Speaker 3: Ah, we're back.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, hello. Voon was just telling me that
Speaker 1: his girlfriend Alyssa listens every once in a while shout out, girl,
Speaker 1: shout out, and she was like, yeah, they haven't had
Speaker 1: a new episode recently, and I was like, yeah, we
Speaker 1: we were.
Speaker 3: Last week off.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks for sticking around, unless you at that moment
Speaker 2: you decided they took a week off. Unfollow, unsubscribe, Unlike.
Speaker 2: That's hurtful, but I understand you won't hear this messaging anyway,
Speaker 2: so get them exactly there they It is funny when
Speaker 2: you find out who you know. I don't know why.
Speaker 2: I just assume nobody listens to this podcast, but I like,
Speaker 2: was at Mall of America. Some of the people that
Speaker 2: work there, so they listen. I was like, some of
Speaker 2: our promo staff have said they It's like, I'm like
Speaker 2: mind blown some of the people that say they listen
Speaker 2: to our podcast.
Speaker 3: And then I start kidding in my head, like, oh god,
Speaker 3: what have I said?
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, Andrew out of Nowhere will be like, oh,
Speaker 1: you guys were talking about this on your podcast the
Speaker 1: other day, and that was like a really good way
Speaker 1: of explaining something. I don't know what it was. And
Speaker 1: I was like, oh god. I always just like assume
Speaker 1: he doesn't listen, and I try to be respectful of
Speaker 1: what he'd be willing for me to say on the podcast.
Speaker 1: But yeah, he listens every once in a while, but
Speaker 1: he doesn't really tell me, you know, like unless something
Speaker 1: specific comes up that he wants to talk about.
Speaker 3: There's no way that Jake listens. I don't think he
Speaker 3: has time.
Speaker 2: But if he did listen, I know for a fact,
Speaker 2: because he's like the same as all of us. The
Speaker 2: only way I think Jake would listen, I think he
Speaker 2: subscribes is if he saw a title that made him
Speaker 2: think we were talking about him. Yeah, that's the only
Speaker 2: way I think he would even check out an episode. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so I'm like, okay, whatever.
Speaker 1: Well, first off, how was your trip?
Speaker 2: Yeah, so we kind of flip flopped. I went on
Speaker 2: a trip and then right as I was getting back,
Speaker 2: Jenny was going on her trip. So we did Italy
Speaker 2: and on our trip we did it was a so
Speaker 2: I have to explain it kind of. It was a
Speaker 2: group tour through a company called Defined Destinations. Michael leads it.
Speaker 2: I'm kind of the host, if you will, like, I'm
Speaker 2: the one that promotes, Hey, this trip's happening. I pick
Speaker 2: the location, but Michael does all the work. He like
Speaker 2: books the tours, he has the like connections to the
Speaker 2: different places and blah blah blah. So we did our
Speaker 2: We stayed primarily in Sorrento, and then we did day
Speaker 2: trips to like a Malthy coast, which I learned a
Speaker 2: Malfi is different than Positano. I thought like that whole
Speaker 2: coast was just called the Amalfi Coast. No, it's if
Speaker 2: you go on order it's Positano. Then you get to
Speaker 2: a Malfi, I believe. And then like we drove Egal
Speaker 2: up into a place called Ravellos. We did those in
Speaker 2: one day. We did Capri and one day we went
Speaker 2: to Pompeii one day and it was I would say
Speaker 2: Tina had just gone to northern Italy and she said
Speaker 2: it was chili. Well, we were obviously in southern October
Speaker 2: might be assuming you don't deal with any rain.
Speaker 3: The perfect weather.
Speaker 2: Ever, it was just warm enough still you could go
Speaker 2: on the water, but you weren't sweating, but like bullets,
Speaker 2: because when you go to Pompey, so many pool everyone.
Speaker 2: I feel like their experience of going to Pompeii. Is
Speaker 2: they just sweat profusely because it's a bunch of stones,
Speaker 2: right and you're in direct sun. Yeah, it wasn't like
Speaker 2: that for us, and so I'm like, I think we
Speaker 2: really went like the most perfect weather. Say, and the
Speaker 2: group trip is I did it years ago. We started
Speaker 2: in Paris. A core group of those people came two
Speaker 2: years ago to Spain, and now core group also came
Speaker 2: to Italy. So there's like this core group of people
Speaker 2: that kind of know each other now and then there
Speaker 2: will be a few new people and the group is
Speaker 2: so great they embraced them. Yeah, and I went out
Speaker 2: a couple of nights, actually stayed out late. The time
Speaker 2: change up didn't mess me up too much this time.
Speaker 2: So I had found a karaoke bar and I sent
Speaker 2: like in the WhatsApp group, I'm going to the karaoke bar.
Speaker 2: Everyone shows up for the most part, and they were
Speaker 2: doing songs like Abba the Eagles.
Speaker 3: They were doing.
Speaker 2: Olivia Newton John from Greece, like the her Slow Number,
Speaker 2: and I was like, I gotta spice this place up.
Speaker 2: So I went and requested get Low and they did
Speaker 2: not know what it was. And they're like okay because
Speaker 2: they are people at the bar. Yeah, they were like
Speaker 2: pulling it up on kind of YouTube and they're like, okay, whatever.
Speaker 2: So my turn came up, and I will say I
Speaker 2: changed the vibes in that place. People went crazy. They
Speaker 2: had the edited version YouTube video.
Speaker 3: I did not see the editor scheme.
Speaker 1: Motherfucker.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I went. I went full hardcore.
Speaker 2: And then after that the can was open and everyone
Speaker 2: really embraced and it was beautiful and I loved this
Speaker 2: started the party. I did start the party for once
Speaker 2: in my life. Yeah, and it was I don't know,
Speaker 2: I don't know what else to really say other than
Speaker 2: it was just a really really lovely trip and I'm
Speaker 2: glad that I experienced that part of Italy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it looked beautiful. Yeah, so much fun.
Speaker 1: I loved all. I love seeing Jake's photos of you
Speaker 1: on vacation because I feel like you don't take enough
Speaker 1: of yourself almost and Jake does, like the artistic ones.
Speaker 3: He does a decently good job.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I always wait almost more for his posts because I'm
Speaker 1: always like, where's my girl at? Well, I never even
Speaker 1: know what pics of my girl.
Speaker 2: I don't even know when he's taken them. Half the time,
Speaker 2: I'm like, all right, like calm down, like some he'll try.
Speaker 2: He's he's like my dad sometimes, Like I bought a
Speaker 2: bougie purse and I looked over and he was taking
Speaker 2: photos of me paying for it, and I was like,
Speaker 2: get out and it's so embarrassing. I was like, get
Speaker 2: out of here, like dad, you know God. He's like, well,
Speaker 2: maybe you'd want that moment. I'm like, that's fine, we
Speaker 2: can skip some moments.
Speaker 1: I think there was a real or maybe an Instagram
Speaker 1: story that you had posted that I had to watch
Speaker 1: a couple of times because I literally thought it was
Speaker 1: a video of you naked in the water, but a
Speaker 1: lot of seiple thought I was nacod but you had
Speaker 1: like what a peach colored or like a light pain.
Speaker 2: It's a light like tan straight someone else like, am
Speaker 2: I seeing your little butt?
Speaker 1: First of all?
Speaker 3: Not little? And no, I would not know.
Speaker 1: I would like post that the nude beaches.
Speaker 2: I'd never even posted a picture ever of like my
Speaker 2: bare stomach when I was pregnant.
Speaker 3: I'm I don't know, I don't know. I have like
Speaker 3: I've considered it.
Speaker 2: I have a really, I think, kind of artsy, beautiful
Speaker 2: photo of me like covering up my boobs and you
Speaker 2: could see like my stomach and someone I'm pregnant. I'm like, no,
Speaker 2: I don't think I'm going to share that with the world.
Speaker 2: I think I'll just keep that from me.
Speaker 3: I don't know, but we did cross each other.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then you took off on your first real
Speaker 2: van life trip.
Speaker 3: I did not up.
Speaker 2: North in Minnesota. You were like cross the country treking'.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So we headed out to Colorado and Utah and
Speaker 1: just busted through a lot of driving.
Speaker 2: Right now, why did you decide on those two locations
Speaker 2: for your your inaugural trip?
Speaker 1: Mostly to do with weather, because all that's in the
Speaker 1: van is basically a bed and cabinets, so we don't
Speaker 1: have heat, air conditioning, shower like anything. So we really
Speaker 1: had to go to somewhere where we could trust that
Speaker 1: the weather should be like somewhat neutral, that's likely too cold,
Speaker 1: not too hot, because we don't have the ability to
Speaker 1: change what the van is inside yet, gotcha, So that
Speaker 1: was kind of our initial thought. I was really trying
Speaker 1: to go out east for like a leaf peeping vibe.
Speaker 3: But I am happy that we did what we did.
Speaker 1: Utah is just so insane and so underrated. Now I
Speaker 1: know it's not actually underrated, but to me, I never
Speaker 1: thought of Utah as a destination. I want to go
Speaker 1: back and do like five hundred things and almost everything
Speaker 1: I already did, I'd do it over again.
Speaker 2: Well, it's so crazy how many National parks are in Utah. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and they're close, so you can cut up a lot
Speaker 2: in a in like one trip. It's because you know,
Speaker 2: we do a national park each year, and I'm in
Speaker 2: Utah's on my list. But how I do it is
Speaker 2: like it's one a year. So for me right now,
Speaker 2: it's three years out. But I'm like, you did make
Speaker 2: it Like I've driven through Utah when I moved here
Speaker 2: from Rino, Nevada. But I drove through. I definitely didn't
Speaker 2: drive through like beauty. I drove through like Salt Lake
Speaker 2: City and the drive through a beautiful like Rice Canyon
Speaker 2: or whatever.
Speaker 3: Right it's Price Canyon there.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I was gonna say, did I make that up?
Speaker 1: No, that's one of them. That was my favorite. That
Speaker 1: was my favorite one of all the parks that we
Speaker 1: went to. Yes, it was a lot of times.
Speaker 3: That's the question.
Speaker 1: Now, Okay, Yeah, and I will say one crazy story
Speaker 1: that happened is we were we did a sunrise hike
Speaker 1: there and we're getting around on this like three mile loop.
Speaker 1: We're getting towards the end, we see all these rescue teams.
Speaker 1: A guy had fallen off the edge of a cliff
Speaker 1: getting his picture taken and he was like in this
Speaker 1: crevice you could barely them luckily, very much alive, very much.
Speaker 1: Oh going to be okay. God, But we see these
Speaker 1: teams start to like this one guy start to repel
Speaker 1: over the rock and like there it was just like
Speaker 1: this whole process. There's a helicopter circling and we're like,
Speaker 1: holy crap, Like you hear about these stories, but you know,
Speaker 1: it's wild to see something happen. So we were kind
Speaker 1: of watching for a while to see what would happen,
Speaker 1: and then we're like, all right, we're gonna move along.
Speaker 1: They wouldn't let us through, so we had to go
Speaker 1: do the loop again, the trail again, even though we
Speaker 1: were about a half mile from the end of that trail,
Speaker 1: and like one of the sheriffs came up to us
Speaker 1: because it was the rescue crews who were like, you
Speaker 1: can't come through here, you can't come through here, and
Speaker 1: the sheriff was like, I don't know why they're like
Speaker 1: being like that. There's plenty of room for you guys
Speaker 1: to walk through. But then we were shocked because we're like,
Speaker 1: why did you guys not cut the trail off then?
Speaker 1: Because there were so many people at that trail at
Speaker 1: that point, because you get hikes in early when it's hot, ye,
Speaker 1: and so like that early at sunrise, No, a lot
Speaker 1: of people weren't. But when we had to loop back around,
Speaker 1: there were so many people and we passed this family
Speaker 1: of two parents and two kids, and one kid was
Speaker 1: like got how much longer? And they were going the
Speaker 1: way of where they weren't going to be able to
Speaker 1: get through, and so I'm like, you gotta like let
Speaker 1: people know if they're not gonna be able to finish
Speaker 1: off this trail, Like that's insane. And when we got
Speaker 1: back to the other end, we could still kind of
Speaker 1: see from a viewpoint where the rescue was happening and
Speaker 1: they were still working on things, and it was just
Speaker 1: when the medic got down to the guy, he literally
Speaker 1: radioed over significant knee deformation. So and honestly, shockingly, I'm
Speaker 1: surprised he's like alive from what I saw of the
Speaker 1: fall and he did. The guy was very sweet from
Speaker 1: what I heard. He was like, listen, I can't really
Speaker 1: see you right now because I think he lost his
Speaker 1: glasses or something.
Speaker 3: He's like, but I just.
Speaker 1: Really want to say thank you for saving my life.
Speaker 1: And he was like very grateful of the medic. But
Speaker 1: it was it was just a crazy scene.
Speaker 3: And isn't that wildlife in Utah? You mean there is?
Speaker 3: What I'm saying, like anything, There are no bears, correct, I.
Speaker 1: Don't think so there are like cats, though I think
Speaker 1: I want to say like Cougar's.
Speaker 2: Maybe I'm not sure cats are scarier because they still.
Speaker 3: I might be wrong.
Speaker 1: I might be wrong on that. We didn't have anything,
Speaker 1: but I feel like we were seeing footprints on many
Speaker 1: different trails and we were trying to gather what they were.
Speaker 1: Uh So I'm not Yeah, I'm not entirely positive, but
Speaker 1: I think outside of that being like the crazy story,
Speaker 1: a couple of funny ones would be. So I did
Speaker 1: text down letting her know that the portable bidet came
Speaker 1: in so clutched.
Speaker 3: So happy, so happy and honored that I could help
Speaker 3: you so so clutch.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So what I didn't tell you though, was that morning.
Speaker 1: I literally dug a hole and pooped in it. And
Speaker 1: sorry to get vulgar, but that's what you do when
Speaker 1: you wildcamp. Sometimes. It's the only time I did it
Speaker 1: the entire trip. Yeah, so I finished my business. I'm
Speaker 1: still pants half down trying to figure out how to like,
Speaker 1: you know, clean up myself. Yeah, you know, I can't
Speaker 1: use toilet paper and throw it in our garbage, like what.
Speaker 1: All of a sudden I hear look up and there's
Speaker 1: a drone flying and drone because it was one of
Speaker 1: the most beautiful campsites that we had found, and he
Speaker 1: was up on this cliff looking over to the lower
Speaker 1: park because it was also next to this river. And
Speaker 1: I'm like, are you blank and kidding me? I am like,
Speaker 1: pants have down my asses out. I just shit in the.
Speaker 2: Fucking standing you is kink, honestly, So I go pan.
Speaker 1: I feel like if I had a drone, the respectful
Speaker 1: thing to do is to not fly near people, that's
Speaker 1: for sure, especially in a very secluded, isolated area.
Speaker 3: So I was like, is this going.
Speaker 1: To end up on the internet, Like I've been on
Speaker 1: the you and on the internet for our ballgig porn
Speaker 1: Hub situation.
Speaker 3: It's a whole fun time in my life.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean cliff notes is like we did a
Speaker 1: ballgig bit on the show. Someone clipped it from the
Speaker 1: Facebook live and put it on pornhub, and so now
Speaker 1: I'm thinking I'm gonna be on some weird kink poop pornhub.
Speaker 3: Something, but I don't pub and Andrew's like, I'm.
Speaker 1: Going to find this on Reddit in like a few
Speaker 1: days called this in Mexican. Hout was the city we
Speaker 1: were by, But that was like a funny one. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to think if oh, this was another thing that happened.
Speaker 1: We were hiking, and you know, you go on long hikes,
Speaker 1: you have like very random conversations sometimes. Yeah, so Andrew
Speaker 1: and I are on this hike and I was saying
Speaker 1: how many steps I had on my fitbit. And Andrew goes, oh,
Speaker 1: I should wear that when I masturbate. And I go,
Speaker 1: oh my god, okay, yeah. I was like, okay, well,
Speaker 1: like how many calories you think you're gonna burn while
Speaker 1: you masturbate? He goes, oh, I don't know, but if
Speaker 1: I wore it, I'm like, you're not going to burn
Speaker 1: that many you you don't masturbate very long. He goes.
Speaker 1: I was like, how long are you masturbating for? He
Speaker 1: goes two hours, and I go, what break out in
Speaker 1: the middle of this hike? And it was just like
Speaker 1: the most priceless, perfect joke he's ever done, because clearly
Speaker 1: he was exaggerating, but god, it felt like he was
Speaker 1: being serious and I was like, you have too much
Speaker 1: time on your hands.
Speaker 2: Also, also that cannot feel good at that point. Everyone
Speaker 2: would be wrong at that point, male or female.
Speaker 3: My god. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And then one like real story is that I did
Speaker 1: get like some anxiety on this trip. I think it's
Speaker 1: just like the lack of it was weird to be
Speaker 1: out in places where there was like not much civilization around.
Speaker 1: I don't know, And maybe it's a female thing. It's
Speaker 1: like the fear for your safety kind of thing. Not
Speaker 1: not fear of Andrew or anything. Oh yeah, just like
Speaker 1: fear to not be around like anything, or like we
Speaker 1: didn't have cell service a couple nights, so it's like
Speaker 1: once we got to the campsite, no service, no interaction
Speaker 1: to the outside world, and it was great to like
Speaker 1: decompress from that and stuff, but it was a little
Speaker 1: bit stressful. And then when we did this sand dune hike.
Speaker 1: It was literally probably harder than the crazy hikes we
Speaker 1: did in Tahiti. It was so hard. And when we
Speaker 1: realized we were on the wrong ridgeline and to get
Speaker 1: to the correct one was going to be so much work.
Speaker 1: I started panicking because we're in the middle of these
Speaker 1: dunes that are so far out and you'd had to
Speaker 1: keep like climbing up and down, up and down and
Speaker 1: up and down to get out. Yeah, and there was
Speaker 1: no one around, like there was nobody on these hikes,
Speaker 1: and even if there were people on the hikes, you
Speaker 1: couldn't see them because like it was just this vast space.
Speaker 1: And I started panicking and I was like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna need a helicopter to come rescue me. Like
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna be able to get out of this
Speaker 1: hike right now. And Andrew didn't know it, because I
Speaker 1: like kept it to myself and I got it under
Speaker 1: control and I was fine, but I told them afterwards
Speaker 1: how like I didn't really like that. So then like
Speaker 1: the coolest photo that you've seen was, like, well that
Speaker 1: you brought up was this Moonscape overlook thing. And when
Speaker 1: we were going to that I started getting anxious again
Speaker 1: and going to that just because like I don't know,
Speaker 1: I get like weird vertigo and stuff in spaces, and
Speaker 1: we were camping right on the edge of this ledge
Speaker 1: and stuff. So there were definitely moments on this trip
Speaker 1: where like my anxiety came into play. I was just like,
Speaker 1: luckily able to keep it under control and it didn't
Speaker 1: take away from the trip luckily good.
Speaker 3: But yeah, do.
Speaker 2: You feel like that the dune one, if by the end,
Speaker 2: was worth it?
Speaker 3: I do.
Speaker 2: Sometimes you do one that's really hard, and actually I
Speaker 2: think sometimes you feel accomplished, but like the view isn't
Speaker 2: as good as you.
Speaker 3: Were hoping it would be for the work you put in.
Speaker 1: I think the view. I think the hike itself was
Speaker 1: worth it. I just wish we were better prepared because
Speaker 1: it was the first time I've ever been on a
Speaker 1: hike where I didn't have enough water or food. I mean,
Speaker 1: we started that hike at sunrise, and we brought two
Speaker 1: protein bars each and like had some beef sticks, and
Speaker 1: we had burned like twenty five hundred calories on that
Speaker 1: hike alone. So those protein bars and beef sticks together
Speaker 1: probably was like six hundred calories. So we are so
Speaker 1: like malnourished at that point and dehydrated because we brought
Speaker 1: like a water bottle each and then this big thermos
Speaker 1: of water that we were filling our water bottles with.
Speaker 1: And I have never experienced this before, but I was
Speaker 1: almost like delirious at the end, and it was kind
Speaker 1: of scary. And it was to a point where, like,
Speaker 1: because of the way you hike in sand, I was
Speaker 1: so hunched over a lot, and I had this backpack
Speaker 1: on Andrew had to literally carry it the last like
Speaker 1: half mile three quarters of a mile because I was
Speaker 1: barely we were on flat sand at that point, but
Speaker 1: even trudging through the flat sand was miserable. And so
Speaker 1: I'm happy I did it. I don't think i'd ever
Speaker 1: do it again. Yeah, And if I did, I would
Speaker 1: bring three times the amount of water then what I brought,
Speaker 1: and like full meals, because it just was You're you're
Speaker 1: basking in the sun the whole time. There's no protection
Speaker 1: from any elements, and like we did it when it
Speaker 1: was still kind of cold, Like I can't imagine doing
Speaker 1: that in the summer.
Speaker 2: I don't think I would ever really want to hike
Speaker 2: in sand. Only like I don't have any experience with
Speaker 2: hiking and sand, but this is my only possible mental thought.
Speaker 2: I used to play indoor volleyball. Okay, again, this is
Speaker 2: a terrible example. I hated sand volleyball so much because
Speaker 2: it makes you slower. You like you can't like make
Speaker 2: movements as quickly as you can on a court. I
Speaker 2: felt like heavier, like more way down. I hate the
Speaker 2: feeling of sand everywhere, So I just imagine that times
Speaker 2: a million on a hike, and I cannot think of
Speaker 2: anything that sounds worse to me. I'm like, so I'm like,
Speaker 2: oh my god, and I just imagine like sand in
Speaker 2: my shoes the whole time and stuff, and I'm.
Speaker 1: Like, I don't know. I noticed that at the beginning
Speaker 1: of the hike, and then I kind of got over it.
Speaker 1: You do get past that, but then you like, I
Speaker 1: definitely have never probably felt dirtier after a hike because
Speaker 1: I was just full of sand everywhere, every crevice of
Speaker 1: my body. Yeah, but yeah, I don't know. I think
Speaker 1: if you're ever looking for like a challenge, go for it.
Speaker 1: But like it's it's really hard. Yea, it is really hard.
Speaker 1: I do think that the views are great. I think
Speaker 1: you could also not do the hike to that tall
Speaker 1: as a dune and still have fantastic views.
Speaker 2: Are you going to rank like the parks you went
Speaker 2: to or the viewpoints.
Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna have bought, or I am going
Speaker 1: to rank the parks. I will say that two of
Speaker 1: them have an unfair advantage because it was raining, but
Speaker 1: one of them I was so underwhelmed by. But I'm
Speaker 1: gonna save all that for once I get my thoughts out,
Speaker 1: and I am going to post like a blog about
Speaker 1: like they're called Utah's Mighty five, that's what they're called.
Speaker 1: So I'll post one about like the parks, the stuff
Speaker 1: we did that was outside of the parks that people
Speaker 1: don't necessarily always know about because it's not as advertised.
Speaker 1: And then just like some van life stuff, because I've
Speaker 1: had a lot of people kind of reaching out to me,
Speaker 1: so like life's lessons, we've learned already, things we need
Speaker 1: or didn't need that we brought, and kind of stuff
Speaker 1: like that. So I'm gonna work on having all that
Speaker 1: up in the next week. I tried, I told Fal
Speaker 1: and I tried to sit down when we got home
Speaker 1: yesterday and start like busting out some blogs and I
Speaker 1: just couldn't. Like I was mentally like tapped out at
Speaker 1: that point because we had drove so much in those
Speaker 1: last two days. But yeah, I'm happy to be back
Speaker 1: where I can shower normally, I'm sure, but I haven't
Speaker 1: such advantage time even without having a shower and a toilet,
Speaker 1: which I was very surprised by, well, I was.
Speaker 2: It made me a little emotional seeing because I like,
Speaker 2: I think we've talked about on the podcast before that
Speaker 2: I've known about this being like a desire of yours
Speaker 2: for a lot longer than you've been like then you've
Speaker 2: talked about it in a public forum, and to kind
Speaker 2: of like see like almost a mini version of you
Speaker 2: living it out, I was like a little emotional looking
Speaker 2: at some of the videos and pictures, and I told Jenny,
Speaker 2: I was like, I think that they were the it
Speaker 2: was the best content you've produced from any trip I've seen, Like,
Speaker 2: I thought they were better.
Speaker 3: I don't know what it was.
Speaker 2: I know it's the same phone, and I go, maybe
Speaker 2: it's the landscape. I don't know what it was, but
Speaker 2: it was like it looked more travel blogger to me
Speaker 2: than anything you've done in the past. And I just
Speaker 2: thought it looked really good, and it just made me
Speaker 2: happy for you to, like, well, you know, even if
Speaker 2: it's like you're not doing it full time, but like
Speaker 2: when you see your friends like do something they've thought
Speaker 2: about for a very long time, you just like feel
Speaker 2: really proud of them because it's that is a.
Speaker 3: Hard thing to do.
Speaker 2: It's so easy to dream, it's so easy to have
Speaker 2: all these like hopes and goals. It's so much different
Speaker 2: to actually do them. And so I don't know, it
Speaker 2: was really happy for you seeing that it made me
Speaker 2: so happy.
Speaker 1: Thanks. I'm not really lucky with the photo we took
Speaker 1: at Forrest Gump Point because I just asked one couple.
Speaker 1: I said, hey, I'll take your picture if you guys
Speaker 1: will take ours. Yeah, and this girl nailed it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just absolutely nailed it. To be fair, I did
Speaker 1: take theirs first, and I said, oh my gosh, portrait
Speaker 1: mode looks really good. So then she did that for
Speaker 1: us too, But like I feel like she did better
Speaker 1: than what I did in portrait mode for them. And
Speaker 1: Andrew's like, honestly, it's nice that someone took a better
Speaker 1: picture for once for you, because I always usually take
Speaker 1: really good pictures for other people and stuff, So shout
Speaker 1: out to her because she like help with it.
Speaker 2: That photo I just saw a funny real and it
Speaker 2: was It made me laugh really hard. It's a like
Speaker 2: a It was a couple standing in front of like
Speaker 2: a thing and they ask this guy, so it's the
Speaker 2: guy's real the and like, hey, we take a picture,
Speaker 2: and he like takes a picture, hands on the phone
Speaker 2: and he turns away and starts walking away, and he
Speaker 2: overhears the couple go, hey, would you mind taking our
Speaker 2: picture to a different person. They take it, and then
Speaker 2: the couple's like, oh my god, this is so perfect.
Speaker 2: And then the original guy like gets sad. He's like
Speaker 2: looking down, did a crappy job. And I was like,
Speaker 2: I think that like the number of times I've had
Speaker 2: someone else take a picture, Yeah, it makes it. It's
Speaker 2: mind boggling to me when you're at a lance, like
Speaker 2: there's something that you're in front of and people will
Speaker 2: zoom in and just crop your faces in.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 2: That's why, like, let's be honest, if you ask a
Speaker 2: stranger to take your picture, you always look for a
Speaker 2: younger person because you know that they know how to
Speaker 2: work angles and stuff. Because an older person gets way
Speaker 2: too close to your face, or you see him zooming
Speaker 2: and you're like, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 3: I want the I want the freaking waterfall behind me.
Speaker 3: What are you doing?
Speaker 2: Why?
Speaker 3: Why would I just want a picture of us here?
Speaker 2: We want to Like My favorite story ever is like
Speaker 2: when Paul and I went to Ireland. We're at the
Speaker 2: Blarney Castle. A guy with the biggest photography equipment of
Speaker 2: all time, Like he's our guy.
Speaker 3: We're like, hey, will you take our picture?
Speaker 2: He takes a photo zoomed in of us and doesn't
Speaker 2: get the Blarney Castle. We're standing directly in front of him,
Speaker 2: like are you kidding me? What is it?
Speaker 3: And we didn't notice until like and.
Speaker 2: There was no one else around to take our picture,
Speaker 2: and it was like before like iPhones had like a
Speaker 2: timer and.
Speaker 3: Things like that on him.
Speaker 2: I was like, oh, to kill that guy. Yeah, so yeah,
Speaker 2: I would hire him for my wedding, That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, no, I agree. I made the mistake
Speaker 1: of offering to take like one woman's picture and then
Speaker 1: these other two women and I was doing like all
Speaker 1: the angles, yeah, and then this other woman comes up,
Speaker 1: She's like, can you take ours? So her and her
Speaker 1: friend and literally like one of them gets up on
Speaker 1: this rock. I take a picture of her while the
Speaker 1: other friends just sitting there, and then they both get
Speaker 1: up and we do some and then the other woman
Speaker 1: gets off. I take pictures of just that woman and
Speaker 1: then like, okay, one more. We're We're like kind of
Speaker 1: looking off in the distance, and I'm like what, Andrew's like,
Speaker 1: you're not offering to take any more food. People like,
Speaker 1: we're not getting stuck for ten minutes because they can
Speaker 1: tell that you can take decent feels, and I was like,
Speaker 1: I was just trying to be nice, but it was
Speaker 1: a little much when I was like, your friend is
Speaker 1: standing next to me and I'm taking your.
Speaker 2: Usually you're you feel like you're inconveniencing someone, and you'll like,
Speaker 2: even if it looks terrible, you know, No, I'm sure
Speaker 2: they'll always say do you want to make sure it
Speaker 2: looks good? And I always go, no, I'm sure it's
Speaker 2: great because I don't want to inconvenience someone, so them
Speaker 2: having you do a photo shoots hilarious.
Speaker 1: That's how I am to every single time. I'm always like, Nope,
Speaker 1: it's totally fine. Whatever you got for us will be perfect. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're fine with it.
Speaker 2: So I saw this quote, by the way, and it
Speaker 2: has nothing to do with like travel or anything, but
Speaker 2: I thought maybe someone needs and I saved it like
Speaker 2: last week. I don't know who posted it, but I
Speaker 2: was like, oh, this is like a good quote for
Speaker 2: someone who's questioning a relationship okay that they're in Okay.
Speaker 2: The best piece of dating advice I've ever received received
Speaker 2: is this, if they like you, you'll know. If they don't,
Speaker 2: you'll be confused, and that's all you need to know.
Speaker 2: And I liked that so much because how many times
Speaker 2: are we being confused. It's like, if they like you,
Speaker 2: they're gonna let you know. So I like that a lot.
Speaker 2: I screenshotted it so that I could too share that
Speaker 2: with the podcast in case anyone's in like a weird,
Speaker 2: tricky position right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and if you are, email us and we'll tell
Speaker 1: you what to do. I'm just kidding, just.
Speaker 3: With questionable advice.
Speaker 2: Possibly, Yeah, can I tell you that you were still traveling?
Speaker 2: But Saturday, Colt and I did the Cat's Eye event
Speaker 2: and Mall of America. If you've never heard of them,
Speaker 2: there are a girl group I hadn't heard of them either.
Speaker 2: Like a week and a half before my trip, rich
Speaker 2: our boss came in and was like, Hey, there's a
Speaker 2: show on Netflix is called Pop Star Academy. The group
Speaker 2: that formed from that. They're coming to Mall of America.
Speaker 2: We want you guys to host it. I said okay,
Speaker 2: and he was like, can you guys like watch the
Speaker 2: show a little bit?
Speaker 3: Well. I watched like half the first episode.
Speaker 2: I didn't watch the full thing, and I quickly learned
Speaker 2: that it's the people. It was like the first time
Speaker 2: ever there a worldwide girl group. And they had Hibe,
Speaker 2: which is the company that put together like bts and
Speaker 2: puts together all the K pop groups out of Korea
Speaker 2: as part of it.
Speaker 3: With this record label.
Speaker 2: And I know a couple of people with the record
Speaker 2: label here, but like you know, I don't talk to
Speaker 2: the head people with this record labels. I was on
Speaker 2: so many emails with these people and to get everything approved,
Speaker 2: it was crazy. I've never experienced anything like it in
Speaker 2: my life, and so they the girls were lovely, very talented.
Speaker 2: I have never in the twelve years i've been here,
Speaker 2: seen the Mall of America like that. I don't know
Speaker 2: how to explain it it was. It was chaos. We
Speaker 2: went there and that you know, they have them hiding
Speaker 2: in the green room, and we had to go back
Speaker 2: with like twenty people in charge of this thing to Colton.
Speaker 2: I had to run over scripts over and over again
Speaker 2: with these girls and they were making live edits new cards, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: they'd come. I'd go to go walk on the stage,
Speaker 2: they'd grab cards out of my hand and add new
Speaker 2: ones in. I had in ears in, which is what
Speaker 2: artist where we're they're performing. I've never had those in
Speaker 2: my life. For them to count me down to the
Speaker 2: second to when I could talk or do anything, I've
Speaker 2: never experienced in I'm like part of me felt like
Speaker 2: what it feels like to be an actual pop star.
Speaker 3: I hated the inn ear. I could not It made
Speaker 3: me feel like.
Speaker 1: Because it was an echo of your no.
Speaker 3: There's no echo.
Speaker 2: It's almost like it silenced everything, which I get as
Speaker 2: a pop star. That's good so you don't lose your hearing,
Speaker 2: but it made me feel like I wasn't talking loud enough.
Speaker 2: And I look at Colt and like I felt like
Speaker 2: he wasn't talking loud enough and I couldn't hear what
Speaker 2: the girls were saying, so I like ripped it out
Speaker 2: of my ear. Thank god Colt kept his in. They
Speaker 2: were giving more instructions. I would never have known. But
Speaker 2: they were so worried no one would come. And I
Speaker 2: was like, guys, I was just upstairs. You're they're singing
Speaker 2: along to a like You're fine. But then they came
Speaker 2: out and by the end you can see that they
Speaker 2: desperately want this, right they I certainly want to be
Speaker 2: famous pop stars, and of course you have doubt and
Speaker 2: the fact they don't have a hit song yet. They
Speaker 2: were like all crying. They were all at the end
Speaker 2: like they in disbelief, couldn't believe. Like it was like
Speaker 2: I felt like I watched someone's dream come true. Yeah,
Speaker 2: And it was the coolest feeling because I was getting
Speaker 2: a little frustrated, honestly, with like the amount of emails
Speaker 2: and requests. Yeah, and I won't get into all that
Speaker 2: that were coming in. And then I was like, this
Speaker 2: is like what if they are huge? Like BTS I
Speaker 2: was a part of like their first huge moment. I
Speaker 2: was like, this is it was crazy? It was it
Speaker 2: was crazy.
Speaker 1: I watched some of your guys' videos from it. And
Speaker 1: then they did start popping up on my algorithm of TikTok,
Speaker 1: and they did so many things outside of First Avenue.
Speaker 1: Ye have their own like trending and stuff, and I
Speaker 1: was like, oh my gosh, I got to like start
Speaker 1: listening to these girls' songs.
Speaker 3: Well, they have something.
Speaker 2: They do and they're actually very catchy, Like I could
Speaker 2: see them actually a couple of them being like hits
Speaker 2: on the radio. Yeah, and they don't have like they
Speaker 2: only have like an EP out, so it's a handful
Speaker 2: of songs to start. But yeah, I was like, gosh,
Speaker 2: it was like so crazy. Yeah, and they each just
Speaker 2: their personal I don't know, it was like it was
Speaker 2: really cool to be a part of something like that.
Speaker 2: I feel like we've had like a lot of experiences
Speaker 2: like that working in radio and yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I was like, I'm just gonna talk about that on
Speaker 2: the podcast. I thought, like, I've just never experienced anything
Speaker 2: that strict before. Maybe is the right word, But that's
Speaker 2: probably why they're really successful, like with the product nice
Speaker 2: and I'm gonna say product they put out.
Speaker 1: Are they still filming for the show that they were
Speaker 1: part of? Okay?
Speaker 2: No, because the show was basically the whittling down to
Speaker 2: make the group. So they started off with like twenty
Speaker 2: and then ended with six.
Speaker 1: Got it.
Speaker 2: And one of the girls wasn't there. She had like
Speaker 2: an injury or something. So it was like five of
Speaker 2: them and they came in the studio and we did
Speaker 2: an interview and a lot of like hoops to jump
Speaker 2: through for that. But but then but it wasn't like
Speaker 2: I get it, Like they want to protect these people,
Speaker 2: so I get it, And it was kind of like
Speaker 2: you have to send your questions in for approval, send
Speaker 2: all the audio over because we pre recorded it, Like
Speaker 2: they came in at like one o'clock, okay, and so
Speaker 2: we could send the audio over to them to prove
Speaker 2: before we put it on the radio. All kinds of
Speaker 2: stuff like that. But it it sounds like a lot,
Speaker 2: but at the end of the day, it really wasn't
Speaker 2: that big of a deal.
Speaker 3: Like I get it.
Speaker 2: They want to make sure we don't like I was like,
Speaker 2: we're not shock jocks and know that's why we picked you.
Speaker 3: We're fine.
Speaker 2: I was like, okay, good, this didn't want like I'm like,
Speaker 2: I'm not going to go on stage and go off script,
Speaker 2: like I'm not going to do anything to like mess
Speaker 2: this up for you. I promise I'm a professional. Like, okay, good,
Speaker 2: So I've decided I'm not eating sugar this week, Jenny
Speaker 2: at all, nothing unless it's natural like in fruit.
Speaker 1: What about in coffee?
Speaker 3: No? No syrups?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 3: Why I just am addicted to sugar. We're fine, sugar.
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 2: I'm not removing it for life. But I'm like, I
Speaker 2: got to pull back. I feel like it makes like
Speaker 2: I want to see if it makes a difference in
Speaker 2: my face because I have like a round face, okay,
Speaker 2: and I feel like sometimes it looks puffier than others,
Speaker 2: and I literally want to see if it makes a difference.
Speaker 2: I'm like, I just something, I got to change some stuff.
Speaker 1: Sugar is. Now. This isn't Andrew fact. And Andrew facts
Speaker 1: are never fully confirmed. But Andrew said that sugar is
Speaker 1: just as addicting as crazy like drugs like heroin and stuff.
Speaker 2: They say that's true because of mice. They've done like
Speaker 2: studies on like rats or mice or whatever, and that
Speaker 2: they say it is just as addicting, and.
Speaker 1: So it is. It's like a matter of you start
Speaker 1: eating something and you're like, I need a little more
Speaker 1: I need another hit, I need it whatever. And I
Speaker 1: experience that when I go on these trips because on
Speaker 1: this road trip, I bought myself.
Speaker 3: A diet doctor pepper yeah.
Speaker 1: And then the next gas station, I got some sprites
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, I'm drinking soda and I.
Speaker 3: Never drink soda, yeah, ever.
Speaker 1: And then when I was drinking though soda, I just
Speaker 1: kept wanting more and more and I wasn't satisfied until
Speaker 1: I was done with it and started drinking water yeah,
Speaker 1: and was like felt hydrated at that point, you know.
Speaker 1: So I mean, I'm all for it. I just man,
Speaker 1: I eat sugar a lot.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: It's I'm not saying I'm cutting it out perod. I'm
Speaker 2: trying try, like and I'm not even saying Saturday or
Speaker 2: Sunday because I don't like I mean, Halloween is kicking
Speaker 2: in this weekend, but I want to try, like Monday
Speaker 2: through Friday, to just cut it and see what happens.
Speaker 2: And my plan isn't to like, oh, if I like it,
Speaker 2: I'm going to cut it for good. But I think
Speaker 2: I would like to actively start trying to cut it
Speaker 2: a lot more than I have been. I get syrup
Speaker 2: in my coffee. Every morning, I get like caramel or vanilla,
Speaker 2: whatever one I'm on that day, and I feel like
Speaker 2: I just immediately start my day off with sugar, so
Speaker 2: then I crave it for the rest of the day.
Speaker 3: So I don't know. That's my that's my goal for
Speaker 3: the week is to try that. What else do you eat?
Speaker 1: Would you say on a like normal weekday that would
Speaker 1: consist of having sugar besides your coffees?
Speaker 2: And I'm sure anything I've been Yeah, I've been off
Speaker 2: the rails. Jake is just as bad as I am.
Speaker 2: Sweet tooth. Yeah, any kind of dessert at night, and
Speaker 2: it's like, we don't keep it in our house, but
Speaker 2: so we'll does actively go get something. Yeah, we'll go
Speaker 2: get ice cream tonight, or my mom maybe made like
Speaker 2: my mom, I didn't eat these, but my mom made
Speaker 2: banana bread. So Jake has been eating that loaf all week.
Speaker 2: I didn't have any of that. Surprisingly, she made chocolate
Speaker 2: covered strawberry send them over. Didn't have any of those.
Speaker 2: But I know jk like a couple of them, and
Speaker 2: it's he can't stop either.
Speaker 3: He's as bad.
Speaker 2: As I am.
Speaker 1: Andrew's rule is always if it's in the house, we're
Speaker 1: gonna eat it, and we're gonna eat all at once,
Speaker 1: so then it's out of the house. Yeah, then three
Speaker 1: days later something new.
Speaker 3: This is how we do.
Speaker 2: This is us and like we gotta get it out
Speaker 2: of here, so then we like over Sometimes we will
Speaker 2: just be like we've got to stop and we'll throw
Speaker 2: it all away because we look at each other like
Speaker 2: we're sick. This is good, this is a problem. That's
Speaker 2: why I can't make a dozen cookies Jake and.
Speaker 3: I all of in.
Speaker 2: Dylan won't. They'll each eat one like normal people. Jake
Speaker 2: and I will eat the rest of the cookies, just
Speaker 2: the two of us, in one day.
Speaker 1: Why do you think I always bring anything I baked, yeah,
Speaker 1: to work, because otherwise, if I have access to it,
Speaker 1: your girl's going ham on it. Yeah, she can't just
Speaker 1: have a cookie or a bar. It's like, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: eat at least three of whatever they are until I'm like,
Speaker 1: all right, I think that was enough.
Speaker 2: And there are days you should do that. There are
Speaker 2: days you should live it up and like go. But
Speaker 2: I am dipping into the honeypot a little too often
Speaker 2: over here. I'm getting a little reckless with it. So
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna try to pull back a little bit.
Speaker 2: And I haven't worked out in like two weeks because
Speaker 2: I obviously was in Italy. I mean I walked a lot,
Speaker 2: but I know whorl workout. So yesterday I was like, Okay,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go for a two mile walk. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: do Pulaudius today. So I'm like, let's get back on track. Yeah,
Speaker 2: start the week off strong.
Speaker 3: Yes, here we go. You got it, You got it.
Speaker 1: Quourt back next episode on how the Sugar Went.
Speaker 2: You'll see me tomorrow on my Instagram stories deep throating
Speaker 2: a Snickers or something like, well you didn't make it
Speaker 2: a full twenty four hours, congrats Fallen. So all right, well,
Speaker 2: thanks for hanging out with us. Sorry again, we took
Speaker 2: last week off, but thanks for hanging and uh, we'll
Speaker 2: be back again next tuesday.
Speaker 1: We sure. I'm trying to figure out what because you
Speaker 1: always end it with like, oh, we'll be back, thanks
Speaker 1: for listening, whatever, And I'm trying to think if there's
Speaker 1: something I should say because the podcast I listen to,
Speaker 1: this guy goes purse. I'm thinking that's what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 3: I don't want that. Please don't do it's too much peace.