Speaker 1: Wind Down and Michael and Radio podcast. It's the holiday season,
Speaker 1: so they do. And Hickory Dick doctics. I don't know
Speaker 1: why every time I heard that song, that's what I think, Dick. Great,
Speaker 1: you're just ruining the classic Christmas song for everyone listening.
Speaker 1: You're welcome, Thank you for that. What song is that?
Speaker 1: And don't forget to clean up your socks? Hanging up
Speaker 1: your sock? Um. This is a new episode of Butchering
Speaker 1: Songs on Wine Down. I don't know that you read, Dick.
Speaker 1: I can't with you. You don't dream about a Hickory Dick. No,
Speaker 1: I do not, Actually I do not. Speaking of Christmas,
Speaker 1: I feel like things are already starting to get so
Speaker 1: messy around the house because it's just like already wrapping
Speaker 1: paper and presents and hiding stuff and and the cooking
Speaker 1: every we're already starting, right. Thank goodness, we've got all
Speaker 1: that Chlorox stuff to help clean up. Because that's been
Speaker 1: a game changer. Oh yeah, it has. And I love
Speaker 1: it just because the kids like all the the new
Speaker 1: germs coming home from you know, preschool and stuff. So
Speaker 1: I gotta love the Clorox. You guys, get it before
Speaker 1: it's out. Yeah, and this is a bonus episode. Um
Speaker 1: it's kind of like a girl's night Christmas party and
Speaker 1: me so I'm just kind of fourth wheeling it. Um,
Speaker 1: you're so good at fourth wheeling it with the girls.
Speaker 1: Like even tonight, I'm having a girl's night and it's
Speaker 1: like what go ahead? No, no, go ahead all the
Speaker 1: time and after no. It's funny sometimes too because Jane
Speaker 1: is like, Hey, I'm gonna have a girl's card night,
Speaker 1: card's night or whatever, and so in my mind, I'm like,
Speaker 1: all right, cool, like all be night to myself. I
Speaker 1: get to play video games, play video games. Takes a
Speaker 1: couple of buddies, see what they're doing, and she's like yeah,
Speaker 1: but um yeah a few things. She's like, we don't
Speaker 1: have a fourth and we want to play youker, so
Speaker 1: we need you to play with us. Or it's like, hey,
Speaker 1: we want to play the other other card game. Can
Speaker 1: you teach everyone so we can play tonight. It's like yeah,
Speaker 1: and I love it. I love it. I love I mean,
Speaker 1: I am one of the girls like hanging out because
Speaker 1: all your girls are are like the guys, they're bros, brodettes. Um,
Speaker 1: so I have a fun time with them. But so Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're right, I'm not used to I'm not you're not
Speaker 1: a stranger to girls Nights. No, I'm not like you'll
Speaker 1: you'll whip on a mask. And I think that's so.
Speaker 1: We have two really awesome guests today. We have Rachel
Speaker 1: Lindsay who was a former bachelorette, and then we also
Speaker 1: have daniellemne Um so to really fun girls. But it's
Speaker 1: funny because I I I've never been I've never watched
Speaker 1: every single episode of like the Bachelor Bacherette, and I've
Speaker 1: just like either watched you know, we'll watch at the
Speaker 1: very beginning just to see the schmucks coming on and
Speaker 1: then which smucks she picks. Yeah, place, There's were some
Speaker 1: seasons there where we're kind of we're pretty invested. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I still feel like we might have missed like
Speaker 1: an episode or two and then like now it's just
Speaker 1: like I watched the first and I watched the men
Speaker 1: tell all or the women tell all, and then like
Speaker 1: the last one. But I really was sorry, I'm going
Speaker 1: down a rabbit hole here, But with Claire, I was like, yes,
Speaker 1: like finally like an older bachelorette, Like I'm so excited.
Speaker 1: Obviously she found love within the first week and her
Speaker 1: and Dale went off and got engaged. And now Tasha
Speaker 1: has taken her place, and I for some reason, like
Speaker 1: I I got invested with some of the dudes on there,
Speaker 1: and I was like, I want to see more. And
Speaker 1: then now that Tassia's on her like, she's one of
Speaker 1: my favorite bachelorttes ever. She's so I mean, Rachel was
Speaker 1: amazing too, and I'm super excited to talk to her,
Speaker 1: but I have so many like bachelorette questions I want
Speaker 1: to ask her because as I was running today on
Speaker 1: the treadmill, you know, just watching Tasha, Um, it was
Speaker 1: kind of to the point of like the guys because
Speaker 1: there's so many things on there that I'm like, for example,
Speaker 1: like hey, let's put a face mask on, and you're
Speaker 1: being like okay, and like I feel like you learned
Speaker 1: so much about the dudes, and just like certain situations
Speaker 1: around your girls, do you know what I mean, Like
Speaker 1: when they're around your girlfriends like that you're just you're
Speaker 1: you're okay with like your manlihood, but also like you'll
Speaker 1: be fun and you'll put masks on if you want.
Speaker 1: And I don't know, I just think the whole thing
Speaker 1: is it's fun too, like no that, like you have
Speaker 1: those different sides. And I think if I was on
Speaker 1: the Bachelorette and a guy was just like, I'm not
Speaker 1: doing that, I'd be like, h you're lame. I think
Speaker 1: too for for guys when once they're in a relationship,
Speaker 1: like we'd be honest, like if we're found put in
Speaker 1: face mask on, we'll put it on. If we're not,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter who's around and be like no, I'm good,
Speaker 1: but like even if your girlfriends are around, everyone was
Speaker 1: doing it. God big now I'm all right, Oh yes,
Speaker 1: I am. I make up that if the rules are reversed,
Speaker 1: when it's just like the guys hanging out, that the
Speaker 1: female will do something almost no matter what because she
Speaker 1: wants to be one of the guys or look cool
Speaker 1: or look fun. And the guys, you know in her
Speaker 1: man's friend's eyes, when really you hate it and you're
Speaker 1: just gonna like hold it against your spouse later on,
Speaker 1: you know what I think would bother me. And I
Speaker 1: know some times I know like certain people that do
Speaker 1: this is but you will say the same joke that
Speaker 1: they've told their spouse, but then say in a group situation,
Speaker 1: in a group setting, and you're like, you kind of
Speaker 1: look at your sposter like this, I'm so like, I
Speaker 1: just imagine like the Christmas even though there's not many
Speaker 1: Christmas parties, but just like Christmas gatherings, And then like
Speaker 1: you've heard the same joke, but yet your husband or
Speaker 1: spouse still says it, and you're just like, I'm so
Speaker 1: annoyed with you. You know, I think I do a
Speaker 1: pretty good job at not repeating things, even if I
Speaker 1: say it to you in the stage of somebody else. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: you do a great job at it. But you know
Speaker 1: the people I'm talking, oh, absolutely, And there's actually a
Speaker 1: joke that you say that I kind of cringe every
Speaker 1: time you say it. Why for that exact reason, the
Speaker 1: tornado wants it's so good though it's my only one joke.
Speaker 1: It's I mean more like so like if you got
Speaker 1: a joke, it's a joke, a story story, a story
Speaker 1: that's funny. I know I get you, but yes, I
Speaker 1: think that you have the one go to joke, and
Speaker 1: I just every time you, like I have want to
Speaker 1: hear a joke, I'm just like, here we go, interesting, Well,
Speaker 1: he still wants to know the joke. I'm going to
Speaker 1: cringe over here? Why Jana says it? Do you need
Speaker 1: to like take your headphones off while I say it? Wait,
Speaker 1: let me do it? How I was it? Guys, I
Speaker 1: have a funny joke. I love how like I was
Speaker 1: basically complimenting you and saying, then you say to me,
Speaker 1: well you do it? You don't. This is the only
Speaker 1: thing that you do it. If some if everyone's telling jokes,
Speaker 1: like if we're having like, you don't come out of nowhere. Hey, guys,
Speaker 1: I have a funny joke. But I'll do it right now. Hey,
Speaker 1: wind down, listeners. Here's a joke for you. Why are
Speaker 1: women and tornadoes alike? Because they scream when they come
Speaker 1: and take your house when they leave? Oh yeah, because
Speaker 1: they scream when they come and take your house when
Speaker 1: they leave. That's right. So, now at your Christmas gathering,
Speaker 1: got you guys a joke? You're welcome. Would you like
Speaker 1: to tell when Michael I'm a situational guy, you know me.
Speaker 1: Here's Michael at a situation. Though this is going to
Speaker 1: be such an exaggeration, it's not a gadderation. So we
Speaker 1: went to a Christmas party at Wesley's house last last Christmas,
Speaker 1: which by the way, it's so weird that, you know,
Speaker 1: her Christmas party has been canceled, obviously for valid reasons.
Speaker 1: It's just sad. But Michael is the guy and bless
Speaker 1: his heart, like he you know, I feel like we
Speaker 1: both mold very well into situations. Yeah, like we can
Speaker 1: talk to a wall and be fine, granted my conversation.
Speaker 1: Like the last episodes, I hate small talks. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be like, why are you divorced? Like like I want
Speaker 1: to go straight to it. But with Michael, he's just like,
Speaker 1: You're like, you're not the mayor, but you're like you
Speaker 1: want to be the mayor, Like you want to be
Speaker 1: in the Mayor's club. So we go to Wesley's Christmas
Speaker 1: party and like, first of all, did you have the
Speaker 1: fedora on? Of course? Okay, So he wears his fedora, which,
Speaker 1: by the way, if anyone knows my husband's head, it's
Speaker 1: way too large for a fedora to begin with. But
Speaker 1: he rocks it. So yeah, he rocks it. You know,
Speaker 1: I love him for it. So it's been like the
Speaker 1: second we get there, I go see the girls. He
Speaker 1: goes down to the guys and you know, he's got
Speaker 1: his little sports jacket on and you know he's he's
Speaker 1: looking he's looking fancy, he's stealing himself in his fedora,
Speaker 1: and you know, I think it's been like two hours now.
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, I haven't seen my husband. Um, I'm
Speaker 1: tired of the small talk. You know, I've had the
Speaker 1: like like I'm done, I'm ready to go home, right,
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna go find Michael. So I go outside
Speaker 1: because I see a cloud of just like cigar smoke.
Speaker 1: I'm like, there must be my husband, just man. So
Speaker 1: I go out there and I just see my husband
Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh god, here's mayor Mike. Like, I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna and I sit down and he was just
Speaker 1: like like just like laughing with what was the guy's
Speaker 1: name again? Okay, great? Even better. So you know, I
Speaker 1: sit down and these guys are just like I gotta
Speaker 1: I gotta a bourbon in one hand a cigar and
Speaker 1: the other leaning back with my door and sport code
Speaker 1: on my legs crossed all fancy like yeah. And so
Speaker 1: I'm like sitting out there. I'm like, okay, I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna sit out here with him for a second, and
Speaker 1: you know, just being the moment with him and you know,
Speaker 1: he seems like he's having a really great time. These
Speaker 1: guys are laughing and you know, and then he's like
Speaker 1: Lane the Mayor. We'll just call Lane the Mayor. He
Speaker 1: says something really funny and Mike goes Lane and I
Speaker 1: was like, it's time to go. We need to go immediately.
Speaker 1: I was like Lane, and I was like, Lane, is
Speaker 1: he so funny? You did? That's how he sounded and
Speaker 1: no exaggeration. You pretty much got up stone faced, were
Speaker 1: like it's time to go. Mom has done Like it
Speaker 1: was just like you, who is this one taking up
Speaker 1: puff of my cigar? Who is this guy? We need
Speaker 1: to immediately leave. I'm the guy that can go into
Speaker 1: a room and all the guys in the room I've
Speaker 1: known each other for years and I'm brand new to
Speaker 1: the group. I'll walk out of that room with nicknames
Speaker 1: for everybody. We're all telling jokes like yeah, yeah, I'll
Speaker 1: see you on the squash court, like you like transform
Speaker 1: into this tennis like I don't even know where. It's
Speaker 1: like Lane, let's see you at the club, Darlin. And
Speaker 1: then it's like this other and then it's like you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's hello areous because you you you genuinely morph
Speaker 1: into this um different humans. It's still me, but it's
Speaker 1: just a more um. Hey man, I just like to
Speaker 1: have a good time at these Uh. No, I love
Speaker 1: it sometimes, No, I genuinely love it. I think it
Speaker 1: was just after the hours of small talk and then
Speaker 1: having you come out to be then seeing that I
Speaker 1: was just like, okay, yeah, but because we don't have
Speaker 1: a we're not doing Christmas party, I feel like we
Speaker 1: should do something with the kids. Like what do you mean,
Speaker 1: I don't like throw a throw a Christmas party like
Speaker 1: just us. Yeah, we were sweaters. I would love that,
Speaker 1: like an ugly Christmas party sweater. I love it. And
Speaker 1: we can watch like Frosty the Snowman. That sounds like
Speaker 1: a great idea. Are we gonna do something for New
Speaker 1: Year's a big deal for you? I love New Year's
Speaker 1: But right now, let's just focus on Christmas, um and
Speaker 1: making sure that we have our clorox during Christmas time,
Speaker 1: because with you know, everything that's going to get a
Speaker 1: little messy with like our gingerbread houses and the dogs
Speaker 1: and the kids. Were happy to have our clerks in
Speaker 1: hand with us is Zara if you say, I was
Speaker 1: like adamant about a Christmas tradition, like what like maybe
Speaker 1: I was and it was like I want to go
Speaker 1: back to Virginia every year. M I would that would
Speaker 1: be a would you have told me that before we
Speaker 1: got married or after? I don't know, I just you know,
Speaker 1: I feel like holiday traditions like there's it's one of
Speaker 1: those things where you don't talk about early stages in
Speaker 1: a relationship until the holidays. There maybe if you're dating
Speaker 1: and it's around a holiday, you mentioned like holiday traditions,
Speaker 1: but you still might not know the severity of what
Speaker 1: of of it for that person, like yeah, I typically
Speaker 1: go home and then you get married, Like no, I
Speaker 1: go home every year. I feel like that one's a
Speaker 1: big ask as well as like a tradition in my
Speaker 1: mind is like a big cookies with Jolie every year.
Speaker 1: Or you know, we now have our new tradition when
Speaker 1: we watch a Christmas movie every week until Christmas. But
Speaker 1: your question is if that was your tradition of I'm
Speaker 1: not saying me specifically. I just think the topic of
Speaker 1: you know, new relationships and having these traditions around holidays
Speaker 1: and how people navigate those. I think it's just about
Speaker 1: like adapting in and also compromising too, like because I
Speaker 1: think if just say, like I have to be home
Speaker 1: every year for Christmas, that's a really big gass when
Speaker 1: you start to have kids and you know, you're get
Speaker 1: you're married, and you've got young ones, Like that's that
Speaker 1: to me is a kind of a tall order if
Speaker 1: you're far away from home. Um. But I think other traditions,
Speaker 1: I think it's just one of those things where you know,
Speaker 1: you say it's really important to you, and then you
Speaker 1: kind of meet in the middle. And I mean, shoot,
Speaker 1: most Christmas traditions I'm off or I love Christmas time.
Speaker 1: I mean, once you have kids, it's it's that's when
Speaker 1: everything changes, you know. And if you're if your family
Speaker 1: isn't local, you've got to have your own traditions at home. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Which you know, if you were to say like that
Speaker 1: was something like you have to have every year, I'd
Speaker 1: have been like, how could you even you don't? It's
Speaker 1: just such a hard one, Like how do you even like?
Speaker 1: You know, I would be like no, because I've got
Speaker 1: family I want to see too, or you know, I
Speaker 1: want to stay home like I want to I want
Speaker 1: to create my own traditions, like with the kid the kids,
Speaker 1: and that's those are the traditions. Like we're just finding
Speaker 1: out our traditions and I think that's yeah, Like right
Speaker 1: now we're creating our own traditions, and I think that's
Speaker 1: cooler than anything in my in my mind. But when
Speaker 1: Jason Jolie start to have families, are you gonna want
Speaker 1: them to come to our house? Are you gonna be
Speaker 1: open at traveling to them? Oh, wherever they could have me?
Speaker 1: Like I I'm I don't care at all, Like I
Speaker 1: just want to be And that's the thing, Like, you know,
Speaker 1: we had our traditions growing up, and like in my mind,
Speaker 1: you have your traditions when you grow up. Then you
Speaker 1: have your traditions when you start a family and you
Speaker 1: have kids of your own, and then when your kids
Speaker 1: go and have kids of their own, then you have
Speaker 1: to recreate your whole new tradition, you know, and and
Speaker 1: seeing what that looks like. Um, so yeah, of course,
Speaker 1: I mean I want to, you know, hopefully be invited
Speaker 1: to their house. Um would love for them to come home,
Speaker 1: and you know, maybe we can figure out something that
Speaker 1: works for everyone. But obviously I understand that their wives
Speaker 1: and husbands are going to have a say and they
Speaker 1: have family they have to visit to, and that's when
Speaker 1: we have to create our own new traditions. And maybe
Speaker 1: we're like, you know what, we're in Florida, we're not
Speaker 1: vacation kids. See you later. You're on your own. I'm
Speaker 1: excited to talk about talk to our guests Rachel, Lindsay
Speaker 1: and Danielle mone just to see what they're you know,
Speaker 1: traditions are I mean Rachel and her hasband only been
Speaker 1: married just over a year. You know, they're a long
Speaker 1: distance so we'll dive into that with them. So let's
Speaker 1: take a break and let's get going with that. What's up.
Speaker 1: Let's say, Rachel, how are you doing good? How are y'all?
Speaker 1: Do you needed to put on headphones or no, you're great.
Speaker 1: That sounds awesome. Okay, so we've already introred you. Um,
Speaker 1: we're super excited Rachel to have you on Wine Down.
Speaker 1: First of all, I want to say, as an extra
Speaker 1: correspondent with you, I love that we kind of do
Speaker 1: you know the same thing in a way we do
Speaker 1: we do. I'm happy to be you've been in the family.
Speaker 1: I'm happy to be a part of the family now. No, no,
Speaker 1: you're so sweet and you're so beautiful too. I just
Speaker 1: I don't know. I like you, that's all. I mean.
Speaker 1: How many different things are you doing right now? Right now?
Speaker 1: Rachel to stay busy because I feel like getting your rundown.
Speaker 1: You're just a woman of many, many hats right now. Hi.
Speaker 1: I do a few things, but it all somehow, it
Speaker 1: all works it self out. So extra I do to
Speaker 1: podcast one Bachelor Happy Hour and the other one is
Speaker 1: Higher Learning with Van Lathan, two totally different types of podcasts.
Speaker 1: One Bachelor Bachelor Bachelor, the other one is about politics,
Speaker 1: current affairs, sports, entertainment and all how it affects the
Speaker 1: black culture. And then I have a show on MTV.
Speaker 1: But it's not we're not feeling right now, So that's good.
Speaker 1: I think that's it. So well know that that's amazing.
Speaker 1: It's not. That's it. That's a lot like it's fine. Um,
Speaker 1: so I'm I'm obviously I'm watching this season of The Bachelorette.
Speaker 1: I just have to ask you, if you who who
Speaker 1: do you like the most? Right now? Okay, I have
Speaker 1: to think where we are in the season, So i'll
Speaker 1: because I'll slip up and say something I'm not supposed to. Well,
Speaker 1: where Okay, So I I just caught up on the
Speaker 1: treadmill this morning and they just had so Bennett is
Speaker 1: that his name? Bennett? He went away and then he
Speaker 1: then he just came back. Um, but I like Ben
Speaker 1: and Zach I think his name is. I like those too,
Speaker 1: because they're like they've been through stuff, but they're they're
Speaker 1: open enough to like vulnerable share. But I don't know.
Speaker 1: Do you think Zach kind of reminds you of Nick
Speaker 1: a little bit? No? Oh my gosh. I never even
Speaker 1: thought about that until you just said it. Watch some
Speaker 1: of his watch some of his manner mannerisms. I just
Speaker 1: feel like he has that kind of like coy, you know,
Speaker 1: cool but also like you like, intriguing kind of thing. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Maybe because I'm not into that, you don't say. To
Speaker 1: be honest, I think he is good. I think they
Speaker 1: I don't see the chemistry, but I can tell she
Speaker 1: really likes him and he really likes her, so like
Speaker 1: that's what they say. I just like don't feel the
Speaker 1: chemistry between them, not the way that she is with
Speaker 1: like a Bin or a Brendan. There just seems to
Speaker 1: be a different level of attraction. Maybe that once infatuation,
Speaker 1: maybe it's love. I don't know. Bennett is my absolute favorite.
Speaker 1: I know I'm on the minority, in the minority of
Speaker 1: this one. I love bin It. You do not for
Speaker 1: Tastia for me as it's like as I mean, he
Speaker 1: is pure entertainment. He's really funny. What's the show gonna
Speaker 1: be without bin It? It's selfish reasons. He is not
Speaker 1: for Tastia by any meaning. But he's my favorite. And
Speaker 1: I like Riley. Which one's Riley? Right? At least the
Speaker 1: attorney has the probably gotten that much screen time. He's black,
Speaker 1: he's an attorney. He's the one who had the name.
Speaker 1: His name, wasn't. I like him a lot? So in
Speaker 1: the beginning, I wasn't sure like I didn't. I was
Speaker 1: just like him and Claire, I don't, I just like
Speaker 1: I could just there was no chemistry. But I see
Speaker 1: the chemistry with Tatia, and I'm really glad that he's
Speaker 1: like opening up. That was the one where his mom
Speaker 1: left him, right, Yes, he changed name and all that. Yeah, No,
Speaker 1: I'm curious to see if she takes him on the
Speaker 1: home dates. But I'm really invested in with I know, sorry,
Speaker 1: did you have Let me just say this because I
Speaker 1: have the kind of personality where if I was to
Speaker 1: be the bachelor, I like you and have these extraordinary
Speaker 1: dates that when I pick you know the man and
Speaker 1: it's normal, I feel like my expectations would just be
Speaker 1: like like I would be like this is it? Like
Speaker 1: it's not this like big dreamy moment, and I don't know,
Speaker 1: I feel like everything would be kind of like a
Speaker 1: letdown afterwards. Did you experience any of that or no? No,
Speaker 1: because maybe I wanted something different. So I think that's
Speaker 1: no one's ever talked to me about it in this way,
Speaker 1: And I think it's really interesting because I was so
Speaker 1: big on not getting caught up in how grandy ghosts
Speaker 1: everything is, like in real life, we're not flying in
Speaker 1: hot air balloons and jet setting across the country, And
Speaker 1: so my thought process was who makes sense in real life?
Speaker 1: Who can I do absolutely nothing with and have a
Speaker 1: fantastic time when you take away all the glips and glamor,
Speaker 1: Like I would constantly say, you know, I don't look
Speaker 1: like this right faceol makeup, I never wear ballgowns. I'm
Speaker 1: in sweats, Like I need you to understand how I
Speaker 1: am in everyday life. So that was I had tunnel
Speaker 1: vision when it came to that, Yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I just for me, it's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm the sweat wearing girl too. But I think sometimes
Speaker 1: I have these greater expectations that I think that, like,
Speaker 1: my husband's going to do this, and then I'm like,
Speaker 1: and then I have to almost fight with my own expectations.
Speaker 1: What do we read in a book the other day?
Speaker 1: What was like it's like the death of expectations, Like
Speaker 1: you almost have to kill expectations because it can just
Speaker 1: affect everything. But now that you're newly married, how has
Speaker 1: the quarantine change jaralls relationship for the good and the bad?
Speaker 1: So oh, I want to say something that you said
Speaker 1: about I want now I want to read this book
Speaker 1: the depth of expect I have. I don't set expectations
Speaker 1: maybe goals, so I and because I have learned that
Speaker 1: I don't do well with being let down, like almost
Speaker 1: like a child throwing a temper tantrum, So I purposely
Speaker 1: don't really set high expectations and then I'm always beautifully
Speaker 1: surprised instead of being let down. If that makes sense.
Speaker 1: That's that's how I like trick myself. Um, I canna
Speaker 1: read that so quarantine. So for us, quarantine has been
Speaker 1: you know, like not taking away from what's going on
Speaker 1: in the world and just focusing on me and Brian.
Speaker 1: It was the silver lining and all of this for
Speaker 1: us because I'm always gone. So it was like we
Speaker 1: were living this long distance relationship and for the first
Speaker 1: time in our relationship marriage, I was still and I
Speaker 1: was present, and so for six months I was in Miami.
Speaker 1: We were together every single day. We got into this
Speaker 1: routine and it can be a scary place because as
Speaker 1: we see, a lot of couples didn't survive quarantine because
Speaker 1: you're kind you can't escape your relationship kind of face
Speaker 1: with the reality of it, the good, the bad, ugly,
Speaker 1: and it's definitely all those things. But for us, we
Speaker 1: just kind of got back to the basics. We have
Speaker 1: a lot of the same things in comments, so it's
Speaker 1: like we would He went to work every day, so
Speaker 1: maybe that helped to we had the separation um because
Speaker 1: he was considered an essential worker, so he did his thing,
Speaker 1: I did my thing. At the end of the day,
Speaker 1: we would come together, whether it was binge, watching a show,
Speaker 1: watching sports, or playing board games or things like that.
Speaker 1: Having zoom calls with our family members. Um, yeah, so
Speaker 1: it was. It's been really good to get back to
Speaker 1: the basics for us. But then it became really hard
Speaker 1: when I moved to l A for extra because now
Speaker 1: we're by postal and it's we've gotten so used to
Speaker 1: each other, almost dependent in a way. We've never had
Speaker 1: dependency in our relationship until quarantine, and we kind of
Speaker 1: liked it. I did. If you had told me, I
Speaker 1: would have said, no. Experiencing it. Yeah, you know, that's
Speaker 1: the thing. It's there can be some good dependency on
Speaker 1: one another. And I feel like Jan and I we
Speaker 1: we never had like codependency or dependency on our past relationships,
Speaker 1: at least from you know what I mean, Like never
Speaker 1: really cared that much what the other person thinks in
Speaker 1: a not an unhealthy way, but in a healthy way
Speaker 1: because you love them so much and you want them
Speaker 1: to be happy. I must feel like we had like
Speaker 1: bad codependency though we did. Yeah, we had to work
Speaker 1: our way. We got so intertwined. It was code like
Speaker 1: true codependency, and we've had to work our way back
Speaker 1: out and be side by side going the same direction,
Speaker 1: which I think we are now. Um, but no, that's great,
Speaker 1: that you Rachel that you guys were able to have
Speaker 1: that time and really benefit from it and kind of
Speaker 1: take a step back from all that noise around the
Speaker 1: publicity that you guys get and having to travel into
Speaker 1: appearances and do all this. It was like you could
Speaker 1: be normal, you know, like everybody else quarantine and he
Speaker 1: would have to go to work and do your thing.
Speaker 1: But what a gift that you guys were able to do.
Speaker 1: And like you said, this overlying at the beginning of
Speaker 1: all this. So that being said, going into the holidays
Speaker 1: and you guys being by coastal, like, what's the plan
Speaker 1: coming up this month? Right on time with the question,
Speaker 1: I say, the decision this morning. So I've really been
Speaker 1: Friday and I knew we were going to spend it
Speaker 1: together no matter what. We didn't spend Thanksgiving together, which
Speaker 1: and I wasn't with my family and my sister was here,
Speaker 1: so that was really tough. So we're like Christmas, we're
Speaker 1: definitely gonna be together. I've really been struggling with do
Speaker 1: I travel to Dallas, which is where I'm from, and
Speaker 1: you know, we we trade off on where we're spending Christmas.
Speaker 1: I was like, should I go? Am I being selfish,
Speaker 1: am I putting them in jeopardy? And my sister has
Speaker 1: been very open about like, come here, you know, we
Speaker 1: can take all the precautions that we need. And I
Speaker 1: just woke up this morning and I said, you know what,
Speaker 1: I need this. I haven't seen my family since last Christmas.
Speaker 1: I can't afford to do things in a way where
Speaker 1: I can take precautions and not put them at in
Speaker 1: jeopardy as much. And so I just like my sister's
Speaker 1: comfortable with it. Brian and I are going to come
Speaker 1: to Dallas and we're going to spend it there. And
Speaker 1: I'm really excited because I have two nephews six and three.
Speaker 1: I think they're those. My niece and nephew are like
Speaker 1: thirteen and I don't even know, but I'm always like
Speaker 1: there five and seven, and I'm like, they're actually thirteen
Speaker 1: and ten, I think, or like yeah, some something like that.
Speaker 1: But I haven't had a Christmas with kids in a while,
Speaker 1: so I am so excited to like see the joy
Speaker 1: that kids bring to Christmas. And that's what I kind
Speaker 1: of woke up with. Two. I was like, you know what,
Speaker 1: I don't have a tree, no decorations, nothing, I know,
Speaker 1: I know, I'm not a scrooge here. I'm not. I'm
Speaker 1: not in the Christmas spirit other than the music. So
Speaker 1: I was like, you know what, I'm going to take
Speaker 1: control of this. I'm gonna give myself a Christmas and
Speaker 1: so I'm really excited I'm going to that. I'm so
Speaker 1: glad you're doing that for yourself because you're gonna be
Speaker 1: so much happier. And as Brian gonna fine meet you there. Yes,
Speaker 1: he'll meet me there. So we're spending it there and
Speaker 1: we're like super excited. How long will you guys do
Speaker 1: the long distance for? Just on the spring? Just to
Speaker 1: the spring? Okay, what which I haven't said because everyone
Speaker 1: thinks we're getting a divorce, so but of course that's
Speaker 1: the next thing. What's been the most challenging though, for
Speaker 1: y'all's relationship having that long distance? I would say, just
Speaker 1: we're east east coast, west coast, so the time difference
Speaker 1: is tough. Um, just we were so together in quarantine
Speaker 1: that I mean, it's just if we didn't have quarantine
Speaker 1: and we were doing this, I would have been fine.
Speaker 1: But just I missed him so much, Just the little
Speaker 1: things like waking up next to each other, being able
Speaker 1: to like cook dinner, don't even like to cook. But
Speaker 1: I didn't quarantine cooking for him, you know, having a
Speaker 1: meal for him when he came home playing board games
Speaker 1: like just that time. That intimacy is what I missed
Speaker 1: so much. And you know sometimes I fall asleep or
Speaker 1: I'm awake if he's not, just with the time difference.
Speaker 1: So it's it's but have you all played Monopoly together?
Speaker 1: That's the question? Wait in quarantine? Yes, I bought happily.
Speaker 1: Did you happily play monopoly? Because we just because he
Speaker 1: wants to make really bad deals and I'm like, no,
Speaker 1: I'm not trade. That's ridiculous. Why would I give you
Speaker 1: about mutual benefits? And you are not you're a dictator. No,
Speaker 1: I'm not a dictator. I'm just like, I'm smarter at monopoly,
Speaker 1: which is why I've won three times. Okay, do you
Speaker 1: buy everything? You land on me most of the time.
Speaker 1: But here's the deal. I will trade if it's a
Speaker 1: good opportunity. Having said that, you trade if it benefits
Speaker 1: you and only you. That's not true at all. But um,
Speaker 1: I'm just saying I'm smart about what I landed. Like
Speaker 1: he passed up the purple every time he landed on it. Well,
Speaker 1: guess what, I bought all the purple then put houses
Speaker 1: and in the hotel on there. By the time, he
Speaker 1: was still trying to Really, we can't play Monopoly, and
Speaker 1: this annoys us about each other. So when you guys
Speaker 1: were spending this much time in quarantine together, were there
Speaker 1: any little things that kind of started You're like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I don't like this about you. It annoys me, you know,
Speaker 1: cute things or whatever. Yeah, well Monopoly, it's funny. I
Speaker 1: don't buy everything, and Brian buys everything to the point
Speaker 1: where he's like, has no money, is mortgaging things off,
Speaker 1: and I'm just like, bad practice. This isn't how you
Speaker 1: play the game. You're holding onto these It just frustrates
Speaker 1: me beyond. And then somehow, though he wins exactly, it
Speaker 1: doesn't make logical sense. Their house poor for the first
Speaker 1: half of the game, and then all of a sudden
Speaker 1: they're just taking everything we have. Well, you know what,
Speaker 1: that's how everyone's house poor until they're not, you know,
Speaker 1: until they work their butts in real life. I try
Speaker 1: to navigate the game how I would in real life.
Speaker 1: This will not work. Next time, when you see him
Speaker 1: over Christmas, I want you to buy every single property
Speaker 1: that you land on it and tell me how that
Speaker 1: works for you. We'll probably be playing taboo. That's like
Speaker 1: a game we love to play in a group, So
Speaker 1: I know we'll be playing taboo, which we get really
Speaker 1: competitive over at the same time, especially if we're on
Speaker 1: the same team and he can't figure out what it
Speaker 1: is I'm describing. We can't be on the same team.
Speaker 1: We've decided we're just not. We can't. We gotta be.
Speaker 1: We have to go against each other for that exact reason. Um, Rachel,
Speaker 1: You're amazing. Where can our listeners find you? Even though
Speaker 1: I know where we can, but you know, yes, you
Speaker 1: can find me on at th g V Rachel Lindsay,
Speaker 1: on Twitter, on Instagram, on Facebook. Um. You can also
Speaker 1: catch up what I'm doing on my website www. Rachel
Speaker 1: Lindsay Official dot com. You can check out Bachelor Happy Hour.
Speaker 1: It comes out the day after whenever the show airs,
Speaker 1: which is about to change. It's about to go back
Speaker 1: to Monday's so the day after the morning after and
Speaker 1: then higher Learning is every Tuesday morning and Friday morning.
Speaker 1: Awesome well, Rachel, okay, and extra yes and watch Extra Rachel,
Speaker 1: thank you so much. You're joy and um have fun
Speaker 1: in Dallas with your family. You guys, Rachel, she was
Speaker 1: so sweet. Yeah. I really enjoyed her too. I like her,
Speaker 1: she says a good energy about her. She really does.
Speaker 1: I like I went into it not really knowing and
Speaker 1: then you know, because you just like read things and
Speaker 1: she's so she really liked her. Um. So we have
Speaker 1: another amazing lady coming on, Daniello Mone. She's um. She
Speaker 1: has a podcast called Adulting Like a Mother Father Um.
Speaker 1: And then she also has new diapers, um sprouted diapers. Um.
Speaker 1: So let's get Danny Yellow on the podcast. Hi guys, Hi,
Speaker 1: Hi again. Hold friend, Oh my gosh, let me see
Speaker 1: your belly first and foremost rebelly, so cute. How many
Speaker 1: weeks are you now? I'm prety change? Are you so excited?
Speaker 1: Right around the corner, very excited? Um, it's flown by.
Speaker 1: I don't Did you feel that way with Jason? Yeah,
Speaker 1: because you're so preoccupied with the first that it's just like,
Speaker 1: oh wow, this Yeah, it goes I think it goes
Speaker 1: by a lot faster. It's I feel like I just
Speaker 1: found out I was pregnant, and now I'm like where
Speaker 1: are we putting her? Where are we putting her? Like,
Speaker 1: oh crap, I need everything? How old is how? How
Speaker 1: old is? He's only fourteen months? They're clothed almost two.
Speaker 1: That's excitingly interesting. So two is has anyone told you
Speaker 1: about like adding another one on? I mean not, I
Speaker 1: don't see enough people for anyone to tell me. Please share.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you want the answer. Look, so
Speaker 1: I know you and your let's fiancee. Um, when are
Speaker 1: you guys getting married? By the way, I just had
Speaker 1: a curiosity soon or not? Like when you don't have
Speaker 1: any plans. We haven't had plans this whole time. You
Speaker 1: need to get on it, uma. But it's like it's
Speaker 1: it's it's challenging the first few months just because you're
Speaker 1: just you don't have a second because if you're not
Speaker 1: dealing with the one, you're dealing with the other, and
Speaker 1: then you don't want to burden like I felt like
Speaker 1: I didn't want to put both of them on him,
Speaker 1: So then it was just like then I wasn't taking
Speaker 1: care of myself and vice versa. Same with him. You
Speaker 1: still have that struggle, which and I will always tell
Speaker 1: him like I don't care, you know, and Jenna be like,
Speaker 1: can I hang out with the girls and play cards
Speaker 1: tonight and you have the kids. I'm like, totally cool.
Speaker 1: But I appreciate it because it is two years a lot,
Speaker 1: especially at the ages that g will be and your
Speaker 1: baby girl will be. It's it's a lot. But I mean, now,
Speaker 1: it's just what a great time to have a freaking
Speaker 1: baby though. I mean, well, yes and no, because you
Speaker 1: can't really have visitors at the hospital, but I mean
Speaker 1: you are able to just like be so present and
Speaker 1: not have to work as much. Right, No, totally. I
Speaker 1: think the timing is really nice um for that reason.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it is weird because there hasn't been I
Speaker 1: think that's one of the reasons why it's flown by,
Speaker 1: because there's been no stopping along the way to acknowledge
Speaker 1: the pregnancy. You know. I'm not like seeing enough people
Speaker 1: be like, oh, well, my gosh, I don't get to
Speaker 1: dress my bumped and go out on the towel, like
Speaker 1: there's none of it. That's so true. But now, so
Speaker 1: you have the sprouted diapers, um and they're the only
Speaker 1: vegan diapers correct. Yeah, they're the first certified in the US. UM.
Speaker 1: So I I created sprouted. When I was pregnant with Geo,
Speaker 1: I was trying to find diapers that were just really transparent.
Speaker 1: I wanted to know that I was going to like
Speaker 1: find a clean, vegan, cruelty free diaper made with eco
Speaker 1: friendly materials that was going to work. And that was
Speaker 1: my one thing is that everyone who I talked to
Speaker 1: was like, oh, yeah, there they exist, but they're they're
Speaker 1: not like comfy, you know, they feel gross, they don't
Speaker 1: you know, they don't really work that well. And I
Speaker 1: just was annoyed by that. And to be frank, like,
Speaker 1: I didn't feel like I was ready to do the
Speaker 1: cloth diapering thing. So I just was like, if I
Speaker 1: need convenience, I need to know that I can rely
Speaker 1: on something that's gonna work but it's not going to
Speaker 1: be like harmful to him and harmful to the environment.
Speaker 1: And so I started working on it and it took
Speaker 1: a while, but here we are. So this might make
Speaker 1: me sound like a bad mom, but I guess what
Speaker 1: is the I haven't done the research of why a
Speaker 1: vegan diaper is better than a paper like we use pampers. Um.
Speaker 1: I tried to use the Honest diapers, but they just
Speaker 1: smelt like I smelled the pea and I'm just like,
Speaker 1: oh man, And so then we went back to Pampers.
Speaker 1: But I'm like, I guess, like tell me, like what,
Speaker 1: like why are they? Why is it bad? What's the benefits?
Speaker 1: What's the benefit of having a vegan in versus like
Speaker 1: a Pampers or a Huggies or anything. Sure, functionality wise,
Speaker 1: probably not a huge difference. The reason why I wanted
Speaker 1: to make a vegan diaper was purely based on my
Speaker 1: own ethical stance. So every company I've invested or co
Speaker 1: founded is vegan UM and that's like our mission, right,
Speaker 1: So just trying to make certain everyday products that are
Speaker 1: accessible to the masses not have to harm animals along
Speaker 1: the way, Like you don't have to, why should we?
Speaker 1: So the reason why our diapers are vegan is because
Speaker 1: we don't use um animal drived glues. We don't use
Speaker 1: manufacturing um like UM what factory stuff that that uses
Speaker 1: lubricants that are coming from animals. Um. Tiny little things
Speaker 1: you would never think about. And something that I learned
Speaker 1: along the way. And it was not the easiest process,
Speaker 1: but um, but we did. It's being as passionate as
Speaker 1: you're around that you know, I watched that Netflix documentary
Speaker 1: Game Changers a while earlier in this pandemic, right, and
Speaker 1: I drink the cool aid like everybody, I was like,
Speaker 1: I gotta be vegan now, and so I talked about
Speaker 1: it with Danna for a little bit. But where I struggled,
Speaker 1: and I even got a cookbook that's vegan, But where
Speaker 1: I struggled was like, where where do you start? Right, so,
Speaker 1: for for someone who wants to maybe not go fully vegan,
Speaker 1: but but dip my toe and see what it's like
Speaker 1: and kind of the benefit, Um, like, where would you
Speaker 1: start or suggest for someone like me or anybody else
Speaker 1: to kind of get started on that train. I used
Speaker 1: to do this really cool program in school called meatless Mondays,
Speaker 1: and some school systems called it lean and Green program,
Speaker 1: but really what it meant was the schools would go
Speaker 1: completely meatless on Mondays alone. And so I took that
Speaker 1: approach and like, if the kid can do it, you know,
Speaker 1: and they're the piggiest of us, all right, Um, then
Speaker 1: I kind of like I I instill that, like I
Speaker 1: guess coin er when I'm talking to people that asked
Speaker 1: the same questions, just why not just art with one
Speaker 1: day a week? Because that impact on the environment obviously,
Speaker 1: the lives of animals is huge. Just one way, one
Speaker 1: day a week, and see how you feel, like, don't
Speaker 1: put pressure on yourself if you slip up, no big deal, Like,
Speaker 1: I just think that people try, Like you said, right,
Speaker 1: you saw game changes like you just want to go
Speaker 1: cold turkey or all in you drink a cool aid.
Speaker 1: But is that like sustainable long term for some people? Yeah, totally,
Speaker 1: that's the only way to do it for for some.
Speaker 1: But I think also like it's a lifestyle choice, so
Speaker 1: it's a long haul and I think, you know, be
Speaker 1: gentle on yourself. Give it a few meals, see what
Speaker 1: you like, what you don't like. It takes some somewhere,
Speaker 1: like learning, I guess along the way with having you know,
Speaker 1: geo and then a new baby on the way. I've
Speaker 1: always been curious of someone who is vegan how you
Speaker 1: raise your children, you know, do you just give them
Speaker 1: the same happens that you have right now and then
Speaker 1: maybe later on they can decide if they want to
Speaker 1: try something like how are you guys planning on doing that? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's my approach exactly. I think. Um, you know, in
Speaker 1: our home, we eat the way we eat and it's
Speaker 1: easy because we're here and even when we're out, like
Speaker 1: there's a lot of resources around here. And I've been
Speaker 1: doing this for over twenty years, so I've like kind
Speaker 1: of figured it out and how to make it work
Speaker 1: wherever I am. UM, in terms of the future, like,
Speaker 1: I don't put pressure on any of it. I'm like,
Speaker 1: he's a human being. He's going to make decisions, he's
Speaker 1: going to figure things out along the way. UM, I
Speaker 1: want him. The one thing I will say is I
Speaker 1: just want him to have some awareness around where his
Speaker 1: food comes from, because I think that that's something that
Speaker 1: I wasn't taught. And that's why I became vegan, because
Speaker 1: I felt like someone just took the blindfold off and
Speaker 1: I felt duped and I was like wait what. I
Speaker 1: was five years old, So I was like traumatized. UM
Speaker 1: to learn like the truth. And I think just having
Speaker 1: that gentle conversation like you know, this is a cow
Speaker 1: and like you know, at some point down the line,
Speaker 1: and hope that that resonates with him and if it doesn't,
Speaker 1: my job is to love him wholeheartedly and that's all
Speaker 1: that matters, you know. I think that's been part of
Speaker 1: my hesitating and too, because I mean, as you know,
Speaker 1: as a mother, you know, what you do with your
Speaker 1: kids like impacts everything you do daily. So you know,
Speaker 1: I'm the primary cook in the family and so you know,
Speaker 1: I cook for Jinna and the kids and everything. And
Speaker 1: I feel like if I went vegan or wanted to
Speaker 1: do more, you know, the kids are used to what
Speaker 1: they're used to now they're five and two, and it's
Speaker 1: like they kind of have their habits and things they
Speaker 1: like and don't like, and so I would I feel
Speaker 1: like I would have to change, Like I'll be cooking
Speaker 1: two meals almost, you know. So it's like I'm just
Speaker 1: find excuses, really is what I'm doing. So there's vegan cheese,
Speaker 1: but no, so dairy is anything that basically comes from
Speaker 1: an animal the creation of an animal um is not
Speaker 1: necessarily vegan. But there's so many good cheeses on the market. Now,
Speaker 1: this is where I just go down a rabbit hole,
Speaker 1: I mean, because it's like, well, what if we have
Speaker 1: the chickens and they lay the eggs. Can't aren't those
Speaker 1: eggs then fine because they're not being shot with stuff.
Speaker 1: So there's like a few different thoughts. No, for sure,
Speaker 1: there's like a few different thought processes when it comes
Speaker 1: to eggs specifically, I think, like the biggest thing that
Speaker 1: um I am aware of and I think the world
Speaker 1: should be is our factory farming. And like the animal
Speaker 1: agriculture industry, it's so corrupt, it's so not what we think.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter if you see cage tree or whatever,
Speaker 1: like it's just the biggest misconception we're being sold to
Speaker 1: left and right. And so for me particularly like listen,
Speaker 1: if you have a chicken and you consume their eggs,
Speaker 1: like that's a different story. Um, if the chicken lives
Speaker 1: a beautiful life and you know, it's it's a different dynamic.
Speaker 1: These chickens are piled up on top of each other
Speaker 1: in these tiny, tiny little coops with no son, no nothing,
Speaker 1: because if they get any exposure to the outside world,
Speaker 1: they could potentially burn calories. And the whole thing is
Speaker 1: about like keeping them plump and tight. It's a business,
Speaker 1: and I'm really being someone who's in the business space.
Speaker 1: I own a lot of businesses. I am so anti
Speaker 1: um money driven like mentalities where it's just about the
Speaker 1: bottle bottom line, and unfortunately, like in the animal agriculture
Speaker 1: business alone, like that to me is like the worst
Speaker 1: of them all. They just feel like they don't consider
Speaker 1: our health and they don't consider obviously the animals, but
Speaker 1: that's secondary. They just don't consider our health or the environment,
Speaker 1: none of it. So I've just been like, man, this
Speaker 1: is where I just start to feel like overwhelmed, because
Speaker 1: like I would love to try it, and I did
Speaker 1: like a pin or test, and I'm not technically supposed
Speaker 1: to have dairy, so but when I have tried, I
Speaker 1: need can you d m me the vegan cheeses that
Speaker 1: you eat? Yeah, because I'm a big cheese like cheese
Speaker 1: and wine girl. So it's like you know, you're you're
Speaker 1: you're taking out one of my main food groups. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And then then I'm like the high and iron, Like
Speaker 1: I I get really I've really bad you know monthly things,
Speaker 1: and my doctor's like, you need to eat a lot
Speaker 1: of iron, and I feel like the only way that
Speaker 1: I have energy is what I have a steak, you know.
Speaker 1: But interesting, so well there's tons of ways of getting iron.
Speaker 1: In fact, you know, the analogy I like to use
Speaker 1: as our animals are basically just a carrier of where
Speaker 1: the actual iron is coming from. Right, So it's like
Speaker 1: they all eat the grass, they eat the hey, they
Speaker 1: eat the things that. Like, if we could just cut
Speaker 1: out the middleman and we were just more mindful of
Speaker 1: like getting enough plants in our diet, Um, iron really
Speaker 1: wouldn't be an issue. Um. And if it were, then
Speaker 1: I think you probably would be a candidate for a
Speaker 1: supplement anyways, right, like because it would probably be harder
Speaker 1: for sure. So then speaking of Christmas, what do you
Speaker 1: eat at Christmas? Then? Because I'm like cheese casserole, Like, like,
Speaker 1: what what do you have? Like, what's a vegan Christmas dinner?
Speaker 1: Look like? Good question? Um? You know I'm Italian, so
Speaker 1: it's like I always bring it back to the roots.
Speaker 1: I'm like, you know what if we could have pizza lasagna?
Speaker 1: You know, I love making a good hearty soup. I'm
Speaker 1: also a big side dish girl because for the majority
Speaker 1: of my life before people caught onto what veganism was,
Speaker 1: I only eat the side dishes. Um. So like I
Speaker 1: just I always like have like the green beans and
Speaker 1: the potatoes and everything roasted. And I've just found a
Speaker 1: way to make it work and it really doesn't feel
Speaker 1: any different to me. Um. There are tons of fake
Speaker 1: meats too obviously. Um, but because I was vegan before
Speaker 1: they got here, like, I haven't really doped too far
Speaker 1: into those, um, but I do eat them. I'm just
Speaker 1: like i'd rather have like the whole plant foods. So
Speaker 1: before we let you go, what's the families? What's y'alls
Speaker 1: planning for Christmas? How are you guys going to spend it?
Speaker 1: Where are you going to spend it? We're spending it
Speaker 1: with family, Um, spending it with family. I'm lucky enough
Speaker 1: to have grown up in l A, so a lot
Speaker 1: of our immediate families here. Um, I'm hoping nothing really changes,
Speaker 1: and that's just what it is. That's how where my
Speaker 1: heart is. Well. Um, Danielle, you're the best. I love
Speaker 1: following on Instagram. Um, and I'm so happy about your diapers. Um,
Speaker 1: so everyone needs to get they're vegan diapers at sprouted
Speaker 1: dot com and follow Daniella because she's You're just I
Speaker 1: just I love everything about you and you know just
Speaker 1: everything you do. So um and please dm me some
Speaker 1: awesome recipes so I can change my ways. Are little,
Speaker 1: just a little, just like baby baby steps, And then
Speaker 1: I think we should try one month of just like
Speaker 1: full on bring it and taking the Beyonce approach. I
Speaker 1: like it. Yeah, let's do it um and then good
Speaker 1: luck on the pregnancy tube. I only got a few
Speaker 1: more weeks. You got this. She was gonna be great.
Speaker 1: It changes, it changes in a beautiful way. Just give yourself.
Speaker 1: I'll just one thing, even though I always say, like,
Speaker 1: don't ever give advice to pregnant people, but I am
Speaker 1: going to ask for what you need in those moments.
Speaker 1: Be like, I need to take a shower, because our
Speaker 1: husband's partners are not going to read our mind. They're
Speaker 1: just not. They don't know that we need a shower.
Speaker 1: They don't know that we need to eat, you know,
Speaker 1: they don't know that we need five minutes. So just
Speaker 1: ask for what you need. I appreciate that. I'm not
Speaker 1: I'm not good at that. So it's good reminder. Super
Speaker 1: women want to do everything yourselves. We're here to help you. Okay,
Speaker 1: We're here. I'll be honest. Andrew left today with Geo
Speaker 1: for the first time in months. I think he's been
Speaker 1: away from me once before, just once, okay, and he
Speaker 1: went to his mom's house for a couple of hours.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I have a few zooms, Like you know,
Speaker 1: you can, you can check out and go for a
Speaker 1: little drive whatever. I have mad anxiety, like the amount
Speaker 1: of snacks and lunch and two hours he's away. I
Speaker 1: packed everything under the sun. I said, you call me
Speaker 1: when you get there. It's a like I couldn't even
Speaker 1: deal with like someone else being in control for two hours.
Speaker 1: I have a long way to go. You're not Look
Speaker 1: you're not alone, because Janna would be the same way.
Speaker 1: And I have to reminder, I'm like, you realize there
Speaker 1: with that, like literally there with the the next best
Speaker 1: should make it possibly be with in this entire world.
Speaker 1: I was like, they're gonna be okay, and she's like, no,
Speaker 1: but I'm not there. Yeah. I just always had to
Speaker 1: be like I know, but I just we have to
Speaker 1: say it. We have to. We just have to be like,
Speaker 1: do you have this? Do you have that? Do you
Speaker 1: have you know? We just's we'll figure it out. We're dad,
Speaker 1: We got this, dude, he said. He goes, I'm going
Speaker 1: to drive home around Um, I'll drive out on his
Speaker 1: nap and I'll drive home. I said, well, he's got
Speaker 1: a nap on the way home and we have a
Speaker 1: bedtime at like sixty seven. So are you not like
Speaker 1: I lost my mind. I was like, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: you drive out before the nap and you drive home
Speaker 1: on the map a day drove you right here. This
Speaker 1: is exactly what because we've been there, done that several times.
Speaker 1: It's too good, Danielle, thanks again for your time, sweetheart.
Speaker 1: We love talking with you and giving Andrew our best
Speaker 1: in congratulations on everything. Thank you, thank you. Bye. She's
Speaker 1: such a sweetheart. I love her. She's so sweet. Hey, Mark, Yes, Jannah,
Speaker 1: do you eat meat? I do eat meat, but I
Speaker 1: don't eat red meat. It ain't a lot less meat
Speaker 1: than I used to eat. I was, I was all in.
Speaker 1: I was one of those guys steak and everything back
Speaker 1: burgers constantly. I was one of those guys. But I
Speaker 1: have evolved as I have grown older in many ways
Speaker 1: and one of those not eating meat all the time.
Speaker 1: And the fake meat that's out right now is really
Speaker 1: good stuff. Really, we actually had some that jew and
Speaker 1: Cues and them. What was that? It was like a
Speaker 1: we had a burger, but it was like an impossible burger. Actually, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was actually pretty good. We need to start getting
Speaker 1: some at Costco, then Gasco. Let's go to Costco. When
Speaker 1: you go to Castco. Make sure to get your clorox
Speaker 1: because they're selling out fast again. Ladies and gentlemen. I
Speaker 1: gotta keep it clean, they said, like low stock Clorox.
Speaker 1: Make sure you get your clean it up. It's going
Speaker 1: to be a messy holiday season, but I'm pumped. I
Speaker 1: can't wait. We're ready. Elf on the Shelf is back
Speaker 1: at it again, except the elf forgot to do something
Speaker 1: the other night, and I was like, oh, he was
Speaker 1: a good boy last night. Great dad safe. So yeah,
Speaker 1: that's all you, daddy, al Right. I love you guys.
Speaker 1: Merry Christmas.