Don't Blame Me! - The Moth Effect

Episode Date: October 25, 2022

Meghan and Melisa move quickly pass pissing off Big Chocolate and discuss: Meghan's fear of butterflies and her potential termite problem Still chatting about cars Melisa starting drama on TikTok and un-relatable expensive Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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here we are again did you miss us they hurt us yesterday i know we're really trying to just like overtake your life so you never miss us you know more is more you can't get enough of us and if you can don't tell me that or just like take a break and then come back later yeah but keep that to yourself yeah keep it to yourself don't just be like we feel like or it's like you know i just had an overload you know i love chocolate but i can't sit and eat so much of it so i just you know take a break and then i come back to it yeah but you wouldn't tell chocolate that no i wouldn't tell big chocolate that no no because one place we're not gonna piss off is big chocolate hell no hell fucking no i we were talking about this like before we started recording and i was like

wait we're not gonna talk about this we're gonna save this for the podcast um yesterday i thought there was a moth inside my home and you filmed it i filmed it because i was like why is there a moth here and anyone knows this about me i don't like butterflies i like butterflies as as a motif like i think they're cute they're good over there exactly and it's that one fucking spongebob episode where they spent what felt like as a child and it was my personal hell and from that moment on i was like fuck butterflies i used to call them schmetterlings which is butterflies because i just felt like it really encompassed like the the aggressive and um rough around the like the word butterfly like schmetterling like i just you know no hate to germans out there except

sorry sorry all hate to the nazis i was literally about to make no hate to germans out there except you know nazis um and like president germany's like god damn no but to be fair they're like yeah no yeah they take in stride they acknowledge it which is you know different from say the country we live in that does not acknowledge the terrible things not at all um so i took a video because don't even like butterflies what's the grosser version of a butterfly you take away the color and you make them look like old dusty like you kill corpses on accident and it's dusty like it's a little film yes wait someone messaged me that and like if you kill it and it like fades

into like and if it like literally disintegrates like it was a moth yes and i was like okay is this the haunted mansion no this is oh my god they're kind of just like dusty i should have asked moths because i saw that and that definitely was not a moth well i don't like that because you also had termites that fell from your ceiling because now it feels like you know yes so i filmed this video innocuous being like what is this doing and someone responds said girl i think that's a termite and i was like you're fucking kidding me i lose my shit i panic i freak out i hate things that fly i hate i'm fine with airplanes but like i fucking hate flying bugs i'm cool with spiders like i'm cool with things like snakes move too fast but i don't like things that

that fly like it's just a little alarming to me and you don't know where they're coming from and i don't have great peripheral vision so i lost it accidentally i don't know where it went it was like attracted to the light so i thought it was a moth i didn't know if you meant figuratively or metaphorically that you lost no figuratively i lost it in the home like i had no idea where it went and so then naturally like every two seconds i'm like like whipping my body around like one of my hairs falls on my leg i scream and i slap it off and it's not there mods gets home and he sees my story because i posted the story before i told he goes you're fucking kidding me comes home we can't find it either and suddenly we're watching new girl and i see it emerge like it flies up from

behind the tv where it had been like just hiding all day and then he went and took a picture of it and then he killed it and the good thing i've learned though is i haven't looked at the up close picture yet because i wanted to i needed some time and some space away from the bug before we came up with a game plan but if it is in fact a termite some people have said they work for pest control and they're like that's too big to be like uh one but everyone said if it is a termite it's a swarmer which is like this time of year like it just happened it happens and they're like unless you see like little piles of like anything there you can have like a termite inspection done but this is an indicator it's not an indicator like it might look really big but

like that's actually like not the one that you need to worry about it literally can be one that just got in it could also be it could be indicative of a bigger issue but we moved in march right may i don't remember met it was may you got engaged in december january december because we before christmas yeah so it would have been may may yeah that's yeah because that's when your lease was over with yes yeah that's right look at me not even remembering that you did um may we had an inspection done a termite inspection done of the whole house and he was like no termites like literally never seen a house in like this good of condition this old of a house in this good of condition in la and we had like a small little

bit of termites in like the, like one corner of our garage. And we got that treated already. So we've also had termites in every apartment we've ever had in LA. Like, it's just like a fucking thing. And we haven't seen any evidence of like anything. So, you know, we're, we're keeping an eye out, but I just would like to say the one good thing about termites was that as far as I knew up until this moment, they were small, they were on the floor and I didn't have to see them. So like now we've we're starting we're not there but we're encroaching on cockroach territory where like cockroaches i don't like they're crunchy and they're too big but now you give me something that flies and it's just like it's not okay like why can't we just have i don't know i

also don't want like a silent killer it's not like i want carbon monoxide in my home but i i just don't if they're gonna be like spiders there's like a million spiders in your house but you don't see exactly like just mind your we can coexist yeah just like don't fuck up the house yeah and like don't scare me just like let's be courteous of one another yeah that's how i feel there's spiders that make webs on my gate out here and i'm like i'm fine as long as it's just not on the one the part that i open just put you you have so much so much area just don't put it on the part that i open we should know they did not have the same respect for me when i left your house last week i forgot to tell you giant and my hand is going straight forward and i went

but then it saw me and then it was like oh and then i've never seen the actual spider no it was it was a it was a it was a maybe i think it just comes out at night because i never see it in the daytime as soon as i had the flashlight they were like oh my god excuse me gross uh and i watched you go out last week yeah you could have seen me get startled no but i watched you i stood there and watched you and you made like a face at me and then we just didn't you didn't really like you looked at me and said something but i didn't understand what you're saying because your window was up so oh yeah but anyway that's very me but i just want to say that when i had the the termites i can't talk about that i just want to say i just want to say that

the first things that i saw was those little swarmers but i didn't know that that's what they were before the rain came so get it just make sure you get it checked no we're gonna get it checked out and it did happen around this time of year yeah well it's because it's this time of year and then i guess also the the hot to then cold really quickly like i guess that affects it but you're they're up there but then they just like want to come down because it's the weather's changing so yeah just get it checked out i remember a person i was living with was like is it a termite i was like i've never i don't know what termites look like yeah no like she asked me like it was a normal question i was like i don't know it's a bug i assume all i assume all

bugs are yeah i've i had never had termites before never seen one so yeah i'd only seen like the piles of like dusty saw and I saw that, but, um, at that place I didn't have air conditioner. So my windows were open all the time and they were like on the windows and there was this tree and I thought it was just like, yeah, I thought it was just stuff blowing in from now. Yeah. So absolutely love it. It's great. Just so thrilled. Um, and I was on a high alert, like it just like once you finally settle down from the cockroaches and you're like, okay, we got that problem fixed i'm feeling good i an alarming moment yeah and not just like on like because moths thinks about it in like the another thing we're gonna do for the house but like we

knew going into this that like this is all there's always going to be something that you need to do whether it's on your to-do list or something new that comes up that you have to fix i'm fine with that i would just love if for the time being we could have it not be plumbing and not be bugs like i'm let's do the rest like i'm just those two i'm over but you already got the plumbing taken care of right no i know but i'm saying i don't want to go back to that like we graduated from that to mend the bugs and we're in our bug era and i would like to get out of our bug era like i don't want to be in my bug era you don't want to be back in your book volkswagen oh my god you have no idea how badly

should we talk about cars yeah if you want to well talk about i mean do you want to say what kind of car you have no i've there's pictures of it on the internet but like so you have like a limited what's what kind of it's a 124 spider luso fiat yeah it is like people speak a different language when they talk in cars i'm like i have no idea what the fuck that means but yours like it's like a limited edition color or something like that the color and the car itself like they're not making any more of them for right now so like it can't it's come out in like the 50s and then like in the 70s so like they do drop essentially they do drops you line up on the street for supreme and so then they did a quote-unquote drop from

2016 to this year so they're not making any more new ones for a while buying a car right now or leasing a car anything with a car yeah like i'm look i at this point i might get a segue yeah i mean i i paid my car off this year um earlier this year and then my plan was to get an suv and i that was louder than my toes pop that was my ankle oh okay well that makes sense um i was gonna get an suv and then i started looking at suvs and i saw how much everything has just shot up in price so much it's ridiculous it's like alarming like I know that like we're in a recession like I get that but um there are certain things that like really just drill that into your head and looking for a car like my lease is up my lease is up at the end of October so I've

had to extend my lease and I can only extend it for three months um and I am not a car person like i've liked i like two cars i like volkswagen bugs and i like jeeps that's it those are the car oh and for old old old ford broncos and then there's this other like very old car that i like but that's like it and so like a oj bronco like simpson yes that's his getaway car that's what everybody knows like that's a really fucking that's why they stopped making broncos for a while shut the fuck up is that why the new ones like don't look like much like i mean a lot i mean they've got a mustang suv now like they're just changing body styles completely weird i did not know that yeah um so i had my little bug

from back in the day and you were the one who really just ruined my life by telling me that like wasn't that a limited edition one like you probably don't make those anymore like you could probably have sold that i looked it up and if i had bought out my lease i got the limited edition it was the last year that they were doing bugs i didn't even know this at the time and it had the limited edition like leather seat color the limited edition color of like the actual car and like all of these things that were paying homage to the specific i think one of the earlier or older version of a volkswagen bug i looked online people are selling them for 73 000 and it's devastating to me because i loved that car so much i wish i still had that car and then if i

had actually bought out my lease i would have made a killing on it if i decided to sell it what do you want i want the suv version of my car but the one that's at um it's called the stevia i think the steve who names these fucking well my my stuff is italian so oh it's not called stevia no it's like still still stelvio stelvio that's what stelvio that sounds like a you're like like masseuse who like you have a little extra on the side alpha romero oh we looked at mons we drove by those and i had no idea what they were yeah well that's what it's a whole thing but it's part of the fiat like alpha romero and fiat are the same company what about what do you think about me getting the volkswagen minivan is that the one that was known as a swagger wagon

oh it's like a bus like the bus yeah i didn't know that was coming back i would 100 be on board with it it's like sponsored by like star wars i would yeah i mean it says obi-wan kenobi right there so um it's the only color i would make you drive me places i just like think that it would be if i mean honestly now that i've seen it i might look at it here's the thing that's what i was talking about i was like if i can't get a car that i want i'm gonna get a car for the bit like it's like it either needs to be something i love something that's fucking cheap or i need to talk about that exactly and like how fucking funny is that yeah if i show up i'll meet all me we met daddy long legs and i just emerge from this yeah little bus i mean one

of the joys of having my car even though i love it and it's perfectly fit for a small person um is that people talk about it like everywhere i go i get out the car people talk about it i get in the car people talk about it people stand outside my car and then they're like oh this is your car like they don't expect me to get into it or get out of it yeah that's like i want attention yeah well i get a speeding ticket because like cops are like what is this car maybe i've never well knock on wood i've never that's not real is it nope i don't think there's any the floor no that's probably it's not i'll just hit my dick okay done so i thought i'd make you so happy hey you'd have to go to the kitchen there's oh this is wood back here

there you go there you go so i just fucking wish we didn't have to have cars yeah like why like where is the alternative like i mean there's an alternative but then you have to like be around people that drive you the alternative is an uber no no i i rebuke that like that's like there's just like la has no public like it does not have real public transportation at all and so like it's just super fucking annoying because i don't drive a lot anymore and it would be nice to be like oh if something changes and i do drive more then i could lease a new car but like there's not something you can do in an like when you're in an interim like you can't just not have a car because how i know you're not a true gen z like

you want to be why because they don't like to drive they just take ubers everywhere i love other people driving me and also pre-pandemic i i if i have to park i'm gonna uber like i am like yeah i used to be like if i'm going to the hair salon uber therapy uber like i uber uber everywhere that was me like yeah i did too i loved i love uber but like it's just like in a in a in a covid world i don't want to be in close personal space with someone else there do you remember when they like dropped everyone having to wear masks for like and i mean it's still happening but then like a day later uber was like no we're not changing that no like and i also just like i feel i feel so fucking bad for them like it's one of those things that i'm like i wish i wish i felt

comfortable doing this because i would be wearing a mask and being respectful but like and a lot of people who have the same viewpoints as us like aren't really ubering anymore so i'm like oh so you're really just left with the people who are like this isn't real like you're just like that fucking sucks yeah i take it to the airport now and that's about it yeah and i wear my mask and have the window down i thought you meant in the airplane i go they let you do that yes i just want some fresh air oh how much longer should we have something to talk about tell me so i fancy myself a um this goes along with the car stuff i fancy myself a um commenter influencer so if you don't know what that is are you going back are you my comments go like like i made a comment last

week three thousand likes on it what's your most liked one there's one that's like five thousand and then i have another one that's like really old that i'm still getting likes on and that one has like four i just hit my number one what's your number one my number one is i can like literally pull it up because just like that like i still get people liking it um it the video is fucking hilarious and i saw it before it was like huge because um the creator follows me and then that's i usually see a lot like i see videos from people who follow me it shows up on my for you page where is this but it's like my most liked by an absolute fucking mile it's on andrea noel zero's video i don't know who that is and i don't know if i'm currently top

wow i might be i would have to check from like my not real account but um my comment has 24 000 nice likes because it's about her ex-husband or her ex-fiance and i commented i can't believe you almost married it um so somebody made this video last week and i commented it was a video of this is very la and the only way you can get that this joke is if you live in la and so he was like talking about gas prices and he makes this video of him pulling up to the gas station that's across the street from the beverly center yeah which is the most expensive gas station it is notoriously known as an expensive gas station because the only people that go to the beverly center or tours like no one just goes unless you need to you actually like have one specific thing

that you need but no one goes to the beverly center unless you're a tourist so that gas is like usually a dollar more yeah i only use that to drive through to cut to the other side yeah and so he made a video of him like pulling up uh to the gas station put only putting like a fourth of a tank in and then it was like 50 or some shit like that and so and so then i commented that's on you you know better to go to the gas station funny if you live in la then i have like and then he responds to the video and then to my comment yeah and then is saying like where else am i supposed to go and he takes pictures of other gas stations that are in that area in west hollywood in hollywood so it's real the gas is expensive than if you get it in your yeah so anyway again

people not understanding the joke are now commenting under my comment like that's just what prices are in la and all this shit when if you look through his other comments of other people for i don't know why he picked my comment out of all to respond to but the other comments there he's like haha yeah it's cheaper it's a dollar cheaper by my house but like that the video wouldn't be funny and saying that stuff but then just because he responded to mine people are like going off on me in the comments and this one girl's like do you even live in la do you know how much cash prices are and i said the only reason i can make this joke is because i live in la i know this gas station like this is a gas station that people know not to go to yeah there's

that one and then the one on fairfax and i forget what other but like it's literally like i've in my life i've never once seen like i had to stop in there once because i had like literally no gas and i had to get home i used to live right by there and i had to do a tiny bit of gas in there but i'm the only person i've ever seen even there like it's a joke like there are buzzfeed listicles about like the gas stations that like nobody ever goes to yes and so like and then there's other people in the comments that are like you know like real ones know not to go to this gas station stuff but this girl is like commenting she's like like if you live in la she she said to me she's like if you live in la then you know what these gas prices are and i said yes i live in la this

gas station is notoriously for being high i used to live i actually live walking distance from this gas station like people and then she and then she tells me you need to make more money i said bitch i make plenty of money we're all talking about how this gas is expensive i make plenty of money i actually like i don't let my tank go below a fourth the tank like i always fill up and i honestly just don't even really pay attention to prices because like it's going to be expensive forever but again this specific gas station is notorious for being higher than the rest she's going through commenting on other people's things that are like agreeing with me and then she's like well i commute in from up to la every day you commute you don't live here

so you don't you're that means that if you're commuting in you're only at the gas stations that are in like heavy heavy trafficked areas you're not going to gas stations that are in neighborhoods so you don't even understand this no she's like driving in from fucking fontana and it's like i understand la gas prices that's like no no you don't know like i monster i talk about it all the time i'm like who decides them because like there's one like there's one by us where like there are gas stations literally across the street and one is like 75 cents more than the other and i was like why like why would you do that like nobody comes to you because of this but like you can find like you have to search for it like mods has like a list of like he's always very

kind and gets gas for me because he was in my with me in my car like with me once when like some people are creepy always at the gas stations always fucking creepy oh i know and so he saw there one time and then was like i'm just gonna go for you and do this um and he has like a list of like when i need to do it like he has like a list of ones that he sends me that are like depending on where i am of like oh this is like the cheap one that you can do here like it is a huge fucking price difference like it's just la that's like saying like when you buy eggs from air one like that's like the same like what do you that's just how much eggs cost now and i go no it's not they like they peel like a single individual hard-boiled egg and they put it in a

plastic container and like you could find that at ralph's for two dollars or you could buy it at air one for like 1975 like come on yeah that's so yeah lots of people don't they think they know la and they like really fucking don't yeah it's so weird to me like that's just like everybody's fake in la and i definitely had more of that like mentality and mindset when i was younger and that's also because like everyone that i was friends with or like knew was like like implant like la like implant and like we're in like those big high-rise apartments like and it's just college like at when you're in that age in la like that's like saying like everyone at my college is fake like that's the same thing of saying like everyone in la is fake like yeah that's just your age range

like when i first moved here i was dating a musician's son and um he like he was like i just gotta get out of la everybody's fake and i was like because you're hanging out with these other rich kids like chill dude yeah and i just got here and i know that this is not the case no and like there's great food there's so many wonderful things there like not everything is like so wildly expensive like houses yes universally homes here and rent is like ridiculously expensive gas is pretty expensive here too but like not all the food is like everyone's like it's all catch and it's all like no boo and i'm like no like literally like you can get a dollar taco yes you can on any corner literally like you could you get a 75 cent taco like if you're not gonna

get all the fixings on it but like you're always gonna find those things and like you're it's not all like small plates like you're not gonna get like ripped off like you're gonna there are good people and all of that like you order from a place over and over again they'll give you like we have like a mexican restaurant we love like she always would include like we would get a small guacamole she never always would do a large yeah it's like there is those things there it's just i think it's the age and most people move to la i think it's the same people in new york like the most people who move to la and new york in their early 20s like it's it's us it's not the city it's us like we're the ones that are toxic and we're just being toxic to each other it doesn't fucking

matter what side of the country we're on oh wow well i love when you start drama and comments yeah i have done it quite a bit though like drama but it's fun drama yeah but that one just i don't know just irritating me because there's still people calm because there's also people that like don't live in la they're like maybe he just needed gas again he made this like it's very stylized like yeah he made sure that you could see the beverly center yeah behind him like he took he had angles so he was like setting up his camera and stuff like this is supposed to be funny like they don't even know that it's like this isn't like this is a joke that is set up for the people who get it like you don't get the joke and that's okay but like you don't need to defend

him against the joke that he made right that's fucking infuriating well shall we wrap up this sure my voice cracked are you gonna cry she's so sad she's so sad to wrap it up okay we hope you enjoyed this episode of see you next tuesday and guess what we will see you next tuesday yes we will but you will also hear from us on um thursday and friday so you have a break from us tomorrow so what are you gonna do during your break everyone just miss us cry that's when they have their little break yeah but again i can't stress enough don't tell me if you need a break from me just don't what if i told you i needed a break from you i would be like what the fuck i would just be like what do you why i would be like what are you doing like is this for a bit

like why are you fuck off i need a break i would just be like don't care still coming over like i'll be there i'll be like i don't give a shit okay goodbye everyone