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
S3 E6 A Relatable Rant
In this episode, we’ve got a surprise guest—Skelly, the skeletal comedian, bringing some unexpected laughs. We’re talking about the everyday struggles we all know too well, from the rising cost of living to the never-ending battle with deodorant packaging. Plus, we’ll reminisce about the days when paychecks went further and throw in a pro tip for snagging deals at Target.
Next up, we’re diving into the wild world of COVID-19 and 5G conspiracy theories. We’re questioning the outrageous claims, unpacking the pandemic’s origins, and sharing some personal stories about how it’s impacted our lives.
We’ll also dig into Gen Z’s move toward zero-proof drinks and edibles, and throw around some “would you rather” scenarios (bad haircut or dye job, anyone?). To wrap it up, we’ll chat about our late-night TV faves and how hard it is to agree on what to watch.
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Welcome to the no Wine Left Behind podcast, where we truly leave no wine behind. 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. 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. Hi, hi, I know we weren't slated to have a guest today, okay, tonight on this episode, but I just couldn't resist inviting someone. Okay, are you okay with me bringing them in? Sure, yes, fuck, yeah, fuck yeah, fuck yeah, with me bringing them in, sure, yes, oh, my lord. Oh, I touched his purse. It's, it's, don't fall, don't fall. Okay, welcome, you're not serious, are you?
Speaker 1:I don't know any like spooky songs, otherwise I'd sing them spooky songs. We have a spooky visit, and what are we calling our guest? Oh, steve. And what are we calling our guest? Oh, steve, sarah, I don't know. It has to start with an S because it's a skeleton. So let's call him Skelp. That sounds like a biker gang. Skelly, very biker gang. He's like head of the biker gang. Skelly, very biker gang. He's like head of the biker gang. Okay, skelly, yeah. And then he ended up here. Oh, awesome Greetings. How are you Good? How are you, I'm good, yay, good.
Speaker 1:Another day, another 50 cents. At some point in their lives people were making only 50 cents. You know how people you say another day, another dollar, yeah, not anymore taxes, it's 50 cents, so another day, another 50 cents. So I loosely heard something, and when I say that it means like I loosely literally heard it, but something to the effect of, at some point, if your grandparent or whatever, whatever, was making eighty thousand dollars at some point whenever, this is so not fucking helpful, but in today's money that's like two hundred and thirty thousand dollars. Wow, that's crazy. Yeah, I don't know about that. I mean that's what I heard. Okay, well, maybe it's true, I don't know. I have to do a little research on that. Yeah, I'm not doing that.
Speaker 1:He said 50 cents, then a dollar, then 80,000, then 230,000. I mean that sounds pretty fucking accurate, because that's how gas prices and everything else is going. Yeah, fucking up. Actually, no, didn't the gas prices go down a little bit? Listen, not around here. Oh, a couple days ago I was in Middleton and from like all the way down, 114, gas was like 250 to 275. Okay, come home. Shit's fucking over $3.
Speaker 1:See, honestly, I don't even pay attention to that. How does that work, though I don't know how much gas is, I just go to any gas station. I'm not one of those people, and it's okay. If you are not judging, I have to be very you know, I don't want anybody hating on me. Um, I don't drive around all over the place to find the cheapest gas because I'm literally, you literally, wasting gas doing that. Right, I have a BJ's membership and their gas is like super cheap, super cheap, same, but it's in Nashville so far. So now I gotta drive what? 10 miles and use 10 miles of gas to get, you know, a dollar discount. No, I'll just drive half a mile down the road. Yeah, it's probably three something. Yeah, you know, I know, just whatever. Like, I don't, I'm not, I only notice because I'm old and now I notice the price of fucking everything. Yeah, well, I like.
Speaker 1:So I went through like a little thing where I was paying attention and now I'm not paying attention. Like, at one point I knew how much a gallon of milk was, I knew how much carton of eggs were, I knew how much gas was, and so on and so forth. Everything has increased so much that I have no idea. I just know it's a lot, right, and I don't really go to the grocery store very often, so I literally have no idea how much anything is. Yeah, I just know that I need certain things and have to buy them, and it doesn't matter what they cost. Right, I got to buy them, right? Yeah, absolutely so, I don't really pay attention to prices anymore, and it absolutely so. I don't really pay attention to prices anymore, and it's not because I can't afford to just buy whatever I want, it's just, it's constantly changing. Yeah, it's constantly changing. So I'm just like you know what? I need? Eggs. I'm going to have to buy them. I need milk. I have to buy it. I can't you know what I mean. I can't be like, oh, that milk's $7 here, I'm not buying it. I need milk. Well, I don't even drink milk, but you know what I mean.
Speaker 1:Deodorant, you need deodorant. Or you need feminine hygiene products, like it is what it is. By the way, target's having a sale on feminine hygiene products, just so you know. Okay, I got $2 off today, but I didn't buy it for me. I gotta stock up on my diapers.
Speaker 1:Yeah, um, can I ask you a question, sure, how do you open a brand new deodorant? What do you mean? How do I open it? Like brand new deodorant? You gotta take off the top. And then what? I take out, that little plastic thing that's in there. How do you take that off? I just pull it off. Oh, okay, why Are you one of those people who turns the thing until the thing pops off? Fucking right. No, hon, that's why it has those two little things on top. But it's like in there, no, it's it out, no. And then you turn the knob dial up a little bit. No, no, some people do it with their teeth. Oh, no, yeah, no, fucking weird shit. No, no, I just pull it off. So weird.
Speaker 1:Yeah, mine is never really that hard to get off, so I don't know what kind of deodorant you're using, but I use degree me too clear. We do a little dress on the front. Oh shit, our guest is injured. Man down, steve, please. I'm dating someone. Leave me alone, steve, have some respect. God damn, you're stuck skeleton, it's.
Speaker 1:It's skelly, skelly, skelly. What's wrong with? Oh yeah, I'm using skelly. Sorry, dude, I don't think he felt a thing. Oh gosh, I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. Wow, don't fucking haunt me please. You're in big trouble, no shit, to save the shit out of this fucking guy, I got some upstairs demon, demon, oh shit.
Speaker 1:So, anyhow, let's talk about what our whiners want to hear. Yeah, what was the poll results? What are we doing? Conspiracy? Listen, that's my jam. I love my alien, I know, and I never went to the moon, let's go. I was like maybe the earth is flat, okay, yeah, well, I don't believe that. But all the things, but um, I saw one today about um 5g causing cancer and covid.
Speaker 1:Wow, 5g is powerful because it's causing cancer and COVID at the same time. Okay, so I get the cancer part. How does it cause COVID? What do you think about that? I don't think it does. I think just somebody made that up. Yeah, I don't. I mean, unless you're like sharing your phone with someone that was exposed, like what? How is? How is your phone giving you COVID? I don't get that, I don't know.
Speaker 1:But there's a lot of conspiracies around covid, so I'm not really too surprised that this is another one. Yeah, never ending. How do you think? How do you think covid came about? Uh, I think that covid was like in a lab and some dum-dum just like fucking so man-made Boop, like dropped it and it got exposed, and maybe so like a man-made type, oh, 100%, 100%, I think that too. And then that person got sick, and then another person got sick and then, because it was so new, it just kind of like got out of hand and spread so quickly. Yeah, I think that too. But then you have all of these, like again, conspiracy theories, so that nobody really gets in trouble.
Speaker 1:When the world shut down, I know so many people passed away, crazy, you would watch the news and all you would see is like tickers of death. But you know what that is wild and that is unfortunate, because if you do some research about it, from what I understand, the same amount of people die from the flu every year. Thousands of people die from the flu every year, thousands and thousands and thousands, I don't know. And they, they don't record that. Well, they record it, but they're not going to get publicity. It's not publicized. You're not talking about it. Yeah, I'm just an actor, I'm just kidding. Um, um, the same close to, if not the same close to the same amount of people die of the flu as COVID in that time that we had it. So I don't know I.
Speaker 1:It's just really, really crazy to me that in my life I experienced something like that, in my children's life, your children's life, that we experienced something like that. And I think that if anything like that were to ever occur in the future, I don't think anybody would stay home, I don't think anybody would shut down. I think everybody would be like, fuck you. Yeah, they'd figure it out. Yeah, we're not doing this ever again. Wear the masks, because it caused a whole people still wear masks.
Speaker 1:Oh, all the time, everywhere you go, there's at least one person like why, like, covet is literally, in my opinion and I'm just stating my opinion like a bad cold. Yeah, and if you do die from covid, you have underlining health condition, you have asthma, you have respiratory health issues, you have um, autoimmune disease, like you have some. Like I'm a pretty healthy person. I've had covid twice, so I think the whole thing I don't know it's it was just crazy, yeah, or it's literally had it six times. Yeah, it's like a bad cold For me.
Speaker 1:Personally. The first time I had it, I was very sick. Oh, say, like, probably should have went to the hospital, which had trouble breathing because it's new, right, and I didn't know what to expect, but I got through it. I was sick for like a month. The second time it was like having a really bad head cold, like really really bad head cold.
Speaker 1:You know, I, for all I know, I just had it a week ago, cause a week ago I felt like congested, I felt stuffy, I felt all these things. But am I going to test and then scare people around me? No, I'm not doing that anymore, like I'm chalking it up to a bad cold. Yeah, I, I know I have allergies because I have the itchiness, the itchy eyes, itchy throat, like yeah, so I mean it was probably allergies, maybe it's good, I don't know. Yeah, but I'm better now, but I still have the itchiness. So I know I have the allergy thing going on. But, like I know people that I work with that had has had that, had COVID like a month or so ago.
Speaker 1:It's just, it's here, it's part of our lives now. It's a part of our life now. But people wearing masks, they don't understand how much damage they're doing to their own lungs. You know what I mean. Your air needs to circulate, you need to breathe fresh air. When you were growing up, people would say get outside, you need fresh air, you need to breathe fresh air. You know when you were growing up people would get outside. You need fresh air. You didn't kill them, germs, open your windows. You know what I mean. Now people are trying to like keep them all confined. It's not healthy. No, it's not healthy. No, not at all.
Speaker 1:But I don't think that 5G I disagree with. I don't think that's causing, agreed, I mean cancer for sure, cancer for sure. But, covid, no, yeah, look in your iphone terms and conditions, literally in your iphone, and it tells you to keep your phone a specific distance away from you. I never knew that because of cancer causing, I don't read the terms and conditions, so nobody does. And that's the fucking point. Nobody reads the fine print, right, right, I mean, somebody did, because I know this. But yeah, no, that's crazy. The majority of people fucking don't. That's crazy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it tells you that your phone essentially can cause you cancer, or the technology or whatever it is. I was hearing that like a long time ago. I remember years and years ago that people were saying like you shouldn't hold your phone up to your head too long because it could cause you know some whatever. True, but nobody really talks on the phone anymore. So it's. But everybody has their phone in their hand texting and playing games, and so your phone's near you all the time. Or, for guys, it's like in your pocket. Yes, I always have my phone in my back pocket, yeah, and then all of a sudden people are having like fertility issues. Just saying, I don't think I have to worry about that, my phone will be permanently in my pocket. Yeah, 100, can I have a phone for each pocket? Yes, yeah, no, I'm good. No, I couldn't even imagine. I didn't even imagine.
Speaker 1:Have you heard the chick-fil-a conspiracy theory? Um, no, what about it? So is it gonna make me not want to eat it ever again? Uh, I mean, maybe, maybe not. So chick-fil-a similar to what is it?
Speaker 1:Kfc, they have like their specific, like seven ingredients or like whatever the fuck, like 11 different herbs and spices. That's their like shtick from back in the day. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. So well, chick-fil-a upped them with 51. Wait, what so?
Speaker 1:Chick-fil-a, specifically, their chicken has 51 ingredients. What do you mean? Like they season it with or is like growing? Listen, I don't know. I don't know. How do you have 51 ingredients in a piece of chicken? Exactly? That's problem number one.
Speaker 1:Oh, but some of those 51 ingredients are linked to addiction. Oh, yeah, mm-hmm, yeah, because that is very addicting. Uh-huh, you eat that and you just want to eat it more and more. And also it's consistent because they're like, if you're a franchise owner, you can only do what they tell you to do, like get the chicken. Yeah, they fucking tell you to get it. Yes, yes.
Speaker 1:So there's manufacturers around that only make their 51 ingredients specific chicken, wow, and that's why it's consistent. Whether you get it on the east coast, the west coast, where the fuck you are, airport, home, doesn't matter, it tastes fucking same all the time. So why is this only Chick-fil-A? Because McDonald's and Kentucky Fried Chicken and Burger King only will allow a specific russet potato for their fries, and if this russet potato has, like those brown veins or anything of that nature, they won't accept them. So in order to not have that vein in them, you have to you know, genetically modify that specific Idaho russet potato with something that is linked to autism. Wow, right, but again, consistency, and that's again part of the addiction process. We know that McDonald's fries are good, we know that Chick-fil-A chicken is good and if it's consistent, unlike a fucking Dunkin' Donuts, you'll keep going to get that same. Well, their donuts are consistent, I can tell you that.
Speaker 1:Well, not their fucking coffee. No, their coffee is not consistent. Coffee is trash. It is trash, but I still get it a lot. We digress.
Speaker 1:I like starbucks. Starbucks supports the war in gaza. Oh, listen, shut up people. Already, people, I, I want my Starbucks. That's why their CEO was kicked out and they have a new CEO, because the old CEO was like fuck the war, we're in America. Listen, you can't say shit like that, sir. No, and that's why you're fucking kicked out. I won't say fuck the war, but I'm not going to say fuck the coffee either.
Speaker 1:I like the coffee. Well, really, I really like the coffee. I feel bad about the war wasn't happening and it's a terrible thing, and and I, I don't even know everything about it and I'm not I'm not completely educated on it yeah, I know bits and pieces from what I hear in the news and it's horrible. Yeah, thousands of people are dying. I get it, but I really like starbucks coffee and they're also. I mean, they might now, but before they weren't very LGBTQ plus supportive. So, yeah, starbucks fucking sucks, okay.
Speaker 1:So what coffee are you drinking, girlfriend? Cause like you're not going to dunk, you're not going to Starbucks? What the fuck? You go get your coffee. I have an espresso machine, baby, I make my own coffee. I'll open up my own shop. How about? How about top donut or or heavenly donut, gross, what are they? Heavenly, listen, heavenly has my heart. I'm telling you right now heavenly is the best donut coffee shop, donut shop, whatever you want to call it. Ever have you heard about ping in drum hill?
Speaker 1:I drive by it all the time and gary was just telling me it's all over channel five. Yes, it's a fucking coffee machine. It's a literal fucking robot. Like it's just this big electrical box in a parking lot and on the app you order your coffee. Then you go over and pick it up. You go and you pick it up out of this machine. No human being fucking touches it. It's just there in this parking lot and it makes your fucking.
Speaker 1:I need to get one of those. I want to try it. Crazy, me too. Did you try it? No, I want to. Okay, we gotta try it. Let's do it all right, and we'll talk about it. We'll talk about it next time I did.
Speaker 1:Gary was like do you know that thing over there? Because we drove by the other day. It was all over channel five. That's a coffee. Yeah, it was all over tiktok place. I'm like what? Yep, it's literally in the parking lot of like an abandoned building Next to the dispensary, so you can get your coffee and get your edibles. Yeah, that works for me. Two for one, right there, I got it. Okay, get my coffee, my edibles, boom, done, goodbye, call it a fucking night, fucking right. Yes, yeah, there's so much happening right now. Coffee, bring me up, take my edible, bring me down.
Speaker 1:Gosh, nothing is natural anymore, not chick-fil-a, not the world, nothing, nothing is natural. Everything is unnatural. Everything is unnatural. Yes, and that's why things, the name of this episode, that's why things can't happen organically anymore, because there's nothing fucking happening organically. Everything's happening, hey, some't happen organically anymore. Because there's nothing fucking happening organically. Everything's happening. Hey, some things happen organically.
Speaker 1:I wish more things happened organically, to be honest with you, because we need that. We need more shit happening the way it's supposed to happen and not people forcing shit. You know what I mean? Yeah, I hate that. It's so annoying, it's hard. People don't realize when things, some things, not everything. But when some things don't happen organically, it's going to fall apart because it wasn't meant to be. Yeah, stop forcing shit. Yeah, you know what I mean. Like huh, mm, hmm. So there's my rant on things Organically. Yes, stop forcing shit. People Fuck. Okay. If you're listening to this, you know who she's talking to. I can see it in her face. That was a shot, okay.
Speaker 1:Moving on, how about Gen Z drinking less and doing more edibles? Rightfully so, I was just talking about edibles. Rightfully so, good for them, mm-hmm, I'm all for it. Yeah, yeah, I'm all for it. I'm sure you know fucking Jack Daniels and whatever the fuck is not happy about that, but I mean, it just goes to show there's a big movement of like zero-proof alcohol. Yep, of like zero proof alcohol. Yeah, so, yeah, so, yeah, I love it. I think it's great.
Speaker 1:I love edibles. I'm not on the wave, oh my god. I know they're so great. I'm just scared, why? Because this one time I saw this girl who's on vampire diaries take edibles and then she was like on the lawn, like crying, and it was fucking weird what she took. Hers were probably laced with something.
Speaker 1:Listen, I don't know. Like, if you go to a local dispensary and you get edibles, you're not like it's legit, like it's all good, just, it's just a. It's five milligrams. For god's sakes, it's nothing. I don't know what that means. It's like the lowest dose ever you can.
Speaker 1:You can get edible to sleep. You can get edible to be happy and get edible to just chill. You can get edible, I be happy. You can get edible to just chill. You can get edible I don't know for everything, so I can have one with my breakfast, with my lunch and with my dinner. Yeah, pretty much. Oh, perfect, all right, it's probably cheaper than my medication. Yeah, probably no. No, I would say so, actually. No, probably not. It makes you a little bit more money than medication. They're kind of pricey.
Speaker 1:You get them on sale, though. I got a couple of them on sale, just saying you can get this shit on sale now. Yes, can you imagine like drug dealers or like people in jail for like dealing marijuana are like pissed because now marijuana is on fucking sale. Yes, like what? Now marijuana is on fucking sale. Yes, like what? You could get 40 off if you order so many fucking pieces.
Speaker 1:No comment for more insight on how to get edibles at a discounted price. I got you unreal. Yeah, yeah, I got a whole bunch of shit for like cheap money, because you buy one up, 10% off. Then I got 40% off. I'm like, okay, times have changed. Have a good day. Times have really changed. Love it, I absolutely love it. Oh, yeah, I'm taking some later. She said cheers, cheers, cheers to edibles and cheers for them being legal.
Speaker 1:And for those of you who can't see her, I just walked into the room sneaking around, getting something to drink, doing a good job, being quiet. So, um, do we have time for um, this or that? Yeah, let's do it and do this or that. Okay, I love these things. Uh, bad haircut or a bad dye job, oh my God. Okay, hold on, let me picture this and think about this. Bad haircut, okay, bad dye job, I would go. Bad haircut, okay, I feel like you could fix it quicker than you could fix a bad dye job. No, I feel like you can't. Once your hair has a certain dye in it, you can't dye it again right away, so you're gonna have to sit in like the orange or the fucking whatever. Yeah, but if they cut your hair too short or too, they fuck you up. Bad, listen, you gotta deal with that shit. Listen, I'm shaving it. No, call me a cancer. I work from home. I don't give a fuck. Oh see, let people feel bad for me. See, bald, yeah, no, yep, Nope.
Speaker 1:How about being stranded on an island full of fruit, or lost in a city full of your favorite animal? Oh God, the visuals, the visuals. Just picture like llamas running all over New York City. Yeah, I'm going with the animals. No fruit for me. I think that would be more fun. I was going to say funner. Oh my God, I think that would be more fun because, like you're in an island, you're bored, you eat a lot of fruit. Yeah, you're like, eh, yeah, running around the city with your favorite animal. Like, yeah, buddy, who's cleaning up the llama poop in New York, though, but them llamas spit at you too, so you got to be careful. You got to be careful with them. Them llamas are little bitches.
Speaker 1:Would you rather let's see able to fly or breathe underwater? Oh, breathe underwater. No, you want to fly. The world is 70% water, I don't care. You want to fly. What are? World is 70% water, I don't care. You want to fly? Oh, fuck you. What are you doing underwater? You're not spying on anybody. If you're being able to fly, you can fly around people with drones. There's an apocalypse, a fucking rapture, and you can't fly in the fire. I'm going to be underwater chilling. No, no, no, no, no, under the sea.
Speaker 1:How about be on time or be late? I'm always late. I don't even know how to think about that. I'm always fucking late. See, I'm 50-50. Depends on what it is. Late golf I'm always late for fucking golf, always fucking. I get so mad because I want to be early. I want to be on time. I never am, but then work fucking an hour early, like what the fuck? Anyhow, okay, uh. Iced coffee on a snowy day okay. Or hot coffee in a heat wave iced coffee every day, I don't care what the temperature is. Iced coffee, okay, I like my iced coffee. But you know what? Iced coffee you drink it too fast, yeah, good, and then drink fucking water. Yeah, I gotta get better at that anyways.
Speaker 1:Pets who can talk or babies who can talk? I'd rather talk to my dog, right? Yeah, like, I want to know what these motherfuckers are thinking, because dogs walk up to you and they go like this and they just stare at you and their heads tilted. I'm like what are you thinking about right now? Yeah, listen, these animals know more than the babies they do. Let these animals talk. Yes, I would love to hear a dog tell me what's going on when I'm not around. Sit down, lassies, let's fucking have a chit chat.
Speaker 1:Cash app or Venmo Venmo, because it tells you more. I like venmo too. I don't even. I think I use cash app twice in my life. I'm like I can't. I can't be using too many. I know there's so many of them, but I can't be using too many because I'm confused. So many, um, music or podcast while driving? Oh, podcast while driving? Yeah, 100, okay, unless it's h-o-t-t lord. Um, how about this one? Would you rather be on?
Speaker 1:90 day fiance or love is blind? Ooh, that's hard. 90 Day Fiance or love is blind? 90 Day Fiance yeah, have you seen some of those people? Big Ed, that's my man. Oh God, I just saw a picture of him on freaking line the other day. He was just engaged for 24 hours. Yes, yes, I just saw a picture of him on freaking line the other day. He was just engaged for 24 hours. Yes, yes, I wonder why. It must be the neck. Okay, hey, he had a neck at one point. Yeah, what happened? Like what the fuck happened? Because I saw him as a teenager and he was like a good looking kid. Yeah, I know what the fuck happened. Nobody knows, I mean. And he was like a good looking kid, yeah, I know what the fuck happened. Nobody knows. I mean, I'm sure somebody knows.
Speaker 1:Figure it out, yeah, okay, um, would you rather be able to whisper or only be able to shout? Oh, whisper, shouting is fucking obnoxious, it is. Yeah, I would rather people be like what than telling me to shut the fuck up. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, I'd rather whisper, and I feel like you can say more if you whisper Can't say a lot when you shout because nobody hears. You Preach yeah, and that's all I got. Yay, that was fun, that was so fun. Yeah, I love that. So cute. I liked it. That was good.
Speaker 1:Oh, by the way, people who enjoy true crimes could possibly be psychopaths. Well, that's me. That's all I watch. Yeah, if your idea of relaxing before you go to sleep is to watch an episode of true crime and then you have to think about why is the trauma relaxing me? That's 100% what I fall asleep to all the time. Yeah, they warn that it's a major red flag psychologist, one of the major red flag people who enjoy true crime. So yeah, so we're all fucked up then, because I enjoy it too.
Speaker 1:I don't watch for bed, though, so yeah, I could watch. I could fall asleep to like a horror movie like smile. I can go to sleep to that. Nope, that's all folks. I don't like horror movies. I never watch them. Don't like them. No desire, all right, well, let's go find something to watch upstairs. I hope it's okay. Okay, bye. Thank you for joining us on this wine-filled adventure. We would greatly appreciate your support. Please follow and rate our podcast on Apple Podcasts, spotify or wherever you're tuning in right now. So raise a glass, leave no wine behind and let's continue this journey together. Cheers you.
