Breaking News: Alex Brown Stops By To Chat

Lisa [00:00:05]:
I am shaking my head, Samantha. I am shaking my head at a parent who let their kid melt down because he wanted a box of captain crunch cereal. Here's the thing. This is what I had to listen to at the grocery store. This kid freaking out. He's probably six. And all of a sudden I hear this mom, go, Rufus. And I stopped dead in my tracks, looked and thought, who the hell names their kid Rufus in 2024? Even though I know he was, like, probably a few years younger.

Lisa [00:00:33]:
But still, where did that name come about? That was what I thought was my biggest issue. I thought my biggest issue was going to be the fact that that mom named her kid Rufus. But it wasn't. My biggest issue was the fact that that mom went into reasoning mode with the fact that Rufus was having a meltdown. She started to explain all the reasons why Rufus couldn't have the sugary cereal.

Samantha [00:00:55]:
I don't think you can reason with a six year old. I don't even like. Why are you trying that? Why are you doing that?

Lisa [00:01:00]:
Why are we doing that? We're not even parents. But I feel that's parenting 101.

Samantha [00:01:03]:
I feel like six year old sugary cereal. That's a fight that you just will never win.

Lisa [00:01:08]:
Right? So either a Rufus eats it regularly and now mom's trying to change his diet, and Rufus having none of that. Dear mom, what the hell are you thinking?

Samantha [00:01:18]:
I think if she's trying to train, change it midstream, she's out of luck. It's never going to happen. He's addicted and we're just settle. Just do it.

Lisa [00:01:27]:
You just can't reason with a six year old. And then you know what it made me think of? It made. It took me back. It took me back to all the years ago when my tab, drinking cigarettes, smoking mum would take us grocery shopping. I don't think we ever would have had reasoning mode. Mom, present.

Samantha [00:01:44]:
Nope. We had yelling. Mom, you're going to get drinking.

Lisa [00:01:49]:
Mom.

Samantha [00:01:49]:
Right?

Lisa [00:01:50]:
Your dad's waiting to hear about this.

Samantha [00:01:52]:
Mom, we are going back to the car.

Lisa [00:01:55]:
Drag you into the car. Mom. We never had reasoning. Mom.

Samantha [00:02:00]:
No, we did not.

Lisa [00:02:01]:
Remember there being reasons for why we couldn't have something.

Samantha [00:02:04]:
Yeah.

Samantha [00:02:04]:
I just feel so bad for the parents today because they. They have all these things like, this is how you're supposed to do it and this is how you're supposed to. It's like it's a six year old kid with sugar. Good luck.

Lisa [00:02:15]:
Right, right. Good luck. We don't need books on this shit. They just know us. No. And dear. You know how we feel, right? Dear moms of today, you've created this problem. You've caused this to happen.

Samantha [00:02:28]:
And that's.

Samantha [00:02:28]:
That's iron.

Samantha [00:02:29]:
It's.

Samantha [00:02:30]:
It's not great that it comes from two single women. So, like, take that and take that into my.

Lisa [00:02:36]:
Take that and run with it. But guess what I feel? I'm Team Rufus. Team Rufus.

Samantha [00:02:43]:
I would want my captain crunch as well. So I'm Team Rufus as well, right?

Lisa [00:02:46]:
Absolutely. So we got a great show ahead of us, Samantha. You know what? We do have decided that I'm completely obsessed with the expiry dates again, and I feel that we really need to dive into this.

Samantha [00:02:57]:
Not again.

Lisa [00:02:59]:
Oh, it's getting bad. I think it's gotten bad.

Samantha [00:03:02]:
Oh, God. I'm not ready. I just.

Lisa [00:03:05]:
You need to be.

Samantha [00:03:07]:
Okay, well, we're going to talk about the coffee versus tea thing, and we're going to debate. At least we're going to go to town.

Lisa [00:03:14]:
Well, I feel that we're going to be on opposite sides, even though I like both and you like both, but I feel that you're going to try and bully your way through it. And I feel I'm going to, like, win, because, you know what? A world with Sam and not coffee is not a world I want to be part of.

Samantha [00:03:29]:
I feel like I can be fairly convincing.

Lisa [00:03:31]:
I feel like I'm pretty convincing, too. You know what else, though? Let's see if you can convince the friends of the podcast on why you needed to decide on yet another horrible restaurant.

Samantha [00:03:42]:
I wanted to try something new.

Lisa [00:03:44]:
It wasn't new, though, right? We've been there and hated it before.

Samantha [00:03:48]:
And we went back and. And hated it more to the point.

Lisa [00:03:50]:
That I actually had blocked it out. And I'm like, I'm pretty sure I've never been to. No, trust me, you have. Yeah.

Samantha [00:03:57]:
That should be fun.

Lisa [00:03:58]:
Should be good. Should be good time.

Samantha [00:04:00]:
I am more excited, though, because we have a special co host this week. Her name is Alex Brown, and I'm very excited to talk to her.

Lisa [00:04:08]:
It's gonna be so fun. Hey.

Samantha [00:04:09]:
Yeah, it'll be good.

Lisa [00:04:10]:
Hey, at least remember, let her speak. Let her speak. Let her speak.

Samantha [00:04:14]:
Yeah, that's for you.

Lisa [00:04:15]:
I'm gonna do my best. I'm gonna do my best all day trying to not interrupt people. I didn't have my best day, but I'm gonna try. Friends in the podcast. You know how it goes, right?

Samantha [00:04:27]:
Yes.

Lisa [00:04:28]:
Right? You know how it goes, Samantha. We could do this.

Samantha [00:04:30]:
We could do this.

Lisa [00:04:35]:
Hello, friends of the podcast.

Samantha [00:04:38]:
Hey, everybody. I get the pleasure of introducing our guest co host, Alex Brown. She's been delighting audiences across Canada for over a decade with her bubbly personality and quick wit. As a host and news anchor on television and radio and online. As a social media personality. We know and love her from her time with CTV here in Saskatoon. And in April of 2024, she joined Rolcoal radio as a feature reporter and show host for 650 CKOM. She is the Saturday morning host of talk shots, and you'll hear her voice on the CKOm morning show and news programming.

Samantha [00:05:18]:
Alex has a passion for community and human interest stories and is passionate about sharing the best kept secrets of Saskatchewan. Thanks for joining us, Alex.

Alex [00:05:27]:
Wow. Big intro. Didn't. Just kidding. Wrote it myself.

Samantha [00:05:33]:
Yes, you did.

Lisa [00:05:35]:
Red carpet is out and laid for you.

Alex [00:05:38]:
Thank you guys so much for having me. We have been having conversations over DM's for, like, how long has it been? We've been talking about doing this for quite some time since.

Lisa [00:05:49]:
For sure. Since you did tell a miracle.

Samantha [00:05:51]:
Yes, exactly. And so it's great that it's finally come to fruition. I'm so happy to hang out with you guys.

Lisa [00:05:57]:
Yeah. Awesome.

Samantha [00:05:58]:
We are so impressed with what you did with telemerical. You were such a bubbly personality on that show. And I was like, why isn't she doing this, Mark?

Alex [00:06:06]:
I know. It was. Honestly, it was. As someone who grew up in Saskatchewan, born and raised, like, we all know telemiracle is a big deal to those of us that are. That are from here. And so to finally, like, grow up watching it, I volunteered answering the phones when I was a reporter and then be part of the national cast. It was like, totally this full circle moment. It was so cool.

Lisa [00:06:30]:
It was so cool. I remember watching and saying to Sam, new reason to watch, right?

Alex [00:06:37]:
Aw, thank you.

Lisa [00:06:38]:
So that's awesome. Now I get to listen to you on my favorite radio station, 650.

Alex [00:06:42]:
Perfect. Yeah. No, it's been. It's been a wild year for me. Ups, downs, everything in between. But I've found my footing in the radio world, and I'm finding.

Lisa [00:06:53]:
Who knew? Hey.

Alex [00:06:54]:
Zipping along there. And it's becoming pretty natural on the other side of the microphone, so.

Lisa [00:07:00]:
Good, good. Well, I have no. I have no doubt that you're just going to continue to just succeed, right? Because.

Samantha [00:07:06]:
And now you've joined us, so we're going to step you down a notch, dear. And you're going to join the podcasting independent realm. Right?

Lisa [00:07:15]:
And now people will be like, you are with who?

Samantha [00:07:19]:
You're doing what?

Lisa [00:07:21]:
Oh, they're. They're from there too.

Alex [00:07:23]:
Podcasts are so much more fun than talking about news on the mic.

Lisa [00:07:26]:
Like, they're just lots of fun. Stick around.

Alex [00:07:29]:
We're not talking totally fires and crazy.

Lisa [00:07:33]:
And you got the two biggest jokers right here with you.

Samantha [00:07:35]:
Yes.

Lisa [00:07:36]:
Ladies, I gotta jump into this. I had. Okay, we're in fall, right? We're in the thickness of fall. I had the other day, the ooey gooey est butter tart. It was so delightful.

Samantha [00:07:50]:
Yum.

Lisa [00:07:51]:
Samantha, it had raisins. I thought of you. Cause you hate them. But then it got me thinking like it always does. I feel that I still. I'm still feeling like. As though the butter tart gets poo pooed. Nobody cares about it.

Alex [00:08:04]:
And I feel like. Do you still feel that way? Like, especially in the prairies, because in certain small town circles, the dainty tray usually has a butter tart or two.

Lisa [00:08:13]:
Well, that's true. It does. But it just doesn't seem to compare to the pumpkin or to the apple.

Alex [00:08:20]:
I understand what you're saying, but I feel like for those of us who are, like, want to go back to the classics? Like, I have butter tarts upstairs on my counter. I bought the father in law for Thanksgiving. I didn't know if he was team raisin or not. I like raisins in my butter tarts. I think they're a nice little surprise. But I did buy them without, because I know the jury is out on that one.

Lisa [00:08:43]:
And were they gooey? Were they, like, drippy?

Alex [00:08:45]:
They were actually. I could have had drippier. I could have had drippier. They were grocery store. They were not made by a baba, but they were pecan, and they were lovely.

Lisa [00:08:55]:
Right?

Samantha [00:08:56]:
I think that's our next tour. Lisa is a butter tart tour of Saskatchewan.

Lisa [00:09:02]:
Oh, my God. Let's do it.

Alex [00:09:04]:
Can I go on the road with you guys?

Samantha [00:09:06]:
Yes, we'll go on a butter tart. It's all the small town bakeries, right? They're gonna have the best stuff.

Lisa [00:09:12]:
And that's a perfect lead into our perfect lead into our winter tour of what Rena has. Really does have the best hockey food.

Alex [00:09:21]:
Ring food is another level. Have you guys had the wonton soup at the old granite curling club? I haven't had it, but apparently the reviews by, like, top chefs are amazing.

Lisa [00:09:34]:
At a curling club.

Samantha [00:09:35]:
I saw that clip.

Samantha [00:09:37]:
Yeah.

Samantha [00:09:38]:
And I'm like, it's a curling club.

Lisa [00:09:40]:
It's a curling club.

Alex [00:09:41]:
We had a reporter do a segment there and she got to taste, like, a little bit of everything, and she was like. It was. It meets restaurant. Like, it was so good.

Lisa [00:09:52]:
Really?

Samantha [00:09:52]:
Yeah.

Lisa [00:09:53]:
Huh. I feel like we're going to be touring for the next six months, guys.

Samantha [00:09:57]:
Yeah. And eating all the.

Alex [00:09:58]:
Well, I'll clear my schedule.

Lisa [00:09:59]:
Right. Let's take this show on the road.

Samantha [00:10:03]:
Why not? Sounds.

Lisa [00:10:04]:
Why not?

Samantha [00:10:06]:
But you know what? I got to do something fun that I was really looking forward to. And Lisa will poo poo this.

Lisa [00:10:11]:
I already know. Totally.

Samantha [00:10:12]:
I've already been going. I did pumpkins after dark.

Lisa [00:10:17]:
I did let's go look at carvings.

Samantha [00:10:18]:
I did the little scenic tour at the Prairie land. And you know what? It was cheesy. I'm going to give it that. But I loved it because, you know, I like a little cheese around my Halloween.

Lisa [00:10:29]:
Oh, you're a Halloween girl.

Samantha [00:10:30]:
And I just walked through, and there was, you know what was disappointing? No scary music. I love this point.

Alex [00:10:36]:
It's family friendly, probably. Sorry.

Lisa [00:10:40]:
It's a pumpkin.

Alex [00:10:41]:
Like Halloween. Scary. Like gory. Is that more your speed, or. No, no.

Lisa [00:10:48]:
Halloween is my speed.

Alex [00:10:49]:
Oh, okay. We're against Halloween.

Lisa [00:10:52]:
You know what I hate? I hate clowns.

Samantha [00:10:54]:
Yeah.

Samantha [00:10:54]:
Oh, that makes sense, because that reminds.

Samantha [00:10:57]:
Me of when we went.

Lisa [00:10:58]:
It was horrible.

Samantha [00:10:59]:
Okay, so. Oh, this is years ago now. Was it four years ago?

Lisa [00:11:04]:
Not enough years in between.

Samantha [00:11:05]:
Four years ago ish. We went to a Halloween. We went to, like, a. You walk through it. It was, like, on Pike Lake Road, and it was this person's house, and they had this whole setup, and there was. It was so busy, and there, unfortunately, at the end were clowns. And the clown. And the clown followed her all the.

Lisa [00:11:30]:
Way out, because the clown was a busybody who heard me saying the whole time, there better not be clowns. So help me God, if there's a clown. And they heard that. The clown heard that, and they were, like, kind of mocking me.

Samantha [00:11:42]:
Oh, God, that was so much fun.

Lisa [00:11:43]:
You like clowns, Alex?

Alex [00:11:45]:
Let's give them a class and boundaries.

Lisa [00:11:47]:
Right, right. We don't need them. I don't need them in my life. I don't need them right here.

Samantha [00:11:52]:
But what about you? Do you like, like, do you do Halloween?

Alex [00:11:58]:
Yeah, I am a big costume girly. Um, this originates. Like, you know how people, when they talk about their childhood, they're like, oh, I was really into barbies, or I was really into trucks. Like, I was the costume bin kid. Like, if a classroom had a costume bin, if a waiting room had a costume bin, I had several costume bins. Like, I just wanted to be in full costume. And so a lot of my career, when I do segments, if I'm at a production or a musical, Orlando, um, like, anything feasibly a costume could be worn. I will be in that costume.

Alex [00:12:35]:
And I saw. Go ahead.

Lisa [00:12:38]:
I saw a clip of you doing the king's coronation.

Alex [00:12:42]:
Correct.

Lisa [00:12:43]:
Dressed in costume.

Alex [00:12:44]:
Yeah.

Lisa [00:12:45]:
Right.

Alex [00:12:46]:
Yeah. This. This is who I am at a. At a soul level. I need to be in, like, everyday clothing is not enough for me. I need to be a fairy queen. I need to be, you know, like, ethereal being actually my best friend. And I went to Europe in 2018, and we did England, Scotland and Ireland.

Alex [00:13:08]:
And at a lot of the tourist attractions, like the castles, there were a lot. There was, like, always a kids section where it was like, dress up as king and no, I was in there like a dirty shirt. I was pushing kids. I was like, give me the crown. Let me take a picture on this throne. So for Halloween, for me, I like it. Cause I like fall. Like, I like coziness, and I like, you know, I like candy, I like chocolate.

Alex [00:13:33]:
But for me, it's like an excuse to be like, okay, I can actually go all out with my costume and no one can say anything.

Samantha [00:13:43]:
Well, you know what? I love that about you because I, too, for a birthday one year, I had a co worker make me a full robe with a hood so that I could be the witch off of sleep to me.

Lisa [00:14:00]:
And that's a great costume for you.

Samantha [00:14:02]:
Sam and I, I did the whole thing. I had prosthetics. I got an apple. It was the whole thing.

Lisa [00:14:08]:
She looks good. Yeah.

Samantha [00:14:09]:
And this year, I get to go and camouflage because it's the zombie apocalypse.

Lisa [00:14:13]:
Yeah. So I'm pretty stoked about, it's too much Halloween. It's all too much Halloween for me. I'm like the Halloween Grinch.

Alex [00:14:20]:
Mean girls. When Katie Herron goes to the first, she's, like the new student. She goes to the Halloween party at the high school, and she's in full, like, zombie bride gore makeup, and everyone there is just in lingerie and animal ears. That experience happened to me at my first high school party in grade nine. I went in grade nine to a new friend's house party as full Dracula, like, dripping blood, white makeup, black eyes, the cape. I show up with fangs, and all the girls are just in, like, cute little, like, cutie outfits. I had that experience. But you know what? Commit to the bit.

Lisa [00:15:06]:
There you go.

Samantha [00:15:07]:
Right, exactly.

Lisa [00:15:07]:
There's nothing wrong with that. It's funny that you say commit to the bit. Right. I appreciate that phrasing because we went out for Sam's birthday on Friday and Sam and I are notorious for not having great luck when we try new places. And for some reason, we get on a kick where we're looking for someplace new. Gotta try someplace new. And Sam did this on Friday. So I enjoy a good glass of wine with my meal.

Lisa [00:15:34]:
And I swear to God, I've never, ever met a glass of wine I didn't like until I drank it on Friday night. Oh, here's what I'm saying, samantha, to you, dear. The Olive garden. Shaking my head it seemed to not be what you built it up to be.

Samantha [00:15:55]:
Well, I just wanted to try it again because, you know, we've only been there once and it wasn't great the first time.

Alex [00:16:02]:
What do you have against Olive Garden?

Lisa [00:16:05]:
Apparently, everything.

Samantha [00:16:06]:
It's a little too fast food pasta for us.

Lisa [00:16:10]:
Feels like fast food pasta now.

Samantha [00:16:11]:
We're a little snotty jokes. We're gonna have to.

Alex [00:16:13]:
I didn't know I was with the italian embassy here.

Lisa [00:16:17]:
Italian embassy? We walked in. Critical judging.

Alex [00:16:23]:
Yeah, the ratatouille saw you come in, I'll tell you that, Mark.

Lisa [00:16:29]:
But you know what, though? Their whole bit on the bread and the breadsticks, delicious.

Alex [00:16:34]:
Like, why do places not have more endless, bottomless bread? Like, yes, some places have sliced bread or buns. I want bottomless, bottomless breadsticks.

Lisa [00:16:49]:
Right, right.

Alex [00:16:50]:
Like, lobster has it down pat with the buns.

Lisa [00:16:54]:
Even the keg has that delicious bread. Yeah, right? Like. Like, that's what restaurants need. I can overlook a lot if it's been good bread.

Alex [00:17:02]:
That's.

Alex [00:17:03]:
And it puts you in a warm.

Alex [00:17:04]:
And fuzzy type of mood.

Lisa [00:17:06]:
Right? It totally did. So, Samantha, I'm just shaking my head with you because I'm like, stop picking new places.

Samantha [00:17:13]:
I'm sorry.

Lisa [00:17:14]:
Stick to where we go.

Samantha [00:17:15]:
It wasn't really new, but I wanted to try it and we did, so. But I got a free cheesecake out of it for my birthday, so that is because.

Lisa [00:17:21]:
Thank you.

Alex [00:17:21]:
What time was it?

Samantha [00:17:23]:
I think it was just a regular cheesecake with strawberry sauce.

Lisa [00:17:26]:
You said it was fancy. It was ricotta.

Samantha [00:17:28]:
Well. Oh, no, it was ricotta. Ricotta.

Lisa [00:17:31]:
Now she has to talk Italian.

Alex [00:17:33]:
The embassy is here, everyone, for all your passport needs.

Lisa [00:17:39]:
Oh, gosh. Yeah, it's kind of funny, but I think. I think this Friday, can we just go to where we go? Yes.

Samantha [00:17:46]:
Fine, whatever.

Lisa [00:17:48]:
I'm gonna give him a shout out. Earls.

Samantha [00:17:50]:
Whatever. But apparently guys and I hate. I'm so relieved. The US election is only three weeks away. Can we be done already?

Lisa [00:18:00]:
No, I'm excited. I'm excited. I'm a super newsy.

Alex [00:18:05]:
No surprise to anyone. In case anyone is just tuning in. I work in the news, and it. Because, like, the election cycle between the states, between our province, our city, and then potentially the feds, it just feels endless. Like, it's hard to keep up. What campaign promises apply to you even if you are watching the american news cycle?

Lisa [00:18:28]:
Totally.

Alex [00:18:29]:
Many of us are just for purely entertainment, but also to know what's going on, you know, south of the border and how it could affect us. It's hard to keep up with. Okay, wait, is that. What does that belong to who made.

Lisa [00:18:41]:
Right. Where does it go?

Alex [00:18:43]:
Yeah.

Lisa [00:18:44]:
Yeah, it totally does.

Samantha [00:18:46]:
I totally agree.

Lisa [00:18:47]:
But it must make you super busy.

Alex [00:18:48]:
Hey, it does. There's, you know, the thing. So right now, I'll just speak to. I can't. I not covering anything to do with american politics, but right now the provincial election is underway. We have a few more weeks, and it is busy because there are press conferences and events and campaign platforms and promises that are rolling out every single day.

Lisa [00:19:16]:
Every day.

Alex [00:19:17]:
So it's like you have to stay on top of it and stay well, and you also have to know what both sides have promised. Or when you're at the other side, you can then question them and kind of say, this is what they're saying. You got to kind of do almost like flashcards. God. Like, it's like trying to figure out who belongs to what and what's happening and.

Lisa [00:19:43]:
Yeah, it'd be hard to keep it straight.

Alex [00:19:46]:
The leaders are the leaders, and the candidates are traveling all over. Yeah, it's like where. Like, I've been up to Shellbrook. I've been all the way down to lang in the past few weeks.

Lisa [00:19:56]:
Wow. You just travel. You just follow them all wherever they go.

Alex [00:19:59]:
Exactly. Yeah, yeah. And try to capture those moments.

Lisa [00:20:02]:
Don't you think the american politics would be kind of cool to be a part of, though?

Alex [00:20:07]:
Yes, definitely. I do. It is a bit frightening right now with, like, how many violent assassination attempts that they're like.

Lisa [00:20:20]:
Well, they said that they thwarted a third one right over the weekend.

Alex [00:20:23]:
The safety and security. The only thing that I have to compare it to is when reporter colleagues were covering the convoy that was happening in Canada. Now, I'm not going to get too political, but I just mean in terms of, like, the gravity of the situation. People are feeling very strongly when emotions are running high and there's a crowd mentality when you would be covering american politics, they do a lot more rallies than we do. And I think that would just be my concern of, like, you know, when. When emotions run high, what's going to happen here?

Lisa [00:20:57]:
Yeah, yeah. That would make me shake my head at, like, all of the potential dangers that could come. Right?

Alex [00:21:03]:
Definitely. And I mean, I saw, like, going back to the canadian convoy in Ottawa coverage. Like, I had colleagues that had so many things, like, things thrown at their heads, like, cans, full cans of drinks, like, thrown at them while they're live on the air, and they're, you know, like, people trying to get in their face and put, like, it's. Like, it's real and it's happening just because we're not reporting on a war zone or, you know, the american, like, it's still happening here where there is a sense of volatility towards the media right now.

Lisa [00:21:35]:
Totally.

Samantha [00:21:36]:
Hey, yeah, yeah.

Lisa [00:21:37]:
That's pretty crazy. Like, to me, I don't know. That's like. Like, it just. It. I think it's important, right? We need it. We need to follow it. We owe it to ourselves to know what's going on.

Lisa [00:21:48]:
But I think the b's that goes along with it sometimes is too much.

Alex [00:21:52]:
Well, and that's just it. I think people lose sight. Like, I really don't like the overarching term of the media. It feels like a very bolded, like, the mafia. Like, it feels, you know, like we have this, you know, dark room meeting where we decide what the narrative is, where really it's just your friends and neighbors from your community sent out on assignment. Like, all we are told is, hey, you have to be at this place for 09:00. Like, go find out what happens. There's no narrative at any station that I've ever worked at.

Alex [00:22:25]:
There's no narrative of, like, we really want to go with this angle. So try and dig up some stuff with this angle. Like, it's always just go and see what you get. Like, totally. And you find this as just a person, like, just a human being who is a broadcasting student. You go to the event, you find out what happens. You take your notes, you get your shots, and then you go back to the station and figure out, like, okay, what. What are people going to care about the most out of this? And if it is, you know, they didn't.

Alex [00:22:55]:
They lied. They said one thing at this press conference, and I caught them saying this thing at another press conference. Like, it's not that we're the media is. The media tried to sway you? It's like I was there and I saw this and I heard.

Lisa [00:23:10]:
Exactly right. It's firsthand account.

Samantha [00:23:12]:
Exactly.

Lisa [00:23:13]:
Totally.

Samantha [00:23:14]:
So what you're saying, Alex, is that you don't get hazard pay, right? Is that what.

Alex [00:23:18]:
No, but seriously, like, there are elements of. I remember one time I. When I was reporting in Winnipeg, and I've done a TikTok about this, but I was the traffic reporter, and so what that meant is I had a camera mounted on my windshield from inside the car, shooting out through the windshield. Straightforward. And I was sitting in the car with a microphone on, narrating what was happening. There was a apartment fire that I was at. So the camera shooting the apartment fire, I'm in the car, and I'm just talking about road closures. I'm like, so, yeah, you can see there's road closures, blah, blah.

Alex [00:23:54]:
So while I'm live on the air, a gentleman, I don't know, a stranger. I don't know if he was. I don't know what. What his deal was. Completely mental illness, drugs, you know, maybe just a lost soul. I have no idea. But he opened my passenger door and got in and just sat in there while I'm live on the air.

Lisa [00:24:17]:
Oh, no.

Alex [00:24:21]:
Like, someone. And it was pitch black. It was like four in the morning. I don't know where I, like, you know, that's insane. And so all I said was, can you get out, please? I was like, please go. And so he's like, okay. And he, like, got out. And I'm in a marked vehicle that has the station's name on it.

Alex [00:24:42]:
So it's not like I looked like a bus or a limo or, like a tax.

Lisa [00:24:45]:
Exactly.

Alex [00:24:46]:
Something. And, yeah, I. Okay, Alex, we're gonna check back in with you in a bit. And hopefully she's okay. And my director's like, get out of there. Get out of there.

Lisa [00:24:58]:
I'm like, wow, who would. I would have thought that. But that's crazy.

Samantha [00:25:03]:
Yeah.

Lisa [00:25:03]:
Oh, gosh, that's crazy.

Alex [00:25:06]:
It's not just, like, interactions in person. It's also the social media.

Lisa [00:25:13]:
Oh, I bet you it's nasty. Hey, look, I bet you there's some trolls.

Alex [00:25:17]:
Completely. It's something that I'm pretty used to. Like, nothing really shakes me at this point anymore, especially when it comes to, like, a personal. Like, I'm used to a lot of attacks on my looks and my weight and my makeup and clothes. Like, that's all fine. Like, you guys can think whatever you want. Like, yeah, I'm secure. I have people who love me.

Alex [00:25:37]:
It's all good. But bothers me is this time around, this is. I don't even know how many elections I've covered at this point. At least a handful. And you are. You are assigned, like, okay, you know, this reporter is going to NDP. This reporter is going to SaaS party. This reporter is going to the United party.

Alex [00:25:56]:
Like, everyone has their assignments for the day, and they expect you to, you know, live tweet what's going on, provide updates to the website, get photos. And so my struggle this season for this, this has never happened to me before, except for right now. People are thinking that I am a mouthpiece for one of the parties because I was reporting on what happened.

Lisa [00:26:21]:
And yet that's your job for the day.

Alex [00:26:22]:
Yeah. And so my mentions were just brutal ladies, like, for, oh, my God. When the election was called and I was, you know, tweeting out, like, this is what they said. This is what they said. This is where they are. This is who's here. People are saying, you know, it's such biased coverage. Where's the other side? I'm like, I won report.

Alex [00:26:41]:
Look at my colleagues. They're at the other station.

Lisa [00:26:43]:
They're the other side.

Alex [00:26:44]:
Yeah, they're. And I was retweeting them. I was like, look, we've got. Everyone's out everywhere, but I'm just one reporter.

Lisa [00:26:52]:
Yeah.

Alex [00:26:52]:
And so, yeah, people were getting really up in my grill about, you know, you're only showing this, and where is all the. I'm like, I'm on assignment. I show you where I get two places at once.

Lisa [00:27:03]:
And now are you able. Are you allowed. You're allowed to fight back?

Alex [00:27:07]:
I mean, there's no, like, a lot. Like, there's nothing that's like a rule or anything, but generally, we try not to engage with anyone who is.

Lisa [00:27:15]:
I'd be all over that.

Alex [00:27:16]:
I know it doesn't get you anywhere, though. It really doesn't.

Samantha [00:27:19]:
It does. Oh.

Lisa [00:27:20]:
But sometimes you feel a little bit better, Alex. Like, we had. We had one troll once, and I'm gonna say it, and it very pales. Pales in comparison, right. But she had decided she hated our podcast because I talked too much about getting my hair cut. And she trolled us and trolled us. And I tell you, I bitched right back at her. Hey.

Lisa [00:27:39]:
Like, I am like. And finally Sam had to step in, and Sam's like, and. And we're done. I'm like, oh, can't believe you're making me stop talking to her. Yeah, right.

Samantha [00:27:47]:
That's usually my role, I know it's.

Alex [00:27:51]:
Tough in this day and age because, so both my parents were in media. One was a weatherman and one was a news anchor. And so I've seen the media, the local media landscape from the time I was very young.

Lisa [00:28:05]:
Right.

Alex [00:28:06]:
And now working in it. And the thing that's changed, ladies, is the access to media personalities. Like, the fact that before, people would have to sit down, compose their thoughts on paper, like, write out a letter, find a stamp, pay for a stamp, get it delivered outside the city. Like the CTV station, Regina was outside the city at the time. So it's like, get, you know, get it sent out of town, essentially. And people, like, probably it wasn't worth it. Like, yeah, in every ten might do something, but, like, they might call, but, like, the effort that it took, it's like you'd. It'd be easier to just complain to your neighbors or your coffee.

Lisa [00:28:49]:
Totally.

Alex [00:28:50]:
Now you can get at me with the touch of a button. Like, you can type out whatever you want. So the access has changed.

Lisa [00:28:57]:
Yeah. And people can be so vicious. Like, we sometimes get a bit of that if we, if we post something controversial. We're not even very controversial. No, we're not for comedy. But if we do put something, like when everybody was shaming Princess Kate and they were saying how, you know, she was faking her cancer, we took that to tick tock. Holy people.

Alex [00:29:15]:
Right?

Lisa [00:29:16]:
Like it. Like, you know what it is? It's so easy, right? Oh, you tough guy. Look at you, right? I can't get at you. I can't see you. But yet you got a computer, so you can, like, lash out at the world.

Alex [00:29:26]:
Oh, I know. It's nuts, and it's not fair. And it's like, I mean, there's the thing that is good is a lot of these social media platforms now have filters, and so you don't have to see a lot of this stuff if you don't want to. Yeah. I'm of the mind of, like, you know, you can say what you need to say if it makes, like, I just think of the people who are sitting down and actually, like, typing this out, and they're like, I gotta tell her I don't like her lips. Like, she needs to know. And I'm like, that is the top of your to do list today, my friend. You send that.

Lisa [00:30:00]:
Let it go.

Samantha [00:30:02]:
I just want to say, I've seen your tiktoks when you've gotten ready, when you were doing CTV, when doing the morning show, and I'm like, girl, you're up early and your face is on. Good for you.

Alex [00:30:13]:
I know this is a podcast, but I am wearing makeup from, like, I worked at 430 this morning. I was helping out on the morning show, and so I have been doing my makeup at my radio desk. I've done a couple tiktoks on that. And so this makeup is on from very early. And I did have a nap before this, you know?

Lisa [00:30:32]:
Yeah. Dear people bitching at Alex Brown, like, give her a break.

Samantha [00:30:36]:
Cut her some slack and leave her alone.

Alex [00:30:39]:
I'm just a normal person. Like, that's the thing. We don't have. It's not like we have teams that are managing our, like, our social medias and we have, like, agents and managers and. Oh, she'll never see this. No, I see it all.

Lisa [00:30:51]:
Totally see it. My phone, people. Oh, okay. You know what? I'm moving on to a different topic that hopefully is just going to be a bit easier on our souls, guys. Okay, Samantha. They finally aired a Saturday Night Live that I actually thought had some funny bits in it this week.

Samantha [00:31:08]:
Oh, God. And I missed it.

Lisa [00:31:10]:
Yeah, right? I thought Aria Grande. Ariana Grande was on it, and she's always good. Hey, I thought there were some funny skits, but I got a comment on Stevie Nicks, and I know there's a disclaimer that says, and look at I'm bashing. So actually, I'm a hypocrite that there, there was a disclaimer saying that there was a glitch just prior to her singing. But here's the thing, okay? I love Ann Murray, and my Ann Murray retired from singing because she said she has a. She knew she had a voice that, as a senior wouldn't hold up because her voice was so unique. Dear Stevie Nicks, I felt that she needs to take that lesson and she needs to let the. She needs to let the one wing dove go.

Lisa [00:31:56]:
It's gotta go.

Alex [00:31:56]:
That was poetic, right?

Lisa [00:31:59]:
Because that's the song that she sang. Right? And I'm like, yeah, no, no, no. It's not working for you anymore. Do you at least not in that. Like, maybe not in that environment.

Alex [00:32:09]:
Do you. Do you think that we as a society, like, not specific. This is not directed at you, but do you think we as a society, like, I feel like we try. When older women are, like, starting to go into natural aging and in their careers, I feel like society really wants to put them out to pasture and see them like, okay, you're a grandmother now, like, run free, but then you have, like, you have old, old, old men, like, you know, Mick Jagger and Keith perfectly fine. Like, what? It's. I don't know. Is it like a.

Lisa [00:32:47]:
No, I think you're right.

Alex [00:32:48]:
Double standards thing.

Lisa [00:32:49]:
It's a total double standard.

Samantha [00:32:50]:
I want Mick Jagger to stop touring. I want the Rolling Stones to stop doing this. I need them because it's, like, creepy. He's creepy. You're 80. Stop it.

Lisa [00:33:01]:
Right?

Samantha [00:33:02]:
I'm like, stop it.

Lisa [00:33:03]:
But I love Stevie Nicks. And the first thing I did when I thought that she was singing way off key is I googled, how old is Stevie Nicks? So I totally just did what you did. She's 76. And I'm like, it's okay to let it go, but, like, okay now?

Alex [00:33:17]:
I mean, Dolly Parton is still going. Like, is it just, like, is it for you? Is it, like, you know, live singing is really, really difficult. Like, we. You know, we all know that.

Lisa [00:33:26]:
You know what it is for me, Alex? It needs to sound perfect. Yeah, I'm judging. It has to be perfect, or I don't. Or.

Alex [00:33:33]:
I think you should see his really high, strict standards here.

Lisa [00:33:39]:
Right? The bar's high.

Samantha [00:33:40]:
Yeah. Like, you know, but I get disappointed when I hear people sing live, too, and it could be of any age, like, because you really want them to sound how you hear it on their.

Lisa [00:33:51]:
But I guess that's on us, right? Because we are. We're think. We're not thinking it clearly through clearly enough. Right?

Samantha [00:33:56]:
No.

Lisa [00:33:57]:
You know, like, I know me singing live is probably not as good as it would sound if I was in a recording studio.

Samantha [00:34:04]:
Yeah, that's it.

Lisa [00:34:06]:
I would never sing.

Alex [00:34:07]:
When are you selling tickets?

Samantha [00:34:11]:
When's your concert? Lisa?

Lisa [00:34:12]:
Right. When are you going to Wembley Stadium and zero two and doing Madison Square Gardens? Lisa with my.

Alex [00:34:20]:
Also, like, there's such a double standard dichotomy there with, like, so here. So remember back in the two thousands when Ashley Simpson went on Saturday Night Live and she had a backing track? And, like, if you've ever toured the Saturday Night Live studios, like, if you've done the Rockefeller tour in New York, like, first of all, the, like, I can't imagine the acoustics in there are good. Like, soundstage. And so. So I think a lot of artists are like, how am I? Like, SNL is notorious for people having, like, bad live performances totally do with the venue. But you look at someone like Ashley Simpson, who lost her entire career, entire career, because of a backing track, when that's the standard, like, how people have backing tracks. You sing over it.

Lisa [00:35:08]:
But it's like, what's in the news now, right, with the tv show monsters, right? Everybody. We kicked Millie Vanilli to the curb for lip syncing.

Samantha [00:35:16]:
And.

Lisa [00:35:16]:
And now. And that's what everybody does, is lip syncs everything.

Alex [00:35:20]:
And that's the thing. And so then. So then you have artists that go on and they're like, I'm singing live. Like, I'm doing the thing and it doesn't sound good.

Lisa [00:35:29]:
And then they got to deal with.

Alex [00:35:30]:
Me, and then they got an answer to Lisa. Every artist comes on this pod.

Lisa [00:35:36]:
I'm not backing down, though.

Samantha [00:35:38]:
No.

Lisa [00:35:42]:
But I get what you're saying.

Samantha [00:35:43]:
Yeah. We admit freely that we pull our judgment pants on every time we record.

Lisa [00:35:47]:
So don't judge us, but don't judge us.

Alex [00:35:50]:
Like, I love gabbin with my gals, just as, like, it's okay to do it in a safe space. Totally safe space. But it's like, what if you were to relentlessly reach out to Stevie Nicks? And, like, that's when it crosses a line. Like, if you're gabbing with your girls or your guys and are like, yeah, I. Oh, yeah, this. Like, that was bad. It's like, okay, but I think it reaches the level of, like, you're now trying to. What?

Lisa [00:36:16]:
Yep. And I will go on the record to say, I did not reach out to Stevie Nix.

Alex [00:36:22]:
Did not return comment in time for broadcast.

Lisa [00:36:24]:
Right, hang on. Breaking news. Stevie Nix has replied and apologizes.

Alex [00:36:32]:
She did not return our call. Okay.

Samantha [00:36:33]:
Yeah. You know, but let's be honest. Stevie Nicks, I think when she was done, that performance probably was like, this was not my best work, maybe.

Lisa [00:36:43]:
And then she probably thought. And then she probably thought, I'm Stevie Nicks. I don't fucking care.

Samantha [00:36:48]:
Right, exactly.

Lisa [00:36:49]:
I'm Stevie Nicks. People. Like. I care.

Alex [00:36:51]:
She's like, how many people in my age are performing Saturday Night Live?

Lisa [00:36:56]:
Right? It's me. It's me. So good points. Good points.

Samantha [00:37:04]:
I gotta talk about something that is just. It keeps affecting me, and I just. I need someone else to join me.

Lisa [00:37:11]:
I don't even think Alex is old enough.

Samantha [00:37:13]:
Well, I know. And this is what makes me sad, is when does menopausal boob sweat stop?

Lisa [00:37:20]:
Okay, so it doesn't.

Samantha [00:37:22]:
Short answer.

Samantha [00:37:25]:
Short answer.

Samantha [00:37:25]:
No.

Samantha [00:37:26]:
Never.

Lisa [00:37:27]:
Sometimes we talk about menopausal issues, right? Cause we're old ladies.

Samantha [00:37:30]:
We're in our age bracket, right?

Lisa [00:37:34]:
Okay, so it doesn't stop, Samantha. The next thing to look forward to is it starts rashing.

Samantha [00:37:40]:
Oh, God. I don't need that to happen, and.

Lisa [00:37:42]:
Then you're gonna go to the doctor and you're gonna get a cream.

Samantha [00:37:45]:
I feel like you're speaking from experience.

Lisa [00:37:47]:
I feel I'm a big busted woman. Right. There's only so much lift for so many hours that it's possible for them. Sorry, Alex, that you have to hear this.

Alex [00:37:56]:
I cannot speak to the menopause side. I'm 32, but I can speak to being, living in a larger body and having, like, rashes and molds and things that you want to maintain good hygiene. And, like, with sweat sticking in places, like, it's obviously going to get irritated. So one of the things that really helps is, like, an antibacterial soap. Like, literally dawn. Like, the antibacterial one, if you wash those areas that get irritated because it's like, the bacteria that grows.

Lisa [00:38:34]:
Yeah.

Alex [00:38:35]:
Is this too growth?

Lisa [00:38:37]:
No.

Samantha [00:38:37]:
Oh, my God. No. That's revolutionary.

Samantha [00:38:40]:
Yeah.

Lisa [00:38:40]:
Who would have thought, like, hey, if it helps the duck in oil, it's going to help your boobs.

Alex [00:38:45]:
Yeah. And antibacterial, like, body wash soap. Like, I have dawn in our shower for just, like, cleaning the shower. Like, I sometimes do a scrub down in there, but sometimes I'm, like, a little on the loofah.

Lisa [00:39:00]:
I feel that maybe she, at 32, has solved the menopausal problem.

Samantha [00:39:04]:
I think she might have.

Lisa [00:39:05]:
Samantha, we need to tap into this. We need to market her.

Samantha [00:39:10]:
We need to go to the younger generation.

Samantha [00:39:12]:
They have figured this up.

Samantha [00:39:13]:
We're too old. We're just like, we're done and we're not.

Alex [00:39:16]:
And there's so many products now for, like, chub rub, like, between your thighs, or, like, full body deodorant, like, that you can put everywhere under your arms. Like, they're coming out with these things now that, like, our, the generations before us wouldn't have had access to.

Lisa [00:39:32]:
They're, they're going to make your next phase of life bearable.

Alex [00:39:35]:
Yeah, I hope so.

Lisa [00:39:37]:
Provided they can hand, provided they can figure out the temperature change.

Alex [00:39:40]:
I already run hot, so I feel like I'm just going to, like, I'm going to fall back into snow in my front yard and just.

Lisa [00:39:47]:
Yeah, totally. It's not pretty.

Samantha [00:39:49]:
It's not pretty.

Lisa [00:39:51]:
It's, it's, uh, it's really, really nothing. It's not good. Okay, you know what else isn't pretty? I talked about this at the beginning, Samantha. I'm not going to talk too loudly about this because my husband, he's here. He works nights. He's sleeping.

Samantha [00:40:04]:
Oh, secret.

Lisa [00:40:05]:
Somebody's husband is not paying attention to the expiry dates, on the groceries, on the bread products, and I get obsessed with it. And I don't want to eat food that's going to expire. It's bread, Sam. It's bread.

Alex [00:40:21]:
Like moldy bread.

Lisa [00:40:23]:
No, it's not moldy yet, but it's gonna be.

Samantha [00:40:26]:
It's gonna get Moldy if it's not moldy yet.

Alex [00:40:29]:
Like how? Like, can you taste a difference?

Lisa [00:40:32]:
I could taste it. Not fresh.

Samantha [00:40:34]:
I love that you're asking her questions.

Alex [00:40:36]:
Right? I'm a journalist, Sam. I know, but it's just like, this.

Samantha [00:40:42]:
Is like, as someone who has lived with this for 20 plus years, her obsession with bread expiration dates is ridonculous because it's not fresh. She doesn't believe as soon as it's the day before the date, she won't eat it. If it's the day of the date, it's done.

Lisa [00:41:04]:
Done.

Samantha [00:41:05]:
And even if it doesn't look moldy, it's never going to happen. Never going to happen.

Alex [00:41:09]:
Lisa, are you neurodivergent by chance?

Lisa [00:41:13]:
I don't think so, because I have.

Alex [00:41:15]:
I have ADHD and I'm a little neuro spicy up here and, I don't know, fixate on expiration dates and it drives my friends nuts. So I have an app that I log expiration dancing.

Lisa [00:41:29]:
And it's worse than me because she's younger. Oh, my God.

Samantha [00:41:34]:
How did you become half Lisa and half me? Stop it, Alex.

Alex [00:41:39]:
I finally found my birth parents.

Lisa [00:41:41]:
You found your birth parents? Here they are, two shameless cat ladies.

Alex [00:41:47]:
I have a cat.

Lisa [00:41:51]:
Oh, it drives me crazy. First thing I do is I look, if he's going to get the groceries, I look at the expiry and I'm like, oh, I can only those buttons till tomorrow. So, you know, I need that.

Alex [00:42:04]:
I need that app because I'm so, bread is not my hyper fixation like that is. You know, I can see when it's moldy or feel when it's stale. So it's more of a, like, sensory. Like, I can glean that my worry is more with things in the fridge. I have milk leftovers. Like, I can eat them the next day, maybe even the day after that. But after that, no, I'll only make.

Lisa [00:42:32]:
An exception for, I only make an exception for turkey or, or roast beef.

Samantha [00:42:36]:
Yeah.

Alex [00:42:36]:
Thanksgiving leftovers or cold pizza.

Lisa [00:42:40]:
Oh.

Samantha [00:42:41]:
Oh, yeah.

Lisa [00:42:42]:
I could do cold pizza for one day. Yeah. Okay, then here's the kicker. I'm going off course here. Here's the kicker for Alex. I am not a journalist. Do you have seasonal foods that you like at different seasons and not at different seasons?

Alex [00:42:57]:
Yeah, definitely part my mom, my true mom.

Lisa [00:43:06]:
Because not all food should be eaten all the time.

Alex [00:43:09]:
I know. I don't want soup in July, right? But I want soup every day in October.

Lisa [00:43:16]:
Definitely.

Alex [00:43:18]:
I had a potato bacon at the boom potato bacon soup at the Boomtown cafe today at the Western Development Museum. Underrated restaurant. If you're ever looking for, like, a good homemade meal and a cheat meal, like chef's kiss.

Lisa [00:43:33]:
Wow.

Alex [00:43:34]:
Soup and a sandwich is my ideal meal for everything. No matter where I am. Give it to you, no matter where you are.

Samantha [00:43:42]:
And now you just became my daughter. I love this for us, Lisa.

Lisa [00:43:52]:
It's so. I knew that there had to be other people.

Alex [00:43:55]:
Give a thumbnail for this episode of us. Be like a 1980s, like, family photo with, like, very haphazardly heads photoshopped on.

Samantha [00:44:04]:
Absolutely.

Lisa [00:44:05]:
I'd be so good at glam font.

Alex [00:44:07]:
Like, in the distance.

Lisa [00:44:10]:
That's too funny. Oh, my God. There it is.

Samantha [00:44:14]:
I love this for us.

Lisa [00:44:16]:
Right? It's just how it's meant to be. Samantha, I'm not crazy.

Samantha [00:44:21]:
We got to talk about your weirdness around pumpkin spice because you've been on. You've been dared.

Lisa [00:44:26]:
I did it today.

Samantha [00:44:28]:
Oh, you did do it today.

Lisa [00:44:29]:
I did it today. But I can't air. I can't air the video until this comes out. Right. Okay. I did it today.

Samantha [00:44:36]:
She's been dared by one of our listeners, okay. To drink a pumpkin spice latte because I hate pumpkins.

Alex [00:44:44]:
What do you not like about it?

Lisa [00:44:46]:
Oh, well, I had my first one today and I did not like everything about it. I didn't like the texture. I didn't like the fact that it's pumpkin. I didn't.

Alex [00:44:55]:
Oh. So it's interesting to me, going back into journalism mode here. Let me just call you out on some factual errors here. Okay. So I find that real pumpkin, like, if you have like a pumpkin soup or like roasted pumpkin, like, you know how sometimes, like, places have like a little boutique, like, seasonal veg if you have a squash or something, like it tastes. That tastes pumpkiny to me. Like when you can, like, actually taste like the squash taste, fake pumpkin taste. Pumpkin tastes nothing like pumpkin pie and.

Lisa [00:45:30]:
Everything, but fake pumpkin is disgusting. Is disgusting. Er, like disgusting. Er.

Alex [00:45:37]:
What? I just.

Lisa [00:45:39]:
It's a mouthful of yuck.

Alex [00:45:41]:
Do you like, like fall spices? Like apple pie spice? Like cinnamon?

Lisa [00:45:46]:
I'll have apple pie. I like cinnamon.

Alex [00:45:49]:
But not pumpkin spice because pumpkin spice is just a mix of spices.

Lisa [00:45:54]:
Doesn't matter.

Alex [00:45:56]:
It doesn't matter. You can buy pumpkin spice, like, in the spices aisle. Like, it's a little pumpkin pie.

Lisa [00:46:02]:
Pumpkin spice needs to stay in the pie. It doesn't need to go in a warm drink. That's so good.

Alex [00:46:07]:
I'd be interested to know. Blind taste test. This is the next podcast I'm inviting myself to. I will serve you a slice of apple pie. Two of them. One is just like cinnamon and nutmeg, and one is pumpkin spice. And you tell me which is which.

Lisa [00:46:25]:
I will accept that challenge.

Samantha [00:46:27]:
That's a good challenge because pumpkin spice.

Alex [00:46:29]:
Is just a mix of other spices. I think you're gang in your head about it.

Lisa [00:46:32]:
Nope, not, not two pumps of it. That's disgusting.

Alex [00:46:35]:
Okay. Yeah. The thing about PSLs at Starbucks specifically is like, the big orange sludge.

Lisa [00:46:42]:
It's disgusting. Yeah, it's so disgusting. So my reaction will be quite humorous when people see it. And nobody should be surprised that in, after 55 years, I've never tried it, nor will I ever try it again. Fiona.

Alex [00:46:54]:
Now, for me, I am not a pumpkin spice latte. Girly. Like, you know how sometimes when they start rolling out that campaign because, like, every coffee shop has something pumpkin spice now. Like, it started with Starbucks. Maybe don't quote me on that. But, like, now everywhere, like, James has their version. Second cup, whatever. Yeah.

Alex [00:47:12]:
I am not someone who rushes out and is like, pumpkin spice of the season. I am that way for candy cane hot chocolate. I am like, move out of the way. This is my season. As soon as they, as soon as they launch it at any, like, Tim Hortons, but, like, anywhere, I am like, get out of my way. I will consume eight hundred s of these.

Lisa [00:47:33]:
This is my time.

Alex [00:47:34]:
Yeah.

Lisa [00:47:35]:
My time to shine is now.

Alex [00:47:37]:
It's so good. I don't like mint hot chocolate. I want candy cane hot chocolate.

Lisa [00:47:44]:
And what's the difference?

Alex [00:47:45]:
Well, it's not as much peppermint. It's like a little bit sweeter.

Lisa [00:47:49]:
Okay.

Alex [00:47:50]:
Like, you know how there's, like, peppermint, spearmint, like, I want, like, the candy of candy Cane, maybe.

Lisa [00:47:57]:
You're gonna have to dare me to try that.

Alex [00:47:59]:
And I'm going to when we're on the back roads butter tart tour, I'll get you a candy cane hot coffee.

Samantha [00:48:07]:
We are gonna be flying high, full of sugar. It's gonna be a sugar high, sugar.

Alex [00:48:11]:
High, and then we're gonna crash.

Lisa [00:48:15]:
Total crash. Right? Oh, God. So, so stay tuned, Samantha, for that video.

Samantha [00:48:20]:
All right. Okay.

Lisa [00:48:20]:
All right. Okay. This just came across today, and I'm shaking my head at it. I took a picture of it. I took a screenshot. I sent it to you, Sam. Yeah. And I said, I shake my head at this.

Lisa [00:48:31]:
It was the sis, one of the sister wives, who claims that she ate all of her babies placentas. Is that normal? Okay, again, don't have babies.

Samantha [00:48:45]:
It seems it wasn't a sister wife. It was the daughter of one of the sister wives.

Lisa [00:48:51]:
McKelvie, was it?

Samantha [00:48:52]:
Yeah.

Lisa [00:48:53]:
No, I don't read very much, nor do I, fact.

Samantha [00:48:57]:
She ate a piece of the raw placenta from each child she had, and she's had three.

Samantha [00:49:02]:
Raw. Hey.

Lisa [00:49:03]:
Yeah.

Samantha [00:49:04]:
She ate it raw.

Alex [00:49:05]:
So I've heard of women getting it encapsulated, like, in capsule form, and taking it to, like. And I didn't have as much of an issue with that because I was, like, your body, your choice. Like, if you want to, like, have that yourself, raw seems a little bit like cannibaly to me.

Lisa [00:49:20]:
It seems a little cannibaly, but I.

Alex [00:49:22]:
Guess you grew it yourself.

Lisa [00:49:24]:
So I guess.

Samantha [00:49:25]:
Yes, I guess the fruits of your.

Lisa [00:49:27]:
Labor, literally, I'd like to think I'll have, like, I don't know, a piece of pizza instead.

Alex [00:49:33]:
Yeah. I mean, I said whenever I. I, like, I hope I get the chance to have kids, but, like, I just get me a sushi platter. Like, I want give birth, and then I want the full party tray on my lap. Like, I want a dynamite roll. Immediately.

Lisa [00:49:51]:
Immediately. No. And I always thought, if I ever had babies, all I thought was, don't hand it to me dirty. That's a bad first impression.

Alex [00:50:01]:
You're like, this is icky.

Lisa [00:50:03]:
This is. Get it off, get it off, get it off.

Samantha [00:50:05]:
Right.

Lisa [00:50:06]:
It would not have been a good first impression.

Samantha [00:50:09]:
So many reasons why you never had kids. Hey, Lisa.

Lisa [00:50:11]:
Oh, just one of the many.

Alex [00:50:13]:
They're sticky.

Lisa [00:50:14]:
They're sticky.

Alex [00:50:15]:
They're.

Lisa [00:50:16]:
Frank. There's too many reasons, right? Yeah. Way too many.

Samantha [00:50:21]:
Yeah.

Samantha [00:50:21]:
But that's.

Samantha [00:50:21]:
That's Ned, that's a nice. Shake my head, because I'm not sure if everybody is gonna be eating raw placenta, but, you know, I don't know.

Alex [00:50:28]:
I think I'm good to part with that. I think I'm good to say goodbye to that part of me. Although when I got my wit, this is not related, but this is how my ADHD brain works. When I got my wisdom teeth out, the four teeth. The four teeth were, like, on the dental tray, and I was like, can I keep those? And they were like, no. And I'm like, but they're mine. Like, I grew them, and they were like, it's biomedical waste. Like, it has to be.

Alex [00:50:51]:
It has to go immediately.

Samantha [00:50:53]:
Oh.

Alex [00:50:54]:
But they're, like, hazardous to whom they were, in my. Like, their mind. So it's interesting that, like, some things immediately have to evacuate the premises. Like teeth, but the placenta, they're like, here, dig in. Bon appetit.

Lisa [00:51:11]:
Yeah, like, that seems weird, right? Like, teeth seem less radical.

Alex [00:51:16]:
What are the regulations and the bylaws around? And who.

Lisa [00:51:19]:
And who's sitting around deciding that?

Alex [00:51:21]:
Correct.

Lisa [00:51:23]:
Like, when do you get called to that assignment, Alex?

Alex [00:51:25]:
You know I'm gonna dig deeper into this, right?

Lisa [00:51:28]:
Like, get your reporting skills out. Get to the bottom of that, would you?

Samantha [00:51:32]:
If you could just find out for us.

Alex [00:51:34]:
Right?

Lisa [00:51:35]:
Sounds weird.

Samantha [00:51:36]:
I don't know if you know this about us, but we don't dig deep and we don't check for facts, so.

Alex [00:51:41]:
Oh, okay.

Lisa [00:51:42]:
Well, we. Last week we were so.

Samantha [00:51:44]:
Shoot.

Lisa [00:51:45]:
Last week we were so excited to.

Samantha [00:51:47]:
Talk about as well.

Samantha [00:51:48]:
Yeah, it's a little disclaimer.

Samantha [00:51:51]:
We don't look for facts.

Lisa [00:51:53]:
But the beauty, though, is that the friends of the podcast, they will. They will. They will go to our Facebook page, and they will. They will fact check for us and give us the answers. It's like, oh, who knew? Thank you.

Samantha [00:52:03]:
Yeah. If we're ever wondering if we're right or wrong, they always let us know, and we love that about them.

Lisa [00:52:07]:
Yeah. They're like, yeah, you didn't check that hang.

Alex [00:52:09]:
You know, it's a village and you guys have one.

Lisa [00:52:12]:
We have a big village. Right. They got our backs.

Samantha [00:52:16]:
But I gotta shake my head because, you know, God bless TikTok, because, you know, I'm on there occasionally, but I gotta shake my head about videos of people making pets with, like, wild animals.

Alex [00:52:29]:
Yes.

Samantha [00:52:30]:
I don't get it.

Lisa [00:52:31]:
It's not safe. It's not safe.

Samantha [00:52:34]:
And I'm seeing raccoons, I've seen a bear, and I'm like, these are not pets. These are non pets.

Alex [00:52:42]:
No.

Samantha [00:52:42]:
Like, at all.

Alex [00:52:44]:
I think it's. It's top. Okay, so, full disclosure, I, all through high school and university, I worked at the Toronto zoo. And so I worked with a lot of different animals, but we. It was also a rehabilitation zoo. So if, like, an eagle flew into a car, what is the front of a car called?

Lisa [00:53:05]:
Like, a grill?

Alex [00:53:06]:
Yeah. Like, if there was, like, an accident, like, it would be rehabbed at the zoo. Like, behind the scenes. Like, not on display for anyone, but it would be like. So it could be released. So I think, like, I find it interesting that when humans intervene and they go out and specifically seek out, like, oh, I found a nest of bunnies. I'm gonna bring one in.

Lisa [00:53:32]:
Yeah.

Alex [00:53:32]:
Like, that's removing them.

Lisa [00:53:34]:
It's not good.

Alex [00:53:35]:
Their habitat from, like, their smell, their, like, everything. And I know some people justified as, like, well, the mother hasn't come back. Like, we have to do something. And it's like, that's not where they're meant to be, though, right?

Lisa [00:53:48]:
They say, leave them alone. Don't touch them.

Samantha [00:53:50]:
Yeah.

Lisa [00:53:51]:
Because they'll figure it out.

Alex [00:53:53]:
They'll figure it out. And you don't know if another mother might come along and adopt, like, you know, like, animals do weird things and not weird things.

Lisa [00:54:03]:
Their survival of the fittest thing.

Alex [00:54:05]:
Yeah. So I think it's like, it is a bit cringe when people are like, especially, like, have you guys seen that chimp docu series on crave?

Lisa [00:54:14]:
No.

Samantha [00:54:15]:
No.

Alex [00:54:15]:
What is it called? Chimp crazy. It's like the women who have, like, adopted, like, chimpanzees and, like, raised them like babies.

Lisa [00:54:23]:
Oh, you're careful of that.

Alex [00:54:26]:
That's more of an issue for me. Like, the exotic animal pets.

Lisa [00:54:31]:
Yeah, yeah.

Samantha [00:54:32]:
No, like, I feel like when you see these videos and because I don't know about society, but I feel like if this person encounters that exact same animal on their, you know, walk or wherever their heart reach out, they're gonna think that they can pet it. Cause they've seen a TikTok where that raccoon was friendly, where that.

Lisa [00:54:56]:
Hang on.

Samantha [00:54:57]:
Was really great.

Lisa [00:54:58]:
Hang on, Samantha. Right? I almost pet a. I almost pet a fox and didn't realize. Remember years ago, I was waiting for the bus and I was standing at the bus stop and loose, looked like a mangy little dog was coming up. And I was like, oh, dog. And all of a sudden, the lady's like, it's a fox, it's a fox, it's a fox, it's a fox, it's a fox. And I'm like, oh, it's a. It is a fox.

Lisa [00:55:18]:
As I had my hand out, ready to pet it.

Samantha [00:55:21]:
Yeah.

Alex [00:55:21]:
And, well, and I shake my head at when you're, when you're in the mountains, like banff, Jasper, whatever. And there's a bear in its natural habitat, like, that's it's land before it's ours. And people are on the side of the road, like, trying to get the best Instagram picture, trying to go up beside it, trying to pet it. Like, if there's cops, it's like, this is not a Disney experience where they're animatronic and you can have this one to one moment. Like, this is a wild bear.

Lisa [00:55:50]:
Yep.

Samantha [00:55:51]:
Get back to horror.

Lisa [00:55:53]:
Yeah. Get. And keep driving.

Samantha [00:55:55]:
Yeah.

Samantha [00:55:55]:
Yeah.

Lisa [00:55:56]:
Right? Yeah. Don't approach.

Samantha [00:55:58]:
And I worked out in the rockies for a couple of seasons, and that's all I saw tourists do. And I'm like, stop it.

Samantha [00:56:03]:
Like, get. Don't approach them.

Lisa [00:56:05]:
Like, don't approach them. Right.

Samantha [00:56:07]:
You're not.

Lisa [00:56:08]:
It's like me out in the wild.

Alex [00:56:09]:
Don't approach me. Where you're calling them and they're your new friend.

Lisa [00:56:15]:
Tagalong palace.

Samantha [00:56:16]:
You. Yeah.

Lisa [00:56:16]:
Yeah. Right. Like, it's just not going to happen. It's not going to happen. You know what apparently is happening, though, guys? Apparently we're saying bye bye to the beloved Stanley. It's voted the most popular item to fall out of popularity. I'm ready this year. Are you ready?

Alex [00:56:35]:
I. So I don't have a branded Stanley. I think it's, like, an insane amount of money for a water bottle, and I have plenty of water. Like, why create more waste? I do have an off brand walmart, one that's, like, the same shape and, like, it looks the same. It's just not the brand. And so I originally bought it just because I liked the colors, and I was like, oh, this is great. Like, it's my favorite color. It's going to be it.

Alex [00:57:00]:
You know, it keeps everything cool. Great. The balance ratio on these things. The base is so tiny, and then the majority of the weight is up top. Like, they're tipping over with, you know, a whisper of wind.

Lisa [00:57:15]:
Yeah. I. I never understood the big craze.

Samantha [00:57:21]:
Oh, my God.

Alex [00:57:21]:
No. Like, and, like, if it's just that you can buy accessories for it and dress it up. Like.

Samantha [00:57:27]:
Yep.

Alex [00:57:27]:
I know. People buying little purses for it or charms.

Lisa [00:57:29]:
Totally.

Alex [00:57:30]:
The lip gloss clip ons or, like, whatever.

Lisa [00:57:33]:
Like, yeah.

Alex [00:57:33]:
You can do that with anything.

Lisa [00:57:35]:
Yeah, totally. Right.

Alex [00:57:36]:
You can put some on your purse if you want.

Lisa [00:57:38]:
Yeah. Right. Don't get me wrong. Right? We took a Stanley up to the lake, and we had a great Stanley slushy. Too much boozy drinking game out of it. It's fun for a drinking game.

Samantha [00:57:48]:
Yeah.

Samantha [00:57:49]:
That's about it, though.

Lisa [00:57:50]:
But that was about it.

Alex [00:57:51]:
I just couldn't believe I was. I was just painting one of our rooms upstairs with my mother in law and by Stanley probably fell over four times. And it's loud. Like, those things are just a solid piece of metal.

Lisa [00:58:02]:
Totally.

Alex [00:58:03]:
And we're painting. My mother in law kept saying, like, you're scaring me, because she kept thinking I was, like, falling off a ladder. It's just the off brand Stanley, right?

Lisa [00:58:13]:
It's just my cup. Don't worry about it.

Samantha [00:58:15]:
Okay. But you know what I saw? I saw baby Stanley's that can fit a shot.

Lisa [00:58:19]:
Why are we.

Samantha [00:58:21]:
They had a little straw in it, too.

Lisa [00:58:23]:
Why are we doing that?

Alex [00:58:24]:
I've seen the keychain versions, but people put, like, tylenol in it or something. Like they're just little, tiny Stanley's. Are you talking, like. Are they. No, it's like.

Samantha [00:58:33]:
It's like a shot stuff. Like. Like decent sized.

Lisa [00:58:36]:
Like something you'd give your wedding. Like, a little something.

Samantha [00:58:38]:
A little ounce of alcohol in it.

Lisa [00:58:41]:
I mean, I'm all for a little ounce of alcohol anywhere, but.

Alex [00:58:44]:
And who isn't?

Lisa [00:58:45]:
I don't need it in a Stanley. I prefer mine in a shot glass.

Alex [00:58:50]:
What happened to the hip flask? You know?

Lisa [00:58:53]:
Right. Or remember the bear skin? Are you old enough to remember the bear skin? Like, remember that?

Alex [00:58:58]:
Yeah. Like, where is that under your coat that I can. Or, like, seashell that I can drink out?

Lisa [00:59:04]:
That was the. That was.

Alex [00:59:05]:
I'm bringing back a seashell with a straw in it as my every.

Lisa [00:59:08]:
Right.

Samantha [00:59:08]:
Do it.

Lisa [00:59:09]:
Let's just do something exciting. We don't need Stanley. They've made enough. It's time to move on.

Alex [00:59:13]:
I know. It's. We're over it, right?

Lisa [00:59:16]:
So this is an important debate, Alex. We don't know. Going. Going ahead. We don't know where you stand on tea versus coffee. Okay, here's the. So I came across an article, oddly enough, because I'm not really a big reader, right? And what it says is, it says that drinking coffee has been associated with lowering the risk of heart disease and diabetes. I'm going to say coffee's let me down because I have had a heart attack and borderline diabetes.

Lisa [00:59:42]:
And then it says that tea contains caffeine. That's been shown to improve cognitive function and alertness, and it is beneficial for reducing stress. Where do we land with that information?

Alex [00:59:57]:
Like, caffeine is going to make you jittery, which is going to make you stressed.

Lisa [01:00:02]:
And they say tea has more of it, right?

Alex [01:00:04]:
It does. It, in fact, does. Like, there was a. So, as a former morning show host, like, you survive on coffee and tea. And so there was a time where the newsroom that I was working in, like, everyone, switched to tea because the caffeine concentrate was higher. But honestly, I think it's like, I love a cup of tea. For me, though, I'm very picky. Like, I'm.

Alex [01:00:29]:
I was, like, a big royals fan. I'm a big british fan. And so I like a proper cup.

Lisa [01:00:33]:
Of tea that my daughter again. I have a royal family collection.

Alex [01:00:38]:
Oh, amazing. So do I. That is not something I can throw together in a thermos. Like, drinking a, like, kind of bad tea, like, in a vat, isn't like, I want to have a nice cup of tea. I want to sit. For me, it's like a. It's like a glass of, like, fine whiskey or something. Like, I want to sit and enjoy my tea.

Alex [01:00:58]:
Like, I want to have it in a cup. I want to have, like, I. For me, coffee is more like convenience. It's fast. Like, bad coffee is still coffee, but.

Lisa [01:01:06]:
Bad coffee's got a job to do.

Alex [01:01:08]:
Hot water.

Lisa [01:01:10]:
Yeah, coffee's got a job to do. Tea, it's like, you know what it's like before I go to bed, I'm just gonna have a cup of tea.

Alex [01:01:17]:
Yeah. And it's so nice. I find tea is, like, such a nice treat.

Lisa [01:01:21]:
Yeah. It's relaxing.

Samantha [01:01:22]:
Yeah.

Lisa [01:01:23]:
I mean, what I'm gonna tell you is you don't want Sam to not have coffee in the morning.

Samantha [01:01:27]:
Oh, brutal.

Lisa [01:01:29]:
Oh, my God. She literally, she'll wake up without a coffee and be like, morning. Like, only person who can wake up in a bad mood because she hasn't had coffee yet. It's like, it's coming. It's coming.

Samantha [01:01:40]:
I I like coffee. I have a certain kind of coffee that I enjoy. I don't like all coffee. I've gotten snotty in my old age.

Lisa [01:01:48]:
Yeah, but you'll drink any coffee if you have to.

Samantha [01:01:51]:
If I have to.

Lisa [01:01:52]:
Right. You're not gonna. You're not gonna with. You're not gonna say, pass up a coffee?

Samantha [01:01:56]:
Yeah, I, you know, I like coffee. I like tea, though. But tea, I feel coffee is a morning drink and tea is a night drink, but I don't drink. I don't drink caffeinated tea after a certain time because I'm, you know, old and don't want to stay up forever. So I. For me, a tea like you is like. It's like a stress reliever. At the end of the day, I'm drinking, like, a mint tea and things like that.

Lisa [01:02:17]:
Right?

Samantha [01:02:17]:
So.

Alex [01:02:18]:
And I like afternoon tea. Like, when the clock strikes three, it's time for tea. You know, like a Sunday afternoon. Like, I want the sugar, I want the cream. I want, like, a scone. I want the experience of it. Like, the tea culture maybe is, like, obviously has ties and, like, colonialism and, like, let's not get into that. But the tea culture, modern culture of, like, the fancy dainties and the little sandwiches, like, I love that stuff.

Alex [01:02:49]:
Coffee is, like, you know, out on the road, blue collar, out in the ring.

Lisa [01:02:54]:
Totally blue collar.

Alex [01:02:56]:
Like, it's a different culture.

Samantha [01:02:57]:
Yeah, for sure it is.

Samantha [01:02:58]:
Yeah.

Lisa [01:02:58]:
It's an attitude, right? Gotta get it in. Gotta get the coffee going.

Alex [01:03:01]:
What? Where do we stand on energy drinks, you two?

Samantha [01:03:05]:
Oh, God.

Lisa [01:03:06]:
I don't do an energy drink too much. Yeah, I've never tried.

Samantha [01:03:10]:
I've tried.

Lisa [01:03:11]:
I feel. I think my energy is usually.

Alex [01:03:13]:
So we're just gonna start a series called Lisa tries it.

Lisa [01:03:19]:
But Lisa didn't show up for the.

Lisa [01:03:20]:
Recording because she's not trying it food and drink based.

Lisa [01:03:24]:
Right. Yeah. I never tried.

Alex [01:03:28]:
I was the same way. Was like, oh, my God. Why would you want to put that in your body until tell a miracle. Actually bringing it all the way back to the start of the pod. I telemiracle is you got to be up here for many hours, right? Like, there's not a lot of downtime to, like, go. And kind of the thing that a lot of people don't understand is, like, right now, when I'm talking to you guys, I'm really, like, animated, but I'm just. I'm, like, a regular person. I need to recharge and, like, be a lazy bump on a log, too.

Alex [01:03:58]:
Like, I'm not upstairs with my partner and my pets, like, running around entertaining all night long, you know? So, like, I also have to have downtime. And so when you're doing something like telemiracle, where it's endless hours of being on, I found I needed that extra kick. I'd never been an energy person, drink person before, and I will say so. There's a link between, like, ADHD and caffeine having no effect whatsoever. Like, when I can drink coffee right now, and it won't affect.

Lisa [01:04:28]:
That's like me. That's like me. I don't find it does anything. I must. I'm gonna have to do some research on this, Alex.

Samantha [01:04:35]:
That would explain a lot.

Samantha [01:04:37]:
You know, it's.

Lisa [01:04:38]:
I have to learn what it means.

Alex [01:04:39]:
I'm not diagnosing you. I'm not a professional, but, you know, read up. Um, but, um, I will say that, like, for me, like, coffee doesn't do literally anything. It's a nice, warm drink that I, like, enjoy in the mornings, but, like, really doesn't. If I wake up and don't have.

Lisa [01:04:56]:
It, I will be the exact no big deal.

Alex [01:04:58]:
Yeah. Whereas an energy drink, like. So, for example, this morning, um, I worked a shift that I don't normally work. I started at 04:30 a.m. and I haven't worked that shift since I was at the morning show at CTV. And so I took a sugar free Red bull to work. And they're like, tinier cans than, like, a. You know, they're skinnier.

Alex [01:05:17]:
That actually does impact. I noticed quite a bit of difference of, like, I'm awake, I'm not jittery, I'm not jumping off the walls. But, like, it actually does give me a little bit of a boost that, like, okay, I'm not draining my feet.

Lisa [01:05:28]:
Okay, maybe so that's interesting. Maybe something for you to try, Sam. Yeah.

Samantha [01:05:34]:
Oh, yeah. No, I'm not.

Lisa [01:05:35]:
You can ditch your coffee a bit.

Samantha [01:05:37]:
No, I will never ditch my coffee. Thank you.

Lisa [01:05:39]:
Never happened.

Samantha [01:05:40]:
Nope.

Lisa [01:05:41]:
Nope.

Samantha [01:05:43]:
I love it too much.

Lisa [01:05:44]:
I know you do. And I need you to have it.

Samantha [01:05:46]:
Okay. All right.

Lisa [01:05:49]:
Totally. I need you to have it. So we do this thing on our social media, Alex, that. It's called Sunday spotlight, right? So we ask a question of our friends of the podcast on our Facebook page, and we ask them to kind of let us know kind of where they weigh in. So, Sam, what was. What was. Oh, the question this week. Look it.

Lisa [01:06:08]:
I already don't remember. The question this week was, what's your favorite meal of the day? Breakfast, lunch, or supper? And then what meal is it that you had? So we got. So we just like to share some of the answers that people send us. So, Melody, she replied that actually, she broke all the rules. Actually, she did. She likes brunch with boozy beverages. I feel that she could be an honorary one of us.

Samantha [01:06:34]:
She could be a friend.

Alex [01:06:35]:
Love that answer.

Lisa [01:06:36]:
Right? Because why don't. Who doesn't want to start a day with a mimosa? Karen, Gracie, Nancy, Kelly, Paula. They all picked breakfast. And Cindy, as usual. Is it the same Cindy that we know?

Samantha [01:06:51]:
Yes.

Lisa [01:06:51]:
Our Cindy that we used to work with, that I can't say her last name harder. Has conditions. Depending on where she is, she always has conditions.

Samantha [01:07:02]:
Cindy's. She doesn't let us down with.

Lisa [01:07:04]:
That girl always got conditions. Carol and Stephanie, they like supper, and they're going with pasta and fish.

Samantha [01:07:10]:
I personally was the only one that chose lunch.

Alex [01:07:13]:
I also would pick lunch.

Lisa [01:07:14]:
Sam, breakfast.

Alex [01:07:16]:
Mom.

Alex [01:07:18]:
Hi.

Alex [01:07:18]:
Honey, I love a good sandwich, and I love. So it's me, too.

Lisa [01:07:26]:
Yes, you do.

Alex [01:07:28]:
So I'm allergic to eggs, and so that's really limited. My breakfast, like, my whole life, I can't, I can't have omelets or, like, wow, anything. Whenever someone's like, let's go for breakfast, I'm like, is there other things?

Lisa [01:07:43]:
Yeah, there's all. Alex. There's always pancakes. That's what this parent says.

Samantha [01:07:47]:
Exactly.

Lisa [01:07:47]:
Yeah, there's always pancakes. So those were some fun answers for this week.

Samantha [01:07:52]:
That was a good one. Well, Facebook Tuesday, too. We do. One has to go. We've been doing this for 110 years now and not even joking. And this Tuesday or today, it was about pasta because I chose olive Garden to go to for my birthday. So everyone hated the ziti. The ziti pasta.

Lisa [01:08:17]:
I hate it, too, and I've never tried it, but I hated it, too.

Samantha [01:08:21]:
I just don't understand why people hate things they've never tried.

Lisa [01:08:24]:
Do we have 3 hours for the show? I can give you 125,000 answers today.

Samantha [01:08:32]:
It's just a little tubular pasta, and then it's served with, like, you know, a tomato sauce.

Alex [01:08:38]:
It's like, if you put melted cheese on anything, sign like, I'll put. I'll eat drywall. Like.

Lisa [01:08:45]:
Can you bake the drywall with cheese? Yeah.

Samantha [01:08:48]:
Yeah. I mean, like, I, you know, bake, bake a nice ooey gooey, have a good cheese pull. I'll bite it then.

Lisa [01:08:54]:
You're good with it. You're good with it.

Samantha [01:08:57]:
That's like, people poo pooed spaghetti and meatballs. That's so boring. That's my go to all of a sudden, for some reason, I'm back to spaghetti and meatballs or spaghetti bolognese. And I. But you know what? My heart, in my heart, I want it baked. I always want it baked. And everywhere I've gone and asked for it baked, it's been half ass baked, and it's not baked. The bake I'm thinking of is, like, the layer of cheese, and it's gooey and ooey.

Lisa [01:09:25]:
Totally, right?

Samantha [01:09:26]:
Correct.

Lisa [01:09:27]:
Totally. That's what you want. And they hate a carbonara. My favorite. They hate a carbonara. Right. I felt that for a bunch of people who claimed that they probably would love pasta, I felt that they weren't loving pasta.

Samantha [01:09:40]:
No, they were not.

Lisa [01:09:41]:
Right. It's kind of funny that way. We have a thank you for to Christina, who. She took us up on our challenge. She increased her Patreon donation to $10 a month. And guess what, Christina? We got some new. I shake my head swag coming your way. As long as Sam gets it in the mail to you, I will get it.

Samantha [01:09:59]:
Yes.

Lisa [01:09:59]:
And now. And now you have extra. What does she have extra, extra, extra content?

Samantha [01:10:04]:
Each month, she gets access to extra content that we're going to do. Yeah.

Samantha [01:10:09]:
Yeah.

Samantha [01:10:09]:
So that's pretty cool. And then we also have a new Patreon member, Alexandria from Denver. Denver joined our vip $5 tier. Her german friend recommended our podcast, and we are very glad that they did.

Lisa [01:10:25]:
That was pretty.

Samantha [01:10:26]:
Her german friend, who lives in Germany, recommended a canadian podcast to a canadian living in the States.

Lisa [01:10:34]:
And a shout out to Singapore. Again, still on the upward swing. Singapore is loving. I shake my head.

Samantha [01:10:41]:
We are totally global. I love that.

Alex [01:10:44]:
Congratulations.

Lisa [01:10:46]:
I know, right? And you know what else we're gonna say really well, yeah, we're trying to figure it out, Alex. You know what else we're figuring out really good is our fantasy football.

Samantha [01:10:56]:
Oh, my God, I won my game.

Lisa [01:10:58]:
Yeah. And I'm six, and. Oh, thanks for asking, Alex, you sports fan?

Alex [01:11:03]:
No, not even. Oh, I'm not even like, oh, the ride.

Samantha [01:11:08]:
No, no, no.

Lisa [01:11:09]:
This is the difference. You're more like Sam. Sam.

Alex [01:11:12]:
Sam's a fake drafting, though. Like, can I draft my ultimate Broadway lineup?

Lisa [01:11:18]:
Yes.

Alex [01:11:19]:
Like, why. Why does it just have to be football? Like, I want to, you know, do the Tony awards and, like, see, like, bring them in.

Lisa [01:11:27]:
Bring you and Sam would have fun with that, I'm sure.

Samantha [01:11:31]:
Yes. I'm called the fake fan, so I've been the fake fan forever in a day, and I don't watch sports. I don't care, but I appreciate them. But this year, I got dragged into fantasy football, and I've only won two games.

Lisa [01:11:46]:
Yeah.

Alex [01:11:46]:
How do you. How did you go about picking? Like, did you just randomize it?

Lisa [01:11:51]:
No, it's through ESPN.

Samantha [01:11:53]:
They look good. Oh, they got lots of points. Let's choose them.

Lisa [01:11:56]:
Love that I did that.

Alex [01:11:58]:
A vibe like, he has a kind face.

Lisa [01:12:01]:
Right? I like his last name.

Samantha [01:12:03]:
Yeah.

Samantha [01:12:03]:
Well, yes, and that's how I chose Travis Kelsey and got Travis Kelsey.

Lisa [01:12:08]:
And so. Of course you did.

Alex [01:12:11]:
I don't even know what that means, but, like, congratulations. But, you know, Travis Kelsey, promising.

Samantha [01:12:20]:
Oh, yeah. So we have. We have good times with the fantasy football, right?

Lisa [01:12:24]:
Yeah. But, yeah, it's a good. It's lots of fun. Alex, you got five minutes for one quick thing we didn't tell you about.

Samantha [01:12:33]:
Okay.

Lisa [01:12:34]:
It's not bad. It's just a fun game.

Samantha [01:12:36]:
It's a quick game called this or that.

Lisa [01:12:41]:
We like to play it with all of our guests. It's like our trademark. It's our signature guest thing.

Samantha [01:12:46]:
That's what Lisa thinks. Yes.

Lisa [01:12:48]:
I think this gets us going.

Samantha [01:12:51]:
Okay. Netflix or apple?

Samantha [01:12:55]:
Oh, uh, apple.

Alex [01:12:57]:
Okay. All right, Lisa, pie or cake?

Samantha [01:13:01]:
Cake.

Lisa [01:13:02]:
Cake.

Samantha [01:13:04]:
Lipstick or chapstick?

Samantha [01:13:07]:
Uh, liquid lipstick.

Lisa [01:13:11]:
Okay. All right.

Samantha [01:13:12]:
Changing the rules, right?

Lisa [01:13:15]:
She's innovative. Hot dog or burger?

Alex [01:13:17]:
Hot dog.

Lisa [01:13:18]:
Yeah.

Samantha [01:13:19]:
You're back to being her daughter.

Lisa [01:13:22]:
Any hot dog. Doesn't even matter.

Samantha [01:13:26]:
A bad haircut or a bad dye job?

Alex [01:13:29]:
Oh, God, neither.

Alex [01:13:31]:
Bad haircut.

Alex [01:13:32]:
Because. Because there are so many extensions and things that you can make it through growth.

Samantha [01:13:39]:
That's true.

Lisa [01:13:41]:
Favorite day of the week? Saturday or Sunday?

Alex [01:13:44]:
Saturday. Sunday has the Sunday scaries.

Samantha [01:13:47]:
Yes.

Lisa [01:13:47]:
Right.

Samantha [01:13:49]:
Ocean or lake?

Alex [01:13:51]:
Lake.

Lisa [01:13:52]:
And then my favorite last but not least. Donut or bagel?

Alex [01:13:57]:
Bagel.

Lisa [01:13:58]:
Oh, I'm a big.

Alex [01:14:00]:
Like, people have asked me, what's your favorite meal? Like, you know, like, random questions will be like, what's your favorite meal? Mine is. One of my favorites is a, like, smoked salmon bagel. Like, a bagel and lox.

Lisa [01:14:13]:
Okay, so would that be. Is that your death row meal?

Samantha [01:14:17]:
It might be.

Lisa [01:14:18]:
Really?

Alex [01:14:19]:
Like, I. Like if I had a death row meal. I'm having, like, an all you can eat, endless, bottomless buffet. Like, I'm putting this thing off. Like, bring in the next course. I'm gonna go, like, a pinata.

Lisa [01:14:35]:
I'm doing a mcrib.

Alex [01:14:37]:
Really?

Lisa [01:14:38]:
Oh, love them so much.

Samantha [01:14:39]:
Finish your time on earth and just.

Lisa [01:14:41]:
Just loving it so much. And. Sam, what are you doing? You're doing pork chops with mushroom sauce, I bet.

Samantha [01:14:48]:
No, probably not. No, no, that's not my favorite. Favorite meal.

Lisa [01:14:54]:
Not your favorite favorite meal?

Samantha [01:14:55]:
No.

Lisa [01:14:56]:
What would you pick?

Samantha [01:14:57]:
Favorite things.

Lisa [01:14:58]:
Pick one. Oh, she's got.

Samantha [01:15:02]:
I am difficult, because that's. It's too much. It's too much choice.

Lisa [01:15:05]:
And, you know, you'd never end up on death row.

Samantha [01:15:07]:
No. Oh, you know what? I would. You know what I would want, but the best prime rib known to man and a little Yorkshire pudding to go with it, and maybe a baked potato.

Lisa [01:15:15]:
They say your death row meal is really, really good, so.

Samantha [01:15:18]:
Yeah, sounds good.

Lisa [01:15:21]:
You're gonna have a Yorkshire pudding and a baked potato.

Samantha [01:15:23]:
Yeah, because I would want that, too.

Lisa [01:15:25]:
Oh.

Alex [01:15:26]:
Like, why deprive yourself in that moment? Like, who cares?

Lisa [01:15:29]:
Yes. Right?

Samantha [01:15:30]:
Have six potatoes.

Lisa [01:15:32]:
I guess that's kind of true. Right? And you're on your. And you're about to die.

Samantha [01:15:37]:
Yeah, exactly.

Lisa [01:15:38]:
So you might as well just go with it.

Samantha [01:15:40]:
Right?

Samantha [01:15:43]:
Well, we've come to almost the end. I'm going to quickly remind everybody to connect with us on our many social platforms or check out our website which ishakemyhead pod.com and sign up for newsletters. Check out our blog, leave us a message or voicemail and stay to listen to any of our episodes if you want to catch up want to catch our videos? Check out our YouTube page and subscribe to get notified of a new episode. And we do have some changes to our Patreon, which is patreon.com ishakemyhand. We have updated our Patreon. We have better incentives to join more interaction with us depending on what tier you get and new gifts as well. So go check it out for the existing Patreons. If you bump up your generous offer by $2 or more, we'll send you some new goodies.

Samantha [01:16:26]:
And if you need some new. I shake my head. Swag. Check out threadless.com. yes, we went back to threadless and search. I shake my head. And we have new and old logos items available. And we just want to thank John for putting this together for us today.

Samantha [01:16:43]:
We want to thank Alex for joining us. Thank you so much. Absolutely.

Alex [01:16:47]:
Thank you so much for having me.

Samantha [01:16:49]:
It was so much fun. We just got a new. I have a new daughter. I'm excited.

Lisa [01:16:54]:
I love the fact that she's like 32 and is our daughter.

Samantha [01:16:58]:
I know you're all grown, so it's good.

Lisa [01:17:00]:
Perfect, right? That's so perfect, right? It's been a blast. And hopefully you'll, you'll join us again and, uh, you know, much continued success to you and what you're doing.

Alex [01:17:12]:
Thank you. And I can't wait for the back roads butter tart tour.

Lisa [01:17:17]:
Let's do it right. We're. Let's. For sure. I've got to figure it out. Much fun. Would that be?

Samantha [01:17:21]:
That was incredible. That can also be known as our demo. Oh, hi.

Samantha [01:17:30]:
Hi.

Lisa [01:17:33]:
Our editor can fix that maybe.

Samantha [01:17:35]:
I think so, right?

Lisa [01:17:37]:
Yes. But definitely let's do that tour.

Samantha [01:17:39]:
Definitely.

Samantha [01:17:40]:
Awesome.

Lisa [01:17:42]:
Okay. Thanks for staying with us. Have a good one. Samantha. Samantha, always a pleasure.

Samantha [01:17:48]:
It should be.

Lisa [01:18:00]:
Who's a pretty girl? I'm a pretty girl.