In true A Little Bit Bothered fashion, the girls are spiraling — this time over the chaos of real life and the internet’s ability to lose its mind over everything. From a head lice epidemic to a broken appliance curse and a full-blown TikTok meltdown about using AI, it’s equal parts disaster and comedy.

They get real about parenting struggles, social media pressure, and the weird expectation to be perfect while your house is literally falling apart. It’s honest, unfiltered, and a reminder that laughing at the mess is sometimes the only way to survive it.

In This Episode:

🧠 The AI “controversy” that had TikTok in flames

🪳 Parenting gone off the rails (and into the lice trap)

⚡ Appliances breaking like it’s their full-time job

💻 Why social media isn’t real life

😂 Finding humor in the middle of chaos

Takeaways:

✨ People will always find something to freak out about — laugh anyway.

✨ Parenting is unpredictable, gross, and hilarious.

✨ Real > perfect. Always.

✨ Sharing the mess makes everyone feel human.

sometimes people are like, wow, I wasn't expecting you to cry about that. And I'm like, I'm not crying because I'm crying. I'm crying because I want to actually rip your throat out right now. And if you don't get away from me, I might, but that's illegal. So that's why I'm crying, bitch.

Like, I'm so angry!

Yeah.

welcome to a little bit bothered another week with us. I'm Monica.

Woo!

I'm

you

That's Nicole.

That's Nicole. We miss Ashley. This recording has been hard. Scheduling and being busy moms has been hard. And so it's just the three of us today on a very random whim of like, we're hopping on, let's get this done. But we miss Ashley. Yeah. So it's happening.

I'm Nicole.

Benny's here too, cause Kees can't hear.

He said, I've been quiet, so since you're gonna talk now, I'm gonna go ahead and-

Right? I'm gonna tell you, I am bothered.

She

has opinions.

Yeah, but yeah, freaking AI. controversial, if you guys are listening, you probably have your take two. Okay, but there was a trend this week of using AI to generate a photo with Ghostface behind you, and we got in on the trend, and it was really fun, and we were laughing, and this is what you do when your best friend's living in

three different states on a Friday night. You find things to entertain yourselves. So we did that.

⁓ You find some way

to do something together long distance. This was the something.

Right. So that

evolved where I gave it a prompt to make a like 90s horror film movie poster. And it was funny, except the fact that it said, bothered instead of bothered. So I sent the series of events in a voice note with like a screen recording to the group chat because that's what we do. And then it was really funny. So I decided to share it to TikTok and

it.

huh.

TikTok didn't think it was funny.

People have,

no, TikTok did not think it was funny. Instagram did. TikTok did not.

Instagram

has our back. TikTok, I don't know how we got on that side of TikTok, but we got on the hater side of TikTok. And they hate us so much for using AI.

Yeah. So yes.

And the ethics around it. And to be fair, like we were enlightened into the conversation of AI. Like we learned some stuff, but man, they were mean.

We know, we know, no we know.

I'm laughing

because we know we really don't use AI that much for generating our images. We use it a lot sometimes for, well, no, no, not for generating our images, but for, we do use it. We use it for our show, but that's like normally when we're just typing something into chat, not necessarily. So I guess like we use AI, obviously, and I don't know, I don't know.

Yeah. No, we've never used it for images. Yeah.

We don't use it at all. We use it for like

No. Yeah.

Yes, we talk about Chad. We have

Chad, but...

Yes, I don't know if, oh no,

I'm

I don't know if these people are just talking about the general use of AI or if they're really harping on the fact that we used it for like imaging. Because like,

Benny!

I think it's just the general use of AI

and it is a very controversial conversation. I get it. I learned a lot this week.

I will say, yes,

we do use Chad a lot for when we're trying to map out our episodes or when we want funny things to throw in, like would you rathers. We'll ask Chad to give us a list of things like that. But we are laughing and we think it's funny because we never use it to generate our images. We always, always, always make our own, even though we live in three different places.

Mm-hmm. Some brainstorming stuff, yeah.

⁓ we still find a way to make our own and everybody that was in the comments, I was like, you're putting graphic designers out of their, out of business with this image. First of all, this one image. No, we're not. Second of all, literally somebody was like, hire a photographer and do this. No, bitch. We're in three different places. And,

I know, and photographers, and I'm just like, we don't have a photographer, we're in three states.

Go.

We don't have the budget for that. We are not a fucking high dollar podcast. don't know. We're just, you guys, we're just a mediocre podcast. Okay? I know I did it.

Did you see my comment this morning? I think I commented. I said, I'm

flattered. I said, I'm flattered that you think we make money.

I'm flattered that you think we can afford a graphic designer because I promise you if we could, if we could, I would absolutely hire a graphic designer and pay them what they are worth. But like...

I'm wow. Thank you. Thank you. We would. ⁓

Bitch, we don't got the

time for any of that. And we don't got the time to argue with you people. I just, I can't.

Well, I think that the thing that like bothered me about all of it is that like their take is fine. Like I learned some stuff from it and made me think, okay, that's cool. also like if you want people to like understand it and be on board with you, hack them, have a conversation about it.

Hate it, that's fine, I don't care. But also shut up. Also shut up! Scram!

You're destroying communities. Maybe. Me? One individual? Me? Probably not. The entire use of AI? Sure.

Collectively.

AI is so integrated into everything we use. I don't even think those people realize the phones that they use, use AI. Every time you Google something, it's using AI. The algorithm that fuels TikTok is using AI. Everything is using AI. Honey, if you don't want to use AI because you believe it destroys communities, I know the science and I'm not arguing with you. We have to find sustainable ways with our water and the AI.

I know.

No.

And it's ⁓

Yes. Right.

so badly

Get a flip phone. Get a flip phone.

Yeah.

Yes, yes, yes, yes.

and but, AI is not going away.

That's like any machinery though. No.

No.

It's

not. It's already so integrated into everything. It's not going away. Yeah. And so if you don't support it, then you better get off your phones. Cause you're, if you, every time you open your phone, you're getting on the internet, you're using AI.

It's integrated beyond what anybody realizes.

not yeah well and that's like

Yeah.

Go buy a Nokia and.

Well, the irony,

the irony, I was like scrolling and looking at the comments and then I like clicked out of it and then I get this like pop-up from TikTok where they give you like the updates and whatever. And the next one was like talking about how TikTok is using AI and like the pictures now where if you pause a video, like identifies things in the video to like recommend to you. And I'm like, there's no escaping it.

my god, which by the way, that's an annoying

No!

feature.

I turned that shit off because I was like, why is there a little fucking find similar thing every time I pause the video? Shut the fuck up. But like, yeah, if you didn't know, you can turn it off. It is in your settings. You can turn it off. It's in the playback settings anyway. But it's literally the entire app is AI. How do we not know this already? How do we not know this already? The whole thing.

Yep, that's why.

I didn't even see that, I don't know that.

I know, I know. Well, and then one was like,

you don't even have to get off the app to like find more. And it's like, that's true, but I don't have to get off the app because of AI. AI is going to direct me right to those videos.

Exactly. Yes, you commenting

this on my post is now going to put those videos into my algorithm bet because AI because of AI like guy chill.

No. I know.

And just so everybody knows, we're not disagreeing with there are ethical dilemmas and problems and things need to be addressed. However...

No, we know!

My husband has his major is in environmental studies.

My husband is a ⁓ environmental major. His whole like research paper for his last semester is on AI and its impact on the environment. So I'm not idiotic to this ⁓ debate. I just think that I sadly, I don't like to say this very often because I think everything I think you can do something about everything. But I think you're fighting a losing battle trying to

attack people for using AI. It because once I said I said it earlier, I'm gonna say it again. It's not going away. And I hate to be like, I hate to be like all doom and gloom about something that is having impacts on the environment. I do think we need to figure out how to come combat that but like, unfortunately, like, this is get on the train or get over it kind of situation because it's not going away.

No, I understand.

No, and we should talk about the problems, but it's not going away.

I was gonna say a minute ago, like.

Yeah, it's.

It's very similar

to every other kind of machinery or things that we have that have some kind of like byproduct or pollution or whatever. Like this is a problem in every like decade and century that we've had in some capacity, right? So we just have to figure out, like it's not this problem is actually not going away period. It's gonna evolve and be different every 20 or so years or whatever, but.

Yeah, there's always going to be.

Yeah.

How do we deal with it and how do we make it more ethical? I don't have the answers for that either, but I think that's probably the better way to go about it than saying, there's no ethical way to do this. You're horrible for using it. La la la la la la la. Because like a lot of people don't even know that it's not ethical to use AI. They don't know. They're just like, it's a tool. Okay, whatever. Like how does Wi-Fi work? I don't know.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

Right.

We were talking about that this past weekend. There's a lot of things that like we understand, but we don't actually know how they actually work. like AI, I get it, but I don't know the logistics of it. I don't get it.

How do things work?

Yeah.

Yeah, I don't get it.

I don't get it. I don't get a lot of technology, honestly. Like I get the concept of like basic coding and like you give an input and you get an output. I get that. But like beyond that and like, I don't get it. And like my entire like family, like my husband and his job and like, I have a computer.

lot of things in general.

Get out!

I don't get it.

That's what they do.

You also basically birthed a supercomputer. So, you still didn't get it though.

okay? i don't get what you do. oh my gosh. oh my

gosh. i still- like, he knows more than i do. for sure.

All in all, we shouldn't yap about

Yeah.

this for too long, I just think that I think we can all agree we're not insensitive to the, we actually, we a long talk about it in the group chat. I wish we could share that. we, and we dove into it a little more, we better understand the impacts of AI on the environment, but we're more like, first of all, like Nicole said.

Yes. Yeah.

Yeah.

If attacking is never going to make a point, it's not. ⁓ A lot of people don't know the impacts AI has on the environment. So perhaps if you feel out passionately about it, you should try to go about that differently. Yeah. And also realize that everything you're using, it's it's, it's a little like coming across a little hypocritical when you're like mad at us and you don't know anything about us and you didn't ask any questions. You're just.

No. No.

And maybe educate instead of like screaming at people. that just...

Yeah, hey, just FYI.

Right, when you're literally on a platform using AI.

A little bit. No.

Also.

really

went for it and you're on a platform that uses AI for everything basically.

I will

also, I just wanna add two things too. One comment wanted us to, they were mad that we didn't have any videos of us using Canva. First of all, do we have to document how we're making our content for you guys? Okay.

We don't have to fucking prove everything. No. Wait.

said that

I don't know of any brand that shows their them making their Canva post

Right?

Hold on, hold on, because I just saw a video

Yes.

earlier today that was like, I'm so fucking tired of having to over explain shit. Bitch, why do I have to tell you that I'm using Canva? Maybe I'm not using Canva, maybe I'm using fucking Photoshop. So bold of you to assume I'm using fucking Canva anyway. Like, shut the fuck up, first of all. I'm sorry, I'm sorry to get a little mean, but truly, shut up. Why do we have to, everybody is so offended about fucking everything.

Yes! Why?

right?

Seriously.

Now and it comes down to this we constantly always has to over explain everything like this girl's video this girl's video Right this girl's video in particular. She was watching a book talker And the book talker was saying she didn't like the book because the man in the book was like a little bit too like aggressive not in like a mean way, but assertive and She said that gave her the ick

Yeah.

And we have to like justify it to appease everybody and we're never going to.

because she personally did not like that kind of man. But then that was her opinion. But then she went on to explain, but if you like that kind of man, that's okay. I'm not judging you this, this, this, this, this. And the girl was like, my fucking God, why do we have to explain that? Why do we have to explain that? Like, just cause I don't like something doesn't mean you have to like it or you have to think, why do we have to explain that? And this, that comment set me off cause I'm like, who the fuck are you?

Yeah.

I don't even know you. I don't have to explain my actions or anything to somebody on the internet that I don't actually know. And it bothers me, we have been so conditioned being on the internet to have to over explain ourselves so nobody gets upset. I'm not gonna show you what it looks like when I'm making a can, but nobody's gonna find that interesting, so why would I share it? So why do I have to come with receipts?

Mm-hmm.

Right?

Right?

Although we did come with receipts! We did come with receipts today,

Right. Right.

but... Still. We don't- We shouldn't have to, but we did.

No. Well, and then the second part to the same comment too was about how, cause it was me who did the screen recording. And so it was a second, like a second part was that I was ignoring my child because in the middle of it, one of my kids had said, mom, and I said, hang on. And I'm quote unquote ignoring, right? It's such bullshit. Yeah. Such bullshit. So first of all, again, like we're explaining now, but like it's just, it's comical in my head.

For those of you who can't see, I'm rolling my eyes really hard.

It's so fucking

comical.

It was a screen recording I sent to my best friends. Like, the audience was them. I was not recording this.

Yeah.

Right, but people are assuming.

Also,

correcting your child who's interrupting you, if they interrupted you in a video, haters would come and be like, don't let your child interrupt you, that's rude. But because you didn't let him interrupt him, and you politely said, hang on, like, come the fuck on.

Right? Exactly! Hang on.

Right, very nicely.

Very nicely.

It's like, okay, the audacity of it though, because like we are all human. Every human and the existence of being human has had a moment where somebody interrupted you and you to say, hang on. I don't care if it's my child, if it's a stranger, if it's like a coworker. I don't care who it is. It's okay to say, hang on. Especially like, right? I am very easily distracted. I need to stay on my one train of thought.

You literally can't win with these people.

You're interrupting me. Hang on. Two out.

Let me finish my sentence!

And then you can have my attention because I cannot do the two.

If

you've ever listened to this podcast, you already know that. We don't know how to stay on one thing. Because we're squirrels.

just like,

who are you? Like, you wanna say that I've been ignoring my child? Like, you've never ever in your life told somebody to hang on. Like, it's okay for my child to hear, hang on, you can wait your turn. Like, it's the-

Yeah, yeah, hang on, literally. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because then if you don't do that,

if you don't instill that patience in your child and they grow up to be somebody who's impatient, then it's gonna be, my God, you're raising impatient children. You're blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Shut the fuck up. Shut the fuck.

Right.

I know. It's just like

you can't freaking win. You can't win. You can't appease everybody. And so at the end of the day, like I'm a little bit bothered by people who can't embrace that reality. But also, you know what? Like if you are listening and you have struggled with that of just like feeling the need to appease everybody, join us and just saying screw you and do your thing.

No, also.

Join me in saying, fuck

off. Actually, here's what I want you to do. When somebody tells you not to do something, do it harder, okay? Because they were like, don't use AI. And I was like, now I wanna use it more. Now I wanna make all the pictures and put it all on the TikTok. Like I wanna respond to every single one of those comments with a different AI picture because why the fuck not? You piss me off.

You

Do it harder.

The funny thing is that I try not to misuse AI actually, like in my daily life. I try to be really conscious about like not using it for stupid things or not using it for things that I don't need it's help with. And the picture is so fun and we landed on the, we just landed on the wrong side of TikTok honestly, because there's a whole side. There's a whole side where their whole thing is just suggesting prompts to try.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

Right.

We really did.

Mm-hmm.

my personal page.

I had people messaging me that don't actually follow me on my personal page and they're like, what's the prompt that I literally had to go delete the original post, put up a different post with the fucking prompt and then message those people the prompt. People were like, we want that prompt. So like, we literally landed on the wrong side.

Right? It was fun.

Yeah.

It was fun. It was. I just...

It was fun and they can fuck off.

All right, let's pack this up. We've let these bitches bother us for too long.

I know. so, I know.

Literally, what the fuck else are we bothered about?

Actually, you guys are bothered about something.

Well, however, with that, I will say it has bothered us, but we've actually gotten far more laughs out of it than we have been legitimately bothered. So pray us.

yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We're not like actually, actually bothered.

It's just kind of, they're bothered, which is really funny. And I actually would love to, yeah, I would love to make them more bothered. So we're gonna post this clip probably with AI pictures on it.

They are bothered.

We're bothered in the funny bothered way.

my gosh, all I'm picturing is how in Riverside we can like animate the cliff.

We should use all the AI features Riverside has.

Literally, that's another

point. That's another point our whole podcast this Everything you know how many tools and our back office or AI? And we're just like it would be impossible to edit this

It is AI.

Literally.

We do not

have a production team. We have AI. That's how we can make this happen.

That literally is our production team. stop bitching. We're friends with the robots, okay? So when they take over, you guys are gonna be the ones that they don't want and we're gonna be the ones that are safe. So that's all I'm saying.

Well, okay, I have a little bit of a side tangent really fast of what I'm bothered by. I mean, it kinda goes with our WTFs. I don't know if we're doing WTFs today, but I'm gonna share one of mine because, you guys, I don't know what streak I'm on, but I don't like it. I want off of it right now.

What's happening?

I told you guys about my stove, right? But I didn't tell... Okay, so I broke my stove, but rewind, because when I got home before I came upstairs, my husband was like, listen, I just want to point something out. He's like, I'm not blaming anything. I just want to point something out of like the week that you have had. And I'm like, oh no, what? So he pointed out in the kitchen, boom, boom, boom, boom.

yeah.

multiple things all in a row. So last week, we have like these little jars for onions and for garlic. And I like don't know how, don't know how I did it. I was like putting the garlic lid on, somehow it slipped on my hand. I don't know, the little handle of it broke off. That broke, that's great. Saturday. Yes, Saturday, Saturday. ⁓

So basically you're on a breaking spree.

I went to go pull the Instant Pot out and like it's in the bottom cupboard. So I took it out and put it on the ground. Then I went to go stand up and I went and picked it up. And somehow in the process of that, it like twisted. So it was like unlocked and I didn't know that. So I went to go pick it up and it was like kind of holding on and then dropped and fell. So then the bottom base of it like, it's like kind of popped off and I'm like, well, it's still functional. It's working, but like that's not going back. Five minutes later, five minutes later, I'm wiping down my counters and I discover.

that the glass top to my stove is like shattered on the edge, which then I discovered is cracked all the way almost to the back. So now we don't have a stove that we can use. So those three happened, two of them within five minutes of each other. And then I go to get my oil changed this morning and the guy's like, just so you know, there's like this like felt thing on the bottom of the van. It's supposed to be for like a splash guard. And he's like,

Ugh.

I don't know what you did, but there's a slice all the way back. And I'm pretty certain it happened when I was at the lake with Ashley. Fairly certain it was from a rock. Can't guarantee that, but I'm pretty sure that that's what that was. So that's now four things. And I'm almost positive I'm missing something and there was something else that I broke upstairs in my room. So whatever streak this is, I want out. I want out of it so much.

You're like a little like walking disaster right now. What is happening to you?

no,

okay, and as my husband's...

coffee out of my thermos into my cup to bring it upstairs. My thermos lid has like, like the drinking mouthpiece right on like two sides of it, so it doesn't matter which side you grab it on, right? I'm pouring it into my cup, not realizing it's coming out of the other side. ⁓

Stupid.

And I'm like, what is happening?

my God, that's hilarious. It's really fucking funny. You're just like, okay, so that's funny because those are like, like annoying, but mostly minor besides your stove. I had a full on crash out this morning because...

I don't know, I don't know. So, I want off. I want off this ride.

you

Yeah, I'm like crying.

For anybody that's watching, can see that my nails are not done tonight and my eyelashes look like bald chickens, okay? Because, because, and I did, in the group chat this morning, I woke up and I was like, I don't know what the fuck is wrong, but the press-on nails that I have are really fucking cute, which by the way, I glue my press-ons, I don't like use the tabs or anything, so they should stay on. ⁓ My thumbs were just not allowed to be cute.

Okay, my thumbs, they were just supposed to be ugly. The fucking press on nails just kept popping off my thumbs and I was like, what the fuck, I don't know what's going on. And then, so I just put these press on nails on the other night. And so then, ⁓ this morning, I wake up, two thumbs gone, ⁓ and one of my eyes, I did my eyelashes on Saturday, one of my eyes is half bald, because half.

my eyelashes came up in my sleep and I don't know where I can't find them

That's always so weird, by

the way, because you can't find them until like weeks or months later and then you think that you see a spider.

Yeah!

so I'm like, okay, well, you know what? Fuck the nails, because I look stupid with my thumbs. Like, I'll just take them off, whatever. So I take my nails off. I'm like, I'm going to get in the shower and I'm going to take the two remaining eyelashes I have off just this eye. I'll clean this eye and I'll re-put other ones onto my eye and then I'll look normal and I'll be fine. I won't look like, you know, fucking Big Bird over here and Bald Chicken over here.

You

I'll be fine. So I do that I clean all the excess freaking glue and shit off my eye Take a shower wash my face whatever and I still have one eye full of lashes get out I'm like, okay do lashes. I put the glue

glue on my eyelashes. This has never happened to me. My eyelash itself started sticking to the eyelid and I couldn't get them off of my fucking eyelid. And I was like, what the fuck? So that was problem number one. So I get a Q-tip, I wet it down, I wipe it off to get it unstuck from my fucking eyelid. And I'm like, okay, let's try this again. Put the fucking glue on, put the glue on the lash stick, try to stick the lash on. It doesn't fucking stick. I'm like, you stupid fucking bitch.

You

I put more glue on and I wait a little bit even longer because obviously I know you have to wait. I know I waited for everything to get tacky. Okay, try again. Sticks. I'm like, great, great, great. So then I go on to the next two sections and I put them on and they're sticking. I'm like, fantastic. I go with the seal to brush the seal on and the fucking seal takes them off.

so hard to be a girl.

You

done I threw everything in the sink I ripped all the eyelashes off of this eye off and Actually took my eyelashes are reusable not anymore because I threw them in the fucking garbage. I said I'm literally done

you

threw all my fucking eyelashes out fucking cleaned all this shit off my eyes and left I was like a fucking over it I'm just trying to be pretty and it's not working I'm go be ugly,

crash!

it's so hard to be a girl

Like I just literally can't, like I have to get out of my house, I have to just go away. No. And so we went to the library and it was quiet there and it was nice there and my kid, they have like a toy room. it was nice and it was quiet there and I wasn't crashing out anymore. But now I'm looking back and I'm just like laughing at myself. So I'm like so stupid.

Why am I like this? Why am I like this?

I mean, I

really wish that like, there was a way, like, if we were just like on a reality show where it was just like a compilation of all of our crash outs, like it would be the most entertaining shit because of the crash outs we have in our group.

gosh.

my god. You know, actually I was very, I was happy to come to the group chat today and not be the only one that was crashing out like completely. However, my reason was absolutely stupid. Like there were, you know, you guys had more valid reasons to crash out. did not, but.

They're top notch.

my ⁓

I just maybe I needed to get it out. Maybe I was

feeling a crash out by proxy because of you guys and I just was-

Could be, could be a simple crash out.

The energy was there.

⁓ god, group crash out.

my goodness.

Well you guys before we move on I guess I could say the last episode you guys were like Kelsey's not here for this.

⁓

Oh yeah,

that's right. Share this trash out. in, join in, because we are all going through it. If you've noticed our episodes have not been completely consistent, it's because we're constantly crashing out right now. our lives are hard right now, okay?

Yeah, you have to tell them.

The reason...

Yeah, we're literally, yeah.

Life is life. ⁓

And yeah, so my whole house had head lice.

Sorry, I don't mean to laugh. ⁓ This is already, we've already dealt with this. So this is in the past.

Only a best friend

could bust up laughing.

This is as been dealt with already, there's no more headlights. I'm allowed to laugh at her now, okay? So nobody come for me, shit.

So, ⁓ Mattis's ABA clinic, like the week before Benny was born, sent out like a thing like, ⁓ there's been a case of head lice, know, check your kids, blah, blah, blah. I instantly started checking religiously. Multiple times a week, I was checking his hair, Maverick's hair, I can't check my own hair, but like, you know, I was going on vibes, you know? And yeah, so, ⁓

mean we're checking it basically and pictures were coming in the group chat.

I wasn't seeing anything, know? Not seeing evidence of lice, you know? And everyone always makes it sound like it's gonna be like really obvious and in your face. It's not, it's not. In case you ever suspect head lice, yeah, just know that you have to have a really bad case of it to be obvious. Other than that, you're just riding on vibes and luck because the only reason I knew we had head lice is because my head started itching.

Yeah. No, unless it's really bad.

I Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

Yep.

like aggressively itching and and so I yeah so I I and I'm not kidding this is probably five weeks of me checking their hair multiple times a week not seeing anything I my head starts itching

She said, shit, now I have it. Where's the bottle brush?

Yeah, because it happened before

Yeah.

Betty was born and then you didn't find out until she was a couple weeks old. Yeah, this was literally two weeks ago. she's yeah, she was literally like a month old. Yeah.

Yeah. She was over a month old. Yeah, yeah. She was like a month or over a month. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

And I will say there was a second case, like a week or two after she was born, we got another email that there was another case. So it could have been from that one. But still, I was still checking. I feel like the kicker for me is that it's like before Benny was born, I was styling my hair like almost every day. like, I would have for sure burnt that shit to crisps before she was born, but no.

Yeah, it was probably that one that got you.

Yeah,

even still.

Yeah.

But it's probably good that I wasn't, because I don't know how long it would have taken me to catch it for the boys if I hadn't had it myself, because I wasn't seeing it in their hair. I didn't, I actually went to cut Mattis's hair when I, I thought I saw a knit. And after my head started itching and I was like, it's so tiny. Like I'm not, I'm not confident. ⁓ And I, so I cut his hair a little bit. ⁓ And then I could see them, a lot of them. And I'm like, ⁓

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

Okay, yeah, this is definitely head lice. So I Walmart delivered one hour delivery, ⁓ all the things. Thankfully, it was a pretty mild case. Like I only got like two or three bugs. Sorry if this is gross or anything at all, but it's just the life. It happens. Yeah.

I can deliver that shit right now. Deliver it.

Yeah.

And that's what it is. That's what it is.

Listen, I think I would rather take head

lice than the flea infestation that I had because that was fucking horrible. That was, but I live literally in the woods and cannot, like there was nothing I could do about that. So.

Mm-hmm. I would take, yeah.

I will

say

Yeah, I would rather have ice for sure. Yeah.

At least head lice you can bag shit up and leave it sit for

like a week and it's gonna die and you know that like you can't do that with fleas and ⁓ Yeah

Mm-hmm. Yeah. No, and they can literally be anywhere. We had to treat our whole house. was

Mm-mm.

like really, we had to be super fucking aggressive with it and obviously get our dogs treated. Yeah. Right.

Yeah, if lice isn't on you it dies in like they say like 48 hours

It's it's gonna be dead if it doesn't get human blood. So that's that's comforting if you're ever dealing with lice I just want anybody to know PSA it uh, first of all, not that I ever believe this but I know a lot of people do lice doesn't mean you're dirty. It's literally they like They're they're sneaky they're sneaky you're not gonna see them until it's too late probably

Hmm.

Yeah. Yeah.

No, no, no.

Yeah.

They like clean hair actually. Yeah. No, and they love clean

They like clean haired.

scalps because they want to be like on your scalp. So if your hair is clean, they want to be on it. So it doesn't mean that you have lice, that you are dirty. It actually probably means that you're clean. So good for you, but also get rid of the lice.

Mm-hmm. Yeah.

Yeah.

Just know that it's very hard to see and if anybody like just so choose if you know your kid's been around it, just keep checking and keep checking and then keep checking some more. Cause you just never know how long it'll take to rear its ugly head.

Yeah.

Yeah, they're little, little things.

Hmm.

I

I think you need to share the rest of the story though of what happened with Maverick.

yeah, yeah,

yeah, yeah, I forgot.

so as I was cutting Mattis's hair...

the best part.

Maverick, my three year old, walked up and grabbed the trimmers. I mean, this happened in seconds. this was between me and my mother. He walks up, grabs them, flips them on, and buzzes ⁓ a chunk of his front of his hair. And then he started preschool the next week.

you

And he had picture day.

But you know what, like if you are a mom and you have like a transition like that coming, like starting preschool, starting kindergarten, like anything big like that, just expect they're gonna pull shit like that. That's gonna happen because always, J5, start a kinder with stitches.

It was a fun day to be my mom in my house, because I

was like, I was spinning out. like, I had the worst case. I had the bugs, of course, because I have long hair. I had the most bugs in my hair. So I'm like, I've got fucking headaches. And I had had her check my hair when she came, like a day or two before that, but she couldn't fucking see anything. They were there. Anywho, I was crashing out, and she's like, you know, it'll be fine. It happens. And I'm like,

They were there, they were chillin'. She just couldn't see it.

my gosh.

Maverick just shaved his head. I'm washing the- I- I am a blanket whore. I am a slut for blankets. Do you know how many blankets I had to wash?

She's washing every blanket.

Good!

We're fine. It's fine here.

And you have a newborn! And

you have a newborn! Hi, hello, newborn.

⁓ Yeah, I was.

Thankfully you can see straight into their scalp. Like there's no missing lice. she didn't have lice, she's fine. Her little baby hair is too hard to cling on to or something.

You can just see her head. Yep. She's fine. She's fine.

Right.

my gosh.

my God,

I'm dying. ⁓ Maverick shaving his head like that reminded me of my brother, my middle brother. When he was, I don't know, probably five or six, something like that. He was obsessed with what he called a circle haircut and that is bald. A circle haircut is bald, okay, because

I don't know why, and we don't know where this obsession came from, but he used to

my gosh, that's so funny.

tell my mom all the time, I want a circle haircut, and we couldn't for the longest time figure out what the heck a circle haircut meant until he saw a bald man and he pointed and he said, that is a circle haircut. And we said, okay. So we cut his hair really short, but he still had like, know, little on the top. He decided that was not good enough and took a razor and shaved his hairline, bro.

He got caught in the act. So he literally was bald, but only to like here. So it just looked like, yep, it just looked like he had a receding hairline at six years old.

Maverick, just one strip though.

We're seating here.

I'm obviously like, crashed out about it, but.

She should have gave him the circle haircut at that point.

my gosh.

And we had

to at that point, he had to like get it all shaved off, but it was so fucking funny. He did, was like, I'm gonna get what I want and nobody is stopping me, excuse me. That was really funny. goodness. ⁓ boy, yep. Yep, yep, And he's the second child.

I know.

Listen, he had goals.

⁓ man. Well, being an adult and a parent

is hard.

He's the second child. like them second children, they're built different. They are absolutely fearless. Like they don't give any fucks about anything. I worry daily for my second child because I'm like, what fucking shenanigans is she going to do? You never know. You never know. You never know. I'm like, it's going to be something. Hopefully it's never anything to do with the hair, but it's going to be something.

There's something else.

Tess, you wave. Tess, you wave.

Speaking of crash outs, you guys were crashing out about a cup or something before I got on. No, the Taylor Swift merchandise. Tell me because I yes, because I still don't know the whole story about this roommate. So please share, share.

The Brewmate.

They dropped a picture yesterday and they're like, hey, surprise, we're going to drop a limited number of these orange sparkly cups called Showstopper, which is obviously a nod to Taylor's very famously new album that's like orange glitter. ⁓

Yeah, because it's almost show girl time. Yeah.

She says obviously

to somebody who doesn't like Taylor Swift, you're right. Yes, obviously to you.

No, no, no, if you've ever, I mean, if, yeah, if you've seen any marketing

We're Swifties, so it's obvious to us.

for the album, it's like very orange glitter, everything. ⁓ Yeah, it's the third, yeah, I think. So, ⁓ anywho, they're like, yeah, we're gonna drop this tomorrow at 9.30. You're gonna like sign up for this password. And I'm like, you know what? Glitter? Sign me up. ⁓ So I got the, I got the text.

Okay, okay, okay, so it has a theme, got it. Okay.

Yes. And it's album week, right?

It's this week? Yeah. Yeah.

You're doing it. Yeah. Taylor Swift, sign you up.

I clicked the link, I typed in the password, I hit add to cart, I hit checkout, I had, it was shop pay, so it was already all entered. Like, I was spending zero time on this, just clicking buttons, you know? Just the time it takes to click through, like everybody has to do. I didn't have to change anything, I didn't have to do anything. Sold out. I hit pay, and it was like, your item is sold out. I'm like, it's been like 15 fucking seconds, what do you mean? How is anybody moving faster than this?

Yeah, yeah.

Ahem.

That's insane.

I wasn't fast enough.

I was ready!

That

is crazy!

Yeah, that's insane.

And I kind of half

expected that to happen. I knew it was gonna sell out super fast, but I was like, motherfucker, that was so fast. Like how? Well, I just don't, my thing with anything that sells out is like, how does something sell out that fast? Like if I am moving as fast as humanly possible, and how is it that it's selling out that fucking fast? That's so crazy.

Literal seconds, though.

Well, anything Taylor Swift related, it's always gonna go.

How? Yeah, how?

Yes.

Yeah, yeah.

I

don't know.

I don't know, it is wild, but I'm sad for you because it's cute.

That's happened on other things too, and I'm just like I don't get it.

I don't get it either.

But anyways, it's on pre-order now, but it's like only until December, so like I'm an instant gratification kind of gal, so I don't know.

Lame. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. And then Monica was saying something about Taylor Swift's merch being ugly. And I was just laughing. I was like, wow, you have really strong opinions about her merch being ugly because I've never seen her merch. I'm going have look it up. Actually, let's do this. Let look it up.

Hmm

It's just, it's not like, it's not that it's ugly, ugly.

It's not that it's ugly, it's just,

it's not as good as it could be. It's like...

Yeah, it's just, it's nothing special. Like bands that are so low on the totem pole or whatever you want to call it. Like bands that aren't that big of a deal, like they have better merch. How is it that their merch... Right, we have better merch. We got...

We have better merch, we don't have any.

We have better merch.

We have a hat!

But like, just, I don't get it because it's like, come on, come on, Taylor. Like you're a billionaire. You've done incredible shows. You make incredible albums. You're incredibly creative. If you're not designing the merch, we know for sure you've got the money to go hire somebody that can design better merch. Like what is going on here?

There are some things I like, but it's just like...

It's always just so like subtle and not really like...

It's just not that big of a deal. It's just not cute.

Like if I'm gonna wear something, ⁓ because it's... Yeah.

Well, and it's not cheap either.

And so it's like, it's not cheap and it's not that great.

Like if I'm buying something because

I like your music or your album, kind of want it to be obvious that it's your music or your album. You know what I'm saying? Like, I don't know. I don't know if that makes sense.

Yes. Yes.

Why do I only see one thing? I

only see this life of a showgirl. Crew neck, sweatshirt box set. That's literally the only thing I see. That's it?

Yeah.

Well, I mean, no, they, yeah, things are constantly regulate, like going through, but there will be more, I'm sure once the album actually drops, but there's always like pre-suit stuff and like things that they do, but none of it is ever like, my gosh, that's so cute. Like, okay, there is better merch on TikTok shop of people who just make it than what she does. And maybe that's

Well, she she gets rid of stuff and then like drops new stuff and

Okay, well that's the only thing that's on the site currently.

And there's perfume.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, I rarely

Maybe that's your angle.

am like I rarely

She's like, send it back to the community. I know.

⁓ I rarely see anything

where I'm like I have to have that you know what I mean And I'm and I'm a consumer like I am I am a bitch like you can convince me to buy anything if you market it right like I am a sucker I This bitch will buy anything you know what I'm saying and so ⁓ that says a lot because I get on there when she drops stuff and I'm like No, my heart's not in it

I would have thought-

Yeah.

That's true. That is true. She will buy anything.

But

it is true about Kelsey.

She

will buy anything.

Yeah.

Oh wait, I can see... Hold on, hold on.

Yeah. None of it has

ever been like that exciting. There was one sweatshirt at the Aras tour that was cute that I was like, I'd go buy that. But then I wasn't going to, it wasn't cute enough to make it worth standing in the merch line.

no, they took it. I think they took everything off.

That's so funny though to think that like somebody somebody like Taylor Swift doesn't have better

saying like it doesn't match it's

not congruent it doesn't make sense

Yeah, right now there's literally one sweatshirt

on there and it's her face. It's like a photo shoot of her in a pool. Maybe she doesn't care about the merch. I don't know, maybe not. That's cool. That's why you hire people though.

Maybe she just doesn't care.

Yeah.

It's just not our priority. Which is fine. That's totally fine. don't... What else?

But I

also find that odd because she's talked about how it's important that she supports the people that work for her and that's part of how you do it. And come on, the Swifties, we will buy your shit. Make it cute. We're gonna buy it.

Hmm?

But she makes, she probably makes plenty without it.

Yeah, she basically has the cult of Taylor

I mean, for the most part,

Swift.

most Swifties probably are just buying it. Anyways.

Probably, just because it is, yeah.

That's true. And it's

but that's something I didn't

true. I don't know.

know and it's something I didn't expect. I did not know that her merch was like kind of lackluster, according to you two at least, in your own opinions.

Yeah. Yeah.

think some people probably like it. It's just most of the time it's not my vibe. But I'm also very colorful and loud and in your face. And a lot of the times, sometimes, well, I guess, I don't know. It probably depends on the album's vibe. But the Tortured Poet apartment was very like, yeah, Yeah, Life of a Showgirl is my vibe. You know what I'm saying? Bright colors, glitter. But like,

Mm-mm. Mm-mm. Same. Yeah.

Mm-hmm. Funny.

Mm-hmm.

Yes, but life of a showgirl.

Yeah, and right now all that's

Yeah.

on the site is a black sweatshirt with like the promotional picture, which is her in a glittery outfit in a pool. Yeah.

I'm sure there'll be more. yeah.

We, I'm sure there'll be more once it drops and

Yeah.

like, but, but like, yeah, I don't know. Also like, cardigans aren't really my thing, but that's like a thing. that, but yeah, that's just not my thing. wouldn't have them in my list.

Taylor Swift cardigan?

I was not a- I'm I had a monocotagin per cent, so...

Yeah.

I think a cardigan is

an interesting choice for merch also. oh, no, well, that makes more sense.

Well, because she had a song called Cardigan. And so it started there.

Yeah, it's related to a song.

And now it's like a collector's thing. They collect each cardigan. I get it. I do. I'm just not a cardigan person. Some people are. I'm not. I'm not a cardigan person. I can appreciate a good cardigan.

Okay.

Yeah.

Yeah, it's fine.

No.

Yeah.

Listen,

I'm not judging anybody for anything. I don't even know what my style is, so whatever. At least you know what you like. I don't fucking know what I like, ever. Yeah.

Yeah.

Pshhh!

I just know I like color. I like color.

Yeah. Well,

my vote is that you still pre-order for their next drop for it because it is super cute. think you're going to want.

I think it's Kelsey coded and I think you should get it.

I wish I

had teal accents like the...

Ooh.

you

Like the album, you know? That would be nice. But yeah, it is very Kelsey-coated. But a pink one would be even more Kelsey-coated pink glitter. Bermate sponsor us. I have a lot of ideas. We should make a collab cup. I know that we don't have a lot of followers, so that's not very enticing, but do it anyways!

Yeah, that would be cute. It is. Ooh.

like this.

Seriously.

I mean, already, listen, listen, we already made

It's already part of our giveaway that we haven't done.

a collab cup. They just don't know it because we, we have a cup for you guys, which, you know, eventually someday we'll get the fucking giveaway. It's literally, all the giveaway stuff is on my desk.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Right?

or for one of you.

Someday we will give it away. As you- But as you've heard, I have had lice. Monica

is constantly breaking shit, like every day, ⁓ and, ⁓

My husband's never here, so I barely

ever get time to record. So there's that. ⁓ I'm solo parenting. And Ashley clearly has a job.

And Ashley is being a boss babe, so.

She's very busy beef. She was we tried

to record last night and she was here. We just We just life life life life. So

She was present. I wasn't!

Yes.

So one of these days we'll do the giveaway that we promised. It is coming, but life is...

Bye bye.

Also, we had

a whole episode planned and we haven't done one single thing that we planned for that episode, so we just don't have our shit together, guys. That's what I'm trying to say here.

That's okay. This is funny. Yeah.

showed

up today and I said, I don't know what the hell you guys planned or talked about or anything for yesterday, I'm just gonna be here. I'll just be an accessory. Tell me what to say, basically.

Well,

we had the intentions of transitioning into spooky season because spooky season is here and we had intentions of doing some spooky stuff. And so, you know what, maybe let's save that for this episode or the next episode because we know that we're gonna be flustered to locking on to the next one.

Right. Yay, happy spooky season.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I

will say I picked the story. Don't worry. I was chastised early on to make sure that I was not picking anything graphic or gruesome such as the cult So don't worry. I

You

You were not chastised by me.

Yeah, we will not have a repeat of last year.

Listen, and I found

a story last year, Kelsey found The Peeking Wife. I found one very similar to The Peeking Wife and I am excited to share it with you because I think it might be worse than The Peeking Wife. Very creepy. So we got some things. We have some things we just need to organize our brains and ourselves and our lives. Just bare fucking with us.

Yeah.

Mm-hmm. We got some things We just need to get our together Yeah, we need to get

our shit together But you know what if if you guys are listening to this and you're like, wow, their lives are on fire like mine Please please drop in the comments What's going on in your life? us join the commiserating a little bit bothered

Their lives are on fire. I thought you were gonna say their lives are

a mess. You said their lives are on fire. I just fucking lost it. Sorry.

So join us because the thing is you will never hear us pretending like we have all of our shit together because we don't. We are just a bunch of little bothered bitches that just enjoy a good giggle about it. So join us in the comments and tell us about it.

Please.

Ugh.

no, no.

Or cry. You know, I cry literally

every day at this point in the group chat. Just... Not.

Yeah. Yep. Earlier she was like,

I hate being the crier. And then she came back. She was like, I don't hate being the crier.

don't hate being the crier. It's who I am, but I do, it is frustrating. I'm like the type of person where I'm like, I cry when I'm frustrated, I cry when I'm happy, I cry when I'm sad, I cry over everything. So it's like, that is the emotion that's always gonna come out. ⁓ But like, yeah.

I'm just still crying.

Me too.

Yeah. See, I am, I am too, but I'm like usually

Yeah.

Yeah.

fueled by rage a lot of the times. So it really doesn't make sense. Like sometimes people are like, wow, I wasn't expecting you to cry about that. And I'm like, I'm not crying because I'm crying. I'm crying because I want to actually rip your throat out right now. And if you don't get away from me, I might, but that's illegal. So that's why I'm crying, bitch. Like.

Like, I'm so angry!

Yeah.

Well this

morning I was like aggravated because I didn't plan on crying like I was just trying to have like a normal conversation and the next thing you know I'm like fucking bawling my eyes out like Monica fix me

gonna look the cats.

No, you could hear it. You

could hear it in like your voice where like you were like, oh, like all happy-go-lucky, just like asking something. And all of a there's like this like crack that happened. And you're like.

Excuse me.

Reality? Reality? Get that in!

I was like, ⁓

real feelings are happening. I'm acknowledging these. They're not just in my head and I'm saying them out loud. So now I'm going to like actually cry about it.

like,

⁓ my god. ⁓

Yeah.

⁓ Okay,

well this was a very fun episode of just commiserating in our lives of what's been going on. So hopefully we have entertained you thoroughly with the dumpster fire of our lives right now. just know when you're on social media and it looks like everybody's got their stuff together and you're seeing all the highlight reels, just come and join us because this is reality.

⁓ God, this was a crazy episode. Okay.

You can come over here. Yeah, you can come over here for

a dose of reality, because there ain't shit fucking perfect about us.

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