Do you need a laugh today? Join April and Jamie, as they share how they navigated through recent family gatherings, graduations, and drama. From the Pretty Punch cocktail served at a birthday party, to PTO roles they are stepping away from, and end of school year fights, this episode is filled with relatable stories and laughter.
As summer approaches, we discuss how we spent the gloomy Memorial Day weekend enjoying movie marathons while introducing our kids to the iconic Star Wars saga. Plus, we talk about the effects of Hurricane Season on the East Coast and how it might affect our summer plans.
Lastly, as we gear up for Father's Day, we take a lighthearted look at the art of dad jokes. Sharing our favorites and discussing the love-hate relationship we have with them in our families. Oh, and don't miss our products of the week: Spanx leggings and jeans and the shopping app Temu. So, grab your coffee or adult beverage and join us for an entertaining and insightful episode filled with drama and laughter!
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Do you need a laugh today? Join April and Jamie, as they share how they navigated through recent family gatherings, graduations, and drama. From the Pretty Punch cocktail served at a birthday party, to PTO roles they are stepping away from, and end of school year fights, this episode is filled with relatable stories and laughter.
As summer approaches, we discuss how we spent the gloomy Memorial Day weekend enjoying movie marathons while introducing our kids to the iconic Star Wars saga. Plus, we talk about the effects of Hurricane Season on the East Coast and how it might affect our summer plans.
Lastly, as we gear up for Father's Day, we take a lighthearted look at the art of dad jokes. Sharing our favorites and discussing the love-hate relationship we have with them in our families. Oh, and don't miss our products of the week: Spanx leggings and jeans and the shopping app Temu. So, grab your coffee or adult beverage and join us for an entertaining and insightful episode filled with drama and laughter!
Also, make sure to check out the links below if you want to give our favorite products a try!
You can find Jamie and April on Facebook at Coffee, Contracts, and Confessions and on Instagram at coffee_contracts_confessions. We can't wait to hear what you think of this episode. Let us know if you are ready to buy or sell real estate, you can send us a message using one of the links below!
You can find Jamie on Facebook at Jamie Lynn Crist-The Property Shop International Realty and on Instagram at jamielynncrist_cristproperties
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Jamie's Spanx link: https://tinyurl.com/2cu5wu63
You can find April on Facebook at April Shepard/The Property Shop International Realty and on Instagram at april_shepard_realestate
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Hey guys, welcome back to Coffee Contracts and Confessions with me, april, and me, jamie. Yeah, we are back in the swing of things. So we took that little break and now we're back on track and I'm excited to do today's Yep.
Speaker 2:We're about a week out since we recorded last and it has been a super busy week, So I'm honestly surprised for sitting here today and didn't use the busy week as an excuse.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we need to stop making excuses. This is too much fun to let go, so we need to stay on track. It is.
Speaker 2:It's one of those things. I tried doing it, but then once I do it I'm like, oh my god, that was so much fun. Why in the world did I try doing it?
Speaker 1:Yeah, just sit around and talk. Yes, what's more fun than that? Yeah, so what have you been up to? Well, we know we had more memorials Memorial Let me try that again Memorial Day. You know we didn't do much on Memorial Day, but right before that, on May 30th, is my husband's birthday, so we had a little birthday party for him and we had a bunch of people come over and it was supposed to be a pool day, but the weather hasn't cooperated with that, so we just kind of hung out and drank a little bit, ate a little bit.
Speaker 1:I'm upset, i didn't get to come because we had company over, we missed you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, i was looking forward to talking to you and to making me some hibachi. I knew you. I mean, i knew you didn't plan on it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we had hamburgers and hot dogs. It was far from hibachi, but it was really good.
Speaker 2:Maybe I could have got you a good drunk, and then you could have done it for you too. I don't know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, i drank a little more than I was planning on it, so we had a good time. See, i always missed those I know I told you I'd be the entertainment. I'd be over there singing and dancing. Were you, i wasn't singing, but I was dancing.
Speaker 2:Why do I always miss the good times? I invite you over to my house so I can see them, and then I can't get you to loosen up enough to do that.
Speaker 1:I know because you've got to come to my house for that. That's a special occasion You invite.
Speaker 2:I told you you invite me and I'll bring all the food for hibachi. You cook it and you drink and I'll sit there and entertain myself watching you. I'll drink too with you.
Speaker 1:Well, i bought a bunch of liquor and I told most people, you know BYOB, whatever you know, a few people brought some beer, but for the most part nobody really brought anything Right. And so right before the party me and Lacey made, we called it Pretty Punch. It was just a bunch of different liquors and a bunch of different juices and it was really really good Right, And so the first picture of that got gone. Second picture of that got gone and by the third picture.
Speaker 2:In April's over here. Blame it on our guests, Yeah.
Speaker 1:And by the third picture you know we had run out of a couple of the alcohol, so she had to start getting creative.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:This is my 19 year old making drinks, by the way.
Speaker 2:And this was on a Sunday too, so you couldn't go to the ABC store because they were closed.
Speaker 1:Yeah, But by the I think third or fourth picture she was getting creative and I mean she had a lot of people say you should be a bartender.
Speaker 2:Oh, wow, because it was so yummy Right, i'm so upset I messed out. Yeah, what else have you been up to?
Speaker 1:Well, i think what was it the week before that or the few days before that? Yeah, because it was the 26th. so Carson did his little fifth grade graduation move up ceremony. Yeah, braden did too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yours is going from fifth to sixth. Bradens is going from eighth to ninth. Wow, he'll be a freshman in high school, which I'm nervous about.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, and that's your baby, yeah.
Speaker 2:But I'll have to tell you all about his last few days of school whenever it's my turn to share. You're going about your graduation though.
Speaker 1:Well, it was bittersweet because I don't know if our listeners know this, but I've been on the PTO for the past four years and when I do something I do it, i'm in it. I've been really involved with the PTO and so I've gotten to know the teachers and the principal really well and I didn't tear up as much watching him do his little graduation thing as I did towards the end, saying goodbye to the teachers. And then I came out of my mouth. I was like well, i'll be back, i'll come back and help. And I was like why did you say that?
Speaker 2:Never say that, no, no.
Speaker 1:But I do plan on kind of coming back or going back and doing a little transition and helping them move things along, right? I remember you saying that to get like the new people. But will I do PTO in middle school? Absolutely not. I'm done, i'm done.
Speaker 2:I never signed up for that. I probably would have. When Sam was younger I was working at the bank and stuff like that. So I couldn't because I didn't get home until 6.30, 7.00 at night. But then whenever I was doing March of Dimes, i was like, yeah, i can do this and I volunteered a little bit. But then whenever I went to real estate, i felt like I needed to give 100% to get my business off the ground, and so I didn't go that route.
Speaker 2:But I could see where I would have had the proper opportunity, the right job, things like that.
Speaker 2:But things have worked out so I'm happy the route that I took. But yeah, so, speaking of graduations, braden did graduate from middle school, so Braden sent a K through 8th school, which is really, really nice but is out in the middle of nowhere, it's very rural and it is the closest thing to a private school that you'll find. in the public school They are very sheltered because it's K through 8, which makes my mom heart happy. There's like not drugs in the school. There's very few fights in school. Things like that And if there is fights is not what you would really concern is more like rough housing than it is a fight. Whenever they go to high school is very rude awakening.
Speaker 1:Yeah, rude away.
Speaker 2:When you're in a school for that long like you really get to know the staff and the teachers and they know you know how to help you and, yeah, how your brain functions and mind functions and things like that, and right, and decided two days before school got out that he was going to get into a fight. So, and I mean in your boy yeah, in his whole K through eight he's probably and count on one hand how many times he's like been in trouble for fighting in school and it's always been for defending himself, for defending somewhere else, except for one time That was completely on him.
Speaker 2:he had a bad day for that. but this particular time we hit him in the head with soccer ball and like apologize to him, then turn around and hit him in the head with soccer ball again and apparently after the fact I got this whole story that this guy been just boy, been doing it to the kids and anyways, brandon stood up for himself and he didn't hit him or anything like that. He laid him down like he like kind of laid him.
Speaker 2:I don't want to say body slam, nobody down, down on the ground right and, and Long story short, they both got in school suspension for where they were trying to try to get out of school suspension. you're standing there, yeah, you're standing there whenever they try to do that and was like who's gonna give us cool suspension two days before schools out, like for the summer, that's just like. Congratulations, boys, here's your reward for fighting.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah. So I, you know, commenced her to put him in school suspension. Apparently, this boy, they let them go back to class that day in school suspension started the next day After graduation. Apparently they let him go back out to play to finish up their PE or whatever they were in. And this boy proceeds to hit another girl in the head What you know, this time a girl, younger girl, in the head with the soccer ball, and he ended up getting high school suspension. Yeah, he wasn't able to walk the next day either so Graduation parents were really upset with him, probably.
Speaker 2:I don't want to go into much detail just in case they listen or somebody who knows them listens or whatever, but The point of the story is that Brayden always has to go out big and so he made sure he did fighting the second yes, yes, yes but his teacher one of his teachers did reach out to me and say that if Brayden was Gradient on integrity, he would be a, he would have a PhD and that made me feel really really good amazing yeah, we want our kids to be smart, do well in school, but it's really their character that really shows what kind of person they are, what kind of parent you.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes. My biggest thing with this is I didn't want to. I wanted. I don't want to fight in period, but I didn't want him to give him a peer pressure yeah you know, i wanted to make sure that if you did make this choice, he at least made it on his own. it wasn't because of a bunch of kids pushed him into it, right?
Speaker 1:But it's such a catch twenty two and it's like self defense. Yes, you don't want him to get. And is it self defense if?
Speaker 2:you got hit in the head with a ball and you could walk away from it. You know, especially this one. This was a real fine line. Yeah, there is a lot of background to it, right? so I don't know. I'm with you, and I told him. As the problem in school is, though, and when she get high school, if you get in a fight, it doesn't matter if it's self defense or not you get charges pressed against you. And not to mention I mean kids bring knives to school and guns and yeah, you just gotta be you gotta.
Speaker 2:It's hard to tell a kid to defend themselves in high school and if you don't know what you're gonna get whenever you defend yourself. Yep, i know there used to be a argument about having metal detectors in school and it was like going to prison. But I'm telling you I wouldn't be sad if they did.
Speaker 1:I know I haven't seen it here because we live in the, we live in the small towns, but when I grew up in Florida I was I mean was long time ago we had metal detectors in our school then.
Speaker 2:I'm pretty sure it was trash. I know Wallace Rose Hill but I'm pretty sure trash had a metal detectors at the games. Really about the soccer games and stuff. I may be wrong. I know Wallace Rose had them.
Speaker 1:I know well, sure still needs.
Speaker 2:But it was right after those two incidents at trash, right, i'm gonna say that they had them, but I may be wrong. Don't hold me to that or commit me if it wasn't.
Speaker 1:Yeah, i mean, they may have temporarily put them up, but they're not up there permanently. Wasn't a permanent one, it was?
Speaker 2:like it was. It was once just like it, wallace Rose Hill, that they run you through to go out to the stadium yeah portable right kind of. I mean for what that's worth yeah. It's portable as a metal detector. so what else have you been up to?
Speaker 1:That's about it, my kids of. They keep me busy. You know a memorial day. Like I said, we really didn't do that much on memorial day, so we decided, since we had the party and we kind of let loose, then we just kind of as a family, laid on the couch and watch movies.
Speaker 2:Well, and the weather called for it. yeah, it was yucky, yes, so we were supposed to have a rodeo that we can't write a national rodeo and or bear race, i should say And we ended up having to cancel it because of the weather because, dang from what I understand, we essentially had Like a tropical storm a week before hurricane season even here, and hurricane season starts January 1st. for those that don't know, we live on the east coast.
Speaker 1:I mean June June.
Speaker 2:God, that would suck.
Speaker 2:If it started January 1st, so June 1st and we live on the yeah, north Carolina east coast, so we are, we're in like the Wilmington area, so we get affected by Hurricanes like it's we cut, yeah, we just kind of like jut out there and it's like, hey, come hit us. You know, i think this one more went towards Charleston, but we definitely got a lot of brunt of it. So we ended up having to cancel our rodeo. But we had company come in town. My cousin came in town from about five hours away with her kids and so it was. It was it was a rough weekend in the aspect that it was raining. So she brought two more kids and then my two kids and Being cooped up in the house all weekend.
Speaker 2:We were just looking for things to do, so we went to like Barnes and O'Bills one day and we went and saw the new Guardians of the galaxy movie and, yeah, carson went with a friend to see that.
Speaker 1:did you tell you about it?
Speaker 2:I'm not going to give any spoilers, but it did not end the way that I expected it to end at all, not supposed to be the last one. I don't think it will be now, not the way it ended, i feel like.
Speaker 1:I feel like there'll be another one, yeah well, speaking of movies, we My son has never watched Star Wars and so, being that it was Memorial Day and yucky, we all decided to kind of pile on the couch and start from the very beginning, right as as you're supposed to.
Speaker 2:I was curious to start like from we did, we did four, five six, okay, yeah, and then 123 okay. so if you follow the, what's the guy's name? who made him? Oh?
Speaker 1:you know, ask me that right now.
Speaker 2:Anyways, if you ask him, like, if you look it up, he suggests that you watch one, two, three, uh-huh. So that's how he did it.
Speaker 1:I tried to do that. I tried to tell my husband let's watch him in chronological order Yeah, that's the word I was looking for.
Speaker 2:Yeah, george Lucas. Yes, that's you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and he was like no, let's watch him from the beginning, that way Carson can experience it the way we did.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:The way that it kind of came out. So we went with it and it kind of gave him that backstory. The way that we had when we were younger and watched him. So now we just finished episode one last night And so probably tonight we'll go to two.
Speaker 2:So for me, I never watched him as a kid. I think I've told you this before, I never watched Star Wars, And now that I'm 45 years old, I just recently watched him in the past couple of years. But I almost I had tried to watch Star Wars a couple times prior to them remaking four, five and six. Because, you know, i don't know if you noticed, but they kind of re-colored it. Oh really.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:They re-colored it and added a little bit into it to make it more modern like what we're used to seeing now in the movies, and I tried to watch it a couple of times before that And I just cannot get into it. So the way Jason got me is he showed me one, two, three first, which is more modern, more recent, and then we watched four, five six And by then I was the best, which makes sense.
Speaker 1:Like it's so crazy that he had that intention all along, right, you know, to have that forefront, that forethought of like, well, let me make these backwards.
Speaker 2:Right, right Yeah.
Speaker 1:It makes sense to watch them from one, two, three, four, five, six. That's how we watch them.
Speaker 2:That's how Jason got me invested in it.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Because by the time we got to four, five, six, i was like I got to know what happens now. But honestly, i as an adult enjoy the reaction from everyone when it writes that I've never watched Star Wars before. I enjoy that reaction more than just watching the movies. Yeah, because that like it was just so funny to watch people freak out because you said you've never watched Star Wars before.
Speaker 1:Well, my husband was very, I guess, intrigued that I even knew anything about Star Wars.
Speaker 2:Really Yeah.
Speaker 1:Because I'm not like, i don't flaunt it And I'm not like a Star Wars nerd, right, but I love Star Wars.
Speaker 2:Well, so that's kind of how I am Like now that I've watched it. I really do like now I can go to Disney World and enjoy Star Worlds.
Speaker 1:World Star Wars.
Speaker 2:Land and actually know what I'm looking at and seeing and being able to value it.
Speaker 1:Well, when Episode 1 came out, I was never really really into Star Wars like the four, five, six because I watched it when I was younger Right. I never really got into it, and then when Episode 1 came out, i loved it so much. I watched it over and over and over.
Speaker 2:Really.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and that was like shoot. I was in college, a young adult, and I mean I guess I was living in an apartment by myself, and so what I did was watch movies all the time you know when. I wasn't out partying.
Speaker 2:Right So.
Speaker 1:I just watched it over and over and over, so I like know it by heart.
Speaker 2:It's kind of like. Harry Potter now Well you don't watch Harry Potter. I haven't jumped on that yet. That's how I am with Harry Potter. I'm going to invite you over. We're going to have a girls night And I'm going to invite you over. We're going to watch Harry Potter Me, you, and you bring Molly and Samantha. We're going to watch Harry Potter. Molly loves it, Yeah we do too.
Speaker 1:But, I couldn't get my girls to watch it Like they. they were in the room with us but they were both on their phones And I was like, don't you want to watch some movies? And they're like no Gotcha.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so we are actually, which, before I get to that, you've got to make sure that you watch like The Mandalorian and stuff like that I see.
Speaker 1:I stopped watching after episode three, and then, a few years later, they started coming out with all that new stuff and additional stuff. I haven't, i haven't watched any of that. Well, we've watched all of it, yeah.
Speaker 2:And I really do like The Mandalorian It's. it's kind of slow, but so are all Star Wars movies. I feel, it's just like they're slow, slow, slow, slow, and then a bunch of action and then kind of slow again, But I think I've told you this before. So like you watch The Mandalorian and he comes across as this like big old buff guy, like this masculine guy, and he's got this deep voice And just the whole package. you expect him to be so hot. Right, Let me just tell you he. he is so disappointing.
Speaker 2:Oh, he takes off his masks, because they're not supposed to take off their mask. Right, and he takes, takes off his mask in one of the movies And I was like, like like complete, like let down, Let down Yes.
Speaker 2:I was like that is not what I expected at all, Because you imagine. It's kind of like whenever you read a book, you imagine in your head what the character looks like And sometimes, whenever they do movies, you get let down because what you imagined in your head is not what the character looks like. Let me just tell you I can't get over it.
Speaker 2:I was so disappointed. I was like I don't even want to watch this no more. That's funny. They should, they should have. He's a good character, as in. He plays the part well, but they definitely should have left his helmet on Well.
Speaker 1:now I look forward to seeing that part. Seeing that part, we're radiant We talked a long time about Star Wars. I think we need to move on, i know.
Speaker 2:But let me tell you this one more thing Right now we're doing 007, Mission, not 007, Mission Impossible.
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, because.
Speaker 2:I've never seen any of the Mission Impossible ones, so we're watching those from beginning to end. Now, too, we're getting ready to go on to our third one. That's cool, so I'll have to let you know how that is.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that sounds like a good thing to do, like going forward, like we're on the Star Wars thing, so we'll have to move on to something else that has a lot of episodes, or whatever you call them.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we'll have to talk about Manifest too. Yeah, next time, because it starts back out the last season today, yes, but before we get on to our products of the week, i just wanted to mention that last week not only was it a busy week with graduations and school letting out and birthday and awards ceremonies and all that stuff, but it was also Mani Jason's 21st wedding anniversary.
Speaker 1:So, that was May 25th.
Speaker 2:We didn't really get to celebrate much because it was so hectic. But yeah, and I got a big bouquet of flowers.
Speaker 1:You saw them. Yeah, you saw, yeah It was huge.
Speaker 2:But anyways, on to our, i guess product of the week. So you want to go first Go for it, since I've been talking so much.
Speaker 1:I couldn't come up with anything major recently that I've been. I haven't jumped on anything new except T-MU. I don't know if anybody knows about that little. It's an app slash website.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I've heard you talking about that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, basically it's kind of like She-In. I think She-In does mostly clothing and apparel type stuff Right, t-mu has anything and everything that you could possibly want at such a cheap price, i've heard. Is it good quality, some stuff is it's hit or miss. It comes from China, so you never know what you're going to get, but the delivery is a lot faster than you would think, really, yeah. So I think you can order and get it within a week, sometimes two weeks depending on what it is, but it comes a lot faster than you would think. Ordering from China. A lot of times it'll take like a month. I know when people started ordering from She-In it was taking months to get here. I think they stepped up their game too. But anyway, i've only ordered twice and my daughter just ordered for the first time But I got hair clips for like 50 cents, oh wow. And then we were looking at Walmart the other day and they were like $3, $4, $5.
Speaker 2:The same hair clips For the exact same things. Yeah Well, I see stuff on Amazon and I see it on T-MU.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I've never ordered anything. I have this. I'll probably break down it and end up doing it, but I just haven't, because I have this conflict with ordering things from China right now. Like, i'm not like actively not buying, like I don't go to Walmart and look on the bottom and see where it's made, but just the idea of ordering something directly from China. I'm having a hard time with that.
Speaker 1:But yeah, well, i'm going to. honestly, i went through a little conflict in my head too, and I'm gonna say this, and I hope I don't piss anybody off.
Speaker 2:I know because we normally try to keep politics out.
Speaker 1:But if you want me to order or to purchase American made, then make it more affordable, right, right, because if I'm on a budget and I'm ordering these things that I know, like earrings and hair clips and stuff they're gonna get used, broken whatever over time Lost. Yeah, so if those things are replaceable, then I'll buy them at a cheaper price, because I know I'm gonna have to buy them again, right? So I mean good quality stuff, heck yeah, i do, i try to shop local that kind of stuff too.
Speaker 2:Right and honestly. at the end of the day, it's probably where Walmart's getting them from too, and just marking them up.
Speaker 1:You know, like you said, you found the exact same ones in Walmart, yeah so I mean, I'm not gonna go into this conversation, but we're currently planning a cruise. We'll talk about that later. Yes, we'll have to.
Speaker 2:Because so we've recently planned one too.
Speaker 1:So we'll definitely have to talk.
Speaker 2:Not together, unfortunately, mine's in August and she does it February. Yeah, when she goes on hers it'll hopefully be February.
Speaker 1:So that'll be more conversations later, but I start early with my planning, as we've talked about before. I've already started my spreadsheet and I've started a list of things that I wanna purchase for the cruise, cause it'll be my first Right, and I've already like made an Amazon wish list that I'm like well, let me go look on Tmoo and I've found things that are the exact same thing for like a third of the price, really, yeah, I'm gonna have to check it out now.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna have to check out your list, just what I'm gonna have to do.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so my product of the week is going to be Spanx leggings and jeans. So I know most people know Spanx for like their shapewear Mm-hmm, i've never actually used their shapewear, but it started out at Thanksgiving. My niece came over to the house and this was prior to us starting our weight loss journey. My niece came over to the house for Thanksgiving and she had on these velvet leggings and she just looked so good at them. I guess I knew this is a new word, but she looked snatched.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:You know I don't normally use that, but that's what she looked. Yeah, and they look really really good on her Hight and pull together, yeah, just put together. And I asked her where she got them from and she told me Spanx. And I was like I just have a hard time spending that much money because, like, leggings are like $98, jeans are like $128 or something like that. But I finally broke down and at Christmas time I bought me a pair of leggings and I bought me a pair of jeans, And I love these things.
Speaker 2:I won't wear any. I have tons of other jeans. I very seldom wear any other jeans. I go back to these time and time and time again because I don't know how they do it. But it's comfortable, but also holds you all in.
Speaker 1:Just like shapewear would.
Speaker 2:So it makes your legs look skinnier, It makes your waist look skinnier. It just brings it all in And the leggings are the same way. Like I'll buy workout leggings that aren't Spanx but for my leggings that I wear to work or out every day. And if they're good quality, then the price is worth it. Yes, and that's the thing. And the return policy is pretty easy.
Speaker 2:So if they don't fit, or anything like that, they also have petite sizes, which is good. I still had to cut my jeans, though, because even petite didn't work for me.
Speaker 1:But your child size, Yeah right.
Speaker 2:So, even at $128 and me having lost so much weight, they still fit. They're one of the only pair of jeans that just they don't hang off of me. So they fluctuate with weight gain and weight loss. and put it in perspective I've lost 30 pounds and they still fit me.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 2:So that kind of makes it cost efficient too, especially if you are trying to lose weight and or think you might gain weight. They're gonna fit you because they've got that spandex material type even in the jeans. That's great. Now the only thing that I have a love hate relationship with is the top of the jeans. Don't actually have a snap.
Speaker 2:It's like you just pull them up like you would leggings but, they're actually jean material that are kind of stretchy, So it makes it more comfortable because that button's not digging into your belly button or into your stomach or whatever. but also it looks weird whenever you wear like a short shirt with it or something. You know cause like people are like do you have on like maternity jeans?
Speaker 1:or something.
Speaker 2:So, but I mean, they don't like maternity jeans. but you know what I'm saying? Well, they don't work for me cause I don't.
Speaker 1:I don't wear short shirts cause I'm still trying to camouflage that belly area, So they would work for me.
Speaker 2:I wore my first one out two weekends ago. That showed my belly a little bit except for I wore that one to the Kid Rock concert we went with. Well, i reward that shirt confidently about two weekends ago, So yeah, but I definitely highly recommend that, if you are willing to spurge on yourself and you can afford it, to check out these these pants. That's awesome.
Speaker 1:And not all leggings are made the same. No, they're not. I mean, we could go on and on about different types of leggings cause you definitely don't want them see through. No, and with the weight loss thing too, i have a pair of leggings that I absolutely loved because they're more cloth, like more cottony, but I put them on the other day and they're real loose around like my knee and my calf.
Speaker 2:Right, so they don't look good anymore.
Speaker 1:They don't.
Speaker 2:Yeah Well, and I'll tell you another one real quick. Is Lululemon? Like I have a hard time spending that much money on a pair of leggings. I really do, but you can't see through them. They last their good quality, their return policy is really good And they got one in Mayfair now, yep.
Speaker 1:They sure do.
Speaker 2:Anyways, that's my product, that we use. Spanx, and maybe a little lemon on the side. But Spanx, i'm telling y'all, spanx, that's great, they're great, so can you order them from their website? Yes.
Speaker 1:And then can you use like afterpay Cause that'll help that cost.
Speaker 2:I think you can. Yeah, i think you can. I think there's, you see their afterpay or that other one Affirm Affirm yeah.
Speaker 2:I'll have to double check and let y'all know next time or while you're talking about your stuff. But yes, i think they do, did you? oh, we really got to move on. But I went to Ulta the other day. Do you know they have afterpay in store? Oh really, yeah. So cause I made this joke? I was like I'll order everything online because it gets so expensive that I need the afterpay. We talked about it last week. So my husband didn't know that I was dropping like $300 in Ulta.
Speaker 2:And she goes oh, we offered that in store too, do you want to do it? And I was like, no, i don't. but wow, i didn't realize that that was an option.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So anyways, on to our, i guess our topic of the week.
Speaker 1:Yeah, i'm really excited about this one, i think, because I like to laugh and I'm I like to be silly. Right, this one I hopefully This one was April's idea y'all Yeah.
Speaker 1:So in honor of the upcoming Father's Day, we have decided to compile a few dad jokes And we went back and forth about are we going to make this like a competition to see who we can make laugh? But I think you can't see our faces so you can't tell if we're sitting here like not trying to laugh. So we didn't want it to be silent in the background.
Speaker 2:If we had video, it'd be one thing, but we don't. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:So just imagine our faces with these jokes, and I really do think. I think I picked out some pretty funny ones.
Speaker 2:I think it was hard for me because, like I find dad jokes funny from like the kids and stuff, but from an adult like I'm just like.
Speaker 1:Honestly, to me, dad jokes are not funny in themselves, it's the delivery Right.
Speaker 1:That's why, like I went through TikTok and I just watched a bunch of people like doing a little challenge and I just Google it a bunch and we've done a list of reading and picked out what I thought was the best one Like sitting there watching them go back and forth, trying not to make the other one laugh, and when you know the punchline and you know it's supposed to be funny or you know it's goofy or whatever You're cheesy, that makes you kind of laugh and so that makes the other person laugh, right. So hopefully we'll do that as well.
Speaker 2:Do you want to go first or do you want to go first? No, I want you to go first because my first one's a good one. I'm sorry I didn't tell you. Okay, that out, but all right. So I guess you said you wanted me to go first.
Speaker 1:Yes, right.
Speaker 2:Okay, we pick one. We're going to do five each, and now we decided.
Speaker 1:Do you want to go back and forth or do you want to all your five first I?
Speaker 2:think we should go back and forth.
Speaker 1:Okay, yeah, that sounds good.
Speaker 2:Yeah, okay, so let me pick one of my five. What did the zero say to the eight? I don't know, nice belt, huh, the eight is a zero that comes in in the middle. Oh my gosh, it makes it terrible when you have to explain your jokes. So I guess that wasn't a good dad joke, but like I just thought it was funny because it took me a second and then I was like, oh, the eight does have a belt. That's cute. This is zero with a belt. Okay, that's cute.
Speaker 1:Okay, you ready for mine? Yes, what do you call a dinosaur that uses cheap toilet paper?
Speaker 2:I have nuclear Megasaurus. Sorry.
Speaker 1:I told you.
Speaker 2:my first one was pretty good. That's funny. That's funny, all right. What did baby corn say to mama corn? I don't know Where's popcorn.
Speaker 1:That's so cute. I like that one. I liked it Okay. So what kind of hair do they sell at iHop?
Speaker 2:Hair at iHop, the one that's in your waffle, i don't know Eggstiches, oh God, that's funny So next time you go to iHop and find a hair in your food and like eggstitches. I don't think they'd find that funny. Nope, all right. What happens when you go to the bathroom? in France, i don't know European, oh my God, i thought that one was really funny. That's cute. We should have gotten the dad's own here to actually do these jokes?
Speaker 1:That would have been cute. What did the blanket say when it fell off the bed? What Oh sheet.
Speaker 2:See, I would have never think of the answers to these.
Speaker 1:I know It's hard unless you've heard them before.
Speaker 2:Right. What is Forrest Gump's computer password? I?
Speaker 1:think you've heard this one before.
Speaker 2:Jenny, nope, nope, one, forrest one. Oh my God.
Speaker 1:Okay, can a kangaroo jump higher than a house? No, of course not. Houses can't jump.
Speaker 2:Oh God, okay, so this is my last one. What do you call a fake noodle, a foodle, an imposter? That's cute, okay, y'all can hear me scratching them out as I go. Check.
Speaker 1:Why couldn't the toilet paper cross the road?
Speaker 2:She's already over here laughing Why.
Speaker 1:It gets stuck in a crack.
Speaker 2:Oh God.
Speaker 1:I started with toilet paper and ended with toilet paper. That's funny. I have one that's like an honorable mention because I liked it but I wasn't sure if I was going to use it. But I want to do it.
Speaker 2:Well, there were a lot that I liked, but they were like risk gay and they could offend people, so I was just like maybe not.
Speaker 1:Okay, so when does a sandwich cook?
Speaker 2:When does the sandwich cook?
Speaker 1:I have no clue When it's bacon, lettuce and tomato.
Speaker 2:You're funny.
Speaker 1:We could go all day with this. That one took me a minute Baking. Yeah, okay, okay, okay, i got it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we could definitely go on and on. I thought that it would take more time to do five each, but we're only four minutes in, we've already done it half.
Speaker 1:Well, i will tell you that my husband is one of the kings of dad jokes and I'm like that's not funny And in my head I'm like that's kind of funny, right, but to him I'm like that's not funny.
Speaker 2:My son's the one that does them Really.
Speaker 1:Yes, he's the one that does them.
Speaker 2:It's cute when the kids say it, yeah, it is so funny and it's so corny And he's like always so serious and so so it's. It's just hilarious. Whenever he comes up with them, i'm just like. As a matter of fact, i asked him for some advice on them, but he was too busy playing his video games now that they're out of school.
Speaker 1:Does he come up with him on his own or does he just like repeat what he's heard?
Speaker 2:I think it's a little bit of both Like, and then he has some joke books and things like that. So I think it's a little bit of both.
Speaker 1:But yeah, that's funny.
Speaker 2:So, since we finished up with dad jokes quicker than we thought we would today, what do you? when we were talking about Father's Day, we did all this to you know, kind of what was the word that you used?
Speaker 1:in honor of Yeah.
Speaker 2:So Father's Day, what? what are your plans for Father's Day?
Speaker 1:Well, we haven't actually planned anything, but it pretty much goes the same every year. Um, you know, my father passed away several, several years ago, so we just honor Rodney and then Rodney's dad and you know his brother. So we usually get together with his family and either do a cookout at one of our houses or go out to eat. but we haven't planned anything yet.
Speaker 2:Gotcha. Well, it's Father's Day is always so busy for us because it's also the blueberry festival And we live in Burgall, north Carolina, and so the blueberry festival is a huge, huge thing here that you really want to be a part of.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I feel like it grows every year.
Speaker 2:Yes, it does, it does And even after COVID it's grown. But, um, you know we're not actually going to be in the festival this year but we are. We are hosting some bands at our office. So if you all see us open, you happen to walk by our being town. Definitely stop by and see us. But yeah, we'll be hanging out here in the office. It's just hard to commit to do. It's just such a bad weekend because it's Father's Day that Sunday and the blueberry festival starts like what? Thursday, thursday night, friday night and then all day Saturday and then Saturday night. Well, june 16th is my birthday too, so half the time I'm sharing my birthday with Father's.
Speaker 2:Day, but I'm always sharing it with the blueberry festival too. So I think like my birthdays on a Friday night, and then Father's Day is on that Sunday this year, and then the blueberry festival is on.
Speaker 1:Sunday Well, you know what we should do. It's too late to do it this year because, we've already committed to certain things that what we should do next year is throw your birthday party here in the office, go out to the festival and then come back and celebrate some more.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they got a beer tent out there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's not a bad idea We'll make it all about Jamie weekend at the blueberry festival And still have our face out in public.
Speaker 2:That might not be a bad idea.
Speaker 1:We'll make it work.
Speaker 2:We'll have to make it about me, just so long as we have fun. You know, i just don't. We'll make some blueberry cocktails. Yeah, we should do that. We should do another one for, like we did, that cocktail day.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that was fun. Yeah, we're going to have to get my daughter to come and make cocktails for us. There you go.
Speaker 2:So she apparently does a good job. That's funny. Yeah Well, we definitely like to hear some of y'all's dad jokes. Please interact with us on social media and stuff. Let us know what you'd like to hear us talk about, what your dad jokes are, what your favorite products are whether you like our products or not, if you've already tried them, and what your plans are for Father's Day weekend.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I would love to hear that.
Speaker 2:Me too, me too Especially if you're local. Yeah, not many people. Like, we have a lot of people following us, we have a lot of people that listen to the podcast, but we don't have that many people that interact with us. So we would really, really love to get some feedback and interaction and things like that on our social media sites.
Speaker 1:I think we're on Instagram and Facebook right, yeah, and we're trying to be brave and make a few videos to kind of put out on our social media so you can see our faces while we're recording. So you know, be gentle, but that's really tough for us. Yes.
Speaker 2:That's very, very tough for us, so we are attempting to get out of our comfort zone. This doing the podcast itself was our first step, yes, and now we're trying to have our face out there a little bit more but both of us are very self-conscious about that, So be nice to us.
Speaker 1:It's so funny because I can have the exact same conversation with you through this podcast, but then, as soon as we turned on the camera, You got nervous. Yeah, it's like I am thinking about my words and my actions too much in it, because you're afraid people are going to judge what they see.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think a lot of people have that fear Yeah me too. I like I see these realtors get on and do like all these reels and TikToks and and I wish I could do it, but I just don't feel comfortable with it.
Speaker 1:But if you think about that, like if if anybody watches TikTok, you know how stupid people are, right, Like get on there just waking up out of bed with their pajamas on and their hair sticking straight up in the sky, And they're not worried about and they don't care.
Speaker 2:But two things here. One when TikTok first came out, I thought this is the stupidest thing. Like you get on here and actually embarrasses themselves like this. Yeah, Like I would never do that. Now we're trying to build up the courage to do it. Yeah, I think the biggest thing for me is, yes, I'm very self-conscious, but also it takes a lot of planning and energy to do some of these Like there's some real simple ones, but like these people who like dress up or like play a part, or go to a house and like that's a lot Yeah.
Speaker 2:It's a lot to take out of your day to do a TikTok, to be whenever you need to be at the office doing paperwork.
Speaker 1:And at one time, when we first moved to the office, like we were planning on doing the whole TikTok thing and we did a TikTok but, it as far as the planning goes, the getting the ready, the filming the TikTok the editing. It was hours and hours just for that one little 30 second TikTok Yes.
Speaker 2:And I think that was also what discourages me is because, one, i'm not creative, and then, two, even if I am creative enough to copy what somebody else did, i don't have the energy to do it, but I guess we both need to get out of our comfort zone in that area.
Speaker 1:It would be nice for some of our listeners to see a face to the name and not just a picture.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I know some podcasts actually post on YouTube as well and have the recording of the podcast up. So I know a lot of podcasts are starting to do that. I'm not ready for that. Just for the record I'm not implying that we need to do that at all, but yeah, we'd like some tips from y'all on that as well, some ideas on some, you know, beginner level TikToks and Instagram photos and things like that. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, anything else? No, I think that's it. I had a good time looking up the jokes. I laughed. Yeah, I heard you in there.
Speaker 2:I was sitting there trying to talk on the phone and I hear So yeah, you definitely had a good one, or had a good time with this one, But next we should have done more in here. I was thinking we were just going to do three.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know It was going to be enough, but I should have done like 10.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes, but we hope that y'all enjoyed it, and happy Father's Day, yes.
Speaker 1:We'll be recording again for Father's.
Speaker 2:Day, nope, all right.
Speaker 1:Well, everybody, have a good Father's Day and we'll have all of our blueberry festival stories and everything for you. next time I'm sure there'll be a festival.
Speaker 2:All right, y'all have a great day. Bye, bye.