THE CARPOOL IS GETTING BIGGER!

Welcome to the Carpool Podcast with Kelly. You will need to wake up because if everything you see online is offending you, you have to go touch grass immediately. You have to go get in tune with reality and Liz. So I went on Instagram and I searched Pizza and I watched about three videos of people eat like doing a mukbang of Pizza and I'm like actually looks like it's going to slap. Your mom time all starts now. Welcome back to the Carpool Podcast with Kelly. And Liz. Hey Liz. Hey co. Wow. Exciting news. The most exciting news. I'm pregnant. She's pregnant. So exciting. So exciting. Your first time doing it alone without me. I know. I know. It's true. That's crazy. I know. This feels like this is my third pregnancy. This feels like the first time I've ever experienced a first trimester though. The way that my other first trimesters was like, well, you know, I just have like some food aversion and like I'm not really craving like the vegetables and salmon that I used to eat for, you know, I went and talked about like so mild. But honestly, probably fabricated just to make myself feel better about getting fast food. Oh my gosh. I have been in the trenches of nausea and fatigue. Like and what's so fun about like Elizabeth, like to find out what she wants to eat. She has to see pictures of food. So like I've been trying to be a supportive fister. I've been like, do you want to get Chick-fil-A? And she's like, like she doesn't want to hear the words. She wants to see photos. So the past couple of weeks, like when we're deciding what to eat, she just scrolls the door dash until she sees a photosome that looks good. I screw. You know what this is actually the hack. And like literally you should see my my discovery tab on my Instagram is all just food. And this is there's a lot to get to. But let's just start with this. This is my this is my fighting. I get nausea. So my I get nausea really nauseous when I don't eat. So I have to eat. I have to eat constantly. But things will always sound good. So what I do. So let's the other day I didn't have anything in my house except I had a frozen pizza. But I was like, how am I going to eat a frozen pizza? So I went on Instagram and I searched pizza. And I watched about three videos of people eat like doing a mukbang of pizza. And I'm like, actually looks like it's going to. Until it sounded good. Yeah. Yeah. So that's kind of so that's actually kind of been freeing for me because then it's like, okay, this is what I have. So the next day I had the leftover pizza and I did the same thing to make it sound good again. And it works. It works for me. Liz, I would like to see you for someone who loves to consume food content. Why don't you why don't you dibble and dabble? And some food content. I don't know if I could. Yeah. I don't know. It's a certain. And you're actually such an aggressive fast eater. I don't think you'd have the patience. I don't. Yeah. To like set my camera and like do multiple takes. No. No. I'll just. I'll just. I'll just. I someone has to be a consumer of the content and I will gladly take that position. But I'm pregnant. I am. Let's see. How far? I'm 10 weeks. So we just had our first ultrasound one baby. I should find out the gender this week. I did the blood test. Did you know they can do the blood test at eight weeks now? I would love to see technology advancing. Technology's advancing for the better. So I should know the gender soon. I thought I was not going to find out the gender in that last at all of about 10 seconds until I found out I was pregnant. I'm like nine months is a long time. You you fall in one camper. You don't. The people who have done it twice. The people who have found out and not found out those are the only people I'm interested in hearing from on like which one they actually thought was better. Um, I was in the world. Go ahead. Sorry. I interrupt you. I always live in a world where like the day I found out what I'm having is an exciting day. The day the baby's born is an exciting day. So I have two exciting days to year one. So I will say though when my one friend in that agreement, she's one of my best friends. But when she gave birth and we didn't she didn't know the gender and she was like I'm in the hospital. I have never been so on the edge of my seat to receive a rather text message. So it's like if she if I knew she was having a girl is like, oh great, she's in the hospital. I'm so excited. Like that's amazing. Can't wait to see a picture of the baby. But like, it's just a baby. But when you know that's other people with a gender reveal. Yes. Yes. Yes. Well teach their own teach their own. You know what I was pretty gung ho about not finding out and then one of our family or one of our friends, they gave birth. They have two girls. They didn't find out the birth of their third. It ended up being a boy. So it's like a best case scenario situation. And I asked them. I said was it worth it. And the father said yes. And the mother said no. And I'm always going with the mother. She was like, now I have nothing. Like I wish I had boys clothes. Like I'm not prepared and I'm like, that's so me. I mean, I'll be prepared because I have one of each but. Well, in a way you have one of each but in another way. Nothing it ever matters but like it literally doesn't matter what you're having. Like if you had two girls, it just doesn't matter. Like you're okay. You're getting a brother or sister. Yeah. So anyway, I am finding out and I should have the results this week. And that as this moment, I am so disgustingly confident. It's a boy that if I find out it's a girl, I will be gooped and gagged. And if I found out it's a boy, I'll be like, yeah, we all think it's a boy. I don't think anyone in our family thinks it's a girl. Like with that whole chat. I'm referring you and I have both referred to the baby by the name that we plan to name our next boy. Like that's crazy. And I don't see that stopping. So very exciting. I'm so excited to get another niece or nephew, probably nephew. And you know, it just like wouldn't be a year at the car on without a baby. So totally. And you know what? It's so funny because leading up to this, there were like a couple of, is she pregnant? I'll tell you when you'll know that I'm pregnant. You will know that I'm pregnant when I go so dark on Instagram and I don't post stories like for days at a time or I post like one story. I've had nothing to say on my Instagram because the only thing that is consuming me is what my next meal is going to be, what Instagram mukbang I'm going to watch and like just how horrible I'm feeling. And I just like can't get any of these like totally funny relatable thoughts out because I like couldn't tell anyone. So anyway, I'm back. Ah, feels good to clear the air. And I feel nothing in terms of like I don't wish I was pregnant. So I think that's a good sign that like I am very good and confident being done with my four. Mm hmm. Like I'm not feeling like now you're also miserable. So we'll see like I do think I'll have a little end of your bump, but maybe not. Yeah. We'll see what happens. Yeah. Um, and the most exciting thing is you get to make three across your personality. Like three in car seat like the content alone. Thank you for your service to the community. Yeah, um, definitely going to be getting back in the minivan as soon as possible. Not that the pathfinder could into three across, but I'm just like really as everyone knows I'm really missing the minivan. So definitely going to use this child as an excuse to like just drive a minivan full time. Well, as congrats, we're so excited for you. I think I speak on half of all of the car poolers. And without further ado, we just love an episode to get to and we have like a lot of things to cover. Um, at the time of this recording that's Monday, this is coming out on Wednesday and we had just completed a photo shoot. That's right. More models. We'll let me be clear. When we pay someone to take pictures of us were models. Yeah. But the website renovation is still underway. We're getting closer, but we needed a few more photos of the for the website. So we had to book a photo shoot. We also wanted to do before Liz got to pregnant just so the photos continue to age well. Um, yeah. Because we won't be doing this every year. So that's what we have this week. And Friday, we are announcing the car mom car of the year. So if you have not voted, get to the link in my bio and get after it. Get to the polls. Get to the polls. Which we had I voted stickers. I have no. I'm not the cute. Because it's really important for your voices to be heard. And I'm telling you, the manufacturers are starting to listen. Like we need them to know when they're doing a good job when they're not. So the finalists are the Honda passport, the Nissan Armada, the Ford Expedition and the Hyundai Palisade. So get to getting kind of intense here. Today's episode is brought to you by Quince. These days, I'm all about quality over quantity. You guys know I am decluttering my house. And so if things in my closet are not well made and versatile, they're not worth it to me. I'm getting rid of them. And that's why I love Quince. The fabrics feel elevated. The cuts are thoughtful. And the pricing actually makes sense. Quince makes high quality wardrobe staples using premium fabrics like 100% European linen, 100% silk and organic cotton poplin. Lightweight cotton cashmere sweater is perfect for the changing seasons and can't miss seasonal colors and prints for spring. First tile, well made pieces that make getting dressed simple. Did you also know that Quince sells kids clothes and like home goods? I just got some of these linen blackout curtains for my bedroom and they're wonderful. They are great quality, really thick, willy-roll made and they look amazing. Quince is always my go-to when I need really anything. I go to see if it's available on Quince first because you're going to get the best price and the best quality. So right now go to quince.com slash carpool for free shipping in 365 day returns. That's a full year to wear and love it. And you will now available in Canada to don't keep settling for clothes that don't last. Go to qui NC E dot com slash carpool for free shipping in 365 day returns. Quince dot com slash carpool. Okay, this episode is brought to you by Skylight. I have had my Skylight for over a year now and I really like it for my family. It works well for meal planning. I can schedule our meals and our grocery lists all on the app and I can see it. So it reminds me on the calendar. I also like it for the shared calendar and most of the time though, it is just running as like a picture frame. So we have pictures that pop up all through the app, all controlled through the app. The Skylight calendar is just so great to keep my family organized. It was designed to connect the digital and non-digital worlds while bringing families together. If I connected digital display that showcases your family schedule with clarity, color and brilliance in either a 10 or 15 inch HD touchscreen. This all in one smart calendar syncs seamlessly with Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, Outlook and Morgan. You customize will customize the reviews for daily, weekly or monthly planning. This is really nice for me and Maddie to keep our two calendars all organized. Your happiness is Skylight's happiness. So if in 120 days you are not 100% thrilled with your purchase, you can return it for a full refund. No questions asked. Right now Skylight is offering our listeners $30 off their 15 inch calendars by going to myskylight.com slash carpal. Go to myskylight.com slash carpal for $30 off your 15 inch calendar. That is myskylyght.com slash carpal. Okay. So anyway, we are just going to get into our driveway dumps because I think that's just kind of the most pressing thing that we have to chat about. I mean, industry news today is juice juice. You're going to love this story. It's hysterical. So stay tuned for industry news. We also had a ton of good ditch the drive through submissions come through via email. So thank you guys for your service. We're going to be reading some of your ditch the drive throughs. But first and foremost, I had a really productive weekend. Actually I had a horrible weekend. It's too expensive out there to go outside. I had to stay in. I had to go to not one but two kids play places this weekend, which it's like, why did I just pay to potentially catch influenza? I have no idea. So anyway, we had a super busy Saturday running all around. So then Sunday, I was like, we're not leaving the house. We're going to church. We're staying at home. That's what we did. And I had a really productive Sunday kind of like cleaning some things out. And you know what I started doing, which was like just such a fun little thing to do. What? I started listing items on marketplace, but for free because they're not good items. Like, of course, I'm going to list a good item. I shouldn't say they're not good items. I just wanted them gone and I wanted them to go to like people who need them. And like I could of course take it to goodwill. But I could also just like list it and then like the people who need it. And it's just easier for people to find. It seems to be the fine and then it's free. Instead of paying whatever goes. And I know like sometimes like Google won't even take items. So like I have a lot of kite baby pajamas that are stained. Like they're fine. They just like they've made it through two to three kids. Libby's growing out of them. And I'm like, what am I going to do with these? Like they are good. They have a lot of life left in them. I don't want to like write a description though, like explaining it and listing it for $5. So I'm like free. Gone in seconds. Yeah. Like to the point now when I list something I just take it down to the mailbox and I just like look at my messages. Uh-huh. Yeah. And then you can also like search for things for free on Facebook Marketplace too. Because I tried to find like those buy nothing groups. Because that's what that girl Nicole always talks about on her TikTok, which I just like I'm still loving following her. But there's like no buy nothing groups around where I live. So I was like, should I post it free on Marketplace? And the Marketplace amount would probably be mad at me and probably told me like list it for like $3 or $2. But I just had fun doing it this way. Yeah. Okay. Perfect. I do. I will say maybe I should have put like a low price because I do think it like gets people a little bit more of a commitment to it, you know? Yeah. For sure. Um. But that's what I did. And I kind of just realized like some of my favorite content to consume. There are two very random specific things that I actually can't necessarily relate to because they're not experiences that I'm going through. But I am so inspired by people who are on like a serious weight loss journey and are a serious paying off debt journey. Like those two people I find to be in the document it and I applaud their vulnerability. And I just think it's it's truth is my favorite content. And I don't know why because I'm not on a major weight loss journey and I'm not actively paying off debt. But I'm so inspired by them. That actually that is actually on my dump as well. I wanted to talk about a creator who I noticed you follow as well. We've never talked about her, but I started following her too because she was just peering all over my my discovery. And that's Sammy. What am I? Um, she just came across my desk one day. Yeah. Here's her story. Her and her husband have felt called on the podcast. They have felt called to be paying off their debt. Their debt is through student loans, car payments. They had a little bit of credit card debt. But like that's like that's like the big ones. And starting on January 1, she was like day one of 365 of paying off our debt. They currently have like $180,000 in debt. And I don't know what it is about this girl, but I am like checking her page every day to see her update. Um, and I am loving her. I'm inspired by her. And she's like blowing up like she like just started her. She has a hundred and 12,000 Instagram followers. She started on January 1. Like it's crazy. Um, but no, so funny because I feel like I know her now. Like I'm just a really big supporter of her. And she posted. So her husband's a her husband, her husband is a police officer and she's a stay at home mom and she's also homeschooling her kids. I don't know how many kids she has or what the ages are. I think she has to. I feel like I'm a six and eight or something. I have no idea. Um, anyway, she went on this rant on one of her posts saying, this is why I'm a stay at home mom. I'm homeschooling our kids. This is the decision we've made. Like everyone's saying, oh, why are you just making your husband work? Why don't you go get a job? Like you're paying off student loans for a job you're not even working. And she was a teacher, um, which I think is important to note. Anyway, she went on this rant on this on the, it was like this rant on this post. And I was just like six, my stomach and like I, so I commented. And I said, I'm so sorry that you like you, I hate that you had to even justify being a home schooled and a stay at home mom. Like what you were doing is so honorable and humbling. Like you're doing great. Like truly just an encouraging message. Anyway, open my Instagram app. Someone wrote back to that comment. Like a hate message. And like, can you read your exact comment? Let me read it verbatim because I was like, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not you, I'm not used to this. Okay. Oh, and I wrote back. I said, I hate how much you had to justify your decision to homeschool your kids, the most honorable and humbling calling if someone could have, I'm sorry, you've gotten nasty DMs. You're doing amazing. Now, looking back, I could have said also, say it home. I wasn't thinking that much about this. So I'm just like, I know how bad it feels to get a hate message. Like it really makes you question yourself worth makes you question a lot of the decision you've been making. So I just wanted to be like a positive person being like, you're doing a great thing because she's, she gets a lot of hate messages. Sage comments back. While she doesn't need to justify anything, your comment is worded in a way that feels very much like you're saying parents to utilize public or private school are not doing an honorable thing. Home schooling is not some amazing or honorable or humbling thing. It's a neutral option to educate your children, signed a mom who has homeschooled private schooled and public schooled their kids so far, currently doing two of those simultaneously for older, twice exceptional kid public school during the day, homeschooled at night for the great level for them to start college next year at 13. And I'm like, you just said that it is not an honorable or humbling thing to stay at home with your children and teach them, which is a crazy thing to say. So I clapped and then I love to sign and then insert all of her credentials. I know that's my pet people who are like, remember when we always used to get those messages like, yes, as a former teen, as a former teen, yeah, as a mom who wears pink on Wednesdays and has two kids under the age of five, whose husband is a firefighter. My opinion on this, I know. I know. And so she said signed and then gave me her credentials. And I said, really wasn't including any other person or parent in my comment was just lifting up Sam. I want her to know she's doing a great job and a wonderful thing. When I comment directly on someone's video, it's a message for them not to call out every single parent out there. And I do think home schooling your children is humbling and honorable. I stand by that. In a stay at home mom and taking on schooling has to be incredibly difficult. I have so much respect for her genuinely cannot believe that comment was taken negatively. I believe in every parent's choice, educate their children how they see fit and what's best for their family. And sounds like you're doing a great job as well. Did she respond? No, of course she didn't. Yeah. Sage. Like, that's the definition of needs to touch grass. And it's like, I don't think people need to wake up because if you're, if everything you see online is offending you, you have to go touch grass immediately. Yeah. You have to go get in tune with reality. And that's like what I think one of the scariest things about AI is our reality is already so distorted. Like just as it has been over the last 10 years, the social media has blown up. And AI is just going to continue to distort our reality. And I just think you have to make sure you're connecting with real people. Like you just, you're, you're in line with reality. And what's not reality? And it's so crazy because like that is one example of like, I comment on someone else's video. Like this woman doesn't, and then this woman read through her comments. Also watch the video read through her comments and then like how to go comment on a comment. Like it's so like, you are so deep. And like when I commented that it's like, I might as well have sent her a direct message. Like I do not think that anyone else is going to see that or interact with that. You know, so anyway, don't know why that one like really triggered me, but it kind of did. Maybe I need to touch for us. Maybe it's the pregnancy hormones. Could be. But anyway, she is a good follow and she's so inspiring. Yeah, I really like calling her sast obsessed. Anyway, something else on my dump. I am one more targeted Instagram ad away from buying the Halara sweatpants jeans. Well, as I see those for you, I'm going to be honest. I kind of think now is the time. The Halara sweatpants jeans. I don't know why the Halara ones are the ones that are specifically like all over my Instagram because they're tall girl friendly. I think they're like always bragging about that. Okay, I need to find someone who's tall girl friendly and I'm going to order some sweatpants jeans because if that works, that would be insane. Yeah, they look really cute. They do, right? Oh, I might just have to do it for research. The only targeted Instagram ad that I have been getting. And I don't know why I'm targeted on this, but I keep getting ads for this thing called. What is it called? Eliola or something? It's like a white powder that goes on your food for like kids who like are really picky eaters. I've never seen that. You would have thought this would come across my desk. No, that's what I'm saying. Hold on. What is it called? What would I look up? I don't know. Picky eater. Dust or kids. Okay, it's called it's called Ella Ola. E-L-L-A-O-L-A. It's an unflavored kid essential multi-vitamin. It is. I'm seeing it three to four times a day. And I do not have picky eaters. I don't know why it's this cute coming across my desk, but similar to you, I'm like, well, should I just start buying it? I mean, they are. I am. It is propaganda at this point. How many times I've seen this ad? It's powerful. It's powerful. I'm literally about to place an order. What's your last time you bought something off a straight up targeted ad? Um, honestly, I do not really fall for the ads because they start to make me feel questionable. Like, I probably won't buy the whole R1s. I'll probably find a different brand because I'm like, because you're targeting me so much, I don't trust you. And I feel like you're a scale. I don't feel that way. That's what I feel. I think that's an outdated mindset. I think that that used to be true. Like, it was only crap you'd see on like TikTok shop or like Instagram ads. Now I think like every reputable brand is doing those kind of ads. Sure. Um, I don't know. I don't know. Two. Very recently. I won, I'm looking at. And it was a bad buy. It was a bad buy. I found these paint by numbers, but they were like religious paint by numbers. It was like Catholic art, but paint by number. And I ordered one for you for birthday. Um, but it's huge. Like, I want to get it. I was wondering, because you told me you ordered me something off an Instagram ad for my birthday and it like never came in. I never heard about it. I'm so nervous. What is the, what are the dimensions? I guess I wasn't paying attention to it. I get, won't even fit in my frame. It's huge. Oh, it's pretty though. I know. It's pretty. But yeah, where do I hang that? Well, what size is it? It doesn't even say in a took forever to come. It arrived so sketchy. Well, and then it's like, how's the paint quality? You know, it's like, that's why I really don't order paint by numbers outside of paint, like Frida, because I know that quality is good. And the other ones, you never know what you're getting. No, it's huge. I have no idea what you're going to do. Well, I'm actually not going to give it to you. I'm going to donate it to luckily, it's dinner auction season. And one thing about me, I love a dinner auction. So I'm going to donate it to our school's dinner auction. And I actually think it'll be a big hit. I actually think it will do well. I have been though, so February March is dinner auction season where I live. Okay. That's like where all like the grade schools do their dinner auction. Now we go to three to four a year. We go to our schools and two of my sister in law schools. I, you don't understand, I love a dinner auction. It's like just such a fun night for me. I love to buy things and I love that I'm buying things that are attacks right off. Like that's fun for me to buy through the business. Like I'm getting something and I'm making a donation. I love, I love like, it's like going to a wedding for me. Like I love seeing like, oh, what does this school do? Oh, how much did they raise? How much did they raise last year? Are we going to be at this year? Like I just, I drink the cool it. I'm obsessed. I loved dinner auctions. Can't wait for your kids to get in school and I can start going to your dinner auctions too. Yeah. Anyway, and a really fun perk of my job is like it's sent a lot of stuff. That I save all year. I save it all year to make these amazing dinner auction baskets. And I'm kind of like in competition with myself because like, what did the car on basket do last year? And can I top it this year? Like how much money can I bring this year? So I just put together my first one. Huge. Huge. I had a shark, styler, I had a Tommy John robe, I had so much skincare and PR. I had jewelry in there. It's, I think it'll bring six, 700 bucks. No, Kelly. And then I went to her office the other day and I was so cold. So I took a blanket out of her closet and it was like a Chevy blanket that was folded up really nicely. And she was, you did not just unfold that Chevy blanket. That was going in one of my dinner auction baskets. Yeah, it's so mad at her. I was so mad. Because I thought that would do well too. I had a whole Chevy something all this PR and I'm like, this basket's going to kill. It's a Chevy basket. People, like that's a kitschy thing people want to buy at a dinner auction. Now are you assembling the basket? Absolutely not. So that's not my strong suit. No. So depending on the auction, so my mother-in-law, Barb, she loves a cellophane wrap. Like she loves to get the little, you know, the paper grass and set it up. And she goes through, she's so amazing. She goes through every item and prices it out. Because like I wouldn't do that. I'd be like, I don't know. All this stuff was free. Like it's probably around, you know, X amount of dollars. No, she goes through every little thing, itemizes it. And she'll be like, dipstick, $36. Okay. And she'll do that. Now you've got to know the baskets value. Wait, which is fair. You have to know the basket value. I would just kind of, I would guess to me. But I just like love going to dinner auctions. So all's to say, I'm putting it out there. St. Louis people who has a dinner auction coming up, I can probably scound together two more baskets. Slash, I have some more Virgin Mary paint by numbers. Because I actually bought three of them. You bought three? Well, I bought one for you, one for mom, one for me. I thought they were little. Sorry. I genuinely need to go look back at my order. I really think they sent me the wrong size. Because I would not have done that. And they weren't that expensive. So anyway, all's to say, I just come across my desk if you have a dinner auction coming up. Stinky like inches and it said it was actually like feet. I don't know. You think you like three by five? Yeah, I don't know. It's huge. I don't know. Okay. It's almost dinner auctions. He's in them so excited. I'm so excited for you. Are you going to come to my dinner auction this year? Well, I don't know. You kind of live far away. Yeah, I get it. I actually don't think it'd be your vibe. What's the, yeah, it's a small talk. Yeah, ours is really fun though. I'm sure. Are just, are just kind of rowdy. We have this thing called like a duck pond there. And you know, I like you have a carnival game where you would like pick up a duck. Okay. Well, instead of a duck, they're little bottles of alcohol. Uh huh. And you pick one up so you have to pay $10 to do a draw for the duck pond. You for sure get a shot, which is exciting. But some of them have something underneath it, which becomes a prize for you to get. Oh, okay. That's fun. Yeah, I do. I do love stuff like that. And I always do. I love the raffle like the lottery ticket basket. I'm always buying the lottery ticket raffle. Like that's so fun. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Love it here for this year. I'm hoping to get. I'm in its competitive. But there's two things I have on my eyes on for my kid school. One, for our tickets to the kindergarten concert. Need. Simply need. Need. And they have. I love this one. So I feel like every school does it a little differently. But the way we do pick up is everyone parks and like then the kids come out. And for auction is the front spot. Yeah. So it's like last in first to leave. Yeah. Yeah. Considering that one has to go for a lot. Well, yeah. The only thing is it's like it's not the easiest spot to park in. And like if you're getting there last, like then every eyes on you for to back in my giant expedition max to the spot. I'm not saying I can't do it. But I'm just something to think about. We always when mom and dad go to the inter auctions for our high school. We said you guys have to get the front row parking. So when we show up to school running late, we don't have to walk in the giant parking lot. That was always the best, the always the hottest thing to get. Yeah, that's so fun. So great. That's fun. Love an auction. Love an auction. Today's episode is brought to you by Alma. Where do you want to be a year from now? Who do you want to be? And maybe more importantly, who's on your team helping you get there? Because the right therapist, someone who makes you feel comfortable, challenges you in the right ways, and has the clinical skills to support you can make a huge difference. That's why I tell you about Alma. Alma's on a mission to simplify access to high quality, affordable mental health care. And they've built a nationwide network of over 20,000 diverse therapists. What's great about their platform is it's easy to find someone who fits your needs. You can browse their therapist directory without even having to make an account and you can filter things like insurance, gender and therapeutic approach and more. And affordability matters. 99% of Alma therapists accept insurance and people who find a therapist through Alma, saving on average of 80% on the cost of sessions. They even have a free insurance cost estimator. So you would know exactly what you'll pay up front. A year from today isn't that far away. Get started now at hello Alma.com slash Carpool. That's hello Alma. A L M A. calm slash Carpool C A R P O O L. So real quick, I want to share a base model luxury that was actually written into us. And she's like, I think this is a base model luxury. It's more of just like I think a life hack. But I think it's kind of genius. So this comes from Victoria. She says, I have found an easy way to speed up the dreaded process that is posts in her cleanup, the chocolate bucket. I simply keep a small bin under my table, think the bin they use at the hospital wash pump parts or one of those bins you'd put in a toy organizer for size reference. When dinner is done, the chocolate bucket gets put in the center of the table and each of us put our plates, cups, silverware bibs, etc. Straight to the bucket. And instead of making five or six trips back and forth to the table and sink, I make one trip and simply grab everything out of the bucket, load in the dishwasher. If there's food in the plates, I scrape it into the bottom of the bucket. Don't that in the trash before rinsing. This comes especially in handy when we in the spring summer and fall when we eat outside. I love the chocolate bucket. She says eventually she'll buy a collapsible bin so she can store it even better. But like right now kind of just sounds like throwing it under your table is like getting the job done for her. No, that's I'm inspired. I mean, that's what they do at those restaurants when you have to like clean up the food yourself. You just like go and put everything in a bucket or in a bin. I I do something not not the chocolate bucket but semi similar like when I am making dinner sometimes. I will just put like a Walmart bag like on my like just like a plastic bag or like a box like if I get like an Amazon box or something. I'll just put it on my island and like it's a trash thing. So like if I open something I'm just like throwing in there like keep my island clean. But yes, I really like that one. I also like cleans like you can like then put your I put everything in the chocolate bucket clean the rest of the house and then do the dishes. I've been doing that lately when I clean up. I like to get all the dishes in one spot and then like clean the rest of the kitchen or opposite. So that way when I'm just standing in front of my sink, I can like open my laptop up and like watch a show because I'm not moving. You can't do that when you're moving around and you're like taking multiple trips. But like I put everything over to the sink and then I do it all at one time. And that's because you're nice. Yeah. And I will say I have one episode less left of desperate housewives. So I am like one dinner one or two dinner cleanups away from finishing and then I'm a free agent. So I'm a currently a free agent. I tried to watch the mass singer. I'm sorry. I think it's a horrible show. Yeah. Here's the peers, the big plot hole with the mass singer. It is like dancing with the stars is successful because the stars are making content around the show. The mass singer people are anonymous. Yeah. So it's like they can't promote it to all of their followers, which is silly. Yeah. It's also like I've never seen a mass singer reveal and been like goop ding gagged. I'm like, who is that? Well, that's the problem. And then I'm feeling so bad because like there. I've only watched one episode, but I acts. Doesn't matter. I accidentally watched one episode of the first season thinking I was watching this season. Whoops. So that's a little 40 minutes of my life. I'll never get back because I thought it was this season, but it was last season. And they're being like, that's got to be Sabrina Carpenter. And I'm like Sabrina Carpenter is the biggest star in the world. Like she's simply not going on this low brow show. I'm sorry. And now the person under the mask like is going to feel like you're disappointed because it's not Sabrina Carpenter. But like what a compliment though to be. No, it is a compliment, but it is a compliment. But like be so for real mass singer. No, they're throwing like crazy things out there. And like you're you're telling me that all of these judges like know who the heck these like random people are like they don't. Exactly. So I don't like that show. So I'm not watching it again. Sorry. I can't do it. Also, it's like. Anything I need to see. I will see on Instagram the next day. Like dancing with the stars. It's like no, I liked I liked the packages. I like to be in part of something I like to voting. You're not voting on the mass singer. Like there is simply no reason to watch that show because anything more seen. I will see the next day on my phone. You know what it's interesting to because they might get the same level of stars that dancing with the stars does. Like they could have gotten Dylan Efron. And I would have been like, okay, who the who knows who Dylan Efron is like. But because of the way that dancing with the stars is filmed now like Dylan Efron. It's like a huge deal in my book. But like he probably could have been the same level of star. Right. Okay. So last night I started traders. Okay. And I literally was like, what is this show about? I'm literally watching the first episode. They're not explaining what it's about. I'm like 50% of the way in. I still don't know what the show is about. But the stars they have. I thought the stars were actually pretty impressive. So on this season they have Mark Ballas from Dancing with the Stars obsessed. They've got a couple of housewives like Lisa Rina. Okay. Should you watch that show? Uh-huh. So lovely Serena. Yeah. Rinda is another big housewife. And then they've got some other housewives. I never watched Atlanta, but I'm loving the Atlanta housewife who's on it obsessed. They have some people from Love Island, some people from Survivor, big brother. They've got like a couple of figure skaters. It's a lot of stars. It's 23 people and they're kind of they're they're kind of stars. They're kind of they're referring themselves as gamers because like I wouldn't consider like Survivor people or big brother people stars. But like they're in that they they know how to play these games. So basically the premise of traders is there's in this season so far. There's four traders as in traders as in like betraying. See, I thought it was about stocks. I thought it was kind of like an apprentice apprentice thing to be honest with you. Okay. But I thought they were true. It doesn't matter. And then everyone else is a what do they call themselves? You're a trader or you're like a follower. I don't remember the word. And the traders kill someone in like basically like vote them off. But there's like different challenges that they do and like you can get like a shield so that you're protected. I'm one episode in now are people trying to determine who the traders are to vote them off. See, I'm not I'm not all the way there. I don't have a lot of information. Okay. But I do think eventually we'll get that way because like so like. Let me explain this to you. So in the first episode, there's nine people who are up for elimination. The traders get a pick who's up for elimination. So like. Whoever. Doesn't die. I obviously isn't a trader because the traders picked the people. Okay. I don't know. Here's the thing. I don't know yet. I'm enjoying it though. Okay. I think it's worth watching. It's okay. It. It's fun. Okay. Okay. I wish I had more to say. This is not a very good recap, but I'm only one episode in. Okay. You know what? After watching Dancing with the Stars, I really like getting to know like stars, influencers, whatever you want to call them. Like I like I like getting to know them on like a more personal level. So I'm actually I'm into it. So maybe. Well, and I think this game, there is a level of strategy to it. And I can already tell. Well, and I might watch Survivor this year too. We've talked about this. Yeah. I would like to know the survivor, the survivor people who are on the show. They have like such strategy to it where like the housewives and like some of the other people are just kind of like in La La land. The survivor people are there for the strategy. So like in the first challenge, one of the survivor people was like, let's, let's team up with them so they don't go against us. And I was like, that was such a smart move. So something to think about. But I'm going to shut up because I don't know what I'm talking about. And besides that, I watch a lot of football this weekend, obsessed. Go Bills. They won. Okay. Cool. I'm like really into the whole Indiana of it all in Fernando. We love so Grayson went to Indiana. That's college football. And they are killing it. Kill it. Back to the NFL for one second. So lions are out. So I'm cheering for the Buffalo Bills. But I'm also cheering for the Chicago Bears because that's Pope Leo's favorite. Okay. And like they have the whole Eastman on the wall on their side. So it just does feel like the Bears might see a chance. And I would watch. The Bears versus Packers game. The Bears score. They were losing the whole game. The Bears scored 25 points in the fourth quarter. It was insane. Wow. It was insane. Interesting. That is crazy. So okay. That was like the most random like TV recap football recap segment in the world. I'm so sorry. You are just kind of all over the place. But that's okay. I know. I chugged this coffee and I haven't eaten today. So I've kind of got the shakes. Okay. Well, let's get into industry news. Are we still the hot tea going on the auto industry? Okay. Stick with what you know, Cal. Let maybe you can flush out like a full thought this on this segment. That was so true. Okay. Remember how last episode we talked about where we were when Victoria's secret decided to stop selling swimsuits? Yeah. This is the auto equivalent. Oh, because Stellantis scraps the Jeep Chrysler plug and hybrid vehicles admit the EV slowdown. Which is the worst idea I've ever heard. Yeah. Now the Jeep Chrysler has like they have not made a good decision and forever. I'll just say that out loud. The Jeep plug and hybrids I could take a relief. Like I don't know whatever the Chrysler plug and hybrid though is one of my favorite cars. The Chrysler Pacifica plug and hybrid. Like it was so niche and there there isn't other plug in family cars like that. That can fit a lot of people. Like they're so rare and I recommended this plug and hybrid all the time. Yeah. And they're scrapping it. Yeah. I mean, I wonder how sales are doing. I mean, there has to be a reason. So the reason that in this is like just really interesting. I'm reading the article. I'm reading article from CNBC and of course, like they're blaming sales. I would say. Taking away something is not going to fix the sales. Like maybe we need to adjust the marketing, the product, the reliability, but just like scrapping it. I don't think I don't think is the answer. Maybe they haven't hit people with enough Instagram ads. Exactly. Maybe that's maybe they should try that first. So they do cite that. The sales are down. And a lot of it is because EVs are so much. EV sales have kind of declined tax credits have gone away. And it really just does depend on like basically who the president is and like what the administration is doing. Like what they're deciding to push like really affects. What the manufacturer it affects how advantageous EVs are for the manufacturers. And it says aside from sales, still, Antis has been using phebs as a way to offset its production of gas, gasoline trucks and SUVs to attempt to meet the federal fuel economy standards and avoid penalties. And some people don't maybe realize about the way that the federal penalties work is basically there are regulations that are saying and I don't have the exact but like there are regulations where it's like, hey, you guys have to average 25 miles per gallon across your fleet. So what manufacturers would do is they would come out with these like rinky dank hybrids that would get 50 to offset the cost of the fact that the Wrangler gets 14. Right. So that's one of the reasons they were using the phebs, but also phebs have ticked up so much and when we look at like what Toyota is doing, Toyota is crushing the hybrid game and they're not putting their emphasis on the EVs. And I feel like still Antis like tried to do all of it. And they were bringing us the wagon here as well, which was an electric Jeep wagon here, which literally no one asked for. Yeah. And like we like the Chrysler Pacifica. They need to. Here's what still I just need to do. Here's my playbook for them. Okay. You need more Chrysler cars. Like give us a freaking, I like I said last episode, give us your Buick on clave equivalent. Keep the Pacifica, fix your atrocious headrests. Start with that. Jeep needs to be Wrangler. You can keep the wagon here. Grand Cherokee. That's it. Get rid of everything else. Ram needs to just be trucks. Dodge. You can let go of. Yeah. You don't need like a whole brand in Dodge. If you want to keep your like charger, make it a ram charger. Like just like take it or someone needs to just absorb that. I don't know. I mean, Dodge is a, I don't know. Dodge is. It's got name recognition, but. But remember Dodge used to be what they called their trucks and then they're like, no, no, our trucks are called ramps. Like I would actually say get rid of Ram before you get out of the right. No, you're absolutely the truck. No, you're right. Get rid of Ram and Ram can be Dodge. Yeah, you can just drive a Dodge truck. You can drive a Dodge truck. You could drive a Dodge Ram 1500. Not a Ram 15, you're 100% right? Mm hmm. Yeah. That'll be out there. Signed a owner of a Ram 1500. Signed to average podcasters who don't know how to recap us over the life of us. Okay, let's get into ditches that are through a reach or an easy dinner recipe to mix it up to get you out of y'all dinner. But exactly. And can I just tell you what I made last night that one like my in-laws came over last night and I was like able to quickly throw this together and like kind of. Get it out of the park despite me. She only like not great. Like a chicken cutlet. Obsessed. Lies a little bit. That I think is going to be the new it food a chicken cutlet. It should be because like the way you get the chicken, you smell you hand or hand it with a mallet. And then like you always have eggs. I always have breadcrumbs. I always have flour and like it is such an approachable way for me to eat chicken. Like will eat an entire chicken breast. In that way put a little cheese on top puts a marinara whatever lemon like world your oyster at that point. Like everyone was like this is great. No eyes. I don't know what I make though. I still a real and it was like eating the original protein bar a chicken cutlet. 100% and a chocolate where like next day baked chicken breast will make me feel like want to throw up a chicken cutlet the next day. Always it's like what's up with just like a little bit of breading that like. I'm still getting the same amount of protein. I just got a little bit of breading on it then saw it's good to dip in a bunch of sauces like. No, it's so different. It's so different. So I went to Whole Foods the other day. And I was like so hungry trying to try any more protein and I was like they were just selling chicken cutlets cold chicken cutlets grabbed one grabbed a lemon. Just put lemon on my chicken cutlet. Hoover. Yeah. I was like that was you could even you could even do that or you could even just do seasoning like a lemon pepper or like a salt and vinegar like seasoning. On top of a chicken cutlet like my mouth is watering. I want to chicken cutlet so bad right now. Yeah. So good. But that's not the dish of the drive through but it is a good one to remind you that they exist. 100% Okay. Are you ready for today's dish of the drive through? Yeah. I have not been ditching the drive through. I told my husband, look, and my there's no need for you for our marriage for any there's no reason for you to go through my door dash statements. For the next couple of couple of weeks. It's something it's something you don't need to worry about. I don't have it under control. It's actually wild the out of control but it's okay. This too shall pass. Okay. This comes from a lease. AKA Jen. Hi Kelly and Liz. I don't know if you guys are still taking DTD's via email but I figure I'd send anyway. Of course we are. We have we have we had an elevated mac and cheese bread in our night and it was so good. But I included everything I included specific measurements below but ultimately measured with my heart. This serves two adults in a toddler so double up if need be. Boil water and prep eight ounces of whatever needles you have and then in a separate pan put one cup of milk, two tablespoons of butter, a half a teaspoon of salt, pepper, everything but the bagel. Oh everything but the alo taste spice from TJ. Oh, that's so good. And a small amount of yellow mustard trust me on medium heat and stir frequently until the butter is melted. Drain pasta and return to pot pour the milk mixture over your noodles on a low heat slowly add. Small amounts of shredded cheese. I use the Mexican blood because what I have on hand until melted. So with whatever veggies you'd like. Obsessed. So basically it's just like in a saucepan she put milk butter seasonings but her seasonings she did was that everything but the alo tay which that's like a must pick up from trainer Joe's everyone talks about their everything but the bagel seasoning. Sorry. I think we're all burnt out on that. Do not make corn on the cob this summer without the solote seasoning. Yeah. It is unbelievable. Adding to a mac and cheese sounds amazing and I'm so excited about this because I think George is starting to get over his cheese issue. Oh good. Because the other day one of my favorite ditch the drive throughs that I just made because we had on hand I had to use it up is chicken broccoli. Like a cheesy chicken broccoli casserole. Like a cheesy chicken broccoli casserole. Uh huh. And like that always hits. And I wasn't making it because I'm like oh George isn't going to like the cheese. But like my favorite which I get that is not the most healthy but like respectfully I just it is to me. I I never don't have two to three rice errone boxes on hand. I love rice. I love rice errone. And they have my rice errone era. Elizabeth get in your rice errone era because it's the perfect. It's so versatile. It's a great just like carb side to go with like whatever you're having. Yeah. It's so cheap. It would go great with a chicken cutlet actually. 100%. But it's also like oh you want to open a casserole in a minute. It's what I make my papacy chicken casserole with and it's what I make my broccoli. So they have different flavors. So like for the broccoli chicken cheese casserole I get the four cheese rice errone. Broccoli, a can of cream chicken, a little sour cream and chicken mix it all together and I pop it in the oven. George didn't even know it was cheese. So that was good for me. Okay interesting. Yeah. Okay so we just gave you three to choose the drive-thru. So I don't think anyone needs to be drive-thru in this week. We're all ditching it. Yeah totally. Okay and that has to be our episode before I like go on another tangent. And I need to eat a chicken cutlet because this caffeine is kind of making me feel wacky. Okay well thank you so much for listening to the Carpool Podcast and we'll talk to you next time. Guys love you bye. Thank you for listening to the Carpool Podcast with Kelly and Liz. Make sure you're subscribed so you never miss an episode. And if you enjoyed riding with us tell everybody you know. There's room in the car for everyone.