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41: JR HIGH... WHAT A TIME
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Hi, y'all, and welcome back to this week's episode! We are rambling about a JR HIGH this week! Have a good weekend!
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Transcript
Lighthearted Start with Laundry and Event Planning
00:00:00
Speaker
Are you having a laundry shower? I feel like I want to, but I'm not gonna ask them to plan two because I know this one is already stressing them out as is. So if we do it, that's gonna have to be like a collective between the three of us.
00:00:21
Speaker
You can you can do a big one if you want to. Yeah. I don't want to stress both of y'all out. I mean, I know cases probably enough to take on a little bit more now, because you are planning a wedding. Oh, wait, sorry. I'll cut that out. I just kind of ruined your news. But I want to give you a lot to do if that makes sense. Do you want one? I would like yeah. Want like, after like
00:00:46
Speaker
the bachelorette trip you can kind of just be like oh all of us give you lingerie like make it like our thing too but with just your friends unless you want like other people there too um my boss wants to give me one
Wedding Planning Mishaps and Insights
00:01:00
Speaker
So I'm going to assume that she would be disappointed and tell you to do that on company time. No, she said, if not, I'm going to call in one of your friends and opening it and somebody's going to record your reaction because she's going to give me the thing that has like literally absolutely nothing. And you know, you may be listening to this and think, wow, your boss is very cool. No, she loves to get under my nerves.
00:01:25
Speaker
I mean, if you want to have one, we can plan one. Y'all, I don't know how to ask people for money. Oh, no, no, no, no, no. Because starting November 1st, y'all are about to get weekly updates. Oh, you want me to ask for money, Casey? I'll ask them. Yeah. I don't like, I like, literally my credit card statement just like hit today because like the cycle ended and it is like, it's like, this is how much money you're going to pay by November 21st. But like, that's like,
00:01:56
Speaker
Did the Airbnb come out? Yeah, I paid for everything. Oh, okay. So give me your zone and I'll tell them. No, basically I'm going to send out a newsletter every single week. This is all that you need to have done by this time. This is what's going on this week. This is what I've accomplished this week. Same with, um, well, we'll go ahead and get this out of the way for my invitations. Um, because I decided to have something, you know, very eccentric and lots of things to cut and time consuming cricket. Um,
00:02:25
Speaker
Carve out a Saturday. Ooh, you know what? It may be a different day than a Saturday. Yeah, okay. If they come in. Can it be like a Wednesday? Oh, yeah, sure. If they come in by the 18th, then we should assemble. Oh no, y'all work during the day. Suck.
00:02:46
Speaker
During the day. Ethan is like me and Ethan's only day is like Saturdays. You know, I understand that. So I'll come up with a different time, but we're going to have to assemble them or I'm going to make Jared assemble them, even though he probably wouldn't care. The man loves crafts. But cricket wise, like addressing all of them, I'm going to need you, Raven. Mm hmm. I have all the stuff. I just need like your physical machine and computer. You bring in your brain. You guys over here. I got to remind you.
00:03:16
Speaker
Why I gotta travel to you? Oh, you know my rehearsal is at your house, correct? My rehearsal is at your house? Yeah, I had lunch with both of y'all's moms. We gotta have a conversation off the camera, okay. Because I have questions. So we'll have it off camera because if I say it on camera. What are the questions about? I can't say that either.
00:03:46
Speaker
Listen to me, because I can't not know. Yes, you can. You've been doing it to me since I met you. You know, if you ask me to write a speech, let me, let me stop talking before I say anything else. If you ask me to write a speech. Let me stop talking before I say anything else. Hey, I need to know when we actually, we need to have this speech about it. Cause I haven't said my wedding day on here. So I'm beginning of March.
00:04:12
Speaker
You don't know how glad I am. You said I didn't have to actually speak. I figured you didn't want to. Like, if anybody was going to say something, it would be Casey. I can talk and me and every time, like, me and Raven will just kind of switch off words sometimes. We'll be like, I'll be like, I don't know. If you want to get asked about by paragraphs, by all means. I know. Casey's going to say the whole thing. Oh, OK. And Raven will probably stand by me going.
00:04:43
Speaker
I was literally freaking out. And then I was like, you know, your whole family is nice, but they also kind of scare me. What if I? That's crazy. I literally have not thought, like before she asked us, I literally had not thought about it at all. Which family? Which family? Just everyone. They're not like, they're nice, but then it's like. His or mine? Like the look is like, they're just going to always be yours. Oh.
00:05:08
Speaker
Yeah, my uncle does have that face. Okay, so I was figuring out the timeline of pictures and who all I wanted to take pictures with. And I just feel like I'm leaving people out, but at the same time, I don't care. At my cousin's wedding, we literally took a 25-person group picture with all our family, and that was the only one we got. It's actually a really nice picture. I like it. I could care less if I have a lot of family photos.
00:05:37
Speaker
Could not care more. My concern is I want a picture with every single bridesmaid a picture with the grooms Spoiler alert me and Jared are getting ring tattoos. So I want a picture of those we're getting them probably into February beginning of March so they can heal. Um Yeah, I want that to be like the showcase So you see me around Oh y'all will probably see me before then if you see me with the J on my finger then now, you know why I
00:06:07
Speaker
Are you gonna get like on top? Yes. Originally I was just gonna get his name written like on the inside of my face. His whole name? His first name. Like that? Yeah. Like on the inside so nobody would see. But then I saw this really cute one on TikTok and was like, I could do that. And then on the off chance he decides he doesn't like me anymore. Finger tattoo spade. Yeah, yeah, that too. Finger tattoo spade. He wants like some
00:06:35
Speaker
A with a heart above. I'm telling him to keep it basic. Same with his wedding band. He can't pick one to save his life. He keeps saying he wants a normal silver one, but what is a normal silver one? Because every time you look at one, they're either shaped different, they have weird cutouts, they have diamonds. One of them has this weird orange line going through it, and that's not happening. Find a new one. I'm not buying that.
00:07:04
Speaker
Oh Raven, I don't know if I told you this. Whenever, like, you guys talk about, like, planning your wedding and paying money to tell us about mom.
Work Surprises and Wedding Expenses
00:07:12
Speaker
What? We can't say it yet. Oh, my bad. Yup, that's all y'all have been talking about. Mine! I'm not gonna announce it.
00:07:22
Speaker
I'm leaving it in. I was at work and we were in divisional and we were talking about something and my manager was like, she was like, I don't like this topic. Anyone else have anything exciting to talk about? And then I did not say a word and Stephanie was like,
00:07:38
Speaker
Raven got engaged with this. And then everyone looked at me, I was like, oh no, there's so much attention. And then I walk into the break room and everyone's like looking at me, I'm like, how does everyone know so fast? Instagram. You know, I waited all day for that post. I checked every five minutes. I did too, and I still missed it. You never asked us, okay, so like, what do you think of this caption? And normally when you post something, you ask us about captions. So I was like, in case you're not posting it, like, do I just have to hold this secret in?
00:08:07
Speaker
Oh, well, since you announced it, I could talk about it. You know, you still owe us some details about that, by the way. We're supposed to be talking about junior high. That's what we're talking about junior high? Yeah. You know, but we didn't record last week because a lot of things came up, you know, big things.
00:08:30
Speaker
I didn't realize we didn't record until like Saturday. I was like, oh, we didn't record. Same. Oh, and by the way. I also didn't hear a voice Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday. Saturday. The amount of times I checked my phone at work waiting for you to call or send a text message and you didn't send it or call us until late at night. I was sitting here like, what are we doing? I swear up and down it was this weekend. You called me.
00:08:57
Speaker
And I was talking to my GM. He was like, cause I was doing my training and at the end you have to like go through everything you train for. And like my watch was ringing and I was talking to my GM about my training for the day. And then he cut me. So then as soon as I got outside, I like saw it and I was like, Oh my God. And like, I didn't even know it was you calling, but I was like, this is the only person that could be calling me for the only reason.
00:09:26
Speaker
But what I was saying was, before y'all started talking about that kind of stuff, I was telling my mom that it never even crossed my mind that I would have to pay my own money for my wedding.
00:09:39
Speaker
that was never a thought that even wavered by my frontal lobe that i would be going into my own pockets to pay for a wedding yeah mine was more of a i don't want to put all of that on my mom because it's just her and plus i'm picky and i know i like expensive things so i can't expect other people to pay for expensive things you know my parents just say they're not paying for all of it they're just like
00:10:01
Speaker
Oh and my mom looked at me she goes you never even thought that you would pay like not even a little bit I go nope that was never thought that crossed my mind I'm paying for majority of it but if my mom didn't buy a new car I would not be so you know if I could go back to the day where she bought that Nissan and first of all she knew at that time when she bought the Nissan
00:10:27
Speaker
And I knew, and I wish I would have said something. Exactly. Like she, her only responsibility is for the cake, the dress and the venue. His, his only responsibility is for the food. Everything else is on me. Yeah. And as we can tell, I got scammed. Oh, I got my money back, by the way.
00:10:48
Speaker
That's why, if I can give you one thing, one single ounce of advice, print every single thing out. Every contract, every email communication, everything. That's why I sent you the template, because you're gonna need it. And if you don't have one, I'll type it up for you. My mom knew for a whole entire week and didn't give any idea. Um... Go, Ms. S. She got hit on an accident. Jessica's mom accidentally told her.
00:11:19
Speaker
How did Jessica's mom know? How did Jessica's mom know? Because Jessica's known for a while. Oh my goodness. I guess you kind of knew, because watch Chelsea tell you that we were all in group messages together. Also, for future reference, does he listen to our podcast? Yes. DM me on Instagram. Next time you need my advice or opinion
Podcasting Hopes and Wedding Jitters
00:11:47
Speaker
on things,
00:11:49
Speaker
Cause I do not check my text messages frequently. And the only reason why I checked that one is because Casey was typing. What are you talking about? Whenever, cause how he asked about the ring was he, I guess he texted Chelsea.
00:12:04
Speaker
And then Chelsea texted us and added me and Alexis into a group chat. And we were going through what kind of rings we thought that you would like, but Alexis wasn't answering. So it was really just me and Chelsea texting. And the only reason Alexis checked it was because I was consistently texting back. And I was like, what is she talking about? Oh. So yeah. You checked your DMs before you checked. Oh, absolutely. Because I could care less about the little text message number, the little Instagram notification bothers the heck out of me.
00:12:35
Speaker
Oh, I have my notifications turned off for Instagram and Twitter. No, because I'm hoping one day somebody will sponsor our podcast. Maybe. Hello, Fresh.
00:12:46
Speaker
Canva Pro. Hello Fresh. Shout out to Canva Pro because I designed my invitations on there and I really think that I deserve a sponsorship. And this one girl I follow on TikTok, she got a sponsorship with them. So she's getting a discount code and that means these invitations are about to be significantly less. Ew. What are you sick with? A cold? It's been a week. Are you sure? Oh no, it's like a lot better. I have a voice now.
00:13:16
Speaker
I mean, I know. Literally he asked me and I was like, yes. I'm still shocked you didn't cry, but it's okay. I cried. So I didn't cry then, but like on the way home from dinner, I like started bawling. Why? Because I guess it like finally hit me that like, you know. Actually, I can't say anything. I ugly cried.
00:13:46
Speaker
I'm still concerned on how I'm going to make it down the aisle at both weddings, to be quite honest, because it's mine. I already know I'm going to be crying. And at yours, I don't even know how I'm going to hold it together. No, break it. Literally. I have been talking to my mom about this all week. I don't know what it is, but I get so emotional thinking about you getting married.
00:14:11
Speaker
Like we've been through a lot of big life events together and this one's like one of the biggest. So I get a little teary-eyed and I'm gonna try not to cry now, but yes. Oh my goodness. I don't get emotional now, but I will get emotional then. But if you're not emotional on your wedding day, well, obviously you're gonna be emotional. If you don't cry on your wedding day, then I won't cry.
00:14:34
Speaker
I get emotional thinking about writing my vows. So I'm probably going to cry when I say them to him. Oh, and we decided we're not doing a first touch anymore. We're going to do a first look, but I'm not wearing the wedding dress. That was his main concern. He didn't want to see the dress before then. So I can say them to him face to face instead of, I guess around a corner.
00:15:00
Speaker
How do we decide to do that? I'm also gonna need to figure out how to sneak a shot in there somewhere. Like a... Yeah. Yeah. I got you. Yeah. You're, um... Bridesmaid's dress has pockets, right? Mm-hmm. Okay. Well... Junior, hi! It's crazy, because I've been getting these, like...
00:15:30
Speaker
The notifications are like, oh, this picture is from like 10 years ago, and we're in junior high. We should be babies 10 years
Junior High Friendships and Memories
00:15:38
Speaker
ago. Yeah, I know. It's the high school one that's going to hit different. I saw this TikTok, and this girl was like the things I saved on Snapchat in junior high. I was like, oh, I want to go check the things I saved. When Snapchat started Memories, I was very much in high school. And I was like, huh? We were. I was like, I should have also been in junior high at that time.
00:16:01
Speaker
Okay. Yeah, it's weird. We got to start from sixth grade when I first met Casey. Yeah, guys, I came into this friendship late. My bad. It's okay.
00:16:16
Speaker
Raven wasn't my friend in elementary anyway. I really want to know if we would have been friends if I would have came in fifth grade like I was supposed to, but I begged my parents to let me stay at the school I was already at. You were supposed to come in fifth grade? Yeah, I was supposed to come in fifth grade, but I was like, no, please. I want to stay. I'm going to stay with my friends. I don't want to leave. I want to stay. Let's see. I literally pleaded also. We wouldn't have been friends. But I kind of wonder who I would have been friends with. Not us.
00:16:46
Speaker
How do you say that? Because fifth grade, we were very much like friends with Mickey and Savannah, Mackenzie, Alyssa. But yeah, but like, who would I would have come into school and started being friends with? You know, I don't know. Fifth grade is a blur to me. I broke my arm that year. Oh, I don't think you would have got. No, I don't think they listened to this. I don't think you would have gotten along with our fifth grade teacher, though.
00:17:14
Speaker
Y'all, I didn't have no opinions in fifth grade. No, but your mom wouldn't have liked her because I don't think my mom liked her. I was coming from a school where they used to hit us. I'm sure my mom would be fine. There was no homework that class. She was also like very emotional and then she got pregnant and left and now Riley's married to her brother.
00:17:42
Speaker
Oh, I'm telling you right now, I really don't know how much my mom would have cared in fifth grade before I had opinions because I probably just wouldn't have said nothing to her. That was also the year I wasn't allowed to speak about politics at that school. So I don't think you would have made it because if I couldn't say anything, you couldn't say anything.
00:17:59
Speaker
First, well, I didn't have any political views, but- Oh, I very much did because somebody came for Barack Obama. But I do remember that was like, cause Kyle graduated to 2007, like kind of like leading up to the 2008 election and some of his friends had gotten in trouble for wearing a Barack Obama shirt. And that's when they made the rule that you're not allowed to wear political shirts. And that's how I got in trouble after the 2016 election.
00:18:28
Speaker
because my mom was like, oh, I thought y'all had a role people can wear political shirts. But back to junior high. Yeah, so I came in at sixth grade, I was a fresh faced little nine year old. I so desperately wish I had pictures of me in sixth grade. So y'all can see me and Alexis standing next to each other. Why would you do that to me?
00:18:51
Speaker
I wish because we used to have like the same hair and in sixth grade everyone still wore the like regulation length skirts so they were like down below your knees like and you're just awkward and like in sixth grade and y'all I wanted to fit in with the big kids so bad. Who were the big kids, eighth graders?
00:19:15
Speaker
No, y'all, what you mean? Y'all were like 12. If you were nine, then I was 10. 11. OK, 10 turning 11, basically. Yeah.
00:19:26
Speaker
I wanted to fit in. That's double digits, y'all. I was nine. Y'all see, I was like, so in sixth grade, all of the black girls wore bows. Did we? And I hated bows. Yes. Raven was a big bow girly. I was the size pony with the big bow. We gotta find a picture of you doing your signature. No. The Dutch face and all.
00:19:55
Speaker
And so I and I hated bows like but I wanted to fit in so bad I was trying to find a way that I could stand wearing bows. So like in sixth grade, I went through all these different kinds of bows, like headbands and everything just so that I could like wear bows with my friends because I was like I got if I like because it's like the 12 year olds are wearing bows I can wear a bow it'll be fine. Can I pause you real quick?
00:20:20
Speaker
Yeah, what? Mid bachelor update. Maddie's wedding is this weekend. Kevin and Astrid's wedding is this weekend. Joe and Serena got married today. Dean and Kaylin got engaged. Becca and Thomas got engaged again. And Crystal got engaged. Thanks. Maddie's wedding is this weekend? Yeah, it literally only took her two months to plan it. She picked up her dress. I thought she just got her dress. She picked it up today. The wedding is this weekend. Dang, that's crazy. Yeah, and Peter will not be attending, but Kelly will be because you know they got back together. Okay, back to what you were saying.
00:20:51
Speaker
But yeah, so back to junior high. Let's see, what was I doing in junior high? We weren't really friends in sixth grade, though. We weren't, because I was a cheerleader. I was getting bullied. Not by us, y'all. Not by us. Yeah. Yeah, Alexis had a bad group of friends in sixth grade. That's not bad. Me, Casey, was friends. I got called a cow. Yeah.
00:21:18
Speaker
No wonder I love cows now. I got called a cow too. No wonder I have an obsession with cows. No, it was sixth grade. You remember three witches and a cow? Yeah, sixth grade was when it all started. Seventh grade was when it like, it popped off and came to an end. Cause I don't think they were there. But yeah, you know, hung out with bad people. Um,
00:21:45
Speaker
Alexis was a mean girl. Was I? Probably. She was hanging out with all the mean girls. We were like, wow, who is she? OK, but like the people I would hang out with on the weekends was Raven. So it's strange that they were my friends, but I was with Raven on the weekends. You know, Alexis was with me every day after work for like or after school. For the whole entire what, seventh and eighth grade, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth,
00:22:15
Speaker
11th until like until like a drive Oh, and you know, I don't know why I don't know why you're complaining about it. Like we've never been closer No, but like what's crazy is that like in sixth grade? I almost was not friends like Raven with our friend group because the first day I lunch I ate lunch with um People that like we are not friends with and it was just like that day and then by the end of the day I became friends with you know
00:22:46
Speaker
The whole crew. Yeah, with the whole crew. And then from that day on, it was us four at lunch. And that was our little group. But you know what's weird about those friendships now, those people specifically? If anything is a testament of you make time for friendships that you want to keep, this would be the big example. Because out of three of those people, you're still only friends with one person.
00:23:15
Speaker
And two of those people will actually have to take that back. It's three people because you were one of them. And the other two people somehow managed to stay friends with themselves and somebody else who we haven't gotten to. Well, no, we haven't gotten to them yet. I'm so confused. I got it. I think you're following me. I think we're going to have to start name dropping.
00:23:37
Speaker
Yeah, it's okay. I think we're gonna just have to start dropping governments. Okay, so what I basically was saying was that it's funny because Casey's only actively still friends with you.
00:23:50
Speaker
Although, Alexa and Emily are no longer friends with Casey. Emily's active friendship is still with Courtney, and so is Alexis. So you see, you really put in effort in the relationships that you wanna keep, i.e. she kept you. Y'all, am I the problem? Am I the problem? I'm not, nevermind if I was gonna say this one with my guess. Why? Am I the problem? If somebody's gonna name, oh, stop. That's true, but is it me?
00:24:22
Speaker
I think it's us. I think it's us. Yo, do I not know how to maintain friendships? That's not to say that we're not friends with them for a specific reason. It's just no one actively tried to make it work past high school. Although, wish them all the best. They're all doing great things in life. It's just after high school, we get our separate ways. Yo, I'm like a fish. If you're not directly in front of me, I forget. Yeah.
00:24:49
Speaker
It's okay. My friend group in sixth grade could care less where they are right now. One of them has a baby. The other one, I don't know what she's doing. The other one could care less about her. And the other one's like a legit fashionista on Instagram. Right? Yeah. I love her. And out of all of those people, I'm actively friends with none of them. Yeah. Oh, and then I guess my other friend.
00:25:19
Speaker
I will now. No, no, no, no, no. There was also Chelsea. I can name drop her because I know her. Um, we're not actively friends, but like, if I see her out in public, am I going to be rude? No. And then I, well, yeah. And then I have you now. I don't think you can get rid of me. Even if you tried. Y'all please don't try to get rid of me. You know, she's very concerned about what her next year is going to look like. Yeah. We're going to be married peoples.
00:25:48
Speaker
Don't expose me. No saying. God dang. Like I said, lucky for you, we're both marrying people who could care less if you were around or if you weren't to be quite honest, but they enjoy having you around. If I wasn't around, wouldn't I? I don't think Ethan cares that Kasey was around. And I know that Jared doesn't care if Kasey was around. So we are marrying people who know that you come with the deal. Yeah.
00:26:19
Speaker
And we'll rest you, so I'm sorry about that. But no, y'all, first of all, I've gotten very good because I have a toxic work environment. So I've gotten very good at comebacks. Now they're fast. They're quick. OK. Tell them to watch out. Interesting. I'm going to open up my Notes app. Interesting. Comebacks, in case Ethan tells me my head is big.
00:26:49
Speaker
It's gonna have something, it's gonna have something about Saquon Barkley in it. And why? Why? Cause I know, I know that he like likes him. Cause anytime he posts that he at the gym, he goes Saquon Barkley. I was going to say the Giants right now. I don't, I don't know nothing about football. I don't even know what Saquon Barkley looked like. Oh, this is a football player. I don't watch football. I'm not.
00:27:17
Speaker
This is a football team. I'm a football fan now. He's been trying to get me into it for the past three years. I literally could care less. Every time it's on, I like go to another room and try and read. But this man follows me everywhere, so I can't. Oh my gosh, he's so cute. And he's 25. He has a nice smile. Oh, children, never mind. Raymond, you got to give us where you were at. He has a daughter.
00:27:45
Speaker
How do you spell, oh, ooh, that is not how I thought you would spell that name. I spelled it wrong, but autocorrecto. Oh, he's not attractive. Alexis, shut up. The man has a little dangly earring. Why is it every time Casey says someone's attractive? He's not attractive. I want y'all to know, if I say someone's hot, that means they're hot. But if Alexis says they're not hot, that also means that they're hot. You know, Alexis's taste.
00:28:22
Speaker
Are we gonna talk about the man? Alexis has had a precarious batch of crushes in her life. A very precarious group of dudes. Wow, I didn't know you were going there.
00:28:39
Speaker
I can't think of code names right now, but you know, the one that starts with the A. Stop. The only thing that was seven, thank you very much. Like the older boys used to say that he looked like a cockroach. I was gonna say cockroach, but then I was like, that's kind of mean. That's so mean, especially if he listens, Harry.
00:28:57
Speaker
Probably not. I'm so sorry the older boys used to say that you looked like a cockroach, and that's all we remember you by. You used to have a genuine codename. That was seventh grade. A daily middle school codename, but I'm sorry. That was seventh grade. Raven, you've got to give us a synopsis of your sixth grade, so then we can move on to the next grade. Yeah, to seventh grade. So my sixth grade, that's when me, Alexa, no, not Alexa. It's me, Casey, Alexa, and Emily were like, real close.
00:29:32
Speaker
I'm talking slumber parties at least once a month. I think it's crazy how I think I'm going to be one of those parents that don't let my kids have slumber parties and I was having so many slumber parties. I stayed at other people's houses.
00:29:50
Speaker
And then I was a cheerleader. Me and Chelsea were like the only cheerleaders in sixth grade. So it was really awkward for me to leave class early because we were both too nervous to say anything. So we'd wait till they come around. So that was fun. Yeah.
00:30:05
Speaker
What else happened in sixth grade? Sixth grade was really... Are we talking about your man pressures? Y'all, Glee Club. Guys, our school had a Glee Club in sixth grade. Were you? No, we didn't band. Yeah, y'all were in band. I was in Glee Club. That class was frickin' insane.
School Days and Classroom Tales
00:30:23
Speaker
So our teacher, Ms. Ramon, she made us... We were doing a little skit in class that we were practicing just to do. And in the skit,
00:30:35
Speaker
It was like a boy and a girl about to go out on a first date or something. The boy was like, ooh, do you want to go see Twilight? She was like, no, we have to change that. Twilight is so demonic, I won't even have the name uttered in this room. And she was like, I'm going to send home a permission slip with y'all.
00:30:51
Speaker
so your parents can sign it, so I know that I can tell you the real truth about how demonic Twilight was. And when I tell you, me and my dad, me and my dad were at the movies. Me and my dad were eating Twilight up. Me and my dad loved Twilight. And I was like, ooh. And she used to set out detention slips on our seats.
00:31:15
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For whenever we came in like what our names already written on top and she like just in case y'all need them because that woman handed out the tensions like she was Shoot like they were candy, you know, like they threatened detention a lot, but I literally I never happened. It was for chewing gum in eighth grade Really like after school. Yeah, it was um with miss talking
00:31:40
Speaker
You know what was really dumb was getting in trouble for chewing gum. Right? You know what was really dumb? You want my breath to stink? You just let us chew gum. We would throw it away in the trash. We wouldn't stick it under the desk. Thank you. I'm not five. You know what's also dumb? Getting a detention for going to the bathroom during class. Because three marks is a detention and going to the bathroom during class was a mark. You know, we sound so traumatized.
00:32:06
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We really felt like we went through a lot of trauma. Oh my god. What we're missing, the pinnacle of sixth grade. Spanish. Oh. What were y'all Spanish names? Olivia.
00:32:18
Speaker
Olivia. Yeah, you know, yes. I was Esmeralda. That was my spin. I was, I was telling my co workers about that. And I just mentioned it in passing. And later they're like, Hold on KCP and I run that back. What were you talking about? Y'all has Spanish names. I'm like, Yes, like we wrote on all our papers are Spanish names. And we have to call each other by our Spanish names in class.
00:32:44
Speaker
I didn't remember that until you just said it. Really? I think about that quite often. I think about it all the time, because that was weird. A little cultural appropriation for you. Because you know this school, y'all, this school was very white. So they had all these little white kids going by Hakko Benito. Y'all, that was literally insane. Are we going to talk about
00:33:12
Speaker
Are we name-dropping crushes that we had in each grade or are we doing that since you know, you wanted to bring up? Yeah, I'd pluck them up man. I think it's crazy that my sixth grade crush has three kids three kids Oh Yeah, let's not let's not name drop them Yeah
00:33:46
Speaker
That's crazy I don't know we didn't know you in sixth grade. I don't know No, I feel like I'm at the eighth grade, but is that when we have a crush on the same person I
00:34:00
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No, because you had a crush on a completely different person at that time. And yes, I did have a crush. Yeah, I had a crush on Brandon. I had a crush on the same person for the whole time with the one person. I was going to say, there was a person right there in the beginning. So. I'm so confused. Who did you have a crush on in sixth grade? Who, me? No, Raven. Can I say? I'm texting. I mean, I literally, no, I'm not going to say that because that's going to give it away. Yeah, my phone's going to die, but it's whatever, I guess.
00:34:31
Speaker
Um, you know, fun fact, fun fact for Raven, didn't you meet your now future husband? No, he was there for a while. In third grade. Really? Yeah, Miss Weaver's class, I believe. Interesting. I don't know why I thought it was junior high.
00:34:53
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He left after sixth grade. Like I literally only ever remember him in junior high. I do too. Y'all, I was a little afraid of Raven's future husband in sixth grade. He's a completely different person now. He is.
00:35:09
Speaker
Not like in a bad way. In a very good way. He was a little on one in sixth grade. I don't think we were friends in sixth grade, but now I would be his friend. Yeah, I didn't really talk to him much. Is that crazy? I remember after he left Calvary. It doesn't exist anymore, so I mean, you can leave it in here. I was with Chelsea one day, we went to his house.
00:35:38
Speaker
I remember that. I remember Chelsea's 16th birthday party. I took that picture. I took that picture. Yeah. And now we have it forever. See, we were so awkward, like, oh, should we take a picture with you? I know. That's because he was so freaking tall. Yeah. I thought he was cute, though. Oh. Me and Lauren were like. Oh. Wow. Dang good. It's like you knew.
00:36:05
Speaker
So yeah, guys, isn't it crazy that we actually did have a crush on the same guy 7th and 8th grade basically and it like never caused a problem. I was going to say it never came up. It's like we each took a turn but we all knew he was like who he liked so it was okay. And like, it is like, remember when he was dating that girl and she hated us? He practically wanted to make her jealous. Yeah. Was this 8th grade?
00:36:32
Speaker
Okay. I know who we're talking about. Yeah. He was dating a girl in seventh grade. Okay. So, you know, there was always like that one person who would like be there in sixth grade and then they would leave the following year. Who was that for sixth grade? Because like I can think of the person for eighth grade and I can kind of think of the person for seventh grade, but who was it for sixth grade? Like who showed up for one year and then left? I know the person for, I don't know. I know seventh grade. I don't know sixth grade.
00:37:03
Speaker
Like was, was Josh still there for some? Yeah. Cause he went on the same. Yeah. Let's go ahead. Let's get to seventh grade. Nothing really happened to seventh grade other than, um, Chelsea, if you're listening to this, shout out to you because you're the reason I can become a cheerleader, which therefore then gave me Casey. So no. And the reason I became a cheerleader was Raven.
00:37:31
Speaker
Yeah. So first of all, that's how we had friends had me stressing. Cause when I tell y'all, I almost didn't make the team seventh and eighth grade year. Like genuinely. They weren't doing cuts really. So stop. Anyways, remember.
00:37:53
Speaker
Whatever. We were cheerleaders. Yeah, fast forward to seventh grade. We were cheering. It was great. We were kind of being guest with the entire time during cheer. And I had an argument about, you know, me. Things. Me, 10 to 11 years old, has not really hit puberty yet, was being constantly told that my voice was too deep to call cheers.
00:38:18
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Now if y'all are listening to me right now, this is me out of puberty. Voice has already kind of got that like adult woman base to it. And this is how deep it gets. Imagine what I sounded like at 10. Ain't no way my voice is too deep to do anything. I just don't think she liked us. I don't either.
00:38:38
Speaker
But, oh, today, whatever we're at, body pump. And our instructor was like, okay, shoulders back, chest up. And she was like, keep those, keep those boobies up or something. I was thinking ninnies the whole time. That's what I said in my head. I was like, ninnies out. Cause that's what our coach used to say to us to like, have us have our shoulders back. She's like, y'all ninnies out. And we'd be like, we'd be like all A-cups go in. Other than us becoming friends, being called a cow,
00:39:06
Speaker
Nothing else really happened in seventh grade other than the San Antonio trip. Okay. Yeah. So I guess we can just talk about the San Antonio trip. So guys at our school every year in seventh grade, um, when you, when you took Texas history, they don't even do that anymore. Really? Well, when you took Texas history, you go to the Capitol, Austin and San Antonio relationships are formed.
00:39:31
Speaker
Yeah, friendships are solidified, relationships are formed. Oh, and y'all- I also had a crush on Brandon at this time too. I did not have a crush on Brandon. I'm not gonna say the name, but we all know what it was about to say. No, this is my first year. This was my first year having a white boy crush. It was very traumatic, very stressful. He has a kid now too.
00:39:55
Speaker
Yeah, he also has a child. My first year having a little white boy crush. You know, Kasey, when we talk about like all of the men that you like in your type and you're like, you know, you go on dates with, you can never come for us again about us saying you have a thing for white men because it was literally one white boy. Wait. No. And you almost actually dated him. Six grade counts. And first of all, no, my first crush was a dark skinned black boy.
00:40:26
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I'm talking about, okay, fine, continue. Did you hold his hand on the boat? Because remember we were all like so cold and we were holding hands. No, what was crazy, whose hand? Okay. That's too far ahead. So anyways, we were going on this trip. It's very like, they're like, no boys allowed to sit with girls, but we're all in the back of the bus being bad. That's what we were being just straight up bad kids. And we're sitting there.
00:40:55
Speaker
We're sitting there like moving around and like waiting until people and playing and we're like, whatever. But so we finally, we're going on a river cruise and it was freezing outside. And so our teachers had told us, you either have time to get Starbucks or marble slab. One, not both. And y'all, this is the moment we kind of bully somebody. And I think we all need to come to terms with that. And you know what? She's thriving now. Wait, who?
00:41:25
Speaker
Um, in seventh grade, I think we need to come to terms that we wore bullies. Hold on. Hold on. Yeah. When we had turned the boat back around. We did not turn the boat back around. They made, they made her take a little bit of a jump and we all acted like that boat was going to capsize. We all sat there. Whoa.
00:41:52
Speaker
And I bet you that was traumatic. And I feel bad about it at least once every couple of months. Because why did we do that? And you know, it's sad that I am like, I still have a visual of this. Like vividly remember what was going on. Yeah, but anyways, it was super cold. So you know, we're doing what seventh graders do. And we're like, Oh my gosh, my hands are so cold. Can I put my hands in your pocket? Your pockets are so warm.
00:42:17
Speaker
So me and Raymond had like one of our hands each in the guy that she had a crush on in seventh grade. Wasn't the other one trying to hold your hand too? Like we had our one of our hands and like real awkward shit for me. Yeah it was. Raymond had been, not been, Raymond had boys fighting over her.
00:42:46
Speaker
But yeah, and so we both had one of our hands in his pocket. I really don't know what my other hand was doing, but we both had one of our hands in his pocket. And... Yeah, we were holding hands because it was cold. Yeah, and then we'd get back to the hotel room and our teacher's like, okay, time for bed, us texting. In the boys' room, calling. Me and Chelsea were out on the pull-out couch living our best lives.
00:43:15
Speaker
Oh yeah, because me and Raven were sharing a bed and then our other two friends were sharing a bed. We were living our best lives, doing absolutely nothing. Yeah, we were in there calling and texting the boys and like playing like some 20-question game. And y'all, that was the year of micros. That was like, well, the first time I had gotten micros. I wasn't going to say that was the year. Raven had them the year prior because that was the only way she was putting that big bow in her head.
00:43:43
Speaker
Oh really? Yes. Yo shout out to Panchita. Oh my goodness, Panchita. I hope she's living lavish in wherever she's living right now. I don't even know. Didn't she move back to Jamaica? I think she's in Florida, last I heard. But yeah, shout out to Panchita. You know what, shout out to your mom too, because your mom braided my hair the one and only time I've ever gotten it done. And I look so cute in my volleyball pictures.
00:44:15
Speaker
But yeah, so yeah, that was mostly 7th grade. 7th grade was just the San Antonio trip. Oh, and y'all, 7th grade was the growth of kick. Y'all remember kick and oovoo? Pause. If we're gonna talk about kick, we're gonna talk about what we were doing on kick.
00:44:30
Speaker
Y'all, first of all, I really, we were bullies. Like hindsight, I feel like I was not like a good person in seventh grade. We were also not a good person in ninth grade too because if you remember, we were on kick in two.
00:44:47
Speaker
y'all seventh through ninth grade we we had we had a lot of character growth that needed to happen and hopefully none of us become famous because we will get canceled for the activities that happen um it's completely normal also we were on oovoo we were on omegle
00:45:05
Speaker
Y'all do y'all remember? Do you remember? And like you wanted to be on the video chat. No. Yeah. You wanted to like video chat your crush, but like you had to have your friend there. You know how many buffer oovoo conversations I had with Raven and some boy.
00:45:25
Speaker
How many would I just be there? I would also like to attest to that too. Where I'd just be there and just fall asleep, because her and this boy just for some reason needed a third person there, and I would be knocked out on uwu.
00:45:40
Speaker
me yes you just me and him talking yeah well no because you'd be like oh my gosh why don't we all uwu and i'd be like i want to leave and you'd be like no we can't we're still all talking so i would just fall asleep on uwu because for some reason y'all couldn't have your own video chat it needed a third person there wait i remember yes because i remember because y'all both were taking pictures because i was knocked out
00:46:07
Speaker
That was the other dude. Yeah. The one that we all liked or the other one? The other one. Oh my god, do y'all remember? Nevermind. M.D. Quakesotic. Yes. Quakesotic, okay. You know what? You know, we're only the people that are gonna get that reference, so. Yeah, his numbers is still saved in my phone, is that?
00:46:34
Speaker
Like, I have yet to change it. I mean, it's not like I really need to contact him, but every time he comes across, I'm like, oh. Oh, mine is his last name. Oh, wow. Well, the first part of his last name. Just give it away. Why don't you? Speaking of seventh grade, y'all also should talk about your Hilo Mall days. Oh, my goodness. I really feel like we were the last generation of mall rats.
Mall Adventures and Social Dynamics
00:46:59
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We were at the mall every weekend.
00:47:03
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just being there and then you run into like, it'd be like a group, three, four girls, you run into a group of three, four, they come up to you in the food court while you're getting your like your fast taco or your like Chick-fil-A and they come up and they go, hey, where you go to school?
00:47:23
Speaker
Fast Taco was so good. Can I get your number? Can I get someone else's number? I can't get them Chelsea's number. Yeah. And then now you're walking around the mall and you're always seeing them and running into them. And it's like, why are you following me? Y'all know y'all don't shop here. Or you'd see them in the shoe store because you know they were always in the shoe store. And you walk in acting like you might buy some shoes in shoe palace. You know you're not buying those shoes in shoe palace. What do you do?
00:47:52
Speaker
The mall days. And now that mall is absolutely terrible. Oh my god. You know that mall with like 20 bucks. Yeah. Yes. And you spent the whole day there. Yep. You go to mall for $20. You there all day. Ain't nobody asking you questions. Just walk around. Security not stopping you. There used to be arcades in the mall. And you could just go to the arcade. You know, speaking of malls, mall trip. Mall trip.
00:48:21
Speaker
Small trip. Y'all, so every year, if you brought at least 200 cans to the canned food drive that we had, you would get to go to the Grapevine Mills Mall for one day. Literally. And this is like... The older we got, the less exciting it was. That's true. Like, I'm pretty sure like there was like a year where a bunch of us just didn't go. Our senior year, we literally did not show up to school that day.
00:48:50
Speaker
In like, what was the 8th grade I think? No, 6th grade. What? Yeah, I don't think I went in 6th grade. It was one year that a lot of us didn't go. I went every single year except senior year. We started taking that picture on that chair in like what, 6th, 7th grade? 7th grade, where we would wear the matching outfits. Bear Bradley. The chokeholds she had on us.
00:49:16
Speaker
Stop. When I tell you- Stop, I still have a make-up back from them. Yo, my travel duffel is from Vera Bradley and I think it's huge. And I got it for like $8. And you all know Vera Bradley be like expensive. It's monogram. It's very expensive now. I worked there my junior year of college. Yeah, because that's when we lived in the apartment. My junior year of college, that place is expensive.
00:49:45
Speaker
Oh, but yeah. So. Oh, Amber was backpackers from there. Yeah. So you'd go to the mall, you'd go to the mall, you'd walk around, but there were stores we weren't allowed to go to. You weren't allowed to go to Victoria's Secret. Spencer's.
00:49:59
Speaker
Yeah, you weren't allowed to go to Spencer's, and you weren't allowed to go to Hot Topic. Hot Topic, which Hot Topic, now that I think of it, is a really weird one. I've been in a Hot Topic. Ain't nothing like crazy in a Hot Topic. Like Spencer's, I get it. Well, they sold vibrators. That's Spencer's, not Hot Topic. No, Hot Topic sells them now, too. Oh. And no, what's weird about all of those is Victoria's Secret. So you're telling me I can't go by myself underwear?
00:50:25
Speaker
yeah they said they said because you know boys are usually there but y'all i have some iconic pictures from like seventh grade mall trip you should um resurface them like the guys in our french and our friend group like we're all in clayers trying on glasses oh my goodness
00:50:42
Speaker
at the grapevine those while they used to have this little like hamster ball that was in water and I have videos of us like recording our friends doing it and all this stuff. No, there was only like two people dating then. Yeah. So what about eighth grade? Boring. Yeah, it was boring. No, it wasn't. It wasn't. Our Bible class is on and popping.
00:51:09
Speaker
The boy that we all had a crush on at the same time, we were like, we were like, we were all like pretty close friends. So in eighth grade, Alexis, why didn't we eat lunch together? Cause in eighth grade, we ate lunch. Oh, because I didn't, I didn't particularly care for one of those people y'all sat with. So I just, and then I launched McKenna, Alexa, Emily.
00:51:38
Speaker
That's when we had lunch with that person and the other person. Yeah, that was our lunch group. But I was friends with that boy. And so he'd always be like, oh, who do you have a crush on? I want to try to set you up.
00:52:02
Speaker
And I would literally look him dead in his face and be like, I have a crush on you. And he would not believe me. I literally, like every time he asks, I'd be like, I have a crush on you. I like you. And he just would not believe me. And y'all, I just want to say, even though my two co-hosts are engaged, I do still have a crush on this boy. Casey, he did know. What do you mean? Because I vividly remember him asking me if you were being truthful and I said yes.
00:52:38
Speaker
I don't believe you and I'm like, whatever. But yeah, I still have a crush on him. And now I know that he lives in the area. So like, if you listen to this podcast, I did just recently hear through the grapevine that you may be single. What grapevine? Twitter.
00:53:00
Speaker
that you may be single, so hit me up. I can show you a great time in Arlington, Texas. You know what else happened in eighth grade? Casey got bullied again. I did get bullied in eighth grade. Y'all, why did I- You're too nice. Yeah. Y'all, I continually bullied for being too nice, which like, that's crazy. It's like, dang, you standing up and someone asks you to grab something and you go get it.
00:53:30
Speaker
that's the that's crazy i mean there was sometimes you were sitting down and someone asked me to get something yeah but it didn't bother me it wasn't like it was like an inconvenience like if i would have cared or like if i was doing something and i didn't want to do it i would have just not done it
00:53:53
Speaker
But yeah, yeah, I got bullied for being too nice. So then that kind of split our friend group. And so then me and Raven were literally having a mental warfare with the people we were having, with the people that were bullying me. Like we would sit across the room from each other and look at each other and then start whispering. And that was what we would do.
00:54:22
Speaker
Remember when we actually got like a teacher into that like little argument to like help us settle it? Yeah, but like what I really wasn't it miss comiford it really wasn't like the her settling it it was them apologizing because that was dumb Actually y'all the most important thing that happened in junior high When
Pranks, Crushes, and Awkward Encounters
00:54:47
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that person faked they did
00:54:51
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The most important thing to happen in junior high! Who? Remember. I don't remember. It was April Fool's, but April Fool's fell on a Sunday. When that person faked their death. Can you text me? That was the most dramatic thing that ever happened to me in my life. Did you text me their name? Or if you just want to say it, that would be cool too. Love is kind of it. Oh!
00:55:20
Speaker
I don't remember that, but LOL. No, because I was at church and my phone was blowing up. She's dead. She's dead. She died. It's so sad. Did you hear that? She died. I start crying in Sunday school. Wait, were y'all in? Obviously Casey wasn't in on it. Were you in on it?
00:55:44
Speaker
Because if Casey was at church on Sunday, that means that I was on church on Sunday. So therefore- Which means I was at church on Sunday. Yeah. And we were either in our perspective classes or we were sitting next to each other. So I don't recall this either. That means you knew and it wasn't a shock to you. And it was only like a prank on Casey. I don't remember planning it.
00:56:04
Speaker
I just remember it happening. And that doesn't seem like something you would plan. And, like, literally, I had people praying for me at church because I was devastated. Like, someone had to take me to my mom because I was a bot. They were like, what happened? I was like, she died. They said it was a truck, and it was a car accident, and she got hit. And my literal pastor, y'all, my literal pastor. And then I had to come to church the next week and be like, was that April Fool's prank?
00:56:35
Speaker
And that girl's mom made her write an apology letter to me. And from that day forward, that girl hated me to the point where she fake invited me to her birthday sleepover and then later, after my mom had brought me clothes so that I could go to the sleepover, she was like, oh, my mom actually said I couldn't invite an extra person. So then I had to watch Raven and
00:56:59
Speaker
Lauren and our other friend go to that sleepover and I had to wait at Lauren's house for my mom to pick me up. Why was Lauren there? Lauren was in high school. Yeah, I remember she got bullied for us being friends with us. Yeah, because that was the year she. You know, Lauren, I know you're not listening to this, but you've got some questionable choices in men. Just saying.
00:57:26
Speaker
But yeah. Who you were dating your freshman year girlfriend? Who's your boyfriend? Oh my, okay, do y'all remember the weird family dynamic thing we would do? Where we'd be like, oh my God, that's my mom. And then like her boyfriend's like, that's my dad. That's my uncle. We're cousins. Do y'all remember that? No.
00:57:53
Speaker
God dang. Now I just sound like a weirdo. Raven, please tell me you remember. What is it? It was like, we'd be like, yeah, yeah, that's my cousin. That's my uncle. Yeah, yeah, that's my mom. And it'll just be your friend that's like a year older. I think I kind of remember that. Yeah. That was weird. Yeah. And do you remember what song?
00:58:22
Speaker
Oh my god, it was some Lil Wayne song. Oh, okay. Alexis, you may have to mark this explicitly because I'm about to say the lyric. It was a little where he was like, I drowned in it because he's ass went into her butt. And we were like, Oh my goodness, Becky.
00:58:38
Speaker
Yeah. And we were trying to force, yeah, we were trying to force like Lauren's boyfriend in ninth grade to explain it to us. And he was like, what does he mean? So what does he mean? Is it motto? Yes, it was a motto. Yeah. And we're like, what does he mean by that? What does that mean? What swim to her butt? How would you swim like that? And it was a very weird, it was very weird. Y'all junior high was a fever dream.
00:59:08
Speaker
Yeah. A fever dream. I don't think much. Oh, I did experience my first heartbreak that year. But what? I don't think anything else happened. Do you not recall me having like a very large crush on someone and then he asked me to be his girlfriend and then later that day broke up with me? No. Avery.
00:59:32
Speaker
Yeah, he then came to my Spanish class and said that he was breaking up with me after he asked me to be his girlfriend at lunch. Okay, got that. It was literally only like 45 minutes. Dang, that's crazy. And I went home and cried to my dad about it. Should we, should we cancel him? Eh, because then I just turned around and had a crush on his best friend my senior year so I mean it's okay.
01:00:04
Speaker
Wait, who was his best friend? Oh, okay. Okay, I remember. I remember. Just think back to seeing me here. Let's look. I remember. I remember. LOL. Wait, I also had a crush on somebody else back here too. That one was a questionable choice on my part.
01:00:26
Speaker
Oh wait, no, no. We're probably not thinking of the same person. Maybe that was junior year. What? Matthew Steen. That was junior year. I forgot about him. And then, um, well, I'm really just exposing myself and I'm pretty sure the only person that listens to this podcast from is Alexis. So shout out to you. Speaking of Matthew Steen, me and him matched on some date now and I couldn't, and he got offended that I didn't know who he was.
01:00:57
Speaker
because he's like lost like a ton of weight and like looks different. And I was like, I was like, what's your last name? You look so familiar. And he got pissed off at me for asking that. What? He did because in his whole thing, he was talking about how he was like Mexican. And I was like, I don't remember him being Mexican. He technically is like half. Maybe maybe like 25%. That's just
01:01:27
Speaker
yeah yeah this is an hour long of us really just rehashing yeah we went through a lot in junior high apparently we also you know it's been two weeks we had to catch up that's true okay okay but we are gonna end this here see y'all sorry you didn't have a cohesive in but love y'all bye