Baby Animals + Bowling Alleys

Ever find yourself laughing in the face of a robot cat dishing out pizza? We did just that and more on a recent jaunt to the bowling alley, where nostalgia meets neon-lit novelty. This week on Sister Shit, we're rolling strikes and sharing stories, from the automated attendants to our unabashed love for arcade nostalgia. We're also hitting the laser tag arena, proving that some things are just better when you're not a teenager anymore.

Bowling might seem like a simple pastime, but we're peeling back the layers, revealing how it can be a snapshot of our journey from clammy-handed youth to confident adults. We'll get candid about how adulthood has oddly made us better at games and life, and why a dry pretzel can launch a thousand ships of emotion. Plus, we're unpacking the creep of technology into our social spaces—yes, even our beloved bowling alleys—and why those silent, serving robots might just be throwing us a curveball.

As we wrap up, remember that Sister Shit is all about the unexpected tangents, from flu fiascos to HVAC hijinks. Your stories fuel our fires, and we're eager for the spark of your ideas to light up our next chat. Whether it's strikes, stories, or sisterly banter you're after, we're here dishing it out weekly, ready to keep the conversation right up your alley.

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Transcript

Speaker 2 0:03

Hello.

Speaker 1 0:05

Hi, welcome to Sister Shit. I'm Meredith. I'm.

Speaker 2 0:10

Caroline and today.

Speaker 1 0:15

We're talking about bowling alleys.

Speaker 2 0:22

We both, like recently, had bowling alley experiences and I truly haven't had a bowling alley experience in probably like 10 years Same.

Speaker 1 0:32

Actually, I've had two recently. I'm just laughing because I'm like you guys thought we were going to run out of things to talk about.

Speaker 2 0:39

Here we are.

Speaker 1 0:40

We can talk about anything for any amount of time Really, oh my gosh. Okay. So I have been two bowling alleys recently. One was very different from those of Lore Lore.

Speaker 2 1:05

What the heck does that mean?

Speaker 1 1:07

Like folklore days of lore. Did I make that up? I've been reading Secret Garden, okay, so, oh my gosh. One was very different, almost for a birthday party. They were robot cats serving us pizza. Wait, wait, wait wait, wait. There was laser tag. There were arcade games.

Speaker 2 1:31

Meredith, you never mentioned one single thing about a robot cat.

Speaker 1 1:36

Listen, it was more like Imagine if a Roomba had your height, basically, and had shelves in it that pizza could be slid into. Wait, a robot was.

Speaker 2 1:58

My height.

Speaker 1 2:00

Yes, yes, like almost your height, tall as the kids, and it had shelves that just like spare pizza, like raw dog in it in the cat when it was in this tower.

Speaker 2 2:17

Wait, did it look like a cat?

Speaker 1 2:19

It had the face of a cat and it sang happy birthday and it talked and it kept like this is grim as shit. This was a birthday party that I didn't know any of the parents. It was like the first class birthday party of the year that we've been to, so it was already awkward. And then this robot pizza cat kept awkwardly lingering. It would come to deliver food and then it wouldn't leave. It would stand behind you and get way too close and the dad that was there kept getting stalked by the pizza cat and it had like someone that would walk. The thing about the pizza cat is that it had someone that walked next to it that would serve the pizza. Why is the person just not?

Speaker 2 3:19

serving the pizza.

Speaker 1 3:21

I don't know.

Speaker 2 3:23

What is the point of the freaking cat? It was singing.

Speaker 1 3:24

It was singing.

Speaker 2 3:27

I think it was for like the birthday element in like the future, I'm sorry, but what happened to the people that come out and say happy, happy birthday?

Speaker 1 3:38

We got shortages, caroline, there aren't people to do that right now. So we got the cats. We got the robot cats.

Speaker 2 3:45

Too many people have gone into STEM and are making robots, and not enough people are singing happy birthday at Mexican restaurants.

Speaker 1 3:54

We never saw this coming. We never stopped STEM immediately.

Speaker 2 4:01

We need more birthday singers at restaurants.

Speaker 1 4:07

More people go into performing arts. Right now, we need more failed Broadway performers in our bowling alleys. Oh my gosh, I am. This is amazing. Okay, so.

Speaker 2 4:23

Like I just can't believe that that wasn't something that you didn't call me about immediately.

Speaker 1 4:27

I am, you know it happened, so it was just one of those experiences that I just let wash over me.

Speaker 2 4:35

Yeah, I get that.

Speaker 1 4:37

And then I emerged from the sliding glass doors of that bowling alley and I said did that Done?

Speaker 2 4:45

I think that feels sensitive to the robots because I recently, today, I watched a movie with Sim called like Mitchell's versus the Machines. Have you seen this?

Speaker 1 4:55

No.

Speaker 2 4:56

It's on Netflix and it's actually like very funny, like Jay and I were laughing out loud. But it's like anyways, the Machines. I mean, it's like every robot movie that is ever existing, they take over. They take over the world. But kid version which is, it was really interesting watching like a dystopian apocalypse with my four-year-old. Yeah, that was like comedy and like geared towards kids.

Speaker 1 5:23

Yeah.

Speaker 2 5:25

I mean I think it washed over his head, but he kept just saying like I think it's funny that the dog is a policeman. That was like all that he took from the movie.

Speaker 1 5:34

I mean you would. Yeah, that's pretty funny.

Speaker 2 5:36

But I'm like I mean, the movie is like four children and he's literally talking about how, like this, basically their version of Siri takes over, and like it's wild.

Speaker 1 5:52

Like smart house Like they like.

Speaker 2 5:53

Yes, like. The robot takes revenge on the humans and like captures all of them.

Speaker 1 5:59

Oh my gosh.

Speaker 2 6:01

And so I'm like man what? Well, I'm no, that's not giving it away at all. That happens in like the very first one. And we started the movie and said I'm like, yeah, the robots are going to capture the humans. And I was like, okay, cool, he's in that age of like.

Speaker 1 6:14

Just tells me the whole movie yeah, he saw it already, but yeah.

Speaker 2 6:20

So, anyway, bowling at me. So what's going to happen with the robot cats?

Speaker 1 6:22

Yeah, I don't know. They had a pretty friendly demeanor. They just don't have any social cues. So Gosh I, they fit right in with the kids at the birthday party.

Speaker 2 6:35

Oh, my gosh Wait. So what bowling alley was this?

Speaker 1 6:38

Stars and Strikes Okay, it was nice. Like I was like, oh gosh, a bowling alley is going to be sticky and gross and it's like they're doing the most. I was actually very impressed. I was like, dang, this is a great place to have a birthday party. They had laser tag too. The kids.

Speaker 2 6:58

I love laser tag.

Speaker 1 7:00

I know when can we go as adults and play laser tag. Can we not play it there? I don't know. I don't know. I love should we go?

Speaker 2 7:10

Like I.

Speaker 1 7:11

we really should the only time I played Later Tag. It was one time I was at like a youth group lock-in and I was so scared, but it was so fun. It's like a, it's like a thrill. You don't get anywhere else An absolute thrill. An absolute thrill, you just feel like the stakes are so high.

Speaker 2 7:31

I played. I went through this phase where, like whenever I was in a church group, we were going like kind of frequently Mm-hmm, and we got really good at this like one place and we like knew the inside pretty well.

Speaker 1 7:45

Oh, that's fun.

Speaker 2 7:46

And we like dominated a group of Marines, and the Marines literally quit halfway through and started yelling at us.

Speaker 1 7:55

This is so dorky no.

Speaker 2 7:57

But they took off their vest and were like you guys are cheating, they're Marines and they have that attitude. Yeah, I don't know if they were Marines, I should just say military. I assume they're Marines because of where we're from. But yeah, but it was very funny that's embarrassing for everyone involved.

Speaker 1 8:17

I know I can't believe.

Speaker 2 8:17

I just told that that's funny.

Speaker 1 8:20

I'm embarrassed on my end Also everyone. She was an adult. She was not in middle school.

Speaker 2 8:24

Yeah, I think I was probably like 19.

Speaker 1 8:27

But you were like a leader, you were like bringing middle school kids.

Speaker 2 8:31

yeah, no, no, no, no. Yeah, okay, just going on your off time.

Speaker 1 8:35

It was me and my friends. Oh, okay, just in your free time.

Speaker 2 8:43

Yeah, we were like, let's go laser tag, I want to do that.

Speaker 1 8:45

It didn't happen that often it happened like three times. It happened enough for you to know the lay of the land. So that's a lot. Don't backpedal, do not backpedal. You came in with so much pride and there is no turning back. Okay so, okay, second bowling alley. Second bowling alley experience I had was this past weekend. It was exactly what you would expect. I mean, this place we pulled up to an unmarked building.

Speaker 1 9:14

There was not a single sign on the door, so we walked in. There was a guy smoking outside at 2 pm on a Sunday. We walk in. I mean, it was like stepping back in time. It is exactly like every bowling alley you remember as you went to as a child.

Speaker 2 9:35

Yeah, I'm like that's when they're not surprised Without the smoke, without the indoor smoke.

Speaker 1 9:40

Yeah, I know so it was very interesting. I was like okay, so the bowling alley industry hasn't changed completely, it was just the one that's doing great, the other one is also doing great. I mean, it was packed. There was a 30 minute wait for Elaine.

Speaker 2 9:56

Oh my gosh.

Speaker 1 9:57

I think it was Sunday's discount day and there were regulars Like I saw multiple. I saw more pairs of like owned shoes than rented shoes.

Speaker 2 10:08

Mayor, there is nothing like being at the bowling alley and seeing someone carry in their ball.

Speaker 1 10:15

Oh Carol we're talking majority.

Speaker 2 10:17

Which I can't say anything because I went through a laser type face Girls guys like there's a lot of regular bowlers apparently in my area Interesting.

Speaker 1 10:26

It was in all tight, all walks of life, all walks of life. It was an interesting melting pot.

Speaker 2 10:35

Well, I don't know if you know this about me, but I fucking hate bowling.

Speaker 1 10:39

I didn't know that until you just said that before we started I found a new. I'm not gonna lie, I loved it oh. I hate it, I bowled a 128.

Speaker 2 10:50

We didn't have the car, we didn't have the bumpers up.

Speaker 1 10:53

Because we were playing with children and they didn't have the ones that could go up and down between turns. But I bowled a 128 with bumpers.

Speaker 2 11:03

I don't know what's considered good.

Speaker 1 11:05

I think a 300 is like really high, like there were pictures of people on the wall that were like a 300. Is that a perfect score?

Speaker 2 11:12

I don't know, I think that's like a strike every time or something. Okay.

Speaker 1 11:18

So, but what I was gonna say, my take, my recent take, on bowling is that I think I could have always been good, caroline, the last time I went bowling I was in high school and you are so terrified of everyone looking at you that you cannot focus on the task at hand.

Speaker 2 11:37

That was one of my. The task at hand yes.

Speaker 1 11:41

And now I don't know. I'm just like 34 and I'm doing well, almost 34 and I'm a much better bowler, so I'm doing great.

Speaker 2 11:50

Maybe I should try again.

Speaker 1 11:52

I think you should try again, as an adult and not as like a crippled, but not crippled like a middle schooler, with like crippling anxiety about everyone looking at you and you have like period of your genes.

Speaker 2 12:06

I will. I have like perform like athletic performance, anxiety, okay, like.

Speaker 1 12:13

Wait, since when Like what?

Speaker 2 12:17

Mayor, you've known this about me I hate team sports because I like hate letting people down.

Speaker 1 12:23

Okay.

Speaker 2 12:23

And I get like very embarrassed because I'm not good and so I'm always not competitive.

Speaker 1 12:28

I've never, ever heard you label it, as I haven't let it perform anxiety.

Speaker 2 12:34

I just made that up, but it rolled off the tongue.

Speaker 1 12:36

It did. I mean you said that like you've been saying at your whole life. No, I typically just say I hate sports but, I, think I like saying that better 2024, we got to label it with a certain type of anxiety.

Speaker 2 12:50

Yeah, because I don't like letting people down. I'm a people pleaser. I also get like I'm terrified of failure.

Speaker 1 12:58

You're playing your own game and bowling.

Speaker 2 13:00

No, but that's the thing I'm terrified of failure. It was like it's the walking up and everyone watching you and like seeing how shitty you do. That Got her ball, oh hell. Then you got to turn around and face everyone and walk back, but you know what?

Speaker 1 13:16

No one's watching. That's what I learned on Sunday. No one cares, no one's watching.

Speaker 2 13:21

Okay, okay.

Speaker 1 13:24

In middle school you think everyone is and they really never will.

Speaker 2 13:26

But then it's awkward when you get a strike and you're excited and no one's watching. It's awkward when you get a strike, and not that I've ever once in my life gotten a strike.

Speaker 1 13:33

You do like a little.

Speaker 2 13:38

Sim when we went my recent time. Bowling was also a birthday party. We went to Bolero, okay, and it was actually. It was really nice too. I was very impressed. They had like a decent little arcade situation that Sim liked way more than the bowling.

Speaker 1 13:52

Yeah, bro, I was thankful there was not an arcade on Sunday, because that would have been the whole we would have been. There was a claw machine that my girls were begging me to do and I was like not a chance, not a chance.

Speaker 2 14:04

Yeah. So this birthday party it was kind of nice because you just pay and then every kid that comes gets like a 15 point 15 and swiper card thing. So we just played all the arcade games and then we all bowl.

Speaker 2 14:16

But the problem was is that it's a bunch of four and five year olds bowling and it took so long and Sim was so over it and I was like buddy, I get it, but I will say it changed my mind about bowling. He's, the bowling alley was nice. It was also like, as I was bowling for Sim, like helping him put the little slidey thing in the right spot.

Speaker 1 14:41

I was like I kind of want to try this, yeah.

Speaker 2 14:44

So I'm like maybe I do need to go we should go, I would go back.

Speaker 1 14:48

I honestly was thinking like I wonder if I could drag anyone here because it would be fun to go with the preference.

Speaker 2 14:55

Yeah which like and they also have like premium fried food.

Speaker 1 15:01

Also my key soft pretzel and he picked it up at the window and he was like, do y'all have any like sauce or mustard or anything? And the lady she, he said the lady was like, oh, like, looked at him. Like what do you think this is Disney World? Like she gave him the draw and it was. That thing had been spinning around in that glass box since 1984. It was the driest. I kept having to turn around to check on Kit behind me to make sure she wasn't choking because it was so dry. They didn't have mustard, no, no mustard. And they serve burgers, that is the easiest shit to get.

Speaker 2 15:38

You just get in a little package. I know, I know Like I get it if they don't have hot cheese but mustard.

Speaker 1 15:44

Maybe he's lying, maybe he asked for like beer cheese and she was like no, but he said he asked for mustard. Gosh, I love a soft pretzel with mustard. I don't know this one. You looked you could, you could taste it just looking at it and it was not good.

Speaker 2 15:58

Remember that phase we went in. We were in whenever we would just go walk around Target and eat hot pretzels.

Speaker 1 16:03

Yeah, I'm so mad they got rid of those.

Speaker 2 16:06

We would literally be like want to go to Target and get a hot pretzel.

Speaker 1 16:11

Yeah, were we pregnant?

Speaker 2 16:13

One of us was pregnant I think one of us was, I think checks out?

Speaker 1 16:19

No, I think me.

Speaker 2 16:21

It must have been me, I think. I ate a lot of pretzels when.

Speaker 1 16:23

I was pregnant.

Speaker 2 16:24

So might have been me. Oh, man, yeah, okay.

Speaker 1 16:28

I was going to say we got to go back to a bowling alley.

Speaker 2 16:30

We got to go back to a bowling alley, but also with the robot situation. I can't move on.

Speaker 1 16:35

Clearly I'm shook from the robot movie that I watched. It wasn't as cool. I mean, like I didn't even tell you afterwards, because it was like so unnotable.

Speaker 2 16:45

But I feel like we need to talk about the little things that sit on tables at.

Speaker 1 16:50

Oh.

Speaker 2 16:51

Like restaurants? Do we Like Olive Garden?

Speaker 1 16:56

Yeah, where were we? Red Robin, I don't know. You want to get dark, because that's the darkest we're ever going to get on this podcast.

Speaker 2 17:03

I like how to panic attack.

Speaker 1 17:05

Like, yeah, we went recently to a Red Robin. It was like a. It was like we had other plans. We didn't have time because we had to get back for the sitter. We were like, okay, Red Robin's right there. We used to go a lot. It's good, let's go. And Caroline had like a moment in the restaurant Like she was like I just don't like like, like the vibes are.

Speaker 2 17:29

so I was really stressed about the vibes, which is so extra because, like I love Waffle House Okay, I don't have like the super, I'm not bougie or by any means, but for some reason the vibes of a Red Robin type restaurant, yeah, they are really bad and heavy. Like Waffle House and more ways than one, but like the, the thing on the table where your kid can just stare into the abyss and play games yeah.

Speaker 2 18:01

And then the server is like okay, just like, swipe your card on that. And the server like doesn't even really have to do anything.

Speaker 1 18:06

No, again too many robots.

Speaker 2 18:09

Too many robots and again a robot with a person.

Speaker 1 18:14

We don't. We don't even have a robot, we don't need the person. No, don't give me the robot until it's good enough to take up the place of a person.

Speaker 2 18:23

I don't even want that.

Speaker 1 18:24

I feel like the person is just there to make us feel like the robot's not fully in charge. You know what I mean.

Speaker 2 18:31

Yeah.

Speaker 1 18:32

The person is like just hanging out.

Speaker 2 18:36

And, like the crumble cookie, you walk in, you order on a screen and then it asks you to leave a tip. Yeah, and you're like leave a tip for who? I haven't even talked to anyone. Yeah, Like who am I leaving a tip to this machine? Am I helping you pay off your machine? It's so weird. That's a whole other episode of tip, fricking tips these days.

Speaker 2 19:00

I mean that's been talked about, but it's you know, it's I know, and don't get me wrong, I love to leave a tip, but I'm not leaving a tip on a machine when I haven't even seen a person's face. But yeah, they're already getting paid to make the cookies.

Speaker 1 19:13

If you haven't been to an olive garden, a red robin, an Applebee's lately, you might not know what we're talking about. Chili's, a Chili's, I mean, just take your pick, but they all have these like really clunky iPads at the table that have like game games and menus and it's.

Qualms With Robots and Baby Animals

Speaker 2 19:36

You can like order from them and then you pay from them. Yes, it's so weird. I don't know why it made me. I think we'd already gone and seen Iron Claw, which, like that, is a whole episode in itself. Yeah, like so much easy brief there. Meredith and I stopped through the entire ending, while our husbands just stared at the screen.

Speaker 1 20:01

But I think there was a glisten in Keith's sigh. Yeah, I can see that. If you haven't seen Iron Claw, you really should. It was honestly really good. It's just it's intense, but it was so good.

Speaker 2 20:15

It was so good and we had no idea what it was about. But, like Jeremy Allen White, Zac Efron, Sonia Baby yeah. And so we had this whole plan, like Meredith said, to go see that and then go eat at a K-pop place Didn't have time for that Ended up with a Red Robin. So I think that my panic was not only from the clunky machine on the table and like the bad cock. We didn't even order cocktails, but just like seeing bad cocktails on the menu and then spending like 50 bucks.

Speaker 1 20:50

I think that's what it is. I think that's what it is. Okay, that's what it is for me. You go to Waffle House. Waffle House prices have gone up, but like rightfully so it was. You know the economy. But like you go to Waffle House, you eat really mediocre food and a really mediocre restaurant and you pay so little so you're like this was awesome, what a deal.

Speaker 1 21:14

Yeah, If Waffle House prices were and you get a hat and you get a hat and yes, but I'm like it's honestly that at the end of the day, that's what it is. For me, it's the fact that you're paying what you would pay for like a nice experience somewhere else and you're, you're like bad service, sticky tables, bad music, bad company, like it's, like you're just getting gypped in all the ways.

Speaker 2 21:46

Our water had like a bunch of crap floating. Yes, it's like my burger was so gross and like rightfully, I mean, I don't eat burgers I got a turkey burger, so like that's on me.

Speaker 1 21:58

Yeah, you don't do that at Red Robin.

Speaker 2 22:00

But like it was so oddly colored, I don't know.

Speaker 1 22:05

So I think you always your expectations for Turkey is too high. It is always gray. I know, it's always gray, Caroline.

Speaker 2 22:14

All that to say, I think my panic stemmed from like sad movie yes, go and broke at the Red Robin and then have him to check out on a motherfucking iPad I know, Not even an iPad and Android. It's like the equivalent to an Android.

Speaker 1 22:31

That's too heavy to steal, as if anyone would want that thing.

Speaker 2 22:37

Oh, man, so why do?

Speaker 1 22:39

we go back there. Caroline, you just took us to a dark place. I had written that.

Speaker 2 22:43

I'm sorry, I know, I think I'm just like really honing in on the like anti-robot thing. Do I use my phone. I know when you think about where.

Speaker 1 22:54

When you think about where we thought we would be in 2024,. Do we have robots? Yes, are they doing anything that really matters for a day to day person? I know there are like, extremely like.

Speaker 2 23:11

I know there are surgery robots and stuff.

Speaker 1 23:13

Yes, like there are robots that are like doing incredible things, but I'm talking like day to day layman's robots. They're not there. You, we don't need them, we don't need them.

Speaker 2 23:25

We thought the future was going to be like.

Speaker 1 23:26

Xenon, the Z-Qual, and it is like idiocracy.

Speaker 2 23:31

I can't even fly in a jet pack. So like.

Speaker 1 23:37

Also, when do we think hologram? Or is anyone prioritizing holograms? Because that was also another promise that was really made in all the movies we watched growing up that we'd be like basically FaceTime would be how. You know what I mean We'd be using holograms.

Speaker 2 23:53

Yes, I wish.

Speaker 1 23:56

I don't know that anyone's really trying to do that. There were like a few. Didn't Michael Jackson come back as a hologram?

Speaker 2 24:01

Tupac and maybe Michael Jackson too, but I know Tupac did Okay.

Speaker 1 24:06

But it wasn't like. It was like I'm talking like, like on Xenon when her teacher shows up in the middle of the room and it's a hologram and it's live.

Speaker 2 24:16

Yeah, I just feel like we're not taking advantage of what we could be doing.

Speaker 1 24:22

We're prioritizing the wrong things. Yes, yes. I mean not that that would have any serve any purpose, but neither do the iPads on the tables at Red Robin is what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 24:38

Yes, agreed, and like even Siri. I feel like like Jay's a Siri a lot, but I'm like I don't need to talk to my phone, I can just type it in.

Speaker 1 24:52

I did just start. I've been using Siri more I feel like I've had I never really used it a lot and I've been using it more to like do hands free in the car because I don't know, it is easier sometimes, although not really she doesn't understand anything I say, which is really frustrating. Anyway, we could talk. This is. You know, I don't know this is kind of boring, but we got qualms.

Speaker 2 25:21

Yeah, we got qualms with the robots.

Speaker 1 25:23

Mm-hmm, um, but yeah, anyway, we also. We're planning to talk about baby animals, so let's turn this ship around. Yes, let's do it. Um, I saw a video today of someone rolling an ornament at their armadillo. Armadillo was like rolling up with the ornament and like playing with it, and I actually made a video on the armadillo on the internet today, being like somebody tell me how I can become one of these people that get to keep the rescue animals that, like aren't allowed to be released into the wild. And within like two minutes, someone in Wisconsin who, like rescues birds, responded with this like super in-depth response about, like how you get registered with DNR. You have to, like, if you're gonna work with birds, you get this kind of certification and I was thinking that is not my thing.

Speaker 2 26:17

I want some record, I want some fur.

Speaker 1 26:21

Yeah, if you work with mammals, it's more of like a state regulated thing, I guess, because there's different states. Different states have different mammals and birds migrate maybe. But yeah, okay. So I'm reading this and I'm like, uh, sounds like a lot of work.

Speaker 2 26:38

So okay, this starts too, because I wanted to rent a raccoon for my 30th birthday. I'm like because, I mean, I know that I'm not famous, but Kristen, what's her name?

Speaker 1 26:58

Bella Anna Kristen Bell.

Speaker 2 27:00

I saw that she got the sloth for her birthday like rented a sloth situation, sloth experience. So I'm like can I do this with a raccoon? And so Meredith like did the deep dive? I did, and it's not, it's not a thing which like, maybe that's good.

Speaker 1 27:17

I found one company that, like, rents raccoons for like acting like, if you need a raccoon for a movie.

Speaker 2 27:25

Like, because I don't know how I'd necessarily feel about like renting raccoons or like animals unless they, like, genuinely need like, love.

Speaker 1 27:34

Yeah.

Speaker 2 27:34

You know it's like. Is it stressing them out? Most likely yeah, so that's probably not good but there's the rabies factor. How can I encounter some? I know, caroline, sweet cute animals.

Speaker 1 27:48

I mean, you know this about me, but like both of us think and daydream often about just like stumbling upon a baby animal. That's like falling out of the nest. Mom's, nowhere to be seen. It needs a few days in my home and my love.

Speaker 2 28:04

Yes.

Speaker 1 28:04

Before it can like go to a rescue or like in the wild or whatever. Like I just want to rehabilitate a wild animal, I want to be mama.

Speaker 2 28:11

I think we got unrealistic expectations because it happened to our families so often as kids. Yeah.

Speaker 1 28:18

We had three squirrels. We had a hookup. We had a hookup. There was a lady who rescued squirrels and whenever she had too many squirrels we'd get the overflow.

Speaker 2 28:27

Yes, and our dad like loves our mom too. They like love animals, so we were always doing that stuff. So I'm like we just need the hookup.

Speaker 1 28:35

I know, but I think it's. I don't know how we get the hookup now. There is a wildlife rescue right up the road for my house and I'm like, should I just start volunteering there?

Speaker 2 28:44

I tried to volunteer there in college.

Speaker 1 28:46

Remember the wildlife yeah.

Speaker 2 28:48

But they were like it's not baby squirrel season, reapply during baby squirrel season, because we need more people then when it's baby squirrel season. I can't remember, but. I couldn't reapply because I had a full time internship or like a really busy internship. So we need to look up when baby squirrel season is, because I think that they need like extra hands during the season. Stop it.

Speaker 1 29:08

Well, you never told me this?

Speaker 2 29:10

Yes, I swear I did, meredith. It was when I was looking for volunteer hours for school and I tried to volunteer there, but the timing didn't line up.

Speaker 1 29:18

Okay, okay, okay. Wait, I'm very excited. I'm going to look into that.

Speaker 2 29:24

No, we need to look up the dates.

Speaker 1 29:26

Okay.

Speaker 2 29:26

But I have, like it's pretty magical, because I was at Disney world and I was sitting out of a ride while my friends went on a roller coaster, cause I was pregnant and I had a squirrel come up to me and look into my eyes and I reached down and I handed it. I don't remember what I was eating. I handed it a piece of what I was eating, which I don't know if you're supposed to do that, but I'm pretty sure Disney squirrels are used to it, the squirrels with Disney are made, built different.

Speaker 1 29:58

They they're raised on that stuff.

Speaker 2 30:01

And it literally grabbed my hand and took it and then ate it. I have it on video. Have I not showed you this? I think I've seen it. I forgot about it. And it, I was like this. Nothing gets more magical than this, Like I am in Disney world and the squirrel just came up to me and asked me for food.

Speaker 1 30:19

Oh my, gosh, that's what.

Speaker 2 30:23

I want. Yeah, that's what I want Squirrels or raccoons.

Speaker 1 30:26

Sign me up. I know when we were in England last summer. There's a park there's like is it? I can't remember the name of the park, but it's basically like London's equivalent of Central Park, but there's one part of it where no dogs are allowed. It's like a clothe, it's like a gated path that you walk through and it is like I mean the like both of my girls say it was like their favorite part of the trip because there's signs everywhere that's like don't feed the birds and squirrels and like everyone is feeding the birds and squirrels. And these people were like, do you guys want some nuts to give them? And we were like yes, and so it's like Laura Keats, like those green, yes, they're just like wild at this part of the park. And there were squirrels and, um, pigeon might get like had was like Pigeon, lady from what's it called?

Speaker 2 31:18

Home Alone, like she was like letting Pigeon land on her arms.

Speaker 1 31:22

I was like we're going to need to. We're going to need a lot of sanitizer.

Speaker 2 31:25

But anyway it was so magical.

Speaker 1 31:27

There were so many animals.

Speaker 2 31:30

Oh, that is so magical.

Speaker 1 31:31

It was like very, yeah, it was very cool.

Speaker 2 31:33

Well, do you remember the phase where the squirrels at USC had like a Twitter account? No, like the college that Mary and I went to, like we, our squirrels on the horseshoe specifically, are so cute and so friendly, like they let you get so close to them. And at one point there was either a Twitter page or like an Instagram page of like the squirrels of the horseshoe or something. This is after, by time, and like people would document their experiences with the squirrels.

Speaker 1 32:02

Wait, I is it still existing?

Speaker 2 32:05

I don't know and I don't even. I just remember like seeing it and being like this is amazing. Our squirrels are amazing. We have the superior squirrels. Our football team might suck, but like, how are your squirrels? Our squirrels are the best.

Speaker 1 32:20

That's so funny. Our brother in law is from the Dominican Republic and he I just remember when one of the first things like when he moved here was like he thought the squirrels were so creepy because they don't have squirrels in Dominican, and so he was like so freaked out about like these rats just like climbing everywhere and people not being like grossed out by them and we're, we're like I really wish that one would just crawl into my home, okay.

Speaker 2 32:49

Also, whenever we were raising one as a kid, one literally crawled up my dad's pant leg and like stuck in his pants and I remember I was on the back porch with I think I was either okay, this might be one of those things where I've heard the story so much I thought that I was there or I really was there, but we were like on the back porch and I remember Emily and dad just like screaming because dad was like get it out, and Emily is like I'm not putting my hand up your pants.

Weekly Podcast Discussion and Updates

Speaker 1 33:24

Oh my gosh, oh man. Well, this was fun. I know it was. Thank you guys, so much for listening and for tuning in every week Not knowing what the hell we're going to talk about and then writing it out.

Speaker 2 33:40

Writing it out. And if you guys are like Holy shit, please talk about something different, Send us an idea where we're just going to keep talking about shit that we talk about every day life, Maybe our next.

Speaker 1 33:52

we need to do another bad date episode.

Speaker 2 33:54

Yeah, we have so many bad dates to go through, yep, okay. Yeah, we'll have to do that soon.

Speaker 1 34:01

Well, hi.

Speaker 2 34:02

Hope you have a great week. Yes, hope you have a great week. My week is literally on fire right now.

Speaker 1 34:09

Oh yeah, caroline's house is infested with the flu.

Speaker 2 34:13

The flu and my age back when out for three days my heat, and so if that's finally back and we are halfway back in action, but I hope your week's going much better than mine, yep, and we will see you next Tuesday.

Speaker 1 34:36

Bye.