Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: Welcome back to the she Said podcast with Amy and Lisa.
[00:00:03] Speaker B: Getting out of the house after all that snow. Yeah.
[00:00:06] Speaker A: I didn't like any part of it, actually.
[00:00:08] Speaker B: I thought I was gonna get all kinds of stuff accomplished and asked me if I just got my tree down yesterday.
[00:00:14] Speaker A: Oh, no.
[00:00:15] Speaker B: Yeah, Yeah. I just cuddled up next to it and as a matter of fact, Steven said let's put the Christmas lights back on on that. So he turned them back on last night. I mean, why not?
So. Yeah. But now everything's still in boxes in the living room. Like I feel like it's. I did nothing. Got organized.
[00:00:30] Speaker A: I'll say that I actually accomplished a ton.
[00:00:33] Speaker B: I bet you did.
[00:00:33] Speaker A: I did. Which surprised me.
[00:00:35] Speaker B: Peace and quiet at home.
[00:00:36] Speaker A: Yeah. It was beautiful, actually. I did like that part of it. I loved just not. Not being able to anymore because I guilt myself so much.
[00:00:43] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:00:44] Speaker A: Into feeling like I gotta get out and do something and so knowing that I couldn't go. Yeah. Actually that part was really nice. But I did get a lot. I organized my whole house.
[00:00:52] Speaker B: I would say if I had a week of like nobody at home, like if everyone went on a vacation and. And I was just left at home, that would be completely different. I would get. You realize how much everyone comes to mom for everything. I mean like mom is the problem solver for passwords, for something that breaks. I don't know, it's just interesting. It's a very full time gig and I think it's.
[00:01:15] Speaker A: That's true in almost every family. I mean, I think about even with my mom and dad. When I called when my mom was still alive, my dad would answer the phone for her because she's got.
[00:01:24] Speaker B: Let me give it to your mom.
[00:01:25] Speaker A: And hand. No, didn't even say hi, just handed it right on over.
[00:01:28] Speaker B: Like, yeah, take care.
[00:01:29] Speaker A: Calling to talk to him. And there were. Sometimes I'd go. When she'd get the phone, I was like, can you hand that back to him? I actually called to ask him a question, but that was usually like plumbing or electrical, you know, some. Something like that. But I just think moms are the source of everything, which is I think why we miss our mom so much.
[00:01:46] Speaker B: The boys had made a picture.
[00:01:48] Speaker A: They.
[00:01:48] Speaker B: And it looked so real because they'd gone in the bathroom, taken a picture and then they had tied, put it through AI and made it look like the toilet had been shattered. I mean like someone sat on it and shattered it, which has happened in my house before. When my dad had. He somehow shattered her toilet while sitting on it. It happened. So I was like. So Ty sends me a picture. They're all laughing. And I. And I came running in the house from outside because I was. I was hot. Like, I'm like, you got to be kidding me.
Well, so then we find. I find out. Total joke. That thing looks so real.
Well, we called Stephen and we FaceTime him, and they're like, dad, you're not gonna believe what happened. Like, don't be mad. There's really no explanation. And I'm recording the phone and all. He's like, well, you guys are gonna be in trouble. I'm sure. Like, your mom's not gonna be happy, but I'm gonna refer this to her. So you need to let your mom know and see what she said. And I'm just thinking that is how it goes. It is. Refer to Mom.
Refer to Mom. Make it my problem.
[00:02:52] Speaker A: It's always the mom seen, so. So that mom. The magic of Christmas is because of moms. Oh.
That's what we do as women. We make it magical for the whole family.
[00:03:05] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:03:06] Speaker A: They're the number one source for everything.
Yeah. We miss ours so much because they were everything, everything.
[00:03:13] Speaker B: So we're good teachers.
[00:03:15] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:03:15] Speaker B: So anyways.
[00:03:16] Speaker A: But yeah, I love that part because I did get organized. I. My house is organized. Only thing that's not is the guest bedroom, because that kind of comes. Becomes my catch all.
[00:03:28] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:03:28] Speaker A: For things. But I've even decorated for the next seat at the table, which is good Thursday, but I decorated it over the weekend. Got it already. Good job. Place to sit. Plates, silverware, though, all the decorations. So I was. I was moving.
[00:03:44] Speaker B: I'm impressed.
[00:03:45] Speaker A: And also, I'm in an older midtown house, and so I was full time trying to keep my pipes from freezing.
[00:03:50] Speaker B: Oh, I know. That was like, such a job.
[00:03:52] Speaker A: It is a full time job.
[00:03:53] Speaker B: Yeah. We've had pipes break before, and it is a job and a half.
[00:03:57] Speaker A: I was so worried about that. But thankfully. So we're recording this on Tuesday after the storm happened over the weekend. So today it's kind of. Everything's thawing.
[00:04:06] Speaker B: Right.
[00:04:07] Speaker A: Finally.
[00:04:07] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:04:08] Speaker A: It was a crazy storm, though. More than snow than we've had in a long time that I can even remember that much.
[00:04:13] Speaker B: I don't remember either.
[00:04:14] Speaker A: There's a lot of snow at least. I mean, I've got a foot in my backyard easily. Well, they were saying 18 up to 18, which was a little scary to me. I'm like, I'm never getting out of the driveway. My driveway is long.
[00:04:24] Speaker B: Yeah. But.
[00:04:26] Speaker A: But speaking of that. So I hired. They're called Tulsa Twins, and they are a couple brothers, I think. Twins.
[00:04:34] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:04:34] Speaker A: Thus the name.
They're firefighters, I think. But anyway, they have a business, like a remodeling company.
[00:04:40] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:04:40] Speaker A: And I hired them to come and clear my driveway, and they came. They showed up Sunday afternoon and cleared it in literally eight minutes.
[00:04:48] Speaker B: Wow.
[00:04:48] Speaker A: I have a long driveway. So they are. They were great.
[00:04:51] Speaker B: That's amazing.
[00:04:52] Speaker A: Right on time and really cost effective. And, yeah, in the future, I'll always use them.
[00:04:58] Speaker B: Speaking of. But you said they're firefighters. Did you see the thing?
I think it was on Tulsa Midtown Neighbors. I could be wrong on that page.
A News did a story about the guy, and I think he owns a plumbing company, if I'm not mistaken. I hope I'm not wrong, but apparently he bought a fire truck out of Hope, Arkansas. I saw that. And it. He got it at auction. He was driving around this entire time picking up homeless people in that fire truck and getting them to shelter.
Totally. All at his expense. In his big heart, he's gonna. It still says, like, Hope Fire, FTD or something or whatever. It says. Yeah, he's gonna change it to, like, the Hope truck, but what a cool thing to do.
[00:05:45] Speaker A: So I always. I thought about homeless people.
[00:05:48] Speaker B: Oh, can you imagine?
[00:05:49] Speaker A: It got down so low at night. I'm like, please tell me I can't. To shelters.
[00:05:54] Speaker B: Yeah. I don't know. I mean, I. I think the shelters did a good job, but I don't know.
[00:05:59] Speaker A: Oh, I can't even imagine. I couldn't stand outside for two minutes with my dog out there. No, I sent her out on her own.
[00:06:07] Speaker B: No, there's a couple times. Daisy and Skippy, they seem to enjoy it. I don't know.
[00:06:11] Speaker A: I think some dogs, yeah, they.
[00:06:13] Speaker B: I think they love it. Something's up with Daisy. She is not my normal dog.
Piper hates it. Oh, she does.
[00:06:22] Speaker A: She does. I was out there at 4:00 in the morning, Sunday morning, shoveling a path, which I'd already shoveled the day before. But then we got more. And she. She poor dog. I mean, she's so little, though. She stepped down and it went up to her ears.
[00:06:35] Speaker B: You need to lay the tarp down, like they say.
[00:06:37] Speaker A: I should have done that.
[00:06:38] Speaker B: We did it on our front porch. It was very helpful.
And I do keep those snow shields on my windshield. My mom had bought me one because my car doesn't fit in our garage. Those things are so good and so helpful. I cannot. If y' all don't have Snow shields or eye shields for your front windshield. You do not know what you're missing. I bet that is the best invention.
[00:06:58] Speaker A: Thankfully, mine's in my garage because I that thought of scraping all. That does not sound.
[00:07:02] Speaker B: Yeah, I didn't have to scrape anything.
[00:07:04] Speaker A: I should have done the tarp because that backyard, that patio, it's big. And I shoveled a path, and then I had to shovel the grass.
[00:07:12] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:07:12] Speaker A: And then I had to redo it all. And she literally. I know she's not a fan. In fact, one day I was outside with the door closed, and she was in the house, and I was like, why am I freezing? I'm not out here to do anything except get you out here. So I finally had to.
[00:07:26] Speaker B: She's like a hairy woman.
[00:07:27] Speaker A: Yeah. She's inside going on. I don't know what you're doing out there, but I don't plan to go out. It was a rough time with her.
[00:07:33] Speaker B: Did you bake cookies from Sam's?
[00:07:36] Speaker A: Wait, what?
[00:07:37] Speaker B: Yeah, just. I got the box cookies. I did not get all cooking like.
[00:07:42] Speaker A: Crazy, but people were really baking. I thought, man, people are going to put on some weight over this.
[00:07:47] Speaker B: I know. I went to that bread phase last year of cooking bread, and honestly, I couldn't keep up with it. They would eat it as soon as it came out of the oven. I was making multiple batches, and so I finally chill out on that. But no, I didn't. I did make spaghetti with the protein spaghetti from Italy, and that was actually really good. And I will never have another. Another spaghetti again. That will be the only one I ever e use.
[00:08:07] Speaker A: I baked. But I did. I didn't do anything bad. I baked all healthy stuff and plant, you know, like, I did like egg. Those little egg muffin things, like. What are they called? Egg bites. And I did more, of course, of the cottage cheese stuff because I'm obsessed with that. Plus, it gets your proteins in. So I did. I baked all good stuff. But I did bake because there's something about turning the oven on, and it's the smell and being inside when it was so cold.
I saw pictures of people baking, and they were baking.
[00:08:35] Speaker B: I have to get a new oven, a new stove. I mean, mine works, but I do need to get a new one, and I don't think I'll do gas just because I don't. For me, personally, I've never been. I don't love fire like that. Going to my house.
So I think I'm gonna look at the induction stoves. So pretty cool. Hopefully the. I don't know, we'll see, but I gotta get that done.
[00:08:55] Speaker A: The other thing with the storm too, I'm on this whole storm kick because I just think it. So many things show up during that. But just like being neighborly, when I hired the guys to come clear my driveway, I immediately texted it to all my neighbors around saying, hey, they're going to be over here doing mine. It's a really great price. And I got one text back from one just saying, wow, you were the most thoughtful neighbor. And I thought, well, isn't that what we're supposed to do as neighbors? But no one ever thought thinks about me as a neighbor. I don't get those text messages, but I just think we've. That's a lost art.
[00:09:31] Speaker B: I mean, it really is. I mean, how often does your neighbor even come over and ask for butter or sugar? I mean, I remember being little and going over, can you grab this from Mrs. Hartgraves and Mrs. Daly or whoever? Like, I remember all of those ladies.
[00:09:44] Speaker A: Yeah. Where you just asked. Shared stuff. Now, my neighbor next door did text me on Sunday, I think Sunday, to see if we came through it, you know, okay. But that's rare, right? It's just like, man, I think about when I was going through chemo, my same neighbor across the street that wrote back and said, you're so such a thoughtful neighbor. I walked. It was at Christmas time. I just finished chemo in December, bald head.
And I saw a black pickup truck pull up in front of their house. A kid gets out and steals a package off their porch. I'm always doing this like, I'll call the police on people. I just immediately jumped in my car to go try to find that pickup and get their license plate. Couldn't find them. By the time I got my keys and got in the garage and got the car out and gone, they were gone. But I stopped back by their house and I'd never met them before. They. I don't know when they had moved in, but I'd never actually seen them outside or met him. I ring their doorbell and the man comes to the door. And of course I'm standing there bald. And I didn't think about that. I didn't have my wig on. And the shocked look on his face was just like, what? And I was telling him, I'm like, oh, my gosh, I just saw these people steal a package off your porch. I tried to find them, and the whole time he's just at me, like.
[00:10:56] Speaker B: He'S like, did they take Your wig woman.
[00:11:00] Speaker A: His wife looks around the corner, she kind of backs into the kitchen.
Anyway, she brought it up. You know, last year, I had all my neighbors over, and she brought it up, and she's like, no one. Like, that's the kindest thing anybody's ever done for us. It's like, well, that's a story. Because people. We should be doing that for our neighbors. Yeah. So I just think that's. We got to get back. I'm going to say.
[00:11:20] Speaker B: I will say my group of neighbors, we have a great form of connection with. I mean, all kinds of stuff, but we've all. We've spent a lot of years doing it. We have a little group text. We do. And I mean, it's. Hey, did you just see this? Or is this person, like, did they come to your door? Or. I really have been very fortunate. I would not trade my neighbors for anything. And I will say, like, when my. When I lost my mom and dad, you know, we had all those flowers, and I was like, God, I can't stand the thought of them just going to waste.
So I had made all these little mini bouquets. I'd gone to the Dollar Tree, bought these little. Those little jars, made a bunch of mini bouquets, and I just gave them out. Like, even when I went to the chiropractor, I brought a bouquet there, and I just. But the joy, that little thing, instead of them getting thrown away and I really, really suggest people do this with the funeral flowers is pass it on. I won't ever forget. There's a man down our street who's very gruff, very. You know, they've been through a lot. They've lost a child back in the day, and their heart. They've always been brokenhearted and definitely, you know, are not people that neighbo neighbors or neighborly with, because you really don't see them very often. Well, I was a little scared to go up to his front porch because I didn't know if they had a dog that was gonna. I just was nervous to go knock on the door, but I did it anyway. The way his eyes filled up with tears and he just hugged me. It was like this entirely different person showed up than what I've ever seen. And it still breaks my heart to this day that he just was so thankful to have that kind gesture. That was it. A little thing of flowers. I mean, I. Yeah, those were two broken hearts standing there. I'd lost my parents, and he had lost his kid, you know, 15 years before, but he's still broken Heart.
[00:12:55] Speaker A: Sure, that's it.
[00:12:56] Speaker B: So, yeah, being neighborly is good.
[00:12:58] Speaker A: I did a couple years ago, I invited all the, I mean, up and down the street. I did a little get together at my house and just thought you man who. That's who was going to protect each other from things or let each other know what's going on. And I had, you know, we had. Probably had, I don't know, eight different, nine different people come over. And then we were going to. Then last year was the second year to do it and my mom was in the hospital so I didn't get to do it. And then I didn't do it this year.
[00:13:21] Speaker B: I've always said I wanted to do a get together and I need to actually just do it.
[00:13:24] Speaker A: It's so, yeah, it doesn't take. I mean, I didn't do much. I just did like the, you know, apple bar that I do, the Caramel Apple bar and had some drinks and stuff. Just get everybody in to meet people. And I met my neighbors, caddy corner, who I showed up bald on their front porch and hadn't seen them since. And so she came over. I only invited the women just because.
All right, just to me it just made sense. And so.
But I just, I'm gonna really. I think this has made me. Hearing her has made me really push me harder to even do more.
[00:13:55] Speaker B: Well, we had a new neighbor move in. A young guy, single guy. And I was like, that is so neat. He was new in the neighborhood. He went and got 5$. I think it was like either quick trip cards or maybe Starbucks, I can't remember. And he went around every neighbor that within, you know, five houses either way and across the street and brought everybody a little gift card and just introduced himself with his information so we. He could be in our texting loop and all that. I was like, well, that was really. And for a young guy to do that. Yeah, we have really just had some great neighbors. Even though we get a lot of renters. But the man that owns homes, they. He just gets top of the, like that's, you know, top. Not great. Great people. I cannot even tell you. So very, very lucky.
[00:14:39] Speaker A: Well, I had a neighbor two doors down from me my first weekend in.
And I'd always lived in condominiums or apartments. I didn't ever live in a house because it just, I don't know, I just didn't. I was traveling too much and it didn't make sense to keep up with the house. So I was my first time in a house in a Neighborhood unfamiliar to me, and I was a little nervous about it.
I'm taking my trash can out to the street one morning before I left to go to work. And he pulls out of his backside of his driveway two houses down. He backs out of his driveway to go to work. And when he turned to go to work, he must have seen me. And he put it in reverse and reversed all the way back to me where I was at the street, rolled down his passenger window, introduced himself, told me he and his wife lived there. And he handed me a business card and he wrote both of their cell phones on the back. He said, if you ever need anything, we're right there. And I. He checked on me when I was going through chemo.
And then he passed away right about the time I finished chemo. And I never met his wife, never heard from his wife. It was just always him checking on me. Well, she came to my house for.
I don't know, I invited her for something and she said. She looked at me. She goes, how did you know my husband so well?
And I was like. Because he was really nice to me. He came and introduced himself and she goes, well, I am kind of shy. And I thought, well, yeah, I mean, I just had never seen her or ever had an opportunity to talk to her. But he was so outgoing and the fact that he introduced himself and I thought. And it made me feel so comfortable being new to that neighborhood.
[00:16:08] Speaker B: Yeah, it makes a difference.
[00:16:09] Speaker A: It makes a huge difference. It's the little things like that. Yeah. And here's my number if you ever need anything. So.
[00:16:16] Speaker B: So health and beauty stuff, hacks, what have you anything? Well, for me, I want to get my lashes like curled, you know, you can. They basically put a perm on your eyelashes. It's real creepy looking, but it is like 85. And I don't know, sometimes that's where I'm like, I can probably do this at home.
[00:16:37] Speaker A: No. Boy.
[00:16:38] Speaker B: So I bought a kit. Well, I've been kind of working on my eyelash length using that babe lash, which I do think has helped definitely. And I don't even do it like every day. I can definitely tell it's added some length.
But you can get a kit on Amazon. Look at the reviews and you can. People do it all the time. Just curl it. Semi curl your lashes permanently. And apparently you don't have to curl them with the lash curler and then tint them, which I have tinted my eyebrows before and that was really easy. So I'm going to do that again. That is Many well spent. And then it doesn't look all, you know, taped and fake and.
[00:17:11] Speaker A: And they have vegetable dye, too, which is nice.
[00:17:14] Speaker B: Yeah. I mean, they're. Yeah, there's all kinds of those kits. So that's. I meant to do that this weekend. I even went and got a new phone, I don't know, seven days ago. Yeah, whatever. What? I've had it this whole time and I have not even set it up. No. I've been kind of useless.
[00:17:31] Speaker A: Well, that's a pain to set them up. It is forever, that.
[00:17:35] Speaker B: And that's what is.
[00:17:36] Speaker A: Honestly, just because I'm due for one and I started to go get one. I hate it. So I could set it up, and then I was like, oh, yeah.
[00:17:43] Speaker B: I mean, I'm 13, so, I mean, it was time. I'm just having weird glitches and all that.
[00:17:47] Speaker A: Well, speaking of eyelashes, I might have always. I've never curled my eyelashes ever.
[00:17:52] Speaker B: They just curl.
[00:17:52] Speaker A: They've always curled, but lately they're sticking straight out.
[00:17:55] Speaker B: My dad has, so I'm gonna have to.
[00:17:57] Speaker A: They've never been that way before, but, you know, it's been. I'm going on nine years, and they say, you know, because you lose them all during chemo. So I didn't have any.
And they grew back in curly, but also my hair came back in curly, and my hair is going back straight now, but they say after seven years, it kind of goes back. Sometimes it goes back to the way it was before come over and. Yeah. I don't even know how to curl it, but I'm gonna have to because now they're just going straight out. It doesn't look I have any lashes.
[00:18:22] Speaker B: Oh, wow. Yeah.
[00:18:23] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:18:23] Speaker B: So my dad had that.
[00:18:25] Speaker A: So I need to curl.
[00:18:26] Speaker B: That's what I plan on doing. Maybe even today. I don't know. We'll see. I need to get my living room picked back up.
So have you. I've been. Look, I think I'd even talked about it last time, wanting to get the cortisol control from blessed botanicals and. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, it was in my basket. I don't know if I got that one or. It was in my basket. I don't have it.
[00:18:45] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:18:45] Speaker B: Yeah, that was what my next one was that I was adding.
I think probably because I was waiting to. For my black seed to have to restock that. I mean, I order from them regular. It's kind of crazy. I was looking at all my past orders. I'm like, I. I have been committed since February 7th. That was my first order wow of black seed. And I take it religiously.
But they have this thing called cortisol control, which, you know, they talk about, you know, if you're not sleeping well, high stress, that's all going to affect your cortisol and you're going to have high cortisol and you want to level that out. Well, they were saying signs of that and of course med tick tock was just saying. And I really didn't know any of this, but it was saying there's signs, signs that you have high cortisol.
They say stinky armpits is a huge thing. And I don't have stinky armpits, thank God. But they say, you know, obviously your hair, your hair loss, stinky breath, not morning breath, like just sneaky breath, your armpits, I guess even your lady parts can stink.
And the hair loss, all of that is cortisol, your high cortisol or potentially that's what it is. So I cannot wait to just. Because I know I don't sleep. That's my biggest thing is my sleep is just, you know, that's what I gotta work on. So I know my cortisol has to be high.
So I can't wait to get it.
[00:20:09] Speaker A: I'm a walking example of high cortisol because going through with my mom in the hospital, my cortisol was out of control. Not sleeping, worried I put on so much weight. Which is also a symptom of high cortisol.
[00:20:23] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:20:24] Speaker A: And it's, it is a true thing. And even like I wear an aura ring, my stress level, which is obviously a factor of cortisol, would be at the top level. It'd be like four and four to eight hours of stress during the day. I mean, your body, you're. It just really does damage to your body.
[00:20:40] Speaker B: Yeah. So that's why I'm like, I'm gonna catch this.
I need to just take it. I mean, your whole family can take it.
So I just know we all. I think everybody stresses over sleep anymore for the most part. Well. And we're not really into a great routine.
[00:20:55] Speaker A: And what I' learned about stress and cortisol is that you like, I'll be at home in the evening and I'm calm as a cucumber, working on things I love to do. And I'll check my aura ring and I'm in at the high level of stress. It's like I don't feel stressed at all. But boy, your body, because it's looking at heart rate and so can you.
[00:21:14] Speaker B: Imagine the stress that, like police officers, firefighters, first responders in general. I mean, those. All those people that work in jobs that are high, low, high, low, high, low, constantly with adrenaline. That's what their cortisol is. So I'm like, really? Everybody should look in that. And again, that's on that get blessed botanicals. And they have one called cortisol control. There isn't anything from them I've taken that I've been unhappy with.
[00:21:36] Speaker A: It's so damaging to your body.
[00:21:38] Speaker B: And I do like that pain away that they have. I mean, they're just. They're drops. And I've taken it for my headaches instead. Now when I have a horrible migraine, I can't say that it does anything, but when I feel like a little twinge coming on in my knee or something, I'll just take those drops instead.
It's nothing that has to do with, you know, cb. What is it? Cb?
[00:22:00] Speaker A: Cbd.
[00:22:01] Speaker B: CBD didn't have anything to do with any of that. They're just other extracts. So anyways, I like it. That's.
But the weirdest fun fact or whatever that I discovered this weekend was something where. Okay, so there's a disease, a disease called Morgellons disease.
You'll hear it called Morgellons or Morgellons. It is so interesting, and there's not any real answers for it, but it's literally where people have these fibers that kind of grow out of their skin. Okay. Like, they're. They don't heat it. They wouldn't burn like a normal hair. It's not a hair, but it sure looks like it. Okay. And it's almost like they have a life of their own. They. It's very odd.
Well, I have friends that have done this. I have not done it. I spoke to a friend today who has done this, and this. It happened as to what was in this video. And this man took. You can take red wine. You can take grapefruit. I mean, grape. Grape juice.
And you swish it for one minute in your mouth, and then you spit it on a plate. When you can see, like, maybe a white plate or a clear plate. And you will see these chunks that it pulls from where. He's taken it to labs, he's had stuff tested.
And when you spit, you'll see these, like, little globs.
[00:23:15] Speaker A: Little.
[00:23:16] Speaker B: They just look like little swimmers, basically. But when you put alcohol on it, like you drop some alcohol, like a cap full, it's like they start fighting for the lives. It's like they come alive, come to life, and they are trying to group and to get into like a bigger. Like a survival group kind of thing.
It is very interesting. And they say that it's the Morgellon fibers that are in this. That. That wine, or the acids from that. They pull it from within your mouth. I don't know. It is insane. I would look up the disease. I'm definitely going to do it, because I would just want to see what happens, but it really tripped me out.
[00:23:54] Speaker A: That is weird.
[00:23:56] Speaker B: Yeah. I mean, like I said, I talked to a close friend today who. She has done it and her whole family did. Kids, husband, all of them.
[00:24:04] Speaker A: Did they all have it?
[00:24:05] Speaker B: All had it. I mean, apparently we're loaded with like. I mean, you know, they say parasites and all that, so. Yeah, it is. I mean, when I look at it, I would think parasite immediately, but the alcohol just. It's like it suffocates them and they just start swimming and going bonkers and regrouping into groups. It's. If anybody wants the video, just, you know, message the page and I'll send it to you because it's crazy.
[00:24:28] Speaker A: That is crazy. You're gonna do it?
[00:24:30] Speaker B: I'm doing it. Heck, yeah.
[00:24:32] Speaker A: I want to see your video.
[00:24:33] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm gonna.
[00:24:34] Speaker A: What if you have thousands of them on there? I don't know.
[00:24:37] Speaker B: I do not know what I'm gonna do.
[00:24:40] Speaker A: Bizarre.
[00:24:41] Speaker B: That may be something I don't want to know.
[00:24:42] Speaker A: Yeah. I'm wondering. Yeah.
[00:24:44] Speaker B: So anyways.
[00:24:45] Speaker A: Yikes.
What's going on with Tick Tock?
[00:24:48] Speaker B: I don't know.
[00:24:49] Speaker A: Have you been on it lately?
[00:24:51] Speaker B: Not. Not a whole lot.
[00:24:52] Speaker A: Which is not doing anything, I think, because, you know, Oracle, there's some corporate partnership now, and Oracle's part of it. And if you post something, it gets zero views. Like, it's. You can't. You can't pin stuff. Now people are complaining. They're not getting any new videos showing. Yeah. So they've. I think they've halted everything while they're transitioning over to Oracle or something.
You can search on it and there's all sorts of.
[00:25:18] Speaker B: Oh, I hadn't heard anything.
No. No idea.
[00:25:21] Speaker A: I just think about all these people.
[00:25:22] Speaker B: That are making money off of it. I know.
[00:25:25] Speaker A: And they're like, what? They're. It's not working for them. It can't be.
[00:25:29] Speaker B: That's really scary.
[00:25:30] Speaker A: And I guess at work I didn't realize that there's a big corporate conglomeration that's happening now with it for the U.S. i don't know, people, I'm sure, are really struggling right now because of it. Okay, so speaking of parasites.
[00:25:45] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:25:45] Speaker A: Have you ever tried thawing meat, like, raw a steak between two pots and pans? Like, two metal pans?
[00:25:53] Speaker B: Well, I have. I had a metal plate that was specifically for thawing out meat is.
And you just lay it on there, and actually you would heat the plate up with water or made it go back faster, and then you would just lay it on this metal plate, and that's what it was for, you know?
[00:26:09] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:26:10] Speaker B: So it was like a sheet pan, basically, but it was real heavy, so I can see why this would work.
[00:26:16] Speaker A: Yeah, you just put it between the bottoms. You know, one pan turned over, and then you put warm water in the top pan and put it. You leave it in the packaging, and it literally will stop. Thaw a piece of steak within an hour.
[00:26:28] Speaker B: That's crazy.
[00:26:29] Speaker A: So much faster. Because it conducts heat, the tooth and metal, and then if you add warm water, it even conducts heat faster.
[00:26:35] Speaker B: Okay. I like it.
[00:26:36] Speaker A: I did it. It works. Works. Yeah.
[00:26:38] Speaker B: I like to take my hamburger meat and take a ball, you know, take. Put it in a Ziploc bag and then squish it flat and then store it in my freezer.
[00:26:45] Speaker A: That.
[00:26:46] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, because then you're talking like you only have a half an inch to thaw out.
It goes so much faster. I like chicken tenders instead of chicken breasts because they cook so much faster.
[00:26:56] Speaker A: Right.
[00:26:56] Speaker B: Which did I talk about the rice that I found from Sam's last week, that's a quinoa, and it was rated like 92 out of 100.
[00:27:04] Speaker A: Yes, you did.
[00:27:04] Speaker B: It's actually.
Okay. So good.
[00:27:07] Speaker A: Or maybe you and I talked about was really good.
[00:27:11] Speaker B: But I do think I'm gonna make a switch to Costco and added because there's a Instagram called Bobby Approves, and he has an app that's kind of like a yucca app, and it's called Bobby Approved.
People need to download it. And his. He's really good on Instagram, too. And he just goes through these different things at Costco or Trader Joe's, and he really talks about what's healthy, what's not, what's approved, what's not. He's really good, and he's a watch.
[00:27:37] Speaker A: Because I remember watching and he was saying in the. The really healthy things to buy at Costco.
[00:27:42] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:27:42] Speaker A: There's also a girl on Instagram that is a Trader Joe's aficionado, and she's always talking about, like, the wine or not the wine, but the cheese and which cheese to pair with. And she does a really good job of interesting thinking finding things. So I don't ever go into Trader Joe's. I don't think about Trader Joe's.
[00:28:01] Speaker B: I like it because it is when you decide to go every time Stephen ever go and he's like, gosh, I forget about how easy it is to shop in here. It's just, I don't know, they have what you need. It's small, you can get around quickly.
But research is still my favorite. Pickup.
[00:28:14] Speaker A: Yeah, I love research. But I've been shopping at Sprouts lately too. They have a great deli area with salads already. They had a. Like a. You could buy a whole thing of street tacos. It had all the ingredients to make street tacos.
[00:28:27] Speaker B: And it's just.
[00:28:28] Speaker A: You pick up one container and we're talking got it all in there, which is nice. And they have great salads, pre made salads. And so I. I'm not. You know, there's one right here across the street from my office and I have been in this office for five years and just started there last week.
[00:28:43] Speaker B: Yeah, there we have a lot of.
[00:28:45] Speaker A: Don't think about that one either. But it's. But I do still go to Reese. I do like Reese a lot.
[00:28:51] Speaker B: Wow. We're probably about.
[00:28:53] Speaker A: We're out of time. Yeah. Right there at it. Time.
[00:28:55] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:28:56] Speaker A: All right, everybody stay safe. Bye.
[00:28:58] Speaker B: Get something accomplished.
