Stroke It

The weather may be hot but the takes are hotter. The gals get into pottery, inappropriate children’s books and Jackie’s surprise World Cup visit. American pride has never been higher as we sit in our air con during a heat wave. Laugh along with all the unhinged commentary! 

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:03

Hey Mallory. Hey Jack. How you doing? You know, I'm here. I'm queer. Get used to it. Yeah. We missed you last week.

SPEAKER_00 0:12

I were if we could be queer, we would do. I would. If I could be queer, I would. Yeah. Sadly, I'm not. You'd be the first lady and I would be the president.

SPEAKER_01 0:27

Thank you. That feels like a back ending compliment, but thank you. You're Michelle Obama. Okay. I'll keep you in the kitchen. I'll run this.

SPEAKER_00 0:37

Yeah, exactly. That's right. You gotta you gotta plant all the vegetables.

SPEAKER_01 0:41

I gotta pick out those china patterns. Someone's got to.

SPEAKER_00 0:44

Someone's gotta do it. Someone's gotta go high low with you know Oscar De La Renta and Jay Crew. Exactly, honey.

SPEAKER_01 0:52

Yeah. Oh my god. I have I've survived the European heat wave of 2026.

SPEAKER_00 0:59

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 0:59

Today was 50 degrees and raining, so we're on the other side. I apologize, listeners. Last week I was a shell of the human I once was. Jackie doesn't do well in the heat. No, no. I travel with a fan always, no matter what the temperature.

SPEAKER_00 1:16

It's in my rider. Italy. Yep. It's in my green room rider.

SPEAKER_01 1:23

Like the like the musicians when you're like, I have to have pink MMs and a bowl of Skittles, but only red ones. And I need a fan. My travel fan.

SPEAKER_00 1:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:32

A fan always. More fan. Never enough. Yeah, this was rough. We had to go down to southern Poland for some army things, ceremonies, and things of the sort. And which was nice to be back on like U.S. Army base that was down there. But I had booked this cute little Airbnb before we went down. We were in Bolswavik, I think I'm pronouncing that wrong, which is like the pottery, Polish pottery capital of the world. Or Poland, I should say.

SPEAKER_00 2:00

And so I can't wait for my goods.

SPEAKER_01 2:02

Mm-hmm. Bringing some goods, smuggling some prices.

SPEAKER_00 2:05

And the prices of these things. Like, what are we talking?

SPEAKER_01 2:09

Yours was, I believe, we're talking, oh God. You know, I Polish prices to me are just kind of like monopoly money.

SPEAKER_00 2:19

So I don't really and we just assumed that the euro equaled the dollar.

SPEAKER_01 2:24

Yeah. We figured out after when we looked at our credit card bills, that was wrong. Wrong. That was very wrong. Not accurate. Nope. They would range. I think yours ranged from 45 to like $65. Nice. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it's like fine pottery. Fine pottery. That was for the bigger stuff. But I mean, I got the outlet was even less than we're talking teens to $30 for everything. And then there were some like bigger, nicer pieces that were a little more money. But yeah. But yeah, I blacked out and I did a lot of shopping. I was very excited about it.

SPEAKER_00 3:03

So what's your plan? Then you put all that stuff when you move back to the US, you're just gonna put all that on a ship and send it back over.

SPEAKER_01 3:09

Yeah, unfortunately, I'm gonna have to trust the or I could I could put it in the air shipment, which is the quicker one. That's probably what I would wrap it really well.

SPEAKER_00 3:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 3:18

Yeah, have them wrap it really well and put it in the air shipment that goes in the plane. Yeah, like the cargo plane, as opposed to the boat where it could just fall into the ocean forever. But yeah, I booked this Airbnb. It's a straighter moves. It was super cute online. It was in this old town area, it had this like amazing view. I was like, this is gonna be so cute. I'm gonna get the best like Instagram shot of like me walking up to the window and then having the view of the old town. Yeah, I didn't realize it didn't have air conditioning and anything. Straight-check that. And uh check that the day before, I was like, oh, we're it's really hot. I was like, let me just double check nothing, nothing. Message the owners. I was like, hey, maybe did I did I just miss it? Did I just miss it? And maybe there's air conditioning. They were like, no, yeah. No, this is a historic building. They were like, but we have two fans in there. I was like, that's okay. Not to blow around the hot air.

unknown 4:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 4:10

So I brought two more fans. And it so like this was Texas heat, okay? You know, Texas heat. You're born and raised. Houston, Texas, babe.

SPEAKER_00 4:20

You know, the second I get off the plane, my hair goes. Yeah. It's like a chia pet.

SPEAKER_01 4:25

It's nothing like it. It's Texas heat, but the thing in Texas in the United States is like, yes, it's hot outside, but then you go in your house, air conditioning. You go in a restaurant, that air conditioning is pumped so fucking high, I gotta bring a sweater. I'm cold. I gotta check.

SPEAKER_00 4:40

Oh my dad, my dad kept our AC on 67 year-round. Uh, their electrical in the summers was seven, eight hundred dollars. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 4:48

Worth every penny. You could put as much ice as you want. You go to a restaurant, you're getting a big icy cold drink. Things are cold. Here's nothing is cold. Nothing is cold. There's no, there was no escape except to sit in our car with the air conditioning. The apartment was hot, the outside was hot, the restaurants were hot, the stores were hot. Did you sleep? We did I didn't like we we were there two nights. The first night I didn't sleep. And then the second night, it was just pure exhaustion. Like I luckily, because we had to drive about six hours to get there. So I packed like a cooler in the car with ice packs, and our Airbnb had a teeny little freezer in the little teeny refrigerator. So I put those ice packs in. I literally slept with them cradled in my in my bosoms. I slept with one of those titties. Yep. Betwixt my titties, one at the back of my neck, and Michael being like, You're so dramatic. And I was like, listen, I'm not made for this. Shut up, okay? Yeah. I could be very menopausal. We don't know. Just because you've been years sleeping in the fucking Afghan desert. Okay. You are you are we are different people. I'm not built for that. Yeah. So yeah, I would sleep with the ice packs on me, just on the covers, fan on. It was fucking miserable. But I knew, like, we have air conditioning in our apartment here in Poland because that was a non-negoche. Non-negoche. And there are maybe a handful of places here that have air con. They call it aircon here. So now I'm calling it aircon. But on all the polls laughed at me. When I was like, I need a place of air conditioning, and everyone was just like, no, like it's not that bad. It's Europe. Like, really? You open the windows. Like, it's fine.

SPEAKER_00 6:26

To global warming people. Welcome to sit. We're here. I had several calls last week, video calls with my European coworkers, and every one of them just red faced, sweating, fan blowing their hair back. And they're like, Isn't it just hot there too? I'm like, yeah, but I'm I'm in my basement and it's this is the coldest part of my house. So I'm actually in a sweater right now because it's a little chilly. You know, I'm like, we have aircon here, you know. Aircon, baby. Air con. The woman I talked to that lived in Paris was like, I can't. This is the worst it's ever been. She showed me the thing and it was like 88 degrees inside. Yeah. Inside.

SPEAKER_01 7:02

Inside. Oh, it had to be. Our our flat there had to be 80, at least almost 90 degrees inside. Because it was a hundred. I would literally die. It was miserable. I I couldn't, I don't know how people survived, and the weekend was worse. Luckily, we were back here in the air con, but like the no escape from it, that is what kills you. That is what is like you can never bring your body temperature back down. Right, right.

SPEAKER_00 7:29

No, that's awful. We one year at Cape Cod, Brandon accidentally rented a house that didn't have it. And it was only like 78, but I was like, this is miserable. Like, I couldn't do my hair. I couldn't blow dry my hair. I'm like, uh I'm gonna die if I turn this blow dryer on, you know?

SPEAKER_01 7:43

No, it was and you you were like, can we hop on to record? I was like, I cannot. I cannot. You were like, cannot sit.

SPEAKER_00 7:51

Yeah, I just assumed you were alive because Jackie has a strict policy that we're not allowed to speak outside of the podcast. She doesn't want us to waste any potential content. So we can only gossip about people offline, and that's really it, you know. Right before we record, right before we record, we catch up on the latest goss, and then then we hop to it, you know. Well, Jackie, I have a good country song for you if you're right.

SPEAKER_01 8:14

Yes, let's pick up, let's pick it up. I think of Texas heat, hit me.

SPEAKER_00 8:18

I've been getting into my papa roots, you know, the papa country. Um I thought this one would be good just because the name of the band is so amazing. The name of the band is called Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. I've never heard of this, okay? And I think they may be a one-hit wonder. So I would imagine you tell me what comes up.

SPEAKER_01 8:38

Fishing in the dark.

SPEAKER_00 8:39

That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it.

SPEAKER_01 8:42

That's the one. Yes.

SPEAKER_00 8:44

All right. I can't wait to see what you think.

SPEAKER_01 8:46

Nitty gritty dirt van, fishing in the dark.

SPEAKER_02 8:54

All right. Mm-hmm. Ladies and up to my shining through the tree.

SPEAKER_01 9:03

Oh, it's on the real pop on the five.

SPEAKER_02 9:06

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 9:21

What what year? What time frame are we looking at for the start? Oh. Honestly, this doesn't have a very 80s. This is I feel like this song could come out right now.

SPEAKER_00 10:06

This song has transitioned into 90s, right?

SPEAKER_01 10:09

Oh, I that was good. I feel like that could be like a modern country band's song, throwback song.

SPEAKER_00 10:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 10:17

That's better than that fucking, oh, what's his name? He's a judge on the voice or something. Oh my god. But his song is just like Blake Shelton. No, not Blake Shelton.

SPEAKER_00 10:27

Is it Blake? It's not Blake Shelton. It's all the modern country is trash, in my opinion. Any country in the last 20 years, 25 years is just garbage. It's all like coffee. There's also what's his face that flat irons the shit out of his hair that's married to Nicole or was married to Nicole Carey. Oh, Keith Urban. My mom used to love Keith Urban. Did they get divorced? I saw him at the yeah, well, they're they've at least broken up, I think. Yeah. I saw him at the Houston Livestock Show in Rodeo. It actually was a decent show.

SPEAKER_01 10:55

Luke Bryan. Luke Bryan. He came. Oh, god damn it, my phone. How do you work this thing? There is a hold on, I'm gonna hit you with one. It's just been on my for you page where it literally sounds like AI wrote it.

SPEAKER_00 11:08

Probably didn't.

SPEAKER_01 11:09

And it's like drink beer, climb tree. Ugh, bars. Where is the climb tree? All I know is climb tree.

SPEAKER_00 11:18

Turn into, I think the turn into shit came from Kenny Chesney. That's when we really turned a bad corner with she thinks my tractor's sexy. Okay, you know what? I love I love Kenny Chesney. Okay, I guess the closet.

SPEAKER_01 11:31

You would. I'd love Kenny Chesney. I went to Kenny Chesney is like Connecticut country. That's Kenny Chesney is on the bubble. Kenny Chesney, Rascal Flats. That was my country.

SPEAKER_00 11:42

Oh, right. Can I please tell you my brother and sister danced, my sister's for what should have been her first dance with my dad at her wedding. They danced to These Days. That's how I'm doing these days.

SPEAKER_01 11:57

Oh, love that sound.

SPEAKER_00 12:00

Lost it. I did not know it was coming. I fully lost it. It was so sad. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 12:06

That's really cute. Yeah, sugar, Sugarland was another one. My mom really liked it. My mom loved her.

SPEAKER_00 12:12

That is Connecticut Country. It's Connecticut Country, baby. I had a client once in St. Cloud, Minnesota, and they all liked that kind of country music too. And it's like these hilarious accents. They're like, oh hey meow, don't you love country? I'm like, what is what is happening right now? You people listen to country music? Like, what's going on?

SPEAKER_01 12:30

Yeah, that Bascal Flats album's good. I gotta, I gotta dust that one off the old Spotify.

SPEAKER_00 12:34

It is. I do, I do like that one. Yeah. I do like that. It's all unforgivable, but you know, the music is good.

SPEAKER_01 12:40

It's okay. It was the times. It was of the times. But yeah, Kenny Chesney.

SPEAKER_00 12:43

They're still doing it.

SPEAKER_01 12:44

They they're not.

SPEAKER_00 12:45

Yeah. My roommate from college was the whitest of white trash from Knoxville, Tennessee, and she was obsessed with Kenny Chesney. I feel like he might be from there. Okay, here.

SPEAKER_01 12:55

This is we're gonna go drag Luke Bryan to filth. Oh god. Let me get to the chorus.

SPEAKER_02 13:04

If it wasn't for the tax land, what for the bills?

SPEAKER_01 13:08

Tell me AI didn't write this song.

SPEAKER_02 13:09

If it wasn't for the traffic and how and shields.

SPEAKER_01 13:12

Wait for the chorus. Oh.

SPEAKER_02 13:14

If it wasn't how it's told.

SPEAKER_01 13:17

He's just sitting on a pier with like a fishing pole. It's a single shot.

SPEAKER_00 13:23

This is not written by Hing. An adult.

SPEAKER_02 13:35

Climb tree.

SPEAKER_00 13:41

I cannot. You gotta turn that off. That is awful. I will take my papa country every day. Any day. Any day over that. They're used to the plot. We're going fishing in the dark. We're we're we're out by the creek, you know? Or I my mom raised me to be a prostitute. You know, like these are real actual plots.

SPEAKER_01 14:01

Wake up climb tree. Not climb a tree. Climb tree. Climb tree. Climb tree. Climb tree. Drink beer. Drink beer. Climb tree. Beat wife. Repeat.

unknown 14:14

Right.

SPEAKER_01 14:14

Exactly.

SPEAKER_00 14:15

If I could have it my way, I'd beat the shit out of that old brawn. It's kind of mouthy sometimes.

SPEAKER_01 14:25

Wake up, climb tree. So you know, we've really fallen. I will t I will take your papa country any day. Right.

SPEAKER_00 14:33

There's soul to it. It's interesting. There's it's got a good hook, you know? Whatever this slop is, it's just Luke Brian. It's it's a nightmare.

SPEAKER_01 14:42

Yeah. All shade, all shade to the Luke Brian fans.

SPEAKER_00 14:45

All shade. All the shade. You go find yourself another podcast. You're not welcome here. If you're bobbing to wake up, climb tree. Right. This is I don't know if we're for you. I don't know if it's I think it's gotten you know national and international attention, but it's especially gotten a lot of attention around here in the DC area, the saga that is the algae in the reflecting. The reflecting wall is it just it's so funny. It just keeps going. And it's like, we're gonna paint it, we're gonna paint it to look like the Bellagio or some Vegas trash, right? That's what we're gonna do. We go to paint it. Oh no, algae. You didn't clean the pipes or something. So then it's like, oh, we're just gonna clean the algae, it'll be fine. Only they can't. Like they have not, yeah. And then the paint starts peeling off, right?

SPEAKER_01 15:31

So they pour loading gallons and gallons and gallons of peroxide bleach? Yeah. What did they pour in there?

SPEAKER_00 15:36

Paint remover. Yeah, paint remover thinner. And they said, How the hell is this paint coming up? Yeah. We're gonna know exactly. I'm gonna go club tree after this. I'm so mad. I'm so mad about this, I'm gonna club tree. Yeah, basically. And then the next thing was is that there's somebody has done this. Somebody has, you know, it's not our fault. Somebody has poisoned the this, and you know, it's some nefarious actor, which my favorite meme I've seen about this said, I saw Goody Proctor putting algae in the reflecting pool, which really got somehow in a in a national monument, monitored by cameras and security 24-7, uh caped crusader.

SPEAKER_01 16:26

Yeah. Someone in an all-black outfit with a with a black bandana around their eyes, exactly, creeped in and somehow, somehow did it.

SPEAKER_00 16:34

You know, me and my daughter did just read a book about uh, you know, fairy tale ninjas. So maybe that's what it was. I think that's what it was. It was a fairy tale ninja.

SPEAKER_01 16:44

Oh my god, I have to read you this book. Hold on. Stay right here. Stay don't go anywhere. Where would I go? You just said you and your daughter read a book. It's this Hey Dougie Animals, a touch and feel playbook. Our friends gave this. This is from England. BBC. It's a BBC book. They gave it to us. Okay. They were getting rid of some old books, and there's like no English books here, so I was like, I'll take whatever you can get.

SPEAKER_00 17:05

I'm gonna read you a little excerpt from this. Why can't we? Okay. Yes.

SPEAKER_01 17:10

The squirrels are stroking Dougie's fur. What animals are soft and furry like Dougie? Betty has found a tortoise. It feels a bit hard, says Betty. Stroke the hard tortoise. That tickles, says the tortoise. What animal has Happy found to stroke? It's a goldfish, says Happy. It feels a bit slippery. Stroke the slippery goldfish.

SPEAKER_00 17:32

Splush splash.

SPEAKER_01 17:33

Oh my god. No. No stroking.

SPEAKER_00 17:38

No stroking in children's books.

SPEAKER_01 17:41

Tag has found an animal too. What is it? It's a slug, says Tag. It feels a bit sticky. Stroke the sticky slug. Don't stop. That feels amazing.

SPEAKER_03 17:52

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_00 17:54

So we start hard and then we go to slippery, and then we go to what? And then we end the slug.

SPEAKER_01 18:00

Oh no. The squirrels can't find any more animals to stroke. Dougie can think of animals.

SPEAKER_00 18:05

The squirrel stroked all the animals. They stroked them all to completion. Oh my God. We need to, we need, and we we need to pause right here and play that song stroken. You know which one I'm talking about? I'll be stroke in. I stroke it to the east.

SPEAKER_01 18:20

Dougie can think of one animal they missed, Enid. Stroke soft and furry Enid. Perrr. Oh my god. Written by Jeffrey Epstein. Okay. So that one took us. That one took us for a loop. First time we read that, I said, I might not.

SPEAKER_00 18:40

You won't read the stroken book again.

SPEAKER_01 18:43

I was like, Eva, instead of stroke, can I say pet? She was like, but that's not what it says.

SPEAKER_00 18:46

I was like, I know, but I know this book anymore.

SPEAKER_01 18:51

Yeah. So you know, there you go. That's great. That's that's great.

unknown 18:55

That's great.

SPEAKER_00 18:56

That's great. But they circling just to you know tie a bow on this whole algae pool. They they have arrested people for taking samples of the algae or pulling up pieces of paint and taking pictures with it. And they have now just put up a big fence around it so nobody can sneer it. That's how you do. It's a national embarrassment. Right.

SPEAKER_01 19:16

Love that. Love that for all of us. Speaking of embarrassments, there were two moments last week while we were surviving the heat that really humbled me. Okay. First, first was we were going to this award ceremony, and I was in a dress with like a one-piece spanx underneath, which a one-piece spanx when it's 90 is is tough. It was a choice. It was a choice. But we we needed something cold. We needed an iced coffee in the morning, okay? And the only place we could get an iced coffee was the US Embassy, aka McDonald's. So we went to fucking McDonald's and we were like, we need an iced coffee. The ice was still not American level, but we took it. And when and as soon as that iced coffee hit, I was like, I gotta take a shit.

SPEAKER_00 19:58

Hey, I gotta go poop. So I had to take So I'm gonna take off my whole onesie. Yeah, take off everything I'm wearing in the McDonald's bathroom.

SPEAKER_01 20:06

Yeah, I had to take a naked poop in the McDonald's bathroom at 8:30. Oh my god. And that'll humble you. That'll humble you. That'll humble you. That'll humble you. And then my daughter and I, once we were at the ceremony, we we had to use the bathroom later on. And so we were in a stall on the base together, and I again also had to take all my clothes off. So I'm sitting on the toilet naked. It didn't have the little hole in it? Yeah, but you know, I don't trust those. They've steered me wrong a time too many times where I thought I got it. Paid on yourself. And then I peed myself. Yeah. And then now I have to wear a pea soaked.

SPEAKER_00 20:39

They really don't make the holes big enough.

SPEAKER_01 20:41

No, it's never gonna work. So I don't I don't risk it.

SPEAKER_00 20:44

Unless you have a penis and you just want to slip the penis through, but exactly.

SPEAKER_01 20:47

Exactly. But no, I take it all off. So I'm sitting on the toilet naked in front of my daughter who's staring at me. And she was in a porta potty? No, no, a real bathroom. A real bathroom. Oh, okay, okay. But we're in like one big stall together, and she's she's looking at me sitting on the toilet, and she's like, I really love this area, pointing to my stomach of you. And I'm like, Oh, thank you so much. And she was like, It looks like stacked cakes. I said, Wow. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. I love that. It looks like a wedding cake, like a seven-tiered cake. Mm-hmm. Looks like a mini-tiered cake. And I said, I'm gonna gotta break the cycle. Thank you so much. I love that about my cake. And I love my body. I'll tell you what. I love my tiered cake, tummy. Thank you. Oh, yeah. I love that. Thank you.

SPEAKER_00 21:37

These kids, they'll humble you. You know, they'll humble you. We'll fucking quick. We were hanging out with friend at the pod, Catherine, and her daughter. And when we got home, Eliza said, Mommy, how old is Catherine? I was like, I don't know. I think she's like 37, 38, maybe. She goes, Wow, she is so much younger than you and so much taller than you.

SPEAKER_01 21:55

I was like, You know what she is? Thank you so much. Yes, you're right.

SPEAKER_00 22:00

Great. Great. Yeah. And then Brandon's kind of giggling to himself, and then she looks at him and she goes, I'm pretty sure she's taller than you too, Dad. I was like, Yeah, yeah, she is. That's true.

SPEAKER_01 22:11

How does it fucking feel, Brandon?

SPEAKER_00 22:12

How does it feel? Hilarious. Who's laughing now?

unknown 22:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 22:16

Short thing. That's right. That's right. Yeah. Catherine's standing over you like, hello. Uh-huh. Climb that tree. Climb tree. Climb tree. Exactly. I'm like, don't get so high on yourself, kid. You come from these two shorties, so you don't have aspirations of being a giant, okay? It's not looking good for you. It's not looking too good. One thing that happened last week.

SPEAKER_01 22:44

Our opaire was on vacation. Please chew the giant thing you just put in your mouth while we're going to be able to do it. Let me finish the candy that I was eating from the company that I work for.

SPEAKER_00 22:52

His name shall not be uttered. Hold on, let me watch it. Down with some water first.

SPEAKER_01 22:57

Hold on, just finish your meal. Just take a minute.

SPEAKER_00 22:59

Just finish your meal on the pod. So, you know, I basically I'm a shell of a person when I don't have an opaire around. I'm like, I'm supposed to make them lunch. I'm supposed to do their laundry. Like, this is this is not for me. This is not what I signed up for. Yeah. This is not this is not the life I intend to lead. Right? So relatable. So this is nothing but a relatable podcast. This is a relatable content right here. So I take off some half days so I can hang out. My daughter was in camp, but my son was too little. So take off some So you had to take care of them. Ugh. Terrible. He loves the Army Museum here because there's like that's my boy. Little kids' play place. Yeah. And he's really into Army Men right now. So went to take him to the Army Museum. First thing we do, he's like, we gotta hit the cafe first. I'm like, okay. Beautiful. So we go sit down, he just takes straight to the face like an entire bag of pirate's booty and a cookie, and we sit there for probably 45 minutes. Then he goes, plays in the little play place area for 15 minutes, and boom, we're done. That's it. That's the whole thing. So we go to leave and I see electric vehicle parking. And I'm like, okay. Hello, Army. Since when did we get so woke? So progressive. How prog- I mean, what are we doing next? We're gonna have like an army themed drag brunch for the kids. What are we doing here? That's it. That's I mean, that's what happens. You start with electric vehicles. Yep. That's right. You start by acknowledging global warming and it's all downhill from there.

SPEAKER_01 24:23

It's all downhill from there. I mean, I was just arguing with my husband. We were at this ceremony, and there's an army song, the army song, and I haven't sang it in a few years. We haven't really been at any like official army ceremony things. Yeah. And I was like, oh God. Well, first, each unit has their own song. There's a lot of songs, okay? There's a lot of songs in the army. So both of these units have their own song, and one of them is just hilarious. It is one of the lines is like, I wouldn't trade a can of beans to be a dandy marine or something. I don't know. Oh, yeah. It's a real fabulous song. So their song, they sing their little numbers, and then it's like army song time, and the music starts. I'm like, I don't know if I'm gonna remember the remember the words, and then like a sleeper cell, it all came back to me. I knew everything. And so Mike's laughing. He's like, You remembered everything. And I'm like, you know what? I've been to a lot of these. I was like, the musical theater world, the army world, they're not that far apart. They're not that far apart. They're really not. You guys got a lot of musical numbers. You got a lot of songs you gotta learn. Okay. You love a costume, you love a costume. I mean, there's a costume now they can get that as a cape. You can have an official army cape. Stop it. Absolutely. For what purpose? You know, for fabulosity, for balls, for the balls for the dance, for the for the fancy dances.

SPEAKER_00 25:38

What are we doing here? Is this real life? They have capes for the army where they like don't want gay people to come into. No, no, no, no. What is happening? No gay. No gay people have capes.

SPEAKER_01 25:50

You can have full drag. Full drag. Oh my god. Tons of musical numbers. They're always in a rehearsal for some sort of show. They're always in a rehearsal. They they have to learn different scripts. They have to be in front of an audience. I was like, you're not, we're not that far apart. I was like, how many? I bet you've done more rehearsals in the last 20 years than I've done. He was like, kind of definitely. Definitely. Yeah, exactly. I said, I don't I don't think you should be mocking the theater, us theater nerds as much because you're just one step away. You're theater nerds with guns. That's basically what the army is. Well, one interesting. Yeah, yeah. Had that revelation. I was like, you and me, we're not so far apart. All right. We're not so different.

SPEAKER_00 26:31

That's how we this is how we build communities together, you know? We reach across the aisle. We reach across the aisle.

SPEAKER_01 26:38

Yep. Amazing, Mallory. Well, all right. See you in a couple weeks, buddy.

SPEAKER_00 26:44

See you in a couple weeks. Enjoy your air con. I know. I guess our next record if we record next week, you'll be here, right? We'll be in the same time zone. Same time zone. Holy shit. It's gonna be weird. Maybe we could see what you look like, you know, in the morning when you're awake.

SPEAKER_01 27:00

When the hair is in the dark, like a little, like a rat, like a little raccoon in my cave ear. You're like, all right, time to go. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. A recording in the daytime would be great. So can't wait to see what that feels like. Guys, follow us on the social, a Kiki catch up. Mallory's posted real good stuff. You're better at posting like polls and things, whereas I just like to share. I just like to share stuff like what you see and share.

SPEAKER_00 27:35

I like I like to content create.

SPEAKER_01 27:37

Yes, you create, I share. It's good. It's good. Yeah, it's a good mix. It's a good mix. Coming together. Coming together here. Follow us on the social. Keep sending us questions for uh Gen Z expert KDP. We will have her in the future if you have any good questions for Gen Z.

SPEAKER_00 27:54

Hoping for today, but she was she's under the weather. So we'll try to get her for next week. We'll get her. Send in your Gen Z questions. I have a lot. The first one is the star zip patches, you know. So I want to get to the bottom of that. They wear them out everywhere. Just like it's not shameful at all. They just have a star patch over there. Zip. It's I've never seen anything like it.

SPEAKER_01 28:15

Yeah, we got some deep diving to do. We're gonna get to the tough questions first. And that's definitely one of them. Excellent. Yeah. Excellent. Breaking journalism. I love it. Yes.

unknown 28:23

All right.

SPEAKER_00 28:23

All right, Mal. Great to see you. See us next week in America. Mighty. It's a kiki catch up.

unknown 28:32

It's a kitty catch up. It's a kitty cat.