Inside the WP Motivate Studio

[00:00:01] Speaker A: Start your week smiling with your friends. Kathy's aunt and Michelle Frechette. It's time to get ready for some weekly motivation with WP motivate. Happy Thursday, Cathy. [00:00:16] Speaker B: Happy Thursday, Michelle. How are you? [00:00:18] Speaker A: I'm doing pretty good. How are you? [00:00:20] Speaker B: I recovered. Well, mostly recovered. I still have the brunt of a caro like thing going on with my voice. I remember her, brenda Vaccaro. [00:00:28] Speaker A: As soon as you said that, I was like, there's so much of our audience. He'll be like, who's Brenda Vaccaro? [00:00:33] Speaker B: Look it up. [00:00:34] Speaker A: Just look it up. [00:00:34] Speaker B: Yeah. She talked like this, like she had a very raspy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I've got the, the deep voice. She do some voiceovers or something. She'd never know it was me. In the nineties, I've been, like, avoiding making what? [00:00:49] Speaker A: In the eighties during soap operas. Cause I would watch soap operas, like in summer and right after school, whatever. It was always, this is Brenda Vaccaro for playtex tampons. She did those commercials. And I was like, who's part of a Carl? My mom's like, oh, she's an actor. Goes way back. Whatever. She probably was on the love boat at one point in time or another. [00:01:08] Speaker B: Oh, I'm sure I'm going to have to look up the brunt of a Carl love boat episode and see what happened. [00:01:13] Speaker A: I've been rewatching the love boat. It's on. I don't remember which one. Whichever streaming service it's on, I've completely forgotten. Paramount. Paramount. I think. [00:01:25] Speaker B: Okay, I got that one. [00:01:26] Speaker A: Either that or it's one of them. I could be. I think that's it. Anyway. I remember it, like watching it as a kid. Right. Because it was like an hour long show. And of course, when you watch it without commercials, it's like 40 minutes or something. And I remember the kid thinking there were all these big stars on it. And I would watch, I'm like, who's that? Who's that? Yeah, who's that? And then there are some, like, Ray Bolger was on an episode and like, people from other sitcoms and things like that. I think it was the kind of thing where your agent tried to get you on there so that your other show would get a boost, you know, boosted rating, that kind of stuff. But it was funny. Yeah, been watching that. [00:02:03] Speaker B: Anyway, that and, uh, Fantasy island was the other one. Yeah, like that too. Like, yeah, like Fantasy island Hazard are on Fantasy island. [00:02:13] Speaker A: Yeah, exactly. The fantasy island always had like, a sinister aspect. [00:02:18] Speaker B: Oh, yes. [00:02:19] Speaker A: To it and love vote was just so crazy. And I've been watching it going by today. I've never been on a cruise. So, like, I. That's the first caveat. I've never been on a cruise. But I see commercials for cruises, and I follow this one TikToker Erica from America, who's like, on the biggest cruise ship, and she works the cruise ship right in the pr department, everything. So I see, like, how enormous cruise ships are by today's standard. And, like, the cruise ship in the love boat looked so big when I was a kid. And I was like, oh, it's only got, like, four floors. There's two tiny, like, the Lido deck. And then whatever. Like, they go into pirates cove. Like, there's only 1 bar. There's only, you know, floating dining hall. And anyway, just. And you could tell, like, at the time, I didn't. I'd never been on a cruise. I didn't know it was the seventies. It was the eighties, whatever. But you look now, like, the doors don't automatically close like these. It's really a floating hotel. So the doors automatically close. Right. And also they just look like hollow core, like apartment doors. And they just open and close them. And, like, there's not even a lock on the doors. It's like, so obviously a sound studio. But anyway, it was. It's funny to go back and rewatch shows like that from, you know, your youth or whatever and just see how. [00:03:35] Speaker B: Strange and formatted for a different experience. Yeah. [00:03:39] Speaker A: And it's a square, right? It's a square as opposed to the letter box that we think of now. And so it's like, just in the middle of your tv or whatever. It's just funny. But. But for today. [00:03:50] Speaker B: What's my thing with that? Go ahead. [00:03:52] Speaker A: No, no, tell me. [00:03:53] Speaker B: I was gonna say, my thing with that is, like, Brady Bunch episodes. Cause we watched them when we were little kids. Like, my brother and I would play a game. Like, we had to guess which episode it was. Whoever would. Cause it would start, like, Carol would walk in and then apron or whatever. And we would get it within the first 10 seconds of what episode was it? Because we had watched the rerun so many times, I've seen every single Brady Bunch episode. And so, like, to watch one of those now, it's just like, what a different world. Do you remember when a different world. [00:04:26] Speaker A: The kids entered the singing competition to win their parents money to buy their parents an anniversary gift. Do you remember what they called their band? [00:04:33] Speaker B: Oh, my gosh. [00:04:35] Speaker A: Trivia. Trivia. [00:04:36] Speaker B: I've got the song going through my head already. But the sunshine day, everybody's singing. Does that scare you that it's like, right there. That, like, just comes right out. [00:04:47] Speaker A: Well, does it scare you that I know it was. They were the silver platters. [00:04:50] Speaker B: Cause that's what they wanted to find, silver platters, right. Cause they had to get mom and dad the silver platter, sunshine day, everybody singing the Brady bunch. You didn't expect that on this episode of WP Motivate, did you? [00:05:06] Speaker A: Oh, I mean, we keep them guessing. They never know what they're going to get week to week with us, that's for sure. Oh, my goodness. Oh, yeah. And then there's the, you know, Marcia. Marcia, Marsha. And there's like, oh, my nose. And then there's. Mom told us not to play ball in the house. Like, all of the quotables. [00:05:24] Speaker B: Yes, all of the quotables. Great. Greg's groovy apartment up in the attic. I always wanted a groovy apartment up in the attic. I never got one. [00:05:33] Speaker A: Oh, he had not. He invented an alter ego, too. But I don't remember the name of his alter ego. Remember when he was like, oh, Johnny. Johnny Bravo, wasn't it? Johnny Bravo. [00:05:42] Speaker B: Johnny Bravo. Yes, man, seventies tv. It's got nothing on it. All these reality shows and crap that, like, my husband's watching on Netflix. I'll, like, walk in with his food and be like, what the heck is this? Like, just crazy. The love is blind thing. He was into that for a while. And I'm just like, this is not tv. I'm sorry. Like, I need a. I need a good Sherwood Schwartz visit to Gale Galligan's island or something, you know, and that. And I was always just watching that stuff. We had never watched. We never got control of the television at nighttime. So it's like those few hours before mom and dad got home and you were home from school and there was a rerun on, you know, like, I didn't care what it was. It was the best show in the world. Tarzan reruns. I'll watch that. [00:06:31] Speaker A: Good stuff. Do you remember the original superman in black and white? It was before our time, but they would run it and rerun at like four or 05:00 in the afternoon. I remember the episode where George Reeves, who played Superman in that, and, I mean, the costume, right, was just hysterical compared to today's standards, too. He picked up a lump of coal and he squeezed it so hard it turned into a diamond. And when he opened it up, it was already cut and faceted. Right? Like, it wasn't just this raw diamond. It was, like, perfectly chiseled cut, humongous diamond. And I, at the time, I was like, wow, I didn't even know you could do that. Like, as an adult, I'm like, it wouldn't be chiseled. It wouldn't be, like, faceted. Like, if they showed us him cutting it with his laser eyes, then maybe. But, like, yeah, squeeze it. They came up perfectly. [00:07:23] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. It was just like a dip. Well, he is Superman, after all. This is. [00:07:27] Speaker A: I guess I could. [00:07:28] Speaker B: It's a different world. [00:07:29] Speaker A: It was, for sure. Oh, my goodness. Well, one of the things that I also have loved over the years, I don't even know if they have it on anymore, but I used to watch this on the weekends, was inside the Actors studio with James Lipton. I used to love that he would get people on that show who would talk about their careers, and it was, you know, at an acting school. So all of the audience would ask questions about how they achieved this, that or the other, how they felt acting as particular role or whatever. And they were always big named actors, right? So you could actually, like, learn something about these people's lives. And it was just so different than, like, tabloid stuff and whatever that we see nowadays. There was no clickbait, if you will. But one of the things I always loved was at the end, he would ask everybody the same set of ten questions, which became known as, like, lipton's questions kind of thing. And I will tell you that when I created WP coffee talk, what I always call rapid fire questions, are based on the inside the actor studio. Like, I thought of doing it like that, right? So I thought you and I could answer the questions because it might be kind of fun and an insight into who we are as people. And so I'll ask you, and then I'll answer for myself as well. How does that sound? [00:08:39] Speaker B: That sounds great. This is, hey, captain Stubing was never on inside the actor studio. [00:08:44] Speaker A: That I know he was not. [00:08:46] Speaker B: We're doing better. [00:08:47] Speaker A: Captain subing. I'm 55 years old. Captain stubing was 43 when he was the captain of the love boat. And he looked so old. He still looks old when I look at it. And I'm like, are you sure he wasn't 60? [00:09:01] Speaker B: Yeah, seriously. [00:09:02] Speaker A: But f him for looking, for making me feel old now or whatever. Anyway. Okay, Kathy, what's your favorite word? Do you have a favorite word? [00:09:11] Speaker B: Yes, I do. And I haven't used it in a very long time, actually. I have a lot of favorite words, but the one that popped into my head, Twitter pated. [00:09:20] Speaker A: Ooh, that is a good one. Tell us what it means. [00:09:25] Speaker B: Get to use often, but we should use it more. You'd think Twitter paid it. It means to be happy and excited and. [00:09:31] Speaker A: Oh, I love that. So mine, it used to be serendipity because I just kind of liked the idea, but it turns out that that's everybody's favorite word, so it's no longer my favorite word. Like, that's like, when you add, like, then they do a poll, so, so many people say that's their favorite word. I'm like, I can't be like everybody else. I just can't. My favorite word is plethora. I don't know why. I mean, it means a lot of things, right? [00:09:58] Speaker B: It was, you know, when I was younger, it was never used that much, but I've seen plethora has had a resurgence in the past few years, and I see it used much more often now. [00:10:07] Speaker A: Myriad is the other one I like. I like the way it flows off the tight and they both actually mean the same thing, which is kind of cool or very similar. But also, I mean, if I'm going to also, like, tell you my. My not safe for work word, it's definitely fuck. I love that word. I use it as often as I can, even when I'm just home alone talking to the cats. It just. It's like, it clears my head. It's like one of those, like, reset buttons I like. [00:10:34] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:10:34] Speaker A: I'm not gonna lie, it's. [00:10:36] Speaker B: It's definitely good. Someone once said that they used the f word like a comma. [00:10:42] Speaker A: Like, it just goes. [00:10:43] Speaker B: It just goes anywhere in a sentence, right? It kind of does everywhere. [00:10:47] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I saw a t shirt on Twitter, or not Twitter on TikTok. The other said, fuck you, you fucking fuck. And I thought, wow. They used it as so many parts of the language. Like, it's. It's. It's a noun, it's a verb. It's like all of the things. Yeah, yeah. Anyway, okay. [00:11:07] Speaker B: I, like, also discombobulated, because that is a good combo. Isn't a word, but discombobulated is. So I like it because. Breaks all the rules. [00:11:20] Speaker A: It really does. There are a couple words like that. I actually saw a TikTok the other day, too, about what they were calling fossil words, words that we only use within certain phrases that are. That are like to and fro. You never say, I'm going fro. Like that kind of thing. So. Yeah, Twitter painted to and fro. Like, those are words that are kind of like, they're either old fashioned fossil words and they're just fun. They really are. [00:11:49] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:11:50] Speaker A: Yeah. Okay, so, like, what's your. What's your least favorite word? [00:11:54] Speaker B: Can I say teenager? [00:11:56] Speaker A: You can. You absolutely can. Okay. You don't have to explain, because we. [00:12:03] Speaker B: Know I don't have to explain anything, but if you want to hear, read my jokes about being the parent of a very precocious teenager. I'm sharing them on Twitter recently. So, you know, just make sure you tip your waitress. [00:12:21] Speaker A: That's right. She's here all week. Folks, I have a couple words. [00:12:28] Speaker B: What's your least favorite one? [00:12:30] Speaker A: Like, some of my actual least favorite words that don't have any humor behind them at all are things like cancer, things like, you know, those kinds of words that have to do with just total negativity. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. But I also. I love and hate the word no because I don't like being told no. But sometimes I need to hear no. [00:12:54] Speaker B: Yeah. And I don't say no. [00:12:56] Speaker A: I don't say it enough, but I need to say it more. Right. So I have a love hate relationship with the word no. [00:13:02] Speaker B: Yeah. Boundaries are good. Boundaries are healthy, but boundaries can be uncomfortable. [00:13:10] Speaker A: My boundaries are good. Other people's boundaries piss me the hell off. [00:13:15] Speaker B: Yeah. See, now I'm gonna get into a teenager story if I start talking about boundaries. But, yeah, boundaries are very, very important. But I don't want to necessarily say no. Like, I don't like saying no to my kid. I want my kid to have a good life and have good experiences and stuff, but no has been a very healthy thing for both of us on a lot of fronts. [00:13:35] Speaker A: And it really is, like I said, love hate relationship. Right? Because no is such a necessary part of boundary setting and self care. We talked about self care before, so it really is. So anyway, there it is. Love, hate. Say no. Okay, the next two questions are not sexually oriented, but what turns you on? As in makes you happy? [00:13:59] Speaker B: Um, laughter, comedy lulls, practical jokes. Um, breaking rules. Like, I don't want to hurt anybody or anything, but, like. Like, at Defcon, at Caesar's palace, when all that hackers who were there were putting, like, googly eyes on the Caesar's palace statues. And so you've got, like, Caesar there with googly eyes. Stuff like that just cracks me up and makes me so happy. So I. Like. That's one of the reasons why I love securities, because it. It's new. It's refreshing. It's, like, always something new to learn. So I like breaking rules about you. [00:14:41] Speaker A: This is going to make me sound like the person that I am that people don't realize. But I love the spotlight. I'm not gonna lie. Like, I don't have five podcasts because I shy away from being in the spotlight. Right? I don't not. I don't apply to speak at wordcamps because I hate being on stage. I really do. But not just because I like accolades. I really enjoy the fact that I have gained so much knowledge about so many things in my life that if I can share them, maybe they'll at the very least, entertain people and maybe at the very most, help somebody. Right? So I. I was painfully shy. We've talked about that before. I was painfully shy, child. I have blossomed into the complete opposite of that. But I really do enjoy being the center of attention now and then. So if that makes me selfish, so be it. Whatever. But I think that I use. I think I use my. My platform to help other people, so I'm okay with it. [00:15:37] Speaker B: Yeah, that's good. You know what? Adjacent to that, one thing that is, I don't necessarily, like, seek the spotlight, but there have been a few instances where I've been in a spotlight or been on a stage, and I have, like, word camp Phoenix last year, you were there, and I got on stage, and it was like, right after they had done intros and everything and everybody. It was like the first talk for, like, after four years and giving people permission to feel good and giving people permission to say. To ask them the question, are you happy to be back here? And they're cheering at me, but they're not really cheering for me. But giving people permission to feel good when you're in control of a room as a speaker, that is a turn on for me, because it's like, I just love to see people happy. I guess that goes along with the hacking stuff and everything. I like to see people break out of the fear restraints that they put themselves in. [00:16:40] Speaker A: Mm hmm. Yeah. I think we both have that. Like, we want, we. We take what we do, and if we make people laugh, we make them happy. We make them learn. Make them learn, help them learn. Whatever the right question terminologies are, then that makes us happy, too. And so that's a good thing for sure. [00:16:56] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:16:57] Speaker A: What turns you off? Like, what? Totally just like, nope, nope, nope. [00:17:02] Speaker B: Narcissists. [00:17:04] Speaker A: Yes. I can get behind that. And along with that goes, like, ableist, racists, ageists, ISIS, like, all of the ists. Right? [00:17:16] Speaker B: Communists. Can I put them in there, too? Like, just if you're gonna be, like, so attached to, like, things being a certain way, like, all of the. Oh, yeah. But narcissists, I have a special because they're meant and they hurt other people for their own self gain. And I have been around a few, and I don't like them. [00:17:44] Speaker A: I was in a relationship with one for over a year, actually, about a year after my divorce, who was so controlling as a narcissist that wouldn't even let me use my cane when we were together. And so at the time, it was during the pandemic, I was lonely for sure. Right. And it didn't occur to me at the time, when you're in it, you don't see it. You just know. You feel bad, but you don't know how to break out of it. But breaking off that relationship was one of the most powerful things I've ever done for myself. So, yeah, I'm just. I'm going to use your answer for that one as well, because. Absolutely. [00:18:23] Speaker B: Narcissists and all of the we hate narcissists episode. [00:18:27] Speaker A: You're a narcissist. Exactly. Turn us off. [00:18:30] Speaker B: We're turned off by you. [00:18:31] Speaker A: That's right. Right. Just like, you shouldn't be subscribed to this podcast if you're a narcissist. [00:18:37] Speaker B: That's right. [00:18:39] Speaker A: No way. Okay. [00:18:41] Speaker B: That was all just for my own comedy. [00:18:42] Speaker A: Cause that's, like, my favorite. Well, what sound or noise? What sound or noise do you love? [00:18:50] Speaker B: Do I love either kittens purring or kids laughing? Yeah, I'm gonna go with kittens purring. I fostered kittens when we lived up on Mount Shasta. Two different litters, and they would all just, like, come. Like, all five of them would come and sit on my lap and just purr. And it was just. I would literally go into an altered state with kittens because they were so loud and they were all like, just. It's the best. Kitten purrs. [00:19:19] Speaker A: I love that. [00:19:19] Speaker B: My favorite noise, I think. [00:19:20] Speaker A: Well, mine is. The other thing that you said is I could be scrolling through TikTok, and if it's a baby laughing, I will smile and laugh just without even thinking about it. So I love that. But also, I'm going to say the ringtone that I set for my daughter in my phone because she doesn't contact me enough. So when I hear that sound, I'm like, Lydia got in touch with me. So, yeah. So I'm going to that's my second one. [00:19:44] Speaker B: Oh, too funny. I have one of the. One of the apple ringtones, one of the standard ringtones I had for an individual. We won't talk about that person, but they rarely called me with good news. And so whenever I hear somebody else, like, I'm in a store and I hear that ringtone, it's like. [00:20:02] Speaker A: It triggers you. Yeah, completely. [00:20:06] Speaker B: Oh, my gosh. [00:20:07] Speaker A: Yeah. Yep. [00:20:08] Speaker B: It's amazing what a sound can do. [00:20:10] Speaker A: It sure is. It sure is. What sound or noise do you hate besides that ringtone? Because that's the next question. [00:20:16] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, it's gonna be that one. [00:20:18] Speaker A: Yeah, for sure. I mean, it can be that one, but I'll go first. I was woken up at just around 08:00 a.m. On Saturday by a lawnmower in my neighborhood so loud that it literally woke me up from a sound sleep. So I'm going with lawnmowers. [00:20:36] Speaker B: Isn't it still snowing there? Why are people mowing yet? Like, it shouldn't happen for at least another month. [00:20:42] Speaker A: I have wearing slippers, long sleeves, and do have my furnace on still, but it's not snowing. Oh, what's your. What's the noise you hate? [00:20:52] Speaker B: Yeah, that. Leaf blowers, chainsaws, any yard equipment that's too early in the morning would definitely be a thing. I'm gonna have to say Vicki. Like, my husband's screaming for Vicki. And then I go in there, like, what's wrong? What do you need? And he's like, I just missed you. And I'm like, doing a bunch of stuff. [00:21:14] Speaker A: Or, would you miss me or Vicki? [00:21:16] Speaker B: Just here, like, two minutes ago, you could have told me that. Then I'm in the middle. [00:21:21] Speaker A: Or. [00:21:22] Speaker B: Or I'll be cooking dinner for the next 15 minutes and I won't be able to come in here. Do you need anything? And he'll be like, no, I'm fine. Two minutes later, go in there. And he's like, I'm just checking on dinner, see how things are going. And I'm just like, I use. I have a whiteboard now. I'll write things. But, yeah, when he calls me for no reason whatsoever, that is a little bit irritating. Yeah, right now that's about it. [00:21:54] Speaker A: I get it. I get it. The string trimmer just went by, so I'm going to add that to my lawnmower sound. The. What did the string trimmer. Weed whacker, whatever guy just went by and I'm like, yep, that one, too. Yeah. [00:22:05] Speaker B: Add that. Any yard equipment basically is. [00:22:08] Speaker A: Yeah, what's your favorite curse word? That's the next question. I already gave mine. Mine is fuck, I love it. I lean right into that, so that's my favorite. [00:22:18] Speaker B: Yeah, I can lean into that too. But so there's. Okay, in Denton, where I live, there is a university called the University of North Texas, Unt. And they have these cups, right? And the handle is black. And then. So it's like a black, looks like a c, and then it says unt. So I'm really mad at someone. I'll call him a UNT cup. [00:22:41] Speaker A: Oh, that's good. [00:22:42] Speaker B: I'm like that mother often unt cup because I won't say the actual c word in front of my daughter, but she knows exactly what I'm saying. But so I just say unt. So I. [00:22:53] Speaker A: It's odd. [00:22:54] Speaker B: I don't have it. One of the UNT cups. I should have one. [00:22:58] Speaker A: We should get you. I should get one. We should all have them. [00:23:01] Speaker B: All have unt cups. Yeah. And then when I was in college, they had, at the end of the. We were on a speech team, and at the end of the year, they would give out trophies and stuff. And one of the trophies was for contributing to the unity of the national team. [00:23:19] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [00:23:20] Speaker B: For the person who was like the worst team, like the. The person who was out for themselves, the person who undercut their. Their teammates, the person who was very selfish. And so one person would always get the UN or the contributing to the unity of the national team. So I always liked the acronym, but then it was so funny. They gave it to my best friend for something she did to me. [00:23:46] Speaker A: It was. [00:23:47] Speaker B: I had forgiven, but nobody else had. [00:23:50] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [00:23:51] Speaker B: She just, like, got up immediately and like, walked off, stormed out of there, and like, never spoke to those people again. [00:23:57] Speaker A: Oh, my gosh. [00:23:59] Speaker B: Yeah. So I like the c word. I don't say that very often, but when I do, I mean it. [00:24:04] Speaker A: That's right. You don't just throw it around like the f bomb like I do. It's. It's one of those serious ones. It's not a comma, it's not a comma, it's an exclamation point. [00:24:13] Speaker B: It is. I mean, business if you're a ung cup. [00:24:19] Speaker A: I love that. What profession, other than your own, would you like to attempt? [00:24:26] Speaker B: You know, tell me. Comedy? Yeah, I would do. [00:24:32] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:24:32] Speaker B: In fact, you just told me last week I should probably start now. [00:24:35] Speaker A: It's probably. I think you should. We gotta find you an open mic night. Yes, of course. That would be a perfect one for you. Um, okay, so what, I want to attempt it now? No, but what did I always have, like, ideas to do would be to sing on Broadway. Like, I thought that would be so fun. There's not a whole lot of, like, scootered people on Broadway stages. Like, turns out you have to dance, too. Right. But, like, that was always, like, my thing or just like. Or just be a singer. Like, have. Have the ability to just share music like that. And, I mean, I do, but, you know, I'm no Adele. Let's just say it that way. But, yeah, that would be something. I would. I would lean into a musical career, for sure. [00:25:14] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. I would love that. I would love to hear you sing. You should sing. [00:25:18] Speaker A: You could sing at home. Yeah, I mean, I do. I've got some stuff up on my YouTube channel, if anybody's interested. [00:25:24] Speaker B: I hear diss tracks are popular now. [00:25:26] Speaker A: I don't even know what they are, but we'll figure it out. [00:25:30] Speaker B: There's a big war between rappers, and so they do diss tracks about each other. [00:25:34] Speaker A: Okay. Right. [00:25:35] Speaker B: There's a whole thing going on with diss tracks. [00:25:37] Speaker A: I thought you were saying disc. See, I wasn't paying attention. [00:25:41] Speaker B: Blame it on, too. [00:25:42] Speaker A: Yeah, I am. What's a profession you would not like to do? [00:25:50] Speaker B: Pretty much anything? I'm like, what's. [00:25:54] Speaker A: What's like at the bottom of, I don't want to embalm people. I would rather be a trash collector than embalming people. So that's mine. I don't want to embalm people. [00:26:04] Speaker B: Okay. Along those lines, I could not ever work at a kill shelter where people dump off their animals, and then, you know, you couldn't do it at all. [00:26:13] Speaker A: Same. I enjoy a good steak, but I am not at the slaughterhouse for a reason. Yeah, same thing. [00:26:20] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:26:21] Speaker A: And then the last question in this ten question, I think I got them all, is, if heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the pearly gates? [00:26:33] Speaker B: All right, I heard this guy talking about how God has a plan for your life, and your job is to adhere to that plan as much as possible so that when you die, the version of you that lived should be as close to that version of ideal that God had for you. [00:26:55] Speaker A: Okay. [00:26:55] Speaker B: And when you die, you show up, and if you look like that, you win. So I'm hoping God says, well done, and shows me the vision that God had for me that I did better than I think I am doing. [00:27:14] Speaker A: I want to hear him say, it's not your time yet. You got a few more years. We'll see in a little while. [00:27:22] Speaker B: See, that's the thing is I'm at the point where it's just like, okay, when is my time? Can I just, I just need a few years rest here. Send me back with some fresh stuff, like, you know, a few less stress marks maybe, like, just send me. [00:27:39] Speaker A: Can you make me taller and thinner? I'm gonna ask it. I just thought of an 11th question. If heaven exists, what do you want to say to God when you get there? [00:27:53] Speaker B: Well, since we're swearing like crazy, what the fuck? What the fuck was that? [00:28:00] Speaker A: Exactly. Like, excuse me, was all of that necessary? [00:28:06] Speaker B: Yeah, exactly. See, the thing is, the funny thing is I was like my mom when my mom had me, I was like two weeks late and then I was sick for two months. And so the joke in my family is that I didn't really want to be. And so the joke back at my parents, I'm like, do you blame me? I probably had some like, foresight is what was common. [00:28:27] Speaker A: I was psychic in the womb, thank you very much. [00:28:29] Speaker B: I was psychic. I knew I was omniscient. In the moon. In the womb. In the moon. That too. I just, I knew it was coming. I knew it was coming. So, yeah, that would as what I would say to God is, what the fuck was that? Because it has been, it has been a crazy ride. [00:28:50] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:28:50] Speaker B: Yeah. Now I'm like having flashbacks of memories. [00:28:53] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:28:53] Speaker B: What the fuck? That's my thing. [00:28:55] Speaker A: It didn't mean you. I would say. I would ask him things like that. 14 year marriage. Why? Why did I have to do that? Just why? Yeah, I don't know. There's probably, I would probably look at particular things that happened in my life and say, explain why that was necessary, you know, but yeah, I don't know. [00:29:21] Speaker B: Same, yeah. [00:29:24] Speaker A: Anyway, so those are the eleven questions. We just added one to James Lipton. [00:29:29] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:29:29] Speaker A: Do you have any that you'd want to add to the list? [00:29:32] Speaker B: I'm still having flashbacks, PTSD over here. I can't, I can't think of anything else. I will say, you know, I wouldn't complain totally about my life. I've had a very, very blessed, good life. There's just been certain things where I have the WTF's about them, but I am very, very blessed. And even with all the snark I have about my teenager and my husband and everything else, I am, I feel very blessed. I feel like I need to say that so I don't sound like I'm, like, ungrateful for the fact that, you know, I've had. I've had really miraculous good things happen in my life. So this is. We do have storms coming in later, so this is just my. My absolvement so that I don't get my lightning. [00:30:22] Speaker A: No. And, you know, we've talked about balance before. It's okay on some days to focus on the negative as long as you don't live there, right? Like, we talked about, we had an episode about a month ago, or time is a construct. I don't know how long it really was. We talked about how you have to have good with bad. You have, like, there's balance in the universe. So. So today we do talk a little bit about the things that are shitty. Tomorrow we'll talk about. I mean, not on this episode, but things we loved. We actually do that a lot, too, so. But, um, yeah, I joke a lot about, like, I tell people that we have this podcast and it's. People actually tune in to listen to us just shoot the breeze and hopefully they get something out of it. And if we make you laugh a little bit, then, hey, that's awesome, too. I still think it's funny that, like, the art of swedish death cleaning was one of the things people focused on recently. And I'm like, that's kind of cool, too, though. So, like, it's awesome. I love it. I. [00:31:18] Speaker B: That's still haunting me because I walk around my house and I'm like, throw it all away. Yeah, just, like, clear all of it. I'm like, yeah, I'm still. Still dealing with all that fun stuff. I'm like, ready when my daughter turns 18 and moves. [00:31:36] Speaker A: How many days is that? [00:31:37] Speaker B: And does 813. We're at 813. [00:31:41] Speaker A: Counting a little bit. [00:31:46] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm. And if the husband is still around, well, he can come, too, if he wants to. If he's still. I don't know what's going on. I move into the mountains with, you know, maybe get a couple of goats, some chickens and a gun and learn how to use it. [00:32:02] Speaker A: Yeah. And it'll be handicapped accessible, so I can come visit. [00:32:06] Speaker B: Exactly. Oh, it will be handicapped accessible. It will totally be accessible. And you can come visit whenever you'd like. But I know most other people who are being a little too peopley lately. They cannot come to my little mountain hideout. They won't know the way. [00:32:22] Speaker A: That's right. Only certain people allowed. Thank you very much. That's what bliss is about. [00:32:26] Speaker B: That's it. [00:32:28] Speaker A: Well, for what it's worth you spark joy in my life. Cathy, I will not be swedish cleaning you out. [00:32:34] Speaker B: Awesome. Thank you. And thank you for always just brightening every single day that I get to talk to you. [00:32:40] Speaker A: Likewise. Thank you very much. And everybody else. We don't know what we're talking about next week. We never do. But we hope we make you smile and laugh along the way. We'll see you then. Bye bye. This has been WP motivate with Kathy Zant and Michelle Freshette. To learn more or to sponsor us, go to wpmotivate.com.