This episode is brought to you in part by G SoCo, where yoga meets street wear, high vibe retail therapy that inspires, empowers and loves feel you shop online at www.gsoulco.com. Hey, I'm Gretchen. And I'm Missy. We are two moms that on some days might be fit for straight jackets. We find past trauma fascinating, heartbreaking, and hilarious, all at the same time.

We share our 2 cents about mental health, sobriety, pop culture, fashion, and everything in between. To add to the randomness, we produce a high vibe clothing line together. Welcome to the Nut Farm folks. Enjoy the ride. The Ride Farmers only.com. Yeah, that was the, is that it? That was the end of it, more or less.

Do we like hat backwards? I don't really care. Let's roll. I can't fuss. Can't fuss with anything else. This has been quite the, uh, organizational piece of getting everything back together. 'cause we, not sure if you can tell here, but we got new arms.

Yep, we do. These ones go straight on you out. They don't bend up and block our faces.

Yeah, I like 'em or make me feel claustrophobic. I honestly just feel like they're a little bit more professional. You know? This is our season. Finale finale. Can you believe it? No. 25 EPIs yeps Yeps. And we're not talking EpiPens people. We're not talking Epstein files. Get your mind straight. God damn guys.

Give it a rest. We'll never see them. What if I played a part and I'm like, I'm going to become an undercover Epstein human. Ooh, and I infiltrate. I could definitely see you being undercover. She would totally, they would be like, we can totally manipulate her because she's so nice and they don't know the underbelly of who I really am.

Right. Correct. A hardened criminal. Mm-hmm. They don't know. I pack a switchblade in my yoga pants. Yep. And I'll pull it out anytime I need it. Low key, like I would really tote a, a switchblade.

Yeah. I would too. We should start a company where we sell like, uh, cute kind of. Glam weapons. What'd he say? You wanna get the arms race or what?

Right. You wanna get in that shit. That sounds so much like us. Let's go. I don't think I do guns. Oh, no, no. I'm talking more like piercing. Weapons. Oh, gotcha. Okay. Switch blades. Like standard blades, perhaps a nunchuck or two. Mm-hmm. Can you see like a disco nunchuck? Oh yeah. Do you know what I really, really want to get savvy with?

What's that? Chinese stars Ninja stars. Ninja Stars a hundred percent. Like you just slice somebody open by throwing a star at them. Like your, yeah. Like your Mario. Yes. Be sick. Could do some really nice ones, like some really high class ones, right? Like do diamond, or excuse me, like a, like a diamond encrusted perhaps.

Maybe some like engraving happening. Catch Carlton or like he's talking to all these times, know he is just making deals. That's what he's doing. He's making deals. He's a mover. He is a shaker. He is a fashionable man. He is good looking fellow. This person. Have we spoke about Carlton to the farmers yet? I don't think so.

I don't think so. He is a, a fellow who works in a financial office of some sort mm-hmm. Nearby. And every day he takes a stroll around the complex rain or shine. Mm-hmm. 1,000,020 degrees cool day. Doesn't matter. He's walking and, you know, he walks far, he walks down by like core fitness and back. Oh, stop.

Mm-hmm. And he is on the phone. He's very well dressed. Mm-hmm. He's a, he's a. He's a sharp dresser. Yeah. There you go. Thank you. I was like, did I just have seizure or stroke? I could not think of the word. He's what? He's, what they would refer to in the old days as, um, a dandy, oh, you know, like really sharp, put together.

Nowadays. That sounds like a pansy. It's totally different. Yeah. But it's a good thing. Yeah. Dany iss a good thing. Well, I think it's a compliment. Mm-hmm. I would take it as a compliment. Yeah, I dig that. I dig that. But I was thinking also like having, how cool would every single disco ball decoration that we have be a diamond at class?

Oh, this place would be worth a fortune even more than it already is. Yep. Mm-hmm. I like that. Or at least like, uh, what are they called? Not gva, the crystals. Swarovski. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Swarovski. They shine. They shine. Really nice. Do you know that? I think I bought Swarovski's to decorate my phone after Paris.

Did. Is that, was that a real, oh, it didn't. Was that a real thing? Like a real Swarovski? Yeah. Oh, okay. So that's, they're expensive. I took mine to a person to do stop.

There was a cart in the mall. Stop. I drop it off with them now. It seems insane. I'm just leaving my device with all of this information on it.

Right. You, you won't look right. Like, what idiot. But you know what? My shit was blinged. We did it ghetto style, like get the glue, get the dems, and it looked it, yeah, I could, I mean, I can cracking up thinking about Kelly's.

Mm-hmm. Because hers was ghetto. What colors did she select? I think probably pinks.

She's always been kind of a pink, pink human. What was yours? I don't know. I think I may have quit before I even started rats. I know, because if it started to look ghetto, I'm like, I'm not, I can't do this.

Yeah. I can't be seen with this. Well, if you, if you got crazy with the glue, that would just, right. You know, like you could see the little smear bit onto the side.

Mm-hmm. Or even worse, God forbid, you got some of the glue on top of the crystal. Totally. And it's like day ruiner. Yeah. Day. You remember how many hours I spent, um, be drilling Peyton's Taylor Swift costume last Yes. Probably had her reputation jumpsuit. And I was like, I'm just gonna add some, I'll add a couple.

Your bitch was head down on the Taylor Swift suit for like 30 hours. Oh my gosh. Something's wrong with me. It plays into one of our topics today. What? Hyper fixation. Oh yeah, I'm familiar. I just wanted to put this Red Bull here for our, um, futuristic sponsors. And I'd like to put my wetzels pretzels drink here for our futuristic sponsors.

Yes. Did we stop at wetzels pretzels? Yes, we did. Yes, we did. It was delicious. I didn't get that bad of a belly ache. No. 'cause we stopped ourselves, uh, while we got the bag. O. We were on. Let's back up. Let's back up. Okay. Reverse sometimes, you know, you just really need to take a minute and treat yourself to a little bit of retail therapy.

Mm-hmm. And so Gretchen and I put everything on pause this morning. Can we even rewind as a teens even more? Yes. Missy planted a seed. Oops. In this hyper fixation brain. Mm-hmm. And the seed was planted almost in the exact moment that I said I need a computer bag. Yep. Because I haul my computer everywhere I go in my arms loose.

You guys loose. Loose. It's risky. Yeah, it's risky. Freaking business along with my phone and my planner and my water bottle, and my red bulls and purse and da da da. So it's basically a tray.

It's basically an accident waiting to happen. A hundred percent. And if that computer goes down, knock on wood mm-hmm.... It's, it probably wouldn't be that big a deal, but it, um, I needed a computer bag. Yep. Then Missy came in and planted the seed. She sent me this little text message. Hmm. Well, I was having a little retail therapy with my mom, Jacko. We were having a grand old time, and we went to Coochie as one does. Mm-hmm.

And I wanted to check out this one bag that I've been fancying and I, you know, wanted to see it in person. Sometimes you, they send you an email and you're like, oh, this is cute. But you really need to get your mitts on it to kind of just feel it, feel it out, put it on. Test it out. Yep. Is it feeling, is it flowing?

Yep. You know what I mean? Mm-hmm. So I go. I'm feeling the flow with my version of the bag, and Annie, my associate, who now I have the c phone number. I, I thought you already named the bag. No, no. I wouldn't take that pleasure away from you. So then I, I'm feeling I'm liking it. I know I'm not gonna get it today.

It wasn't the day. Mm-hmm. And so she's like, oh, by the way. We have another colorway that just came in that we weren't sure we were going to get, and we only have two, you know, and you have me at exclusivity. I wanted, I don't care if it's like a Bejo dog turd, I'm interested, well, lab boobs for sure. So I was like, she go, should go grab it, bring it on out.

She runs it out and like, you know, unveils this magnificent bag and it just happens to be. In Gretchen's colors. Like she has her colors, I have my colors, we know this. And so I'm seeing it there and I'm going, I can't let this opportunity slip by for her, so I really need to get the ball rolling on this.

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Of course. God, Steve, I'm really sorry. I'm really sorry, Steve, but I just can't not let my friend have things. I know she's gonna love, like I agreed. I, I, I can't. Yeah. So I'm like, oh. Can you send me a picture of that please? She's like, sure. So this is how I get poor Annie's phone, phone number.

And then I send it to Gretchen and I'm like, look, they have this, you should act now, you know, before somebody buys it. And she's like, okay, da. I dunno. Oh that's great. You know, thinking, uh, do I really wanna spend, I don't know. I dunno if I'm in the market. Mm-hmm. You know.

So then Gretchen's getting more serious about it. She asks me, well, do you have the girl's number? So now I know she's taking it for real. And so I text the girl. Poor thing. She's like, it's my day off, but am I deterred? No, I'm not. No I'm not. I'm like, I keep asking her all this stuff. She was the greatest. By the way, Annie at Gucci at Fashion Square is. We probably should have given Annie's name instead of Mikayla's or whatever.

Yeah. Well, it turns out Steve has a person as well that I didn't know about. This is really funny too. So I go home after all of this talk and all the Missy text messaging, the person, and it clicked into my head, do you have a direct line of communication to a person at Gucci? And then Steve comes home.

Yeah. And I'm like, can I get the bag? I'm just gonna like, like let's get down to breath steps. What can we do? Are you gonna tell me? When did you turn your hat around when we're talking? I missed that. Sorry. I was driving me crazy. I'm like I can't do this. Okay. Um, so he said finally it can tell, tell he is like taking a deep breath and I don't know if it's a deep breath 'cause he is annoyed with me or it's a deep breath.

Like Gretchen, you ruin everything. Why can't you just let me surprise you? It's hard to tell. And it was the sex, what disappointment Exactly. You know, were. Ensuing in moment. Exactly, exactly. So it was the second one and he's like, go to go to Gucci tomorrow. It's in the back. All ready for you. My chick's name is Mikayla, and I'm like, hold up.

How does everybody around me have a direct line Text messages? Yeah. To all these Gucci reps, but mm-hmm. Um, long story short, well now you do, because I sent you Annie's information and she'd be happy to help you as well. Right, right. When he was like my girl, McKayla. Did that strike a little chord with you at all?

Like a little twinge of jealousy? Not for one sec. Okay. No, me neither. I like me neither at all. I was just, you know, just curious. Like check in, just feeling. I'm like doing a temperature check there. You can have an affair if I get Gucci. That's a joke. A joke. I'm kidding. Kidding? I'm kidding. We can't kid anymore.

Thank the joke. A joke. So anyways. That's what led us to go down there. Mm-hmm. And I was gonna come back here and do work because we have a lot of work to do today. But Gretchen says, you know what, just get in. It'll get done. Get in What works. The work. I wanna, I wanna partner in crime. I'm like, this is what we do.

It is so much funner when you go together. Mm-hmm. Verse a solo. You know, there's always a time and a place for a solo shopping mission for sure. Mm-hmm. But like, this was never solo. It was always Yeah. A joint effort. So, um, it was so great to see her walk out of there with, with the. Hideously capacious bag.

It was so the guy was like, this is gonna take me a second. 'cause the box is kind of big. And then he brought it out and it was like a couch could have fit in there. It was the size of a Volkswagen Beetle. It was enormous. It was enormous. And she's slinging it over her arm. You're just like trying to walk through the mall hundred percent with this comically large bag.

Totally. And then I start to get self-conscious and I have to have like a little chitchat with myself because. And I'm coming down the elevator. Of course we're like taking content of it 'cause it was so hysterical. And part of me is like, I just wanted to hide and become invisible. Like I don't want to be a spectacle.

I don't wanna be that person. And then I was like, you know what Gretchen? You work really fucking hard. Yeah. And it's okay. Yeah. If you get to treat yourself. And it was really funny. Yes. It was very funny. Like the size of the bag was hilarious. Yes. So don't worry, we have content, you'll see. And then we did a little stop it.

Wetzels 'cause I needed mem a soda, but then they just smelled so dang good. Mm-hmm. That it's really hard for me to, to pass up a wetzels moment. Agreed. So then we snacked on that. It, it was a really good morning and we were only late to work. 30 minutes. Yeah. Ish. 45. We actually open at 10 30 probably. On Fridays, don't we?

Or is it 11? It doesn't matter there. I dunno. I own, I'm here now. I own the company. It's fine. We're here now. Okay. So we got to talk a little bit about the retail therapy and how we're gonna jump all over, but I swear to God we're gonna cover all of our talking points, okay? Okay. I've been feeling a little goofy....

Mm-hmm. Do I say that every episode? No. Just like the last three. Okay. Yes, very like heavy, lots of like, I can't catch a break. Lots of like, okay, here's, here's the sunshine coming through the clouds. And then Otis is like, diarrhea is all over the house. Mm-hmm. Or, um, whatever else happens. And so I'm like, oh, here we are again back in square one.

Mm-hmm. So we were talking about like, there's definitely, and I'm a habits coach as well, so I know that a shopping addiction is like a real thing. Right. But we don't do it all the time. Agreed. So retail therapy is a beautiful way to treat yourself, and I'm telling you, it helped today. Yeah. It's a nice little, sometimes you have to stop and remind yourself mm-hmm.

Why you work so hard. Right. Totally. Great point. You know what I mean? Like Yes. And it's not just you, just don't just do it out of the goodness of your heart. Even though, like for you, like 99% of it is out of the goodness of your heart, but sometimes you gotta reap. The rewards of your, of your work. Mm-hmm.

And you just gotta stop and like, enjoy the moment and do something just fun. Right. Because it's such a beat down, you know, they started school, they're back in school, it's 126,000 degrees outside. We got all this to do and this to plan, and dah, dah, dah, dah. And you got the things going on. It's just like, sometimes you gotta just pause.

And just say, I'm gonna, I'm just gonna do fun. I'm gonna have fun today. Yes. Gonna have fun today. And that was all my recovery centers and all of my clients and like ev the whole, the, all of it was all of the energy this week was all about figuring out how to have fun. Mm-hmm. And one session was very much geared towards like being silly and laughing and wiggling and.

And a lot of the, my clients were like, I don't even know how to do that anymore. Mm-hmm. And there were two male clients in particular, and they're amazing human beings and in the, like, healing space and like that. Um, so I think the burnout rate of, of like the healing space, and that could be meditation, it could be massage, it can be, you know mm-hmm.

Giving. Mm-hmm. And they, they were like, dude, we don't even know how to have fun anymore. Yeah. I go, okay, let's start here. Wiggle it sounds so stupid, but like if you did, they do it. They laughed. Which is part of like saying, it's like, say the word wiggle. Wiggle.

Exactly. And you smile, wiggle, and then there's always some kind of inflection in your voice that comes with your version of wiggle.

Mm-hmm. I mind my GI like, I get real wiggle. Yeah, exactly. Like a Turkey. Oh. But, and then you do and you wiggle and you're like, oh, this feels good. And you like feel a little silly in the beginning and then you start wiggling and you're like, oh wow, I feel better. Mm-hmm. So, and then you start thinking about like, what made you really happy when you were little?

And it got even deeper with them. Like, I don't even remember what Mortal Kombat three, that video games came up for them. Love video games always have still do to this day. Yeah. I play 'em like every night. Is that weird? No. Oh, no, no, no. I was, Jesus. It's weird. No, it's just I was, my, my thought went to a different place, so I apologize for the, uh, I think it goes hand in hand with the gambling thing too.

'cause those are essentially video games. Yeah. Big time. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Like, I loved, I just, I think loved to be outside, like froing. Yeah. Like feeling like a free bird. Mm-hmm.

Um, like you on that slip and slide the other day. Exactly. How's your shoulder doing, by the way? Oh, she's all healed up. She's good.

Yeah. Nice. Slipping of that range of motion. Red Bull call. You know, I, I actually heal up really quick. Red Bull. So if there was. An incident where I did get hurt. Yeah. And you would think that I was a liability. I'm not because I heal up like that. Yeah. She wouldn't be on the sideline for long. No. And when I would be on the sideline, I would be helping other athletes.

I would be doing my part off the field as well as on. See, I would have maybe like one moment of glory and then I would be ruined forever. But you get, I'm the opposite. And I wouldn't help anyone. But by then you'd have enough followers that you could make a living off of your followers. Oh, okay. Don't worry.

I'll, I'll help you through all these things. Okay, great. Okay, so retail therapy. Yes. Yes. Good goal. Sure. Have fun. Yes, yes. If you don't know how, find something new. To try to have fun. You have to try to have fun. Sometimes it, it sounds oopsie daisy. Come on, Gretchen. You have to. It says healthcare. Who's calling you in healthcare?

The damn dentist. Oh, probably. Um, but sometimes you have to try and as old adults with like marriages and babies and I don't like to try new things. No, you got it. If you wanna be happy, you gotta try. I know. So I'm saying I've done that before where like, nor my knee jerk is, no, I don't want to do that.

But then I do it and I'm like, oh, that's fun. That was good. Yeah. Mm-hmm. So, so you'll do the, if this old curmudgeon can have fun, so can you. We need to do, so we're gonna get on that flying tube. Oh God, that's a broken neck. But what if it's not? What if you land? What if you call, so in the boating world, they have this new inner tube that you, it's basically like you're fucking in a kite and it's gonna get banned in like a day.

Mm-hmm. But. You are flying up in the air and you're just holding on for dear life. And the idea is like, you're gonna go up easy and then you're, if the boat slows down, then you're gonna come down easy. But you know, there's lots of variables. Guys. We're talking like 50 feet up and this thing is akin to like a flying squirrel.

You like a light, then you just. Ascend. And then you keep going and then you keep going. And if you fall off mm-hmm. At that speed. Mm-hmm. It's like hitting the concrete, but the part that I get scared is with the wind shifts and it flips your tube. And then I think we've had a nightmare of that. Yeah. I had a really weird dream last night.

What was it? I was in the bathtub and I was draining the water 'cause it was like I was done and there and I look and there's a little goldfish in there. I was like, oh shit. Like I'm not equipped to take on a pet right now. I'm just getting outta the tub. So then I'm like, what do I do? Where did it come from?

And you know what I did? I like shoot it down the drain. And then I was like, wait, no, that was bad. And then I like, it was gone. It probably still lived. What do you think that meant? Mm, that you tried? I think we should look it up. Okay. You want me to do it? Not right now, but like, well, uh, actually, yeah. Can you look that up?

Uhhuh Goldfish in the bathtub Dream. Goldfish in the bathtub Dream. I thi, you know what I started to say what? To tie it back to our topic was you're tired, you're exhausted. You just want things to go away and shut down. Oh, maybe that's probably it. Goldfish in the tub Dream. Yeah. I'm shocked if there's a dreaming of a goldfish in a tub can symbolize emotions, personal growth and creativity.... What the tub represents. A personal space or a cleansing area. Presence of a goldfish often signifies wealth, abundance, good fortune and a successful future. But what if you kill the fish? That's what I was just, I'm like, whatever you like, pissing it down the drain. Especially when viewed positively within the dream to fully interpret the dream.

Consider the waters. Cleanliness. Oh, it was crystal clear your feelings during the dream panic and how the dreams elements relate to your current life situation and emotional needs. I can't, I, I'm, I'm not making that connection. We'll, um, we'll decipher that a little bit. Caring for the fish. Suggest you're paying attention to your, oh, this is it.

This is, oh, no. This stuff so, so much. Okay, so you shunned it down the, you shunned it down the drain, right? Yes. So if you were to care for the fish, it would've suggested you're paying attention to your emotional or creative needs since you pushed it down the drain. Since I'm the opposite is true. You are not paying attention to your emotional or creative needs.

Great. So there, but that's a good thing 'cause it just kind of fits in with our stuff. Like just pay attention to what you need. What do you need today? What emotionally do you need? Like right now? Mm-hmm. Just in life.

Um, I'm getting a little hungry. Oh, we got some visitors coming in. We are podding now. Oh, nice.

One second please. Hold on. Hold on. Let me pause.

Thank you. I really could use a small snack. I got some meat sticks. I brought that and a baby bell. Ooh, love that You wanna do, you need to pause and have a little snacker? No, I can wait a few. And you know what? I really wanna do that. I need this weekend, but I don't think it's gonna happen. What? I need a rest day.

Mm-hmm. I wanna not do anything you wanna, I don't wanna do laundry. I don't wanna do any of this stuff. I wanna do only things that I wanna do. That's not realistic for me. Why? Because I have to get the, the house things done. That's your ego. That's what your ego says. Why? What? That's your ego talking. You don't have to do that.

Your life is not going to implode if you don't do it. You may glitch a little bit, but then when you start to glitch, you do this. But I, but I, I have to. You don't. Oh my God, you don't. Because you know why you can spend Saturday on your rest day, and then Sunday you can do a couple things and a couple things on Monday, and it'll all work out and it'll all be okay.

I, I feel like if I don't follow certain processes mm-hmm. Everything will fall apart. Mm-hmm. Help me with that. Okay. Yeah. Is that like, that's old narrative? Maybe that would've happened at some juncture in your life, but. It doesn't have to happen now, because that thought goes through my mind. If I'm tired at the end of the day, but there's still something I wanna get done.

Mm-hmm. I say to myself, if I don't get this done today, and this is gonna screw up for tomorrow. Mm-hmm. Because I'm already going to be behind. Mm-hmm. You see? Mm-hmm. And that's also just society's brainwashing of you as well. Mm-hmm. It's not accurate. Try it the other way and see if your world implodes.

Mm. I guarantee it does not, and I guarantee your home is still beautiful and put together and life will go on if you have a spoon in your kitchen sink. Oh yeah, it will, I promise. And then you'll be rested, and then you'll be able to do 10 times more stuff because you're rested and you're not so tired.

I'm grumpy. I'll try do it and report back. Okay. All right. I'm holding you to it. It's just hard. It's so hard. It's like that one video we did, you just walk around all day worrying about other people's feelings. Yeah. Kind of. How do you get anything done? It's hard. It's hard. It's hard. We do hard things and they turn out great.

Yeah. Yeah. Like the pickup when it's 120. Yeah. Mm-hmm. I can't. Do that more. Missy's Missy's driving her, her large truck right now while her car's in the shop. My beloved, oh, shout out to Land Rover. My beloved Land Rover's getting a fricking Whitney Shield. Is that what a discovery is? Is a Land Rover? I have a defender.

Oh, a defender. My bad. Yes. Okay, nice. If we were, Steve and I were debating on that, or maybe it was Kelly and I, we didn't know what the Honk brand was. Oh, it's a Land Rover defender. Gotcha, gotcha. And so. I don't know if you guys know about how bad the roads are in the Phoenix area, but everybody's got a windshield crack.

Mm-hmm. Because there's so much construction and rubble everywhere. Mm-hmm. So as soon as you get your window fixed. It's gonna get another crack. That's why I don't get mine fixed. And then you need it fixed and then you did it. So I had a huge one, like I'll let, I'll let a little chip or a little thing slide.

It's gotta be substantial. Mm-hmm. So I got one that went right across my plane of vision straight, like a big, big, big boy. Right? And I'm like, okay, that I can't handle. Mm-hmm. So I got a new windshield. Now you can get pulled over for if it's the line of your vision. I was like, eh. So I got a new windshield.

Fast forward. A couple months later, it's raining. I see water dripping in. I'm like, what the fuck? I'm like, where's the water coming from? Eli's like, the windshield is leaking. I'm like, what? So to get this windshield fixed, the whole process is been such bullshit. Mm-hmm. They take it and they had it an entire day just to check, test it to see if it's leaking, see if you're lying.

So then we pick it up. Adam brings it home. I'm like, oh, is it fixed? He's like, no. I'm like, what? No, no, no. That was just so they could test it to make sure it's leaking for an entire day. So now they had to do the whole, they had to order the thing, the part, the ppe, get it in, bring it back a week later. So they're all goddamn day, and now I'm driving the fricking ram.

The dirty ass ram with all of the racing shit in it. Mm. There's towels. What's with the towels? There's so many towels everywhere. Do you know how many microfibers Steve has in his truck? That's it. Microfibers? Yeah. I'm like, Eli, what's with the microfibers? He goes, uh, I think that one's a sweat rag. And that one over there we use for, and I'm like a sweat rag in paint's.

Like, is that why it stinks in here? I'm like, yeah, I don't know. They're so handy. I kind of wish I had a few microfibers in my car. It smells like gasoline and sweat. Mm. Because there's, they have tires. They have like literal tires in there. Yeah. Like 50 helmets. Yep. Race suits that are covered in splatter.

That sounds like how Steve comes home every day and I'm like, it stink. Totally stink. I can't park the fucker. It's enormous. It is big.

And it's a diesel. Yeah. Like, please. No, it is so, it it's a quiet diesel though, right? Isn't it? A quieter, I guess like nowadays the diesels aren't loud like they used to be.... Do you know? So my other sister's, um, ex-husband, when they first started dating, he had a diesel truck. And it was like forever ago, like 30 years ago or something. Hopefully that was the amount of time. Yeah, it was. So he would come over and these diesel trucks back in the day, he would leave his car running the whole time that he was at our house because Was it cold?

Yeah, but for hours he would just leave his truck running. They're just so fussy. You know, I love diesel trucks. Can't do this with a diesel. You gotta warm up the diesel. You gotta break in the diesel motor. Mm-hmm. Can't put regular gas in the diesel. Yep. That would be really bad. My stepmom did that.

That's that's really bad. Yep. It's happened to us. And I haven't even told my Mexico story What the diesel, when the gas attendant in Mexico put gas in my dad's. Diesel truck. And he's like, it's fine. And Steve's like, no, no, no, no, no. What thing did you use? Yeah, which handle? Yeah. And he is like, that one.

And Steve's like, you just put gas in a diesel truck. And the guy was like, it'll be fine. No. And then he's like, go and pull around. And Steve's like, you're not understanding what's happening. You cannot run it through the motor. So this is such a hot story for Steve. So they, they ended up having to. Siphon, yes.

Right. They don't have any fancy tools, so mm-hmm. They, he's like, Nope, we can't even pull around because any bit Yeah. Started goes into, yeah. Mm-hmm. So they go and get a bucket and a hose and the guy is taking responsibility and they're very nice. And the guy's like taking like a little pull of this, um.

And has a little trickle of gas coming out. Mm-hmm. And Steve gets like, he's very much like he gets his game face on and he just goes, yeah. So it wasn't moving fast enough for him. Mm-hmm. Steve comes up, you might as well have had this macho music going in the background with his long like surfer boy hair hat backwards, like just coming up.

It was so nonchalant. He takes the hose, takes the biggest fucking rip off. It like sucks on this hose, there's gasoline coming off of his face, and it just starts pouring into the bucket. And my eyes get big and I'm like, oh my God, take me right now. And he like just starts spitting gas out of his mouth and I just freeze and stare at him.

I just am like, oh my God, that is a man. Oh my God, I love that. And then he hands it back to the dude after it's just pouring. He's like, here, he's, that's how it's done. Yeah. And walks away and like starts to do something else. Wow. Because he had to undo something underneath the truck as well to make it able so we could even do those things.

And so he saved the day. Oh yeah. It's the best story. Well, I love that story of Steve. I know it's good. Macho, Mr. Macho. Why'd we get out there? Ball? Oh, because it's hot outside. It's really hot. Hopefully this, I'm gonna leave that shit running. That's my new thing. Yeah. Drop off cars left running pick up.

Cars left running. Great. I will leave it running as long as I need to. Mm-hmm. I can't. Mm-hmm. I was telling Gretchen yesterday, I went, I went back to, I went down to Rad and Ray on Shay and Scottsdale Road to pick up some new jewelry for the store and. It's hundred 22. Yeah, that's while I was driving.

That's not like, oh, you know, you just got in the car, it's hot. Mm-hmm. That's en route. I know. 1 22. Yeah. I can't, they got the kids out there running around the fucking field. Silver lining. It just got really hot this week, so we're just gonna, when's it gonna stop? We're um, hopefully in a week the for future forecast.

This is feature forecast. Wish we had a green screen that we could just bring up like this, like one day. We'll, it looked like the pig little piglet on, um, SW the Poof.

The future forecast hopefully will be a lot cooler. Remember when sometimes they draw lines and they look like penises? No. On the forecast or.

It'll be like, we got a big, uh, we got a big front moving in this way, and it'll circle back down here and it'll hover Tuscaloosa. Then they draw like a penis and then everybody's like, I just saw the meme that recircle back around. That was this lady that was describing a town. And she goes, lait. And they're like, it's lait, sir.

Whatever the name was and they just started dying. I love when people accidentally say a word that they didn't mean to Oh, so funny. Or like, it's a real name, and they just crack up laughing. Yeah. Because it's dirty. I don't know how you don't fuck up on the news. You have to read so much shit. Like you are bound to say something really stupid.

Yeah. And if you have an untrustworthy person that programs that in like Burgundy, go fuck yourself, San Diego. And then he's like, that was a great job brushing himself off. Good one. Good job. Good job everybody. There's a frog. So funny. We should do a whole episode where we act like news anchors. Okay. Or one segment where we're like, here's the news.

Yeah, sure. Oh, I'm in for that. And then we can have like a little teleprompter on the phone. Phone, right? Yeah. In other news, another news. Let's talk about menstrual cups for real. I have, okay, so here's my thing with menstrual cups, and I'm, I'm reaching out. To the farmers here for some feedback, because I think my biggest issue with the menstrual cup is I don't understand the mechanics.

Mm-hmm. I'm gonna be honest with you. Mm-hmm. I don't understand. Number one, how you insert a cup up there. Number two, how you get it to umbrella pop in, just the pish bloom, if you will bloom to fill the whole space and to collect mm-hmm. The menstruation. Mm-hmm. How does it not somehow. Leak around the size.

Exactly. And my biggest question, how do you retrieve it when it's time? Mm-hmm. But I'm imagining like a, like a cup of fluid. Like totally. How, you know, like how do you get it down right without just, I know, spilling it everywhere. Everywhere. Or do you just spill it everywhere? I think you're on the toilet and you plunk it out, and so it just spills into the toilet.

But does it get all over your hand? Like, I'm sorry. Yes. I can't, that's, I can't be in a horror movie every day. Like I, you literally have blood on your hands. Like I, that's my thing. I don't, I don't, and yeah, we can go wash your hands, but I don't, then I have to do other stuff. Like I have to wipe, I have to like grab things.

Where do you put the cup while you're doing these other things? Exactly, precisely. I know it is. I have so many questions. I know, or there's the whole other thing that, that I think you sent me this of the free bleed.

I'm, I'm like you, some people, some, if they know me, I'm not super hippie. Like I'm not wearing hemp clothes and I'm not, I'm not a vegan or anything like that, but I live in kind of a hippie dip woo woo world. Mm-hmm. I'm, mm-hmm. That's fine. Yeah. But there is, there's some people in that world that. It's called Free Bleed, where they go into the wilderness and just bleed into Mother Nature.... See, that actually makes more sense to me. I understand the mechanics there. Yeah, that takes a lot of time. I don't got that kind of time. Yeah. I'm just gonna sit in the grass and, and uh, you know, let nature take its course. But so back to the cup though, like, I don't know about everybody else in the world, but like the amount that was coming out was not gonna say in that.

Small cup. It's like a 30 minute operation. So then you like, you have like a backup in there and it's gonna build pressure. And what if it just like shoots out like a fire hydrant sometimes and let's just go to the colonic. Like, yeah, if a you're, that stuff can go around a little tube. Like it's a liquid is going to go, it's just not, it's not matting for me.

And then like maintenance and care of the cup. What do you sanitary ness of the cup. How do you, your dirty hands going up and you have to wash your hands before you go potty. Yeah. Can you pee while it's in there? Yeah, probably. It's probably like a tampon. Yeah. Your pee hole's different than your menstrual hole.

I'm sorry. It's just, it's, you know how some things you see in life, Andre, just like, that's not for me. It's not for me. I think I've bought one, 'cause I'm, I did too. I tried one. Mm-hmm. Couldn't get it in. Couldn't get it in. I don't even think I tried. I did try. I just looked at it. I tried and I was like. No.

So they tell you to, so this is the cup and they tell you to squinch it. Right. And then insert Yeah. Yeah. Yet it didn't, yeah. Do that. Yeah. It doesn't make sense. Not for us. No. Well, luckily for me, I don't have to worry about that anymore. Yeah. But you know, back backing my, my days where I was, you know, still dealing with that kind of thing, it was, I was like, oh, in theory.

This sounds like something that could be, do you know what's so funny? I was, this is very Missy coded. What? Um, when I found out that the maker of tampons were dudes, I was like, fuck that. And so that's when I bought my menstrual cup. And then after that I'm like, well, you know what? I'm not gonna fight it so much.

I'm just gonna, I'm just gonna go with this. Well, I mean, you can only do so much as an individual, right. But yeah, I don't understand. So if there's anybody listening who successfully uses a cup mm-hmm. On a regular basis and could answer these questions for us mm-hmm. Please reach out and send us a DM or, or an email because I'm, I'm genuine in my, in my quest for knowledge around this.

Do you know what our luck would be? With all of our stuff that we wanna be sponsored by is gonna be a menstrual cup company. Hell, I'd take it. Me too. I'm in. It's the way of the future. I'm just an old dog. You know what I mean? Like you can't teach me new tricks. Can't teach me how to use a menstrual cup.

It's fine. Don't need to teach you. I would be the one that would have to do it. You know what I say? Take out the whole fucking uterus and I did. So it's fine. Hmm. I need to do that. Okay. Next. Yeah. Let's circle back just a teensy bit to hyper fixation. Mm-hmm. I. Get extremely hyper fixated on things. Yes. So much that I, I just kind of hole up and shell up until it can restore balance into where I need it to be.

Yeah. Some people call it hyper fixation. Maybe it's like really tied to control as well. I'm hyper fixated on to get this, this mic to tilt this way. The tilt. Which one of these doners does the tilt? Oh, just there. Now you're really hum. Oh, see, now it's now. Okay, there we go. Okay, there we go. You just gotta yank on it a little bit.

Got it. Even one of these, this mic thing, I knew that this one had the same, it's the same exact mic stand as as it's the same exact thing, but that one wasn't, the arm wasn't as long, and I'm like, it's hiding somewhere. It is hiding. And I can't figure out. So Missy's like, do you want me to try? Right before we started to record, somebody's like, no, what are you gonna do?

Because I never help. She's like, Ugh, okay. Fiddle with it for a second, say, I don't know, and hand it back. So she got her muscles in there and pop. It's one time I actually, yeah, I got it going and the, and the sensation popped off that I got after that piece slid out was like, there is a God and all. Faith can be restored in.

It was a big old dopamine hit. It was straight in the veins. Felt so good. Yeah. Or if somebody's like, I can't find in my house, I can't find this shoe, and I might get another pair of shoes. And then in my head I'm like, where's the shoe? Where's the shoe? Where's the shoe? Where's the, where's the shoe? Where?

Where's the shoe? I make us late because I have to find the fucking shoe before we leave the house, because even though the kid's like, it's fine, mommy, I've got a new pair of shoes on. Even though that's usually not the case, and it's usually, bye, I need the shoes. So then I have to, you know. Yeah. It's those things that I can be so calm and so cool about some things, and then other things, the wheels start turning and I cannot let it go.

See, I can't be cool or calm about really anything. So that that constant state of hyper fixation is just like everything all the time. It's exhausting too. Yeah, it's a lot. Mm-hmm. You should be like, oh, I'm gonna pick my battle. My brain's like we are constantly at war and everything is a fight. So be ready bitch.

Be on alert. Remain vigilant.

I think that's why we're such a good duo, like you're prepared and I'm like, we'll be fine. I know. It'll be fine. It'll be fine. What's everybody else's take on that? Stay loose, Gretchen. Stay loose. Stay loose. Stay loose. Retching, there is Steve. Sometimes I'll tell him these things and he'll look at me. I'm like, God, I'm like, so hyper fixating on this.

He's like, you. No. Or like when I was getting sober and I came home that one time and I'm like, Steve, I think I'm sensitive. And he is like, he is like, oh shit. That's what I'm paying all this money for you to have those type of epiphanies or this, this is a funny one too. I came home back in the day way before sobriety when I was still partying my little butt off.

And I came home and this is when my family started to realize I had a little bit of an issue. Mm-hmm. With little white substance. Mm-hmm. And I came home to tell my roommates and I'm like, I think I have a problem with cocaine. And they're like. Uh, yeah, you do. Thank you. Thank you for telling us. I was like, I think I know, but they, you know, I never like hid it so much, but they, I thought that nobody knew the abundance of what was happening.

Yeah, yeah. And they were like, oh, how can we support you? Like, what, what do you need from us Uhhuh? I loved, I loved that. Okay. We can do, um, let's talk love language. The lover for the language. I don't think I have any silence. My love language is silence. Let's look up what they are. 'cause we are gonna take this test.... I've never done it, everybody. I've never done a love language test. I don't know, Missy wanted to do it on air and I was like, I think it takes too long. She said it was too and too robust of a test. Mm-hmm. So we're just gonna go through them and guess what each other's love languages are? Yeah. Maybe if you describe, was that your keyboard?

I guess. What the hell? It's very loud love language types. Here we go. Five. Love. Damn. Five. Lovely. Was that 500? Lovely. And I've said it so loud, like the feedback in my headphones was like, God damn.

Okay, first one. Words of words of affirmation. I don't really care. Quality time. Receiving gifts. Acts of service. The last one, you're gonna just physical touch. Okay. Can you read a descriptor of each? Yes. There's actually a nice little chart here. Okay. See if my eyes can. Okay. Words of affirmation, how to communicate.

Encourage, affirm, appreciate, empathize, listen actively send an unexpected note, text or card. Genuinely encourage and often physical touch, nonverbal. Use body language and touch to express. That's a hard no hug, kiss, hold hands, show physical attention or affection often make. Oh my God, into why can't this word intimacy into into me, I see into me, I see, make intimacy a thoughtful priority.

All right? Receiving gifts, thoughtfulness. Make your spouse a priority. Speak purposefully. That's gifts. Yeah. How's that relate? I don't speak purposefully. I don't know. Okay. Give thoughtful gifts and gestures. Small things matter in a big way. Express gratitude when receiving a gift. Oh, here there's two. I shouldn't tell you what each column means.

How to communicate actions to take quality time, uninterrupted, and focused conversations one-on-one time is critical. Create special moments together. Take walks and do small things with your partner. Weekend getaways are often huge. Oh, maybe that one's me. Mm-hmm. Acts of service, use action phrases like, I'll help.

They want you to know you're with them, partnered with them, do chores together, or make them breakfast in bed. Go out of your way to help alleviate their daily workload. Yeah. Probably that one too. Mm-hmm. Maybe it's a split between those two. Mm-hmm. I think I'm very much words of affirmation and quality time and acts of service.

Yeah. And receiving gifts. Yeah. Not a whole lot of physical touch unless it's tickling my feet. Like I, you like when he squeezes your feet? I love when he squeezes my feet and I love when he tickles my feet, but if he gets tired and his arm starts to get heavy and it like puts any amount of pressure on my feet or my toes, heaven, him forbid.

I, I freak. I freak out. I freak out. Um. Yeah. So I think, you know, I don't like particularly receiving gifts. You know, this about me, it makes me very anxious. Really? Yeah. Maybe I did know that. You knew that, but I don't think it applies to me. No. 'cause you always know what to get me. Um, so it's definitely not the gift thing.

I think it's a, it's probably a 50 50 split between quality time and acts of service. Mm-hmm. Yeah. I like how, say, describe it as taking something off your workload. I think that really helps. Yeah. I, I don't really need words of affirmation. Yeah. I don't have, it doesn't. In my conscious brain, I'm like, oh, I don't need that either.

But when I get them, I'm like, oh my gosh. Like when I just tried to quit my job, one of my jobs, and they're like, no, that's not happening. You can't quit. I'm like, Gretchen, you should quit your jobs. She's like, okay. And then she tries to quit and they're like, no. She's like, oh, okay, okay, okay. I'll see him for, I'm sorry.

You're right. It was wrong of me. Oh. But they were so sweet. And like the clinical director and the owner freaking called and I had a conversation with both of them and they're like, you bring something to the table that is, I think, um, one of their words was magical. Oh, I love that. It's magic. It's magical.

So, but that made me feel really good. But on a daily, I don't really know. I didn't. That doesn't hit my veins like, well, I think maybe I don't like words of affirmation because I don't take compliments well. Mm. You know? Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Someone tries to sit me down and like, really give me a nice well thought out compliment.

I'm like, you could just kill me instead. Right. God bless 'em. And I know that's a me issue and it is nice, but I'm just like, Nope. No, no, no, no, no. Right. It's okay. Fast forward. I love when you start to get restless with me when I tell you something and I'm like, just sit and listen and I'm like, breathe through it.

Receive my love. You're gonna receive this love and you're gonna like it. You're gonna it. You're gonna it and you're gonna sit in it.

Oh God, that is so funny. So we'll, we'll do the actual test and then report back. I could not imagine being a physical touch person, like that's so important. Mm-hmm. Well, I think physical touch, just in general with human beings is very, very important. I teach this in my classes, like even your own physical touch.

Like I, I talk about this a lot, but like holding my own hand when I need self-soothing. Like I will sit here and my hand, like I'll hold my own hand to self-soothe myself. Oh. Or like I'll find myself when I'm driving. My hand will just be on my heart. But that's physical touch, like that's physical connection.

Mm-hmm. And then I think when I really need it. I love hugs, and I love all of that stuff. I just don't like to be tugged on and wrestled with. Mm-hmm. I don't like to feel like I'm being overtaken or controlled. That's what I, for sure. Yeah. That's, I start to book. Yeah. That's a really bad feeling. I don't like that.

Right. Even with safe people, I'm like, back off. They're like, okay, I'm sorry. I thought you tripped. I was helping you up. Uh, or I thought you wanted to be hugged. I, I don't, I don't know. Get off me.

You're sick. Oh my God. You're sick. You're so sick. Um, okay, we have a little bit of time left. I gotta go pick up, or we gotta go pick up. I gotta go to the the school, do the dreaded pickup. Go do that. So we can talk. Do you wanna hear my Facebook story or should we talk about the in between sports depression or anything else?

Or should we wrap and save those for next week? That's the end of this. Our season. Mm-hmm. So is the Facebook story a good one? Do I know this? It's pretty good. There's a, this can actually be a double banger. I don't know if you know this one. I don't think you do. And the only reason I remembered it even happened is 'cause we drove by this particular person's home the other day.

Hit me with it. Okay. So back in the day when I first started teaching yoga, I was getting very active on Facebook as well as Craigslist. Oh, I'm sorry. What? So on Facebook, I had this one woman reach out to me, wait, oh my Facebook is tickling me. So I like just the Facebook. I was active on Facebook. Okay, good.

I have quite a bit of followers on Facebook actually. I get some good integration. Go ahead or engage. Okay, so this one, stranger Uhhuh reached out to me and she was interested in yoga and she's this, that, and then she was telling me that she was struggling with substance abuse. She has these kids and dah, dah, dah, dah, dah.... Mm-hmm. So I'm like, how can I help? Yeah. And then she said, you can watch my kids for me. Oh God.

So what do I do? No, no, no, you don't. Oh my God. So I go over and we're like having a conversation and then um, I end up watching her. Children for her, so she can maybe like take a nap or something. Or maybe it was like so she could, so she could take a nap. She was very overworked, like she was very tired.

Oh, thanks. So that, and it went on for a little bit of, it went on for a little bit of time until I like started to kind of thinking in my head and I started saying it out loud to Steve and she called and she was like, I don't know where you've been or what's happened. Like, started to get angry with me that I can't show up in the way that I.

What I was before, so I a hundred percent met a stranger on Facebook, wanted to help. So I went to her house and watched her children for When was this? It was when we were still in Chandler, so it was probably like seven years ago. In that. And in that same framework of time, I put an ad on Craigslist.

This is my sucker period where I'm like, I don't wanna suck anymore. I just wanna contribute. I want to make money, I wanna put, and we had no money. You know, it was to the point where we're very much paycheck to paycheck. 'cause all that didn't have that mortgage money anymore. Mm-hmm mm-hmm. Even though that mortgage money went all taboo.

Booze. So there was, anyways, doesn't matter. Whoops. Keep going. So I put this ad on Craigslist. Yoga. I'm like, anybody wants to be taught yoga? I'm, I'm your gal. Oh man.

And, um, somebody reached out and they're like, I want a session. I'm like, okay, I'll give it a whirl. And I go over there and God, in the midst of this, we do, we do do yoga, but he's like, he.

He? Yes. What are you nuts? You're gonna freak out. I can't believe I haven't told you this story. You went to a man's house? I went to his house and Steve knew about it, and he had my location, all of this stuff. And so while I'm there, he's, he's encouraging me, asking me to massage him. Oh. And he's like, is like, and I, I'm like, I'm not qualified to do this.

Oh my gosh. Yeah. And so we go and here's the craziest part. This is how still sick I was in my brain. I, I did 30 minutes. He got tired of yoga after 30 minutes. Oh, you don't say. He's like, okay, I'm gonna pay you in advance and the next time that you come, we'll do 15 minutes of yoga and then like an hour of massage.

And he, and I'm like, I don't know how to do that. I'm not a massage therapist. Like, stop trying to make the massage happen. It's not going to happen. So he says, I'll teach you. And I'm like, all right, I could use the money. He's paying me cash right now. I'm gonna stay open. So I leave with the guy's cash in my hand with plans to then circle back and teach yoga.

And I start tell, and Steve is such a patient human, he doesn't say, Gretchen, you're a fucking idiot. Stop this madness. Now he lets me kind of marinate in it and come to my own. So finally I'm, I'm talking about it again. And I'm like, this is bad, right? Yeah. And Steve's like, yeah, you're not doing that. And I'm like, oh, okay.

So I could text You could have ended up on Epstein's Island for real. I know. I know. And. I know, I know. And I'm not, I'm not like getting out of jail free card with this one because it was, it was sketch, but the guy I, I know I could have taken him and for two, like he wasn't, he didn't give me the ick. Mm mm-hmm.

Even though he should have, because he was asking a yoga teacher to massage him with no previous massage. Oh my god. Advertisement. So I met him again at the Starbucks to give him his money back and he gave me 40 bucks and he's like, I get it. And he gave me $40, but I only, is that the end or that's the end.

And then after that I took my ad off Craigslist. 'cause I'm like, this isn't a safe place for me to be. Correct. Yeah. I sure gave it a whirl. And then I actually did another yoga session with a landscaper.

You know, you just hustle. I think you, I just have to say it is a bonafide miracle that you are sitting next to me today. Yeah. You must be a very, very special person to, to be here with us after everything you've, yeah. There are a couple things that could have gone I, um, dry. Yeah, man. Oh man. The landscaper was a good one for a long time.

How, uh, how long did you service the landscaper?

I would probably say about eight sessions. And then it got to the point where he didn't wanna do yoga either. Oh, you, oh my God, what? He wanted to do something different. He just wanted to take walks. Oh, just some walks. There was the time where he just wanted to take a walk. Did he have a little trouble with his ankle and would like you to hold his hand for stability?

Then did he say, I think I would be able to walk better if you held my inner thigh? Oh my God. And then he said, well, you brushed up against it, so you gotta finish what you started.

I don't ever, I just have such good intentions, I just don't see the trickiness of that. But after, and I still have that guy's phone number, I probably still could give him a buzz and he wouldn't be that way. It's, it's God watching over you. Yeah. So with, we can wrap up. Wow. That was, that was, that was a handful.

That was so much more than I was expecting. I forgot about the landscaper. Holy crap. So stay off, uh, Craigslist. Don't go on Craigslist or Facebook. I don't fuck with Facebook. I know you don't. I like Facebook. That's where all my Wyoming people are. It's Facebook. Oh, they haven't graduated to it, or a lot of 'em haven't.

Anyways, we've had a lovely first season with all you farmers and we love you so much. We sure do. Um, we need reviews, we need subscribers. We need. To blow this bitch up. So it's been really fun. I sit in the past, I've had a, I've had a real, uh, hoot doing this with you, and I just wanna keep going because we have a hell of a time.

Yep. You know, and I think we've only scratched the surface. There's so much more farming to do. Oh, agreed. So much more. The work for a farmer never ends. Truly. Right. Truly, when you, when you plowing, you're digging up percent when you're harvesting, and then you have to do other things. Our work never ends.

It doesn't, and luckily we're workers, we are. Well, you are.

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