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Speaker 1:
[00:03] Welcome to The Carpool Podcast with Kelly.

Speaker 2:
[00:06] Years ago, we filmed a pilot for like, house hunters for cars basically. And we were working with a production company. I actually loved the people we worked with, and no one picked it up.

Speaker 1:
[00:15] And Lizz.

Speaker 3:
[00:16] I'm so excited to sleep in a hotel room tonight. I hope Maddie's hearing this. Maddie, I just want you to know, thank you for staying home with the kids. And also I'm going to sleep like a rock tonight.

Speaker 1:
[00:27] Your mom time all starts now.

Speaker 3:
[00:31] Welcome back to The Carpool Podcast with Kelly and Lizz.

Speaker 2:
[00:35] The vibes are different.

Speaker 3:
[00:37] We are remotely recording. It's the carpool on the road.

Speaker 2:
[00:44] We carpooled.

Speaker 3:
[00:45] We did. We didn't literally record on the road. We, I did consider it, but upon further reflection, we were like, maybe if we drove and podcast, it would be a little bit dangerous and not really a good look for the car mom.

Speaker 2:
[00:57] Exactly. And yeah, like I would have had to held the mic. So I would have had to do one-handed driving. So we just completely faded that. And instead we are lounging on hotel beds. And it is euphoric, I think is the only way to describe it.

Speaker 3:
[01:13] We just completed a four hour road trip from St. Louis to Cedar Rapids, Iowa. We're sitting in a lovely renovated double tree by Hilton.

Speaker 2:
[01:23] It's lovely. Speaking of travel things, I need to become a Hilton Rewards member or something.

Speaker 3:
[01:27] You should. Matty's one of those. And he always asks for like an upgrade. And they usually give it to him.

Speaker 2:
[01:31] I am leaving money on the table.

Speaker 3:
[01:33] I need to get my life together.

Speaker 2:
[01:34] I need to get a credit card. I need to get pre-checked and I need to become a Hilton member. I also, big news for me, just ordered a bigger carry on because Continental gives me this carry on. And then I just thought like that was the size of carry ons. But then I would notice people like taking huge suitcases and I'm like, well, I could use some more room. So not only, not freaking only did I buy a new carry on. I also bought a new bag to like go on top of my carry on.

Speaker 3:
[02:00] To match it. Yeah.

Speaker 2:
[02:02] As like a double.

Speaker 3:
[02:04] I feel like it's time. Like your travel, you have a lot of travel in the future. You've been really ramping up your travel. Like you are a business woman who travels. Like I just think you need.

Speaker 2:
[02:14] I need the gear.

Speaker 3:
[02:16] You don't need like a gifted suitcase that says Continental on it and like your old Dagnadover diaper bag. No, like I just think you could present yourself a little bit differently. I totally agree. What was the brand of choice?

Speaker 2:
[02:29] Yeah, I'm happy you asked. So I ended up going with a Quince suitcase.

Speaker 3:
[02:34] Oh, no way.

Speaker 2:
[02:35] Yeah, Quince's suitcases.

Speaker 3:
[02:36] Quince is everything.

Speaker 2:
[02:38] Quince is becoming like, like what's the story that has everything? Like, just I can't.

Speaker 3:
[02:45] I just ordered some candles from there.

Speaker 2:
[02:46] Like, of course you did. Like, I'm telling you, they're about to like I ordered.

Speaker 3:
[02:49] My order was like a linen shirt for James and like three candles and they're free shipping. So it's like you don't need to order a lot. Like you can go there just for a candle. And like it's like ordering from Amazon, like it's going to be there in two days. And the shipping was free.

Speaker 2:
[03:03] That's so interesting. Well, I've just been ordering. I just ordered because, you know, like my toxic trade is like, I really have trouble just checking out with one thing. I also checked out to like skater dresses for Hattie and Libby, and they look like boat in her tea collection, like they're darling. Anyway, so Quinn's had it's at a large carry on and they had the perfect shade of blue.

Speaker 3:
[03:22] Oh, OK, cute.

Speaker 2:
[03:23] But like in a still like not necessarily a professional, but like a fun kind of way. And then I got a black bag to go on top from. Base. Or away, it was one of those things. They look like the exact same bag. You know, they've got the shoe compartment. They got the strap to go over the handle. Yeah, catch me like really ramping it up. And I'm just always looking to like refine my brand. Like, you know, I only like to present myself in public in public settings in a blue. Yeah, it's just it's good for the brand. And I needed to appear as a more professional traveler.

Speaker 3:
[03:56] I agree. So happy for you.

Speaker 2:
[03:59] Yeah, happy for me, too. So that was my big news. And yeah, I'm kind of I'm kind of I'm kind of on tour right now. To be honest, you're like a bus club, another club, no sleep, like because from this trip, I have to fly directly to Chicago for another event.

Speaker 3:
[04:14] Yeah.

Speaker 2:
[04:15] So Liz will be road tripping home solo.

Speaker 3:
[04:18] I know. Bummer.

Speaker 2:
[04:20] It won't be a bummer.

Speaker 3:
[04:21] But you know what? I'm going to I need to download a book tonight. Someone sent me because, you know, I was talking about systems the other day and someone was like, this book was so great. I listened to the audio version and I'm going to re listen to it because I need to remember what the systems are.

Speaker 2:
[04:34] What's it called?

Speaker 3:
[04:35] Well, I screenshotted it because I can.

Speaker 2:
[04:38] Are you sure that's what you want to do? You don't want to get a fun storybook to listen to?

Speaker 3:
[04:43] You know what? When I'm really interested in something like systems or organizing my home, I really just want to consume content like that.

Speaker 2:
[04:49] Okay, that's fine.

Speaker 3:
[04:50] Let's see. She said it was called How to Manage Your Home Without Losing Your Mind. It has so many tangible takeaways.

Speaker 2:
[04:57] Well, let's get the author on the podcast if you like the book.

Speaker 3:
[04:59] Dana Kay White writes books about de-cluttering, but she has one called. Okay, there you go.

Speaker 2:
[05:04] Let's get Dana on the podcast.

Speaker 3:
[05:06] Well, we'll see if we like the book.

Speaker 2:
[05:07] Totally. But if we don't, maybe she can come on and defend herself. So we're here for Women Lead Change, kind of like a major conference. I don't know if you guys heard, but Joanna Gaines is also at the same conference we are. So yeah, I think we've like beat that horse so dead, but well, just in case anyone hadn't heard, like we are sharing the stage is an over exaggeration, but like we are speaking on the same stage at separate times.

Speaker 3:
[05:31] I believe yes. Yes, yes. I do think she's like flying in the day, like right before her speech and like we will be, you will be flying away and I will be driving home. So I don't think we're actually going to get to meet her.

Speaker 2:
[05:43] But yeah, I don't see her being the type to like come to the optional reception dinner tonight.

Speaker 3:
[05:49] You don't think she's staying at the double tree by Hilton tonight?

Speaker 2:
[05:51] I think she's flying and flying out on her PJ.

Speaker 3:
[05:53] I bet. Yeah, for sure.

Speaker 2:
[05:55] Which is good for her.

Speaker 3:
[05:56] Yeah.

Speaker 2:
[05:56] Good for her. I just watched.

Speaker 3:
[05:57] I think she's a mother of like seven.

Speaker 2:
[06:00] No, I know.

Speaker 3:
[06:01] She's busy.

Speaker 2:
[06:02] She's busy. She's Joanna Gaines. Like talk about someone who's got irons in the fire.

Speaker 3:
[06:05] Yeah.

Speaker 2:
[06:06] Jay Gaines. And I just watched her like special where they read to their mountain home. I love it's not really my exact style, but I love how she transforms a space. Like no one transforms a space more. Like I don't want her decorating and it's beautiful. It's just not my vibe, but it's amazing what she can do.

Speaker 3:
[06:29] She's always just been the most fun to watch on like when she was on HGTV and stuff because of her. You're right. Her transformations were the most dramatic. Like they were amazing. You watched some people on HGTV and you're like, you have no, like this is terrible. You have no taste. Like she is something different.

Speaker 2:
[06:48] I'm ready for HGTV to kind of shake it up Chicago.

Speaker 3:
[06:50] Yeah, I agree.

Speaker 2:
[06:51] It's kind of the same formula, different personalities. Like, can we do something new?

Speaker 3:
[06:57] It really does feel like they are missing an opportunity to like take over, like, like buy us out for Keys, please, with the car mom, like the car mom takes someone car shopping.

Speaker 2:
[07:08] Well, no one knows this. Maybe we'll do. But we filmed a pilot. Have we ever said this years ago? Years ago, we filmed a pilot for like house hunters for cars, basically. And we were working with a production company. I actually loved the people we worked with and no one picked it up.

Speaker 3:
[07:22] I will say we didn't like seek this out. Like they sought the car mom out. So we didn't have any money invested in it. Um, but yeah, it would have been cool. But it was going to be like a short like shorts, like a short series. But I don't know. I think Keys, please could be big.

Speaker 2:
[07:38] Keys, please has legs. And some people didn't like the name, but they also I'm sorry. Don't tell me you don't like it and not give me a better suggestion.

Speaker 3:
[07:43] Well, what do you want? Keys, please. I'll take the keys, please. So I'll take I'll say yes to the dress. I'll take the keys, please.

Speaker 2:
[07:49] That was kind of our thoughts. Like at the end, I will be like, so what do you think? Do you want the key? Like, do you want the keys?

Speaker 3:
[07:56] Please. There's something there.

Speaker 2:
[07:58] There's some we're still workshopping it, but it's cute. It's cute. Um, so anyway, Keys, please should be launching soon.

Speaker 3:
[08:07] Yeah, I think it's fully edited. I just like I go back and forth because I just can already, like so the last one we did was Luxury Cards with Merrick. And then this other one happened to be your friend who has also happened to be in the luxury market. So I just like can already see the people on Instagram and like you already do like you only do luxury like your own way.

Speaker 2:
[08:24] I know. And I'm telling you, there's I can take a lot of comments. That comment makes me so mad because I personally feel like I go above and beyond to cover cars for every budget. Like, please find another person in my space who's who's ever reviewed a used car, who has lists for used cars, who tells you the best car that you the best car for your first time is the car you already have. Like, I'm sorry, I'm who tours a trend. That's not the highest towards who actually suggests the mid to lower trim levels. I'm sorry. Like it shouldn't bother me because it's so unbelievably untrue. But I.

Speaker 3:
[09:02] People have different budgets, people have different and that's not your fault.

Speaker 2:
[09:07] No, it's not your fault. And it's not their fault. No, like their situations are both very unique. And what I think it bothers me so much because it just comes down to like. I guess people being jealous or unhappy or making assumptions, but like, I don't know what to tell you. These two people, like one was Merrick, she's an influencer. Of course, I'm going to do her. The other is a dear friend. Of course, I'm going to do her.

Speaker 3:
[09:30] And she happened to be car shopping. It's like the other thing is, is like we want to make sure like we kind of want to have a baseline of like knowing the person to make sure that you're the energy is going to be right to like show this kind of stuff. So and they have to be willing to do it as well. So what I have it edited, I just like wasn't sure if we wanted to fill, try and find another person and like film another one of like not luxury just to avoid comments.

Speaker 2:
[10:00] People can let us know if they want us to delay it or if the carpoolers can just rise up with the brains that I know you have, because I'm not worried about the carpoolers. And what's been interesting lately is my content has been landing on different sides of Instagram.

Speaker 3:
[10:10] Yeah.

Speaker 2:
[10:11] And I can tell in my insights, I can tell when a real reaches more of my non-audience than my audience and it's jarring. It can get a little jarring.

Speaker 3:
[10:18] Yeah.

Speaker 2:
[10:19] But also say my problem is not yours. But I am excited for Keys, Please 2.0 to launch. And I do have a lot of people who I need to go through who are also looking for cars. So the options are there. It's just a matter of filming it.

Speaker 3:
[10:34] It's a matter of filming it. It's a matter of a day. And things are so busy right now. But again, our problems, not yours.

Speaker 2:
[10:42] I was listening back to our episode and I was cracking up about how we were like, I'm just looking for more grocery store conversations because I can't always tell people what's actually going on in my life. So to give you guys an update, the garden is planted.

Speaker 3:
[10:57] The garden looks great.

Speaker 2:
[10:59] It looks so great. It looks so intentional.

Speaker 3:
[11:01] It does. Tyler did a really good job.

Speaker 2:
[11:02] Yeah, I know. I didn't do it. He did. Tyler did it. But I did pick out the plants. I do worry I overbought. But the problem is the plants are so small, but I understand they're going to get so big.

Speaker 3:
[11:13] Yeah, I think you're fine. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know anything about gardening.

Speaker 2:
[11:18] I don't either. But we're starting to get, we found big cherry tomato plants that kind of already established ones. We're starting to get like a little bud. I'm going to be swimming in bell peppers, though. But I love bell peppers. My kids love bell peppers, so I'm excited.

Speaker 3:
[11:31] Kelly, my mother-in-law plants cherry tomatoes, and she will literally drop me off a box of like a hundred little cherry tomatoes because she's like overwhelmed with the amount that grows.

Speaker 2:
[11:43] I just can't imagine that. Like I'm struggling.

Speaker 3:
[11:45] They're like a meat. They're so good. Like I literally eat them like candy. Like I like, I keep a little bowl. I don't even, maybe I could do salt. I don't put anything on them. And I just pop them in my mouth like chips or candy. It's amazing. I love that.

Speaker 2:
[11:59] So that's what's really new with me. And then Elizabeth and I just kind of road tripped up here. We took a carnival.

Speaker 3:
[12:06] Literally didn't make, I have a hybrid and I filled it up the day before we left. Didn't make a dent. Our four hour drive did not make a dent in my gas mileage.

Speaker 2:
[12:16] I mean, you lost a quarter tank of gas.

Speaker 3:
[12:18] I lost a quarter tank of gas.

Speaker 2:
[12:21] We drove four hours.

Speaker 3:
[12:23] Kelly didn't make a dent. I'm not going to have to refill it on my way back. That's incredible.

Speaker 2:
[12:30] I was tracking, I reset the thing and I was tracking the MPGs in the carnival because I was curious. And we were getting around 32, 33.

Speaker 3:
[12:37] Feels good.

Speaker 2:
[12:38] It feels really good. I'm very I'm proud of the carnival.

Speaker 3:
[12:41] Yeah. You said you didn't love the drive. I don't mind it.

Speaker 2:
[12:44] Here's the thing. I also didn't like the drive of the Sienna last week.

Speaker 3:
[12:47] I don't like many of your drives.

Speaker 2:
[12:49] It's not that I don't like them. I'm just it's just not what I'm used to. I am more comfortable. It's just a preference thing.

Speaker 3:
[12:55] I'm more comfortable in an SUV, a full size SUV, because let me tell you, like a Pathfinder and the Kia Carnival feel the same.

Speaker 2:
[13:03] Not to me.

Speaker 3:
[13:04] Oh, they do to me.

Speaker 2:
[13:05] But that's why it's like, it's so personal. Like how you feel in a car is everything. That's why I can't believe when I used to sell cars, there are people who'd be like, well, I don't need to drive it. And I literally was like, no, I'm like not selling you a car you don't drive. Like, I'm sorry, like I'm not doing that.

Speaker 3:
[13:18] You have to drive it.

Speaker 2:
[13:19] You have to drive it. Yeah. And you have to like drive it. Like you can't just pittle around the parking lot. Like you have to go get it on slow roads, get it over, get it on a highway, merge, park. Like please, please, please. You have to drive. Yeah, totally. So anyway, yeah, speaking of drive, we just got up here. And now we are kind of just taking a beat. I had you can go ahead.

Speaker 3:
[13:48] No, you're fine.

Speaker 2:
[13:49] We're taking a beat. We have like a little reception today. And then listen, I made a swanky dinner reservation.

Speaker 3:
[13:55] It's so wanky. We've I was fine trying to find. I like literally searched date night ideas and Cedar Rapids because I'm like, we want a nice restaurant. Like it's just me and her. Like, no, here's the thing.

Speaker 2:
[14:06] Our husbands aren't nice. Our husbands don't appreciate a nice restaurant.

Speaker 3:
[14:09] Yeah.

Speaker 2:
[14:10] And like Elizabeth does and I do and we don't get out much.

Speaker 3:
[14:14] Yeah.

Speaker 2:
[14:14] And we don't get into business expense. Like there's no name that we don't need to justify.

Speaker 3:
[14:18] And also like your diet is kind of restrictive. So like kind of a steakhouse is the perfect place for you to go. So you can get like a ribeye.

Speaker 2:
[14:24] Exactly. So we found a swanky restaurant that's like in an old bank.

Speaker 3:
[14:29] Yeah.

Speaker 2:
[14:30] So we'll be going there. And I thought it'd be fun to do like, you know, just something fun. And then with my sister and I said, why don't we get each other ready? Why don't you let me do your makeup and you do my makeup?

Speaker 3:
[14:39] No. And she said, no, no, I don't want to. It's going to take too long, Kell. I don't want to. I just don't want to.

Speaker 2:
[14:49] Will you consider it another time? I think it'd be funny content.

Speaker 3:
[14:52] Yeah, maybe another time. But like, here's what I really want to do. We just had four hours together. Now we're recording a 45-minute long podcast. I'd love to do our makeup in silence. And we have a dinner date tonight at the hottest, at the hottest date night place in Cedar Rapids. So I think we need to like chill out for a minute.

Speaker 2:
[15:10] Okay, so yeah, because so then over dinner, I'll tell you everything that happened while I was doing my makeup.

Speaker 3:
[15:14] Yeah.

Speaker 2:
[15:14] It'll give us some content to talk about.

Speaker 3:
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Speaker 2:
[18:19] And also the hills are a little avoidable.

Speaker 3:
[18:21] And you could avoid, like I could take a relaxing walk if I needed to. So I want to be a walk family. I want my kids to love going on walks. And like right now, we're doing that. And now that we have the dog, we have to take him out a lot. So I've been doing breakfast walks. Did I talk about my breakfast walks on the podcast?

Speaker 2:
[18:38] No, I've seen on your Instagram and I'm obsessed.

Speaker 3:
[18:40] OK, breakfast walks are my new thing. Now that it's nice outside, I'm trying to avoid like the kids wake up and like, well, James wakes up and asks for TV because I I'm not like anti-screen time, but I don't think it's great. Like first thing in the morning, like I can just tell he's not as happy the rest of the morning. When I get him outside, though, he seems to be in a better mood. So we're doing what I call breakfast walks. Got these little like kind of like lunchable snack containers. My kids eat the same thing for breakfast every single morning. They have sausage and maybe like a yogurt or like they have sausage every single morning. And then sometimes like some cereal or some toast or some yogurt or like a banana or like a side. But it's always this like Applegate sausage, chicken and maple. They love it. So I make some sausage, I put it in there, I give them whatever else, I load them up in either my Mockingbird or my Zoe. And we go on a walk and they get some sunshine and they eat way more than they would if we were just sitting at the table. Like I don't have great eaters. So if you have great eaters, maybe like don't mess with what's working, but like they're just sitting there, like it's available, like they'll snack on it. And it's just very casual and it's lovely. I get to move my body, the dog gets a walk and my kids get fresh air.

Speaker 2:
[19:57] Yeah, I love this idea for you.

Speaker 3:
[19:59] And then they're fed and like breakfast.

Speaker 2:
[20:01] And you know, there's other on the kitchen floor to clean up.

Speaker 3:
[20:03] Exactly.

Speaker 2:
[20:04] Yeah.

Speaker 3:
[20:05] So I've been doing breakfast walks and we also do a digestion walk. And I love it when my almost three-year-old asked to go on a digestion walk because it's the funniest thing. So we go on dinners. We go on walks after dinner to digest our food. And I saw on Instagram this thing called a dandelion walk.

Speaker 2:
[20:23] You're just like, how many different walks are you going to name in this way?

Speaker 3:
[20:26] I know. I'm sorry. And I'm kind of getting sick. I'm like, I have a thing in my throat. It's kind of getting hard for me to talk. Dandelion walk. You take a piece of cardboard or I guess a paper plate. It would have been a better idea. You draw a little lion's face on it, and then you poke holes around the lion's face, and you go and pick dandelions, and you feed the dandelion stem through the hole. So then you have a whole lion's mane.

Speaker 2:
[20:52] You know, it's darling.

Speaker 3:
[20:53] Sloan, obviously, she's 18 months old, didn't know what was going on, couldn't give a rip. James, almost three, loved it. Yes, her activity for that age. And have you seen like color walks where you'll try and like pick up? This is better than well, unless you've got people who like don't have weeds in their yard. My neighbors do. Like, like dandelions are out right now.

Speaker 2:
[21:18] Yeah.

Speaker 3:
[21:19] I feel like a color work, color work is hard because there's like a lot of just like green around us and like no other colors and yellow from the dandelions. So anyway, I've just been loving my walks and it's the highlight of my days.

Speaker 2:
[21:34] That's so awesome. I you know, we're not really the stumpies are not really in our walk era because the hardest part of moving to our new house is I lost my neighborhood.

Speaker 3:
[21:42] Yeah.

Speaker 2:
[21:42] And now we just have one big driveway.

Speaker 3:
[21:44] Yeah.

Speaker 2:
[21:44] That is in horrible condition. But we are finally getting our driveway replaced.

Speaker 3:
[21:52] It's in like such like dangerous.

Speaker 2:
[21:56] It's original. It's original. It's 30 years old. And if you don't think about our house, like the people just didn't maintain it. That's why we got the house.

Speaker 3:
[22:05] It we we resealed it last year.

Speaker 2:
[22:08] Didn't do much of anything. Like there's loose rock everywhere. There's dips, there's holes like I can't hardly take a shoulder down there because like I'll break an ankle or like it's just it's so bad. So the next 14 days, they will be 14 days as Tyler said, because they have to rip up our current asphalt. Then they have to like mill it. Then they have to repack it. Then they have to like take a vibrator on it to like make sure it's level. And then they start pouring the asphalt. We're also making it whiter. Because I think that's part of the problem. Like it wasn't very wise. We were driving the grass all the time. But it has been such a long time coming. I mean, it's been something we knew we had to do when we bought the house and we've lived there two years now and we're finally getting it done.

Speaker 3:
[22:50] So it's going to be so life changing.

Speaker 2:
[22:52] I'm so excited to, I'm going to feel like that scene in cars when like they drive on the new road for the first time. That's going to be us.

Speaker 3:
[23:02] Yes, 100 percent.

Speaker 2:
[23:05] Your coughing is so bad.

Speaker 3:
[23:06] I know, we just had to pause so I could get it out.

Speaker 2:
[23:09] It's one of those things where like, I know you don't feel bad, but people are going to turn their heads.

Speaker 3:
[23:13] No, it sounds, it doesn't hurt. I think it's bronchitis where it just like lasts forever.

Speaker 2:
[23:20] Do you have bronchitis?

Speaker 3:
[23:21] I have no idea. It doesn't hurt. I'm not in pain. It's just like this endless cough. It sounds really bad and I'm just telling you when we give this speech tomorrow and they say, hey, would you girls like some water on stage? We're going to say yes and you cannot drink yours because I might need it after I crush mine.

Speaker 2:
[23:39] Well, and I think we did something really smart because we asked for, I don't like a lavalier, I like a hand mic. I think my energy is better with a hand mic.

Speaker 3:
[23:46] Well, I think it's better with two people for a hand mic.

Speaker 2:
[23:48] Cause then it's kind of more of like a, who's going to talk?

Speaker 3:
[23:50] They bring the mic. We can cue ourselves up.

Speaker 2:
[23:52] But also you can go like this.

Speaker 3:
[23:55] Oh yeah, yeah. Do you know what I mean?

Speaker 2:
[23:57] Like you get the mic so far away.

Speaker 3:
[23:59] I know it's terrible.

Speaker 2:
[24:01] To get the cough out of there.

Speaker 3:
[24:02] I'm just shocked I'm here after all of the trips I've missed. And you know what? Last night, James was jumping off of my bed onto a pile of pillows. And growing up, Sydney was doing it. Well, I'm sorry. Sydney was, we were all doing it. We threw Sydney off the bed. And she missed the pillows and she broke her leg. And so I had this vision last night. I'm like, James is going to break his leg the night before this conference. And I'm shocked I'm actually here.

Speaker 2:
[24:28] Yeah. I mean, out of all the trips you had to come on, your name is in the headlines.

Speaker 3:
[24:31] No, I know.

Speaker 2:
[24:32] This is not a car bomb trip. This is a carpool trip.

Speaker 3:
[24:35] Which is so cool.

Speaker 2:
[24:36] You know, it is. It feels fun. It feels good to be recognized as the podcasters, the multi platformers that we are. Yeah. I'm just like loving the podcast. Okay. Also, I'm going to tell you guys, we're doing something crazy. We have a code for auto show tickets.

Speaker 3:
[24:50] Oh, yeah.

Speaker 2:
[24:52] Okay. Code is carpool. If you want to discount on auto show tickets. I'm not telling the rest of the car bomb community. I'm only telling you guys.

Speaker 3:
[25:00] But because if you like don't listen, then like you don't get to know.

Speaker 2:
[25:07] We thought it'd be fun. Something special.

Speaker 3:
[25:09] Yeah. But something just for you.

Speaker 2:
[25:11] If you haven't booked your VIP ticket nights, let me just kind of like let me kind of grease the tracks for you.

Speaker 3:
[25:16] Well, and I think there's only like 50 tickets left.

Speaker 2:
[25:18] I'm can I will maybe add more if the demand is high. OK, I might not, though. So VIP night one like St. Louis Bites, like good, fun St. Louis food to bar wine and beer and seltzers. Three meals are there available to you to take pictures, to answer your questions, to give you a tour of the auto show will be so fun. We're doing some other fun things, because as you guys know, what is your girl love more than anything? A dinner auction. And I said, how can I make this feel more like a dinner auction? Without like without the whole hub of blue. Yeah. So one, we have a charitable partner, which we are going to be getting her on the podcast in a couple of weeks. It is an actually been on the podcast before. It's an amazing organization called Catch a Ride, Catch a Ride Network, Catch a Ride Network, and they help transportation in secure families and people get reliable transportation.

Speaker 3:
[26:12] So think like, you know, prenatal appointment, don't doesn't have a car, can't go see, maybe lives, yeah, maybe like lives in a rural area.

Speaker 2:
[26:20] And like, you know, needs to get to the Children's Hospital, which is an hour away, doesn't have a reliable car, catch rides there. Yeah, like it is. It's such a perfect charity for us to uplift. And I'm really excited to have them be really part of the VIP night. So here's what we're doing. One, a closet sale. Me, Lizz and Merrick and a couple of other influencers, I've been putting some feelers out there, we're doing a closet sale. Also, mom's donating and mom goes, I have these like old Prada shoes. I'm like, give it to me.

Speaker 3:
[26:43] And I'm not donating like, like it's the good stuff. Like some of it still has tags. Some of the stuff I was like gifted that I never used, like Spanx, like it's the good stuff.

Speaker 2:
[26:52] Yeah, most of my stuff has tags or it's like anthropology or above quality.

Speaker 3:
[26:58] And you know, Merrick's stuff is going to be nice.

Speaker 2:
[27:00] You know, Merrick's stuff is going to be nice. So we'll have the closet sale. Hundred percent of the proceeds go towards catch a ride. So like, it's like you want to you can give a cash donation or you can buy my darling top. Yeah, it makes no difference to me. Yeah. Then I was like, OK, let's have like a fun like how I gamify the VIP night. And I came up with the idea to do kind of like, I guess it's kind of like a duck pond. It's kind of just like a raffle. Everyone's a winner. Let me just explain it to you. So Elizabeth and I get sent so much PR and I always save my PR every year. And then I make like literally three to six dinner auction baskets with it. Like I use a couple of things here and there, but like I love to make these giant baskets, but I've been sent. I've had a lot more come in since the dinner auction seasons. And I want to do something where I'm going to put a bunch of PR in these like little blue bags. And I'm going to have them all spread out on like a six foot table. And the rule is you pay 20 bucks, 10 bucks, 15 bucks, 30 bucks. I haven't picked the price yet. You pay 20 bucks. You got to pick any of the bags.

Speaker 3:
[28:01] You got to pick one bag.

Speaker 2:
[28:02] One bag. It could have anything from a $250 face serum to to a couple of liquid IV samples.

Speaker 3:
[28:08] You don't know. I do feel like it has to be like at least worth, if it let's say that's number $20. I do feel like it has to be at least worth $20.

Speaker 2:
[28:16] OK, that's fine. That's fine.

Speaker 3:
[28:17] I think we can do that.

Speaker 2:
[28:18] No, I think we can do that, too. That's fine.

Speaker 3:
[28:19] We'll like throw in like a serum and then also a liquid IV sample.

Speaker 2:
[28:24] Maybe we'll just have a bag of just liquid IV samples.

Speaker 3:
[28:26] Yeah.

Speaker 2:
[28:27] $20 worth of like 20 liquid IV samples.

Speaker 3:
[28:29] I think it will be like at least worth your like and the majority of it's going to be.

Speaker 2:
[28:33] The majority is going to be way more.

Speaker 3:
[28:35] Yeah.

Speaker 2:
[28:35] So I think that's going to be like big razzle dazzle.

Speaker 3:
[28:38] So that so the closet sale will also be open at the auto show as long as stuff is available. The duck pond raffle thing, whatever, will only be at the VIP night.

Speaker 2:
[28:51] Unless we don't sell out. But I'm going to probably peer pressure everyone to making sure I sell out.

Speaker 3:
[28:55] Yeah.

Speaker 2:
[28:55] Because I'm really good at that.

Speaker 3:
[28:57] Totally.

Speaker 2:
[28:58] And it's for charity.

Speaker 3:
[28:59] It's for charity. It's for a really good cause.

Speaker 2:
[29:01] So that's going to be a blast. Plus if you buy a VIP night ticket, you get to come to the show the next day. So like, if you just work out the math, because I think the VIP tickets are like a hundred bucks, but work out the math. Okay. You're going to come to the auto show twice. You're getting dinner, you're getting drinks. You're getting to meet us private tour of the auto show. It's giving value.

Speaker 3:
[29:19] It's giving value. It's giving good time.

Speaker 2:
[29:22] And the VIP night is so fun.

Speaker 3:
[29:24] It's like a date night, though. Like, that's not that's not where the kid stuff is. I mean, if like you're traveling and like you have to bring your child, like we're not going to shoo you away with your child. But it is more of like a girls night date night. Yeah, that's kind of the vibe we're trying to cultivate. But we would obviously never tell anyone who has to bring their kid to not bring their kid.

Speaker 2:
[29:41] No, please, please. So I'm just getting like so excited. It's like kind of right around the corner. And everyone wants me to spill the tea on the manufacturer who said no.

Speaker 3:
[29:50] You can't.

Speaker 2:
[29:51] I know, but I really want to. But I won't.

Speaker 3:
[29:53] It's juicy, too. It is. It's giving like worked with in the past.

Speaker 2:
[30:01] But people, everyone thinks it's Honda for some reason. And I will just say it's not Honda. I didn't ask Honda corporate because I don't even get invited to Honda events. Yeah, I've never been invited to a Honda event in my life. I don't even have a contact. And I love the local Honda dealership we work with.

Speaker 3:
[30:17] They make it.

Speaker 2:
[30:18] They make it so easy. I didn't even like bark up Honda's tree. So I will tell you, it's not Honda.

Speaker 3:
[30:23] Yeah. And also, if you know what dealerships our parents own, we also don't need to reach out to those manufacturers. So you can just do process of elimination and figure it out.

Speaker 2:
[30:35] Come to the auto show. You can you can pay attention to which ones have like dealer plate things on them. And then maybe you'll start to connect the dots.

Speaker 3:
[30:43] Yeah.

Speaker 2:
[30:43] But yeah, it's a and it is OK because. Just not everyone gets it. And this is something we're used to our whole life. People, not everyone gets it. I know you guys get it, but people don't really get it.

Speaker 3:
[30:55] Like you should hear our dad explain this being such a sweet man, such a supporter. I was just a blind supporter. I had no idea what he's supporting. Heavy on the blind.

Speaker 2:
[31:08] Oh, that's so funny. Okay. Well, I thought we could do like a fascinating philosophy, base model luxury, like just like those like two segments.

Speaker 3:
[31:17] You know what, Kel, we have been talking all day. We were trying to prep our questions for tomorrow. And you did a question box and someone asked for like parenting advice.

Speaker 2:
[31:26] Yeah.

Speaker 3:
[31:27] And my fascinating philosophy is actually a piece of advice that another mom gave me. And I did bring it up on the podcast, I think, when I first heard it. But I have found it ring so true in my life lately that I want to bring it up again.

Speaker 2:
[31:38] Okay. I'm sad. And that is actually I'm laying down.

Speaker 3:
[31:42] That you are just six months away from a different season, from a different child.

Speaker 2:
[31:47] I was there with you.

Speaker 3:
[31:48] No, you weren't. I was at the gym. She said you're just six months away and she's like, that's great. And it's kind of bittersweet. But I just think about where I was. James has just tested me so much throughout his terrible twos. And now that we're turning the corner almost three, I'm like, he is getting easier. I'm kind of nervous to have three kids, but James is only getting easier. Sloan will get harder, but she's never been as hard as James. I don't think she'll be as challenging, challenge me as much as he did. And if things are really hard right now, you're six months away from being in a totally different, totally different situation, especially if you have young kids, because six months and a young child, they're the different people. They're growing so much. They're developing so much. They're learning so much.

Speaker 2:
[32:44] For better or worse, you're six months away from a different situation.

Speaker 3:
[32:47] For better or for worse.

Speaker 2:
[32:49] But mainly for better.

Speaker 3:
[32:51] I think most of us look forward to the future and when our kids can do that this.

Speaker 2:
[33:00] Yeah. So I think that's a good one.

Speaker 3:
[33:04] It's really just really been true in my life, and I'm continuing to look for it because I'm thinking about having three kids and like my hands are literally full. Like I'm always my kids always want me to carry both of them. And I'm like, what do I do when I have a third? And I just keep thinking like Sloan will be in a different place. James will be in a different place. The baby will be literally a potato for the first few months. Like things will be OK.

Speaker 2:
[33:30] Things will be OK. And I'm going to be here. Because for once, I'm not going to have a baby when you're having a baby.

Speaker 3:
[33:36] I know. So you're going to be like.

Speaker 2:
[33:37] No, I'm going to be aunt of like, steer clear she's the aunt of the year.

Speaker 3:
[33:43] You know what? And Maddie is not a stranger to ordering a trophy, a custom trophy online. And I do. You might get it.

Speaker 2:
[33:52] I might get it. Interesting. OK, so the parenting advice that I wanted to give. So many, so many, so much advice I. I know I'm like so still in the trenches, but I am like semi on the other. I'm just I'm done with the having baby stage, so I'm in like my raising baby stage, which is which has, I'll be honest, kind of like stripping me of a lot of my identity. Like I had a friend the other day asking for like a formula rack, and I'm like, girl, I've been out of the game. Like I use Bobby like that's a little thing.

Speaker 3:
[34:19] I know. I think there's like a hot new formula now on the market. You wouldn't know.

Speaker 2:
[34:23] I don't feel comfortable giving advice. I don't know. I've only not had a baby for like a year.

Speaker 3:
[34:28] I know.

Speaker 2:
[34:29] And I already feel out of the game.

Speaker 3:
[34:30] Yeah.

Speaker 2:
[34:32] But yeah, it's very interesting and sad and exciting all at the same time. It's such a mixed bag of emotions. When I have like a friend over who has a baby and like I look at that baby and I compare it to Libby, and I'm like, oh, I actually don't have a baby. Because compared to my kids, Libby is a baby, but compared to actual babies, she's not. And it's just been very interesting. But some advice that I love, and I'm kind of a person who likes. Sometimes the best advice I've ever gotten is just been like mindset shifts and just like the obvious being said. And I'll never forget it was October and we were at an October party at the farm. And Hattie was, I think I had Hattie and she was young. And my cousin was there and I was like kind of sad because like I couldn't do the hayride because Hattie was doing it. I was just I was left out. I was lonely. And she looked at me and she goes, it's just not your year. Oh, yeah. And I was like, it's just not my year. And so I'm just like not trying to shoehorn it to be your year and know like you will have those years again. But like in this time, it's not your year. So like all the summers I was pregnant or postpartum, I was like, it's just not my summer. But now look at me, this summer, it's my summer.

Speaker 3:
[35:47] It is your summer and you're thriving and you're healthy and you're feeling great. And like now and moving forward is just going to be your time to shine and to just work, really focus on yourself. And your kids are only getting easier and it's just wonderful.

Speaker 2:
[36:06] And another quote that's not really like kid specific, but it's just like my sister-in-law has this, I shared this a hundred times. I know my sister-in-law has this framed in her house and I want to get it framed in my house. And it just says, if you can't get out of it, get into it.

Speaker 3:
[36:18] Yeah.

Speaker 2:
[36:19] And I love this quote because sometimes whether you are going to like a family event or like even like sometimes even like work travel or whatever. Like if you can't, I can't get out of this. So I just need to get into it and I just like make it fun. And like, I mean, it's going to do no one any good. If I'm, if I'm like, man, I want to go somewhere about like get over it, get into it, make it fun. What do you need to do? And Tyler's always telling me that, like whenever I try to dread this travel, I think it almost makes him mad because he's like, will you stop? Like, will you please go and like enjoy this? Like if I'm going to be here with the kids, like I know you're going to miss them, but like respectfully get over it. He's like, get over it. I'm like, you're right.

Speaker 3:
[36:56] If you are going to be the parent that travels, like you better have a great freaking time. You better get a great night's sleep. The parent that is at home is doing none of those things. So like you owe it to your partner when you are traveling to not be like, to not complain and just thank them for being with their kids. I totally miss them, of course. And like you can't wait to come home because it's so great to hear those things. But like, how was your night? Great. It was great. I feel so rested. Like what? Like that's that's what the other person needs to think.

Speaker 2:
[37:29] So at least Tyler doesn't travel. I don't know how I would respond to so fun. I would go out to dinner with Cap Wan, like totally wind. And I think I would probably strangle him through the phone if he said that when I was home alone.

Speaker 3:
[37:41] Well, I mean, I don't think he needs to like rub it in your face, but I think he can be like, no, it was like a really productive dinner. Like it was a really good thing that I was there.

Speaker 2:
[37:48] You're right.

Speaker 3:
[37:49] It was good for the bit. Whatever.

Speaker 2:
[37:51] So anyway, that's kind of things that have been on my mind lately. Just it's not your summer. And like it's OK to just say that sometimes. And let me be clear, it's not your summer.

Speaker 3:
[38:00] It's not my summer. And it and it does feel good because it does put things into like a very temporary perspective.

Speaker 2:
[38:05] Exactly. It takes you to a temporary perspective and it sets your expectations.

Speaker 3:
[38:12] Yeah.

Speaker 2:
[38:14] And I think I really struggled with it when I had the first two kids because I was alone, like no one else was having kids. And so I did feel a lot more alone. And now I am so happy it was me who had the kids first, though, because I will not let my siblings feel like that. I will be.

Speaker 3:
[38:29] Yeah, I know. I know.

Speaker 2:
[38:30] And I'll sit there with you. I'd love to sit there with you.

Speaker 3:
[38:32] Catch up.

Speaker 2:
[38:33] It's not my baby. I'll just I'm excited for that.

Speaker 3:
[38:35] Yeah, I'll hold your baby for a little bit until it cries. And then you can take it and like it wants you and you can take it back.

Speaker 2:
[38:40] Like, that sounds like I don't keep it when it cries for a little bit. I'm not scared.

Speaker 3:
[38:43] Yeah, I'll keep it when it cries for a little.

Speaker 2:
[38:45] I'm going to be really here. I'm getting more hands on with your children lately. Because I just think they are going to need to learn to take refuge in other people. Well, they're going to.

Speaker 3:
[38:55] I know they're going to need to. My kids are so clingy to me.

Speaker 2:
[38:58] They're so clingy. And like I am there with open arms and, you know, yeah. And I'm not scared to bribe. And I have I mean, yeah, yeah. And Kiki is going to be racking up the brownie points.

Speaker 3:
[39:11] All right. And Kiki. Today's episode is brought to you by Alma a year from now. Who do you hope you've become? Think about that for a second. What version of yourself are you working toward? Do you notice your anxiety easing or feel more comfortable in your own skin? Do you hope that your relationships feel more connected and the weight of grief isn't as heavy? What if that thing that's been quietly sitting in the back of your mind doesn't take up so much space anymore? The right therapist can help get you there, and Alma will help you find them. Alma offers access to a network of 20,000 therapists with a wide range of specialties, backgrounds, and identities, and 99% of them accept insurance. You deserve to feel like that future version of yourself, and a year is closer than you think. Get started today at helloalma.com/carpool. That's helloalma, A-L-M-A ,.com/carpool, C-A-R-P-O-O-L. Well, do you have any industry news?

Speaker 2:
[40:15] Hold on, I still had a, what's it called?

Speaker 3:
[40:17] Oh, a base model luxury?

Speaker 2:
[40:18] I have a base model luxury.

Speaker 3:
[40:19] Okay.

Speaker 2:
[40:22] Okay, I also got this from my sister. I love my sister-in-law. Like they would probably never come on the podcast. I just don't think they're those kind of people, but like they are so full of tips and tricks. And they are just some of the most practical women you've ever met.

Speaker 3:
[40:34] Yeah.

Speaker 2:
[40:35] So my sister-in-law, Trina, who is Tyler's youngest sister, she's a year older than me, Tyler's youngest sister, where we have kids like the same ages, like they're so close in age, all of our kids. She has four boys, crazy.

Speaker 3:
[40:46] Crazy.

Speaker 2:
[40:48] And anyway, sometimes we do like these girl shopping days. And she lives far from St. Louis, like even farther than I do. So when we do these girl shopping days, like she's always packing a cooler. And like it's such a base model luxury to have a cooler packed in your car.

Speaker 3:
[41:05] Yeah.

Speaker 2:
[41:05] And this is not for, we're not even like hitting a zoo trip, like we're bopping around to resale shops in the mall. And she'll be like, do you want a water? And she pulls out an ice cold bottle of water.

Speaker 3:
[41:15] I'm like, yes. That sounds amazing.

Speaker 2:
[41:18] Yeah. Or like, you know, if we're going along between like breakfast and she's also like literally breastfed for the last eight years. So she's always breastfeeding. She'll be like, hold on, I'm just gonna like eat my yogurt really fast. And she'll pull out her yogurt. She'll pull out her bag of granola that she packed with her yogurt.

Speaker 3:
[41:32] Yeah.

Speaker 2:
[41:32] And a plastic spoon. And it's just in this cooler in her van. And I'm like, and then if she gets leftovers at lunch, oh, they go in her cooler.

Speaker 3:
[41:39] Yeah. Or she's got to like, gets the chance to go to Trader Joe's for the first time in five months.

Speaker 2:
[41:44] She has them in her cooler. But like the fact, I can't even tell you, like my water bottle was empty before I left the house. And I know if I'm shopping with her, I know she has a cooler packed of snacks for herself. And it's just, it's really inspiring. So I kind of took a page out of her book today. And since I am still kind of on my like diet, I wanted to like pack some snacks. So I just wasn't left to like the beef sticks at the gas station. And I packed my own deer sausage and I packed my own drinks. So I packed an energy drink, I packed an element, I packed a second energy drink, maybe to put in the fridge. And I'm just like, you know, I packed it in a lunchbox. I need to get like a personal cooler. Like where did you get that Yeti one from?

Speaker 3:
[42:23] No, that's a Stanley one.

Speaker 2:
[42:25] Yeah, why don't I have that?

Speaker 3:
[42:26] But they sent it to me, I'll be honest.

Speaker 2:
[42:28] Elizabeth, you guys have no idea.

Speaker 3:
[42:30] I've gotten sent a lot less stuff lately.

Speaker 2:
[42:34] You're getting too big. If you are a micro influencer, get your butt on shop.

Speaker 3:
[42:40] Maybe, again, maybe. I do think the well might be drying up a little. Well, I don't know, but I also don't share everything that I get. Maybe if you share more stuff, I don't know. For me, the well, I'm not getting as much gifting as I used to, but Stanley did send me this cooler, and it was the perfect size cooler for, that was my pump cooler, too.

Speaker 2:
[42:57] It's so cute. It's like a little bigger than a lunchbox. I need that size. But anyway, I'm just, I'm enjoying that. Another base model luxury of mine is I'm just so enjoying a physical copy of a book. You know, The Kindle is great, but there's something about like a physical book. And it feels like lately, I get into bed and normally Tyler and I will just like try to like scroll Netflix and find something to watch before we're just like, okay, I'm just gonna scroll my phone. And I don't like that habit. I also though don't really think there's anything I'm like dying to watch right now.

Speaker 3:
[43:33] Yeah, and I but I am enjoying reading.

Speaker 2:
[43:37] So I'm reading a book and I have a physical copy of it. And like my bookmark is like a picture of my family. And like it's just such it brings me such joy and it puts me to sleep instantly.

Speaker 3:
[43:45] Knocks you out gives you that like last feeling before you go to bed. Just like I'm so screen free. Like I'm so connected to I'm so screen free.

Speaker 2:
[43:57] I'm like taking such good care of myself.

Speaker 3:
[43:59] This is self care better than everyone.

Speaker 2:
[44:01] I read five, I read three pages and I fall asleep. Like to the point where I'm like 50 pages into this book, but I'm telling you, I have no idea what happens because I'm like reading so little at a time. Like I'm not getting into the characters yet at all. So that's kind of a big goal of mine for this trip. I'm gonna read on my airplanes. I'm gonna read, I might read before bed tonight. You never know.

Speaker 3:
[44:22] Okay. I'm so excited to sleep in a hotel room tonight. I hope Maddie's hearing this. Maddie, I just want you to know, thank you for staying home with the kids. And also, I'm gonna sleep like a rock tonight. And I hope that makes you feel good.

Speaker 2:
[44:37] Yeah, same, Tyler. Okay, industry news.

Speaker 3:
[44:42] Where we spilled a hot tea going on in the auto industry.

Speaker 2:
[44:46] Okay, so interesting. So who am I always harping on to do better? In like one specific sector of auto?

Speaker 3:
[44:55] Tesla.

Speaker 2:
[44:55] No, but you're, no.

Speaker 3:
[44:59] Chrysler.

Speaker 2:
[45:00] No. I mean, okay, who am I always saying? Like they're missing the mark because they're not in this segment.

Speaker 3:
[45:07] Buick. Okay, Kelly, you harp on, you harp on everyone respectfully.

Speaker 2:
[45:14] I'm always saying that GM doesn't have, where's their off-roader? Where is like, where's their Bronco? Where's their Land Cruiser? Where's their Nissan Xterra? Like, where's their car?

Speaker 3:
[45:26] Where's their Boulder?

Speaker 2:
[45:28] Where's their Boulder? And they brought back the Blazer in the stupidest EV. It's such an offense. It's so offensive to the Blazer nameplate.

Speaker 3:
[45:37] Yeah.

Speaker 2:
[45:38] But we got an exciting story from Motor Trend. GMC is bringing back, I need your full attention for this.

Speaker 3:
[45:46] I'm paying attention.

Speaker 2:
[45:47] GMC is bringing back the Jimmy.

Speaker 3:
[45:51] Oh, the Jimmy.

Speaker 2:
[45:52] First of all, here I have a picture. First of all, I love the name of the Jimmy.

Speaker 3:
[45:57] I like the name of the Jimmy too.

Speaker 2:
[45:58] It's a GMC Jimmy. I can't explain it. I think it's hysterical. I would like to see more cars just be named after people.

Speaker 3:
[46:08] Yeah, it's the James.

Speaker 2:
[46:10] It's the James. We should call James Jimmy. I might start doing that.

Speaker 3:
[46:14] No, he's named James after his grandpa, who's Jim. So we wanted him to have his name, but be different.

Speaker 2:
[46:19] Okay. Never forget when Lincoln used to have a truck called The Mark.

Speaker 3:
[46:25] That's a bad one. I don't like The Mark.

Speaker 2:
[46:27] You like the Jimmy?

Speaker 3:
[46:28] I like the Jimmy. The Jimmy's fun. The Jimmy's a good time.

Speaker 2:
[46:32] Everything we know about the 2029 GMC Jimmy. Is there a real chance that GM is about to revive a once popular Jimmy as a body on frame off road SUV? Rumbling about GM reviving the GMC Jimmy. Get louder every time there's a new body on frame. So like, OK, like the boulder. It says the strongest indicator we've seen elsewhere came from GMC authority just a week after the boulder rolled down the hill. According to the outlet, GMC is seriously looking at revisiting a previously scrapped plans for a new Jimmy SUV. What makes us a bit different from previous situations is we're hearing the similar thing from insiders.

Speaker 3:
[47:12] This would be really exciting. And I don't want them to bring it back in a blazer way. I want a manufacturer to bring it back in a vintage way. I just wonder, I think, just based off my husband, my husband is always on Facebook Marketplace looking at vintage trucks. He would love to drive a vintage truck. If a manufacturer came out with a new truck that had all the new tech, but it had the look of a vintage Ford. My husband would be the first customer.

Speaker 2:
[47:41] It says, unlike the current Chevy Blazer, the new GMC Jiminy will answer the long standing calls for GM to build a real off-road SUV.

Speaker 3:
[47:49] All right. Well, I like it. But I want it to look like that picture you showed me, and it's not going to, but I want it to.

Speaker 2:
[47:58] It might. I don't know what these pictures are. I don't know if these were just renderings or what these are. I guess these are just AI images. These are from MotorTrain. MotorTrain is not going to throw out AI slop.

Speaker 3:
[48:12] Yeah.

Speaker 2:
[48:13] I don't know. I'm interested. I'm interested. I'm intrigued. I'm ready for it.

Speaker 3:
[48:17] Me too.

Speaker 2:
[48:18] Oh, and then I also have huge news. I'm going on an insane trip at the end of the month.

Speaker 3:
[48:22] Oh yeah. Tell us about it.

Speaker 2:
[48:24] I don't know what I can exactly tell, but I can tell you I'm going to the IIHS.

Speaker 3:
[48:27] Yeah.

Speaker 2:
[48:28] A manufacturer invited me to see a car be crash tested.

Speaker 3:
[48:30] That's really cool. No. That's like dream status.

Speaker 2:
[48:33] It's dream status.

Speaker 3:
[48:35] Yeah.

Speaker 2:
[48:36] I'm so excited. Like I want to wear the goggles. I want to like I'm going to do it up right. And I cannot wait. I love any FaceTime I get with the IIHS is FaceTime well spent. I love those people. Love those people.

Speaker 3:
[48:48] They're like minded individuals. Like it's just nice to you guys have stuff in common.

Speaker 2:
[48:52] Yeah. We both have super average relationships with the manufacturers.

Speaker 3:
[48:56] Yeah. The manufacturers like don't love you. You're providing a service to families. And yeah, the IIHS just like they don't they don't answer to anyone. They buy their own.

Speaker 2:
[49:07] No, they don't answer to anyone. And I and I love that.

Speaker 3:
[49:09] Yeah.

Speaker 2:
[49:10] And I love that. So I think that's our episode.

Speaker 3:
[49:14] You have a dish to drive through.

Speaker 2:
[49:15] Of course, I have a dish to drive through. I of course have a dish to drive through. So a couple of things. I have two for you. Because these are two things that I I didn't prep both of them because my sister-in-law is bringing one because they're doing some lessons at our house tonight. My sister-in-law, Trina, the one with the cooler. Again, has four kids, my kid's age and she has her life so together.

Speaker 3:
[49:40] Yeah.

Speaker 2:
[49:41] You know what's so interesting about her? It's like, when you go into her house, it's not that she's, I mean, her house looks like she has a kid, like there's toys in the living room.

Speaker 3:
[49:53] Yeah.

Speaker 2:
[49:53] But if you open up any drawer, it is meticulously organized.

Speaker 3:
[49:58] I wish.

Speaker 2:
[49:59] No, like where I feel like I'm organized on the outside, but like the inside's a mess. She's like, she's the opposite.

Speaker 3:
[50:05] OK. Like, OK.

Speaker 2:
[50:07] Not I opened up her junk drawer and I was like, she's got systems. Totally. You just hear pantry. I wish I maybe still come on the page. She's so funny.

Speaker 3:
[50:17] We also need Barb on the podcast.

Speaker 2:
[50:18] We need Barb. And I also want to get Ilafe, Tyler's grandma.

Speaker 3:
[50:20] Oh, we got to get Ilafe.

Speaker 2:
[50:22] I know. Anyways. So Trina's kids are coming over to my house and I had to do some lessons. And she's like, I'm going to bring a muscatolli. And I'm like, what a thing to feed a crowd. It's a good.

Speaker 3:
[50:33] Yeah, it's good.

Speaker 2:
[50:33] It's a good. She goes, I'm bringing muscatolli and peas. And I'm like, thank you. Yeah, that's an amazing supper. And then before I left, I made a big old thing, a poppy seed chicken.

Speaker 3:
[50:43] Oh, so they'll be set.

Speaker 2:
[50:44] So they've got casseroles. They've got microwavable meals, casseroles for days.

Speaker 3:
[50:48] OK, that's great.

Speaker 2:
[50:49] Days on days on days. So that's so that's mine. Do you want to talk about how we're not teaching the right food tonight and what we're going to order for dinner? What?

Speaker 3:
[50:57] We're ordering for dinner?

Speaker 2:
[50:58] Yeah, we looked at the menu.

Speaker 3:
[50:59] Yeah.

Speaker 2:
[51:00] Are you? Tyler thinks it's so weird. I look up a menu before I go to a restaurant.

Speaker 3:
[51:03] I like to be prepared. I kind of like to get the vise before I go there, because then I can enjoy the conversation. I don't have to like stare at the menu and everything. And I also sometimes like to look at the pictures.

Speaker 2:
[51:11] Well, then I feel like I can set myself up for what I'm going to eat for the remainder of the day. That too, because if I knew I was going to get a fish, then like I would maybe have beef at lunch.

Speaker 3:
[51:21] You get like a burger. Yeah.

Speaker 2:
[51:24] He thinks I'm so crazy for that.

Speaker 3:
[51:25] No, he's crazy for not. I think I think you're definitely in the majority.

Speaker 2:
[51:29] Well, I've told you guys what Tyler orders at a restaurant, like a nice restaurant like this. It's so embarrassing.

Speaker 3:
[51:33] Well, you order for him.

Speaker 2:
[51:38] I do order for him. And it's so funny because Tyler is a lot more social of a guy than me. Yeah, like Tyler's favorite thing is just to go door knocking. Like he'll just go. He will just like he's so crazy. We're like, I don't even like to ask, like, I'm not that person.

Speaker 3:
[51:59] Remember when we were in high school? I think it was legal. Maybe we were 18. How old do you have to be to go to a hookah bar? We went to a hookah bar with Tyler and there were some guys in the corner. So imagine the crowd at a hookah bar. There were some guys in the corner blowing rings with their hookah. Tyler's like, oh, that looks really cool. And he goes up and sits down with them. He's like, yeah, how do you do those tricks? And he had a camera.

Speaker 2:
[52:28] I know, it's so funny. The man doesn't know a stranger unless he's trying to take his order. So he'll be like, I don't know. He won't even bother looking at the men. You'll be like, Kelly, you just ordered me something. He goes, I just want a steak and a Caesar salad. And I'm like, OK, how am I going to swing this? So the waitress gets to me. And I'm like, I'll have the special because I'm a normal human being.

Speaker 3:
[52:48] All of this Chilean sea bass. Yeah.

Speaker 2:
[52:52] My husband, he would like a Caesar salad, and then he would like you to chop up steak and put it on top.

Speaker 3:
[52:59] She's like, no, you want the Caesar salad first and the steak? No.

Speaker 2:
[53:02] I'm like, no, no, no, no. And she's like, so you want me to cut the strip and then put it on a salad? Because she's like, the strip's like $45. And I'm like, yeah, that's what he wants. Yeah. She's like, I could do the chicken. And I'm like, no. No.

Speaker 3:
[53:14] Bring it out, bring it all.

Speaker 2:
[53:14] What I'm ordering is a strip steak and a Caesar salad. If you can't put it together in the kitchen, then drop it off with me first and I'll cut it up for him. He's so funny.

Speaker 3:
[53:24] Well, that's why he doesn't have to look at menus because you you literally look at them for him and he knows what he wants.

Speaker 2:
[53:30] Right.

Speaker 3:
[53:31] And that's an actually, but actually a Caesar salad with a steak on top is a good meal. No, I'm sorry.

Speaker 2:
[53:36] I'm not making fun of him. I'm making fun of him a little bit because like he it's the only thing he orders.

Speaker 3:
[53:40] Yeah.

Speaker 2:
[53:41] And I think sometimes like they want, you know, you're at a nice restaurant like they might want you to like experience like the brandy peppercorn sauce over the like the agrat and potatoes and asparagus. Not my husband. Yeah. It's just the fact that I have to order it for him.

Speaker 3:
[53:52] Yeah.

Speaker 2:
[53:52] It's just it's just like a fun fact about us. But you know what? It's good to be needed.

Speaker 3:
[53:56] It is. It is. You're right.

Speaker 2:
[53:58] It's good to be needed.

Speaker 3:
[53:59] It is. No, literally not making like literally couldn't care less. Don't just making fun, just exaggerating for the fact that we're on a podcast. Like literally don't even care.

Speaker 2:
[54:07] Yeah, I don't even care. Anyway, so tonight we looked at this. We told you guys, Swank, Swank, Swank, Swank restaurant.

Speaker 3:
[54:13] I guess. Yeah, I don't know. I don't think you said Swank too many times. It's like a nice. It's a nice restaurant.

Speaker 2:
[54:23] I'm going to get the strip steak. So you ever cut a steak? I don't like the fillet. I don't like a rib.

Speaker 3:
[54:27] I like a strip steaks best. I think I'm going to get strip steak as well. And then we're going to like share a vegetable. I don't really know if I'm going to share asparagus worth bringing up our orders. It's really boring.

Speaker 2:
[54:40] Sorry, I forget that we're not just talking and we're doing a podcast because we're just in person. I'm looking at you at a hotel bed. Oh, but we do have to get ready if we're going to make it to that one thing.

Speaker 3:
[54:46] I know we kind of got to get going.

Speaker 2:
[54:48] OK, hold on. OK, guys. Well, thanks so much for listening to the Carpool podcast. Iowa. Next week, we'll be talking about your solo episode.

Speaker 3:
[54:58] Well, you know what? I'm nervous. We haven't. It hasn't come out yet. I'm really nervous to hear what people think. I'm so mortified to record solo. I just feel like a lost puppy sometimes without you. And it's like such imposter syndrome. So hopefully people liked it.

Speaker 2:
[55:11] I'm sure they did. I can't wait. It's going to give me something to listen to. Something to listen to on the airplane unless I read my book. We'll see which one I choose.

Speaker 3:
[55:19] Yeah, I'm just going to read your book. It's probably not a good episode.

Speaker 2:
[55:23] Do you like trash me in it?

Speaker 3:
[55:25] I literally couldn't compliment you more. So actually, if one person will like it, it will be Kelly.

Speaker 2:
[55:34] All right, guys, thanks for listening to the Carpool Podcast. We will see you on Wednesday. Have a good weekend.

Speaker 1:
[55:39] Thank you for listening to The Carpool Podcast with Kelly and Lizz. Make sure you're subscribed so you never miss an episode. And if you enjoyed riding with us, tell everybody you know, there's room in the car for everyone.