Episode 21
21 | We're Back! | A Little Bit Bothered
The hosts are back in action for Season Two, and they’re diving into some seriously wild topics! Kelsie's got baby names on the brain, while Monica shares the juicy deets about her recent surgery. The crew swaps stories that range from the hilarious to the downright shocking, including a listener's tale about transporting a deceased person in an SUV—yikes! They also chat about the unsettling realities of cremation, share some culinary curiosities about frog legs, and reveal their tornado anxiety. With laughs and relatable anecdotes, this episode is a must-listen for anyone navigating the ups and downs of life with friends.
Transcript
But definitely, I just had Trevor do some landscaping and that did involve, that did involve, that did involve the back door
Ashley (:landscaping.
Kelsie (:I think we're a little bit bothered.
Nicole (:a little bit bothered. That's my favorite part.
Ashley (:Welcome back to season two.
Monica (:Season two!
Nicole (:hello!
Ashley (:We're back, we're back, we're back.
Kelsie (:Whip tack.
Nicole (:We're back,
we're back. We are back. We're back bitches!
Ashley (:Yeah.
Monica (:I'm so excited. I've missed you guys.
Nicole (:How fun!
I'm excited. I miss you too, but I also don't know what to do.
Ashley (:It's been a long time. That was a longer
hiatus.
Monica (:Yes, formal
apology. This is not February, like we said. We're sorry. Life happened.
Nicole (:Yeah
Ashley (:Hahaha
Nicole (:No. You know what's so funny
Kelsie (:Yeah.
Ashley (:You know-
Nicole (:is I'm pretty sure we said February 6th. It is April 6th that we're recording. So apologies in advance. We really were.
Monica (:Yeah.
Ashley (:We were really optimistic. We were like, my gosh.
We thought we were going to have our shit together. We should have known we were not going have our shit together.
Nicole (:We really did.
Monica (:We should have known.
We should have.
Nicole (:We don't have our shit together any other time. I don't know why we assumed we would this time.
Ashley (:You know what? I think
the listeners are gonna forgive us because I think everyone is probably shocked by the fact that it's April right now.
Monica (:Yeah. Yeah.
Nicole (:I agree. It's
just everything happened so fast. Gorth a furq-
Ashley (:wild.
Monica (:Yeah,
I feel like I'm in like a time warp because I really did lose a huge chunk of time because I did nothing and so the fact that we are in April is wild to me and does not make sense in my brain.
Nicole (:crazy.
Mm-hmm.
Weird.
Ashley (:Yes, what have you been doing, Monica? Tell us.
Nicole (:No.
Monica (:you know, just hanging out in the recliner, just chilling, pressing the button, just slowly standing up.
Ashley (:Mm.
You
Nicole (:Getting entire slabs of skin removed. How cool was that?
Monica (:Yeah, just that.
Yeah, just mommy makeover. But yeah, no, actually I've been up and about for a while now, but that first bit there, pretty much all of February, I was just chilling. I was out.
Nicole (:my god.
Yes.
Ashley (:Mm-hmm.
Nicole (:Yeah, which I want to say that was the coolest thing I've ever seen. I literally were creepy. Like the three of us are creepy because we were like, do we screen record her surgeon's stories for her just in case she doesn't get to see them? And we literally screen recorded the surgeon's story. Like I have Monica's insides on my phone.
Ashley (:can't stand up straight.
Kelsie (:No.
Monica (:You
Yes.
Ashley (:yeah.
Monica (:Yeah
Ashley (:we've seen
Monica (:Yeah,
I mean, and I know we'll probably get into more of that experience like later on down the road, but I will just say we've reached a new level of friendship because not many friends can say that they have seen the literal insides of their friends' lives.
Ashley (:inside of her.
Nicole (:NNNN
I have seen under
your skin. I under your skin.
Ashley (:Thank
Monica (:Yes, you have seen my muscles.
Ashley (:That
and the pictures after the surgery between the two. Yeah.
Nicole (:So weird. Yeah, yes. Yep. Yep, we've seen everything.
Monica (:yes, that's true. That's true before and afters. We're real close around here.
Nicole (:Speaking of we've seen everything and our group chat and how we like to immerse you guys fully in our group chat. I think that Kelsey should bring to the podcast what she brought to the group chat today.
Monica (:It actually is a full circle moment here. Full circle to season one, episode one.
Ashley (:Love you.
It is. It is.
Kelsie (:if you guys are
gonna bring that up.
Ashley (:You knew if you sent that today that was coming up. You had to know. Actually, if you sent it any day.
Kelsie (:It didn't, I actually didn't process that until after I said it and then I'm like,
that could backfire.
Monica (:I
Nicole (:It is backfiring. is.
Monica (:was so unprepared. I was cackling.
Nicole (:Okay, please.
Kelsie (:Well, you
see, season one episode one, I so bravely shared about how I didn't know that people had the other girls had butthole hair when I first got butthole hair and I was like really ashamed of that. And in case you missed it, and you didn't see the mini-sode, I'm pregnant. so sometimes when you're pregnant, especially outsourcing certain tasks,
such as
Monica (:love that we are calling
this outsourcing, by the way i mean it is, it's legit outsourcing, but...
Ashley (:You
Nicole (:You're welcome. You're welcome.
Kelsie (:Outsourcing
certain tasks when you're pregnant sometimes is just, mean, honestly, I'm not gonna lie. I would have him do this even if I wasn't pregnant.
But definitely, I just had Trevor do some landscaping and that did involve, that did involve, that did involve the back door
Ashley (:landscaping.
Kelsie (:I shared that with the group. So, yeah.
Ashley (:You
Monica (:What a guy.
What a guy.
Ashley (:Well, we can't have her cutting herself anymore.
Nicole (:Trooper, what a trooper.
No, no, no, no, no, no. I was dying, was like, how ironic that we're recording today and that this is what's happening today also. And the very first episode we talked about butt hole shaving and here we go. So I felt like it was appropriate that it had to make our first episode back. I will share a TMI about how my husband was a trooper so you're not alone, okay.
which you guys already know this because I came to the chat like panicking, but I've talked about this a long time ago on my Instagram stories. I was having like a bad reaction to like tampons strings and like tampons. So I switched up my period products and I bought some period panties. I bought some period panties and I bought like the, the discs. like
I got my disc way too fucking far up there, okay? And I couldn't get it out. And I literally had to recruit my husband to get it out for me, because I was panicking.
Monica (:I can only imagine.
Nicole (:But I will literally panic over
I was like having an actual mental breakdown. I was like, you gotta get it out for me. I don't know how I can't reach it. I don't know why I can't reach it. I don't know where it went. I can't get it out.
Monica (:There's only so many places.
Nicole (:But I was like, have to go to like the hospital because I can't fucking reach this with my short little stubby fingers. Urgent. Yeah. I'm like, are we going to the ER right now?
Ashley (:you
care.
That would be worse.
That would be worse.
Nicole (:Thankfully
we didn't have to go to the ER, I will say having somebody else remove it was kind of painful. I like, this is really not fun. It was weird, because he had to get really far up there. He's like, dude, this thing is like,
Ashley (:Hmm.
It's gone.
Kelsie (:Well, since
Monica (:Go.
Kelsie (:we're getting
this deep anyways, I should just tell you my thoughts on, haven't looked at her bare faced in a while, you know? and I saw her today and she don't look the same.
Monica (:No, will do that to you.
Kelsie (:It hurt my feelings a
Nicole (:you
Ashley (:Wait,
Kelsie (:little bit.
Ashley (:I don't know if you cut out, but who?
Who are we talking to?
Thank
Nicole (:ashley just totally missing it.
Kelsie (:The front landscape, the front landscaping. Yeah, the front porch.
Ashley (:Okay, okay, okay, understood.
Monica (:man, I forgot-
Nicole (:was funny.
Ashley (:front
porch.
Monica (:the tissues because I cry laughing every time.
Ashley (:my god, rookie mistake.
Kelsie (:Anyway, they're just like
we haven't met eye to eye in a while and know, you don't look the same It hurt my feelings a little bit
Ashley (:Yeah.
Monica (:She don't look the same.
Ashley (:my god.
Nicole (:That's the third child for you.
Ashley (:Well, you are pregnant.
Kelsie (:Okay, well, you expect things after birth, but like, just chill out. It's fine. like...
Ashley (:They're getting, it's getting ready. It's getting ready. It's going to, it's,
you're going to bounce back. Yeah.
Nicole (:Your body already knows what to do.
Monica (:Yeah. It's
Kelsie (:Just go straight cheeseburger already? That's rude.
Monica (:true.
Nicole (:Jesus!
Ashley (:Prepare the troops.
you
Nicole (:get here every time.
Monica (:Literally never heard that description.
Ashley (:He is perfect.
Kelsie (:Really?
The first one my friend, one of my friends after she gave birth, she's like, I didn't have kids yet. She was like, just be prepared like after you have like, like, literally after you've had a kid and everything swollen, it looks like a big swollen like it looks like a cheeseburger.
Monica (:I mean, now that you say it, yeah, but like...
Kelsie (:But then I'm saying it's like just it's getting just no, it's fine
Nicole (:That's funny. That's really
funny. my gosh. A cheeseburger. Okay. So, Monica had her surgery, kelsie is pregnant with baby Bean who we as a group have named. won't tell you, but Trevor doesn't get a vote. We picked the name. sorry, Trevor. And what else is going on? What else is going on? Ashley.
Ashley (:Okay.
Mm-hmm. Yeah, this is our baby.
Monica (:It was...
who actually had a fun purchase today.
Ashley (:I,
oh, I, well, okay, I didn't get a new body or a new baby while I was gone, but I did get a new pop-up camper, so very excited about that. Oh, I also finally got my couch. didn't tell you guys, I got a new couch too. So, you know, it's the little things when you're, yeah. I mean, uneventful is a good thing, I think, at this point.
Monica (:Very exciting.
Yay! It is. It is.
Nicole (:yeah, yeah, the new couch.
Monica (:Yeah, well, and those are two like really exciting purchases because that's just fun, comfy and fun.
Nicole (:That's true.
Ashley (:Yes. Yes. So excited
Kelsie (:especially new couches.
Nicole (:I agree.
Ashley (:for some adventures. was thinking, I was like, maybe we should go camping next weekend. And then I'm like, my God, we're recording. This is going to become a problem. It's going to become a problem for me. I'm going to have scheduling conflicts coming up soon.
Nicole (:I'm
Monica (:You and I can just log in from the woods. We'll just be like, hi guys, we live here now.
Ashley (:Yeah.
Nicole (:I was gonna say that you guys
go camping together and you can log in from the pop-up camper.
Ashley (:the difficulties will be there regardless, so.
Monica (:Yes.
Nicole (:Literally.
Ashley (:Won't
be that different. Yeah, that's about it for me.
Monica (:Yes, and how about you Nicole? What
Nicole (:I also did not get a new
Monica (:is new?
Nicole (:body or a new baby. No new body, no new baby, but I did get a dog. Yeah, he's kind of a baby. He's not two yet. He'll be two in May. He is still kind of a baby. And I kind of stole him. Yeah, we'll put a picture up. I, in a way, kind of stole him from his people.
Ashley (:You did get other new stuff. Yeah.
Monica (:That's not true.
You have a baby, right? A fur baby.
Ashley (:Kind
of a baby.
Monica (:He is still freaking cute.
Nicole (:But lucky for me they were trying to rehome him anyway. He did. honestly if they weren't already looking to rehome him I probably would have stolen him because he was attached to me from the minute we locked eyes like he was just All on me and now he doesn't leave me alone He was upset a little bit ago because we were all sitting on the couch and both the girl next to me and then my other dog was sitting next to me as well and he couldn't fit
Monica (:He chose you. Let's be honest.
Nicole (:on me. So he was really upset and he had to go over by Justin and lay by Justin and he kept staring at me and he's got these like his eyes I swear they see into my soul and I'm like bro you're too intense my guy you like quit looking at me like that please like I think he thinks. Soulmates. He's a Weimer Reiner. Yeah he has he's Jacob his name is Jacob no just kidding. He's a Weimer Reiner.
Ashley (:What kind of dog is he?
He's imprinted on you. A what?
Nicole (:Weimer Reiner. I don't know how the right way to say that is, but that's what he is.
Ashley (:Mm.
I've
never even heard of that dog, so.
Monica (:Wimeriner.
Nicole (:Why
Mariner? It's a hunting dog. He's a hunting dog. He kind of looks like, I guess he kind of looks like a small, like a smaller Great Dane type thing. Like he's big and lanky. He's got floppy ears. He's cute.
Ashley (:Hmm.
Mm-hmm.
He does look like a hunting dog,
Nicole (:Yeah, he is very much a hunting dog.
He's cute though. He's a little shit though. Oh my gosh.
Monica (:I love him, I want to meet him.
Nicole (:But anyway, yeah, so he's in here right now. So if you hear any like moaning, sorry, that's him because he's a very loud baby. I kid you not, he makes so many noises. I've never heard a dog make this many noises. I'm like, why are you so loud? Everything he does is loud. He walks loud.
Kelsie (:you
Ashley (:Very vocal.
Nicole (:He's, yeah, he talks. his, cause his feet are so big, they just, he like stomps across the house. I'm like, what are you doing? Why are you so loud? But yeah, he's my new baby and he doesn't, I was coming in here to record and I was closing the door and he was like looking at me with his eyes all crazy, like, what are you doing? And I had to let him in here. So he's asleep.
Monica (:You
Kelsie (:you
He's
like, you're not locking me out mom.
Nicole (:No, no,
Ashley (:He doesn't know the drill yet.
Nicole (:he's a he doesn't he went from being an outside only dog like outside in Oklahoma when it's cold and never being allowed inside to now literally sleeping in my bed. So I think he's pretty happy. So he is a spoiled.
Ashley (:You
Monica (:He's so spoiled. Well, okay.
So jumping back to baby names real fast. So I have a gift from my husband. just, I haven't read this. I'm just gonna say that. I haven't read this.
Nicole (:yeah.
Leave it to James. Leave it up to James. What was that one name?
That's right.
Monica (:Jebrew!
Ashley (:Jethro.
Kelsie (:It's a girl, I'm having a girl surprise.
Nicole (:sort of as, yeah.
Monica (:shutthroat okay so I just want to put it out there I can't take responsibility for my husband I don't know what he wrote I don't know yeah okay so so he wrote Monica told me that until a baby name is officially announced that it is now my responsibility to offer options for possible baby names I did not say that most like
Nicole (:That's a girl.
Ashley (:None of us can. We understand. We understand.
Nicole (:Can any of us? None of us can.
Ashley (:It's his responsibility.
Another outsourced job.
Monica (:most likely ones you haven't yet considered. I'm not saying that these memes are good or bad, but they are names.
Ashley (:Ha
ha ha ha.
Nicole (:Okay!
Monica (:He gave boy names and girl names, which clearly he has not stayed up to date with the group chat, because he doesn't know that it's a girl. But okay. So he also did give me a little note that these are actually registered names that exist. So like they're on a birth certificate somewhere. They're in the name registry.
Ashley (:Mmm.
Nicole (:Nope.
Kelsie (:Yeah
Nicole (:Registered name.
Kelsie (:gosh.
Ashley (:Okay.
Nicole (:god, okay, here we go. I'm
Ashley (:I'm scared.
Monica (:So
Nicole (:ready.
Monica (:boy names. So it's spelled like colon, but it's pronounced Colin like Colin only different. Brick. Brick. Brick. Brick.
Ashley (:my.
Kelsie (:you
Ashley (:whole win.
brick
Kelsie (:I thought you said prick, so okay.
Ashley (:Northern press.
Nicole (:Okay, brick is better.
Kelsie (:Brick Breland from Heart of Dixie. I just want you to know that's real name. Okay, go ahead.
Monica (:Okay, I'm not even positive I know how to pronounce this one, because I was gonna say Abandon, but it's not that. I think it's Abaddon? Abaddon? I don't know. He wrote that it's translated from Hebrew. I'm not saying it right, I'm just gonna say that out loud. But it's translated from Hebrew and means angel of death, so there you go.
Ashley (:Erbedong? Erbedong?
my god.
Nicole (:Gosh, no we're not doing that, sorry bro.
Kelsie (:pass. I appreciate that he's taken the time to make such a list.
Nicole (:very hardcore.
Monica (:Yeah,
Ebola. Ebola. Ebola. I mean, it's got a ring. I know. It's got a ring to it, right? Ebola. You're a felony. Rosacea.
Ashley (:my god. Stop.
Nicole (:This reminds me of that reel.
I'm sure I do that real, yeah. Felony.
Brick! Brick needs to
go on that list!
Monica (:Rambo, and he wrote it with three exclamation points.
Ashley (:Rambo.
Nicole (:You know, I feel like Trevor would actually be down for that one.
Monica (:I know,
hide this list from Trevor. Driggan.
Okay, this next one is my favorite on the boys list.
You
Nicole (:She didn't even get it out.
Monica (:You
Ashley (:my god. Every time her lips get ready to grace us with the word, she fucking loses it. She's like a fish over there.
Nicole (:every time
Every time
she approaches the mic, yeah.
Ashley (:Her lips get into position and then she's like
Nicole (:Oh, and she's red. She's already a
lobster. You guys, she's already sunburned. For those that are listening and watching, she's already sunburned and now she is completely red. Okay, calm yourself down. a deep breath.
Monica (:you
Nicole (:This is serious.
Leave it to Minnika. BBL baddie.
Monica (:I'm sorry,
it's just what I love, it just gets going.
you're mad.
Nicole (:sheer majesty!
Monica (:That's my favorite. Your majesty.
Ashley (:Isn't that a name?
Monica (:Someone named their child this, don't tell me!
Nicole (:He said
it was on the name registry, so...
Ashley (:man.
Monica (:Your Majesty. Just think about that one for
Nicole (:You know?
Monica (:little while. Your Majesty. It's my favorite. Okay, now onto the girl names. The ones that actually can be considered, except for please don't.
Nicole (:Please don't.
Monica (:my gosh, okay, I haven't read this list, so this is killing me. Felony, but spelled with a P-H.
Ashley (:Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
Nicole (:Felony I love that honestly if it was seriously if it didn't have it's it's like
Monica (:I mean it does blow.
Ashley (:It is a pretty name.
It would make a pretty name.
Monica (:Yeah, it's a pretty it's a pretty name for not such a great thing. The next one he wrote ABCDE but sound it out. There have been 373 girls actually named this.
Nicole (:Theophany! Come on, I'm still team Theophany.
Ashley (:No. Abcde? Abcde?
Nicole (:I'm a sadder. I'm a gooder. I'm a sadder.
I'm I'm a sadder.
Ashley (:It sounds like
you're saying it in Spanish. You're just saying the letters in Spanish.
Monica (:Abesede? Abesede? No, Aba-cadede?
Nicole (:Visit it, visit it.
Kelsie (:City.
Monica (:It probably is not up. We're idiots.
Nicole (:City.
You're saying in Spanish? I did not even realize that. I probably was.
Ashley (:absentee.
Monica (:It's probably that.
Ashley (:You're like, abe,
abe, se, de.
Monica (:You
Kelsie (:Abz'd.
Abz'd.
Nicole (:Actually,
That is French. Anyway.
Monica (:this next one's a
winner. I don't know that I'm saying it right, but Vajonica? V-E-J-O-N-I-C-A? Vajonica?
Nicole (:it's fine.
Ashley (:my god.
Kelsie (:We're just gonna veto
that just off of the first syllable.
Ashley (:What?
Monica (:But Johnica, or my...
Nicole (:That reminds
me of, of is it the 40 year old virgin where her name's not Gina, it's Gina? Do you guys remember that movie, the 40 year old virgin? Come on, please. And there's a woman in it and her name is Gina and my best friend's name is Gina. And after that movie came out, I called her Gina. I still call her Gina to this day.
Monica (:I fixed it.
Kelsie (:Yeah.
Monica (:Yes.
You
Ashley (:Thank
Monica (:The next one is...Anelexia? Analexia. And he just... Or A-no-lexia, because I think that's what Jesus went for because he wrote, it's the whole package.
Nicole (:It's not terrible. It could be worse. stop, okay.
Ashley (:Thanks
It's getting worse.
Nicole (:not kidding.
Ashley (:Wow.
Wow.
Kelsie (:wasn't the worst on the list until you put it that way.
Nicole (:getting worse.
Monica (:know.
Beverly. Right? Beverly. Not Beverly. Be-bur-ly. Be-bur-ly.
Nicole (:You're right. I was like, that's not bad.
Ashley (:Beb. Beverly.
Nicole (:Beb.
Kelsie (:that's how mad that's how maddis would say her name
Nicole (:Bebberly.
Kelsie (:anyways because he can't his his V's are bees
Ashley (:Yeah, that's exactly how a toddler would say it.
Monica (:Yeah.
Nicole (:It's Beverly.
Ashley (:That's cute.
Monica (:you okay the next one is boom kwefa boom kwefa he said he says it is actually a registered boom kwefa
Nicole (:That is actually so cute.
Ashley (:my god.
Nicole (:BOOMKEEFA
Nobody named their kid that, he's lying.
Kelsie (:None of these sh- I mean, I am honestly- you- you're not gonna surprise me that anyone would name these kids them because people are wild.
Nicole (:Boom kwefa.
Monica (:I know. And then the last one,
Nicole (:I'm surprised.
Monica (:the last one, chardonnay. Chardonnay. Chardonnay. But there's two Ns at the end. So C-H-A-R-D-O-N-N-A-Y. Chardonnay. Chardonnay.
Nicole (:Shhhh
Ashley (:Chardonnay.
Kelsie (:Least shocking of them all, I'd say.
Ashley (:Yeah.
Nicole (:Chardonnay!
Ashley (:Char-da-na-nay.
Nicole (:Starting that!
Kelsie (:It has to be a little different, you know, you sometimes you when you spell names, you know, people have to really like change them to make them unique the way they spell them.
Ashley (:Mm-hmm.
Monica (:I mean,
those are already unique. I don't know that they needed to do anything. They were just being extra. So there you are. That is James's contribution to the group chat.
Ashley (:They don't need anything extra.
Kelsie (:special spelling. Yeah.
Nicole (:Don't need anything extra.
as a little spice. No thanks.
Well, you
Kelsie (:I appreciate
Nicole (:know James.
Kelsie (:that you took the time to put together that list, James, truly. You don't have to do anymore. Really, you've done enough. That was good. Yeah, I will take...
Nicole (:Yes, that was,
Ashley (:we should get listener suggestions.
Monica (:It's good. It's good. Yes. Let's see if anyone can top
Nicole (:I I think,
Monica (:those.
Nicole (:yeah, yeah. We'll put, I need to put a box. We'll put a little box.
Kelsie (:Yeah, you don't have to send bad ones. Yeah,
Monica (:Yeah. Yeah.
Kelsie (:you should
just send actually good ones because we can't agree on a baby name. So.
Monica (:Yeah, if you can top that, let us know.
Nicole (:No, no, no, no, no, no.
We already have agreed on a baby name.
Monica (:Yeah,
yeah, we have our name, but let's see if anybody can top those.
Kelsie (:Okay, well,
Nicole (:We have a baby
name.
Kelsie (:my friends are a little delusional, but my husband and I don't agree on a baby name.
Monica (:She's our baby now.
Nicole (:He doesn't get a choice.
He got to pick the last two. We didn't get a say in those ones.
Kelsie (:you
Monica (:The tribe has spoken.
Kelsie (:He thinks he got to pick the last two.
Monica (:The tribe has spoken, okay.
Kelsie (:Yeah.
Nicole (:gosh, and I think the name that you suggested is so freaking cute and it's what I'm gonna call her anyway. So might as well just name her that.
Monica (:Mm-hmm.
Kelsie (:Yeah, we'll see.
Nicole (:EEEH
Can you share some of his names
that he has suggested? Because they're not great either. Sorry, Trevor.
Kelsie (:Well, I'm sorry that if any of these are names that you like, just know that every name has its place and everybody has names they like. These are just personally not my favorite names. His number one is Athena. And that's not my... I don't like it. Not a fan.
Ashley (:yes.
Nicole (:See, I don't find anything wrong with Athena, but she don't like it.
Monica (:The thing, I think
it's pretty, but I know a few Athenas and...
Yup.
Ashley (:It's not the worst,
but I don't know.
Kelsie (:I don't think that I would agree
to really any, like, Greek god names. Probably just go ahead and cross those off. No, I didn't say no Greek names! You thought specifically Greek god- I'm not- I'm not naming her Aphrodite either. Yes.
Ashley (:Yeah.
Nicole (:I'll say I love Greek names. don't, I don't, yeah.
Ashley (:Greek goddesses? Yeah. Yeah.
Nicole (:Yeah, no, no, no, no, I can see it. Yeah, not Greek god names, I guess. But
I like Greek names. Yes, I also like theophany, so don't come for me.
Kelsie (:I'm trying to think what was he Listen if if he could have his way he would name her Ohfa Ohfa May he tried to substitute May as an option I have a good friend named May I like my niece's middle name is named May like I'm not using the name May But Ohfa is like definitely off the table obviously What are the other ones
Nicole (:Yep, we've talked about OFA.
Yeah, it's not good.
It's really not. It's really bad. Sorry. Sorry, Ophah. Who? What's her name? She's a real person. Ophah what? I forget.
Ashley (:No, it's really not. It's bad. It's bad, bad, bad, bad, bad.
Kelsie (:Yeah, it's not.
Yeshofame.
Ashley (:May.
Kelsie (:She was the first female Marine. Yeah, we're gonna pass. We're gonna let your name stay in history. Like, you know, when they retire a jersey. Yeah, that's what like, it's yours. It's all yours. Yeah, I'm trying to think if he's had any other like truly heinous ones for the most part, we just don't agree.
Nicole (:Yes, that's right. Sorry, Ophah. You're a badass, but your name is weird.
Like she listens. Yeah.
Ashley (:That's where it belongs. Yeah.
Monica (:Just let it be hers. She
can have it.
Nicole (:It's
hers and only hers. She's the one and only.
Monica (:But you know what, naming a baby is so freaking hard.
Ashley (:Mm-hmm.
Kelsie (:I really,
I'm maybe delusional, but I thought a girl was, I thought the boys he would really have an opinion on and I purposely chose names that I knew he would like, but I thought for a girl, like I didn't think that he would care that much. Like I knew he'd care a little, but I thought he'd be open to more names. Like I thought he'd just like a wider range of names because he wouldn't have so much like association, name association with like Boyne, you know, like he does with Boyne.
Ashley (:.
Kelsie (:Anyways, I was wrong. It's worse.
Nicole (:You were wrong. You were
wrong.
Monica (:It's worse.
Ashley (:No, it's hard because so
many names are ruined. So many names are tainted by people you know, you know? Or like...
Monica (:It's true. Well,
Kelsie (:My doctor
Monica (:yeah.
Kelsie (:straight up said that. She was like, with girls, it seems like there's just a lot more name association and bitchy. You think of bitchy people a lot more. She said bitches.
Nicole (:Yeah.
Monica (:Yes. Yeah, well you
Ashley (:Yeah.
Nicole (:Yeah, it's
Monica (:don't
Nicole (:true.
Monica (:realize how many people you don't like until you have to start naming your child.
Kelsie (:Well also,
Ashley (:Mm-hmm.
Nicole (:It's also
true.
Kelsie (:when you're 30, I mean we're both, I turned 31 this month, he's 31. A lot of our people already have girls and they've taken a lot of the good names.
Monica (:Yeah.
Ashley (:Mm-hmm.
Monica (:Yeah.
Nicole (:Yeah, like Maeve, for instance. We were throwing out Maeve and Kelsey was like, I love that name, but I have a friend who literally just named her kid Maeve. So Maeve's off the table.
Monica (:Yeah.
Kelsie (:Yeah,
one of my really good friends has a daughter named Maeve. There's a lot of names that I would consider, but they're just like close people that they've already been taken.
Monica (:Yeah, I
remember with our kids, one of the challenges is that I work with so many different people that I know a lot of different names. And so we would come up with the one and I would like have a client come to mind for multiple reasons. I'm like, nope, because I don't want to think about my client every time I think about my child. Like I love my clients, but like, no, thank you.
Ashley (:Mm-hmm.
Nicole (:You're right.
Especially with like your past line of work, not with what you're doing now, but with what you used to do. Yeah. Yeah.
Ashley (:I do think.
Monica (:Yeah. Yeah. As a case manager. Yeah.
Yeah. And like so many names.
Ashley (:I do think even if you named,
if you used one of those names, eventually, you would stop referencing it back to that person. Like if you, I bet you could actually name your child like your high school enemy's name and like after a month or something, like you wouldn't be referencing that anymore in your head. would die away.
Monica (:Probably.
You kind of forget. Yeah.
Kelsie (:I'm actually,
Nicole (:See, I couldn't do that.
Kelsie (:I'm pretty good at not like, I mean, unless it was someone I absolutely hated, like I can pretty much distance myself from most things, like most name associations, but, Trevor can't apparently.
Nicole (:Grudges, I can't.
Ashley (:you
Monica (:Yeah, those
Kelsie (:Yeah,
Monica (:memories will be locked in. I don't know. Like, I hear what you're saying, Ashley, but I don't know.
Kelsie (:mean, yeah, somebody. Somebody I don't know who it was the other day, and maybe like somebody at a doctor's office, because everywhere we go, Trevor's like got any name suggestions and they all they all try their hand at it. And somebody suggested Chelsea. And we both just laughed and laughed.
Monica (:Outsourcing
Kelsie (:That's Trevor. Trevor dated a girl named Chelsea in high school and he didn't date that many people. like, you know, his pool of exes is pretty, it's pretty little. So yeah, I was like, yeah, we can't be doing that. Yeah.
Monica (:Ha
Nicole (:It's a little weird.
Ashley (:No, that would be kind of weird.
Nicole (:Mel and you guys are down.
Monica (:Yeah.
Ashley (:Imagine she finds out and she's like,
Kelsie (:Yeah, we come from a really
small town too. it's like, it's not it. Yeah. I mean, also Kelsey Chelsea. People call me Chelsea all the time anyway. So it's just, it's not complicated. Yeah.
Monica (:It would come back. Yeah.
Nicole (:Can't do that. No.
Ashley (:Kelsey Chelsea.
Nicole (:You're right.
That was so funny.
Ashley (:Monica has a story for us. From a listener.
Monica (:Yeah, so
I have a story from a listener that sent it in. So, yes. So if any of you guys ever have any stories, just send them into us so that we can discuss and dissect and we will keep it anonymous. I'm keeping this one anonymous, but.
Nicole (:yay, listener mail!
Kelsie (:I mean, we'll
Ashley (:Yes. And we'll
Nicole (:Of course. Also,
Ashley (:be excited too.
Kelsie (:shout
Nicole (:yeah, you just let us know.
Kelsie (:you out if you want to be shouted out, but if not, like, we can cut all identifying details.
Ashley (:We're like Steve
Nicole (:Also,
what a great way to come back, season two, with our very first listener mail. That's awesome. I'm excited for us. Please send us more, because this is the stuff we live for. Okay, go. I want to know.
Ashley (:from Blue's Clues.
Here's a male that never fails, makes me wanna wag my tail.
Listen to Rail. Okay, go.
Nicole (:Okay, anyway,
is there a copyright claim on that?
Kelsie (:I just say copyright.
Nicole (:Hopefully not!
Ashley (:If we're famous enough to get in trouble with the copyright of fucking Blue's Clues, then I'll take it. No press is bad press.
Nicole (:We're going somewhere.
Monica (:We have arrived.
Nicole (:We are going somewhere.
Monica (:goodness, okay, so I'm very curious about just your reactions to this and your perspective. So they sent in a message and they work at like a care facility, like basically an old person home care facility. So they said, one of my old ladies died last week. We asked the family what funeral home to call for pickup. They said,
Nicole (:Okay, great.
Monica (:No, we'll save them a trip. So we loaded her up into the back of their SUV and sent them off.
Ashley (:Noooo
Monica (:But it gets better because there were follow-up questions to this and they don't provide body bags because that's not the norm. Normally they would call a mortuary. They would come and pick up said body and take them and do their thing. But this family decided to drive like five or six hours away with Grandma Sue or whoever in the back of their S.
Nicole (:coroner or a yeah
Ashley (:my god.
Nicole (:No! no, no, no, no, I have like, chills, I-
Kelsie (:Is that
legal? Can you just like take a body with like... the chest part?
Ashley (:Hey, you know what? In other
areas, if you live in a less populated area or something, there is not corners that are gonna come to you. Like, I think this is probably common for some areas, although crazy to me.
Nicole (:Okay, but no.
No.
Monica (:Maybe.
Kelsie (:But what's to stop you from just like
taking the dead body home and just like chilling with it in your house that
Nicole (:stop, shut
the fuck up. Could you shut up?
Monica (:Right? No, for real.
Ashley (:I mean, I guess nothing, there's nothing that
stops you from doing that.
Kelsie (:That has to be illegal.
Monica (:So
as we were chatting, we were just like, imagine her buckled up in the back seat, but they actually laid her down in the back seats and laid her on the floor covered in blankets. But it feels very illegal. It does not feel like something you should be allowed to.
Ashley (:my god. Does she need a buckle?
Imagine you get her.
Nicole (:Could you?
I was just gonna say that Ashley, imagine you get pulled over.
Monica (:Yes, like a five or six hour drive and I'm sure that they probably
Ashley (:What a story to have to tell the cop.
Nicole (:And you're like,
officer, I swear I did not do that.
Ashley (:You have to slam on the brakes.
Monica (:Well, and actually now I have so many follow up questions because who issues the death certificate? And so then if you're like, does the home provide paperwork saying like, here's the dead body?
Kelsie (:That's what I'm saying. sounds like it's something's wrong. Like there's there's steps. I'm pretty sure there's documents and like where
Nicole (:I'm gonna go.
Ashley (:I don't
Nicole (:The smell. The
smell.
Ashley (:Well,
they were taking her to where was the final destination? I mean, she was going to go to a funeral home to get buried, right? They just probably didn't want to pay to have a coroner take the body that far.
Monica (:I
think the plan was to take her to a mortuary closer to where she was gonna be buried, but that was like a five hour drive away. So they just took a road trip with Aunt Sue or whoever it is.
Ashley (:Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Kelsie (:They just didn't want to like pay
the to make the people come get him is like a big need to make him drive five hours to get the body. So they were like, will do it for free. Cut costs.
Nicole (:Yeah, that's, I don't like that. That's so uncomfortable.
Monica (:I guess, yeah, I guess, but
like who's to say that they weren't just like taking her home to be like taxidermied and kept forever?
Nicole (:How? my god. Hey, she wasn't coming to my house.
Kelsie (:contact.
Ashley (:my god.
Nicole (:It's not my relative. No, I'm just kidding.
Monica (:As soon as I heard this story, I thought of you, Nicole!
Kelsie (:Someday if we all pass away
before Nicole, she'll have us mounted on her couch So she can keep us forever
Ashley (:my god.
Monica (:Well, it's
like weekend at Bernie's, like just taking her around, going and getting some coffee. the things you like, I mean, okay, so think about it, like what you do to gear up for a five hour road trip, right? Like, hopefully this was all done before picking her up because you got to go get snacks and you got to get some coffee. Like, are you just rolling through Starbucks when they're in the bathroom?
Nicole (:Yeah!
Ashley (:They had to stop at the gas station. They had to fill up.
Nicole (:I don't think, no.
Ashley (:They had to do a pee break with a body in the back.
Nicole (:Listen, listen. I could not get snacks with a fucking dead body in the car. No, how do you? No, no.
Ashley (:Could you eat snacks in the presence of a dead person?
Kelsie (:So she was not in a body bag, correct?
Monica (:No, no, because
Kelsie (:She was just floating.
Nicole (:She's
wrapped in blankets.
Monica (:that's not the norm. The facility doesn't have like body bags, right? And so they just literally helped the family load her up, her down in the back of the SUV, covered her in some blankets and they went on their way.
Nicole (:Nah.
Ashley (:Wow.
Nicole (:How long had she been deceased for?
Kelsie (:What if you got pulled over?
Monica (:I don't think very long, because when it happens, have to notify the families pretty quickly and it moves.
Nicole (:because
Yeah, they have to
drive five or six hours to them. Then they got to drive five or six hours back. like at least a day, she dead for at least a day. She gonna start smelling soon. my God, stop. can't, you better drive with the windows down for five to six hours.
Monica (:Maybe. Yeah.
Ashley (:my god.
Monica (:But really, like, what do do if you're pulled over?
Like, that is the really, like, the question. Like, what do you do? I can't even imagine. Like, I know that maybe they were on a budget, but like...
Nicole (:Bro.
Honestly, hopefully, hopefully
the facility does give you some kind of paperwork if you're transporting the body yourself. So if you do get pulled over, you don't just look like a serial killer because
Kelsie (:They have to. They have to.
Monica (:Yeah.
Ashley (:Let me just type up a letter. hey, Mr.
Kelsie (:There has
to be some sort of...
Ashley (:Officer or whoever encounters this body. This person did die of natural causes.
Nicole (:Yeah, way to implicate yourself.
Way to implicate yourself in a death that you don't have anything to do with.
Monica (:you
Kelsie (:There has to be some sort of, but normally I would expect like, like the, the mortuary, I can't say mortuary to like bring the documents, you know, and maybe have them signed, but you like, you wouldn't think that that's something that the home would have to provide.
Monica (:Mm-hmm.
Nicole (:I don't know.
Ashley (:Yeah,
the home wouldn't have it.
Nicole (:think
they still, the care facility probably still has to do some kind of time of death or certain, some kind of paperwork if somebody dies in their care, you know what I mean? For their own liability and insurance and whatever the fuck, right? So there is, there has to be a paper trail.
Monica (:Mm-hmm.
Kelsie (:Maybe they were prepared.
Monica (:Mm-hmm.
Kelsie (:Maybe
Maybe we give them the benefit of the doubt. They didn't want to pay the mortician to go get body, but they did discuss it with the mortician and he said, is what you need to travel with a dead body. And yeah.
Monica (:There has to be,
Nicole (:Yeah, the... Yes.
Maybe, maybe, maybe it was
Monica (:Yeah.
Ashley (:Mm-hmm.
Nicole (:approved by some coroner more to that they know. I don't know. That's weird. I could never because my, watched way too many. Well, okay. I don't care about that because I don't want to talk about that. Um, I just might, because I go to nightmare fuel. That's where my brain goes. And I would be driving and like constantly looking in the rear view mirror and make sure like homegirls not sitting up like
Monica (:goodness. I mean, they can't be the first family though.
Ashley (:Thank
Monica (:Mm-hmm.
Kelsie (:I was just about to say,
Ashley (:rule.
Kelsie (:this, my mind went instantly to the cremation station when you were like, they sit up.
Monica (:or
Nicole (:Yeah, I was just gonna say we
Monica (:I'm screaming.
Nicole (:were
talking about... yeah.
Monica (:Do you know how many times that phrase has been used in the last week for me? I just came up from a funeral, okay?
Nicole (:that's right! You did, yeah! She just came home from a funeral, thankfully. She did not have to transport the body herself. It was already there where it needed to be.
Ashley (:Thank
Monica (:No,
but how weird is that of all the phrases, cremation station, this is at least the third time that this has come up in conversation in one week.
Nicole (:Yeah. Yeah. So it came up for you because of funeral. It is a weird week. My, the reason why it came up in the group chat was because I don't, we were talking about like creepy things and Gina just happened to send me like weird, creepy things that your body can do. And apparently like, if you're getting cremated, the heat makes muscles contract obviously. And like, I guess somehow people
Ashley (:It's a weird wait.
Kelsie (:and freeze.
Nicole (:deceased people can sit up and like move around during the cremation process. Like, could you imagine? The crematorium person. Yeah. First of all, I don't know.
Monica (:Stop it.
Ashley (:Where's the viewing window into this cremation station? Who is watching this?
Kelsie (:Yeah, I like, I didn't think these things had windows. What are we?
Monica (:Okay,
Ashley (:This is I don't know what.
Monica (:okay, well I have two things to add to this conversation. So one, first let's jump back to the body in the back seat of the car. What happens if you get in a car accident? How confusing is that?
Nicole (:I don't know. I don't know.
MY
Kelsie (:Well that's a big projectile
Nicole (:G-
Kelsie (:too. Wait. Is there a trunk or is this like a, this is like a SUV type of situation? Can you imagine just-
Ashley (:Was this woman wearing a seatbelt?
Monica (:SUV SUV A TRUNK
Ashley (:my god.
Nicole (:Just like an open. That would be worse.
Monica (:Yes, yes.
Okay. So yeah, but like what I was saying, she was already dead. It's okay. my gosh. Okay, second thing.
Kelsie (:Or better.
Ashley (:don't worry, she was already dead.
Kelsie (:This is already dead, guys.
Nicole (:Wait, but like rigor mortis, like,
my God. Okay, sorry, so many things, sorry.
Monica (:Right? Okay, so going
back to cremation station. So while I was traveling and talking about all these things with my sister, she informed me of a Reddit thread.
Nicole (:It's gonna be good.
Monica (:They were talking about how when people are being cremated and the flesh is burning, that it kind of smells like barbecue.
Nicole (:Mm-hmm.
Ashley (:Mm.
Nicole (:Yep, okay, there we go.
Monica (:which
I feel like is such a conflicting thing. Like if you are the person working, cause you're like, it kind of smells good, but also.
Ashley (:Ew.
Monica (:Right?
Kelsie (:Everything I
know about cremation is against my will.
Nicole (:Am I a cannibal or?
Monica (:No way! Like, you can't go to work feeling hungry. Like, can't do that.
Ashley (:I probably made some cannibals on that Reddit thread.
my god.
Nicole (:Well, okay, so while we were talking about like people sitting up and like limbs moving and shit Kelsey's like yeah like when you're cooking frog legs and I was like, my I've never cooked frog legs before. Like, do they do that? They dance!
Kelsie (:you
Monica (:What? What?
Kelsie (:The pants. Yeah.
Ashley (:I actually too was
like, bitch, I don't know what you're talking about. What do frog legs do when you make them?
Monica (:What?
Kelsie (:None of you guys said anything,
so I just thought we all knew what frog legs... Frog legs, when you cook them, they... they dance. They... they move. They jump.
Monica (:What?
Nicole (:Well, because it's muscles. Yeah.
And the heat helped like contracts the muscle. Like it makes sense, but I didn't know that.
Monica (:We're eating.
I mean, I thought frog legs were like just a myth to eat. You eat them? No, no, I'm good.
Ashley (:Bitch, no one else is making frog legs. No, stop.
Nicole (:No, no, I've eaten them before. No, I've had them before.
Kelsie (:No
Yeah, yeah, I do.
Nicole (:They're not my favorite. I've had them before. They're not my favorite though. Monica and Ashley go to Papa Do's. can try them there. Shameless Papa Do's plug. That's like one of my favorite restaurants. No, but I'm going to promote them.
Monica (:That's true, okay, I have seen them on the menu there. Are you working for them?
Kelsie (:Or just come here,
we'll go dig our own frogs and fry them up ourselves. Yes, it's so fun.
Ashley (:There's no- I don't
have any frogs nearby that I could go... get.
Monica (:That is so backwards.
Nicole (:No thanks. I don't love
Kelsie (:No, that's why I said come
Nicole (:girl.
Kelsie (:here. Our next girls trip will be Frog
Nicole (:I don't like frog
Monica (:I mean.
Nicole (:I will get
Ashley (:it won't. It won't be frogging. Okay, I-
Nicole (:It actually is not okay.
Ashley (:to eating a
frog. I'm just like, there's no scenario where I'm gonna go and get a frog and cook it. That's just not, I'm not, it's not.
Monica (:I handle dissecting one.
Nicole (:shit!
Hold on, this is another full
circle moment. Who would you rather bite a frog or something? Wasn't that your question, Ashley?
Ashley (:Yes,
Kelsie (:That was a raw frog.
Ashley (:no, I don't know if it was my question, but I did have something to say about that question because it was eat an onion every day or bite a frog. And I said, you're going to have to bite the frog. See, I'm not saying I wouldn't eat frog legs. I'm just saying I'm not going out and getting frog legs and making them. I have no desire to do that.
Monica (:It was mine! It was mine!
Kelsie (:It's something, it's a fun journey to say you've done once in your life. just, you get these like, they're like, they're like gigs and you know, like this kind of like, and you're just, you just, stab them.
Monica (:Ball circle!
Hmm.
Ashley (:I don't know. I just... I don't even know what to say.
Nicole (:like a little triton
Kelsie (:Yes, I know, yes,
I know, yeah, yeah.
Ashley (:with two hands. It's just a frog, but.
Monica (:I'm good. I'm good.
Nicole (:Now our backwoods princess Ariel over here like
Ashley (:Yeah, that's what I'm saying like some real country shit
Monica (:Seriously, I mean, we caught like crawfish growing up
and did that, but like frog legs and no thank you. Granted the frogs that are in Arizona, I don't think you want to eat. Those aren't the frogs you want. No.
Kelsie (:I mean...
Nicole (:Well,
to be fair, the frogs in Arizona... Nah, no, don't... They probably don't even have enough meat on them.
Kelsie (:Have you guys ever seen that picture of me? We could like attach it to the show With when I was little just holding a giant bullfrog like this big in my lap
You know it's on Facebook. I share it like every it's with my grandpa and so I share it like every year so
Ashley (:where would we have seen that picture?
you
Monica (:Man.
Ashley (:yes,
last time I was looking at your baby photo album with your mother, she showed me you holding a bullfrog.
Kelsie (:Around every January
Nicole (:photos right
next.
Kelsie (:when I talk about my grandpa passing away on his anniversary of his death, I share the one where we're sitting together with my big old bullfrog in my lap.
Nicole (:you
Aww.
Ashley (:No, I don't think I've seen
Kelsie (:I'm pretty sure we're gonna have to just- Can you see the bullfrog in my lap?
Monica (:us.
Yes, that thing is massive. That thing is gonna eat you!
Ashley (:my God. my God. It looks like a, it's blurry, but it looks like
a ferret.
Kelsie (:That's what I'm saying. There's plenty to eat on these frogs over here. There's lots of them. They're big boys.
Ashley (:What's like a small critter?
Nicole (:All right, well, you want to eat some
Ashley (:Damn. Can you show it again?
Nicole (:frog legs? That's where you got to go. No, I'm good. don't really I've tried. I did try them because I'm down to try like everything, but no, thanks. No, thank you.
Kelsie (:Yup.
Ashley (:meaty.
Monica (:And if we ever have
Kelsie (:It sounds
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Monica (:a girl's trip
Nicole (:Girl, I don't know where Papa Dose gets their fucking frog legs from, but doesn't matter. I still like the taste of frog.
Monica (:beefier
Kelsie (:Tastes like chicken.
Monica (:All right, will say this, if we ever have a girls trip where they serve frog, I will consider trying it with you.
Nicole (:It's mop chicken.
Kelsie (:I think homemade would be better, but okay.
Monica (:Okay, well then let's go visit Kelsey and Kelsey can make us some, you can go catch some frogs in your backyard and then fry them up for us.
Ashley (:Do you
Kelsie (:Huh?
Ashley (:eat
frog legs a lot? Is this a normal, is this on the dinner rotation? That's what I feel like right now. I feel like you guys are eating frog legs every week.
Nicole (:Girl, you're not in Louisiana. What is
Kelsie (:I haven't I haven't had I
Monica (:Monday,
Nicole (:this?
Monica (:hot dogs, Tuesday, hamburgers, Wednesday, frog legs.
Kelsie (:haven't had frog legs in years Yeah, no pepper would probably have frog legs once a week if that was an option I however No, I I've not had frog legs in a long time
Nicole (:You
Monica (:Are you allowed to eat them while pregnant? that... is there anything against them?
Nicole (:Yeah, can you eat those?
Kelsie (:I'm sure it's fine,
I think it's fine. There's no mercury in the water. Yeah.
Nicole (:As long as it's cooked all the way. It's cooked all the
Ashley (:I don't see why not. Yeah.
Nicole (:way, it's probably fine. No. Hey, I ate alligator when I was pregnant, so.
Monica (:It's not like deli meat.
Kelsie (:I know.
Monica (:Alligator's good.
Kelsie (:Alligator is good too.
Ashley (:I don't think I've ever had al- I've never had alligator.
Nicole (:and crawfish so I mean
girl I'm telling you popados just go right there you're not far actually I don't know are you far from popados I don't know you might be you you might me what girl I actually love popados anyway
Ashley (:Mm.
I don't know. I've never been to a Papa Dose. I don't think.
Monica (:No, we're not that far.
Yeah.
Ashley (:No, Papadose did
Monica (:All right, Ashley, next date night together. Pop it out.
Nicole (:You should, it's an experience, go. Go, do it.
Get the, but you have to get it, you have to get it blankened. Yeah.
Ashley (:and Monica will go. We'll eat all the weird shit. You have a gift card for Papadose?
Monica (:I think I have a gift card!
I think it's one of those gift cards that has a few restaurants on there. Yes, it's meant to be.
Ashley (:I might have a gift card for Papadose too. I have one that's been in my wallet.
Nicole (:There you go. Now this is, we just planned,
we just planned your next date night. And me and Kelsey are just here like, fuck yourselves. Fuck you bitches.
Ashley (:Wow.
Kelsie (:They go on date nights with Alice. It's really sad.
Monica (:We can FaceTime
Kelsie (:We watch from
Ashley (:That's
Kelsie (:afar.
Ashley (:not our fault. Come on over. Yeah. You're invited.
Monica (:you. Would you like to join us at the table? We'll FaceTime.
Nicole (:It is actually your fault. It's your fault actually.
Kelsie (:Thank
Monica (:The invitation
is out there. It's just do you want to hop on a plane? You want to do it? Do it. Do it. Do it right now.
Kelsie (:Yeah.
Ashley (:Yeah, it's a business expense.
Kelsie (:you
Nicole (:Yes. Yes,
actually. I do.
Kelsie (:If I didn't have children, I would.
Nicole (:Right? Truly. Truly. No. No. I would love to though, because the weather here is not, I don't like springtime. Springtime in East Texas is not my favorite. I'm, know, next tornado warning. I'm fucking goodbye. See you later. out. It's been a week. It's been a week, you guys. It's been a week. The Nader's be Nadering, right? 15 minutes away from my house and I was not, not.
Monica (:Bring on, bring the kids.
Kelsie (:Go ahead.
Ashley (:Mm.
Kelsie (:The Nators ain't big enough to Nicole.
Nicole (:Cool, not cool, bro. I have not gone over there. I have not gone over there. I've seen videos and stuff I sent them to you. I have not gone over there though because our road is very muddy. Like our easement is so muddy. And so we're trying our best not to like tear it up and make it worse. Just because we did get like, I don't, the predicted rain totals, I don't know we ended up actually getting, but the predicted rain totals were like 10 inches plus.
Ashley (:Have you driven, have you seen the destruction with your bare eyes?
you
Mm-hmm.
Hmm.
Nicole (:We were in flash flood warnings, we're, you know, I wasn't worried about that because we are not in like a flood plain. So we're fine. But just the amount of water was a lot that was coming from the fucking sky. but I have not driven over there yet. I might tomorrow because it's not far from my kid's school. So I might just go drive over there just to see. What day was that Thursday?
We had some really, or no, was Friday. It was Friday. We had some super bad, severe weather here and I was live chatting, the group chat, because I was terrified and Kelsey and I were watching the streams. It was really funny. Kelsey was being my tornado buddy and watching a live stream with me. We, everybody, yeah, you guys were too, I guess, yeah.
Ashley (:Friday. Yeah.
Monica (:Well, we all were. when you have- when- yeah,
whenever you have weather, like, Ashley and I are over here, like, checking the weather channel, like, is Nicole okay?
Nicole (:Ashley checks the radar like every time and
freaking. So yeah, so we were all just watching a live stream and we were all watching it basically on radar like 15 minutes away from my house. And I was literally running outside because I was like ready to jump in my car and run away because it scares me.
Ashley (:Yeah.
Thank
Monica (:Well, and we're...
Well, that is so scary. Well, we're behind you in the time zone. So I'm awake when you're usually asleep. So I'm usually like watching the weather channel. Like, do I need to call Nicole and tell her to get up?
Nicole (:Dude.
Kelsie (:Yeah.
Ashley (:I'm
Nicole (:Dude, and also when we have severe weather like that and it is in the nighttime hours, yeah, it gives me anxiety. I have really bad storm anxiety. like on Thursday, I Thursday afternoon is when I like saw the severity and I just, your day stopped. Like I couldn't function anymore. My like stomach immediately hurt. was shaking. I just would like cry at random intervals cause it scares the shit out of me. We don't have like a storm shelter. If we had a storm shelter, I wouldn't be scared. Like I would just, you know, get the storm shelter ready.
Monica (:Your weather gives me anxiety.
Kelsie (:Yeah, so we're gonna start,
Monica (:Yeah.
Kelsie (:we're gonna we're gonna sell merch and all the proceeds are gonna go to Nicole's Shelter.
Nicole (:Yeah, because we don't we don't have a
Ashley (:How much does
Monica (:Seriously.
Nicole (:basement we don't have like
Monica (:It will collectively ease all of our anxiety.
Nicole (:our houses
Ashley (:How much do we need?
Kelsie (:telling
Nicole (:It
would. I I don't, know, they're pretty freaking expensive. Like I was trying to find, yeah, or more. I was trying to find like solid prices and a lot of websites don't give you solid prices because they need to come out and give you a quote for it, obviously. So it's like, but I did see some people selling them like used on Facebook marketplace and even those are five, six, $7,000. And it's like, I don't have that lying around.
Kelsie (:they are.
Ashley (:five grams.
Kelsie (:Well, if any tornado
shelter, if any tornado shelter companies would like to partner with us, we'd be happy to talk about you every week if you'll give Nicole a tornado shelter.
Monica (:Mm-hmm.
Nicole (:right every week
Ashley (:every week.
Monica (:Seriously. We'll
Nicole (:during the springtime
Monica (:go live. Yeah, we'll go live. We'll do tours.
Nicole (:because it'll be used I'll go live in the shelter as long as I as long as I have internet
Kelsie (:I was...
Ashley (:Mm-hmm.
Kelsie (:I was probably not
helping Nicole's anxiety when I was talking about as a kid running down the street to our cellar every time there was a storm.
Nicole (:Well, actually
it did help like You know, it just made me realize like other people go through this too. Like obviously this isn't just happening to me So like my storm anxiety Every time we have one it just makes it feel like it's I my brain just goes. it's coming for you bitch like this you're done your Target number one coming straight for you. And so like every time I you know, but
Ashley (:Mm-hmm.
Monica (:Yeah.
Nicole (:We've had we've had one other tornado warning since I've lived here and we've had a lot of other tornado watches. And even the tornado that we had the tornado warning that we had that was during the summer when like the hurricanes were going crazy. I can't remember what hurricane it was B or C. don't remember, but that was in like the same area like northwest of us still technically in our county still technically in our.
city, our town, but it was northwest of us. And I swear it's because we're, you know, we're a little bit further south and there is a little mountain range between like two major like freeways. And I, I swear like that keeps it away from us, which I'm thankful for. Thank God we moved by the only mountain in fucking East Texas, I swear, cause there ain't no fucking mountains out here, but you know, like that I think helps.
for sure, because they can't get enough rotation over here. still, every time they come close, still freaks me out. And then a couple hours later on Friday night, we had a thunderstorm roll over us. And there was so much lightning. so literally, my windows were just flashing so brightly. And I swear it was striking. We have this. We don't have it. It's not on our property. But the property next to us has a big old dead pine tree.
Monica (:It's so scary.
Nicole (:And I think that thing was just getting struck and struck and struck. And it's so fucking loud when it's close to like, and it's so bright, like, my, and that, and that one actually really scared me. Cause like my girls fell asleep on the couch. Justin was already asleep cause he had to go to work and I was the only one still up. I climbed into bed with him and made him wake up. And I kid you not, was shaking like convulsing because it was so loud and so scary. And I was, I was watching that one on the radar too, because that one had
Ashley (:Mm-hmm. It's loud. It's loud when it strikes.
Monica (:Mm-hmm.
Ashley (:Yeah.
god.
Nicole (:rotation in a town like 45 minutes south of us. And I don't know how, but like, by the time it creeped up closer to us, it went from rotating to straight line winds. And I was like, fucking praise Jesus because. I was skrred, but I was, I'm a weather weenie. And so I got to watch and like, it makes me feel better to watch, but it also like fuels my fear to watch.
Monica (:Yeah.
Nicole (:It's like a crazy, yeah, so I need to get a storm shelter for sure, but I don't know when that's gonna happen.
Kelsie (:Yeah, it's just scary
when you know that you know you don't really have anywhere to go. It's just very scary.
Monica (:Yeah.
Nicole (:Yeah, that's the thing. I'm like, if we
Ashley (:Mm-hmm.
Nicole (:had a solid plan, you know, we could, that'd be fine. But with the thing with like the Naders is you don't, sometimes you don't know what direction they're going to go. because you can look at some storm tracks and you can see like they can turn abruptly, like just all of sudden go back the other direction. Yeah, it's so unpredictable.
Ashley (:Very unpredictable. Yeah.
Monica (:Mm-hmm.
Nicole (:you know, one thing I saw in Arkansas, I think it was, yeah, Arkansas, or no, it was Illinois. Sorry, I saw a video of a trucker.
In Illinois, he was trying to get into a TA and they locked the door They wouldn't let him in and they were literally in a tornado warning like and they will not would not let him come in and I'm like That's not cool, especially for places like, you TA or loves or like truck stops But let the truckers in what are you doing? It's so scary Yeah, but like
Ashley (:Mmmmm
Monica (:Yeah.
Ashley (:my god, that's so horrible.
No.
Nicole (:How rude
of you to not let somebody in that needs like shelter. Like that's so scary. Yeah.
Monica (:Mmm.
Ashley (:What if they watched him get sucked away?
Monica (:Yanks.
Ashley (:Yeah, that's
terrible.
Nicole (:Oh my
God. Even just talking about this, like my legs are shaking. having the anxiety shakes. Yeah. When it comes to this. No, it sucks. it. But thankfully for the next like week and a half, we're dry. We're dry. I survived. We got some nice weather for a week and a half. So we're good.
Kelsie (:I'm going.
Monica (:Yikes. yeah, that is one of the-
you
Ashley (:You're safe for the foreseeable future. That gives us time to get your storm shelter.
Nicole (:I'm saying, for now.
Kelsie (:Yeah.
Nicole (:Does
it? I hope. See, and I, I seriously think like, the weather, the Texas residents, we jinxed ourselves because they kept saying, we're going to have really severe weather like, severe weather, severe weather, severe weather. And we kept having a really like stable cap on the atmosphere. Sorry for the nerdy talk. and so nothing was actually happening. And this had gone on for like a long time. Like,
Ashley (:I don't know.
Kelsie (:We'll
just keep.
Nicole (:The few times we've had some pretty bad storms, the atmosphere has stabilized and nothing has really come of it that bad. I think south, a little bit south in Texas, they were having some issues, but us over here, we haven't. so I literally, all of March, I was like, heck yeah, cool, we haven't had any bad storms. And then the first week in April, I'm like, we're coasting, because they were saying for four days straight, we're having some, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, and then nothing was happening.
And then literally Friday, was like, it almost seemed like it just like gathered up all its energy and was like, okay, here you go. We definitely jinxed ourselves. We thought we were getting away with having a easy spring.
Ashley (:when I was
Monica (:POP
Ashley (:Yeah, false.
When I was looking up tornado trackers on Friday, I came across this one site and it was showing all the tornadoes in the US and it was like tornadoes on the ground right now and it was 29 and I was like, what the fuck? That's crazy.
Monica (:What?
Nicole (:Yeah, yeah. mean, a lot of the
Kelsie (:Well that one storm
Nicole (:times,
Kelsie (:system alone was popping off.
Nicole (:yeah, yep. A lot of the times they're in fields and you know, so like a lot of the times they're not that bad, but it's like, sometimes they can just ramp up in the open fields and they just keep going.
Ashley (:Yeah.
Yeah.
Kelsie (:well after we talked about it that day TikTok just started showing me all the tornado videos and I saw one about a dead have you heard of the dead man walking tornado
Nicole (:Yes, I hate it. I can't look at it.
Kelsie (:like literally to paint the visual for everyone else. It's like when the tornado kind of like sends off two vortexes and it looks like somebody's the tornado is walking across the land.
Nicole (:actually looks like it's walking. You should actually look it up. I think everyone should
Ashley (:that's scary.
Monica (:No, that's scary.
Nicole (:look it up just to know what it looks like because I didn't know that was a thing until like we started experiencing this and then I started looking into that and I was like that is the scariest thing I've ever seen and there's like a lore behind it. People truly believe if you see that then you're done. If you can see it, you can see the dead man walking, you are the dead man walking and it's like no that's scary, I don't like that.
Kelsie (:Thank you.
Nicole (:you
Monica (:Yikes. No thank you.
Kelsie (:is.
Nicole (:It's terrifying.
Kelsie (:Monica and Ashley are like, we'll keep our dust storms.
Monica (:For real, our haboobs.
Nicole (:Yeah, yeah, I would take a dust
Ashley (:fuck yeah.
Nicole (:storm. I'll take a boob over that.
Monica (:Yeah, I'll take a haboob. I'm good with that. Those are terrible when you're on the freeway, but I will still take it.
Ashley (:Yeah, for sure.
Kelsie (:I literally can't even imagine.
Nicole (:Even the torrential fucking...
Even the flash flooding that, you know, we get over in the Phoenix area. That any day.
Monica (:The worst we get really in Arizona is forest fires, which those can be terrible. But I mean, here in the Valley, it's not, you know, like just the way the city spread out. It's not.
Nicole (:Obviously.
Yeah, it's not too bad. But also up north, they do a lot of controlled burns. like, they're ahead of it most of the time, you know, and they, they sometimes I mean, they still get pretty, pretty wild, like the that one where the night, what is it the 19 those fire or the
Monica (:Yeah.
Ashley (:Mm-hmm.
Monica (:Yeah,
sometimes.
yeah, the Willow fire. Yeah, that one was scary, but that one was also a little bit different because there was like the fire storm within it. And so, yeah. So those are scary, but that's pretty much all Arizona has to worry about. Well that, and we have no water. So I guess that's a problem.
Nicole (:You know what mean? Yeah, that was bad.
Ashley (:Mm-hmm.
Nicole (:Yeah, yeah. It was no good, no good.
True, true, that's true. Gays don't have water.
Monica (:No, we don't.
Nicole (:yeah I have to pee
Monica (:Yeah. Well, I love that we are back together.
Kelsie (:I'm hungry.
Ashley (:I am too.
Monica (:The band's back together again.
Ashley (:Woohoo!
Nicole (:The panda's
back! We're back, baby!
Kelsie (:Work hard, baby!
Monica (:We're back!
Kelsie (:Getting
started was really the hardest part, so we'll be around for a while now guys.
Ashley (:Yes, we
Nicole (:Yes,
Monica (:Yes,
Ashley (:will.
Nicole (:yes, yes, we're here, we're here. No, we're not going anywhere.
Monica (:it's good to be back, but send us your stories. Send us your anything you want us to chat about your random shit. We'll talk about it.
Ashley (:Mm-hmm.
Kelsie (:Yeah, anything.
Nicole (:And of course, send
Ashley (:Yep.
Nicole (:us what's bothering you. Is your boss an asshole or your kids driving you crazy? You know, send us. Literally nothing is off the table.
Kelsie (:Obviously nothing's off the table. Absolutely nothing.
Ashley (:Yeah.
Nicole (:What we talked about so many things we talked about but holes period discs dead bodies if I can We talked about surgery seeing Monica's muscles like my goodness literally Nothing is off the table. So please bring us bring us all your things cuz we were weird and we like it
Monica (:surgery. Yeah, seeing my insides. Yeah, nothing.
Yes. Thank you for hanging out
with our very chaotic group chat.
Nicole (:Mm-hmm. It's good to be back.
Ashley (:We'll see you guys
Kelsie (:Yeah, make sure
you, yeah. And if you don't already, make sure you like, subscribe, follow us on all the things. We could use your love there.
Ashley (:next week.
Nicole (:Do all the things, please. We can use your
Monica (:Yes, come
Ashley (:Yeah,
Nicole (:love!
Monica (:check in with us over on Instagram and TikTok and hang out with us. Bye.
Ashley (:tell your friends.
Nicole (:Yes. Yeah. Until next time. Bye.
Ashley (:See ya!
Kelsie (:Bye!
Nicole (:Bye.
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