Full Transcript for We Need to Talk About... Everything, apparently.

said, It's okay, you're not a hugger. 00:02:06.799 --> 00:02:07.680 He goes, Not yet. 00:02:07.760 --> 00:02:17.280 And I was like, okay, but it was incredibly awkward, and I'm sitting, I sat down and I'm like, This is gonna be an interesting conversation. 00:02:17.680 --> 00:02:18.879 Uh, but it went very well. 00:02:18.960 --> 00:02:19.680 It was a good day. 00:02:19.759 --> 00:02:22.159 But that was just sort of my uh awkward moment. 00:02:22.400 --> 00:02:23.599 Did you drop your phone? 00:02:23.919 --> 00:02:25.439 I did not drop my phone. 00:02:25.680 --> 00:02:26.560 Oh my god. 00:02:27.360 --> 00:02:34.319 Oh my god, the moment you said uh you saw him walking towards you and you got up, I had like war flashbacks. 00:02:35.840 --> 00:02:36.800 That was not okay. 00:02:37.039 --> 00:02:38.479 Lena was twitching over here. 00:02:38.639 --> 00:02:41.439 I was like, oh god, this sounds way too familiar. 00:02:41.680 --> 00:02:52.879 For those of you who might not have heard a previous episode, Lena uh was on a first date, and at one point uh when she went up to greet the individual, she flung her phone across the room pretty much. 00:02:52.960 --> 00:03:00.800 And uh I just have to fill the listeners in. 00:03:01.039 --> 00:03:06.319 Well, a part of me also forgot that I told that a story, so then I was like, should I tell that story? 00:03:06.719 --> 00:03:07.759 But it's already done. 00:03:07.919 --> 00:03:09.199 That is how about it. 00:03:09.520 --> 00:03:10.159 That is the problem. 00:03:10.319 --> 00:03:16.479 I mean, all the awkward situations sort of connect and we risk repeating ourselves for sure. 00:03:16.719 --> 00:03:19.120 You gotta get out more dates so you can have more stories. 00:03:19.759 --> 00:03:21.039 I mean, I'm doing my best here. 00:03:21.520 --> 00:03:22.000 No, I can't. 00:03:23.840 --> 00:03:30.159 I feel like the dating pool for 29-year-olds is a bit bigger than the dating pool for 50-year-olds. 00:03:30.719 --> 00:03:34.240 I mean, just because the ocean's bigger doesn't mean there's better fish. 00:03:34.560 --> 00:03:36.000 No, but there's more stories. 00:03:36.240 --> 00:03:38.319 Those fish can tell stories. 00:03:38.800 --> 00:03:40.719 It can give you stories to tell. 00:03:40.800 --> 00:03:42.000 So that's all I'm saying. 00:03:42.319 --> 00:03:44.879 The last fish gave me such a bad story to tell. 00:03:45.039 --> 00:03:46.719 I just need to work up on that. 00:03:46.960 --> 00:03:48.560 Have you been on a date since that one? 00:03:48.719 --> 00:03:52.400 No, I haven't even talked to a man since that day. 00:03:55.120 --> 00:03:57.280 Sorry for all those men that she has talked to. 00:03:57.360 --> 00:03:58.879 She doesn't consider you as men. 00:04:00.159 --> 00:04:00.639 Right. 00:04:00.800 --> 00:04:01.439 Yeah. 00:04:01.840 --> 00:04:02.800 She meant dates. 00:04:02.879 --> 00:04:03.439 That's what she meant. 00:04:03.759 --> 00:04:05.680 Not just men in general, men in her life. 00:04:05.919 --> 00:04:06.080 Yeah. 00:04:06.400 --> 00:04:08.639 They are men, but not the men she was referencing. 00:04:08.879 --> 00:04:09.120 Sure. 00:04:09.280 --> 00:04:11.599 So Gabriella, how about you? 00:04:11.680 --> 00:04:13.120 What's been going on in your life lately? 00:04:13.280 --> 00:04:17.680 Oh, I have um a story to tell from one of our listeners. 00:04:18.399 --> 00:04:21.040 And she starts it by saying, Story time. 00:04:22.399 --> 00:04:31.279 And she says, anyone that is having a bad day or morning, I have a story that may brighten up your day or just give you a reason to laugh. 00:04:32.720 --> 00:04:34.160 We always need reasons to laugh. 00:04:34.399 --> 00:04:35.680 We always need to bring it up. 00:04:36.160 --> 00:04:38.639 She says, I'm a dump truck driver. 00:04:38.800 --> 00:04:43.120 I have tons of knowledge and know how to fix things or investigate solutions. 00:04:43.360 --> 00:04:46.560 However, this morning I was stuck on stupid. 00:04:47.040 --> 00:04:51.199 As usual, I get up and get my morning going, including coffee and a shower. 00:04:51.519 --> 00:04:57.040 After getting ready for the day, I kept hearing my sh it something in my shower, like a motor or something. 00:04:57.199 --> 00:05:00.720 And I began to get into panic mode. 00:05:01.040 --> 00:05:04.800 We just had our bathrooms remodeled last year, so what could it be? 00:05:05.040 --> 00:05:10.399 I called the plumber and I called my husband, my little sis, and her husband. 00:05:10.720 --> 00:05:14.959 Oh my she started with the plumber and then she went with her husband and her sister. 00:05:15.199 --> 00:05:15.680 Yeah, she's then. 00:05:15.920 --> 00:05:17.920 It's just kind of the reverse order that I would start with. 00:05:18.240 --> 00:05:25.759 She called, she called the plumber, she called her husband, she called her little sister and her little sister's husband, and now she is called her brother. 00:05:26.000 --> 00:05:37.519 A plumber can't come until this afternoon, and her sister and her husband kept sending her tons of literature to figure out what she could do until the plumber could show up, and she was really thankful for that. 00:05:38.000 --> 00:05:42.879 She says, I began to freak out, like sweating. 00:05:43.199 --> 00:05:44.399 I was crying. 00:05:44.639 --> 00:05:45.360 Oh my god. 00:05:45.600 --> 00:05:50.079 She said she turned off the shower or shut the water, she shut her house down. 00:05:50.240 --> 00:05:51.360 Electricity. 00:05:51.839 --> 00:05:55.120 Um, she let all the pressure out of all of her lines. 00:05:55.519 --> 00:05:56.879 She thinks the house was gonna blow up. 00:05:57.199 --> 00:06:00.399 Well, she didn't know what the sound was coming, what like this noise was. 00:06:00.639 --> 00:06:04.879 And then her brother-in-law gave her guidance for doing all of that. 00:06:05.120 --> 00:06:14.160 And then so apparently her brother lives like two hours away, and he was the only one that could come over to make sure like the

house didn't blow up. 00:06:14.639 --> 00:06:18.480 So she made her brother drive two hours rather than waiting for a plumber. 00:06:18.639 --> 00:06:19.360 Right, exactly. 00:06:19.600 --> 00:06:20.399 What a good brother. 00:06:20.560 --> 00:06:27.920 I know still confused, she couldn't figure out why the motor sound kept on going. 00:06:28.319 --> 00:06:32.000 Um, so her brother comes out and he starts to investigate. 00:06:32.399 --> 00:06:35.839 And he couldn't figure out right away what the hell the noise was. 00:06:36.160 --> 00:06:44.480 He was like touching, he was getting on his knees, he was trying to listen, and he was actually ready to go down their crawl space to make sure that there wasn't any leaks. 00:06:45.680 --> 00:06:50.399 He stands up, he stops, and he looks up. 00:06:50.800 --> 00:06:51.600 Are you guys ready for this? 00:06:52.079 --> 00:06:52.720 I'm scared. 00:06:54.240 --> 00:06:55.519 Are you about to tell us what it is? 00:06:55.839 --> 00:06:57.439 Do you want to give us the sound first? 00:06:58.240 --> 00:06:59.360 Do you have a recording of the sound? 00:07:00.000 --> 00:07:00.800 This is what it sounds like. 00:07:01.040 --> 00:07:02.079 Yeah, I can do that. 00:07:07.759 --> 00:07:13.439 Yeah, that almost sounds like a jackhammer or something. 00:07:14.000 --> 00:07:15.439 It's a like a like a generator sound. 00:07:15.839 --> 00:07:16.639 Yeah, it's weird, right? 00:07:16.720 --> 00:07:21.439 Like it's not something that you could yeah, do you think that's a good one? 00:07:21.680 --> 00:07:35.759 So um she um so he gets on his knees, he looks up, and it is a toothbrush. 00:07:36.800 --> 00:07:37.279 What? 00:07:37.839 --> 00:07:39.920 Her toothbrush was moving. 00:07:40.240 --> 00:07:46.000 Her toothbrush was vibrating, and it was like over an hour it had been vibrating. 00:07:46.399 --> 00:07:47.199 What was the toothbrush? 00:07:47.439 --> 00:07:48.480 Vibrating against what? 00:07:48.639 --> 00:07:50.319 Yeah, in the shower. 00:07:51.199 --> 00:08:00.879 So um she says, ladies and gentlemen, when brushing your teeth in the shower, make sure you to push the button so that's not vibrating and to cause so much chaos. 00:08:01.120 --> 00:08:02.399 You're allowed to laugh. 00:08:02.560 --> 00:08:07.120 And then she does send a little oh my mother, I know, she does send another video. 00:08:07.360 --> 00:08:09.199 Um, and let me see if I can play that. 00:08:10.720 --> 00:08:15.680 He did not, you know, but take a second and he points up at my toothbrush. 00:08:16.000 --> 00:08:17.279 And here we go. 00:08:18.399 --> 00:08:19.920 Yeah, that's the problem. 00:08:20.079 --> 00:08:26.800 It's just literally literally sitting on the oh my god, the brother drove two hours. 00:08:27.040 --> 00:08:28.959 Oh, for a toothbrush. 00:08:31.279 --> 00:08:33.039 Oh my god, big time. 00:08:33.279 --> 00:08:36.720 Yeah, but imagine if it was the plumber. 00:08:37.519 --> 00:08:39.120 Okay, I think it would you're right. 00:08:39.440 --> 00:08:42.320 I mean, and she pays$200 for an emergency toothbrush. 00:08:42.480 --> 00:08:43.039 Oh my god. 00:08:43.279 --> 00:08:45.279 Yeah, I would rather my brother do that. 00:08:45.360 --> 00:08:47.840 But yeah, that's so funny. 00:08:48.159 --> 00:08:48.799 So funny. 00:08:49.039 --> 00:08:54.879 I mean, when you almost released, you know, told us what it was. 00:08:55.039 --> 00:09:04.159 I was thinking it was something that was vibrating, but I did not think toothbrush, so I'm glad it was a toothbrush, ladies and gentlemen. 00:09:04.399 --> 00:09:05.679 I mean it could have been worse. 00:09:05.919 --> 00:09:07.440 It could have been worse. 00:09:07.679 --> 00:09:09.120 Yeah, like it could have been worse. 00:09:09.279 --> 00:09:12.480 So that's got that thing's got a pretty good battery to like. 00:09:12.799 --> 00:09:13.840 I know for over an hour? 00:09:14.320 --> 00:09:16.399 Over an hour for a tiny thing. 00:09:16.639 --> 00:09:18.799 Do you brush your teeth in the I don't? 00:09:19.039 --> 00:09:20.720 I don't I don't either. 00:09:20.799 --> 00:09:21.600 I've heard people doing that. 00:09:21.759 --> 00:09:24.559 I'm like, I don't know, that's just weird to me. 00:09:24.879 --> 00:09:33.600 If I had a regular toothbrush, I might, but I have an electric toothbrush that's you're technically not supposed to get water into it. 00:09:34.320 --> 00:09:34.720 Yeah. 00:09:34.960 --> 00:09:36.559 So I can't take it in the shower with me. 00:09:36.799 --> 00:09:39.600 Well, it just looked like it was up on a upper shelf. 00:09:39.759 --> 00:09:40.480 Yeah, upper shelf. 00:09:40.799 --> 00:09:42.639 Maybe yeah, weird. 00:09:42.879 --> 00:09:43.360 I don't know. 00:09:43.600 --> 00:09:52.080 I just have never I guess I just get in, get out, get cleaned, and not standing there with in the hot water brushing my teeth. 00:09:52.240 --> 00:09:53.840 But I've heard lots of people that do. 00:09:54.080 --> 00:09:55.039 I've heard lots of people do that too. 00:09:55.679 --> 00:09:57.600 Um something similar happened to me the other day. 00:09:57.840 --> 00:10:01.679 Like literally or something else. 00:10:02.000 --> 00:10:03.360 No, it was something else. 00:10:03.840 --> 00:10:11.600 I was driving the other day, and as I'm driving, I was going to a doctor's appointment. 00:10:11.759 --> 00:10:20.639 As I'm driving, all of a sudden, in my car, something keeps going beep and it's this constant beeping. 00:10:20.960 --> 00:10:24.720 And so I start freaking out because I'm like, oh my god, is it my tires? 00:10:24.799 --> 00:10:26.559 Is my car trying to tell me something? 00:10:26.799 --> 00:10:35.360 But usually if it were like my tires or whatever, I have a little display on my dash that will tell me what it is, but it's completely normal. 00:10:35.519 --> 00:10:42.960 I had no lights on, nothing, so I'm like, oh god, oh god, oh god, and I'm I'm like pulling onto the freeway, but I'm freaking out because this beeping is really

loud. 00:10:43.120 --> 00:10:44.879 And if you're gonna break down, you don't want to do it on the freeway. 00:10:45.120 --> 00:10:52.720 Right, so then I like pull off immediately right off, um, right as I get onto the on-ramp, and I stop my car. 00:10:52.799 --> 00:10:54.720 I'm like looking around, I'm looking around. 00:10:54.879 --> 00:10:57.519 I can't figure out where this beeping is coming from. 00:10:57.679 --> 00:11:03.279 It's really loud, and freaking out, and then I was like, okay, I'm just gonna turn off my car. 00:11:03.360 --> 00:11:05.039 I turn off my car and it stops. 00:11:05.279 --> 00:11:10.000 So I go, okay, it was my car, but I can't figure out what it was. 00:11:10.559 --> 00:11:12.480 But what am I gonna do at this point, right? 00:11:12.559 --> 00:11:14.960 Like everything else, everything in my car looks to be okay. 00:11:15.039 --> 00:11:17.840 So I was like, okay, the beeping's gone, I'm gonna try to turn it on again. 00:11:17.919 --> 00:11:23.679 I turn on my car, it doesn't beep, so I start driving again, and then it starts going off a few minutes later again. 00:11:24.000 --> 00:11:27.840 And so again, I'm freaking out, like, oh my god, what is this? 00:11:27.919 --> 00:11:29.840 But I gotta get to my appointment, I'm gonna be late. 00:11:29.919 --> 00:11:30.720 So I just keep driving. 00:11:30.879 --> 00:11:32.399 So I drive, drive, drive. 00:11:32.480 --> 00:11:34.720 Eventually, a few minutes later, it stops again. 00:11:34.960 --> 00:11:37.759 So I'm like, okay, weird. 00:11:38.480 --> 00:11:54.720 So then as I'm like driving into the parking lot of my doctor's appointment, my um clinic, I realized that I have a bag in the back of my car that had been sitting in my living room for quite some time. 00:11:54.879 --> 00:12:08.879 And last weekend, two weekends ago, I had a yard sale, and I just kind of like I had crap all over my house, and I just needed this one thing, one space to be clear, so I had shoved a bunch of things in that area into bags around it. 00:12:09.120 --> 00:12:11.919 Um, not thinking anything of it. 00:12:12.240 --> 00:12:17.840 One of the things that I had accidentally shoved in there was my smoke detector. 00:12:18.000 --> 00:12:18.799 Oh no. 00:12:20.480 --> 00:12:25.200 Um that had gone off while I was cooking, and then I got annoyed. 00:12:25.440 --> 00:12:43.440 Um and so I took it off the ceiling and I had left it somewhere, but again, I needed that space, so I just shoved that thing into one of my purses or like my bags, and then I had put that back in my car, and the thing was running out of batteries. 00:12:43.600 --> 00:12:44.320 Oh no wonder. 00:12:44.559 --> 00:12:44.799 Yes. 00:12:45.120 --> 00:12:50.320 How long how long has it been off of your ceiling, Lena? 00:12:50.879 --> 00:12:51.759 Quite some time. 00:12:52.080 --> 00:12:52.720 A couple weeks. 00:12:53.039 --> 00:12:55.600 And it's yeah, a couple weeks. 00:12:56.639 --> 00:12:57.519 Too longer than I've got to be. 00:12:57.679 --> 00:13:02.000 But how ironic that you turn off your car and it stops making that noise. 00:13:02.399 --> 00:13:02.639 Why? 00:13:02.720 --> 00:13:04.399 I was like, it's gotta be my car. 00:13:04.480 --> 00:13:06.559 It turned off when I turned off my car. 00:13:06.879 --> 00:13:08.240 So I was freaking out. 00:13:08.320 --> 00:13:11.200 I was like, who do I call if I break down on the middle of the freeway? 00:13:11.279 --> 00:13:12.639 Who do I call? 00:13:13.039 --> 00:13:14.240 What do I do? 00:13:14.480 --> 00:13:16.720 So Lena, is it still in your car? 00:13:22.639 --> 00:13:26.000 Um, I can't answer that question. 00:13:26.399 --> 00:13:27.679 She bleeds the fan. 00:13:27.840 --> 00:13:36.159 Um, only because so when I realized it was my battery that was running out, I obviously pulled it out. 00:13:36.240 --> 00:13:38.000 I pulled out the battery. 00:13:39.279 --> 00:13:47.039 A little part of me thinks I put it back in that bag, but a part of me also thinks that I just threw it somewhere in my car. 00:13:47.759 --> 00:13:48.559 That makes sense. 00:13:48.879 --> 00:13:55.759 And the bag is inside my house now, so it's either inside my bag in my house, or it's in your car somewhere. 00:13:56.159 --> 00:14:00.000 Either way, it's not notifying you of the beeping anymore, so I'm okay now. 00:14:00.240 --> 00:14:01.440 Well, it doesn't have a battery. 00:14:01.759 --> 00:14:04.639 I'm just saying she needs a smoke detector in her house. 00:14:05.039 --> 00:14:09.120 Well, I have a story about driving. 00:14:09.759 --> 00:14:10.240 Go over it. 00:14:10.639 --> 00:14:11.279 Not with a smoke detector. 00:14:11.519 --> 00:14:12.639 Not with a smoke detector. 00:14:12.879 --> 00:14:15.360 So uh it's fall, right? 00:14:16.000 --> 00:14:22.480 Um, it's gonna be Halloween here pretty soon, and all of the critters are coming out. 00:14:22.559 --> 00:14:25.360 So I was driving, it was really cold in the morning. 00:14:25.519 --> 00:14:41.360 Um, I was running late to work as I always am, and jumped in my car and was driving on the freeway, and um out of the corner of my eye, I see this web, like a spider web, and I was like, oh, that's not good. 00:14:41.519 --> 00:14:44.080 I don't know where what what's going on with that. 00:14:44.320 --> 00:14:45.679 And then I see the spider. 00:14:45.840 --> 00:14:46.399 Oh no. 00:14:46.720 --> 00:14:53.679 And it was like while you're driving, while I'm driving, oh no, like was like coming down like in front of my eyes. 00:14:54.480 --> 00:15:00.000 No no no, yeah, and so I'm not scared of spiders, but I don't want them on me. 00:15:00.480 --> 00:15:11.519 And I definitely don't like their web on me either, because then I always feel like I have spiders all over on me, you know, just like when you walk through a spider web, I just feel like there's always whatever crawling on me. 00:15:12.080 --> 00:15:25.120 And um, so I'm at the light to turn into work, and I'm like like trying to get this,

I'm waving and batting and trying to get it away from me, and I must look like somebody who's very special. 00:15:26.000 --> 00:15:33.840 Like just waving at anything in front of me, and I look over, this car is looking at me like, are you okay? 00:15:34.159 --> 00:15:35.759 No, I'm not okay. 00:15:36.000 --> 00:15:39.360 There is a spider dangling from my roof of my car. 00:15:40.960 --> 00:15:46.879 I got it, I got it to work, jumped out, and I was looking for it and I didn't find it, so I don't know where it went. 00:15:46.960 --> 00:15:48.159 It's probably still in my car. 00:15:48.480 --> 00:15:50.320 But anyway, I thought that was actually kind of funny. 00:15:50.559 --> 00:15:51.600 It's probably still in your car. 00:15:51.679 --> 00:15:52.639 I made a little home. 00:15:52.879 --> 00:15:53.519 Probably had babies. 00:15:53.840 --> 00:15:54.480 I have a baby. 00:15:55.519 --> 00:15:58.240 Spiders love to have babies in my car. 00:15:58.639 --> 00:15:59.039 Yeah. 00:15:59.279 --> 00:16:00.480 I don't know why. 00:16:01.120 --> 00:16:03.919 I don't know either, but so I feel for you on that one. 00:16:04.000 --> 00:16:07.039 But you not knowing where the sound was and me swiping around. 00:16:07.120 --> 00:16:09.039 Do you have any funny stories about driving? 00:16:09.360 --> 00:16:22.320 I don't, but I mean, we went from smoke detectors and driving to spiders and driving, and what immediately came to my mind was when I was vacuuming out my car uh with a shop vac. 00:16:22.559 --> 00:16:45.200 I used to live sort of in the boonies in a rural area, and um we had a critter problem out there in the boonies, and I was uh using the shop vac and I went to down to turn it on, but before I turned it on, I picked up the hose, and there's a mouse sitting on the end of the hose. 00:16:45.440 --> 00:16:46.159 In the end of the hose? 00:16:46.480 --> 00:16:50.559 Right, like just like I pick it up right there in the round, it was just sitting right there, like staring at me. 00:16:50.879 --> 00:16:51.279 Oh no, uh. 00:16:52.799 --> 00:17:03.519 I immediately just like reflex, just like flung the hose, and I'm sure that mouse went flying across the garage. 00:17:03.600 --> 00:17:06.480 It was three-car garage, and I had no idea where it went. 00:17:06.799 --> 00:17:20.480 But that I literally did like some sort of panic dance in the garage, like heebie jeeby, and I felt like yucky yucky, like there's rodents and rodent, and then I was convinced that they were every whole garage was infested. 00:17:20.640 --> 00:17:21.359 Oh yes. 00:17:21.599 --> 00:17:24.400 Um I got chills. 00:17:24.640 --> 00:17:28.319 Yeah, those mice they can get in anywhere, anywhere in small, tiny. 00:17:28.880 --> 00:17:32.480 It's like you don't think, like, yeah, like they can make it under your garage door. 00:17:32.559 --> 00:17:32.880 I can't. 00:17:33.039 --> 00:17:38.079 That thing's all the way to the ground, and they somehow flatten their bodies. 00:17:38.480 --> 00:17:38.880 Oh, I know. 00:17:39.119 --> 00:17:42.799 And they're like, Yeah, it's so weird. 00:17:43.200 --> 00:17:46.000 So, yeah, that that is what came to mind for me. 00:17:46.160 --> 00:17:50.640 So, not I am not afraid of spiders, they don't bother me at all. 00:17:50.799 --> 00:17:57.279 My sister is very afraid of spiders, and I'm sure you don't I mean I don't mind spiders, but I don't want them on me. 00:17:57.519 --> 00:17:58.079 No, no, I agree. 00:17:58.319 --> 00:18:02.960 No, but like if there's one in your house on the wall on the other side of the room, what would you do? 00:18:03.279 --> 00:18:06.400 I I probably would watch it until I got close to it. 00:18:06.799 --> 00:18:07.680 Pick it up and take it outside. 00:18:08.000 --> 00:18:11.200 She would be able to either pick it up, take it outside, or smush it or something. 00:18:11.920 --> 00:18:12.160 Something. 00:18:12.400 --> 00:18:13.519 Yeah, my sister can't do that. 00:18:13.680 --> 00:18:18.240 Yeah, she literally, and well, if her husband's not in town, she'll call my dad. 00:18:18.640 --> 00:18:18.960 Oh, really? 00:18:19.279 --> 00:18:21.359 I've even taken care of spiders for her before. 00:18:21.599 --> 00:18:24.400 I just think it's I don't they're well, how they're not gonna hurt you. 00:18:24.640 --> 00:18:25.839 I mean, some of them can. 00:18:26.240 --> 00:18:29.359 It's not a black widow, it's a little house spider. 00:18:29.680 --> 00:18:32.480 Some of those little house spiders are very large this year. 00:18:32.799 --> 00:18:37.599 They are, but they're still house spiders, which are actually beneficial. 00:18:37.759 --> 00:18:38.720 They eat the other bugs. 00:18:38.960 --> 00:18:39.359 I agree. 00:18:39.440 --> 00:18:41.759 I'm just saying, I don't really want them on me. 00:18:42.559 --> 00:18:48.720 Spiders are the only bugs that I will let reside in my home. 00:18:49.039 --> 00:18:49.200 Right. 00:18:49.440 --> 00:18:50.319 Because they are good. 00:18:50.720 --> 00:18:52.160 Because they eat the other bugs. 00:18:52.640 --> 00:18:53.759 But they have to. 00:18:53.920 --> 00:19:02.319 They absolutely have to have to have to either be somewhere where I cannot reach them or be just like slightly out of my line of sight. 00:19:02.559 --> 00:19:04.319 Because you don't know you don't want to see them. 00:19:04.559 --> 00:19:11.440 Yeah, those the ones that come into my shower and hang out in my bathtub. 00:19:11.680 --> 00:19:14.079 Oh no, those guys, mm-mm. 00:19:14.720 --> 00:19:18.240 Straight, straight down the drain. 00:19:18.640 --> 00:19:19.279 Death. 00:19:20.000 --> 00:19:21.200 You flush them, you squish them. 00:19:21.440 --> 00:19:24.240 Yeah, I squish them and then I flush them. 00:19:24.640 --> 00:19:25.039 Me too. 00:19:25.119 --> 00:19:25.359 Yeah. 00:19:25.440 --> 00:19:29.119 There's like, I will squish you and then I will drown just in case. 00:19:29.519 --> 00:19:33.759 And then I get scared for like a week after that it's gonna come

back alive up the toilet. 00:19:34.559 --> 00:19:35.839 That's hilarious. 00:19:36.079 --> 00:19:37.440 She's gonna open her toilet. 00:19:37.519 --> 00:19:40.000 It'll be like Halloween, like all the spiders just. 00:19:40.400 --> 00:19:40.960 What was that movie? 00:19:41.119 --> 00:19:42.559 Arachnophobia that had that? 00:19:42.799 --> 00:19:44.079 Like the whole house was engulfed in that. 00:19:44.319 --> 00:19:45.039 Have you seen that movie? 00:19:45.200 --> 00:19:46.000 I will not be seen. 00:19:46.880 --> 00:19:48.400 I have not and will not. 00:19:48.720 --> 00:19:49.519 That's a good movie. 00:19:49.599 --> 00:19:50.240 I haven't seen that movie. 00:19:50.319 --> 00:19:50.720 I haven't seen it. 00:19:51.039 --> 00:19:51.119 Yeah. 00:19:51.519 --> 00:19:53.920 John Goodman is the uh exterminator. 00:19:54.240 --> 00:19:56.960 Exterminator, and these spiders are going around. 00:19:57.599 --> 00:20:02.000 I don't do I I don't do bug movies because bugs freak me out. 00:20:02.079 --> 00:20:03.119 I couldn't watch. 00:20:03.519 --> 00:20:06.799 There's a show with a bunch of zombies. 00:20:07.119 --> 00:20:08.640 I can't remember what show it was. 00:20:08.799 --> 00:20:09.759 It was a really popular show. 00:20:10.240 --> 00:20:10.799 Walking dead. 00:20:10.960 --> 00:20:11.440 Yeah, that one. 00:20:11.759 --> 00:20:15.279 I couldn't watch it because there's so many like bugs around the dead bodies. 00:20:15.440 --> 00:20:15.599 Yeah. 00:20:15.759 --> 00:20:16.720 It was freaking me out. 00:20:16.960 --> 00:20:18.000 No, couldn't do it. 00:20:18.079 --> 00:20:20.640 Um well that show's icky for other reasons. 00:20:21.519 --> 00:20:23.359 I didn't even get far enough to get to the actual movie. 00:20:25.519 --> 00:20:27.039 I don't do scary things. 00:20:27.119 --> 00:20:28.559 Like I don't watch scary stuff. 00:20:28.799 --> 00:20:30.720 You could watch, you know, a bug's life though. 00:20:30.799 --> 00:20:31.920 The Disney bug movies. 00:20:33.279 --> 00:20:37.440 I could watch it I I still do kind of get the heebie jeebies from those realistic. 00:20:37.680 --> 00:20:39.119 Yeah, and they're so cute. 00:20:40.160 --> 00:20:43.519 Like the freaking crickets, they're creepy. 00:20:43.759 --> 00:20:45.279 Oh, the mean guys in that movie. 00:20:45.440 --> 00:20:45.839 Yeah, yeah. 00:20:46.079 --> 00:20:46.640 They're scary. 00:20:47.359 --> 00:20:48.160 The grasshoppers are creepy. 00:20:48.240 --> 00:20:49.359 Yeah, I think they're grasshoppers, but yes. 00:20:49.680 --> 00:20:50.640 They might be grasshoppers. 00:20:50.720 --> 00:20:51.599 Yeah, but yeah, they're mean. 00:20:51.759 --> 00:20:52.160 I don't know. 00:20:52.240 --> 00:20:52.559 Yeah. 00:20:52.799 --> 00:20:53.119 Yeah. 00:20:53.279 --> 00:20:54.480 They're making the ants work. 00:20:54.720 --> 00:20:54.880 Yeah. 00:20:55.200 --> 00:20:57.599 And when all the ants are like lined up. 00:20:59.119 --> 00:21:00.000 I don't like it. 00:21:00.160 --> 00:21:01.519 I don't like

bugs. 00:21:02.000 --> 00:21:02.960 I don't like ants. 00:21:03.039 --> 00:21:05.359 Ants are probably the one bug that freaked me out the most. 00:21:05.839 --> 00:21:06.640 I hate ants. 00:21:07.119 --> 00:21:08.480 Because loathe them. 00:21:09.200 --> 00:21:17.680 You'll be just sitting outside, and all of a sudden you feel a little thing on your arm, and there's like you didn't even know it was there, how long it had been crawling up your arm or your leg or your foot. 00:21:17.839 --> 00:21:20.720 And then you see what they do in those nature videos, right? 00:21:20.880 --> 00:21:26.960 Like, like millions of ants can literally take down something. 00:21:27.200 --> 00:21:27.920 It's gross. 00:21:28.240 --> 00:21:30.000 I don't like those sugar ants either. 00:21:30.319 --> 00:21:31.519 No, sugar ants are the worst. 00:21:31.599 --> 00:21:32.480 They're hard to get rid of too. 00:21:32.640 --> 00:21:33.359 So hard to get rid of it. 00:21:33.519 --> 00:21:43.680 I had really bad ants several The very first time you guys came over to record this at my place, I was like at the end of an ant infestation. 00:21:43.839 --> 00:21:45.599 I think I had kind of warned you guys about it. 00:21:46.799 --> 00:21:52.880 I was having ants come out of my like my AC heater vents out of the ceiling. 00:21:53.599 --> 00:22:03.039 And I didn't realize that until I was sitting on my couch in the living room and they I just I just kept finding ants everywhere and I was like, where are these guys coming from? 00:22:03.440 --> 00:22:04.400 I could live there. 00:22:06.079 --> 00:22:09.599 And then they'd be like crawling on me and be like, where where are these guys coming from? 00:22:09.759 --> 00:22:12.319 And then eventually they'd look like them think that they can crawl on you. 00:22:12.480 --> 00:22:12.799 Yeah. 00:22:12.960 --> 00:22:13.440 Yeah. 00:22:13.680 --> 00:22:15.759 If you're gonna live here, pay some rent. 00:22:18.640 --> 00:22:18.960 Yeah. 00:22:19.119 --> 00:22:28.559 So then I got my landlord got an exterminator and came they came and like killed all of them, but God, that was a terrifying like couple of weeks of my life. 00:22:28.880 --> 00:22:35.039 We paid for port quarterly pest control out on the property, and I continued, I moved into town, I continued to pay for that. 00:22:35.119 --> 00:22:36.720 And I probably don't need that here. 00:22:36.960 --> 00:22:37.839 No, I think we do. 00:22:38.400 --> 00:22:38.880 I think you do. 00:22:39.039 --> 00:22:40.000 For the rodents too? 00:22:40.160 --> 00:22:40.960 Not for the rodents. 00:22:41.039 --> 00:22:43.039 Yeah, I have I have mouse bait boxes outside. 00:22:43.200 --> 00:22:44.000 I'm just paranoid. 00:22:44.079 --> 00:22:45.680 I just you know what though? 00:22:46.000 --> 00:22:46.319 I don't know. 00:22:47.839 --> 00:22:48.079 Yeah. 00:22:48.960 --> 00:22:51.039 Um I remember the rodents. 00:22:51.279 --> 00:22:54.079 I remember um I must have been 17 or 18. 00:22:54.160 --> 00:22:56.640 My brother had and I had moved out into a house that we were renting. 00:22:57.440 --> 00:22:58.079 I remember. 00:22:58.240 --> 00:22:59.599 Yeah, and I was an older home. 00:22:59.839 --> 00:23:00.720 Yeah, it was an older home. 00:23:00.880 --> 00:23:04.160 And I was in a car accident and my knee had hit the dashboard. 00:23:04.319 --> 00:23:09.599 So I was in a cast from my ankle to my hip. 00:23:09.920 --> 00:23:12.400 And um it was hard to move around and something. 00:23:12.559 --> 00:23:34.400 And so I remember, like I was so exhausted, I was a teller at the time, and I came home and I was just exhausted, and I was laying down on the floor in the living room, okay, and um laying on my stomach, and I moved my head, and I am nose to nose with a mouse. 00:23:34.559 --> 00:23:41.359 No, and I was like not screaming, but I really wanted to, and I was not okay with it. 00:23:41.519 --> 00:23:49.440 And I was like, um, um called my brother and uh um it didn't run away when you said something. 00:23:49.680 --> 00:23:52.480 No, I was like, um normally that's that sound would they would scurry away. 00:23:52.640 --> 00:24:07.759 I mean we were just like like not moving, not moving, just looking at each other, and it was like my brother comes running in, he's like, and he's like, whoa! And that's when you know it had like dissipated and ran and stuff, but I was like, that is not okay. 00:24:07.920 --> 00:24:09.359 I guess we'll get goosebumps with it. 00:24:09.519 --> 00:24:25.759 I just don't see where they go and you don't know where they're living, and it's just no, but growing up, we in a in the garage um back in the day, like they had those tubs for like new like to lose weight or something. 00:24:25.920 --> 00:24:38.400 It was like it's all protein, and you would make it a shake or something, slim fast or something along those lines that it was a powder or whatever, and my mom was trying to lose weight or something, but she'd bought a bunch of it but never like used it. 00:24:38.799 --> 00:24:48.079 Yeah, so it was in the garage, and uh we joke about it now, and um, but it was kind of what we called I called the Rambo rat, and it was a mouse. 00:24:48.160 --> 00:24:52.559 Oh, but it was like so big because it had eaten all of the slim fast things. 00:24:52.640 --> 00:24:55.680 So this little tiny mouse was like this big. 00:24:56.000 --> 00:24:56.960 It was like a rat. 00:24:57.119 --> 00:25:04.559 Yeah, it was like huge, it was so big, and so my dad had set the traps out everywhere, and he would set the traps off, right? 00:25:04.720 --> 00:25:09.200 But he was so big that he it didn't like like it didn't kill it. 00:25:09.440 --> 00:25:13.839 Yeah, and so you would see these like blood trails of like whatever. 00:25:14.799 --> 00:25:22.480 And of course, Rambo was big at the time, but so I was like, can you imagine like this rat this rat being like ah and like animated? 00:25:23.519 --> 00:25:26.880 You could have totally

written like a children's book about this Rambo rat. 00:25:27.839 --> 00:25:32.000 It really wasn't, but I in my head I had this vision of like Disney might have bought that from you. 00:25:32.240 --> 00:25:33.119 Maybe too. 00:25:33.440 --> 00:25:36.319 It's still for sale, copyright. 00:25:36.400 --> 00:25:48.160 Yeah, and I think it like ended up going into like an old like sink or something or luggage or something, and oh my gosh, it was like so funny, but just kind of like looked back and was like nice try. 00:25:49.359 --> 00:25:53.920 I think it's so funny as children we live in this like blissful ignorance, right? 00:25:54.000 --> 00:25:58.960 Like, because I never would have thought, so Gabrielle and I, most of you know, we grew up across the street from each other. 00:25:59.119 --> 00:26:03.200 I never would have thought that we had nice or rats in in that area, right? 00:26:03.519 --> 00:26:04.880 I never would have thought about it. 00:26:05.200 --> 00:26:16.480 And I remember when I was probably in my early 20s, I had moved out of the house, I think, by then, but um my parents had this area under the house. 00:26:16.559 --> 00:26:18.000 They we just called it under the house. 00:26:18.079 --> 00:26:21.680 It was like a basement kind of, but it wasn't tall enough to stand in. 00:26:22.000 --> 00:26:24.160 And it's where they kept a bunch of stuff in storage. 00:26:24.480 --> 00:26:33.839 Well, I had a box of uh my grandmother made a bunch of she made us like homemade cabbage patch kids and stuffed animals and all the things. 00:26:34.160 --> 00:26:38.160 I had this doll that was like life size when I was seven. 00:26:38.240 --> 00:26:42.240 It was the same height as me that she'd made for me and everything, and kind of like a my buddy. 00:26:42.880 --> 00:26:50.640 Kind of, but yeah, and it had this yarn hair, her name was Alison, but um anyway. 00:26:51.039 --> 00:27:03.440 I lost all of those because apparently my parents under the house was infested with mice and they had nested in this box of these so but just broke my heart, right? 00:27:03.599 --> 00:27:09.680 Right because I was in my early 20s, my grandmother had passed, and everything almost everything that she'd ever made for me was down there. 00:27:10.160 --> 00:27:12.000 But my daddy didn't my daddy didn't let me like see them. 00:27:12.079 --> 00:27:14.000 He just told me, Oh, by the way, I threw all that away. 00:27:14.160 --> 00:27:17.680 Oh wow, and it was like you you what? 00:27:18.160 --> 00:27:19.440 Like, we didn't try to clean it. 00:27:19.519 --> 00:27:22.160 He's like, No, I just got rid of it, you know, which part I mean now. 00:27:22.240 --> 00:27:24.240 I'm like, yeah, I wouldn't have wanted to try and clean it either. 00:27:24.400 --> 00:27:27.279 But sentimentally it was it was kind of a sad thing. 00:27:27.519 --> 00:27:33.440 So I still have I think I have two or three things that that she had made me that I had taken with me. 00:27:33.680 --> 00:27:37.599 Um but yeah, kind of sad, but mice. 00:27:37.759 --> 00:27:39.680 I never would have thought that they lived right there in town. 00:27:40.160 --> 00:27:42.400 Right in the city limits, like right, yeah, yeah. 00:27:43.279 --> 00:27:48.079 Yeah, because they're so good at hiding and they're so small usually, except for the one the Rambo rat that was in. 00:27:48.559 --> 00:27:50.799 They breed like maniacs. 00:27:51.200 --> 00:27:53.440 You just don't feed your mice slim fast. 00:27:53.759 --> 00:27:57.359 No, but keep your protein powders sealed tightly. 00:27:57.599 --> 00:27:59.920 The slim fast didn't slim them much. 00:28:00.480 --> 00:28:08.160 It made it like seriously, like I mean, I'm like exaggerating, but you can imagine like having its muscles like protruding as it's walking and as its arms and stuff. 00:28:08.559 --> 00:28:08.880 Oh, yeah. 00:28:09.200 --> 00:28:12.720 Like, I mean that's just how like it was so big and so limited. 00:28:13.279 --> 00:28:14.799 Very unattractive mighty mouse. 00:28:14.960 --> 00:28:15.680 Yes, exactly. 00:28:15.920 --> 00:28:17.119 A hairy mighty mouse. 00:28:17.440 --> 00:28:17.680 Yes. 00:28:18.400 --> 00:28:20.400 Yes, exactly, exactly. 00:28:20.960 --> 00:28:22.799 Like all it needed was like a bandana around its foreign. 00:28:22.960 --> 00:28:23.359 Like a villain. 00:28:23.759 --> 00:28:24.400 Picturing a villain. 00:28:24.480 --> 00:28:24.559 Yeah. 00:28:25.440 --> 00:28:26.000 All it needed. 00:28:26.240 --> 00:28:31.119 Just the blue or red bandana around its forehead, and it would have been the Rambo. 00:28:31.680 --> 00:28:32.799 But anyway. 00:28:33.359 --> 00:28:38.240 I mean, this is this is we're invading their space, their homes, but I don't know. 00:28:40.720 --> 00:28:43.519 Yeah, technically it was the garage or under the house. 00:28:43.839 --> 00:28:45.200 Under the house, yeah. 00:28:45.519 --> 00:28:47.200 That sounds like a really bad movie. 00:28:47.359 --> 00:28:47.440 Yeah. 00:28:47.680 --> 00:28:48.240 Under the house. 00:28:49.440 --> 00:28:50.880 It was a very creepy place. 00:28:50.960 --> 00:28:54.559 I remember like my mom would send me down there to like go get this, it's under the house. 00:28:54.720 --> 00:28:57.599 And then I'm like, I don't want to go under the house. 00:28:58.240 --> 00:29:01.200 Because it was an odd little basement because you couldn't stand up. 00:29:01.359 --> 00:29:04.480 So you're walking around in it like hunched over. 00:29:04.960 --> 00:29:06.240 Is it like a crawl space? 00:29:06.319 --> 00:29:16.640 Like it I mean, there's like the full-size door, like demand door to get to it, but then like the ceiling slopes, and it's probably like a total of four feet tall underneath there. 00:29:17.119 --> 00:29:21.599 So lots of storage space, but really awkward to get to, right? 00:29:21.680 --> 00:29:23.119 I wouldn't call it a basement, right? 00:29:23.599 --> 00:29:33.519 Like so it's kind of probably meant to be a crawl space,

but but you know, like our you know, our furnace and everything was under there and you know under the house. 00:29:33.839 --> 00:29:34.400 Under the house. 00:29:34.720 --> 00:29:38.799 And yeah, and the flooring was just like the uh black plastic that you're walking on. 00:29:42.720 --> 00:29:45.279 Any crazy stuff at your house when you grew up? 00:29:45.519 --> 00:29:47.200 We had a lot of cockroaches. 00:29:47.440 --> 00:29:51.680 Oh, I've been so thankful I've never ever had to even see one of those mothers. 00:29:53.119 --> 00:29:57.839 I'm so thankful to have moved here and not have I haven't seen a single cockroach. 00:29:58.319 --> 00:30:00.160 Except for one like on display. 00:30:00.319 --> 00:30:02.400 Like they're they had cockroaches at like the zoo. 00:30:02.640 --> 00:30:03.200 Right, right, right. 00:30:03.279 --> 00:30:06.480 They have a whole exhibit of cockroaches at the zoo, which is just weird. 00:30:07.039 --> 00:30:07.920 Kill them. 00:30:08.400 --> 00:30:09.200 They're not doing anything. 00:30:09.519 --> 00:30:11.680 This is not a this is not an animal we need to put on display. 00:30:11.759 --> 00:30:13.519 Oh gosh, I don't think you can really kill them. 00:30:13.680 --> 00:30:16.559 I think they're like, No, they like live forever. 00:30:16.720 --> 00:30:20.319 Yeah, and they can live in like any sort of environment. 00:30:20.559 --> 00:30:21.279 Yeah, yeah. 00:30:21.519 --> 00:30:24.319 Yeah, they said that like I don't know who they are. 00:30:24.559 --> 00:30:34.799 Um but I heard that if we had some sort of I don't know what, like a nuclear something go off, yeah. 00:30:34.880 --> 00:30:40.160 The one thing that would survive are the cockroaches, which I mean at that point, take me out. 00:30:40.880 --> 00:30:42.960 I know I don't want to be in this world about something. 00:30:43.200 --> 00:30:44.400 Isn't there a Disney movie about that? 00:30:44.480 --> 00:30:44.960 Like Wally. 00:30:45.279 --> 00:30:46.079 Wally, that's right. 00:30:46.559 --> 00:30:46.720 Wally. 00:30:47.200 --> 00:30:48.640 No cockroach that survived. 00:30:48.799 --> 00:30:49.039 Yeah. 00:30:49.119 --> 00:30:50.319 Um yeah. 00:30:50.799 --> 00:30:52.799 The robots going around collecting everything. 00:30:52.960 --> 00:30:53.440 Yeah, yeah. 00:30:53.759 --> 00:30:57.839 Um, yeah, roaches, uh, roaches in Hawaii are on a whole different level. 00:30:57.920 --> 00:31:00.720 They are See, I don't even want to know that Hawaii has roaches. 00:31:00.880 --> 00:31:02.400 Oh, they have so many roaches. 00:31:02.559 --> 00:31:03.119 Did you want to know? 00:31:03.279 --> 00:31:04.240 That's paradise. 00:31:04.559 --> 00:31:07.119 Hawaii, I I deem as like this paradise. 00:31:07.279 --> 00:31:07.599 Oh. 00:31:08.079 --> 00:31:08.400 No. 00:31:09.440 --> 00:31:10.480 No, no, not even. 00:31:12.160 --> 00:31:13.119 I mean, it's gorgeous. 00:31:13.200 --> 00:31:17.440 It's beautiful, don't get me wrong, but it the beauty comes with there's a price. 00:31:17.599 --> 00:31:17.920 Yeah. 00:31:18.240 --> 00:31:18.400 Yeah. 00:31:18.640 --> 00:31:22.480 The cockroaches in Hawaii, they're as big as your palm. 00:31:22.720 --> 00:31:23.039 No! 00:31:23.519 --> 00:31:29.440 They're I honestly like as tall as long as long as your palm and how wide? 00:31:29.839 --> 00:31:32.480 Some of them are like actually almost as big as my palm. 00:31:32.720 --> 00:31:33.119 Nope, nope. 00:31:34.640 --> 00:31:43.119 And they are fast and they have antennas that and then they they fly at you. 00:31:43.440 --> 00:31:43.759 No. 00:31:44.240 --> 00:31:46.720 I didn't know cockroaches I didn't know they could fly either. 00:31:46.880 --> 00:31:47.279 Oh, they fly. 00:31:47.599 --> 00:31:48.240 Make sure they're at you. 00:31:49.039 --> 00:31:49.519 Are they jumping? 00:31:49.759 --> 00:31:50.799 No, they fly. 00:31:50.960 --> 00:31:52.960 They have they fly. 00:31:53.279 --> 00:31:55.039 They have wings. 00:31:56.799 --> 00:31:58.319 And they fly at you. 00:31:58.559 --> 00:31:59.519 The scariest. 00:31:59.839 --> 00:32:01.599 Okay, so do they have wings like bat wings? 00:32:01.680 --> 00:32:03.279 Like are they furry or are they hard? 00:32:03.359 --> 00:32:03.920 Or are they just like? 00:32:04.240 --> 00:32:06.720 Do you really think I got that close to a car? 00:32:07.279 --> 00:32:07.599 I don't know. 00:32:08.079 --> 00:32:09.440 She's like, I have no idea. 00:32:09.680 --> 00:32:11.279 There's no way I would even uh. 00:32:12.400 --> 00:32:12.720 Nope. 00:32:12.880 --> 00:32:13.440 Nope. 00:32:13.680 --> 00:32:14.000 No. 00:32:14.240 --> 00:32:17.599 I um and when you kill them, when you squish them, they crunch. 00:32:17.759 --> 00:32:18.960 Well, yeah, because of the shop. 00:32:20.319 --> 00:32:22.480 I've killed a beetle before that probably some place. 00:32:23.200 --> 00:32:24.160 Like the stink bugs here, too. 00:32:24.240 --> 00:32:24.880 Like when you start the bugs. 00:32:24.960 --> 00:32:26.160 Oh, the stink bugs are off. 00:32:26.240 --> 00:32:27.680 They're like prehistoric. 00:32:28.079 --> 00:32:29.920 Lena's freaking out right now. 00:32:31.039 --> 00:32:32.880 Make an off the bug topic. 00:32:34.000 --> 00:32:34.720 I can't. 00:32:35.599 --> 00:32:36.880 I'm gonna throw up soon. 00:32:37.119 --> 00:32:38.559 Lena's gonna have nightmares too. 00:32:38.799 --> 00:32:39.119 So we can't. 00:32:39.359 --> 00:32:39.680 Moving on. 00:32:40.720 --> 00:32:42.079 No more bugs. 00:32:46.640 --> 00:32:49.519 What else do we have on the agenda today, Amy? 00:32:50.079 --> 00:32:54.559 Um, I want to know what goes through your mind in these certain situations. 00:32:54.799 --> 00:32:59.519 So, like when you when someone says to you, I'm just gonna give you an example, Lena. 00:32:59.680 --> 00:33:00.000 Okay. 00:33:01.519 --> 00:33:08.480 When you were in a relationship, think back to when you were in a relationship, when when when he says, can we talk? 00:33:09.279 --> 00:33:12.079 What goes through your

mind right there when some when he says that? 00:33:12.720 --> 00:33:14.240 He never wanted to talk. 00:33:18.240 --> 00:33:23.680 He never wanted to like initiate, because to me that's like a serious conversation, like something that can we talk? 00:33:23.759 --> 00:33:24.720 How about you, Gabriela? 00:33:24.880 --> 00:33:28.000 She's oh she doesn't bleed it out. 00:33:29.279 --> 00:33:32.880 Um it immediately I'm like, oh my gosh, how much money am I gonna be forking out? 00:33:33.039 --> 00:33:33.519 Can we talk? 00:33:33.839 --> 00:33:36.880 Like, I need to know like that's what comes to buy something on the findings. 00:33:37.200 --> 00:33:40.960 Immediately in your mind, it's like what a healthy relationship. 00:33:43.519 --> 00:33:44.400 Can we talk? 00:33:44.559 --> 00:33:46.640 What that they're talking before they spend money. 00:33:46.960 --> 00:33:55.039 No, that like the first thought you have isn't like, oh my god, he did something bad, or like, oh it's it's like a oh, what are we gonna have to do? 00:33:55.119 --> 00:33:56.000 Like, what are what are we doing? 00:33:56.160 --> 00:33:56.400 You're right. 00:33:56.880 --> 00:33:58.960 Right, because mine's like the opposite of what you just said. 00:33:59.039 --> 00:34:01.519 For some reason, I'm always like internalizing it. 00:34:01.599 --> 00:34:02.960 Like, yeah, like what did I do? 00:34:03.119 --> 00:34:03.359 Yeah. 00:34:03.680 --> 00:34:07.119 Like when he would say, can we talk? 00:34:07.279 --> 00:34:09.679 It'd be like, oh no, what does he think I did? 00:34:09.840 --> 00:34:10.559 What did I do? 00:34:10.719 --> 00:34:14.800 Like what like I was being accused of something that's what immediately goes through my mind. 00:34:15.199 --> 00:34:21.760 When I get asked, well, she doesn't say can we talk, but like at work, yes, if I get told, like, oh, do you have time to talk? 00:34:21.840 --> 00:34:23.119 Or like, do you have time to check it? 00:34:23.280 --> 00:34:24.400 I'm like, oh god, I'm getting fired. 00:34:24.480 --> 00:34:24.960 I didn't even do it. 00:34:25.199 --> 00:34:26.239 Right, you automatically do that too. 00:34:26.480 --> 00:34:29.119 I didn't do anything wrong, but maybe somebody lied about me. 00:34:29.280 --> 00:34:32.719 Maybe somebody thinks I did something, maybe I did something reflected to me. 00:34:32.960 --> 00:34:33.199 Yeah, yeah. 00:34:33.360 --> 00:34:35.360 It's just well, I can see that at work. 00:34:35.599 --> 00:34:37.199 But she said, like in a relationship. 00:34:37.440 --> 00:34:37.920 In a relationship. 00:34:38.239 --> 00:34:38.960 But I can see that at work. 00:34:39.119 --> 00:34:39.199 Yeah. 00:34:39.760 --> 00:34:41.440 So at work, is that where you go at work too? 00:34:41.760 --> 00:34:43.519 At work, I'm thinking, oh, did I do something wrong? 00:34:43.840 --> 00:34:44.159 Okay. 00:34:44.639 --> 00:34:51.440 I think if I were in a relationship with someone who wanted to talk, um I would also They should know better. 00:34:51.519 --> 00:34:52.559 They're in a relationship with Lena. 00:34:52.639 --> 00:34:53.039 They don't talk. 00:34:53.280 --> 00:34:54.320 She doesn't talk. 00:34:54.559 --> 00:34:55.360 They don't talk. 00:34:55.519 --> 00:35:00.880 Don't touch me, don't talk to me, don't even breathe near me. 00:35:03.360 --> 00:35:04.880 I have my hoodie on. 00:35:06.400 --> 00:35:07.760 That should be a clear indication. 00:35:08.000 --> 00:35:09.840 So when you say can we talk, no. 00:35:11.280 --> 00:35:13.119 Why are you even asking? 00:35:15.199 --> 00:35:22.000 How about um when someone introduces you to a person whose name you've already forgotten, what's going through your mind? 00:35:23.119 --> 00:35:25.199 I'm bad with names sometimes. 00:35:25.440 --> 00:35:27.199 Um I can remember a face. 00:35:27.519 --> 00:35:32.000 So if someone I would I I'm that person that says, I'm so sorry, I just forgot your name. 00:35:32.800 --> 00:35:33.440 Give it to me again. 00:35:33.599 --> 00:35:34.800 Like, I mean, that's fine. 00:35:35.679 --> 00:35:37.440 My name's long, so I get it. 00:35:38.320 --> 00:35:40.239 I will immediately forget someone's name. 00:35:40.320 --> 00:35:47.840 Like, if someone introduces, like if you introduced me to Lena, like literally moments later, I will go, I don't remember their name. 00:35:48.559 --> 00:35:53.440 I and I will have to go ask you because I won't admit to you that I've forgotten your name already. 00:35:53.679 --> 00:35:55.119 Oh, I'm like that too. 00:35:55.440 --> 00:35:58.880 Very rarely will I be like, I'm so sorry, I totally forgot your name. 00:35:58.960 --> 00:35:59.360 Can you tell me? 00:35:59.679 --> 00:36:01.599 I think Gabriel will be in all up front on the name. 00:36:01.840 --> 00:36:09.119 I do, I'm like, because I part of it is because I think my name is not as common as like Amy or I feel like it is though. 00:36:09.360 --> 00:36:11.679 It might be now, but like growing up it never was. 00:36:12.159 --> 00:36:14.320 So um, yeah. 00:36:14.559 --> 00:36:17.920 So I'm I'm okay with people saying I forgot your name or how do you say your name. 00:36:18.079 --> 00:36:22.239 And quite honestly, I'd rather tell them how to say my name versus them guessing. 00:36:22.559 --> 00:36:24.719 I just did that before. 00:36:26.320 --> 00:36:30.159 I not only forget names, I also very easily forget faces. 00:36:30.400 --> 00:36:30.880 Oh, really? 00:36:31.280 --> 00:36:31.840 So easily. 00:36:32.000 --> 00:36:41.599 So like if I don't see you for a long time, or if I've only met you once, I most likely than not could not pick you out of a crowd. 00:36:42.480 --> 00:36:57.280 Um so when I used to work retail, um, I had like a general spiel that I would do with all of my customers, and it was easy because I worked retail in a very like touristy part of Hawaii, and so we got a lot of tourists. 00:36:57.599 --> 00:37:00.800 So I never got the same customers twice, except I did. 00:37:00.960 --> 00:37:05.599 Um, and

so I had the same sex spiel where I'd be like, hey guys, how's it going? 00:37:05.760 --> 00:37:07.840 Oh, are you guys do are you guys visiting? 00:37:08.000 --> 00:37:08.800 Do you live here? 00:37:09.199 --> 00:37:11.039 Oh, you're visiting, oh, where are you from? 00:37:11.199 --> 00:37:12.960 Oh, okay, like how long are you staying? 00:37:13.039 --> 00:37:14.320 How are you liking it here? 00:37:14.480 --> 00:37:15.360 All these things, right? 00:37:15.440 --> 00:37:16.639 It just kind of flows in conversation. 00:37:16.880 --> 00:37:18.079 You really shouldn't care about the answer either. 00:37:18.480 --> 00:37:22.079 I don't give a single damn about your answer. 00:37:22.400 --> 00:37:24.480 And I'm an I'm a tourist going, yeah, from watching. 00:37:24.800 --> 00:37:25.599 It's my first time here. 00:37:25.840 --> 00:37:27.039 And you're like, I don't care. 00:37:27.440 --> 00:37:28.320 I don't care. 00:37:28.559 --> 00:37:34.960 Um, and so I've caught myself um more than a handful of times. 00:37:35.039 --> 00:37:43.280 Like on day two of a shift, I'm talking to a couple, and halfway through my conversation with them, I go, I've talked to you before. 00:37:43.519 --> 00:37:48.559 We had the exact same conversation, and you told me the exact same thing two days ago. 00:37:48.800 --> 00:37:49.920 What do they say? 00:37:50.159 --> 00:37:51.360 Um I don't tell them that. 00:37:51.760 --> 00:37:52.880 Oh, you're just saying it in your head. 00:37:53.119 --> 00:37:55.360 Oh yeah, in my head, I'm like, I know you. 00:37:56.000 --> 00:38:04.559 Um It's so funny because I actually like after when I realize that I do that, I'm like, oh my gosh, I just saw you two days ago and had this exact same thing. 00:38:04.719 --> 00:38:07.840 I will be the one person that brings it up and makes it really awkward for everybody. 00:38:08.000 --> 00:38:09.679 You know what I do instead? 00:38:09.840 --> 00:38:14.239 I go, yeah, and then I go in the back and I don't come on until they leave. 00:38:18.079 --> 00:38:20.079 Lita's just gonna hide. 00:38:21.920 --> 00:38:25.440 Meanwhile, in the back, I'm telling my manager, oh my god, you have to go help them. 00:38:25.599 --> 00:38:29.280 I just talked to them two days ago, and I just had the same exact conversation with them. 00:38:29.440 --> 00:38:30.639 You have to go help them. 00:38:30.960 --> 00:38:34.000 But you're maybe did you ever think that they don't recognize you either? 00:38:34.159 --> 00:38:38.320 Maybe they think you're a new uh a new cashier. 00:38:38.719 --> 00:38:41.440 A new uh I mean that's 100% possible. 00:38:41.599 --> 00:38:41.840 Right. 00:38:42.000 --> 00:38:44.639 Yeah, but I mean I can't chance it. 00:38:45.360 --> 00:38:56.239 But I mean, it's a little bit different because them going to a store is like Lena seeing hundreds of couple people a day where they're only seeing a handful. 00:38:56.320 --> 00:39:03.199 So depends upon how much shopping they're doing and how many clerks that look like Lena that live there. 00:39:03.440 --> 00:39:05.039 Oh, there's a lot of Asians in Hawaii. 00:39:05.440 --> 00:39:05.679 See? 00:39:06.000 --> 00:39:06.960 I didn't want to say it. 00:39:07.039 --> 00:39:08.400 I let her say it, okay? 00:39:08.639 --> 00:39:11.039 That's all the whole lot of us. 00:39:12.800 --> 00:39:14.159 I'm glad you got my point. 00:39:14.239 --> 00:39:14.639 Yep. 00:39:15.199 --> 00:39:16.480 Because I didn't. 00:39:17.119 --> 00:39:18.480 I was like, no. 00:39:18.719 --> 00:39:19.840 I don't understand. 00:39:20.079 --> 00:39:21.360 I mean Lena's Lena. 00:39:21.440 --> 00:39:22.800 I'm gonna not recognize Lena. 00:39:24.239 --> 00:39:28.079 That is because I remember a face, not necessarily a name, but I remember a face. 00:39:28.800 --> 00:39:30.639 You'd probably remember her the next year when you went. 00:39:31.039 --> 00:39:31.280 Probably. 00:39:31.519 --> 00:39:32.079 Yeah, probably. 00:39:32.480 --> 00:39:33.119 I would not. 00:39:33.360 --> 00:39:33.599 Yeah. 00:39:33.840 --> 00:39:35.199 She'd be like, I don't know. 00:39:35.280 --> 00:39:43.280 You and I probably would have had some sort of conversation and we would have shared something about like something that's happened in your life or something, and then like bring it up. 00:39:43.440 --> 00:39:44.960 When I was working in retail. 00:39:45.280 --> 00:39:46.320 Oh, there's no way. 00:39:46.559 --> 00:39:47.039 I don't know. 00:39:47.280 --> 00:39:49.679 No, you might have tried. 00:39:50.000 --> 00:39:50.480 Yeah, yeah. 00:39:50.639 --> 00:39:57.360 You would have been, I but I would have just retracted right back into my shelf, gone into the back and sent my manager out to talk to you. 00:39:57.679 --> 00:40:00.480 It's one of those things though, but people just share their whole life history with me. 00:40:00.559 --> 00:40:02.800 It's not necessarily that I say anything. 00:40:03.039 --> 00:40:10.239 Like you may ask me a question and I will answer it, which will bring something up with somebody, and they'll be like, oh, that reminds me of blah blah blah blah blah. 00:40:10.400 --> 00:40:15.039 And they tell me like way more information than I ever needed to know or ask about somebody. 00:40:15.119 --> 00:40:22.239 And I get a thousand times out of a thousand times they'll say, It's really weird, is I never share this much information with random people. 00:40:22.400 --> 00:40:26.400 I get that all the time, and I'm like, okay, I just love a way with people. 00:40:26.559 --> 00:40:27.440 I don't know, it's weird. 00:40:27.840 --> 00:40:29.440 You get that too, though, don't you? 00:40:29.679 --> 00:40:30.159 I think you do. 00:40:30.320 --> 00:40:32.960 I think I tend to ask a lot of questions and bring it out in people. 00:40:33.119 --> 00:40:34.400 People don't just open up to me. 00:40:34.559 --> 00:40:34.800 Yeah. 00:40:34.960 --> 00:40:38.400 I'm just that I I'm good at probing. 00:40:39.119 --> 00:40:39.440 Yeah. 00:40:39.679 -->

00:40:41.360 Yeah, they're such social butterflies. 00:40:41.840 --> 00:40:43.360 Lena's just like, don't talk too much. 00:40:44.159 --> 00:40:45.840 I did enough talking in retail. 00:40:45.920 --> 00:40:47.599 I no longer work retail. 00:40:48.159 --> 00:40:49.519 I've never worked retail. 00:40:50.000 --> 00:40:50.800 Nor am I. 00:40:51.039 --> 00:40:55.440 Well, I mean, I guess the front counter is public service. 00:40:55.840 --> 00:40:59.679 I worked uh at the letterbox, but I don't really call that retail. 00:41:00.559 --> 00:41:02.239 It's kind of public service. 00:41:02.480 --> 00:41:02.719 Yeah. 00:41:02.880 --> 00:41:10.400 Not necessarily like clothing or anything like that, but then I worked down at the I worked at the front desk at the sh outside the jail at the sheriff's office. 00:41:10.800 --> 00:41:11.440 You did do that. 00:41:11.840 --> 00:41:13.519 But I again would not call that retail. 00:41:13.599 --> 00:41:15.199 I was not selling anything. 00:41:16.159 --> 00:41:17.280 I hope you aren't. 00:41:17.519 --> 00:41:20.400 What about the the old folks home that you worked at? 00:41:20.800 --> 00:41:21.679 I was a waitress. 00:41:21.920 --> 00:41:22.079 Yeah. 00:41:23.119 --> 00:41:26.880 So for retirement slash nursing home. 00:41:27.039 --> 00:41:27.360 Yeah. 00:41:27.599 --> 00:41:29.119 Also, not retail. 00:41:29.280 --> 00:41:30.239 I did not get tips. 00:41:30.719 --> 00:41:32.000 You didn't get any tips. 00:41:32.480 --> 00:41:34.159 No, we were not allowed to accept tips. 00:41:34.480 --> 00:41:41.840 I did get several Christmas gifts a couple years in a row from the from the elderly gentlemen who like to consider themselves my grandpas. 00:41:42.159 --> 00:41:44.079 But that's so sweet. 00:41:44.320 --> 00:41:44.719 That's cute. 00:41:45.039 --> 00:41:46.320 Yeah, they were very sweet. 00:41:47.039 --> 00:41:47.440 Yeah. 00:41:48.000 --> 00:41:49.519 Well, I think that's about all. 00:41:49.599 --> 00:41:52.000 We've chatted your ears off for the evening. 00:41:52.239 --> 00:41:54.800 Thank you so much for listening to our episode. 00:41:55.039 --> 00:42:01.920 If you could please rate us wherever you listen to your podcasts and follow us, we would greatly appreciate that. 00:42:02.000 --> 00:42:03.519 And follow us on social media. 00:42:03.760 --> 00:42:11.280 What we'd like even more is if you could please send us a message via our website or socials, certifiably awkward.com. 00:42:12.400 --> 00:42:14.719 Send us your awkward stories, something to share. 00:42:15.119 --> 00:42:16.000 Ask us questions. 00:42:16.079 --> 00:42:17.199 What do you want to know about us? 00:42:17.360 --> 00:42:19.440 Please just engage with us. 00:42:19.760 --> 00:42:21.199 Give us something to talk about. 00:42:21.440 --> 00:42:29.440 Yeah, we're running out of stories because, you know, we can't talk about most of you because that we know because you listen to the podcast. 00:42:29.599 --> 00:42:31.280 So give us some stories. 00:42:31.519 --> 00:42:34.719 So thanks again. 00:42:34.960 --> 00:42:35.599 Bye. 00:42:35.920 --> 00:42:36.400 Bye.