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Look at us.

We're all getting together, jumping on here.

And it's our first time seeing each other after our spring break week.

Yeah.

Yeah.

How's everyone feeling?

Does everyone feel like real relaxed?

Yeah, I've definitely slept for.

Did everybody take a break?

Yeah.

You did?

I watched all of The Pit.

I watched all of White Lotus, all of Righteous Gemstones.

I have two episodes left of The Pit, so don't say a word.

I won't.

I won't.

All right.

I have two episodes left of White Lotus.

So also please

won't say anything.

Okay.

Yeah.

I finished it last night.

I just, okay, I just read that it doesn't have the same theme music.

The ho, ho, ho, whatever that music is.

Each season is different.

Yeah.

Yeah, I read because they had a falling out with the composer.

Oh, really?

Wait, what?

Yes.

Is that true?

Are you guys writing the dish?

You guys all went on like

this real, like, I'm going to step away from

like social media.

And I was like, give it to me.

I'm home.

Give me the gusset.

You're just scrolling through

all the stuff.

Also, you went to a very fancy party, Anch.

Oh.

Okay.

You guys,

I need to get away.

You can tell it's going to be good if she's downplaying it right from the start.

Well,

here it is.

First of all,

I think my license for small talk should be revoked.

Why?

I don't think I should have small talk.

I don't know this story, Angela.

No, you guys, I'm just, I think I'm out of practice.

What did you refer to as being in a candy jar?

Yeah.

Oh, Sam.

Sam, I wish it was a candy jar.

Okay.

Okay.

Well, I didn't go anywhere for spring break.

I just stayed home and I took just kids to doctor's appointments.

Everyone got their teeth cleaned and, you know, Isabel and Jack had their wisdom teeth consultations.

That's what I did.

I did doctor's appointments, I think.

I went and got my yearly woman's exam.

Good, good.

Yeah,

I did it.

Okay.

So I did all of that kind of like,

you know, tending to my garden, if you will.

Sorry.

That's

wrong.

That's it.

Take my small talk license.

Take it away.

So I've known Glenn Powell for a long time.

Jen and I met him together years ago at like an award show party.

He was so

nice.

He's the handsome actor from Twisters.

Okay.

Okay.

Correct.

And he's also from Texas.

And we sort of did that like, oh, you're from Texas.

I'm from Texas.

And we exchange information.

And like every once in a while while over the years we'll just check in with each other like hey how's it going or congrats on this or he'll invite me to something or I'll invite him to something and he's just such a great guy so I see online because you know I'm home scrolling that he has a new line of condiments like condiments made with organic ingredients and it's called smash kitchen okay barbecue sauce spicy mayo yes a whole line of them and i just dm'd him like hey this is fantastic Congratulations.

And he's like, thanks so much.

He's like, are you in town this week?

I'm going to have a little thing to celebrate it.

Are you around?

And I said, I am.

And I'm thinking to myself, oh my gosh, we didn't really do much over spring break.

This is going to make Isabel's Day because she is such a big fan.

So I text him and I say,

I can come.

Can I bring my daughter?

And he's like, absolutely.

That would be amazing.

Because like, you know, his parents are going.

This is like, like a family affair.

There's going to be wonderful barbecue and lots of good dipping sauces.

Anyway, I tell Isabelle and she loses her mind.

And can I tell you guys what I wore?

Yes, of course you can say what you wore.

Try to chit-chat.

Thank you, Sam.

I wore a sweater I got at the mall ages ago.

Like at a little, you know, the little pop-up kiosk in the middle of the mall?

Yeah, I couldn't even tell you.

Like, it was just one of those Randos I bought.

And then I wore my tennis shorts.

Love it.

You guys, I wore tennis shorts.

That's on brand for you.

It's great.

I know, but I was like, well, I don't know.

You looked adorable, by the way.

Thank you.

I did my own hair and makeup.

And Isabel and I go.

She's so tickled.

We go really early.

We're like the first people there.

You guys, it started at 7.

We arrived at 7.08.

This is

just now.

I know.

And I said, Isabel, we're just going to stay two hours because we wanted to get back home and,

you know, be able to like hang out and watch a movie and stuff.

So there's not a lot of people there at that time.

I mean, a ton of people showed up.

Don't get me wrong.

I just want to point out arriving at 7.08 to something at 7 p.m.

in Los Angeles is the same as arriving two hours early anywhere else in the country.

Absolutely.

I know.

Well, anyway, it was so cute.

It was at this fancy, fancy like estate with like the view of the whole city, like that kind of thing.

And there was Cornhole.

So me and Isabel played Cornhole while we waited for people to get there.

And then there was like a French fry like stand and with all the different dipping sauces.

Jenna, you know how much I love dipping sauces.

This was heaven for me.

I assume they're his.

And so we're hanging out.

Of course.

Yes.

Well, of course.

Okay.

How many missteps can you make in one conversation?

And he was so kind.

Bless his heart.

So he sees us from across this area.

People are around him.

And he makes a face like, hey, like that super like, hey, I've seen a friend.

I was like, oh, yay.

And Isabel's like, mom, can I please just get one picture with him?

I was like, yes, honey, we will make it happen.

So we go up and we're chatting with him, and he's so nice.

Thankfully, it was loud, so I don't think he heard me.

But I said, congratulations on Smashed Kitchen.

This is so great.

It's Smashed Kitchen.

Wait, Angela, didn't you do this with the TV show as well with the same name?

No, the president of NBC.

I said, congratulations on

the TV show.

It's now a Broadway musical show.

Yeah.

So clearly, if I can't, it's not in my brain, it's going to be smashed.

I don't think he heard me.

So that was good.

But Isabel's face, you guys, bless her heart.

She literally made this face like, oh my God, mom.

Seriously.

He was like, well, thanks you guys so much for coming out.

I said, yeah, we didn't have anything going on.

Straight to great.

Yeah.

Yes.

And Isabel, Isabel just looked at me like, what?

But anyway, he was lovely, and we got a picture.

And I texted him later, and I was like, thanks so much for inviting us out.

And he was like, oh, you two cuties.

Thanks for coming.

So Isabel was like, Mom, should we stay a little bit later?

People are starting to arrive.

I'm like, no, no, no, honey.

I was like, you don't understand what this valet line is going to be like to leave this party.

It's going to be horrible.

People are going to be standing out here for an hour to get their car.

No, no, no.

We were the first here.

We're going to be one of the first to leave.

And we will not be waiting for our car.

And then guess guess who you missed?

Well, so we left at 8:45,

and we had a lovely time.

Leo DiCaprio came, you know, Leo, and you missed him, Leo DiCaprio.

Oh, the things you could have done, the way you could have put your foot in your mouth to Leonardo DiCaprio.

I know,

I know.

The things I could have, how much could I have gotten wrong?

What do you think, like, you would have said to Leo wrong?

Something about anything revenant-related, the band.

No, this would have been Titanic at best.

Well, my...

Yeah, you were great and Titanic.

Yeah, Titanic.

Is there anyone else you did or did not say hello to at this fancy party?

Oh, I did chat for a while with Lamarn Morris.

I love him.

Oh, he's great.

And while we were chatting, this gal ran up.

And by this point, it is like a packed party.

And this gal sees us chatting and runs up to us with a little fuzzy microphone.

You know how the influencers hold the little tiny microphone?

Yeah.

And they talk about it.

I've never seen that in real life, though.

I had never seen it in real life either.

And she was very nice, but she wanted to interview us about Smash

kitchen.

And she asked us if a hot dog is a sandwich, if we think a hot dog is a sandwich.

I've heard this conversation.

This is a hot topic.

It is.

And I was asked this one time for a newspaper article, and people came for me so hard.

So I basically was like, Lamorne, don't answer.

What are you like?

What did you answer last time?

I said a hot dog is not a sandwich.

And by the way, that's what Lamarne said, too.

And there are people who are like, hey, it is meat and two pieces of bread.

It's a sandwich.

So is a hamburger a sandwich?

That's what Lamarne said.

And I was like, are they loose with the word sandwich here?

You know, is it meat between?

You don't think peanut butter and jelly doesn't have meat, but that's a sandwich.

Grilled cheese is a sandwich.

I don't think meat is a prerequisite for if something's a sandwich.

Meat is not a prerequisite.

It's a thing with two pieces of bread.

But meatball sub is a sandwich.

So what's the difference between a meatball sub and a hot dog, really?

Similar type of bread.

Intense.

So I guess you're saying that a hot dog is a sandwich.

I think I would say that a hot dog is a sandwich.

I don't want to get into some weird Star Wars.

I look forward to this being shared on a lot of sites.

Yeah, this is going to be the clickbait for this episode.

Yeah, I will say hot dog is not a sandwich because I've never been to a sandwich store that sells hot dogs.

That's a good like Subway doesn't sell hot dogs.

This is a good thing.

They sell sandwiches.

That's a very good observation.

And I feel like if I asked for a hot dog at a nice sandwich place, they would say no.

They would say, we don't have hot dogs here.

Get out of here.

They would judge you.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Get out of here.

So this is a stupid hot dog.

Yeah.

So anyway, that was a big night for us at spring break.

But Isabel had the best time and we got the cutest photo with Glenn.

And he's, he's just such a nice person.

I'm so happy for him.

Yeah.

But I need my small talk license.

I need to go back to small talk license school.

I think you just need to avoid the word smash and you're going to be okay.

Anyone else want to share their spring breaks?

Please.

Please don't let me be the only one.

I do want to say when I was driving into the studio today, Billie Jean King was getting her star on the face.

Oh my gosh.

Yeah.

And I got stopped at the stoplight.

I saw a woman giving a speech like right there.

So I rolled down my window to be like, who is it?

It was Jamie Lee Curtis.

And she was giving Billy a speech that made me be like, I wish she was my friend because she was like, Billy is power, power on the court, power in activism, power in being a friend.

And I just felt like I was like.

at church sitting at the stoplight and it was amazing.

It was really cool.

What a cool and very, this feels like a a true Hollywood movie.

Absolutely.

Wow.

You roll down your window and it's like Jamie Lee Curtis.

Yeah.

Wow.

Jenna, I have a question for you.

I just finished reading the book I was reading and automatically, I just have a pile of books on my desk that are like up next to my cue.

Why am I reading Huckleberry Finn again?

Are you reading it right now?

Because I'm so sorry because I gave up on it.

I bailed on it.

Did you bail on that, Jenna?

Sam, it's because we were going to read Huckleberry Finn and then read this book, James,

which is a contemporary novel

by Percival Everett.

Okay.

This was the book I wanted for Christmas, was James.

So it's this like retelling of the book, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

That's right.

That book is told from the perspective of Jim.

who is the enslaved black man who accompanies Huck Finn on these quote-unquote adventures.

And so in the book James, you're getting to hear everything that Jim is thinking and feeling and who he is and his take on their adventure.

And it's absolutely amazing.

Great.

Okay.

Cool.

And so I had a lot of friends tell me that I would appreciate it more or that it would be a richer experience for me if I reread Huckleberry Finn first.

How far did you make it?

I mean, where are you at Huckleberry Finn?

I made it to they're living on the island.

Yeah.

And

Huckleberry Finn has faked his own death and now he's living on the island with James, with Jim.

Okay.

So I gave up on Huckleberry Finn.

I was like,

sorry, Mark Twain.

Yeah.

This is not what I want to read on my vacation.

And I just started reading James.

And it's so good.

And I am glad that I read a few chapters of Huckleberry Finn just to kind of like remind me.

John Wickett, just to John Wickett?

Sure.

Oh, no.

Absolutely.

Have I John Wicked Sam into Huckleberry Finn?

Sam is like, why am I reading Huckleberry Finn again?

Why have I read three Huckleberry Finn novels back to back?

Why am I reading Mark Twain?

I wish I had checked in and I had just finished the book.

And you're like, oh, I didn't read that at all.

No, no, no.

I read a few chapters.

Just skip to the thing that you really want to read.

Okay.

Well, James is great.

I really highly recommend.

Well, Jenna, you had a very relaxing spring break.

Yeah.

What was your takeaway from it?

Do you have a nugget of like something that you reconnected with in yourself?

Well, I went to Hawaii for five days with my family, but I took off work the weekend before and the weekend after.

So I had like this real separation from my work life for like that whole like nine days where like I truly put put an away message on my emails and I didn't open them on my trip.

I did not do emails on my trip.

Wow.

I really put it away.

And we also had this thing where we wanted to leave our phones in the room all day, me and Lee, because we just wanted to be like super present.

Cause, you know, Lee just wrapped his movie, but he didn't have to start editing until this week.

So we could both really put our work away and just be together as a family.

And I said, well, the problem is if I have my phone and I'm taking pictures, then I see that I have a text or I see that I have an alert.

So

I like, don't even want my phone on me, but I want pictures from this trip.

So we went to Walmart and we got a little like

waterproof digital camera.

Cool.

And that is what we took all of our pictures on, minus a few like pictures on our phone when we got dressed up and we were like will someone please take a picture of us in front of the sunset but like almost all our pictures are on this thing and we also couldn't really see them like my eyesight wasn't great like if we were swimming or snorkeling i had no idea if it was even on i'd have to be like is it on mom can't see without her glasses sure

We have the most craptastic photos from this trip.

Yeah.

They are.

Are they blurry?

There are photos with like half a finger in front of the lens.

We've got a couple couple of those.

Perfect.

They're like

eyes are half open, half closed.

Like sometimes people are in the frame, but they are so pure.

They're like so, like, they're, they're better than any pictures we've ever taken on a vacation.

I'm now in love with this idea of going on vacation with the craptastic camera.

Yeah.

And we are in love with these pictures.

They're so fun.

But it was just, it was a great vacation.

It was like, I really unplugged.

And

I think that it helped change my relationship to my phone.

Like I check my phone so much when I don't need to.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I always like have to have it near me.

I have like a, you know,

and so I want to keep that going.

But then at the same time, I get home and I'm like, but what if the school nurse calls?

Or what if Lee stops at the grocery store and wants to know if we need a thing?

And I'm like, sorry, babe.

I just didn't want to look at my phone for three hours.

You know, it's like I'm wrestling with like how to bring that home.

And I don't know how.

Lady, lady, what is this?

I have an idea for you.

You are someone who has a landline.

Oh my God, you're right.

The nurse, I need to start giving out my landline.

Give the nurse the landline.

Yeah, but only give it to people who you would want to call through, right?

Like to penetrate your world.

So it's, it's the school.

It's Lee.

Sure.

I mean, me.

You can have my land online number.

But don't abuse it, Angela, or Jenna's going to change your number.

I won't abuse it, but I might start prank calling it.

Well, I absolutely love that, Jenna.

And I can't wait to see your digital photos.

I'll be so excited to see them.

You know what?

I should post some.

I'll post, well, I'll ask my family first because there are.

Yeah, see which ones.

I'll show you for sure.

I'll post some from the fancy party I went to in case I never get invited back to one.

But we did have a huge life milestone happen in our family today.

Huge.

Today was the first morning since our kids started school that we did not do carpole drop-off because Jack has his driver's license and he's allowed to drive his siblings to school.

And there's a parking lot.

for students that have a driver's license.

So today was the first morning ever that neither myself or Josh did carpool drop-offs.

Wow.

That is such a milestone.

I remember talking to this dad and he said that in his opinion, your whole life changes twice when you're raising kids and they're both car related.

He said, he was like, the first one is when you can say, everyone get in the car and they can just get in.

You don't have to strap them in.

And like put on their seatbelt.

And the second is when they can drive themselves.

Like they're still living in your home, but they can drive themselves.

He's like, they're two car-related milestones that like change everything about the dynamic of how you operate.

Yeah.

And I was, it's like, I didn't know what to do with myself as they walked out the door.

I found myself just like yelling random things at them, like, I have extra fridge sticks.

And they're like, we're exactly.

Yes.

Okay.

Okay.

Bye.

Okay.

Like, I know.

Yeah.

That's a big deal.

And then I had all this extra time this morning.

I did stretches before

my day.

Look at you.

Look at you, lady.

Maybe.

Look at you.

Maybe this is the year.

You taking the time for you.

Maybe this is the year.

You're using that extra time for yourself.

Maybe this is the year I touch my toes.

Who knows?

Jenna, I'm going to Coachella this weekend.

I think I'm going to take my phone off or like leave it in my tent and just take that film camera you guys got me for Christmas.

Oh, yes.

Yeah.

Those photos will change.

Oh, have fun.

Are you going to see Green Day at Coachella?

I am going to see Green Day at Coachella.

Yes.

Yay.

Nice.

Very good.

Well, this was a fun Friday chit-chat.

And before we go, I just want us all to say thank you to everyone out there that was part of us getting nominated for a Webby Award.

Yes.

Yes.

Thank you.

We're nominated for comedy podcasts.

We're in second place right now.

That's right.

You can vote until April 17th.

We're going to put a swipe up in our stories.

So we're officially nominated for best comedy podcast where you can go and vote for us, please do.

And then we are a honoree

for best comedy co-host.

And I thank you for the honor.

I am honored.

It's just a declaration.

Yeah, it's a declaration.

So there you go.

I'll take it.

I'll take it.

But we love doing this podcast.

It means the world to us.

So after all these years for people to put us in these categories of best comedy podcasts, best co-hosts, I mean, what an amazing thing.

So, thank you.

Yeah, thank you.

I'll take it.

I like it.

Feels good.

Feels good.

It's a great way to get back on your phone.

Yeah.

Yeah, that's a nice message to come home to for sure.

All right, you guys.

Well, we hope you have a great Friday, and we're sending you hugs from over here at Office Lady 6.0.

Yeah.

See you later.

Bye.

Bye.

See you later.

Bye.

Bye.

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