Transcript of Giggling about mascots, milk, and Mount Everest New

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Sup, Gigglers? Gary, fix the Wi-Fi.

Manifest that shit. We can't be managed.

I mean, the day just got away from me.

Okay, people sent me G words. You guys, it has to make a guh. It can't make like gnarly.

Can't be a silent G.

It can't be a silent G. There's rules to this game, okay?

There are only silent G's outside of the pod. On the pod, we're loud ones.

Girl, karma's real. Do you remember last pod I was making fun of playing tennis with all the old guys?

You hurt yourself.

Played tennis with a bunch of 60-year-old men.

They whooped you?

No, they didn't whoop me, but let's not get crazy here. But I got too intense, as I usually do. I was like Jeannie during Scrabble, and I, I slipped a disc.

In your back?

I thought that was like a joke. People are like, I slipped a disc. No, I slipped— fully slipped a disc, and then like kept playing because I'm like, I'm not losing this fucking old guy. So I was looking at Dez because Dez supports me on the sidelines, and I was like, I think I threw out my back. And he's And he's like, you want to stop? And I'm like, I'm not— I'm not gonna fucking stop.

There could be like a chill in the air and I'm like, I think we should stop.

So you were talking about people who, um, always think they're sick. What's that called again?

Hypochondriac.

I'm the opposite of that where people are like, your, your arm is falling off, and I'm like, I'm fine.

Yeah, when I'm working I'm like, I'm fine.

Yeah, you don't eat, you don't sleep.

No, I'm like Beyoncé on set. I'm like, I don't take bathroom breaks, I don't take lunch.

But anything with a lot of money involved, it's hard to get you out of bed. Well, because what's the point? I was actually trying to explain to someone, I was like, Paige is such a hard worker except for certain things. You can't get her.

Except for when she's not.

No, you're such a hard worker when you decide to be.

Yeah, when I've decided it's deemed worthy for me to work hard at it, I'll do it. But if I find it frivolous, I'm like, what's the point?

Where I have like a hole deep inside that will never be fulfilled, that like anything I do, I need to like overachieve to make someone be like, she's worthy of existing. But anyway, happy Friday, you guys!

How exciting!

So Sunday, me and you are going to the US Open.

Oh.

Oh, can you not go?

This is a bad time to say that I actually can't go. Well, I have to go to Venice, Italy.

You're hearing it first here. Wait, you've literally moved this plane ride so many times.

So many times.

So you have to leave on—

I was supposed to leave on Monday, but I couldn't like get— I'm sorry, I have cat hair everywhere. I couldn't get a flight, so then I had to move it till to Sunday, the day before. So now I'm going Sunday evening.

I guess I have to go with Des.

Oh my God, I'm so sorry.

You know I don't like having public appearances with my husband.

I know, Kitty almost just turned off my recorder. She's like not trying to pod this morning. Um, I just want to apologize to the gigglers because I posted on my Instagram story I got bangs. And people lost it. People were nervous. People definitely DM'd me and they were like, okay, we're gonna like, we're just gonna sit and wait and watch. And I got bangs because I'm going to the Venice Film Festival and I'm not showing up—

Obviously.

I'm not showing up in Venice, Italy with no bangs. I'll look stupid if I don't have bangs. But then I realized I posted bangs and then I saw this like Dolly Parton thing and so I posted that. And then I realized I posted bangs and then an inspirational quote, and that was on me.

Wait, so people were actually worried in your DMs?

So people that saw the bangs and then came back and saw the inspirational quote, they did a re-message and they said, oh yeah, yeah, something's going on.

I was gonna say, I got trickled— I got a trickle effect of that because I got a couple, hey, is Paige okay? Has she been acting weird today? Anything going on? But my thing is, we're never okay, so I wasn't worried about you. I was like, We've been going through it.

I didn't even think about it for a second because here's the thing, when other girls cut bangs, I'm like, oh, you should check on your friend, like they need a hair change. When I cut bangs, it's—

It's a Tuesday.

Whimsical.

Yeah, it's— Well, look, you also— I'm not trying to brag about you, but like your face shape can handle a lot. If I cut bangs, like that was multiple bad decisions in a row. This for you was just Yeah, like a— you are whimsical.

I had the time.

Wait, where are the bangs right now?

Oh, well, they're like—

wait, bangs are so scary.

Bangs are so scary. This is like, I slept in a bun, so they're like— that's like my sleep paralysis.

Wait, so are you keeping it after Venice, or is this like purely—

Yeah, I can't just like then grow them back immediately.

I don't know what glamorous people do.

Here's the thing, bangs are so fall.

They are fall.

Um, I saw—

wait, do you want to say anything about Venice?

Oh, I'm going to the Venice Film Festival with Armani.

Armani?

I'm doing my fitting today, so I don't know what— I, I don't know what I'm wearing to the Venice Film Festival because I think they tell me, like they say, this is what you're wearing. So I, I get to see it today, so I'm A little bit nervous.

I'm excited for you. Also, like, I feel like you like live in Italy now. It's like your second home.

No, me and Josephine are about to go on like the most romantic vacation.

Josephine's going?

Josephine's in Copenhagen right now for her birthday and she's gonna meet me there.

Well, you guys don't understand the lore behind Josephine, who's Paige's number one favorite assistant who somehow travels more than Paige.

Okay, listen to this. I had— I recorded Morgan Stewart's podcast on Wednesday. Josephine is supposed to meet me at the podcast. Something comes up.

Classic.

Something comes up. Josephine can't meet me at the podcast, so she had to give me— she was giving me a gift to give to Morgan. Like, she had the gift, so I was like— she was like, oh, I can't bring the gift to Morgan. Like, she had to go do something else. So I said, oh, call Emma. Emma is works at Daphne. She runs all of our— the social media. I said, call Emma, give it to Emma. Emma will meet me at Morgan Stewart. Great. I get to Morgan Stewart. The girl comes down to like get me and she's like, is anyone coming with you? And I was like, oh, my assistant's coming. And I was like, actually, she's not really my assistant. She's kind of like a second assistant because she works for Daphne, but she's filling in for my assistant. And the girl's just like staring at me and I go, I'm so sorry that I just sounded like Miranda Priestly, that like my first assistant is an incubus of the plague. And I'm like, My second assistant has to fill in. She wasn't aware that she was—

Wait, it's giving Las Colcherisas. The guy who's like, are you guys Summer House? And I'm like, it's actually a lot more complicated than that.

I was like, she woke up, she had something medical, she was really nervous about it. And I was like—

Also, I don't like calling anyone assistant. Me neither.

I find it rude.

I feel like calling someone an assistant is rude. Like You're my producer.

I'm like, you don't get it, she's like my sounding board.

You're like, she's my sister, she's my other half, she's my, my shaman of getting stuff done.

No, Josephine is funny because like sometimes someone will say something to me and she will not say something in the moment because she'll feel like it's unprofessional, but then like Like a child on a playground, she'll corner me and she'll be like, can I talk to you for a second? And then she'll say her opinion on something that did just happen. She's like, I'm just looking out for you.

That's very president. That's very president. You know how like in all the movies about presidents, they'll be like, sir, can I speak to you for a second?

Yeah. She's like, Paige, can I— I don't think they have your best interest at heart, and I don't think you should actually listen to them. And what they want you to do is stupid. But it's funny because her and Emma are both Gen Z. So like, if we're on a Daphne photoshoot, I call them Gen Z minions because they'll be in the corner facing each other. Just—

that'll be in a documentary one day. I like—

the other day we were at a Daphne photoshoot and I just saw the two of them like facing each other talking, and I can never hear what they're saying.

Gen Z does have a tone, like it's very soft.

And they're like, and then they like walk together. further away. I'm like, what are they doing?

Also, you guys know I identify as Gen Z, and I don't want to lose our like amazing Gen Z following.

Um, who's the guy that went on the moon?

Why was I gonna say Louis Armstrong?

Neil Armstrong. Neil Armstrong. He took one picture. Josephine and Emma took 8,000 pictures at one Daphne photo shoot.

And they're not the photographer, by the way.

Certainly not. They're sitting on the couch and they go, oh my God, I got so many good pictures tonight.

I love my Gen Z girls, but like, when I come on and I'm like, I slipped a disc, and you're like talking about your Gen Z minions, I'm like, I don't want to lose the connection with them.

No, I— no, I don't.

Because I love them so much. Also, there was like this— like, we get new gigglers all the time, and they message me and tell me like How they discovered the pod, whatever. And this guy was so funny. He was like, hey, I'm gay and I love the pod. I have an incredible idea. And I was like, what is it? And he was like, you should call the gigglers who are gay gayglers.

And I was like, babe, are you a time traveler from 2020? We've been doing that.

I go, you're gonna lose your fucking mind. You haven't hit that episode yet, but we— you were 100. We're on the same page, baby. Um, shout out to our gaglers.

Remember the segment Get a Gay Going?

Get a Gay Going. It's still in the works. Like, it's gonna happen. Oh, speaking of Get a Gay Going, let's do our first Get a Gay Going. Um, Blakely Thornton messaged me the funniest thing because we were gossiping about something and there was someone who he didn't want to see.

Yeah.

And someone was like, do you want to meet them? And he said, I'm so sorry, I don't have the bandwidth right now. And I think we have to bring that into the fall. Just like for any reason. I'm so sorry, I don't have the bandwidth right now because I'm— what are you saying back to that?

If you don't follow Blakely on TikTok, he does like dissertations on just like pop culture, but like typically his takes are like always what you're thinking in your head. He just like says it in a sassier, funnier way.

But like with funnier words.

Yeah.

He's like a weird genius.

He's like a weird genius. And then the way he ends his videos every time, I just think is so good. Like, roll the credits.

Like, he was straight in college and played, um, football.

He—

yeah, his lore is insane. And he was in Tech. He grew up in Texas. Like, that wasn't— oh my God, like, give that a fucking movie. Des and I have officially become the crazy old couple at the restaurant.

Tell.

So we go to a diner, we're in our— and we're in our element. Like, you know, you should stop.

And I'm gonna stop you right there. I'm gonna stop you right there. What time did you go to the diner?

So at 9:30 AM, we thought we could go—

Oh, breakfast.

And get breakfast.

Sorry, I thought you were doing like early bird special, 4:30 PM.

We would do that as well.

Joe makes me eat by 5 PM.

Is that like a metabolism thing?

I think it's like an old— I feel like it's like an old person thing. He's like, well, why would we eat late when we can get in bed?

Then you need to have dinner again at 8.

Well, then that's what happens to me. Then I'm in bed by 8:30, and by the time 9:30 rolls around, I'm like, well, I need to have at least 2 bowls of cereal to sustain.

And he's like not a big snacker, and you're a snacker, which creates—

He's dead asleep.

Yeah. Yeah.

Okay, okay. So you're at the diner.

So we're at the diner and we get in the booth and we're feeling ourselves, like we're like, oh, we're about to party. And the lady comes, the waitress, and she's like, um, do you want coffee? And look, this is not a place where they have oat milk lattes, right?

Know your audience.

But I have to at least ask. I'm like, I'll have an iced coffee. Do you have any other— what kind of milk do you have? That's how I try to be cool about it. And she was like, I got whole and skim. So I go, I'll have skim. Des goes, skim? So immediately I'm like, okay, he's chosen to fight in front of the waitress. So I go, yeah, I said skim. I said skim. He goes, why would you get skim? And I go, I don't know, I don't— because it's like less than whole milk. Like, and he's like, it's just get whole milk, you know, it's not a latte, you're not putting the whole— so by the way, we're already talking too much. Like, the lady already is like, I have other people to deal with. What is skim milk? Because in my— Great question. Like, we can't get into this in front of the waitress right now. Like, this is a great conversation to have, not in this moment. But I'm— I look at him because I'm getting older, I don't care what people think about me, and I go, babe, whole milk is gonna give me a stomachache all day, and skim milk, I'm thinking in my head even though I don't know, I'm not a scientist, might not hurt my stomach as bad.

He goes, how much milk are you actually putting into it? You're not putting enough to make your stomach hurt. Mind you, the lady's just standing there. And I go, Can I just get skim milk if I want to get skim milk? And then we start laughing because we realize that now we're a spectacle. Like, I've become that couple.

Yeah.

And we look at her and she starts laughing. And then this is so old person thing to do.

And if you're wearing those sunglasses, they think you have glaucoma and you're also 85.

And we get her involved. We go, what do you think? And then she's like, get me the fuck out of this restaurant. I don't want to be here right now. So then I'm like, fine, I'll have whole milk. And if something happens to me, We all have witnesses now that this is your fault.

In my head, skim milk is whole milk. They've just skimmed off the top. They've taken— they've literally just gone and said, just a little bit.

I think I grew up in a skim milk home.

I grew up in a milkman home. Like, our milk got delivered to us.

Oh, that's cool.

And I'm pretty sure we were a 2% family growing up.

Yeah, 2% is a good medium. We did occasionally get like chocolate milk from a milkman.

The best.

No, like, that was the best.

That is like— yeah. And like, we get eggnog during Christmas and stuff. Wait, so what'd you end up getting, skim or whole?

I got whole, and I actually don't remember what happened.

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Ich hab gehört, du willst deinen Mobilfunkvertrag kündigen? Aber so einfach lass ich dich nicht davonkommen! Wie wär's mit einem XXL-Streaming-Abo? Einem Zweit-Handy?

Nein, nein, nein! Ich möchte doch nur in Ruhe gelassen werden!

Nur ein Albtraum.

Damit Mobilfunk im echten Leben kein Albtraum wird, Frank von Beginn an ohne Mindestvertragslaufzeit, monatlich kündbar für €10 im Monat. Frank? Nein, Frank.

I Hannah Bernhard myself last night.

That could mean so many things.

I ordered a large cheese pizza just for myself.

I was like, tell me the details. Tell me it slowly.

So I was like by myself and I was like, what is a girl to do when she's by herself? And so I go on Netflix and I'm like, perfect, a new husband murder wife documentary.

I'm supposed to watch that, but Des is making me watch some scripted thing right now.

Hannah Lucy.

Is it good? No, I'm gonna cancel all my plans today to just watch it.

Cancel your plans.

It's, it's so good because it's so like, if there's a pastor involved, shit's going down.

It's so textbook that like they met, this girl was 16, he groomed her for 15 years basically. He essentially put her brain into like a psychosis. It's just So good. But I just want to say one thing that scared the fuck out of me when I was watching it. This all happens in the state of South Carolina. In the state of South Carolina, if you're married and you go to the police and you say, my husband is harassing me, stalking me, doing weird shit to me, they say impossible because that's your husband.

It's—

it was so scary, and it ultimately is why the ending of this documentary is the ending of this documentary.

And that's why the discourse is so problematic right now regarding like tradwives and being like, my husband is what— I'm not getting into it right now, but we have to give you the Womanist Sum of the Week, even though, you know, I don't like when you're in the comments. I don't like when you're in the drama. But you, um, you won the internet this week.

You won it.

You won it.

I did something a little atypical for myself. I rarely will— I love the drama online. I loved looking at the comments of the Calloway, uh, thing. I rarely will put in my 2 cents on the internet because I have a podcast.

You're not getting in the ring.

No, honey, I have my own personal forum. Why would I hang out with you guys when I can talk to the gals on my own?

You don't want to get in the mud with pigs.

When it comes to domestic violence, and I'm— I actually, this is like me nitpicking things, it's not called— like, I don't like when people call it DV because I think it like minimizes it. It's domestic violence. The word is violence. When they did the Apology. The commercial, the domestic violence commercial, and then he, the CEO, did the apology. I like read the apology, and rarely when people are getting canceled am I chiming in, but like, as someone who has been through domestic violence, I like physically can't stay quiet. So when I'm reading the apology, not one time does it mention like women, does it mention like we're gonna donate to domestic violence, we're gonna help this, we're gonna help that. So I just commented crazy apology to like not mention women, Chip. And also because the guy's name was Chip, and like that— well, that, that was written for—

like, that was written for you. That was—

you can't be called Chip and I'm not gonna address it.

Okay, also, we all know that a man named Chip has never given an actual apology in his life.

Well, I would assume that a man named Chip is short for something. What is your real name? Charles? You're a CEO of a major company.

You're a CEO, your name is Charles.

Your name is Charles, okay? So I had to acknowledge Chip. Immediately when I commented, I'm getting flooded with men commenting, and I'm like not really looking because again, like, I'm not gonna argue with them.

Yeah.

I saw 2 particular comments that I thought, I could say something funny back though. I could say something really funny back. The first guy comments out at me and he goes, Do you even play golf? And in my head I thought I could comment back and say, no, but I have been beat up by a man. And I saw— I thought, too harsh, too dark, Paige, keep it to yourself. I saw the next comment. Man said, describe a woman. So I commented back at him because it instantly came to my brain, and I said, a person that you rarely interact with. Silence. A deafening silence from him. Not a comment, not a like. He quite possibly could have deleted his Instagram. When I tell you I ate down with that, it was Thanksgiving dinner in my bed when I was reading that comment.

So I, I think I was like playing tennis with some 70-year-old men and I get on the phone, go on TikTok and someone's like, Paige DeSorbo is in the comments. And I'm like, oh no, oh no. What is she? I leave her for 2 hours. What has she been up to? And I, I'm just— look, I'm just really proud of you.

Thank you.

I'm really proud of you because it takes strength, it takes bravery.

This is like a situation that I felt completely fine commenting on because I've been through it. And as someone who went through domestic violence at 19, 20 and didn't speak about it for probably like almost a decade, I feel very passionate about talking about it now that I'm 33 years old and like so much more of an adult. And I think part of the reason that I didn't want to talk about it when I was in my 20s was because— I don't like the word ashamed because I wasn't like ashamed of it. It was more embarrassing. I was like, oh my God, everyone's gonna think I'm stupid because I allowed my brain to get manipulated by this insane person.

Mm-hmm.

And so I— and I never wanted to be seen as stupid. That was like my insecurity from childhood to 25. Like, I don't want you to think I'm stupid because I'm not stupid.

Mm-hmm.

And so I think that's why I never really wanted to talk about it. But now it's so relevant because it's 2026. And if I see one more man comment like, oh, but you didn't care when it was like a football commercial 15 years ago. And it's like, okay, well, 15 years ago, Most of these people were children, so why would they care? And also, a football commercial— you're tackling in football.

Tackling Betty White is a comedic joke. Like, obviously it's not realistic. What they showed in that commercial was something that, like, actually happens.

Mm-hmm.

No one's tackling grandmas on a football field.

And like, all the men being like, oh my God, our world is so soft. The only thing soft is your small penis. Like, please shut the fuck up. If you're a woman and you are in a relationship and your boyfriend or fiancé or husband was like, get over it, I'm not saying leave him like, oh my God, he's gonna hit you at some point in your life.

Mm-hmm.

Make a mental note of it though, because there will be something after this that he says that actually does scare you because his baseline for this event is get over it. I would be scared.

Oh, 100%. Because also, what is he protecting? Not women.

His friends who, like, think it's funny. Like, if they think that's funny, then they would be okay with their daughter being somewhere and their daughter getting tackled. They don't look at you the way they would look at someone who's, like, related to them or a daughter. Like, it's very different. Like, you have to be aware. So when your boyfriends or husbands are saying, like, get over it, You might not think it now, but something could happen later and you're gonna think back to this moment when he said, it's not, it's not that big of a deal. It's supposed to be a funny joke. Okay. Well, we'll see if anything ever happens to like someone you're related to, and then will it be a funny joke? Like, I really, I have zero tolerance for domestic violence. I have zero tolerance.

Zero tolerance policy.

I have zero tolerance for men getting too drunk and they accidentally like, I've had multiple relationships where men have gotten too drunk and have done like— they didn't hit me, but they were right there to do something. I don't fuck around with men yelling at women. I don't fuck around with that at 33 years old. No.

And I co-sign everything you just said. Wait, can I go say one other thing? There's this comic, Elle Orlando, who I love, and she has this joke about men who finally have daughters, and I'm gonna butcher it, but she's basically like, I have daughters now and I didn't realize, you know, women are people too. And it's like, it shouldn't be like, imagine when you have a daughter one day. You shouldn't have to have a daughter to understand empathy towards women. I want us to like have faith in men because we're straight girls in this life. So like, I want to have positivity towards it. One thing that helps me is when I see horrible comments of men being like, Okay, so like we can't joke anymore? I always click on the profile to be like, okay, this isn't like—

A real person.

Like smart.

It's not like someone I'd ever even get to be in a room with.

100%. So I click on it, I see, and a lot of time it's like a 14-year-old.

Yeah.

If that person walked up to you on the street, you'd be like, no thank you.

No thank you.

No thank you. I don't know what's about to happen, but no thank you. I don't want to be a part of whatever is about to happen. Um, Thank you for being so vulnerable and speaking up about that.

No, my pleasure. No, because it's, it really, it's not funny. Like, domestic violence can happen to anyone at any time. Like, it can happen to men too.

Like, well, it's interesting what you said about like feeling embarrassed or like feeling like you're not smart when, as someone who's been in narcissistic relationships, yeah, these men tend to go for Strong, smart, independent women.

Because deep down, that's what they want to be. As a domestic violence survivor, if they showed me that— if they showed me that video and I said, it's okay, it's funny, okay. But no one who has ever been in a domestic violence situation would see that and be like, that's okay, because it sends the wrong fucking message. I don't care if it was like a parody of a movie. No, it wasn't a good one. So no one even correlated that.

And it—

young kids are watching this, these guys who aren't professional athletes play. So you're telling all these like 12-year-old boys and 15-year-old kids that like, yeah, you can push a girl to the ground. That's when it starts. You cannot tell them that. They are idiots. They will think that's okay. Wow. This The morning pods really get crazy.

I love the morning pods.

I did not expect to go into domestic violence.

Do you ever— this is not to get into it even more, but do you remember men being like, I would never hit a woman? And I'm like, the fact you have to say that's fucking crazy.

It's just like the same. It's just that not all men. Okay, well, your friend— if you aren't, then 3 people you know are. So who are they?

I don't have the bandwidth. The bandwidth.

No, I don't have the bandwidth for men that I personally don't like. Like, I don't have the bandwidth for it.

Um, I have 3 Women of STEM of the Week.

Okay.

Buckle the fuck up.

I'm excited.

Okay, so do you ever have a reservation to a restaurant and you're like, can I add one more? And they're like, no.

Yeah, that's insane. Okay.

Especially if it's like 5 or 6, it's a round table. I'm like, can we just squeeze one more in? And like, you're— you don't want to be a bitch to your friend and be like, say, it can't happen.

Yeah, I'm adding one more. I've— one more? Yeah, I'm adding them. I'm not even telling. I'm sorry, someone showed up.

I had a reservation in somewhere in the Hamptons, and it was for our family plus the 2 kids, and they had, um, availability for 6 but not for 8. So I'm like, I'm booking 6, and then coming in and being like, I didn't know I had to book for 2 kids.

Yeah, so much.

I showed up with 2 toddlers and they were like, it was for 6. And I'm like, oh, I'm so sorry, let's find a toddler place.

2 toddlers is actually a teenager, so it's like half a person.

And everything worked out, but like, I wouldn't have been able to book the reservation if I clicked 8. But they clearly just like—

So you're the woman in STEM?

No, no, no, no, that was just a side example. The woman in STEM is Gabby Webster on TikTok. she faked a friend, like, surprising her from, like, college or something. Like, they made this big thing where she was like, oh my God, Stephanie! And they had this big, like— She's like, get her a chair! Get her a chair! And they had— they're filming it. They were like, how did you even— how long was the flight? Like—

Now I'm obsessed.

So she is up there. Woman Who Stunned Me of the Week number 2. Bianca Adler DMs me and she's like, hey, I'm a giggler. Um, I just want you to know I love Giggly Squad. I listened to it. I currently listen to it.

I feel like Bianca is like, I'm actually junior class president and I really should be senior class president, but I don't have the bandwidth because I'm taking 7 AP classes.

Listen to what Bianca did. She goes, I was listening to Giggly Squad. Um, I'm Australian, so of course I'm like, okay, Cool. She goes, when I climbed Mount Everest. So I go to her page and like, she's the youngest woman, or the youngest Australian period, to climb Mount Everest. And she did it listening to Giggly Squad.

No, we have to be stopped. No, we have to be stopped.

We have to be stopped. What are we injecting in these people's veins?

Real accomplished people are like listening to us. us. Don't listen to us. No, I'm actually gonna cry. That's so— that's so powerful.

Wait, I almost cried last pod, you're crying this pod?

I actually have been crying like all week, low-key.

Like good or bad things or both?

Um, both. Like I'll see a com— like I'll see a TikTok and it's like my dad, like when we went out to lunch, and I'm like, that's beautiful. Like I'm really— I'm getting my period, but for whatever reason I'm very cry-y this week. I did cry.

There was the first video I saw this morning was like this kid, I think he was in Venezuela, and it was— he was like 8 years old and it was his first ever birthday party and he started crying and everyone was singing for him and then they were hugging him and I was like, I was like, kindness goes so far.

Actually, you know what I cried at? Someone said Titleist randomly at the same time, like they had put out an ad but their ad It was a dad leaving a voicemail on his daughter's phone, and like the visual was them on the golf course together. And it was like, hey Jill, I know you're really busy, so I just wanted to say thank you for taking time to golf with your dad. That was— we had so much fun. I was like, no, I'm crying. No, I can't.

I'm crying. Also, shout out to Gary and Dan for being such incredible dads.

If any boy looked at me the wrong way Like, I want someone to go up to my dad and say, actually, I think that ad was funny and everyone's too soft. Okay, you know what I really— you know those videos on TikTok where people are like, if you want to get to me, like, if you like do something to me, you have to answer to my dad? And it's like usually like dads being like, this is my bird collection and like coins.

No, you don't fuck with our dads.

No. My dad will jump off of a roof onto your fucking neck, okay? Like, my dad is of a different breed.

Also, speaking of dads, um, there's a girl right now, Kinsley Rasmus— what a fucking name— who's currently, um, she's the daughter of former MLB pitcher. So this former MLB pitcher dad is basically like, my daughter's gonna be the best pitcher ever. She's like dominating the Little League World Series. She has the record for total strikeouts by a girl and broke the record for total hits by a girl with her—

How old is she? 12.

And she's just like crushing the boys, and she wears a bow, and they're saying fear the bow. Wait, do you love that?

I love that.

Ich hab gehört, du willst deinen Mobilfunkvertrag kündigen? Aber so einfach lass ich dich nicht davonkommen. Wie wär's mit einem XXL-Streaming-Abo? Einem Zweit-Handy?

Nein, nein, nein! Ich möchte doch nur in Ruhe gelassen werden!

Puh, nur ein Albtraum.

Damit Mobilfunk im echten Leben kein Albtraum wird, Frank. Von Beginn an ohne Mindestvertragslaufzeit. Monatlich kündbar. Für €10 im Monat.

Frank.

Nein.

Frank.

This is actually the 4th Womanistam of the week. I had a really busy week. Um, Mrs. Met. Are you familiar with Mrs. Met?

No.

So there's a Mr. Met, and I don't know what happened, someone spoke up and was like, Mr. Met needs a wife.

For what? Like the—

this is the mascot.

Like the museum?

You types are gross. This is the New York Mets, the baseball team.

Oh.

So Mr. Met is their mascot. And you know, what is a Met? I think Metropolitan. Oh, it's like the Knickerbockers, the Knicks.

Right, right.

But I don't know, again, like, they're not— the men are not great at like picking team.

You know what's crazy? That there's no team that's like the horses. Like, sorry, Texas is right there, guys.

I know.

The Houston horses.

What about a Pegasus?

Yeah, like, where's the whimsy?

What about a unicorn? What about a mermaid?

I just feel shocked that like when they were coming up with all of them, it was like actually bison.

No, no, it's like Like, if you want to see whimsy, look at how women are naming nail colors, and let's put 1% of the energy into naming the mascots of teams or just naming their children.

The women are so creative.

So creative. So Mrs. Met shows up, and the joke with Mrs. Met is they're the big baseball heads. Yes, she looks just like Mr. Met but with a donk. Because I guess they couldn't like put her in a skirt because she's like wearing a baseball uniform. So like, we have to give her Kimberly Kardashian's butt. She has the most amazing butt, like to the point that like people are physically attracted to Mrs. Met. Like you can't not look at her and be like, okay, that's hot. So Mrs. Met is now the first female mascot to be inducted in the Mascot Hall of Fame.

There's a Mascot Hall of Fame?

Apparently.

Where?

I don't know.

And also, like, wait a minute, what about the mascots that don't get into it? What did they do to not?

Okay, I'm gonna piss people off, but like, not all mascots are equal? Yeah, look up the Penn State mascot. When I tell you, like, Bucky Badger, like, that's Hall of Fame material. The Penn State mascot looked like someone bought something from like a Halloween website put it on a drunk person and let them run across campus. Like, not all of them.

Not equality for mascots.

There's no equality for mascots. Today, Dez Bishop, Middlesbrough, is throwing the first pitch on the Irish Heritage Night of the Mets game.

Are you crying?

Are you crying? That is so— and he picked like a song.

My period better drop today or I'll lose it.

He picked a song about like like just like a proud Irish heritage song that he's gonna walk on to, and he's been practicing his throw.

Yeah, it's so sweet.

But if you guys don't remember, I threw out the first pitch and I fucking nailed it. So like there's like a little tension in the household where I'm like, good luck, babe. Like, make sure— like, it's okay if you don't throw a perfect strike.

That's weird. No one— no teams asked me to participate, and then they did.

I feel like they— you could if you wanted to.

I don't wanna. Um, I just got a like, like a real life-size adult— Hannah, I can make you an iced chai latte. I got a Ninja like espresso machine. I can make lattes, espresso, espresso cortado. I can make iced, a cold brew.

Do you know the difference between them?

It's just a touchscreen. I don't need to. Just go. It's crazy, you have to come over and see it.

You love a touchscreen.

Well, 'cause you wanna know what? I got it, it's in the box, right? And then in the box for like a week. I know that my brother is coming over in like a couple days and there's nothing my brother loves more than like someone else's new gadget that's gonna either like make something to eat or like concoct some weird drink. So I took it out of the box, I put it on the counter. I didn't like, learn anything about it yet. I thought, I bet— let me bait this rat to cheese. I bet if I put this on the counter, he'll do it for you. With the directions right next to it, he'll set it all up. So I'm sitting in the living room and I'm like, oh my God, did you see my new coffee machine? He goes, yeah, really nice. And I go, yeah, isn't it? I go, I haven't set it up yet though. And he's still in the kitchen. All of a sudden I hear something going.

And you're like, it's probably too complicated for you, so don't even try.

It's so easy to rage bait my brother. It's like, actually, like, I literally— he's so easy to piss off.

He's listening to this right now punching the car.

No, he is so easily manipulated. He like knows I'm saying it on purpose, but he's like, he still can't like get over it. I'm like, I bet, I bet you actually can't make that.

You know, my brother is like obsessed with coffee. When I go to his house, he's like, can I make you a real latte? Like, men love that shit. Yeah.

Wait, what is that with our brothers?

It's like with men, like barbecue. and like espresso machines. I don't know what in their DNA.

5 minutes later, I was drinking an iced coffee with whipped whole milk.

Like, why are both our brothers tradwives?

No, literally.

I just realized that, like, my brother takes care of me. He's like, what do you want to eat? What do you need?

It's actually funny because my brother and his fiancée like moved into a new house and I was like at home over the weekend like visiting them. And when I was leaving his house, I was like walking out the door and he was pushing like Wet mop, like one of those ones you like plug in. It's so cute. And never have I ever seen that. And I just looked at him, and as I was leaving, I go, you've changed.

Or he's being trained well. Shout out to Amanda.

It is funny to watch my older brother love someone more than himself. Like, no, it's just funny to watch your sibling be like, this is my wife. It's just like such a weird— but I— and I'm so happy it's Amanda. Like, I will have the best sister.

It's such a different love than towards you.

Like, it's such a different love to watch. Yeah, it's not a love of like our family. I'm like, wait, you respect her?

Like, you have patience with her. You don't jump to conclusions. Yeah, he's completely different.

I'm like, she did something and I was like, oh my God, Gary's gonna freak. I was like, my brother's gonna freak out. And he was like, oh, that's okay, Amanda.

And I go, no, I'm like, that's okay?

I'm like, interesting, because my whole life it wasn't okay.

And then when you get in your own like brother spats, like she just steps back. She's like, this is a whole nother realm that I'm not getting involved in.

Well, we have like a her and I have a like— yeah, like he said something to her and, uh, and she looked at me and I go, I got this one, I got this one.

I go, what the fuck? You would tap me in, tap me in real quick.

I go, yeah. Um, no, we're definitely— we definitely are a family that crosses boundaries. Like there's no— like we're not a family that—

Italian.

Yeah, like, like I was— okay, this is a perfect example. I'm at my brother's house With Joe and my brother's fiancée, and we're sitting around the kitchen table, we're talking about different stuff. All of a sudden my dad just appears in the home, just randomly. He's there. We go, how? First, where did you come from? And second, why didn't we hear? What door did you use? He goes, I have my own key. They go, what? So nothing's normal in our family. Like, if you have a house, we're coming over. We have that house. That's our house.

By the way, adding on to getting older, Des and I put on a show in bed at like 8:30. You just said that so—

sorry, that's on me. That's on me. I made it weird. I made that weird.

No, but as in you like watching TV in bed, and we were like in bed and he was like, should we just turn the TV on? And I was like, should we go fucking crazy tonight?

Yeah.

And look, it's— I hate to say it, it's end of summer. Like, I have to pack, I have shit to do, I have to get back to the city, I have the US Open this weekend, I have stuff to do. And it was 8:30 and I was— That's a lot. Yeah, it's 8:30 and I was like, I record Giggly in the morning and then I head to the city, I'll have time to pack. Literally 8:45, he's snoozing, I can't keep my eyes open. And I— you know when you go to— I don't know if this has ever happened to you, you go to sleep knowing you have not done anything that you need to do the next day. So I woke up at 8 AM scared, unshowered. You know I hate that. Greasy. Don't even know what I'm packing, and I have to pack. It's the moral of the story. And I don't know what I'm packing.

What time are you usually— what time is he usually getting in bed?

Oh, I keep him outside as long as I can.

You try. Yeah, you try and keep him out as long as you can.

But we're watching the show The Agency, which is on Paramount Plus, with the really hot Irish guy. I forget his name, but it's like a boy show, so like I could fall asleep during it. Yeah, but it has like good moments sometimes. But boy shows, oh my God, he's like, you missed— I'm like, just watch the next episode, I'm with you. Yeah, I didn't miss anything. There were explosions, let's go. Let's go to the next episode. Oh, there was a chase scene. Okay, got it.

You're like, yeah, I think I can figure out— I can infer from there.

So next week I'm back in the city, you're back in Italy. Like, seasons are changing.

I'm very excited to go to Venice. I've never gone. All I've heard is that it's just like so romantic.

My Nana and Papa said it's their favorite place.

Really?

They actually might know someone in Venice. They always like know a guy who like runs some restaurant that like you go to the basement, there's like special arancini or something.

Yeah, Josephine's so good at finding— like, you would honestly love a vacation with Josephine because she's so good at finding like vintage places. And like—

When are we going to Italy together?

You should just come with me. So we're gonna have like a little girls—

Wait, are you gonna shop?

Well, am I alive? Do I have a pulse? Is my heart beating?

Yeah.

No, I'm gonna go to Venice and be like, I'm not contributing to your guys' economy. No, it's the right thing to do when you go to someone else's hometown is to contribute to Yeah.

Have you thought of the TikTok you're gonna make when you're in the gondola?

No, I haven't.

Okay, there's— you have work to do.

I did save 2 TikToks that I want to do with Josephine.

Because as you know, you only TikTok when you're in Italy.

Yeah, because it's the only time I'm like happy. It's the only time the internet can't get to me, you know? I'm like, sorry, figure out the time change.

Um, we love you guys so much. Have the best weekend ever. Oh, I know, I know.

We—

and we had nothing to talk about this episode, per usual, and it just flew by.

And I'll just save what I wrote down about my rosary beads for Monday.

Yeah, I have stuff too. We didn't hit anything. We didn't— we didn't have the bandwidth today. We love you guys so much. Talk to you later. Bye!

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