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EP 82: Our College Days
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This week, we’re throwing it back to our college days at Alabama—where it all began! From chaotic class schedules to late-night laughs, we’re sharing the moments that turned two strangers into lifelong best friends. This episode is full of nostalgia, a few laugh-out-loud memories, and some unexpected twists in our journey to building the friendship we have today.
Of course, we couldn’t reflect on those years without thinking about what we’d do differently if we could go back (hint: less chaos, more sleep?) and the things we actually got right. Plus, as moms, we’re talking about what we hope our kids will take away from their own college experiences someday.
✨ In this episode, we’re talking about:
- How we met and became best friends during college
- Some funny and chaotic memories from our Alabama days
- What we’d do differently if we could go back (and what we surprisingly got right)
- The lessons we hope our kids take with them into their own college years
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Transcript
Introductions and Podcast Atmosphere
00:00:07
Speaker
Like there's no right way to do it.
00:00:11
Speaker
Oh, we're going to get into it. What up moms? My name is Candace and I'm here with my best friend Whitney. And this is the mom group chat podcast. I can't start this pod without a smile. oh when so When I'm doing the intro.
00:00:30
Speaker
It honestly, I feel and not to toot my own horn here, but when I do the intro and you giggle, it leads us into a giggle ah good episode. So I'm really doing us a favor by messing up the intro.
Whitney's Life Updates and Shopping Adventures
00:00:48
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Oh God, I just we start this pod the same way every time and I know really we need some new tricks. But it happens every time, guys. I'm not kidding. It's so funny. Oh, lower to me anyway.
00:01:05
Speaker
How are you? I'm good. It's I'm having a bright and sunny day today like a I'm up and at them. I'm put together. I feel like this is the first like fresh new day I've had in a while because of sicknesses. Yes, you know.
00:01:23
Speaker
it's just like one thing after another i mean i know we're all in the same boat like it's not anything new i'm not gonna go on a whole tangent about it because like i feel like every episode has started with me talking about sicknesses but i just feel i'm feeling good i'm feeling positive about this week we are it's moving week Yes, I'm so excited. So I'm in the depths of shopping for furniture, shopping for home stuff. In fact, I went to a furniture store this morning in between work meetings. yeah um And I actually might skedaddle to Home Goods this afternoon. I went on
00:02:03
Speaker
Sunday I went, and I got so much stuff. I got that little bow jacket at HomeGoods. Oh my God, I meant to ask you, you got that at HomeGoods? Yes. Did your HomeGoods sell clothing? Yes. It's like a, yeah, HomeGoods. But it doesn't even say TJ Maxx on it. Are you sure? Yes. Yes. And it's not a TJ Maxx? No, it just says HomeGoods. But it has clothing.
00:02:31
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Yeah, but it's I guess it's a combined T.J. Maxx home goods situation. Wow, that is new. I've never heard of that. I mean, I listen. I go to T.J. Maxx. This is actually. Very bad now that I'm saying it out loud, but I go to T.J. Maxx probably twice a week, only because only because now where I. Yeah, because I work almost. I mean,
00:02:59
Speaker
If you listen to this and you live in Tampa, I'm literally giving you my whereabouts at all times right now. So I drop Alice off at school in on Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and then I'm not driving all the way back to my mom's to work. and then So I stay in South Tampa and I work at the first watch on Henderson.
00:03:18
Speaker
Come visit me every Monday, Wednesday, Friday. You're going to have a stalker. I know. Please don't stalk me. I'm really not that interesting. But anyways, typically I wrap up work around 11 45 and then I have like 15, not wrap up work for the day, but just like I, you know, wrapping up for the moment. And then I walk through TJ Maxx. That's like my routine because it's next door. Is your TJ Maxx crowded?
00:03:44
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ah Depends on the day. Depends. Typically, when I'm there, weekdays like 11, it's not that bad. i I know you just I was going to say you do it, right? Yeah, it's so packed. It's because it's such a good one. Like everyone comes to this one. And I probably go once a month.
00:04:09
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And I have the same reaction every time. I want, why do I always want to faint when I'm in there? I'm good, like overstimulated and hot. And I want to faint every time. Wow. That's interesting. I don't feel that way, but I think my purse cuts off my circulation for sure. But It's just like, I don't know, weaving in and out of the aisles, dodging people. I just want to look at furniture, but I can't because I'm getting pressure to keep moving. And I'm like, I can't do this. Okay. So yeah, mine's a totally different vibe in there. Like no one's behind me or around. like
00:04:47
Speaker
It's not like that. It's not like there's traffic throughout the store. It's like Trader Joe's and that bitch. Oh, okay. See that? Okay. That's such a good point. That's exactly how I feel in Trader Joe's. I can't ever stop to peruse. You can't stop. Because I have to keep moving. You got to look at the frozen food and know what you already want. Which is actually so crazy because I think I buy more than I need to sometimes just because I'm interested and I don't have time to really think about it. I just put it in my cart because I got to keep moving. It's a business model that I never thought of before, but wow, good for them. They've nailed it, honestly, because I'm constantly purchasing things I don't need. Stress purchasing, for sure. But yeah, that's how it is there.
00:05:31
Speaker
And and the the same thing with my target. I can only go first thing in the morning, right after I drop off the kids. And I can only go for like 30 minutes and it's just so peaceful. But like I told you, everyone's restocking. So it's like, you are dodging the workers. Cause it's the butt crack of dawn, but no one's in there. It's wonderful. I'd rather deal with the workers than other people. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. yeah yeah yeah yeah oh Uh, but yeah, I did find good stuff. All this that to be said is no one was there on Sunday morning. I was like, holy shit. This is wonderful. So, and I had Margo and we just took our time. um It was so pleasant. I enjoyed it. I saw your little girly swirly day. It was so cute. She's so cute. There are moments, and this is probably just like my brain doing tricks on me, but there are moments where I look at Evie and I'm like, you look like Margo.
00:06:29
Speaker
Like, I don't know, there's something about her face and then her smile. And also Evie's hair is getting longer in the back and it's like curling up a little bit. And I'm just like, oh, you look like little baby Marco. I do that with my friend Erica's baby. Her name's Elle. And I think it's her hair, the the same thing. Like her hair is starting to get to the length of Elle's hair. And I'm like, you look like Erica and Dustin's child.
00:06:56
Speaker
Yeah, mine I don't know what it is. It's the hair. I think it's the hair. It's just the long and then the flip up like. yeah Yeah, it's so cute. I'm so excited to be able to start to like do more things with her hair soon. We're on the break. We're on the break. Yeah, but it grows so fast like after they turn one and.
00:07:18
Speaker
Here she comes. Turn in one this week, dude. She's walking so fast. Like just literally right before this, she was walking down the hallway towards me and I swear to God, she was going to start running. I saw my life. I was like oh fast. And then they go in opposite directions and you're like, ah,
00:07:34
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Mm hmm. My mom keeps saying that that is when I'm going to finally be skinny. Well, that's what they're running in opposite directions. I told you that um it was when Graydon it was when was it? It was his like first Halloween.
00:07:51
Speaker
Did I tell you this? Did I talk about this? I can't remember. And a girl was like, Oh, yes, you've told me this story. Yeah. and that but again A random trick or treater mom was like, yep, that's when I got skinny. And then she like looked at me up and down like, Oh, because Graydon was just starting to walk. And I was like, Oh my God. Fuck you, lady. ah Okay. Yeah.
00:08:17
Speaker
Don't worry. We need to file that one in the unsolicited opinions episode. like That's where that belongs. And honestly, nothing has made me lose weight that everyone said. Breastfeeding didn't. um Having two kids that run in opposite directions didn't. It's all about what I put in my mouth. so Yeah, unfortunately.
00:08:41
Speaker
Unfortunately, I, I find time to eat in between running and catching them. Yeah, exactly. Somehow I make it work. Yeah. I make it work babies. You
Valentine's Day Plans and Family Traditions
00:08:52
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can't hold me back. Yeah. It's moving week. I'm so excited. It's Evie's birthday week. Um, so much going on yeah Valentine's day. So many people have been like, what are you doing for Valentine's day? I'm like, I'm moving with my husband. And honestly, that's the best gift for both of us. So we're just.
00:09:11
Speaker
Oh, yeah. So excited. And I can't freaking wait to wake up because like the way I've tried to time all of our furniture and.
00:09:23
Speaker
Like I've tried to buy all of the most important things that we need to at least stay there our first night. Like I have beds being delivered on the 14th. I've got mattresses being delivered on the 14th. So we should be able to sleep there our first night on the 14th. And I, that's just like what I've been focusing on. Like I just want to be able to sleep there and wake up in our own house on the 15th. Like yeah how beautiful is that?
00:09:53
Speaker
I feel like we slept on air mattresses um for like a night or two, but it was worth it. I was so excited just to be there. I was like, I don't care. like I'll sleep on an air mattress. This is so fun. I'm so excited for you. I love it.
00:10:08
Speaker
I can't wait. I know. And we're not doing anything either, I think, um because we're going skiing next week. So it's like we're not really doing anything for Valentine's Day. like Just I saw something where they, like if you have kids to do a cute Valentine's themed dinner. So I think that's what I want to do on Fridays. Oh, that's cute.
00:10:32
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and like get some balloons so when they come home from daycare it's all decorated and cute for them so I ah was like even if it's just like heart-shaped pancakes which I think is the only thing I can convince both of them to eat that's yeah heart themed I'm like let's do it yeah yeah that's a good idea we um Like I said, it's Evie's birthday week, obviously on Wednesday and all the decor I bought just to like decorate here for her birthday is I just leaned into the Valentine's theme. Yeah. Pink, red and Valentine. And that way I can just leave everything up for Friday and do a little like Valentine's photo and maybe some heart shaped pancakes or something. That's a great idea. Yeah. um How cute. Well, I'm excited. I cannot wait to see everything.
00:11:22
Speaker
Yeah, I'm excited. Follow me on Instagram for more updates. You know, it's so funny. um I was listening to Giggly Squad, which I don't listen to very often. I have recently just because of the Craig and Paige drama because I watch those shows. And I'm just like, I want to know like what she's saying versus what he's saying. And I thought it was funny because they talked about withholding information from each other until until like talking
Music Preferences and Personal Stories
00:11:49
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on the pod. And I was like,
00:11:50
Speaker
Oh my God. That's literally us. They're just like us. Oh wait, you have things you want to ask me about. I did. Before we dive into our topic. Dochie. Dochie, my swamp princess.
00:12:04
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um Someone, Jane asked me, she's like, so what does Candice think about Dochie? And I was like, you know, I haven't asked her and I should because she's from Tampa. I'm obsessed, you guys. I am too. Obsessed. I'm obsessed with her music. And my mom made a really good point after watching like the Super Bowl and watching Kendrick last night. My mom actually really likes Dolce, which is funny. And she said the reason she likes her is because she reminds her of like old school rap, like Fresh Prince of Bel Air, like rap.
00:12:38
Speaker
Which is so true. I feel like that's like her style. And I love that. She's like very easy to understand, you know, whereas like Kendrick, like you got to really listen. It's like Shakespearean, you know. Yeah. um With everyone keeps comparing her to like Queen Latifah, like back to her. Oh, interesting. ok Well, that makes sense. Like old school rap. Like 90s.
00:13:01
Speaker
Probably. Yeah, totally. But I think she's beautiful. I mean, that performance at the Grammys was epic. Her dancing is so good. Like I like about it's not not even the Grammys like her um tiny desk stuff with the trumpets. I'm like, oh,
00:13:21
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That got me. the half And as as a Tampanian through and through like her love for Tampa, her shout out to Tampa at the Grammys, I was like, that's my girl. I know. Oh, my God, I loved it so much. I was like beaming during her speech. I was also like pretty drunk already at that point, even though it was towards the beginning of the show. So.
00:13:44
Speaker
I did I tell you what happened that night? I am like, this will be a good lead. i so um um So I went to a Grammy's watch party with some friends of mine. It's two gay guys and my friend Shannon, my other friend, Shannon, we all went to high school together like me, Shannon and the other Shannon. Anyways, I'm getting and I'm just making this very confusing anyways.
00:14:11
Speaker
Jack and Steven and my friend Shannon, they had a watch. We had a Grammy's watch party and like I drove there. Typical Sunday night. Nothing yeah fancy about it. I hate watching the Grammys with Vinny. So sorry, Vinny, if you're watching this, but he just like isn't into it like I am and I need to discuss everything I want. like People who get like the culture and Vinny's just like not clued in, you know So I was so excited to go over there and like watch with people who like knew what was going on and whatever and Also Shannon works in the music industry. So she's got lots of insider info Like she knows these artists like she knows that their teams like she always has really great info. Mm-hmm Like she knew doji was gonna win She was like she is a Academy baby like they love her like she's gonna win like she knew
00:15:01
Speaker
Um, but anyways, so they had told me like, Oh, we're making martinis. It was a dips party. So I brought a dip, whatever. I knew we were going to eat and drink and be married. I drove thinking, no worries. Like the show is so long. It goes to 11 30. I got there at six. I'll be, I'll have a couple drinks. I'll stop drinking and then I'll, I'll drive home. It'll be fine.
00:15:24
Speaker
I bet you can guess that I got there, Jack made dirty martinis and he accidentally doubled it when only two of us wanted it. So he's like, oh, we'll we'll have two now. And I was like, okay, whatever. So I had two martinis and then we had an espresso martini and then we had wine. I mean, I had had, and also the espresso martini was tequila based. but So I had, so I had been, it was actually delicious, but I had been mixing alcohols.
00:15:55
Speaker
Very fair to say I was not able to drive home, okay? And I thought it was the safe decision for me to like, they had a guest room. I was like, I'm gonna go to sleep. I'll set my alarm for like 4 a.m. and I'll get up and drive home. Because Vinny has to leave for work at like 5 a.m. sometimes. So, well, dumb drunk me didn't even text Vinny and tell him. I just went to sleep in the guest room.
00:16:24
Speaker
Oh, he'll never know. Yeah. I woke up to like 27 missed calls from my husband and text. He was so mad at me and everything he said was valid. Like I cannot argue with the man. Like he was totally right. He was like, if I did this to you, like I you would light me on fire. And I was like, I totally true, like totally true. So I had to just like put my tail between my legs and be like, I'm so sorry. I just.
00:16:54
Speaker
We thought I was making the safe decision. Wait, do y'all not follow each other on your phones? He did. He did. So he knows you were there. He could see I was just mad at you for not telling you. Yeah. that I mean, that is messed up. I should have just texted him and been like, hey, I am not feeling... And also, like even if he did have to leave for work, my mom is here. like We still live with my mom. It would have been fine, but still.
00:17:20
Speaker
I woke up to my alarm at 4am. I got in the car. I was home by 4.20 and like I went back to sleep and he left for work. It was fine. But I was in big trouble. And then he got invited last week to a lightning game at the very last minute, which would mean he'd be out till like midnight or 11.
00:17:38
Speaker
anne And we have had a lot to do, like we're packing up here and like, whatever. And what did he do? He used it against me. He was like, he's like, I think it's fine if I go to the lightning game, right? Since you were out till 4 AM on Sunday. And I was like, okay.
00:17:55
Speaker
And I had literally said to Shannon and Jack and Steven, I was like, I was like, yeah, he's a little mad, but he's fine. he I was like, he'll just use it against me for a month or two. And I was like, exhibit A. But it's so funny because like, you know, drunk you.
00:18:12
Speaker
isn't super rational. And like you probably in your head were thinking, I don't want to wake him up if I text him right now to tell him. Totally. when like yeah it It all would have been fine if he, because he was definitely asleep at 11, for sure. If he would have woke it up and seen a text, he'd be like, hey, I'm pretty buzzed. I'm going to sleep off a little bit. And then like And also, it was the smart decision for me. Really, if I could go back in time and do it all over, I would have just Ubered and then Ubered home like that would be the smarter thing. Yeah, this was a great segue into today's episode, which has been a request from some people.
College Memories and Early Friendship
00:18:52
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And it's not really about kids like it. This is about me and Candace as
00:18:58
Speaker
As growing adults, this is going to be about our origin. Our origin story. Yeah. This is our origin story. ah It is college. Okay. It's been highly requested. Everyone thinks our stories are funny, which we we're not going to like super dive into stories, but more so like I was thinking go through year by year and tell little things that we did that stood out to us in each year.
00:19:24
Speaker
how we got to know each other. ah And um I thought it would be really fun. It's funny because this episode has been one of the ones since our the idea of this. I love the idea of it and like sharing stories, but.
00:19:41
Speaker
I have been so nervous for this episode because I just pictured it being a roast of me. Like I just pictured it being my like ah a long verbalization of my most embarrassing moments in college or like my most shameful moments. It's like I don't know why you think that.
00:20:05
Speaker
You just have like one massive anxiety over college. 100%. That's exactly what it is. Like I just, when I look back on college, there are so many moments that I'm like, Oh my God, I cannot believe I did that. And I don't, I don't know. You got, you can tell me, I don't think I was that bad. I never like, I don't know what you're talking about. Like I, I'm like, this is just the person I know. So I don't know what you think.
00:20:37
Speaker
like you You sleeping or getting crunk at the Grammy's party is the college candidates I know. like You're right. You're right. It's just who I am, I guess. What do you mean? you're i just It's so funny.
00:20:54
Speaker
it's It's funny, you know how they say like with horoscopes, it's like your sun side and your moon sign and your whatever and like one of them is like who you are for real and who you are like presenting. I feel like who I present may be different than like who I am. Who who are you present present who are you presenting?
00:21:19
Speaker
No, I feel like sometimes I like I'm like put together and like like I don't but I am not. I am. I am together. I think you are like the hardest working person I know, but that doesn't like mean that you're not.
00:21:35
Speaker
so fun like that's okay so maybe like my tombstone's just gonna say like work hard play hard honestly which was a big song when we were in college ah play uh yeah that was like a big song okay let's just get into it let's talk about a freshman year obviously we went to alabama university of alabama world tide Yeah, and we both were in the same sorority um and we met pretty quickly. I mean, yeah at Alabama, they like take you on this thing called a retreat and they like push you to get to know each other pretty quickly. It's like you have no choice. Yeah. I specifically like remember playing like two lies or two truths and a lie in a circle.
00:22:23
Speaker
ah I don't know why. I just remember thinking this is so awkward. I have to come up with ah a lie about myself. like And I was panicking because I had gone to the same high school my whole life. And so this was like my first get to know you icebreaker thing. And I was just like, what the fuck? What the fuck am I supposed to come up with? I've never done anything like this in my life. Yeah, that's so interesting. Did you ever like go away to camp or anything like that? Yeah, but we didn't do icebreaker things. And I feel like you go to camp when you're in like sixth grade. like That was maybe the last year I ever went to an away camp, but i yeah. um Yeah, we never did anything like that. So I just remember all that. But we I met Candice.
00:23:10
Speaker
pretty early. And my vibe for like finding a friend was like, I want someone to drink with. And like, that was like my whole goal. And can Candace's room was the party room freshman year. It was. It was. It was. So me and my roommate, Desi, shout out Desi. I'm not sure if she listens, but she is a mom of three. But um we like If you think I'm a social butterfly, like Desiree Waters yeah was the epitome of a social butterfly. The girl knew everyone. I felt like even before she arrived in Alabama, she had talked to every single person that ever went to school there on Facebook. like i don't It was crazy.
00:23:52
Speaker
Yeah, I guess like I met her maybe her first. I cannot remember. I mean, y'all were like a package deal because you were roommates. But um it's funny when I look back at freshman year, I think like I feel like to a lot of people I was Desi's roommate. Like I wasn't Candace. I was Desi's roommate.
00:24:10
Speaker
which is I liked her because I'm not someone that's good at like reaching out and creating plans. Like I'm more of the good go with the flow. Like I need someone to invite me. And so she was really good at inviting. And so I liked that about both of y'all cause you always had something to go do. And I was like, can I tag along basically? yeah ah Cause I was always looking for something to do. I'm always, I was like, I'm always down. You just gotta invite me. I'm not making plans.
00:24:40
Speaker
ya yeah Yeah, still to this day, actually. um but ah Yeah, I just remember thinking Candice was the nicest human ever because she let me borrow a dress and I was like, are you for real? Like you're going to let me borrow this. I don't know what fucking trauma I went through in high school where like I didn't think people would let me borrow their clothes. I was going to say, did your friends in high school like not let you borrow clothes? I don't know.
00:25:08
Speaker
I have no I'm sure we did but it was like we all had I think we all had the same shit because it was a big Abercrombie era like for me and I remember wearing like getting into like boutiques and stuff my senior year but like freshman to junior year I was wearing Abercrombie and so was Morgan so it was like we all had like you all had the same shit yeah yeah totally I don't know. i was We shared dresses a lot. I mean, I also went to like an all girls school. So I don't know, people were always like sharing things. I like my senior, is it senior or junior?
00:25:47
Speaker
You know what? I actually think it's senior Christmas formal. I wore one of Shannon's dresses, which blows my mind thinking now that we were the same size to share a dress. The dress I borrowed of yours was a four. I'll never forget it. The math ain't math-in, honestly.
00:26:11
Speaker
Truly, but I also, I mean, I don't know. I was a super competitive gymnast all throughout high school. So like I was very fit in college is weird. I got so skinny freshman year. I don't know how. Oh my God. I did not know I my skinniest time was actually I mean, I don't need, we don't even need to go down. i don't know why why how did thattle I'm edit that part out because I'm like, we don't need to go talk about our skinniest. Um, but no, I was always down to let people borrow my clothing. And like, I, I feel like for me,
00:26:50
Speaker
I felt like letting people borrow my clothes and like inviting people to things like was my way of like making friends. And so that just came like natural to me. i was always I never was weird about that kind of stuff. it was She was so nice. And I loved like all of our little friend groups freshman year. We were such a mix. like We didn't all just like click and stick to our sororities. like We were friends with so many people and other sororities. like it was never like, oh, I have to stay in my lane. So I really liked like mixing with people that were in them who weren't in them. Like we just didn't care, which I really liked. Cause sometimes I think that has a big stigma at Alabama was like, totally you're not in a sorority. Like I'm not going to talk to you, but like we could have cared less. It was more like, oh fun. Well, I say all the time and I, I, I'm just speaking for the Alabama that we went to at, you know, back in 20,
00:27:49
Speaker
Gosh, 2010, 2009 is when we you know pledged. I feel like ah there are a lot of Alabama sororities that like take a lot of girls from Alabama and like that's their the only they only take a little bit of out of state.
00:28:04
Speaker
you know Girls and I feel like Theta takes a more out-of-state girls and that ended up being like working out for me because not everyone like leaves on weekends where we don't have You know home games and I felt like I really got to meet a mix of people And we all really were so far from home that we like clung together. I mean, don't get me wrong They're still Alabama girls and you weren't that far for you were what four hours hours? No, but it's totally like and they
00:28:35
Speaker
No one really knew each other yet. And sometimes that can be hard if you're from Alabama and you go get in the same sorority as everyone in your high school, then you're going to click together. And I think that was a big issue in a lot of the other ones. And for us, like you said, everyone was from everywhere, which has honestly been such a freaking blessing outside of college because I have friends all over the country like totally New York.
00:29:02
Speaker
Tampa, like, I mean, literally everywhere. Yeah. alabama I mean, Chicago, California, Texas, like literally everywhere. So I love that. Me too. Freshman year was such a fun year when I look back on it. Like so many first, you know, it's your first time like really being independent and I don't know. It was just such a fun time. and There were definitely highs and lows as with anything. like I feel like there were times I was super homesick. You had a boyfriend. Yeah, I was never back at home. Yeah, I was dating a a senior in high school. What was I doing? Anyway, it led me to Chris, so I'm just going to let that be what it is.
00:29:44
Speaker
um And like, I don't even remember visiting that much. I might have like the first semester, but then I don't know. I just. Okay, you know what's crazy? I don't ever remember him visiting you, not once. like i don't I have no memory of that. I don't think his dad wanted him to like drive down by himself all the time, because he was still 17 maybe at the time. Yeah, that's crazy. And it's like, okay, if your kid's going to visit their girlfriend in college, what do you think they're doing? Yikes. So I only remember him coming twice, and one was for Halloween.
00:30:25
Speaker
And then the other time, I ah can't even remember why he came. He never came in the spring, I don't think. We were on our way out at that point. The time was coming to an end. Yeah. And God, thank God I like...
00:30:43
Speaker
figured that out. But, um, yeah, I had a boyfriend, but like we, so I remember like we had to do this thing called bumping when you are going with a frat party or fraternity and you have to bump with another freshman and you hit back to back and that's your like date for the night. And I left, I left one time crying.
00:31:05
Speaker
because I felt like I did something. You cheated or something? You didn't? Like some guy accidentally touched your butt and you were like, I'm a cheater. I don't know. It was like, I just remember feeling so much pressure from the sophomores like, that's your date. That's your date. And I was like, I don't want him to be my date. like ah And then I felt guilty. That whole thing is really weird. And I actually am curious if it still happens. Do you know? I don't know. have yeah Oh, I don't know, um but like, oh my God, like, was I okay? Like we were in college before the Me Too movement, like so much would be different, I don't know. I just, my poor like subconscious, like I am, am I okay? Like I was so innocent back then, and Peter, like, oh my God.
00:31:56
Speaker
Um, Oh, what a loyal to fault. But, um, what else?
Spring Break and College Adventures
00:32:01
Speaker
I guess. Oh, and then our big, like first spring break trip, we went, that was our first Sarasota trip.
00:32:08
Speaker
I feel like spring break is like one of the it's like yeah at the core of our friendship is like we spent pretty much every spring break together except senior year because I went to New York City. and But other than that, like spring break is. Like the the rope that ties all of our memories together, you know, because it was so I mean, that's just where a lot of like stories spin from. And it was so fun and I don't know and it was it's fun because y'all had people you knew that was there so it made it more fun because then we were like mingling with everybody but yeah so we would always go to Sarasota with our friend Alina who I think listens shout out Alina
00:32:53
Speaker
And she lives, her parents live on the water in Sarasota and it was just like the best spring break place. Honestly, like it wasn't like super facey. We didn't really know anyone other than like my friends or her friends that would like bopping it out, you know? But like it's different than going to like Panama City or Destin where you like all the people from college are the people that are at spring break. It's just a different vibe to be in a place where like you don't really know anybody and like you all can just kind of be. I don't know. I just remember it early the best time her parents like I felt like she was treated like an adult.
00:33:31
Speaker
like the way that my parents would have been up my butthole like the whole spring break they just like let us be they'd like come in and out here and there i'm like did they even stay there were they there like like all of a sudden we'd have Publix Cubans sitting for us and then it's like her mom would disappear and I'm like, yeah who? Well, that is so true because like in my head, I've to hear you say that I'm like, what do you mean? Like they took such good care of us. Like there was always food and drinks ready and like then theyre gone wait they were like not they didn't like hang around. No. And the way my mom would been in the hot tub with us. Well, your mom loves to party. So Becky would be up there in the mix. You know, it's just so funny. I'm like,
00:34:18
Speaker
Wow. We were adulting. So fun. Yeah, it was so fun. Oh, my gosh. So many good memories. I feel like. I don't know. I feel like we should move forward to sophomore year because yeah this that was like where we met. And for freshman year was so fun. Everything was new. We were getting to know each other. But like, I feel like our friendship really solidified sophomore year because we moved in together with Julia and Dez.
00:34:46
Speaker
And we moved into our first apartment in the Woodlands, which was so cool at the time. There was like, what, nine buildings? I mean, this place was massive, had a massive like party pool, massive I mean, Candice ended up working there, but like, holy shit, this place was huge. And it was crawling with sophomores. It was all sophomores. Yeah, it was all sophomores. Yeah. Cause it was like the new hot place to live. Like we were the first people to ever live there. And we were in building one, weren't we? We were alive, bitch. Yeah, we were building like literally building one unit. I feel like it was one 28. Wow. You're right. Wow. Uh-huh.
00:35:29
Speaker
You are so right. Um, and it was so fun. Like that's literally where I met Chris and which y'all have heard that story a million times, but we met Chris and, um, God, I feel like that it's funny. right tell this You could cut this part out, but one time I remember the first time I kissed Chris, like Candace was making out with someone else in the pool and then I was making out next.
00:35:57
Speaker
Oh my gosh. I feel like we just made out for hours on end. Isn't that so funny? I feel like I have legit many memories of like making out with guys like with my friends also in the vicinity. i know like that's just like I feel like that's just like a young and horny thing. Like, you know, like, nowadays, could you imagine just making out in the same room as someone else? I would crawl into my own butthole before I ever did that. Like, no one does that. and canda next time teenager This next time we're all together. We should do and catch them off guard.
00:36:44
Speaker
Vinny would literally and be like, he would push me off of him and be like, what are you doing? Which is so funny because I feel like we just did that when we were younger.
00:36:56
Speaker
oh my god i mean you were just getting it while you could, I guess. I don't know. go to say You would just like, again, young and horny and you would just get it anytime you could. I don't even know, but it was crazy. It was crazy. Um, um, but yeah, so that happened. Like we're in our first apartment. Like I,
00:37:16
Speaker
legit remember blowing up an air mattress and putting it in our den area and like having it there for a solid month and like we were like this is cool like this is our
First Apartment Experiences
00:37:27
Speaker
our house we can do whatever we want yeah yeah we so just for more context we would blow up this air mattress and create like a big comfy like palette on the floor and we would watch movies and people but like people would just come in and out and we'd just be like lounging, watching movies. And like, if one of us was going out, people would just like come over and like pregame and one of us would just still be in our pajamas. Yeah, I mean, I just I remember watching the Alabama Auburn game, the one that we lost because we had won
00:38:00
Speaker
um The national championship our freshman year and then we lost to Auburn. I remember watching it on that air mattress and I like wanted to pop it. I was so mad. And I don't know why that is like ingrained in my memory. yeah But I feel like that apartment was like a little bit of a revolving door like people in and out all the time. I guess with four roommates it is kind of like just in itself a revolving door.
00:38:26
Speaker
But I remember being so proud of that apartment. like It was cute. We had decorated it so cute. like All of our parents were there at the beginning to like hang things. I don't know. it was so like It felt so adult. To me, looking back, I'm like, wow, it was like literally a glorified dorm, honestly. But like at the time, it felt so adult.
00:38:50
Speaker
they provided this brown leather couch which like by the end of us living there two years was probably like ripped to shreds like oh yeah yeah yeah like dry rotted like oh my god it's actually so funny to think because it came furnished and that was like one of the like selling points yeah yeah but the furniture was so again like dorm furniture literally yeah yeah but oh my god so fun i remember you had you actually had like a Galentine's day party there. And I remember it being like a singles party. And I just remember our floor being covered in mud. Yes. Yes. Yes. Oh my gosh. I do. So we had a singles party and it was like jello shots. Like oh yeah we had a whole thing and I think it was raining and that's what it was. Like people were walking
00:39:44
Speaker
ah downstairs into the grass and then coming back up and our whole floor has never been dirtier. Like I just remember being like, ba Oh my God, I can't. And this is where I learned. I also learned that I don't like cleaning um in the kitchen. This is where I learned all this important victim of mine.
00:40:07
Speaker
No, and I'll never forget. Oh, my gosh. Whitney, like ah trying to tackle a ah sink full of dirty dishes with food left on them and a I feel like it's going to make you gag right now. It is. It's kind of making me sick thinking about it. I have to think it was like clearly a piece of like moldy food that literally like wrapped around her finger. when And she, like, I think vomited. Like, it was so intense. But honestly, now that I'm older, like, I get it. Like, that makes me sick, honestly. My eyes are watering. Oh, I mean, there are so many things I learned. Like, I mean, you know, I talked about this before. Like, Candace taught me how to clean the toilet. Like, there's just so many things I learned here. um Where was our washer and dryer? Oh, I remember now. It was it was a double door open right by your back. It was by your room, I thought.
00:41:06
Speaker
I don't know. Oh, you're right. You're right. I think you have the door all the way in the back past the kitchen. That was like the pantry. Right. Oh yeah. Yeah. Right. ah yeah like there was I get confused because like I have lived at Chris's too. So it's like he had, they had the first floor and then we had like a double story. So I'm like, I don't know. I just remember both, but yeah. And yeah you do start working there, your sophomore year.
00:41:34
Speaker
I did. So i my sophomore year, I don't even remember. I mean, I definitely was looking for a job at that point. I was trying to get in-state tuition. So you have to like work. You have to like hold a job. um And I did. i I don't even know. It fell into my lap. I think at some point someone was like, oh, you should work at the Woodlands.
00:41:53
Speaker
And that was really my first dip into sales, I have to say, and I was killing it. You make great money as a leasing agent, or at least I did. like You get a commission for every lease you sign and every renewal you sign. you end up kind of like yeah I got a discount for living there. um and i you got I got to meet so many people who like lived at the Woodlands. I loved that job. However, it was quite demanding. Like you had to do a lot of follow up and like, yeah you know, um, it was like a sales job, truly. yeah Um, but yeah, I worked there. Great job. Lots of perks. I ended up, I remember towards the end of me working there, they really had me like doing a lot of marketing. Like I was going, I had to go to these Woodland sponsors events, Woodland sponsored events. That was hard to say.
00:42:43
Speaker
um But yeah, it was honestly, it was fun, it was a great job. I know, my working gal. Okay, we have to tell one embarrassing story. Oh, of who? Me. Okay, what? do we ah Did we tell the story, or have we told it before about the Lost Elf? you You're gonna let me tell that story? Yeah.
00:43:10
Speaker
ha That would be bad to me. That one's not that bad to me. Okay.
00:43:20
Speaker
This is one of my favorite Candace stories. I didn't know if you're ever going to let me do it. This one I'm not that ashamed about. I mean, it is what it is. OK, so this was after theta had a tacky Christmas party every year. And for some reason, we always got a rock band. I don't know why they had this obsession with that. I hated that. yeah I don't know why they did that. But I liked it at the time. But now you did like you are so into that and like whiskey and like, I don't know. I just I hated 80. I still hate 80s music. So anyway,
00:43:58
Speaker
Um, we got, you know, tore up on fricking tacky Christmas night and Candice ends up falling asleep at the Theta house, right? Have we told this story? I can't remember now. I don't know. But I woke up in the TV room on the comfy couch in the Theta house. And to be honest, like I wasn't mad to wake up there. I was like, that's this fine. It's fine.
00:44:27
Speaker
But I ah realize I don't have my phone or my keys, right? It was both. Yeah. Yeah. I didn't have my phone or my keys. I am in full elf gear. OK. I had peppermint striped pants on. OK. Tights. Tights. Oh, my God. And like, of course, I'm probably like, where the frick is she? She never came home.
00:44:52
Speaker
Yeah. And I am wondering once again, how she doesn't tell ah ah yeah don't tell anyone where I am or what's happening. I'm wondering around the theta house and there's a girl, Madison, who's like, do you need a ride somewhere? Like she could tell it was in distress, I think. And I was like, yeah, I do. And she was like, no problem. I'll drive you to the Woodlands. I get out of her car. She drives me home like walking up to mar our apartment. The door is locked.
00:45:20
Speaker
I don't have keys or a phone or anything. The door's locked, I don't have a keys or a phone. So I walk my happy elf ass over to Chris's apartment where I know Whitney is probably at. And I just need y'all to know, this is like two full mall parking lots away, okay? A long, yeah, it is a long walk. It's a pretty long walk. And I'm walking in my elf gear in the middle of the morning,
00:45:48
Speaker
over Chris's apartment. And the door is unlocked. Thank you, Jesus. And I walk in and I go to Chris's room and I swing open the door and I say, I'm a lost elf. And what I love about this, she jumps right in the bed. She's like, oh, no so every time I jump right in the bed with Chris and Whitney. I'm like, these are my people. And So then I go to the bathroom and I'm like, oh, I got to pee. And I pull down my tights and elf gear and out falls my phone, my keys and my little wallet pouch,
00:46:34
Speaker
which please tell me how I woke up, sat, walked around the Theta house, sat in a car, walked two whole mall parking lots across
00:46:48
Speaker
sat on a bed and did not feel in my nether regions that there was keys, a whole set of keys, a wallet, and a phone. I don't know. I have no clue how this happened. I had them the whole time. Yeah. But they were in my tights. I'm dying. I have no idea. That's my favorite story of Candace.
00:47:17
Speaker
from anything and that know ever. Who knows what I did that night. Do you remember who my date was? No, I really couldn't tell you. No, I have no idea. I have no idea. But that is probably my favorite story about Candace. That was so freaking funny. Um, when it fell out on the floor, we were just like crying, laughing. Um, yeah, good times. I mean, we learned a lot and then we moved to and junior year where we still,
00:47:46
Speaker
Same apartment. Yeah, Debauchery ensues. ah I just... I feel like that's where like, I don't know, I feel like some of my fondest memories are junior year. I feel like I really, in some ways, like, um I don't know, you like get your stride, like... I feel like that year's the most a blur for me. Interesting.
00:48:11
Speaker
Yeah. I don't know why. Like it's weird. I remember being the happiest that year, I think. Is that the year where you took a break from Theta?
00:48:24
Speaker
What is that? I've never, I think, Oh, like I took a semester off. you did Cause I think it was junior year. Cause that's the year where like I was not forced, but like all y'all took a break from theta. And so I was still in it and I was like almost forced to go do things with new people. So I ended up making like, obviously a good thing, like making more yeah friends outside of like y'all, but I remember being like,
00:48:54
Speaker
Yeah, I don't know why it's all such such a blur. that's yeah Yeah, it is kind of a
Junior Year Reflections and Growth
00:48:59
Speaker
blur. But I remember, think like I think I liked it. I don't know. I just like the one thing that stands out to me is like we um we went back to the national championship junior year and Candice and I, like being the big sports people we are, like Chris literally, I was like talking to him cause telling him about this episode and he was like, he got riled up again. Like this was happening in real time. He was like, you guys, you're just texting me, being like, oh, oops, we're going to bed light tailgate for free. Oh, we, oh, we got tickets to the game. And he was like, what the fuck? like
00:49:38
Speaker
No, really, that's actually one of the great like if I had to choose a top three weekend, I don't even know if it was a weekend. I think it was a top three day of my life. It's that day.
00:49:49
Speaker
We, it was in New Orleans, just like the couple was, and it was our, my first time there, but I don't know about yours, but it was my very first time on Bourbon Street and- I think it was my first time. Oh my God. I mean, we got there and immediately like, I was handed two hand grenades. And I remember just walking down the street with two of them getting absolutely hammered and like literally like things kept falling in our lap. Like, yeah. So big shout out to my uncle. How many people am I going to shout out? I'm like, DJ, call it over here. Like shout out, shout out, shout out. ah Like for real, shout out to my uncle.
00:50:29
Speaker
Michael Malay. So i that side of my family, big sports people. They have five boys. um And he him and his wife lived in New Orleans for many years. They got married in New Orleans. And he like is big into the New Orleans sports world. They also went to LSU. so And it was the game was against LSU. So the cards just like fell into place. like i was going to be there My uncle knew I was going to be there. he was super connected and was just being handed tickets to a bunch of stuff. And y'all, it was the best like week. Well, we were freshly 21. We were freshly 21. Literally my birthday was December 29th. It was probably January 10th. Yeah, 11th or something. and yeah we
00:51:13
Speaker
they're like, here are tickets to this Bud Light tailgate. And obviously us being like poor college students, we were like, oh my God, like number one, we finally get a wristband that says we can drink all this for free. Yeah. And it was just like all these, like it was crazy. You could get anything you wanted at the tailgate, the food, whatever. And then he's like,
00:51:33
Speaker
my uncle's like, oh yeah, and we're gonna go to the ESPN party. Like, oh yeah. And this was crazy. Like I remember- It was so fancy in there. It was so fancy in there. And it was like filled with celebs. Like it was filled with people, like celebrities from like all the ESPN like casters, but like- And we had on our Alabama jersey. Professional athletes. I mean, we were pretty.
00:51:59
Speaker
We were like we looked in our knee high boots. I mean, that was the uniform on with a strap bag. But and then we the person we were staying with, they didn't want to go to the football game. So they just gave us the tickets to the football game. And I remember taking Chris. I was like, now I'm going to the game. And he was like, you've got to be shitting me like.
00:52:23
Speaker
yeah I think he just went, he went to New Orleans thinking like we'd all catch up and then we kept getting fed these opportunities and I didn't see him one time. Sorry Chris, gotta go. And so Candice and I got into this game and oh my God, I barely remember it. I was so... I mean, I could have been at a i concert. I don't freaking know. I don't remember anything. I just know that we won.
00:52:48
Speaker
Candace's phone had died. ah We're walking down the spiral of death, right? And Candace is like drunk at this point. And she's like, I have to call my mom and tell her that we won. I've got to call her. And so she insisted on calling her mom using my phone.
00:53:05
Speaker
She drops my phone and shatters it. And so then we're both without our phone. And then we walk yeah a mile takes in the we walk a mile in the wrong direction. We're so lost. Phones aren't working. We also didn't have maps back then. Yeah.
00:53:28
Speaker
on our phone. So it's like we were just like drunk stumbling around. Thank God we're okay. Literally. ah Yeah. It was, it was, it it turned into, okay, this part, like I remember, I remember a lot of the walk afterwards. Like I don't remember much of the game, but I remember as up like i well i remember the shame I felt after dropping your phone. That feeling will never leave me. Okay.
00:53:52
Speaker
And I remember after us walking for a while in the wrong direction, like the part like we were entering a part of town that started to look really scary. And we were like, I think we should turn around. What's crazy is like Ubers didn't exist back then. like That wasn't a thing. like I don't even know if we had maps on our phone. So like it's so funny. like There's so many things. i Like, I don't know. There's so many things that I'm like, oh, I'm so happy we didn't have Snapchat. Like, thank God I would be in way more trouble if there was social media back then. But also like, damn, I wish we had Maps and Uber. Like, yeah you know. Which we did get all that senior year, but.
00:54:37
Speaker
Well, not Uber, but Uber didn't happen until I lived in New York. But Instagram entered the chat. It's crazy. that Yeah. Yeah, it did. It was the summer between junior and senior year. Oh, never forget Chris's picture that he posted of himself with anyway.
00:54:58
Speaker
ah No, actually, hold on. This is another um episode idea, but there needs to be like visuals involved. We might have to do like one visual episode, honestly, like that we upload to YouTube or something, because another thing I would love to do is to pull up old pictures of us, like from events like prom and whatever, and to like discuss our outfits, just like a visual blast to the past. Yes, that sounds fun. And also roast some of our old Instagram posts because, man, I've got some doozies, let me tell you. Yeah, for real. But yeah, that's a picture I would love to show because yeah yeah we can show that picture morphed into someone I've never seen before. It was like, literally, it's the definition of no one's home. ah truly like No one's home.
00:55:54
Speaker
So good. Okay, hold on. I have one more thing to say about junior year before we transition to senior year. I think one thing about junior year that sticks out to me is like I remember I wasn't taking school very seriously. like ah Freshman in sophomore year, I was like very much just getting by and junior year I remember is where I like really started to take it seriously and I started to think about like my future of like my um My major, and I remember being pretty serious about school, and they so like I remember my GPA going into senior year was like a lot better, and therefore I like felt more secure. And I think that might be
00:56:34
Speaker
Cause I'm, I feel like I remember, like I remember thinking like, Oh, I'll never be on exec. I don't have the GPA for it, oh but we require a GPA. yeah You like had to get, you had to have a certain GPA to be on exec. What was it like a three?
00:56:51
Speaker
Yeah, which like isn't that crazy, but I think I was on the floor. No, literally, but I think I was really not taking school seriously and I was barely either barely making your three or not even like it was I was not. taking emb like i but I remember I brought it up in my GPA from the end of junior year. Like I want to say it was like a three eight or something like not my full yeah but my yeah so that semester was a three, eight. Like I took, anyways. My grades took a deep doo doo plunge. The semester I met Chris, I i remember getting a 2.8 that semester. And um I was just like, oh my God, god I need to reel it in. That was like the worst I ever did.
00:57:41
Speaker
Yeah. So do you ever have dreams about school like college? Actually, it's something that a lot of people do. It's about not finishing a class. Mine's Spanish because I dropped out of Spanish in high school.
00:57:58
Speaker
Oh my God, matt mine's always math. I didn't do all the math assignments. I didn't know they were due. I did miss a test. There was like, it's always math. Mine's that I completely like didn't know I had a class and I just never went to class. And it's like at the almost, almost the end of the semester. Oh damn. Yeah. Okay. Senior year.
Senior Year and Sorority Life
00:58:18
Speaker
is the year we moved into the sorority house. And Candace and I, um we also were on exec, which Candace is the one that inspired me to join exec. I feel like senior year's when I got my shit together. That's when I was on the advertising team at Alabama. That's when I went on exec and I was the marketing um chief marketing officer. So I was like, I had my shit together senior year. And, um,
00:58:47
Speaker
she inspired me to do it. Like I would have probably never applied for it. And she was like, I'm going to apply for a recruitment chair. And I was like, well, should I be on exec too? Like I wanted to live in the sorority house, which was like my, mostly my main goal of why.
00:59:03
Speaker
And yeah we wanted our own rooms, like that was important to us. That was a big reason how you could get your own room. You got like first choice of picking and we picked rooms across from each other. And um yeah, it was crazy living in a sorority house.
00:59:20
Speaker
right under the football stadium literally like that was our neighbor it was so wild to think we lived there yeah i living in the theta house is something i'm so happy that i did like i feel like it's the true like sorority college experience i feel like i learned so much about myself living there I remember you not liking it. Yeah, I didn't love it. Only because I felt like people were keeping tabs on me all the time. And that was that's it. That's all I didn't like. Like, I felt like I couldn't do anything without someone being like, hey, where are you going? And I'm like, none of your beeswax. I don't remember like feeling like that. um Maybe just because like I was I don't know dating Chris.
01:00:09
Speaker
Were you like, me I didn't have an escape really. Like I didn't have like, uh, you know, like, I feel like you could go. Even, even I think for me, like you, you could have even said like, Oh, I'm going to meet Chris and people would have been like, Oh great. Have fun. Like where I was going was typically like, Oh, I'm going to go and go to Starbucks. And they'd be like, okay, cool. I'll come. Like I'll come with you. And I think I had always given off the vibe, which I don't regret this at all. Like, or I like this about myself. I have a very like warm bubbly vibe and I was always very inclusive of everyone, but I felt like it was almost taken advantage of when I went to
01:00:48
Speaker
You're like, no, actually I wanted a alone time. Yeah. I think I and living there like really like I, what I, one of the big things I learned about myself is that I do really value some alone time and I value like privacy. And I feel like I don't, I didn't get any of that when I lived there, but so on the flip side of that, like there's so many things I loved about living there. Like there's so many funny, like.
01:01:13
Speaker
inside jokes from living there and like people I never would have gotten so close with like in under like underclassmen. so no There were so many good things. I um too hated where Chris lived senior year. That apartment was disgusting. I actually i can't even remember it.
01:01:31
Speaker
They lived behind like where Mackenzie lived, like few street back. I remember. I remember. I hated it. um One thing i I didn't like living there, they all played Taylor Swift 24-7. Like this was even popular.
01:01:52
Speaker
That was when red like when our senior year of. College like during recruitment is when red was coming out like I remember during recruitment is when we are never getting back together came out.
01:02:08
Speaker
Well, everyone would have their doors open blasting it. And I was like, I'm trying to listen to black and yellow. Like I was like, I'm going to fucking scream. See, um we are never ever getting back together. Came out on August 13th, 2012. That would be during recruitment. That was my night. So yeah, yeah it it was a lot. It was a Taylor Swift heavy time because Red was like so big.
01:02:36
Speaker
And I mean, her music has gotten so much better. I mean, it was so back then, which I don't like. And I was just like, maybe that's where it all stems from.
01:02:48
Speaker
ah But, um yeah. Anyway, other than that, like, oh my God, I loved living there. And um we had like at this, I ate cereal every day. Oh, I loved cereal. And I remember they had like so much cereal there. Yeah. The food was so great to be able to just like eat whatever you wanted when you wanted. It was so dangerous, but amazing. Yeah, it was awesome.
01:03:15
Speaker
I feel like senior year like I just feel like I solidified like that you and I were forever. Oh yeah I mean I remember sneezing in my bedroom and you were like you would text me and say like oh my god you made me jump or something. Like I could hear you from in here. It was so funny. Oh, my God. I don't know. I feel like that was when I was like, I remember being scared to live away from you like or like in the sense of like, oh, she's one of my closest friends. We do so much together. Like how will I ever live without her?
01:03:51
Speaker
And we never have loved each other. Oh my gosh, we never have, it's actually making me emotional. I just feel like it's so special that we like found each other in college and like we've stayed so close, if not even closer than we were there. Cause like, I feel like looking back at senior year, like could we be any closer? We were literally up each other's butts, but like now we have kids around the same age. Like you can't ask for anything better in a friend. I know. It's like,
01:04:20
Speaker
I have like really like best best friends. Like I have a lot of great amazing friends, but it's like, I've never, I remember thinking I've never met anyone like you. Like I've never liked someone as much as I've liked you. Like I was like, no one's ever going to compare. Like I am just, I don't know. I've always just been in love with you.
01:04:43
Speaker
I feel the exact same way Whitney for real like I am so in fact yeah yesterday my mom was made a comment about she saw some gymnasts on TV and she was like oh you know I think you could have gone to college gymnastics which I probably could have if I yeah stopp And we were just, you know, kind of talking through that scenario quickly, like, oh, if that had happened. And I literally thought to myself, like, I'm so happy it didn't. And I did. And I didn't do that because my whole life would look different. I wouldn't have met you. I probably wouldn't have gone to Alabama. I would have I would have completely different friends. I would just my life experience would be so different. And I don't know. It's just nice to like.
01:05:28
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talk through those other scenarios to feel so grateful for like, oh, I'm so happy that yeah life worked out the way it did because it's brought me these amazing people in my life. And like, I just love you so much. and Yeah, going there changed my life completely. Like I just, I grew up there and I just, I freaking loved it. But yeah, we were on exec together. Candace crushed it. So did you. You were amazing. I feel like that was my first time having like responsibility and doing a job and then like also doing ad team, which was so important to me at the time because I was like, I needed that stuff because I didn't work. I was like, I needed to have some shit on my resume. I was about to go into the workforce. So having all that was great. And then, I don't know, it was so fun. You also switched jobs senior year. I did. I worked at a sandwich shop, which I love. Which which honestly, which which slapped. It was so good. I was such a little sandwich slut.
01:06:38
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Oh, it was so good, which which is good. And also I remember that and like mama Goldberg's were such good. saying I love sandwiches. Like, yeah, me too. I love sandwiches. Honestly, that job was so fun. I met some really that had like a whole different clientele. Like all the people who worked at the Woodlands were like super, a lot of people in the Greek system. Like, I don't know. It was very like facing. So it was very like sales. Whereas like the sandwich shop was a some A lot of those people didn't even go to Alabama. It was like random, young people. And it was like a different crowd, which was funny. And I was like, okay, I think about this all the time. I was a shift leader at Twitch, which was like one below the manager. And I was like literally 18 years old or 17 even. Like, I don't even know. No, I wasn't. Sorry. I was like, no you're probably 21. I was going to say I was 21 years old, but I was like literally counting the money and doing the books at night like that. Who let me do that? Truly? Like I should to think about it. Like and still to this day, I go into some of these like food places like Chipotle. And if someone asks for a manager and I see this kid walk up and I'm like, what the fuck this place?
01:07:49
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This kid's the manager but then I think of me being and like if someone were to ask for the manager and the manager wasn't there like it would be me walking up to them being like how can I help you. I remember you and Mackenzie like taking that.
01:08:03
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um job ah whatever it was so seriously so I remember it asked a color question or something about a sky and Mackenzie came up with like the craziest answer and I was like oh she's for sure getting the job like damn she's creative speaking of remember when we applied at bear trap Oh, my God. but Wait, that is actually so frickin funny. So we were drunk at our favorite bar and we saw that they were hiring. So we sat at the bar with a beer and like a filled out a job application were drunk. So bear trap, which was, yeah, definitely one of our favorite bars. We go there like our stomping grounds. yeah Yeah, we would go there for the rooftop. But for some reason, we were in the actual bar, which was very dark. Yeah. And we were getting a literally like a cave.
01:08:53
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Yeah, we were getting drunk sitting in this dark bar alone. And yeah, I was like, I was so drunk that I wrote. This is my favorite thing. This is my favorite thing. What was the question? I think it was literally like, it was literally like what, like what qualifications do you have? It was like, what qualifications do you have that would make you a good fit for the bear? It was like something like that.
01:09:21
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y'all i was so drunk i wrote i do good things and that was it period i do good things period i still will say that i say that to this day i do good things oh my god it was so funny i remember Literally peeing my pants laughing. It was so funny and she was serious like she handed it in yeah mean know you Good things period you know if they ever need you need someone. I'm i'm here. You got my resume If you ever need me
01:09:55
Speaker
Oh my God. That is so funny. What? I, me a bartender. I knew nothing. Why did I want to be a bartender? Chris was like, it to be I know why I wanted to be a bartender because I wanted to get closer with the bartenders there because I i loved them all and like,
01:10:12
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thought I was gonna marry each and each and every one. And um I wanted to have drinks, obviously. I remember Chris being like, Whitney, you will literally hate that job. You have to stay up till 2 a.m. And I was like, oh, you're you're right. I would have hated being a bartender.
01:10:31
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I would have hated it. I was a night owl, so i was I felt like I was made for that job, honestly. So funny. Oh my god, I loved bear trap. I also loved galettes, like a switch in me happened senior year where I love galettes. Well, galettes opened up into a different bar. like it was It got a full redo.
01:10:53
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Well, they were really strict. Like you really couldn't get in there until you were 21. So it was like, OK, yeah, we didn't really attempt to even go there until we were 20 because it was it was a schlep. Like it was if you were going to get denied out there, like, oh, my God, you had to find a whole way back home. Like, oh, that was you had to be sure you're getting in there.
01:11:15
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hold on we didn't talk about rounders though and i forgot about rounders i loved rounders rounders oh ah my god y'all that was my favorite place i mean it was a club they had it was called the boom boom room yeah they literally had a boom boom room and that's where all the football players hung out and let me tell you That's where you bo that is where you grind. And honestly, let me tell you, that is where my soul still lives to this day. like i If I were to hear, if I were to like dead serious, if someone told me I could go back to any moment in college. I might i might say I want to go back to Rounders with no hands playing and literally grinding on a random guy, like take me back. I love my husband so much, but like just for one night, take me back. I want to go to El Rakan to pregame.
01:12:17
Speaker
Yeah. And then go to rounders. Yeah. And I want like all of my girlfriends there that I love and everyone's on at like the perfect level of drunk. And all the football players. And all the football players. And baseball players. All the athletes, period. Oh my god, that sounds really fun. Wow.
01:12:42
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I know. I think that and like a kite flight day drinking day or a bid day day is like a day I'd want to go back to. Like those were always so fun. I love those. Wow. For sure. For sure.
01:12:59
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Wow, that was really fun, too. That was so fun. This is going to be a long one. Oopsie. We couldn't help it. We had to we had to ramble. I was going to say, I feel like I have so much I didn't cover. Like we may have to do a part two.
01:13:13
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Part two, Shannon would say. Oh yeah, Shannon came to visit ah um one time too. Anyway, we don't have, we have more stories to tell. yeah There will be more college discussions in the, in the future. Maybe we'll do a, like a prompted one where people can ask questions and like give us prompts of like favorite blah, blah, blah. And like, we'll just do a full college Q and A. That was so fun. Okay.
01:13:40
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Well, I loved walking down memory lane in our love fest that continued through the years. I'm like, wow, I've known you since I was 18. That is so insane. yeah Wow. I love you so much. I love you. This was great. Roll Tide.
01:13:57
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I might go have a drink. No, I'm just kidding. I don't want to. I don't want to. Just kidding. But I am going to go listen to no hands right now just to like get it out of my system. Good idea. OK. All right. Well, love you so much. Love you. Bye.
01:14:15
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