OUR HOSTS: 

Corinne Foxx - @corinnefoxx

Natalie McMillan - @nataliemcm and @shopnataliemcmillan 

What we're drinking: 2020 Te Whare Ra New Zealand Riesling 

MEET OUR GUEST: 

Alaina Fingal - @theorganizedmoney, The Organized Money on YouTube 

ABOUT OUR GUEST: 

Alaina Fingal is an accountant, certified financial coach, author, and content creator. She helps busy people who struggle with budgeting and time management use a paper planner to get organized. She shares her easy approach to productivity and finances through her YouTube channel and has amassed over 100,000 subscribers and 6 million views. Her work has been featured in Yahoo! Finance, The New York Weekly, The Huffington Post, and she was recently named one of LA Wire’s 40 Under 40. 

TOPIC: 

We invited Alaina on the show to do a deep dive on one of the most requested episodes from the Am I community: budgeting. She breaks down how to take the fear out of budgeting, tips for organizing your life, and explains why she prefers pen and paper to any modern budgeting tools. She’s all about reframing budgeting as a spending plan that can open up opportunities rather than being a punishment or an unrealistic restriction. She walks us through how to set up a budget, categorize spending, and create achievable financial goals. Plus, she has amazing advice for entrepreneurs, freelancers, or other professionals without a consistent income. 

In this episode, we discuss:

• How to organize your life to achieve financial freedom 
• Overcoming the intimidation and dread that many of us feel around budgeting 
• Why it’s so important to be honest with yourself about your spending habits 
• Alaina’s saving strategy to get one month ahead of your finances 
• Simple and efficient ways to track expenses
• Taking the stress out of checking your bank account and budget by setting up a daily, weekly, or monthly ‘money date’ 

RESOURCES: 

• Alaina's 'How to Get One Month Ahead' Video

END OF THE SHOW: 

Corinne and Natalie introduce Hottie of the Week: Ed Sheeran 

WINE RATING:

2020 Te Whare Ra New Zealand Riesling 8.5 = / Ed Sheeran

WRAP UP:

To wrap up the episode, Corinne and Natalie play Citizens Arrest. Nat has had it with shoppers who leave their carts in parking spots and people who get married on holidays. Corinne thinks that the accident lawyer billboards and ads around LA have gone a step too far. 

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[00:00:05] Natalie McMillan: And I'm Natalie McMillan.

[00:00:17] Natalie McMillan: And each week we cover a new topic and we drink a new bottle of wine.

Finally, finally, how to organize your life with financial coach, a Elena fing, we needed a expert.

[00:00:44] Corinne Foxx: you've been avoiding it. Cause yeah. Cause we personally are scared of budgeting.

Yes. We're scared of it. Yeah. But we're gonna talk to Elena about how budgeting does not have to be scary. No, it does not how to organize your life and why organization equals. Financial success. I really need to remember that we need, we, we need

[00:01:06] Corinne Foxx: sure. And remember you guys, you guys can write in an episode suggestion at, am I doing this right pod@gmail.com and we are bringing back random advice.

So if you have something going on in your personal life, your professional life, you just need, you. You need the girlies. You need the girlies to set you straight. Yes. You can email us at, am I doing this right? Pod gmail.com. We will keep it. UNW miss always anonymous. Miss, always one miss. And we'll give you more advice.

[00:01:40] Corinne Foxx: citizens arrest. We're be arresting somebody or something. We will, or some things as a or something as, as, but first now let's get into the wine for the budgeting episode. Oh yes. Literal be drinking. All

That's literally what it says. What is, am I wrong? TA? But it says TWR okay. So I don't know what that is. It's a Marlborough. I thought those are cigarettes. No, no, no, no, no, no.

[00:02:18] Natalie McMillan: Zealand. You know what? I have no idea.

No, no, no, no. You're right. You're right. You're right. You're right. Am I wrong? It's a blend of a reasoning, a Pinot grease and a

[00:02:38] Corinne Foxx: this. Okay. Cuz we were just saying you

I'm gonna be straight up. We can't.

[00:02:58] Natalie McMillan: Yeah. You know? Right. And we're hot. We're hot. It's the middle of the day. It's the middle of the day. You can't like enjoy you.

Can't like just chug it and be like, woo. It's starting to feel like work. it's starting to feel a little, so, you know, let us know. Would you be mad if we, I don't know, drink? A kombu. I know I would just love like a Gatorade or something. You guys were outta here dying for you. I know. I know. They don't even know how hot we usually are.

Okay. Well, let's, let's cheer. Okay. We're gonna have a good attitude about yes, we are.

Okay. Okay. Hmm. Well, we'll circle back. We always do. We always do . We're not until we don't until we no longer do it. All right. Karen, why, why did we choose this

Right. But you know, it's not our forte. Mm-hmm we are living in cheer terror. Yeah. Of the even concept of budgeting. Yeah. Yeah. So we were just kinda waiting for the right expert for this, and we have officially. Got her, not only does she work on money and budgeting, but she also is a big proponent of like time management and organization and every aspect of your life.

Mm-hmm , she's also a really big fan of the written planner, which I'm very curious about. Yes. I know. I'm curious, know, I'm very curious. So let's intro Elena before we bring her on.

She helps busy people who struggle with budgeting and time management use a paper planner to get organized. She shares her easy approach to productivity and finances through her YouTube channel and has amassed over 100,000. Subscribers go off and six milli views. Gee. She is really helping a lot of us.

Mm-hmm her work has been featured in Yahoo finance, the New York, weekly, the Huffington post, and recently named one of LA wire's 40, under

[00:05:15] Natalie McMillan: her. She lives in new Orleans with her husband, Tori and their two daughters, Tori, Michelle and Alyssa Jade. Oh, what? Nice names. Those

Okay. Let's bring on Elena.

Hello, Elena. Hey, El.

[00:05:37] Corinne Foxx: we are so excited to have you on. We were saying before this, we are terrible, terrible at budgeting and being organized in the way that you are organized. Cuz I think it's, it's such a unique. Well, it's not just, you know yes, of course. It's like having your pantry super clean, but you are like organizing your livelihood.

I mean,

[00:06:07] Alaina Fingal: on the cancer. Oh, well happy recent birthday. Thank you. It was last week. I appreciate it.

[00:06:32] Alaina Fingal: so I have had ups and downs my entire life. My mom has always been a super, super organized person. So she's always pushed me and my brother to be organized. However, as a child, I always rebelled against, you know, good advice. Yeah. Just because I can't listen to my mom. Right. So I rebelled and I was like, oh no, I'm.

Still it's organized chaos and I still have it together. But what happened was is as I got older, I started to lose things I, you know, and different transitions in life. Like once I went from high school to college, it was a big change for me. And I couldn't just. Figure out my homework. I had to write it down.

I couldn't just try and kind of figure out life. And so that was my first time when I realized I really needed a planner. So I started really trying to get organized and budgeting and all of those things in college. Um, however, I didn't have a lot of money at the time. so it didn't last long. And then as I got older and once I got married and had my first baby, my first baby was like, Wow moment.

You are responsible for another life. You gotta get it together, girl, like get your life together. And so that's when I really went on this journey and I saw that everybody was organizing all of these spaces and I'm like, yeah, I get it. I want my house to be organized, but I really need to organize my mind.

I need to get a hold on all of these random thoughts and ideas and all of these crazy things that's going on in my mind. So that I could budget better and save and get on a better pattern with spending my money. So that's how I got started was when I had my baby it really forced me. yeah.

You're like, okay. You know, I'm not, I can't play around anymore. And I love what you do is. Is that you organize your life and your budget and you create these systems that you can keep up with every month and you can see, look at your progress and see where you're going and, and set goals, which are all things we need to do, Natalie.

We need to

[00:08:56] Alaina Fingal: Yeah. So one thing that I realized is when I first started the organized money, it was just about budgeting. It was just going to be money focused. And I was doing well for like the first six months.

And then I would. Get on a one-on-one calls. And I even experienced it in my own life where I would create this beautiful budget and I would create it on a Sunday. And then if I woke up late on a Monday, or if I was rushing or if anything else happened with my life, my time that it would throw off my budget.

So I would plan a budget. And then I would forget my lunch at home, or, and then now I gotta buy lunch or I didn't have an umbrella. So now I need to buy this and I have to buy that. And I ended up in post shopping because I didn't have structure with my time and my life. And what I realized is that. When your life is unorganized, you can't get anything else organized.

So money and time really do play hand in hand. And once I started to work on organizing my schedule and I started to plan better and I started to really pay attention to how I was going to organize my life. It became so much easier to budget and save like budgeting and saving became like, oh, this is really easy.

Cuz I started to plan the routine and the day. And I knew this is my Friday routine of what I'm going to do with my money. And once I set that time and set the intention of what I was gonna do, it became easier to do it. So I revamped the entire, um, platform for my business and made it about life and money because I realized how much they were tied together.

Like you have to be able to organize them both. Yeah.

[00:10:44] Corinne Foxx: Yeah, right. it? Yes. You just used that B word, which is budgeting, which Natalie and I are terrified of. Yeah. And I think a lot of people, you know, get overwhelmed by that word, but what you were just saying, do you think people are overwhelmed by the concept of budgeting because they actually don't have their lives in order first?

Or why do you think we're so intimidated to even try to

And so I have to limit myself and restrict myself so I can save and make more money, but really. Think of it as reframing your mind as a spending thing that you can do. Like this shows me when I create this spending plan, this shows me how much money I can spend. It shows me where I can go shopping. It shows me how I can travel and how I can save.

It shows me how I'm going to live the life that I want. It doesn't have to be a restrictive thing, because if you think about it, you really deep dive into it. When you create a budget and you are able to stick to it, it's going to open up your life to be able to do so many more things that you want to do.

You achieve your goals because you have this spending plan. So I think it's just the way that we look at it and reframing our mind and our mindset of what it can do for us. Instead of thinking of the restrictive side of what you can't spend. Think of how it's going to open it up to well, after I pay my bills, now I have all of this extra money to spend.

And also, like it's a lesson in prioritizing, like what actually is gonna make you happy and fulfilled and what's worth your money and your time.

It's my birthday. Right. I know I want to spend more money for my birthday. So I'm gonna set aside money for that goal. If I have to pay all these bills and I'm not on the budget, then I might not be able to set aside that money because I don't have a budget. But if I do, then I'm able to open myself up and do more with my.

Yeah.

[00:13:40] Alaina Fingal: and I think it's the exact same way that we have, we've done it in so many areas. Right? If you think about it, how you've done it with, uh, the diet culture of fad dieting, and yes, you might be able to be restrictive with your food for a moment of time, but all of us crash and burn.

Types of diets, right? You lose a bunch of weight, but then you gain it all back. And it's the same way. When you do restrictive budgeting. When we restrictive budget, we save a bunch of money, but then we go impulse and shopping because it just triggers us one day. We're like, I'm not living life or I'm not eating.

I'm not. And then you binge and you end up spending a bunch of money that you didn't want to spend. But if we take our time and. Look at it another way. And we stop looking at it as a restriction and start thinking about how we can open ourself up to opportunity. Then we become able to open ourselves up to seeing how we can spend more money through the budget that we have.

[00:14:49] Natalie McMillan: yeah, very simple question. how do we, how we do, we do all

Then I want you to write down all your bills. This is probably the easy part. I feel like everyone does this part. We write down our income, we write down our bills and then we see how much we have left over. Now, once you have that ending number, Income after you subtract all of your bills. Now you have a number of how much you have to spend.

So now we can divide it up into categories. Usually it's food, entertainment and shopping. That's where the majority of us will spend our money. Now we might have to. Kids or extracurriculars, but you wanna write down those categories, where else do you need to spend your money? You might need to buy gas, all of that, write those things down.

And then the money that you have left over, you wanna divide it up into those categories. The top question that I get is how do you know how much to put into each category, right? The best way to figure it out is to look at your bank statement. How much are you currently spending on food? How much are you currently spending in shopping and on Amazon?

What are. Currently doing, you don't wanna guess, or try and estimate this number, cuz you're setting yourself up for failure. When you do that, you wanna look at your past behavior. How much have you currently spent? Because if you're currently eating out every single day and you spend $500 on eating out and then you say, oh, but I'm gonna set a budget of 200.

That's, that's not realistic. You're setting yourself up for failure. So what you wanna do is say, okay, I am currently spending 500, but I feel like that might be too much. I'm gonna bring it down to four 50 this month and see how I do with that and try and stick along that side. Now, my, I usually will suggest to take that money out in cash.

You can leave your bill money in account, take your money out in cash, put it in the envelopes of the different categories that you talked about and spend that cash so that you don't go over budget. But if you just feel like I need to use my debit card, then try and separate it. A bill account and a spending account, but you don't want those two accounts mixed up, cuz we end up spending bill money when we do that and just using your debit card until you get paid again, repeat rent and repeat every single time you wanna just repeat that process of setting up your payday budget and doing that over and over again.

And then after a while you'll be able to save. You'll be able to spend the money the way that you have set aside. And you'll start to get accustomed to budgeting on that, on that level. And it will help you to start to make progress. Yeah.

It's a lifestyle change. Right. You have to just make that lifestyle change and that's similar to what you're saying. It's like, okay. Make it small. So it's like attainable and you can actually like keep up with it. So going from 500 to four 50, and then it's just a light, we're just changing how we're living and it's not.

Intense and scary yeah.

[00:18:20] Alaina Fingal: so if you don't like writing things down paper, I get it because, um, I know I have a.

Clients who don't like to track that way. One thing that has come out that a lot of banks are doing that I absolutely love is they categorize for you. So if you are with chase, if you're with capital one, I think Wells Fargo is starting to do it now as well. They categorize. Your transactions for you so soon as you log in, you are able to see where your money is going.

And I just advised that you check their bank account every single morning, make it a part of your morning routine. Many times when we're thinking about. Our morning routine. We are usually thinking about self care things that we love to do. Right. I love to wake up and get my coffee and I'm gonna do a light workout.

Might do some yoga into meditation. And all of that is wonderful. We definitely want to do that, but also add in some things that you may not find the most pleasurable, but your future self will. Thank you. So it's still self care. Looking at my money for 10 minutes in the morning where I just check my bank account, see how much I have, compare it to my budget, and then just make sure I'm not going over is a part of my morning routine, cuz it's a part of my self care.

It is taking care of my future self. So that I'm not stressed out over money and I love it. And so it will make you, um, love the process a little bit more, especially if you set it aside, light a candle, have your favorite beverage, make it a thing to where you are doing a money date. I will just spend some time and spend a little moment with my money so that I feel more prepared for what's coming up next in my.

Yeah, prepared

It's not a heat event

[00:20:24] Natalie McMillan: Right. It's not like, okay, here we go. I'm gonna open it. You know,

I don't know, whatever you need .

Like I talk about my dreams and the different things that I wanna achieve with our finances, like our financial plan. He talk about some of the things that he wants to do individually, like go back to school and things that he has on his list. And then we talk about things that we wanna do as a family upcoming travel.

Like don't make it all serious. Just paying bills, conversation. Does that make you shut down so quick? Like who wants to talk about that? But if I'm talking about my dreams and the traveling that we want to do and the different things that we want to purchase throughout our life and when we wanna retire and things like that, it becomes easier to have those types of conversations.

Their income isn't as consistent. This is

[00:22:22] Alaina Fingal: yeah, so I am the same way. I'm a full time entrepreneur, which means I do not know how much I'm going to make at the start of any month. So one of the things that, um, I will. Always recommend to entrepreneurs is first that you know, that bare minimum number that you need to cover your bills.

So this is your core number, right? This is the bare minimum that you have to cover for the month. And the goal is over time is to save that number because the ultimate goal is to get one month ahead of yourself so that you aren't budgeting this month. With this month, you're budgeting this. With last month's money.

And I have an entire video on my YouTube channel on how to get one month ahead that talks you through the baby steps of how to do that. Cuz I know every time I say him, one month ahead, I can hear my audience just like. What one month girl, I can't, you know, but it's a three step process of the way that I like saved in order to do that.

And I do have it on my YouTube channel. I'll send you guys the link in case anyone

[00:23:37] Alaina Fingal: And so you can find that video. But in that video, I talked about, um, three things that I did. And one of the things that I did was to try and make sure that when you have those extra weeks, cuz you have three months out of the year where you have five weeks months.

And so what I would normally do is on. Higher up months where I just, we killed it this month. I just made way more than I thought I was gonna make. What I did is I tried to save as much as possible or save half of the amount that I need on a monthly basis, or save a quarter of the amount that I need on a monthly basis and put it in a savings account.

But it's a certain savings strategy. when you don't know how much you're going to make, it's always going to be a saving strategy so that you can get ahead of yourself. And you're not depending on making a certain income number in order to pay your bills. So I, and with all entrepreneurs, I always recommend that you.

Save, you know, your emergency fund is not the average three to six months. Like everyone else usually recommends. It's always more. You wanna get, get that nine to 12 months in the bank account. But before that, before you can get to that spot, you wanna try and get at least. One month ahead so that you're paying this month with last month.

And then when you don't make the number that you think you're gonna make, you still had it, you still have money in your savings account and you can still cover everything, including your food, shopping and entertainment. You wanna be able to cover it all.

[00:25:14] Alaina Fingal: it.

So you

[00:25:27] Corinne Foxx: digital? I just made Natalie.

[00:25:31] Corinne Foxx: stuff down. I know. I tried to feel really bad.

I was like, you've gotta get on Google calendar girl.

If you write it down. Wow. Couple of reasons why I like to write things down the first is to minimize distractions. I am constantly distracted when it comes to tech devices, my phone, anything. So all of those notifications and things, I don't really prefer them. I really do like to. Write things down because of the, the space where I am, when I'm writing it down, like I said, I'm lighting a candle.

I am making it a part of my self care and having this one spot. If I call it my one book is my life book because my entire life is in this one planner. I'm like, it's all divided up, but it is my life because any area that I. To organize or think through normally when you're thinking something through and you're trying to organize your thoughts, you're gonna take out a sheet of paper.

Very rarely do people like type up a document when they're trying to process and think through or mind like we mind map. We create to do list. We write things down. We jotted down on the sticky note. We will put it, pull out a sheet of paper or writing from the back of an envelope. And the reason we do those things is because writing has a way of connecting to our brain differently than digital.

So you can, I always, I still use the Cal. I'm not gonna say that. I don't, I still use Google Cal. I still will have documents in, you know, all written up and all within my computer. I still use all of that Google drive, but when I am my main source of planning or I am really trying to process what's going on in my mind, I use paper because paper helps me to process a little bit better.

[00:27:58] Alaina Fingal: Yeah. I have every such, so it's, it's my schedule.

It's my faith section. My business. My budget, my church, like everything in this one book, and I promise you, it has changed my life. It's the basis of my company.

[00:28:27] Alaina Fingal: So the very first thing with any goal that you have, wanna make sure that it is super realistic and you break it down to a daily goal. So no matter what that annual goal is, no matter what that big overarching picture, how can we break it all the way down to what you can do today? There is a quote out there, not sure who caught, who said it.

I cannot remember off the top of my head, but it says that we usually overestimate what we can do in a. But we underestimate what we can do in a year and what we can do in that amount of time. And it's because we set really big goals at the beginning of the year. And then we usually wait and then they taper out around March because you feel like, oh, I got so much time.

I got the year I got this. I got, you know, I'm gonna do it in June. I'm gonna do it in July. I'm gonna start at this point in time. And then it's so much time has passed. Oh, man, I never got to it. I'm gonna set it again for this year. Now I'm gonna do it again this year, but we will usually, when we think about our date, we write a 20 page list of all the things we wanna do today.

And so we will usually like mismanage our time based on what we think we possibly can do in a certain timeframe. So the best thing to do is when you have that really big goal, let's say it's to write a book. I wanna write a book this year. Writing a book is a very big goal. What can you do in a month?

You might be able to write a chapter in a month. So my monthly goal would be to write a chapter. What can I do today? Today? I could think of some titles. I could brainstorm what my outline is going to be for this book. And that's what I'm gonna do today. And if you do that every single day, when you wake up, you think about one thing that you can do and you work on that one thing for 20 minutes or 30 minutes.

You end up achieving more.

[00:30:53] Corinne Foxx: Well luckily you offer a lot of things. Yes.

[00:31:04] Alaina Fingal: So the first stop is always my YouTube channel and I am currently reorganizing all of my playlists on my YouTube channel to help you with whatever section you are currently trying to organize.

So I currently talk about planning. Productivity money management and business. So those are the four areas and those are the four areas that you will see on my YouTube channel, where you can dive into those specific videos. Once you get into those areas, then you will find different offers that are associated with that particular area.

So for instance, with the business, I have the organized business, which is another. Cohort. It's a four week intensive that I do every other month. So the next one comes up in the month of, um, September. And in that month I work with about 20 women, very close knit, where I am helping them organize their business.

And so we do group calls every single week. We will dive into the different things that they can do in different areas, like their content, how to organize your content. Because I, I know a lot of business owners, we know we're supposed. Doing content, but it's like, how do I find time to do all of this stuff?

Right? How do I figure this stuff out? It's so much. And so finding time and scheduling and figuring out the different things that you need to do is what we do within that. And then each one of my sections, there's something like that. So I have the organized business. And then the organized you, which is the organized you is a monthly membership.

Where, if you need accountability, you need help organizing your life and your money. Then that is the membership. It where we just jump on every single week. And we are talking about a variety of topics, like procrastination, motivation, how to, uh, move and actually get more things done. All of that is within that membership.

That's awesome.

[00:33:30] Natalie McMillan: We've had so many. For like we've had yeah, the whole, since we started and we're like, we need, we have to find the experts. We're like, oh, OK. Cause we cannot do it. So we're so happy. We've we've had your time

[00:33:51] Alaina Fingal: us.

Thank you so much for having me. I appreciate

[00:33:57] Alaina Fingal: Thank you. You too.

[00:34:09] Natalie McMillan: know we do. We really, I really do want to get in the habit of just looking at my bank account. Why every day, why

Right. But if you're checking in daily, there shouldn't be major surprises. Right. Right. If there isn't there's fraud happening.

[00:34:35] Corinne Foxx: So we just have to get, we're gonna get in the habit and the routine, and we have our YouTube channel to help us. Thank gorgeous.

Thank goodness. Well, we hope you guys learn more about budgeting, how to better organize your life and why organization equals success. Success,

[00:34:51] Natalie McMillan: oh, what's wrong with us?

[00:34:59] Natalie McMillan: All right. Again. Quora.

What is that? It's it's

[00:35:08] Natalie McMillan: Tera Tera Quora from who knows where Marlborough. I thought those were cigarettes. Are those not cigarettes? They

[00:35:31] Natalie McMillan: New Zealand.

Oh. Oh, okay.

[00:35:38] Natalie McMillan: Wellness check. Okay. Somebody call the police.

[00:35:44] Natalie McMillan: bit. I. Fight you on it. I was just like,

Yeah. So we looked up celebrities that budget. Yeah. And we found out that ed Sheron who we budgets. Everyone loves. He gives, he loves ed Sheron. Yeah. He gives himself an allowance. So we thought he would be a good hobby of the week. Yeah. He's UN problematic. We love him. He's a soundtrack to our love wive.

Okay.

[00:36:17] Corinne Foxx: No, it's not. He's sweet. He's musical. That's

[00:36:24] Corinne Foxx: little picture. Have guitar. Have you in his baby photos? Have you

You were like, this is him and it's not him. No, no, it's not. It's not him. There's it looks exactly. No, but there's

[00:36:44] Natalie McMillan: like, put him on the story. This one, literally that is ed sheen. It's exactly like yeah, it is. Okay. So we'll post this on Stu today. Yeah. Okay. Let me take another

Yeah. One to edge. She I'm sorry. I got distracted. Um, this TWR I like it. What do you wanna give it? Eight?

[00:37:18] Corinne Foxx: okay, so this is an eight and a half at an edge.

She, and we'll link it in the show notes. If you wanna pick up

[00:37:29] Corinne Foxx: giving it an eight. Oh, I was saying eight question mark. Cause I thought we were line I'm so sorry. Ah, okay. I'm giving it an eight.

You're giving it a nine. It's an 8.5 outta edge year. We'll link into the show, link it below,

[00:37:49] Corinne Foxx: All right. This is the part of the episode where we play a little wrap up game. And like we sit at the top this week. It's citizens rest. We also had a listener write in and say that she loved the wrap up game part. Oh yeah.

I don't have that many. Oh, I, you know why I'm constantly thinking. I see there's every day. I'm like citizens arrest on you. Citizens arrest on that. You can do

[00:38:18] Natalie McMillan: Okay. Prepped. Okay. I will do two. Okay. The first one I'm gonna do is citizens arrest on people who leave their shopping carts in the.

Parking spot

[00:38:34] Natalie McMillan: be arrested. They need to be arrested immediately. okay. Immediately.

That's like people's jobs to like go in a parking lot. I'm like, Joe, we live in Los Angeles. It is 100 degrees with the concrete pavement. And you want someone going out to get your

[00:39:06] Corinne Foxx: you have to organize for the C lady to be there.

I know, pick up your shit, but the worst are the people who leave the carts in the parking spot. At least put it to the side at,

[00:39:22] Corinne Foxx: on. That's a great citizen's arrest. What about you?

I just feel like they need to be arrested because it's getting out of hand. Okay. It used to be like, okay, this is just like a thing. This is a thing that's everywhere. And then now it's becoming more intense and more crazy Uhhuh and it's billboard lawyers.

[00:39:43] Corinne Foxx: Have you, I don't know if it's just a Los Angeles thing.

Oh no. Oh, it's everywhere. Oh, it's everywhere. Okay. Well the ones the billboards I've been seeing for these lawyers, these accident lawyers are so insane. There's actually a TikTok on 'em that like had all these crazy ones in Los Angeles, but one looked like a movie, an action movie poster. Have you seen this one?

No, I'm a there's flames. There's the guy and his hair's blowing in the wind. And it's titled as if it is a movie that's coming out, but no, it's a billboard

[00:40:17] Corinne Foxx: They're really out here getting

[00:40:22] Corinne Foxx: my favorite one is I want, there's this one guy who's on the back of buses.

Yes. And he looks like an exit L. He looks like,

[00:40:39] Corinne Foxx: And I literally, I'm convinced it's a bit, I'm convinced

exactly

[00:40:45] Natalie McMillan: you're talking about. Hold on. I'm it has to, it cannot be real that guy's not real.

[00:40:59] Corinne Foxx: He's he's he's not real.

[00:41:08] Alaina Fingal: Yeah, I looked .

It's JJ Dominguez. Yo my God. Okay, so that's my citizen's arrest. Do you wanna do a second one? Yes. Okay. My second one. Well, I don't wanna offend anybody, but I'm gonna have to arrest people that do this. Okay. People who get married on holidays, that's really messed up. Come on. Like, I think people think it's like romantic or something to get married on new year's and I'm like, you're gonna make everybody, and then you can't just enjoy the holiday.

You have to send a happy anniversary. Yeah. 4th of July. No. Yeah, no.

[00:42:01] Natalie McMillan: Or even 4th of July. I'm like, I want nothing to do with the 4th of July, but like, I don't wanna have to go to your wedding on the 4th of

Right. It's like we all have like the weekend off, right? Yeah. Just let us do our own thing. Hi, philio it's a fair, it's a fair citizen's. You guys, if you have an episode idea and you would like us to do it, let us know you can email us. Am I doing this right pod@gmail.com and rate and review our podcast?

If you love it, cuz we love you. Yeah. And we'll

[00:42:34] Corinne Foxx: Yeah, we will. And we'll be back next week with another episode. Bye bye.