Welcome to the episode of Husbands Watching Housewives.
I'm Scott and I'm Jeff, and we just watched episode of The Real
Housewives of Miami. Yes, and and Art, Basil.
Art Basil. Basil, not basil.
It's not a. Herb, not a herb.
You know what this episode was, don't you?
It was the penultimate episode of the.
Season. It was the penultimate.
We love a penultimate. We love penultimate, so it
didn't strike me as a penultimate, it struck me as a
boring ass episode I. Mean boy like that party was
chaotic. I mean before the party though
was so much of the episode and it wasn't until the party.
It was a lot of like what's going on in my life scenes with
each of them and not a lot of group scenes.
But like when they got to like so much went on and we'll get to
it at the party with all the like the different groups, wings
and then strata. Yeah, yeah.
So how did it start? I don't remember, was it more of
Julia talking about her family? No, I think it's sort of like
Larson. So Larson was, oh, Kiki modeled.
Oh yeah, Dad was proud of her. Yeah, but the ugliest luggage
I've seen in a long time. Ugliest Sen.
But she looked great.
Oh yeah, of course. Her dad's like, oh, you're not a
hooker. It's always nice when your
parents realize, yeah. This is modeling.
It's actually legit. It's like, yeah, this is, yeah,
it's not that episode of Facts of Life with Julie.
I do know what you're talking about.
It makes me wonder, like, how much of the type of modeling
that her father thinks is going on is actually going on in Haiti
like. Yeah, well, I think it must.
Be a big only fans. You know, a porn scene.
I wouldn't say that. I think a lot of people are
being exploited and trafficking and all of that.
So I think, you know, it's it's it's understandable.
It's like you have like a young girl, your daughter who's saying
like, oh, this person is saying I can go here and, and leave the
country and go modeling. It's like it seems like a trap.
Yeah, yeah, You know, or you're going to be made to be a sex
worker. So luckily none of that
happened. Yes, very lucky.
Yes, but yes. No, I am.
I am curious. Maybe I'll do some Googling
about like, you know, how prevalent that sort of thing is
specific because or if that's just kind of a, you know, given
maybe of of Kiki's age that was more prevalent than it is now or
vice versa. Or, you know, if it was all just
an old wives tale at some point. Yeah, you know, but yeah,
definitely sounds like there's. Always a little bit of truth
there somewhere. Yeah.
I just don't want to disparage an entire country.
But they do say, they do say that, you know, Haiti and some
of those countries, and that's in the Caribbean.
Caribbean, yeah. I'm horrible with world
geography, so I don't even know why I open my mouth about it.
But they do say that there's, you know, some issues in those
countries and I just don't know what they are.
Yeah, but yeah. So.
Larsa moved. Larsa moved into a house that
wasn't finished yet. Why move then?
Like the the only thing that's ready is the kitchen.
Is they're like the season's about to be over, cameras are
going down next week. So if you want your house on
there got to be this week. Exactly.
And then I just invited Alexia and.
Stephanie for a sleepover that I doubt they slept or doubt they
were over. Didn't even show us.
It didn't show Stephanie in her pajamas.
Like she didn't even. Change.
Oh, she didn't. Yeah.
That lately they called cut. They're like, OK, I'm going
home. Yeah, this is, you know,
Stephanie got cannot be away from her husband.
So she was like, I gots to go. Yeah, yeah.
Save the sushi boat. That was a big ass sushi.
But that was the the Mayflower sushi.
But I have to imagine that like if you get, if you call a sushi
place in New York, I want catering, that's one of the
options. And they just bring the whole
boat, stick it on your table and you're good to go.
But there must have been sushi for like 20 people in there.
There's a lot. There's only three of them and
they know they're not going to eat on camera.
I mean, I hope. I hope the crew got all that
sushi. I would hope so.
I feel like the crew probably gets a lot of leftover food from
parties and whatnot because it's like it's all going to go to
waste, right, Right. You know.
The one thing that was going but kept coming up because it was
Art Basel, which I've never heard before, is everyone's
like, I love art, Art is great. I buy so much good art.
Larsa had the weird gummy bear delivered to her house.
That was weird. That was weird.
Like I don't want to say like that was stupid because I can't
do anything better. Like that is someone's art.
Yeah, exactly. I don't want to shit on them,
but at the same time I don't want to fluorescent light up
gummy bear. And.
It's also gigantic and where the hell do you put that does?
Is it going to live in the backyard?
It's going to live by the. Pool you can't I mean you're
bringing your putting your house next to your fireplace thing
with art. It's like I can appreciate art
to a certain extent, but like, you know, I was like, oh, that's
pretty put it on the wall, but I'm not deep into art, so I
couldn't appreciate art. Art possible like I heard of
that like as I was telling you like with that MTV, MTV Bravo
show Gallery Girls that last the first season.
That's why I first heard about Art Basel.
But. Right.
Great. Yeah, I guess it's the same
thing like New York Fashion Week with clothes.
And then this is Miami's art scene.
I don't know, like we don't have a lot of stuff hung on our
walls. Like, I don't necessarily need
this is our arts. I know I don't necessarily need
anything unique. I, you know, for me, I'm much
more into photos of us and our friends, things like that.
There are a couple things I want to show you that I did think
this could be fun. Yeah, just recently, believe it
or not. But yeah, I don't know that I
would. I don't know.
I wouldn't, I wouldn't necessarily have the chops to
know what's good art, you know, on the scenes like.
Certain things of that gallery like, oh, that looks kind of
cool, but I wouldn't be able to be like, yeah, that's the best
thing for my house. Or I do, I do like the artist
that Adriana featured. Like I thought he had some good
stuff. It was very looked kind of
impressionist. I think her explanation that
he's got the strokes of a master, but you know, has the
creativity of Dolly. It's just like, OK, I didn't see
any Dolly in any of that, but what do I know?
But I do also like that Lisa at one point touched the painting
and then I almost need your. I want to know if she actually
bought that thing. The $18,000 painting.
Because she's like, I'll buy it, I'll buy it, I'll buy it, I'll
buy it. Like I know I'm not supposed to.
Like she seemed legitimately like, like embarrassed that she
touched it, but she did. She's like, I'm I'm gonna buy
it. I'm I'm buying it.
Or was she this thing like she was on camera?
Right? This is like broad and with a
necklace. Right.
It was pretty though, and I think it would look good in her
house. I think when she started saying
like, you know, she loves art and then it proceeds to show
like a few things that she got and then the giant portrait of
herself that was hungover, the stairs order that.
Yeah, this is my art. It's.
Me. I have a work of art.
Ridiculous. But then, yeah, before the
party, which we've already touched on, Julia was talking
about her family again. And right.
Martina and I wonder if they're ever going to get to a place
where I doubt the girls will be on camera.
Well, definitely there's only one more episode.
So that was gonna happen. But I think, you know, I really,
I said this before, but I hope they get like get into the issue
after you and about why they're so adamant about not wanting to
have. I get the feeling that this
episode was supposed to be that, and Julia was trying to have
that conversation with Martina that like the girl, one of the
girls said, like, had you done this while we still lived there,
then we would be part of it, but we're not part of it.
So like, now we're gonna have these brothers that we just
don't know. And I think Martina was correct
in a sense, but very German about it in the just very, very,
very stoic of like they would have had this reaction either
way, whether they lived here. They would have found a reason
to not like this. Da da da da, you know she's.
Right, that was. Very cut and dry that.
Yes. Is she German?
I don't forget. I don't think it's German, I
think it's like she's another. She's something European, yes,
in that area. Just threw me off.
I'm like, I don't think Martinez.
She's a very sensible European. Yes, I think we need to get, we
need to get the the home assistant set up up here so we
can ask. You.
Oh hey, Google. Yeah, during the thing.
Now you've just set off everyone's sorry assistant
device. Don't.
Well, I wonder like when we talked about Alexia and someone
else is playing in there and. Could you do Alexa?
Alexa and Alexa, yeah. Might as well just say Hey Siri
while you're at it. I don't know, Siri.
I don't have an iPhone. Yeah, yeah, might.
As well. Ask Jeeves while we're on top of
it. Yeah, not Jeeves.
Speaking of. Butlers.
Yeah, Jodie. Oh God that was also very
awkward conversation. Like also why the tarnation?
Does Lisa want to get engaged like this whole like?
Took you so long, right to get divorced and now you are not
that you're going to like, you know, the shows to be like out
wild and being single, but like just wait a beat.
Like you don't want to be a girlfriend.
Then just say like partners, whatever.
Like the word choices, you know, doesn't matter here.
But yeah, it's two things like why are you so quick to like
want to jump into this too? Why would you expect him to jump
with you given like what he's seeing play out between you and
your ex and and three, it just seemed like seemed like he was
really like, if you do this well, then I for sure will give
you like a ring. If you read books or do therapy.
I was like, this is very awkward.
And it seemed very patronizing. I didn't like it at all.
Yeah, Judy's just off putting sometimes.
Yeah, but I mean, understandable.
Like, you know, he doesn't want her rushing right into it and
he. Doesn't want to rush right into
it. Yeah, yeah, bringing that back
to ex husbands that should, you know, just go away.
I am tired of hearing about Todd.
So tired, so tired. And if Alexia doesn't want to
talk about Todd, or doesn't want to have anyone weigh in about
Todd, stop mentioning him. It's stop being sorry.
No, it's not being interesting at like towards like around like
episode 5 or so I was like got it like she cried about she had
that like breakdown on the restaurant.
So now that it's like, wow, you know, we're trying again.
And I'm like, I I don't want to know, just just save.
It like, I know, yeah, I know for all intents and purposes,
it's her life and we're supposed to be seeing that in progress,
but we're not seeing it. All we ever hear about is last
night Todd and I screwed and that's it.
It's like, oh, we saw each other before Thanksgiving and then the
day after Thanksgiving, it's like you're not including him on
the show. You're not even really talking
about your future. I just, I don't want to hear
about it. I do want to see the scene next
week with her and her sons where the sons like, no, I don't want
my brother living in a house with this guy who's done this to
you and done this to him. Right, right.
You know, so that's. I get the feeling like because I
don't know, and maybe I'm wrong, I don't keep up with this
outside of watching Miami, but I feel like the entire point of
the his this just storyline this whole season is that it's he was
never there, never get back together.
It just irritating me. I don't follow it either, so I
will be actually, I'm curious slightly about where they stand
now and I'll hear about at the reunion.
But you know what ABS. It's going to be a three-part
reunion. Is it?
Of course. They're almost well on Earth.
Well. There's supposed to be a
bombshell. Oh, next episode.
No, the reunion, you were saying?
Oh, wait, wait, wait. Well, before we get there, we
should get into the Gertie. Didn't have much to do.
Gertie Gertie did the best she could do the entire episode,
which was just say Adriana, say let's.
That was bonkers that Adriana was just like.
Already get right to that. Yeah, out of nowhere, like it
went from the whole age thing, which I swear I would have
pegged on Julia. I was the.
Cake person or Marisol? Yeah.
The whole. Exactly.
It was Kiki and the fact that she was like trying to do a good
thing. But like, I love how she said
like Adriana is something about like being 32.
And that was a good year. Really.
She said 45 to see and then the math.
And then like Jessica Fletcher 1 and 2, Lisa and Larsa trying to
figure out who it was. No, it was Stephanie and Larsa
and then Lisa just being like, oh, it was, it was Kitty.
Yeah, I mean, so. And where did it go?
Like it went straight. Adriana went straight from
being. Well, the Julia thing didn't
help. Right.
So, yeah, so basically it was Julia saying like butting into
like the nice Lisa Larson moment.
They're actually getting along. Like, I just like being a
Britney, basically. Like, I just want to say
something. And I'm so happy with you guys
that you're back together as friends, but da da da Adriana
like, well, then Martha tried to do matchmaker.
Well, it made what Julia was saying was that like seeing the
two of you together makes me want to see that with me and
Adriana, right? I'd love to make amends with
her, right? And then completely just went
down the wrong the wrong path. Well, it didn't need to happen
at that party, right? They need to actually sit down
and talk about their differences.
That was the first. So it was like drunk Lars.
Do they really? They do unless we're going to
like move forward. It was like Larsa butting in
what she shouldn't have tried to like do all parent trap with
them that didn't work. And then Lisa telling Larsa who
just blurted it out like oh it was Kiki who like did the cake
thing which pissed off Adriana and like her head started
spinning around. Then Julia defending Kiki, which
not the place, not the time. And then Adriana going off on
her and Laura. Julia is saying like you're not
fun anymore. It's like and you're you are.
Yeah, you're a barrel of monkeys there.
Right, with your two wispy strips, you're like Kyle
Richardson to be like, girl, this is how you do wispies.
Like, was it Julia? When I'm talking to her glam
people, she was like, I want to do smoky and wet.
No, I no, she was like always Smokey eye and I was like always
wet. Always her hair, always is doing
the wet. I don't like it.
So yes, I don't know how we get from Adra spinning about Julia
spinning about Kiki and literally turns with Kiki right
behind her and says you're calling me a bassist?
Yeah, like I think it that only unlocks to me that and indicates
to me that Adriana was hung up over the whole wretched versus
ratchet thing that the age thing and being called old.
And I guess it's what it came down to because Kiki called her
old and said you're too old to be talking like that.
And that's what she perceived as the ageism.
Which which is a lot Ki I don't recall the exact details I
blanking out certain things but when Kiki got upset with her she
never explained to her why wretched was wrong or Ratchet
was wrong right? But we all know why it was
wrong, because you don't say that about a black woman.
I don't care if you meant to say ratchet, allegedly you said
ratchet and you should have walked it back and said I'm
sorry, I didn't. What?
What if I have another black friend who said it's okay that I
said the word? That was bonkers.
How are you going to turn to your good black friend Carol,
who's like, why am I in it? I didn't want to be on camera,
but here I am. And now basically saying, Carol,
am I racist? And in front of a bunch of
people right at your Art Basel party, and it's like, what is
Carol going to say? Yeah, you wait.
Wow, that was bad. Yes, Adriana, I think you are
racist. No, Carol's not going to say
that like any, any circumstance. So you're putting her in this
position of like defending her as the black lady, your black
friend. Then you spin the Kiki and was
like my friend Carol says I'm not racist.
Why are you saying I'm racist? And he's like, I never called
you racist and now I'm going to walk away because you're taking
this to a really wrong place and making this really weird.
And I didn't say on or off camera that you're a racist.
But I what happens is what has happened here is Adriana thinks
she's getting ahead of it by saying, I know they're going to
make it seem like I'm problematic, that I'm calling a
black woman ratchet and that I'm being racist.
So before she can call me racist, I'm going to go to my
black friend Carroll and she's going to vouch for me and say
I'm not racist. And that just makes you look
really not racist, but like, ridiculous.
Suspicious as though it's. Yes, yeah.
It just, it makes it look like you're just trying too hard to.
Even freaking Larson was like no one called you racist.
Like even Larson is making sense.
But I I get it though, that the insinuation behind you know, she
said the word ratchet and that's what Kiki said, you know, she
shouldn't be saying right? The problem also is that Carol
wasn't, Carol was told, wretched, not ratchet, right?
And then not, not that it seemed that Carol would give a shit
either way. She What did she say to the
artist? No, she said.
She's. Like, you have an awful accent.
Yeah, she doesn't like that. And she said a completely
deadpan. And I was like, is she?
Serious, I heard her say, Like it's too much.
I didn't quite get what was. Oh, I thought she was.
Loud and chaotic. Yeah, I would.
I was just like Carol was like giving 0 fucks.
I was like, Oh my God. But yeah, like, Carol didn't
know all like the story because she's getting it like yelled at
her in this big party setting. Not like, let's sit down black
friends and explain what happened about Ratchet versus
racist and then we can talk it out instead.
Like like Adria, I was like, defend my my honor, Carol.
I am not racist, right? Right.
And again, that's the sort of thing like if your friends and
know who you are and truly know you, then they know you're not
racist. Let me tell you if someone one
of my white friends or she's not white, but if one of my friends
not black said to me at a party chef, am I racist?
I'd be like what the fuck are you saying to me right now?
Like, why are you bringing me into this?
Like, and why are you asking me to like, write you a letter of
recommendation and I'm not being racist.
Yeah, that was so embarrassing. Like the second hand
embarrassment was off the charts.
I was doing. You, as a black man, speak for
all black people everywhere. Right.
Carol's the head of the black people.
Like she's just like at the meeting.
I'm going to say Aldrada, not racist.
At the head of the Miami black people.
Chat Yeah, so Kiki saw this going left and was like no, I'm
getting out of here. And as she, as literally said,
disappeared. Black girl magic, like podcast.
And then like, then Adriana's pissed.
Yeah, Adriana's pissed actually, again for defending Kiki.
Yeah. And going off looking for her,
like, yeah, I, I, to me, it seemed like Adriana had had a
few drinks and was getting a little out of hand.
Like I think she she was just being a little too spirally.
And they made peace with this whole thing.
I know about the Ratched wretched thing in Spain, right?
Yeah. Before they got on the cruise.
Yeah. So it's least it's Lars's fault
because she's. She pointed out that Kiki was
the one who did the cake. It was wrong place, wrong time.
Yeah, absolutely. Blame it on Larsa, but Adriana
too, because she's just ridiculous.
Yeah, like I really want to like Adriana.
Like I don't, I want to, I want to like, and I do like Adriana.
I think I don't think this really changes it.
I think what I don't want is I don't want Mary, Marisol and
Alexia to be right about it. Have ammunition, Yeah.
Yeah. So like I do, I think Adriana
seems very well-rounded and I think that if she were to just
be a little less. Reactive she'd be.
I think definitely like Marisol probably like, oh, she's going
down. Like when Julia said like
they're trying to cancel me or I'm not going to get cancelled.
And I was like, no one is trying to cancel you.
This was squashed weeks ago. Stick to the ageism.
OK, so. You squash it with the person.
Who had? Had the beef, like the person
who allegedly would have been considering you racist was fine
with it, said everything's OK now, don't worry about it.
So then you just hear you are like taking the dirt off the
grave and picking up the body and I'm like, hey, what about
this? Cracking up with a Goffin.
Yeah, it's just not. It's not cool.
And then, hey black friend, am I?
I mean, what if Carol hadn't been there?
Like, would she have turned to Gertie?
She would have what am I racist like?
What if Carol would have been there with her champagne glass?
I said yes, absolutely you are. If she had like Adriana would
have like she would have. Fled.
Oh yeah. She would have fleed, fleed,
fled, fled, fled the party. What?
If Carol was just that friend who liked to screw with her
other friends and just be all like, Yep, you're totally
racist. No, I don't know what you're
talking about. Yeah, no, you used to call me
horrible things all the time. All the time.
I mean tell you why not to sit down, but now that you know.
But now that we have two other black women here, so anyway.
The rule is when the power of 3 when you.
Get one more, we'll call the corners.
So you. Can change your hair from black
to blonde. Glamour.
It's the craft. We would watch the craft for
sure. So, well, that was a pretty much
the episode. Well, now Stephanie and Marisol
have that weird sit down. That was a weird sit down where
I think Stephanie didn't do herself any favors there by like
she should have explained better that Alexia said.
Yes. Just LED.
With that, like Alexia's throwing you under the bus.
She's saying that you she's the mouthpiece, but you are the
puppeteer and you're the one. You're the one who has an issue
with me. But you used her to voice that.
Simple as that. And probably what happened is
that Marisol was like, you know, she's right.
I had her do it again right there.
And I don't care. She's just like, whatever, OK?
I thought we were past this. We talked about it on the ship.
Let's be. Over it.
Marisol was like, no, I want to say talk about that.
I think you're tacky. Yeah, and.
Then that's like. And she's not wrong.
She's not but and she Stephanie does talk about money a lot but
the cliffs tag they showed her talking about money weren't all
the worst. Like I feel like there was 10
times worse things they could have shown of well.
Yeah, she talked about her, her Hermes bags, like 3 million.
Times the one we had. Her Birkin bags like a million
times. Yeah, but like some of the
things she was saying, like we're just kind of, I don't
know. I think all the housewives are
guilty of saying similar things, like, you know, oh, my husband
smells like money and I love the way he smells, you know,
something like that. It's like.
Well, I think some of them, like, get back in the day, like
3 would be like, oh, you spilled wine in my Versace.
Whatever. Yeah.
But like, Stephanie is just a little cartoonish with it.
And that's why I think it's so tacky because she's literally
like, look at all my money. Like she's Scrooge Mcduck.
Yeah, no, I agree. I don't disagree at all.
But at the same time, what does Marisol expect?
It's her first year. Like, she has to also know that
like, Stephanie was going to come in like, produced by the
producers to be a little extra. Well, also too, she's like good
friends with Larsa. She's probably like, yeah, girl,
get that jet out. What was with Larsa's?
Larsa's breasts looked fake. I mean, I know they are fake.
I guess that's, that's just, you know, duh.
But they look drag queeny, like in that whole dress with the
necklace and everything. With her hair like.
Yeah, it just looked like she was wearing a fake breastplate.
And it just makes me wonder like.
Larsa just hasn't had any good confessionals this season.
Like that's my opinion. Yeah, no, I you're not Ken.
You're not wrong. Can you be wrong about
something? I'm wrong about plenty of
things, I know. I'm talking Melissa's fooled
over the summer time. What's that?
This is like folded over the entire time.
It's fine you you look sexy. You look casual and effortless
was fantastic. What a weird thing to point out.
I love you. I just, I just said I was like,
oh, like sometimes I'll watch the video and I'm like 1, I move
around too much, like I'm always situating and two, like
something might be Askew or like this might not be pulled down
enough. So I really didn't enjoy We
didn't have video for the besties because I was literally
like woo. We can turn the video off man
anytime you want. No, we need we need the YouTube.
Yeah, I do like it on the YouTube.
Yeah, but maybe we'll only put it on YouTube.
No, we need to build a part. What is the cat doing?
The cat is licking the carpet or the rug or the floor, whatever
that. Is like an Ant or something.
Which probably isn't. My office is getting overrun
with ants. That was it really.
Not my office here, My office at my office.
Yeah, every day I just a couple of ants and I'm like but.
You know this is your office or other.
Place that Craig's office next door does it as well.
He he says he brought a a Ant trap, took care of it and he
asked me if I wanted one. I'm like no I don't think I need
1 yet. You should like get ahead of.
AI don't really mind. Like Adriana used to get ahead
of it. I'm, I'm going to go into Greg's
office, but am I racist? He's like, I don't know, I'm
white. I mean, like, I just can't
imagine like if you turn to me like at my race, like like
literally you of all people who could be like, look at my black
husband. I'm not racist.
Why would I say it like that? Look at my black husband.
I don't say it like Samantha. This is my black I'm not racist.
Larry Liberty. No, but you can think of at
least two friends of ours that would turn to you and do that
though. So it's not that a thing.
I don't think it's we're all appalled and shocked, but.
Again, I'm not writing any letters or recommendation for
anybody in regards to racism. Like not gonna do it.
Okay, that's. Fair, I will take you off that
list. I haven't noted enough when
people like asked me on LinkedIn.
Like freaking like yeah, swore them or spot.
Like what is that thing on LinkedIn?
Yeah, I don't remember the word for it right now either, because
it's hot and I'm tired. Yeah, but yeah, what is that
word? It's like you're.
But you're vouching for that, but elevating or?
Yeah, yeah. You know, you know we're talking
about. Yeah, I I don't want to write a
lot of recommendation ever. Like I remember a former Co
worker like asked me to do that and I was like we are we barely
know each other. We're only Co workers for like
maybe a year. We didn't really interact and
now you want me to like I'm sure, OK, whatever.
My own thing with that is so I had a old Co worker who she said
she'd do a bunch of stuff for mom, my LinkedIn and I do a
bunch for her and I never did. She never did.
It's fine. But my problem is I don't think
I LinkedIn right? I don't link in correctly at
all. Like I think if you were really
using LinkedIn to do job searching and what not, you'd
really be on there like you would be on there like it's, you
know, I don't want to say Facebook because no one's really
on Facebook anymore, but you'd be on it like it was regular
social media. Right, I think a lot of people
do like they wish happy birthdays, they congratulate on
it and I just I don't I get. It's really weird to me that
like people spend that much time on LinkedIn like.
Was it we were watching something people were talking
about, like, you know, trying to like hook up with people from
LinkedIn? I don't know what that was.
And he was. Like, yeah, it sounds pretty
like either like someone, the person was saying that to us or
we saw it on a reality show. But so we're talking about like
using LinkedIn for dating purposes.
It's again so weird. Which makes sense if you're
like, oh, let's get drinks. And then it, you know, it's like
turned like, oh, you're getting drinks.
And then it becomes like, oh, we should like do this, but like,
not talk about work, you know. All I know is it's really, I
think I forget which one of these services whenever I, I
think it might be Spotify, when I post our episode Spotify, it
ends up saying, do you want to share this on LinkedIn?
And I'm like, what world would I be like?
Here's my, but asking myself that question this morning.
The world I'd want to put my podcast on LinkedIn is if I was
doing a podcast for work. Oh, right.
I was doing a podcast about, oh, the pitfalls of working in an
office or, you know, they, you know, this is how you use Excel
shortcuts, you know, so, so this is me announcing my new Excel
shortcut podcast. Pivot, yeah.
That's the name, Yeah. It's like my Thunder.
It's like a Roskiff pivot pivot. That's all it is for an hour.
So yeah, now that's. But yeah, just posting your
your. I hadn't thought about that,
yeah. But I guess a lot of people
companies have podcasts like internal podcasts only I guess
so. Oh yeah.
God, the company newsletter. Can you imagine?
Oh yeah, God, I can't even imagine.
Did you ever read the school announcements when you were
growing up? Did you ever get to do that?
No, like over the loud. Yes.
I got it. Not loud.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I did. Not that people, the president
of the student council, would do that.
Really. Yeah, we rotate.
They would also recite the Pledge of Allegiance.
Too, But I think I did that as well.
Yeah, part of it. No, never at student council,
but like in junior high, they would rotate through and like,
if you wanted to do it, you could.
And I did it two or three times. But yeah, you would start off
with the Pledge of Allegiance, and then you'd read the day's
announcements, which usually usually included the hot lunch
menu as well. Oh, hot lunch.
But that was good I. Just wanted to use the weird
intercom thing which was fun to go in there and press the button
and talk and do it. Oh God, I would not want to
like, you know me. I don't want to be any.
So I have intention if it's just like my voice a lot.
Well, I have the, I think one of the worst voices, and in junior
high it was probably worse than this.
So like for me, My God, today's hot lunch menu.
It's pizza again. I like doing the announcements
though, they were good. Yeah, never, never did that.
It was always, yeah, always present their student council
and. That seems really regimented
that, like that was like your job as a student council
president. Yeah, every morning.
Wish you got sick. It's the vice president.
Vice President, that's what. He's finally stepping in my time
to shine. God, I've been sneezing on her
all week. I've been waiting for her to get
Motto. No, I don't think I There was
never any. I might have been like the
secretary of the student body one year, but it was like a year
that it didn't really matter, like 8th grade, you know, so.
8th grade matters a lot. It's the transition between
before at school. Well, a lot of people though
have that 9th grade tacked on to their junior high and they don't
have high school. That would be weird.
I think that or like when it's a bunch of like grades together
and like it's not high school. It's not, you know what I'm
saying? Right, Right.
Middle school. Well, no, but it's like, are you
saying we're all together like middle schoolers and high
schoolers? Yeah.
Like in one school. Like no, no, no, no.
That's that's a Tell me you didn't grow up in a small town
without telling me you didn't grow up in a small.
Town, it needs to be like, you know, either your, your
kindergarten or your Montessori or whatever and then you have
1st through 4th that's or 1st through 5th and you have a 6th
of 8th and then you have high school years.
So you already have it, you already have it wrong.
It's it's K through 6 to me and then 7-8, then 910-1112 that's
how. That's so weird.
It seems like wasteful is the right word, but like just to
have like a school for two grades seems like very odd to
me. It needs to be like at least
three, six out of eight. I think we, we have teacher
friends. Oh, we should have talked to
Sarah about it when she was down here.
She teaches 8th grade. I think middle school teachers
have like the perfect perspective on like where the
awkward adolescents should be because I think that's the whole
point is that you don't want like these hormones raging, you
know, around, you know, young kids because they're going to be
people picking fights and just being, you know, adolescents and
what not. Then you know, you don't want to
throw these young kids who think they can take on everything
against like a senior in high school.
So you keep them off separate. So no, yeah they need definitely
need to be separated. Like a senior has no business
being the same school as a 7th grader.
Yeah, that seems really weird, Yeah.
But that gives me like, why are you so tall?
I'm going to go back to my cubby.
That would be and then before you know it, you got a senior
buying someone's cigarettes. And Biaz.
I was 17 before when I graduated, so I never, you know.
I was 17 too. I turned 18 'cause I was this in
August right before college. I always wanted to be.
I had friends who turned 18 while they were in school and
they got to write their own notes.
That's so weird. I.
Know I was like this is I mean I wrote like. 18 should be like
but I guess if you turn 18 in February, they graduate in May,
then you go to college. I mean, if he could fight in
this war, he should, you know, fight for the country, he should
be able to write his excuse factors.
He can go to Nam. I should be able to like, yeah.
I got to write my own notes anyway because I would just say,
Mom, I didn't go to school, could you write this note?
And sure. And she wrote it and I handed it
in. So.
I can't even imagine my mom. I'd be like, oh, you're going to
school. But I never like wanted to like
miss school. Well.
Half the time my mom was like, do you want to go shopping
today? I'm like, sure do.
And I wouldn't go to school. I'd go shopping with my mom.
Also this just shows like I didn't want to miss school I
don't want to miss work, I never take PTO like why?
What am I saving up this time? I see.
I don't know. I need you to.
I need you to start and realize you know what's?
Yeah, you're going to. You're going to real quick.
Well, yes, yeah. But I think it's just the idea
of like something might come up, right?
And they need all this time like, I'm going to get very sick
or you're going to be sick or like.
Why are we sick? Don't make us sick, please.
Or like just something's going to happen where we need a lot of
time. So these 119 hours I have saved
up for PTO currently I'm going to use the well, I'm going to
use the couple for Bravo Con, but.
So I went through, I saw in my payroll thing today I there's a
history of all the PTO I've ever taken like since 2020 when I
switched this over to this new system.
So I was a little bored. So I downloaded the data just to
see if there's like any trend in which I take more time off than
others and I take surprisingly it's not a lot of time off.
It's really odd. The most time I've taken off was
last August, which I don't remember what we did last
August, August. Of 2024, yeah.
And then before that was our it was for our honeymoon it.
Was like in June of 2022. 22 yeah, that was like the longest
stretches I've taken off. I apparently took like 6 days
off last August and I don't remember.
Six days, Yeah, you should have got some of the day.
It's all. Look at my.
Calendar, you know what it might have been because I knew I was
burning through PTO because they're trying.
To get this out. Oh, and that was that whole.
Thing I might have just been doing.
That it wasn't consecutive, it was like.
I don't know, but yeah, it was August had the most number of
days last. Year.
Where was that time last year where you're like, I got like
they're telling me use it or lose it?
Yeah. So you're like, like just
burning it off. But yeah, I was like thinking
there might be like a weird month that I'd be like, oh, for
some reason, like you taking three days off in March.
I know nothing weird like. That and also like we took off
time for when we went for Christmas.
Yeah. That's only a few I think I know
fell over a weekend with. Christmas, right?
I only took two days off. Every December for the last like
5 years I've taken 2 days off and that's it.
Which is so weird. You'd think I would take more
but I dip so yeah. You know, the week of Bravo Con,
swing it back to Bravo we have well.
Why would you do that? This isn't a podcast about oh
right, this isn't my Excel spreadsheet podcast.
Sorry, Pivot that week is veteran's day is that week.
Oh, so basically I think I'm just going to be it falls in
like that Tuesday. So basically I think I'm just
going to be working like Monday and Wednesday have Tuesday off
for veteran's day, then Thursday, Friday we're going to
be in Vegas. Nice.
So you know. Finally be taking a day off.
Well, because it's Veteran's Day.
You see, what you should do is just take that Monday and
Wednesday off. Take the entire week off and.
Just have the whole week and be like.
But two weeks later is Thanksgiving, which we, you
know, we get Thursday, Friday, but I'm gonna take that
Wednesday off. Yeah, we're gonna be going out
of town. But think about all the amount
of relaxation you'll have of not having to think about work that
entire time. That's a whole other podcast.
We'll have to start that one now when we post this one to
LinkedIn. So we just went up and talk
about it next time. Till next time.