Speaker 1: Hey, this is Anny and Samantha.
Speaker 2: I'm welcome to Steff. I've never told you protection of iHeartRadio.
Speaker 3: And welcome to I'm gonna call this a very special
Speaker 3: happy hour mainly because it's February twenty ninth, twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3: It is a leap yer, y'all on twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3: I feel like all of that is very like specific
Speaker 3: and something may be good luck. I'm gonna say it's
Speaker 3: all good luck. Not that I believe in like lucky
Speaker 3: numbers or anything, but all of that feels like because
Speaker 3: they're all divisible A two four zero, I just that
Speaker 3: is zero the end. So that's why I'm calling it
Speaker 3: a happy one mainly or a special one mainly because
Speaker 3: of the date. So if you're listening to this as
Speaker 3: we're recording, we are recording on the day that is
Speaker 3: leap Day, which, by the way, the Google uh caught.
Speaker 3: It's quite funny because it has that twenty eight plus
Speaker 3: one and then the frog has the twenty nine on it.
Speaker 1: Have you seen it?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 2: I have not seen that.
Speaker 1: Okay, Anyway, it was fun to me.
Speaker 3: I was like, oh, okay, that's all reach but okay,
Speaker 3: but welcome and yes, this is a happy hour. So
Speaker 3: if you are partaking and joining us in the partaking
Speaker 3: of adult beverages or whatever whatnot, do so responsibly. We're
Speaker 3: not currently sponsored by the things that we are talking
Speaker 3: about necessarily. Maybe it is sponsored by my feelings. I
Speaker 3: don't know, Oh, in a way, yeah, exactly. So Annie,
Speaker 3: are you sleeping on anything?
Speaker 2: I am?
Speaker 4: If I had known as a special one, I would
Speaker 4: have made a special drink because I'm trying.
Speaker 2: To clear out my fridge. No, it's all right.
Speaker 4: I don't have a lot of space in my refrigerator
Speaker 4: right now, so I'm trying to clear it out. So
Speaker 4: I'm just drinking an unnamed light.
Speaker 3: Beer light beer, her favorite, And I am just keeping
Speaker 3: it safe because this is actually our first recording of
Speaker 3: the day and we have several more to go, and
Speaker 3: I get very, very sleepy nowadays, not all the time,
Speaker 3: but typically that's the reaction I have to alcohol. So
Speaker 3: I'm drinking just some sparkling water with some flavoring in
Speaker 3: it because I did the machine that you gave me.
Speaker 3: But yeah, so I'm keeping it zero proof, as we
Speaker 3: have said, except it's not a mocktail or zero proof
Speaker 3: cocktail or zero proof drink.
Speaker 1: Settle on.
Speaker 2: I think we settled on zero proof, but I feel
Speaker 2: like this the specificity of it is that it is
Speaker 2: something more than what you would normally get on menus.
Speaker 4: That is, like it used to just be water in
Speaker 4: Coca cola, so it excuse me, an alcohol.
Speaker 2: So I feel like zero proof is like specific category.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so this is I'm just not drinking alcohol right now.
Speaker 3: So that's the point of that. But essentially, I just
Speaker 3: wanted to do a quick check in on what's happening
Speaker 3: because we have hit the second month pretty hard, y'all.
Speaker 3: As where January felt like it dragged to me, February,
Speaker 3: which I still hate saying, that month felt like lightning,
Speaker 3: like it went through so quickly, even with the extra day,
Speaker 3: which a TikTok creator pointed out was an extra day
Speaker 3: that we worked without getting extra pay, and I was like, oh, oh.
Speaker 2: I saw something about that too.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Interesting, I've never thought about that.
Speaker 1: Before either did this.
Speaker 3: I was like, knowledge just too much. I kind of
Speaker 3: wish they hadn't said that because now I feel like
Speaker 3: I've been taken advantage of, which is anyways, But with that,
Speaker 3: wanted to do a quick check in to see how
Speaker 3: we are all doing, and yes that includes you listeners
Speaker 3: and Christina.
Speaker 1: Check in with us.
Speaker 3: For myself, like I said, this month feels like it
Speaker 3: just went by so quickly.
Speaker 1: I feel like in our.
Speaker 3: Work right now that we are doing Knock on Wood
Speaker 3: really well, and that we've been kind of ahead and
Speaker 3: doing things, you know, like on top. We've been on
Speaker 3: top of things. We've gotten some good guests, We're getting
Speaker 3: more good guests, a return of a friend of the show.
Speaker 3: I'm so excited. There's a lot happening this year. I
Speaker 3: am bombarded with texts and emails and phone calls for
Speaker 3: election year stuff which drives me crazy. And just so
Speaker 3: y'all know, if you try to call me, I will
Speaker 3: not answer an unknown number ever, ever, ever, ever, ever,
Speaker 3: which is probably a good thing because you get scammed
Speaker 3: that way. But yeah, it's been interesting. I have decided
Speaker 3: also this month that I have to be very specific
Speaker 3: when I want to hang out with people, and in
Speaker 3: that the amount of people.
Speaker 1: During a period.
Speaker 3: And I think I've narrowed it down that I will
Speaker 3: see two to three people every two weeks, and like,
Speaker 3: if you make that cut, wonderful, But outside of that,
Speaker 3: and like if it means I'm going outside of my house.
Speaker 3: Even that's an added like, oh no, that might be
Speaker 3: another three days of RUSS that I have to have.
Speaker 3: But I think I'm getting to the point that I
Speaker 3: have become so specific about when I schedule hanging out
Speaker 3: with people or when I want to hang it out
Speaker 3: with people that it comes to I'm like, yeah, I
Speaker 3: can't do that.
Speaker 1: I already saw another person. I can't see you type
Speaker 1: of thing, And I don't know if that's healthy or unhealthy.
Speaker 2: That's a good question. I think it can be healthy.
Speaker 4: But I also think like, sometimes sometimes you might feel, oh, okay,
Speaker 4: I can handle like you don't want to get too
Speaker 4: trapped in your rules.
Speaker 2: And I say that as someone who does that all
Speaker 2: the time.
Speaker 4: So I think that there has to be space for
Speaker 4: recognizing this is a good role. I put it in
Speaker 4: place for a reason, but sometimes it might change, and
Speaker 4: that's our.
Speaker 3: Of course, I will always be very like decided the
Speaker 3: day of, But that also means that if I have
Speaker 3: decided this, and even if I've scheduled two weeks in
Speaker 3: advance and it's coming up on it and I'm like
Speaker 3: I don't want to do it, I will quickly cancel.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's funny because you and I have such like opposite.
Speaker 4: I used to have a rule that I couldn't This
Speaker 4: is how much I've changed though. I used to have
Speaker 4: a rule that I couldn't hang out with three people
Speaker 4: in one day because the third person always got screwed
Speaker 4: because I would get delayed a little bit because I'd
Speaker 4: hang out longer than I thought, be late to the
Speaker 4: second person, and then get delayed more, and then by
Speaker 4: the time I got to the third first, I just
Speaker 4: felt bad. I'm like, this seems I should respect your
Speaker 4: time more than this.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: With that usual respecting time, I have gotten to the
Speaker 3: point that I have become the person that comes early
Speaker 3: to things too early, like ten minutes too early. And
Speaker 3: I'm like, I never was that person because because I
Speaker 3: am so literal that I'm like, oh, we're meeting at one,
Speaker 3: I will pull up at one like and I'm like,
Speaker 3: that's not really that's not really respectful because I'm going
Speaker 3: to see you at one oh five because parking is
Speaker 3: going to take five to ten minutes, but I plan
Speaker 3: it specific to when I arrive. But now it's changed
Speaker 3: so much in my head that I've become the person
Speaker 3: that has I don't know if it's the anxiety. And
Speaker 3: now I do think, Okay, there's parking, that could be traffic,
Speaker 3: I might have to pay anything, I have to go
Speaker 3: find you where if I get lost here that I
Speaker 3: have actually like become the person that is ten minutes early,
Speaker 3: And I.
Speaker 1: Don't know how I feel about that.
Speaker 3: Is that like being responsible or is that just me
Speaker 3: being like I'm tired, I want to get this over with.
Speaker 4: I think you're being I think you know you acknowledge
Speaker 4: that parking.
Speaker 2: Look, you don't want to get me starting on parking.
Speaker 2: It's one of the reasons I hate driving, and I don't.
Speaker 4: Do it anymore, But you acknowledge, like there can be
Speaker 4: those things that come up, and I think it's fair that, like,
Speaker 4: sometimes things are just out of your control. But sometimes
Speaker 4: I do get annoyed when a friend will like every
Speaker 4: time be like, oh there was traffic.
Speaker 2: Yeah right, So.
Speaker 4: I don't think I don't think that's bad. I will
Speaker 4: say that ten minutes is good. But I have some
Speaker 4: friends who show up like way too early, and that
Speaker 4: annoys me because I was planning on using that time
Speaker 4: to clean or whatever.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So I think there is a balance.
Speaker 3: It's a balance I know, like I have friends who
Speaker 3: set up a time and they're uh, and the Latino
Speaker 3: and they're like, no, I'm meant for you to do
Speaker 3: this on Puerto Rican time, which is thirty minutes later,
Speaker 3: if not two hours.
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, I get that. I get that.
Speaker 3: But so people who were on time are super early essential. Right,
Speaker 3: all that to say, but what about you? What's going
Speaker 3: on with you? How is the end of this month?
Speaker 3: So far this year? You have been super busy this month.
Speaker 4: I have been really busy, and I'm actually working really
Speaker 4: hard on fixing it because it got out of control.
Speaker 4: It really got out of hand, and like I felt
Speaker 4: like I was drowning working all the time, and I
Speaker 4: had all this like fun stuff that I was doing,
Speaker 4: but it was like way too much. So I'm trying
Speaker 4: to get better about that and about managing I might
Speaker 4: come back and do like a mini or a happy
Speaker 4: hour on this, but it's kind of the dark side
Speaker 4: of not being able to procrastinate. I'm trying to get
Speaker 4: better about like, you don't have to do this right
Speaker 4: now right.
Speaker 1: Now, get me to teach you.
Speaker 4: Maybe we should, we should have a session. But yeah,
Speaker 4: I have tried to be just because I realized, like
Speaker 4: I was getting so stressed out and I was just
Speaker 4: like randomly crying just out of nowhere. I was like,
Speaker 4: You've got to do something. This is this is not sustainable,
Speaker 4: this is not good. So that's why I mentioned I've
Speaker 4: been trying to go on like more walks, and I've
Speaker 4: been trying to like stretch and just take back some.
Speaker 2: Of that time. And I feel like it's been good.
Speaker 4: I feel I haven't there hasn't been like any noticeable
Speaker 4: shift yet, but I feel like I'm on the precipice
Speaker 4: of it, you know what I mean, Like, Okay, yeah,
Speaker 4: it hasn't happened yet, but I'm taking these steps and
Speaker 4: I feel good about them.
Speaker 3: I feel like this month again, you've got cram full
Speaker 3: of like special requests, although we are coming upon women's
Speaker 3: history months, so I'm not sure. And because we are
Speaker 3: a feminist show, we do get asked something.
Speaker 1: But last year we got asked for nothing, so that
Speaker 1: was odd.
Speaker 4: It's one of those things sometimes this happens where I'm
Speaker 4: like both relieved in a little.
Speaker 1: Why.
Speaker 3: I do find all of that funny because I'm like, well,
Speaker 3: I do want to do more things so we can
Speaker 3: get our names out there and just remind people we
Speaker 3: were still here. But at the same time, I don't
Speaker 3: want the extra work. It's extra anxiety of working.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, exactly, just why.
Speaker 3: But yeah, we've been told we haven't been asked to
Speaker 3: do anything. I don't even think we have like special sponsorships.
Speaker 1: Even we got like.
Speaker 4: A random message that we might be asked and then
Speaker 4: that was the end of that.
Speaker 2: So far, I love.
Speaker 3: That is the entirety of our job, just to peak
Speaker 3: behind the curtains. We don't know what's happening until write
Speaker 3: when it happens, and then you're like, oh, yeah.
Speaker 2: Okay, And that is part of the problem.
Speaker 4: It's like, again, it's beautiful and wonderful that we get
Speaker 4: to work from home and we have these flexible schedules,
Speaker 4: but it does mean it can be very difficult to
Speaker 4: plan your schedule in a way where you don't feel
Speaker 4: like you're drowning suddenly, right, So I think that that
Speaker 4: is one of the things that play here. I'm also
Speaker 4: in the midst of renegotiating my contract, so that's been
Speaker 4: a whole thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, just these things that you can't necessarily anticipate or
Speaker 4: plan around.
Speaker 2: And I'm trying to manage those things better.
Speaker 3: Well, Like our show is so different when it's because
Speaker 3: we are of like five days, six days a week,
Speaker 3: constant new episodes except for one show. And then on
Speaker 3: top of that, like we get when we get asked
Speaker 3: to do things here or there, we it feels like
Speaker 3: we have to either drop everything or push everything around
Speaker 3: in order to get that done for us to have
Speaker 3: enough episodes to make sure we get it on timed
Speaker 3: enough content. So you know, we've talked about this before,
Speaker 3: like the amount of research and the fact that we
Speaker 3: do fun things, but it's still a job.
Speaker 1: When it becomes a.
Speaker 3: Job, becomes a job we talk about when we watch movies,
Speaker 3: it seems so easy and again we are very privileged,
Speaker 3: and I feel like this is an amazing step up
Speaker 3: in less stress than when I was in social work,
Speaker 3: but knowing that we constantly have to be on the
Speaker 3: lookout for subjects or topics or any of the such,
Speaker 3: constantly watch the news. I remember Caroline former hosts recently
Speaker 3: when we talked about like when she stopped podcasting, and
Speaker 3: she was like, you know, I love the one part
Speaker 3: I love is that I don't have to keep up
Speaker 3: with what's going on and why the world is burning anymore?
Speaker 3: And I don't have to look at it and pay
Speaker 3: attention to me as much. Of course, she pays attention
Speaker 3: and is very aware of things. But the fact that
Speaker 3: we have to be in the middle of it, constantly
Speaker 3: looking at it, constantly writing about it, constantly researching it.
Speaker 3: It's stressful, especially when we again feel like the world
Speaker 3: is burning, especially when we live in the South, the
Speaker 3: Southeast specifically, and see things happening that seems so out
Speaker 3: of our can control because of the powers that are
Speaker 3: currently in place. So so many of those things, you know,
Speaker 3: And it's interesting because again, we love our jobs. This
Speaker 3: is amazing, This is being able to work from home,
Speaker 3: Like right now, I'm definitely my pajamas, don't worry about it.
Speaker 3: Do I have any makeup on? No?
Speaker 1: I do not.
Speaker 3: Is my desk surrounded by a little kitchen things that
Speaker 3: both Annie and my partner have given me.
Speaker 1: Yes, And I love this.
Speaker 3: But there's so much to this where we are trying
Speaker 3: to produce enough content and relevant content, but it does
Speaker 3: become a little tiring, and then on top of that,
Speaker 3: trying to publicize that we exist.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I had this conversation with somebody the other day where.
Speaker 2: It's hard to describe.
Speaker 4: Sometimes if you haven't done it, but there is an
Speaker 4: energy dream just from like oh I should post on
Speaker 4: social media, or oh I should do this, which we
Speaker 4: stop doing on social media by the way, but somebody
Speaker 4: had said, like, you should post on social media more,
Speaker 4: and I was like, I do not have the brandwidth
Speaker 4: to do that right now, Like I know that I
Speaker 4: should if I as part of our I personally am
Speaker 4: not on social media, so I don't care, but as
Speaker 4: part of our brand, like it would be good, yeah
Speaker 4: thing to do we do like connecting with you listeners,
Speaker 4: but I just can't do it. That's just something I
Speaker 4: had to come to terms with. And sometimes I'm sad
Speaker 4: about that because sometimes I'm like, oh, that would have
Speaker 4: been a really fun post.
Speaker 1: Well, I take that all.
Speaker 3: The time, and honestly, we have an amazing team that
Speaker 3: does take up a chunk of that, but they're also
Speaker 3: very busy and stretched pretty thin, mainly because of the
Speaker 3: fact that again, we are a business. We are a corporation,
Speaker 3: a multi million dollar corporation that wants to save money
Speaker 3: and oftentimes does that by stching their workers. Then again,
Speaker 3: but with that, like we we think. We are so
Speaker 3: grateful to have that as our solid ground who keeps
Speaker 3: us going make sure that we have enough content. And
Speaker 3: the age differences I noticed this in our staff meeting
Speaker 3: is quite a delight because you do have different perspectives
Speaker 3: of what is relevant and what you should talk about this.
Speaker 3: And I was like, huh, okay.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: I love when we like pitch a topic and everybody
Speaker 4: has a completely different point that they're coming from about it.
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, I didn't mean that.
Speaker 3: So we definitely had moments that were like, oh, that's oh, okay, yeah, cool, cool, cool.
Speaker 3: But yeah, we do find that fascinating, uh, and also
Speaker 3: amazing that we have such an amazing team. Uh. We've
Speaker 3: got Joey and Christina and Maya who really just keeps
Speaker 3: us in check as well as sounding professional.
Speaker 1: Thank you desperately.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I think this month it's been interesting, and
Speaker 3: now that we've got an extra day, I'm like, okay,
Speaker 3: which this is the last day of Black History Month, obviously,
Speaker 3: so at the end of this I'm gonna take a
Speaker 3: couple of SIPs of the Uncle Nearest Whiskeys, which still
Speaker 3: is my favorite to celebrate this month. Again, I could
Speaker 3: if I were drinking, that would be what I would have,
Speaker 3: some type of cocktail, but not work. I have now
Speaker 3: found my boundaries. If this was the end episode, I
Speaker 3: would I would be but it's not. But with that
Speaker 3: happy end of February, everyone, Happy Leap Day apparently according
Speaker 3: to thirty where you're supposed to be wearing blue and
Speaker 3: yellow or you get a wedgie.
Speaker 1: Have you ever seen that episode?
Speaker 2: You've never seen so sure I have, but I don't
Speaker 2: believe all.
Speaker 3: That day episode Leap Day Williams and they give away
Speaker 3: candy to all the kids that are crying or something.
Speaker 3: It's very odd and they say nothing thing counts on
Speaker 3: the day.
Speaker 1: Okay, like because it's not a real.
Speaker 3: Day, so you can do whatever you want. But yeah,
Speaker 3: this is that's the Leap Day. So happy Leap Day
Speaker 3: to everyone listening day on the twenty ninth of February
Speaker 3: twenty twenty four. Thank you for listening and sticking around
Speaker 3: and loving us.
Speaker 4: I hope, yes, yes, yeah, we appreciate you so much.
Speaker 4: So I hope every time we do these episodes that
Speaker 4: it doesn't sound like we're just complaining, because we do
Speaker 4: would enjoy what we do. But also everything comes with
Speaker 4: your pros and your crowns. Yeah, and this has been
Speaker 4: a very very busy month, but yeah, hopefully it's going
Speaker 4: well for you listeners. If you have any Leap Day traditions.
Speaker 1: Yes, I need to know.
Speaker 2: Isn't there there's a romantic one?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, there is is Amy? Uh yeah, what's her name?
Speaker 2: Adams?
Speaker 3: Amy Adams of say Amy Fisher is wrong with me?
Speaker 2: It's a Leap Day America Live.
Speaker 3: I am like not doing well in like association name
Speaker 3: association game anyway.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Well, if you have any traditions like that or
Speaker 4: not like that, listeners, please write in and let us know.
Speaker 4: You can contact us at Stuff Media, mom Stuff at
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Speaker 4: whenever told you.
Speaker 2: We do check it. I promise, we just don't post
Speaker 2: that much.
Speaker 4: We have a tea public store and we have a
Speaker 4: book that you can get wherever you get your books. Thanks,
Speaker 4: as always, Yes to our super producer Christina, executive ducer Maya,
Speaker 4: and our contributor Joey.
Speaker 1: Y'all are the best.
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