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Welcome to the carpool podcast with Kelly. They are 100% worth the hype. They are, I will say one more time, the best toys ever made, period. And Liz. It's when you have a newborn and you have a toddler and you need to feed the newborn and so you gotta just like put the toddler down somewhere so they're not jumping off a table. Your mom time off starts now. Welcome back to the Carpool Podcast with Kelly and Liz. Happy Wednesday, everybody. Happy Wednesday. How are you doing today, Kel? You know, Liz, I'm doing good. Fred Fred had his first day of preschool. Oh, just a half day. Just popped in, popped out a little eight to 1130. They just start like random like february well he turned three and then he could go like that's kind of how the place works like he had to be three um and it's like the same school that georgian had to go to so it's just like he gets dropped off with them and then we go i could pick him up you know at like 11 um but he's just so cute when i picked him up he kept being like i'm so proud of you because like I always tell him I'm so proud of you so we got in the car goes I'm so proud of you I went to school I was like oh no Fred is like he's just like the sweetest most like tender kid yeah and it's always like the repeating of things that just like gets me one time uh James and Fred were playing and James like hit Fred or something and I was like James say sorry Fred say sorry Fred and Fred goes sorry and i'm like fred not you he's just like so sweet so sweet oh gosh yeah that kid he's something special that third born he's just and i also just love his age like i'm obsessed with three and four year olds like i just think they're so fun and he is so much fun so that's what we've been up to tomorrow i'm jet setting without you can you look at me like you're looking really distracted right now. Sorry. I just think it's crazy that I just asked what you were up to and how your weekend was. And then you didn't ask me. You just said, so anyway, that's what we're up to. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. What are you up to? Well, do you see my tongue? Yeah. You're like orange. you're a candy addict i'm a candy addict maddie had to go and pick me up sour candy last night after the kids went to bed sour candy comes with consequences no the sour skittles when's the last time you've had sour skittles well pretty recently oh and i know the feeling you're going through it's like the sandpaper tongue yeah the sandpaper tongue but like i can't stop someone did send me a hack though on instagram they said if you get the what are they like freeze dried the freeze dried sour skittles they don't hurt your tongue this is like such a you i didn't even complain on my stories that it was hurting my tongue it's just such a universal feeling that everyone goes through she's like trust me you got to get the air fried water i've never had freeze dried anything freeze dried fruit okay i've had that but like the freeze dried candy or like the popped candy like for a while there anytime you went somewhere they were selling freeze dried jolly ranchers free dry skittles like everything was freeze dried i feel like i don't love that texture it's a little chalky no yeah you know i don't love the texture i also don't always love um the packaging well that's what i'm saying looks a little little like a diy project well and i think it is but it's like i don't know your kitchen i don't know your freeze-dried area right i don't know i don't know your process i totally agree um so yeah you're craving sour well and sour supposed to help with nausea so i wonder if like since this is like your most nauseous pregnancy if that's that there's any correlation i think there must be um james I craved sweet and like, gosh, a first pregnancy is so wasted on like a child, someone without kids. Like with James, all I craved was like cookies. And it was like, oh, let me just make some chocolate chip cookies after I take my afternoon nap and then I'll feel better. Now I'm like, literally kids are crawling all over me, like kicking me. And I just like want to lay down and fall asleep and throw up all at the same time elizabeth and i'm gonna say this and this is not for first-time parents so if you're a first-time parent listening like i don't want to offend you and like kindly just skip ahead because i'm not trying to be a just wait person but i find first-time parents so adorable oh yeah do you know what i mean like they are they're like little freshmen coming into high school and like you're you're you're a senior and it's they're so adorable to me and they're so full of life and hope and optimism and it's not that I'm not I'm also full of those things but I am so so much more realistic and I've just been served a lot of like first-time parent content and like I just like love hearing like what they're doing with their one seven-month-old and how like they're changing the world um no my favorite was like, I saw this. They're adorable. No, it's adorable. I saw this girl and she was like, it was something along the lines of like how everything she's doing to avoid screen time. And she had one of those like suction spinners on her head. And I'm like, those like suction spinner things for like windows or something, that's for like a baby. Like no toddlers like really playing with those suction. Like that's a young toy. Like she had all these young toys. anyway i click on her profile she's a six-month-old and i'm like girl the screen time for a six-month-old is not hard to avoid it's when you have a newborn and you have a toddler and you need to feed the newborn and so you got to just like put the toddler down somewhere so they're not jumping off a table that's when you turn on miss rachel you don't do it when they're a potato at six months old well and i just think like they're all creating content for each other and i think there's something adorable in that like in their own little like you're right you know and because it's like and because they need that's it it's precious is what it is it is it is and it's and it's precious and we and literally we were all them no 100 but then i just think like it is okay to like look for advice and look for content from people with experience like right now I'm bare and I like I feel like I'm barely relating to people who have kids of my age because I'm like like I like to see the moms of teens like what did you do to survive how are your teens working out like that's who I'm like itching to create more like that's the content that I want to consume right now how are you doing like what are you what does your day look like because that's I want to live my life knowing that there is a world where like I can easily get a workout in totally and i can make dinner undisturbed and like i can like that is what i'm aspiring for like i know we're all struggling we're all drowning like it's all hard i agree with you sometimes i need to see that like same validation to know that i'm not alone in it and that what i'm going through is normal but sometimes i do just need to also see the older the moms of teens the moms who have been through it yeah maddie and i always say because maddie and his um Maddie's older sister she has three kids the youngest is six the oldest is like 10 and they are like doing half marathons all the time they're huge runners they're in great shape like they have had such a glow up even in the last six years and Maddie and I always remind ourselves like they asked us to do the 75 hard with them in 2022 when we were like getting married and they started that journey for themselves when their youngest was two and I'm like okay they they were going through what we were going through and they didn't get to that point until their youngest was two and now look at them they're thriving they're healthy you know like right we're just really in the trenches yeah and our time will come our time will come and I will say like I'm definitely I'm finding something like really beautiful about this current phase in my life that I'm in because I do have like, uh, he's going to be seven in a couple of months, a seven, almost a six year old, a five year old, a three year old and an 18 month old. Um, and I do feel like I'm kind of in the glory years right now because like what I really love about my four children right now is I can fix any single one of their issues with a snuggle. And if desperate measures, a ring pop and like problems are solved, like a chocolate milk and a snuggle done. Anyone. It works for all four of them. Like they all, I can fix all their problems the same way. I cannot physically imagine the gut-wrenching pain I'm gonna feel when someone's mean to them when they're going through something at school and like a snuggle in a chocolate milk doesn't do it that like that level of helplessness I'm telling you it is going to gut me yeah so I am relishing in the days when I can still fix all of their problems with a snuggle into chocolate milk that's like beautifully said no i'm sick to my stomach over it and i know it's going to be hattie first like because george is like george is just very interesting he's fine i shouldn't say that i don't know that for sure but just like you know and i'm telling you it's quicker than you think i think girls get i think like kids get mean as early as like the first or second grade oh it's disgusting no it is i'm really hoping like me and chachi pt like i really am going to be leaning on chat and like some other parent because like or I might genuinely read my first I've never read a parenting book um I might read my first parenting book like for these grade school years because it's just like the level of responses and I'm telling you watching the parent trap with Hattie really opened my eyes to how unprepared I was to have so many of these real world conversations we did finish the parent trap by the way and I will like kind of give a disclaimer where I don't have the same justice for Meredith Blake as I thought in the first half of the movie because she does become pretty insufferable. Okay. But I stand by the fact that those girls, I also just, I don't like seeing people like get, I hate pranks. Like it's kind of why I've always struggled with the movie home alone. Cause I know those were bad guys, but I hate pranks. I hate seeing people like in pranks. Okay. And it's so funny because Hattie was so the same way because in the parent trap during like the cabin scene, when Hallie was like pranking Allie's bunk and there was like the shaving cream and the feathers, Hattie was like why are those girls being so mean this is so mean and I was like it is me but anyway Meredith Blake kind of sucks all to say is though like there were so many interesting things that came up because Hattie was like is that a bad guy talking about Meredith Blake and I'm like yes and she goes well why does the dad like a bad guy and I'm like well the dad doesn't know he's a bad guy and then she goes so that's the dad's girlfriend and I said yes and she goes does daddy have a girlfriend? Like Tyler? I was like no no because daddy's married to mommy. It was just a lot and that was like that was such a it was just so interesting because she's asking why are girls being mean? Like why don't their parents live together? Why were those kids separated? And it was like all these questions and I kind of realized how I won't even call it sheltered because I think a lot of I think that movie's not really age appropriate for a five-year-old hindsight because there's so many dramatic themes in it. But it just made me realize like, what is my response going to be when so and so gets left out when Hattie doesn't get invited when George when some kid hurts George's feelings, and I just got to be I'm not prepared for that in the same way that mothers of six months old are prepared for how they're not going to share screen time with their kids. Yeah. Well, I am so and I think a lot of people listening are so thankful that you might be going through it before us because you're going to have such a good perspective at the end of it. And you're fast. You're quick on your feet. Your kids are going to bring you a problem and you're just going to know exactly what to say, exactly how to handle it. And that's how you were. When you were in grade school, Kelly was, I like to think we both were, but I vividly remember Kelly. She was always the nice girl. So it's like if someone got bullied and And then she was sitting, that girl was sitting at a table alone at lunch. Kelly went and sat next to that girl. Like you just had a very strong moral compass. Yeah, I did have a strong moral compass. I think that that's like the best. I think like a strong moral compass and confidence are like the two best things we can try and instill in our children. Because you have to have the moral compass to know that it's not okay that person is sitting by themselves and then also have the confidence to say, I don't align with this. I'm fine. You can bully me if you're whatever you want to do. I'm going to go stand out. I'm going to go sit with that girl. So I don't really know how we instill those things in them, but that is like my goal. And that's what I pray for every night. Um, I agree. I was also having a conversation with a friend recently and we were doing like a, it was like a, would you rather kind of conversation? And it was, you know, would you rather have your kid be bullied or be the bully? Yeah. What do you, what would you say? Oh, I would never want my child to be a bully. I disagree. I would want, I would rather my child be the bully because I would put an end to it immediately. Like if I found out that my, like I would, I know that sounds bad because of course like then your kids like doing something mean, but like if I found out that one of my kids was doing something, I could parent that so much easier than I could when like your kid's the one being bullied like that. And I'm not saying I want my kids to be bullies. I'm just saying like, I think it's easier to discipline and parent. And let me be clear, it would be the last time they ever did it. Like it would be horrible for the stumpy kids if I ever got that phone call. But when your child is the one being bullied, that has got to be horrible. And it's almost like, you know, because you can if you get involved it can go like the opposite of how you want it to go You know Well I think that I don think you supposed to get involved I think that I think that the way you thinking is you like if my kid was the bully, I could nip it in the bud. I could do something about it and I could see immediate results. I think that like, if your kid is the one getting bullied, you're not always going to see like that, that instant gratification. something that I like really want to do and that I think really helped me it growing up was just like things I never questioned about myself I never questioned if I was kind I never questioned if I was beautiful because I was told that all the time I never questioned if I was loved or if I couldn't I also had a bunch of siblings so it's like you always had someone who had your back yeah um i know they say like you know tell your kid they're they're smart like don't just tell don't just focus on their looks and but like always being told that i was sweet like everyone said i was the sweetest kid so then i i took that into my grade school i'm like well i'm nice i'm sweet i never had to question even when i was a freaking six foot giraffe in eighth grade and maybe got made fun of it sometimes by boys and whatever i never questioned that i was beautiful though because my I was always told that by my parents yeah I agree and I just think like those that's what you have to do like you just it's it's that it's a confidence thing like if you can raise a confident kid then a bully can't can't do anything I know confidence is like the number because I really love my self-confidence I'm a very confident person I always have been and I'm trying to kind of figure out why I am that way and how I can make sure my kids are that way because I do think self-confidence takes you so far in life. So if we're both confident, why are we both so, why are we both so confident? I mean, I'm with you. I mean, I'm with you. I think it's, there was a level of mom and dad told us, but I don't, I don't think that was, that was it. I, I don't, I don't know why we're both so confident. Yeah. We'll have to figure that out. Um, but I also think like Elizabeth and I, well, I can't speak for Elizabeth, but like I definitely got bullied my fair share, especially in grade school, high school. I totally came into myself. I had a glow up. I, I, but I, I don't know. I was very confident in high school. Still always the nice girl. Like I wasn't like the most popular girl, but I was nice to everyone. Um, but grade school, I definitely got left out, got bullied. And as like hard as it, I remember like times just like crying on my bed from like how mean girls were to me and they weren't even probably all that mean. I just took it so badly. But when I do like look back on those times, like, you know I grew up like a such a loving privileged life that like that was kind of my grit and I kind of talk about this a lot like there is a level of you know that's what that's what made me the person I am like right wrong or right wrong or indifferent so I do think there's a level of like you have to let your kids have some of these hard experiences yeah definitely to turn into good people definitely we'll see i don't really have an answer i also don't have a situation like i'm just all forecasting this but totally and again those just seem like much harder problems to solve than any of the current problems i'm having with my children at the moment yeah you're like so thankful for the current problems and mom always said that teenage girls were harder than toddlers and like i always laughed her off and now i'm like that's so scary because I think toddlers are so hard. Like that's so scary. We were like such good teenage girls too. 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Go to myskylight.com slash carpool for $30 off your 15 inch calendar. That is M-Y-S-K-Y-L-I-G-H-T dot com slash carpool. Anything else? Is there anything else that you want to say about like your weekend, about your life? Like I just, I hate to rush off the subject of all things Elizabeth. Thank you. Let me think about this. Oh, you know where we went this weekend? We kind of killed an hour before nap time with the kids where bass pro shop oh yeah that's so fun you know if there's a bass pro shop near you like go to lunch then go to bass pro animals like kids love looking at the animals there's an aquarium they also have like boats inside and like they let your kid just like climb up on the boats uh-huh no that is um we're not scared we live in a small town so like i'm not scared though there's been days where we've just gone to the pet smart and just looked at the guinea pigs and the reptiles and the fish totally and bought ourselves 20 30 minutes yeah no for sure bass pro is a good idea yeah no it literally literally killed an hour um and that was a great time so that's i think that covers it though i think i'm good i think i'm ready to move on Well, I've just had such a big week because I have been I picked up a huge Facebook marketplace lot and like I'm almost done talking about my Fisher Price micro hobby, but I'm having so much fun with it. I think I speak for all of us when I say we're all having fun with it because the tags and the messages and the like engagement I'm getting off of this. It's starting to feel like a universal experience. Like we're all just trying to get this dollhouse. everyone sent everyone's rooting for me to find the 1993 loving family in good condition the one with the blue roof stop sending me the pink one I don't want the pink one um I'm so jealous of the people who are posting that oh my parents held on to all my Fisher-Price stuff just pulled it out of their basement oh I know jealous of them it's so amazing um and I will just say like now that I've brought the toys to my home and my children have played with them they are 100 percent worth the hype they are i will say one more time the best toys ever made period the people i could literally write a thesis i could do a dissertation on how much better the people are than the modern day dollhouse slash barbie slash lol dolls we get first of all they're the perfect size fits in the palm of your hand they're a good height they're not too small the gabby doll houses are too freaking small i can't have them out around libby okay barbies now hattie's just not a barbie girl like i know some girls are such barbie girls first of all a barbie looks ratty within 20 minutes i'm sorry but like the hair they just simply can't figure out the hair ever and my kids play rough like the barbies are in the barn the barbies are in the bath the barbies are in the pool now the barbies somehow have made their way back into the house and they look ratchet and like the hair is just never the same also the dressing the dressing of barbies is so difficult it's it's not designed for children to do and now the barbies are making me so mad because now they have barbies with different feet so some are flat-footed some are not so now i have all these shoes that again are chokies hello um that don't fit on certain feet and just like there's nothing worse than trying to put a top on a Barbie and the thumb like pokes through the sleeve of the Barbie. Fisher Price solves all those problems. The characters are dressed. They're painted on clothes. They just look like any like sitcom character, like they have the same outfit on every single time. Their hair is not real. That's why I don't want the 1990s with the real hair because they look ratch. They're the perfect size. There is not a thing. They are the best toys. it was jarring to see you post the these dolls next to an lol doll because i hadn't really seen lol dolls what in the freaking freaky alien are those i have so much prop so had he got those from a cut one of our cousins was like getting rid of all of her lol dolls so had he has like a couple of them um they're heinous they're so ugly they're so cheap and they're just not going to stand the test of time like I and I I was like well because when I before I went on this journey I was like I just want to try to find dolls like those Fisher Price dolls surely they're making dolls like that on Amazon that I can just buy they're not like I'm literally one mental breakdown away from starting my own toy company because like I just can't or like Fisher Price let's collab let's bring back these characters they are better yeah there's so much better than the current little people and it just kind of feels like it's like it's like so many things in this world like quality things are getting more expensive and the quality is getting worse yep and because like now the Fisher Price little people like I know you think we like those um they suck compared to the real ones they're so small they're cheaper and they're so babyish like kids aren't gonna play with them for as long like how do you want to be caught dead playing with a fisher price little people today okay sure and the other thing the point that you bring up about the hair is anyone asking for real hair like i think we can reserve like even on barbie i think if you had barbie's hair plastic permanently styled in a beautiful way out the kids would have way more fun playing with them reserve the real hair and get like better quality fake hair for um a real fake hair for like the just the heads where you like do their hair and you do their makeup like yeah no one's actually like styling their no child's styling their barbie's hair like that i mean maybe what do i what actually what do i know no we're not like it's just never gonna look good it's never gonna look good i just i don't know what their obsession with the real hair is It just always ends up looking ratty. Yeah. Like she can still have fabulous hair, but it can just be like plastic and always look good. The other thing about Barbies is they don't stand up. That's what I'm saying. Where's the technology for Barbies to like be able to stand? Like you just have to have them sit or lean them up against something, which doesn't make for a very good play experience. Elizabeth, you're so right. I really don't think Barbies are all that in a bag of chips. I'm telling you, Hattie does not play with them very much. and like their clothes are so hard to put on this is like these like this lot that I bought I ended up paying $200 for it no regrets not a one and like again I told you guys earlier like I had a great childhood growing up like I didn't think I had like inner childhood like my inner child didn't need to heal but like somehow it has like I'm telling you it has fulfilled so much me to bring these toys back I am obsessed and let me just say I am not done collecting I am not done collecting I love love love these toys they are the best toys ever made you know it's in a world where like you can Amazon anything you can think of and you can always find like what you need it's really interesting the way that I feel like toys are the only thing that like if the only thing in my life that gets discontinued i guess is what i'm trying to say like none of the products i use get discontinued the clothes i wear don't get discontinued like nothing gets discontinued like clothes or like toys and it's it just like really makes you want to take a second look at like the thrift stores and this and the and the just between friends sales and the antique stores because like when things are gone like they're literally not coming back and you have to get them secondhand and they're like there's just so many of those fisher price toys like literally in a landfill and it's so sad yeah i'm uh because you're like liz you have to do it like you have to get these toys i like babe i can find them i know what you found the one in missouri like i they not i know i like a little bit i so close to pulling the trigger on this 300 one from ebay though like i need to i need to like ask my husband about it which i don't know how i'm really gonna like frame it up to him yeah for sure other than like this is a hobby that i want to do um he's just gonna be like that's what you want to putting your money on and like none of my kids birthdays are coming up like it just sucks sucks for me yeah but i'm telling you they're incredible i'm considering selling my clip cup castle to pay to fund it i think it's i think it's probably a good time yeah you lost the horses didn't you yeah i did lose the horses but they're somewhere in my house yeah that's kind of why i'm holding on to it yeah um but yeah i might consider selling the Club Club Castle. But then I said I might just auction it off at the next Carmel Auto Show. So I just don't know. I just don't know. But anyway. Let's talk about the Carmel Auto Show. It's my favorite topic. I would literally love to dive into it with you. Carmel Auto Show is June 13th in STL. And people are like, why did you keep it in STL? Why don't you take it on the road? And so that I say, where is the Chicago Auto Show? Where is the LA Auto Show? Where is the New York Auto Show? They are in their cities. Mm hmm. We are in St. Louis. We are centrally located. We are a must see city. Lots of fun things to do. Lots of fun things to do. I we will be putting together itineraries for whatever trip you're taking. If it's a family trip, we'll give you what to do. If it's a girl's trip, we'll give you what to do. If it's a couple's trip, we will give you what to do. That is coming soon. All I can tell you now is to book the trip. I would not stick my neck out for something that I didn't totally believe in this is the fourth auto show we've done there is nothing like it in the country like the rest of the country could never like sorry like the other auto shows in the country could never what you can find there 30 to 35 of the hottest family cars that's the full size that's the minivans that the that's the that's the midsize suvs we have some trucks there um we put car seats in every single car because what you know what else you can't find a place to look at all the car seats. Oh, I have them. They're all in my garage. We have shopping. Shop till you drop at the car on auto show. Local vendors, women-owned businesses. Everyone's there selling their crafts. They're amazing, amazing goods. We've got iced coffee. We've got kids activities that are included in your ticket price. I'm talking face painting. I'm talking balloon artists. Last year we had Taylor Swift impersonator in addition to several other good characters. I may even have stilt walkers this year you just don't know yeah yeah um and it is the best here's here are your options if you are car shopping you can either go to multiple dealerships talk to multiple salesmen just so you can get a look inside of the three different cars you're considering or you can have one super fun afternoon in St. Louis with your girls look at your cars and then make and then and then narrow your list down and go from there it honestly it's gonna save you so much time it's gonna like you have no if you've recently car shopped you do know this but if you wanted to like wake up one day and be like I want to see the third row of the Toyota Grand Highlander let me just paint you what your day would look like you'd have to drive to do a dealership. Okay. You'd have to pull up and then you would see all these like salespeople staring at you through the window. Okay. A guy would come out to you named Derek. He's on his third monster of the day, his energy drink. He would ask for your phone number. They're going to harass. Not, not all, but I'm kind of being dramatic, but like he's going to ask for your phone number. He's going to want you to talk to his manager. He's going to pull the car up. He's going to put some sale pressure on you. And you're like, I just wanted to see what the third row looked like. Like that's all I wanted to see. You know, who's not going to send you a follow-up text or follow up call or follow up email karma motto show 100 we couldn't be bothered like we're good well please yeah no that's not that's not about us um you do you we don't want your money we don't want your sale um we do want your money we want your ticket price but that's all we want we do need your ticket price because we do have expenses that have to cover um but once our expense like that's what we're in it for like we are just i'm telling you it's such a star-studded affair it's such a fun event and the night before on june 12th we'll be having like a vip night and that's not really the right word for it it's more of like an adult only night so it's not going to have the vendors not going to have the kids activities we're going to have like a little cocktail hour and then we're going to open up the floor and i'll probably do like a private tour so i would recommend coming to both because like if you want to like for sure meet me and liz get a picture you know have a night out definitely come to that and then the next day well and also it's like it's there won't be it's there's limited tickets available for that so you know on at the auto show sometimes especially if you're at like a really hot time you might be waiting to look in a car there might be a lot going on you have like total private access to the show um and to all the cars so if like you're a very very serious buyer and also like you want to have come a good time and you really want to like meet us and talk with us and everything that's the one that you should go to um but then you should still come back the next day for the vibes the next day it's a totally different experience just like good vibes there's like music it's vibey it's a great time um yeah we're so excited so june 13th save the date tickets are not available yet but they will be soon and it's also just like i'm telling you it just like shakes up the industry in such a major way like with the press we get after this everyone's always like i want to be a part of that like what is this auto show that you guys are doing pretty exciting yeah um okay the last thing i wanted to say since we've talked last i don't know if you can like hear it in my voice but i'm a lot more well read than the last time we talked because i had my first book club oh that's right i have already read one book the lion woman of tehran overall i found the story to be fascinating um it was a period in time and a place in time I knew very little about so I am very much more well educated and versed I felt like the ending like wrapped up way too quick and I feel like that's kind of like common with books it's like you know when you give me all these details and then you like slap one chapter together for like like I knew everything these characters ate for breakfast lunch and dinner for the first three years of their life and then you can't be bothered to write a decent ending. Like that was crazy. I get that. But I have not stopped thinking about the book. So I do recommend it. I think it's very, very good. And we had our first book club. It's just me and two other girls. And they I like knew these two girls were readers. And so I had an inkling that like they might be book clubbing. And I just literally invited myself and I said, Hey, do you guys want to get together and do a book club? Like I'm just looking to read more. And they're like, Oh, yeah, we read every month. Let's start a book club. And so we did. um the rule is like we take turns hosting the hostess picks the book okay um and then we just have like like straight up girl dinner like there's not a protein to be found you know what i mean there's like bruschetta goat cheese wine nerds clusters like just delicious creme de la creme we printed out some discussion questions and we just talked about the book and it was such a fun night so fun so we're doing next i'm hosting next okay the book i chose is called i think it's called the goddess of warsaw you know it's so hard when you don't when you're not a physical book copy person because you're always just like oh what like where's the book you know yeah because like your kindle doesn't tell you and i don't know i guess i'm not looking at the audible um so yeah we're doing it monthly i thought we were gonna do it every other month but they these girls are like they're like readers who are readers because I was like trying to pick this month's book and I sent them three and they had read all three of them already so oh wow yeah they're like real readers and they really like thrillers and I'm a little scared about a thriller because I don't like scary things um but I think I'm gonna have to stretch myself because this will be our second historical fiction book so we'll see but all to say is I'm really enjoying it you should join our book club. Not interested? I don't know. I am kind of, but I'm also kind of hesitant. Yeah. I wonder why. I just feel like you and I do a lot together. Totally. And sometimes I wonder if our social lives should just remain kind of more separate. Okay, that's fine. Start your own then. Maybe I will. I don't know if I'm a book club era right now. I get that I get that but like the fact that I could have like the fact that by the end of this year I could have had 12 books read watch out world that would be really exciting like what do you know about Tehran in the 60s because I know some things yeah no it's good yeah so anyway that's what I've been up to okay well proud of you and tomorrow I fly out for the Chicago auto show speaking of auto shows speaking of auto shows the one in chicago that never leaves chicago um you're going to that one and i'm not going because i can't um but you are going with sam mama knows car seats and you guys are going to like a gala like you're doing black tie things yeah i know so like i feel like like let me be clear like the chicago auto show is a bigger auto show than the karma motto show not more fun but it is bigger so we get there thursday and sam and i are so excited because sam and i are both watching traders and traders comes out on thursday nights so like me and sam get to sit in a hotel room kid free together and watch traders like peak peak of the trip peak of the trip yeah um also i may do like a little traders recap at the end of this episode because i just feel like some people might care okay and then friday morning we have the media day so that's where the auto show is not open to the public they don't play any music so like the media can go around and like capture all of our content but your girl's booked and busy i've got meetings with stellantis i've got meetings with ram i've got meetings with brightax and i'm on a panel so like catch me catch me all over the place and then that night we're going to a black tie gala me and sam um luckily it's with came through with a perfect black tie dress thank you for all your military ball experiences it's a gala that's on the showroom floor which sounds so razzle dazzle like that is my happy place like give me oh and the hotel's connected probably shouldn't say but it's fine the hotel's connected so like catch me with a little bubbly you know what i mean so excited um and finally saturday morning i'm doing tours one tour and it might not be too late to get your tickets you can find a link in the show notes if it's not too late because come out private tour the auto show with me and sam and i'm bringing merch wow so such a valuable ticket so if you have any questions about cars or car seats literally the most valuable ticket i know literally it's like if you can get if you can like get sam to answer a question to you like in person like oh my gosh wow she's so smart i'll be taking notes too like she's so smart okay is that all we have before like we have industry news it's the drive-thru should i give my little traders recap yeah no i was just like well i just i posted a real not too long ago about like my 12 weeks pregnant update and I just read like a hate comment that I got. Not even a hate comment. But then people have already come to my defense and it's just kind of hilarious. Someone named Jack, who's surprised, said, did you see the state of Florida? Okay, so I posted how I've been like craving sour candy, like God forbid. He said, did you see how the state of Florida published what's in candy? Lots of things that are no good in sour candy. And I'm not talking sugar. Google it. someone goes do you think this is helpful jack we know candy isn't great she's pregnant mind your own uterus and then someone goes i'm sure she and baby will be perfectly fine we're talking sour candy sour patch kids not heroin like dude i freaking know sour skittles are probably the worst candy i could be eating right now not the point oh jack oh jack oh jack i just like love it when people just like come to my defense and I didn't have to even say anything. Thank you. That's the mamas. What a village. The moms are either the nicest or the worst people on the internet. Oh my gosh. It is so true. I've received the nicest messages from moms and the worst messages from moms. Yeah. We're a crazy bunch. Like we're a crazy bunch like that. Yeah. I mean, yeah, totally. I wonder if our mom struggles with how hard it is to parent 30 year old women who receive a lot of hate comments on the internet because i have called her crying a couple of times yeah it doesn't really seem to faze her i think you're fine like whatever you're being crazy yeah um so anyway anyway let me just tell you about traitors if you're if you're not watching you might want to hear this recap because i just think like it'll help you have conversations with people first of all it's the best show on television wait should we do our industry news before we do this that's fine that's fine okay because like my okay i want to talk about the 2027 kia telluride okay we'll do our intro for industry news first now it's time for industry news where we share the hot tea going on the auto industry and today liz wants to talk about the kia telluride i want to talk about the new kia telluride because we just got a chance to see it and it was fun because we were at the dealers this is what's So it was so much fun about doing it at the dealership versus like going to a first drive event where they just have the car. We literally sat in a 25 and then a 27, 25, then 27. Like we could very clearly see the differences and the upgrades and what we like and what we don't like. First impressions when I drove up to it, and I think we both had the grill I don't like. I don't like the grill. The grill I don't like. The rest of the exterior is fine. um i think that the interior has some really cool touches to it there are a few things that kind of bother me on it but it looks a lot better than i like it better than the 26 palisade i totally agree and i previously was a palisade over Telluride girl And now I totally flip flopped Me too You know it felt a little, it's really hard because like it, it wasn't screaming for an upgrade like this for me. So it's like, I do like it, but I still like the old one. And now they feel like two completely different cars. Yeah. Like even the new expedition, it was a total redesigned interior now but it still feels like an expedition totally like if you would have put me in that car and covered up the kia logo i would have had no idea what car i was in i would have probably guessed a toyota because i do think the interior is a little bit especially in the telluride is more rugged feeling um which i was hoping they would go a little bit more techy because i think the koreans do tech really well so to see them like kind of strip away some of the designs and instead try to be like so rugged it's not that i don't like it just wasn't what it wasn't what i was expecting and i don't want to say it feels unnecessary but it's just like you're just not going to catch me saying that that it was i love the old one still there was nothing yeah i didn't have any issues with the old one i think that they could have i agree with you like a total redesign similarly to the expedition that still held some tell your ride to it like this just felt so different yeah um i don't know it's just like these recent hyundai and kia releases have just been like they must have like a very clear 10-year plan at least i hope that they do because it feels so totally random i mean it's feeling less random the more that come out that look very boxy very futuristic um but now i feel like the palisade and the telluride actually look really similar and before i felt like they had two very different flavors yeah and now they're like kind of the same car with like some minor changes something that they some things highlights that they did add is that they did add a tether anchor in the third row um they added a car seat tilt they fixed the buckles in the second row so boosters should be easier to buckle so they made good they made good car seat improvements um i just think it's like it's just really hard to like champion behind a brand who's always changing because even if you look at what the telluride looked i mean we've talked about this the telluride changed every year and a half yeah like they're updating the grill they're updating the headlights and they're giving it's such a different look and it's just like really aging the cars and i don't know if that strategy is like let's get people in the new ones sooner sooner sooner because then you look at like toyotas they couldn't be bothered to update their car volvo couldn't be bothered to update their car tesla literally couldn't do it if they tried so it's just different strategies and it's hard because it's not that i don't like it i do like it i think it's fun i think it's exciting it's good content for us um just like i just can't believe how quickly it happened you know so yeah um speaking of quickly it happened there's two things that i wanted to talk about today on industry news and is two actually three cars that are no longer being made anymore oh okay Okay. This is from Motor One. It's the end of the road for two of Tesla's longest-running electric vehicles. The Model S sedan and the Model XUV will be discontinued next quarter, Elon Musk said on the company's earning call on Wednesday. Tesla plans to convert the space at its Fairmont, California factory, where the Model S and Model X are built, into a facility to produce Optimus humanoid robots instead. Ugh. So that's the Model S. It's just like a sedan, but the Model X is their big SUV. Ugh. For robots? For robots. I was watching that wild robot movie. Have you ever seen that? No. It's on Netflix. It's a good movie. Your kids would like it. I want nothing to do with robots. Like humanoid robots. I'm not that offended by them. Just feels like it's a whole other thing. Totally. Anyway, the next car that's dead is the Hyundai Santa Cruz, which was Hyundai's failed little weird flip-flop looking truck. yeah it was a hideous hideous car i don't even think we ever reviewed it because why i it was hard it was hard for me to look at yeah okay well i'm good i'm happy with that one just after four years in production wow it's pulling its plug on the fordmatic rival and we can't say we're all surprised that's also for a motor one yeah so but don't worry kia has a new telluride yeah okay well are you ready for ditch the drive-thru where we give you an easy dinner recipe to mix it up to get you out of your dinner rut. For dinner the other night, I made chicken, but like in a new way that was so good and so juicy, I couldn't believe it. Is this your cutlet story again? No, it's not. I'm like really mixing up my chicken game. Normally, I would prepare chicken this way and then I would grill it. But since there's snow outside, I couldn't grill. So here's what I did. I always start with a chicken breast by putting it in a bag and then mashing it with a mallet. Okay. A thin breast is always easier to work with. Sure. Once it's a thinner breast, then I douse it in Italian dressing. Classic. That's classic. Let it marinate for if you have 30 minutes, great. If you have five hours, great. however long you have. And then I heated up my cast iron skillet and I put some avocado oil in it. And, um, I just like flipped it, put it, put it, put them on the pan and like flipped it a couple of times and waited until it was like exactly 165 and pulled it off. It was so, oh, and before you put them before you put it in the pan you have to dab like kind of uh take a paper towel and like dab the chicken so it's not so dressingy and so like wet um because that prevents like burning i found out um and then i cut it up and i ended up making chicken wraps which like a chicken wrap is fun because then it's like whatever your flavor that's just your sauce so if you like ranch if you like buffalo if you like uh parmesan sounds unbelievable right now yeah you could do caesar like really if you get the the the inner fixings whatever that is for you for me it's like cheese shredded lettuce tomato bacon yeah um and then and then the best thing you can do is when you have your leftovers to just cut the chicken up into strips before you put it in the Tupperware, you're going to be way more inclined to use it than like pulling out a cold breast and having to cut it up. No, like a Southwest chicken wrap made from home right now. Yeah, that's a good one too. I would literally love that to be delivered to me. This is not to do the drive through, but we didn't talk about this. We had the most fun dinner on Friday night. We had the most fun dinner. We did something so random. Tyler and I just like, it was like a night where like the kids got home from school and I'm like, I can't sit here all night. He's like, me neither. So we're like what should we do and i'm like he's like let's go to dinner and it's just like dinner with like four kids sounds so horrible and i was like let's go to hibachi like we've never taken the kids to a hibachi restaurant you know when they cook in front of you we said dinner with four kids sounds so terrible let's add fire and a live skillet to the mix um yeah so she called me she was going to a hibachi place literally seven minutes from my house and i was like okay well i don't want to cook either i'll meet you there it was a blast all the kids sat in their seats the entire time no one asked for anything they actually ate their meal comes out quickly and ready so like because they get the rice out first so the kids can start eating fred was just eating yum yum sauce like love him your friend was dipping his finger in yum yum sauce george and hattie had so much fun like catching the food in their mouth they thought like the ring of fire was so cool the choo-choo trained onion of course like george and hattie did but even fred and james they both tried catching food in their mouth got hit in the head and they thought it was hilarious they loved the fire like they all loved it and it was actually so fun i never would have thought like a two and a half year old was an appropriate age to take to hibachi and actually it was great it wasn't our worst idea no one asked for like a coloring page like everyone was enthralled the entire time yeah no it was so fun it was so fun i like it was one of those nights where kelly i like woke up the next day and i was like what a great night that was I know. I haven't had an experience like that in a long time. Especially whenever Elizabeth and I get together with the kids, we have the best. We have such high expectations, and we are let down every single time in, like, a major way. Yeah. And that was one where I was like, things we did that. Like, we did that. We had fun with that. When Fred and James are starting to play together, too, which makes things easier. Oh, it was great. Take your kids to Hibachi. Fred didn't want to leave. I'm like, well, I guess you can. But I didn't. He was ready to spend the night. but like they're close no it's so exciting like another year like it's it's gonna be so fun um so you know we didn't ditch the ride through but it is a fun thing to do really fun it is not cheap though no um but okay so here's something i found out who was i talking to i was talking to maybe my sister-in-law about it because i was like we had so much fun at hibachi like it's really expensive but it's also so much food so like we could have easily split and she said the place that they go to let's we'll let her and her husband split they just have to pay two dollars so if you could split an entree but they cost you two dollars to split and then like you get she's like they still give you like all the same rice like they're still gonna make it the same way but she's like we split it and then we still have leftovers so that might be a good hack just find out about splitting and like the kids meals were literally the size of the on like they were huge yeah they were so many leftovers um okay now it's time for traders recap oh yeah okay so traitors i'm not going to catch you up on everything but on the most recent episode liz do you know who lisa renna is yeah okay so lisa renna ends up going home because they find out that she's a traitor do you know who colton underwood is yeah so it was this whole like colton renna because colton kind of got on to lisa renna because she was being very like quiet more reserved And he was like, I think she's a traitor. And that kind of like got the conversation started. And then another traitor, Rob from Love Island, you know, Rob from Love Island. No. The one with the snake tattoos. No. He's darling. Anyway, he's starting to throw Rinna under the bus, like basically outing one of his fellow traitors because she was getting like borderline hard to defend. And then the thing that like really set me over the edge and just like I thought was so interesting was they had to do this like banquet and they had to do, I guess what you could call like a murder in plain sight so lisa renna had to wear this this like a brooch brooch girl summer she had to wear this brooch and she had to get one of the other contestants to touch her brooch and if they touched it then later they found out like they that cursed them but they didn't know what the curse was so they end up cursing this guy named yam yam this sounds so stupid when i'm describing it to you but it's okay for the people listening they're gonna care then of course this guy named yam yam and yam yam he's like gets banished basically gets murdered and he's like it was lisa she kissed me she kissed me and lisa immediately goes no i didn't which was not even what she did to murder him it was the brooch because she acted like the brooch was like kind of not clipped all the way but she immediately lies and says no i didn't kiss him like on the cheek when she did and like she immediately went to lie like that and it was that was literally was when she dug her own grave because why would you just be like yeah i kissed everybody here like what are you talking about i kissed everybody and she immediately went on the defense which is not a good idea so then the episode goes on and lisa is like literally scrambling to try to get somebody's other's names put up and they get to the round table and she just like couldn't build a case for anybody and they end up like voting her out pretty unanimously which is crazy because like Rob kind of like led that charge so now no one's expecting Rob to be the traitor but now Rob has to work with Candace who is another housewife and I think that it goes really south from here because what I've read is that Candace and Rob are not speaking anymore so it's going to be interesting to see what happens but like Colton Underwood is like one of the best players in this game and he's so influential and like if he says something like he can flip a table like if he brings a name up it's like signing a death certificate and he's been wrong two out of the four times which is just probably more 50. no he's been wrong he's only he's only been right about lisa so he's been wrong a lot people are and they're voting out all these faithfuls so do like new people get added throughout the game like what do you mean faithfuls what is it there's faithfuls and traitors there's faithfuls and traitors and the faithfuls are trying to find the traitors and the traitors kill faithfuls it's such a good show i'm obsessed you know what kelly i want to get there but like the way the way that i am obsessed with landman i can't stop thinking about the people i'm following the people on instagram like i'm watching their interviews like I don't do this for shows I'm obsessed I need to watch Landman and the new Bridgerton came out like I'm so I have got to but now I'm in a book club now I'm too busy to do anything there's too much there's too much there's too much but anyway that's gonna be your episode today because I'm starving and now I want a chicken wrap all right well you get your chicken wrap girl thank you so much for listening to the carpool podcast and we'll talk to you next time Love you guys. 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