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After a three-and-a-half-month break, we're back with stories that will make you laugh, gasp, and double-check your door locks tonight! Between our busy travel schedules (Europe, Asia, and cross-country adventures), we've had plenty of life happening—and we can't wait to catch you up on all of it.

The real excitement begins when Nikita shares her recent late-night encounter with an intruder attempting to enter her home while her young daughters slept. The adrenaline-fueled minutes waiting for police to arrive will have you on the edge of your seat, especially when the responding officer delivers an unexpectedly casual response to the frightening situation.

Not to be outdone, Lina recounts her teenage experience with a persistent stalker who terrorized her family home for months. Picture her father charging through their backyard wielding an ax while her brother follows with hockey sticks—all while young Lina develops her own home defense strategy involving Windex and a kitchen knife. These aren't stories from a thriller movie; they're our actual lives!

We lighten things up with tales of our coincidental new car purchases, furniture shopping adventures (Nikita's getting a complete home makeover!), and our shared fashion dilemmas. You'll hear about Nikita's daughters' first major concert experiences, weather woes affecting our summer plans, and our thoughts on everything from Taylor Swift's impossible-to-get tickets to celebrity transformations.

The chemistry that's kept our friendship strong for years shines through in every minute of this catch-up conversation. Whether you're a longtime listener or joining us for the first time, this episode feels exactly like sitting down with your best friends after too much time apart.

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Episode Transcript

Nikita (00:01):
Hi, I'm Nikita and I'm Lina.
We're two best friends withendless curiosity and plenty to
say.

Lina (00:07):
Join us as we dive into everything and anything life
throws our way From hilariousstories and pop culture, hot
takes to life lessons and deepdives.

Nikita (00:15):
No topic is off limits.
Whether you're looking for alaugh, a new perspective or just
some fun company.
This podcast feels like a chatwith your bestie.

Lina (00:24):
Get ready for unfiltered conversations, lots of laughs
and a whole lot of heart.
This is Two Voices, one Vibe.
What up, what up?

Nikita (00:37):
yo Welcome back to Two Voices, One Vibe.
It's been three and a halfmonths.
It's been a minute.
Yeah, I was just looking.
As you know, our last episodewas February 20th and it is now
June 8th.

Lina (00:51):
Yeah, that was a long time , but you were also away for
quite a little bit.

Nikita (00:54):
I was gone for three weeks, and then weren't you gone
after that.

Lina (00:59):
I was gone for a little while in yep April and May.

Nikita (01:05):
I was gone in April too , for spring break.
Yep, I was not gone in May.

Lina (01:10):
Yep, I was traveling for business.

Nikita (01:12):
Yeah, no, okay, yeah, I forgot about that.

Lina (01:14):
So we had a lot of travel between the two of us World
travelers, nikita and Lenatraveling the world.

Nikita (01:20):
Dun, dun, dun.
And we have more travels tocome.
I have, let me see, I have atrip in August when I go out to
Arizona, mm-hmm.
And then I have a trip in theend of September Mm-hmm.
And then I have a trip inDecember.

(01:42):
Very nice, yeah.
So I still got three more, yeah.

Lina (01:44):
And what do you have?
So I still got three more.
Yeah, and what do you have?
I'm waiting to hear back.
I believe I'm going back toEurope for work.

Nikita (01:49):
Yes, you had mentioned that I'm jealous.

Lina (01:51):
Yes, I want to go, and I might also be going to Asia
after that, so that's coming upand then in August I will be
also going away.
I have Ireland and Greece.

Nikita (02:06):
Right.
Oh, that's right In.

Lina (02:07):
August.

Nikita (02:09):
That's like back-to-back too right.

Lina (02:10):
Back-to-back yep and then in September I'll be in
Nashville for work.

Nikita (02:15):
Right.

Lina (02:17):
And then wherever life takes me.

Nikita (02:20):
But of all these travel plans that you have, how many
of them are fun?
They're all fun, no, but I meanpleasure versus work.

Lina (02:31):
All of them, except what's going to be so.
Europe and Asia will be work,right, and then Nashville will
be work.
But I always tag on a weekendbefore or after my trip so I can
explore and do what I need todo, and then, when I'm done
working from dinner until nightis my time.

Nikita (02:46):
Right, right.

Lina (02:47):
So your work trips can also be pleasurable trips Not
can also be, are always, oh yeah.
Well, there it is I love my job.

Nikita (02:55):
I have a great job.

Lina (02:56):
Yeah, oh.
And then I was also in Orlandofor work conference.
Oh yeah, that's right For Right.
Forget about that.
Yeah, yeah, how could we forgetabout that Been all around the
world?
Nah, nah, nah, I don't knowthat.
It's all around the world.
Well, lots of the worlds.

Nikita (03:11):
So wait, if you go, you might be going back to Europe,
you said, and then possibly intoAsia yes, when?

Lina (03:20):
in Asia would you be going ?
So it'll most likely beSingapore and possibly somewhere
in China.

Nikita (03:27):
Okay, speaking from experience, singapore is fucking
hot.
Yeah Like obnoxious.

Lina (03:35):
Yeah, so not looking forward to that Pack accordingly
.
So maybe I will be one of thosepeople walking around with the
umbrellas that are on my head soI can be hands-free with the
with with like a misting fanwhere you have like a pump.

Nikita (03:49):
Yeah, in Disney they have the the hand fans.
Yeah, with the fan in the water, yeah, yeah, I think I think my
daughter has one.
Maybe we could send it with you.
I'm totally game.

Lina (03:58):
I will be that girl.
That girl, yeah, because I'mway too white for it to be that
hot.
You know, I love when you comehome from somewhere like DR and
you're like do you like I willbe that girl.
That girl, yeah, because I'mway too white for it to be that
hot.

Nikita (04:05):
You know, I love when you come home from somewhere
like DR and you're like do youlike my tan?

Lina (04:10):
And I'm like I think I still have tan lines.
Nikita, I don't know about that, can you see?

Nikita (04:14):
No, they're there.
I still have tan lines.

Lina (04:17):
Yeah, okay, whatever, I didn't even recognize you.
I know I'm not that darkanymore.
I was about to call 911 and saythere was an intruder in your
house Speaking of Tell the story.

Nikita (04:32):
Speaking of oh my gosh, wow, talk about a transition
right there.
So a couple weeks ago I started, I think I told you this, yeah,
but a couple weeks ago, middleof the night, saturday night,
it's me, the girls are home,toby starts mean dog barking.
Toby doesn't bark Ever.

Lina (04:53):
Ever Like.
He's like the laziest dog Iknow.

Nikita (04:56):
Love him, Lazy unmotivated, like just doesn't
care.
So he starts mean barking.
I look at my clock it's 4o'clock.
It's four o'clock.
It's four o'clock in themorning.
Who is he barking at?
So then I thought to myself, oh, maybe my brother, like I heard
somebody yelling outside and Iwas like, oh, maybe it's my
brother.

Lina (05:14):
Which is so random.
Why would your brother beyelling outside your house at 4
am?
Because he's done it before?
Well, we'll talk about thatnext, but continue However so I?

Nikita (05:24):
but I'm thinking, okay, well, maybe it's my brother.
I'm like, well, wait, let mecheck my phone Because if it is,
he would have called me ortexted me to give me a heads up
that, hey, I'm at your house.
Yeah, there was no calls, notext messages, nothing.
And I was like what is going on?

Lina (05:45):
So I open up my phone app for my cameras and there's some
random dude at my front door,I'm like I don't know.
I don't know this guy it's like, how old is he?

Nikita (05:49):
like young old he had to have been, I'm gonna say
mid-30s, okay, at least.
I mean, I really can't tell you, but if I had to guess, okay.

Lina (05:58):
So I'm like I don't know.
It's not like an old guy thathad to mention like no lost
where he was going and wastrying to come home?

Nikita (06:03):
No, absolutely not.
So I'm like I don't know whothis guy is, I'm not going to
open the door.
So I go to the front room and Iget the dog because I don't
want him to keep barking,because I don't want him to wake
the girls up.
Sure, bad enough, there'ssomebody standing outside of my
door yelling and screaming.
So I grabbed Toby and all of asudden I hear the guy fucking
with my front door and I'm like,oh no, like trying to get in,

(06:23):
like yeah, like trying to openthe door, knocking on the door.
He opened my screen door andhe's like let me in.

Lina (06:30):
And I'm like oh God, was he saying anything else?

Nikita (06:34):
I don't know, like I couldn't comprehend what he was
saying because he was likemumbling and yelling Like there
was.
It was not anything coherent.
Okay, yelling like it there was.

Lina (06:45):
It was not anything coherent, okay, and I'm sure it
was all happening so fast too,like the adrenaline was going
and you were thinking about thegirls and I didn't want the kids
to wake up so so I grabbed toby, I go back to my bedroom, I
throw him in the bathroom and Icall 911.

Nikita (06:55):
And the lady was a saint.
I'm like listen.
I said I'm in my house andthere's somebody trying to get
in my house.
And I'm home, I have mydaughters are in the house with
me, it's just us like you needto send the cops.
And she's like all right, stayon the phone with me until the
cops get there.
Let me tell you, the cops werehere in like four minutes.
If that, that's awesome, butthat was the longest four

(07:15):
minutes of my life, let me tellyou, because I don't know if
this guy's gonna get in my house.
You know, and it was reallyfunny because that night I was
lying in bed reading before I'dgone to bed, and I'm like I
don't know if I locked the door,and usually I'm like whatever,
I'll just whatever I was like,let me get up and check it.
Thank god I got up and checkedthe door Imagine.

(07:38):
Thank god I had locked the door.
It wasn't like I had forgotten.
It was one of those weirdthings.
When I look back I'm like, ohmy, I'm so glad I got up and
checked the door, anyway.
So the cops get here and I'msitting in my bedroom because I
don't want to be anywhere nearthis, you know, and I'm making
sure the kids don't wake up,nothing.
So they take this guy and theyput him in the ambulance and

(08:00):
they take him away.
So the cops knock on my door.
I open the door.
He's like you know, I don'tknow who this guy was.
He's like do you know who he is?
I was like no, I've never seenthis guy before in my life.
I said, you know, he was tryingto get my house.
I got a four, uh, an eight yearold and an 11 year old.
I have to.
The cop said to me he goesthat's why you pay taxes.
I was like, excuse me what?

(08:26):
I was like oh, okay, thanks, so, but yeah, how wild.

Lina (08:33):
That's crazy.

Nikita (08:36):
I, I can't.

Lina (08:38):
I had a stalker situation when I was a teenager.
So obviously I was living in myparents' house and my brother
was living there just the fourof us and one of my friends was
sleeping over at Evan'ssleepover.
So my brother and my friend andI were all hanging out, kind of
like in the rec room and it'stwo walls of windows in that
room, so we're all there playingvideo games, whatever.

(08:58):
I go downstairs in the basementto use the bathroom, and in the
bathroom there's this littlewindow up top, and as I'm going
to the bathroom I hear likerustling of like leaves or like
branches, kind of sounding likesomebody's walking outside.
I'm like oh, that's weird andthinking it's probably a
squirrel or something right.
But then I see legs walkingpast the window.
Oh, so I freak out.

(09:19):
So I run upstairs and I tell mybrother and my friend I'm like
oh, oh, my God, there wassomebody walking past the window
.
And my brother's like thereabsolutely wasn't.
Like you were hearing things.
It could have been an animal.
I'm like that's what I thoughttoo.
But I saw legs and he's like noway.
And I'm like I'm telling you Isaw legs and he's like you're
crazy, there were no legs Go tobed like all right, whatever.

(09:49):
So I go upstairs and we weregoing to sleep in the den and so
my friend is sitting at thekitchen table and I ran upstairs
to my bedroom to go put mypajamas on.
Came back downstairs, I grab aglass of water, I come back to
the table and there is a manstanding at the window with his
hands cupped around his eyes, onhis face, so he could see, so
he can see into the window, andhe's just kind of peering from
side to side looking into thekitchen.

(10:10):
That's not creepy, right.
So my friend had her head downon the table because it was
really late, it was probablylike two o'clock in the morning.
She had her head down on thetable and she was just kind of
like resting, waiting for me toget done putting on my pajamas.
So I get down there, I have myglass of water and I froze like
I didn't know what to do.
I was probably maybe 12 yearsold at the time and I didn't
know what to do and I just keptrepeating oh my god, oh my god,

(10:31):
oh my god, oh my god.
So my friend looks up at me andshe's like what's wrong with
you and like it was like abroken record.
I just could not stop saying,oh my god, and I wasn't moving.
I was like frozen in place andso's looking at me.
And so now she looks over tosee what I'm staring at and she
sees the man in the window.
So she screams.
So as soon as she screams, mydad pops up.

(10:52):
He had fallen asleep in therecliner in the room where my
friend and I were going to haveour sleepover.
So my dad pops up.
We start screaming.
There's a man in the backyard.
So my dad runs out the door,runs down the steps that the man
was just standing on to be ableto peer into the window.
Oh my god my dad's chasingafter him.
My brother now comes up.
He's like what's going on?
I was like the man that I toldyou.
I saw when I was in thebathroom.
He's outside, daddy's chasingafter him, oh god.

(11:13):
So my dad, as he's runningchasing the man, he picks up an
axe in the backyard because mydad chops wood for the fireplace
.
Oh god, I can just imagine.
So my dad has a fireplace.
It's like an interior andexterior fireplace, it's a
double fireplace.
So he has so much firewood sohe was just chopping wood that
day.
So he picks up the axe.
So now my dad's running throughthe backyard chasing the man
with an axe.
Oh my God.
My brother runs outside.
There's nothing else to grab,so he grabs his hockey sticks.

(11:36):
So my brother's got two hockeysticks.
He's running through thebackyard.
He's running through thebackyard.
My dad's running through thebackyard with an ax.
This man's taken off my mom'sat work.
So now I call the police, right, I'm like I don't know what to
do.
I'm like this man was likestalking us.
He was peering into the house.
I'm like my dad's chasing himthrough the backyard.
My dad's got an ax With an ax.

(11:57):
No-transcript.
We're sending, you know, unitsover.

Nikita (12:10):
They're going to be on their way.

Lina (12:12):
So you know, now we're all freaking out.
So the units come over, westart talking to them, my dad
gives you know his information,my brother him and so like, all
right, if you see anything elseyou know, call us.
So now I'm so scared Like Idon't want to go to sleep at
night.
So my genius plan in case thisman comes back and like breaks

(12:32):
into the house was I had abottle of Windex and I had a
knife.
So my plan was I was going tospray him in his eyes with the
Windex so he couldn't see, andthen I was to stab him because
the man was huge and I was like12 years old, you know, I was
like a little girl, um, and theway that I could best describe
him was he looked like Mr Clean,like shiny, bald head, very big
and muscular, tight whitet-shirt and he had the little
hoop earring in his ear, likejust like Mr Clean, except he

(12:54):
wasn't as old as Mr Clean, mrClean, I don't know, it's
probably like in his 50s, I haveno idea.
This guy was maybe like in hislate 20s, mid 30s, maybe, maybe.
So a couple weeks later myparents were at a wedding and my
brother and I were in the housealone and I was doing the
dishes and I had this giganticpot my mom had just made like a
big thing of like tomato sauce.

(13:14):
And I'm washing this huge potand all of a sudden you hear
like a clinking on the windowSame window in the kitchen and I
look over and it's the same guywith a knife tapping the knife
on the window.
Like I could still hear thesound to this day in my head and
I remember screaming and takingthe pot and like throwing it
and running, and so my brothersees him and I was like, don't

(13:37):
go outside.
Don't go outside, cause now I'mfreaked out because my dad's
not here.
Um, so we had to call the copsback.
So now that this is likemultiple times that this
happened, they sent a sketchartist to the house, so we do a
whole sketch of what the manlooks like you told them he
looked like Mr Queen, I did.
He looked just like Mr Queen,and they said that was actually
really helpful.
So they draw a sketch of theman and they were like you know,
this could be one of two peoplethat we're aware of.

(13:59):
So both of them are neighboringtowns, but basically one of
them was just kind of like apeeping Tom, who they said
wasn't really like armed ordangerous and just likes to peer
in and watch people Weird,weird but I guess, not dangerous
.
And the other one, from theother town over, was basically
known to like be armed anddangerous and dangerous and
actually like inflict harm onpeople.
So they didn't know which ofthe two it was, but being that

(14:21):
the person had a knife that theywere tapping on the window,
they were guessing it was theother guy, unless the peeping
Tom could have escalated hispatterns and, you know, become
more dangerous.
I don't know.
Um.
So that was the second time ithappened.
The third time I'm down in um,the rec room, which is the room
that has the windows on allsides, yeah, and I'm playing
video games and I was talking tolike my seventh grade boyfriend

(14:44):
on the phone.

Nikita (14:45):
Oh, your love so cute.

Lina (14:46):
I still remember his name.
So we're on the phone and we'retalking and I just remember
being like, oh my God, he's backand he's like who?
And I was like the man, the.
So he was walking past all thewindows and I can see him
walking the legs again.
Well, I can actually see hiswhole body, oh, okay, the whole
body.
I was in the basement, so onlythe basement window is a small
window, so in this room thereare just regular windows across

(15:06):
the whole.
So I see him walking acrosstowards the door.
So I run up to make sure thedoor is locked and everything,
all the doors are locked.
I'm running to all the doors,we call the cops.
Again, the cops get there, theysee him, but they don't get him
.
So it was like three in a rowand this was probably within a
matter of maybe two months or so.
Oh, wow.
So now at this point, theywould actually have patrol units

(15:28):
that would follow me when Iwould walk to and from school,
because this had happened overthe summer initially, but now
this has gotten into the newschool year.
So now I think I'm in seventhgrade at this point, um, and so
sometimes, when I would walk toor from school.
There would just be like copcars that would just drive
around and make sure that I wasokay, because we didn't know
what the hell was going on.
So, um, couple months later, Iwould do music lessons in the

(15:51):
next town over, and so my dadwould drop me off and then he
would pick me up two hours later.
So my dad dropped me off thisone day he leaves to go back.
I didn't have a cell phone,right, we didn't have cell
phones back in the day.
Yeah, it's not like it is today,yeah, so I get up to the door
and the music school was closed.
Just a reminder, we're closedthis week and I'm like great.
So I was going to use one ofthe phones and one of the
businesses next to me to call mydad.

(16:11):
Give him at least 15 minutes toget home, so he'd be there and
he doesn't have a cell phoneeither.
So, as I'm sitting outsidewaiting, I'm on a bench and this
couple is walking and holdinghands and I'm sitting there with
my music books on my lap and Ilook over and I'm like, oh my
God, I'm like that's the guy, ohGod.

(16:34):
And then it clicks my musiclesson during the town that they
said the guy that's armed anddangerous is from.
So I'm sitting there and nowI'm freaking out and I'm like,
what am I going to do?
What am I going to do?
Now it starts pouring, raining,and I'm sitting on this park
bench on the side of the road,yeah, and they're walking
towards me.
So now I pick up my music books, right, so I have them like in
front of my face and over myhead for cover, so like to

(16:57):
protect myself from the rain andprotect my face so he doesn't
see me.
So I'm not looking, I'm notlooking.
I know they must be approachingme and they must be close.
And all of a sudden I hear whatare you doing?
Why are you stopping?
And I'm like, oh my God, theman had stopped in front of me
with this girl who he washolding hands with, and he was
like what are you doing?
Let's go, let's go.

(17:17):
And he was like oh, I justthought I saw somebody that I
knew.
I got up, I ran so fast intothe little store that was next
to the music school and I shutthe door and I locked the door
and now the store is like whatare you doing?

Nikita (17:28):
what are you doing?

Lina (17:29):
and I'm like, oh my god, I've been stalked for a couple
months and I'm like telling himthe whole story and he must
think I'm absolutely crazy right.
So, like he's getting me towelsto dry me off because I'm
soaking wet and I'm crying andI'm a hot mess, and we
eventually use his phone to callmy dad to come get me, why
didn't we call the police?
Um, I guess I wasn't eventhinking at that point.
I think the guy was just likeyou know, we need to find your

(17:49):
parents.
I think he maybe also didn'twant to get stuck with this
little girl that's like cryingand soaking wet and calling the
cops Like well, like what areyou doing with her?
I don't know.
I don't know that any of uswere thinking in that moment.
I was really scared, um, sounderstandably.
So, yeah, so the cops weren'tcalled the final time.
I guess also too, like it hadalways happened in my hometown.
So I never thought of callingthe cops in that.
So wait, did the guy ever getcaught?

(18:10):
Never got caught.
But one of my really goodfriends ended up working in the
police department in the townwhere I grew up and so she had
checked and it was still like anopen case.
They still had the file andeverything.
Yeah, she's like, no, I foundit.
She's like you're right, she'slike.
I looked at the sketch and wasthat?
So I wonder if he's dead.
So you know, it's really weird.
So maybe 10 years after that Iwas in another surrounding town

(18:34):
and I went into this Mexicanrestaurant and when I walked in
I saw this guy and it justreally gave me flashbacks.
I don't know whether or not itwas actually him, right, because
it had been 10 years.
Very well, could not have been,but bald men just kind of gave
me like serious trauma afterthat for a while.
I got over it eventually, but Iwalked in and I saw this man
who looked just like him, like Isaid could have been, could

(18:56):
have not been turned around.
I was like we need to leave andI was with my ex-husband at the
time and he's like why?
I was like we just have toleave.
Just trust me, we have to leave.
And it was just like this liketriggering response that kind of
freaked me out.
Yeah, he would have thought hewould have saw your response and
been like all right, somewhereelse, bro.
Yeah, um, so that was my crazystory.

(19:17):
That's nuts, is that nuts?

Nikita (19:19):
did I ever tell you the story?
No, I never heard that one.

Lina (19:21):
That was a new one yeah, it's a good story, but that was
me at 12 years old Windex and aknife.
Yeah, I slept with that Windexand that knife by my bedside for
probably about a year really.
Oh, I was ready, somebody wasgonna come.
That was my, my plan.
Did your mom think?
you were nuts oh, totallythought I was nuts okay she
still, she still does but youknow my Big Fat Creek Wedding
where they talk about like howthey put Windex on everything.
I just seen that movie.

(19:41):
I'm like Windex, it's gonnawork, it's gonna be great.
Like it works on pimples.
It'll work to blind somebody,right, it works on pimples.
Oh my God.

Nikita (19:49):
I can't, I can't.
Oh my God, that's so funny.

Lina (19:52):
Yeah, so that's my almost intruder story.
He kept trying to break intothe house and to this day, I
probably shouldn't say this, butmy parents still keep their
doors unlocked.
I'm like what are you doing?
Yeah, why?
Yeah, especially in the townthey live in.
Yeah, it's not a good place.

Nikita (20:06):
I mean they live in a really nice section of the town.
Yes, A hundred percent, butit's still crazy stuff.

Lina (20:11):
Yeah, and my parents are older, you know, obviously, and
you know I'm sure they wouldn'tbe as keen on hearing something
as I would be at this point.
You know, like picking up onsomebody walking outside, they
probably wouldn't think twiceabout it, Probably wouldn't even
hear it.
Yeah, I was going to say Idon't know that they'd even hear
it.
Plus, they have two dogs thatare like four pounds each, and
one of the dogs is deaf, sothat's definitely not going to
help them.

Nikita (20:31):
Yeah, that's the other one.
Um well, so samba's the red one.

Lina (20:42):
She's the aussie doodle, so she's like my kaya yeah yeah
yeah, and the deaf one's thewhite one, that's cha-cha so
it's the aussie doodle.

Nikita (20:49):
That's the the rat looking one.

Lina (20:51):
You think she looks like a rat yes, yeah, I just think
she's the size of a rat.

Nikita (20:53):
I don't think she looks like a rat oh, I think she
looks like a rat with a reallysmall tail though she's cute,
though, yeah, she's got a littlenubby tail.

Lina (20:59):
Yeah, that's my girl.
Yeah.

Nikita (21:02):
Where is?

Lina (21:02):
Kaya.
Okay, so I bought a brand newcar and I don't want to put her
in it.
I'm a bad dog mom no-transcript.

(21:23):
The truck yeah, I love the factthat we both bought new cars.
What within like a week of eachother?
I think it was two weeks butyeah, yeah, yeah, that's pretty
amazing.
Are you loving your truck?

Nikita (21:33):
I am.
I enjoy it.
It's smooth.
It's smaller than my Tahoe,which is nice, but I have no
complaints about it.
Yeah, so what about you?

Lina (21:42):
I love it.
I it was not even on my radar.
I went to the dealership to seeanother truck and that was in
the showroom and I'm like, whatis that?
And then I test drove the truckthat I went there to see and I
was like, oh, I don't like it.
And then I ended up buying theother one.

Nikita (21:55):
Well, that's exciting, yeah, fun.
I love it.
What other new things did youget?

Lina (22:00):
Anything.
What other new things did I get?
Oh, I tried the Stitch Fixthing again.
Oh, did you?
I did?
Okay, so I had a Stitch Fixsubscription Say that seven
times fast, maybe eight yearsago or so, to try it out, and I
really liked it.
They did a great job with myfirst shipment, yeah, uh, but it
was just expensive, yeah, and Iwas like it's very expensive

(22:21):
yeah.
I was like.
So I canceled it, not for anyreason other than it was just
expensive, but I kept all thepieces.
So now I'm trying to like add acouple of things to my wardrobe
, especially since we had thepurge where we went through what
.
I don't even know where thatstuff fit.
It all came out of my room.
I know, yeah.
I know yeah, I was there.
It was very impressive theamount of stuff that came out.

Nikita (22:43):
The best, though was throwing the bags.
My kids Over the banister whenwe were throwing the bags.
They loved that.
Yeah, that was so much fun.
I loved it.
Did you get rid of all thosebags?

Lina (22:59):
yeah, so my mom actually brings them to this woman who
takes clothes to a shelter forwomen who have been abused.
Oh nice, so they have kids andstuff there.
So if you have kids clothes, oreven you know men's clothes,
they might have like olderteenage sons um, they'll take
everything.
Oh good, okay, I take beddingand all sorts of stuff.
So that was really nice.
So they did get all that stuff.
So, since I got rid of stuff, Isaid you know what, I could use
a couple more pieces and Ithought you know why not spring
for maybe a couple of like thoseclassy, like staple pieces that

(23:19):
you have in your closet?
So, whether it's a really greatpair of jeans or a blazer or,
you know, really nice work topsI need we both need tops we were
talking about that we both needtops.
So I have a plethora of jeans atthis point, but let's go to the
mall and buy more jeans, but Ido need some tops.
So I said let me try the StitchFix thing.
So I got my first box and therewere five items.
Of the five I loved, two keptthree.

(23:42):
It was a pair of pants and twoshirts, yes, and then I sent the
other two back.
So I'm going to do one more boxand see how that is, and then I
think I'm going to try theDaily Look one.
I've heard of that one.

Nikita (23:53):
Yeah, I've heard about that one.
I've never done that one.
I too have done Stitch Fix.
I did it for six, eight monthsat one point and then I stopped
and then I picked it up againand then I stopped.
It's got to be at least a year,maybe even a year and a half at
this point since I've done itlast.
But, like you were just saying,you and I have had the

(24:16):
conversation.
We both need tops.
I need more stuff for this timeof the year Other than t-shirts
.
Yeah, same.

Lina (24:24):
I have t-shirts and tank tops.
I stopped buying stuff fromShein.
Yeah.

Nikita (24:28):
I have too.

Lina (24:29):
It's just really crappy and disposable.
The quality of the materialitself.
A lot of times the stuff isreally shiny.
So I'm like I'm not going towaste my money.
I'd rather spend my money on afew good pieces than you know,
spend the same amount of moneyon a few good pieces for like a
ton of really shitty clothes,right?
So I stopped doing that.
Um so we'll see.
I'm going to see how my nextfix when you get your next one

(25:00):
uh early, that's Friday, fridaythe 13th, dun dun dun See what
happens.
So, uh, we'll, we'll see whatthat box looks like.
And then I think I'm going totry the daily look one so I can
say I tried it.
When I look at the daily look,it looks like they do a lot more
like full outfits as opposed tojust pieces, okay.
So I think that's kind of cooltoo, because I work in the
fashion industry and and Ireally know how to put full
outfits together like that.
So I think that might be kindof fun.
Yeah, but you work behind thescenes in the fashion industry.

Nikita (25:20):
Yeah, it's kind of my job to not be seen.
I was going to say you don'treally need to be fashion
forward in your specific line ofwork.

Lina (25:27):
Yeah, but I like to you know still, when you go to the
office everybody's like allbranded out and their stuff.
So I like to look nice and liftthe part.

Nikita (25:33):
Meanwhile, I to work in leggings and a sweatshirt.
Man, there are days that I wishI could do that.
It is nice, Although there aredays where I actually get
dressed too.
I had gone out Friday night, soI wore jeans and a bodysuit,
and I brought my jacket with me,which I wound up not needing
because it was way warmer than Iexpected it to be, Even where I
had gone it was.

(25:54):
I thought it was going to becold in the building, not even a
little bit.
I was like, oh, I didn't needthat, yeah.
But here we are.

Lina (26:00):
Yeah, I have um tomorrow I actually have to head into the
office for work.
I have a um NYPD conference ohfun.
At uh 1PP, actually their uhpolice headquarters.
So, just like things like that.
I just want to wear like ablack suit and a white shirt and
look like all the femaledetectives that go there, but I

(26:22):
also don't want to look like I'm, you know, a fashionista either
, but I want to have just likesomething nice and professional
that's not always just like aplain B6 suit, right, you know.
So I want to have those nicepieces.

Nikita (26:29):
Yeah, put yourself together.

Lina (26:30):
But also comfortable because you've got to commute
and you know walking around thecity.

Nikita (26:35):
Now.
Is this at the office or do youhave to go into the city
tomorrow?
This is in the city.
This is at police headquarters.

Lina (26:39):
Oh, okay.

Nikita (26:40):
Okay, gotcha.
Yeah, I have to go to worktomorrow.
I will be in the office like Iam every day of the week.

Lina (26:47):
So you don't feel bad that I have to go into the city
tomorrow, not even a little bit.

Nikita (26:53):
Such a jerk work before you're even awake.
Yeah.

Lina (26:56):
I don't like the morning.
I feel like 5 should never havethe letters AM after it Ever.

Nikita (27:02):
I think it was 4 AM.

Lina (27:03):
That's stupid.
Tell me about it.
See, maybe that's why the guywas knocking on your door at 4
AM.
He just wanted to make sure youwere getting up for work.

Nikita (27:09):
He didn't realize it was weekend, it was a Saturday.

Lina (27:11):
He didn't realize.

Nikita (27:11):
Maybe he had too much to drink.
He was whacked out on something.
Yeah, he was talking, like thecop said to me.
He was like, yeah, he wastalking about Wiccan stuff and
I'm like what?

Lina (27:25):
Okay, so he's like putting a spell on your house
Apparently.
Ooh, maybe we should sage yourhouse.

Nikita (27:29):
Have you ever done that ?
No, I don't believe in that.
That and like crystals don'tget into that either.
No, no, I know you like thewhole psychic thing yeah.

Lina (27:40):
I think it's cool.
I've had a couple experiences,though, that like blew my mind
that I'm like there's no waythat they would know if there
wasn't something more to it.
I mean like very specifics,with like initials or names or
dates, like very, very specificthings.
So I definitely believe thatthere's something there, that
there's something there, but Idon't know, I don't do like the
crystals and the rocks and allthat stuff.

Nikita (27:57):
Yeah, I don't do any of that, Although I went out
yesterday and bought newfurniture and then I had.
That's always exciting, oh Icannot wait.

Lina (28:07):
Congratulations.
Oh, thank you, I can't wait toget it all.

Nikita (28:09):
It doesn't come until July, but that's a whole other
story.
I need to pick a new color forthis room.
I need to pick a new color formy bedroom and eventually, for
the kitchen dining room area.
Okay, because I bought a newliving room set, a new bedroom
set and a new kitchen and diningroom set.
Ballin' much A little bit.

(28:29):
I love it.
You know what it needed to bedone.
It needed to be done.
I mean my stuff.
I know you haven't noticed it,but it's hanging in by a thread
at this point.

Lina (28:38):
I remember when you got this couch that we're sitting on
.

Nikita (28:41):
It's ten years old, if not more.

Lina (28:44):
No way.
Oh yeah, it's not, because yourlittle one was eight months old
when I met you and I rememberyou getting this couch, so then
it's got to be at least eightyears old Seven, six and a half.
I'm going with six and a halfOkay.
Old seven, six and a half.
I'm going with six and a half.
Okay, it's more than that.

Nikita (29:04):
Yeah, but no, it still looks good, I mean you keep it
covered and stuff too.

Lina (29:06):
Yeah, it's covered probably helps the dog oreo you
never met oreo no, I, oh no, Ididn't meet oreo.

Nikita (29:12):
You didn't meet oreo she was a fucking maniac, that
dog.
She ate a hole through theottoman.
She ate a hole through theottoman.
She ate a hole through mycushions.
Yeah, she's a jerk.
Good times, she's cute.

Lina (29:24):
Yeah, stupid dog.
I remember when you got the catyeah, I was like I'm not coming
over anymore.
You can come over my house.

Nikita (29:33):
Toby didn't like the cat.
Toby did not like the cat.
Yeah, kaya doesn't do catseither.

Lina (29:38):
Yeah, I don't blame them.
Like why would you bring alittle tiger in the house?
I mean, this is why I like tosend you cat videos.
There's no reason to bring atiger into the house.
It's scary.
I've also been attacked by cats, just not my jam you ever been
attacked by it a bird.
No, I don't know where she'sgoing with this one, sorry guys.

Nikita (29:58):
I was gonna say have you ever been attacked by a cock
?
And then I was like no, don'tsay it.

Lina (30:06):
Nikita, sorry, we're going to have to put a disclaimer on
this video today.
Have you ever been attacked bya chicken?

Nikita (30:13):
No, rooster, no, yeah, I have.

Lina (30:18):
I do have a good story about a chicken, though.
So one of my friends who I metshe became my friend, turns out
she was the wife of my boyfriendat the time Did not know,
that's fun.
So we decided we were going toget together and discuss all the
things and we were at a pettingzoo and were we petting animals

(30:43):
?
We were okay, and how old arewe?

Nikita (30:47):
oh, I was like in my 20s oh, because that's what we
do in our 20s.

Lina (30:51):
Um, well, I figured if we were like in a public place,
place, she wouldn't kill me.
Okay, I'll give you that.
Um, and this chicken fell intothis barrel of water and the
chicken started like drowning.
And if you know me, you know Idon't do birds either.
Yes, I do not do birds.
Um, and I started freaking outand screaming and crying and I

(31:12):
was like you have to dosomething.
And she's like what do you wantme to do?
I'm like you have to save thechicken and I'm crying.
And she's like what do I do?
And I'm like I don't know, savethe chicken.
So she, she's my hero.
She put her hand into I wasyour hero.
Well, you're my hero for savingbabies and children.
She's my hero Holding fittedsheets.

(31:40):
Yes, for saving chickens.
So she put her arm into thiswet barrel and she pulled this
chicken out by its neck and shebrought this chicken back to
life.
Um, and I was so impressed byher.
I would not have saved thechicken.
I wouldn't have saved thechicken either, but I was crying
.
I would not have saved thechicken.
The chicken's gonna die.

Nikita (31:47):
No, just save the chicken's life.
I was.
I was pregnant with my firstone.
I was like eight monthspregnant and we were at my baby
shower and my girlfriend oh, whydon't we go outside and take
pictures?
I was like, okay, great, so wego outside and we go and take
pictures.
Fucking chicken Tacks me out ofnowhere, just comes up to me

(32:08):
and starts fucking, pecking myfoot.
I'm like what is going on?
No idea why.

Lina (32:22):
So when I was little, maybe like five, my dad took my
brother and I uh, down to thepark.
They had like a lake and wewere feeding the ducks.
My dad had like a whole sleeveof crackers and so we were
feeding all the ducks and Iguess everything was fine.
And I was down to my lastcracker and I guess there was a
specific duck that I wanted togive this cracker to and another
one came up to me and Iwouldn't give him the cracker
and the duck just bit it rightoff my hand.
Maybe that was the start of menot liking birds possibility bit
by a duck for my damn crackerspeaking of animals, I went to

(32:44):
go pick up my groceries today.

Nikita (32:47):
Okay, so I'm driving down the highway right, minding
my own business and I'm like, oh, there's something in the road.
As I get like this far from it,realize it's a turtle, oh, I
was like the poor turtle, andthen you did nothing.
First of all, I was doing 55down this road right and there

(33:08):
was people behind me so Icouldn't just stop short to save
the turtle, which I would havesaved the turtle.

Lina (33:13):
You could have pulled over and put your hazards on, and
then you could have blockedtraffic and slowed everybody
down and stopped them.
And then you could have gottena boy to pick up the turtle,
because I wouldn't pick it upeither that's something my
ex-husband would have done.

Nikita (33:25):
He legit would have stopped and saved the turtle.
See, I know he's done thatbefore.
He's a good man he is.

Lina (33:32):
He is.
No, he's a good guy.
I have nothing bad to say abouthim.
Did he come yet?
No, but I also haven't askedhim yet either.
Oh, okay, but I know that he'sbusy and he's got other side
jobs and he's doing stuff.
Yeah, and I still need to getrid of the dresser in that room
and get the like a rug that Ineed to roll up and I have a
bookcase that needs to move.
So I have some prep stuff thatI have stuff I need to do.

(34:00):
Yeah, I don't want to do it.
Look at us with, like all ourlife changes, painting and
redoing rooms and buying newcars.
It's like we're shedding theold Right, like that, saying
they say, when a woman changesher hair, she's about to change
her life, okay, but paint stuffand changes rooms and buys new
things too.
Life changer, game changer,right, yeah, what are we going
to do?
This summer's like almost herein full force.
Dude, my kids leave in twoweeks.

(34:20):
That's crazy it's wild, I'm likewhat two weeks are we gonna get
into shenanigans?
I?

Nikita (34:25):
don't know what I'm doing this summer.
I'm excited we will go down theshore at some point.

Lina (34:31):
Yeah, definitely, because that's what we do.
Do you hear your dog snoringalways when he sleeps?
I love how you got him a newbed and he said Nope, I'm going
to sleep on the ottoman instead.

Nikita (34:40):
Yeah we're going to have a little conversation about
that.

Lina (34:42):
I think you just need to lay in his new bed with him.

Nikita (34:45):
I think I'm just going to put the blanket on his new
bed and put the ottoman up onits side and let him figure it
out and eventually he'll justtransition with that.
I'm not getting in that dog bedwith him.
Oh, that sounds like a goodplan.
He doesn't even get in my bedwith me.
Yeah, nor will he get in my bedwith me.
I don't want him in my bed.

(35:05):
Your bed's also really high.
My new bed won't be very high,oh, no, no, it'll be a normal
height.
Okay, why is that bed so high?

Lina (35:09):
Because I store a lot of junk underneath my bed.
Oh, so you just purposely likejack it stuff?
Nope, sure don't.
So you're just going to start apurge.

Nikita (35:19):
I'm going to not have stuff under my bed.
I don't know where I'm going toput all the things, oh wait.

Lina (35:25):
Where are we putting the things that are under your?

Nikita (35:27):
bed.
I don't know.
I don't know where all thethings are going to go.
We need to find a good hidingspot.
Yeah, I know, find somewhere toput the things.
Yeah, so I got some books underthere that actually the books
that are under there.
I don't want to keep underthere, obviously so, but so I
love the new bed that I got, soI have to show you a picture of

(35:48):
it I think I sent you a pictureof it, so it has like wooden,
with like the shelves on theside.
yeah, so it has all those theshelving on the side.
So I think I'm gonna put thosebooks that are under my bed,
that are in my Louis, that youhad a heart attack about, on one
of the shelves, and then I wantto go to HomeGoods and get fake
plants, because I kill plants.

(36:09):
That's what I did.
Yeah, I got mine from Kohl's.
I put some of those on theshelves and figured it out.
Yeah, so I've got to figure outwhat color I want to paint
things, though I don't know whatcolor I want to paint
everything.

Lina (36:21):
Yeah.
So, well, that's always theexciting part, though Getting to
pick out like new finishingsand stuff.
So I'm turning the sparebedroom in my house.
So my spare bedroom used to bewhere my foster kids would sleep
Um, so my foster kids gotadopted.
Um, so my foster kids gotadopted.
I'm not fostering.
Um, my daughter will be 18 inless than a year, which is wild,

(36:42):
absolutely crazy.
So I'm turning that sparebedroom into an office.
So right now I just kind ofwork out of my kitchen, my
living room, my basement.
I have a desk set up.

Nikita (36:50):
I sit on my couch and work from my couch.
Let's be real, sometimes I do,I don't.
I go to the office every daylike normal human beings, like
peasants.

Lina (36:59):
Seriously.
But I usually end up at mykitchen counter.
I'm like I just really wantlike a regular setup where I
have my mouse, I have mykeyboard, I have my monitors, I
have my printer, I haveeverything set up in one place
and I'm not running down to likeair print something and send it
to my phone and then send itfrom my phone to my.

(37:19):
It's just too much work.
So I'm turning that sparebedroom into my office, which
I'm really excited about.
So I got this amazing day bedthat has a trundle underneath,
so I still have the two matches.
So when my kids come to visit,I still have a place for them to
stay.
Of course, um, but it's nottaking up so much of the room.
Oh which, um.

Nikita (37:33):
I might have to stay by your place with Toby, okay,
after my children leave, okay.

Lina (37:39):
Are we renting your house?

Nikita (37:40):
No, we're going to get rid of all the things so we can
paint.
Oh sorry, that was like totallyrandom, I know no, but I was.
I was talking about ityesterday.
I was like I'm getting newfurniture.
It makes sense to um refresheverything.
So then I was, I was talking tomy significant other and I was

(38:03):
like, oh well, then I'm eithergonna have to stay by lena's
house or I'm gonna have to stayby your place, yeah.
And then I was like but I gottoby, I'll go to lena's because
toby and kai bear, yeah, canhave a sleepover for however
long we stay.
Yeah, absolutely.

Lina (38:20):
I don't know why we just don't live together this whole
two mortgages thing, yeah, well,you know, yeah, kind of
ridiculous.
That would be fun.

Nikita (38:27):
Sell your place.
Could you imagine it would beeasier to sell your place than
for me to sell mine?

Lina (38:33):
Yeah, but I feel like I have more space because of, like
, because of the three levelsyeah, absolutely yeah, and the
basement I have the extra roomtoo.

Nikita (38:40):
How many square feet are you?
Like 22.
Oh, you're definitely biggerbecause I'm 17, 18.

Lina (38:45):
Yeah, Well, because I have the whole basement, yes, you
know.
And then I also have an extrabathroom, so more people can be
pooping at the same time.

Nikita (38:54):
But you only have two showers right Two showers.

Lina (38:57):
Two showers right, but I have a half bath so actually
people can be pooping.
Yeah, I have two full baths.

Nikita (39:04):
But that's an interesting situation, because
the bathroom in my room themaster, I use it and your kids
use it too, and my kids use ittoo, yeah, when they have a
perfectly good bathroom in thehallway that they need to use
for themselves, but you don'tmake them use it.
Oh, I tell them all the timeget out of my bathroom, go on
your own, but.

(39:24):
But I don't want to hear it.
You have your own bathroom, go,yeah.
Get out, yeah, go, yeah, butbut your bathroom's nicer.
I'm like, yes, because it gotredone.
Yeah, so I need to talk to yoursignificant other about that.
I need, I need to reach out tohim.
But you know, I just spent allthat money on the furniture, so
we're going to hold off on thatone.

Lina (39:44):
There's always something I feel like you know.
You get a bonus and you have apayment to make.
You get an extra payment thatmonth because it just happens to
be three paychecks that monthand something happens with your
car.
There's always something thathappens.
Where are you getting freepaycheck?
I?

Nikita (39:57):
get a paycheck every week.

Lina (39:59):
I get paid every other week like most normal people.

Nikita (40:01):
Oh no, I get paid every week.
It's a great thing.

Lina (40:03):
My last job I got paid every week, but this job almost
every other job, because it's soexpensive to do payroll every
week.
So companies save money doingpayroll every other week as
opposed to doing it every week.

Nikita (40:14):
I've never been at a job that I didn't get paid every
week.

Lina (40:17):
Well, that's because you've been at your job for 57
years.

Nikita (40:20):
I wish it was 57 years, because then I wouldn't be
working anymore.
But you've been there forever.
I have.
I've been there 20.
21 years, 20 years yeah God,that's a long time.

Lina (40:31):
Yeah, so you've been there like most of your adult life.

Nikita (40:34):
Yeah, it's been my one career job and then before that
I worked in retail.
But even when I worked inretail I got paid weekly Really.

Lina (40:44):
Yeah, no more people get paid every other week because
it's cheaper to do payroll thatway as opposed to paying to have
the payroll done every week,and we have a lot of people on
payroll.
But we always get excited whenI say we, I mean those of us
that get paid every other weekwhen the payday falls on like a
friday, when there's threefridays in the month, because
you end up getting an extrapaycheck that month, gotcha,

(41:05):
which is nice but then somethingalways happens where it's like
you know, oh yeah, but it goesright out the window, yep, every
single time hate.

Nikita (41:13):
When that can we talk?
Speaking of not related toanything we're just talking
about, I don't.
It just popped into my brains.

Lina (41:20):
Um, the weather lately yes , how craptastic it's been so I
always say like we live in astate where you have to be able
to adjust for four seasons inone day.
It's like you never know what'sgonna happen.
So there are days like what wasthat?
Like 96 degrees or something,it was so hot the other day.
And then you have days where itjust rains.

Nikita (41:40):
It's been raining, I feel like for seven years.
Yeah, it's been a lot of rainand I have a feeling this summer
is going to suck ass and it'sgoing to be one of those summers
where it rains Monday, Tuesday,Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,
Saturday, Sunday.
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,Thursday, Friday, Saturday,
Sunday.

Lina (41:56):
See, I feel like it's going to be one of those things
where it rains Friday, Saturday,Sunday yeah, it's going to ruin
our summer A hundred percent.
It's like I have summer Fridays, so I have half days on Fridays
, which is great, but of courseit's going to rain when it's all
my free time.

Nikita (42:12):
Yeah, I was saying you know, I feel like it's going to
be that summer where, like youjust said, it's going to rain
every friggin' weekend, like I'mjust going to wind up taking
days off because I'm not goingto go to the beach.

Lina (42:22):
Yeah, Like I can't not go to the beach.
Yeah, no, for sure, I thinkwe're going to have to just work
that into, even if it's, likeyou know, a Friday or whatever
Thursday.
Whatever you want to do, we'llfigure it out.
Um, but yesterday, speaking ofthe weather, it was supposed to
thunderstorm.

Nikita (42:40):
It turned out to be halfway.

Lina (42:42):
It was hot, it was humid.
Yes, so I was actually at acharity softball game yesterday.
I was a cheerleader, had awhole cheerleading squad.
Um, my cheerleading squad wasanywhere between like three to
five decades older than me.
This is so much fun.
I have pictures I will have toshow you.
Okay, um, but the weather keptsaying that it was going to
thunderstorm, so of course Ibrought an umbrella.
So I probably broke theumbrella out about five

(43:03):
different times and put it away,because the range kept coming
and going and coming and going,but thankfully there was no like
crazy heavy downpour orlightning or thunder like they
were calling for, but it keptgetting so muggy afterwards.

Nikita (43:15):
Oh, it was gross, yeah, yeah, because when we went to
the furniture store it wasraining and then we came out and
it was just humid and gross andwe had to go to a couple other
stores.
It was terrible, yeah.

Lina (43:28):
I'm over it.

Nikita (43:28):
I'm ready for summer to be here, and then even today it
was supposed to rain.
It was nice this morning, likeblue skies.
I was like, oh, this is not avery rainy day and now it looks
like it's overcast out, lookslike it's gonna rain, but it
wasn't a day that you could goand do something.
Yeah, I can't.
And and it's june, it's june,it's almost technically the
summer.

Lina (43:48):
Yeah, yeah, it's weird, also like memorial day weekend.
I feel like the last fivememorial day weekends have
sucked weather-wise.

Nikita (43:55):
I don't remember.
I know obviously this pastMemorial Day weekend was
craptastic, but I don't rememberlast year or the year before.
They've been crappy for thelast few.

Lina (44:04):
And I feel, like you know, living where we live, memorial
Day weekend is like the officialstart of summer for us.
So, even though it's not, likeyou know, june 21st or whatever
in the calendar, it's like thestart of our summer.
Memorial day, it's a labor day,right, it's our summer, um, but
we really haven't had any greatweekends, which I'm not upset
about when it comes to traffic,given where we live.
Everybody passes right by us togo down the shore, we're on the

(44:26):
way, so traffic on fridayssucks, yeah, that's why we just
kind of kind of figure out ourlives and maybe put on the
traffic this past friday washorrendous getting on the main
road, the turnpike, becausewhere I work you know we have to
get on the turnpike to comehome.

Nikita (44:42):
We must have lost 35, 40 minutes just trying to get on
the turnpike.
It was stupid.
And then you know, you get toone specific point and it opens
up and you're like, well, whatthe hell, why was there?
There was no, there was noaccident, there was was no cops,
there was nothing.

Lina (44:57):
Why it's so frustrating.
I would love to just get in ahelicopter and sit up there and
see Where's the traffic.
Why is there traffic?
Why is it slowing down there?
Oh, it's that asshole rightthere.
And then get on one of thoseloudspeakers and yell at them.
I always wanted one of thosehorns that had the buttons.
We're gonna be like move over,asshole.
You're going too slow.
You know.
We're like by the way yourlight's out, you know.

Nikita (45:18):
And like let people know, get out of the fast lane.
Yeah, don't drive in the leftlane you jerk, right, I can't.

Lina (45:24):
I think it's fun, like when, uh, I came by your house
when we went to the concert, yes, and I used a little speaker
dude.

Nikita (45:30):
I I was like, oh god, here we go.
I was like I don't know hershe's not with me.

Lina (45:38):
Oh, you definitely claim me, you know you love me.

Nikita (45:41):
You were being such a jerk.

Lina (45:42):
That day I'm being a jerk you were such a jerk I don't
even remember what did I do whatdid I do we get to?

Nikita (45:54):
oh, my eyeball.

Lina (45:55):
We got to the parking lot and the girl that parked next to
me, oh yeah alright, nikita,you tell everybody and let's let
everybody that's listening orwatching decide who was the jerk
, please me, or the girl thatwas parked in two fucking
parking spots?

Nikita (46:08):
I'm not saying she, but you just kept going on.
I'm like, stop being a jerk,stop, okay.
First, of all when we leftcause, because I left before you
and we get to the car and she'sstill there and I take a
picture and I'm like, oh, yourbest friend's still here.

Lina (46:25):
Okay, you get a brand new Range Rover or something.
You want to park in two spotsso nobody fucking touches your
$100,000 car.
I can see it You're driving a1992 Volvo station wagon that
was made before you were fuckingborn.
Get your car out of the twofucking spots.
Before I get you out of the carand make you move it with your

(46:47):
hands, bro, like really, I don'tknow, that shit just fucking
irked me.
Plus, like you're in a, you'rein a VIP lot where you're paying
like I don't know six people.
We don't pay for parking.
I was going to say we weren'tpaying for parking.
We had this conversation, wedidn't.
But like you're paying like $60for a fucking spot.
Like, bro, we all know your17-year-old ass didn't pay $122
for those two spots with tax, orhave some upstanding citizens

(47:08):
that accompany us.
That's why, yeah, when you savepeople's lives for a living, you
get free parking spots.
I mean like it's the least youcan do.

Nikita (47:22):
Is that what it is?
Yeah, it's totally what it is.
You were so funny, though I waslike stop being a jerk, Stop
being a jerk.

Lina (47:29):
I mean, I feel like she was a jerk.
I feel like we should do a polland find out if she was a jerk
or I was a jerk.
I think you both were beingjerks.
I think she was the jerk and Iwas just reacting.
And I wouldn't have been a jerkif it weren't for what she did.
You know, you can't base myreaction to her action, because
if there was no action, therewould have been no reaction.

Nikita (47:43):
But her actions had nothing to do or no impact on
you.
They did.

Lina (47:51):
Maybe I wanted to move the car there.
Maybe I was uncomfortable in myspot and I wanted to move
because the sun was beaming onme and I wanted to be on the
other side in that spot.

Nikita (48:00):
It wasn't even sunny out.
Well, it could have been.

Lina (48:03):
I'm a lot fairer skinned than you are, nikita.
All right.

Nikita (48:07):
I know we had this conversation already.
It was a good concert.
So dark, so dark, I miss thattan, I miss that tan.
It was a good concert.
I came out.
So dark, so dark, I missed thattan, I missed that tan.
It was a good concert.
It was a good concert.
So, as you know, it was thegirls' first major concert and
it was my oldest birthdaypresent, which, when I gave her
her present, I gave her a card.
She ripped it open and I wasrecording her.

(48:29):
She's like, no, don't record me.
And then she opens the presentand she realized what it was and
her little face just lit up andshe started crying.
Yeah, oh, she was so excited.
So we get to the concert and weobviously weren't sitting with
each other.
But so we're sitting watchingthe show and luke bryan comes on
and it was my oldest, meyoungest, my other half and my

(48:56):
youngest was standing on theseats because she's so little
and you know it's the seatswhere they flip up.
Yeah, so Luke Bryan startssinging and my oldest starts
hysterically crying and shegrabs me and I look at her and
she's crying.
Lena, I was like, oh my God,what is going on?
So I tell my little one I'mlike is going on.
So I tell my little one I'mlike, hold on, let me figure out

(49:17):
.
I'm like, boo, what's going on?
Why are we crying?
Are these happy tears?
Are these sad tears?
Like you got to give mesomething here because I don't
know what's wrong.
I'm like, are they happy tears?
And she couldn't even get aword.
I'm like I, are you happy we'rehere?
She's like yes, this is thebest birthday present ever.
So cute, so cute, so cute.

(49:40):
But yeah, she, she.
So she, she hears all the songsshe wanted to hear.
My little one's over here.
She's like mom, is he going toplay play it again?
I'm like, yes, he's going toplay, play it again.
And I said it's one of hisstaple songs.
Of course he's going to play it.
I just want to hear her play itagain.
And all the other songs come onand she's like pouting.
So now she's sitting playing onher phone, pouting.

(50:03):
So I said to my other half I'mlike, listen.
I said I'm waiting for him toplay it again and then we can
leave.
He's like, are you sure he'sgoing to play it it?
I'm like, yes, he's gonna playit.
It's massive song.
Yeah, so he played I forgetwhat song it was, whatever song
it was and then play it againcame on and her little face lit
up and she just bounced right upsinging along to it.

(50:27):
The song ends and I said to thegirls because it'd be like 10 45
and I was like listen.
I said, do you guys want tostay?
I said the concert was gonna beover in 15 minutes because you
know how they only play till 11.
Or do you want to leave?
And they both look at me andthey're like can we go home?
Because they'd been up sincesix o'clock in the morning.
It was quarter to 11.
At that point I was like, yes,we can go home.
So we start walking, we get upto like the concession area and

(50:49):
they both stopped me and they'relike mom, we want to stay, but
we're so tired.
Oh, I'm like, guys, it's okay,we can leave, you're not gonna
be mad at us.
No, I'm not gonna be mad.
So it's, it's been a long day,I understand, it's okay, we can
go.
So we walk out to the car andit just starts like spitting
rain.
I'm like, oh, we're justgetting out of here in time.
Did it rain?

(51:09):
Because it started raining whenwe were driving home.
Did you guys get stuck in thatwalking or no?
No, oh, okay, yeah, fine, butshe lost her mind crying.
Aw, that's cute?

Lina (51:21):
Yeah, it was cute.
I remember my daughter's firstconcert.
It was also at the same venueand she had who did you take her
to see?
Come with me.
Well, so we were going to BlakeShelton.
I had tickets to gets to go tolake shelton and I just asked if

(51:41):
she wanted to come with me.
I just bought two tickets andwas planning on anything and I
just asked her.
She was probably about, uh,seven or eight years old and, uh
, when we were, we were likekind of waiting in the area
where we had parked and we weregoing like getting the chairs
out of the uh trunk to bring,because you used to be able to
bring your own chairs and lawnseats.
Oh yeah, and um, there was thiscouple that was like, oh no, no
, they actually changed therules this year, you can't bring
chairs.
And we're like what?

(52:02):
And they're like, yeah, no, youcan't bring chairs.
I'm like no way.
So I was going to walk to putthe chairs back and, um, my
daughter asked like, yeah, we'llkeep an eye on her.
You know no big deal, and Imean she wasn't far, it's not
like I left her with strangers.
I could see her and I said,yeah, just stay here, I'll just
run and put these in the thing.
So I put them in, I came backand she's having a whole
conversation with these people.
They're like oh, you know, see,anybody who you want to say,

(52:33):
who would you pick?
And she's like Taylor Swift.
And he was like oh, that'sreally cool.
So, as we were kind of allwalking together, the guy had
kind of sat back with me and hegoes um, would would it be okay
if I got four tickets for yourdaughter to see Taylor Swift?
And I was like what?
And he was like well, yeah,he's like, I work for a company
that works with Live Nation.
He's like and I can get ticketsto anything.

(52:54):
He's like the only thing isthat, you know, I would really
have to ask that you don'tresell them.
He's like cause I can get introuble.
And I'm like no, I was like Iwould never do that.
It's impossible to get T-Swifttickets.
Like there's no way.
Um, I'm like and, and at thatpoint you know we're.

(53:16):
And he's like absolutely, he'slike how many do you want me to
get?
Like what do you mean?
How many?
He's like we want to get fourso she can take a couple of her
friends.
Oh, I was like, are you serious?
And he's like totally, and Ithought it was the nicest thing.
So this random couple never sawthem again after that or
anything.
Um, the only thing that theyasked is that we sent a video of
them playing their I guess thelove story was their favorite
song, um, a video of it from theconcert.
So we took a video of themcoming their I guess Love Story
was their favorite song a videoof it from the concert.
So we took a video of themplaying it and a video of Maddie

(53:38):
saying thank you with herfriends and sent it to them, but
had never spoken to them afterthat and we just got her four
tickets.
That was sweet.
So I took my daughter and twoof her friends and we went to go
see Taylor Swift in Philly.

Nikita (53:49):
Oh, that's fun.
Speaking of Taylor Swift, youknow how she just did the whole
Errors tour.
Yeah, so my niece, her sister,her mother, was it just the
three of them?
I think it was just the threeof them.
Might have been my other sistertoo, but regardless, they went
to go see the Errors tour inFlorida.

(54:11):
So, and it was in October thatthey were going and I had called
my niece and I'm like, hey thatthey were going, and I had
called my niece and I'm like,hey, I said you're going to
taylor swift.
She's like, yeah, I go, can youdo me a favor?
She goes yeah, what's up?
I said can you record lovestory for me?
I said it's my little one'sbirthday.
She's begging me to go see her.
Couldn't get tickets, not thatI was gonna pay a thousand

(54:32):
dollars a ticket anyway.
I said, but if you can justrecord that one song, she's like
, yeah, yeah, yeah, I got it.
She sent me a perfectlyrecorded video of it and I gave
it to the little one for her.
She was like this is the bestbirthday ever.
Aww, there we go.

Lina (54:48):
Then, after we left, the Luke Bryan concert she's like a
lot of people are doing forTaylor Swift because price
gouging is such a serious thinghere in the US.
But it's legal.
It's not legal in othercountries, I know.
So people are actually takingfull-on vacations and going to
see her in, like Germany orwherever.

Nikita (55:04):
Speaking of when, last summer, when I was in Europe and
I was in I think we were inGermany at the time, actually.
Yeah, I think we were inGermany.
We left the day before she wasplaying Smart no, not even
intentionally, we didn't realizeit at the time and we were
looking for things to do and Ihappened to look at concerts in

(55:25):
the area of where we werestaying and I'm like Mother F, I
said babe, we could have wentand seen Taylor Swift.
He's like I would have went too, just because of the experience
.
You know, you're in anothercountry.
Go see Taylor Swift.
He's like I totally would havewent.
I was like it's a three hourconcert, you would have went.
He's like, yeah, can we extend?

Lina (55:42):
Yeah, but people are actually getting flights and
hotels and meals and everythingfor cheaper and the Taylor Swift
tickets than cheaper than justthe tickets are here, oh yeah,
which is insanity.
It's like.
I hope somebody does somethingabout that, because it's sad
that there's so many fans thatwant to see tickets and people
are taking advantage of it andreselling tickets and it's crazy
.
Nobody that actually wants togo is able to go, and so many
different corporations gettickets for these things that

(56:03):
they just kind of give them away, and it's sad for the kids that
actually want to go see theiridol I saw taylor swift years
ago, like when one of her firstI want to say it was during her
Fearless tour, so she was stillrelatively new my mom and I went
.

Nikita (56:17):
She put on a good show back then.
I can only imagine Like I sawthe Heiress tour on Disney+.
Yeah, looks like it was a greatshow, yeah.

Lina (56:26):
Yeah, we saw her.
I believe it was a Reputationtour in Philly.

Nikita (56:30):
Well, that's cool.
Yeah, I like T Swift.
Yeah, I like T Swift.

Lina (56:32):
Yeah, I like her music.

Nikita (56:35):
She's due for a new album soon.

Lina (56:37):
Yeah, I feel like we haven't heard anything really
new out of her right.

Nikita (56:40):
What came?

Lina (56:41):
out 22?
There's something that was juston the other day on the radio
from her.

Nikita (56:46):
I don't remember, but the Tortured Poets Department
was her most recent, which wasin April.
I think she dropped that.
She was still touring, yeah,which is wild to think about.
You know, she's doing thesethree hour tours and making a
new album.
It was a double album too.

Lina (57:02):
Yeah, that's crazy, crazy I want to be like her when I
grow up.
You're older than her, doesn'tmatter, okay, I'm still not
crowded, okay did you see?

Nikita (57:14):
there was like pregnancy rumors sparked she was
wearing she?
She went out with I don't knowone of her friends, whoever.
I just happened to see it onfacebook or whatever, but she
was wearing a gucci outfit.
Oh yeah, yeah, and she looked,and it was funny because I
remember thinking to myself, oh,she looks pregnant, whatever,
like.
It was like one of thosefleeting thoughts.

(57:34):
And then, like the next day, Isaw something like taylor swift
sparks pregnancy rumors.

Lina (57:39):
I'm like I thought she looked pregnant too.
Was it just like an empirewasted?

Nikita (57:42):
like, yeah, it just wasn't a flattering yeah outfit
at all on her, which is probablyall it was.

Lina (57:48):
I don't think she's pregnant so have you seen all
those pictures of, like, arianagrande where they showed her
like before and now?
I guess one of the recentthings that she went to and the
dress that she was wearing, theway they styled her hair and
what she looks like now?
And they were saying, like whydoes she look so completely like
a different human being thanshe did before?
No, all right, I'm going tohave to find it and send it to
you.
I thought the same thing too,because I saw her and I'm like,

(58:09):
wow, Well, she did lose a lot ofweight too.
Yes, yeah, she got really,really thin.
But and was that for wicked?
I don't know, I'm not sure,just in general.
It was like some award showthat she was going to.
I don't know if it was like theGrammys or the Academy Awards
or something.

Nikita (58:41):
And it was like the outfit choice that she had and
the way she did looked nothinglike herself.
Well, that's even like um kyliejenner.
Yeah, I've been seeing allkinds of articles about her and
you know, owning up to all thework she's had done, and you
know the boob job and this andthat and the other thing.
First of all, it's a woman'sright to do whatever they want,
but, like, get off thesepeople's back.
You know what I mean.
Yes, she looks completelydifferent, but she looks
freaking beautiful.
Leave the woman alone.
Yeah, you know, even like chrisjenner, she just had a whole
face work done.

(59:01):
Did you see all that?
No, I didn't say, oh she, youknow who she looks like.
Now.
She looks just like kim, really, oh my god, her and kim are
like identical.
Oh, that's, it's wild.
Yeah so and then even chloe shegets a lot of a lot of hate for
everything.
She but woman's beautiful, yeahso crazy.

Lina (59:20):
It's your own prerogative.
I'm just honestly, I'm way tooscared to ever think about
touching my face.
I do botox yeah, I love it, Idon't know.
I just feel like you can't hideit.
If you bought something else,something else you can like put
clothes over it, but your faceit's there.

Nikita (59:36):
I well.
So I do Botox, but I don't do alot.
You know like I can still movemy face.
I just my face is smooth.
So, yeah, I've only done it afew times, but I love it, I'm
not gonna stop.
Yeah, but again, I can stillmove my face.
But again, I can still move myface.
I still have emotion Motion.
Well, I have emotions.

Lina (59:57):
Sometimes, sometimes I have emotion, motion and emotion
yes.

Nikita (01:00:02):
Yeah Words.
Look at Toby's tongue.
He's so cute.
He's literally snoring overthere with his tongue sticking
out.
Yeah, just like a centimeter.
I think that's a little morethan a centimeter.

Lina (01:00:16):
Yeah, okay, centimeter and a half.
Have you seen that memeSpeaking of people who I had
worked on?
It made me think of Madonna andCher.
Have you seen that meme aboutMadonna and Cher?
And it was like, don't worry ifyou're still single, you could
just be like Madonna and Cher.
Your husband's not even bornyet Because they have like

(01:00:36):
boyfriends that are like 45years younger than them.

Nikita (01:00:38):
No, I didn't see that one.
What was the one name I justsent you, though?
Um, oh, I remember us bothdying, laughing about it, though
I don't remember because yousent me so many.
I do send you a lot.

Lina (01:00:51):
Yeah, wait, let me see if I can find it real quick I love
when you kind of just lookthrough our like social media
chat history and just memes andreels back and forth.

Nikita (01:00:59):
Yeah, I do that with you and my girlfriend Nicole at
work.
Yeah, oh, trust me bro.
Uh, trust me, your best love oflife will become your problem
too.
Oh, yeah.

Lina (01:01:10):
It's so true.

Nikita (01:01:11):
That was, that was oh, and.

Lina (01:01:14):
Tell me, tell me, that wasn't perfect.
Did you literally not just tellme Stop About nude leggings,
yes, yes.
And then I saw that and I sentit to you.
I mean it was perfect.
And I was like, oh my God, Ijust saw your friend in Walmart
and I sent you that meme.

Nikita (01:01:32):
I was dead.
I saw that and I busted outlaughing.
I was like, oh my god, that'sso funny.
It's because I'm funny, we'rejerks.

Lina (01:01:42):
We are jerks, not us.
The girl in the 1992.

Nikita (01:01:47):
Volvo, she's a jerk.
Oh god, what else you got forme?
Anything.

Lina (01:01:51):
Well, I think we should probably save some stuff for
another episode, because I feellike our listeners and our
viewers might be missing us andwe're going to have to come out
with some new content and weneed to get back on the weekly
train if not weekly every otheryeah.

Nikita (01:02:07):
So we need to.

Lina (01:02:08):
We did get a couple emails from some of our listeners.

Nikita (01:02:11):
Oh my gosh.
Yes, we can talk about that inour next one.

Lina (01:02:13):
So I think we should probably about that in our next
one.
So I think we should probablyaddress that in our next one.
Yes, because we want you toknow that if you are reaching
out to us, we do get it, we dosee it.
It's not some third party thatgets it and vets it.
We read them no, we do.
We do everything, from settingup the equipment to recording,
to editing, to posting theaccounts, the whole nine, yeah,

(01:02:34):
yeah so so we will definitelyget to you.
If you've reached out to us, wewill let you know, um, on our
next episode, that we heard fromyou and and what our thoughts
are.
And if you haven't reached outto us and you want to, you are
certainly welcome to reach outto us on our social medias, um,
tiktok, instagram.
We have an email address, soand facebook too.

Nikita (01:02:54):
We're on Facebook and Facebook as well, so definitely
reach out and we could shareanything you would like to share
, we could talk about it.

Lina (01:03:01):
Yeah, until next time.
This is Two Voices, one Vibe.