Giggling about mascots, milk, and Mount Everest

0:02Paige DeSorbo: What's up gigglers?

0:03Amanda Batula: Gary, fix the wifi.

0:05Paige DeSorbo: Manifest that shit.

0:06Amanda Batula: We can't be managed. The day just got away from me.

0:15Paige DeSorbo: 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.

0:22Amanda Batula: It can't be a silent G. There's rules to this game, okay? We are only silent Gs outside of the pod.

0:28Paige DeSorbo: on the pod were 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 genie during scrabble and i i slipped a disc in your back i thought that was like a joke people 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 guys so i was looking at des because des 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

1:13Amanda Batula: a chill in the air and i'm like i think we should stop so you were talking about people who um always

1:20Paige DeSorbo: 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

1:33Amanda Batula: i'm like i'm fine yeah you don't eat you don't sleep no i'm like beyonce on set i'm like i don't take bathroom breaks i don't take lunch but anything without 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

1:54Paige DeSorbo: 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.

2:07Amanda Batula: 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?

2:16Paige DeSorbo: 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 mean you were going to the US Open

2:34Amanda Batula: oh oh can you not go this is a bad time to say that I actually can't go

2:40Paige DeSorbo: 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

2:52Amanda Batula: 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 this 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. I just want to apologize to the gigglers because I posted on my Instagram story, I got bangs. People lost. People were nervous. People definitely DM me and they're like, okay, we're just going to sit and wait and watch.

3:32Amanda Batula: And I got bangs because I'm going to the Venice Film Festival and I'm not showing up. Obviously. i'm 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 someone's going on you

4:12Paige DeSorbo: 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

4:22Amanda Batula: 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 twosay yeah it's well look you also I'm

4:40Paige DeSorbo: 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

5:04Amanda Batula: wait bangs are so scary i'm bangs are so scary this is like i slept in a bun so they're like

5:14Paige DeSorbo: that's like my sleep paralysis wait so are you keeping it after venice or is this like purely

5:19Amanda Batula: 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 a fall um i saw we do you want to say anything about venice oh i'm going to the venice film festival with 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

5:49Paige DeSorbo: a little bit nervous i'm excited for you also like i feel like you like live in italy now it's like

5:56Amanda Batula: 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

6:09Paige DeSorbo: guys don't understand the lore behind Josephine who's Paige's number one favorite assistant who

6:15Amanda Batula: 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 works at Daphne. She runs all of the social media. I said, call Emma. Give it to Emma. Emma will meet me at Morgan Stewart. Great. I get to Morgan Stewart.

6:58Amanda Batula: 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 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 Priestley, that like my first assistant is an incubus of the plague. And my second assistant has to fill in.

7:23Paige DeSorbo: She wasn't aware that she was going to. Wait, it's giving Las Coltureesas, the guy who's like, are you guys Summer House? And I'm like, it's actually a lot more complicated than that.

7:32Amanda Batula: I was like, she woke up. She had something medical. She was really nervous about it. And I was like.

7:39Paige DeSorbo: Also, I don't like calling anyone assistant.

7:42Amanda Batula: Me neither. I find it rude.

7:44Paige DeSorbo: I feel like calling someone an assistant is rude.

7:46Amanda Batula: Like you're my producer. I'm like, you don't get it. She's like my sounding board.

7:52Paige DeSorbo: You're like, she's my sister. She's my other half. She's my my shaman of getting stuff done.

8:00Amanda Batula: 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

8:23Paige DeSorbo: 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 page can i

8:31Amanda Batula: 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 like okay but it's funny because her and emma are both gen z so like if we're on a daphne photo shoot 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

8:55Amanda Batula: i like the other day we were at a daphne photo shoot 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 then they like walk together away i'm like also you guys know i identify as gen z

9:14Paige DeSorbo: 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

9:29Amanda Batula: 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 they go oh my god i got so many good pictures

9:44Paige DeSorbo: i love my gen z girls but like when i come on and i'm like i slept 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 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 gigglers and i was like babe

10:22Amanda Batula: are you a time traveler from 2020 we've been doing that i go you're gonna lose your fucking mind

10:29Paige DeSorbo: you haven't hit that episode yet but we you were a hundred we're on the same page baby

10:34Amanda Batula: um shout out to our gigglers remember the segment get a gay going get a gay going it's still in the

10:41Paige DeSorbo: 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?

11:12Amanda Batula: 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, funny way. 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, well, the credits.

11:34Paige DeSorbo: He also was straight in college and played football. 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 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 a.m we thought we could go oh breakfast and get

12:15Amanda Batula: breakfast sorry i thought you were doing like early bird special 4 30 p.m we would do that as well joe makes me eat by 5 p.m 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 could 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 two bowls of cereal to sustain.

12:41Paige DeSorbo: And he's like not a big snacker and you're a snacker, which creates more tension in the household. Yep. Yep. 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 a nice coffee do you have any other what kind of milk do you have that's how i tried to be cool about it and she was like i got a hole in 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 home like and he's like it's just get whole milk 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 stomach ache 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 now 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

14:28Amanda Batula: do and if you're wearing those sunglasses they think you have glaucoma and you're also 85 and

14:34Paige DeSorbo: 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 home milk and if something happens to me we've all have witnesses now that this is your fault in my head skim milk

14:49Amanda Batula: is home milk they've just skimmed off the top they've taken they've literally just gone

14:56Paige DeSorbo: just a little bit i think i grew up in a skim milk home i grew up in a milkman home like our

15:03Amanda Batula: milk got delivered to us and that's cool and i'm pretty sure we were a two percent family growing

15:09Paige DeSorbo: up yeah two percent is a good medium we did occasionally get like chocolate milk from a

15:14Amanda Batula: 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 hole i got hole and i actually don't remember what happened okay so you know i'm someone that loves working out at home and i just like really can't bring myself to go to a workout class or to the gym by myself and i don't know what i'm doing I truly can't look at YouTube or Instagram videos anymore. That's why Ladder gives you a real plan from an expert coach. Ladder is an expert strength training plan, not a content library. And these aren't influencer workouts or challenges.

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17:12Paige DeSorbo: documentary pastor thing i'm supposed to watch that but des is making me watch some scripted

17:16Amanda Batula: thing right now hannah lucy is it good no i'm gonna cancel my plans today 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

18:28Paige DeSorbo: is so problematic right now regarding like trad wives and being like my husband is what i'm not getting into right now but we have to give you the woman of some of the week even though you know i I don't like when you're in the comments. I don't like when you're in the drama. But you won the internet this week. You won it. You won it.

18:49Amanda Batula: I did something a little atypical for myself. I rarely will. I love the drama online. I loved looking at the comments of the Callaway thing. I rarely will put in my two 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, actually, this is like me nitpicking things. It's not called, like, I don't like when people call it DV because they think it, like, minimizes it. It's domestic violence.

19:31Amanda Batula: The word is violence. when they did the

19:35Paige DeSorbo: the commercial

19:36Amanda Batula: the domestic violence commercial and then he the CEO did the apology I like read the apology and rarely when people are getting cancelled am I chiming in but like as someone who has been through domestic violence I like physically can't stay quiet so I'm reading the apology not one time does it mention like women does it mention like we're going to donate to domestic violence we're going to help this we're going to 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 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 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 two 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 page 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

21:44Paige DeSorbo: playing tennis with some 70 year old men and i get on the phone go on tiktok and someone's like paisha sorbo is in the comments and i'm like oh no oh no what is she i leave her for two 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

22:07Amanda Batula: completely fine commenting on because i've been through it and as someone who went through domestic violence at 1920 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 an embarrassing I was like, oh my God, everyone's going to think I'm stupid because I allowed my brain to get manipulated by this insane person.

22:51Amanda Batula: 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. 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, OK, 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.

23:31Paige DeSorbo: 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. No one's tackling grandmas on a football field.

23:48Amanda Batula: 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 fiance or husband was like, get over it. I'm not saying leave him like, oh, my God, he's going to hit you at some point in your life. 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

24:23Paige DeSorbo: oh 100 because also what is he protecting not women his friends who like think it's funny like

24:30Amanda Batula: 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 i've 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

25:37Paige DeSorbo: co-sign everything you just said wait can i go say one other thing there's this comic l 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 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.

26:19Paige DeSorbo: I always click on the profile to be like, okay, this isn't like a real person. Like smart.

26:26Amanda Batula: It's not like someone I'd ever even get to be in a room with.

26:29Paige DeSorbo: 100%. So I click on it. I see. And a lot of times 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. Thank you for being so vulnerable and speaking about that. No, my pleasure.

26:50Amanda Batula: No, because it's really not funny. like domestic violence can happen to anyone at any time like it can happen to men too like

26:59Paige DeSorbo: 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

27:19Amanda Batula: 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

28:11Paige DeSorbo: violence do you ever this 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

28:22Amanda Batula: same it's just not all men okay well your friend if you aren't then three people you know are so Who are they? I don't have the bandwidth for them. 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.

28:40Paige DeSorbo: I have three women of STEM of the week. Okay. Buckle the fuck up. Okay, so 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 five or six 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 to be like say we can't have you i'm

29:05Amanda Batula: adding one more i've one more yeah i'm adding them i'm not even telling i'm sorry someone showed up

29:12Paige DeSorbo: i had a reservation in somewhere in the hamptons and it was for our family plus the two kids and they had um availability for six but not for eight so i'm like i'm booking six and then coming in and being like i didn't know i had a book for two kids yeah so i showed up with two toddlers and they were like it was for six and i'm like oh i'm so sorry let's find a toddler two toddlers

29:39Amanda Batula: 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 eight but they clearly just like so you're the

29:50Paige DeSorbo: the woman in stem 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 chance and they're filming it they were like how did you even how long was the flight like no i'm obsessed so she is up there um woman who's done with the week number two 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 listen to it i currently listen to it i feel like bianca is like

30:39Amanda Batula: 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 seven ap glasses listen to what bianca did she goes i was listening

30:49Paige DeSorbo: 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 don't tell me she did the giggy squad no we have to be stopped

31:11Amanda Batula: no we have to be stopped what are we injecting in these people's veins real accomplished people are like listening to us don't listen to us no i'm actually gonna cry that's so that's so powerful we i almost cried last pod you're crying this pod

31:32Paige DeSorbo: i actually have been crying like all week low-key like good or bad things or both um both like i'll see a 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

31:46Amanda Batula: beautiful like i'm really i'm getting my period but for whatever reason i'm very cryy this i did

31:52Paige DeSorbo: 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 eight 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

32:07Amanda Batula: kindness goes so far actually you know what i cried at someone said title list 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

32:39Paige DeSorbo: dan for being such incredible dads if any boy looked at me the wrong way like

32:50Amanda Batula: 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 no you don't fuck with our dad no my dad will jump off of a roof onto your fucking neck okay like my dad is of a different breed

33:25Paige DeSorbo: 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 is 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 you love that i love that this is actually the fourth woman to stem 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 met this is the mascot like the museum two times for girls this is the new york met 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 but i don't know again like they're not the men are not great at like picking

34:49Amanda Batula: team you know it's crazy that there's no team that's like the horses like sorry texas is right

34:56Paige DeSorbo: there guys i know the houston horses what about a pegasus yeah like where's the whimsy what about

35:04Amanda Batula: a unicorn what about a mermaid i just feel shocked that like when they were coming up with all of

35:10Paige DeSorbo: them it was like actually bison no no it's like if you want to see whimsy look at how women are naming nail colors and let's put one percent of the energy into naming the mascots of teams

35:25Amanda Batula: or just naming their children the women are so creative so creative so mrs met shows up and

35:33Paige DeSorbo: 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

36:10Amanda Batula: 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

36:25Paige DeSorbo: 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 there's no equality for mascots today des bishop michael's boon is throwing the first pitch on the irish heritage night of the met's game are you crying are you crying and he picked like a song better drop today or i'll lose it he picked a song about like just like a proud irish heritage song that he's gonna walk on to and he's been practicing his throat 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

37:23Amanda Batula: that's weird no one no teams asked me to participate in anything I feel like 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 i can make iced a cold brew do you know the difference between them it's just a it's just a touch screen i don't need to just go it's crazy you have to come over and see it you love a touch screen well because you want to know what i got it it's in the box right and then in the box for coming over in like a couple days and there's nothing my brother loves more than like someone else's new gadget that's going to 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

38:53Paige DeSorbo: it's probably too complicated so don't even try it's so easy to rage bait my brother it's like

38:59Amanda Batula: 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 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

39:20Paige DeSorbo: 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 five minutes later i was drinking a nice cop iced coffee with whipped whole milk like why are both our brothers trad wives no literally i just realized that like my brother takes care of me he's like what do you want to

39:46Amanda Batula: eat what do you need it's actually funny because my brother and his fiancee 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 I was like walking out the door and he was pushing like a wet mop, like one of those ones you like plug in 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.

40:13Paige DeSorbo: Well, shout out to Amanda.

40:15Amanda Batula: It is funny to watch my older brother love someone more than himself. no it's just funny to watch your sibling be like this is my wife it's just like such an weird but i and i'm so happy it's amanda like i will have the best sister it's such a different

40:39Paige DeSorbo: 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

40:59Amanda Batula: 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 i'm like that's okay i'm like interesting because my whole life it

41:14Paige DeSorbo: 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 uh her and i have a

41:25Amanda Batula: like yeah like he said something to her and i and she looked at me and i go i got this one

41:32Paige DeSorbo: i go what the fuck you gonna tap me in tap me real quick 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

41:48Amanda Batula: Like I was, okay, this is a perfect example. I'm at my brother's house with Joe and my brother's fiance. 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. I 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's so sorry that's on me that's on me i made it weird i made that weird no but as

42:39Paige DeSorbo: and 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's end of summer like i have to pack i have shit to do i have to get back to the city i have u.s open this weekend i have stuff to do and it was 8 30 and i was 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 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 a.m scared unshowered you know i hate that greasy don't even know what i'm packing

43:30and 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

43:46Paige DeSorbo: 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 a good moment 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 infront from there so next week i'm back

44:19Amanda Batula: 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 nan and papa said it's their

44:31Paige DeSorbo: 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

44:40Amanda Batula: 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 guy's economy no it's the right thing to do when you go to someone else's hometown it's to contribute to their economy yeah yeah have you thought of the TikTok you're going to make when you're in the gondola?

45:15Amanda Batula: No, I haven't. Okay. You have work to do. I did save two TikToks that I wanted 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.

45:34Paige DeSorbo: We love you guys so much. Have the best weekend ever. Oh, I know. I know. And we had nothing to talk about this episode per usual.

45:42Amanda Batula: and it just flew by and i'll just save what i wrote down about my rosary beads for monday

45:48Paige DeSorbo: 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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