Welcome to Buns and Banter, a podcast by work Busties for work Busties.
Hey, I'm Lauren and I'm Ali. We're both borning show hosts for iHeartMedia.
We're both millennials, and we're both trying to figure out how to build
the lives we dream about, dating, marriage, career, career and being
a mom. How to get through a week without crying. Welcome to Buns
and Banter. We're glad you're here. Two houses, one house that stuff,
one house does some stuff. I hate that limbo. Yeah, but
I hate change. Yeah, it's probably been a while since you've moved ten
years almost ten years. Whoa happy new Year? Like New Year's same year?
Stressful shit, Oh my gosh. Yeah, I feel like we really
need to reset and just like let our dear viewers and our dear listeners know
what has transpired over the last two months. We closed out twenty twenty three.
Yeah with a freaking bang, that's a word for it. Yeah,
so much has happened. So let's talk about the last two months. Okay,
elephant in the room. The podcast isn't over. We just took the
holidays off. Yeah, well, just from the podcast, which is actually
really unfortunate, because I think it is, for both of us, our
most favorite thing and unfortunately the thing that tends to fall down that priority list.
Yeah, and our two months were just so absolutely insane. We could
not find a single day any week where we could both sit down and do
this. Truly, truly, it was wild but big news, big,
Oh my gosh, we bought a new house. It is very exciting and
I am very blessed. I understand that because I know there's a lot of
people that are still house hunting that are just like, wow, it's absolutely
the most demoralizing thing I could imagine. And there there were a few.
There was a few, a few instances. There was a few. And
here's how it started real quick, just to give you the idea of the
stark difference between myself and my husband. So in October one of so,
my husband's a realtor, and then one of his coworkers came to him and
said, Hey, I was talking about your house one day, and I
have clients that are kind of interested in maybe looking at it. We we
were not listed, we were not on the market. We were not even
going like I thought, I'd still have another summer there before we really started
to look that's why you should be nice to your colleagues, So I should
be nice to your colleagues. And we like sped clean to the house in
two hours on a Friday. They came and looked at it and they were
like, yeah, we want to buy it, and then gave us five
more than we were even thinking of listing it at. I go, oh
my gosh, okay, like buying it off market. Let's pump the brakes.
We have nowhere to go. Chris goes absolutely, let's sign on the
dotted line. So the end of I even know you sometime? How long
have we been together? How long have you known me? Like I remember
somebody asked me last night because I've just been having so much anxiety. I
don't do well with change. This house is very different financially than the house
we bought in twenty fourteen, and so my friend was like, it's really
exciting, though, why are you anxious? And I'm like, do none
of you know me? I would like shit turns of anxiety for fun,
Like I'm just everything blessed that's blessed, like some of us could be so
lucky. So that was a big part of the end of our twenty twenty
three and we finally found a place. And so now we are in the
process of we're in that limbo where we're going between two houses and then middle
of the month we'll be out of the other one. And I'm having all
these feels because I'm a woman and it's like, there were so many firsts
in this house. That's where we like brought our babies home. But at
the same time, God, we need more space. I love my kids
so much, but I am so tired of living literally on top of them.
So it'll be good. It'll be good, and we're like, we're
into neighborhood life. I am so excited for you, but I'm so curious
as to how this journey will go. My sister and her husband and they're
like they had a baby and moved in the same week. Oh my god,
bless your sister, or like the same month. No, all feels
the same, And I tell you it has just bet they like hit the
ground running, and that was she went from two to three in that instant.
Kids and then they had like a new house and they moved like a
half an hour away. They're so much closer to my parents now nice,
but the adjustment with the kids was, in my opinion, hilarious. They
didn't think so, but I just kids don't know that they can be such
savages and like just completely destroy you in the span of six words. So
unaware they and why should be aware? Like it's not their responsibility. It's
like tiny humans to manage our like adult emotions. But I'm just so still
hurtful. I'm so ready for all the stories and like Sophia and Will just
like knowing their personalities, I'm like, I can't wait for all the moving
stories and all the new house stories. I I don't. People have asked
me that they're like, well, do the are the kids excited? I'm
like, I don't know if they get it yet. Yeah, they're like
excited about this new space. But they also were super stoked when they went.
We took them house hunting with us. Would buy a sitter, Okay,
get a sitter? Yeah that was that's good. Oh and then every
time we go to kindergarten the next days like yep, move to a new
place. And I was like, we're not living in seventeen different houses,
bro, Like we don't. So I don't know if they fully get it.
I will tell you that we closed earlier in the week and the first
time we went in the house as ours, uh huh, will beefed it,
I mean Yard sailed it on the hardwood floor, smashed his face,
started crying. At the same time, my dog Bulah took a giant poop
on the other side of the hard white floor. So I was just like,
oh my god, hello everyone, We're super excited to be here.
What a great start. Yeah, what just a poetic start to a fresh,
brand, new beginning. I'm so glad you put it that way because
I was about to say a great start to a fresh new health gape.
Yeah on brand, but on brand, so on brand, Yes, but
I'm also throwed them feeling better. That was another lovely part of my twenty
twenty three. Yeah, you were sick for like two months, two months,
like, go to your PCP because I had an antibiotic resistant respiratory infection
like the dogs. Yeah, it was insane. Well I don't think no,
was the dog's respiratory. Yeah, remember all those Yes, I'm sorry,
I'm not carrying you to a dog. But there was that mystery like
kennel cough thing going around, but it was like antibiotic resistant and they didn't
know how these dogs were getting it, and like a lot of people didn't
even know dog could cough, and I do. I saw the videos too,
so I had kennel cough. And now I'm over that and I'm like
just so thrilled to be here with you. I'm so glad you're feeling better
than That's so insane because there's nothing that will drive you to the brink,
like moving and the end of the year and the holidays and being and feeling
shitty on top of all of that. Yeah, it was. My patience
has been tested. But we've made it through and here we are good because
I need you. How about you wild ride the last two months of the
year, just you know, nothing, nothing crazy, a little bit of
dating, a little bit of this, a little bit of that. At
you know, we're in a good space. We're in a good, good
space. We are. I was excited. I love you whenever you come
back from the Dude Ranch and you got to do that again. Yes,
you're so happy there. I love it there. Yeah. Well it's also
the time of the year that we go. There's so shine there. It's
like a little bit warm and no, horses are just very I am not
a horse girly like I wasn't growing up. I didn't ride horses. I
didn't like we used to go horseback riding, like maybe once every blue moon
when I was a kid, like just the you know, yeah, yeah,
but I don't. I just love all animals and the horses, and
they like take you out and you ride with them, and you have the
same horse all week at the dude ranch that we go to, and it's
just like I love it. They're like big dogs. I just want to
lay down with one of them and have them put their head like in my
lap. I know that that's super unrealistic, but it's on my bucket list.
I see a brand new year to start a new bucket list. Yeah,
can I ask, are you a resolution person? I didn't mean to
say it with that face yes and no, yes and no, Like god,
I can't stand them. Right. I didn't make I didn't make anything
this year. I'm not going to one year tried to give up gossip.
It's not a resolution, of course, sacrifice, thank you, because I
don't really have. I'm not going into this not to sound pessimistic. But
I'm just not going into this new year like, let's get it. Let's
I liked the meme I saw where it's like, you're not supposed to start
over in the dark, bleak winter months, like I love that, say
that for the springtime and just kind of get through and we're good. Yeah,
Mother Nature's rebirth is also our rebirth. I did. I did find
I don't ever have resolutions at the beginning of the year. I kind of
find them throughout the year, and then at the end of the year I
can look back and be like, so I just posted this on my social
media, like five things I failed at in twenty eighty three, which you
know, not a complete failure, just I didn't do as well as I
could have. So I wanted to like, yeah, I wanted to hit
ten k on Instagram, which you did. I didn't know that until the
other day. I don't look at my numbers. You did. I'm so
proud of you. I'm so proud of you. A lot more cleavage in
the new year. So it's in. It's the only way, which it's
in. We're going to do our ins and outs here in a second.
Did didn't even come close to that I wanted to work out like more consistently,
which I did, but I didn't. I wanted to drink more water,
did but I didn't. As much as I feel like I should have
wanted to finish all of my house projects, like I wanted to finish my
house in twenty twenty three delusion. That was an absolute delusion. And I
wanted to read one book a month, which I felt was a safe number,
Like one book a month, that's not hard. I didn't do it.
Those are very good for solutions, though. I actually don't mind any
of those. And I would fight you on the working out in the water.
I think you, I think you did a great job, and I
think you look fantastic and hopefully feel fantastic. Thank you. I mean right
now, I feel really effing tired. Me too. I had, you
know, when you take time off from this place. Yeah, I had
like twelve days off at the end of the year over Christmas, And that's
just enough time to get you on like normal people time. You know,
like you're staying up till ten or eleven, you're waking up at like seven
thirty eight o'clock. You notice your skin getting better. Yeah, under eyes
look wonderful. So that like stress puffiness yep, like relinquishes and you can
like see your face again. And I'm like, I just set my alarm
for three forty five and I had an existential crisis, Like what am I
doing with my life that that will remain consistent in our twenty twenty four?
What are we doing with our lives? Oh my god? Yeah. So
while I don't love a resolution, I am very into this trend on social
media right now, the ins and outs. Yeah, me too, me
too. It's like a take on it, but it's not so militant.
Oh, good word for it. Yeah. I like that they felt more
like guidelines than rules. But it was a nice I was looking through a
bunch of different ones. I'm like, that's a good idea. That that's
a good idea I could do that. So let's I love. I'm excited
to hear your ins and outs. Oh I'm obsessed with you. So that's
why, well, you know, my like my big in for the year
is reclaiming my time. Oh yes, I am reclaiming my time. That's
in m m out is. This is like very specific, but staying in
social situations that are a complete waste of my time. Good one that like,
I like, I'm gonna still be polite. Obviously I'm polite Midwestern lady.
But I'm like, I'm gonna let you go. Yes, I'm gonna
let you go. That's a really good one. I actually don't care what
you had to eat on Christmas Eve? Do you know what's so awful?
Like at the end of a year. They did it again. Last year.
They had a report that's like, this is how much time you waste
saying goodbye in a year, and it's it rounds out to be like an
hour and a half. You're not even joking, Like, I'm like what
and I I do that? I do that? Ash me too, I
have to like let whoever. I was at a baby shower over the holiday
for a college friend and I carpooled with another friend who like lives kind of
close to where the baby shower was, and she was like, Okay,
are you ready to go? Like my ride was leaving and I was like,
oh, let me just say goodbye. Forty five minutes later, I
shit, you not Like I I'd love to be the Irish goodbye person.
I just don't have it in me. It is in Irish good bye in
I mean the Irish Gobye has always been in. I'm a big fan,
but more like more on like a night out. Oh yes, oh,
especially when there's a lot of people wherever you are, so you're not even
noticed and you're like this boop ooops, uber's here, gotta go lift just
pulled up. Wonderful. I like that. Yeah, so my out is
your hustle grind a. I don't want to hear the words. I haven't
wanted to hear those words in a very long time. But also like stop
if you're hustling towards something that is actually a dream or a passion, all
for it, love you, hype you up from the side, if it
is for anything other than that, if it is for a company that clearly
does not care about you, if you are not getting paid what you should
be getting, like stop my end naps, stop the hustle for a minute,
take a breather, take some rest however that looks for you, and
just do it that way. There's a lot of angry people, especially in
the winter time. I think that's why mm hm, you got it.
Carry yourself first, don't hustle it. No, but we're not doing that
anymore. Yeah. Sorry, Yeah, And I'm not a lazy millennial.
I just want to take care of my body and my mind more than a
bottom line. Yeah, that's a great it's my in and out that's such
a great one. Yeah, slow living, slow living, living, very
much in for twenty twenty four. I saw a Vanity article the other day
that called it soft ambition, soft ambition. I gave me Tingles and Milady
parts. I like that. I like soft ambition like I want it.
I want it, but I'm not going to like lose sleep over it.
I'm gonna work for it. I'm not gonna kill myself for it. Right,
So, I think my other in and out in polite shopping out.
I don't want to see anyone charging into a target to buy Gallantine Stanley cups
while they push little children over to get six or seven of them in their
bag. You're kidding, did you see the video? No, So they've
got these limited editions Stanley's that are out now. They're like a reddish pink
and they're for Galantine's Day. And like the target I read about, I
think was in Arizona, sold out in four minutes. People were lined up
before three am. I mean, I'm bitches, I would never have made
it to the Stanleys. By the way, I get so distracted by that
dollar ben, I was like, why is that pillow for only a dollar?
Targe? People were lined up before three o'clock in the morning for this
doors flew open. It was like og black Friday, sprinting in, pushing
people down to grab as much of these mugs as they could and like leave.
People were shouting like employees were shouting like limit tuber customary. Just nobody
gave an f and it was just the worst of humanity. M let's be
polite, in polite obnoxious out in blinkers. Oh man, when are they
ever going to be in? When are we going to get on the same
page about blinkers. I was following a woman yesterday and man, like multiple
lane changes, she like cut me off at one point. So you know,
when you like drive past those people, I always look. I'm like,
I said, get what I'm working with here, I gotta see this
piece afraid. She's on the phone. She's also I legal in the phone.
She wasn't texting, she was talking on the phone. She's supporting it
with a body part. Yes, Michigan law. She was holding it with
her hand, but she was also driving like a medical transport vehicle supplies.
That's even more supplies, and she was turning into the hospital. So I
think that I just in my head, I made up a little story like
it's life for death. It's life for death. Everyone got there in one
piece. Slight for dad. She yeah, mmm, blinkers in, but
also polite excuses in. Yeah, that was very nice of you to think
those things. Yeah, that's one thing that's out for me in twenty twenty
four. I gotta get a hold in my road rage. Like I'm let
me know how you do it. I'm not like a dangerous driver, but
like I will yell at you, yeah, and like you can't hear me.
So I think that's okay. We're so brave, hey with the windows
up. But there's a lot that's being said. There's a lot that's being
said, and I won't do it when other people are in the car with
me, which just like digging a little deeper and exploring that. Obviously,
I know it's like not a nice thing. So maybe we're maybe we'll work
on that. Maybe that's out for me this year. I'll tell you if
you want to borrow my son, he will cut down on the road rage
because boy does he call you out on his little Jesus love and heart.
I gotta be so careful when I'm driving around with them, because I'll just
I'll start to and he'll go, mom, what's wrong? And I'll be
like, well, that man is just that man's just not driving very well.
And he'll be like, I know, but ass is a bad word.
So there you go. Give you like two rides with him and you'll
really you'll find all of the really okay naughty words like well, this guy's
just being a little jerk and name well, because I owe in the same
way, I can't do it. Yeah. Oh, it's just got to
a point. This is what this was a little bit controversial out TV shows
in absolutely insane wild ass movies. I do you know where I'm going with
this? I do, and I'm nervous. Have you watched Saltburn. I've
watched it twice two times. I watched it. That is so unlike me.
I watched it one time and then I was like I gotta watch it
again. So okay, So why because I think you have a very similar
I posted about this on my Instagram to ask the question is it scary like
Haunting of Hillhouse Witch scar literally scarred me? Or is it like it's very
misleading because a lot of the feedback and a lot of the messaging online is
that it's a thriller. Yeah, and it sounds scary from all the like
plot things. It's not. It's very much not a thriller. Thriller to
me is like like American Psycho or yeah, okay, or even like Nightmare
on Elm Street, Like that's a thriller to me. Also like scary.
I don't want scary scary, it's not. Okay, it's not. You
will not have oh well, you'll have dreams about it, but not scary
dreams. Oh not scary. I will say you and your husband should watch
it together because I know you guys, and like, you guys will be
fine. I was uncomfy watching it, like at multiple points. Yeah,
yes, yes, and the second time, the one time I watched it
alone, one time I was with company, and oh watching it alone like
it was just as uncomfortable the second time. But worth seeing, so worth
it, so worth it. It's a brilliant film. It's a brilliant film.
And if you are into movies that don't make sense up until the very
end, oh god, Okayen, you get to see the genius of the
screenplay and how it just It's always been very fascinating to me, the way
people can write books and write movies that are so full of suspense and like,
write these things and weave these foreshadowing and these little hints in, and
then later it comes back and you're like, holy shit, that you will
like it. Okay. And also Jacob a LOORDI, oh okay, not
your type. I wasn't totally sure. I only know the name. I
don't know a ton about him. I only know the name because he's also
being rumored for the new Twilight series. Oh yeah, that's the okay.
So he said that, yeah, boy, because I have heard so many
people are like, you have to see Saltburn. So I post about that,
and one of my friends messaged and said, exactly what you just did.
So that makes me feel I was just nervous. It was gonna be
one of those that gives me nightmares about scary stuff. You know what,
Watch it with E. Watch it with E. Yeah, yeah, okay,
you guys should have a midnight Margarita Saltburn night. Make sure the kids
are like a sleep asleep, like lock their doors because you don't want you
don't want. This isn't one where you want them like creeping halfway down the
stairs and like watching a little bit of it. I don't think that that
would be good. Oh, oh my god, good, Okay, I
don't think that would be good for any anybody. Trust me. You do
not want to explain this, and you don't want them to. Oh my
god. I don't feel like I am mature enough as a thirty two year
old woman to have seen some of the things that I saw. I mean,
like, don't get me wrong, I loved every second of it.
It unleashed something in me that I did not know was there. Oh my
god, I cannot So I'm supposed to be moving stuff tonight, and I
think I'm gonna be like you have me until seven o'clock and then I'm gonna
need to have the TV to myself there in my room. Feral, feral,
it is. It's wild. It's wild. I'm glad that that's that's
how I closed out my twenty twenty three was strong Old saw Saltburn right before
the new year, and it really just puts you into a headspace to go
into the new year. Oh wow, yeah, okay, you gotta watch
it. You have me like tingling with excitement to see this. I wish
I could go home, like right now and watch it instead of having to
do like adult stuff. There are three like major in that I will be
dying to talk about with you. And I don't even know if we can
talk about him on the podcast. Oh wow, you'll know. You'll know
if you've if you've seen Saltburne, you know exactly which three the three big
things. It's like two hours two and a half or is it like it's
like two hours. It's two hours two hours of you for a eye opening
I wish, like, if you're listening to the pod right now, thank
you. But we also put this on YouTube, and you need to watch
this one because Allie's face every time you've been talking about it like a little
bit, Yes, this is You've got to see her talking about it.
This is making me very, very very excited. Yeah, what is it?
Netflix Prime? It is on Amazon Prime streaming, which I thought was
an interesting choice. But I also think that's part of the reason why more
people haven't seen it. Yeah, good point, because it's been out for
over a month. Yep. Yeah. I think it came out like right
after Thanksgiving. Yeah, but I saw it like premiered at one of the
film festivals late August and then was out late November. Yeah. But I
will say I do think they've done kind of a terrible job of selling this
as like a thriller, like a it is suspenseful, like there are moments,
but I there was never any It's not like gory. Yeah, you're
not gonna okay, okay, good, You're not gonna be like I mean
maybe with like some of the more it's very sexual. Okay, it's very
That's why I say, like there are some parts that are like like you
clutch your pearls. Even I was like, holy shit, how did you
come to watch it? Had you heard about it or you just saw it?
And you were like, let's cause I've had it served to me on
Prime. I've like watched a lot over the and I was like, oh,
I don't I thought it looks like a cooking show, so I didn't
click on it. I was like, oh, is that like the Great
British Bake Off? For like Prime? No, thanks, I'm not really
into that. No, it's a I would say it's a comedy drama.
Yeah, a comedy drama. I love that we've like given our first podcast
homework assignment. M like, you all need to go watch Saltburn please,
same time as me, and then we're gonna like reconvene please for whatever we
can. I asked on my Instagram how many people had seen Saltburn, and
the overwhelming majority have not seen it. But there were a few people who
were like, they did not respond to the poll, but they messaged me
separately and they were like, I saw it, like you little freak.
I totally got it though. I love that welcoming our fellow freaks into twenty
twenty four. Yeah, but we're doing that.