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We're all getting together jumping on here and it's our first time seeing each other after our spring break week Yeah.
Yeah. How's everyone feeling?
Does everyone feel, like, real relaxed and...
Yeah, I've definitely slept for a week.
Did everybody take a break?
Yeah. You did? I watched all of The Pit.
I watched all of White Lotus.
All of Righteous Gemstones.
I have two episodes left of The Pit, so don't say a word. I won't.
I won't. All right.
I have two episodes left of White Lotus.
Ohhh. So also please...
Oh you're in for a treat.
Won't say anything.
Okay. Yeah. I finished it last night.
I just read that it doesn't have the same theme music.
The, huh, huh, huh, whatever that music is.
Each season is different.
It's slightly different, yeah.
Why? I read, because they had a falling out, the composer.
Oh really? Wait, what?
Yes. Is that true? Are you spreading the dish?
You guys all went on like this real, like, I'm going to step away from social media.
And I was like, give it to me.
I'm home, give me the gossip.
You're just scrolling through.
All the stuff. Also, you went to a very fancy party, Aunch. Okay, you guys, I need my - You can tell it's gonna be good if she's downplaying it right from the start.
Well, here it is. First of all, I think my license for small talk should be revoked.
I don't think I should have small talk.
I don't know this story.
No, you guys, I'm just, I think I'm out of practice.
I mean, what did you refer to as being in a candy jar?
Oh, Sam, Sam, I wish it was a candy jar.
OK, OK, well, I didn't go anywhere for spring break.
I just stayed home and I took just kids to doctors appointments.
Everyone got their teeth cleaned.
And you know, Isabel and Jack had their wisdom teeth consultations.
You did like eight doctor's appointments, I think.
I went and got my yearly woman's exam.
Good. Good job. Yay, I did it.
OK, so I did all of that kind of like, you know, tending to my garden, if you will.
Sorry, that's how you meant.
Take my Small Talk license, take it away.
So I've known Glenn Powell for a long time.
Jen and I met him together years ago at like an award show party.
He was so nice. He's the handsome actor from Twisters?
Yes, correct. And he's also from Texas and we sort of did that like, oh you're from Texas, I'm from Texas and we exchange information And, like, every once in a while over the years, we'll just check in with each other.
Like, hey, how's it going?
Or congrats on this, or he'll invite me to something, or I'll invite him to something.
And he's just such a great guy.
So I see online, because you know, I'm home scrolling, that he has a new line of condiments.
Like, condiments made with organic ingredients.
And it's called Smash Kitchen, OK?
Barbecue sauce, spicy mayo, yes.
A whole line of them.
And I just DMed him like, hey, this is fantastic.
Congratulations. And he's like, thanks so much. He's like, are you in town this week?
I'm going to have a little thing to celebrate it.
Are you around? And I said, I am.
And I'm thinking to myself, oh my gosh.
We didn't really do much over spring break.
This is going to make Isabel's day because she is such a big fan.
So I text him and I say, I can come.
Can I bring my daughter?
And he's like, absolutely.
That would be amazing.
because like, you know, his parents are going.
This is like a family affair.
There's going to be wonderful barbecue and lots of good dipping sauces.
Anyway, I tell Isabelle and she loses her mind.
And can I tell you guys what I wore?
Yes, of course you can say what you wore.
Friday Chit Chat. Thank you, Sam.
I wore a sweater I got at the mall ages ago like at a little, you know, the little pop -up kiosk in the middle of the mall.
Yeah, I couldn't even tell you like it was just one of those randos I bought and Then I wore my tennis shorts.
Love it. You guys That's some brand for you.
It's great. I know but I was like, well, I don't know you looked adorable by the way Thank you.
I did my own hair and makeup and Isabel and I go she's so tickled we go really early We're like the first people there you guys it started at 7 we arrived at 708 now I And I said, Isabelle, we're just gonna stay two hours cause we wanted to get back home and be able to hang out and watch a movie and stuff.
So there's not a lot of people there at that time.
I mean, a ton of people showed up, don't get me wrong.
I just want to point out, arriving at 7 .08 to something at 7 p .m. in Los Angeles is the same as arriving two hours early anywhere else in the country.
Absolutely. I know.
Well, anyway, it was so cute.
It was this fancy, fancy estate – with like the view of the whole city, like that kind of thing.
And there was cornhole, so me and Isabel played cornhole while we waited for people to get there.
And then there was like a french fry -like stand with all the different dipping sauces.
Jenna, you know how much I love dipping sauces.
This was heaven for me.
I assume they're his dipping sauces.
So we're hanging out.
Of course. Yes! Well, of course.
OK, how many missteps can you make in one conversation?
And he was so kind, bless his heart.
And so he sees us from across this area.
People are around him and he makes a face like, hey, like that super like hey, I've seen a friend.
I was like, oh, yay.
And Isabel was like, mom, can I please just get one picture with him?
I was like, yes, honey, we will make it happen.
So we go up and we're chatting with him and he's so nice.
Thankfully it was loud so I don't think he heard me, but I said congratulations on Smashed Kitchen.
This is so great. It's smash.
Yeah Wait Angela didn't you do this with the TV show as well with this I Or something the president of NBC I say congratulations on ya the TV show Yeah, so clearly if I can't it's not in my brain it's gonna be smashed I don't think he heard me so that was good, but Isabel's face you guys bless her heart She literally made this face like, Oh my God, Mom, seriously?
He was like, well, thanks, you guys so much for coming out.
I said, yeah, we didn't have anything going on.
Straight to, great.
And Isabel, Isabel just looked at me like, what?
But anyway, he was lovely, and we got a picture.
And I texted him later, and I was like, thanks so much for inviting us out.
And he was like, oh, you two cuties, thanks for coming.
So Isabel was like, Mom, should we stay a little bit later?
People are starting to arrive.
I'm like, no, no, no, honey.
I was like you don't understand what this valet line is going to be like to leave this party.
It's going to be horrible.
People are going to be staying out here for an hour to get their car.
No, no, no. We were the first here, we're going to be one of the first to leave, and we will not be waiting for our car.
And then guess who you missed.
Well, so we left at 845, and we had a lovely time.
Leo DiCaprio came. Leo.
And you missed him?
Leo DiCaprio. Oh, the things you could have, the way you could have put your foot in your mouth to Leonardo DiCaprio.
I know. I know. I know.
The things I could have, how much could I have gotten wrong?
What do you think like you would have said to Leo wrong?
Anything Revenant related?
The bear. I know, this would have been Titanic at best. Well, my...
Yeah. You were great in Titanic'dd.
Yeah, Titanic'd. Is there anyone else you did or did not say hello to at this fancy party?
Oh, I did chat for a while with Lamorne Morris, I love him, and while we were chatting this gal ran up and by this point, it is like a packed party.
And this gal sees us chatting and runs up to us with a little fuzzy microphone.
You know how the influencers hold the little microphone and they talk into it?
I've never seen that in real life, though.
I had never seen it in real life, either.
And she was very nice.
But she wanted to interview us about Smash Kitchen.
And she asked us if a hot dog is a sandwich, if we think a hot dog is a sandwich. I've heard this conversation.
This is a hot topic.
It is. And I was asked this one time for a newspaper article.
And people came for me so hard. So I basically was like, Lamorne, don't answer.
They're going to come for you.
What did you answer last time?
I said a hot dog is not a sandwich. And by the way, that's what Lamar said too.
And there were people are like, hey it is meat and two pieces of bread, it's a sandwich. So is a hamburger a sandwich?
That's what Lamar said.
No, we're getting too loose with the word sandwich here.
Is it meat between two pieces?
No because peanut butter and jelly doesn't have meat, but that's a sandwich. Grilled cheese is a sandwich, I don't think meat is a prerequisite or if something's a sandwich. Meat is not a prerequisite, it's a thing with two pieces of bread.
but meatball sub is a sandwich. So what's the difference between a meatball sub and a hot dog, really?
Similar type of bread.
So I guess you're saying that a hot dog is a sandwich?
I think I would say that a hot dog is a sandwich. I don't want to get into some weird Star Wars territory.
I look forward to this being shared on a lot of Psych Clickbait.
Yeah. Yeah, this is going to be the clickbait for this episode.
Yeah, I will say a hot dog is not a sandwich because I've never been to a sandwich store that sells hot dogs.
That's a good, like, Subway doesn't sell hot dogs.
They sell sandwiches.
That's a very good observation.
And I feel like if I asked for a hot dog at a nice sandwich place they would say no. They would say, we don't have hot dogs here.
Get out of here, sir.
They would judge you.
Yeah. Get out of here, you stupid hot dog.
Yeah, so anyway, that was a big night for us at spring break.
Huge. but Isabel had the best time and we got the cutest photo with Glenn and he's just such a nice person, I'm so happy for him.
Yeah, but I need my small talk license, I need to go back to small talk license school.
I think you just need to avoid the word smash and you're gonna be okay.
Anyone else want to share their spring breaks?
Please, please don't let me be the only one.
I do want to say when I was driving into the studio today, Billie Jean King was getting her star on the walk of fame.
Oh my gosh. Yeah, and I got stopped at the stoplight, I saw a woman giving a speech like right there, so I rolled down my window to be like, who is it?
It was Jamie Lee Curtis, and she was giving Billie a speech that made me be like, I wish she was my friend, because she was like, Billie is power, power on the court, power in activism, power in being a friend.
And I just felt like I was at church, sitting at the stoplight, and it was amazing.
It was really cool.
What a cool and very, this feels like a true Hollywood moment.
Wow. You roll down your window, and it's like Jamie Lee Curtis?
Wow. Jenna, I have a question for you.
I just finished reading the book I was reading and automatically, I just have a pile of books on my desk that are up next to my key.
Why am I reading Huckleberry Finn again?
Are you reading it right now?
Because I'm so sorry - Yeah, I am.
Because I gave up on it.
I just started it. I bailed on it.
Did you bail on that Jenna?
Sam, it's because we were going to read Huckleberry Finn and then read this book James, which is a contemporary novel - That's right.
By Percival Everett.
Okay. This was the book I wanted for Christmas was James, so it's this like retelling of the book, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
But that book is told from the perspective of Jim, who is the enslaved black man who accompanies Huck Finn on these quote unquote adventures.
And so in the book James, you're getting to hear everything that Jim is thinking and feeling and who he is and his take on their adventure.
And it's absolutely amazing.
Great, okay. Cool. And so I had a lot of friends tell me that I would appreciate it more or that it would be a richer experience for me if I reread Huckleberry Finn first. How far did you make it?
Um, I mean where are you in Huckleberry Finn?
I made it to their living on the island, and Huckleberry Finn has faked his own death and now he's living on the island with with James, with Jim.
So I gave up on Huckleberry Finn.
I was like, sorry Mark Twain.
This is not what I want to read on my vacation.
And I just started reading James and it's so good.
And I am glad that I read a few chapters of Huckleberry Finn just to kind of like remind me.
John Wickett, just to John Wickett.
I'm just a Lord of the Rings it.
Have I John Wick Sam into Huckleberry Finn?
Sam was like, why am I reading Huckleberry Finn again?
Why have I read three Huckleberry Finn novels back to back?
Why am I reading Mark Twain?
I wish I had checked in and I had just finished the book and you were like, oh, I didn't read that at all.
No, no, no. I read a few chapters.
Just skip to the thing that you really want to read.
Well, James is great.
I really highly recommend it.
Well, Jenna, you had a very relaxing spring break.
Yeah. What was your takeaway from it?
Do you have a nugget of, like, something that you reconnected with in yourself?
Well, I went to Hawaii for five days with my family.
But I took off work the weekend before and the weekend after.
So I had, like, this real separation from my work life for, like, that whole, like, nine days.
Where, like, I truly put an away message on my emails and I didn't open them on my trip, I did not do emails on my trip.
Wow. I really put it away.
And we also had this thing where we wanted to leave our phones in the room all day, me and Lee.
Because we just wanted to be like super present.
Cause you know, Lee just wrapped his movie.
But he didn't have to start editing until this week.
So we could both really put our work away and just be together as a family.
And I said, well, the problem is if I have my phone and I'm taking pictures, then I see that I have a text or I see that I have a alert.
So I like don't even want my phone on me, but I want pictures from this trip.
So we went to Walmart and we got a little like waterproof digital camera.
And that is what we took all of our pictures on minus a few like pictures on our phone when we got dressed up and we were like, well, someone please take a picture of us in front of the sunset.
But, like, almost all our pictures are on this thing, and we also couldn't really see them.
Like, my eyesight wasn't great, like if we were swimming or snorkeling.
I had no idea if it was even on.
I'd have to be like, is it on?
Mom can't see without her glasses.
We have the most creptastic photos from this trip.
Are they blurry? There are photos with, like, half a finger in front of the lens.
We got a couple of those.
They're like half eyes are half open, half closed.
Like sometimes people are in the frame, but they are so pure.
They're like, so like, they're better than any pictures we've ever taken on a vacation.
I'm now in love with this idea of going on vacation with the craptastic camera.
And we are in love with these pictures.
They're so fun, but it was just, it was a great vacation.
And it was like, I really unplugged.
And I think that it helped change my relationship to my phone.
Like I check my phone so much when I don't need to.
I always like have to have it near me, I have like, you know.
And so I wanna keep that going.
But then at the same time I get home and I'm like, but what if the school nurse calls?
Or what if Lee stops at the grocery store and wants to know if we need a thing?
And I'm like, sorry, babe, I just didn't wanna look at my phone for three hours.
You know, it's like I'm wrestling with like, how to bring that home.
And I don't know how.
Lady, lady. What is that?
I have an idea for you.
You are someone who has a landline.
Oh my God, you're right.
The nurse, I need to start giving out my landline.
The nurse, the landline.
Yeah. But only give it to people who you would want to pull through, right?
Like to penetrate your world.
So it's the school.
It's Lee, I mean me.
I should have my line, line, line.
But don't abuse it, Angela, or Jenna's going to change your number.
I won't abuse it, but I might start prank calling it.
Well, I absolutely love that, Jenna.
And I can't wait to see your digital photos.
I'll be so excited to see them.
You know what? I should post some.
I'll post. Well, ask my family first because there are.
Yeah. See which ones.
I'll show you for sure in the studio.
some from the fancy party I went to.
In case I never get invited back to one.
But we did have a huge life milestone happen in our family today.
Huge. Today was the first morning since our kids started school that we did not do carpool drop off because Jack has his driver's license and he's allowed to drive his siblings to school and there's a parking lot for students that have a driver's license.
So today was the first morning ever that neither myself or Josh did car pull drop off.
Wow. That is such a milestone.
I remember talking to this dad and he said that in his opinion, your whole life changes twice when you're raising kids and they're both car related, he said.
He was like, the first one is when you can say everyone get in the car and they can just get in.
You don't have to strap them in.
And this is when they can drive themselves like they're still living in your home, but they can drive themselves.
He's like, there are two car related milestones that like change everything about the dynamic of how you operate.
And I was, it's like I didn't know what to do with myself as they walked out the door, I found myself just like yelling random things at them, I'm like, I have extra friends sticks.
And they're like we're.
Exactly. Yes. Okay okay bye okay.
I'm like, I know. Yeah.
That's a big deal. And then I had all this extra time this morning.
I did stretches before, before my day.
Look at you, look at you.
What is you lady? Maybe, maybe this is the year.
You taking the time for you.
Maybe this is the year.
You're using that extra time for yourself.
Maybe this is the year I touch my toes.
Who knows? Jenna I'm going to Coachella this weekend.
I think I'm going to take my phone off or like leave it in my tent and just take that film camera you guys got me for Christmas.
Oh yes! Yeah! Those photos will tell.
Yeah. So have fun. Are you gonna see Green Day at Coachella?
I am gonna see Green Day at Coachella.
Yeah. Nice. Very good.
Well, this was a fun Friday chit chat.
And before we go, I just want us all to say thank you to everyone out there that was part of us getting nominated for a WEBBY award. Yes.
Thank you. We're nominated for comedy podcasts.
We're in second place right now.
That's right. You can vote until April 17th.
We're gonna put a swipe up in our stories.
So we're officially nominated for best comedy podcast where you can go and vote for us, please do.
and then we are a honoree for best comedy co -hosts.
And I thank you for the honor.
I am honored. It's just a declaration.
Yeah, it's a declaration.
So there you go. I'll take it.
I'll take it. But we love doing this podcast, it means the world to us.
So after all these years for people to put us in these categories of best comedy podcast, best co -host, I mean, what an amazing thing.
So thank you. Yeah, thank you.
I'll take it. I like it.
Feels good. Feels good.
That's a great way to get back on your phone.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's a nice message to come home to for sure.
All right, you guys.
Well, we hope you have a great Friday.
And we're sending you hugs from over here at OfficeLadies 6 .0.
See you later. Bye.
See you later. Bye.
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