Sister Sh*t
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Sister Sh*t
Ball Pits + Adult Sh*t
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But it's not just about reliving the past. Join us as we navigate the choppy waters of adulthood, from the unrealistic expectations set by movies like '13 Going On 30' to the seemingly perfect lives of hot NYC moms on TikTok, and even our own amusing attempts at pretending to be twins. We're also sharing the forgotten joys of receiving mail and how it's tragically replaced by bills and junk mail in adulthood. So, get ready for a nostalgia-fueled journey, filled with laughter and maybe a few cringes, as we look back at our past selves.
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Speaker 2Hi, hi, welcome to Sister Shit. I'm Caroline, I'm Meredith.
Speaker 3And this is the podcast where we talk about things we don't know that much about. Okay, I have a fun question. Not a fun question, just an observation. I, when COVID happened, I thought there's no way ball pits will ever be part of our world ever again. Yeah, because you know, like the color factory had that, yeah, and like I don't know, it was like an Instagram thing, like museums would have, like the big pink ball pit was out of the color factory, maybe.
Speaker 2And then there was the like sprinkle one. Yeah, the museum of ice cream.
Speaker 3Yes, Adult ball pits I have recently been seeing. There's a new one and it's at the balloon museum, where the you should be proud of me because I clicked I clicked into this post to figure out where it was, so I could have some facts for this episode.
Speaker 2Okay, don't know where it is.
Speaker 3I think it. I think it moves around. I think it's like New York and like moves to major cities.
Speaker 2What does one do? It looked really boring. Balloons. It looked like not even real balloons, no it's just like different like.
Speaker 3I think it's like different rooms. You can go in and take cool pictures in With balloons, but most of them weren't real balloons. Most of them were like the plastic ball, like beach ball, like clear beach balls.
Speaker 2You can just like do that at your house.
Speaker 3Yeah, I don't know, but the thing that everyone is posting now is the ball pit and I thought, huh, I really thought not that I have anything against a ball pit. I would love to go be in one one day, but I don't know.
Speaker 2I've got some like PTSD from the McDonald's ball pit. What happened? I've been stuck in there. Oh, I love a ball pit.
Speaker 3There's been P in one.
Speaker 2The outdoor one and the McDonald's.
Speaker 3I was going to say remember the like kitty one there was like a kitty one and then a big kid one.
Speaker 2I would just like swim, I know, and it was so fun and like I would go under. Oh, yeah, like you're swimming? Yes, oh gosh, no, maybe that's I'm trying to think if like that boosted my immune system or made it worse, I think it definitely helped us.
Speaker 3They were in. There was always like a mysterious sticky ball, but anyway they're back.
Speaker 1And I am just surprised.
Speaker 3I just never thought we'd see a ball pit ever again. And they in, like I think there's like a I. When COVID was happening, I was kept thinking like it's going to be so long before things that used to be normal are normal again. And we're back to ball. I know like we really I just can't get over that I think it was like a traumatic event that all of us just blacked, like we just erased the memory, you know.
Speaker 2Yeah. Yeah, because it was pretty awful.
Speaker 3It was awful, but I just I'm like I'm I don't know. That's all I have to say about it. I've just I'm.
Speaker 2I can't get over the fact that there's a museum about balloon.
Speaker 3Yeah, it's I don't think it's a museum. It's like not like a learning experience, it's like an like you go when you swim in the ball pit and you take pictures with the balloons is what it looked like?
Speaker 2I just like the ice cream. You know what I mean? Yeah, but the museum of ice cream has a lot more options than, like, the museum of balloons.
Speaker 1I didn't look super into it.
Speaker 3All balloons look the same. There's different color. One looks like an apple.
Speaker 2It's dumb, interesting, but you know people are going love an opportunity for a photo.
Speaker 3I do, and Apparently, a ball pit in a ball pit. So anyway, that's just my thought of the week.
Speaker 2You really just took me back to the McDonald's play area.
Speaker 3I have vivid memories I do too.
Speaker 2I remember one time I've told this story so many times, I think because it's like partially Traumatizing, but like my mom's made you eat the bird.
Speaker 3Yeah, yes, I was in the ball pit when I was watching it go down.
Speaker 2I know, and you were like so happy because mom wouldn't have made me do it. Our sister was watching us and I used to order, which, like this, makes total sense I would order a hamburger or sorry, a cheeseburger without the brown stuff.
Speaker 3So I mean the meat.
Speaker 2Yeah, which, like I, get that their meat is Disgusting you wanted a cheese, so I wanted like a cheese sandwich with like ketchup and pickles and mustard and mom would let me take the meat off. Yeah and we went with my sister and my sister said I am not.
Speaker 3Our older sister.
Speaker 2She said I am not buying into this you're eating the damn cheeseburger.
Speaker 3Thank the Lord, for once somebody in this world is not gonna let Caroline do whatever the hell she wants.
Speaker 2Okay, well, I had an issue swallowing the meat because it was so effing chewy. I sat there for what felt like 30 minutes chewing one bite of a cheeseburger and I couldn't make it go down.
Speaker 3I was very dramatic. I couldn't did you?
Speaker 2cry. No, I did not cry. I remember being like what am I gonna do? Yeah, I can't get it to go down my throat.
Speaker 3I think I ended up, swishing it down with I did.
Speaker 2I remember this gosh, emily really put her foot down, she did and she said I am sick of this shit, she is not getting away with this. Interesting.
Speaker 3I mean, emily have never talked about that experience.
Speaker 2Yeah, I Remember it in great.
Speaker 3Okay, you know my favorite McDonald's story your birthday party there. No, I don't remember that, I've just seen pictures.
Speaker 2The fact that we used to throw birthday party. Now I guess McDonald's like Chick-fil-A is the true 90s kid yeah, okay, my favorite actually.
Speaker 3so many funny things happen in the McDonald's drive-thru with mom, my favorite memory ever is remember when they had this shake the shake. What were they called the shake the shake? Salad salad that came in a milkshake cup with a lid, with a like which. I want them to bring those back.
Speaker 2Oh, I don't want to eat any of the dress, like always, we couldn't get it down to the bottom, it was just like stuck.
Speaker 3Okay, anyway, she mom had just gotten a brand new Suburb and she was already mad at us because I don't know what we had done, but we were really annoying. We were like on one that day or something and I got my what were they called salad shakers or something look at that I had just gotten mine handed to me and I Fell off and salad and ranch went.
Speaker 2Oh my gosh, they were called McSalad shakers, salad shakers.
Speaker 3Okay, I mean, there was stuck to the felt ceiling and she she was big, it like a lot to make mom mad it did? I don't. Yes, it did.
Speaker 2She had a now I'm a mom.
Speaker 3I'm like gosh mom had a lot of patience.
Speaker 2She did have so much patience, but she also had us like under this spell. We're like, if she gave us this one look, I knew I better get my shit together and I would do it.
Speaker 3I do it now, if I did that to sim.
Speaker 2Sim would not get a shit together.
Speaker 3Oh, it's starting, it's it's coming into effect with my girls. Okay, they all get in. They'll nose, okay.
Speaker 2So like six years old, yeah, I think okay because right now he would not Pay any mind to the yeah, oh, it works, but I remember mom's look like putting the fear of God. Yeah, I.
Speaker 3Will never also there. I think this happened in McDonald's drive-thru, but we were mom. I actually was taught she was talking about our last episode and how she was dying at like us talking about burping and how it's not Acceptable and she was like I thought you were gonna tell this story and one time we were like Making ourselves burp in the back seat and she was like finally was this in the McDonald's drive-thru.
Speaker 2I think we had just gone to McDonald's because she'd been drinking a McDonald's Coke, which we all know where the shoes like girls, do not make yourself burp.
Speaker 3That is so like.
Speaker 2As you said, the word rude.
Speaker 3It was like the timing was.
Speaker 2Even she was like dying.
Speaker 3We all it was an amazing part of my moment, of my time. She like shocked herself and we were all just like dying laughing anyway. Oh my gosh. Okay, so I didn't know we could make a whole episode about McDonald's, but here we are I know, here we are Also okay. One more thing about McDonald's. Remember you might've been too young because I was in the first grade, but they had beanie babies as the prizes.
Speaker 2I remember this, you remember. I remember because everyone was trying to collect it yes. So everyone was eating an ass sort of McDonald's.
Speaker 3My theory is that they spent way too much money on that collaboration, because since then the toys have been absolute crap. Yeah, I remember us wheeling and dealing our McDonald's beanie babies on the recess Like it was like drugs.
Speaker 2Man.
Speaker 3Like people were like what you got? You got the platypus I loved the Barbies.
Speaker 2The Barbies were like my era. We had all the different Barbies, but then also-.
Speaker 3McDonald's Barbies.
Speaker 2Yeah, they're like little tiny Barbies.
Speaker 3Oh, I don't know that. They're like short.
Speaker 2McDonald's versions of Barbies.
Speaker 3Interesting. They should bring that back. They had.
Speaker 2Barbie hair? Oh, but do you also remember the Monopoly game that people?
Speaker 3would get like so into. It was like gambling.
Speaker 2Yeah, it was literally gambling.
Speaker 3People really bought into that.
Speaker 2I went through a phase where I was like I'm going to do this, this year. And I, like, would eat so many chickens. What was the grand prize? I don't even know. I don't remember, but it was kind of fun.
Speaker 3Man McDonald's was really in its golden years, I think, when we were growing up.
Speaker 2I ate a lot of McDonald's in high school.
Speaker 3Me too. We would skip lunch and go.
Speaker 2And I would get my cousin and I would get a McChicken and a McDouble and then we would cut them in half and then I'd get half of the McChicken, like we would do, like a split z. That feels really unnecessary, and they were both like a dollar, so it's been like nothing on dinner. It was great.
Speaker 3It's not cheap anymore.
Speaker 2No, ok, no kidding.
Speaker 3It is just as expensive as Chick-fil-A. I know it's kind of crazy. It is not even worth it.
Speaker 2The only thing I'll go for is like Coke and fries.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 2And that's it. But you know what? Because they're my favorite mission and it's always broken.
Speaker 3I went to the doctor recently and got my first blood work done of like since I had kids, I guess, so like first blood work done in like five years, tell me some kind of news? No, I have high cholesterol.
Speaker 2Wait, you are telling me news that's kind of scary. No, it's only slightly elevated it's 150.
Speaker 3115. It's supposed to be under 100. And so he just told me to exercise, which I'm doing, all the things I'm supposed to be doing but I came home and don't keep. He was like, yeah, just stop eating McDonald's.
Speaker 2You do eat a lot of McDonald's, you and Ben like I always do that TikTok where it's like, you see, the McDonald's. Golden arches, the golden arches and you like have to pull in to get something. And I'm like you and Ben, I know.
Adult Expectations and Realities
Speaker 3I haven't been as bad I like. I don't go as much as I used to, but apparently I need to go even less because my cholesterol Collesterol is high. But apparently it runs in the family. I didn't know that. Yeah, mom has high health, yeah, she told me we had a whole discussion about it. Well, I was going to say whenever we were in this.
Speaker 2We have this friend group that we call Bloated and it's like me and Hannah and Ben and you, meredith and myself, and we would like hang out and me and Hannah would literally have to be like guys please, like we don't want McDonald's tonight, like we'd have to beg Ben and Meredith to not make us go to McDonald's. I ate more McDonald's, I know, like the most I have in my adult life, when Ben and Hannah lived.
Speaker 3Oh, me too. It's because you find someone. I found Ben and I was like you, like McDonald's. We enabled each other. Yeah, I need to check in with him and see how he's doing, if he's still eating as much, because we really we weren't good for each other.
Speaker 2Yeah, hannah and I that, between that and chili, good God, I ate a lot of bad food.
Speaker 3Chili's will put you right in the ground. I went on to the slow death.
Speaker 2But gosh chilies, it's bad Death by diarrhea I mean like oh man, I mean, we've already talked about this on the podcast, we don't need to do it again, but I will never forget Ben's birthday where we all had to go to Chili's and everyone was sick from it and like someone ordered I'm pretty sure they ordered, like the chili from Chili's- what. It was like chili, or like chili on queso oh, I didn't even like the pepper, it was like a chili.
Speaker 3It was like and it literally looked like diarrhea.
Speaker 2It looked like dog food yeah.
Speaker 3Oh yeah, it was like not a chili, it was like dog food.
Speaker 2Like I really think they opened a can of dog food and just added some kidney, it was. It was the ad.
Speaker 3I keep getting nature's friend, or what it was called farmer's dog. Oh, this is bougie dog food.
Speaker 2This will definitely pass, but honestly, that bougie dog food would be more expensive than chili.
Speaker 3And chili. Oh my gosh OK, anyway, my question for tonight for our topic. I just watched 13 Going on 30. So this is definitely has to do with that. It really is a great movie. It holds up in every way. Great cast I know, it's so cute, but what is something that is like different, like now that you're an adult? Is there what's something that's like very different than you thought it would be as a child, because there's something you looked forward to as a kid and now you're like.
Speaker 2I looked forward to adulthood and I'm like wait a minute. I did not sign up for this it's definitely a lot more expensive than I expected.
Speaker 3And I definitely thought that money would come to me way easier than it does I just remember? I always wanted to be. I always pictured my life very much in the framework of movies like 13 Going on 30 and 10 Things I Hate About you.
Speaker 1And all the movies.
Speaker 3That told me that I was gonna be a hot journalist in my 30s. But I also wanted in the New York City and I'd be calling cabs like every lunch break.
Speaker 2Oh, I definitely pictured like living in the queue apartment in the city and like yeah, they really didn't take out.
Speaker 3They really like, made our adult life look.
Speaker 2really it was a narrow path, like crying over a really bad breakup even seemed somewhat desirable. Eating ice cream in bed it seemed desirable to go through a bad breakup.
Speaker 3Camerideas in the scarf in bed in England eating the ice cream was like oh, this looks so amazing. I know.
Speaker 2I know.
Speaker 3Anyway, but I remember. So I always pictured I was like I always wanted a job. I also always wanted to get married and have kids. So I didn't know how that factored in, because you don't see that in the movies growing.
Speaker 2No, they never do both.
Speaker 3And also because all the moms in the movies growing up had bad hair that made them look old. And we were just looking at this video about hair psychology and it put like old lady hair on all the like celebrities that are in their 50s now, like Courtney Cox and Jennifer Aniston, and like they literally look like they're 70 years old. Yeah, so anyway. No wonder we weren't picturing ourselves with parents or as parents with kids, because they all looked old as hell.
Speaker 2Yeah, they did. I mean, the golden girls were like younger than our mom currently and I thought they were ancient.
Speaker 3I know it's because they all had the hair.
Speaker 2Yeah, it's very interesting, it is interesting Also the oh, I lost my train of thought. It was something about the kid thing about how you like they don't portray that in the movies. Oh, I was gonna say Shanika, who is on our House of Wax episode. Her and I have this like obsession right now about updating each other on the like famous New York City mom TikTokers. Oh, and like it's like day in the life of like hot New York. City mom with like four kids not four kids, like two or three kids.
Speaker 2Uh-huh, they're loaded, they're getting to live.
Speaker 3Both lives, both lives Interesting, it's so intriguing. I want to see we like talk about it every time we see each other. How old are they?
Speaker 2Like 30, something Interesting. Yeah, they're doing it all. Huh, I mean, one of them, I'm pretty sure, is single too.
Speaker 3Are they like stay at home moms, or are they?
Speaker 2No one of them's like a day in the life of a working New York City mom. Ok, and she's like loaded rich and whatever I'm so intrigued. And then the other one, I think, stays home and has a rich husband. Ok, so there's a variety. I can't wait to get on this train, but it's so interesting that those people got to watch 13 going on 30 and then they got to live it.
Speaker 3I know.
Nostalgic Reminiscing and American Girl Dolls
Speaker 2How. I don't know what's the formula for this. I went wrong somewhere.
Speaker 3For real.
Speaker 2I mean not wrong, but what Different yeah.
Speaker 3Well, I just didn't realize there were options other than that, because that was all I saw. I know New York Minute man with the Olsen twins. I was like this is just my future Dude.
Speaker 2The Olsen twins Talk about setting us up for like too high of expectations. I thought I was going to find love on every vacation I went on For sure. Yeah, and like that I don't know, me and my friend would literally always pretend that we were twins and like force her mom to tell people that we were twins.
Speaker 3Was it the friend that locked you on the back porch of the dog? Yes, it was the bossy friend. Yes, we need a name for her. Like a reference point, because the locked you in the back porch of the dog is way too long. And she comes up way too often be saying that every episode. I know.
Speaker 2I did a lot of childhood with her, and her mom would tell people that we were twins. I have a vivid memory of us being at a water park trying to convince an adult that we were twins, and the adult was like not playing games with us and did not give a shit. And she was like hardcore. And then not kidding, this is all unlocking. As I'm saying it, we got in a fight because I ended up like being like LOL, yeah, it's a joke and she was pissed that I broke character.
Speaker 3So, oh my gosh, but yeah, I feel like so. When I finally got like was working nine to five, I just remember thinking and not that I was like comparing it to the movies at that point, but I just remember thinking like when I finally have like gotten out of college, got a job and like sat down at my desk for the first day of work Because I interned there before, but then I like took the full time, graduated, did the thing, and I was like, oh my gosh, this is my life.
Speaker 2now Is this the rest of my life.
Speaker 3Is this what everyone's been doing? They're all just okay with sitting here, yeah, for nine hours a day and these windows don't open and like, like I was just not like not in a grave way. I just was like there's no fresh air in this building. There's like a actual water cooler where people go and chat.
Speaker 2Which is interesting because you did work at a cool place and you also love the office. I'm surprised you weren't like I'm getting to live my office dream.
Speaker 3In some ways I was, but I think it was like when I like was there every day, I was like, oh my gosh, that was a realization for me was like oh, I don't know when my next break is.
Speaker 1I don't get a spring break.
Speaker 2And I had friends that were like going on spring breaks. And I was like I've done something wrong.
Speaker 3I know.
Speaker 2Like I, have no more spring breaks and life has begun.
Speaker 3Yeah, no one prepares you. I mean, I guess you're just supposed to figure it out.
Speaker 2Which we did.
Speaker 3I mean, you're supposed to think ahead like, oh, this we're not going to have a spring break forever.
Speaker 2But I think that's a common thing, like I think a lot of people like get into there.
Speaker 3Well, because your whole life, your it's like, your whole life is punctuated by like what's the next thing? Yeah, it's so, it, and then all of a sudden you don't.
Speaker 2Oh my gosh. And having kids, even more so when I had a. When I had my son. I remember being like I don't even get weekends.
Speaker 1I know.
Speaker 2Like. I don't even like. This just goes on and on every day.
Speaker 3And on.
Speaker 1Yeah what you do and you get breaks yeah.
Speaker 2It is interesting that your life really does revolve around breaks and then all of a sudden there aren't any.
Speaker 3I mean, I think that's why there's people that, like, are always planning a vacation.
Speaker 2Yeah, I will say I'm kind of one of those people that I don't love when I don't have something to look forward to. I typically need something.
Speaker 3Well, I've just turned into the person that always needs a package coming.
Speaker 2Like I was talking to you about this, how you're. It's like the modern day, it's the modern day.
Speaker 3QVC person. I'm like, if I don't, even if it's like a bag of screws from Amazon, I'm like I got a package coming, all as well, I got a stuff. I got to take a step back.
Speaker 2I do, I do love a package coming.
Speaker 3I love a package coming. I have a piece of mail on my counter right now that I haven't opened and I know what it is. It's like thank you letters for a nonprofit that I'm on the board of that I have to write donors, and I get a boost of serotonin when I just see the unopened package on my counter and it's been there for a week and I know what it is.
Speaker 2And it's not exciting.
Speaker 3And it's not exciting, but it's like my brain has been like trained to see a package and I'm like ooh.
Speaker 2I mean, it's so weird. It's true, though, because I think that that's normal. Yeah, I think that like maybe not package, but like I feel like people have always loved getting mail, yeah that's true, and as an adult, I mean even Sam loves getting mail.
Speaker 3I mean even Sam loves getting mail.
Speaker 2Like some loves to check the mail. Yeah, my curls do too. But, as an adult, so often it's bills and junk mail and like scary adult things. And so it really is nice when it's something exciting.
Speaker 3This is the most adult. There are hopefully no younger people listening to this, because this is a really sad conversation Like this is the epitome.
Speaker 2Do you remember when McDonald's was great, even just like?
Speaker 3the most exciting thing that's happening to our lives is getting mail, getting screws in the mail and like reminiscing on McDonald's.
Speaker 2I know, no, that's not true. We've got a lot of other good things going on, we do. We literally test each other today and we're like I've been like very depressed the last two days.
Speaker 3So just take this as this is depression speaking.
Speaker 2Yeah, this is depression speaking, we're glass half full tonight. I mean, you have empty tonight.
Speaker 3Do you know what I just got requested, though, for veil? My oldest daughter is turning seven in December and we're taking her to the American Girl Store for her birthday.
Speaker 1And I've never been. Did she know? Yeah, she knows.
Speaker 3I've never been because there wasn't one in Charlotte growing up, but I just requested a catalog for her to get.
Speaker 2So there is nothing like the American Girl's catalog.
Speaker 3I'm a little scared to look at it though, because I really wanted to be the exact same as it was when I was little, but I think it's probably similar, like they're still going to have Felicity.
Speaker 2No, they don't. No, freaking way, she's discontinued.
Speaker 3No, freaking way, caroline, I'm going to tell you this Before I gave her veil, felicity, I looked up her value and she's worth like $1,200 now because she's like they've discontinued her. Up. They don't have Felicity, they just continued a lot of them, do they have? Kids. They don't have Yosafina. They have kids. They don't have Yosafina. I don't think so. I don't think they have Addy.
Speaker 1Oh my God, like a lot of them are like Addy was so cute she had the little buck teeth.
Speaker 2I know I guess they all do, but she had the little bob, did she? No, who's the one with, like the short little ginger bob?
Speaker 3Ginger bob? I don't remember, but there are a lot of them are gone. I looked on the website and I was like I don't recognize any of you bitches. They're all men Damn. I know, but anyway that'll be exciting.
Speaker 2Now I'm like determined, with short, red hair.
Speaker 3Maybe I'm wrong. I think you're mixing, I'm mixing someone up. Felicity had long red hair and Kit had short blonde hair.
Speaker 2Wait, who's this one?
Speaker 3I have never seen her in my life.
Speaker 2She's one of the new bitches.
Speaker 3I know that's what I'm saying. I'm not ready.
Speaker 2Oh yeah, that's a Emily Bennett. Who the fuck are you, emily? Mary Ellen Larkin.
Speaker 3That's another one. I'm telling you it's not going to be the same, Lindsay.
Speaker 2Man, this is throwing me off. Sage they got like hipster names, like a bunch of hipster parents.
Speaker 3I think that's sage the 2001. Must be.
Speaker 2And then there's Nelly Dang, Mia St Clair. That sounds like a trust fund baby.
Speaker 3I never liked Samantha because she was spoiled.
Speaker 2Oh, she had the plaid like school outfit, right.
Speaker 3She was Victorian. I think People love Samantha. I am really mixing these up. You really are.
Speaker 2I was also a bitty baby gal and mom never got me the like mom. No, she got me the look like me. Yeah, and I kind of messed out on the character thing.
Speaker 3I never read the books. No, should have Anyways, all right, well, this was fun.
Speaker 2This was fun.
Speaker 3Have a great Tuesday See you next Tuesday.