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Our Millennial Conversation
Our Millenia Conversation brings together the stories of two friends who first met in the heart of Orlando’s theme park scene. After a year of exploring the magic of Orlando together, Dustin relocated to his hometown in East Tennessee, and the duo decided to evolve a passion project formally the “Orlando Unplugged Podcast.”
This new podcast moves beyond the turnstiles of theme parks, diving into relatable millennial musings, stories of growth, and the unexpected adventures of adulthood. With Dustin’s Appalachian charm and Ashley’s Orlando Sunshine, each episode feels like catching up with old friends over coffee— or a roller coaster ride of laughs and insights.
Whether it’s navigating career changes, celebrating pop culture, or reminiscing about their Orlando days, Our Millennial Conversation promises to keep you entertained, inspired, and coming back for more.
Our Millennial Conversation
Unplugging Our Season Finale: With Heart and Humor
Ever wondered how witty banter and hurricane jokes fit into a podcast finale? Join Dustin and Ashley as they hilariously navigate their way back into the studio after some much-needed (yet unplanned) time off. This episode of "Orlando Unplugged" is an emotional rollercoaster, filled with laughter, heartfelt moments, and reflections on the impact of Hurricane Helene on Orlando’s iconic attractions like Walt Disney World and Universal Studios. They share their mixed feelings about taking a break and give you a sneak peek into the mini-episodes and TikTok content we have planned for the interim.
Looking back, we reminisce about our journey over the past year, celebrating memorable moments like surpassing initial doubts, having guest speakers, and Dustin's one-year anniversary in Orlando. From adjusting to life in a new city and forging new friendships to managing finances and professional challenges, we cover it all. Our candid conversations reveal the ups and downs of our friendship and the social circle drama that comes with it. We also reflect on the unique joy of recording this season finale and our excitement for what’s next.
Wrapping up with gratitude, we thank our dedicated audience for their unwavering support and look forward to bringing you more compelling episodes in January. Buckle up for an even more thrilling and emotionally engaging season two of "Orlando Unplugged"!
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Speaker 3:I am drinking kombucha you're listening to orlando unplugged, celebrating life in living color with dustin and ashley. Grab a cocktail or a mocktail and let's get unplugged, orlando welcome back, guys no, I don't even know if I was recording.
Speaker 2:I think you started talking in the middle of that.
Speaker 1:Really yeah Of me no, of saying no.
Speaker 2:Saying what's up, guys?
Speaker 1:Oh, what is up guys?
Speaker 2:It's Dustin.
Speaker 1:That's not how we start the podcast episode, so I'm gonna need you to fix that and do better.
Speaker 2:I forgot. It's been so long. What do I say? What's up Unplugged fam?
Speaker 1:No, you call everybody besties. No, I don't, you did do that for a minute.
Speaker 2:What's?
Speaker 1:up besties? No, I don't. You did do that for a minute what's up, besties?
Speaker 2:I do that at work too, god I hate that remind me to get well. Hey, there guys, it's justin and ashley coming at you in the middle of a hurricane.
Speaker 1:Hurricane is it helen or helena helene helene, where do they come up with these names? I?
Speaker 2:don't know, nor do I care, but we are actively sitting in the studio watching the trees go sideways. It's not raining yet yet it rained some this morning, but as of the time that we are actively sitting in the studio watching the trees go sideways, it's not raining yet. Yet it rained some this morning, but as of the time that we are recording this, the hurricane has just made landfall in Tampa and it's like 530, September 26th.
Speaker 1:Wow, you're so on the dot.
Speaker 2:It's because my iPad shows me the time right there and the date and then for continuity. So people know like 50 years from now when they're listening to this and they hear our hurricane ride out episode you really think podcasts are gonna be a thing in 50 years? Why would they not be?
Speaker 1:do you think they're going to be?
Speaker 2:books a thing 50 years after they became popular? Yes, but books and podcasts are two different things exactly this is the technology maybe they're gonna call them earcasts, like a different name well, anywho, now that we've had a fun little intro there, guys, welcome back to the 30th episode oh of orlando unplugged podcast life in living color. For now, there's a reason. There's a reason. We said it that way this time. Um, I'm very sad.
Speaker 1:I'm very sad the 30th and final episode of season one of oh you podcast. This is. This is a very sad, sad moment for me. I'm very, I'm gonna miss it yeah, like I know we're getting right back into it next year in january and there might be like some like fun, little, like tidbit episodes. Hey, we might just pull out the mic and talk about things. I think I'm trying to convince Dusty to do a mini mic episode at Halloween Horror Nights, when we go in two weeks.
Speaker 2:I don't know if I want to do a mini mic episode. I don't like the sound quality of those mini mics and I just don't think it would be good. But we might do a bonus content episode between now and Christmas. You, but we might do like a bonus content episode between now and Christmas.
Speaker 1:You know what I think we should do? What? Some more TikToks. I feel like we're doing great.
Speaker 2:You know, we did a TikTok and I was so proud and I was like we're going to be TikTok famous for this and it's had like 150 views.
Speaker 1:We are, we are. That's 150 people that have seen us rock out to that song, and only like three people have actually liked it I don't know what the black parade.
Speaker 2:My father. Fun fact it's uh, us watching um nightmare fuel nocturnal circus at halloween, horror nights from the behind row. Um, and you're just gonna have to go watch the tiktok if you want to know what the behind row is that's all I can say that's it, uh, but yeah, guys.
Speaker 2:So we've got an interesting episode planned today. Um, for those of you that maybe haven't listened to us before, maybe you're just joining us um, this is obviously our final season, or final episode of season one. We're going to take a little bit of a break. Those of you that listen to us all the time. You know, it has been like a month since you've heard from us last yeah, it's been a minute, guys.
Speaker 2:Life has been lifing well, this is the exact reason we made the decision to round off season one, um, and take a break was because we knew, rolling into this season that um and the holidays just our time was going to be super demanding, and it became super demanding before we were able to crank out this last episode. So we've taken some time just to to get everything planned together, um, but I had an impromptu day off today so we decided to get together.
Speaker 2:Thank, you hurricane um yeah, what's going on in orlando like so we woke up. So yesterday yeah um walt disney world resort made an announcement that the mickey's not so scary halloween party set for tonight, september 26th, would be canceled, but the theme park Walt Disney World would stay open until 8 pm.
Speaker 1:And now Halloween, Horror Nights.
Speaker 2:And then we woke up this morning and Universal's like hey, halloween Horror Nights is canceled tonight. The Universal closes. Well, closed at 5, because that was its scheduled closure time. And then what Studios closed? Or Islands closed at 5 because it was it's scheduled closure time and then what Studios closed or Islands closed at 8. Islands closes at it's scheduled time of 8, but along with it, city Walk will also close at 8 o'clock, so this is wild.
Speaker 1:I guess it is hurricane season after all yeah, I know you know who I blame for this who the corn. I blame the corn.
Speaker 2:I blame the corn. You know they need to find he who walks behind the row and tell them to stop renting out that corn correct if you know, you know. If you don't sorry, you're not allowed that's it.
Speaker 1:Hey, you know what I? I kind of do want to chat about, though, one more time what, what are you drinking?
Speaker 2:um, I don't know the brand because the bottle's sitting all the way over there, but since we decided that we were going to do this, hurricane ran out together.
Speaker 1:We're having a hurricane party we.
Speaker 2:I grabbed another one of those delicious strawberry margarita wine cocktails from the wally world today yes, but this one didn't come from aldi so I was quite sad people and someone walked by. Yeah, you gotta love this big. I feel like we're on the today show, like we have this big double gliding double sliding glass door behind, big.
Speaker 2:I feel like we're on the Today Show. We are Like we have this big double sliding glass door behind us and I feel like we're the anchors on the Today Show, with the big windows of Rockefeller Plaza behind them, like people walk by and see us recording and they're just like.
Speaker 1:I really wanna do one of these episodes on the patio, now that the patio is like slowly coming together, even though the patio is empty right now. Well, yeah, thank you, hurricane helene. I want to say helen, but, um, what do you call it?
Speaker 2:I kind of want to do it out there, but I'm so afraid that, like, the noise would be so potent I mean, the noise wouldn't be too bad because of the software that we use to edit, but it's um, it's just not, I don't know. I don't know if we were to be somewhere like a convention and record.
Speaker 2:That would be cool but, hey, creepy con 2025 yeah, we have nothing to do with halloween and horror, but okay, um fine, we do a choco vest 2025 episode in choco vest. There we go, all right guys, well, before before we jump in and we dive in um, we want to give a couple of shout outs, a couple of thank yous um who are we thanking first? I think, the incredible and the amazing and iconic and iconic shan shan uh. Thank you, shan, for being one of our most devoted, devoted.
Speaker 2:Thank you I think, I'm having a three-day stroke. I'm struggling to pronounce words recently you are um, it's okay, but yeah, huge thank you to miss shan.
Speaker 2:Um, thank you for being on the podcast with us at the beginning. That was probably one of the funnest episodes I think we did. We laughed so much and so hard that we kept like giving feedback so it stopped recording. So we were laughing so hard and the episode sounds like total garbage. If you haven't listened to it, go back and listen to it. Um, because it was the first time we had a guest and we had to use the mini mic along with it and the mini mic quality was it picked up so much more? So, like you hear us speaking double because it's coming in the normal mics and the mini mic.
Speaker 1:Um, but it was a lot of fun that was so cool I've never, you know, like when we first started orlando unplugged, I never thought that, you know, having a guest speaker was going to be something we would do. I never even thought like to be blunt, I never thought we'd even make it past like five episodes, because I was like, oh my gosh, this is never something I've ever done before. This is going to be crazy. And then when we decided to not only make it past five episodes but to include my mom in it, I was like, oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:At this moment I was like this is so real like I think that's when I was like this, arlena, one plug could be something like my mom is a guest speaker and we'll talk.
Speaker 2:We'll talk more about sham when we talk about guest speakers, um, but I also want to throw a special thank you out to a colleague of mine, nick Nick, who just in random conversation we talked about the podcast and he was like, oh, what's the name of it? I'll listen to it and for those of you that don't know, which everyone should at this point, I also write record produce in all aspects. Tennessee Road podcast, which is a historic podcast about East Tennessee and the Appalachian region. Tennessee Road podcast, which is a historic podcast about East Tennessee and the Appalachian region. He followed both of the episodes and listened to every episode that I had on Tennessee Roads and every episode that we had up until that point of Orlando Unplugged podcast, in like a week and a half.
Speaker 1:Is it Didn't. And what was crazy is that, like OU podcast had like what? 20 episodes at this point when nick started listening to us, I believe.
Speaker 2:So it was about that, yeah that's wild to me.
Speaker 1:That's wild because an average episode is what like an hour hour and a half long, depending on if we just rambled.
Speaker 2:Yeah, correct um, but that uh nick, if you're listening and I know you are truly, though, thank you, because you, like he would come up to me at work and he would just be like so what's the podcast gonna be about this week? And on those weeks where especially these last 10 episodes, where it's been a struggle because our lives have just been so chaotic that we haven't had time to sit down and devote, um, it kind of helped, like remind me of like hey, there are people out there that are actively listening to us and they want to hear what we have to say and they want to know what's going on, and it would kind of help give me that fuel to, like, light the fire under my ass, and then, in turn, I would light the fire under your ass, sometimes a little too too bright, but a lot of brain um fast forward to or rewind to, 30 minutes ago, when we were arguing about today's episode um, but always my favorite part of getting ready for an ou podcast episode is that.
Speaker 2:And then I think a huge thank you needs to go to jennifer uh for creating our intro I went to jennifer at, um, uh, I don't even remember what it was, but I was like, hey, I'm gonna do this new podcast. Would you be interested in me hiring you to do some work for us? And she was, like you're not paying me. Like I'm doing it, tell me what you want. And I kind of told her like the two sentences. It was like this is what we want it to say, but it can say anything else. And then she gave us that intro and we immediately fell in love.
Speaker 2:There was no more edits.
Speaker 1:That's edits. Well, that's what we rolled with, correct, and you know it. It was so cool to see, like I mean, I think our genuine reaction was so real when we had first listened to it and then we did it with the very first episode with it and I mean it was you could hear it like how we I feel like we became a podcast at that moment like we were. We were, at one point, just two people sitting on a couch getting having conversations about life, liberty, liberty and everything in between.
Speaker 2:In the pursuit of happiness.
Speaker 1:Correct. But then, all of a sudden, jennifer added our intro and I felt like at that moment we became a podcast, we became like this became real.
Speaker 2:Yeah, speaking of which, that reminds me I'm going to call Jennifer, and have her work on the next thing. With all the exciting stuff that we're doing in season two.
Speaker 3:We have so much to chat about. We've got some stuff planned to happen.
Speaker 2:But, with that said, so pretty much today's episode. We're going to jump into it here in just a moment, but it's going to be mostly a recap of some of the most memorable moments that we've had from this season and the podcast itself and just over the last year that we've had because, believe it or not, in a little over a month will have been in orlando for a year now, which is hard to be celebrating our year-iversary of being friends.
Speaker 2:And we're celebrating my birthday, our best friend anniversary, um, and then you know, we've got some feedback that we're going to share with you guys some details on some changes coming and and some highlights for 2025 yeah we're getting a new co-host, are you? No, with that being said ashley, are you ready to jump in? Yeah let's go all right, here we go okay, so we're gonna start off with a disclaimer.
Speaker 1:The clap. I've missed the clap.
Speaker 2:Ashley has the clap friends, so we're going to start off with a disclaimer we are drinking. Heavily, and we are enjoying this hurricane right now. So, as this episode goes, it's going to be like that one we had a couple months ago, where we probably could just get a little more crazy as time goes on.
Speaker 1:There gonna be a lot more giggling, and I make no apologies for it.
Speaker 2:This is gonna be a very emotional episode because we're gonna be right back in the saddle in like a month and a half girl, I know, but a month and a half is a long way away. I've got bruce hairs all over my mic she loves you.
Speaker 1:Hey, we didn't even shout at her what's up, brucie? I love that baby our number one audience.
Speaker 2:Member is always here every single time today she is hunting the wild and crazy leaf because the leaves are blowing in the wind. Um, there's actually a lot of wind, like it's calm right now, but like the trees over on on the other side of the fence in universal's property are like bending sideways um, I know we I'd open the like the the sliding door for a second there because I was like bruise.
Speaker 2:Let me let mom show you the are you talking about when I was in the bathroom and I felt like I was gonna get sucked off the toilet? I'm not kidding.
Speaker 1:I thought she was gonna get sucked out like I thought it was gonna be like a I just I was anticipating glenn powell to come out of the clouds and be like I ain't no love in oklahoma girl I was telling you like take.
Speaker 2:I heard you and rob scream, speaking of which I have to share this fun little story oh god so last night I get off work at like 11 30 and I'm approaching your front door because I'm staying here a couple nights and I know that my key is in the very bottom of my backpack and I'm like I don't want to reach for my key and I was like you know what, I'm gonna reach for the door and try to open it and I know it's not going to be open but if I'm lucky, someone is in the living room and they're going to open the door for me. So I grab the door and I go to open and obviously it doesn't open. The deadbolts lock so the door kind of like like jars and I thought I heard ashley's blood curdling scream of feminine murder. Nope, nope, it was rob. He was right by the front door and he screamed so loud. And I come in and then ashley's face is turning blue because you've got your. You don't snore tape on your mouth I don't snore.
Speaker 2:It's called sleep tape and you couldn't breathe because you were laughing.
Speaker 1:I had to rip the tape off. Now I'm like a double tape girly I tape up and then I tape across and I had to rip it off, which, in turn, you're not supposed to rip those off, by the way. You're supposed to like soak them off like a little little more up in this thing and then get them off. I like ripped this thing off because I could not breathe, because I was dying laughing.
Speaker 2:Did you at least call it daddy afterwards?
Speaker 1:No, I should have Double tape rip off. I should have called it daddy Bless, I like. Ripped my whole top layer of skin off my lip.
Speaker 2:You nasty.
Speaker 1:Well, and I have a black eye, so you know because you threw my weighted blanket at me.
Speaker 2:I was helping you therapy. It was self-care. You just happened to be a stupid millennial that held their phone directly in front of their face when a weighted blanket was coming towards them.
Speaker 1:And then you smashed yourself in the face I gave you fair warning. I told you it was happening.
Speaker 2:Okay, any we're. We're bird walking over here bird walking.
Speaker 1:What you never heard of, that no is this one of?
Speaker 2:these little tennessean maybe my fifth grade teacher said it and I was very confused, like I had to ask for clarification on what that meant. She's like it's when you get off topic and you just like start because you know how, like birds just walk around and then they're like left, then right, then left. Can I tell?
Speaker 1:you something that is my favorite thing in the world about you what? Whenever you start drinking alcohol, the accent comes out thicker and thicker you're welcome and then the phrases come out worse and worse bird walking, okay all right, all right.
Speaker 2:Do you want to get us started off actually with our first little segment?
Speaker 1:yeah, on our personal growth and lessons learned sure um how do you want me to do this? You want me to just like what my?
Speaker 2:you want to ask me a question and I'll ask you a question. Yeah, we can do that. I like that. Let's do that. Okay, cool, what is your question?
Speaker 1:what, what, what has life been like for you adjusting to living in orlando, sorry, okay, episode is over so we'll be vacating um, what has it been like adjusting to orlando?
Speaker 2:so the traffic sucks, but the traffic is just like it is back at home really uh yeah, I mean it's, it's the same. There's more traffic down here, but the infrastructure is bigger. So it's still the equivalent to driving in east tennessee or driving in knoxville, it's just you have more traffic lanes but you also have more cars. So it's equivalent valid um, you know, it doesn't take me long to get from my place of work to my home or somewhere, but it just it sucks. There's a lot of traffic.
Speaker 1:Construction that part sucks.
Speaker 2:I have noticed, every couple of months I'll kind of get homesick and I'll just start to miss the fact that, like I can't see people that I see on a daily basis or just drive down the road or go to fright works or somewhere and that part. You know that that sucks, but that would suck regardless because you know that's what you grow up with and that's what you had. But I love, love, love, love, love, love my job. I love what I'm doing down here.
Speaker 2:Um, you love your hiccups are kicking in um, yeah, sure, um, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 2:Yes, I love my best friend um rude I've met a lot of people, um, and it's been kind of draining at times because, like, I'll meet people and then there's always that conversation oh my god, we should hang out, we should do something, but I work so much and I do so many things that I don't have time to keep up with relationships and friendships that I've made down here. I've got plenty of people that I've said, oh my God, we're gonna hang out, and I've never hung out with them ever, because I just don't have time for it. And part of that is I spend so much time with, like you and Rob and you know, jordan and other people that we've hung out with. But then you know, I've met some people that when I first moved down here, I met some people and was associating with them for a little while and then, you know, they kind of just made some really crappy comments over a situation that wasn't even regarding. Like the statement that they made had nothing to do with what was actually happening in that moment. Um, but I was like you barely know who I am, I've been here for like two weeks, uh, and I was like that's kind of not funny to me. Um, so you know, I hadn't even been here two weeks and I already kind of had a bad taste in my mouth on how some people treated me. Um, so you know, I I just didn't hang out with those people anymore and chose to hang out with other people, and, and I work seven days a week, so it's not like I've got anything going on there, um, but then you know, I've made some. I've made some great work, friends, and it's interesting because this is the first time in my life where my life does not revolve around my work 24-7. Dollywood, or we were going on coaster trips to carowinds, but that's just kind of how it was.
Speaker 2:The people that you work with were the people that you associated with outside of work, and work was your life. If you were off, my phone was ringing, people were asking me questions. There were call-ins that I had to cover Down here. Both of the jobs that I've held are fully self-sufficient. When I am off work, I am off work.
Speaker 2:I do not hear from them. They do not call me. The only time I've ever heard from my jobs are when they've said hey, we're trying to process payroll and it looks like the time clock didn't collect your punch properly. Do you know what time you clocked out. That is the only time I've ever been called. I've never been called to say, hey, can you come in? We've had call outs. I occasionally was getting a text message from my groups director saying hey, we've had some call ins. If you want to call it, come in a couple hours early so you can leave early. So that's been nice. But it's been so weird because I've been so used to hanging out with the people that I work with and then you come down here and I don't hang out with them at all, minus a few events. But they've also work-related events where, um, we're gathering outside of work to participate in a work function, um, so that's been interesting. It's hot, I have no air conditioning, but it's the same as it was up up north.
Speaker 1:So you survived your first florida summer I did survive my first florida summer.
Speaker 2:There was a couple times I wanted to kill you when you were like, come pick me up from work at one o'clock and then you leave me sitting out in my car for 30 minutes because you have to go in and out, in and out kind of like you did today.
Speaker 1:You'll be all right, you'll be fine I don't think I will.
Speaker 2:Um, I don't know you actually what's like? I know you've been here longer than I have, so, like I guess, for you, like finance wise, what has this last year been like for you? Because this has been, you moved into this apartment and you moved back to Orlando, uh, around this time last year. So you were already an Orlando, a Floridian, but you would come back. So what has this last year been like for you when it comes to like your finances and living in this apartment and having a brother living with you down here this time, I mean loaded question.
Speaker 1:Yeah, very, very loaded question. I mean, I think if you ask non, you know podcast Ashley, the question, the statement has always been oh, it's fine, it is what it is. But I mean, I always vowed when we decided to do this that I was going to be as transparent and honest, with obviously as much discretion as I can to certain people as I can, because I was raised to be as transparent and honest with obviously as much discretion as I can to to certain people as I can, because I want I was raised to have respect. Thank you, shan, but like I never thought this would be my life like in, in all honesty, I never thought that I'd be living with Rob, I never thought I would be living with roommates, I never thought that you and I would be friends because I didn't see my life turning out how it is. But to be honest, with you.
Speaker 1:I've never been more grateful that when I went through what I went through, very chaotic, what I went through has turned me into the person I am today. You know, I think my finances is like everybody else's Sometimes it's good and sometimes it's an utter mess. I think it went from. It's good and sometimes it's an utter mess. I think, um, it went from. It's really weird. I went from having a living in a two-income household where, you know, I relied on a partner to help pay bills and to help do life and to do these things, and now I'm the one that I am. You know, as, as Cher would say, I am the rich man. I, I did it. I'm doing it by myself. You know, yes, like I have my mother and I have, you know, people that that can help if I get into sticky situations and things like that. But I feel like, for the most part, I have learned that, like when it comes to my finances, how much alone I am when it comes to them.
Speaker 2:I just want you to know when you said just like, like Cher said, it Is it Cher. I don't know, but it took everything in my body to be polite and not go snap out of it.
Speaker 1:I think it is Cher that said I'm a rich man.
Speaker 2:That sounds like something Cher would say, I mean when it comes to me my finances. We know I've been very open and honest. It's been really hard at times because I accrued a lot of debt in my move and then the month of the first month of me being here you were jobless.
Speaker 2:I was, and I struggled, struggling a little bit still like I've got my bills paid. You know, my car is paid every month, my insurance is paid, my phone bills paid, my rent is paid. Those are the four most important bills that I think I could have. So I have, you know, other obligations and credit cards and things that you know I'm still working on. However, I am a firm believer in the universe and I feel that the universe is in my favor, moving forward. A lot of great, amazing opportunities on the horizon and conversations that I've had with the leaders in my workplace lead me to believe that. You know, I am a potential good candidate for some things coming down the pipeline. Um, you know I'm not going to uh, as what is, oh god, what does moira rose say in schitt's creek? Um, something about it's not count your chickens before you hatch, because she says it backwards.
Speaker 3:But I'm not gonna put all my eggs in one basket.
Speaker 2:I'm not. I'm not gonna do that, um, but I am. I'm hopeful, um, because I know I've got a lot of experience in the direction that I'm looking at. Oh, excuse me, that zarita margarita mix has hit me um, I know that I've got a lot of experience in the things coming ahead of me, uh, and I look forward to.
Speaker 1:Let's not count our poultry before it's incubated there it is love moira rose thank you, katherine o'hare.
Speaker 2:Um, yeah, I already touched base on on homesickness, so it is what it is um I got that.
Speaker 1:I've never experienced that until this year, like I think it's because I was always doing something with another person. So then, when this year was the year that I like I'm doing single things and single girl, you had to, you had to go.
Speaker 2:You had to go three days in a row without seeing me.
Speaker 1:Without anybody, without seeing anybody, because Rob was gone, zach and Julia were gone, I had nobody. Like it was, this year has been a lot of years of like doing first things by myself the going to the emergency room alone, having surgery alone, going to the grocery room alone, having surgery alone, going to the grocery store alone, going to movies, going to dinner alone, nail salons alone. Like doing life alone. The only thing that like I was super homesick for was my mom. Like there was a lot of moments that like I could have used like a mom conversation or a mom cup of coffee or a mom hug, and been like okay, that's what you have me for now, but then you yell at me when I give you a mom cup of coffee or a mom hug and been like okay, that's what you have me for now, but then you yell at me when I give you a mom conversation.
Speaker 1:So because my mother conversations and you conversations are not the same conversation I just tell you where you're wrong yes, see, my mommy doesn't do that. The iconic shan does never tell her kid that she's wrong. That's it.
Speaker 2:There you go, there's the problem, there's the problem not a problem.
Speaker 1:What?
Speaker 2:would you say so? Let's roll back to almost a year ago yeah, it will be a year when jordan yes said hey it's my birthday can dustin come? No, no, not, I wasn't gonna go stp no, this was.
Speaker 1:I met you at bowling oh yeah, bowling yes birthday thanksgiving.
Speaker 2:It was his birthday well, actually, yeah, that is where so low-key. Do you want to know what my immediate thought was when I met you?
Speaker 1:I don't know, do I?
Speaker 2:do okay, go I was like, oh, she's gonna be a bitch. I am and you know what you are, but you know what's funny huh is, uh, and this is like completely honest in my life and when it comes to work or anywhere that I've been, and I meet new people and I meet a female and they give me this vibe of, oh, they're gonna be a bitch like, I'm not gonna like them. I in they end up being the person at that social setting that I end up liking the absolute most yeah, and I'm going.
Speaker 2:I think that probably says a lot about me no, this is because that means I'm a bitch.
Speaker 2:Uh, no, you are um no, but when I first met you, I was just like, oh, I don't. I don't know the vibes on her, I don't know if I'm gonna like this or not. Uh. And then, like you know, a month and a half later, I was like, hey, I have an idea. You me podcast, let's go. Yeah, you know, a month and a half later, I was like, hey, I have an idea, you me podcast let's go.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know what was terrifying to me at that moment? I was that whole event I was so scared of. I was so scared that was my first social event back in society, like it was the very first event coming back.
Speaker 2:I'm just going to clarify.
Speaker 1:I keep talking because I'm going to get up and go grab that alcohol and more fill in the space. Beautiful, um, that was my first like moment back in society after after the separation had happened, after the, the breakup, so that was like my first. Hey, I'm gonna see all these people that, like, I was friends with when I was in this committed relationship and now I'm gonna go and see all of these people, single, are they going to hate me? Like what's going to happen? What's going on? And then here comes this mullet man coming next to me and Jordan's like oh my God, you'll love him. This is my, like my fun Tennessee friend. And I was like okay, and and. And then the next thing, you know, you and I are bonding over over nicotine outside of what's that hotel called.
Speaker 2:Cabana Bay.
Speaker 1:Cabana Bay yes, we were just bonding over that. And then I remember you walking into my house because it was like we had yes, we had done like the sloppy taco events obviously. And then it was my christ it was my, my thanksgiving party, no, well, no, it was my christmas party.
Speaker 2:It was your christmas party, but you had your christmas party like two weeks like a day after that. It was right, it was the same. It was thanks.
Speaker 1:It was the thanksgiving holiday, but we threw a christmas party and then you came into my house, opened my bathroom door as I was getting ready and goes I need you to listen to something. And I went okay, what? What do you want me to listen to? And then played me the intro for the podcast. You read it to me oh, I thought you were.
Speaker 2:I thought you were gonna say I walked into your christmas party and I was like hey, I killed my cat today you did do that.
Speaker 1:I remember that. Do you remember I made you sign the ornament the cat killer the cat killer.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so for those of you that don't know, um uh third 10 years ago we drank on podcasts 10 years ago I adopted the most. Get it, can you not?
Speaker 2:no uh, 10 years ago I adopted a cat. Her name was clementine, I called her clemmy um and I had her for 10 years. She saw me to florida and right before I moved to florida she started to show signs of an illness and I I knew it was coming um. So I took her to the vet and um had.
Speaker 2:I had the conversation with the vet and the decision was made just to go ahead and put her down instead of trying to extend her life. Because the vet was like I can go for options and I was like absolutely not. I said, if you're going to sit here and tell me that she has terminal cancer, and it was large, it was like almost softball size and it had grown in like three weeks. I said I'm gonna try to keep her alive. I'm not gonna give her medicine to keep her alive, because that's evil, that is downright evil, like I would expect any person if their cat was diagnosed with something like that and the vet looks at you and says there is not a way to fix it, to put the animal down before they become miserable, because that's just horrible. But I thought you were referring to that story that's an iconic story, holy crap it was um what have been the highs and lows.
Speaker 2:I mean we literally, though, but like what, spent every single moment together which leads to some amazing fun stories and fun times, but it also leads to us becoming overstimulated and not having enough like alone time for us to process our own feelings or like decompress from our days. Um, and I think you know we would be lying to you all if I said that ashley and I do not argue oh god, no, we, we have the most perfect relationship, we bicker like siblings correct.
Speaker 1:Um, but you know, but we fight like a couple, we bicker like siblings, but we fight An old married couple, correct.
Speaker 2:And I think we'll get more into this as we get down farther. This podcast is going to be rough.
Speaker 2:I will be honest and I will say that Ashley and I have fought, argued a few times Very few, but we'll get into here in a little while why that happened because, uh, it was actually somewhat recent that we realized why we were doing it, um, but I think the good thing for me and you is, um, like we can get an argument and then we're like fuck you, fuck you, fuck you. So what are we doing for lunch? Uh, and then we just move on because, um, and I think that's something that like a lot of people and, that being said, like we don't get in fights over like political things or religious things or like our personal beliefs.
Speaker 2:We get. We get in fights over stupid shit, because we will literally spend five days with each other and we're with each other constantly, like we will both sleep on this couch at times correct uh, and then it gets to the point where I'm like, don't touch me, just leave me alone, and she's like but love me.
Speaker 1:And I'm like fuck off, which is it's so funny though. To me though, because I mean, I think at times we do we have such opposite personalities. My love language is very much physical touch and your love language is very much not physical touch nope so for me, when I'm anxious, when I'm, when I'm anything, oh my god, look at that wind I know I'm just waiting on one of these tree branches to snap and hit.
Speaker 2:If we're lucky, it lands on my car pray to the tree gods anyways, mr lorax, mr lorax, where are you?
Speaker 1:he's over in studio in islands.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, they made him a statue his house is not far from here, correct? Oh no, that's the once leur's house no, that's lorax.
Speaker 1:No, yeah, the house. The house is the once leur, though.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but the lorax is over there okay, we're bird walking back on topic we always do um no, but I feel like, when it comes to certain things, you and I react very differently.
Speaker 1:when, when, like when I'm anxious, hey, just like, hold my hand for a second when you're overwhelmed and overstimulated and anxious, it's go the fuck away from me right fucking now.
Speaker 1:We're also very like stubborn and hardheaded, I think, so we both have to be very much like right. And I think it's so funny, though, because some of the time we're arguing about like podcast things, or arguing about life or you know whatever it may be, and both of us will just look at each other and go, wait are we arguing about the same way, like the same point, but we're just looking at it two different ways.
Speaker 2:We're like, yeah, yeah, we are okay lunch. Let's see, I think we've got two more updates in lessons learned and stuff. Um, I think one of the biggest lessons that I have learned, um since I've moved to florida, so when I moved here, I am on toot my own horn for a moment.
Speaker 2:I have a pretty impressive resume. I've got a lot of accolades on my resume. I've got a lot of opening and assisting with some of you know, the world's first attraction, or the United States or North America's first this or first that, or you know, I did a lot of work with government clients and political clients and I think that my resume speaks for itself when it comes to my ability to do jobs and I've always done really well in interview settings.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:But moving down here, I know I put 12 applications in with Universal Studios. I put, I think, 13 or 14 applications in with Disney and didn't even get interviews for any of them.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and that it was disheartening and it was also stressful because that's what I was relying on moving down here.
Speaker 2:I thought it would be super easy to get a job in these companies, but I was applying for positions that were not what a lot of people in the industry refer to frontline or entry level positions, because my experience and my age and my knowledge puts me in a position where I believe I can do higher than that.
Speaker 2:And after talking to several friends that had already lived down here for a long period of time, and now that I've been here for a year and I've had the opportunity to speak with leaders in my current jobs, I've learned that, in Florida specifically, it really doesn't matter what your experience is. You can have one of the greatest resumes in the world and some of the most amazing experience, but if you're applying for a job with Universal, someone that already works for Universal, that opened an attractions with universal, is immediately gonna get an interview over you or be a candidate that's gonna progress quicker because they've worked for that company, they've worked for that culture. Same thing with disney, same thing with the other companies that I've looked at. Every time I had applied I was getting beat out by someone who had already worked for that company.
Speaker 1:I think the hardest part is that outside people don't understand this. This area, this city is not. Yes, it's massive and it's huge and to most people everybody's like oh my gosh, you don't, I would feel so small in this, this environment, but you really don't, because it's in order to get where you want to in, in in the tight-knit theme park community, whether it's at disney or seaworld or at universal.
Speaker 1:It's all in how, who you know and how you use that yeah I think that you know, we, we come from worlds where you know, especially for me I can't. I can't speak with tennessee. But for me up in michigan, nobody like to be blunt, nobody cared that I worked for Disney World. Nobody cared that I worked for.
Speaker 1:Universal? None. Nobody cared that, like I have worked at the trifecta and I've done all three, nobody cared that my boss was making emails for 2.2 seconds. They cared that I showed up every day, that I did my job, that I do all the things that I need to, that I say and do what I say I'm going to do. You move here. Oh no, you have disney on your resume. You have universal on your resume, those that opens doors that's a big deal.
Speaker 2:I will say once I got jobs in places and then I was like, yeah, I worked at dollywood for like seven and a half years. People are like you worked at dollywood and they're like have you ever met dolly parton? And it just it's so funny that people love dollywood so much and I'm just like you know.
Speaker 2:I could have used this, you know, nine months ago, when I was for jobs nine months ago hey, do you know, uh, what we've been telling our listeners we were going to do for the last three and a half months, but we didn't I don't want to talk about it what have we not done? What have we not done? We didn't go down the bayou we've not rid ridden Tiana's Bayou Adventure, that's correct. We have no update on that because we can't get on it. Correct, because the few times you know we were originally looking at doing it and then we went back up.
Speaker 1:Then it rained. No, no, no. The original day we were going to do it, it rained out.
Speaker 2:I went to Knoxville for.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:That trip. You wouldn't have enjoyed that one. That's fine. Um, and then people hello, gavin, miss you a lot. Uh, and then, uh, every time we went, the virtual queue was full, or the virtual queue had not even started boarding for the day, and it would be like one or two o'clock in the afternoon. Yeah, or the weather knocked it out.
Speaker 1:Yeah, or we were out of town or we were blacked out because of our passes.
Speaker 2:No, I, I don't even have more blackouts next year. I'm dropping my pass.
Speaker 1:I don't. We gonna talk about that later. I do not believe that diana's even in our future, for 2025, maybe 2026 is goal yeah, which will?
Speaker 2:we're gonna talk, we're gonna do a little bit about Disney here in a little while.
Speaker 1:Let's talk about this challenges our unexpected successes and our pivotal moments. Isn't? That a song pivotal moment no, I don't think so.
Speaker 2:I don't know our pivotal moments in our journey in the last year can I? Finish a sentence.
Speaker 1:I'm the one that spoke first to you guys?
Speaker 2:um, want to know another thing that irks me when she finishes only half of the sentence and then I thought it was me interrupting you no, um, so let's talk about a challenge okay oh, we're gonna get hot, and heavy, real quick.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we are, I'm sweating already.
Speaker 2:So this goes back to when I talk about Ashley and I arguing. So I'm going to give a little bit of context to this situation and I want to say we respect all of our friends and everyone's privacy, so we're not going into details and we're not saying any names or anything. But this is a millennial conversation. We want to have a conversation with you guys and we want you to guys to get to know us a little more. Um, so we feel that we need to talk a little bit more about our lives and about the dirty, secret things that we don't talk about so we decided I think that's what we we kind of hit from a little bit this season was the fact that originally we, we created oh you podcast to be very real and very transparent, transparent, transparent, and we haven't really done that.
Speaker 2:We've actually strayed very far away from our personal lives. Uh, the the good stuff is I like to go the stuff that people are going to want to listen to, because we don't want to hurt anyone's feelings and we still don't. That's not our goal. So, if you're listening to this, no, we, we hold no animosity to anybody right now. Right now, um, so, yeah, but uh, over the last nine months, uh, at times throughout the last nine months, there have been drama. Um, you know, drama it's, it's something that always happens. It happens in high school, it happens in your workplace, it happens everywhere, all the time. Unfortunately for us, there was drama within our friend group and on the outskirts of our friend group of people who necessarily are not friends of us anymore, and then people that we've grown closer with over the year and we respect and we love everyone.
Speaker 2:But when things would happen, we noticed that the only times that we ever argue and fight are because the drama comes to us and it presents itself sometimes two different ways we, yeah, sometimes either two different ways, or in a situation where we we have to respond like we cannot just pretend that it doesn't exist because that's not how it just it's. It isn't feasible.
Speaker 1:No, I think to be honest with you. I think to say in any drama that you don't, okay, you can sit there and say, oh my gosh, the way that to handle the drama is just not to get involved in it.
Speaker 2:I think that's correct in terms but it's sometimes it's impossible when terms. But it's sometimes it's impossible when when we had, you know, people in our friend group, two separate parties in our friend group, the dramas between the two of them, but we can't do anything. We can't go hang out with one party without the other party being offended, or we can't hang out with one party without the, and it just it becomes hard.
Speaker 1:It created a lot of animosity it created a lot of stress.
Speaker 1:I think it also. You know, we we did an episode a while back on on mental health and in hospitality industries and I know one of the things that that I spoke on in that episode was the fact that I always relied on my circle, my inner circle, to kind of help to to pull me out of that. And I think the one thing that we didn't talk about in that is it's not just mental health and in our jobs that cause us stress and cause problems. It's our friends can also. Your friends, your family can also cause you stress.
Speaker 1:They can also, you know, play a big factor and you know, I know, for for you and I both, our mental state was really questioned well, and it got.
Speaker 2:It got hard for me at times because you know, and I was, I've been open and honest with you, um, from the get-go. Well, let me segue into the this portion first, before I say that, um, please, sir, may I have some more pour it yourself.
Speaker 2:I'm gonna need it with this episode ashley and I realized that the only times we were arguing was when drama presented itself within the friend group and ashley wanted to respond in one way and I wanted to respond in another. But because we spend so much time with each other, we felt that our responses should be in line. Yeah, the same oh, I'm sorry, the same yeah, I was holding her mic while she poured another drink.
Speaker 1:Um we, I think we felt like we had to be a unity every single time. Yeah, like if we were not on the same page.
Speaker 2:But we didn't, but we didn't feel in unity because, you know, ashley would say well, I think this is how we should handle it, and I'm the type of person I as as one of her friends told me I do not give a shit on anyone's feelings. No, if I feel like you are in the wrong, I'm going to tell you that I feel like you're in the wrong because at the end of the day.
Speaker 2:I pay my bills. My bills are paid. You don't feed me, you don't fund me, you don't fuck me, so your opinion is not valid to me, ashley.
Speaker 1:On the other hand, I'm so glad we're an r-rated podcast today.
Speaker 2:I know um, ashley, on the other hand, would look at it in a sense of like explain. I'll let you explain that. Like, do you?
Speaker 1:know what I got told a couple days ago? That kind of resonated a little bit, that kind of makes perfect sense and I hated hearing it what and I think I've been.
Speaker 1:I mean, dr Gregg has told me this for quite some time and I very much didn't want to believe him. And then I think somebody said this to me and I was kind of like okay, maybe Dr Gregg might be right. I am such a people pleaser, I want everybody to be so I'm happy all the time. And if I'm not helping to have everybody be in the same mood, everybody's not having fun, everybody's not doing the things that they're going to enjoy.
Speaker 1:If everybody's not doing at that very moment, you're not enjoying yourself, you're not having any fun. What's going on? How can I fix that? What am I doing wrong? And then realizing that it's not me, like it may not have anything to do with me. I can't control people's happiness. I can't control people's feelings. Anything to do with me I can't control people's happiness.
Speaker 1:I can't control people's feelings, and I think the hardest part was realizing that if you disagree with somebody in our group about somebody's decision, I can't then go to you and go no, no, they're hurt. So we have to make them feel better, like that's our job and you're allowed to disagree that was where we had the issue was ashley is the people pleaser.
Speaker 2:I used to 10 years ago when in my 20, in my early twenties, I was the people pleaser. I've grown out of that phase in my life. You may grow out of it. You may always be a people pleaser.
Speaker 1:I hope it's gone in 2025.
Speaker 2:So I will literally look at someone and be like I'm not gonna Molly, Molly coddle, I'm not gonna Molly coddle. What are these phrases? Get used to it? Um, I don't. I don't, baby, because I had a little bit of a different upbringing. You know, I lived on my own within reason since I was 16, so I have the mentality of here's just an example you get broken up with.
Speaker 1:Cry about it.
Speaker 2:You wake up at five o'clock in the morning, you take a shower, you put on your clothes and you go to work. Some people, when that happens to them, they're gonna wanna call off work the next day. And this is where Ashley this is a good example, because this is totally made up, but this is where Ashley and I would differ. Ashley would be like it's not, though, they want to, they want to call in. Let them call in and go to work. And I'm like no, they're a grown-up, you have responsibilities as a grown, and that and is that's what ashley and I were realizing was happening. Yes, and we were having two completely different situations. And ashley wanted to make sure people were happy and I was like life is life. You just got to grow the fuck up, grow a pair of balls and move the fuck on well, and I think that was difficult.
Speaker 1:And then the other thing that was super difficult for for us was we would be told, I would get told the sky is blue, you would get told the sky is green.
Speaker 2:And then we would come back to each other and go, wait, that's not what I got told well, no, we would argue because we would have told different, so you were information, so you were told sky's blue, I'm told sky's green, and we would argue over the fact that when the rain falls, the grass is pink. And I'm like the grass cannot be pink because the sky is green. Yes, and you're going. No, no, no, the sky was blue. And then that's when we were like, wait, wait, wait, wait what sky is blue yeah, the sky is green.
Speaker 2:I'm so confused yeah, and it just it. It was, it was fun, but I'm glad that, um you know, there was where was this realization?
Speaker 1:like six months ago?
Speaker 2:but I think it was funny because you know there was, you know, outside of that, there was a point in time where you know, I was honest and I was able to look at you and I was just like we're spending so much time together that we were just so kind of sick of each other and I needed decompression time and I was able to say I want to be alone for a little while and I just want to chill.
Speaker 1:And we did that and I feel like we are better best friends because of it yeah I think the other thing that was, that was very much something that was not a very, that was not a very good.
Speaker 2:Yeah, thanks, you're welcome appreciate that.
Speaker 1:um, I think the other thing, though, that I I really realized, though, with our friendship like not so much with, like other people that I have is that my friendship with you is a lot different than with others. I know with you, yes, you are a very much. I don't give a fuck about your opinion or about your feelings, but I feel like with me sometimes you realize that you have to give a fuck about my feelings, like I am not that kind of person that you can just look at me and go but it is it's.
Speaker 1:I feel like you have become a better person because of the friendship you have with me.
Speaker 2:And I have become a better person. You're saying a lot me being a better person.
Speaker 1:Well, you shut up Looking for a new co-host, but, realistically, shut up. I have become a better person because I am friends with you and you have become a better person because you're friends with me, because I think I have taught you that people have feelings and that people are allowed to feel those feelings, and that, just because you look at them and go hi, it's time to suck it the fuck up and get get going. I'm gonna go, you know, right now I need to feel this because this is how, like, I have have to get through this, so I have to feel this.
Speaker 2:And I'm going to look at you and I'm going to say, that's fine, you can feel that, all that you want to feel, but we're going to go get food.
Speaker 1:And you still let me feel it though which I think is is great, and I think you taught me that, as much as I I want to feel them, I can also be there for somebody else and let them have their feelings and still validate my own feelings at the same time.
Speaker 2:Let's get out of these feelings.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm really kind of over this. To be honest with you, we've got some more to talk about, even though we're going to talk more about feelings. God we are so For you, this is such a real episode. I'm sweating. You're sweating over there, I'm fine.
Speaker 2:Maybe it's alcohol, probably so.
Speaker 2:when I left tennessee, I left behind one of the most amazing creative outlets I've ever had in my life and it was something that I'd participated in for 12 years yeah uh, and that was frightworks haunted house, now known as frightworks fear factory, um, which was knoxville's only fully indoor haunted attraction, correct, um, we celebrated I believe it was like I think, my last year there was year 26 or year 25 or something like that. I know we celebrated 25 but I don't remember when it was. Um, but it was so much fun. I was the guest service manager so I dealt with the box office, the, the concession stands, all of our guests. I worked hand in hand with a couple people to do our social media. I did all the like news, interviews and stuff like that Went on Beacon House podcast like several times as a recurring guest to talk about Frightworks every year and it was just the most amazing thing and I knew that I was going to struggle when I left there and I talked to my roommates about, like, the haunted houses in this area.
Speaker 2:But it's just, it's impossible, it's infeasible for me to try to work in a haunted attraction with the working in the tourism industry. So I think that having this podcast has been great because I've had an opportunity. I put Tennessee Roads on the back burner. It's still there. I think I might do something with it. I might not, I haven't fully decided yet because it's much harder now to do that. So having Orlando Unplugged podcast where I can jump in here with you or with a special guest when we have them and talk about life and the pursuit of happiness and all of that jazz, I think it's been really great for my mental health when I'm homesick and talk about life and the pursuit of happiness and all of that jazz Um, I think it's been really great for my mental health when I'm homesick. This gives me an opportunity to be become more excited about Orlando and what's going on in this area. Yeah.
Speaker 2:How would um, how would you say, having the podcast has affected your mental health, minus the the the can we just do it tomorrow? I'm tired.
Speaker 1:Cause that's a common theme for us too. I think that for me, I never thought I would be juggling. In a sense, two jobs like this is oh you podcast is a job like it is not. Don't get me wrong. We have a lot of fun and I enjoy every single episode that we do, and I get excited when we we pull out the mics. And then there's sometimes we pull out the mics and I'm like, oh my god, if I have to look at your face for one more minute and talk about epic universe well, we've got.
Speaker 2:We've got some episodes in here where you can tell like our energy levels are. Just they're down and they're bad but we we owe it to you guys to put on another episode.
Speaker 1:So we suck it up and we put out a shitty episode but like, at the same time, though, it's so real, because what people don't see behind is that life still happens. You know, like I was dealing with health things and also trying to like get back into the dating world and figure out our friends and everything else that this was, this move was throwing at me at this go around learning how to live with my, my, my younger brother, and learning you know all of these things and also working very full time and then going okay, I just worked 13 hours. We're going to come home and record an episode which should hopefully only take us an hour. Guess what? It took us four and a half hours.
Speaker 2:All right, great Love this Because we deal with. You know the struggle of your roommates coming home.
Speaker 1:And your brother sneaking out here and then staring at us until we pause so he can talk, or other things, or just even like I mean, I remember we tried to do an episode once and I had a cold and we're doing an episode and we're having to pause every 15 minutes so I could sneeze, or the episode where you were sick, one of them and we're having to pause so that you could go back and forth and I'm just like this is just like it was so much. And then I think the other thing that was difficult was having to to move around our schedules. When we would plan an episode, we'd be like, okay, today we're going to talk about the fact that we went to magic kingdom and ate a pretzel and then all of a sudden, epic would get announced, when we're like shit now we now we're going to talk about Epic.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:It was like constantly trying to get create some sort of like routine, and then life would happen, Epic Universe would happen, or we'd be like, oh my God, wait, we have to talk about this. Like when poor Madeline Soto's disappearance happened. We were like, okay, we have to include this in there.
Speaker 2:And that was one of her most click baity things.
Speaker 1:But it was like, so important to us because it was literally in our backyard, so we're like, okay, we have to include this in there. And then our failed book club that we were like let's do this, we're going to do this, we're going to jump right on top of this.
Speaker 2:This is going to be something we're going to do. Hey, we're going to take a quick pre-PA pause because my father's calling me and it is a hurricane so I'm gonna let him know I'm alive. I went. I couldn't find our regular pre-k pause music, so I just got that sound bite out of our folder and I I thoroughly enjoyed it. Ashley can't breathe y'all. So I just got that sound bite out of our folder and I I thoroughly enjoyed it. Ashley can't breathe y'all please don't now.
Speaker 1:We have the clap and the choir, we got the that's a soul choir like, did you hold on hold on, hold on again.
Speaker 2:Play it again that is a beautiful black, that is beautiful black lady voices. So that is actually called uh gospel, choir heaven that should be what we play during this hurricane and it was gorgeous and it was beautiful and we got it royalty free at pixabaycom thank you thank you. Pixabay, pixabay. Uh, so we were talking about that filled book club. Let's actually let's talk about that for a second the orlando unplugged podcast book club that was so sad it really was um loki.
Speaker 2:Neither one of us have picked up that book. I've picked it up once since we stopped. And I read a couple chapters in. And I think maybe we can read it during our off time, because you like to read books, and we can chat about it next season. Yeah. But yeah, okay.
Speaker 2:So why don't you talk about so when it comes to unexpected successes and challenges and pivotal moments in our journey, um I think I can definitely say this was one of the pivotal moment that I've seen for you since I've met you, is bringing you back home with me, to my hometown, to meet my friends, my family and the most amazing company ever, right brain productions, who are the owners of chocolate fest and Creepy Con, and some new ventures maybe coming our way in the future. So why don't you talk about that for a little bit? Tell me you know what was your feelings on visiting Tennessee and meeting my friends and all of that I love Tennessee, I will.
Speaker 1:You know.
Speaker 2:You and I joke constantly about how we are going to buy land and create a commune and it's not in wallen tennessee wallen yeah um no I prefer compound well, both we're gonna buy, we're gonna build a tiny home village with all of our friends in the mountains in east tennessee I mean and I, I every once in a while, I think that's our backup plan I think I send you a text message and I'm like hi, should we look at lane today?
Speaker 1:um no, I, I, you know, I I think I said it at the beginning of this episode and I probably will continue to say it for forever I I never thought my life was going to look like this, but, by god, I am so, so, fucking grateful. It does like Like those people, that community, that family that I have been privileged to to meeting and experiencing and getting to know and he's he's singing oh, thank you, it was getting quite warm. Um oh, thank you, it's getting quite warm.
Speaker 2:Um oh, he turned the fan on, sorry I'm not at my microphone, you gotta tell me I forgot.
Speaker 1:I need you to like, get a clip microphone so then you can always walk around.
Speaker 2:Let me get one of those preacher lapel microphones. That would be great.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that oh, oh, where my head, oh, instantly cooler. Um, no, I. I think that the first time you took me to tennessee at the beginning of the year, I think what was so funny to me is we were like hi, you're going with me to tennessee, so buy your plane ticket. Now I was like, um, okay, I'm going to tennessee. What are we doing in tennessee? Oh, we're going to like are we going to like, nashville? And he's like no, we're going to a very small town in Knoxville and you're going to love it.
Speaker 2:Okay, we're going to a very small town in Knoxville. We're going to Knoxville.
Speaker 1:Yeah. But I was like, oh okay, I had never been to Knoxville. I had been to to Gatlinburg and to Pigeon Forge, but I had never, ever been to to knoxville. And I'm like, okay, I'm about to go out of state with somebody I had only known for two months. Yeah, that sounds like a smart move. My mother would be proud. All right, buy tickets, let's go she was very excited oh my god she was so
Speaker 1:excited. But like I remember getting on the airplane and I was like this could be a good idea or this could be a bad idea and I I got, we got on the plane and we were there and I just fell absolutely in love. Like I loved the people and I loved not just like all of the people of right brain production, but I also loved all of the, the, the vendors sorry, I'm gonna cough thank you.
Speaker 1:I need you to help with words, all of the vendors, all of the guests. I just love the whole environment. I love the people like they were just so welcoming and so friendly. I mean I remember we on that very first trip do you remember walking into that trader joe's and I got so excited over the guy offering me his buggy yeah, I was like guys, they don't.
Speaker 2:And you made friends with random people because you were like this is my first time in knoxville.
Speaker 1:I did and I love those people over the over the non-meat options. You were talking with that woman listen, it was it's a big deal, it's non-meaters, it's a huge thing. And then I remember getting invited to come to CreepyCon and I was like I'm terrified, like I'm so scared, halloween and I, we don't get along. And I have never, ever, felt more welcome into a group of crazy people in my entire life.
Speaker 2:And then felt like I was a member of the community.
Speaker 1:A member of the group.
Speaker 2:And we met some amazing celebrities celebrities and and performers at creepy con this year low-key, my favorite year, I think, of creepy con I've ever had um, because michelle santiago, david howard, thornton, daniel roebuck, there was just so many amazing people I mean I'm friends with these people now, like let they're, they're liking photos, I'm posting and comments and and doing these things.
Speaker 1:I mean I, I now am very good friends with with a shop owner, um, through sage advice, apothecary love you and, like I, they are such a such a group of people and I I said it in the the creepy con episode, I said it in the chocolate fest episode. Brad and Deanna are, are and Jennifer are are three of my favorite people on this entire planet and I am beyond grateful that those three people decided it was okay that I could tag along and hang out with you and now I feel like I'm not just a member and a staff member and a team member, but I'm family and I appreciate it, Even though you got a little demanding when we were trying to take that group photo though.
Speaker 1:Listen, that group photo turned out spice and I make no apologies Except for the fact we are not head on on the set.
Speaker 2:We're a big wall behind us, but you know what it is, what it is. We all make mistakes, do you?
Speaker 1:know to. I owe it to you for introducing me to the most my two favorite people on the entire planet who are they? Mercadu and gavin. I love those people. I know you two are listening.
Speaker 1:I love those people more than anybody on this entire planet, at times more than you and I know, for a fact, though, that if I called both of them, they would instantly come and do whatever they needed for us. And I know that for a fact, though, that if I called both of them, they would instantly come and do whatever they needed for us. And I know that for a fact, and I am so grateful that I have them in my life, because they don't just love me, they love you and and Gavin has such a good relationship with my brother and it is so important, and I just I love them. Okay, I'm done now, because I'll start getting emotional. It's getting dark outside, I know.
Speaker 2:I think the storm is coming. Oh, by the way, guys, that was my dad earlier when he when the phone said that. Well, I know but I just wanted to. He was just calling to make sure that we were all good and all safe and uh and everything's going good so as of right now, it's still.
Speaker 2:Just it's getting dark and a little bit windy outside. Um, I touched base when I got off the phone with a friend of mine, cody, that lives in tampa now. Um, he chose to stay in tampa for the hurricane. Um, so I asked him how it was, because that was an hour ago, a little more than an hour ago, that it made landfall. But he's it's been nine minutes and he's not responded. But I'm assuming he's all right because he responded originally. Um, so, moving on in this little next portion here, this one's gonna be rough this one, yeah, um.
Speaker 2:So when it came to guests, when we first started the podcast, we had zero plans to have guests on, because we didn't know what we were doing.
Speaker 1:You're skipping things am I yeah, we have to discuss how we feel about so many people listening to the first episode. Yeah, so, talking about the growth of the podcast, um how our listener engagement has increased, certain episodes sparking bigger conversations than expected, um I think that just goes to say with on trends, though, to be honest with you, I feel like people obviously are big fans of how to, you know, murder their spouses and get away with it. So when it came to like the true crime episode we did on on madeline.
Speaker 1:Soto case that obviously sparked a big number of people that were listening because it was a massive thing, especially in our town I'm gonna call that clickbait because very much was we used it as a pre-show topic yeah and it wasn't actually a big thing.
Speaker 2:And this is back when we were still trying to figure out how to how to name our episodes to convey everything that we were talking about and clearly people thought it was an episode that was going to be dedicated to madeline soto because, outside of our very first episode, which was our largest episode thank you to all of our friends that listened and screwed- you, if you listen to the first episode and then stop listening to the rest we know who you are actually.
Speaker 2:We don't um but we'll find out process of elimination, um, but valid. That was our second most downloaded episode, um, which you know. We're not gonna lie to you guys. Our numbers are still small, we're still growing, we're still getting out of there, and that's why we're not gonna lie to you guys our numbers are still small, we're still growing, we're still getting out of there and that's why we're gonna be making some changes moving into 2025, so people who haven't listened to us can look at our name and understand exactly what it is we're trying to portray. But at times, I think it would say is a little disheartening to see. We came out with our first episode and it had a huge and I mean huge number of downloads, and every single episode after that it would drop five more people, ten more people, ten more people, and then at one point it got down to I think we have a couple episodes that only have like 14 downloads ever.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was very sad, Especially because I felt like those were the ones that we had put so much effort into. And then it was the episodes that, like, hi, welcome to really known podcast I lost my phone somebody made out with me. I lost my phone and then that one would get like a hundred downloads and we're like how?
Speaker 1:none of us cared, but like I was so hung over for that episode, holy crap. But it was like wait, we people care about that. Why do you care about that? Or then it was like there was another one. We did the the epic universe episode that we had done so much research on, we had worked so hard on, and then it was like 12 people listened to it.
Speaker 2:We're like you got to be kidding but the good thing is is because I own another podcast. That gave me fuel to even talk to ashley and be like you know.
Speaker 2:I started tennessee roads podcast in the height of the pandemic yeah, is when I started it, yeah, and excuse me, and as time progressed, I've not touched tennessee roads. It'll be a year this december and I'm getting at least 24 downloads of my podcast a week, if not more sometimes. Sometimes I get like up to 50 to 60 downloads in a week, um, and I haven't updated it, but that's that thing is like it. When you start a new podcast, it takes time for your brand awareness to get out there and for people to start seeing it and people like your listeners to share it with someone that they think would find it entertaining or your friends, your family and your favorite bartender.
Speaker 1:Hint, hint, uh, there's your call to action friends.
Speaker 2:So you know, we know, and that's the thing is, we do have. It's not the largest amount of following, but we do have a following there. We know. We see every single week in a report those of you that come back every single week, I'm going to creep for a minute and tell you that our hosting site tells us down to the city and state or region and country that you listen from, correct, so I know, I know when edwards listens to an episode or not, because he's from the uk and it would always tell me that someone from the uk would listen and I would know when.
Speaker 1:The first time he listened to that I was like peeing my pants.
Speaker 2:He's like the queen listens to us I know that when he shares it with his friends, because then we have multiple downloads coming out of london or out of uk, uh, and I am proud to say that our podcast has been streamed on every single continent on this planet at least one time. We have a couple countries where we've only had one download and we never have another one. Um, but it's just so wild it counts.
Speaker 1:We've only had one download and we never have another one, which is just so wild it counts.
Speaker 2:We've been on all seven continents.
Speaker 1:Do you know what I'm getting for OU podcast season two?
Speaker 2:What.
Speaker 1:I'm going to get a world map and we're going to like start.
Speaker 2:Are they spilled?
Speaker 1:I'm just going to let you be for a minute.
Speaker 2:I'm going to like get one of those scratch off world, ones where we can like see who's listened to us, and like every single city. It'd be cool. I want to get one of those. Um, it also tells us like what or like what you listen to us on, if you guys are listening to us on apple or spotify alexa, tune in, or uh, all those things, and then it tells us um or if you go to the website.
Speaker 1:That was really cool website.
Speaker 2:It tells us what type of devices. If you guys are listening to us on an alexa or an iphone or an android computer, yeah, it shows us all of these things, so we're able to see.
Speaker 1:You know where the majority of our audience is and where we can stalk you as much as you stalk us.
Speaker 2:Yeah, don't forget, we're on facebook and instagram too and twitter and tiktok. Well, yeah, no, we're not as active there, but we're there, we are there.
Speaker 1:We tweet and we talk on the Tiki Talk. Hey, let's talk about my favorite part, though.
Speaker 2:What I want to talk about the gas, oh, my God, that thing that I tried to talk about a minute ago.
Speaker 1:Correct. Then we had to talk about the sad things.
Speaker 2:So to go back to what I was saying, yes, please, we didn't plan on having guests. And then we were like, oh my God, shan, be on the podcast. And then she was the first geo be on the podcast and then Zach and Julia be on the podcast and just more people come be on the podcast. So obviously we talked about this a little in the beginning of the episode, but we had Shan. She was first the amazing Iconic. She was first the amazing Iconic, the iconic.
Speaker 1:Sean.
Speaker 2:She is who we plan to bring back for season two. Just throwing that out there.
Speaker 1:She's my best friend, dude. My mother is is. I thought I was your best friend.
Speaker 2:You are Okay, you are.
Speaker 1:But Shan's my blood best friend. Okay, we share blood, so we tried. I tried to share blood with you that one time, and then you told me no, so that's how you catch diseases, no my mother is, is the epitome of iconic.
Speaker 2:You know, do you remember that time a little?
Speaker 3:while ago, when we were talking about the challenges and I was like one of them.
Speaker 2:Like your roommates would come home, or your brother would come out and like do this thing. So right now Rob is like he did the Scoooby-doo walk like the the creeping to put a can in the fridge. And now he's grabbing a coke out of the fridge a coke and he's you gave up, he's closing the fridge.
Speaker 1:Oh, we sparked his interest did you give up coke or do we keep it red coke, you're grounded.
Speaker 2:He's dancing his way out of the room he's such a weirdo I love recording in a living room. It's so much fun, is it? Um, you know we had zach and julia on very impromptu, like we just brought them in to talk about mental health and hospitality uh well, epic, they came in, and oh yeah, they were supposed to be a part.
Speaker 1:They were supposed to be a part of our epic updates, but the last couple of ones which we didn't do.
Speaker 2:A harry potter, when did we rip?
Speaker 1:yes, we did harry potter yes, we did I know we did a dark universe I don't know, I don't know, guys, do we owe you an epic harry potter?
Speaker 2:is this going to be 31, but they were supposed to be a part of, like, all of our epic updates. But, you know, life happened. We all worked 24 hours.
Speaker 2:You know, 24 hours a day is what we pretty much work at this point yeah, getting schedules and everything else was very difficult and you know we we had to make the decision to go ahead and continue on with that series without them, which kind of sucked because I enjoyed bringing them in. It was a fun time for all of us to bond and do something together it was also fun to just kind of get different opinions on things.
Speaker 1:I feel like that was kind of what I got from a lot of it like our conversations with my mom and then our conversations with geo, our conversations with zach and jules was a lot of like poor yes, never mind sir I wasn't gonna say sir you could have said yes, ma'am I was gonna say yes, daddy, but I felt like that'd be a little weird strawberry margarita oh, that's good, that's good drink more because I feel like we've gotten uber depressy all of a sudden, sort of crying over tennessee people probably shouldn't drink more then, but um you know, with with no, I felt like we got um different opinions which were super helpful.
Speaker 1:I need you to stop. You're distracting sorry we got like difference of opinions, which was super nice. Like I was able, I feel like I was able to kind of get a different perspective on epic, and then with geo, geo's conversation be quiet. This is my episode yeah but, then at the same time, it was right up like it matched the person. Geo. I love you and you know this. It matches the personality like geo is very much. Are you focusing on me? You're not, why not? He did very well.
Speaker 2:Geo's one of those people so good like in the future, whenever I'm unavailable or you're unavailable geo would be the person that I would love to have fill in on this podcast because he's just, he's so great and he's so funny and he gets it exactly how we do.
Speaker 1:When we say there are topics that are off limits, there are names that are off limits and he's like, oh no, I'm here to talk about it without talking about it and yeah, and he very much draws the line on on whether or not it's this is the line we're crossing or no, we're avoiding this like a three-foot pole my favorite was when he walked into the door and we had everything set up and he was like, is anything recording?
Speaker 2:and I'm like no, and he goes.
Speaker 1:Okay, we gotta talk before we start recording yeah, and he was like and he's like, he's like let me let me see the computer.
Speaker 2:Let me see the computer. Okay, we're good, we're good. Let's talk about some shit before we talk about shit. Wait, wait, wait. It was so much, I just forgot.
Speaker 1:Guess what? We all. What started that conversation? What drunk brother? Yeah, that's what we talked about oh god, I missed that. I was so mad that we missed that event. Like I was so mad, oup was going to cover a second round of a second season of drunk brother. I was so disappointed that we did not get to do that and sadly that was the last drunk brother that you could qualify to go to the all winners round.
Speaker 1:Well, not all winners. No, I qualified for the top three. Yeah, so the next drunk brother that you could qualify to go to the all winners round? Well, not all women.
Speaker 2:I qualify for it, yeah so the next drunk brother that'll be hosted. Only only people that have placed in the top three of all the last, like 14 drunk brothers, will be able to play in this next game. That being said, I think that oup is going to be there. I'm going to lend my technology services to Gio to help him out with the live recordings, but excuse me Listen, OUP, you are going to be there. I have to play, oh yeah, you'll be playing in the game which is going to stress me out.
Speaker 2:I'm going to offer up my services technology-wise and maybe use my gimbal to record the TV.
Speaker 1:It's so wild to me like that was, so I forgot that that happened this year. Gosh, that was so much fun what a hoot, minus the mosquitoes, oh and we got to meet our good now good good friends, colton and eric oh yeah, I love them oh, that was a wonderful time. And judy, I forgot judy I love judy um, were there any oh and?
Speaker 2:and mama ashley rose yeah, actually I'm glad you brought that up. Um mama, uh, you're probably not listening, which is totally fine. You're a very busy woman. So, as you guys know, back in pride, during the pride month, we talked about, uh, bringing in a very, very special guest and I think it was going to be one of the a very pivotal, pivotal, pivotal moment for us in bringing in guests. What is going to be one of the very pivotal moment for us in bringing guests.
Speaker 2:It was going to be Mama Ashley Rose, here in Orlando, who is a drag queen and an activist, and we were in communication back and forth with each other. We obviously we waited until it was too late. We waited until Pride Month to reach out to her and things were just super busy and we weren't able to get everything in line.
Speaker 1:You were out of town. It was too late. We waited until Pride Month to reach out to her and things were just super busy and we weren't able to get everything in line. She got busy, you were out of town.
Speaker 2:It was a mess and we chatted and you know the conversation kind of fizzled out, like neither one of us ignored each other, we just we all got super busy. You know she opened a new community center, so to bring mama in hopefully on season two, we're gonna plan ahead of time, we can put it out during pride but record it before.
Speaker 2:But I'm also hoping that mama will be able to provide us with a lot of resources for lgbtqia plus listeners. Um. So we can, you know, reach out to different companies and different people in the orlando area and and bring a new guest. So we are super excited as to what 2025 holds when it comes to guests, because we want to actually bring in more people that are going to resonate with our listeners and our our mostly millennial audience. Um, so, if there is someone in the Orlando area or even outside of Orlando that you think would be a great person to interview or you would like to see them be as a special guest on the podcast, please reach out, let us know text us text us da ding there it is.
Speaker 1:I like text messages. Actually, I like phone calls, but I like text messages yeah, I hate phone calls um hey, I have a question what were there any behind the scenes stories or memorable moments that did not make it into any episodes?
Speaker 2:um, I mean, I can't think of anything directly. I know there was a lot of us like saying, oh, let's go do this for the podcast, and then we would go to disney or we would go somewhere, we would do something, um, and then we would. We wouldn't take pictures, we wouldn't take video, because we would get so caught up in going and enjoying that moment that we would forget to get the content that we needed you know what I can think of as a really big example to that what our enchanted rose monthly meetups yeah that was something we we if, for those that don't know, grand floridian over at um universal orlando resort.
Speaker 2:I just said it universal orlando resort, walt disney world resort yes, um has a bar slash, I guess, just a bar.
Speaker 1:It's not really a restaurant. They have like some small bites but they don't really. It's not a full service restaurant. Um has a very, very themed um establishment that you and I are I wouldn't call it very themed, I would just call it very elegant it is um enchanted rose it was all themed obviously to um beauty and the beast okay, maybe I should take away gloria, the margarita mix.
Speaker 1:um, and you and I were like, okay, we are going to drink our way through this and we're going to like, get all these cocktails on here and then we're going to review it, we're going to talk about the podcast, and then we get there and be like he said what if we just made this a you and I thing and we didn't include the podcast and we just kind of took a break from Life, liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness and just kind of vibed?
Speaker 1:And we got the same drink every time, every single time side and we'd gossip and we'd chat and we would just have and we would dress like we wouldn't dress for the theme parks. We would dress like I had on my khaki shorts, a polo shirt. There's a cute photo of me on my socials that I'm wearing a blazer in that bar yeah, we, because we wanted to look the part of grand flow.
Speaker 2:For those of you that don't know, grand flow is very bougie grand floridian, the polynesian resort um anything on the, the modern and the? Contemporary they're very expensive resorts.
Speaker 1:So you, if you're staying at those resorts, you got money honey can you give me some of it please, so then we can stay with you?
Speaker 2:or you'd created a walt disney vacation package two years in advance and paid it monthly correct um which props to you and so so we would dress the part and we would just go and we would have fun and we would join, we would jump on the monorail and we'd go to the parks for a little bit and I think that's been one of the funnest things about becoming a florida resident is having two, two of the most major theme parks that some people will literally save for their entire life to go to just one time you take such advantage of it too, and we have annual passes and we go at four o'clock in the afternoon and we ride pirates to the caribbean and space mountain and then we say let's
Speaker 1:grab some casey's corner and go home yeah, or we we eat at bento and then head into disney world that the last minute to go and ride pirates, and then we go home like it's such a last minute decision.
Speaker 1:And I think that that was the hardest part with ou podcasts is we were like we make a lot of sometimes a lot of last minute decisions, like a lot of the our, our enchanted rose dates or a lot of our our I mean, even when we were going up to the rooftop bar over at aventura was very much last minute things going. Hey, life is getting really hectic. I want to go pretend I don't have to be an adult right now. Yeah, like, let's just go do that. And then, you know, adulting is obviously our second job of being the podcast co-host and doing all these things.
Speaker 1:And you know, I think we both jumped into this going. I, I had this like massive envision that like by july, we were going to put out 52 episodes this year and we're going to put out one every single week and we're gonna do all these things. And I remember the first time we missed a week I was so distraught, I was like I wasn't, I was tired but I was like I remember looking at you and going, are you sure this is fine?
Speaker 1:like are they people gonna be disappointed in us?
Speaker 2:and I was like it's okay, we'll call it, we'll be like, we'll be like kindle, ray and janelle and we'll just say we're having a dark week.
Speaker 1:Well, and I think our podcast opened me up to other podcasts. Like I'm now a fan of the Squeeze by the Lautner couple, I'm now a fan of the. Sesh, thank you. I have so many podcasts that I feel like I listen to now because of OU Podcasts, and now I want ours to be as equally, as massive as the Squeeze and as the Sesh and as all of the other podcasts out there.
Speaker 1:Random fun fact If you are following us on I believe Spotify and I know Apple Podcasts or if you go to our website you can see our pod rolls, which are all of our favorite podcasts, so that if you want to know what kind of podcasts we're listening to check out our pod rolls so you can actually see the podcast that we recommend you also go listen to and I think the other thing that was a big thing for us and in terms of we wanted so bad to I don't know if if this is a right verbiage here when it comes to like share the behind the scenes story I think a lot of it was instead of saying share the behind the scenes, I feel like I I am sharing the lessons that we learned yeah like, hey, we had all these ideas.
Speaker 1:I remember when we first started it was, I mean, I was sober when we first started- like I was stone cold sober. I was the the or grab a mocktail.
Speaker 2:We, we spot, we spoke to restaurants and we spoke to bars and all these places that we were going to go back to and and we just we weren't able to make it work, and I think that's one of the main reasons that I I'm the one that proposed that we take this break so we can, first off, yeah, put the microphones down, put let our brains rest for a little bit.
Speaker 1:Take a month off on overload guys and I mean that last episode, we were like they've been done. What are words?
Speaker 2:while we're going to be gone for, you know, three months October, november and December. October is really going to be our only down month, because starting in November is when we are going to start preparing. We've got for season two we're going to talk more about all that jazz.
Speaker 1:But we've got a lot of things in the work and for us to hit the ground running in january with a new episode, we have to start well in advance, uh, to put together interviews and put together site visits and all of these things that we plan on doing and and some other stuff and I think the other thing is, is we also look at january and realize that our life is not just going to be oh you podcast again, like we have chocolate fest coming up, then it's my brother's birthday, and then it's Bruce's birthday, and then it's it's like Epic will be here before you know.
Speaker 2:Construction malls go up at Disney, correct?
Speaker 1:And then it's my 29th birthday, and then it's the, and then we're back in August again and I'm just like holy, like, holy crap. Like we have so much that you know and I'm going, we have so much planned for next year and at the same time it's only October. I'm sorry, it's September 26. And I'm going. In two and a half weeks I'll be going to Halloween Horror Nights for the first time.
Speaker 2:You and I have another trip planned, I'll be celebrating my birthday we have your birthday, we have our friendiversary.
Speaker 1:Girl two and a half weeks it's next week. Oh, wait, no, when are you going? 17th, it's two weeks. Oh, it's my birthday in a week. Yeah, your birthday's in a week oh shit I turned 31 y'all. Oh my god, why did I think this is your 30th?
Speaker 2:I don't know, god, you are so old, I know it's so exciting well, okay, so we're well, I guess we're going down this theme, this highlight plan, yeah because we've we've talked a lot longer on things that I didn't think that we were going to talk about. But it was fun to kind of reminisce it was, but we want to talk a little bit about some of the things that came up that were highlights for us.
Speaker 1:Let's bullet these baby.
Speaker 2:Let's bullet, which we're probably going to talk a little bit more because we didn't we didn't talk about d23 and we're going to talk about disney, so we might go into a little detail here.
Speaker 1:All right, here we go. Let's go with disney first.
Speaker 2:So let's let's talk about our recurring themes for this year.
Speaker 1:Um oh I'm so sorry, but like a branch, just flew up that tree and then flew left. Okay, it's hurricane season, baby, where's glenn pow Powell? I'm ready.
Speaker 2:So obviously Disney was one of our biggest recurring themes this year. We had annual passes. It was free for us to go.
Speaker 1:We were going, it wasn't free for us to go.
Speaker 2:We pay a monthly fee. You pay 50.
Speaker 1:No, I pay 100. You pay 50.
Speaker 2:So we went a lot, but there's so much that we didn't get to cover on Disney, so we actually want to touch base on the few things that we didn't get to talk about to wrap up our season short, sweet to the point, let's go.
Speaker 1:It's not gonna happen that way.
Speaker 2:Um so obviously we saw the change in, uh, the disability access pass or disability. What are they? What is the form? It's called das d-a-s. What?
Speaker 1:is the disability access service service.
Speaker 2:So for those of you that don't know, this system without me this system was devised for guests with mental, physical, invisible and visible disabilities or inabilities to stand in a standard queue line for a period of time, correct um. So we know people, we have friends that had das passes um, and we saw when disney changed that policy. They changed the way you qualify for a das and we saw 98 percent of visitors to universe or to disney have their das access revoked um and I feel like the the amount of times that we went sort of lacked when that happened yeah
Speaker 1:it was. It was a big, a big change, I think, for for us it was. I mean, I know, for me, I started watching a lot of tiktok stories and a lot of instagram stories of people that had been denied, and watching like how they had been denied and what they had been denied for, and I'm going this is gonna sound really awful, but it's's very, very, very, very true. My first thought was do I want to be giving money to a company that looked at somebody with this disability? That, to me, is a disability. To the outside eye is a disability, and you're telling them no, they're not. It was almost like they were saying you're not disabled enough to get this, which, oh god, is that?
Speaker 3:that is horrible I'm so sorry what you're saying, but at the same time I will say that we watched people that truly were just lazy and didn't want to wait in line.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and the issue was was that disney? If you asked, you got it. No questions asked, for so long that it was affecting the daily operations of their rides. Their wait times were hours upon hours long because so many guests had a dash pass that the, the people that paid admission to disney to get in, were standing in line all day long. Um, but I also, as someone who does not work for disney, does not speak for their brand or their company no, we do not I think that disney went way too far in reverse it went very aggressive very quickly
Speaker 2:now. That being said, when the disability access service first came around, it was mostly designed for guests with severe physical limitations and guests with cognitive disabilities. Correct, and at this point Disney has, from what I can tell, has recanted and gone back to that original idea of guests with cognitive disabilities, people with autism or a cognitive function, that they don't understand what waiting in line is. And then, I believe, if you're in a wheelchair or something, you just wait in line yeah, like you just gotta wait in line.
Speaker 1:That's what it is. I mean, there was friends of ours that I suffer with really nasty anxiety, you know, like it's to a point where they get overstimulated, being in lines and queues and things like that and watching them get told no and you're like, have you stood in line with them like?
Speaker 2:which to me, it's. It's very interesting because there is an option. You can purchase lightning lane yeah because lightning lane and disability access service are the exact same thing.
Speaker 1:One is just free I feel like we could. We could go on this topic for so long, because that you know, you and I look at this sometimes two different ways. You know I look at it in an aspect of you shouldn't have to pay for your disability. You didn't choose that.
Speaker 2:I don't think we we but where do you draw the line?
Speaker 1:of, but it is. It's such a, it's such a moment getting I prefer the term an accommodation.
Speaker 2:At what point do you qualify for an accommodation and at what point because I'm a firm believer of in life you're dealt the deck of cards a hand. Imagine your life as a poker game, and sometimes you're dealt a really great hand and sometimes you're dealt a bad hand and unfortunately that is bad.
Speaker 1:We've been swearing this entire day.
Speaker 2:Unfortunately, at times you're dealt a shit hand, and that is just how life is sometimes, and at a certain point you have to. At a certain point I look at it saying this person needs this accommodation. I don't. I have some medical issues. I can deal with them on my own. I have that ability to do so. There are other people in this world that cannot, but they deserve the same opportunity to enjoy space, mountain, as I do.
Speaker 1:I think it was just for me. I had such a hard time, especially in the beginning of understanding. Who are you to say, who are you to judge? Who are you?
Speaker 2:to determine that Occupational hazard.
Speaker 1:Yes, but, but yes, a hundred percent. That's who decides it. But at the same time I'm going how do you know? Just by what? A note, just by a conversation, because at that moment John could look coherent enough to be perfectly fine.
Speaker 3:I'll tell you what it is, but how do you know?
Speaker 1:after an entire day of dealing with stupid tourists who don't know how to walk or who don't know how to take two steps backwards do you want to know? I can tell you I'm gonna go on a rant. You just stop my rant it's keywords and phrases I'm a.
Speaker 2:Yes, you gotta know those correct keywords and phrases I'm aware do you want to move on to some happier?
Speaker 1:I really do.
Speaker 2:Let's do it so this year, at the d23 expo which those of you that don't know what d23? It is an event that disney holds every year to announce the new and exciting things coming to them we learned years and years and years in the making, we thought that disney was going to get another gate, which is hospitality terms for another theme park, of an entire villains theme park but it didn't happen.
Speaker 1:We're not getting that.
Speaker 2:But we are finally, after many, many years, receiving a, receiving a Villain's Land and what else.
Speaker 1:A Cars Land.
Speaker 2:A Cars Land. Now, the cool thing about the Cars Land we don't know anything about Villain's Land. We know nothing about it. What we know about Cars Land, it will not take place in Radiator Springs. Radiator Springs is at Disney California. Radiator Springs is at Disney California. The Orlando version will be the Cars universe, but you are going to be in a different part of the Cars universe. It is actually designed to be like a I'm going to call it like Adirondack Mountains or Great Smoky Mountains. You're in a completely different part of Cars world and you are at an off-road Cars race. So it is designed to be like Mater's going to be there and Lightning Queen is going to be there, but you're not going to be in Radiator Springs. You're going to be in a completely different world.
Speaker 1:Oh, so we're not copying and pasting, we're not Well we're going to copy and paste the ride but we're going to get a different version.
Speaker 2:This one is designed to be an off-road version, where the one in radiator springs you're racing on the roads in radiator springs, this one you are racing on like dirt tracks or something I I don't know everything about it, but I've seen the concept art. It looks pretty cool. I'm excited for that. Unfortunately, what does that mean? We're saying goodbye to tom.
Speaker 1:Tom Sawyer, bye-bye.
Speaker 2:And the rivers of America, which have been a staple of the Magic Kingdom since it opened, hasn't it?
Speaker 1:A yawn of Magic Kingdom since it's been opened. I'm sorry, it was cute.
Speaker 2:I've never been to Tom Sawyer Island.
Speaker 1:Nobody has, because every single time it's been closed, well it closes at dusk, and that's usually when we get there, it's like two o'clock in the afternoon. No, no, over it Done. You know what I am looking forward to I'm jumping.
Speaker 2:What Is it? Still Disney stuff, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1:I'm really excited for the Monsters Inc ride.
Speaker 2:Oh, at Hollywood.
Speaker 1:Studios. Yeah, I'm really excited for that.
Speaker 2:From my understanding, it's not going to be a small land in itself well, and disney's making some a little bit of history for them.
Speaker 1:This is their first suspended coaster in the disney, not in the world, not in the state of florida, by god, all of you theme park nerdies please do not come for me at a disney park.
Speaker 1:Only, this is disney's first suspended coaster and I you know what I, as somebody who lives with theme park thusis, lives with roller coaster thusis I'd like to consider myself a theme park enthusiast. Um, I, I feel like disney it, without saying it too roughly and aggressively, it's about damn time like guys get on the same page can I unpopular opinion for a minute?
Speaker 2:okay I'm just glad that we're getting an attraction that is not frozen or in kanto we are getting in kanto we will get there, or coco, because I feel that disney has for the last 10 years it's been frozen in kanto coco. Frozen in kanto coco, it's been shows it's been me and it's just been these recent ips and I I get it, you're appeasing to the audience, but at some point, my god, how many freaking frozen movies do we?
Speaker 1:don't get me wrong, I love frozen I am and I love the lot for frozen, like if I was a lesbian it'd be elsa. Like 110. I love frozen. However, by god, if I have to see one more child sing to me, let it go. I'm going to let them go into a river like I'm just so done with it low-key.
Speaker 2:I wish. I'm so sorry. I wish the frozen ride was at magic kingdom, where all the princesses correct. That would make more sense I wish we still had maelstrom, yeah, but I also think that disney today's fan the shit I think that disney did an amazing job of overlaying maelstrom with frozen and I think that it's been great because it does open that conversation with small children correct and it it's a part of the world showcase and anna and elsa, like all of that, is designed to be around norway.
Speaker 1:But I'm sorry, but it does not give me any history of norway and that that is also true, but like the duck ride. Wait, the duck ride gives me history, you mean the three habaneros correct gives me history. That ride doesn't give me shit yeah, it's true. You know what else? Wait, wait. You know what else I wish they would have? No, I lost my whole thought process um. You know that maelstrom ride, though I did pee my pants on I never got to ride it another fun thing coming to disney and I'm gonna butcher this is, is it?
Speaker 2:pablo espanol, it's not pablo, because pablo is p-a-u publo as. But so it's the central americas and it is coming yes, it is it is coming to animal kingdom in the former dino land area, rip uh. So we are gonna see uh, an encanto attraction where you will actually get to go into the casa. Is it the casa?
Speaker 1:you'll get to go into the house, the magical house, the madrigal, the madrigal we are also going to be saying goodbye to dinosaur.
Speaker 2:in the coming weeks, actually, as they make way for Indiana Jones, we're going to get our own version of Indiana Jones down here, which makes sense because it's Central America's, and I think it's going to be great because the ride system that they use for Dinosaur is the same ride system that they use for Indiana Jones, so we're just going to be getting a re-theme of that, but that's some of the exciting stuff.
Speaker 1:There's not just a re-theme. We're not getting dinosaurs. A little rough for me and I hope it's not just hopefully hopefully they get well we got it out, redo it, we got test track.
Speaker 2:They're gutting and redoing it.
Speaker 1:Epcot right now I know um, is it time oh, oh.
Speaker 2:There's also the last thing disney wise. Um. So if you follow disney, you know that in tokyo or somewhere they just opened a um. Oh god, what is that movie with judy haw, officer judy hops?
Speaker 1:it's the animals zootopia I was gonna say fox they just opened a whole zootopia themed area I did see that with popsicles.
Speaker 2:We're not getting that. That's bullshit. But we are getting a zootopia show inside the tree of life that's so cute.
Speaker 1:No more zipping and zapping with bugs. Rip, not rip. Bye-bye, have a good day. Don't let the good lord hit you where the lord splits you. Bye-bye thank you for the backache you gave me at 12.
Speaker 2:so now are we done, are we done with?
Speaker 1:disney. What is our other? What is our other?
Speaker 2:big recurring theme that we've talked about epic freaking universe, universal studios, oh, that too universal studios my favorite, to be honest, park. Um it well, universal studios is not my favorite park but the universal company wow, I like it.
Speaker 1:I get to ride. I know your favorite movies. Anybody have any guess what his favorite park is?
Speaker 2:it starts with a d, ends with a wood um, but yeah, we talked a lot about epic this year. You know, we we wanted to kind of ride the the coattails of success off of the announcements and it kind of backfired for us, like people really didn't like it and I kind of totally expected people to be drawn in by that they hated it, and we put a lot of work into that.
Speaker 1:So much work, so much arguments. I had to read script and for those that don't know that, don't know me, but you should know, me by now yeah, I can't speak no, you can't read what was it up?
Speaker 2:upended tombstone, shut up shut up.
Speaker 1:I mean, do you know, do you? Okay, I'm gonna give you a tidbit into the epic universe um podcast episodes. There were so many times that I would be like, hey, I'm not reading this paragraph, why? Because this is a really big word and I don't know what it is. And if you can see that there were so many times that I would be like, hey, I'm not reading this paragraph, why? Because this is a really big word and I don't know what it is. And if you can see that during the HHN episode, we did because you go on like a 45 minute.
Speaker 2:I read the entire Monstro's thing.
Speaker 1:I was like I'm out.
Speaker 2:So if you guys are ever like God, dustin talks a whole lot. It's because Ashley can't read. It's because ashley can't read it's because either ashley can't read or ashley's not saying anything and I have to fill the dead space.
Speaker 1:So you're welcome I actually said some things in dead space, but when we do like scripted podcast episodes, ashley doesn't do any ashley. Ashley does not do any.
Speaker 2:Dead space, I just sit there actually what happens is we stop recording into a five minute argument because she's like, I want to change this word and I'm like no, I wrote that word for a specific reason, because I'm trying to.
Speaker 1:The hardest part is is you and I make a lot of eye contact during our podcast episodes like an uncomfortable amount of eye contact correct. Also, I have to pee, just so you know I sneezed and burped at the same time and you missed it.
Speaker 2:Oh no I heard it, I just kept talking. I'm hoping our software edits it out.
Speaker 1:I really hope it doesn't. It was so good anyways. Um no, there were so many times that like I'd be looking at you and then you would look at me and be like I'm like stop, I can't focus. And then I would bust into a laughing fit for like 25 minutes because I'd be like I'm so drained from this so, with all that being said, those episodes took six years to record we've got.
Speaker 2:I want to do it. I want to talk about it.
Speaker 1:You shush okay so we have epic universes that's coming out in, hopefully, 2025, the beginning of 2025 spring summer is the estimated. I am hoping that's still the case. Epic, you're doing great guys. Um then you have one of my favorite hotels that I cannot wait to stay in, which is Helios Grand. That's coming as well, massively beautiful, wait, wait.
Speaker 2:Universal's Helios Grand Hotel, a Lowe's hotel. Yes, massively beautiful hotel, the first Universal hotel to hold both Universal and Lowe's at the same time, correct.
Speaker 1:I cannot wait to eat at the restaurant that is going to be up there in the the dome, like I'm so excited for that. Yeah, that too. Um, and then you also have my new I feel like my new favorite low budget resort, which is going to be stella, luna and taranova so those are the low budget right?
Speaker 2:I said that no so so, from my understanding, universal and lo's just recently reclassified their resorts oh god so you have the signature collection which are their. There were the ones where you get like the express and stuff which is royal pacific, hard rock and portofino bay as well as the helios grand hotel yes. But we do not have any details on express accommodations or anything like that for Helios yet when we know, you'll know yes.
Speaker 1:Then you have.
Speaker 2:I believe it's three levels and then you have like Aventura and Cabana Bay no, no, no. No, it changed. You have Aventura Royal.
Speaker 1:Pacific. No Royal's on the high list.
Speaker 2:Nope, nope, laurel In the new. Oh, sapphire Falls Not.
Speaker 1:Royal Pacific.
Speaker 2:I was like I just said Royal, and Terra, luna and Stella Nova, ah my bad and then the lower class is the it's called Valuin and Suites, which are going to be the resorts that hold family suites, which are cabana bay and endless summer resort, which contains surfside and dockside oh, okay, well, the two other expensive hotels, uh, saluna and terra nova.
Speaker 1:I'm very much looking forward to seeing. Okay, side note. I'm gonna side note for, like, I'm gonna pivot go for it I got to drive past this hotel at nighttime oh my god, gorgeous during the day. I'm sorry, universal come. Don't come for me. I love you guys.
Speaker 2:I take bullets for you and your green cheese it's ugly as sin well, no, it's pretty, but it's weird. No, I think it's ugly.
Speaker 1:During the daytime, I think that is the ugliest hotel I've ever seen. But nighttime, oh my god. I'll give you all my money like you guys are. So that is so pretty. It looks like like stars twinkling and you know, if you live here, you know we don't get them because our city is way too damn bright, but like it looks like twinkly stars and it is so beautiful do you know what I have in my brain when I see those resorts?
Speaker 2:do you know what I in my brain when I see those resorts? Do you know what I think?
Speaker 1:Tell me.
Speaker 2:Starship Cruiser, but affordable and realistic.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Because they are space themed. It's very astrological. All of epic.
Speaker 1:I think that's why I love it so much, me and my astrological love.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:It's deep Margaritas are getting to my brain, clearly, I really know. To be honest with you, though, I am so freaking excited for all the food that's going to come out of that whole environment, and I'm just telling you guys, right now, if you don't like universal and you don't like epic universe, and all this listen.
Speaker 2:Next year don't even listen, because we're gonna talk about it a lot, guys. It's gonna happen because this is the first full-size theme park with resorts to open in the united states since animal kingdom, like there have been water parks that have opened and there have been small theme parks that open but there has been nothing on this caliber that also opened, with resorts that's wild since animal kingdom, and that was in the 90s open with resorts.
Speaker 1:That's wild since animal kingdom and that was in the 90s hey what? I wonder if we're ever going to give them any any tidbit on the other parks what other parks? Like sea world fun spot bush maybe let's go to lego land. How about now?
Speaker 2:okay, let's go in the middle of a hurricane, absolutely, um, let's go. So yeah, so that's that's kind of that's our we're gonna wrap up our let's talk about right through our time bye what is it? Uh? What do they say on spaceship, earth, our journey through time? Lord has come to an end helen alone. Don't take helen's job. I love her. Helen mirren right? Yes, I love her.
Speaker 3:Please, disney, don't ever, if you can change, you can change that ride you can update the animatronics, but please do not change that her voice.
Speaker 1:Listen, if they can. They got rid of the pirate ride and gave us a female. You screw up spaceship earth. I will wear the t-shirt and protest yep, same um.
Speaker 2:Let's talk about the future. Let's talk about our future, since we're talking about hell and mirror. Wait, are we gonna do it?
Speaker 1:what are we gonna talk about? Why the fact that you've been hinting at so many different like?
Speaker 2:well, I guess, to verbiage well, well, okay, so to clarify are you moving forward. I won't yes and no to clarify forward next season. You guys don't panic when you see Orlando Unplugged podcast A Life in Living Color disappear from your library. It is still going to be there. We are still going to be known as Orlando Unplugged podcast, but we will be editing the last half of our name.
Speaker 1:I'm crying.
Speaker 2:So we will be getting rid of our Life in Living Color. While we think that's cute and it's pretty, it doesn't convey who we are and what our shows are about. Oh my god. So we've got a couple of different names that we are looking at. We haven't fully decided, um, but we want to encapsulate who we are and what we are. So when people see the name of the podcast it, it gives them a reason to want to click and listen to it versus not don't worry, we still live very much in in color, like oh very much.
Speaker 2:We and I've talked with I've talked with some um, some of our listeners that I know from the orlando area and I've thrown some things out at them and we've gotten their opinions excuse me, god, again, you're excused leave, but um, but yeah, so so that's coming.
Speaker 1:Can I also chat about the new, the new, the other new stuff? Yeah, go for it um, we're going to be working with a very wonderful, wonderful creator to change up potentially change up our logo and our branding. Ou OU Podcast is going to get.
Speaker 2:Going to get what?
Speaker 1:A potential new, like I don't know what the word is Logo thank you.
Speaker 2:Pre-K pause We'll be right back. Okay, sorry, we're back.
Speaker 1:I literally my bladder was about to explode oh you, podcast gets so personal all the time, every episode, hey transparency is our life. Listen, transparency is life what else about our future should we chat about? Hey, you know we, we did. We should chat about the fact that we have decided to be the most transparent, real, honest, open, opinionated mofos that have ever graced your eardrums that is one way to put it yeah, oh you podcast next season.
Speaker 1:Oh you pod. Season two is going to be very real next year. I think that we going to chat about a lot of things. I think we're going to chat about a lot of real things, like drama, like dating, like all everything in between I mean the PowerPoint, my guy, like it is going to be oh you podcast. Season two is going to be wild. I don't think it's going to be anything like season one. I think we are now vets at this. I think we are I'm not saying pros, I think we are vets. I think we know what we're bringing and I know what we want to do. I think it's very clear and concise. This season not this season season two will be very clear and concise. I think it's very headstrong. I think we are coming into this next season very hungry, very determined, very, very ready to create and put out the best content that you and I could possibly put out.
Speaker 2:So what you what Ashley was referring to a second ago is moving forward. We have a couple of different things and you're going to get to see all of this next year. Specifically, our new core values moving into 2025 is to provide you guys with accurate, entertaining and emotional content.
Speaker 1:We're gonna cry on ou podcast season. Two guys we're gonna cry a lot, a lot, a lot. Um, no, we're. I think we're just. I mean we might cry, but I think we're gonna be very real. I think they're gonna be a lot more real conversations. I think OU is going to be.
Speaker 2:We're going to have a lot of fun. We're going to have a lot of fun. Yes, who knows? We may roll out some fun things that you guys can purchase, maybe some merchandise, who knows? Who knows what's going on.
Speaker 1:Don't worry, we still have theme parks in it though, oh don't worry it'll still have theme parks in it though? Oh yeah, most definitely, we aren't OU without it.
Speaker 2:But before we wrap up here and give a good old send off to season one, we want to say thank you, don't do that ever again.
Speaker 1:A great big old send off to season one.
Speaker 2:Never mind, I quit before season two starts we want to say thank you to you guys.
Speaker 2:The people that have subscribed followed liked our content um shared our content given us stars because none of you, mofos, have actually left a review on our podcast, but you guys have rated us, which we are grateful for we're at 10 out of 10 so if you wanted to do us a big help, as we send off and go into a couple months with nothing, if you guys wouldn't mind to hop on over to spotify or apple podcast, which are the two platforms that help us out the absolute most, uh, give us a like, follow us on those platforms, even if you listen to us somewhere else. It'll help us out in our algorithm. If you guys will follow us in those areas. Please rate us five stars, one stars, two stars, whatever. Please, five stars, please, um, but please, please, please, please. Leave us a review, guys. Let our other, let people know what you guys enjoy about our show and what you guys like. Um, we are a mom and pop business. I know that sounds weird, um, but we're all. I'm a pop business, we're, we're not a corporation yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, call me daddy, call her daddy. Another interesting podcast. Don't listen to that unless you like raunchy stuff. But seriously, guys, if you would, you know, help us out in those aspects to help us grow our audience and prepare. So when we come back for season two, we've got listeners and we have people that are prepared and ready for excitement. Ashley, what do you want to say? I want to.
Speaker 1:I want to wrap it up the best way. We know how you're going to say thank you to our listeners. Oh, I piggybacked you. I piggybacked off of you. I was going to. You spoke for both of us. We speak sometimes for each other well, I wasn't sure if you wanted to say it.
Speaker 1:No, you spoke for us and I very much agree with you guys, or with you. Thanks to everybody. Um, thanks to our bartenders at sloppy taco who who have listened to us cry and whine and push for their bar and complain about the lack of our listeners and then help share a podcast with their, their people. Um. Thanks to to the random people that we have met at theme parks that we have introduced to our our podcasts, that have listened. Um. Thanks to the random people that we have met at theme parks that we have introduced to our podcast and have listened.
Speaker 1:Um thanks to this is so bad. To the men I've matched on tinder with it. I've said, hey, you want a podcast recommendation, listen to mine. Um, but it's true. Um thanks to to, you know, my mom and and everybody up in michigan for the constant, constant support of of listening to my mom and everybody up in Michigan for the constant, constant support of listening to my podcast and hearing me talk about my podcast and sharing my podcast on all of our social media platforms. Thanks to Zach and Julia, who have put up with the fact that our podcast equipment has been all over our coffee table all the time, has listened to me say OU Podcast a thousand and one times OU-P. Thank you to all the friends who I have canceled plans with because I have been like, hey, I have to record for this podcast. This is the only day this week we can.
Speaker 2:Oh, you mean your Tinder dates?
Speaker 1:Yeah, a lot of those. So, sorry guys, that's another, that's season two, uh, but thanks to to, honestly the thanks to the theme parks for allowing us to be okay with people taking photos of things and, you know, commenting and having letting us have views on on different stuff thanks for not sending us a cease and desist.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we appreciate that.
Speaker 1:Um, and I guess my final thank you is is to you for for introducing podcast life to me and for coming to me with this crazy wild idea and for choosing me out of all of the straight females that you could have picked to to be with you. What was that word that I hated that we we originally was called in the beginning I don't even remember I don't remember but like out of all of the people like thanks for saying yes to well you just had the most unstable personality.
Speaker 1:You're not wrong I was like just wait for season two guys.
Speaker 2:She seems chaotic. This will be good.
Speaker 1:You know it's going to be raunchy. Like we just talked about color daddy being raunchy. I feel like I want to create like an episode trend of how to date on Tinder. Yeah, actually, how to fail dating Tinder, because I suck at it.
Speaker 2:Now, guys, I'm going to do this one last time for the season oh god, and I'm gonna ask you to go just into the description box of today's episode if you're on your phone wait, I don't get a thank you thanks, uh, you're welcome for me introducing you to the podcast such a piece of shit fuck you, go ahead.
Speaker 1:I just realized I didn't get it. You got like a long ass paragraph about how fucking grateful I was for you and you just go. Okay, guys, we're gonna wrap this up now.
Speaker 2:Fuck you, dustin and that, ladies and gentlemen, is Orlando Applush, that is her friendship. Fuck you, dustin.
Speaker 3:And that, ladies and gentlemen, is our, is really the reply that is her friendship.
Speaker 2:God, you're such a dick I don't know what to say no, it's fine, just wrap it up. We'll converse off the record. Just wrap it up, ass. I need no proof of my things. Fuck you. I don't want it to come back and bite me later.
Speaker 1:You're such a piece of shit.
Speaker 2:Well, since there's no way to recover on that, go ahead and head over to the description box, if you're listening on your mobile device, and click the text, the show option, and we want to hear from you guys what was your most favorite episode during this season? You can put the episode number in, you can tell us Most of our episodes are unplugging and then, whatever it is, so, drop us your favorite memory from this season. If you don't do it and you listen to the show, I'm going to know who you are, because it's going to tell me what city you're listening from.
Speaker 1:We will write you a letter.
Speaker 2:We will not because I am not paying for postage and, with that being said, until next time it it's gonna be a little bit longer than normal.
Speaker 1:stay safe, stay educated and, of course oh, I'm so sad and, of course, share our podcast with your friends, your family and your favorite bartender peace out, motherfuckers bye guys, see you next year.
