No Whine Left Behind
"No Whine Left Behind" is the podcast that serves up a blend of real talk while sipping cocktails. Join your hosts Celia and Alex as we dive into life’s ups and downs, share wild stories we’ve read, and chat about the everyday family drama we all know too well.
No Whine Left Behind
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Ever wonder how a supermom juggles a baby, a business, and a brand-new side hustle without losing her mind? On this episode of No Wine Left Behind, we chat with Nicole—a military wife and mom to a 14-month-old—who’s taking on the world one sunless tan at a time. Between running her family’s construction business and launching a luxury tanning biz, she’s got plenty of hilarious stories, plus real talk about the postpartum struggles and military life chaos that come with it. Spoiler: it's not all sunshine, but she makes it work with style and humor.
Curious about the science behind the perfect spray tan? We break it down (yes, there’s a science to not looking like a carrot) and share some laugh-out-loud moments from a ‘sip and spray’ party gone wrong. Plus, stick around for some wild reality TV drama and a story about a woman who married—then divorced—herself. Trust us, you won’t want to miss this episode!
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Welcome to the no Wine Left Behind podcast, where we truly leave no wine behind.
Speaker 2:I'm Alex and I'm Celia. We are here in the studio together, sharing ups and downs, frustrations and funny moments of our daily adventures.
Speaker 1:So grab your favorite glass. Join us as we raise our voices. Together, we'll dive into the drama of life as we see it. I hope you've poured a glass, because tonight we're diving into something new.
Speaker 1:We are super excited to welcome today's guest, nicole. She's a mom to a 14-month-old and a military wife, juggling a full-time role in her family's construction business while also running her own luxury, sunless tanning business. I mean, come on, she's all about the real, raw and relatable. Her passion for helping others feel beautiful is something she truly treasures. So we're super excited to welcome a fellow wine lover on our episode today. Welcome, nicole. Hi, thank you for having me. Yeah, of course, thanks for joining us. It's great to have you on. Yeah, definitely, and I think last week or maybe the week before, when we had posted our reel saying hey, okay, I think we're ready for guests. What you sent in was so sweet and it was one of the longest kind of requests, but like long in a great way, like I felt like I was getting to know you right off the jump and it was immediate. From that first message I was like, yeah, she has to be our first official guest.
Speaker 3:Yes, the minute you guys followed me and I followed you back on your socials, I was just cracking up laughing at your little reels that you were posting and I was like I love them. And so when I saw you immediately were like do you want to be a guest? I'm like, yeah, I do. I want a glass of wine and I want to talk to you guys. And then I was like, well, now I got to like talk it up. I was like I'm a wine lover. I'm like I'm from Massachusetts too.
Speaker 3:So I knew this would be like a great click.
Speaker 1:Awesome, 100% Super excited to have you here. Yeah, you have to tell us a little bit about momhood and marryhood. What's it all like?
Speaker 3:It's a lot. I know everyone always says that, and I know they also say that it goes by really fast.
Speaker 1:But the last year has truly gone by so fast.
Speaker 3:A lot all happened at once. I got married and then got pregnant and had my son last June. I always wanted a blue-eyedeyed summer baby and that's exactly what I got, so I was thrilled with that, and he is like a mini version of my husband to a T.
Speaker 2:Oh boy, that's a good thing.
Speaker 3:Yes, my husband can sleep at the drop of a diamond, so can my child. That's amazing 13 hours a night, I can't complain. Wow, child, so I, my son's 13 hours a night, I can't complain. Yes, so I am blessed in that I have never had a problem with him sleeping.
Speaker 3:So it's been good, though I mean running a couple of businesses with my family and then now launching one by myself, um, at the same time with my husband doing a lot of military travel. Uh, for the last year it's been hard, but it's also the most rewarding thing in the entire world.
Speaker 1:So Sure, yeah, it sounds really fulfilling and exciting and, yeah, the fact that you have all of these businesses happening also while being a mom, while being a wife, and sometimes on your own if your husband's traveling. So tell us about your businesses.
Speaker 3:So my father actually started this construction company 30 years ago, so the year I was born. I have an older brother, so in the midst of having a four-year-old and then a newborn, he also started his own construction business after he had been in the business for 15 years on his own and working for someone. So he started his own business and I knew there was a point in time in my life where I was going to end up at the family business. I just didn't know when. So I actually run the entire office upstairs from the shop.
Speaker 3:And it's a very small knit family company. So it's my brother, my godfather who is also my uncle my dad, and then my mom comes in and helps me out when business is a little busy. So it's just us four and we run the whole thing. We are more so in the demolition aspect of construction.
Speaker 3:So, that was a learning curve for me, where, just coming off of a business degree, and I was just like, okay, I have no idea what I'm doing, but doing that I will say it's a blessing to work for family and they're also my neighbors, so that's also a little compound. It's great. So I get to work with them and we get to all hang out too. We're very close, so that's great. And then it wasn't until postpartum. I had already done some sunless tanning prior to getting married and I loved it truly.
Speaker 3:But I was very sick in my pregnancy so I had to stop working. It was the one thing I was missing during my postpartum that I was like you know what? I need to jump back into it. This time I'm just going to do it on my own so that way I can control my own schedule when I can and can't do it, because I have a baby and a husband who travels a lot and it's been the greatest thing I ever did. It gave me that little joy right back that I knew that I was missing during my postpartum, which was a struggle, but I'm having the best time.
Speaker 1:So it makes me feel beautiful and happy.
Speaker 3:You look great. I like to think so. Thriving you look great. I like to think so. It's a lot of work. Social media is a little bit of a downfall, but I mean, that is a job in and of itself. No one talks about that. So, it's not like I enjoy being on my phone, but it's part of the game.
Speaker 2:Right, it's literally a full-time job.
Speaker 3:It really is, you have to set time aside to be able to do it. So that part's hard. But just being in with someone and even though it's only a 30-minute appointment, it is the best that I just get to laugh and joke and make people feel good at the same time and hear their walks of life and their story and everything it's relatable. You get to talk Some people. That's their vent session. It's the best part of the job.
Speaker 1:Which is really interesting to me, because you say it's a vent session, but we're talking about tanning, so it's a vent session and your skivvies.
Speaker 3:Fully or naked Completely.
Speaker 2:Yes, I did it once.
Speaker 3:Trust me, I didn't know how to feel Honestly, it's the person that's doing it that can change the way you look at it, Because a lot of the times I have clients just tell me that they kind of forget that they're even fully nude, because we're just laughing and joking and in the midst of me just telling, all right, put your arm up here. Okay, put your arm down. Okay, now turn, push your booty back towards me, and we're just laughing.
Speaker 2:I would never forget that I was nude.
Speaker 3:It's a matter of the conversation. If there is no conversation, then it's definitely awkward.
Speaker 2:It's just awkward for me. I just even you know, know, when I go get a massage, sometimes I keep my underwear on. I don't know why, and sometimes I don't yeah but I'm like, why other times I do? Why are the times I don't? I don't know. I get in my head and some days I'm like, all right, this is fine, and then other days I'm like, oh, gotta keep my underwear on, you know?
Speaker 3:I don't know, just freaking looney tune, I guess the way I open it up to clients, because a lot of the times, clients are really nervous because it is their first time and they're like well, I was going to, instead of doing a booth, I figured someone can do it for you. Um, and my first comment is is dress down However you feel comfortable. If you're comfortable, I'm comfortable, I offer the pasties, I offer disposable thongs, but people come in in bathing suits. I've had people come in in shorts and like running shorts and they just really want their legs tanned.
Speaker 3:So, it's like really, truly, whatever you're comfortable with, I'm comfortable with. The main thing I ask people is, if you're tanning for an event, be aware of tan lines.
Speaker 3:So don't wear like a bandeau bra or a strapless bra, and then your whole dress that you're wearing for a wedding is backless and now we have a giant tan line. So I always am like, what are we tanning for? And let me see a picture of the dress and then we can reevaluate this. But it's truly, whatever you're comfortable with, I'm comfortable with. If you're comfortable fully nude, I'm comfortable with it. So I kind of just roll with whatever you're comfortable with I'm comfortable with. If you're comfortable fully nude, I'm comfortable with it. So I kind of just roll with whatever they're okay with.
Speaker 2:See, I can relate to that because I don't like tan. Like I like tan. I don't know even how to word this, but like I go out, I lay in the sun, I get a tan. Yeah, I will wear clothing to match my lines. Like I won't wear a tube top with 10 of them. I'm going to say I don't like it. I don't like it for me. Yeah, I'm the same way.
Speaker 3:I'm the same way. People also will come in with their regular underwear and then they're going on a tropical vacation where they're planning to wear the thong underwear. And then they're going on a tropical vacation where they're planning to wear, like, the thong underwear and I'm like, I'm like, well, that's why I'm like, what are your bathing suits Like? Where are we going, what are we doing? And because, like, honestly, people are so occupied with the fact of, oh my God, like I'm undressing in front of someone, that they're not thinking about those things. So it's my job to actually be thinking ahead of the game for them in all aspects.
Speaker 2:Oh, my God, I love that. I love that so much. A lot of thought process, but it's fun. My family gave me a hard time, by the way, because I wanted to get a tan before we went on vacation in June. And I said and I'm Hispanic, so my skin is naturally tan. Kind of tan.
Speaker 2:Than the tan I like right, yes, and I'm like I want to go get a base and they're like you have a base. And they gave me so much shit over it that I never went and got my freaking tan. I went on vacation without a base.
Speaker 3:No, it's not. They make solutions that are truly catered to, like those that have darker skin tones. There's lines that are made strictly for women, that are men, that, um, the melanin, there, it's truly. They make solutions for every single skin tone, skin type. So it's people think that, oh, I'm already like tan, I don't, I don't need a tan, and it's like well, like you'd be surprised, I have every one of every skin tone coming in to see me, so I always put a little nope.
Speaker 2:Everyone needs a tan For all you doubters. Yeah, exactly All you guys on my shit. Next time I'm going to get tan.
Speaker 3:You showing you're showing up to vacation tan you can enjoy yourself, versus having to lay out your entire vacation to get that to go home with a tan. You thought ahead of the game. Now you're sitting at the bar while they're trying to like, trying to bake and get a tan, exactly exactly.
Speaker 2:I'd have more fun than they did because. I already got my tan Exactly, yep.
Speaker 3:Whatever?
Speaker 2:So my only thing is the orange. How?
Speaker 3:do people get orange and how do you not get orange? Okay, so I could get really nerdy on you right now with a lot of like science and like technical terms, but in the general scheme is that a solution is not the same for everyone. It's not like how you went to I'm going to not name the name of the business but like it's a very known chain where you walk in and they go light, medium or dark. It's not how it is now. Also, that's all they ever told you. They never told you, hey, you need to rinse this off. They never told you that. So you would leave it on for 24 hours until the next day when you would shower and boom, you're orange. You over-processed the solution on your bone.
Speaker 3:So there's two different kinds of solutions. There's one that you can sleep in overnight and then there's one it's called a rapid that you can rinse off in two hours. Both have the opportunity to give you the same development of color. It's just a matter of convenience, Like if you are going home and you're like I'm going to bed, I can do an overnight on you and you rinse off in the morning. Then there's people that are I absolutely do not want to sleep in my tan, I sweat at night, or I have two hours and I have to be somewhere. Then that's when the rapid can come into play and when I give you a little card and it gives you your rinse-off time, and that rinse-off time is very specific to you. You need to rinse off at that time and then that will give you the development that you want. If you do not listen to us when we tell you of the rinse off time, you run the risk of over-processing, over-developing your tan, and that's where the orange comes into play.
Speaker 2:Okay, that makes sense that percentages.
Speaker 3:Dha is actually what makes you tan, and there's certain percentages based on how dark you want to be. So we will mix a solution together based on your goals. Do you want to be golden? Do you want to be dark? Do you want to have a little sun-kissed glow? That is how we can determine what we're going to use on you. Cool, it's all science. It's all science.
Speaker 2:I may come see you and get my tan. After all, I don't care what everybody says.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and a lot of the times people freak out because the initial bronzing that you see, like when I initially spray you. People go, oh my God, I'm so dark. But that's actually just cosmetic Like. It's almost like makeup how makeup wipes right off, that's just like an. It's a guide for me to make sure I'm not like leaving you all streaky and it's instant satisfaction for you to go oh my God, now I'm tan. You're going to rinse all of that off and it's going to take you 24 hours to see the color of the tan. It's not exactly what you look like when you walk out of the tent and look in the mirror. That's just a guide that people freak out about that, but you're not going to see your actual tan until the next day. That's why we always say two to three days prior to an event is when you should tan.
Speaker 1:Learning so much.
Speaker 2:My first experience with spray tan. I think it was my one and only experience. It's probably why I didn't do it again. I went to a spray tan party Okay that sounds awful, right?
Speaker 3:No, it's a sip and spray party. You drink your wine in the comfort of your own living room when they come to you. I love doing sip and spray parties, so she brought this little tent thing.
Speaker 2:She set it up, yeah. But what I was puzzled by was like we were all different skin tones but she was spraying us all like light. Like you said, light, medium, dark, everybody was like light, and it's like one girl would step in, she'd get her spray, she'd step out the next girl, and so on and so forth. I don't think I ever saw this girl change anything. I think it was just like going spray after spray after spray.
Speaker 1:And I'm like, how is?
Speaker 2:it all the same color Like it was just like going spray after spray after spray and I'm like, how is it all the same color? I was a little confused and a little concerned about that.
Speaker 3:It could have been definitely like a rapid solution, telling you guys when to rinse, but also it could have been a different time is what I like to think.
Speaker 2:It was a long time ago.
Speaker 3:Solutions have come a very long way. There's olive tones, there's violet tones as caramel tones. There's okay, there is a tone that has undertones that can actually, like I have to evaluate your skin tone to know what color I'm going to use on you, because I wouldn't use the same solution on you that I use on her.
Speaker 2:Yes, it was none of that going on.
Speaker 3:No, so it was a different. It was a different time and I haven't did it again. And then I used.
Speaker 2:I haven't did it again. I tried to use the cream, the mousse and the cream and I'm streaky. So I'm like I don't like tanning beds, I won't do tanning beds and it's hard for me to sit out in the sun because I get very antsy and I'm like alright, now I'm bored, I'm sitting here. It's been 20 minutes.
Speaker 2:I'm done on vacation, I'll sit out in the sun all day. But when I'm out in my backyard by my pool, I can't Like. I just feel like I'm going to do something. So I was trying to find a good solution to that and yeah, it was a big fail.
Speaker 3:I might have to make you reconsider, okay.
Speaker 2:Sounds, sounds like a plan. Yeah, we'll talk, for sure I love it.
Speaker 1:I love it. Ladies, what is going on in the news these days? What is catching your attention? Give me some funny stories what is happening?
Speaker 2:all I've been hearing all day is P Diddy, Puff Daddy Sean Cohn. Oh my goodness, what is going?
Speaker 3:on. I saw that what the hell I mean from what we had heard prior, like when it was initially investigated, yeah, and I wasn't like surprised that it kind of is coming out that this is what it is, but I can't believe it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, for me it's always the details. It's like, yeah, he was arrested to your point, nicole, like we knew it was coming. It wasn't like, if it was a when, like we knew it was going to happen, yeah. But then it's like, oh, he got arrested and they confiscated, like thousands of body oil or baby oil bottles. Oh, what? The?
Speaker 2:fuck what. Oh my lord.
Speaker 1:No, yes, ecstasy, baby oil bottles and like something else when he was arrested.
Speaker 2:Wait, what were they calling it? What were they calling the part? Freak-offs, freak-offs. I thought that was hysterical and I'm literally listening to the news the FBI or whoever getting these freak-offs. I'm like what is this guy talking about? Oh Lord, it was hilarious. Yeah, it's so crazy.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And then his sons went to visit him in court For the court hearing. They were there to support him and they rolled up in like velour sweatsuits, like your dad is potentially facing life in prison and you're showing up like, but wait a minute left the gym 85 degrees out.
Speaker 2:Why?
Speaker 1:also very good point sweatsuits very good point a black one. It was either like black or like navy blue. It was a dark velour sweatsuit and I was like what the fuck is going on here? Show up a little bit more respectable. What's happening?
Speaker 2:They don't know how it's a court hearing. It's not like he's getting sentenced or anything. I mean it's ridiculous.
Speaker 1:Yeah, crazy. So now he's in jail. They denied his bail. No, he's sitting in jail.
Speaker 3:How fucking weird is that. Wow, you know like why isn't like all like the celebrities?
Speaker 2:they're not really like in jail. Jail, no, I feel like they're in like a nicer.
Speaker 1:Oh for sure, like we're like the fact that he's like not in his miami, like star island mansion yeah, it's just mind-blowing to me.
Speaker 2:Like you's definitely not in Gen Poc, because they would be alive. That's exactly what.
Speaker 3:I mean he's in a room where all the celebrities that are having a vision are they have a wing, they probably have a section of the jail just for rich idiots, criminals who don't know how to behave out in public.
Speaker 1:Maybe he's with.
Speaker 3:Harvey Weinstein. Maybe don't know how to behave out in public, you know.
Speaker 1:Yep, maybe he's with harvey weinstein maybe I don't know where r kelly is, we're all just sitting there together trying to figure out their life.
Speaker 2:Where they went wrong?
Speaker 3:yeah, definitely probably with weinstein 100, which also I mean with ways, the way that he's being like charged with.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, I believe this harvey weinstein thing. Just on a whole nother topic. Why don't they just put the man in prison and be done like it's every?
Speaker 1:year, it's oh another charge.
Speaker 2:Oh, another charge. This man is like 100 probably yeah oh 100, he's, he's, he's a, you know, not a very, he's a bad person, he did a lot of bad things, he's in prison. Let's stop spending and wasting our court resources on this man that is just going to die at any point, I mean come on, let's be real.
Speaker 3:But it's like life in jail or whatever, life in prison and just move on. Why are we still adding more charges where he's literally already going to do his full time.
Speaker 2:He's already doing like a hundred years, like stop wasting the money and the time on this.
Speaker 1:Like it is what it is.
Speaker 2:It happened, it was terrible. I get it and you know it's sad that it happened and he's a piece of shit, but he's never getting out. Let's take all these resources and all this money and focus on like another criminal. Let's put them behind bars like coffee, let's. Let's get him now for the stupid shit that he did, you know what I mean like I don't know if I'm gonna hate me now for saying that, but I'd rather say our?
Speaker 3:wasn't there a whole list of like people that were with like p diddy, like? Isn't there a whole list? How about we like investigate all of?
Speaker 1:I don't know. Yeah, yeah, and they're saying too, like a lot of these people are starting to step down from, like the positions in the companies that they're a part of. Like as soon as he got arrested, a lot of people quit their jobs, like they're resigned. I don't want to be a part of this mess, because they probably were involved at some point and now they're like we need to get the fuck out of here.
Speaker 2:They're all fucking running for the hills.
Speaker 3:They're freaking out right now. 100% yeah, yep.
Speaker 2:But yeah, I'd rather our resources, our criminal justice system? Like convict the people, give them a hundred years, whatever, and move on to the next one and keep going, like, stop going backwards and backwards. It's like you know what I mean. It's such a waste of money it is. It's such a money suck. But anyhow, I want to talk about Big Brother.
Speaker 3:Yes, Okay, I am caught up, I am ready for it.
Speaker 1:I love it.
Speaker 2:So let me start by saying I was a huge Tucker fan, okay, yeah, and after he got evicted I stopped watching. So you two, I almost did too.
Speaker 3:I wanted to cry. I was so mad. He should have won. That was so unfair.
Speaker 1:I thought it was a good game move.
Speaker 3:I was proud of them. You know, I agree like them, getting them out like was a good game move, but I was also like praying there was a battle back. Yes, for sure, for sure, I for him, and also like he should have made jury, like that's not fair.
Speaker 1:That's what he went home before jury, like.
Speaker 3:But then, um, what's his name? Quinn is on the jury, like why did he yell so much in the room? All he did was he was yelling at the camera so quirky.
Speaker 1:He's so so weird. Oh, my god, yeah, but I did. I stopped watching. I was hoping there was a battle back?
Speaker 2:there wasn't, I was. I was hoping there was a battle back. There wasn't. I was hoping that Angela went right after him, but I don't think she did they still fucking kicking.
Speaker 1:Oh my God. So she's been on the block every week, similar to how Taylor was. Almost every week they bring her down. Honestly, I can't call it. I don't know who's going to win. I don't know. Okay.
Speaker 3:How do you guys feel about Chelsea?
Speaker 1:It's tough. A part of me feels like she's getting a bad edit, but a part of me feels like, because this show is so live, there's only so much editing that actually is happening. There's only so much editing that actually is happening. And it's kind of real. This like delulu relationship she has in her head with cam. Okay, yeah, there's no relationship there. Yeah, it's very, very strange. Like even today on the live feeds they were fighting and it was fucking awkward um I really like her game.
Speaker 1:I really wish that she would go far, but there's just something off about her.
Speaker 3:I think that now that Tucker's gone, her game is. She's her brain kind of shifted. Yeah With getting Tucker out, which was like so it's nice to see her game, yeah, but I I've never since the beginning, I was never like a never like a fan.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I was never a huge fan of hers.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, I don't know, I really like, yeah, I don't want kemo to go home, I don't either, but I don't think he should win. I think t court could take it, because she's actually playing the game pretty good, yeah, she's kind of got all her like all her bases covered I can tell you that her and tucker probably were the only two playing the game.
Speaker 2:Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, yep, the only two. Everybody else was crying or trying to get involved with this one, or whining about that one, or telling on this one, or scheming with that one yeah, no one was actually playing the game. No, those two were the only one playing the game yeah, I was not I'm mad but quinn was playing the game.
Speaker 3:But quinn just like, kept telling everyone's secrets and then lying to everyone. I was like I was like you were going to you're, you're gonna mess up.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't think you even remember what you lied about, right right, yeah, at one point he was like scheming from every angle, like, yes, I don't know how he kept it all together as long as he did to be honest with you not very well. There was a lot going on with him.
Speaker 3:Like a lot how did joseph make it so?
Speaker 1:much, oh, my god you have people like angela, and you have people like like Quinn, who are just so like loud about how much like they are so annoying and it makes them be more of a target. So, um, there was that one scene where Leah and Joseph were by the pool and there's literally like chaos happening around them and they're just like laying by the pool, like yeah, yeah, whatever, like we're just here and that's how they well, I mean he obviously got evicted, but that's how they made it as far as they did. Yeah.
Speaker 3:I know, Leah Yep, cam cam mckenzie, takor mckenzie.
Speaker 1:Angela chelsea there's still quite a few. Yeah, there's a lot of them. It's just seven, right, I think.
Speaker 2:So that sounds about right I haven't watched it since tucker left and I just assumed there were down to probably four or five at this point.
Speaker 1:But I guess they're still like a month left in the show and they're locked outside this week. Yes, and Nicole what is the name of the game? What's the name of the mascot? Oh crap, what's one of my favorite words oh janky Janky.
Speaker 2:His name is janky. I fucking love it, janky. I like that word too, actually.
Speaker 3:And they're just literally singing the song all week long. I always feel bad when they do this in the season, because the poor HOH doesn't get their HOH room.
Speaker 1:Yes, it's so shitty. They should at least be able to go inside and shower or something.
Speaker 3:yes, and then literally I felt so bad. I'm like they must have done it this week, because the weather must have been like or something yeah because then poor cam has his head in the freezer. And then, like they're all like laying, like andrew looked like she was dying on a pool float. I was like oh my. I was like oh my god, I was like they're literally, like they're gonna pass out like funny the medics are gonna have to come in at some point.
Speaker 1:Help someone with fluids. Amazing that they're still surviving, because lord knows I would not.
Speaker 3:I'd be a fucking basket case oh, I mean, I, I could probably survive with the pizza for every meal because, like, that is just like I could. Absolutely ice cream. If I was told, like every so often, to eat ice cream, I'd be like, no, yeah, I'm done, but I'm sure that they're sweating. So the ice cream is helping, but I'm sure it's better than slop. I mean I. I could only imagine the pizza's better than that.
Speaker 1:I would love to just be in the Big Brother house, Like I would love it. Honestly, me too. I don't think I could do it, but I would love it, yeah same.
Speaker 3:Like I could probably do it for like a week and a half and then be like okay you can send me home.
Speaker 1:I'd be like oh, Kenny, I just want to go home, I'm ready to go.
Speaker 2:Oh, that was Kenny. Yeah, I want to go. Just vote me out, I'm done. I really hope she went far. I know.
Speaker 3:Because the Massachusetts in me was like no you need to stay Yep 100% he was good.
Speaker 2:He was a good egg. I wish he had stayed, but yeah, him and Patrick.
Speaker 1:Oh, he was so annoying.
Speaker 3:He was very annoying but I was like I could see him going far.
Speaker 1:I very annoying but I was like I could see him going far. I thought he'd at least make it to jury.
Speaker 2:So when he went home I was like damn, and the poor kid was just crying. I felt so bad. Oh my God, I'm so sad. I'm so sad. Well, what's his name? What was Matt? What was the one that first got knocked out because of that Crazy Eyes? Yeah, he got a really bad rap, that poor kid. I feel bad for him. Eyes yeah, I see you, she's so I'm like she's nuts, she's, I remember.
Speaker 3:So I remember watching that and I just was like, yeah, I just my mouth was not, for I'm like what is she doing?
Speaker 2:yes, yeah, awful crazy awful so, now that our favorite's gone, who are you rooting for?
Speaker 1:god, that's a tough one. Yeah, that is really tough because I mean I don't feel like we have any good options, so it's hard yeah, no, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3:My heart, my heart wants chemo. He's not gonna win. No, he won't win no, no, no, I mean as far as like game, I'd have to say it's between T-Core and Chelsea.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Because I don't know Cam's not doing much, cam's not doing much, cam's not doing anything at all.
Speaker 1:Yeah. I would say probably. I think, judging by the way Chelsea's ruffling everyone's feathers right now, I see her becoming a target, unfortunately. So I think it's going to come down to like T-Core and Aaliyah.
Speaker 3:You think Aaliyah's going to move? Yeah, I think Aaliyah can do it.
Speaker 1:I think she can pull it off.
Speaker 2:She floated by. She really did, she floated.
Speaker 3:I'm just curious as to what if she got down to the final two, like, what is her like final speech, to say, final two, what is her final speech?
Speaker 2:to say what was her game Right? How did she run?
Speaker 3:that spot. Yeah, I don't know if she could sit there and be like I did this, I did this, Whereas Chelsea could say we got Tucker out, we got. Yes, she did facilitate T-Core between her and Kimo. They like flipped the whole Pentagon situation. So like she has things to say regarding, like, her final speech, but like Leah's just going to go well, I held the marshmallow up the longest and wanting to wait, like if you there are.
Speaker 1:TikTok that oh, I almost dropped my mic that like event her marshmallow when she let go, her marshmallow never fell. So they're saying it was rigged Because it never fell. Oh, wow. I'll have to go back and watch it. It's crazy, yeah, wow.
Speaker 2:That's crazy, yeah wow that's crazy, I always thought this show was rigged and and like, obviously it's producer, obviously it's producer led because they say things and you hear the producers say, okay, you can't talk about that, okay, stop talking, okay, don't yeah yeah, come on. If this is, you know, 16 people living in a house trying to survive each week, why can't they just say whatever they want and talk? About whatever they want like why are you?
Speaker 2:guiding it, so I always felt like they already predetermined who was going to win this game, like they already know who's winning this game.
Speaker 3:you know another? Another thing I saw. I think I saw it on TikTok. It was last season, because Jag was last season, right? Yes, yep, I saw something in one of the I can't remember if it was America's boyfriend the kid that went out. He went into the confessional room to say who he was voting out and his lips said Jag, but his voice said a different name and no one caught it. Oh, and I was like I was like how did they do that because it's live so I don't know how he did that, but like I saw the video when his lips clear as day, said jag, and I was like that's crazy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so it sounds like they muted him and then probably a prior week's thing and like slipped it in, yeah, yeah yeah, oh my god, because you can do that. You can grab people's voices and, like they, mute him and then slip in just him saying that person's name at some point during the week, a week prior or something during eviction?
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, and I think that live television, I think is always like five minutes off.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Or like something like that, because of the whole Janet Jackson thing years ago so now they had to make live TV like off-put, so I'm wondering if that's how they were also able to edit it quick, in 100%.
Speaker 2:Right, yeah, there's definitely a delight.
Speaker 1:Sure.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah. I also don't like how everyone this season oh, we forgot Rubina is still in the house.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, oh my God Rubina.
Speaker 3:Oh, her game.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I can't believe that certain people I'm, I'm this season is not it? No, it's not it. No, season was not at all terrible, terrible, terrible, everyone is from a different show.
Speaker 3:Rabina was on a show yes, chelsea's aunt was the host on the show and Angela's been on five shows, and Tucker and a lot of people from the industry. It's like, can you get Joe Schmoes on the show again, at least as far as we know? Kenny was a nobody on the show as far as we know.
Speaker 2:The only one. I think that was just a normal person.
Speaker 3:There was not many. A lot of people that were casted were from other shows.
Speaker 2:Or at least had been. Cedric was from something else.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so his uncle was some professional player. And his aunt is a musician. She was a singer.
Speaker 2:Oh, geez, okay, Okay, wow.
Speaker 3:It's crazy that they're like the amount of people that probably audition for these shows and really you guys really had to go and get people from.
Speaker 2:Yeah right, all these other shows yeah, that are already famous like famous trying yeah, to get on this show yeah, yeah, no, that's a bummer. Yeah, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2:I need oh, you know what I want to talk to you. I need you guys to explain something to me. But first of all I need to remember. So Alex and I, a couple episodes back, um, we talked about not probably a couple episodes probably last season. We talked about, remember, the hologram woman, this woman that married a hologram and we had talked about it. So there was a woman who married a hologram because she was tired of trying to meet people and she couldn't find the right match.
Speaker 1:So she decided to marry a hologram.
Speaker 2:You know what Good for her? You can Google it, it's there right. Hologram Same. You know what Good for her you can. You can Google it, it's, it's there, right. So the other day I'm reading my people magazine because I love people magazine. Everybody knows I love people magazine, I'm obsessed with it.
Speaker 3:I grew up. It was always on my counter in my house. Growing up, the new week, the new week's magazine, was in the house every week. Yep.
Speaker 2:So I saw an article about a woman who's divorcing herself.
Speaker 3:Yeah, how did she marry herself?
Speaker 1:I'd like to know. Yeah, that's super weird.
Speaker 2:Um, I don't know she she married herself. Hold on, let me see if I can find I have the article here somewhere. Oh, here it is, come here. Where are you? So she's herself, after a year of marriage, citing unsustainable relationship. Wait a minute. Despite couple therapy efforts, okay.
Speaker 3:So what worries me? What worries me is that if she couldn't even be married to herself, how is she going to find a real person to want to stay married to her Preach queen. Yep, because you couldn't even stand yourself.
Speaker 2:Right, she literally says that she gained attention in a sologamy ceremony, has now divorced herself due to boredom and desire for change.
Speaker 3:Okay, maybe she met someone so she had to divorce herself because now she met someone.
Speaker 1:I wonder what her lawyer who's doing this divorce for her is If she met someone, was she cheating on herself?
Speaker 2:Yes, obviously, because she was married to herself.
Speaker 3:She got bored with herself, so she met someone else to fill what she was missing, which I could tell you. What she was missing, that's a brainer.
Speaker 2:Initially, her, her self-marriage was a symbol of self-love and independence. But despite her efforts, including attending couples therapy, she found it hard to maintain a high self-demand and perfection. It doesn't even make any sense. She found it difficult to maintain high self-demand and perfection. Now she's returning to the dating scene, emphasizing the importance of knowing when to close a chapter.
Speaker 3:I'd love to know what her therapist is saying she probably advocated for that divorce yeah, she's probably like. I think it's time you gotta go. I think it's, I think it's time you know you guys need to go your separate ways, yeah 100 can you imagine how much therapy the therapist needed after giving this woman that married herself therapy?
Speaker 2:That therapist must probably is in the fucking loony bin at this point.
Speaker 3:Honestly, I don't know how, to therapists. I don't know how they do it, because you can't share the things that you talk about when you're committing therapy. I'd have to talk to someone about that lady. Yeah, I'd have to be like woman's insane, not, yeah, like I don't know, it's crazy. I'd immediately be contacting because you have to put, like your um, like, not emergency contact, but like the person that, like you, I've been calling them after the first session going. Is she okay? She came to couples therapy by herself.
Speaker 2:I think we need Because she's married to herself, claiming she was married to herself.
Speaker 3:I'm just wondering do you guys think she's okay? Because as a therapist, I'd be calling family members being like listen, yeah, that's fucking weird.
Speaker 2:Are we all on the same page here? Because I think she definitely probably should have been committed. That's what.
Speaker 3:I'm saying I think that her therapist had to have been like we need to intervene here. This is not right.
Speaker 2:Okay, yeah.
Speaker 3:No, you know what? I hope that she met someone and I hope that it's going great she's trying.
Speaker 2:Yeah, maybe that's what she needed. She's back in the dating scene. Good for her. But honestly, if any man reads this story, you think they're going to want to go out with her.
Speaker 1:No, way no.
Speaker 2:Unless they're just as loony tune as she is.
Speaker 3:I wonder if he's getting alimony.
Speaker 1:That's such a good question.
Speaker 3:So many questions if she's splitting everything down?
Speaker 2:the middle. No, that is hilarious. I love it, I love it, oh my god, oh my gosh, wait before we go.
Speaker 1:oh oh, go ahead, go ahead.
Speaker 2:I just need real quick. I just I'm going to sound like a really dumb ass right now. No but I need Latin X explained to me, because I don't understand what Latin X is. I don't know if I see about. I see it, I hear about it, I read about it, but it's like Latin.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Latin people, there's Asianian people. Right, there's different races. Yeah, where did latinx come from? What is it? Why is it a?
Speaker 1:thing now I feel like it's just like a, a younger latino movement, and they wanted a way to distinguish themselves from, maybe like the older latin way of thinking, like latinx is like your I don't know millennials, but maybe like your gen z's and your gen xers and the more like progressive side of the latin community, my I could be totally wrong.
Speaker 2:That makes sense, but I don't know why there's so many. Oh, okay, no, you know what I mean. I just looked it up.
Speaker 1:Okay, here we go, let's do that.
Speaker 3:It says that it is. Latinx is a gender neutral term used to describe people of Latin American descent. It's an alternative term to Latino or Latina. Of Latin American descent. It's an alternative term to Latino or Latina and it's intended to be inclusive of non-binary people and those who don't use him, he, him or she her pronouns.
Speaker 2:Those pronouns Okay, those will get you every time. Yeah, thank you. Yeah, so tricky, very tricky.
Speaker 1:It's hard. Now we're getting into it.
Speaker 2:It just shows my age because I'm much older than you guys I didn't know what it was.
Speaker 1:That's why I was like we should probably look at that yeah, I have an idea every day.
Speaker 2:It's changing too fast for me. I can't get up. I have three teenagers. They come home, they talk crazy to me. I don't know what they're saying half the time so I always ask alex, what does this mean? What does this mean? What does this mean? Then I see things like latinx and gen z and this and that, and I'm like, oh my lord, like honestly I'm already.
Speaker 3:I'm already that at that point, even with just like, I'll see something on tiktok, and I'm like what are they talking about? Then look that up. Because I'm like I, I'm turning 30 in a month, but like so, I like think that I'm still like in it. And then I think and I'm like oh, my god, right, like I'm not in it. That's no what people are talking about right, right, exactly.
Speaker 2:I think I'm in it and I'm hip and I know what's up and I don't, I, my kids look at me and go stop talking. Yeah, mom, why did you say that? I'm like I don't know, it sounded good it sounded good when I thought about it first yep, yep, so thank you.
Speaker 1:I appreciate you guys taking the time to explain that to me, because I'm yeah, now we're all a little bit wiser in those listening to you. You know what now?
Speaker 3:I'm gonna see all about it, because now my phone just heard us talking about it. Now I'm popping up everywhere yes, yes, I'm gonna go all right. Well, I know what that is now it doesn't hurt to you know.
Speaker 2:Learn every day, get more. Yeah, it's so we, you know. No, you gotta stay on top of these things yeah, yeah, so we can have like these educated conversations, right? Yeah?
Speaker 1:100%. Before we head out, nicole, we had talked about our love for Reddit and the AMAs. Yes, so do you have an AMA to take us out?
Speaker 3:Okay, I do. I have a couple. One's kind of a longer one, so I'm probably not going to read that one. You have time for one. Okay, let me see here. Sorry.
Speaker 1:I'm so excited Okay.
Speaker 3:So this was a quick, short one. I just was like thinking of both. Anyways, we'll get into it. Am I the asshole for honking at another driver who cut in front of me at a drive-thru each time she tried to order?
Speaker 3:So this line at Starbucks I was in was really long. I was in line for about 20 minutes until a lady in the Mercedes tried to cut in front of me and ate other cars behind me. I laid on the horn and tried to block her in from cutting me, but she succeeded anyway and flipped me off. I'm the type of person who will not let someone get away with shit like this, so I waited until she pulled up and as soon as she tried to order, I honked brilliant. She then looked at me with a dirty look and gave me the finger to which I already had my finger middle finger of my own ready for her. Each time she made an attempt to order something, I honked, and sometimes laying on the horn for three seconds, and I stopped as soon as she drove off, and then I went and ordered and went about my day. Am I the asshole?
Speaker 1:for this? Absolutely not. I was thinking if that was me and they were able to get in front of me, what would I do? Because I would absolutely want to do something.
Speaker 3:There's no fucking way, so laying on your horn, smart he clearly needed that coffee because it sounded like he was starting his day off with a bad day. I absolutely want to do something like that. I feel like that's very mass whole energy and and I'm like he has to be from massachusetts, right, yeah, um. So I'm like I totally in, like in agreement with him. That's funny. But also like when was it like? Okay, fine, she got through. I don't know who she thought. She was like cutting in front of not just him, but like eight other cars behind him yeah I don't think I could have, I don't think I could do it.
Speaker 2:No way.
Speaker 3:It just okay, I'm just going to not get Starbucks today. The thought has never crossed my mind.
Speaker 1:That is crazy.
Speaker 3:That's insane, like, and it's like. And then she flipped him off, made it through, yeah, like, after she got in front of him she thought it was her, like she had every right to now flip him off.
Speaker 2:She was mad at him for not letting her through.
Speaker 3:Yeah, exactly, and then at the point where she was so mad that she ended up just driving away, so I'm assuming she never got her coffee, because how did she, how was she able to order it? She had to have left. Yeah, she just drove away. And then he's just like and then he. I would love to know what the Starbucks driver who had to listen to the honking. He got up and ordered his coffee. I'd be like are you okay, sir?
Speaker 2:What just happened.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I'd be like what happened, Like I didn't see it, yeah, so I think I think she's an asshole for cutting him off, but also like he's also an asshole for like, not like just letting it go. Yeah, Well, that that one was funny. I had another one, but it was like really really long. So I but that one was just I thought was hilarious and very like that was such a good one.
Speaker 1:That was such a good one, oh my goodness. Well, thanks everyone for listening. Nicole, thank you so much for joining us today. Before we officially sign off this episode, let everyone know where they can find you online in person. Share some details about your exciting new membership that you're launching.
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