Speaker 1: Welcome to Buns and Banter, a podcast by work Busties
Speaker 1: for work Busties. Hey, I'm Lauren and I'm Ali. We're
Speaker 1: both morning show hosts for iHeartMedia. We're both millennials, and
Speaker 1: we're both trying to figure out how to build the
Speaker 1: lives we dream about, dating, marriage, career, career, and being
Speaker 1: a mom. How to get through a week without crying.
Speaker 1: Welcome to Buns and Banter. We're glad you're here. That's exciting.
Speaker 2: Oh, we're just talking a little housekeeping stuff that we
Speaker 2: want to do on the pod this year.
Speaker 1: Places we want to go. Did it feel like it
Speaker 1: took you? Like we're into what would this be concerned?
Speaker 1: Like the second week of the new year? Right? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think so. Do you feel like it took you
Speaker 1: a little beat? I feel much more go get them
Speaker 1: driven this week than I did last week. I felt
Speaker 1: like I was bob and underwater last week. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I saw a thing online that said, like, this is
Speaker 2: the time when people usually start giving up their New
Speaker 2: Year's resilus and I haven't even started yet.
Speaker 1: Which is perfect because how can we give it up
Speaker 1: if we haven't started it? We never leave room for disappointment.
Speaker 1: I kind of love.
Speaker 2: The idea of starting them in February, like just giving
Speaker 2: yourself January to sort of ease into the new year,
Speaker 2: and then like maybe starting to make some stuff happen
Speaker 2: in February.
Speaker 1: I told you we talked about it on our last episode,
Speaker 1: Dry January. You got to give me a dry June
Speaker 1: when there's nothing else to do. I think it's really
Speaker 1: hard to start resolutions in the dead of winter, Like
Speaker 1: it's it was seven this week, seven, dug grease. I'm
Speaker 1: not doing anything good for myself or others in seven degrees.
Speaker 2: They I saw something on the news that was like
Speaker 2: arctic blast headed our way.
Speaker 1: What has it been? What? I'm sorry? What what has
Speaker 1: it been?
Speaker 2: It's been consistently with wind chills in the single digits
Speaker 2: or below, temperatures in the teens. The highest temperature we've
Speaker 2: seen in the last like two weeks was like twenty six.
Speaker 1: Do you know what word makes me feel so cold? Clipper?
Speaker 1: Clipper system? Clipper. Doesn't that make you sound like, oh,
Speaker 1: don't walk outside, my nipples will cut your glass. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you really gotta get that pee. I hate flipper you
Speaker 1: to pound into that snow.
Speaker 2: Yes, it is so cold that I feel like my
Speaker 2: water in my house doesn't heat up as much. And
Speaker 2: now I'm starting to wonder if if everything in my
Speaker 2: because this isn't something that I noticed the first seven
Speaker 2: years living in my house, but just this winter, I'm
Speaker 2: noticing that I think my shower plumbing is on an
Speaker 2: outside wall, which in Michigan, I don't know about what
Speaker 2: it's like where you live, but in Michigan that's a
Speaker 2: big no no no plumbing in the outside wall.
Speaker 1: I think that your pipes will freeze.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So I'm like, is my water not heating up?
Speaker 2: Is there something wrong with my water heater? Is it
Speaker 2: because it's so cold out that it's just not heating
Speaker 2: up as much? I even went down to my hot
Speaker 2: water heater and turned up the temperature of the water. Yeah,
Speaker 2: did you know you can do that?
Speaker 1: I did. I have no idea how to. I'm so
Speaker 1: impressed with you right now.
Speaker 2: It's just like what it's like my water heaters, like
Speaker 2: the Fisher Price of water heaters. There's just like one
Speaker 2: little knob and it says water temperature and you can
Speaker 2: just like they made it, Female and Company.
Speaker 1: I bet that's what we need. Probably not, but thank
Speaker 1: you so much, seriously, No, I just feel like, and
Speaker 1: I know a lot of people were having the conversations
Speaker 1: this week about what you set your thermistat out. It's
Speaker 1: always a combo because I would rather freeze than pay
Speaker 1: more for a bill. And it's so wild because Chris
Speaker 1: Frickin' Chris put on a sweater, motherfire. I mean, I
Speaker 1: will come home and I'm like, wow, it's so comfy
Speaker 1: in here, and he gets so excited he goes, isn't it?
Speaker 1: And then I'll look across the living room and I
Speaker 1: see that thermostat said at seventy six and he messed
Speaker 1: with it, and I'm like, sir, what do you think
Speaker 1: we do for a living? I'm not out here, Jeff
Speaker 1: Bezo seeing my way through life. You need. I'm a
Speaker 1: sixty six to sixty seven girly. See I have gone up.
Speaker 1: That's when I get so nervous.
Speaker 2: Ins and outs for twenty twenty five. That's one of
Speaker 2: my outs for twenty twenty five is just being cold
Speaker 2: in my own.
Speaker 1: House, saving but being uncomfy, yes, all right.
Speaker 2: Like the amount of money that I'm saving is what
Speaker 2: a couple of dollars every single week. Like I'm just
Speaker 2: gonna pay the extra couple dollars now saving energy. You
Speaker 2: could probably still get me on that because I do
Speaker 2: care about Yeah, stand up for what you stand on.
Speaker 1: Anyways. Oooh, I have a T shirt that says that
Speaker 1: I stole it. My sister got it for me. I
Speaker 1: love that.
Speaker 2: But I just I'm not gonna be cold anymore. So
Speaker 2: now I'm a sixty nine girly.
Speaker 1: Oh oh, that's that is a privilege to me like that.
Speaker 1: There's certain days I'm like, ooh, it's a Saturday, I
Speaker 1: want to be spending some time inside. I might, I
Speaker 1: might sixty nine it, but that's rare. Honestly, the only
Speaker 1: time I ever feel bad. The other night, we were
Speaker 1: all sitting on the couch watching a movie and Sophia
Speaker 1: climbed in under a blanket and all of her like
Speaker 1: limbs were ice. I'm like, oh, I guess I'm to
Speaker 1: sixty seven? Is your Are you not circulating blood properly?
Speaker 1: That's the only time I've ever felt bad.
Speaker 2: You wouldn't think that there is much of a noticeable
Speaker 2: difference between like sixty seven and sixty eight and then
Speaker 2: sixty nine.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there is. There is really.
Speaker 2: Walking into my house, and maybe it's just because it's
Speaker 2: so cold outside that like any noticeable difference just feels
Speaker 2: so warm and cozy. But I feel like I can
Speaker 2: tell and I'm like, it is so much nicer in here.
Speaker 1: Oh, maybe I'll have to research this. Maybe that's why
Speaker 1: I'm such a crab, a curmudgeon woman. You're cold all that.
Speaker 1: I'm cold all the time. I'm cold, and I love
Speaker 1: I think I brought this up. I love sitting in
Speaker 1: a hot car in the summertime. Ooh, there is something
Speaker 1: about that. I love being hot, dude, there is something
Speaker 1: about that. Oh my gosh, do your feet get cold? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I have terrible circulation, but you had.
Speaker 2: I saw something on TikTok the other day. It was
Speaker 2: an acupuncturist and she was talking about if you're a
Speaker 2: woman and your feet are always cold, then you probably
Speaker 2: have a cold uterus. What And I was like, pardon me,
Speaker 2: what a cold uterus? I have no idea, Like it's
Speaker 2: inside you, but it's cold.
Speaker 1: How does that even? I don't know if.
Speaker 2: That was just like her term or if that's like
Speaker 2: a literal thing, like you want to move to the Google.
Speaker 1: I don't think you can take a temperature of a uterus.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know, but she was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, get it checked out.
Speaker 2: If you're a plan on having kids and you got
Speaker 2: cold feet, you might have cold uterus.
Speaker 1: What wow, oh oh oh. I mean. So I'm gonna
Speaker 1: start by saying, this is AI that pulled this term
Speaker 1: and says it's primarily primarily used in traditional Chinese medicine acupuncture. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it says it describes a condition where the uterus is
Speaker 1: believed to have poor blood flow, potentially impacting fertility.
Speaker 2: Great, just another thing to add to the list of
Speaker 2: things I lay awaken.
Speaker 1: Not a worry about medical diagnosis in the Western hemisphere. Well,
Speaker 1: we don't know what we're doing over here. Herbal remedies
Speaker 1: and dietary modifications can help blood flow to the pelvic area.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you about my algorithm on Google right now.
Speaker 1: Speaking of pelvic area I've been having I have been
Speaker 1: having these tummy issues. I've been telling my Girali all
Speaker 1: about this, yeh, and the stuff that I've googled in
Speaker 1: the last seven days, Like my phone must think that
Speaker 1: I am just a trash human that should finally drop
Speaker 1: and just go six feet under. There's so much good
Speaker 1: that I've never had this issue with before, And I'm like,
Speaker 1: is this late thirties? I guess I have a trouble
Speaker 1: saying I still think I'm in my mid thirties. I
Speaker 1: still say mid thirties. Not till April do I hit
Speaker 1: late thirties. But I'll tell you, I feel like my
Speaker 1: body is backfiring big on how I've treated it the
Speaker 1: first thirty some years of my life. I don't know
Speaker 1: what else we could have done. I mean, I guess
Speaker 1: we could have worked out. I eat fruit and vegetables.
Speaker 1: You eat fruit, I do. I think I'm pretty good
Speaker 1: about my fruit. But I am like TMI moment on
Speaker 1: the pod. You remember that doll when we were younger,
Speaker 1: it was called the like pea pants Polly. No, maybe
Speaker 1: that was just like my little tiny piece of nineties.
Speaker 1: That's exactly how I feel like. If I'm going to
Speaker 1: have something to eat, I need to be next to
Speaker 1: a facilitate. That has been the last seven days of
Speaker 1: my life interesting. And everybody's nervous. They were like, it's neurovirus,
Speaker 1: because that's everywhere right now. It is, But I don't
Speaker 1: feel terrible all the time.
Speaker 2: You know what I don't understand about neural virus is
Speaker 2: that everything they say that, like hand sanitizer, it's very contagious. Yep,
Speaker 2: very very contagious, and they a lot of like regular
Speaker 2: cleaners don't kill the bacteria along with the virus.
Speaker 1: It's anti hand sanitizer.
Speaker 2: And hand sanitizer is supposed to ninety nine percent of germs.
Speaker 2: I guess neurovirus is the one percent that it doesn't kill.
Speaker 2: But you know what does kill the germs, soap and water.
Speaker 2: Explain that to me, I can't.
Speaker 1: Did you know you can get neurovirus from food? What?
Speaker 1: I didn't know that either. My friend just got neurovirus.
Speaker 1: Her doctor said she's a neuro virus yeah, and she
Speaker 1: was like, I don't. He's like, does anyone else in
Speaker 1: your house have it? And she said no, and he's like, okay,
Speaker 1: try to like keep yourself away, bleach everything. She goes, then,
Speaker 1: how had I have gotten? And he goes, well, you
Speaker 1: can get it from food too. I'm like, everything in
Speaker 1: this world is aimed to hurt us. Listen.
Speaker 2: I really want to keep eating out at restaurants and
Speaker 2: going places, but if y'all don't wash your hands, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna stop coming.
Speaker 1: Ooh I'm gonna stop coming. You know, I've had salmonella
Speaker 1: and you have to use soap. You have to use soap.
Speaker 1: Oh normally, it's so funny. You say that, so normal.
Speaker 1: We teach our kids like you only say nice things
Speaker 1: about other people, right, I'll tell you. When my son
Speaker 1: came home the other day from first grade and pointed
Speaker 1: out a certain kid in his class that only kind
Speaker 1: of washes his hands and doesn't use soap, I was like,
Speaker 1: that's disgusting, buddy, and you're not gonna get in trouble
Speaker 1: for talking about it. You tell that kid man what
Speaker 1: it takes one. It takes a little patient zero ask him.
Speaker 2: Tell will to go back and ask that kid if
Speaker 2: he thinks the earth is round or flat.
Speaker 1: I just want to know. I just want to know.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, there's seven babes. I love the use.
Speaker 2: There are signs, there are it's best to get out
Speaker 2: of it, it really is.
Speaker 1: But we're still We're still carrying on. We're still you
Speaker 1: and I And I'm afraid to say it out loud
Speaker 1: like it'll jink said.
Speaker 2: We try, We try. I really want to talk about TikTok,
Speaker 2: but I just I don't want to doom spiral.
Speaker 1: I you know my feeling. I think it's gonna be saved.
Speaker 1: You don't think it's going away? Like confident enough. I
Speaker 1: would almost place money on it. I just don't have
Speaker 1: any money.
Speaker 2: If it is saved, though, do you think people will
Speaker 2: stay on it? Because now everyone's so excited about the
Speaker 2: Red note app, which is also a Chinese owned company,
Speaker 2: So I don't feel like, you know, maybe another couple
Speaker 2: of years before they try to ban that one.
Speaker 1: Yep. Yeah. And like we're pretty certain now that it
Speaker 1: was Mark Zuckerberg who lobbied to have TikTok shut down,
Speaker 1: like he was the one who spent all that money
Speaker 1: to get it like axed. Like we're sure about that, right,
Speaker 1: I think? I mean I don't looked through public records,
Speaker 1: but right it would make sense. Nor would we, nor
Speaker 1: would who has the time we're posting to TikTok. We're
Speaker 1: in the bathroom, we're washing our hands. That's so we're busy. No,
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna get saved. I think it's gonna
Speaker 1: be It's gonna be part celebrity and part one of
Speaker 1: the big like entrepreneur name people. I love TikTok. I
Speaker 1: love it.
Speaker 2: It's my comfort app. It's where I go and scroll
Speaker 2: when I have nothing to do, you know, I have
Speaker 2: my comfort creators.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I just I like it.
Speaker 2: I like creating content on there because I don't feel
Speaker 2: like I have to be as put together or as
Speaker 2: buttoned up or you know, even as professional on TikTok.
Speaker 2: And I feel like you really got to come with
Speaker 2: your A game on Instagram. Facebook, I feel like, you know,
Speaker 2: I'm like talking to my mom and like my aunts
Speaker 2: and like my family. So I feel like I'm comfortable
Speaker 2: on Facebook. But can I say that if TikTok goes away,
Speaker 2: I'm going.
Speaker 1: To be sad.
Speaker 2: But I long for a more nostalgic time when we
Speaker 2: didn't have so many social media platforms.
Speaker 1: Preach mm hm. I put that up on my TikTok
Speaker 1: this week. By the way, Ash Schmidt underscore in the
Speaker 1: mid I'm still not to the point where I can
Speaker 1: go live because it has taken me forever to rebuild
Speaker 1: that dang pull latform. But I just I'm exhausted. I'm
Speaker 1: exhausted with it. It is a constant running list in my
Speaker 1: head every single day of what have I already posted
Speaker 1: to today? What do I need to post to today
Speaker 1: and have I done enough to make that matter in
Speaker 1: the algorithm. I don't know how social media coordinators for
Speaker 1: a company or a business do it. Yeah, NonStop, well,
Speaker 1: every because it's a full time job. That's fair, that's
Speaker 1: a good point.
Speaker 2: It's a full time in my opinion, I know that
Speaker 2: it's not treated that way in a lot of places,
Speaker 2: like for a lot of people, they have a full
Speaker 2: time job like marketing director or account executive or whoever,
Speaker 2: and then they just like tack on social media to that.
Speaker 2: In my opinion, social media director is a full time job,
Speaker 2: and you probably should have some subordinates in a department
Speaker 2: like social media should now be a department.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, And I get nervous doing anything out in
Speaker 1: public because I feel like I'm gonna get posted to
Speaker 1: that influencers in the wild. Yes, I don't. Yes, and
Speaker 1: we do and do that.
Speaker 2: We do so much stuff for work. I feel pretty
Speaker 2: comfortable moving in a professional way, but there is something
Speaker 2: about being on location in a place and having to
Speaker 2: shoot social media in front of people, Yes, and especially
Speaker 2: by myself. If I have another person there with me
Speaker 2: to hold the camera or talk with me or do
Speaker 2: something with me, I'm more comfortable. It's like us doing
Speaker 2: social media together on location, totally different to me, I'm
Speaker 2: way more comfortable doing that than just being totally by
Speaker 2: myself solo at a location trying to shoot content.
Speaker 1: I'm straight up introverted. As soon as it happens, I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh god, everybody, yes, yeah, very cringe to me.
Speaker 2: Somebody asked me today on the Live if I ever
Speaker 2: get like self conscious doing the Lives because the camera
Speaker 2: is on you twenty four to seven. It catches every
Speaker 2: little move, and I was like, well, I've never thought
Speaker 2: about that, but yeah, I guess now, I am what.
Speaker 1: Did you just see that? You're what just triggered that?
Speaker 1: I'm so sorry? Am I ever self conscious? Or the
Speaker 1: easier answer would be when am I not self conscious
Speaker 1: when I'm sleep? I guess even then, because I had
Speaker 1: the most ridiculous sorry quick pivot butt dial ever I
Speaker 1: never have like accidental butt dials. And I had just
Speaker 1: gotten off the phone with one of our sales reps,
Speaker 1: and apparently at some point during my after the show nap,
Speaker 1: I rolled over and called them and all they heard
Speaker 1: on the other end was my like heavy breathing and
Speaker 1: slobbering into the speaker to the point where I jolted
Speaker 1: away because they were yelling, are you all right? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a medical emergency. That would be self conscious when
Speaker 1: I sleep now as well, I would be.
Speaker 2: I would think that there was something wrong, like maybe
Speaker 2: you were in a place where you couldn't talk.
Speaker 1: Yep, Ben kidnapped in the trunk of a car, unable
Speaker 1: to kick out the tail light. That's exactly where I
Speaker 1: would go if I gotta call like that from you too. Nope,
Speaker 1: just napping like the waal. I am amongst my comforter,
Speaker 1: with absolutely no idea that I'd called someone so fair
Speaker 1: to say self conscious about everything, especially TikTok in public.
Speaker 2: You said, comforter, you want to talk about luxury? Ooh,
Speaker 2: I got two and I'm the same bed on the
Speaker 2: same bed. Oh my, and I can only I can
Speaker 2: only have both of my comforters, and I have a
Speaker 2: Then I have a Okay, so I have my fitted sheet,
Speaker 2: and then I feel like I'm the last millennial on
Speaker 2: the face of the earth that uses a top sheet.
Speaker 1: I live for a top sheet.
Speaker 2: Jimmy gives me so much grief about the top sheet.
Speaker 2: He doesn't use one at his house. When we're at
Speaker 2: his house, there isn't one. It's just the fitted sheet
Speaker 2: and the comforter and like blankets and stuff.
Speaker 1: Gross, you're not in college anymore. Got a top sheet?
Speaker 1: It comes in the bag, I know. And like that's
Speaker 1: his house, that's his space.
Speaker 2: Like I don't really care, but I'm like, what are
Speaker 2: we gonna do when we move in together? I think
Speaker 2: we're just gonna have to get We're gonna have to
Speaker 2: do that. Like where is it Sweden where they each
Speaker 2: have like their own bed linens. They share a bed,
Speaker 2: but they each have their own stuff. Yes, I think
Speaker 2: we're gonna have to do that because when he's not
Speaker 2: sleeping at my house. Fitted sheet, top sheet, blanket mm hmm,
Speaker 2: comforter number one, comforter number two, Oh, blanket on top.
Speaker 1: Dude, I would sleep over so hard at your house.
Speaker 1: I it's like a cocoon. That's an oasis, it is.
Speaker 2: And I don't you'd think that I would love a
Speaker 2: weighted blanket.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I don't. But you like the feeling of
Speaker 1: a couple of comforters and that kind of airy weight. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that's interesting. I thought about getting a weighted blanket.
Speaker 1: But I feel like your hack might be even better.
Speaker 1: I got my grandma awaited blanket.
Speaker 2: She hated it. Pro tip they come in different weights.
Speaker 2: Oh I didn't know that.
Speaker 1: No, I wouldn't have.
Speaker 2: You can get like a five pound weighted blanket. You
Speaker 2: can get a ten pound weighted blanket. You can get
Speaker 2: a fifteen pound weighted blanket. I just went and got
Speaker 2: a weighted blanket from Target because she said she wasn't
Speaker 2: sleeping well and I read online that that might help, yep,
Speaker 2: and she was. She gave it back to me. She
Speaker 2: was like, I can't do it. It's it's like it's suffocating.
Speaker 2: And it was like a fifteen pound weighted blanket on
Speaker 2: your grandma and this is like a tiny, like ninety
Speaker 2: four year old woman. I was like, no, shit, you're
Speaker 2: being crushed.
Speaker 1: You're being crushed. Yeah, but they're not good for your circulation.
Speaker 1: I have read Oh well, you know what, Like I said,
Speaker 1: everything in the world seems to be at you right now,
Speaker 1: So give me my weighted blanket, my cold uterus and
Speaker 1: whatever is happening in my pelvic area, and I'm just
Speaker 1: going to deal.
Speaker 2: I just think you get to a certain point where
Speaker 2: these are these are things that you just have to
Speaker 2: live with and accept.
Speaker 1: Now this positive podcast, Brodie thought the calm app or
Speaker 1: something that's really I don't like to hear. I don't
Speaker 1: like to know what could be happening with your body,
Speaker 1: Like I said the stuff I googled. I'm either not
Speaker 1: drinking any water at all, or I have a stomach tumor. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I've left you of my things. If that's the case. Oh,
Speaker 1: thank don on a little loose leave piece of paper.
Speaker 1: You bequeathed me. I bequeathed you, yank you. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: I'm leave you my comforters too. You can be sleeping
Speaker 1: like five deep, babe. Oh my god, Oh my god,
Speaker 1: talk about the dream. Do I have the gall to
Speaker 1: do one more? I believe in you? Oh? I feel
Speaker 1: like that would be too much. I would be too hot.
Speaker 1: I want to stuckle right in there. See and then
Speaker 1: you can lower your thermostat to my wonderful sixty six.
Speaker 1: Save money. Honey, you're twenty twenty five. Just became the
Speaker 1: most successful moment of your life. Everything's coming up aally
Speaker 1: Mac these days,