The Weighting Room Podcast
The Weighting Room Podcast
FGT 54: Weight Loss Journeys: Navigating Mental Health, Fitness, and Food
After months away, we've returned with renewed energy and perspective, ready to share our transformative journeys with fitness, mental health, and the fascinating intersection between them.
Lisa reveals her remarkable 113-pound weight loss achievement – a stark contrast to the 15 pounds she mentioned in our very first episode. Beyond the scale, she proudly shares how her body composition has transformed from 78% body fat and 12% muscle to an impressive 23% muscle through consistent strength training. This physical metamorphosis parallels significant health improvements, including the resolution of her fatty liver condition.
Chris opens up about her evolving relationship with social media, candidly discussing how platforms like TikTok initially seemed manageable but ultimately led her to seek therapy. Her experience launching a YouTube channel captures her desire for more meaningful, longer-form content creation while navigating content strategy across multiple platforms. There's a refreshing authenticity as she shares her excitement about protein powders, personal training sessions, and finding her footing in a new fitness routine.
The episode takes an unexpected turn with Chris's hilarious yet frustrating account of a restaurant dispute over an $8.99 steak sandwich that mysteriously rang up as $28.99, sparking a larger conversation about consumer rights. This leads to Lisa revealing little-known Canadian consumer protection laws that could save listeners money at retail stores.
Through laughter, book recommendations, and honest reflections on weight loss plateaus, we remind listeners that transformation isn't linear – it's a complex journey requiring both physical consistency and mental resilience. If you've ever struggled with making lifestyle changes stick or wondered about the psychological aspects of physical transformation, this episode offers both practical insights and the comforting reminder that you're not alone in the struggle.
Do you have a story you would like to share? Send it to us at theweightingroompc@gmail.com
Disclaimer: We are not Medical professionals and all views and opinions are our own.
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Speaker 2:When is also being recorded March.
Speaker 1:Jesus, I don't know. You know what I was listening to today, though, was our very first episode. Oh God, no, I couldn't do that I don't think I could, oh my God, don't do it. Think I could, oh my god, don't do it. I don't want to listen. We're not those people anymore.
Speaker 2:Oh, hopefully people grew with us. And oh my god, could you imagine the people that find us and listen to episode one now and are like oh, god, you know what one of your goals were. No, I don't want to know.
Speaker 1:You wanted five people to use your audio on TikTok.
Speaker 2:You know what? I don't think five people have used my audio, but I had an insane amount of people stitch my eyebrow video and that happened, so you know what that happened.
Speaker 1:It was before. Like you hit millions of views on anything.
Speaker 2:That was because I was hearing your sound everywhere and I'm like I want to experience that. That was with the oh god, it was something about wearing what you want to wear yes, there was two.
Speaker 1:I only know it because I just listened to the episode and we talked about them. There was two sounds. The first one was uh, if you're on a weight loss journey use this audio just you saying it like I'm so sorry, but it's like your voice and everything. It just brings all those videos back and then the second one was um, if you looked at this and you don't don't, or if you don't think it looks good, that sounds like your problem oh my gosh, yes calm down I loved those.
Speaker 2:Oh man, we should bring them back crime.
Speaker 1:Oh my god, could you imagine?
Speaker 2:no, do you imagine? Reddit? That was a dangerous time that was people who have just found us now, like not covid tiktok days.
Speaker 1:I have no idea how ridiculous it was. Uh, yeah, I ended up on reddit, and not in a good way. It was people that were like you know. Honestly, I thought that I could.
Speaker 2:I thought that I could cope with social media, but literally the person that I was where I'm like I don't need therapy. I am in active therapy and being on social media made me really realize that because, like my emotions have always been all over the place, but they were everywhere since starting on social media.
Speaker 1:Social media is. Why did we do this?
Speaker 2:I still. I love the outcome, but like I wouldn't know you, and like there's so many, there's so many positives, but there was just so much to dig through to get to the positive where I am now.
Speaker 1:It's just like negative stuff comes up. I'm like, okay, yeah, like it's just. I've now learned that like you really aren't going to please everybody. So it's just one of those things where it's like, I mean, you don't even have to pick and choose who you please like, just be who you want to be and the people who want to be around you will be around you. You know what I mean.
Speaker 2:So yeah, I normally bypass the hate comments on my TikTok, but if they ever come up on Instagram which I haven't had a video go viral in a while, um, on Instagram it's really hard, and also I kind of just gave up on posting for like, like the. The podcast isn't the only thing that's been ignored for the last few months. Like my, social media has definitely been ignored, um, but I was doing the yes, I did.
Speaker 2:Yes, We'll get back to that. I started the wall of shame, 24 hour wall of shame on Instagram where I take if they had a public profile, I would take some of their photos and go excuse me, susan, like would you talk to your grandkids this way?
Speaker 1:Like, just she called me a fat cow or something.
Speaker 2:But then I decided nevermind. The-hour wall of shame can also be um a highlight. It is on my Instagram. There's not that many because it was all from that cucumber salad video. Just such stupid comments. But yeah, youtube, uh.
Speaker 1:YouTube's hard.
Speaker 2:YouTube now I've uploaded three videos so far. Um, I haven't posted a video in a couple of days and I was going to start one today. I did. I did the unboxing of all of our protein powders that I ordered. Lisa and I were talking the other day. Yeah, they came in. I'm so excited. I'm so excited for you.
Speaker 1:I feel like it's Christmas.
Speaker 2:I'm going to try the iced cappuccino protein powder in a coffee tomorrow and see what it's like, did you? Get the caffeinated one, I can't remember. Uh, I really can't remember. Yeah, I could get a check right now, but you know I'll update you guys next week.
Speaker 2:Uh, maybe if we're here and I got, we will be. Um, oh sorry, I got pre-workout and I got the EAAs. I keep banging the table. My gym guy, rems, and I have hired a personal trainer for 12 sessions. This is like such a honestly much different way of things that I was like like than I was four months ago. I had nothing to talk about, I wasn't going to the gym, I wasn't thinking about protein and it's like I've done a 180, which I am going to just clap for myself because I am really happy Listening to Lisa, just thrive, like watching your progress and I'm like strength training does work.
Speaker 2:Okay, like it really does. I'm because I'm watching you do it and like the slow and steady I've just I'm very inspired by you. And so Rams and I got a personal trainer for 12 sessions. It was gonna start tomorrow, but I actually have a lot to do around the house. So we are doing Tuesdays and Thursdays starting next week with the personal trainer and we're going to try and go at least one other day per week, um, with whatever he teaches us and try and do it on our own, and then, after 12 sessions is done, then we'll just like continue on with it, hopefully get up to like four days a week or whatever. Uh, nutrition wise, like things are like we're just navigating right now. We got take out. Last night we got nori sushi oh my god, it's so good. Hello nori, oh it's delicious. Um, but you know, so you're the reason I'm craving sushi right now?
Speaker 1:because literally out of nowhere this morning I was like damn, I could totally go for sushi um and yeah, like mental health is um going good.
Speaker 2:but I started this by saying that I started YouTube. I don't know where I diverted into all of this, but that's what my YouTube is going to be about, Just longer form. Because on TikTok I was starting to post three minute videos where I was like explaining more things, but just TikTok always felt wrong to do that, but not wrong Like I don't know how to explain it.
Speaker 2:It's just it's more of a place where you just want to go and laugh a bit and it's gotten so serious, like there's like a lot of stuff going on in the world. Like not to downplay any of that, I'm glad all that stuff's on social media so it's bringing the world's attention to it. Um, it just didn't feel like the place to really talk about this stuff anymore and I love explaining things in bigger detail. So you know, you can throw on the it's like they're only like five minute videos right now, but you can throw it on the background and hear me chatter about bullshit like you're doing now that's what I did.
Speaker 1:I listened to it while I was at the gym the other day, so, but I think on also. Tiktok has just become like our version of the preteen magazine you know what I?
Speaker 2:mean like it's just, there's so much garbage on there now and the ads after videos, like right, when you want to go to the comment section, and then you click on it and it was an ad and you're like, damn it, and why are Canadians getting ads? You're not paying our Canadian content creators, so get those ads off our service totally agree.
Speaker 1:And it's like at the bottom, where it's like a prepaid thing or like if people are posting a bet or a promoted video, um, or if people are posting about stuff that's on, like the TikTok shop, but we don't have access to TikTok shop. So it's like, why am I even seeing this video? I can't buy the thing that they're talking about because I can't even get to the thing that they're talking about. So it's, yeah, I'm, I'm annoyed with TikTok, to be honest. Uh, I I do keep posting there because, like, it's really where I took off, so it's, I do still post there, but I'm gonna say 75% of what I post on TikTok I'm also posting on Instagram because it just seems more mature.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I guess you could say my.
Speaker 1:FYP on Instagram is totally different than my FYP on TikTok, because TikTok just gives me a whole bunch of garbage and Instagram is like oh, are you into this book? Smut right now.
Speaker 2:I don't know how to use any like. I don't really navigate through Instagram much, I'm just on the home page where I just see people I follow post. I don't go to the FYP in there, um, and honestly, I'm just reposting TikToks right now because I like the editing in TikTok, because I just got so used to it yeah, that's.
Speaker 2:That's my thing too yeah and um, but the thing that I'm struggling with right now is that I want to primarily post to YouTube. So it's own landscape that I'm filming and it's like how can I move this into portrait mode as well? And it's just really complicated. I don't know how other people do it, but maybe they have multiple cameras. I don't know. Yeah, but I have 32 subscribers, woo.
Speaker 1:Brandon's one, because I just watch everything on his account love it.
Speaker 2:I'm sure Rams is too. Maybe my brother got all the family in there, um, but I've been having support through it, which I want to just give a shout out because I know some of them listen to the podcast. That's very kind of you to have followed me. If you are interested, I'm going to plug it in. I don't care, I'm shameless, do it.
Speaker 2:It's capital V, van city, capital C, chris, and then capital WL. I just say the capitals because apparently you don't put them in, it won't come right away. I was trying to search for it and he couldn't find it. Um, but yeah, the wl is for weight loss. Just because you know, I I went very teeter-tottery and how I could discuss it on tiktok, because then you'd have people that are like I'm just here for fun and I have a you know whatever and it just it's triggering and it's like I get it and it's also, but like that just blocked me. And then now it's like I just want to have a place where I've started it off that way and I'm going to continue like the little bits of extra lifestyle, like Rams and I are going out somewhere, I'm going for a hike.
Speaker 2:I'll still post that stuff on TikTok, but I think just the longer form and talking about more of my feelings might be over on YouTube. I don't know, it's so up in the air. Who knows if it'll is something I continue with because it's so up in the air? Who knows if it'll is something I continue with because it's really hard to film content? Uh, it really is hard. I just I'm losing the time for it, but I honestly think depression has taken up a lot of my time and I didn't realize it. I started getting back into reading. I am taking over this podcast that's okay, go for it.
Speaker 1:Uh, you had so much happen uh what is that book I'm reading? Crown avatar a cat a court of thorns and roses yes, thank you.
Speaker 2:I'm so sorry. I will always do that, because I just can't remember the name. It's too long, um, but it's such a good book so far I'm having so excited for you.
Speaker 1:Where are you at spoiler alerts?
Speaker 2:um god, I can't. I honestly don't know what chapter I'll have to get my Kindle and find out, but I you know what. It's been a couple days since I read, so I don't want to say where I am, because I can't remember if that was the last thing I read. I always have to go back two pages.
Speaker 1:Okay, so you know Tamlin, yes, she's living there. Oh, and Lucian. Yeah and lucian. Yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, and they killed the is it pronounced bogey like his?
Speaker 2:um, the, the fairy that like whispers to you and then you can't pay attention to it oh my gosh, yeah, I really hope people listen that it's spoilers anyway. When the first time her and lucian went out no, not lucian samuel no, no, yeah, lucian. When the first time her and Lucien went out no, not Lucien Tamlin, no, no, yeah, lucien. When the first time her and Lucien went out to patrol, he was like, stay still, look forward, don't make any movements and oh yeah, right, right, right. And then Tamlin went out and destroyed him.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:I'm so sorry if you guys are getting spoilers right now.
Speaker 1:I really like maybe I'll cut this part out. No, leave it in, but come back now.
Speaker 2:Totally no no, don't, don't. But totally forgot that lisa doesn't picture things, because we've talked about this in previous I gotta stop hitting the table. In previous podcasts episodes, oh my god, I can't get my words out properly, and I remember being shocked by it. But then, like I guess I just I thought the same thing, like oh, maybe I don't picture things. Like you know, if you say the number eight right now, I don't see the number eight. Like I don't, that's not a thing, I just I can sense it.
Speaker 2:And so I said to Lisa like well, how do you picture them? Because, like I picture. And then she's like I told you, I don't picture things that way. And I was like, even when reading, like that's where my mind is blown, like it's just like like daydreaming, essentially while reading, like because I want to know if I'd be able to pay attention to the words better, because I will be picturing it. And then I'm still reading technically, but the words aren't going into my head, because now I'm making up my own movie of these people in my head and then I'm like, oh wait, that's not what's happening, that's not what they're doing and then I go back to reading.
Speaker 1:When you said the number eight, though, like what color did you think of with the number? Blue me too yeah like a light blue it was like a purple, yeah, but like a purpley blue. That was light, like almost, I want to say periwinkle, but I'm thinking of so funny.
Speaker 2:I love that.
Speaker 1:That was just a totally normal question because it wasn't and I can't picture, but it's just like the vibe. You know what I mean. I can't see the number eight, I can't see that the eight is that purpley blue, but I get the vibe that that's what it would be.
Speaker 2:I hope other people answered when you asked, right I?
Speaker 1:know, I wouldn't be surprised if some people said green too. And now people who said green are like what? The but eight is just like that kind of number you know.
Speaker 2:Yeah. So, yeah, I'm really excited about readings, like I'm changing a lot of things, but also not, because, like, I do still have some of the habits I would really love to break and I don't think they're going to be an immediate break. But I'm just some of the habits I would really love to break and I don't think they're going to be an immediate break. But I'm just, I'm slowly putting in the things that I want to add and then I'll slowly take away the things I don't want anymore.
Speaker 2:Oh, so, random though, the next time I go to the gym I'm also getting big way hot pot, because they just put one right across. Have you ever seen those tech talks where people are like I'm gonna guess that it's this much like it's a hot pot thing, and then they actually weigh it and then it's either like way more than they thought it would be or like way less. So it's that. But Rams isn't really like hot pot, and I'm like but you can add only the things that you want and then you pay by weight. So hopefully we go and do that, because I love hot pot, but I also don't love everything that you get with it.
Speaker 1:But yeah, that's just a totally a hat person by the way, thank you.
Speaker 2:Yes, I'm having a really uh greasy day, even though this looks like it needs to be chopped off because it's so and no one can see us thank you yeah, she's wearing a ball cap. By the way, I totally have that question that I want to ask you, that. I messaged you earlier, but I want to hear about that. I messaged you earlier, but I want to hear about what you've been doing at the gym, since we should definitely update both.
Speaker 1:Oh my goodness Like oh my God.
Speaker 1:I don't even know it's been how long since we've talked about stuff. So I don't know the last update that I gave, but I'm still going to the gym at 3 in the morning. I'm still doing weight training. I'm kind of a little mixed up all over the place right now with my weight training.
Speaker 1:Um, I, I have to rework my workouts and put it back in, uh, because, like I'll, I'll, let's say, I have a workout that's like, um, I don't know, chest press, this is a bad setup, cause I'm just throwing random stuff out here. But like, if I'm doing a chest press and leg press, uh, and something else, and then one day I'm like I don't really feel like doing the leg press, so I'm just going to do squats instead to replace the leg press. And then I start doing that for a little while, and then I'm like I don't really want to do chest press, so I'm just going to do an incline bench instead. So now my workout has just totally changed to what I originally had it as, and then at one point I just hit I now have a shuffle of a whole bunch of stuff that I don't really want to do, so now I have to go in. So now I get to the gym and I'm like what do I want to do? I don't know. I'm just going to do the stuff that I like.
Speaker 1:So now I'm just stuck in that limbo right now. So I really have to sit down and plan my workout and it's like this is what you need to do and you need to stick to this for four to six weeks and then you can change it again. So that's what I need to do. For that I haven't been running as much because I was having an issue with my hip. Did I talk about the 12-3-30 challenge on here? I know I talked a little bit about it on TikTok.
Speaker 2:I'm not sure when did you start talking about?
Speaker 1:it, I don't remember. So I was going to, I'm going to this weight loss clinic and I'm technically done. The weight loss clinic I don't think I did, because I think this happened in um may or june. So on my second last appointment with the weight loss clinic, I was going to be done at this point because it's not covered by OHIP and it's not covered by my insurance. So I'm paying out of pocket for this clinic, right, and I was going to stop the program after this last session. The second last session, I was going to do my one more and then be done, and I've been seeing the same nurse the whole time. But on the second last one I had to change my appointment last minute because I was sick.
Speaker 1:So now I'm seeing a new nurse and I oh yes, this is when I had my panic on Tik TOK, when I was like I'm seeing this new nurse and she was like, uh, I feel like that you need to.
Speaker 1:I don't even know how to explain it now because it was so long ago and I've seen this nurse since then. But the day of I just remember panicking Like I walked in. She's like what you've done is fantastic so far, but I think, like you're in a bit of a plateau, so to break your plateau, like you can't eat after seven o'clock, let's do fat Like and. But she worded it as fasting at that time. Like I know that's not what it was, but at the time she says, like we're going to incorporate fasting and you are, you have a gallbladder or you don't have a gallbladder, so you shouldn't be having fat like it was. Oh, and then the challenge that I was talking about at the start of this, the 12 330, which is putting the treadmill at a 12 incline, um go for 30 minutes at the pace of three, and I was like I'll try that I can get to two minutes at 2.5 pace, is like this.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's like it's steep, like you're just going up that's like walking up a new westminster hill so I started it and I'm like, dear god, this is not fun, this is I'm, this is not good. So I went back to her and I did. When I left the doctor's office, when she was telling me to do this, this and this, I panicked because the last time I was told that it was like you need to fast and you need to cut out this certain food group was back when I saw that doctor that I was with previously, like my old family doctor, and I just panicked. I was like this is so, this is so much change, this is too much Like. And I couldn't actually panic because my daughter was with me for this appointment, for this time, because we didn't have a sitter and she was with me.
Speaker 1:So I left the doctor's office and immediately went to Taco Bell because I was like this is too much, I can't do it, I'm just. I feel like I'm failing now. So I grabbed Taco Bell, went home, put my daughter down for a nap, ate the Taco Bell and then panicked on TikTok. So then I let everything sink in a little bit and I was like, okay, I'm not actually fasting, it's just so that I stopped eating after seven o'clock at night. It's not actually giving up a food for a dietary reason. It's because I don't have a gallbladder and my body just can't process these things properly. And it's not just this, like you know what I mean. Like I really sat down and broke down what she was talking about and why she was saying it it wasn't just a you need to do this to lose weight.
Speaker 1:It was this is what's going on with you and why you should do these things, but because the last time I was told something like this, it was just panic yeah so, um, calmed the fuck down and then processed all of that and then went back to her to her again two weeks later and honestly, I'm looking back on it now from how I was feeling then to where I am now. I felt so good when I was doing all these things and I think because I started doing these things as routine for some. So like, for example, I've been making my breakfast sandwiches at home. It's an English muffin with egg whites, it's actually one egg and half, it's one egg and egg whites mixed, and then Brandon takes half of it and I take half of it, and then turkey bacon and no fat cheese. Like I think I really started focusing on the no fat side of things with that, but then I was allowing myself to have fat every once in a while with some things. Like we've been getting ice cream cones pretty regularly, I would say, and um, so I'm still having fat.
Speaker 1:And now I'm and I'm leading up to what I was going to start talking about, about how I've just been stuck in this plateau since about like June. I want to say the lowest I've seen on the scale is 293, but I keep bouncing between like 293 and 296. And I just kind of keep staying in there. Um, because, like I, I focused, I focused so hard on it, got down to the 293 and then I've been a little lenient on it again.
Speaker 1:And I think it's because, like I, just I hit two huge milestones back to back. I hit 100 pounds lost and then I hit under 300 pounds. So it's just like my brain is just like I don't want to do this, like let's just you know what I mean. So I'm kind of just stuck in that limbo. But, looking back on the advice that she originally told me back in June, I haven't been sticking to it. Like I just had a PB and J like an hour ago, and that's eight o'clock, like you know what I mean. So I know I haven't been sticking to it, but I think I've just been lenient in my head because, well, I'm under 300 pounds. You know what I mean.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:But I still have another 40 to 50 pounds. I want to lose to get to a size 16. And that's what I know. I want to reach for my goal right now. If I want to lose more than that later, then whatever, if I get there, and that's what I decide. But right now, that's where in my head I feel I would be the healthiest.
Speaker 1:But I will say, um, my fatty liver has come back negative. It's no longer an issue. Um, my, what were some other things that I had going on before? I'm trying to remember. Now. The only thing I'm still having an issue with is my cholesterol, and it's not even like off the charts, it's like it's so close. And I know it's just a couple of dietary changes that I need to make, but I just haven't been doing it, and I know it's because my brain is like, eh, but as I'm talking about it out loud and we're talking about things, I'm like, damn, like that really is that that's a you thing? Um, but I was also going to talk to her about increasing my saxenda, because I've been like slowly getting the food noise back. You know what.
Speaker 1:I mean so and I haven't increased my dose since, uh, probably January or February. So, yeah, yeah, so that's where I'm at, period. I don't know what I was gonna say, but that's where I'm at with that. Oh, and I started skipping at the gym not skipping the gym, but like skipping jump rope because when I told her I absolutely hated the 12-3-30, she was like I just want to get some more cardio in. And I know, when I was talking about that on Tik TOK as well, people are like you don't need to do cardio to lose weight, which is true, but cardio is for heart health. So, like that is. I'm about the health side of all of it. So it makes sense for me to incorporate more cardio. You know what I mean? I don't, I. I don't find it as a negative thing to incorporate more cardio. You know what I mean? I don't, I. I don't find it as a negative thing to incorporate more cardio, but you do need to find what you'd like to do, because if you force yourself to do something you don't like, then you're not going to want to do it. Um, and I have.
Speaker 1:So I tried that inclined walking challenge. I fucking hated it. I walked in and said I'm not doing that anymore. Um, so now I'm doing skipping. I did it for the first time on the weekend, but I fucked up because mom was like the machine that she was using for her abs is broken. So she was like I need some ab workouts. So I showed her a couple ab workouts and then I did my skipping. And that was on Sunday, and it is now Wednesday and my abs still hurt because I was showing her all those things and then jumped rope.
Speaker 1:So now I was like shaking my body and it's just like oh so I think and I don't know. I like you all know how I suck at challenges. I'm like I'm going to do this challenge and then I never do it. But for the month of August I want to do 10 minutes of skipping every day. Nice, that is my goal. I am going to get one of those jump ropes Renpho jump ropes that are like it's a weight at the end, it's not just a rope, so that if there's days that, like if my knees hurt or my feet hurt and I can't completely lift my feet off the ground and just do like, basically, a calf raise, I can still do that and it'll still count towards my skipping. So I'm hoping to get one of those this weekend, but I don't know if I can use my own Renpho code, but I do have a Renpho code if anybody's wondering. Chris. Chris plugged her YouTube.
Speaker 2:I'm going to plug my Renpho.
Speaker 1:It's on all my Linktree stuff if you follow me on TikTok or Instagram. But you, you get. You get a discount off of renfo products and they have a new scale. Have you seen it?
Speaker 1:no it's like the ones we have now, but the way it works is so it's the body scale and you put your feet on it and then it does like a little shock through one leg and down the other leg and that's how the bm or not bmi, the body fat percentage, and all that is read on the scales that we have and it's not 100% accurate. But the scale that's at my clinic that I go to. You put your feet on the sensor and then you also put your hands on a sensor so it does it through your whole body, not just your feet, because it does your feet and then estimates for your whole body on the Renfro scale. But the clinic that I go to you do the hand sensors and you do the feet sensors and it goes through your whole body.
Speaker 1:The new renfo scale has a hand sensor it's like a little thing that like comes up on a cord so you hold on to it, and then you also have your feet sensors, so it does do your whole body. I want it so bad how much is?
Speaker 2:it two hundred dollars I know, you know, I actually just had that done at the gym.
Speaker 1:They have them oh, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, so they gave us like this paper.
Speaker 2:And well, I mean, they just told me I'm fat, like I'm like yeah, I get it. You know a piece of paper to fucking know that did yours have the hand one too? Yeah, it was like well, it was these like handlebars that came out. You just you had to keep away from your body. Yeah, yeah, yeah, uh, that's awesome. I'm happy for you. You're doing great. I'm glad that you're. You're done at the clinic now.
Speaker 1:No, I decided to. So they had a program afterwards that was like their beyond program, where it's like a quarter of the price, um, and then you, it's only once a month instead of whatever it was. Um, the, the program I was originally on went to like every other week to every three weeks, to every four weeks kind of thing, and now it's just the every four weeks, like once a month. I go in and I talk to this nurse now and yeah which I'm.
Speaker 1:I'm kind of glad I'm staying on it. I feel like I would be okay if I left it, but it's just one of those things where it's that added support that I never really had previously and I feel like it helps you know what I mean.
Speaker 1:So, and I do want to, as I said before, I do want to talk to her about upping my GLP one and see about that. But yeah, that's that's where that's at. I thought of something else that I wanted to say, but I can't remember what it is. Now it's gone.
Speaker 2:We're really good at that yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:What were we just talking about before? We said that, talking about the gym, you had the scan. No, I don't know. I will say that my renfro how much it cost no, it wasn't. That, that's okay. I will say, though, that my renfo scale at home oh, that's what I was gonna say, I'll come back to it the renfo scale at home is about five percent off compared to the full body one at my at my clinic, so like they are pretty close like good yeah, um, what I was going to say is I was looking at my stats from when I started to where I am now, because I'm officially 113 pounds down, which is in the first episode when we recorded.
Speaker 1:you asked how much weight are you down this year? And I said 15 pounds and today I get to say I'm down 113 pounds. That's incredible. What the fuck is that?
Speaker 2:You're amazing.
Speaker 1:That's so crazy. So 113 pounds down. I also went from 78% body fat and I went from 12 percent muscle to 23 percent muscle.
Speaker 2:Wow, Isn't that crazy? That's amazing, that's amazing.
Speaker 1:I'm so proud of myself on all.
Speaker 2:I'm proud of you.
Speaker 1:So it's like, yeah, I'm on it, like I'm on a plateau right now, but like overall it's like to go from there to there, plus I'm a mom now, plus I go to the gym all the time, Plus yada, yada, yada. On my body scan I wasn't dehydrated for the first time. Wow I know Like who am I.
Speaker 2:So that's where I'm at. I love it.
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, okay okay, you had a story you wanted to tell it was actually going to be an icebreaker, because it's a.
Speaker 2:What would you do? It is something that happened today and I cannot get over it. Okay, let's say you go into somewhere and you see something and it says this item is $15. And you're like, awesome, I'm going to get that item. And then you get it and they're like actually, that item's $30. And you're like, okay, but it said that it was 15. And they're like, oh sorry, it wasn't priced correctly, it's $30.
Speaker 1:What would you do? Okay, so we live in different provinces, so I need to start with that. In fact I do. I know exactly what I do because I worked in retail and I don't know if this is a canadian law or a provincial law, but for sure, in Ontario, at retail stores, if a product is marked at a lower price and being rung up at the higher price, they need to give it to you at the price plus $10 off, at the lower price plus $10 off, and I, so I, you finish, you tell your story and then I actually have a story about this.
Speaker 2:So I push for that and have, but so that is for retail and thank you and all canadians thank you. Um, this is at a restaurant and let's say the price was on a sandwich board and it said the sandwich is five dollars or fifteen dollars, but then they charge you $30 for it.
Speaker 1:No, I don't want it.
Speaker 2:Okay, but you've already eaten it and they've given it to you on your bill. Oh, so you're at a restaurant.
Speaker 1:You've eaten it? Yeah, I'd probably ask for a manager.
Speaker 2:Okay, and then they say it's $30, and you go, but it's written at $15, and they say what, what would? What would you would?
Speaker 1:you just probably, man, I don't know I feel like I would still push quite a bit because, like that's technically the way the law sees it is, it's like a binding contract. At that point I'm buying this because you're telling me it's at this cost, like not to totally, you know, be what they say is a Karen these days.
Speaker 1:But, you have told me that this is $15. I am buying this because it's $15. You served it to me because I thought it was $15. Otherwise they could just mark up anything that they want at any price, Like it needs to be $15.
Speaker 2:So me, Chris, I am officially slash unofficially banned from a major chain restaurant. Apparently, I'm not banned now, the way that the story has gone, so what I need. Yeah, listen to this. So my mom and I I'm bringing her to a doctor's appointment later I'm like let's go for lunch. So we go down the street to this restaurant. It opens at 11. After we're there, what was the restaurant?
Speaker 1:my god, okay go.
Speaker 2:I gotta get through this, though, laughing you. So we go there. It opens at 11. We get there practically at 11. We walk in. There's one guy in front of us that got a to-go order and then some other people walk behind us. We waited a bit. There was no server. We almost sat ourselves. It was just kind of like you know that first morning they're trying to set things up right. There's a sandwich board in front of us on the till and it's tiny, it says daily specials and there's all these things, and at the top it says steak sandwich $8.99. The way it was written. It didn't look like anything was taken off of it, nothing. So you already know where the story's going. I think I'm getting a steak sandwich for $8.99. I'm expecting a small little steak sandwich. No side it comes. It's a steak sandwich. It looks very presentable. It's really nice. It's a goddess Caesar salad with it. My mom orders a lunch. They have a $15 lunch menu. I'm giving up where this place is. Okay, they have a lunch.
Speaker 1:This place has a lot of places have that type of menu though.
Speaker 2:Yeah, okay, y'all just continue with it. Then you get to pick um a main aside and a drink like for for that price. That's great on it. They had a clubhouse sandwich which I would have loved, and I could get a Caesar salad and a drink. This, I'm just thinking I'm getting a steak sandwich for $8.99. The bill ends up coming. My mom got a pepperoni pizza with a side Caesar and a drink an eight-inch pepperoni pizza for $15. I think that's a great deal. The bill comes it's $44. I'm like I can do math. It's $44. I'm like I can do math. My steak sandwich rang up at $28.99. I'm telling you right now, I don't like steak sandwiches. I bought it because, it was $8.99.
Speaker 2:So I go and I'm not irritated at this point I think it's a mistake. I go up to the server and I'm like, oh hey, I'm like I don't know if this was rang up right, but we, I was ordering that special that's on the board for $8.99. And she just kind of takes it from me and then walks away and I was like I'll go check, like nothing wrong. I didn't like it's just, it was kind of like a oh, like confusing moment. I go sit down. Is that a record? Can I ask how old she was? I don't know? Like late twenties, okay, yeah, the server. Late 20s, okay, yeah, the server, the one that came after was probably in her early 30s, mid 30s, um. So I go sit back down at the table and then the server doesn't come back to me but someone that says they're a manager is and they're dressed like a server, like they have the apron on with the pen and everything. You know what I mean yeah so she's like hi, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2:So she apologizes right off the bat. I understand that she apologizes. She says um, I think that someone has um wiped off part of the menu board and um, it's actually it is $28.99. I am so sorry about that, um, but yeah that it is $28.99. I can take $5 off. And I was like no, I only bought that because I thought I was getting it for $8.99. And I'm like I'm not paying that. And she's like in what world would you find a steak sandwich for $8.99? And now I'm like I'm actually starting to shake because my adrenaline's pumping and, as a lot of you know, I have a new diagnosed mental health condition that I understand now. That, I think, is the only reason why I didn't flip out, because I was aware that I could and I was like you can't, and so it immediately resulted in me starting to shake.
Speaker 1:I decided at you. It's just immediately in my head. It's like in what world do you not check your signs?
Speaker 2:yeah, make sure your specials are just white, um, and like, honestly, because like it's really hard for me, like when I'm confronted, and like someone that's in a position of customer service has an attitude like that and put the blame on me like I want to get. So, karen, like it's, I'm sorry I you guys know I don't normally use that word, but I'm trying to explain like how it could have gone. Um, I started recording on my phone and I have a 12 minute recording of it and to prove that I didn't do anything wrong, so I said to her, or she said in what world? And then, and then I said it said it was 899. I believed it. And she's like, and you didn't think to ask, and I'm like, again, she's she's not a victim blaming. I'm all said she's like putting the blame on me and I'm like, again, she's not a victim blaming. I almost said she's like putting the blame on me and I'm like I don't understand why you're blaming me for this right now. She's like I didn't blame you. I said I was sorry, I said that a child probably wiped it off. I'm like that's great. I understand, like your reasoning for why it says $8.99 now, but then you're telling me that all these things that I should have done to verify if it was $8.99. And she's like but where would you ever get a steak sandwich for $8.99? I thought here, yeah, and I was like I'm. I'm like I'm not paying that. I am paying $8.99. And she's like if you don't pay your bill, I'm going to treat it as a dine and dash. And my mom's just sitting there and I'm like thank God she's staying quiet. But normally my mom would chirp into and like be exactly like me. That's where I get it and so I am not leaving.
Speaker 2:I get up to go to the front. I'm like I'm going to go look at the sign. The sign has now changed. It now says 2899.
Speaker 2:And I say to her I'm like I took a picture of it actually when I came in. And she's like that's how I know you're lying. And I said what are you talking about? And she's like why would you take a photo of it and not know that it's a good deal? I'm like I took a photo of it to post it to social media to tell people where they could get a steak sandwich for under $10. That is exactly why I took that Not as a gotcha moment. I don't like steak sandwiches, like I need you to understand that I don't like it. But then she starts saying we're in the world. Then she starts saying if we give every customer this for $8.99, we would lose business. I'm like okay, great, and I'm like but you can make the change for me because you've changed the sign now, so all your future customers are going to know it costs $28.99. I think it costs $8.99. So you're going to lose out on $20 for one customer. That's all, and you know what she kept repeating over and over and over again.
Speaker 1:If it's like a, a small, yes, you know what I mean like if it's like a you're in a deli or like it's just a small, but you know what I mean. But if you're in a chain place, yeah like I brought up to her.
Speaker 2:I'm like you guys opened at 11. I came in at 11. This sign wasn't updated, obviously, since last night. Then this should have either been taken away or you guys should have updated it this morning. Again, there was no child in here. Because she kept saying that there's no child in here. To remove the two, unless the guy in front of me did it right after you guys opened. Like I don't understand what's going on here.
Speaker 2:She then said something else around the lines of where in the world would you get that? And I'm like I need to tell you I used to work at a Chili's restaurant. And she's like oh, you're American. And I went, excuse me. And she's like oh, so you're American. And I'm like I am not American. And she's like well, I assumed you know, because you're talking about chilies, and like maybe you just don't know how it is here in vancouver. And I was like, um, I worked at chilies in bamfelberta, canada.
Speaker 2:I'm like that's besides the point. I'm like, but when people would see something and it's a certain price and it rings up different, we price match what it said and we change it for the next person. I'm like I've done this job before and all you keep doing is saying that it's my fault that I should have done something. You should honor this price for me. She again keeps repeating that if we do this for every customer, I'm like you don't have to do it for every customer. You've already rectified it by changing the price. You have to rectify it, yeah, and literally.
Speaker 2:If she calls the police or whatever, it's like you're in the right here yeah, and like I would have just paid it anyway, because I'm just like over it at that point, but it was like the principle, and then you know what, well the way she's treating you.
Speaker 1:That doesn't make you want to do any favors yeah.
Speaker 2:And then, um, she, uh, gosh, there was so much that happened. And then I made the customer, um, the grocery store example. I said, if you're gonna walk, because like she wasn't listening to me, like I, if I played that recording of you she, I was like I just want to be able to talk. She's like I've been listening to you for a long time now, like I have other things to do, like kind of like that, and I'm'm just like Jesus, fucking Christ man. And then I said, god, it's like there's so much going on in my brain right now.
Speaker 2:I said if you go into a grocery store and you see something there that's labeled for $15, and you get up to the cash register and they say it's actually 30. And you say no, it's 15, they call over the thing and they do a price check. And then someone goes down there and they look and they'll tell you hey, it actually has a price tag of 15. They change it then for the next customers, but they honor that price for the person up there at the till. That's always the way that it's been. That's false advertising for that customer. You change it for the next people, do you like? Cause, she, cause she kept saying that she was listening. But I'm like you're listening but you're not getting it. You're only like you're stopped at your point of view and you're not listening to another perspective here. And it's like that's what's frustrating me, because it's like I would never have gotten a steak sandwich. And I told her I'm like I'd rather have bought the clubhouse honestly for the, for the $15. That's what I wanted, I'm like.
Speaker 2:But I saw that this was only $8.99. So I thought I could save my mom some money and I didn't have a big appetite. I ended up paying for it anyway. But she then says the same thing again if I gave everyone for $8.99, blah, blah, blah, we'd lose money. And then she goes so I've just taken it off your bill, you can just pay for, like, my mom's portion. And I said but now, because she kept saying she can't justify it to the other managers, why should you get free 99? I'm like, but now you've just made it free, now you don't get any money. How is this making sense right now? Because now I'm like fucking baffled. I'm actually pissed. She's giving it to me for free. I just want to pay the fine, I just want to pay the $8.99, man.
Speaker 1:So she wipes it off the bill.
Speaker 2:She puts mom's stuff through and then she gives me the thing, like because now we're actually talking, because I think she actually got it after I made the like the thing about the grocery stores and stuff. And then I said I do want to apologize if I'm oh, halfway through that that I missed. She said, um, I am wiping it off the bill, but you and anyone you know are no longer welcome here. You are banned. And I said I'm sorry, what am I banned for? And she said because you're being argumentative. And I said I'm not being argumentative. Every I was fucking calm and I'm like everything that I said to you was out of utter confusion. I'm like you're taking it as argumentative. I'm confused. I'm like you're coming off abrupt to me by telling me um, where in the world? Blah, blah, blah. I told her do you know where had steak specials every small town I've ever been to? Yes, I get, it's a small town and not a big city I just thought, hey, to be quite honest, the steak tasted a little bit off. I thought your daily specials are to get rid of the old stuff that you want out. That's what specials are. For a $28 steak sandwich I would never pay $28 for that. If you know what restaurant I'm talking about. Never get it. It is not worth $28. It was worth $8.99. I'm paying for it.
Speaker 2:And she had bypassed it. She had taken it off the server's bill so she doesn't have to tip out, thinking I wasn't going to tip and put it under like the host. If you've ever been a server, you know exactly what I'm talking about. But they put it under a different card where it doesn't matter if they get tips or not. I was like where's the tip option? She's like oh, I bypassed that because I didn't think you would want to. I'm like it's not the server's fault, like she didn't do anything wrong in this situation. Of course I'm gonna tip her. I would like to be able to.
Speaker 2:Her demeanor changed after that because I even said I'm like, knowing that she would have to tip out. And then that's when she told me well, she wouldn't have to tip out. I put it like jargon that I would understand. And then I was like that's great and all. But I'm like, again, it's not the server's fault.
Speaker 2:This was something that was done, whether it was a kid that did it or not. You saw it said that you would have to honor that for me. That's all I was trying to get at here. She then and I said I'm sorry if I seem like I got my backup, whatever, like I just said. She then apologized, she wanted to shake my hand and she gave me her name and everything and I was just like you know what, I'll just shake her hand, whatever, like I'm just done with this because I she knew I was recording and I'm like I'm going to send this to fricking corporate. But now at that point I just said to myself because I was just like I don't know what the heck this was going on like this escalated, freaking fast. And then she said and you're not banned, like it's, it's fine. And I'm like, yeah, I'm like to be quite honest, I don't think my mom and I'll ever come back here you used to come here every Thursday and we probably won't.
Speaker 2:But yeah, yeah, thanks, whatever. The minute I got out into the car, I'm when I tell you I was sobbing. When I was sobbing I couldn't contain the tears because of all that adrenaline and my mom was trying to calm me down and I'm like mom, you have to let me cry, like just leave me alone. And I'm like thank you so much for like just going to the car and stuff, because if I had had you there trying to like be snappy with me, like it would have made it so much worse. So I got the boo-hoos out and then we went off to her appointment. But literally it's bugging me so much. My mom's like you should really send that video to corporate because that was messed up. But then I also kind of feel at this point that like it got rectified do you know what I mean? Like it wasn't rectified, because I kind of feel like she's just trying to protect her job. But whether she's trying to protect her job or not, like that was insane I get very much like.
Speaker 1:Whenever I hear the stories like this, I instantly think of um, like the server stories on tiktok, where people give the attitude to the customers on tiktok and I think a lot of people think that that's how things actually are in the real world and how servers treat people when they don't think something is right in quotation marks. So it's like that's the vibe I'm getting and I get that vibe a lot. Actually it's. I find it very hard to get good service these days of people not just ignoring you or not giving you attitude and like I'm.
Speaker 2:I'm gonna be a thousand percent honest. I am normally on the customer service people's side in anything like even if I don't know the story, I'm like that customer's probably being a bitch and even in this situation I was like if I escalate right now, I'm the bitch. If I swear, if I do anything, I'm gonna be the bitch, like I don't care if I'm being recorded, because I felt like I was wronged, like this is that it's not even her fault, it's none of their fault. Like the board shouldn't have been out there. It shouldn't have been out there. It's just that it became your fault when you decided to say I should have done things to make sure it was that price.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's not your job.
Speaker 2:Oh my God. Anyway, let me know what you guys all think.
Speaker 1:So I had a situation. This was when Harper was like still pretty young. I had a situation. This was when Harper was like still pretty young. I'll name the place. Mine was Walmart. So we're at Walmart and we needed to buy her a new snowsuit. And we found one and it was priced at $25. And I was like, okay, cool.
Speaker 1:So we went to the checkout and I scanned it and it was coming up at 50 something bucks. And I was like the tag on this says $25. This says 50. We want it at this. And they were like, oh, you're going to have to take it over to customer service. We don't manage any of that. And I was like, okay, so I go over to customer service. And I was like, hey, this is marked at $25. It's ringing at 50. I would like it at the $15 please. And they're like what $15. I'm like, well, legally, because it's doing this, you need to give it to me at this cost plus $10 off, not the cost of $50. And they were just like I need to, I need to ask somebody about this first. So they go over to somebody and they come back to me and they're like no, we can't do that. I'm like what do you mean? You can't, the other two are at the lower cost, um, but, and you also can't go get more, like it's like an honor system type of thing, right, how so?
Speaker 1:how sure are you that this still exists? I'm 100 sure, because when I said this to the people at walmart and I was like this is, this is the policy, this is what you have to do, she went back to a manager now and came back to me and she's like we're going to give it to you at the 50. My manager told you to read that sign over there. So she's like here and then I'm gonna say maybe 12 feet over is the sign up on the wall and it's like a big ass sign, like it's like one of those big ones that you can see from the other side and on, like big print right there, it says at the lower cost plus an additional $10 off if the item is on it. So she's like can you go read that sign over there? So I go over there and I was like, yes, right here.
Speaker 1:And I'm now yelling to her because she's 12 feet across and I say if an item is under the price of blah, blah, blah, blah, blah and said the policy that I just told you. So I'm like blah, blah, blah, blah, I go over to her and I'm like I will take this at the $15, please. Thank you. She didn't say anything else. She rang it up at $15 and that's the story of how I got Harper's snowsuit for $15 and it was a $15 snowsuit.
Speaker 2:That is awesome. I love that, that you were able to be like yep, here it is in your own writing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I just the fact that they were, like, I was told to tell you to read that sign. Okay, because you can't, I will read this for you. Like, maybe you should read the sign first before coming have headsets.
Speaker 2:I bet the manager just went over the headset.
Speaker 1:Just give a tour of that purse right, oh, my god, oh my gosh like, and it's like what did you think the sign said for you to come over to me and give me that kind of attitude like you? Know, what I mean. It's like I you know what?
Speaker 2:what a great first episode back. We all learned something. If you're from canada and you found out how to, it's called.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna look it up so that you can, because I'm I don't know if it's ontario or if it's canada, oh, and it's like I don't go looking for these things, but when it comes up and honestly, the times that we're in, if it's there, I'm pushing for it and I don't care if that makes me a karen or whatever I wonder if it isn't only an ontario thing, given that I've never heard of it, but I could also just not be knowledgeable.
Speaker 1:Both are very real thoughts but I know it's like a retail thing because, um like, I don't think they can do it at costco, they're warehouse Like, they're not retail. If a product scans at a higher price than displayed, canadian retail policies generally dictate that you are entitled to the lower price. Specifically, if an item is under $10, you may receive it for free. If it's over $10, you are entitled to a $10 discount on the corrected price. According to the retail council of canada, it says oh, corrected, so the one that it's priced at not, can I just say, because I was one of these people everyone that is price accuracy code.
Speaker 2:That's what it's called, sorry everyone that has ever been irritated when working in customer service when something won't scan and the customer's gone. I guess it's free. We now know where it's from. That is where it's from Because, like back in the day, they probably knew. They knew because there was less laws to know and they didn't even wear seatbelts.
Speaker 1:So Good to know, man.
Speaker 2:I'm going to look into that. I I'm gonna start making sure things scan wrong step up her karen mode one time I had this information five hours ago one time yeah, one time when I was in walmart I got a jumpsuit for for 99 cents and I freaked out and ran.
Speaker 1:I've seen TikToks I've seen.
Speaker 2:TikToks where, like, the staff have tried to stop the people leaving, to be like, oh, that shouldn't have been ringing up at that price. And when I saw it ring up at 99 cents I'm like it's a mistake. So I paid and ran.
Speaker 1:Oh my god, I filmediktok from the car, being like the one thing that you have to watch with it, though, is like there's a difference between something being priced wrong and something on the shelf wrong yes, because that customer put something back wrong right, yeah, so if the, it has to be like the G10 on the, so if it's a tag that's on it, the G10 has to match the price to the G10 of the product you're buying, or there's a sales sticker on the product.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so many people misread those. Like I used to work in grocery stores and like they'd be like no, it's priced here. And it's like you're you are looking at the wrong tag and they're like, well, it's priced here. And it's like you're you are looking at the wrong tag and they're like, well, it's under it. And it's like, but that tag doesn't say the item, like it would be like nivia and it would be like for dove, you know, and it's like it literally says the different name. And I'm like it's like we couldn't honor that. But you know what? I did work back then and we had never heard of those one thing and like things would get rung up wrong all the time. So maybe we just all don't know the law probably not people really.
Speaker 1:I honored it. Whenever I saw it come up I'd be like, oh, this just happened. But um, that was just when I was at, that was at the grocery store, but everywhere I'm trying to think about it I never really worked retail anywhere else really working actually at the grocery store is why when I read tags now, I'm always just looking at the UPC on it.
Speaker 2:I'm not even reading the description, because, especially places like superstore, they're all written super weird sometimes and so I'll just be like what's the UPC?
Speaker 1:what grocery store did you work at?
Speaker 2:uh, technically superstore, but it was called extra foods back then right.
Speaker 1:Do you remember the code for bananas?
Speaker 2:four zero one one four zero one always that's why I actually I started working at safeway and bamf at one point and I was hired because all the codes are universal. So I still remembered a whole bunch of them, like isn't green onions? Four, zero, six, nine or six, eight oh man, I can't remember that one.
Speaker 1:To be honest, bananas is the one that, like, I know for sure. Um, always.
Speaker 2:That's like. That's how you know someone's worked in a grocery store. You just ask them what the code for bananas like bananas. 401 it was the only one that, because we actually had to take a written test to work at extra foods. This was what year? Would that have been? The year 2001, maybe? And yeah, it was a piece of paper and you had to write down what the codes were for each one.
Speaker 1:I was studying, for like over a week, the codes oh my god, I did um when I was working at the grocery store. It was right when ontario started selling well, it wasn't right, but like halfway through was when ontario started selling beer. Um, so I had to get my smart serve as well when I was working at the grocery store wasn't that who's who is it now?
Speaker 2:was that doug ford's or what he did?
Speaker 1:yeah, yeah, he's still here we were, oh, we're.
Speaker 2:Rob ford was the one before. Uh, it was still beer.
Speaker 1:It was still doug before, I believe who's the one that passed away when?
Speaker 2:now rams, doug ford or rob ford, now doug's. Now, it's doug. Now, yeah, and rob's the one that he's the crackhead? Yeah, yeah, he's the buckabier guy. Did you watch the documentary about it? No, yeah, there's one you should watch.
Speaker 1:It's on netflix no, but I did. I texted you earlier. Did you see the documentary coming on netflix? That's for the uh, the biggest loser yes, we should definitely watch that yeah, we'll do an episode here like a little watch party.
Speaker 2:We'll tell everyone to do that. I actually am so excited to go read. I want to go get into that book more because I just want to talk to you more about it. I love that you were excited with me talking about it and I'm like, oh, this is why books are fun.
Speaker 1:Yes, I am in the middle of reading. Um, yeah, since we talked last, I have read fourth wing. I finished that series. I finished the throne of glass series. Um, I finished fourth wing again. But um, I am now reading, uh, the wolf king. The wolf king is good. It's very smutty, like compared to these other books. I'm all about the. I'm a strong, independent woman and so far she's a. Oh, I'm so innocent.
Speaker 1:Help me and it's just like oh my god, so that's, you know, it is what it is. But, um, my friend and I did a trade. I'm reading the wolf king series there's three of them, but there's only two out. So I'm reading that in exchange for her reading throne of glass, which is like eight books. So like I had the better end of the deal. But it's very smutty, like I'm like I can't listen to this at work. There is way too much dick happening for me to listen to this at work um, is the one that I'm reading supposed to be smut?
Speaker 1:I don't categorize it as smut because there's like one, maybe two spicy chapters in it okay because, like someone asked me that word, they're like, oh, are you reading smut?
Speaker 2:because I guess they're used to just a lot of women saying that. But I'm like, no, I don't think so. I'm like I'm not that into really reading smut, like I don't. I have never really have my.
Speaker 2:My whole go-to has always been true crime document documentary kind of stuff, uh, and it's so weird reading this and how much I've gotten into it, but then, okay, also, I don't say the title out loud and my phone hasn't picked up on it. When you sent me something, my phone was telling me things. That's why I knew stuff about Tamalin and and like I know that I need to be careful of my feelings towards them, um, but I haven't seen anything else, so nothing's been spoiled for me, and so I'm really happy about that, because if it's spoiled, my interest will go away. But already it's like maybe I would have read it differently, going into it not knowing that people should be regretting their tattoos of him, um, and I really want to know why.
Speaker 1:so, yeah, yeah, like I don't. I would not categorize like I haven't read Crescent City, but any of S Jam's books who that's the author she's done this one and the Throne of Glass series that I just finished Both of those series I would not categorize them as smut. I would say the last book of the one you're reading right now is borderline smut, but I wouldn't even count it as that. The book I'm reading right now. I feel like it could still be smuttier. Like there's girls out there who are all about the smut you know what I mean but this one it's like you're constantly reminded that her night gown is sheer. You're like a breeze goes by and her nipple gets hard, like it's just there's always some kind of sexual undertone, like always that reminder that you should be turned on while reading this book, type of thing, and that's why I categorize it as smut versus the books you're reading right now.
Speaker 1:It's like at some point you're gonna not you, but at some point the main person is going to get turned on. Maybe you'll be turned, I don't know, but like, the main person will be turned on. And don't tell me. Like, that's about it, like you know what I mean. This is like she is just constantly horny all the time.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like right now when I'm picturing um farah is that her name? Yeah?
Speaker 1:Feyre.
Speaker 2:Feyre, when I'm picturing her, like, I'm picturing her in like brown, like overcoats, and like tattered, but like, not now that she's where she is, but like I pictured her like, you know, like the like leathery kind of material that you'd see from a long time ago that she would have been wearing to keep herself warm, from a long time ago that she would have been wearing, um, to keep herself warm. And then now it's like, very like, still fully covered up, is how I'm seeing her in my head. But, um, for anyone, like, if you don't want to listen to this, then don't. But I'm just going to describe how I think of the characters real quick.
Speaker 2:I think that tamilin would be best played by the guy that played the beast, um, from beauty and the Beast the live one, but a little bit more muscular, but definitely just like him. And what's the other guy's name? Lucian? Lucian is such a Loki and you can't convince me otherwise. It is Loki. And I don't even mean the person that played Loki, I mean the actual cartoon version when thinner and like, but not really Because he is muscly, but like that lanky kind of body, but still with muscles. The lean muscle, yeah, not like bulky muscle, yeah and then. But like a longer nose, but still like even though I'm picturing his body that way just like a super attractive face with long, luscious hair, but Feyre is kind of really hard.
Speaker 1:Honestly, I picture him as Elliot. From starting with Elliot.
Speaker 2:Elliot, oh no way, what Interesting, interesting.
Speaker 2:But yeah, feyre you can't tell me elliot isn't illusion, like come on I think that, um farah, it's like she's still not like fully like cleaned up, glammed up, you know what I mean. Like I'm at that point where, like she's still just like would like to roll around in the mud type way, but she isn't like that, like she would like to be treated more like in the feminine way, more like a lady. That's what I'm getting so far. But yeah, the way that I'm picturing all the other, like fairies that come along and stuff, it's just I really I wish I could, like, I wish I could take my imagination and plop it into you so you could see what I see, me too, like the dad, oh, and the sisters, definitely the stepsisters from Cinderella, but specifically the cartoon ones. That is exactly how I picture them.
Speaker 2:It is almost like there's like little bits and pieces from like Disney kind of things.
Speaker 1:Yes, I honestly it's so maleficent the first book of akatar. I always found it to be like beauty and the beast meets, like hunger games type of thing.
Speaker 2:So good every time I picture them, it's like then I'll have the reminder that they're wearing masks and I'm like, oh yeah, and then their masks go back on their face. Um, yeah, I'm very into it, I love it, and hopefully next time that we talk which I hope next week we um, if not maybe in two weeks, don't get too excited. Um, but I do take a lot of the blame.
Speaker 1:Honestly, my mental health went into the gutter to fair, we did log on one day to record. We both got on to the Zoom call and we literally both looked at each other and we're like, could we not? Yeah, let's just not do this today and it has nothing to do with you guys. It's honestly what Chris said. It's just there's just been so much going on and there's just so much happening mentally with the both of us that it was just like we just had to get back here.
Speaker 2:It just took I will say I love that, like when we told us each other like to not be jealous or anything like there is not that there was jealousy, but there's this little bit of when I was seeing everything that you were accomplishments. It was a little bit dragging me down where I kept saying to myself, like why can't you do this, like why can't you? You know, and and it's just made me realize more and more that I really had to prioritize my mental health. So that is what I've been doing and it just it doesn't. It is what it is and I'm trying to get back on track. So hopefully I'll have lots of positive things to talk about. Seriously, when we were going to record that one day I was going to get on here and talk about really awful stuff, I told you like that I was. You know, I was not in a good place.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we locked off and we both went to bed. Yeah, like, let's just. It's hard and I'm like I'm up at three in the morning and then when I'm working, plus like I have swim lessons and the gym, it's hard and I'm like I'm up at three in the morning and then when I'm working, plus like I have swim lessons and the gym, it's just like I'm exhausted all the time so when Chris was like I don't want to record, I was like, okay, I'm going to bed before we sign off yeah, do you know who?
Speaker 2:it is a little bit where how we remember what timeline we're in right now. Do you know who trisha paytas is?
Speaker 1:yes, have you heard the?
Speaker 2:conspiracy of every time that she has a child, someone dies I've been seeing it.
Speaker 1:I haven't looked into it. Like I think the pope did.
Speaker 2:It went for one of her kids and now it was like aussie, but then also, like theo from the cosby show, died um, like two days ago. But did you see what she named? Her kid? No, okay, so one of her children.
Speaker 1:I didn't see, I kept seeing other things come up, but I didn't go down you guys don't want to know.
Speaker 2:don't listen, I'm saying it, but her first child, I think, is malibu barbie, right, okay, the next one is elvis. It's a girl named Elvis. They wanted names of movies and like they have, like the movie posters and everything, and so this child needed to be named something like regarding like water, but still part of a movie. What do you think she named her child?
Speaker 1:People like you were even guessing, like Titanic like I instantly went Aquaman, wait, no, that's not like it's not Aquaman.
Speaker 2:Aquaman, moses something, or some paid us something.
Speaker 1:Yep, it's Aquaman, it's Aquaman it's not based off of Aquaman, it's aquaman his name is aquaman why do we do this?
Speaker 2:aquaman. You know she has the cutest I. We can all laugh. It's, it is what it is. But she had the cutest video today. She uploaded a couple hours ago where she was explaining it and you know what kudos to her. She was like those people saying that he's gonna be bullied. Like what? What world are you living in? And he can go by whatever. He can go by aqua, he can go by his middle name, moses. It's like malibu barbie. People are not gonna call her malibu barbie, they'll call her mal or whatever. You know what I mean. Like or Barbie. But like I get it. It's interesting. There's also a part of me that's like maybe these aren't their official names and she's just saying it's because she's in the line like you know, in social media and she doesn't want them to know their real names.
Speaker 2:But who knows, and you know what, if she decided and she actually you know what I have a feeling it is because she even said if they want to change their name when they're older, they can change their name. She's like it's not that big of a deal. She's like I never liked the name Trisha and whatever it is, what it is, but when no one can believe it, oh, man. I wonder what? Oh what's his name? The guy that played Aquaman? I wonder what he has to say about it. Jason, jason Momoa.
Speaker 1:I always want to say Mimosa, and it's not. Anyway, that was a great way to end the show.
Speaker 2:I don't have words now. I'm going to go to bed.
Speaker 1:I love that you guessed Aquaman right away. Well, I thought it would be. I was guessing the movie based off of Aquaman, not the actual name Aquaman.
Speaker 2:A lot of people even guessed Jaws.
Speaker 1:Oh, my God, that would have been way better. To be honest, I'm not going to lie, I would have loved Jaws. What's your name? Jaws? Like, come on, I call Harper, harper-saurus all the time and she's like I'm Harper-saurus, so like having a name that's like Jaws. Like, come on, a four-year-old running around saying, oh, what's your name? Jaws, that's so fucking cool. That's way better than being like Aquaman Like what the fuck? All right, I told my mom if I went to bed before 10 o'clock I would go to the gym in the