Welcome to Buns and Banter, a podcast by work Busties for work Busties. Hey, I'm Lauren and I'm Ali. We're both morning show hosts for iHeartMedia. We're both millennials, and we're both trying to figure out how to build the live sweet dream about dating, marriage, career, career, and being a mom, how to get through a week without crying. Welcome to Buns and Banter. We're glad you're here. I love that. I love that he loves it energy. The energy Kid's just a hype machine walking around.
I love that for him. Yeah, he's so good at it because it would be a rough if it were the other way. And he hated going to Yeah school. Yeah, so I'm glad that he loves it at private school. No, he does. He'll be so excited for Catholic Schools Week dressed like a Saint Day. Some kids go hardcore too. I remember doing pick up last year and I was like, oh, is it terrible that I'm like, wait, shouldn't shouldn't this be like Catholic Schools Week? Shouldn't
it be during like Easters? It makes sense, well, you know what, it's leading up to Lent though, oh, okay, Lent's coming. I think like the twelfth. I think it's the day after the Super Bowl. I'll oh, get your sins out now, because we are in repent period for the next forty Yeah. Yeah, they'll learn about that. But it's fun. It's it's great. My kid's going to private school, paying
a good chunk, but it's worth it, I guess. Yeah, so let's talk about let's talk about his homework, because this is just like, yeah, it's so cute. But also I would be like, uh, oh, so I have to admit. So my husband and I are both Catholic, baptized all the sacraments, and my kids have not gotten baptized yet.
You know, when we got over here to West Michigan, it just did feel like the churches were a little different than how I grew up in Lansing, and we were kind of trying to find our community, if you will. So Will's not baptized yet. We planned on it. He's not baptized yet, So it's homework they're doing. He's six, he's six, he's five, he's five. We're gonna do it probably before six. He's
five. Okay, I mean, like I don't care no, I know, I just feel I feel really bad, Like there's the Catholic guilt that comes in, right, we're so good at it. I don't have it. I was raised Methodist, am baptized a confirmed but well, no purgatory for this one. So we get this email from his teacher, and I'm
automatically uncomfortable because I'm like, oh darn it. I knew we were gonna have to face this at some point, Like it makes sense that that's what they would talk about and learn about because he's going to a Catholic school. So I had to like fire back an email. It's like, oh, you know, is there an alternative idea? And she was so kind, she said, there's a few other parents that are doing this as well, instead of having him, you know, find pictures from his baptism and talk
about the story. Why what are you supposed to do when you're like an infant anyway, draw what you think your baptism would look like? Oh, when you whenever you do get baptized, if you get baptized, what do you think? Oh? Will was so stoked, so stoked because I told him so. I told him. We worked on it the other night and I said draw your baptism. He goes, oh, I already know what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna draw myself in the River Jordan next to Jesus.
I was like, oh, we are feeling some kind of way about our soul. Oh he's think he's got a he's got Jesus got flug. He's got an idea though, that that's gonna be his baptism. Yep. And he was all like, he drew Jesus, he drew Saint John the Baptist, that's he was there, blessing him, dunkan him. Oh what they will be? They were the whole thing. And I was like, oh, man, okay, I mean shoot for the stars. Yeahcause even
if you missed, you land on the moon is like really cliche. A lot of kids get a spring break trip their senior year, Will gets a baptism trip to the River Jordan, which I don't know. The geographical things have changed so much in world history since biblical times? Is it not in Jordan? I don't. I don't know. Oh, I mean I I would think. So, you know what, let's get to the Google machine.
Let's get to the Google. You learn something every time you listen to buns how I thought this podcast was gonna go and that you know, that's really the draw of buns and banter is that you just really never know. That is the second thing asked on Google. So it's not just us, it's a Jordan. It's a Jordan. Well it runs along the border between oh Jordan and the West Bank. That's like a it's got some violence currently
done that I don't know Israel in southwestern Syria. You're definitely gonna need passport, yep, I don't know. Maybe we'll go to the River Jordan. Okay, so they work out some some things, Okay, but maybe we just like recreate it. We can look at Google photos, right mm hmm. Yeah, it's gonna be great. I just need a Yeah. He's all he's gonna care about is being in some great water with Jesus. You know this. I think that more kids should. I mean baptize your kids
whenever you want. But I do like the idea of the child being a little bit older when they get baptized too, just from like the chaos aspect, Like I want to know what questions they're gonna ask, and like with a baby, you don't really have a choice, like you're getting dunked or you're getting like you're getting some water on the you know, like a baby. You don't know what's going on. The worst it can happen is they cry. I feel like this the opera could be gold. I really thought
you were gonna go with. I just think it's really great that they can learn what's happening and make the decision. You're like, I'm here for the show. Yeah, because he drew his picture and he's getting he's getting really good at people, like he draws really good people now. And then there was this little well, it looked like a little brown d right up in the corner of the picture beyond okay, an atomical part. Yeah, And I was like, buddy, what is that. He goes, obviously that's
the dove, the dove, Like, yeah, it's something. It's the other d word, the dove. So he had the dove, and he drew the Holy Spirit similarly. So that went to school today and maybe hung up in the hallway. Amazing. I'm proud of it, proud of him. He's such a good little man, what a good little soul. And you made your debut last night. We have to talk about Lauren's segue into sports broadcasting. I'm doing this for us because I think we would be really
great at sports broadcasting. And I want to shout out Alan, one of our big ones, because he said that same thing to me. He said, Oh my gosh, I would love to see you and Ali doing more with sports. And I'm loved it, Oh my gosh. In West Michigan, we have our very first women's pro volleyball team, the Grand Rapids Rise. So cool it is, and last night was just it was like onspiring.
I guess that's a really cliche thing to say, but the amount of like little girls there that were just eyes wide open, jaw on the floor because they've never gotten to see something like this at a professional level. Yes, And there were so many women there, like, our coach is a woman. Yep. They're hearing a PA announcer that's a woman, the color color commentary is a woman. Yes. And then there were like a ton of guys there that were just so into the action. They'd made signs.
There were people there Kathy's crew or something like that for coach coach Kathy. It was so cool and I was so scared for weeks. Oh my god, I can do you, like every single day, just ready to absolutely soil my pants over this. It's nothing I've ever done before. So the game was last night at seven o'clock, which, to be honest with you, is a little past my bad time. So I didn't make it out, but I do plan to go to some games in the future. I had to come out in a games. I had a couple of friends go
last night. Oh yeah, that said it was an absolute riot, and they also said that it was a packed house. It was sold out. That's I love it. I love it. And then there were these moments so before doors opened, so it's just like the team and you know, the crew there, one of the player's moms came and like started and the only reason I like could eavesdrop is because they were right behind me. But it was so sweet. She was just like, I'm sorry, I didn't
think I would do this. I'm just so proud of you, Like, I can't believe I'm finally seeing you like able to realize your dream and do this. And then the other thing that's so remarkable to me is how many of these women are moms. O O, oh my gosh. And recent moms. I had babies maybe a year and a half ago. Now in Spandex smashing a volleyball into someone's face. It's incredible. And so we were sitting there and one of the players, her husband or partner walked in with
their little girl, who is so stink and cute. I saw at the scrimmage last week and she sees across the cornhills. Oh my god, I forgot to give her dinner, didn't I hold on, hold on, leave's practice to go and like get some stuff from concessions for her, like goes from professional volleyball player into mo mode, back into professional volleyball player. And I just think that is such a cool example of something to see. Yeah,
it's amazing. I love it that. It was so cool. I was watching some of the videos on the Rise social media gr Rise if you want to follow them online, and you should, and it was just like Little Mike sessions where they talk about their favorite TV show or the music that they listen to. And there are some country music fans on the Rise,
which I'm super excited about. We should hang out ladies. Also, a lot of them their favorite shows are like oh, Gossip Girl, Girl or one Tree Hill and I'm like, these are my people, Yeah, these are my people, yes, and just they're dominating. It was so I don't know, it's just we're both very female empowered and to see just a sport at a professional level and men with their jaws on the floor over that
level of play, they are so frickin' good. I think it's time for professional I mean, I think it has been time for professional sports for women to become more of an event where they're attended and they're watched and they're like people are fangirling out. And I think we've sort of seen that with like college sports for sure, and we're definitely getting there, like a lot of like women's basketball, there are a lot of celebrities now that attend WNBA games
and like that. I just feel like is one of the dominoes that needs to fall, Like once the celebrities start going and people are like, oh, this is like cool now to go to these It's always been cool but welcome right Like it's having a big moment right now, and I love that this is a piece of it. It is. I was just so stoked to see every seat and like nobody getting up. It was we have like a deal that we run for some of our minor league teams here, two
dollars beers, two dollar dogs. Yeah, oh did they do that? They did it last night. Epic, but like people would run really quick, like during a break. Otherwise they were in their seats because they did not want to miss a second. Well, volleyball, I also think is one of the more interesting sports to watch. I've got nothing against basketball.
I played basketball when I was in high school. I also played volleyball when I was in high school, and I feel like I would rather watch volleyball than basketball in my opinion, at any level, at any level, it was just like boom boom. It was really really really cool. So if you're one of our local listeners or viewers, like you should really come to a game. It's worth it. That would be fun. I want to put a group together. I want like yeah, and we'll be like your
cheering section. Oh gosh, that's nice. We're gonna get your face, print it out, we're gonna put it onto six he had When I got there, they had like a camera in my face the whole time, and I was like, if you run a second of that on the jumbo tron. I was like, I have been up since three o'clock in the morning without a nap. No, yeah, get her up there, get her up there, put her socials up there, get it. Let's get a buns in banter, like little yeah, ten second video that they can play
on the jumbo tron intro. Yes, because they've invited me. They're like, oh my gosh, shout out your show is what you do. And I was like, okay, yeah, we'll just give me a good thirty seconds to run down the stuff. Put seriously though, I'm right, yeah, it was cool. I just man, I felt I felt like the Shania Twain song needed to start, and I feel like a woman, That's what I felt like. It was a good knife. Should it should be
played after the national anthem at every woman's sporting event. It should be played, and we will all remain standing, hands over our hearts, thank you. Yes, one hundred percent. There's a possibility I have offended like twice now in the last like four minutes. I don't know how people feel about religion or the fact that I just was like, should I Twain deserves the same respect as our national anthem? This is real, This is unfiltered.
This is real. This is why you come here. Did you watch Sultburn? No? Okay, okay, that's fine. I can't get a moment. I try. I started it, yeah, and then my kid got up. I know I can. I still haven't watched Barbie. Oh okay, but yeah, I can't judge you as I haven't watched Sultburn. I mean, I don't think they're the same thing. No, I don't like one is like very much necessary to live in the world as a woman.
Oh, I do know my Saltburn character. Oh, and I haven't watched it, so I thought it would be fun for you to tell me. Okay, I know mine too. Oh did you? Yeah? I did it on banks TikTok on TikTok does yeah, okay, what is his name? Where did it go? Oh? No, where did my TikTok go? Did they take it down? Because I was just so amazing. I hate when they do that. I don't know. No, I don't know who. I don't know where it is. It was. It was the guy not with the bigger nose. It was a lordy character, Jacob a
Lordie that one me too, me too? So what does he do? He's like the main character Felix, so he does some weird stuff. Then no, he doesn't, He's not in the bathtub. It's just Oliver who does the weird stars. Okay, Berry Kyogan. I think that's how you say it. I think it's kyogan. I've done a ton of stories about it, and I just don't I just say Barry, yeah, which I mean, oh burn Barry. There are not a lot of berries in Hollywood, so it's kind of a good name. So that's probably great for us
to have. We do have main character energy. We're just very afraid of ever hyping our main character energy. It's true. We're not good at self promotion. No, I can't. There were so many people that shot me DMS last type and said, I didn't know you're a PA announcer. I was like, that is because I am terrified of talking about myself. Yep unsure. So you know, until until you're like really good at I do the same thing. Until I'm like really good at something, I don't talk
about it. Nope, that wasn't me. My god look alike apparently so excited for you though. That's epic, and I really do think we should make a little bit more effort for like a sports What would be the sport you would love to call? Because I think I could fake my way through golf. I would love to do golf as well. I would love it. Seems no offense, it seems so simple it and it's so cold. Yeah, yeah, hyped, I know, but I feel like we could
bring a real pitch perfect energy to Dame. You know, yeah, Elizabeth Banks. And who is that guy? I can never remember his name. We're going to google him too, because we were talking about this and I felt so bad. I'm like, man, he's in so many things. He's such a funny guy and nobody ever he was in Crashers. Yeah, like he's resident funny guy. But he's not even top building the cast.
Well, they don't have a huge party. John Michael Higgins, John Michael Higgins, I've never heard that name in my life, but you know who know who it is, but you know who is super famous, And I really think that we could That would be amazing. Yeah, golf. I'm telling you. My friend Tim said the same thing. He goes, I want you to start commentating the NFL, and I was like, then we would once again be seeing a lot of Taylor Swift. Yeah, yeah, I'd be like, oh, that looked like a down But did you see
the puffy jacket that our designer just put onte? I know, I do love I think it is it juice check? Is that how you pronounce I think so the last name. I don't know much about him, but I know that he's a very supportive husband and his wife is making all of these clothes and she made Taylor Swifted jacket for the Chief credible and every post about this like jacket that she made. I think his name's Kyle. Is it Kyle j Right? He's like in the comments being like made by Kylie is
it Kylie? No? Or Kyle or his wife John his wife? His wife. We're really good at supporting women. I know of her right, her love her stuff. Yeah, but I think that that is so cute. He's like hyping her up at the same time that he's like playing professional football and she's like making clothes, not even for the team that he plays
on. Man, we have talked about this on the pod before. I think it is an absolute pillar of a relationship, whether you just started dating and you're wondering if this is a good fit or you're thinking about that next level, you have to have at least a percentage of a hype boyfriend, hype girlfriend whatever. They've got to be proud of what you're doing, and they've got to be public about it. They don't they don't have to be in my opinion, they don't have to be like proud of it. Well,
yeah, they've got to be kind of proud of it. But all you're doing. Yeah, but I think of like lean into the cringe, like on social media. A lot of people post cringe stuff on social media because it gets hits and like it helps you grow your platform. So you have to be like cringey a certain amount of time in order to like grow the following. And I feel like you just have to have someone who like tolerates that and like understands it. Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, you
know. That's a good definition of like an insta boyfriend too. Like you don't even have to love the stuff I post. You don't have to understand it. You just have to, like you just have to be supportive and be like, yeah you do you. I already feel bad enough about it. I don't need you to join in. Just say cringe up. I know were making things happen. Look at you go, I know, look at you go. Gosh, man, man, oh man, I've got an update. I was I did you see my eyes? I was like,
can I ask? I said, we didn't really discuss it before. We're in the app, and I didn't run this by him either. So this is a show our favorite. Yeah, okay, I'm just gonna rip the band aid off. I have a boyfriend and he's meeting my parents this weekend. What. Yeah, I didn't even know this crazy, right we have We have a labeled relations labeled it's labeled I didn't meeting your parents. I'm yeah, we're meeting the parents. And it's like a really weird.
Oh it's a big step. When everyone I talk to keep saying so soon, and I'm like, is it too soon? No? When's too soon to meet the parents? So I would not I don't listen to other people about timeline, Like please step off, lindsay you got married after four months of dating. I literally don't need your advice on anything. Right, Is this is this the gentleman that you had known from the past? Yes, not too soon? Oh this is so sweet. Okay, so full story
because I feel like okay, yeah, no, it's totally fine. We knew each other when we were kids. Our dad's coached football together, so like joking, we didn't know. But like when we were kids, we both had like the biggest crushes on each other. Oh my god, and we just like never knew that because we were six and eight and like sort of like six and nine or whatever. But like we were children. So then obviously, like life carries on and you just like go your separate ways
and like do your own thing. Apparently we both been in grand rapids for like the last fifteen years and we just like didn't even know because the planets had to align and here we are. So yeah, so we like reconnected on a dating app, which there's a difference of opinion in when he reached out the first time. He says that he reached out to me for the first time like over a year ago. I don't remember him good reaching out.
You guys are already having the argument about who liked wo long, I'm so excited but anyways, boyfriend boyfriend, and like you're you're saying it really excitedly, Yeah, which is I am excited? Yeah? No, I I like I like him Oh shit, this is great, Like you were dating, like, but it's such like a foreign thing and I'm trying not to be like obnoxious about it, but I'm I think you should be. I think you deserve to be. But yeah, thank good. And he's
meeting my parents this weekend. Like we we know each other's parents because our dad's coached together, so obviously there's a relationship there. Our parents don't really keep in touch that much either, so I'm like re meeting his parents, which is like a weird layer because we're like, is it weird that we already feel like we already know these people but we really don't. Yeah, we really don't. And you were different, I mean, like you're not
six and eight, right, It's so cool. I know it's it's pretty cute. But everyone that I like, I just told my my co host, my morning show co host about it after your morning show. It's fine, that's fine. I mean, like you you knew about him. He also found out today, I my morning show co host, so like, no, no, it's a matter of like hours that you're finding out it. For man, I'm just so excited it was labeled. I didn't know it was Oh yeah, it was labeled yeah beautiful, and you guys are
both going to the east side. Then we are. So it's my my mom and dad's birthdays. My dad's birthday was yesterday, my mom's birthday is today, So we're going to celebrate their birthday this weekend. And then, in a weird also other coincidence, his mom lives in the subdivision, like right across a way from my parents. This could not be more This is gonna be a Hallmark movie. Oh my god. So I think we're just gonna like grab dinner with his mom mate his sister when like cut through the
backyards and just get to the house. I mean we could we could that. This is so great, This is so cool. So yeah, how soon is too soon to meet the parents? Like if you just had to be like, that's too soon. I do think it was weird when I had my first college boyfriend, like the way things, the way the cards fell. He was there when my parents like came to pick me up.
I didn't have a car my first year of college, so he was there when my parents came to pick me up for Thanksgiving break and we'd met together like four weeks. Oh, I don't think that's weird. I was like, well, because then like they knocked on my dorm room door, and I was down because I lived in traditional housing, so I was down in
the community bathroom. Yeah, and then he opened it, so he was like hello in his athleisure where I guess I will say, and my mom's like hello, and I was like, oh my god, this is my boyfriend. That was not like great, especially because he was four years older than me. Oh my god, my dad dad keeled over. Oh love that. Yeah, what dorm are you in? Kissler? Same? Yeah, girl land up on the fourth floor. Oh yeah, yeah. So probably that was a little too soon, maybe, but okay, it was
like who I'm married to now? They met him because we were friends first, we weren't dating. So then when I brought him home once, I was like, we're dating. My mom's like really, It's like yes, but why But that ended up working out fine. Yeah, well you know we've been we've been dating for like a month and a half, so we're actually not much longer than that. But you have the history. I know.
That's why it does feel a little bit different than another person, and like it it feels My co host was like this seems like fast for you, like usually you are not. Yeah, well that's fair, quite as motivated to like dive in the way that you are, and like I don't. I don't feel like I'm diving in. I feel like it's just like convenient, like I'm going home this weekend for my parents' birthdays, and like he is, can also get a trip in to see his family and they
lived down the street, and like everybody used to know each other. So it doesn't feel like the steaks are as high as it would if I was meeting total strangers. That being said, still nervous, yeah, I mean absolutely still nervous, but it just feels right, oh god, yeah, yeah. You know. I don't like talking about this kind of stuff because I don't like to tempt fate. I don't like to tempt the universe.
Like when things are going well, I just like to keep to myself and like, if it's broke, don't fix it exactly, Like I don't want to. I don't want because as soon as something starts going good and you're excited about it, something terrible goes wrong. Find Out he's got a life, find out he's got a wife and kids. It would be terrible, but not the case, but not the case. Just doing like a like
a dinner, like a chill dinner. I think dinner with his side will like we'll go out and then like I'm I'm not worried for him to come to my parents' house, but like we'll just be hanging out at my parents house. We're gonna have pizza and like have drinks and stuff, which is sick usually when stuff. But my my niece is like really excited to meet him. Oh my god, and she is a wild card, wild card,
so I was this one sick. So I am, like, I'm more nervous about that than my parents, because like kids, if kids will just say it to your face, yes, and they have no shits, they are savage, honest beings. I will be honest. I have had hurt feelings before and then and then you have to collect yourself and think like, no, I'm the adult in this situation. This shouldn't affect me, Like, so we're hoping for the best. I am now trading spots with you where I'm so stoked for the chaos, yes, yes, six and
meeting the new boyfriend. Yeah, but you know what you're gonna get an honest rundown. I it's priceless, and I like, I'm like this would be funny to post on TikTok like I should. But then like the update, like I haven't told anybody about this, so I'm literally gonna be like, hi, it's me. A couple updates. A lot has happened. I've got a boyfriend, he's meeting my parents. Here's how that's gonna go. Actually, that is a really fun I feel like it would be really
funny. And then just film because my mom is also like super awkward like me, I know exactly where I get it from. And she's already she has called me every day this week like okay, so like, what's the plan again, What's like, what's happening? What should I I'm like, relax, write me out a list of conversational topics that are okay. Yeah, but mostly she just like has quite like how are your mom and dad?
I haven't seen him in twenty five years? Oh so jokingly, I know, jokingly, we refer to like the period of time that we didn't know each other. We just like we call that our twenty five year break, Like we just took a twenty five year break. I don't think we could get better at us so cute. He's always like, you know, I really wish we never took that twenty five year break. I know, so far as third person in the combo, he's saying some nice things.
Yeah, and he did. He. I would say that he met my friends pretty early on in the in the situation as well, because it just the way it fell. Yeah, New Year's Eve. It was just like a he met them on New Year's Eve? Do you have a New Year's Eve? Kiss of goly? I we have like been so deprived, deprived of each other. Well, it's been going, it's been going so well. So I've been quiet because I'm like, that's I don't want to mess it up. I don't want I don't know what relationship gods are listening or
what mood they're in, but I really enjoy this right now. Yeah, it's been a long time since I've been since I've like met parents. Are you guys driving over together together? Which was another thing that he was worried about because I'm driving and he's like, are your parents gonna think I'm a deadbeat for like not driving? I'm like, no, they're not gonna they're not gonna think that, but I love that he asked it. Yeah, no, but like you should pump her gas on the way home because it's
gonna be so cold to girl. So I already filled up. Oh of course you did. I already filled out, and I got an oil change yesterday, and I went to the car wash and like vacuumed out my car because it's like so full of dog hair. And I'm like, nobody wants to ride in my dirty as car for two and a half hours. So, yeah, what does Fran think of him? Oh, Fran is a special lady, as we know, and I can tell that she like,
she really wants to like him. She really wants to like him, but she's just like and she's a little bit older now, which I think it's getting tougher to introduce her to new people as she gets older. Fran is my behaviorally challenged seven year old pippole angel. She is so sweet once you make it into the inner circle. But man, she's making it really tough for him. Yeah, she is. It's also probably hard though that she is seeing her best friend forever with some other love in her life. Yes,
yes, she loved my ex Oh they were. They were like best buds. So's fan will give you a pass on that. Yeah, and like there was one other guy that I dated, the British guy. She also loved him. Okay, but that was five years ago. Yeah, yep, he's probably she's set in her ways for a bit and he will get in that circle. That's That's kind of what I'm thinking, Like, we just we really have to play the long game. But he wants it so bad. That's he wants it so bad. And I'm like, no,
I totally get that. But that's working against you because she can sense that, and she's gonna make you working harder. Yeah. So I wish I had any other word that I could use except cute. Right now, I'm just like geming over how freaking sweet this is. I'm so excited for your weekend. Yeah, I think it's gonna be amazing. I should have lots of updates, but like, def next week, TikTok right, I'm gonna try. I'd love it if you could film too, like her talking
to him. Yeah, I mute, and then you'll just write out what the dialogue. Oh my gosh, it's gonna be brillan it's gonna be brilliant, perfect, perfectly brilliant. Yep, so look at us, great good times. We're doing it. We're God love, religion, sports, hashtag, buns banter. You're gonna get your kid baptized, not in the river Jordan. But my moose parents are so relieved. I'm not gonna end up a crazy dog lady. Jury's out. We don't know yet, but some
serious effort coming from this gentleman, some serious efforts. We love it, and probably by next year you and I will be like calling NFL games for like Fox Sports a living, making millions of dollars m I'd actually like to retire, Oh yeah, like tomorrow, like right now. Yeah,