Episode 31
31 | Labubus & Sh!t | A Little Bit Bothered Podcast
In this lively episode, join Nicole, Monica, Ashley, and Kelsie as they navigate through a series of hilarious anecdotes, parenting fibs, and the curious case of Labubus. From unexpected hotel meet-ups to the trials of homeschooling, this episode is a rollercoaster of humor and relatable stories.
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he's like turn off the water I was like I'll turn off your water and he's like I'll break your water I was like I fucking dare you
Nicole (:We are a little bit bothered. And we're your bothered bitches! I feel like a game show host. I'm Nicole!
Monica (:Hello?
Ashley (:Hey, hey, hey.
Monica (:I'm Monica.
Kelsie (:I'm Kelsey.
Ashley (:And I'm Ashley.
Nicole (:Okay.
Ashley (:Guess who's back? Yes, as the intro was going, I was thinking, wow, it's been a long time since I've heard this song.
Kelsie (:Guess who's back back again
Nicole (:She's here! She's here! ⁓
Kelsie (:Yeah.
Nicole (:I mean
Monica (:I know.
Nicole (:it
really has. Yeah a little bit but that's okay. That's okay, that's okay, that's okay.
Ashley (:I was on a sabbatical.
Kelsie (:We, we,
you haven't heard anything that we've recorded so far without you. So we've been telling people that we really need them to make us famous so that our mediocre podcasts can pay for your, to have, to have this as a job instead.
Nicole (:No. No.
Ashley (:Ha ha ha ha.
Monica (:Yeah,
Nicole (:Yeah,
we don't want to retire our husbands. We want to retire you so that you can do this with us full time. Yes, literally. She's for it, you guys. You heard it first. She's for it. No objections here.
Ashley (:Yeah.
Monica (:we're-
Ashley (:Priority number one. Okay, I'm on board. Yes, no objections here.
Kelsie (:Yeah.
Monica (:Yes, so that we can just record a podcast all day long. ⁓
Kelsie (:Yeah.
Monica (:So, I mean, if we could just get some
sponsors, Kelsey, if you wanna just call up Fruit Riot, that'd be great.
Nicole (:Right, right, right,
right, right. If you haven't been paying attention.
Ashley (:Yeah, since you're Instagram famous now, aren't you like a full blown influencer? Aren't you doing like five brand deals?
Nicole (:Pretty much.
Monica (:I know.
Kelsie (:I mean they sent me a package so it had a baby onesie ⁓
Nicole (:It's no big deal guys. It's no big deal guys. They just sent her a package. big deal.
Ashley (:You got a onesie.
A fruit onesie. A PR package?
Monica (:and it is freaking
adorable.
Ashley (:Wow, you're gonna need a PO box. You're gonna be like fucking unboxing non-stop this wild.
Nicole (:That's so funny. Could you imagine Kelsey's- Could you imagine Kelsey's PO box though? Because the bitch doesn't ever want to go to the post office. It's just overflowing, like never checked.
Monica (:This is how it starts.
Kelsie (:What can I say?
That's that that's how you
Monica (:She would for that though.
Ashley (:Yep.
Kelsie (:would get me to go is stuff. I love I Love getting stuff even if I know what's coming. I love it
Ashley (:They should be motivated.
Nicole (:Center P.S.R. you guys!
Monica (:Yeah.
Ashley (:Yeah.
Yep. Yeah. Even if you ordered it yourself.
Monica (:It's true. I agree.
Kelsie (:Yes.
Nicole (:my god, completely
delulu and I love it. We live in the delulu land and speaking of delulu, y'all know the... ⁓ Y'all know the labubus, the delulu labubus. Okay, so I'm saying it like that for a reason because I saw this... Before we talk about the actual labubus, I saw this reel yesterday and I don't even know who this woman is. I should have saved her thing. I should credit her somehow. I don't know who she is.
but she was going, she literally was like, am I stupid? Because I thought labubu was another word for lobotomy. Like I'm over here using it as like, I need a labubu.
Ashley (:What the fuck?
Nicole (:Like, Delulu, like Delulu. And she's like, she's like, I really thought it was just like a cute way for us to be like, I'm gonna get a Labubu. Like, I need, like, I'm feeling crazy right now. And I'm like, actually, I love that. Can I also need a Labubu? that was fucking dying. Apparently, apparently people that are a little bit like, you know, us, so.
Ashley (:No.
Monica (:Cute way.
Ashley (:Wow.
Kelsie (:I like that a lot actually. I'm gonna use that.
It's...
Ashley (:Wow, who thinks about lobotomies so often to think Labubu would be about a lobotomy? That's wild.
Monica (:No.
I didn't
know that a lobotomy could be cute, so.
Ashley (:It is
now. It's in, Monica.
Nicole (:Well, you know, I mean, it's like,
Kelsie (:Well, I don't know that
Nicole (:it's
Kelsie (:Labubus are cute, so I'm not sure that...
Nicole (:like, no, Labubus are terrifying. But you know how people are like, ⁓ I'm drinking this, this depresso espresso. Like we try to put cute little names to things because we're trying to make, you know, we're trying to make ourselves feel better about it. So I think that was her way of making herself feel better about feeling crazy. She's like, I need a Labubu
Monica (:They're horrible.
Okay. Yeah. Yeah.
Okay, okay.
I
like, I'm impressed, because like I said, like, I didn't know a lobotomy could be cute. like, okay.
Nicole (:Yeah, yeah! I mean, I like the
wording. I'm for it. It's- it's- it's... I'm... I also may need a Labubu otomy
Kelsie (:A Labubu otomy
Nicole (:That's the title of episode. and speaking of Labubus okay, real talk. They're scary to me and this is coming from, I'm like the kind of like edgier one of our group. These things scare me. I don't know. They're creepy little fucking, they look like, I don't know. I don't know. I don't like them.
Monica (:They are terrifying.
Ashley (:Mm-hmm.
Monica (:I don't like them.
I don't know where
they came from. They just one day showed up in my feed and everybody wanted them. I don't understand it. like, well, and.
Ashley (:Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
Nicole (:Everybody is so obsessed with them. It's terrifying. Why would-
Kelsie (:I My thing is is I don't understand. I don't understand I legit legit legit. It's your brush. I don't know
Nicole (:Yeah.
What? What? Excuse me. La boo
Ashley (:Hahaha
Nicole (:boo! It's Lulu la boo boo!
Kelsie (:don't understand where they came from and how they gained popularity. That's like, you love a la boo boo, you do you boo boo. I just don't get it. I'm like, legitimately what is a la boo boo? Like I know what it is, like I see it. But where did these come from?
Ashley (:Mm.
Nicole (:But what are they? Why are they? It's like a Furby. Why did we like Furbies?
Monica (:And why?
Ashley (:It is like, yeah, but a Furby
Monica (:Well, Furbies were cool. They talked to you. Yeah.
Ashley (:is cooler because a Furby did stuff. Yeah, a Furby was like, had tricks. Labubu. It looks like a demon.
Nicole (:Yeah, but they're fucking terrifying. Those things are, those are demons. People say, people say that all of
the, yeah, people say that little boo-boos are like a little demon spirit. I don't know about all that, okay. Conspiracy tok is a wild place, but a Furby, I think, is scarier than a Labubu in my opinion.
Monica (:They look like it.
Kelsie (:just need
if somebody actually knows the origin story of the Labubu or like what blow it up
Ashley (:Should we look it up? you do.
Nicole (:No, I do. ⁓
Monica (:Yeah,
Nicole (:So I don't know. I don't know exactly how they blew up, but the guy that created them, he was he's an artist of some point of some kind, and he just made them. I don't like I said, I don't know how they got popular, but I know some some random guy just started making these little things as like art. I think he did take supposedly, supposedly. I don't know the validity of this, please. I just.
Monica (:I've tried finding it though.
Ashley (:just went viral.
Kelsie (:Okay.
Ashley (:And now he's a fucking...gajillionaire.
Nicole (:Sometimes TikTok is my new source, okay? ⁓ Apparently the guy, like, I guess they're supposed to be like little,
Ashley (:What?
Nicole (:I guess he took inspiration from some like nymph spirit or something. people are like saying that it is off of some kind of mythological like lore. I just can't friggin remember what the lore is. And I also don't know if that was his real intention or if this is conspiracy talk. Okay. I don't know. But
Ashley (:Eww.
Monica (:weird.
Interesting.
Yeah.
Nicole (:They do look like it. just gotta, I'll find a video and send it to you. They kind of do resemble the like little demon character thing that... There you go, thank you. See, I wasn't just pulling shit out of my ass. I pay attention sort of, sometimes. I wasn't spreading misinformation.
Ashley (:Nordic folklore. Nordic folklore and fairy tales.
Monica (:Hmm, okay. Okay. Yeah, they're they're creepy as shit to me and
Kelsie (:We'll see.
Monica (:I made the miss ⁓
Kelsie (:Now that you say he's like an
artist that created this, now I'm like, oh well maybe I should get Labubu to support the man. Maybe that- Good for him though then.
Nicole (:Mm-hmm.
Nah. Nah, bro, he's like a bajillionaire now. I don't think he needs any more support.
Ashley (:god, yeah.
Monica (:Seriously. Well, and I made the mistake
though. I made the mistake of sending a funny reel to Emily because it was like, well, first it started with one where it was like a picture of a troll like that we all grew up with her. It was like the 90s, Labubu, which was hilarious because Emily like I don't remember like her story of like how she got herself into like reselling.
Nicole (:Yeah.
Ashley (:my god, wait, you got the little trolls with the hair.
Kelsie (:She's
like a little boo boo dealer. Hey, Emily.
Nicole (:Oh, hilarious. Oh my God.
Monica (:you
Nicole (:She's a Labubu Dealer!
Monica (:I
sent it to her and she's like 15 people have sent this to me. But then it was like a week later and another one came up that was funny. was like, so I sent it to her and I was like, sorry if you've already had this like 15 times. And then two seconds later, like five more Labubu reels come up. so I like sent it to her and I'm like, well, shit, like I just messed up my algorithm. I'm in the Labubu algorithm. She's like.
Nicole (:Yeah
You're just now you're just inundated.
Ashley (:Hmm
Mm-hmm. Yep.
Nicole (:You sure did. You're on Labubu Talk.
Monica (:Well was on Instagram
on this one so I'm like, it's never gonna go away. It takes forever for this algorithm to correct. ⁓
Nicole (:No.
Ashley (:It's not gonna reset. Now
you're talking about it and your phone's gonna hear it, so you're screwed. Yeah, ooh, I just Googled Labubu 30 bucks. 30 bucks. Hey, hey, okay, but have you heard of the LaFooFoo?
Nicole (:and you're gonna get ads for Labubus. How much are they? What do they cost? How much is the price of a Labubu?
Kelsie (:TikTok is good.
Monica (:I don't know, but people be crazy.
Nicole (:Teach
me!
Monica (:Little buddy foo foo, that's all I hear.
Ashley (:Lafoofoo
is a knockoff of Labubu There's lots of knockoffs, but LafooFoo is supposed to be a pretty, ⁓ like, accurate knockoff of Labubu I'm about to look it up too.
Kelsie (:Scoopin' up the fumes.
Nicole (:Bye!
Love you!
Monica (:I'm sorry, a labubu would not be the thing
Kelsie (:Well, we can't have...
Monica (:I would need a knockoff for.
Kelsie (:We can't have knockoffs because if this is a real artist that created these then that's just rude, so...
Monica (:Yeah.
Yeah, that's true.
Ashley (:Well,
that is just life these days, to be honest.
Monica (:I mean, I'm gonna be honest,
Kelsie (:Okay.
Monica (:when I first saw them, I thought they were like something from Temu Like, I'm so sorry to the artist, but like that was my impression was like, why are you wearing body things? There it is!
Kelsie (:Yeah.
Ashley (:Lefoufou is a teamu labooboo for sure. I just Googled them. They're scary.
They're scarier. Woo. Damn. Yikes.
Nicole (:Yeah, they are. They're absolutely. ⁓ gosh.
Kelsie (:I have to,
I have to like really do some digging on this and really.
Nicole (:⁓
Ashley (:We're invested now in the Labubus.
Nicole (:the boo-boos. You know, they're kind of like, they're creepy cute. I can get behind that, but... I don't like them. I definitely... Right, that's crazy.
Ashley (:I don't hate them. Like I don't hate them, but I also don't know what the point is. If someone gave me one or if it was like five bucks, I'd be like, all right, that's cool. Or if I was a kid with a backpack,
Kelsie (:don't hate him, I just don't understand. I just want to understand.
Monica (:Yeah. Yeah, I just, I don't get it.
Ashley (:I'd put it on my backpack, I feel like. But like.
Kelsie (:Yeah, that's yeah, if I was a
Monica (:Yeah,
Kelsie (:kid, I'd be all about it
Nicole (:You know what?
Monica (:see, I can get behind it for like the kids and like the teens and stuff. Like yeah, if you want to put it on your backpack, it's weird, but like, okay. But like adults, like full ass adults are freaking out about getting them.
Nicole (:my god. Me know.
Ashley (:They are, yes.
Kelsie (:I just, that's what
Nicole (:I say.
Kelsie (:I'm saying, I need to understand the origin here. Really, truly. Yes! I will hook a 90's troll to my purse all day long. Maybe that's the equivalent and maybe we should stop trying to understand because that's it.
Nicole (:I say bring back the 90s trolls, I'm gonna go find a 90s troll and I'm gonna put it on my purse.
Monica (:Right.
Ashley (:Love the 90s trolls, yeah. I would like one. Me too.
Monica (:You know what? I have a gun.
Nicole (:Fo sho, fo sho. I think it is. I think so.
Monica (:Yeah.
Ashley (:That's our problem. We're just millennials. We
Monica (:Probably.
Ashley (:don't get it. Maybe it's a... Yeah, we're old.
Nicole (:We're just old.
Monica (:I mean, I have a bunch of them still. I got them from my Nana's house when we cleaned out her house and now Merida has them and she's obsessed. So...
Nicole (:Hell yeah!
Hell yeah.
Kelsie (:Let's throw that,
let's throw that in our bothered bitch basket. Let's throw a troll, ⁓ a 90's troll. Surely they have like a keychain version of that, yeah.
Nicole (:A troll? my God. yeah, the bothered bitch basket. Yeah, but it would be cool to like make your own key chain. Speaking of the bothered bitch basket, don't forget we're doing a giveaway for all of our bothered bitches. ⁓ We still haven't nailed down the stipulations yet, but maybe by the time you're hearing this, it might be nailed down. So.
Ashley (:That's cute, yeah.
Monica (:Here we go.
Yes. Yes.
Ashley (:Giveaway!
Monica (:Well, but yeah, by the time you're
Ashley (:or the contents.
Kelsie (:It'll have to be.
Monica (:listening to this, it should be very much out there and active. So right now, stop what you're doing, go over to Instagram, go find it and go enter the giveaway. Yes. It can keep playing in the background.
Kelsie (:active.
Nicole (:Yeah, fo' sho'.
Kelsie (:Go find it.
Nicole (:Go enter.
Ashley (:Enter the giveaway!
Kelsie (:As long as you promise to come back, come back, obviously.
Nicole (:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Maybe do it at the end of this video.
Kelsie (:Yeah, yeah.
Nicole (:Yeah, yeah, maybe. ⁓ But yeah, bothered bitch box. Basket? Bothered bitch basket. I don't know. Whatever it is. It's your bothered bitch starter kit. It's gonna be... True, we have to ship it so it likely will be in a box. It's your bitch in a box.
Monica (:Yes. Yes. It's your starter kit. You bothered bitch.
Ashley (:It's gonna be a basket in a box if we have to ship it.
Monica (:Yeah. Well, and don't worry. We did not,
we did not choose me or Kelsey to ship it because we ain't going to the post office. It's intentionally going to Nicole.
Nicole (:No.
Ashley (:I've failed at sending things
as well.
Nicole (:It is me, it is my responsibility.
Kelsie (:I yeah, no I have I
fully have a giveaway box from Saint era where it's not been sent and I'm so sorry not I don't think she listens, but if she does I'm sorry I'll send it. It's still packed. I'll send it
Ashley (:Same, me too. Me too, it's terrible.
Nicole (:You guys are bad.
Ashley (:To the four people I promised a giveaway prize to, I
am so sorry that I never gave it to you. What? I am terrible.
Nicole (:It's
Monica (:Right?
Nicole (:No, see I've shipped out all my giveaways, so.
Ashley (:I failed on the last round.
Kelsie (:I I,
yeah, I failed on the, just on the one box I failed. And I've had it in the car. It's just like pull over to the post office.
Monica (:All right, well.
Well, you know what?
Nicole (:Just
drive to the post office. What the fuck?
Kelsie (:always have kids with me and it's such a pain in the ass to get kids out for five
Ashley (:We get them out, get them in. Yeah.
Monica (:You know what? Car seats
Kelsie (:seconds.
Monica (:are the biggest bitch. So I get it. I do get it.
Nicole (:Yeah, true that.
Ashley (:Yeah.
Kelsie (:If they
need a drive-through window, honestly, that would be the tits.
Ashley (:⁓ they do.
Monica (:Ohhhh
Nicole (:That would be
ideal, ideal.
Ashley (:That's,
Kelsie (:for
stuff that you can't just drop in a box, but you need like, yeah.
Ashley (:Whoa, that's a big brain idea right there, Kelsey.
Monica (:Right? Right? You know what? Stack
Nicole (:It really is.
Monica (:on an extra little fee. I don't care. I'll pay it.
Ashley (:I would too.
Nicole (:Right.
Monica (:Give me a drive through post office, I will pay it. ⁓
Kelsie (:Yeah, I
guess technically you could schedule packages to be picked up, but that I looked into that one time. seemed like a lot of work and like I don't want to print off the label and all that like I want you to do that.
Monica (:Yeah, that does seem like a lot of work.
Nicole (:No, you do
it. You do it. Let me drive up. You just do the thing Tell me how much I need to pay you
Kelsie (:Yeah.
I just got a printer. My printers always break. So it's like, I can't print a label. I have to go to library. And at that point, I might as well come to the post office.
Ashley (:Yep, they do. ⁓ yeah.
Nicole (:Literally, because they're probably not far from each other.
Ashley (:Why is that such a, that
is such a common problem, the whole printer thing. Like you, I never need to print and then I need to print something one time. The printer, my phone won't connect to the printer. The printer doesn't work. The printer's out of ink. We don't have any printer paper. The fucking, you gotta look up a staples. It's a whole ordeal. I'm like, does the library even print stuff? Do I need to have a dime? What's the situation?
Nicole (:Yeah.
Kelsie (:Yeah.
Monica (:Gut Theories.
Mm-hmm.
Nicole (:Yeah, like this, with a burger. ⁓
Monica (:Yep.
It is.
Do I need to?
Kelsie (:I was afraid to buy, we just bought a printer because we needed it for like homeschool stuff and I was like I'm legitimately afraid to buy a printer because every time we buy a printer it like we move it breaks something goes wrong and I'm like I don't want to spend I don't want to buy a cheap ass printer that keeps breaking but I don't want to buy expensive printer what if it breaks
Ashley (:I'm serious.
Nicole (:That's
funny.
Monica (:Yeah.
Ashley (:Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
Monica (:Right?
Nicole (:We
Kelsie (:got one with
a screen because nothing makes me feel like i need a fucking labubu more than trying to guess what's wrong with the fucking printer like
Nicole (:Yes. No, we have this
Ashley (:Mm-hmm.
Nicole (:one with the screen too, yeah.
Kelsie (:Yeah, no, all mine before I just bought like, you know, the cheaper ones. Just get you by. But it's like, then you have to play. Guess what's wrong with the printer? Is it the Wi-Fi? Is it the fucking? Yeah.
Nicole (:Yeah, just regular printers. And then you have to fucking take it all apart and diagnose it.
Ashley (:They're like one-time use.
Nicole (:Yeah. Print a roulette. Print your problem
Ashley (:Is it jammed? Is it out of ink?
Nicole (:roulette. The fuck?
Ashley (:Is it unplugged?
Kelsie (:It
is: Nicole (:The year of our Lord 2025.
Ashley (:No, printers are behind the times.
Monica (:Yeah, my favorite, my favorite,
Nicole (:Listen, we have AI, why don't we have printers?
They gave up on that.
Monica (:right? My favorite though is when it's like, you need to have a subscription to the ink and you're like, ⁓ no. And then the next week your printer suddenly doesn't work. And you're like, that's odd. That's odd.
Nicole (:Yeah, suddenly you need ink. Excuse me. You bitch. Yeah.
Ashley (:huh, yeah, very convenient,
isn't it?
Nicole (:Yeah. Convenient. Speaking of, Labubu Otomies. Not even that. But let's get back on track here, guys. ⁓ Monica sent us a very disturbing fucking video on Instagram the other day. No, fuck off. Cause you're weird. There's something wrong with you. where
Monica (:Yes, Nicole.
⁓ yeah!
Kelsie (:I think it was not disturbing.
Monica (:No, no, it was creepy.
Nicole (:First
of all, where are those even located? They have to be in like some Asian country, because I feel like it's very China coded. It like, this reminded me of like, yeah, yes, there you go, Japan.
Monica (:That's what I was thinking. Yeah, I was like, this looks like Tokyo maybe.
Kelsie (:I feel like I read where it was, but now I've forgotten. Or somebody should
Monica (:I don't. Yeah, I don't know.
Nicole (:Okay, ⁓ well,
Kelsie (:explain it, yeah.
Nicole (:I will, yeah, we'll explain it. She sent us this video of these doors and it looks like you're in a freaking, what is it? Carnival! Like, yeah, like a fun house. The doors are bathrooms! I hate it!
Monica (:Yeah.
Kelsie (:Carnival Fun House.
Monica (:I actually, well, you know what? Like my first impression, yeah,
my first impression was that it was like one of those places in Vegas where it's like a hidden bar. Like that's where I thought it was going.
Nicole (:Yeah. Okay. like a
Ashley (:Yeah, okay, I can see that. speak easy. Mm-hmm.
Nicole (:yeah, yeah, yeah, like a fun speakeasy, like a theme. Yeah, but it literally looks like you're at a carnival and the videos like pick one of these doors and they pick the they go in. It's a bathroom and it's like they're all bathrooms, but it's so overstimulating. There's all these weird characters. So the way he goes in has like some clown shit. I don't fucking know. No, fuck off.
Kelsie (:like a speakeasy... yeah.
Monica (:Yeah, yeah.
Kelsie (:They're all bathrooms. Yeah. Yeah.
Ashley (:They're stalls, like a stall.
Monica (:I just got such weird vibes. No, I got such weird
Kelsie (:I love it. It's so fun. Put some spice in your poop.
Ashley (:Spice?
Did you say spice?
Monica (:vibes. Like the further that like you went in, I was like, this is unsettling.
Nicole (:So did I. ⁓ God, you know what it made me feel
like? You know, the heavy you I feel like everybody has seen zombie land, right? So that feeling of like when he's in the bathroom stall and then the clown, that's what that made me think of. OK, that was the immediate vibes I got going like on the POV walking into the bathroom stalls like some motherfuckers going to jump out at him, somebody's going to jump out of it. And then that stupid animatronic that they have in the bathroom starts talking. Excuse me.
Kelsie (:you
Monica (:Yeah. Yeah! What the-
Ashley (:That's funny.
And it did.
Monica (:Okay, the comments,
the comments though, because someone was like, welcome to the camera in the bathroom, because how do you think that thing knew that you were there? And I was like,
Nicole (:It's like Five Nights at Freddy's. Yeah, no! Yes,
no, and that was my immediate thought because the eyes of the animatronic fucking elephant that's in there is like, it's like a screen. Like they blink and they're like a screen and it turned its head towards the toilet. Excuse me. We're gonna have to play it. Kelsey, shut up. We don't want logic.
Ashley (:That's what I thought too.
Monica (:Yeah.
and it like, turned towards the person.
Ashley (:And it looked at him.
Yeah.
Kelsie (:It's just motion sensors and computerized stuff. No, but listen, no,
Ashley (:Maybe. We don't know.
Monica (:You know what?
Ashley (:We don't know.
Kelsie (:you want to know what a truly creepy fucking bath, there was this place in Hawaii, ⁓ the Dixie Grill, it's delicious actually. But their bathroom, you would walk into the girl's bathroom and there's this mannequin, this male mannequin with his back, like, I don't know, yeah. Yeah, like.
Nicole (:Okay.
Hmm. Hmm-mm.
Monica (:Hate this already.
Nicole (:Girl no. Girl no. I don't like bathrooms
with anything in them except for the fucking toilet. Why do we need shit in the bathrooms? Fuck off.
Ashley (:Mm-hmm. Yeah, don't get carried away.
Kelsie (:think that may
I'm having trouble my my memories a little fuzzy I feel like maybe it it had a urinal in it and it you know but they transformed it into a girl's bathroom so they made that like a funny thing where they put the dude standing at that I can't quite remember but it is such a jump scare they walk in there yeah yes yeah that's creepy
Ashley (:What? ⁓
Monica (:Okay, that is kind of funny. ⁓
Nicole (:being at the urinal.
Okay, yeah.
Ashley (:No, a mannequin is a ju- no.
Nicole (:I'm a less traumatizing that.
Monica (:No, well.
Nicole (:OK, so I have a story about a creepy like doll in a bathroom, too. It did nothing. It's like, but why are we putting shit in bathrooms? I went OK. So my mother-in-law, her family is from this really small town in Minnesota. I kid you not, like one stop sign and nothing else. There's like three streets in the whole town. You have to go to the next town over to fucking. So we're in the next town over.
Monica (:Love it.
Nicole (:eating at this little tiny cafe breakfast thing where the entire town comes and has breakfast in the morning and they have prices right on the TV and they have all these little knickknacks right? I was pregnant with Lola and so I get up to go pee. I go into the bathroom. They have, I don't know if you guys have ever seen this, they have one of those little hidey eye dolls where they're they're turnt so it's just the back of the doll.
Monica (:Mm-hmm.
Ashley (:Mmm.
Nicole (:and you put them in the corner and this is how they're standing in the corner. They're standing with their hands over their face, over their eyes, and they're hiding in the corner. And so really it's like, why? Why is that in there? I fuck, no. It's just like, it's like a Raggedy Ann doll, but fucking, I have a picture of it somewhere, I'll have to dig for it. But I went, I don't think I've ever peed so fast in my life, because I was waiting for the fucking doll to like.
Monica (:⁓ yeah.
Ashley (:Is it a Halloween decoration? I don't understand.
That's disgusting.
Nicole (:or like something. I was like, I hate this. I hate this. I really, why are you in here?
Kelsie (:This is
a slight side quest, but still on. But I maybe told you before. Anyways, you know how I said my great grandma collected dolls? I think you somebody said that theirs did too. Her house was lined in dolls, animals. She actually had a whole shelf of the 90s trolls. That was my favorite thing. But she also had a lot of the life-size dolls that they stand three foot tall or whatever.
Nicole (:Yeah, we hate dolls. Yeah, Monica's. Yeah. No, no.
Ashley (:Mm-hmm.
Monica (:Yeah, that's how my nanice
was.
Ashley (:Ha.
Nicole (:⁓
see that's cool, I can get with the trolls.
Monica (:Yeah, so did my Nana, that's why we have
him.
huh.
Ashley (:Mm.
Kelsie (:So I guess like my cousins were staying the night there one time and one of them woke up to the doll like the doll was propped over him with a ⁓ pocket knife in its hand. And they exactly they all swear that none of them did it. I feel like one of them had to have done it. But anyways, one time I like this. I was a kid. I was a young kid when they told me this story. So I went to my my great grandma and I was like,
Nicole (:No. No.
Monica (:Mm-mm. Mm-mm.
Ashley (:What?
Monica (:Stop
it.
Nicole (:Who did that?
Kelsie (:⁓ My grandma Noreen, you know what mean? You'll get it you guys will you might get it by this by the time this comes out Okay, ⁓ Anyways, I asked I like knelt between her legs and I was like, is it true that like I can't remember Jake Jason somebody woke up with the doll and she's like what and they're like
Nicole (:No!
Monica (:You
Nicole (:By the time this comes out, by the time this comes out, you'll know, yeah.
Monica (:Yeah, we'll
get it.
Ashley (:yeah.
how weird.
Kelsie (:I'm like well. She doesn't know that happened in her house the doll evil doll with the knife No one told her that the doll woke up like Chucky style No apparently not
Ashley (:No one even said anything.
Nicole (:You didn't tell her!
Monica (:And she's living with a haunted doll?
Nicole (:Oh
god see I just... Figurines of any kind are scary.
Monica (:my gosh, that's hilarious, but also terrifying.
Ashley (:Well, we've
Monica (:Yeah.
Ashley (:never talked about the, what do they call them? The living dolls? Do you know I'm talking about? The ones that look like real babies? Like real, real? Yeah, yeah, what are they called? Reborn, yes. Yes.
Kelsie (:⁓ the babies that look real? The reborn ones?
Nicole (:Yeah. Yeah.
Monica (:I hate those.
Kelsie (:Reborn isn't that what they are?
Nicole (:Reborn babies. Yeah, I'm reborn dolls. I
Monica (:yeah.
Nicole (:get like I think the start of them happened I want to say to help people deal with like pregnancy loss and like, you know things like that like infant loss but like I I do fear people take those too far and Yeah, I do I do it scares me a little bit that mmm true that
Ashley (:loss.
Kelsie (:I think they're good for like dementia patients and stuff.
Ashley (:⁓ that's true. I could see that.
Monica (:Mmm.
They do. I've seen it. I've seen it on TV.
Ashley (:Yes, yes
they do. There's a fucking freak out there for everything, so.
Kelsie (:You're my best. See it on TV.
Monica (:Yeah, I don't remember. Yeah.
Nicole (:True that.
Kelsie (:Everything has a good thing, a
good like intention behind it and then every there everything has somebody that takes it too far so They do look so real
Ashley (:And then some psychos. Well, I've seen the psychos more.
Nicole (:Too far, a little too far.
Monica (:Yeah, I don't remember the show,
but there for sure was a lady who has, I think several of them and like goes into her, like that is her entire day in her life is taking care of these things.
Kelsie (:There's a whole side of TikTok with just reborn babies.
Ashley (:I'm sure there is. They're so expensive too. They are so expensive.
Nicole (:Yeah, these
things, yeah.
Kelsie (:You,
I got on TikTok, like a TikTok live, just it was constantly being fed to me for a while where it was people that were just sitting there taking care of a baby and it was like, that the whole thing was just a reborn doll. Yeah.
Nicole (:Reborn doll ⁓ know I
Ashley (:You can't even tell
Kelsie (:I think
they're very good for what they were like I could I can see there I can see the good intentions, but sometimes it is so when people are like
Nicole (:We're intended for to process. Yes.
Monica (:Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I could see
some really good uses for that and intentions, but yet everything, everything can be turned into something creepy. And like I
Kelsie (:Yeah
Nicole (:Have
you seen the ones that look like little monkeys? So they have those live like reborn dolls that are made of monkey. They look like they're actually little monkeys. They have the fur on them and everything and they literally look real. yeah, so if know, if a human baby is in your thing, you can get a little animal baby of some kind. Girl, I don't know. Girl, I don't know why. just, they need a little boo boo.
Ashley (:my god.
No. ⁓
Monica (:Interesting.
Ashley (:Why?
Wow. ⁓
Kelsie (:I can see that being a hit as well.
Monica (:You know... It's interesting because everybody's got a budget.
Everybody's got a budget and you decide where your money goes.
Nicole (:They need a Labubu and not the keychain.
Ashley (:People have
their priorities. Some peoples is a fake monkey. Yeah, they need a labooboo.
Nicole (:They may need a Labubu out of me.
Monica (:my gosh, no like anything like animatronic stuff though like creeps me out which going back to like the bathroom Like that's one of the reasons why I got creeped out It's such a rare movie, but there's this movie And he literally says I told you guys not everyone else but like Everybody listening like you need to go watch this movie because it is so bizarre and absurd and it's the worst best movie ever literally Nicholas
Nicole (:scares me.
Yes, you said that you told us about this. Yeah. Yeah.
I need you.
What's it called again? Willy
something?
Monica (:It's called
Willie's Wonderland and it's like Nicholas Cage literally says zero words and the way that he like creates a character with zero words. Like you know that an actor is at a point in their career where they're just like, I'm just doing this because it's fun. I don't really care. Like that's entirely what this is about. But like it takes place in this like Chuck E. Cheese kind of setting, but the animatronics kill you. ⁓
Nicole (:That's pretty cool.
Ashley (:Mm-hmm.
Nicole (:It's like Five Nights at Freddy's. Have you ever seen Five Nights at Freddy's?
Monica (:Yeah,
I think it's supposed to be kind of like a spinoff of that. I don't know. But we're like making fun of it or something. I don't know. But it is the most absurd movie. But that's what I saw in the bathroom.
Nicole (:Okay, okay, okay. Because, that's, as a 90s kid, that's
what I felt in the bathroom too. But as a 90s kid, actually legitimately, so my mom was a stay at home mom when I was younger, and that was our thing. We would go to Chuck E. Cheese like all the fucking time and just hang out. And it was to the point that like my local Chuck E. Cheese like,
the people knew me by my first name and I had, you know, and Chuckie would come out even if there was a birthday party going on, Chuckie would come out and if I was anywhere near it, because I knew all of them, that he would find me and drag me up with the birthday party people and make me dance and do all the things. Like we were just there all the time. Right? Chuckie Cheese. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I was like a OG Chuckie Cheeser. Okay. And I fucking loved that place. And now, ⁓ you know, it's kind of sad.
Kelsie (:Oh shit! Chuck E Cheese sponsor us Nicole's in a Chuck E in a fucking Chuck E Cheeser
Ashley (:Dude, Chuck E. Cheese VIP.
Nicole (:because if you've gone to one now, it's just arcade games and it sucks. but I mean, the animat- I liked the people, the person in the costume, the legit person in the costume didn't freak me out, but the fucking animatronics up on the stage, they were scary, always. I was like, why are these here? I don't like, these are scary. Five Nights at Freddy's. But I decided to watch that because I didn't, I didn't know what it was about. And I watched it and I was like, ⁓ this is every 90s kids, Chuck E. Cheese, Fever Dream, like.
Monica (:Yeah.
Ashley (:Mm-hmm.
Monica (:Mm-hmm.
Ashley (:They're so weird.
You
Monica (:Yeah.
Nicole (:We all,
this is all what we thought those animatronics were gonna do to us for sure. Terrifying, fucking terrifying. I don't like it either.
Monica (:I don't like them. I don't like them at all. Like
Ashley (:Truly.
Monica (:I can handle the ones at Disneyland. Those ones are magical everywhere else though. Nope. thank you.
Nicole (:Yeah, sort of, sort
of. can sometimes. Correct, correct. Yeah. AliExpress, fucking. Dude, some of the rides though, like, because we were just there, took, my mom and I took the girls there over the summer and ⁓ some of the rides, I just couldn't help myself but thinking like, what does this ride look like with all the lights on?
Ashley (:Well, they're done better at Disneyland than they are at Chuck E. Cheese. The Chuck E. Cheese ones are like fucking Alibaba fucking barely working shit. Yeah.
Monica (:You
Ashley (:yeah, you can't think about that. No.
Nicole (:Like what are all these things?
Yeah, and then I started to creep myself out because I was like, how could you work here with these things and these whole created sets and you're just standing in them? Like, I would spiral. I would not be, I'd be like, there's shit in there that's talking. Like how the fuck do you, you know what I mean? I don't know, I just freaked myself out. couldn't work there. If I was gonna work at Disney, I'd have to work in one of like the shops, because I could not.
Ashley (:Don't take away the magic.
Nicole (:manager ride, I think I would send myself into oblivion. I would need a lumbubu because...
Ashley (:my god. How many times can we say la boo boo in this episode? That's actually
the whole plot of this episode. How many times can we say la boo boo?
Nicole (:That's all I will.
Monica (:I did title it, Labubus and shit, so.
Nicole (:You did?
So anyway, what else do we have to talk about?
Ashley (:Can I
just say, I don't know if anyone else has noticed this, Monica's wearing this shirt with a circle on it and she's got her mic. Yeah, okay. But put your mic back. Yeah, it's Taylor Swift shirt, but the mic, okay, when you're centered and the mic is like down the center of the circle, it's really giving dick and balls. And I've been thinking that the whole time we've been recording.
Kelsie (:I think.
Nicole (:I can't see. ⁓ it's Taylor.
Monica (:It's not Taylor's. Yeah.
Nicole (:Ha ha ha!
Monica (:Ashley!
Nicole (:She moved her mic away so
Monica (:Okay, now I'm gonna reposition.
Ashley (:She's
Nicole (:fast!
Ashley (:totally sideways now. No, when you have it straight on like this and then like the circle is here, it's just really like it's giving testicles. ⁓ I just needed to say that. When you watch this, you'll see it earlier on when you haven't reoriented.
Nicole (:Like it was? Frank Sam beans!
Monica (:Which by the way,
mean, this is my shirt that makes me laugh and giggle. It says Taylor Swift, but that's not Taylor Swift.
Nicole (:Thank you. but it's
dog!
Ashley (:who is it?
Shut up.
Kelsie (:I was gonna say when you moved in a minute ago, I was like that's definitely not I don't know what that is, but that's not
Ashley (:⁓ my gosh.
Monica (:This is...
Nicole (:Well,
Ashley (:I would have never noticed. That's hilarious. Where did you get that shirt? That is so weird and random.
Nicole (:That's amazing. Can I have that? I need to get one of those.
Actually.
Monica (:First of all, I love Taylor Swift.
This was a gift from my husband for Christmas, because he just thought it was funny.
Ashley (:It is
funny. Good job, James. That is funny. One time.
Nicole (:It is really funny. Good job, James. You know,
I tend to like James's humor.
Monica (:It
comes out of nowhere, but it's always so good when it shows up.
Ashley (:Okay, listen, of the times we went on vacation with our friends, we all, and when I say we all, mean, Dakota bought shirts from Goodwill for us to wear, all the adults, like just random ass shirts. Mine says, I love Debbie's. And it was like, this is that shirts, those like, that's the energy. It just said, I love Debbie's. And people asked me, they're like, who's Debbie? And I'm like,
Nicole (:It's so odd and I love it.
Monica (:You
Kelsie (:Thank
Nicole (:like Lil
Debbie's like what?
Ashley (:I actually don't know. And I was alone when they asked me. So like the whole group weird shirt dynamic wasn't happening. So it was just me with the I heart Debbie's shirt. So it was kind of uncomfortable. Yeah.
Nicole (:Girl, I don't know.
Monica (:Debbie!
Nicole (:He
Monica (:I just I so badly want to know like the real story behind that of like why would somebody create a shirt that says I heart Debbie's?
Nicole (:Yeah, yeah, yeah, why was this?
Ashley (:It kind of
was. It did look like the text of Little Debbie's. Like that was what I assumed. I think it was a Little Debbie's thing, but it was like, it was weird. Yeah. But anyways, it-
Monica (:Okay, okay.
Nicole (:It's really funny.
Monica (:I are
Kelsie (:Maybe there
was like a friend group of debbies that all got together and then they they did a play on like debbies and
Monica (:Debbie's.
Ashley (:in all wore I love debbies. I hope there was. I hope
Nicole (:I heart Debbie's.
Ashley (:there was and that I wore one of their shirts. That's actually very cute. I am an honorary Debbie.
Monica (:Yeah.
Nicole (:Yeah, you became an honorary Debbie.
Monica (:I would
love it so much if TikTok did its thing and this circulated to somebody who was like, I had an I Heart Debbie shirt.
Ashley (:my god, could you
imagine?
Nicole (:He's not!
Kelsie (:Find the debbies for us we need to know
Ashley (:Where are the dubbies?
Nicole (:I'm get a Demi's!
That would be so funny. my goodness. Okay.
Ashley (:Okay, anyways, sorry for the side quest
Monica (:my gosh.
Ashley (:go back to Labubu.
Nicole (:yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's go all the way. Just slo-boo-boo it.
Ashley (:Let's la boo boo the whole episode and start over.
Monica (:okay, so In honor of Kelsey about to have a baby. I thought that we would have a a parenting theme for our ⁓ our little reddit segment So today we have lies that parents have told their kids So buckle up cuz Some of these are really funny. Yes, that is a good one
Nicole (:literally about to have a baby.
Ashley (:Yes.
Nicole (:⁓ okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. My favorite one is the park is closing. The park is closing for lunch. We
gotta go, we gotta go. Park's closing.
Monica (:That is a good one.
So here's the first one. So this one was, as their father, I told them that I could change their names whenever I wanted. One time I pretended to get on the phone with the Arizona name registry and renamed my kids Snarkle and Gorf because they kept... They were bawling and I could barely keep a straight face.
Ashley (:Mm-hmm.
Nicole (:No!
It's giving bluey.
Ashley (:Ha
Nicole (:It's giving
Ashley (:ha ha.
Nicole (:bandits when he changes their name to friggin' ⁓ gosh, it'll come to me. but that's literally a Bluey episode.
Monica (:Yeah. Yeah.
⁓ So this one was my parents used to tell me two lies. One that unless I behaved, they would toxify me.
This is terrible, by the way, this one. By putting me into a large washing machine that would turn my hair green forever, imagine then how creepy it was to see Jack Nicholson's Joker for the first time after that.
Ashley (:Hmm.
Hehehehehe
Nicole (:Hehehehehe
Monica (:And two,
they would send me to Madame Lapouf's ballet school for delinquent boys where they would teach me discipline through ballet. Also, my parents don't speak French, so this makes them even more hilarious.
Nicole (:It's just like it's not that it's not harmful. Yeah, it's not like it's harmful or anything You're just saying random shit at that point. I'm gonna send you to this ballet school if you don't shut the hell up ⁓
Kelsie (:That was some creative parenting.
Monica (:Right? This one though, this one
I feel for the kid because I hate flying sometimes too. Okay, so I was on a flight where a kid saw a button for calling a flight attendant, didn't know what it was, but clearly was thinking about pressing it. And so he asked his dad what it did. His dad said, it opens a trap door under your seat and drops you out of the bottom of the plane.
Ashley (:⁓ my god. No.
Monica (:Afterwards the kids spent the whole flight intrigued by the button thinking about it and talking about pushing it But was too worried to actually do it
Ashley (:⁓
my god.
Nicole (:That's funny because
I would have just had anxiety that somebody would accidentally push it the whole time. would not, I would have been like, oh fuck, nobody go near that button. And if I saw somebody else in another aisle push the button, cause I would be nosy and be looking, I'd be like, what are you doing? Yeah, no.
Monica (:Right?
Ashley (:Panic, yeah.
Mm-hmm. Screaming.
Monica (:Right.
right?
I know. Okay, this one's a little bit longer. But like, I think this might be one of my favorites. I was crying last night. Okay, so says, I forget how it started. But my husband boyfriend at the time was trying to convince his four year old brother that his feet were going to fall off. The lie got more and more elaborate, like explaining how he'd have to learn how to walk around on his ankles until his adult feet came in, etc. He was skeptical.
Ashley (:my God.
Nicole (:I just don't know.
You're losing
teeth.
Ashley (:losing teeth and feet.
Monica (:He was skeptical even when I agreed that it was true that everyone loses their baby feet before their adult feet grew in At the time their house was being upgraded from dial-up internet to DSL and the phone tech was wandering in and out He happened to come in towards the end and said yeah I remember when I lost my baby feet took a year for my new ones to come in Little brother's face fell
Ashley (:No.
my God.
Nicole (:See this, this is my favorite. I love,
I love when random people just join in and they agree with you. Like.
Monica (:I know! Little brother's face fell immediately because it must be true if the stranger was corroborating. He ran out of the room to tell his mom and he yelled, but I like my feet!
Nicole (:Yeah. Yes.
Ashley (:Ha
ha ha.
Nicole (:That is so freaking funny.
Kelsie (:These are all
very complex. The only lies I remember is like, you can't turn the light on in the car at night.
Monica (:I know.
Nicole (:Yes.
Monica (:⁓ yeah. Yes. Or like, yeah. Or
Ashley (:Yo, yes. my kids know that one. Yeah.
Nicole (:Which is a universal lie that every parent told their children.
Kelsie (:think
that they, I think that's a lie they were told too. I just don't think anybody knows where this came from.
Nicole (:Maybe. Could be.
Monica (:Right? You know what? That
is one where like it is so ingrained in my head where like there are still times where I'm driving, my kids will turn on the light and I'm like, stop, it's illegal. And I'm like,
Nicole (:I tell my kids that. I tell my kids that. Yeah, I tell my kids that.
Kelsie (:Yeah.
Ashley (:I tell my kids too. Yeah.
Nicole (:I definitely tell my kids that because it's annoying. I don't want that light. No, don't turn that on. Turn that shit off.
Monica (:It is annoying.
It is annoying, yes. Okay, so this one.
Nicole (:That's so funny.
Monica (:So this one is not exactly a lie, but when I was first learning swear words, my parents made the mistake of telling me those were words only mommy and daddies are allowed to say. So I was playing house with my sister and her friends and I was the dad. I promptly went on a swearing tirade as the dad got in big trouble.
Nicole (:hilarious.
my god, that's really actually funny. That's actually right. He's like, you said I'm supposed to be the dad. This you said, so I'm allowed to say these words.
Kelsie (:That's their own fault for saying it that way.
Monica (:I...
Right?
Kelsie (:You actually painted a very bad picture of parenthood for your children. Way to go. You're a lie, Backfired.
Monica (:Right?
Ashley (:It's logical.
Nicole (:Literally, yeah, don't say that. Don't
Ashley (:Tch.
Nicole (:say that.
Monica (:Right. All right, last one.
And all I'm going to say, I don't, mean, this is, this is a podcast where you, listen with your, your, your pods and anyways, but I'm just going to say this has to do with some Christmas. So parents just, you do what you want.
Nicole (:Warning. ⁓
Monica (:so this last one. Okay, so one year we had caribou slash reindeer steak for Christmas dinner, which by the way, that is a terrible choice no matter what. I'm just going to say that from the beginning. Like who chose that for the entree on any other day of the year? Okay, so they had caribou.
Nicole (:Reindeer stick? That is... a diabolical.
Kelsie (:This
isn't Thanksgiving, you don't get to eat the mascot.
Ashley (:I know that's what I was thinking, Thanksgiving
Nicole (:No, right, correct.
Ashley (:is kind of also...
Monica (:So just wait, just wait. So my older brother and I convinced our then eight year old nephew who still believed in Santa that we were eating Rudolph's steaks and Santa would have to strap a headlamp to one of the other reindeer so he wouldn't get lost. The kid believed us. I know it's so messed up.
Ashley (:my God.
⁓ no...
Nicole (:That's so fucked.
Monica (:The kid believed us enough to go look through the trash for Rudolph's nose when nobody was looking. He came back and told us we were stupid and it must be one of Santa's other reindeer because the nose would be in the trash. When Christmas presents were fewer than usual because it was a tough year financially, he told everyone that it was our own fault that Santa couldn't bring as many presents because we ate one of his reindeer.
Nicole (:Other red
Ashley (:You
⁓ my god,
that's so sad!
Monica (:We still have no idea if... I know. So we still have no idea if he was trolling us back or if he honestly thought this. Both were very possible.
Nicole (:This kid...cracked me up.
Ashley (:my God, that's terrible.
Nicole (:I
love how he went on a little mission like an investigative. He was like you you got to be lying to me about something
Kelsie (:Yeah.
Monica (:But it's like, what was he gonna
Kelsie (:That is absolutely
Ashley (:Show
Kelsie (:something my grandpa would have said.
Ashley (:me the nose. Show me the receipts.
Monica (:do? Like, whoa, but like, whoa. What was the plan here? Like, you go to the trash and you find Rudolph's nose, then what?
Nicole (:Yeah.
Then what? Then you scream,
Ashley (:Then
you know.
Nicole (:I guess. I don't know. Then you know, but holy crap, that's so funny. Yeah.
Ashley (:That's terrible.
Kelsie (:Now my grandpa would have fully leaned into that bit. He would have made a nose
probably.
Monica (:my gosh.
Nicole (:That is so
funny. I love that.
Monica (:Honestly,
I mean, I know that one was an apparent lie, but it's pretty diabolical.
Ashley (:Truly diabolical. Yeah.
Nicole (:That's a pretty bad one.
Monica (:Like, but
even still, like, as the parent, why would you eat reindeer on Christmas?
Kelsie (:Such
Nicole (:Yeah, I
don't
Ashley (:Questionable
decisions all around, really.
Kelsie (:a poor fucking choice, yeah.
Nicole (:Yeah.
And also, why would you tell them that? Tell them it's something else. Tell them it's chicken.
Ashley (:Well, also, if it was a carabou,
Kelsie (:I mean, yeah.
Ashley (:you said it was really carabou, right? Was a carabou and a reindeer the same thing? No. ⁓
Monica (:caribou reindeer yeah
Nicole (:Yeah, yeah. Tell them it's fucking chicken. No, caribou is a caribou and a reindeer is
Monica (:I think so. No?
Kelsie (:I don't think so.
Nicole (:a reindeer.
Monica (:I don't
Kelsie (:No. It's like, it's like mean girl, so she's like, no, that's not right.
Monica (:know. I don't know enough about them. Don't ask me. I know elk, okay? That's what I know. know elk and deer. I don't know anything beyond elk and deer is like outside of my wheelhouse, okay?
Ashley (:So, whoa, there's a lot to unpack here.
Kelsie (:There's a hundred percent chance that you're wrong.
Ashley (:I know house pets.
Monica (:Probably. I don't know. I'm just reading. It says caribou slash reindeer. We're going with the story.
Ashley (:Yeah, it's a caribou.
Nicole (:Okay,
well. But still, why would you tell them that? Why would you tell them that? Tell them it's cow. Tell them it's... You could have also just said it was pork. Yeah, you just don't... Why do you tell your kids shit? Stop.
Ashley (:Okay, we have done. Yeah.
Kelsie (:Either way, they didn't need to know where the meat came from,
Monica (:Hello.
Ashley (:You didn't need to say reindeer.
Monica (:No.
Ashley (:You could have just said caribou.
You could have ate a different fucking meal. That's what you could have did. God damn it.
Monica (:Right?
Right.
Ashley (:Don't talk to him.
Nicole (:Yeah, just don't tell him anything.
Kelsie (:a steak they didn't need to know what from.
Nicole (:Exactly,
they don't need to know what kind of steak.
Monica (:Also,
and the parents, I mean, well, either way, still eat something different, but the parents probably had like no clue this is going on. Just a kid, a poor eight-year-old freaking out the entire dinner.
Nicole (:Probably not.
you
Kelsie (:Maybe
so, but they had to have like... In what world are you like, let's have fucking reindeer for Christmas.
Ashley (:Picked it up. When the kid was digging through the trash for a nose.
Nicole (:picked it up at some point.
Ashley (:You know, there's a lot of stupid people out
Nicole (:Caribou.
Ashley (:there. So.
Kelsie (:Yeah, honestly,
that's probably more common than we...
Ashley (:Our listeners
Monica (:Probably.
Ashley (:are gonna
be like, we eat reindeer every Christmas. No, I've never heard of anyone doing that. Caribou or reindeer. Can you even eat a reindeer? That seems not legal to me. That's like...
Kelsie (:Bye.
Monica (:I don't know.
Nicole (:You know what? I don't know, because I
may be depending on where they live and where you live. Like, obviously, like, we eat deer. My kids just see deer and they're like, ⁓ reindeer. They just associate it being the same thing. It's It's illegal. Okay, anyway.
Kelsie (:Yeah. It just feels illegal. Is this illegal? This feels illegal. ⁓
Monica (:Yeah.
Absolutely.
Ashley (:You
Monica (:wait, Google, reindeer, also known as caribou. Suck it!
Ashley (:No,
Nicole (:really? Hey
hey hey hey. Nice. I thought they were different. I really truly thought they were different.
Ashley (:no, I don't believe it. ⁓ No, I'm still not convinced.
Kelsie (:Yeah.
Nicole (:Maybe they are the same and maybe it just depends on where you live, whether you call it a rainboo or what. Rainboo!
Ashley (:A Rebubu. ⁓
Monica (:Wub wub wub.
Kelsie (:They
Nicole (:Bye!
Kelsie (:are the same species, same species, and can interbreed. However, the term reindeer is typically used in Europe for all the animals, while in North America reindeer refers to domesticated caribou, and caribou refers to wild ones. This is-
Nicole (:It's a caribou!
Ashley (:Ew.
Nicole (:Okay,
so they're the same thing, just different names. That's what I was trying to say before I call it a rainboo, is maybe it depends on where you live, like what region you're in, and what you call it.
Monica (:Okay, see.
Yeah.
Kelsie (:There are
Monica (:Yeah.
Nicole (:That's crazy.
Ashley (:My mind is
Nicole (:upside down.
Ashley (:I'm feeling truly perplexed
right now. Because also listen, one time I went to the San Diego Zoo, it was for my wedding. We went there with a bunch of the wedding party. We went to the zoo, there was reindeer. Me and my maid of honor were like, my God, I didn't know reindeer were real. And then that has been in my head for a long time.
Kelsie (:Everything I know is a lie.
Nicole (:I was just gonna ask.
Ashley (:I remember when I didn't know reindeer were real and then reindeer were real and now caribou are reindeer like it just you know you what is life I'm I don't even know how I can go about the rest of my day honestly I'm I'm done fucking laboo boo and let's go this is too much for me
Nicole (:Okay.
Reindeer are caribou, not caribou are reindeer, reindeer are caribou.
Kelsie (:I need a Labubu from this. You really surely chose the correct theme, Monica, because...
Monica (:We're in shit!
Nicole (:amazing this is amazing ⁓ my god that is so fucking funny it really is I was gonna ask you like when did you guys find out that reindeer were actually real because a lot of people are just like
Ashley (:Wow.
Kelsie (:I'm unwell from this.
Monica (:My gosh, that's hilarious Wow, this is the story that just keeps on giving
I mean, I was definitely an
adult. Yeah.
Nicole (:Yeah, I was an adult too,
Kelsie (:I don't know.
Nicole (:but a lot of people just truly assume that like reindeer are not real because you know, you have, they have to fly to be reindeer apparently, but honestly, I guess the qualifications are just be a domesticated caribou, but yeah.
Monica (:Yeah.
Yeah.
I I thought that they
were, it was like the name for them in the same way that like we talk about like unicorns and stuff. Like it's in like the stories. And so I thought that reindeer were like exclusive to Santa growing up. And then never occurred to me until like way later that, ⁓ actually. But it was something similar as you Ashley. was like seeing them in person or like seeing them in a movie. And then it was like, hold up. That's a real animal right there.
Ashley (:Mm-hmm.
Nicole (:Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
they would be a real animal. Yeah.
Ashley (:Yes, yeah.
Nicole (:Yeah. my goodness.
Ashley (:Good, I'm glad other people had that experience. I felt like a dumbass when that happened to me at the zoo. Now I feel like a dumbass all over again,
Monica (:Let's hear a life update from Ashley because we haven't seen you. So what's your, what's your WTF this week?
Ashley (:a segment. okay, okay.
Okay, my
WTFs for the week or for the break, I guess. I don't know when these things happened. ⁓ My W is I got a promotion. Woo woo. Yay for me. ⁓ My T, I was at the beach last weekend. I burned the fucking shit out of my lips. Looked like I had filler. I couldn't because I was so panicked that it was going to be like lifelong damage.
Nicole (:And can we miss you?
Monica (:Woo woo!
Nicole (:I wish you would take a picture.
Monica (:I know.
forever in that way.
Ashley (:Yeah, they're better now, but it was not fun. It hurt really bad. I thought I was putting on SPF chapstick. It was not SPF. I was mistaken.
Nicole (:you
Ruh.
Monica (:I wonder if it was like the equivalent of like putting on tanning oil and so you're just like putting on tanning oil onto your lips. ⁓
Ashley (:I think it was, yeah, mm-hmm, yep, mm-hmm, yes,
Nicole (:N-
Ashley (:yes, affirmative. It was bad, it was really bad.
Kelsie (:Yeah, it was like tanning. Yeah. Mm-hmm.
Nicole (:I've never
had a sunburn on my lips before.
Monica (:Burned no, burned
Ashley (:it's not fun. Don't I don't zero out
Monica (:lips are HORRIBLE, I feel for you.
Ashley (:of 10 do not recommend on that same trip. OK, we went to the beach over the weekend and then I went up to a different part of California to work for a couple of days. And my kids and my husband were with me and I was leaving them at the hotel to go work. And I'm dressed for work. They're getting ready to go to the pool. We've been in California for like four or five days at this point. And I'm halfway across the lobby and.
Griffin, my five year old is like, mom, mom. And I'm like, what? And he's like, is Monica with you? And I'm like, I'm standing in the lobby alone. First of all, we've been in California for five days. Monica has not been with me. Monica has not been there one time. And I'm just like so confused by the question, but I'm like, obviously no, she's not. But.
Nicole (:He hasn't seen Monica the entire time. ⁓
Monica (:I'm gonna show up.
Nicole (:He must think
you guys work together.
Ashley (:He I think he does.
Monica (:Yeah.
Ashley (:think
he thinks we work together because maybe when I do the podcast, I say I'm working or something. I don't know. But that was pretty funny for me. Yeah.
Nicole (:Yeah.
Monica (:Yeah.
Nicole (:That is so cute. That's
Monica (:I love that. I
Nicole (:a cute little
Monica (:love it.
Nicole (:ending to your WTF. love that. Kids are cute.
Ashley (:Truly. What about you guys?
Monica (:Yes.
Ashley (:What's going on? Who's next? WTF.
Monica (:Yeah, Nicole. Nicole, how about you?
Nicole (:⁓
my W. Okay. My win is, okay, so Justin has a new job. He's gone pretty much all the time. ⁓ like actually traveling gone, physically gone. And his job kind of led him back to the city that's like right next to us. And he wasn't going to drive all the way home because it's still like a 45 minute drive from his like work office.
So the company paid for them to stay in a hotel So my win was that my husband booty called me. He literally was like I'm gonna get at the hotel at nine o'clock Are you guys gonna come stay the night? I was like, yes, I'm gonna come stay at the night So I willingly my husband booty called me and that was my win, but it was nice cuz like we haven't got to see him I literally have not seen him Since before I left for Arizona, which was in July like the beginning of July
Monica (:Wait,
that was the first time you saw him?
Nicole (:we got to see each other for like five minutes. The, like a couple of days before this, cause they had to stop in at the office and like load up a trailer. So I'm went over there, saw him for literally five minutes and then I had to go do food shopping and he had to go back to work. ⁓ so that was like, we, I have not seen him since June 30th, actually. So that was nice that we actually got to like spend a night together and you know, the
Monica (:Yeah.
my goodness, Nicole.
Nicole (:The hotel had like a pullout couch so the kids were laying on the couch and it was like nice to just have our whole little family together. So that was a good little win. Yeah, I was like my own husband booty called me and I think it's funny. So that's my win and probably also my funny as hell. My trigger. What's my T? I don't remember what my T was. ⁓ I'm in a reading slump. Like nobody's business. And that's a big deal for me. You guys know that
traveling actually kinda, well, traveling also fucked me up with like actually reading too, because I didn't really have a lot of time to read. The only thing I could really do, and it was in pieces, was listen to like audiobooks. Like I listened to Severed Heart on the way there and kind of finished it up when I was out there and it was really, really good. And then I listened to Haunting Adeline on the way back.
Monica (:You burned yourself out.
Well, my win, it's a homeschool win this week because we are going into our third year of homeschooling, but like for the last few years, I've been looking for something for my oldest who just loves anything STEM related and like computers and like I've wanted them to learn coding and robotics and all those things. Like he loves it. And we finally found
a program that isn't just like an after school like here's a fun project that we're doing today, which I think is great. There's a place for that, but I wanted him to have a curriculum of it. So we finally found that and I'm like so excited and the way this child was giddy after he like walked out of the first class was, or it wasn't even like the first class. It was just like the intro and it was just adorable. And then the
Nicole (:Mm.
Mm-hmm.
Ashley (:How cute.
Kelsie (:Mm-hmm.
Nicole (:That's so cute.
Monica (:like they had like their little 30 minute class like building like a robot arm that like opened and closed while we did like the parent stuff. And afterwards the teacher was like, he picked it up so fast and was the first one to finish like he's gonna do amazing. And I'm like, yes, like finally we found the thing that my child is going to excel at and not struggle. So excited.
Nicole (:Mm-mm.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Ashley (:That's great.
Nicole (:And that he's going to be excited to do too. Like, this is going to be fun for him. That's good.
Kelsie (:Mm-hmm.
Monica (:Yeah. Yeah. So
because like we've tried to do a bunch of different stuff and like, he's just smaller and like, he likes sports, but like not really like he's not as competitive and like he's just so much smaller than his peers. And so anytime we put him in sports, he's like a good foot shorter than the rest of the kids. And he's like, this just isn't fun for me. And I'm like, that's fair. I get it. So that that's a huge win. My triggered
Ashley (:Mm-hmm.
Nicole (:It's like, this is not it, mom. Yeah, that's cute.
Monica (:Okay, so this happened last night. So I already had something about like creepy AI shit because just my algorithm is messed up right now and weird stuff, okay? But then last night my husband was watching South Park and like one of the newer episodes came out and like they're totally playing off stuff with Trump right now. Like it's such a bad episode. It is so bad, okay?
Nicole (:I haven't watched-
Ashley (:They're all bad.
Nicole (:I
haven't watched South Park in so long.
Monica (:I know. It's
So they're basically going off of how like, all these shows are getting canceled. And so South Park is like, we can't say anything or we're gonna get canceled. It's a pretty funny episode. But there's so they basically what happens is like Trump is supposed to like sue the town of South Park. And then like, the like the deal that they make is that they have to do like ads for him.
Nicole (:Mm-hmm.
You
Ashley (:Mm-hmm
Nicole (:So random.
Monica (:You guys,
AI is... Because they definitely had to use AI for this scene.
Nicole (:Yes,
yeah.
Monica (:The entire episode, they're making fun of him, like saying that he has a small... They actually showed it in this like ad, crawling naked in the desert. like, I'm like on my computer, like prepping for today's episode and I'm like doing stuff and I look up and I was like...
Nicole (:huh.
⁓ no.
Ashley (:my god.
Monica (:My husband's like
dying laughing at me and I'm like, it's like a worm, it's so long.
Nicole (:my God.
What the hell?
Monica (:Like this is horrible!
Ashley (:There is no limits on South Park.
Nicole (:No, there really is no limits on South Park. Yeah, they push. ⁓
Monica (:No, well, and that's the thing is like they've pushed it right but like this one was
like
Okay, so this is now like burnt.
Nicole (:That's
Kelsie (:I love how they're like we
don't want it. We don't want to get canceled. Let's give Donald Trump a tiny little worm
Nicole (:But yet, here we go.
Ashley (:Let's see if
we can get cancelled.
Monica (:I mean, that's literally what they're trying to do. It's like they're pushing that button. But like now it's like burned into my retina of...
Kelsie (:Yeah.
Nicole (:So funny.
Ashley (:⁓
god.
Nicole (:Every time you close your eyes, you see the little teeny weeny. ⁓
Kelsie (:You see Donald
Trump's tiny wiener.
Nicole (:little Cheeto puff.
Monica (:So thank you South Park and AI. Screw you guys.
Nicole (:For real.
Monica (:So yes, well, that's
my trigger. I am still very bothered by it, apparently. ⁓ And then my funny is we had a back to school party this week and ⁓ it was a pool party and they had a slip inside. And let me just say, kids try to figure out a slip inside, slip and slide. It's really funny. Like they're not graceful about it, especially my son who's not the athletic one.
Nicole (:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Mm-hmm. True dat. No.
Ashley (:Ha ha
ha ha.
Monica (:and just like, we have a video of him and he's just like running. First of all, he ran down half of the slip and slide. it like none of the kids got that. And then they had like the little raft things, which like did nothing for him. And he just like body slammed the ground.
Ashley (:Yep.
Nicole (:before
he realized like... No.
⁓ god. ⁓ no. It's like a belly flop. Like you can see it hurts. I mean whatever I guess. ⁓
Monica (:They had a blast though. He said it was great. But like we're
just sitting there in the pool just dying laughing. So kids trying to figure out a slip and slide is pretty entertaining. ⁓
Nicole (:watching them.
I love that.
Monica (:Yes.
Kelsie (:slip and slides are wild.
Monica (:All right, Kels
what's your WTF?
Kelsie (:My win is that I had a lot of successful nesting this week. I got a lot done, a lot. I like washed all the covers on my couches. I vacuumed under the cushions. I vacuumed under the couch. I mopped under the couch. I did a lot. I got baby shit out that probably should have been taken out like a month ago and it's out now.
Nicole (:Mm-hmm.
Monica (:You know what, your third you're like, we'll get to it. It's fine.
Nicole (:Yep.
Kelsie (:Yeah.
Nicole (:Yeah, it'll
get there. You also got, you you got baby a new car seat too. That's nice. You did get a lot. No, you didn't, but you, got a lot done. Like you really did. You got a lot done for baby girl. Yeah, I to give me one.
Ashley (:We'll pull it out as we need it.
Kelsie (:I didn't have much of a choice on that.
Monica (:Mm-hmm. Yeah, you're done.
Kelsie (:Yeah, the car seat had mold on it. So we got a new car seat, ⁓
Ashley (:Mm-hmm.
Kelsie (:which is fine. Cause this is like, this car seat looks so much comfier than the other car seat. It's like so cushiony. Yeah. And it's pink. It's pink. ⁓ So that's a win. also another side when that's not written down is that we got Mattis into, we founded the ABA closer to home, which is we've been trying to do for so long.
Monica (:So cute.
Nicole (:Yeah, it does. Yeah. And it's pink. Yep.
Monica (:It looks so comfy. I'm like, I'll take a nap in that. Can you make an adult size one?
Yay! That is a huge win.
Nicole (:Yeah, yeah, that's great.
Yeah.
Kelsie (:Um, my, Oh, Oh, and fruit riot sent me a package. think we already talked about this a little bit, so I don't have to go into detail about it, but like I was on my story and I'm like talking about fruit line. I'm like, if you want to send me a PR package. And they were like, well, we actually are really low on PR, but we do have some stuff for expecting mothers. And I was like, okay. So anyways, it was like a full on like sleeper. Yeah.
Nicole (:Yeah, we love it.
Monica (:Yes.
Nicole (:Sign me up!
Monica (:I love it. It's
Nicole (:Yeah, it's very cute.
Monica (:so cute.
Nicole (:If you haven't seen it, we'll post it again, but it is so cute. Actually, by the time this episode comes out, we can post Baby Girl in it, probably. You're literally having a baby in like five days.
Kelsie (:Yeah, it was very cute.
Yes. Probably, yes! ⁓ that's crazy. ⁓ but anyways...
Monica (:Yeah.
Ashley (:Whoa.
Monica (:Wednesday.
Kelsie (:Everyone
should go buy a bag of mango fruit right because it's delicious ⁓ It's so good, it's so good ⁓ My trigger is that we got an email Friday was it Friday or about that My son that goes to ABA their clinic somebody the day before had lice
Nicole (:I've been looking, I've been looking.
Ashley (:I'm gonna have to look too.
Monica (:Yeah.
Nicole (:⁓
Ashley (:Eugh.
Kelsie (:And ⁓ it happens, lice happens, but I just can't- I'm having a baby, like this week. I can't have- we can't have lice. I just washed every- did you hear me say I just washed everything in my house? Bedding, couches, everything just got washed. We can't redo that. I don't have to- I will need a labubu.
Monica (:That is the worst.
Nicole (:No, ⁓
Ashley (:Mm-mm.
No. No, no, no, no, no.
Nicole (:No. No.
Monica (:No.
Nicole (:When does
Kelsie (:⁓ so anyway, so far so good. I've been checking his hair every day and I've been like combing through it when I wash it. Just ⁓ so far so good, but just freaked me out to be happening at this moment in time. And my F is funny. ⁓
Monica (:Yeah, yeah.
Ashley (:Yeah.
Nicole (:Right,
not ideal.
Kelsie (:gave Monica a new nickname by accident.
Nicole (:⁓ Yes, Monica gets a lot of nicknames. I don't know how this keeps happening, but she gets a lot of things. Not mine. I gave her a legitimate the nickname I gave her was not a typo because I started calling her the PPL baddie and that is what she's called in my brain. But that was intentional. Monica was accidental.
Ashley (:Hahaha
Kelsie (:I was... She really does. All my typos! It's typos every time.
Monica (:I do. You know what? It's not a new thing. Like, this happens.
Kelsie (:yes ⁓ that's minneca though she she got she got
to nickname minneca somehow because of a typo but mine was i was typing and i typed monica and it autocorrected to mini eggs mini like mini like mini mini eggs mini eggs
Nicole (:Mini eggs. She's mini eggs now and we ran with
it. We have ran with it the entire week in the group chat.
Ashley (:Because it's great! ⁓
Monica (:That's my favorite part of it. It
Kelsie (:We haven't
Monica (:happened
Kelsie (:called.
Monica (:and we were all just like, ⁓ that's so funny. And then days later, you guys are, hey, mini eggs. And I'm like, this really picked up fast.
Nicole (:Mini eggs.
Ashley (:or the...
Kelsie (:We haven't called her Monica
Nicole (:Hehehehehe
Ashley (:you
Kelsie (:since the typo. It's mini eggs. Yeah. It's usually Monica. Now it's yeah, mini eggs.
Ashley (:You haven't been Monica in a long- Actually, it's weird to call you Monica.
Monica (:I know it is.
Nicole (:Yeah, it's either Minnika or Mini Eggs. Yeah, yeah.
Ashley (:That's great. Well, we did a really good job of keeping this episode short, guys. Excellent work to all of us.
Kelsie (:Pfft!
Nicole (:You know what?
Monica (:Well, you
Ashley (:think so. You're making excuses up. She's going to be she's going to cut like 10 minutes out of this bitch.
Nicole (:know, we were just excited. You know what? You know what? Stop. You know what?
Kelsie (:Ashley's like, I was promised shorter episodes. It lot shorter.
Nicole (:We were just excited you
Ashley (:You told me if I came in today, I
Monica (:Right.
Ashley (:would have a 30 minute episode. We are at an hour and 30 minutes.
Nicole (:We said 30, we didn't say how many 30s, okay?
Ashley (:Three
God damn!
Nicole (:No, we're just excited you're with us. You're just excited you're with us. Also, it's my fault. I am solo parenting, okay? I've been having to stop. not that you guys will, not that it's gonna affect you guys at all and that listening in, because I'm gonna edit all of it out, but we've stopped several times recording this episode. It is what it is.
Monica (:Good balls.
Ashley (:you
Well, well,
Nicole (:is what it is. That being said, please like, share, subscribe, make our mediocre podcast not mediocre. Let us retire Ashley. Let us blow up so that I can afford a nanny so that I don't have to stop my recording
Ashley (:follow us. Yes.
Monica (:Yeah.
Right.
Ashley (:this
Kelsie (:It's literally clicking a button or...
Nicole (:Blow us up is literally just come on. We're tired of being mediocre anyway. Okay, anyway, like, share, subscribe, especially on YouTube. Go enter our giveaway. Woo woo, bitch in a box. Okay, we love you guys. Do all the things. I can't help it, sorry.
Monica (:Yes, so share the podcast when you listen and don't forget to go enter the giveaway.
Ashley (:Woo woo!
Okay, well.
Kelsie (:you
Nicole (:Alright, that's it. That's it. That's the end. Okay Finn
Kelsie (:That's it. That's the end. Mic drop.
Ashley (:That's the end, goodbye.
Monica (:All right, we'll see you guys next time. Bye!
Kelsie (:Bye.
Ashley (:Love you, bye!
Nicole (:Love you, bye.
