S4 E10 - Our Lost Eppy

[00:00:20] Speaker A: Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome. [00:00:24] Speaker B: Oh, my God. [00:00:27] Speaker A: Did you guys forget about us? [00:00:29] Speaker B: That was, like, slightly in tune. We were like, almost harmonizing at that point in time. It was beautiful. We will. We will, people. It's our audition for the Tony awards. Thank you, 2027. Anyway, this is Kay Flair. [00:00:45] Speaker A: This is Kelly. Hi. [00:00:48] Speaker B: I totally forgot what our first sentence. Hold on, everybody. Can you tell that it's been a minute since we've welcomed to the podcast where we candidly navigate life's toughest moments and topics, like trying to get organized. When we start recording a podcast, today's like the perfect day to get back to recording because it's a million degrees here in Portland. Like 90 something degrees. My face is melting off. Yeah, it's hot out there. It's hot out there. Yo. [00:01:14] Speaker A: It's only like 88 here, I think. It was definitely. We had a heat warning though, for sure. It's like tomorrow, I think is gonna be 90, maybe. [00:01:23] Speaker B: Dang, girl. [00:01:25] Speaker A: Yeah, but it's still, like, so does not feel that hot to me. Like, we went floating yesterday and it's hot, don't get me wrong. But, like, nothing. [00:01:33] Speaker B: Floating sounds nice. [00:01:35] Speaker A: Yeah, it was really nice, but nothing like where we're from hot. You know, where, like, you. The only relief is, like, getting in the pool or getting in the river. Like here the river is still so freaking cold to me because it's not that hot out. So, like, I have a really hard time getting in and out of the river. Even like sitting in a tube for an extended period of time. I was just, like, shaking. [00:01:54] Speaker B: Frigid. [00:01:55] Speaker A: Get warm. Yeah. Um. What is going on over there? [00:01:59] Speaker B: I'm, like, not mad at it, though, because, like, where we grow up and it's 100 and, like 10 or 115 for three months. That is, like, brutal. There's no point in wearing makeup. There's no point in doing your shirt or, like, like looking cute. No, it's bad. It's all bad. So at least this is palatable because it's only one or two days, but life is good. Life is life thing. I don't know about you, but summer is just on its own, like, timetable. I've started a new job, so I've got a gig. I have to wake up super early, so I have to wake up super early. It's with this really cool company. It's still in the finance world. I won't go into too much details because I haven't really gotten clearance. I don't know if they're okay with me talking about it. But it's really great. Everybody around me is very professional and polished and like the firm has 40 something years of really good experience. Experience. And I feel like I'm learning a lot. I have to wake up at the crack of dawn. I'm on your timetable now. I have to wake up at 4:55 just to make sure I don't sleep over my alarm, get out of the house by 5:35, 25 in my desk at 6 and then work, work, work, work, work. And then I get off at 3. So I'm home around like 4 because it's usually an hour's drive to get back because traffic is off full in Portland. Yeah. So I'm just like hustling again. It feels pretty good to be hustling. [00:03:24] Speaker A: What's like the, what's the. I don't know how to say it but like the format of your job, like what are you. Are, do you have like a team? Like are you working solo? Are you getting trained and then you're like reaching out to people or like what are you doing? [00:03:38] Speaker B: Yep, yep, yep. So I currently need one certificate or like series licensing to like get my job started and get my book started. [00:03:46] Speaker A: Okay. [00:03:46] Speaker B: So I'm kind of going through onboarding and training and doing a lot of studying like I was last year when I did those three tests. So I've been studying a lot lately. I am part of a broader team. There's probably like 20 or 18 people on my team and we work, yeah, it's pretty big, but we're only one team of like there's probably, I'd say 50 to 75 people on my floor and there's three different buildings. So lots of people work at this firm but it's a good firm anyway. We work exclusively with UK based clients. So people who are in obviously like London or somewhere in the uk and that's why I have to be up super early in the morning because when we get in it's like 3 o' clock in the afternoon, their time anyway, 2 o' clock and it's all high net worth individuals. So these are people who are like in their 50s and 60s and retired or 70s and this is their nest egg. Right. They want to like get investment advice on how to maintain their money to pay for retirement and give know stuff to kids and whatever. So it's kind of financial planning, it's a little bit more investment counseling and yeah, I think everybody on my team has been there for over five years at this point other than like wow, new People, because they're growing a lot. So they have like people who've been there for a year, year and a half, or three months. But I think that this is a good. It's definitely a good position to like, step into my career. This is going to elevate me to work with high net worth individuals, to work with like a really good registered ia, if people know what that means. But yeah, I'm excited. I feel very polished. I feel like, you know, that. [00:05:29] Speaker A: Oh, gosh. [00:05:30] Speaker B: Oh, my God. What am I. Hold on my blanking. We watched that movie about Mama Martha, Martha Stewart, when she was like doing her broker dealer kind of thing. I feel like Martha, Mama, Mama Martha would be really proud of me. [00:05:45] Speaker A: Wow. [00:05:45] Speaker B: I bought like all these really cute, cute Calvin Klein dresses that are like very professional and they were very cheap from Nordstrom Rack and they look so good. Chef's Kiss. [00:05:55] Speaker A: Wow. Anyway, that's awesome. [00:05:57] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm having a really good time. [00:05:59] Speaker A: You live for the outfit. [00:06:00] Speaker B: I do. Hello. I loved that about San Francisco. [00:06:04] Speaker A: Seattle. [00:06:05] Speaker B: Like, didn't really care because Covid was not a thing. And then like this last year has been really just studying a lot and anyway, so I'm excited. I feel like I'm at the show, so. [00:06:16] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. That's cool. Wait. I'm so happy. I'm so proud of you. That's amazing. I'm really glad you made the jump and decided to do something different and switch it up a little bit and stay in the financial world because I don't know, recruiting is just so. Such a death trap. Like, you just so miserable doing that that I'm really happy for you. Thank you. [00:06:35] Speaker B: Yeah, I feel like I worked pretty hard, but I'm really happy with my results of the. The last like 12 months. Tell me about you. What's going on in your world. What's happening in Bench? [00:06:45] Speaker A: Yeah, so many, so many things. Okay. I was home last weekend, which was really lovely. And then, yeah, we just had kind of a crazy week. Matt's mom went into the hospital. She's okay. She's fine. She got out today. So, yeah, that was a long week doing stuff with that and then just like preparing for just all the weekend activities that are coming. Last weekend was Jordy and Connor's wedding, so we went to that. Congratulations. [00:07:18] Speaker B: I don't think she listens to this podcast, but if she does, congrats, girl. [00:07:22] Speaker A: Yeah, I don't think she does either, actually. [00:07:24] Speaker B: I don't know, maybe now that we gave her a shout out, she'll actually listen no pressure. I'm kidding. [00:07:31] Speaker A: She. They did like, such like my dream kind of. Oh, really? [00:07:37] Speaker B: It was beautiful. [00:07:37] Speaker A: Yeah, we're like. Yeah, it was really cool. They. I don't know. Also so cool. So her parents or where she's from is like the kind of like the foothills of Ashland. So it's not actually in the town of Ashland. It's kind of. It's like a couple thousand feet higher. And so it's just like exactly like Mariposa or just like where we grew up kind of mountain foothills. Situation is like pine trees and cedar trees and just like same climate, same hot as balls. Lovely. And so it was a really fun wedding weekend. Like her parents had or her dad had like, fully built their house and so they had just done so much work to their property and they had tons of acres and it was really rad. We all camped like right down below their house and they called it like Shady Grove camp area and stuff. They like, named everything so that everyone knew how to, like, get around and whatever. There's like a pond on the property. There's like a bunk house on the property where we could like, shower and things like that. But yeah, we camped all weekend and there was like he yoga every day and hikes and obviously meals together. And we just like helped a bunch, like with the wedding stuff and helping set up and plan things and whatever. It was really lovely. And all of like, I met tons of Connor's friends too. And like, all of his friends had, like, fun things that they brought to the table too. Like a couple of them were DJs and so they like, DJ'd on Saturday night and yeah, it was crazy. Some of them played music, like, during the ceremony and. Yeah, actually Jordan's dad sang during the ceremony. It was so beautiful. I was like, oh, my God. Yeah, it was really incredible. And Jordan looked beautiful. She was so, so, so stunning. Her dress was awesome. Yeah. And so we just. We just got to hang out with everybody all weekend. Also, I am obsessed with her parents. They're like, so, so sweet. Salt of the earth. [00:09:34] Speaker B: I expected. [00:09:35] Speaker A: I've met them a couple of times [00:09:37] Speaker B: that did exactly that because she's so sweet. Ye. [00:09:41] Speaker A: But I met them a couple of times just as when they came to Bend. And like, I've gone to a couple of Jordan's like, recitals. She plays the French horn and I don't know if you call them a recital concert. [00:09:50] Speaker B: Sure. [00:09:50] Speaker A: I don't know anyways performance. But yeah, so she. I've met them whenever. Like she has a Performance. They come up for it, which is really lovely. [00:10:00] Speaker B: Cute. [00:10:00] Speaker A: Yeah. So it's just like, my ideal wedding weekend where it was like, a music festival. Like, the vibe was definitely music festival vibes. Like, everyone was wearing fur coats and just, like, glitter and sparkles and just, like, really fun, as much as you could anyways, because it was so hot. But, yeah, like, food was lovely. Everything. Yeah, it was really great to see the girls that I had met at her bachelorette party who obviously came back in for the wedding and everything, and so that was really fun to hang out with them, and I got to sit with one of them at the table, and, yeah, it was just such a lovely, beautiful weekend. Yeah. So anyways, that was just, like, monumentous task, and I'm so proud of her also. It seems like so much freaking planning. I'm like, oh, my God. Overwhelmed. If I ever get married, I don't know how people do it. It's so crazy. But, yeah, there's a lot. But, you know, no fear. [00:10:55] Speaker B: I got you, girl. [00:10:56] Speaker A: Okay. Yeah, it's gonna be. It's gonna be all hands on deck. And I did kind of like that, too, where, like, I was, like, part of, like, the flower crew, and so we, like, helped put all the flower vases together, and then I was part of, like, the cocktail crew, and so we, like, made all the cocktails and then, like, served cocktails during, like, that happy hour. Yeah, so there's just, like, a. Everyone was, like, kind of involved in, like, a lot of the different parts of the ceremony and the days and everything. So it was really, like, a fun, like, group event. So you just got to hang out with everyone and, yeah, it was lovely. So, anyways, thank you to the Clings for opening up your home to all of us hoodlums. Literally 130 people, like, camping all over their property is pretty silly and very cool, but, yeah, just, like, ideal situation of where I'd want everyone to be, like, just close and around and. Yeah, it was very, very, very cool. [00:11:49] Speaker B: So much love and so much congratulations to them. That's so amazing. Yay. [00:11:54] Speaker A: Yay. [00:11:55] Speaker B: We love love. Plus, a wedding is always so fun. [00:11:59] Speaker A: Really fun. [00:12:00] Speaker B: Cute. [00:12:01] Speaker A: Yeah. Anywho. But, yeah, so now I'm just, like, counting down the days until I leave for saw, too. So I work Monday. Oh, thank God. I, like, I'm working, like, zero percent. Last week, I worked three days. This week, I work three days. Next week I work three days because, yeah, just, like, the activities. But it's okay. I'm not feeling guilty at all because I could literally care less right now. So bizarre. Like, work is right now. So I'm not even gonna complain about it because you guys already know that. [00:12:33] Speaker B: I'm just on the struggle, but just [00:12:35] Speaker A: with that in general. [00:12:37] Speaker B: Yeah, don't feel bad. Go enjoy your life and make beautiful memories. Tell me what's next. [00:12:43] Speaker A: Yeah, so then we're going. I'm leaving on Sawtooth for Sawtooth this week and then gonna be gone for five days. We're going white water rafting. We're gonna go hot springing, obviously, the music festival, the bakery, and Stanley's. So freaking yummy. Also, the weather is going to be. Remember last year it freaking snowed on us. This year the weather is like 80, 85 degrees the whole weekend, so. And like, maybe like a little thunderstorm insight, but, like, warm thunderstorm. Nothing compared to the last few years that we've had there. [00:13:16] Speaker B: So who are you looking forward to the most to see, like, who's gonna play there? And you're, like, really jazzed for it? [00:13:23] Speaker A: Actually, to be honest, I pretty let down by a lot of, like, the lineups. I think we talked about this. I'm. I'm let down. My bad. No, it's okay. By Hayden Holmes. There's no one really good playing that I want to see. Strawberry didn't have anyone great. I wanted to see. Sawtooth doesn't really have anything. I know. I think everyone's, like, probably excited for seeing the Kitchen Dwellers, but, like, for some reason, I cannot stand them. They're kind of like a jam band a little bit. They close out Saturday night, which is. I don't know. They're just, like, really hard for me. I just can't, like, vibe for that long. The main, like, star of the show, I guess you could say he's not like the main singer or anything, but he sings some of the songs. But he has, like, really long, like, to your butt dreads, and he plays a banjo, and at some point, he just, like, swirls his head around and, like, is playing the banjo as if it's like a rock song, you know? And I'm just like, no, no, no, no. [00:14:20] Speaker B: Oh, like a headbanger moment. [00:14:22] Speaker A: Yeah. I'm like, you are not. You are playing the banjo. No offense. [00:14:26] Speaker B: I don't know any of these people. That's upsetting. [00:14:30] Speaker A: There's like, green sky. Bluegrass is playing, right? [00:14:34] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm looking at all the. I don't know. I'm not fast enough, but sure, that that sounds right. [00:14:39] Speaker A: Okay. [00:14:40] Speaker B: Railroad Earth, Built to Spill. [00:14:42] Speaker A: Oh, that's who it is. [00:14:43] Speaker B: Kitchen dwellers. High fade. Yeah. Todd Schaefer. Sweet lilies. I don't know any of these people. They all look cool. [00:14:54] Speaker A: Yeah. BC Sapphire. [00:14:56] Speaker B: I don't know. [00:15:00] Speaker A: We'll see. [00:15:00] Speaker B: I mean, it'll be fun regardless. [00:15:02] Speaker A: It's like a vibe also. Just sitting up there, sitting in the river, hanging out. And the night shows are pretty fun. Oh, Andy Frasco is really fantastic as well. He played at Sawtooth like two or three years ago and he was incredible. The Shrek twins are also really fun. They're from Portland. Brad Parsons is pretty cool. He's friends with Quattlebomb, so I've seen him a couple times. He's come to like, Vulcan Forge and stuff like that. Steve Pultz is, like, pretty silly, but he is. I don't know. People love him for whatever reason. I don't. [00:15:36] Speaker B: Okay. I have a better question about your Sawtooth trip. Maybe not so much about like the Festival of Music. Because you're right. Music has been a little bit of a letdown lately. So you said the pastry, right? What was the town that the pastry shop is in? The bakery. [00:15:52] Speaker A: It's in Stanley. Yeah. Okay. Only open for like three months of the year. It's so crazy. [00:15:59] Speaker B: Oh, what's like their go to pastry or like, what's your go to pastry that you're like salivating just thinking about? [00:16:05] Speaker A: Oh, I actually never really get a pastry. It's like a full on bakery. They have like breakfast burritos. They have like scrambles. They have like bagels and stuff too. I'm sure they have. Actually, last year I got Matt a. What's it called? Like brie and ham, like croissant. That sounds good. Everything there is delicious though. Their coffee is good. Even their iced coffee is so good. But yeah, it's just like a vibe. And then there's a pizza place that's in town as well. And they are fantastic. I think we were telling you last year we just like stumbled upon it and I had just. No, actually, I think I taught Josh and Sam how to play Mealborn a while ago. [00:16:50] Speaker B: Oh, nice. [00:16:50] Speaker A: Because I'm pretty sure you taught me how to play Melbourne anyway. [00:16:54] Speaker B: Millieborn, It's a card game. It's about driving and it's French. That's all you need to know. [00:17:00] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:17:00] Speaker B: And I love it. I've been playing since I was a little wee baby. Yeah. [00:17:05] Speaker A: And I think your mom technically introduced it to me. But anyways, and so we walk into that and I had just taught Matt as well, like Right before we went to Stanley, because I was like, kind of the very beginning of us dating. And yeah, that game was in the pizza parlor and it was literally from the 1950s and it was like in French. Like, it was like the OG OG one. It was so cool. And so we got to play, like, the really old one. It was just so random to see it in Stanley, Idaho. We're like, what the is going on? Anyways? But that pizza is phenomenal. And they have like a hot honey jalapeno pineapple pizza, which is my favorite. That's just my favorite pizza in all the land. You know that. But anyhow, yeah, so I'm just excited to get back to Stanley. The drive is going to be pretty long by myself, but that's okay. I will survive. [00:17:54] Speaker B: We need, like an audiobook for you or something that you can just like, get lost in. [00:17:58] Speaker A: Yeah, that's funny you say that. I just asked one of my both of my office mates today like, recommendations for audiobooks because I've kind of been like, zooming through audiobooks lately. [00:18:06] Speaker B: Me too. Yeah, well, kind of. Other than like the ones that I've told people for like two years now that I would be reading. I have like six books on my back queue that I just can't get past. I don't know, can't emotionally invest in. Like, I. Okay, I still haven't finished the fourth. The third fourth wing book, Onyx Storm. And I know that the next one is like, coming out relatively soon, but I just, like, can't make emotional space in my brain to read that book. It's too long. It's too long. [00:18:35] Speaker A: It's too long. [00:18:36] Speaker B: Anyway. [00:18:36] Speaker A: No, I agree. [00:18:37] Speaker B: What do they say? What have they been reading? [00:18:38] Speaker A: I didn't even try. They gave me like, I got like one smutty book recommendation, which is like, kind of funny because that's just like, easy listening, you know? [00:18:48] Speaker B: It's like brain candy. [00:18:50] Speaker A: Yeah, totally. I can't even remember what they're called at this moment. Hang on. What did I download? Okay, this one is called Problematic Summer Romance. It's pretty good so far. I started it. I hope this finds you well. Have you heard of that one? [00:19:06] Speaker B: Nope. [00:19:07] Speaker A: I had heard of it, but I hadn't read it yet. And then the other one was fundamentally, it's a novel by Nasubiya Eunice. It's actually really cool. It's like kind of a funny fictional but like, based on true story of this girl who it's like, about. Oh my gosh, I'm already forgetting what's [00:19:33] Speaker B: the name of it? [00:19:33] Speaker A: Woman. Fundamentally a novel. It's like the Iraqi, like, women. It's kind of like during the Iraq war. Like, the women just like what the women are doing, like, kind of behind the scenes. [00:19:49] Speaker B: Do you want me to give you, like, the little Google snippet of it? [00:19:53] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:19:54] Speaker B: Okay, hold on. I gotta pull it up. I clicked a button. Okay. [00:19:58] Speaker A: Wow. [00:19:59] Speaker B: There's like eight paragraphs of this. A wickedly funny and audacious debut novel following an academic who flees from heartbreak and lands in Iraq with a one of a kind job offer, only to be forced to do the work of conform, confronting herself. I thought I was going to be smooth sailing and then the last two words kind of screwed me up there. My bad, people. But anyway. [00:20:20] Speaker A: Okay. [00:20:22] Speaker B: Yeah, I think this is a cute book. It looks like it's got 3.7 stars on Goodreads. And I don't know, I don't commit myself to a book if it's not on Goodreads or if it doesn't have, like, at least three and a half stars and, you know, 2500 people who are reviewing it or something. I don't know, it's just kind of like they just don't have enough time in my life, in my world, and like the time on earth to commit to reading a book that's just not there yet. [00:20:53] Speaker A: No, totally. I fully believe in that, too. Also, I've been so far behind on my podcast, so maybe I can actually, like, get up to date on that because it's been a minute. [00:21:03] Speaker B: So I've been doing my drives, like in the morning, in the afternoon. [00:21:06] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [00:21:06] Speaker B: And I started listening to stuff you should know again. I love those guys. I wish we were cool with, like, Josh and Clark. But if you're listening stuff you should know, hit me up because I want to hear everybody's favorite. [00:21:18] Speaker A: Listen to them. [00:21:19] Speaker B: I love them. [00:21:19] Speaker A: I do kind of like skip over some of them sometimes, you know, sometimes [00:21:22] Speaker B: 1.5 when I'm listening to them for sure. Because, like. [00:21:26] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, yeah, definitely. [00:21:27] Speaker B: You know, that's how I don't. For the listener, if you don't know. Kelly just listens to literally everything at like 1.5 extra speed. So it's just like super duper fast and you have to keep track of it. [00:21:40] Speaker A: Okay. But also, it sounds like people are literally, like, brain dead when they are talking at normal speed. They're going so slow. They're like, literally like this. [00:21:51] Speaker B: I started listening to Louis Julia Louise Dreyfus podcast. I think I listened to, like, two or three of hers, and I didn't [00:22:00] Speaker A: know she had one. [00:22:00] Speaker B: We might have talked about that before. Yeah. Julia Louis Dreyfus, she did one on Joan Baez, and I listened to it when I was at Kevin and Lindsay's in Bend. And I'm, like, obsessed with Joan Baez now. I have her. Joan Bias is the. Like, she did a lot of folk, country singing with Dylan, and she's much older. [00:22:22] Speaker A: You said that as if I should know who she is. Why would anyone know who that is? I've never heard of her. [00:22:30] Speaker B: You should know who Joan Baez is. What? That is ridiculous. You've definitely heard her. Oh, my God. She's an activist. She's from New York. She is very notable in, like, the 60s and 70s. You definitely know her if or you've heard one of her songs. Joan Baez is one of the most iconic figures in American folk music and political activism. She taught herself guitar as a teenager. She had a lot of critical and commercial success in the 1960s as, like, American folk revival alongside Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan. She was also deeply involved in the civil rights movement. She actually performed before Martin Luther King gave his speech on, like, the I have a Dream speech. So she's like, this is just a little Legends highlight. We'll come back to Joan Baez. But I listened to Julia Louise Dreyfus, who will also have on Legends eventually. She had a podcast with her, and I love her. And I love. Anyway, it was good. It was really good. You should listen to that. [00:23:34] Speaker A: Anyway, yeah. What do you have coming up next? What's on next on the agenda for you? Is your brother still visiting? Please tell us all about what's going on in your household. [00:23:42] Speaker B: Yes. So my brother flew in on, I don't even know Wednesday, day of last, or your. Whatever, I can't remember. And then immediately we went out to Mount Hood. I took him hiking on the trail. It's a very short trail, but it's nice. You go up about half a mile and you're going switchbacks, up, up, up. And then you walk maybe like two and a half miles around the bend, and you see Mount Hood just, like, slap you right in the face. So it's a really good shot of Mount Hood, which is great. We camped at Mount or. We camped at Timothy Lake, which was really beautiful. And then I was going to try my, like, new paddle board, and, like, we blew it up and everything. But the water. [00:24:24] Speaker A: You got a paddle board? I didn't know that. [00:24:26] Speaker B: I did buy a paddle board, so I haven't used it. I know it's very. It's super cute and I'm very excited to get like, get it on the water. But the water was way too cold, so we didn't do that. But the lake itself was gorgeous. I'm just like obsessed with Oregon lakes. Like Oregon lakes are top notch. So Timothy was great. Wasn't crazy expensive. There was nobody at the. The campsite. It was lovely. And then we came home. We've done so much yard work. I've. I cannot explain in enough detail. I'm just going to bore everybody. All I'm just going to say is like, we've definitely done like 10k worth of upgrades to this house when it comes to the yard work that we've done the last couple of days. So my husband's in the garage right now building me a brand new built in cabinet for my laundry room. So we're just like making a lot of effort and moving very quickly. And then Jeff, my brother, will leave. I think next Wednesday is his flight back. So we're gonna go to the rose garden in Portland. They have like really close to the zoo either. And it's just like this public park that you. They have like so all the variations of roses and it's been around since like World War I, I think. I don't know. So we're gonna go do that. We're gonna see the sunset tonight. [00:25:44] Speaker A: Cool. [00:25:45] Speaker B: And yeah, we're. And then this weekend. I read the calendar wrong. I thought the Big Ponderoo was this weekend. So I didn't plan anything. And I was like hustling to get all of my chores done last weekend because I thought I wasn't gonna be around. So now I don't have anything planned, which is nice. Cool. I'm gonna do a lot stressed about what I'm gonna do for Big Ponderoo. Should we tell people a little bit about what it is and where we're going? Have we talked about big pottery before? [00:26:12] Speaker A: I think we talked about it a little bit. I have worked it the last couple of years as well as it's a sister festival for our sisters Folk fest. It's the other one that they put on. It's a little bit shorter summer festival as opposed to like a fall festival. And yeah, we both are going to be staff members this time, which is lovely. We're doing different jobs, but yeah, we are. I don't know. I'm excited. The lineup is actually really great for Big pondrew, so that would make it fun. And then I'm Just glad that I get to like, pop around and see you because so at Sisters Folk Fest, there's so many stages and so much area. Like, it takes up the entire town. Basically. You, like, don't really get to see that many of the other staff members unless you like, intentionally meet them or like go see them. But at Big Ponder, everyone's on like the main green and so it's kind of nice. We'll all be like in the same area, so we'll get to hang out all weekend, which is lovely. [00:27:05] Speaker B: Yay. [00:27:06] Speaker A: Um, I'm doing a different job than I've ever done before, so that it's a learning curve for me as well. So you'll be in the same boat as me and. Yeah, we'll both just be like, trying to figure it out. [00:27:17] Speaker B: What are you doing? [00:27:17] Speaker A: But I'm doing the box office. I'm a box office lead. And so, like, obviously Friday, Thursday and Friday are going to be pretty busy and then Saturday probably will be chill. Oh my gosh. Can you hear me? [00:27:34] Speaker B: Yeah, I can hear you. [00:27:35] Speaker A: Go ahead. Okay. Phew. Sorry, it just said it was reconnecting again and I was gonna a few [00:27:40] Speaker B: seconds to like buffer or whatever, but we're back. Okay. [00:27:45] Speaker A: Anyway, you're at the box office. [00:27:48] Speaker B: Nice. [00:27:49] Speaker A: Yeah. So me and this other girl are gonna be box office. [00:27:52] Speaker B: I don't actually. [00:27:53] Speaker A: I forget her name. I have like an email with her. But anyways, yeah, it'll be good. It's a new volunteer system as well, so I'll be learning that along with you too. So it's brand new system I haven't used before, so. Yeah, don't be stressed. It's really fun. It's really chill. Once you get there, you kind of like get the grounds for everything. Super laid back. Yeah. I would just recommend downloading the app before we get there and everything and getting a little acquainted with it. But other than that, it's like, it's super chill. [00:28:20] Speaker B: I am so pretty sure I downloaded the app because I was on my like welcome call a couple of days ago and they were like, you should download the app. And I was like, definitely doing that right now. But I didn't realize when I signed up for this, this particular shift or like this position that it was so important. Yeah. So I'm gonna be maintaining the grounds and like making sure that things get thrown in the appropriate compost bin or recycling bin and then removing. Plus there's like eight or nine volunteers that are also reporting into like me and my co lead. So it will Be interesting. I'm excited, though. Like, I'm sure everything will go totally fine. I asked too many questions when I. He was. I feel really bad. I was traveling, so it was kind of hard to, like, nail me down on a particular time. And then it was like five or six o' clock in the night, in the evening when we all got on and they were like, here is all the various locations and here. It was just a very heavy logistics call. And I just kept asking question after question after question, like, I'm a psychopath because that's me very much a type A, like, situation where I'm gonna show up and I'm just gonna have to learn how to relax and it's gonna be great. [00:29:36] Speaker A: Yeah. I would say that I was very stressed as well because, like, I know Kayla and so I felt very comfortable, like, doing, you know, her telling me, like, oh, you're gonna be totally fine. Don't even worry about it. But then I literally showed up, like my very first sister spoke fest. And I did not know where anything was. I didn't know anyone, and I did not know what I was doing. And I was like, so now I'm stressed because now I see everything and I'm like, but it was totally fine. Yeah. Once you, like, get the first day underfoot, you're like, oh, yeah, that's totally fine. So, yeah, yeah, it's a good time. Excited. [00:30:08] Speaker B: Big Richard is playing. Fruition is playing. California Honey Drops are playing. I'm very hopeful that it gets a good lineup. [00:30:16] Speaker A: Yeah, totally. And also what's really nice is if you have really great volunteers, you totally, totally can just, like, roam around and, like, get to hang out and watch the music. And like I said, everyone's in the same area, so, like, all the music is playing in the same location that you're going to be at. So you don't have to, like, roam around to, like, get to other areas. [00:30:34] Speaker B: I still have my big Ponderoo. Like, they have, like a jelly, like, cup or whatever. I'm gonna bring it. It's in my camping box. [00:30:41] Speaker A: Perfect. [00:30:42] Speaker B: Because I have it all packed. Right. Like, I thought that it was going to be this next weekend. So I have all my camping stuff packed and everything. I tried my car because I thought [00:30:50] Speaker A: that we were going to be camping. [00:30:52] Speaker B: So I. Sorry. Pulled out my Toyota Rav, like, inflatable mattress thing, and it works. I think I'm gonna, like, do my own, like, solo camping trip once this summer. Like maybe in August or October. I'm gonna do it. [00:31:06] Speaker A: Cool. You definitely should it is. It's a good soul searching type situation. I think I would have a mental breakdown if I did that right now. But it's fine. We're fine. Everything's fine. [00:31:18] Speaker B: Maybe I'll go back to Timothy, actually get into the water. I don't know. [00:31:21] Speaker A: Yeah, that would be lovely. I was gonna say I have sweet potatoes in the oven. I'm sorry this is such, like a podcast, but we're back. [00:31:32] Speaker B: Thank you to our producer. [00:31:33] Speaker A: Thank you, producer Mom. We appreciate you and we love you. Yeah. We also shout out to mom, she just completed a new rock wall at their property and it looks so pretty and so cool and she saved a bunch of money and it looks really beautiful. So we're excited about that. And yeah, it's just nice when you like finish and accomplish a project like that, you know, so. [00:31:57] Speaker B: Absolutely. I live for that shit. Let's do real fast gratitudes and grievances and then bounce out of here. [00:32:03] Speaker A: That sounds good. [00:32:04] Speaker B: I'm grateful. My grievance is I don't really have a grievance. I have a ton of things that I'm going to be grateful for. Hold on. I have a lot of things to be grateful for. I'm just going to, like, leave my grievances to the side and focus on the fact that, like, Timothy Lake was beautiful. Mount Hood is wonderful. I'm so happy I my brothers here. My garden is booming right now. Work is going much better than it's had. It's gone in a really long time. So. [00:32:29] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:32:29] Speaker B: Yeah. I'm just feeling really grateful for you. [00:32:33] Speaker A: Cool. Yeah, I don't have a lot to be grateful. [00:32:36] Speaker B: I'm sorry. [00:32:37] Speaker A: I feel like whenever we are going [00:32:38] Speaker B: through it, whenever you're going through it, [00:32:41] Speaker A: I'm fine and whenever I'm going through [00:32:43] Speaker B: it, you're fine, which I love. [00:32:45] Speaker A: I'm very happy that you're super happy because you've been going through it for a while. But yeah, I am just on the struggle bus right now, as per. I'm sure other people are as well. This is just. Man, Summer's supposed to be my season and I'm struggling. So I'm just grateful that. Grateful for Matt and holding down the fort. Honestly. Grateful for Stinky Myla and her little crazy yeasty right now. Yeah. Disgusting little girl. She's just a water girl. That's not actually a water girl. She's a cute lad anyways. [00:33:19] Speaker B: She's such a sweet little baby. [00:33:20] Speaker A: Grateful that work is sort of leveling, not leveling out. Work is not being as horrendous, but maybe it's just because I never go anymore. Yeah, I don't know anyways. But yeah, I am just grateful it's summer and grateful it's actually warm now. My garden is also blooming and doing really well. Grateful it's sunny outside. Grateful it's solstice this weekend. I am, I think that's all for me everybody. I love it. [00:33:46] Speaker B: Send me a picture of your garden and we'll put them up on. Not that we're going to like compete or anything cuz obviously your garden's way bigger than mine but we'll put them on the social so the folks can see. Anyway, yeah, thanks for being candid. [00:33:58] Speaker A: So really, I love you. Bye. [00:34:06] Speaker B: Sam. That's all for today's episode. [00:34:33] Speaker A: Hope you enjoyed listening as much as we love you. [00:34:35] Speaker B: Follow us on Instagram @candidly30. [00:34:38] Speaker A: See you next week, bitches. Sam.