, I thought it might befun to talk about pet peeves
today.
Oh, I have so many of those.
Oh really, yeah.
So the first one that comes tomind that really grinds my gears
is when someone says I couldcare less, because if you could
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care less, that means you careto a certain extent and you
could care less.
But then again I'm like agrammar Nazi.
That's kind of one of my things.
You are a grammar Nazi, so itreally bothers me, so I text in
full sentences with punctuation.
Nikita (01:26):
And you edit text messages.
Lina (01:27):
I do.
I edit text messages.
I edit other people's textmessages.
Nikita (01:31):
The best is when I send you a text message and it makes
no sense and there's grammaticalissues and spelling issues and
I'm like meh, you can figure itout.
Lina (01:39):
She'll figure it out.
Yeah, I actually have an app onmy phone called grammar police
and if you use, stop I do.
And if you use the wrong umversion of the word, you're so
like you're y-o-u-r versus y-o-u, apostrophe r-e, um.
It's like a red grammarcorrection and I'll just place
it over your text message toshow you that you use the wrong
one, or there, there and there
(02:00):
see, I'm good about thosetypically and the two, two and
two, yeah those, because thoseones drive me nuts.
What about then?
And than with an a versus an e
I am not good with those
yeah, so the a is a comparison yes right, so um, I
am better than you at x, y and z.
(02:20):
The e is we're talking aboutlike a place or a time frame,
right.
So you know, I'd rather go herefirst and then go there, right?
Um, so those drive meabsolutely to the wall.
I used to be a collegeprofessor, yes, and so I used to
tell all of my kids I call themkids, most of them are older
than me I tell all my kidsyou're not going to be able to
pass my class if you don't knowbasic English.
So if you don't know thecorrect form of these words and
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when to use them, you're in afamily class and they're like
but, professor, this has nothingto do with that.
This isn't that kind of classand I'm like yeah, but I'm the
one reading it, so it's going tobe whatever I want it to be.
Nikita (02:50):
So you must love my messages, then,
yeah they're great.
They're great.
I hold it inside of me so thatwe can speak every week and do
our podcast and still have funtext
message but in all fairness, the your, your and
your, the two, two and two.
What was the?
Lina (03:08):
other?
Well, there's only two yours.
Nikita (03:10):
Yes, yes, but regardless , yeah, I'm good about using the
right your.
I'm good about using the righttwo.
Yeah, I've never really pickedup on the then and than.
Yeah, so now I'll have to watchthat one but see.
Lina (03:23):
so now, every time you type it, you're going to be like
oh no, is this the right one?
No, I know the difference.
And like past, like P-A-S-T andpassed P-A-S-S-E-D, oh yeah,
yeah.
Nikita (03:33):
Well, that's just stupidity if you don't know the
difference between those, thosetwo up yeah.
Lina (03:42):
Laid.
That's another one too, likewhat would be the other laid?
Well, there could be likeL-A-I-D laid, there could be
like L-A-Y-E-D layed, andthere's different versions of
you know, I lay on my bed, Ilaid on my bed, I lie on my bed.
I've never screwed those up.
Yeah, I don't know, there aresome people who do.
(04:03):
It's, yeah, quite interesting.
I don't think I've ever comeacross somebody using those the
wrong way.
You obviously didn't grow up in the hood like me
no, I did not
didn't work in Corrections like me.
You should have seen some ofthe letters that my inmates used
to send me.
Nikita (04:17):
Those would be some good stories, I'm sure yeah.
Lina (04:19):
I would just read them and then give them back and laugh
because you can't keep anything.
Because then it's like I wrotemiss a letter and she kept it.
It was a love letter.
It wasn't a love letter and youdon't even know how to spell,
and so that's a problem.
Nikita (04:29):
You don't even know how to spell and Stop.
Lina (04:31):
Oh, another pet peeve, go Axe, I'm going to axe you a
question.
Oh, instead of ask, you'regoing to murder me.
You're going to axe me aquestion.
Nikita (04:40):
Well, what other pet peeves do you have that aren't
grammatical?
Lina (04:43):
Aren't grammatical.
I don't like when people haverat's nests in their hair and
they don't brush it.
Nikita (04:47):
Oh, like my little one.
Yeah, that really bothers me
.
Lina (04:50):
It's like why do you look like you don't belong to anybody
?
You?
Nikita (04:52):
know, because they're homeless.
Yeah, that bothers me.
She's not homeless, but she looks like she's homeless
more often than not
Lina (04:56):
You know what else really bothers me?
It's not okay.
No, it's not.
It's not okay.
Like it's not cute it's not thenew thing, it's
what about socks with slippers?
Um, that doesn't bother me .
Socks and slippers,
considering you have socks andslippers on right now.
Yeah, that doesn't bother me because I'm not going out in
these
(05:16):
Jesus sandals?
.
No, they're a big hot.
No, that's a hell to the no.
Okay, yeah, we don't like thejesus sandals.
Um, I'm gonna say one that'sactually really controversial.
Oh, I'm here for it
.
Two of them that are reallycontroversial.
One is men in sandals.
Nikita (05:32):
Sandals or flip-flops
Lina (05:34):
Both.
Really I don't like it.
I don't generally like toes.
It's never something that Ilook at and I'm like, ooh,
that's have a foot fetish.
I don't have a fetish, no, um,and I don't want to see them.
I just think men look better inshoes and sandals or flip-flops
.
I get it, you're going to thebeach or something and you need
to wear them, but just to belike wearing them to walk around
or like go out to eat, I don'tlike it
(05:54):
so I guess a foot only fans isnot for you
I mean, I have really nice feet.
I feel like I could do a foot,only fans yeah, because that's
not.
Nikita (06:03):
I mean, if anybody wants like a foot OnlyFans, just like
let me know, maybe we can makeit happen.
Lina (06:08):
I'm just saying, I have cute feet.
Nikita (06:09):
Well, I sent speaking of OnlyFans, I sent my boyfriend a
screenshot.
No, no, no, I sent you ascreenshot.
Lina (06:17):
Of your conversation with him.
About us, about us, and hewants to be our cameraman.
God bless that man.
I mean, I can see why who wouldn't want to be our?
cameraman.
God bless that.
I mean, I can see why.
Who wouldn't want to be ourcameraman?
But yeah, only fans is not myjam, though
, but that's what I said.
I said you have too manypermanent markings that people
would know it's you
I do,
whereas I don't well,
not on my feet though,
well, so we could still do the foot thing
Nikita (06:37):
we could.
Yeah, I don't know that I woulddo that though
Lina (06:39):
.
I'm totally doing why not
Nikita (06:40):
, hmm, what about chewing loudly
Lina (06:43):
gross,
drives me nuts.
Don't eat with me, don't sit atthe table with me, wait remember
when you went to dinner with me, my boyfriend, for the very
first time?
Yes,
Nikita (06:55):
remember.
Do you remember what you saidabout him
Lina (06:58):
I do, I do.
Nikita (06:59):
What did you say?
Lina (07:00):
I said that I really liked the fact that he was respectful
and kind to all the waitstaffbecause I hate another pet pet
peeve of mine when people treatthem as though they are
literally servers and that theyare there to wait on you.
Yes, I understand.
They are there to serve you,but they're human beings.
But they're human beings.
Yes, they please, they thankyou.
Engage with them.
I will always ask the person'sname, so if they come to the
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table and they don't introducethemselves, do you remember our
waitress's name?
No, neither do I, but Iremember that night and I asked
her.
And I called her, her name, allday.
Nikita (07:28):
You did, you did.
Lina (07:28):
Yeah, and I'll engage with them and talk to them and all
sorts of stuff.
But I hate when people don't dothat.
I find that so rude.
If I'm ever on a first datewith a guy and he is not kind to
the server or the hostess totaldeal breaker for me, totally.
Oh, so my other male pet peevebesides the no shoes Yep, men in
jewelry, I don't like it.
Any jewelry at all?
no.
If it's a watch, watches areacceptable, okay.
(07:51):
And if it's a wedding ringbecause he's married to me then
it's acceptable.
Nikita (07:54):
But since that's not a thing, Earrings necklaces.
Lina (07:58):
No, no, nope, Not a thing for me.
Nikita (08:02):
Well, I don't.
My boyfriend only wears a watch.
So there's that.
Lina (08:05):
Yeah Well, to each his own , but that's like a deal breaker
for me.
It just kind of makes me go.
I don't want my man to be morefeminine than I am.
What do?
You want your man to be
Manly as fuck.
I mean, you know what's reallyfunny?
No, tell me.
So I watched the 90 Day Fiancé series.
Nikita (08:27):
Yes, Yeah, I couldn't get into that one.
Lina (08:30):
So they're having this show now.
It's called the Last Resort andit's basically all of the
couples who have been throughthe 90 Day franchise at some
point and they're havingtroubles with their significant
other.
So most of them are spouses.
They've.
Them are spouses they've beenmarried already.
Some of them are not.
Nikita (08:42):
No wait before we go any further with 90 day fiance.
Is it normally the man is fromthe states and the woman is from
out?
Lina (08:49):
no, it could be either way , okay, yeah, um, and they have
a bunch of different versions of90 day fiance now.
Now they have a show called theother way, where it's actually
the American that's going tomove to the other country to be
with their fiance.
Okay, so in this last resort,it's couples who have been
married or been featured on theshow that are having troubles
and they're going to this lastresort.
It's literally a resort forfive or six of these couples to
(09:10):
get intensive therapy and try towork on their relationship.
Nikita (09:12):
Kind of reminds me of the Ultimatum, but go ahead
Continue.
Lina (09:15):
So there's this one scene where they're doing therapy and
they have these gigantic postersthat say yes, no and maybe.
And they'll ask a question ofall of the couples that are
there, and then each personindividually has to go and stand
next to the yes, no or maybesign if it's something that
they're willing to do, you know.
So one of the questions wouldbe would you be willing to have
a threesome and introduce athird person?
And then the couples would gostand by whichever sign it was,
(09:37):
and then some of the spouseswould look at each other and be
like, oh, my god, I can'tbelieve we're both here together
.
Why did we never talk about thisbefore?
And so one of the questions waspegging and it was would anybody
be interested in pegging?
And everybody pretty much wentto the no place.
And when they were interviewingone of the wives about it, she
was like I, like my man manly, Idon't want him to want anything
(10:00):
up his ass, whether I put itthere or he puts it there or
anybody else puts it there, likethat's not.
Nikita (10:04):
Not even if she put it there,
right, she's like no.
She's like I don't want a manwho enjoys that, because if he
enjoys that, what else can heenjoy?
And I felt that in my soul.
So, yes, I don't want a manwho's wearing jewelry.
I don't want a man who'ssharing all these things.
Could any of this be any PTSD or anything?
Lina (10:25):
It could definitely be PTSD, but I felt this way about
the shoes and sandals situationand I felt this way about the
jewelry pirate fruitcake.
Nikita (10:30):
Wow, we just outed him right there.
There's that.
What are some of your petpeeves?
I agree with you.
When I'm with somebody and theyare mean or nasty or rude to a
server or a waitress, thatdrives me bananas Hard.
Stop hard.
No see you later.
I'm done Talking with yourmouth full.
(10:52):
It's just disgusting
Lina (10:53):
, it's gross
Nikita (10:54):
.
I have no tolerance for that.
One of my pet peeves pertainsto driving.
Lina (11:02):
Okay
Nikita (11:03):
I cannot stand when people don't use their blinkers,
like I'm supposed to read yourmind and know where you're like
yeah, like I knew you were gonnaturn left when I didn't know
you were gonna turn off.
And then the other thing thatreally grinds me when I'm on,
like the turnpike or whatever,and I'm doing 75, 80.
Lina (11:22):
I got some gold cards in my pocket
Nikita (11:27):
When somebody gets in front of me and then slows down
to like 50.
I'm like why, why do we so?
Annoying, yeah.
Or the other thing that reallydrives me nuts is like if I'm
gonna stop light and the lightturns green and the person is in
gross on their phone ratherthan paying attention to the
light and the driving situationin front of them,
that's annoying,
drives me nuts
that's annoying, you know.
It also drives me nuts and thisis going to be a very unpopular
(11:49):
opinion.
Those like crew length socks
really
Lina (11:53):
with shorts.
Nikita (11:55):
Oh with shorts.
Yeah, I could totally understandthat
Lina (11:56):
yeah, so like that's the new thing all the girls are
doing so like my daughter'slighting team and everything
over leggings or with theircheerleading uniforms.
They're wearing those like crewlength socks.
That drives me up the wall
Nikita (12:06):
what's your thoughts on the no show socks?
Because now apparently that's abig thing, like wearing no show
socks is like a no-go anymore.
Oh, I'm okay with no show socks
I love my no show socks.
Lina (12:16):
Yeah, I don't see why that would be an issue at all
Nikita (12:18):
yeah, apparently I was talking to my girlfriend at work
and she's got two teenagedaughters and she was telling me
that everybody's wearing thecrew socks, like you were just
saying, and I'm like, well,don't we wear no-show socks with
sneakers?
And she's like, no, we don't dothat.
I'm like, oh, I do.
Do you know what else drives menuts.
No socks with shoes.
(12:38):
Yeah, unless you have flip-flops or sandals on, you
need to have socks on,
yeah.
I agree.
Otherwise I just feel like it'slike a breeding ground for
athletes That nasty things togrow in there.
do you think of Crocs?
Lina (12:48):
I hate them.
Do you know?
My little one had Crocs ontoday
Yes, I know you got them for her for Christmas as well.
And you wrapped them
of course your Christmas elf so, you know there's a whole
saying you ain't rocking.
Never heard that.
Yeah, that's a thing.
And what are the little thingscalled that?
They put
Nikita (13:05):
Gibbets
gibbets.
I was going to call them giblets, so that's good
that's the part of the turkey
and that's why I was going tocall it that, because I was
thinking turkey.
But no, I cannot get down withCrocs.
I don't think they're cute,comfortable.
My mom has made me try hers onprobably 57 times in the last
year.
I've never owned rocks.
Lina (13:21):
I've never owned them either, but she'll be like just
try them.
Just try them, Lena, Just trythem.
And I'll be like they're stillnot comfortable and I still
don't like them and I stillwouldn't be caught dead with
them.
I'm like but it's so cool, youcan put them in sport mode.
I'm like there's nothing.
This is going to be a reallyunpopular opinion.
I'm about to get some haters.
Oh, bring it.
(13:41):
Don't like Chick-fil-A there, I said it.
I said it.
I don't like Chick-fil-A
Nikita (13:45):
I'm not crazy about it.
I'll eat it, but it's not likeI'm not ride or die with it,
like some people are.
I do like their fries, though,see, and since we're on the top
of fast food, I'm not a big fanof McDonald's fries
Lina (14:03):
I hate McDonald's fries.
Nikita (14:04):
You know whose fries.
I like, though
Lina (14:06):
Whose
Burger King
I used to like Burger King's fries, and then they
changed them, and I used to lovetheir ranch, and then they
changed the ranch too, and nowit tastes like ass.
Nikita (14:13):
How do you know what ass tastes like?
Lina (14:18):
It would be my assumption of, if it's confirmed.
So I actually went online and Istarted Googling what happened
to Burger King's ranch and thereare petitions for people to
bring back the green tealbuttermilk ranch that Burger
King used to have Because thatwith their fries used to be my
jam.
And then when they changed theranch, they changed the fries
and now I'm not a happy camper
Nikita (14:38):
I'm sorry, I'm not a big fast food person, so I wouldn't
know.
Lina (14:42):
Oh, but I love me some Taco Bell, probably because I
can eat it, you know there's nota lot of fast food I can eat,
since I have celiac disease, buttacos generally.
There's a couple things therePower bowls and tacos with the
crunchy shell that I can havebecause they're corn based
I don't like Taco Bell.
Maybe not the middle of thenight, but you can come and pick
(15:03):
her up and take her,
but then it wouldn't be fun.
What's the point of going?
Nikita (15:06):
to Taco Bell at 2 o'clock in the afternoon instead
of 2 o'clock in the morning.
Lina (15:08):
Do you know what happened to me yesterday?
No, so I got a new mattresstopper, yes, and you ordered the
same one as well.
I whole excited, and while Iwas doing this, I took off this
grounding mat.
Have you heard of thisgrounding mat?
You?
Nikita (15:22):
know you've mentioned it to me before, but I'm not
familiar with it.
Lina (15:26):
Okay.
So this guy that I was seeinggave me this grounding mat.
So basically what he says isit's supposed to take any like
electrical volts that are insideof your body out while you're
sleeping so you can sleep morepeacefully and sleep throughout
the night without waking up.
So he actually tested thisthing out with like this
electric volt meter thing whereyou hold it and you test
yourself to see how many voltsyour body's making.
(15:47):
Um, and I think it was makinglike four volts or seven volts
or something like that.
And then when you touch thisgrounding mat and you do the
test, again, literally zero, soyour body's not having any
electricity flowing through it,so supposedly you're able to
sleep better.
So I'm not really sure how thisworks or why this works, but
grounding in and of itself iswhen people are barefoot and
they're standing on the earth orthey're standing at the beach,
(16:09):
and it's supposed to begrounding and it's supposed to
be really good for your healthand your mental health and
well-being and all that stuff.
So he buys me this grounding matand he's like it needs to be
under your bed sheet because itneeds to be as close to touching
your body as possible and yourwhole body doesn't need to be on
it, but just part of your bodyneeds to be touching it.
So yesterday, when I went toput the new topper on, I took it
off the bed and I forgot to putit back on.
So I don't know if it'scoincidence, I don't know if it
(16:35):
was just in the back of my headand subconsciously I was
thinking about it.
But I fell asleep probablyabout quarter up in the middle
of the night and I couldn't fallback asleep and I went to the
bathroom and I was reallythirsty, so I went down to the
kitchen and I got something todrink.
And then I come back upstairsand I see the grounding mat on
the side of the bed and I'm like, oh, am I not able to sleep
because it's electric.
Oh my God.
So in the middle of the night Itake off everything from my bed
(16:58):
and I put the grounding matback on and I plug it in, I plug
it into the wall and I set itback up, but at this point like
I'm awake.
So then I proceed to go onto myphone, onto Amazon, and I start
ordering outfits and clothes.
Nikita (17:08):
Oh, I thought you were going to tell me you were
Domino's pizza again.
Lina (17:11):
No, that was two nights ago.
Oh, I did.
I did.
My mom mentioned she got it andI was like fridge anyway, but I
really want a pizza.
So, yeah, I put my bed backtogether.
I start ordering things off ofAmazon.
I start ordering outfits andclothes and all sorts of things.
Why were we ordering clothesand outfits?
for anything in particular.
Oh, for new year's.
Oh, okay, yeah so then I go umand I turn my tv on and I watch
(17:35):
an episode of Dateline, becausewhat better way to relax than
watching people kill people,right?
So that's relaxing for me um,
so you're psycho
a little bit.
So, after all was said and done,I didn't go to bed until four
o'clock in the morning, but oncethe grounding mat was on, I
slept right there.
So I don't know if it's me.
I don't know if there'sactually something to the
grounding mat.
I don't know if it wassubconsciously me, knowing that
the grounding mat wasn't on thebed.
(17:55):
How long have you had thegrounding mat?
On the bed to begin with
um, I'd say mid-November, so it's probably been six weeks
or so Okay, and I have not wokenup since that grounding mat has
been on the bed.
Not once I have slept throughthe night I have had really
restful sleep.
I haven't woken up feeling likeI tossed and turned all night.
So again, I don't know, is itme?
(18:16):
It could be me, it's verypossible that it's me.
Nikita (18:17):
I don't know because I don't have a grounding mat and I
sleep like a baby,
right, or is it the placeboeffect, like I know it's there,
so I'm sleeping better.
Like I sleep like a baby .
So over the weekend I stayed bymy boyfriend's house and he had
gotten up before me.
Lina (18:33):
You stayed by his house or at his house,
by his house.
So are you sleeping with his neighbor?
No, I was sleeping outsideay.
I stayed at his house and he hadgotten up before me and he
tried to wake me up.
I have no recollection of this.
He tried to wake me up a secondtime.
No recollection
why would said boyfriend be trying to wake you up early
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on a weekend when you have nochildren?
You can do that when you'reawake.
You don't have to wake somebodyup to do that.
Nikita (19:02):
No, but it's fun.
Lina (19:03):
Pet peeve of mine.
Oh, no I don't mind being wokenup for that.
No
no.
Yeah, no.
Nikita (19:08):
Have you ever been woken up by a man doing fellatio, yes
, eating you out, yes, and thatbothers you.
That's a pet peeve.
Lina (19:26):
No see, that wouldn't bother me so much as when you're
like scooching up behind me todo like the big spoon, little
spoon thing and like yourpeckers of my ass and it's 6 30
in the morning and I'm like,take a shit, go, rub one out.
I don't care what you do, butI'm sleeping.
You're between my legs.
Now at least you put a littlebit more effort in between.
You know, it's like that wouldmake me happier.
But I am not a morning person,I like to sleep.
So I don't have sex with youfour, five, six times in the
next five hours, but let mesleep.
Nikita (19:44):
What time do you get up on a regular basis
On a work day?
or a non-work day.
Let's start with work days.
Lina (19:49):
Work day, so if I'm going in the office I'm usually up by
7 or 7.30.
Nikita (19:53):
If you're going in the office, so you don't go into the
office every day.
Lina (19:55):
No, so I have a office in North Jersey, I have an office
in the city, and then I alsowork from home if possible, and
then I travel sometimes too.
So I usually travel about oncea month for work.
Nikita (20:06):
Okay, so on your work from home days.
What time do you get up
On my work from home days.
Usually I like to be up by 8.30, but sometimes there are times
that I don't get up until rightbefore 9 and brush my teeth and
I go downstairs and I
what time do you get up on amorning when you have to go into
the office?
be it the city, north Jersey,any office,
Lina (20:24):
usually by 7, 730.
If I need to be in the officefor like a 9 am meeting, I'm up
by 6.
Do you know what time I get upin the morning on a work day?
It's a time that isn't actually a valid time to have an
am after it.
I think it has like a 4 orsomething.
Yeah, 4 am.
And that's not okay.
Do you know what?
Nikita (20:38):
time I start work.
Do you know what else that is?
It's a pet peeve of mine thenumber four, followed by the
letters AM Pet peeve.
Yeah, do you know what time I start?
Lina (20:48):
work 6.30?
6 AM.
6 AM, that's terrible.
Nikita (20:51):
You're still sleeping,
I am still sleeping.
I'm going to start text bombing you.
Lina (21:00):
So you have the emergency bypass, but that's only for the
phone call, it's not for a textmessage
Noted.
Yeah,
Nikita (21:05):
I will start calling you every morning
Lina (21:06):
.
I'll just take you out foremergency bypass.
No big deal.
Nikita (21:09):
I mean, I have needed it ,
problem solved,
I have needed it.
So.
Lina (21:13):
Yeah, once, one time, but we took care of it, yeah
Nikita (21:18):
, so what other pet peeves do you have?
Lina (21:20):
What other pet peeves?
Okay, so back to theChick-fil-A thing and back to my
celiac disease thing.
So, Chick-fil-A actually has?
Nikita (21:26):
Is celiac a pet peeve of yours?
Lina (21:27):
No, no, no.
But what is a pet peeve of mineis that other people can't get
on board like Chick-fil-A,because Chick-fil-A actually has
gluten-free buns,
do they?
They do, oh them in a plastic bag.
That way there's nocross-contamination, so they
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won't put your grilled chickensandwich on it because they
don't want to open it up in anenvironment that's been exposed
to gluten, but they'll give itto you.
So another pet peeve of mine iswhy can't other people get on
board with this?
Why can't McDonald's, why can'tBurger King?
Why can't Wendy's havegluten-free buns for people who
have this issue?
So I'm not just doing it tostay away from it, because I
want to be on a fad diet or Ithink it's going to make me
thinner or it's going to make mehealthier.
You're going to die.
I'm doing it, because I literally have celiac disease
and it is an autoimmune disorderand it has all these different
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effects on your health andwell-being and I've had other
issues associated with it.
So why can't you just makeother people's lives easier?
No-transcript more inclusiveright you have diet soda for
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people who maybe have diabetesor they're watching your sugar.
Why can't we have gluten-freebuns?
A Chick food chains can't do it.
Nikita (22:41):
So I can completely get on board with that and
understand that.
Yeah, because even pizza placesare now doing.
Yeah, doesn't Domino's docauliflower crust pizzas?
So it's not a cauliflower crust, it's just a gluten-free crust
made with like rice flour.
But the interesting thing is,domino's will actually have a
disclaimer that says if you havecellulite disease, you
shouldn't order this gluten-freepizza, because it's made in an
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area that has othergluten-containing ingredients,
which is really any kitchen,unless you're in a dedicated
gluten-free facility.
There's going to be the chanceof cross-contamination.
So I understand that.
I get it, but I love the factthat I can call Domino's at 1230
in the morning if I want to andI can order a pizza and I can
eat it in my bed, right.
And I've never actually gottensick from Domino's pizza and I'm
really sensitive with my sleepdisease, so I don't just take
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willy nilly chances.
But again, I know that theydon't have an entire gluten free
facility, so I'm going to betaking a chance Anytime I eat
out.
I'm technically taking a chance, but a lot of places have
dedicated gluten free menus ordedicated gluten free fryers,
and then even pizza places areoffering cauliflower pizza
option or gluten-free pizzaoption.
So why more people can't do it,I don't know.
But another one of my petpeeves, also relating to this,
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is people who say they haveceliac disease or say they have
a gluten intolerance and theydon't.
So they're the people who giveus a bad name.
Because then people like it'sfine, you can just take the
bread off the sandwich and eatit, and I'm like no, I can't,
because if it touched it I'mgoing to get sick.
And they're like that's nottrue, right?
Or you'll see somebody andyou'll meet them and they'll say
oh yeah, I have saliva diseaseand I'm like, oh yeah, so do I,
and we'll start talking about it, and then I'll see them order
something and then literallytake something apart and eat it.
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And I'm like you wouldn't bedoing that.
Well, and it was a lot easier in that aspect for me
because I could do that, becauseif I got cross-contaminated it
wasn't the end of the world, Iwasn't going to die like you did
.
And I don't really follow thegluten-free thing anymore.
Lina (24:33):
But the difference is you didn't go around telling people.
You know I'm gluten intolerantand I can't have this.
You were just doing it for adifferent reason, which is fine.
But it's the people who say Ihave a gluten allergy, and then
you see them cheating and eatingsomething, that make it seem
like people like me are goingabove and beyond what we need to
.
But I actually do need tobecause it causes all sorts of
issues with my esophagus.
I've had to do surgeriesbecause of it and all sorts of
things, and it could turn intodiabetes, it could turn into
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esophageal cancer.
Nikita (24:56):
We should do a deep dive into celiacs with you.
Lina (24:59):
We should.
I really want to get my celiacshirt.
It's a t-shirt and it's a likean outline of a yak, like the
animal, the animal, and it's asilly, and it's celiac, and I
was like, oh, I really like you,so I think I'm going to do this
.
Nikita (25:09):
Yeah, we'll have to do a whole conversation about that,
because
I've been through a lot
when it comes to your parents.
Lina (25:21):
Anybody who talks shit about my mom.
I'll shank them.
That's probably my biggest petpeeve.
I'll kill you if you talk badabout my mom
Well, I think that's any kid.
I think if my kids heardsomebody talking bad about me,
they'd stick up for me too.
I think one thing with my mom which I laugh about because
my mom and I were just talkingabout this, probably within the
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last week or two weeks, she isbeginning to forget a lot and I
tell her, I just want to makesure that it's just you being
forgetful and maybe just notpaying attention and it's not
something deeper.
Because that scares me
Like the onset of dementia orsomething
Right right, Because that scares me, because I've seen my
aunt go through it, I've seenother people go through it and I
just want to be sure thatthere's no sort of intervention.
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If that is what's happening,hey, here's a pill that you
could take.
Hey, here are some memorypractice techniques that you can
work on.
If it is something else and Ijust genuinely hope it's because
she's forgetful or not payingattention but I'll tell her
something.
And she's like Lena, I had noidea.
And I'm like but I told youthis yesterday.
And she's like no, you didn't.
And then I'll find the textmessage and I'll be like look,
let's see, we had thisconversation.
She's like well, that's right Iremember.
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How do you remember now herbeing forgetful Right?
I'll go through it with her athousand times, I don't care,
it'll drive me nuts in theprocess, but I love her and I
just want to make sure thatshe'll live forever.
Nikita (26:35):
Yeah, no, I get that.
Yeah, I think one of my petpeeves my mother.
God love that woman, but shewill call me.
My mom lives in Arizona.
It's a three hour timedifference Sometimes well,
actually right now it.
And she knows this.
And she knows I'm up at 4 am,she knows I'm at work at 6 am.
She knows I'm at work until6.30, 7 o'clock at night.
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Yeah, and she insists oncalling me in the middle of the
day when I can't talk.
I'm like I can't talk right now.
Yeah, she's like, well, why not?
Lina (27:05):
Because I'm at work.
Yeah, no-transcript.
Oh, okay, be safe, and thenshe'll call me and I'll text her
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, I'm like in a meeting.
What makes me laugh too.
She did this two nights ago.
She called me, we're getting onthe phone.
She's like all right, honey,have a good night.
I'll talk to you tomorrow.
I'm like no, you won't?
you know?
You're gonna talk to me fivemore times before the night's
over.
You know you will um.
So the next time she called I'mlike hi, and she's like, oh,
shut up um.
But yeah, other other than that, no, I actually have a really
great relationship with my momand my dad.
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I know you really have arelationship with your parents
as well.
My dad's never called me petpeeve with my dad.
He doesn't tell me he loves me
Nikita (27:59):
really
Lina (28:00):
, yeah, so it's this whole like you know born in another
country, thing go for it
just reminded me of pet peevewith my dad.
I'll send him a text message andhis reply to me will be a
thumbs up.
And I'm like, why I,
thats I'm so weird
Nikita (28:12):
, like no matter what, love you dad.
Thumbs up, I'm like, yeah,
Lina (28:16):
right back at you, yeah, um, so I'll tell my dad I'll be
like I love you, and he'd belike, okay, and I'm like okay,
you heard me, so I'll be like.
Dad it's okay, you can say itand he's like.
I don't need to say it, I'mlike, but I'm asking you to say
it and he was like, but you knowthat I love you, so I don't
need to say it and I'm like.
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But how do you know that?
I know that you love you andhe's like because I've showed
you enough love throughout theyears.
You really like to make yourparents miserable, don't you?
Nikita (28:49):
And I am a physical touch.
Lina (28:52):
Me too.
Maybe that's why we love eachother so much, and I made lunch
for you today.
Nikita (28:57):
You did make me lunch.
It was tasty,
Lina (28:59):
so I'll tell my dad.
But it's one thing for you tosay you know I love you and this
isn't me, but it's anotherthing for me to feel loved and
receive love the way that I feelloved.
Nikita (29:07):
But that could also be a generational thing, because I
don't think the whole lovelanguage thing was big
Lina (29:18):
Agreed
Nikita (29:19):
.
Lina (29:19):
And I think it's a cultural thing too, because my
dad obviously grew up in anothercountry.
I'm first generation Americanhere.
It wasn't a big thing in hisfamily.
They didn't snuggle each otherand tell each other they loved
each other.
But my mom did all the time I'dsleep in my mom's bed.
Nikita (29:32):
Yeah, my kids used to sleep with me all the time, to
this day they'll.
Mom, can I sleep with youtonight?
Lina (29:36):
yeah, my daughter was 14 years old, still saying mom, can
I sleep in your bed?
So I think it's just adifferent type of relationship
and a different type ofaffection.
No, I agree with that.
But I do have really fondmemories of my dad at night
where he'd tuck me in at night.
So my mom worked three or fournights a week late at night.
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So she had a dance studio.
She still does.
People had a ballroom and Latindance so she would be there.
Obviously, when we'd be goingto bed at night for school, my
dad would put us to bed and Iwould remember my dad kneeling
at the side of the bed and we'dpray together, together and he
would tuck me in and give me akiss on my forehead.
And you know normal people whenthey kiss somebody, they go
mwah, right, they make like akissy sound.
My dad's and I don't know if itwas the language barrier or
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what my dad's is mush.
So he gives you a kiss on yourforehead and he goes mush.
I'm like what are you mushing?
But it's cute.
So it's just a differentrelationship that I have with my
dad.
Obviously that I have with mymom and I'm really close with
both of them.
But I'll tell my mom anything,you know.
I'll tell my dad Just what doyou need to know?
Nikita (30:38):
I'm still scared of my dad and my dad's 82 years old
and.
I'm 42, and I'm like afraid,
Lina (30:42):
does your dad give you the look or like what did you
Nikita (30:44):
, that was my mom,
Lina (30:45):
that was your mom the wooden spoon.
Ooh, okay, yeah, you pissedthem off and you got the wooden
spoon.
Was it thrown at you or wereyou hit with?
Nikita (30:55):
it.
No, it never got thrown.
I got cracked across the ass acouple times with it, though
Okay, my mom was always the lookLike if the look of death came
out, you knew you were introuble.
Yeah, and it was also the fullname.
Lina (31:14):
Oh, okay,
like the first name and middle.
Yeah, then you knew you were in trouble, okay, so so
neither of my parents ever put ahand on us.
That was not a thing.
We never got hit, which wasvery different than how my dad
was raised, because that was avery normal thing growing up for
him, um, but our parents neverput our hands on me or my
brother, but my dad is the onewho had to look like if looks
could kill.
There were times that I wouldget in trouble and my dad would
look at me and be like just hitme, please, please just hit me.
I would rather you hit me thanhave to deal with that.
look, I don't want any part ofthat.
Nikita (31:35):
Yeah, see, it was my mom who gave the look, and I think
I tend to give the look, more sothan my kid's father.
Yeah, even to this day, I thinkI give the look and my kids
know yeah.
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Whereas, like he'll try to givea look and they just kind of
laugh at him.
Lina (31:59):
Yeah See, I didn't even think that I had the ability to
do the look until my ex-husbandtold me.
So I gave him the look oncewhen things went really bad
between the two of us, and Iremember him saying to me
afterwards please don't everlook at me like that again.
And I, it wasn't a consciousthing, I didn't know that I did
it, but he's like I knew thatyou were serious.
He's like I can't ever dothat'll be it right and that's
what happened, because then whenI was done and I wanted a
divorce, I gave him the lookagain and he was like he said he
knew he knew he was done.
Yeah, so I wonder what my looklooks like, because I think I'm
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actually pretty friendly and
I don't think I've ever gottena look from you.
Yeah, I don't think you have, because you would have
known.
Apparently people know when Igive them the look like they
know that
Nikita (32:30):
well, and I believe that because, like, when I give the
look to the kids, yeah, theyknock their shit off.
Lina (32:35):
Yeah,
because they know
I wish I could replicate the look without being pissed
off like I don't want to have toget mad to find out what my
look looks like.
But I feel like next time ithappens I hope somebody's like
hold on stay there.
Let me take a picture like younever find your kids, like when
they were little, getting intosome trouble.
So, like one of my other reallygood friends, she's got this
little daughter who's a hot mess.
I mean, she gives her a run forher money and one day she is
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calling for her mom.
She's like mom and she's Idon't know, maybe a year, a year
and a half old, really tiny,and she's stuck in the toilet,
like literally stuck in thetoilet, feet in the toilet the
whole night and she's stuck.
And so my friend runs in andshe sees her and the kid's on
the verge of crying and she'slike, hold on one second.
And she runs and she grabs herphone and she comes back and she
takes a picture.
She's like now I'll help you.
And then she takes a kid out.
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But every year she reposts thepicture on social media and
we're like, oh, it's the badbaby and we laugh about it and
then we laugh about how it's thebad mom too, because we made
sure the kid was okay, but wetook the picture and then we
helped the kid.
Nikita (33:28):
You know, I don't have any of those stories with my
kids.
But I also have to say and I'mnot just saying it because I'm
mom, but my kids are good Like Idon't have.
They're so young, I know, giveit time
.
I know Ten and eight, I know.
Lina (33:42):
Yeah, once middle school hits.
Nikita (33:44):
That's next year.
Dun dun, dun yeah.
It's all going to go downhillfrom there.
Yeah, here, supposedly aftercollege
I wouldn't know, because Ididn't go to college
Lina (33:55):
so yeah, so supposedly the kids come back after college,
but they leave you sometime inmiddle school.
So there's that gap in therewhere I hate you.
You don't know anything oh, Ialready.
Nikita (34:02):
I already get the your, your homework pet.
You want to talk about petpeeve?
Homework is a pet peeve,specifically math homework and
the way they teach math, becausetwo plus two doesn't equal four
anymore.
Lina (34:13):
Oh yeah, this common core stuff for those bubbles drives
me crazy.
Nikita (34:17):
So my oldest will come home with math homework and
she's like I was so fourth gradelast year.
She came home and I think itwas like multiplication, like
two digit multiplication, andI'm like all right, you do, you
know.
Say it was like 10 times two,you do 10 times.
Uh, two times zero, two times's.
Like no, that's not how you doit.
I'm like, well, yeah, it is,that's the way, mommy learned
she's like well, that's not theway my teacher told me.
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And I'm like well, you're stillgoing to get the right answer.
She goes, but that's not howwe're doing it.
I'm going to get in trouble,yeah.
Lina (34:48):
Okay, homework, and I'm talking about even when she was
in elementary school, when she'sin middle school, now she's in
high school.
I'm totally lost.
But I'm like, how many degreesdo I need to have to figure out
how to do this math problem?
because it's not taught the waywe were taught and it doesn't
make any sense and I don't knowwhy we haven't looked at it and
said this is harder for childrento learn and why can't we just
do it the tried and true waythat we've done it all these
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years, where nobody's beenconfused and everybody's been
fine.
Now everybody's confused, thekids are confused, the parents
are confused, even sometimes theteachers are confused.
Teaching the kids this becauseit just doesn't make any sense.
So I'm not sure where that'scoming from, but yeah, I dread
to the educational department.
Nikita (35:22):
I dread when I get the mom.
I need help with my mathhomework.
Lina (35:26):
Yeah, I'm really good with like numbers, but when they
started mixing the numbers andthe letters like the whole
algebra,
oh, like algebra
I feel like you should leave the letters in english
class and leave the numbers inmath class, and I'll bomb both.
But once you combine them I'mlike it's a little bit of a
little sketch but they have thisapp called photomaths.
You know about it.
You mentioned this to me oncebefore.
It's the most amazing thing ever.
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You take this app and itbasically has a little camera on
it and you put it over the mathproblem and it scans it and it
gives you the answer and itshows you the step-by-step how
to solve the problem
Nikita (35:56):
oh, okay,
Lina (35:56):
it's the most amazing thing ever it's free and it is
for me.
So I always used to have thisapp on my phone, um, and then I
would look at how the problemwas solved and then I would work
with my daughter and I wouldsay, oh okay, this is the next
step you need to do, this is thenext step.
And then she's like oh, Iremember, I remember I got it
and it'd be really good to jogmemory, so I wouldn't let her
have it on her phone becausethen she would just do it for
every answer, but I actuallyused it to help me, help her,
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which is pretty sad that I havethat many degrees and I have to
use an app to help my daughterwith her math homework.
Nikita (36:23):
I have zero degrees and I don't use an app to help my
daughter with her math homework.
I just do it from how I wastaught, and if you don't like it
then well.
Lina (36:32):
Yeah, but just wait, wait until middle school next year
and then start getting mad.
No, no, no, don't call me.
I'm taking my emergency bypass.
I'm going to be like callProfessor Lena.
I'm going to be like she's outfor the day.
Nikita (36:43):
Any other pet peeves you want to talk about?
Lina (36:45):
Let's see Any other pet peeves.
I don't like when people aretoo close to me.
When I'm commuting on the train, I don't like.
Oh, my god, okay, and I'm inthe bathroom.
So this has happened to me.
I was in the mall and when youwalk into the mall there's
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probably eight stalls on eachside right nobody there,
absolutely nobody there.
So I go into one of the stallsand go to the bathroom.
Person comes in and uses thestall right next to me.
There's 15 other stalls, youhad to pick the one right next
to me, why?
So I'm going to the bathroomand all of a sudden I hear the
person talking Hello, hello,hello, can you hear me?
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So I'm like there's nobody here.
They're talking to me.
So I'm like there's nobody inhere.
They're talking to me.
So I'm like hi, I don't know,they're in a stall I can't see,
no sure?
So I'm like hi.
And they're like hey, what's up?
So I'm like nothing, just go tothe bathroom, what's up with
you?
And they're like yep, juststopped at the mall.
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So I'm like okay.
They're like do you want to gettogether later?
What?
I'm like?
I'm like what?
I think it's completelyinappropriate.
I'm like I do not want to gettogether with you and they're
like I'm gonna have to call youback because the person in the
stall next to me thinks I'mtalking to them and I'm like
what kind of psychopath gets onthe phone in the stall in the
bathroom, like who does that?
I don't talk on the phone inthe bathroom in a public place
Nikita (38:11):
.
I've talked in the bathroom ina public place.
Lina (38:13):
I don't, I don't do that and that was not okay.
And then I'm like I'm not apsychopath, you're a psychopath.
But then of course I hid in thestall until after they left,
because I was the one that wasembarrassed and I didn't want to
see them.
Nikita (38:25):
Because you're a psychopath.
Lina (38:26):
I was desperate trying to meet up and make plans.
That's a big pet peeve of minelike that's not okay that's
really weird
Nikita (38:31):
, that's, that's obnoxious,
Lina (38:32):
yeah so
I can get that, I canunderstand that
yeah, don't get too close to me.
Same thing if there's like atrain and there's other seats,
why are you gonna sit next to meon the train?
Um, just basic hygiene.
Let's make sure we're usingdeodorant.
Yeah
, brushing the teeth, especially if you're gonna be
near people.
Yep, don't touch me and don'twant to be touched.
I'm not touching you.
Yeah, see, that's okay, but like, ooh
Nikita (38:54):
, I'm not touching you.
Lina (38:55):
So when I was pregnant, I remember I was in ShopRite.
I was in the grocery store.
Do you let people touch yourbelly?
Never,
no
.
So I'm standing in line atShopRite and I'm loading all the
things onto the conveyor beltand I turn like I'm rubbing your
belly.
She's like why would you dothat?
I'm like because you're rubbingmine.
She's like but you're pregnant.
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I'm like yeah, even more of areason why you shouldn't be
touching me and my unborn baby.
Nikita (39:19):
Yeah.
And she was horrified that Iwas rubbing her
like when I'm out with my kidsand some random person tries to
come up and talk to them, I'mlike don't talk to them, don't
look at them, just keep goingyeah.
Lina (39:37):
Well, you know what's really weird for me?
So I was at the vet years agomy daughter's probably still in
elementary school and I waspaying the bill and some other
woman had come out with heranimal and was talking to my
daughter and my daughter wastalking to this woman.
I mean, they clearly knew eachother and it freaked me out that
she had a social life above andbeyond me where she knew people
that knew her that I didn'tknow.
So it turns out this was herlunch lady at school
(39:59):
oh, like her lunch mom orwhatever.
So it was nothing weird, but it was just weird for me
because you didn't know,
I didn't know who she was and my daughter knew exactly who
she was, and I'm like how doesshe know people I don't know
like?
that was really weird to me.
Nikita (40:10):
It happens though,
Lina (40:11):
yeah, so I know what you mean when you're like strange
people talking to my kid.
That person actually knew mykid I just know I'm talking
about.
Nikita (40:16):
I'm talking about somebody because I will say,
like if we're out and about andmy kids see somebody that I
don't necessarily know, they'llbe like oh mom, that's so-and-so
right, you know, so thatdoesn't bother me but a complete
stranger.
Lina (40:26):
Does it bother you when complete strangers want to steal
your baby out of the babycarriage,
like you,
or you just make friends with them?
You're the only one I've madefriends with
see, because at least you know I wasn't like a weirdo I
was that, I was a mom.
I didn't know that for sure.
It would have been really weird if I didn't have any kid
and I was just at the cheerfundraiser walking around trying
to steal babies.
That probably would have raisedsome more alarms.
(40:47):
Yeah, yeah, but I'm actually acertified foster mom.
Yes, you are.
So fingerprints on file, background check the whole nine.
So the state actually trusts meto raise other people's kids.
That's how great of a mom I am.
I have no comment.
Well, you've let me raise your kids.
I've watched your kids whileyou've gone on vacations and out
of state and stuff.
Nikita (41:03):
And I've watched your daughter and even your foster
kids.
I've watched yeah, so yeah.
Lina (41:08):
See, we share all the things.
We share podcasts, we sharehoodies, we share food, we share
children
We don't share husbands
.
No, I don't share boyfriends.
That is not a thing we don't dothat.
I can't say the same for mypartners, but I don't share them
yeah,
on that note.
Do you have any other pet peevesyou'd like to talk about today.
No, I think I talked about all the things.
I'm sure I pissed a couplepeople off, but that's okay
because we promised realconversation.
(41:28):
So, yeah, this is me.
Take it or leave it.
Nikita (41:33):
Well, there you have it.
Those are some of our petpeeves, so make sure you send an
email or you can catch us onTikTok or on Instagram and share
your pet peeves with us.
And until next time.
I will see you later.
Lina (41:47):
Sounds good.
Thanks for tuning in, thanksfor watching or listening, and
we will see you guys on our nextepisode.
This is Two Voices,
one Vibe.
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