Welcome to the episode of Husbands Watching Housewives. I'm Scott and I'm Jeff, and we just watched episode of The Real Housewives of Miami. Yes, and and Art, Basil. Art Basil. Basil, not basil. It's not a. Herb, not a herb. You know what this episode was, don't you? It was the penultimate episode of the. Season. It was the penultimate.
We love a penultimate. We love penultimate, so it didn't strike me as a penultimate, it struck me as a boring ass episode I. Mean boy like that party was chaotic. I mean before the party though was so much of the episode and it wasn't until the party. It was a lot of like what's going on in my life scenes with each of them and not a lot of group scenes. But like when they got to like so much went on and we'll get to it at the party with all the like the different groups, wings
and then strata. Yeah, yeah. So how did it start? I don't remember, was it more of Julia talking about her family? No, I think it's sort of like Larson. So Larson was, oh, Kiki modeled. Oh yeah, Dad was proud of her. Yeah, but the ugliest luggage I've seen in a long time. Ugliest Sen. Ugliest Sen. But she looked great. Oh yeah, of course. Her dad's like, oh, you're not a hooker. It's always nice when your parents realize, yeah. This is modeling.
It's actually legit. It's like, yeah, this is, yeah, it's not that episode of Facts of Life with Julie. I do know what you're talking about. It makes me wonder, like, how much of the type of modeling that her father thinks is going on is actually going on in Haiti like. Yeah, well, I think it must. Be a big only fans. You know, a porn scene. I wouldn't say that. I think a lot of people are being exploited and trafficking and all of that.
So I think, you know, it's it's it's understandable. It's like you have like a young girl, your daughter who's saying like, oh, this person is saying I can go here and, and leave the country and go modeling. It's like it seems like a trap. Yeah, yeah, You know, or you're going to be made to be a sex worker. So luckily none of that happened. Yes, very lucky. Yes, but yes. No, I am.
I am curious. Maybe I'll do some Googling about like, you know, how prevalent that sort of thing is specific because or if that's just kind of a, you know, given maybe of of Kiki's age that was more prevalent than it is now or vice versa. Or, you know, if it was all just an old wives tale at some point. Yeah, you know, but yeah, definitely sounds like there's. Always a little bit of truth there somewhere. Yeah. I just don't want to disparage an entire country.
But they do say, they do say that, you know, Haiti and some of those countries, and that's in the Caribbean. Caribbean, yeah. I'm horrible with world geography, so I don't even know why I open my mouth about it. But they do say that there's, you know, some issues in those countries and I just don't know what they are. Yeah, but yeah. So. Larsa moved. Larsa moved into a house that wasn't finished yet. Why move then? Like the the only thing that's ready is the kitchen.
Is they're like the season's about to be over, cameras are going down next week. So if you want your house on there got to be this week. Exactly. And then I just invited Alexia and. Stephanie for a sleepover that I doubt they slept or doubt they were over. Didn't even show us. It didn't show Stephanie in her pajamas. Like she didn't even. Change. Oh, she didn't. Yeah. That lately they called cut. They're like, OK, I'm going
home. Yeah, this is, you know, Stephanie got cannot be away from her husband. So she was like, I gots to go. Yeah, yeah. Save the sushi boat. That was a big ass sushi. But that was the the Mayflower sushi. But I have to imagine that like if you get, if you call a sushi place in New York, I want catering, that's one of the options. And they just bring the whole boat, stick it on your table and you're good to go. But there must have been sushi for like 20 people in there.
There's a lot. There's only three of them and they know they're not going to eat on camera. I mean, I hope. I hope the crew got all that sushi. I would hope so. I feel like the crew probably gets a lot of leftover food from parties and whatnot because it's like it's all going to go to waste, right, Right. You know. The one thing that was going but kept coming up because it was Art Basel, which I've never heard before, is everyone's like, I love art, Art is great. I buy so much good art.
Larsa had the weird gummy bear delivered to her house. That was weird. That was weird. Like I don't want to say like that was stupid because I can't do anything better. Like that is someone's art. Yeah, exactly. I don't want to shit on them, but at the same time I don't want to fluorescent light up gummy bear. And. It's also gigantic and where the hell do you put that does? Is it going to live in the backyard?
It's going to live by the. Pool you can't I mean you're bringing your putting your house next to your fireplace thing with art. It's like I can appreciate art to a certain extent, but like, you know, I was like, oh, that's pretty put it on the wall, but I'm not deep into art, so I couldn't appreciate art. Art possible like I heard of that like as I was telling you like with that MTV, MTV Bravo show Gallery Girls that last the first season. That's why I first heard about Art Basel.
But. Right. Great. Yeah, I guess it's the same thing like New York Fashion Week with clothes. And then this is Miami's art scene. I don't know, like we don't have a lot of stuff hung on our walls. Like, I don't necessarily need this is our arts. I know I don't necessarily need anything unique. I, you know, for me, I'm much more into photos of us and our friends, things like that. There are a couple things I want to show you that I did think
this could be fun. Yeah, just recently, believe it or not. But yeah, I don't know that I would. I don't know. I wouldn't, I wouldn't necessarily have the chops to know what's good art, you know, on the scenes like. Certain things of that gallery like, oh, that looks kind of cool, but I wouldn't be able to be like, yeah, that's the best thing for my house. Or I do, I do like the artist that Adriana featured. Like I thought he had some good stuff. It was very looked kind of
impressionist. I think her explanation that he's got the strokes of a master, but you know, has the creativity of Dolly. It's just like, OK, I didn't see any Dolly in any of that, but what do I know? But I do also like that Lisa at one point touched the painting and then I almost need your. I want to know if she actually bought that thing. The $18,000 painting. Because she's like, I'll buy it, I'll buy it, I'll buy it, I'll buy it. Like I know I'm not supposed to.
Like she seemed legitimately like, like embarrassed that she touched it, but she did. She's like, I'm I'm gonna buy it. I'm I'm buying it. Or was she this thing like she was on camera? Right? This is like broad and with a necklace. Right. It was pretty though, and I think it would look good in her
house. I think when she started saying like, you know, she loves art and then it proceeds to show like a few things that she got and then the giant portrait of herself that was hungover, the stairs order that. Yeah, this is my art. It's. Me. I have a work of art. Ridiculous. But then, yeah, before the party, which we've already touched on, Julia was talking about her family again. And right.
Martina and I wonder if they're ever going to get to a place where I doubt the girls will be on camera. Well, definitely there's only one more episode. So that was gonna happen. But I think, you know, I really, I said this before, but I hope they get like get into the issue after you and about why they're so adamant about not wanting to
have. I get the feeling that this episode was supposed to be that, and Julia was trying to have that conversation with Martina that like the girl, one of the girls said, like, had you done this while we still lived there, then we would be part of it, but we're not part of it. So like, now we're gonna have these brothers that we just
don't know. And I think Martina was correct in a sense, but very German about it in the just very, very, very stoic of like they would have had this reaction either way, whether they lived here. They would have found a reason to not like this. Da da da da, you know she's. Right, that was. Very cut and dry that. Yes. Is she German? I don't forget. I don't think it's German, I think it's like she's another. She's something European, yes, in that area. Just threw me off.
I'm like, I don't think Martinez. She's a very sensible European. Yes, I think we need to get, we need to get the the home assistant set up up here so we can ask. You. Oh hey, Google. Yeah, during the thing. Now you've just set off everyone's sorry assistant device. Don't. Well, I wonder like when we talked about Alexia and someone else is playing in there and. Could you do Alexa? Alexa and Alexa, yeah. Might as well just say Hey Siri while you're at it. I don't know, Siri.
I don't have an iPhone. Yeah, yeah, might. As well. Ask Jeeves while we're on top of it. Yeah, not Jeeves. Speaking of. Butlers. Yeah, Jodie. Oh God that was also very awkward conversation. Like also why the tarnation? Does Lisa want to get engaged like this whole like? Took you so long, right to get divorced and now you are not that you're going to like, you know, the shows to be like out wild and being single, but like just wait a beat. Like you don't want to be a girlfriend.
Then just say like partners, whatever. Like the word choices, you know, doesn't matter here. But yeah, it's two things like why are you so quick to like want to jump into this too? Why would you expect him to jump with you given like what he's seeing play out between you and your ex and and three, it just seemed like seemed like he was really like, if you do this well, then I for sure will give you like a ring. If you read books or do therapy. I was like, this is very awkward.
And it seemed very patronizing. I didn't like it at all. Yeah, Judy's just off putting sometimes. Yeah, but I mean, understandable. Like, you know, he doesn't want her rushing right into it and he. Doesn't want to rush right into it. Yeah, yeah, bringing that back to ex husbands that should, you know, just go away. I am tired of hearing about Todd. So tired, so tired. And if Alexia doesn't want to talk about Todd, or doesn't want to have anyone weigh in about
Todd, stop mentioning him. It's stop being sorry. No, it's not being interesting at like towards like around like episode 5 or so I was like got it like she cried about she had that like breakdown on the restaurant. So now that it's like, wow, you know, we're trying again. And I'm like, I I don't want to know, just just save.
It like, I know, yeah, I know for all intents and purposes, it's her life and we're supposed to be seeing that in progress, but we're not seeing it. All we ever hear about is last night Todd and I screwed and that's it. It's like, oh, we saw each other before Thanksgiving and then the day after Thanksgiving, it's like you're not including him on the show. You're not even really talking
about your future. I just, I don't want to hear about it. I do want to see the scene next week with her and her sons where the sons like, no, I don't want my brother living in a house with this guy who's done this to you and done this to him. Right, right.
You know, so that's. I get the feeling like because I don't know, and maybe I'm wrong, I don't keep up with this outside of watching Miami, but I feel like the entire point of the his this just storyline this whole season is that it's he was never there, never get back together. It just irritating me. I don't follow it either, so I will be actually, I'm curious slightly about where they stand now and I'll hear about at the reunion. But you know what ABS. It's going to be a three-part
reunion. Is it? Of course. They're almost well on Earth. Well. There's supposed to be a bombshell. Oh, next episode. No, the reunion, you were saying? Oh, wait, wait, wait. Well, before we get there, we should get into the Gertie. Didn't have much to do. Gertie Gertie did the best she could do the entire episode, which was just say Adriana, say let's. That was bonkers that Adriana was just like.
Already get right to that. Yeah, out of nowhere, like it went from the whole age thing, which I swear I would have pegged on Julia. I was the. Cake person or Marisol? Yeah. The whole. Exactly. It was Kiki and the fact that she was like trying to do a good thing. But like, I love how she said like Adriana is something about like being 32. And that was a good year. Really. She said 45 to see and then the math. And then like Jessica Fletcher 1 and 2, Lisa and Larsa trying to
figure out who it was. No, it was Stephanie and Larsa and then Lisa just being like, oh, it was, it was Kitty. Yeah, I mean, so. And where did it go? Like it went straight. Adriana went straight from being. Well, the Julia thing didn't help. Right. So, yeah, so basically it was Julia saying like butting into like the nice Lisa Larson moment. They're actually getting along. Like, I just like being a Britney, basically. Like, I just want to say
something. And I'm so happy with you guys that you're back together as friends, but da da da Adriana like, well, then Martha tried to do matchmaker. Well, it made what Julia was saying was that like seeing the two of you together makes me want to see that with me and Adriana, right? I'd love to make amends with her, right? And then completely just went down the wrong the wrong path. Well, it didn't need to happen
at that party, right? They need to actually sit down and talk about their differences. That was the first. So it was like drunk Lars. Do they really? They do unless we're going to like move forward. It was like Larsa butting in what she shouldn't have tried to like do all parent trap with them that didn't work. And then Lisa telling Larsa who just blurted it out like oh it was Kiki who like did the cake thing which pissed off Adriana and like her head started
spinning around. Then Julia defending Kiki, which not the place, not the time. And then Adriana going off on her and Laura. Julia is saying like you're not fun anymore. It's like and you're you are. Yeah, you're a barrel of monkeys there. Right, with your two wispy strips, you're like Kyle Richardson to be like, girl, this is how you do wispies. Like, was it Julia? When I'm talking to her glam people, she was like, I want to do smoky and wet.
No, I no, she was like always Smokey eye and I was like always wet. Always her hair, always is doing the wet. I don't like it. So yes, I don't know how we get from Adra spinning about Julia spinning about Kiki and literally turns with Kiki right behind her and says you're calling me a bassist? Yeah, like I think it that only unlocks to me that and indicates to me that Adriana was hung up over the whole wretched versus ratchet thing that the age thing and being called old.
And I guess it's what it came down to because Kiki called her old and said you're too old to be talking like that. And that's what she perceived as the ageism. Which which is a lot Ki I don't recall the exact details I blanking out certain things but when Kiki got upset with her she never explained to her why wretched was wrong or Ratchet was wrong right? But we all know why it was wrong, because you don't say that about a black woman.
I don't care if you meant to say ratchet, allegedly you said ratchet and you should have walked it back and said I'm sorry, I didn't. What? What if I have another black friend who said it's okay that I said the word? That was bonkers. How are you going to turn to your good black friend Carol, who's like, why am I in it? I didn't want to be on camera, but here I am. And now basically saying, Carol,
am I racist? And in front of a bunch of people right at your Art Basel party, and it's like, what is Carol going to say? Yeah, you wait. Wow, that was bad. Yes, Adriana, I think you are racist. No, Carol's not going to say that like any, any circumstance. So you're putting her in this position of like defending her as the black lady, your black friend. Then you spin the Kiki and was like my friend Carol says I'm not racist.
Why are you saying I'm racist? And he's like, I never called you racist and now I'm going to walk away because you're taking this to a really wrong place and making this really weird. And I didn't say on or off camera that you're a racist. But I what happens is what has happened here is Adriana thinks she's getting ahead of it by saying, I know they're going to make it seem like I'm problematic, that I'm calling a black woman ratchet and that I'm being racist.
So before she can call me racist, I'm going to go to my black friend Carroll and she's going to vouch for me and say I'm not racist. And that just makes you look really not racist, but like, ridiculous. Suspicious as though it's. Yes, yeah. It just, it makes it look like you're just trying too hard to. Even freaking Larson was like no one called you racist. Like even Larson is making sense.
But I I get it though, that the insinuation behind you know, she said the word ratchet and that's what Kiki said, you know, she shouldn't be saying right? The problem also is that Carol wasn't, Carol was told, wretched, not ratchet, right? And then not, not that it seemed that Carol would give a shit either way. She What did she say to the artist? No, she said. She's. Like, you have an awful accent. Yeah, she doesn't like that. And she said a completely deadpan. And I was like, is she?
Serious, I heard her say, Like it's too much. I didn't quite get what was. Oh, I thought she was. Loud and chaotic. Yeah, I would. I was just like Carol was like giving 0 fucks. I was like, Oh my God. But yeah, like, Carol didn't know all like the story because she's getting it like yelled at her in this big party setting. Not like, let's sit down black friends and explain what happened about Ratchet versus racist and then we can talk it out instead.
Like like Adria, I was like, defend my my honor, Carol. I am not racist, right? Right. And again, that's the sort of thing like if your friends and know who you are and truly know you, then they know you're not racist. Let me tell you if someone one of my white friends or she's not white, but if one of my friends not black said to me at a party chef, am I racist? I'd be like what the fuck are you saying to me right now? Like, why are you bringing me into this?
Like, and why are you asking me to like, write you a letter of recommendation and I'm not being racist. Yeah, that was so embarrassing. Like the second hand embarrassment was off the charts. I was doing. You, as a black man, speak for all black people everywhere. Right. Carol's the head of the black people. Like she's just like at the meeting. I'm going to say Aldrada, not racist. At the head of the Miami black people. Chat Yeah, so Kiki saw this going left and was like no, I'm
getting out of here. And as she, as literally said, disappeared. Black girl magic, like podcast. And then like, then Adriana's pissed. Yeah, Adriana's pissed actually, again for defending Kiki. Yeah. And going off looking for her, like, yeah, I, I, to me, it seemed like Adriana had had a few drinks and was getting a little out of hand. Like I think she she was just being a little too spirally. And they made peace with this whole thing.
I know about the Ratched wretched thing in Spain, right? Yeah. Before they got on the cruise. Yeah. So it's least it's Lars's fault because she's. She pointed out that Kiki was the one who did the cake. It was wrong place, wrong time. Yeah, absolutely. Blame it on Larsa, but Adriana too, because she's just ridiculous. Yeah, like I really want to like Adriana. Like I don't, I want to, I want to like, and I do like Adriana. I think I don't think this really changes it.
I think what I don't want is I don't want Mary, Marisol and Alexia to be right about it. Have ammunition, Yeah. Yeah. So like I do, I think Adriana seems very well-rounded and I think that if she were to just be a little less. Reactive she'd be. I think definitely like Marisol probably like, oh, she's going down. Like when Julia said like they're trying to cancel me or I'm not going to get cancelled. And I was like, no one is trying to cancel you.
This was squashed weeks ago. Stick to the ageism. OK, so. You squash it with the person. Who had? Had the beef, like the person who allegedly would have been considering you racist was fine with it, said everything's OK now, don't worry about it. So then you just hear you are like taking the dirt off the grave and picking up the body and I'm like, hey, what about this? Cracking up with a Goffin. Yeah, it's just not. It's not cool. And then, hey black friend, am I?
I mean, what if Carol hadn't been there? Like, would she have turned to Gertie? She would have what am I racist like? What if Carol would have been there with her champagne glass? I said yes, absolutely you are. If she had like Adriana would have like she would have. Fled. Oh yeah. She would have fleed, fleed, fled, fled, fled the party. What? If Carol was just that friend who liked to screw with her other friends and just be all like, Yep, you're totally
racist. No, I don't know what you're talking about. Yeah, no, you used to call me horrible things all the time. All the time. I mean tell you why not to sit down, but now that you know. But now that we have two other black women here, so anyway. The rule is when the power of 3 when you. Get one more, we'll call the corners. So you. Can change your hair from black to blonde. Glamour. It's the craft. We would watch the craft for sure. So, well, that was a pretty much
the episode. Well, now Stephanie and Marisol have that weird sit down. That was a weird sit down where I think Stephanie didn't do herself any favors there by like she should have explained better that Alexia said. Yes. Just LED. With that, like Alexia's throwing you under the bus. She's saying that you she's the mouthpiece, but you are the puppeteer and you're the one. You're the one who has an issue with me. But you used her to voice that.
Simple as that. And probably what happened is that Marisol was like, you know, she's right. I had her do it again right there. And I don't care. She's just like, whatever, OK? I thought we were past this. We talked about it on the ship. Let's be. Over it. Marisol was like, no, I want to say talk about that. I think you're tacky. Yeah, and. Then that's like. And she's not wrong.
She's not but and she Stephanie does talk about money a lot but the cliffs tag they showed her talking about money weren't all the worst. Like I feel like there was 10 times worse things they could have shown of well. Yeah, she talked about her, her Hermes bags, like 3 million. Times the one we had. Her Birkin bags like a million times. Yeah, but like some of the things she was saying, like we're just kind of, I don't
know. I think all the housewives are guilty of saying similar things, like, you know, oh, my husband smells like money and I love the way he smells, you know, something like that. It's like. Well, I think some of them, like, get back in the day, like 3 would be like, oh, you spilled wine in my Versace. Whatever. Yeah. But like, Stephanie is just a little cartoonish with it. And that's why I think it's so tacky because she's literally like, look at all my money. Like she's Scrooge Mcduck.
Yeah, no, I agree. I don't disagree at all. But at the same time, what does Marisol expect? It's her first year. Like, she has to also know that like, Stephanie was going to come in like, produced by the producers to be a little extra. Well, also too, she's like good friends with Larsa. She's probably like, yeah, girl, get that jet out. What was with Larsa's? Larsa's breasts looked fake. I mean, I know they are fake. I guess that's, that's just, you know, duh.
But they look drag queeny, like in that whole dress with the necklace and everything. With her hair like. Yeah, it just looked like she was wearing a fake breastplate. And it just makes me wonder like. Larsa just hasn't had any good confessionals this season. Like that's my opinion. Yeah, no, I you're not Ken. You're not wrong. Can you be wrong about something? I'm wrong about plenty of things, I know. I'm talking Melissa's fooled over the summer time. What's that?
This is like folded over the entire time. It's fine you you look sexy. You look casual and effortless was fantastic. What a weird thing to point out. I love you. I just, I just said I was like, oh, like sometimes I'll watch the video and I'm like 1, I move around too much, like I'm always situating and two, like something might be Askew or like this might not be pulled down enough. So I really didn't enjoy We didn't have video for the besties because I was literally
like woo. We can turn the video off man anytime you want. No, we need we need the YouTube. Yeah, I do like it on the YouTube. Yeah, but maybe we'll only put it on YouTube. No, we need to build a part. What is the cat doing? The cat is licking the carpet or the rug or the floor, whatever that. Is like an Ant or something. Which probably isn't. My office is getting overrun with ants. That was it really. Not my office here, My office at my office.
Yeah, every day I just a couple of ants and I'm like but. You know this is your office or other. Place that Craig's office next door does it as well. He he says he brought a a Ant trap, took care of it and he asked me if I wanted one. I'm like no I don't think I need 1 yet. You should like get ahead of. AI don't really mind. Like Adriana used to get ahead of it. I'm, I'm going to go into Greg's office, but am I racist? He's like, I don't know, I'm
white. I mean, like, I just can't imagine like if you turn to me like at my race, like like literally you of all people who could be like, look at my black husband. I'm not racist. Why would I say it like that? Look at my black husband. I don't say it like Samantha. This is my black I'm not racist. Larry Liberty. No, but you can think of at least two friends of ours that would turn to you and do that though. So it's not that a thing.
I don't think it's we're all appalled and shocked, but. Again, I'm not writing any letters or recommendation for anybody in regards to racism. Like not gonna do it. Okay, that's. Fair, I will take you off that list. I haven't noted enough when people like asked me on LinkedIn. Like freaking like yeah, swore them or spot. Like what is that thing on LinkedIn? Yeah, I don't remember the word for it right now either, because it's hot and I'm tired. Yeah, but yeah, what is that
word? It's like you're. But you're vouching for that, but elevating or? Yeah, yeah. You know, you know we're talking about. Yeah, I I don't want to write a lot of recommendation ever. Like I remember a former Co worker like asked me to do that and I was like we are we barely know each other. We're only Co workers for like maybe a year. We didn't really interact and now you want me to like I'm sure, OK, whatever.
My own thing with that is so I had a old Co worker who she said she'd do a bunch of stuff for mom, my LinkedIn and I do a bunch for her and I never did. She never did. It's fine. But my problem is I don't think I LinkedIn right? I don't link in correctly at
all. Like I think if you were really using LinkedIn to do job searching and what not, you'd really be on there like you would be on there like it's, you know, I don't want to say Facebook because no one's really on Facebook anymore, but you'd be on it like it was regular social media. Right, I think a lot of people do like they wish happy birthdays, they congratulate on it and I just I don't I get. It's really weird to me that like people spend that much time on LinkedIn like.
Was it we were watching something people were talking about, like, you know, trying to like hook up with people from LinkedIn? I don't know what that was. And he was. Like, yeah, it sounds pretty like either like someone, the person was saying that to us or we saw it on a reality show. But so we're talking about like using LinkedIn for dating purposes. It's again so weird. Which makes sense if you're
like, oh, let's get drinks. And then it, you know, it's like turned like, oh, you're getting drinks. And then it becomes like, oh, we should like do this, but like, not talk about work, you know. All I know is it's really, I think I forget which one of these services whenever I, I think it might be Spotify, when I post our episode Spotify, it ends up saying, do you want to share this on LinkedIn? And I'm like, what world would I be like?
Here's my, but asking myself that question this morning. The world I'd want to put my podcast on LinkedIn is if I was doing a podcast for work. Oh, right. I was doing a podcast about, oh, the pitfalls of working in an office or, you know, they, you know, this is how you use Excel shortcuts, you know, so, so this is me announcing my new Excel shortcut podcast. Pivot, yeah. That's the name, Yeah. It's like my Thunder. It's like a Roskiff pivot pivot. That's all it is for an hour.
So yeah, now that's. But yeah, just posting your your. I hadn't thought about that, yeah. But I guess a lot of people companies have podcasts like internal podcasts only I guess so. Oh yeah. God, the company newsletter. Can you imagine? Oh yeah, God, I can't even imagine. Did you ever read the school announcements when you were growing up? Did you ever get to do that? No, like over the loud. Yes. I got it. Not loud.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I did. Not that people, the president of the student council, would do that. Really. Yeah, we rotate. They would also recite the Pledge of Allegiance. Too, But I think I did that as well. Yeah, part of it. No, never at student council, but like in junior high, they would rotate through and like, if you wanted to do it, you could.
And I did it two or three times. But yeah, you would start off with the Pledge of Allegiance, and then you'd read the day's announcements, which usually usually included the hot lunch menu as well. Oh, hot lunch. But that was good I. Just wanted to use the weird intercom thing which was fun to go in there and press the button and talk and do it. Oh God, I would not want to like, you know me. I don't want to be any. So I have intention if it's just like my voice a lot.
Well, I have the, I think one of the worst voices, and in junior high it was probably worse than this. So like for me, My God, today's hot lunch menu. It's pizza again. I like doing the announcements though, they were good. Yeah, never, never did that. It was always, yeah, always present their student council and. That seems really regimented that, like that was like your job as a student council president. Yeah, every morning. Wish you got sick. It's the vice president.
Vice President, that's what. He's finally stepping in my time to shine. God, I've been sneezing on her all week. I've been waiting for her to get Motto. No, I don't think I There was never any. I might have been like the secretary of the student body one year, but it was like a year that it didn't really matter, like 8th grade, you know, so. 8th grade matters a lot. It's the transition between
before at school. Well, a lot of people though have that 9th grade tacked on to their junior high and they don't have high school. That would be weird. I think that or like when it's a bunch of like grades together and like it's not high school. It's not, you know what I'm saying? Right, Right. Middle school. Well, no, but it's like, are you saying we're all together like middle schoolers and high schoolers? Yeah.
Like in one school. Like no, no, no, no. That's that's a Tell me you didn't grow up in a small town without telling me you didn't grow up in a small. Town, it needs to be like, you know, either your, your kindergarten or your Montessori or whatever and then you have 1st through 4th that's or 1st through 5th and you have a 6th of 8th and then you have high school years. So you already have it, you already have it wrong. It's it's K through 6 to me and then 7-8, then 910-1112 that's
how. That's so weird. It seems like wasteful is the right word, but like just to have like a school for two grades seems like very odd to me. It needs to be like at least three, six out of eight. I think we, we have teacher friends. Oh, we should have talked to Sarah about it when she was down here.
She teaches 8th grade. I think middle school teachers have like the perfect perspective on like where the awkward adolescents should be because I think that's the whole point is that you don't want like these hormones raging, you know, around, you know, young kids because they're going to be people picking fights and just being, you know, adolescents and
what not. Then you know, you don't want to throw these young kids who think they can take on everything against like a senior in high school. So you keep them off separate. So no, yeah they need definitely need to be separated. Like a senior has no business being the same school as a 7th grader. Yeah, that seems really weird, Yeah. But that gives me like, why are you so tall? I'm going to go back to my cubby. That would be and then before you know it, you got a senior
buying someone's cigarettes. And Biaz. I was 17 before when I graduated, so I never, you know. I was 17 too. I turned 18 'cause I was this in August right before college. I always wanted to be. I had friends who turned 18 while they were in school and they got to write their own notes. That's so weird. I. Know I was like this is I mean I wrote like. 18 should be like but I guess if you turn 18 in February, they graduate in May,
then you go to college. I mean, if he could fight in this war, he should, you know, fight for the country, he should be able to write his excuse factors. He can go to Nam. I should be able to like, yeah. I got to write my own notes anyway because I would just say, Mom, I didn't go to school, could you write this note? And sure. And she wrote it and I handed it in. So. I can't even imagine my mom. I'd be like, oh, you're going to school. But I never like wanted to like
miss school. Well. Half the time my mom was like, do you want to go shopping today? I'm like, sure do. And I wouldn't go to school. I'd go shopping with my mom. Also this just shows like I didn't want to miss school I don't want to miss work, I never take PTO like why? What am I saving up this time? I see. I don't know. I need you to. I need you to start and realize you know what's? Yeah, you're going to. You're going to real quick.
Well, yes, yeah. But I think it's just the idea of like something might come up, right? And they need all this time like, I'm going to get very sick or you're going to be sick or like. Why are we sick? Don't make us sick, please. Or like just something's going to happen where we need a lot of time. So these 119 hours I have saved up for PTO currently I'm going to use the well, I'm going to use the couple for Bravo Con, but.
So I went through, I saw in my payroll thing today I there's a history of all the PTO I've ever taken like since 2020 when I switched this over to this new system. So I was a little bored. So I downloaded the data just to see if there's like any trend in which I take more time off than others and I take surprisingly it's not a lot of time off. It's really odd. The most time I've taken off was last August, which I don't remember what we did last August, August. Of 2024, yeah.
And then before that was our it was for our honeymoon it. Was like in June of 2022. 22 yeah, that was like the longest stretches I've taken off. I apparently took like 6 days off last August and I don't remember. Six days, Yeah, you should have got some of the day. It's all. Look at my. Calendar, you know what it might have been because I knew I was burning through PTO because they're trying. To get this out. Oh, and that was that whole. Thing I might have just been doing.
That it wasn't consecutive, it was like. I don't know, but yeah, it was August had the most number of days last. Year. Where was that time last year where you're like, I got like they're telling me use it or lose it? Yeah. So you're like, like just burning it off. But yeah, I was like thinking there might be like a weird month that I'd be like, oh, for some reason, like you taking three days off in March.
I know nothing weird like. That and also like we took off time for when we went for Christmas. Yeah. That's only a few I think I know fell over a weekend with. Christmas, right? I only took two days off. Every December for the last like 5 years I've taken 2 days off and that's it. Which is so weird. You'd think I would take more but I dip so yeah. You know, the week of Bravo Con, swing it back to Bravo we have well.
Why would you do that? This isn't a podcast about oh right, this isn't my Excel spreadsheet podcast. Sorry, Pivot that week is veteran's day is that week. Oh, so basically I think I'm just going to be it falls in like that Tuesday. So basically I think I'm just going to be working like Monday and Wednesday have Tuesday off for veteran's day, then Thursday, Friday we're going to be in Vegas. Nice. So you know. Finally be taking a day off. Well, because it's Veteran's Day.
You see, what you should do is just take that Monday and Wednesday off. Take the entire week off and. Just have the whole week and be like. But two weeks later is Thanksgiving, which we, you know, we get Thursday, Friday, but I'm gonna take that Wednesday off. Yeah, we're gonna be going out of town. But think about all the amount of relaxation you'll have of not having to think about work that entire time. That's a whole other podcast.
We'll have to start that one now when we post this one to LinkedIn. So we just went up and talk about it next time. Till next time.