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I can't do this. Yes, you can. It was so good

Welcome Back to another episode of the Nut Farm Podcast. I am here with my, uh, platonic Life partner and fellow co-host Gretchen Seek, who is looking phenomenal today. I must say. I don't know why I've gone mute and I haven't said any words. She's, um, she's given up speaking for Lent. Is that now? That is in March.

Oh, okay. Got it. I used to give up noodles and cheese for Lent, and now I don't, I give up booze every life's hard enough. Life is hard. Keep the nudes, give the nerds ate a NN. Okay, so you guys, I just got done, um, teaching and it was a bear of a day. Very heavy energy in my recovery center and it's like I leave that, that this part one particular one, just feeling real.

Heavy and like, what the hell just happened? And then I get into GL and Missy's already here, and I feel goofy, crazy, happy, loving, like I'm a butterfly now. That's great. I'm really happy that I could provide that service today. You needed it the most. I needed it the most. This thing is fussy. I gotta take my shoes off.

Okay, so why are we all bedazzled this. So for those of you who are listening to the audio only, I feel the need to explain what, what we're wearing right now. So Gretchen is wearing a, um, amazingly gorgeous diamond encrusted headpiece, um, with little dangler down on the front. She's wearing it over her baseball cap because of course she is, she has to.

It's, it's so cute. I'm wearing this little, um. A shoulder, uh, what'd you call it? Like a pectoral, perhaps? I don't know. Diamond en crusted. And it's all in honor of something that I've just been chomping at the bit to discuss.

Life of a show girl. Um, I'm holding up the, um, the showgirl glitter vinyl for those that are listening. Which is absolutely gorgeous. The inside, the cover art, everything she's done for this record has just been like insanely beautiful and well thought out. Lots of sparkles, and we like sparkles around here.

And so we're wearing, we're wearing sparkles today in solidarity of this showgirl of show showgirls all around the world. I mean, like we're showgirls, that's a given. And I just can't wait to dig into to this record and my feedback on this record, if you will indulge me for a few moments. Do it. Okay. So the other night I'm gonna eat a bite of my cheeseburger.

You go ahead and eat your cheeseburger. I brought her in and out. I had some too. Not just her. That would be weird. So anyways, we were driving home. There it is. Mm-hmm. Have been sponsored by them. I Oh yeah. Totally. We were driving home the other night from our event, Scottsdale Fashion Week. Oh, we get to talk about that later as well.

Being Showgirls hired Showgirls for the night, you know, talent hired talent, so it just so happened to line up after being canceled because of weather. Mm-hmm. Lined up with the release date of life of a showgirl, so we were driving home together. Put it on to listen. Okay. Now I'm gonna just start by saying I've never done such a 180 on an album in my whole life.

Upon my first listen, I wasn't blown away. Mm-hmm. I was a little confused. It wasn't what I thought it was gonna be. Okay. I was like, huh, okay. Then I listened to it again, growing on me, the melodies, the beats. Everybody's coming for her. For her simple, they're not simple lyrics. They're like, stop jumping down her ass because it, not every album's gonna be tortured poets.

Okay. That's a separate thing. Yeah. And so then I took Peyton to go to see her film that she released the official release party of show like Showgirl, and I got to hear her talk about why. The why behind every song, what she put into every song, what her motivation was, and she's such a artist. Everything is so intentional.

Mm-hmm. Even the most minute detail. Yep. And then I got to see behind the, behind the scenes of making the video of, uh, life of Ophelia, which I think is probably one of my favorite music videos of all time. Mm-hmm. Like it is a. Masterpiece. I need to see it still. Oh my God. Well, we're gonna watch it because later we're gonna do the dance.

Yep. I'm gonna teach Gretchen how to do the life of Ophelia dance, so that will be fun. Tune in for that for sure. Yeah, that'll be a little subset on the, yeah, the, we could do the whole thing and put it on YouTube. Yeah. So anyways, ways, so it's short 12 tracks. I think I only have. One consistent skip song.

Mm-hmm. The rest is a solid listen too. That's huge. The rest is a solid listen too, and I just love so much that she is just like, I love it. Mm-hmm. It's fine if people don't like it. Yeah, it's okay. And she, so people are coming back as if it's not good. Some people are like, disa disappointed that it's not as wordy, it's not as deep, it's not as dark as the folklores.

Uh, you know, guess what? She's getting banged by a hot Travis Kelsey and she doesn't be so dark. Correct. She's like, I'm not sad anymore. Like, right. Isn't that good? And like, let's not forget for me. This is the girl that s saying Shake it off not too long ago. Like, this is not a departure for her. Right.

She always will circle back Right. To her pop roots. Mm-hmm. You know, and the, the funny, funky, lighthearted, da da da, like, she doesn't need to be just like dragging her soul through the mud constantly and bleeding for us all the time. Like sometimes she wants to just put out bops. Yep. Because toe tappers, if you will, that's what she feels like doing.

Yep. And I just love how she's really coming into her womanhood, I feel like. Mm-hmm. And her just, you know, the other night on Jimmy Fallon, she's like, it's spicy. Yeah. It's a lot of spice on this one. It's what it is. Game on. You know, and I just watched the other night, this is really gonna be shocking to you, but for the first time I watched the documentary Miss Americana, about her in like 2020.

Okay. I'd never watched it before. I've never heard of it, which is so weird. It follows her around for like a year. Wow. When she's doing her reputation tour and like the Grammys and when she was with that guy Joe, and like all of this stuff and I found out so much stuff about her that I didn't know.

Mm-hmm. And. You know, looking back at how she was back then versus how she is now. Mm-hmm. It's like night and day. Of course she's so confident. Mm-hmm. And not second guessing herself. I just, I love it and like it's so clever. The songs are so clever. The duet with Sabrina Carpenter is just, oh yeah, that was a good one.

So good. And she, you know, she had of course a very clear vision for everything she wants to do, and her creative control is absolute. Music video, she's directing. Mm-hmm. She's, she's directing everybody's movement, the lighting, the shots, the everything. Each set piece is all one shot. And that is so hard to do.

She has like 50 dancers in this one scene. Like, oh my gosh. The way that she has, she's just, she's a genius. I'm sorry. She really, really is. Right. And for people to, to not at least acknowledge that is like, okay. Right. But anyways, like I love this record, so. Much. I cannot stop listening to it. Peyton and I have watched the life of Ophelia Music video probably 20 times.

Mm-hmm. Because she has little hidden Easter eggs in there. Oh God. And we're finding them. And we're deconstructing them, and we're, it's just so much fun. Yeah. It's so multifaceted. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Being a fan of hers. Yeah. You know what I mean? Did the Easter eggs start out as her thing? Or did they just start because the fans, or what is it, an intentionally thing at the beginning?

I think she just thought it would be fun to do something and see if somebody noticed. Mm-hmm. And then everybody kind of like jumped on it. Mm-hmm. Like her, she's really into numbers and numerology and stuff like that. So when she was on tour, like since forever, she would always write 13 and Sharpie on her, on her hand, and everybody was like, oh, 13.

And they start looking for 13. Mm-hmm. So then she would throw in 13. Yeah. She would throw in these certain numbers and these callbacks and these mm-hmm. References to like. You know what's to come or like tie it into other videos that she's done and stuff like that. So I think she just like likes doing it Uhhuh because it's fun.

Yeah. And the people like it. Mm-hmm. But she's also like, you don't have to be into it at that level. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I can't wait to do that with G and like nut farm and stuff. I feel like I kind of do that sometimes, but I'm the only one that ever gets it. But pretty soon people will Easter egg it with us.

Yeah. We gotta call it something else. If, what's our equivalent to Easter egg, our peanuts. Oh yeah, our little chocolate covered peanuts. Yeah. Little hidden nut. Nut here and there. A little nut nut here. A little nut tucked away. I'm just so in love with this. I'm so happy. I'm so happy. And you know it selfishly.

I was hoping that you would actually listen to it with me in the car. 'cause I, I, I even prefaced it like I know. 'cause she's like, oh, the, the thing's out, the album's out. Mm-hmm. So I'm like, we can put it on Spotify, but if you'd rather listen to it in the privacy of your own. I know. She's so funny. She's like, if you wanna listen to it privately, I understand.

And I was like, I wasn't like, oh no. I was like. No, you can listen to it with me. Like I, I knew that was a valid thing to, that needed to be said. Yes. And I, you know, I, I chose to share that with her. We didn't get to get through the whole thing, but we got through a few tracks that I was most interested to hear right off the bat, but I was actually overwhelmed by that.

I got to partake in that with you. So thank you so much for that. You're welcome. It was, it was really special. And to get to go with Peyton and watch her just like, love it. And be so into it and like celebrating glamor. Yes. And not. Dulling down. Mm-hmm. And I love, she loves sequins and the sparkle. And Mom, I want a winged eyeliner.

You got it. Like, yes, you do it. Were we the only ones dressed up in the theater? Yes, we were. Oh, that's shocking. I know. I was really, really shocked by that. Mm-hmm. But we did see it at Saturday, at noon, so I think like the crazies were kind of like Right. There the night before. Yeah. We were Cymbre my niece, she loves, she loves Taylor Swift too, and she dressed up.

She went and saw it, I think three different times with three different outfits. I love that. Yeah. We need to connect with her. She sounds like someone that She's a doll of the human. Yeah. Yeah. Shout. Shout out Cymbre. Shout out to Cymbre T Swift fan to the max. So I think that it's so great too with Taylor that she.

And I'm not calling her a simple tip by any name 'cause I know that that's not the case. But I think that her simple authenticity is her power. And it just shows like the power of like your confidence comes just by saying, I'm just going to be myself. That's it. That's all. And I feel like that's what she embodies it.

The more she does that, the more powerful she gets and the, the more stuff with the goodness that she creates. And it's, um, but it, you don't have to be this flashy, larger than life human to be big. Yeah. She even wore in the behind the scenes, like, 'cause they had to rehearse for this music video for like ever because it's so complicated.

She wore a little shirt that from, from the Monterey Bay Aquarium with sea otters on it. Aw. That was for Travis. Right. You know? Right. And everything is so intentional that she does. Mm-hmm. She throws in these little things, but I feel like too, like she doesn't exhaust herself with trying to do it. It, they just, it just, it comes to her naturally or it doesn't.

Yes. And, um, because that would be exhausting, like always trying to find something to give the people like that would be Yeah. But I think it's just like her natural authenticity that just, yeah. So it's been a really, it's been a really, um, you know, bright moment in a, in a dark month. That was September, mm-hmm.

Coming into October. You know, like her songs are just really hitting in my life. Like Alite, you know, you have to make your own happiness, you have to make your own sunshine. Mm-hmm. You have to, you know, live through this sleepless onyx night. Hmm. And now the sky's alite. Isn't that because op light is a manmade opal.

So like your happiness isn't just always natural. You have to Yeah. Make it be an active participant. Yes. Ooh, isn't that a divine little for you? Yeah. I'm like, okay, whose lyrics are too simple now? Like maybe you're just too simple. Yeah. You know? Or maybe life gets to be simple. Oh, and then she, she sampled Father figure, which, you know, I love that song by George Michael Uhhuh.

She, oh, it was real. Yeah. Oh, nice. Yes. So she like, you know, I'll be a father. Yeah. So she took that and worked with his team and everything and said they were great. But that was so exciting to see her sample that song, because I freaking love that song. Nice. And there's just so many bangers and then the, the Woods song, I mean.

Right. It's just so funny, you know? Yeah. I need to listen to that one again. I've only just seen the memes that everybody's bringing. Mm-hmm. And, um, I love it. And I did see a little tidbit from Fallon. Mm-hmm. Just on social media and she, I mean, it's just so good. So good. Yeah. Yeah. So anyways, that's been, that's been wonderful.

I love all of the art associated with this record. She worked with the people that she worked with on Reputation, which is probably like my second favorite album ever. Mm-hmm. I love reputation. Mm-hmm. There's a lot of similarities. She has a lot of like callbacks to reputation. Mm-hmm. Um, I just think it's, I think it's fantastic and I'm very.

Happy for her that she's in this place in her life and no joke and it's reflected in her art and I love to see it. Yeah, me too. Yeah, you know what? I like to see what you happy. Oh, it makes me so happy. Like, like oddly happy. Like she brings happiness to people. Like what a job. Mm-hmm. You know? Mm-hmm.

That's so cool. We still have to do that social media one where it says, it's Taylor and she's like, what you, what do you wanna do in life? And she said, heal people or something. Remember that one? What's that from? It's, I don't know, she's being, maybe it's Americana or something. She's being followed somewhere.

Oh yeah. And I wanna do that. Um, voiceover. Okay. I'm down. But yeah, we gotta do the God, the choreo for, um, fate of Ophelia is so fucking fire. Let's do it. It's so good. And you think I can do it? Yeah, I think you can do it. We'll watch the full video. I'll point out to you all the Easter eggs. Okay. You can get a little taste of the choreo.

Okay. And we'll do this one snippet that everybody's doing online. Okay. Because she even posted like, show me yours of this one particular part. Mm-hmm. So we'll do that part. Okay. You could do it. I'll get jacked up on Red Bull and get fired up. Yeah. Awesome. I'm so happy. Shout out Taylor. Way to go. Shout out Trav.

Way to go. Killing it. Okay. So there I only have three things on our show sheet. Okay. Um, one of which is like a more mindful thing. Mm-hmm. A mental health moment. Right. Um, one is a funny story, but I don't know if it's that funny. And then another one is another funny story of me renting a car this weekend or this week.

The Dodge. Yeah, the Dodge. Let's do all of them. Let's just jump in. Okay. You wanna, okay. So we'll go to four agreements. So this is a book, and it's like Recovery 1 0 1. If you're in recovery, you've probably heard about the four agreements. If you're in any kind of personal development, you've probably heard about the four agreements.

It is a staple and it's amazing. So one in particular is powerful for me, and it is not taking anything personally because that's a hard one. That's a hard one. Were we just talking about this too? I don't know. I think we were so not taking anything personally is, is so for the pe my people pleasers out there, this is a big one because you can have somebody pointing their finger in your face telling you that you're the biggest dirt bag and you suck at life so much.

And all evidence points towards yes, this, I should take this personally because this person is being an asshole to me. Mm-hmm. But in, in all truth. It has nothing to do with you and everything to do with their state of being in life. I just need to interrupt really quick. You got a itchy palm. You know what that means?

What money's coming? Nice. Yeah. I have been, I'm very itchy right now. You're gonna come into some money. Okay. There's not even any, um, mosquito bites on my hand, and I've got mosquito bites everywhere. So does everybody Except for me. Oddly enough. Huh? Interesting. They don't want my wicked blood. They're like, let's spare her for a little bit like God.

Um, your vibes are bad. No, don't sign that up on my best friend. Um, okay. So the four not taking anything personally, it just means that this person is coming at you because they are unsettled in their own life. And if you wanna be a free bird out there, you start really going to d Lulu and adopting this idea that I don't have to take this personally because it has nothing to do with me.

So you think that like if somebody comes at you in that way, rather than communicating to you in a calm, normal fashion mm-hmm. That's. That's a reflection of them a hundred percent. Instead of the situation. A hundred percent. Okay. I see. Yeah. Mm-hmm. There's something deeper happening mm-hmm. That they're not addressing, and that you're either becoming the punching bag or the scapegoat or something.

And guess what? People, we don't gotta be the scapegoats mouth. No, we are not the punching bags. We do not have to take on other people's shit. I mean, and if they're worthy. Worthy, is that a word worth? I was gonna say worthy it. Worthy. Um, you can hold space for them and have a conversation, but in the same breath, if they're, if they're not, then you can lovingly detach and be like, you need to go figure out your shit before you come at me like that.

Yeah. So that's the first. Pillar, the pillars. That is the, the, uh, first agreement agreement. I always freeze up on site, so I have to go and look at the other ones. The, and I, I've have, um, I've converted this angel deck of mine too. The other I know, I know what they are. Just trust your gut grt. Um, the other four agreement, be impeccable with your words.

Um, the other one is, um, don't take anything personally. Don't make assumptions and always do your best. I like the always do your best too. And this, there's one card in that deck that talks about your best, looks different every single day. Mm-hmm. And. Yeah, you can have a dumpster fire of a day and still do your best.

Mm-hmm. Right? Or you can have these really high, high days and kill it at life and that gets to be your best. But it like your best is not a constant. Your best gets to fluctuate up and down all the time. Yeah. Just 'cause you're capable of something normally doesn't mean that you're gonna be capable of it all the time.

Hundred percent. I've had to go through that. Recently with all this stuff that's going on with Eli and him having a hard time adjusting and all this, like, it's been really difficult. And so like some days I just like, I can't do like what I normally do. Right. And just being like, well, that's all right. I guess.

Totally. Because it'll come another day when I can, and then I'll do it then. Mm-hmm. I suppose. Mm-hmm. I don't know. Mm-hmm. Yeah. We get to just take the suppose out of it and the, I guess, out of it and really normalize like, this is what my day looks like today. Yeah. And I'm happy that I can show up in this fashion.

I'm like obsessed with my headdress. I, I keep staring at it like I can't. Same. It's so cute. This is gonna be a new thing that I do on top of my hat. Yeah, I think so. No worries. It's working, it's giving. Um, the other ones don't make assumptions. We all know what happens when we assume takes an ass outta you and me.

You got it? Um, I wanna talk more about be impeccable with your words. What does that mean? Oh, I like this one too. I like 'em all. Shocker. Um, okay. So not speak your truths, basically. So. A lot of the stuff we always just key into like, what does this mean on the external world? That means like be honest and don't gossip and all of this stuff.

But I'm an internal girly and I know that anything, if I get my internal right, then my external just falls into place. Mm-hmm. So this means like really. Noticing your negative self-talk, like being impeccable with your own words up in your casa. And when you start to judge, or when you start to criticize or be mean to yourself or say anything that's not true or anything that doesn't land.

Like when I, when something, when I tell myself something or I'm like processing something and it doesn't land, my tummy gets a little squirrely and I can feel it in my tummy. Mm-hmm. So I get, I can feel it in my tummy. I hate that I just said it.

I feeling my tummy. You're feeling my tummy. I just got hot flash

stomach. There we go. That's, I don't know which one is worse. Stomach or tummy. I can feel it. I can feel it in my stomach. Can feel it in my abdominal region. Feel it in my lower belly. My belly. My belly. My belly. Belly. My belly. Gurgles. So I get to check in and be like, why? Why is my belly girling? Mm-hmm.

Okay. Is this because this is an old belief system? Is this something that I get to challenge? Do I need to rewrite the narrative surrounding whatever's making my tummy gurgle?

But it is, and then it's re. Rewriting it. Like rewriting what you, and even if we get to go straight to D Lulu and be like, how would I want to view myself? How would I want to speak to myself? How would, how do I speak to you? What advice would I give to you that I'm not taking myself? That's such a freaking big one.

Yeah. And that's being impeccable with your words. Okay. In my personal opinion. Okay. Opinion. That makes sense to me. Yeah. So which one of these hits the hardest with you? Hmm. Hmm, Hmm. I think impeccable words. Hmm. Awesome. That's hard. Yeah. I really like to be not nice to myself especially. Why do you think that is?

I, uh, I don't know because it's like, I think, well, I think it's funnier Yeah. Than the alternative. Mm-hmm. It's like your comfort zone. Yeah. Because it's my default setting. The love makes you feel mockery. The mushy gushy makes you feel uncomfortable. Yeah. And sometimes I'll say like, it feels inauthentic to me.

Mm. Love that. Which is sad. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. But like, it's just not my, like it's not my factory setting. Yeah. So let's challenge that. Yeah. When I, when I just said that's so good, that was because there's, there can be improvement. Not that I like. That you are mean to yourself. Let's just clarify that nuts is like the power of d Lulu, when I've, I hated myself.

Do you know that, like, I probably shared this, but like. When I was not well and I hated myself so much, I would look in the mirror and I would squeeze my cheeks so hard that I would have like imprinted nail marks in my cheeks because I just hated myself. And I'm like, why are you like this? Why do you do this?

Why can't you control this? Mm-hmm. Why can't you be better? Why can't you fill in the blank? And I would get so frustrated with myself that I would just wanna squeeze and I would do it in my arms and I would do it like, um, and. So I had to go to D Lulu and just ask myself if I could create something that these people are telling me to do, like what would it look like and what would it feel like?

Mm-hmm. Like what would I need to do that? And that's like creating the safe space. Um, but all of it has to start in D Lulu and create land and art land. Mm-hmm. Because you bypass all the limiting beliefs and you bypass all of the narrative that keeps you from that self-love. Hmm. So you, and you can use, you can use your humor.

Like I used my humor to be like, oh, this would be funny if I, you know, and you laugh and joke about it, but even in that laughter and jokes, you're still creating this idea of what you want it to be. I see. So the, like the, the message can be the same, but the delivery can be different. Yeah. Get tricky with the delivery.

Like trick myself. Exactly. Okay. Trick your subconscious into loving yourself. That's what I do every day. This nut job over here. Trick, yes, trick or treat. Trick or treat, trick or treat somebody. Somebody at my recovery center today was like, you have so much confidence after you do that. And I laughed because I'm not born with confidence.

I'm like that, like I do not. I ask for it every single day. And then. At the end of like my meditation or at the end of the mindfulness or at the end of asking for the ability and feeling the confidence, I say, fuck it. Let's roll. Yeah. And so you get there. Yeah. And all my recovery peeps know how to do the fuck it.

Most of us addiction or not like know how to be like, fuck it, and then go do something self-sabotaging. Yeah. My case of the fuck it's is like I'm, I say fuck it, and I go and walk through fear that. Excuse me. Wow. Excuse me. That's powerful. I like that walkthrough fear, bulldoze through it if you need to. I like that.

Sometimes your head's up while you're walking through the fear. Sometimes it's down and you're closing your eyes and you're still going through it. Mm-hmm. See, you are brave, brave little soldier. Thanks. You're welcome. Must have been getting hit by the that car. Oh God. I can. I just had a flashback of it happening again.

I can't handle it. I was telling Steve how much it hits you and he is like, he's like, Aw, it's so fucking sad. I cannot handle it. If I saw that lady, I'd beat the shit outta her. She's probably dead by now. Good. But do you think it's kind of, can you just picture your little me like being happy and like popping up and being like, dust myself off and then just tra lulling back to school?

Yeah. That's what's so sad about it. Oh. Fight is that you had to just like save yourself. No one was gonna pick you up and dust you off. No. You had to do it your tiny little, I think. Okay. So like half of it is that is your small stature, like mm-hmm. Height, size, little human. And I imagine your backpack to be really big.

Oh, totally. Always in proportion to your body. Mm-hmm. And my clothes. Yeah. I love that one picture of you where you're like going for the basketball. Mm-hmm. Oh, so tiny and cute. That was on the front page of the Casper Star. Tribu. Damn right. It was my whole family got Ben went bananas because they asked me a question like, why do you like the cowboy state games?

And I said, it's another time to kick, but, and apparently that wasn't something that I should say. Oh, that was bad. Yeah. That was controversial. That was. I was like, what? I like to kick ass making waves from the time you were small, kick ass and take names. Challenging the patriarchy. I love that. And I didn't feel bad even when people were like, oh my God, I can't believe you said that.

I was like, what? Yeah, what truth. Mighty little boy or princess in there. Thank you. Live inner truth. Okay, let's go to.

I wanna hear your voice and all these other ones are just my stories. Um, we can talk about nut job of the week. Oh, we, we haven't talked please, but we haven't talked about fashion week. Oh, okay. Go ahead. You want me to start or do you want to? I don't know. I mean, where do we, where do we begin? Like it's, I'll start.

Okay. Because I feel like Go ahead. Go. But I wanna put you on a pedestal. I was nervous. I didn't feel prepared. I didn't know what to expect. I kept trying to memorize these questions that were so simple and, and not rocket science. And I kept getting super, super nervous and I had these expectations of what it was gonna be, and it was a little bit different.

And so it kind of threw me. So I asked Missy, I'm like, can you take the lead on this one? And I put, I didn't have a microphone. Missy held the main microphone and she let us off, and she knocked it out of the park. Aw. I will tell you that I feel like you might as well have, do you have a degree in journalism?

No. No. What is it again? Business. Business management. Oh, minor. In communications. You might have had, you might as well have had like news anchor. Hmm. Experience underneath your belt. Thank you. I mean, you just did so, so good. So good. The venue was beautiful. Yes. Peeps were beautiful. The. Fashion show is cool.

Oh, that's another thing we can talk about. Keep going. So now your take. So, okay. I was really nervous the first time around and we were to the point where we were probably like 15 minutes away from leaving the house to go to the original date of the show. Mm-hmm. And it was like, I kept calling it the storm of the century because it would not stop fucking raining like it was crazy.

Mm-hmm. Everything that day was going wrong. Everything we tried to do had just gone to shit. We're like, you know what? It's showbiz baby. We gotta get our shit together and we gotta go tonight and we gotta bring, bring it. Yep. And so like we're about to leave and then we get the word out canceled and we're like.

Like we had mixed emotions about it. Mm-hmm. Because on one hand we're like, well, we're glammed up, we're ready to go. Like, oh man. On the other hand, we're like, actually probably could use a beat. Right. To recover from this fucked up day. Yes. And get our shit together, or month at that. Yeah. So we didn't know if they were gonna reschedule or whatever.

So we were kind of bummed that like this was our opportunity. And then I guess it's gone now and we're like, well, I guess we'll go out to dinner. Right. So we went out to dinner. On a grand old time, had some Mies. Mm-hmm. Went home and moved on with our life. Mm-hmm. And then the next day, or I don't know, a couple days later, like we're actually rescheduling it for the following Thursday, which I was like, Ooh, don't love a Thursday.

You know, who loves a Thursday? But at least it's rescheduled, you know? So, um, we go and. The place is absolutely beautiful. There's mermaids swimming in the pool. Mm. I loved that part. We are always gonna have fun. No matter where you send us or put us, we're gonna, yeah. We were like, you know, cheese balling it up out there.

I feel like we kind of had to bring the vibes for a little bit. Yeah. When we, when we first showed up, it was, the vibes were strange. They were definitely like, I don't know. Quiet, not giving like fun night out. Right. We were like, what's happening here? Yeah. So then whatever, we just kept doing our thing and getting silly.

I was, I was nervous for the first interview. Mm-hmm. The first one because it was with, um, the. Ryan Ryan, who is the head of sales and marketing for the hotel. Mm-hmm. You know, so he is not just some random patron. He is like the head guy. Right. This is his spot, this is his spot. Um, so I was a little nervous for that one, but I think it went okay.

And then I was a little nervous for Desiree from the news. Mm-hmm. What a amazing woman she is. I just kept wanting to hug her. I know. She was so cute and so gracious and so sweet. So good. And so like. She's a, she's an anchor for Fox News here in the valley, and she was like, tell me about you girls. Like, what do you do?

Da da da. I'll follow you guys. And like, yes, super sweet and like. Complimentary. Right. And kind and funny. She was like, you know, gorgeous. Absolutely beautiful. And she's like, this is so weird standing here. She's like, I'm usually one the one holding the mic. Right. So she was like, oh. But um, and she ended up being the host.

I didn't know she was gonna be the host for the evening. Mm-hmm. So she got up there, did her whole thing, did a fantastic job, like killed it. I looked at us with our microphone and we're like, yeah, I'm so proud of myself. And then she got up there and she was like. So effortless and so graceful. Yeah, definitely very polished.

Yes. And professional to Max. She's a pro. Yeah. Um, and then, you know, the red carpet interviews were funny and fun. We ran into, we ran into Brian, one of our trainers who's whose girlfriend works for Steve Levine Entertainment, and we made him do an interview and I saw him. When was it Monday when you weren't there, Uhhuh, and he was like, I was like, Ryan, you made it to the, to the reel or whatever.

And he's like, no, no. He goes, I botched that so bad. I didn't know what to say. And I'm like, aren't you a professional athlete? Right, right, right. Interview. He's like. Yeah. About sports, not about clothes. I could, I mean, I kind of felt bad because we did feed him to the lions with the questions and I'm like, who's your style icon?

He's like, Nike, you know? He's like, um, Charles Barkley, like, I don't know. You know, Ronaldo, but even, even then, that's a hard McGuire. That's a hard question for a dude to answer. I thought his, his Umdescribe fashion week in one word was. On point. Yeah. He was like, I didn't know what to say. I just said Fresh.

Yeah. And I was like, no, you did good. I go, you, you're harder on yourself. They didn't use this full interview. They just used, you know, that little clip. But yeah, overall I thought it was so fun. Yeah. And I was surprised at how much I really liked. Like the reporting aspect mm-hmm. Of interviewing and that whole thing.

I loved it. Mm-hmm. So that was really cool. Hopefully maybe one day I can do something like that again. 'cause it was really fun and we got to sit in the front row and you're stressing about the water flowing. Well you had to me and Gretchen. So I'm sitting there watching the show and these, these gorgeous people are strutting down the runway and it was swimwear and lingerie.

Okay. And they're strutting down the runway. And I look down on the ground and somebody's drink has spilled, and this slow stream of flood water is inching its way, hyper fixation at its foot into the middle of the runway. And I look at it and I'm like, I'm like Gretchen. Somebody's gonna fall on that water.

Totally. And so we're both looking at it, we're watching the show, and then we're looking and they're like, oh God, is she gonna step on it? Oh my God. She's gonna go down like Chinatown. Yep. And so Gretchen like in, in a break, gets up, it goes get, I'm the one that does nothing about it. I just stress and sit there.

She's like, actually, I'm gonna go get some napkins and clean this up. Right. So she wipes it up and saves the day. But I was. So stressed out, you know those, I think it was on the office where there's a, the, the screensaver where they wait for the bouncy ball to directly hit a corner. Yeah. That's how I felt.

Because their feet would come so close to stepping in the water and some, like all of them, but one runway, they didn't have to wear shoes, so they were barefoot on one, and then the rest they had high heels on. Mm-hmm. And. It was like, like, could you imagine slipping and falling in a teddy? No. Kill me now.

My gosh. Vagina everywhere. Kill me now. Throw me off the balcony immediately. And, but I do think the only pickle of when I cleaned it up is that the, I cleaned it up with black napkins and so it kind of left this like weird black streak in the like black snail trail. Yes. And the girl that s spill, I'm guessing that spilt it.

Mm-hmm. I'm cleaning it up and she's like, oh yeah, I saw that too. And I'm like, you spilt it. Yeah. It was your drink. That's your drink. I would, and so we feel like heroes, you know? Well, I did, even though I did nothing. And I looked down and it's happened like three other places and I'm like, Jesus Christ.

What? What's with the drink? Spilling like, can we not, we hear it out people. And no one like cared. No. Like these women's life and men. Lives are on the line. Yes. To serve these looks, they could roll an ankle tear, knees yell in their end of a career. End of it. End of a career. Nobody's gonna want somebody that has a knee brace.

No, it does not vibe with the busier No, you're out. You're out. And then the new models in. Yeah. Just like that. So we pretty much saved all those models careers. Yeah. I know. In my personal opinion on the, on a juxta point of this, I find fashion shows extremely uncomfortable. Oh, was it the gentleman cat calling the models?

It's that, it's me staring at these. I know that they know what they're into. I know that they know. It's so funny. I forgot about that phenomena. 'cause I would watch you and you'd like take a look at it just long enough to take it in and then you'd look away. Oh, totally. I, I would, or I would stay locked in so I could make eye contact with them and smile and like reassure them like, you're doing really good job.

I'm giving you approval. Yes. Feel good about yourself. Every single one of them, I'd be like, whoop, whoop. Or like, make sure I was clapping or something. Yeah. It's, it's extremely uncomfortable for me to watch those. Yeah. I was like kind of okay with that phenomena. Mm-hmm. Until the, the gentleman across the way and I used gentleman lightly.

Yeah. Not just like, yeah. You know, he was right, like yes, from. The old West, I'm on a saloon porch and I'm doing this, and you're on a horse coming by and you're, yes. What the fuck? Right? And he was kind of hammered a teensy bit and didn't help. He was wearing a Robert Graham shirt. Yeah, it was very, very flamboyant.

Yeah, so it was, that was hard to watch. That was hard. Or there was some people that weren't paying attention, they would get up and they would like leave. I'm like, you guys are so rude. And I get so uncomfortable with like rudeness or injustices like mm-hmm. And I know that this, once again, very, very different.

But the fashion shows kind of give me vibes of a strip club, especially this one 'cause of the, you know. Yes. What they were showing and then how people were reacting. Yes. And how about the people that were like in between shows sprinting to go get drinks and like coming back with handfuls of drinks and spilling everywhere.

I was like, God, I do not miss those days. No. Like once it's gonna be over so I can go get a cocktail. Oh, I gotta get one in, get a show. Gotta, yeah. I should give him my card and be like, there's, can you chill the fuck out? Right. Even, even raging alcoholic me. I would've waited the show. Yeah. Or I would've came prepared with like five minis in my purse.

That's what you would've, you would've been prepared, right? Yeah. Those are rookie mistakes. Yeah. And I can give you my card and we can talk about it. Mm-hmm. And I'll recharge you $5,000. Yes. As you should. Did you, did they ever send you that picture of us at the Celsius thing? At the photo booth? Oh, I don't know.

For the one where we were wearing the glasses, probably. I'll look. I never saw that one. What was the company, was it Celsius itself? I think it was Celsius. I mean, Google it. Oops. So you normally, I don't mess with Celsius to me, like, and I'm no, you know, I'm no energy drink. Amateur here. Mm-hmm. But Celsius, God damn, that's another level.

I pop a Celsius. Really? I'm on like a 10 day bender in Vegas, man. I'm like, no joke. I stopped drinking them because one of my recovery centers say that you pop for opioids sometimes. When pe when when clients would drink Uhhuh clients, did you hear that clients would drink question. But I don't know if that's an old wife's tale or not.

You know the one that jacks you up? I don't even know if they're street legal anymore. You might need to get 'em on the black market. Red lines. Red line. Have you ever had a red line? No. Oh man. When I was in treatment, sometimes they would, if you had a cool ra, they would allow you to go get energy drinks.

'cause they weren't, they were forbidden. Yeah. Oh, okay. Mm-hmm. But I would drink half of a red line and I would be like, let's fucking go. And then not kidding, two hours later I would be the most depressed mess, headaches robbing human, but I would come back for more. Yeah. I've never had one of those. But Celsius kind of gets me like that. It makes me feel like my, my heart is gonna emerge from my chest cavity and like do a dance on the table.

It's like, I wonder what the difference is between the ingredients or maybe you're just so used to Red Bulls. I think they have like twice as much caffeine as, oh no joke. Their caffeine is through the roof. Oh. Um, and I could see how that could definitely jack up your heart. Mm-hmm. Yeah. 'cause Red Bulls don't, they don't really do that to me, but I usually only drink the little ones.

Mm-hmm. Except for when I accidentally bought those tall boys the other day and like, you want a Red Bull? And it's like sink ounces. Big ass, big gulp of Red Bull. It was so awesome. Yeah. I'll hit that. I'll take that. Right. I get a little, I get a little jittery. If I have an empty stomach and have two Red Bulls, I can drink a Red Bull on an empty stomach, feel fine.

But if I have like two or three. On an empty stomach, that's when it starts to get, you get busy. Yes. Yeah. But I don't know if it's 'cause the Red Bull or because the lack of substance in my stomach. Right. Should I, I don't do that a whole, I don't do that a whole, he that's good. Um, okay, so do you wanna hear about, you know, who EJ is in the Suns.

No, he is a son's announcer. His name is Eddie Johnson. Okay. I have mixed feelings about him. 'cause sometimes his comments I'm just like, oh, ej. Oh, Eddie Johnson, why distasteful? Um, like I just disagree with some of his stances on Oh, players. Oh, you've got hot takes. I think he has his own hot takes that sometimes clash with my own.

Okay. Well that could be fun. Yeah. No, it's, it's, it could be a fun. Dynamic. The old VY was, um, this, I'll make this short. The old Vy was going in for some service and we get there thinking like, Steve's just gonna take me, we'll work it out, and at the end of the day, we'll come back and get the car. They're like, we will have your vehicle for three to five days.

And I'm like, I, excuse me. I'm like, I can't be without my car for three to five days. And so they gave us a rental. We go to the rental place, we're sitting there, I have my back turned to all the other people, and I hear this voice and I'm like. That sounds like ej, that sounds like Eddie Johnson up. And I turn around Coily, you know, little quick glance I'm, and then I hit Steve and I go, that's ej.

That's ej. And he turn, and Steve looks at me like, no, it's not. He always gives me that look. And he, and he goes, and it sure is. And my whole demeanor changed. I became kind of a psychopath. Mm-hmm. And at one point in time, Steve goes. Easy, Gretchen? Oh no, because, and I wasn't saying anything or doing anything.

I think I may have just been holding my breath or like plotting what I was gonna say if it came to to be that I got to. Like say anything to him? Yeah. Yeah. And he was like, easy. Or he's like, breathe grt. Breathe grt. Oh, you were anticipating an encounter? I was, and I, of course, I'm gonna be cool. Like I'm not gonna be a psycho, I'm gonna be laid back.

Oh. So laid back. I'm gonna be like, Hey, yo, casual. So we go sit down and he gets called up and I hear. That he also has a rivian. He's there for the rivian rental car as well. Yeah. So in my head I'm like, okay, perfect segue. He's gonna walk by me. He got his car sooner. Yeah. He's gonna walk by me. I'm gonna do a fist bump and I'm gonna say, Hey, I, we got a rivian too.

Or I was gonna say something along the lines of like. I'm a fellow Rivian. Oh, what was it? It was way better than that. It was like, I see you too. Uh, Dawn, uh, uh, Rivian, uh, you, you, you jumped up the fancy meeting. You ah, do where do you charge Mo? Have I ever picked up on you at the rivian charge? You wanna charge together?

No. So he looks over, he's up at the counter still, and he just glances my way. Yeah. And I seize the day. Carpe diem to its finest. I put my heat up into the air and I go, Hey, ej.

And he looks to me like, oh, she's special. Where's her handler? Like she arrived. And I'm like, now I'm fully spiraling. 'cause I'm like, oh, that was so, that was your first interaction with this fella. He could be. You're into working with sons now. Come on. So that's when I came up with the Rivian thing. 'cause I heard him and I'm like, okay, be cool.

Be cool. Just give him a, I'm so sorry. Give him a fist bump and be like, Hey, we have a rivian too. Or, or I was like, Rivian power or something along those lines. Rivian pride. So he leaves. And he walks by me and I go, have a great day. Ah, so what did he say to your comments? Did he acknowledge, smiled and waved?

Like, I truly, like I was a special needs child. Okay. Did he pat you? No, I would've loved that. Oh, okay. I would've loved if he did that, but I mean, he was nice, but he didn't pay one bit of attention to me, and he went out into his car and then he was still sitting in his car when we got our car, and Steve's like, don't do it.

Don't do it. Did you really wanna go knock on the glass? I just wanted to tell him like, I enjoy his commentary, which was a lie because it's controversial and like we go, we, we butt heads on some things. Isn't that such a, an interesting phenomenon? Are you gonna see what I think you feel the desire to, to, to give somebody praise?

Mm-hmm. Because they're famous, even though you hate them. I have process justice. I've done the same thing and I felt like such a force and such an impossible No, it's a common thing. I think it's wild. And now like I'm obsessed with them. Yeah. And I'll probably like Google. Him and I, I think I followed him on social media.

Yeah. And I almost wrote him like, Hey, I saw you in the rental care place. And I was like, pop your brake scratching. He's like, yeah, I remember. Remember when I acknowledged you and then that, that it ended and now we're done with our interaction? I'm like, can I get a second chance on a first impression? I had something really good queued up to say to you, and I'd like to present it here in your dms.

And I was gonna say something like, Hey, thanks for doing what you do. And I'm like, you comment on thank you for your service.

I love you. I mean, not in a weird way, but kind of you love me. Ah, no. No. Can I, can I try and hug you and see how it feels? Can we just give it a test run? Did you have childhood trauma? Do you want my card? I don't have one, but not on me. I have 'em. Ah. Or I could pull one out and be all crumpled up like always.

People are like, do you have a card? I'm like, I think so. And then I hand 'em this like disheveled gum stuck freaking card. It like dirt on it from the corners being in the bottom right. I'm like, can I just text you and you can just have my phone number? No, you didn't tell me that story. I've been saving it.

I like that. That was a, that was a new one. And I left and Steve looks at me when we part and he's like, you okay? And I'm like, I think so. And now I'm driving a car that has gas and I don't even know how to drive it 'cause it's so much more different than my car. It was so funny. I'm like parked already. I beat her to pick up and she comes bellowing down the street in this like weird car.

And then she like. There's a full U-turn in front of me, and I could tell she's not used to like the brakes or how it turns because it's like. And she's like, I was like, I was like, oh my God, that's Gretchen. The brakes are so touchy in the Durango, and I forget that when you take your foot off the gas, you still roll.

Yeah. In gas cars in my rib. Like you take it off and you're stopped. Yeah. And you don't have to hold onto the brake. Right. And so there's been a couple dicey times where I'm like a little too close to the person in front of me because I'm just rolling and not even paying attention. Do you still have it?

Yeah. Yeah, for a bit. I actually, a rear-ended somebody while I was drinking because of, I didn't put my foot fully on the brake one time. And I'm like, fuck. And they were, they, they were nice and they just took pictures and I was like, you probably couldn't tell that I had been drinking, but, and it was white wine.

It was like warm white wine. Oh god. Like a chardonnay. Mm-hmm. I remember it very clearly. Disgusting disgust. That's funny. Okay. What else do you wanna talk about? Anything else? Yeah, I wanted to, I wanted to, um, bring to the table my, my official nomination for nut job of the week. I know it's been a while, but I have one that, uh, really, really presented himself to the forefront for this nomination.

A Mr. Mark Sanchez. Oh Marky Mark a Mr. Mark Sanchez. I mostly remembered him because I thought he was cute. He's a good looking man. Oh yeah. And I was like, wow. NFL quarterback, good looking guy. Mm-hmm. He's got it all jets. He looked very good and green. Yeah, he was. He was a thing for a while until I hear this completely fucking insane story.

About him. Mm-hmm. He was in Indianapolis because I know he does some sort of commentary. Oh, he does, if you will. Mm-hmm. For games, um, I don't know, for what network or whatever. And he was out at a bar in Indianapolis and he was seen in the, in the back alley of the bar doing wind sprints, just up and down the alley, running as fast as he could.

Were his cronies with him. That's unclear. Mm-hmm. In discussing it with, I think was it, I was talking to Brian at the gym about it. We were talking about it and he's like, I think he was there by himself. Which is not a good look. Nope. But that's, that's really not gonna earn you a full on nut job of the week.

Just doing, you know, getting a little ham, doing some sprints in the alley. That's, you know, that's good old fashion, fun. Done. Hundred thousand good. Old fashioned fun. I pulled my hammies doing that. You know, someone was probably like, I bet you couldn't run a four or something 40. And he's like, I bet you I could now.

And they go, okay. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Harmless, harmless fun. Harmless fun. It's not harmless. Is when he got into an altercation with an elderly gentleman who was driving an oil pickup and delivery vehicle. Slammed him to the ground because I think he tried to get in the vehicle. Oh my gosh. Fought this old man.

Old man stabs him in the chest multiple times. Doesn't fuck around. No, these, these truck drivers don't mess around. Yeah. Like he thought you could just step to this like city truck driver guy. Like, you kidding? Right. For one second. You didn't think he had a fucking blade on him, right? Like wake up. Lucky he was a blade and not a freaking gun.

A hundred percent. So he gets stabbed multiple times in the chest in critical condition. Oh really? Yeah. It was touch and go. She, for a while there and now I think he's been downgraded and I think, you know, he's expected to recover. But like, bro, what the fuck are you doing? Geez. You know, go out, go do your wind sprints.

But like you slam an old man to the ground. Like what? And I guess when he came to, no recollection, oh my God. So my question is, do you think he was just drunk or is this giving like, uh, coke, drunk, all the things, too many everything. And then I just went nuts out. Or like, what the hell happened here? I think all of the above.

I mean, you can get to that point. I think most, some people can get to that point just on booze. Yeah, I think so. And then you, you have that adrenaline mm-hmm. Of, okay, I, this is harmless fun for me, but now it's not, because I just slammed this guy and now he's, excuse me, and now he's fighting back, and now it escalated extremely quick.

Talk about a nightmare of a story for Mark Sanchez. Like, oh, I can, that's, that's a career ruiner. Yeah. I mean, like, he's gonna be a pariah now. Mm-hmm. Like, good luck getting any work of any kind. A hundred percent. If he even like fully recovers, I don't know. At least he's gotten stabbed in the chest where you like have good barriers maybe, but like, and another thing that old man, like.

Place for keeps. Yeah. He can stab him in the chest. Yeah. Not like a flush wound, like a belly wound. He's like, let me stab your tummy. Yeah. He's like, and this is a warning, you know? No. He's like, I'm gonna stab him in the heart. You slammed me to the ground. I'm gonna end your life now with my blade. I need to, I need to look up what this fellow looks like, what I'm doing right now.

I wonder if he was the man who comes and changes the grease trap. Yes. It was. Yeah. Oh, he's for sure tougher than nails. Yeah. You gotta be a tough dude to do that job. And I wonder, is he still married? Because like, could you imagine being the wife? No. Like standing by your man. Just take him to jail. Take him straight to jail.

Yikes. I don't know. Well, let's pray. Let's Mark, we're praying for you. Speedy recovery and let's just check yourself into a, uh, treatment facility. I've got tons of options. I can, uh, put in a good word for you at any of the ones that I teach at. And, uh, we just hope, hope that you get better. Fine, sir. Yeah, I think, and then I'm just like in perusing around here looking for photos and stuff.

Mm-hmm. It's like, oh, um. Accused of hooking up a 17-year-old, you know, oh, mark, Mr. Sanchez, mark, don't, and like, you know, don't you wanna just say to these people like, you did it. You did it. You hit the jackpot. Yeah. You accomplished your dreams. Right? You have fame and fortune. Mm-hmm. Stop fucking it up.

Right. Do you think he's gonna use CDE? I do believe that concussion, like that's a concussion thing that drives these people bananas. I, I do believe that. That's a real thing. Mm-hmm. Do I believe that they shouldn't be punished because they stabbed or they jumped or that other fellow that. Kill all those people.

Like you still need to be held accountable for it. Yeah. But there's like definite things that happen to your brain when you get hit over and over and over and over and over. I'm sure he's gonna go that route. Mm-hmm. I mean, like if I was his publicist, I'd be like, you go with c, DE. Like, right, right. You gotta, right.

But if that's really what's going on, who's to say? But you also like playing that sport. You know that that's, you kind of set yourself up for that too. Totally. I thank God every single day that my son does not wanna play that sport. Yeah. Well yeah. I say that and then I'm like, oh yeah, my son doesn't wanna be a danger.

Yeah. He's in a really dangerous sport. Right, but not like one that you get hit over in the head over and over and over and over. Did I tell you last night we went, he did a race at KTR and got third. Doesn't surprise me a bit. Yeah, you did good. Awesome. Yeah. Very cool. Um, any other funny little tidbits that we need to share?

We did an emergency podcast in the pickup line that hopefully we'll post or maybe we'll get to chicken to post it 'cause I, but Oh, we might have to cut the part where I actually filmed the car. Yeah, that might be, looking back, that might have been hasty. That was probably not a good idea. I'm like, don't show the license plate.

Yeah. He's like, don't show the car. I'm like, this bitch right here filming it. Like, what am I. I can't do that. You know what? I think maybe subconsciously irked me even more. So. It was like I was parked here, Missy was parked here. There's an opening to get into an area where people, other people, employees need to go and park in the cafeteria.

The cafeteria and everything. And this lady parked right there and like just weezled her little butt of her car into, it didn't fit like one inch off my front bumper right from, from, from both of us. And in my head I'm thinking. Why'd you have to come in Between me and Maxy, we were just, we were parked right next to each other.

What are you doing? You can't insert yourself like that. She did though. She did and was driving haphazardly and all the things. But myself, maybe we will, um, we will, uh, post that and make everybody laugh. Now we gotta film our dance video We do before we have to leave because it's yet another early release day.

We had a day off last week and an early release day, the week before that, and next week is fall break. So just a good way to keep the parents on their toes is constantly, uh, releasing them from school at these oddball times. Keep on of toes, hate them all right? But I love you. So with that, we love you. We love you.

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