Giggly Squad - Giggling about bullies, blind spots, and red carpets

Episode Date: July 22, 2025

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The giggly spot. I mean the day just got away from me. What's up my giggly G wagons? I feel like you've seen a lot of G wagons going to the Hamptons. Oh my god, it's so many of the same

cars. Um. As a fellow driver I'm like hi fellow drivers. Oh I didn't even put that together. I'm like what in the hell. This is the thing I passed on Friday and we've moved on. Congratulations what does it feel like to be a citizen? Love when you interview me. Oh, like a partially functioning adult. Yeah, like a contributing member of society. Hopefully I don't contribute too much because then people won't be safe. But you know, I thought about this

because a lot of people are listening, thinking Hannah, how did you do this? How did you overcome your fears? Where did you take it again? Wantsaw to Long Island. Okay. I want to let people know mental health moment. I passed my driver's test at 33.

I found... I am an inspiration. In that... You know when you just define yourself as something? Like, I'm Anna. I'm many things. But driver, I am not. And I was like, she's quirky, she's silly,

but she can't drive and that's Anna. That's who I am and I said, who am I to question that? I really wish that every time you met someone, a 15 second like, clip. She's silly, she's cool, she likes to go to school. Yeah, like it's new girl, like and it's just a good day. Like I wish like you knew what you were getting into, kind of like what did they pick tonally?

Like what? What's the aesthetic? It's like a trailer before you go on a date, like what the relationship's gonna be. No, that was me, that was my character. And then I stopped and I said, you know what? I can change myself today. I can be someone new today.

And look, is it off-brand? Was it off-brand for me to get married? Yeah, everyone's still confused about it. But you know what, I keep people on their fucking toes. Just when you think you get a hold of me, I've changed and I've evolved. But I'd say this summer is my mental health summer of improving as a person.

You're kidding, I didn't know that. I didn't say that out loud because it wasn't really happening. Sorry, let me just back it up here. Was this an intention? Nope, let me just back it up here. Was this an intention? Nope, let me put it in reverse. Let me three point turn it for a minute. I know exactly what you're referencing.

Parallel it for me, parallel it. But make sure you check your blind spot. Wait, why is that gonna stick? Check your blind spot. Not me checking my blind spot 800 times. The driver says, did you see, there's a blind spot. You gotta check it again. You know, that's the one piece of advice my dad gave me

before I went to take my road test. He was like, I think you're gonna fail. Everyone in our family thinks you're gonna fail, but keep checking your blind spot. We have the same family. We have the same family. We have the same family. And for people who don't know, I did pass it once when I was 24,

but I rammed the curb at the end, and my dad was like, I don't feel safe with you on the road. So I never had actual confidence, and I basically was like, look, I'm getting lessons, and I'm actually going to have confidence in my driving and become a good driver. Yeah.

Dez and I must have parallel parked like a hundred times. You know, it is a sport, like it is actually a sport. Like there's NASCAR, there's F1. No, I'm F1. So like it is out of your character to not drive and to also not be like amazing at it, I feel like. Also, cause I'm from New York City, not to play the New York City card,

but like a lot of my friends don't have licenses. Right, you don't need them. So at 33, like I can only be so good at driving with the lack of experience that I've been in a car. Like at one point, Des was like, how do you not have spatial awareness? And I'm like, cause I literally sleep every time I'm in a

car. Do you want to know what it's almost slightly similar to which you hate? Don't say frisbee. Skiing. No you're so right. Yeah because you do have to have like you have to check your blind spot you have to have such like spatial awareness and obviously. And like one mistake you could die. No, one tree, you're out. Wow, that got dark. That got really dark. But like that's why I love jazz, I love stand up. You could kind of mess your way into it,

make mistakes but keep going. This, there's no room for error. And especially learning older, like I feel like when you're 16, you're like all the kids are doing, let's go to Sonic and well you're also similar to skiing you're not as nervous to fall do you know what I mean like you're not you get right back up you're like oh didn't even know I almost just got off

like a one-way like oopsie but when you're an adult you're like all the everyone will die and when you crash when you're an adult, you're like, everyone will die. And when you crash when you're 16, your parents do the paperwork for you. Like, I have to deal with the paperwork now. Like, I didn't realize, like, I have to deal with insurance. One time I was like, I think I was like 17. I might've even been 18. And I was pulling out of a parking spot

and someone was like driving by. And I mean, I rammed right into them. I rammed into like the back of their car though. Not like I didn't like- You didn't get like their whole family. Yeah, I didn't like T-bone them or anything. I literally hit like the bumper, but I got out of the car and that was the first time

I had ever done that or ever been in like an accident like that. Fender Bender. And I cried so much because I was in such shock of that I did that to this lady that she literally was like, it's less hassle to deal with you. And I'm just gonna go. She's like, I'm gonna pay you to leave me alone.

I was like, wait a minute, let me call my dad. Like, he'll know exactly what to do. I think she also heard my dad being like, God damn it. You go, can you hold my hand and we pray to St. Anthony together? She's like, leave me alone. Don't get religion into this. He was like, are you kidding me? I'm like, okay, so I need to come here.

I also, I had a really bad, embarrassing driving test experience when, how old was I? A couple years ago where I was practicing with Dez and Dez was like, you're not ready. And I wasn't ready. And I was trying to just like wing it. Like I did the previous one Yeah, and I just immediately started and took it too tight of a turn and the guy was like you're going too fast No, it's too tight of a turn turn around When I tell you and it's so embarrassing there's a line of like 40 cars everyone everyone's watching you. Clearly I fucked up so bad, he was like, I've seen what I needed to see.

I've seen what I needed to see. So like you're embarrassed anyway. But of course you know with me, there's always a little bit of drama. Yeah. So we get there, I'm feeling good, I take my beta blocker, it's kicking in, I'm feeling zen as fuck, like the calmest you could be.

Yep. And the way the test starts is there's a red light in front of a really busy road. And I'm in my head, I'm like, check a blind spot, make sure you cross over the arms, don't T-bone anyone. I have a bazillion things in my head. We're at the red light and all these cars are passing by and then the cars, there's no cars,

but it's still red light. And I'm like in my head like, I think you're supposed to turn right on red in Long Island. But this was, I did not factor this into the test. Like I was like hard wiring, not sure what to do, but I'm like, it's okay, it'll turn red eventually. I mean, it'll turn green soon.

It felt like 10 minutes. I'm sitting in silence with this guy. Anyone behind you? I think there was, but no one was honking, but it was the beginning of the test, and I just basically was like, I couldn't get myself to go on a red light. Like, I just felt, I just freaked out and just froze.

Well, because that is too, not to defend, but like in New York, it is different all over. Like in New York City, you can't go right on red in in Albany. You can go right on red in Long Island. Like I don't know if you can in my head. You can't. You're supposed to. But I don't because when in doubt, I will be fearful. Yeah. When in high pressure situations, I will be scared. And I was immediately like, I'm not going. I'm not moving. Yeah, I will be fearful. Yeah. When in high pressure situations, I will be scared. And I was immediately like, I'm not going, I'm not moving. Yeah, I will freeze. I will freeze.

When a challenge comes my way, I will be paralyzed. I'm paralyzed. I will fold like a cheap beach chair under the pressure. So Dez is watching this like, oh my fucking God. Like he's like, she's already. Wait, how is he watching? So he leaves the car and he's standing there and watch me leaves to start the test so embarrassing then also you know me I'm like do I make a joke like so the guy looks at me I give him my ID and he looks at me and he goes is

this you which is a weird thing to say but I was wearing my hair in a ponytail, so I go, yep, that's just me with a ponytail now. And he like kinda giggled. Cause the gigglers told me to put my hair up and wear long earrings so they can see that you're checking all your mirrors. No, the gigglers are witches. I pulled all the stops.

I have, and they were sardine earrings. You've never worn a long earring in your time? Never, I ordered sardine earrings. You would have hated them, but it made me like funny, but also grounded. You know, like I love animals. She loves classical music. Like I was trying to be someone I wasn't in this road test.

What was the outfit that you picked? Oh my God. So my driver, shout out Greg, who I have to get a present for, I'm so stressed. He told me not to dress too nice. Okay. As a woman. So like they said the men to dress nice, like button up, but if you're a woman, if you dress too like sexy,

they judge you. It's like literally female standups. So he was like- Oh my God. That's what he said. So I just wore like a t-shirt and honestly I wore basically what I'm wearing right now. I looked like a teenager.

A t-shirt and shorts? T-shirt and shorts, hair ups, sardine earrings. Okay. Actually now that I say it out loud. I don't trust that girl. I don't trust her at all. She's up to something. She's trying too hard.

Nothing makes sense. You're not driving my child to school. No, you're making me die. So wait four hours for this red to turn green. Four hours, oh okay, okay, okay. No, but it felt like we're literally in silence and I'm like, you know, when was the last time I sat in silence?

No, I'm literally, I have tears. Okay. So I get on the road and I am in the zone. Like I'm like, you've trained all, you've trained all week for this. And also I didn't have to tell the Gigglers, like I could have done this like undercover, but. Yeah. And yes, it added so much more stress to my life.

But it also, well, the reward is so much greater. Yeah, and it also, I'm sure relieved a lot of stress. Relieved stress, also I felt like if I failed, at least it would be good content for Giggly Squad. Yeah, thank God. Thank God. So honestly, I was feeling myself, I was turning, he goes parallel park.

I did it pretty far away from the curb, didn't try to get fancy, and then I drove up. Nailed the three point turn beautifully. Yeah, those are always my favorite. No, I actually was starting to have fun with it. I was like, boop beep boop beep. You were like making it your own. Then you know when you start showing off and you're like,

I want to do one more blind spot check just for fun. I'm going to twerk, back it up. You need anything? You good? Okay. Welcome to the Hannemobile. So then we're turning back and I'm feeling like, I'm feeling the happiest I've ever felt in my life. Like better than my Netflix special. Like I don't know, I'm like dreams do come true.

You're euphoria. I'm euphoric, but I'm also high as fuck on beta blockers. Also is that legal? Anyway, so then he goes, okay, pull in and does a standing there and immediately I'm like, do not hit the fucking curb, like do not hit the fucking curb. So I like pull in and I'm like, far from the curb.

I'm pretty far from the curb, which is not good. But I'm like, I nailed my parallel park, I nailed all my turns. But then the guy is like, we don't tell you if you passed or failed. You'll see it online tonight at six p.m. Because apparently New Yorkers have been assaulting the testing people when they failed.

Like the guys, you failed, they'd be like, what the fuck you talking about? And fight them. It's not funny. It's not funny. It's truly disgusting is what it is. But also I need Andy and a camera. Because what the fuck do you mean that the goddamn DMV can't tell you if you passed or failed because they're afraid for their lives. Also, I'm wearing sardine earrings.

I'm not hurting anybody. I'm like a cat. I'm more scared of you than you are. But I also, I do understand I don't want the people feeling like if they tell someone they failed that they might get hurt. That's fucking crazy. That's insane.

But then I have to have diarrhea for the next six hours? Right, it's like, okay, well, why don't you send me the email in like 15, 20. Also, can you give me a blank? Like, give me like a, like. Yeah, like, you're good. Okay, but like, yeah, like give me something. Give me a smile.

Literally be a girl's girl for once in your life. No, like, do you support women? No. Do you, you already know it's hard for us to drive? You already know we're struggling out here and you you already know also I'm PMS I'm PMSing so bad. Actually my period was four days late so I'm pregnant at that point. Okay. I'm like I have literally something baking. You're like, sorry, where's the baby on board sticker? Mind you, the second I passed my test, I got my period. Cause you know when your body's like so stressed out, it like can't even ovulate.

So anyway, he leaves the car and I walk out of the car and I look at Des and I'm like, she's that girl. I was like, she did it. He goes, that's crazy. Cause the beginning and the end, the only parts I saw, you completely fucked up. No, and that man keeps you humble. And that man grounds me.

No, keeps your feet firmly planted. And it's beautiful. But then we obviously go to a diner after, as one does, after you take a road test in Wansaw, you find the nearest diner. And we sit there, and I'm like, I passed. And he's like, you didn't take a right on red, and you were 200 feet from the curb at the end.

He goes, that can't be good. So then we're Googling. We're deep in red. Yeah, it's a series of points, right? And it's literally not to say like I'm an Olympian but like it's giving Simone Biles Gymnastics. Yeah, you made one mistake But how many points do they feel like deducting that day? Cuz yeah, if you do one bad turn they could also deduct for careless driving or like they could look

Yeah, the world is really their oyster they can get on power trips and this man gave me nothing now that you passed they should probably probably be replaced by AI oh like driving tests okay page that's sorry it did I go too hard and actually, let's have your job taken away. And you're not. But also I was- You were me to my friend, and so now I'm sending a robot.

But also I was trying to wait until you basically get self-driving cars, and they basically have self-driving cars now. But anyway, that's a whole nother scary issue. So we're sitting at the diner, literally people saying, yeah, if you don't turn a right on the red, that's considered slowing down traffic, which is 10 points.

I've convinced myself I failed at that point, because I've, Des, who's, you know, foot is on my neck. Like my biggest op, my biggest op at that point doesn't believe in me. Thinks I'm lying about it going well. He goes, so with the parking spot, how good did you park? I was like, I did it, I did it. Then I'm questioning myself, I'm like, did I do it?

No, and this is how they get you. This is how they get you. And this is part of the driving test. You have to fight your own demons. Yeah. Oh my God. So then I'm going to my mom's play on Shelter Island for the Historical Society.

She wrote, directed, acted, sang in it. You are literally a woman about town this summer. Like you have galas, you have historical societies. Like you're wearing Vivian Westwood on a Saturday evening. Like, I'm like, who is this person? I'm a suburban mother. No, you truly are. I'm a suburban mother and yeah, I'm not working,

but somehow I have the busiest summer I've ever had in my life. But I had to support my mother. And you know that's the only thing that I will- Drop everything for. Drop everything for. Drop everything for, as she would for me. As she would for me. Right before her play, you have to keep checking.

Yeah, it's like getting into college. Literally, or like an STD test. Yep. You're crazy, because you were like, tell me what time you find out, and I was like, 6 p.m. 6 p.m. on the dot. You text me and you go, what the fuck is going on? I said, hello. Hello. Hello.

Hello. And then, like, honestly, it was like rainbows, butterflies. I blacked out. I'm so happy. So now we're car shopping. Have you driven since? Next day, we go car shopping. Shortly realized to test drive, the guy goes in the car with you. And I'm like, bro. Respectfully, this is, it's PTSD. I just did this.

No, cause he's like, make a right up here. And I'm like, what are you judging me? Also like. How many points? Huh? How many points? How many points was that? I feel like, why do you have to, I was I was like can you not watch can you look over there when I turn? I don't look at me when I'm driving by yourself

I was with Des in the front and then like the guy would be in the back and you'd be like You take a right up here and I'm like sir. Yeah, please. I've been around the block before I've driven before I drove yesterday so which Des and I have solar panels. Imagine if you said, oh, this is where I learned to drive, in this parking lot, and he'd be like, oh my God, are you from here? Do you go to high school? You're like, literally yesterday.

Des literally was like, she just passed her driving test, and the guy's like, oh nice, and Des is like, yesterday. And he's like, are you worried? And I'm like, no, but you should be. I just kept joking. But also driving a new car you've never drove is like. Yeah, yeah, no, you have to do it. I was nervous. I couldn't figure out some things. I was nervous. But we want to get an electric car for me. Why am I fucking with the Kia?

Are you? There's a Kia E6 that looks cool. I'm like, I'm gonna get a new car. I'm gonna get a new car. I'm gonna get a new car. I'm gonna get a new car. I'm gonna get a new car. your car for me. Why am I fucking with the Kia? Are you there's like a Kia e6 that like looks cool because I don't think I should get a nice car. This is not a nice car guy. No, he is but he's look I can get whatever car I want and

he's like maybe we get a starter car before you get a big girl car. I mean, I didn't really think that, like, yeah. It is kind of like giving a 16-year-old. Like, look, should I get a Lambo and let the gigglers just, like, hang off the side of it? Yeah. And run around New York City with my top down? Yeah.

Literally, if there's any car that I could vote for you to get, it's like a 2016 Hummer. I go, I want an electric key. And you go, no, get it. Get a Hummer. Wait, I used to want one of those so bad. And my dad was like, those things don't even fit in New York City. You can't even think. No, you're not getting a freaking Hummer Try parallel parking with that. That was the car I wanted but that was also like a very specific time in our culture

Where there was like it was literally for six months I wanted there was like the bedazzled phones which I had to do and the Hummer the Motorola's So yeah, I'm thinking of like an electric car And I'm and I'm gonna keep testing them, but it's fun. I feel like an adult. Like I feel like 16 to 30. It's crazy how fast they grow up. I'm like grown and I feel like, I don't know,

like I'm like telling people directions now. I feel like I've been like, we live in each other's brains because like recently now I'm like I haven't driven in so long Do I remember how to drive and like I started getting nervous? No, don't let my insecurities creep up on you, but I do have to say I've been getting messages from gigglers being like hey I'm 38. I never drove but if you could do it, it's giving me confidence that I could do it and I said, you know what? Period so anyone stay off the roads right now because the gigglers are But if you could do it, it's given me confidence that I could do it. And I said, you know what, period. So anyone stay off the roads right now because the Gigglers are experimenting.

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Let's start the pod. I'm good. Literally, let's start the pod. Shout out to one of my favorite outfits you've done. Which, what, oh, for Les Cultures. Sophia Loren, adding the hat, it's not done a lot. Like people aren't doing a matching hat

and it takes a particular head shape that most people don't have. First thing I thought of. Thank you. You had to get it custom probably fitted. No. No, it fit your head perfectly as it would. And you were like embodying the character.

Tell us about this look. Let me tell you the story behind it. So Last Culturistas was doing their first ever like televised award show. I'm not kidding and you know me, I don't like being out of the house. I certainly don't like going to social events. I went by myself. I had to get on a plane to go. Basically Fiji. I was like nervous to go. I was like nervous about my look. It was, I felt like I was really like risking whatever. So on the invitation it said 1940s themed. Like it was 1940, the red carpet was supposed to be like 1940s glamour. So I was like, oh, if there's a theme, I'm doing the theme. And then when I walked in, I was like, oh, okay,

so no one else wanted to do the theme, got it. So like that is what first happened to me. You never mind being the most well-dressed in the room. Oh, being overdressed is my- Yeah, you never mind that. I would take being overdressed than underdressed any day of the room. Oh, being overdressed is my- Yeah, you never mind it. I would take being overdressed then underdressed any day of the week. True.

Like I'd rather walk in some place and people be like, oh my God, why is she wearing that here? And it'd be like a ball gown rather than like my- See, like me walking somewhere in a ball gown and everyone's in normal clothes, that's my panic attack. It was so funny.

Like they are 100% going to get asked to host the Golden Globes. They, I don't want to give too much away because it's airing, I think it airs August 5th on Bravo and then it's on Peacock. I haven't laughed like that consecutively and like been happy to be out in so long. And I literally, I'm like, oh my God, and I'm by myself.

Like I'm having the best time with myself. Oh. So when I sat down, there was two empty seats, like on either side of me. And Gabby Windy and her wife. Robbie Hoffman. Robbie Hoffman were sitting next to me. They were so nice to me.

I leaned over and was like, just wanna say I'm a huge fan of both of you. And Gabby immediately was like, did you come by yourself? You can sit next to us. But I was like, I think there's someone that's supposed to be sitting here. But they were so nice.

And I just, no, and it was just the best time ever. So once it airs, I will give more spoilers about it, but it was just the best time ever. So once it airs, I will give like more spoilers about it, but it was just so much fun. You would get along with Robbie and Gabby because they are the reality TV comedy couple. No, I felt like it was like us. No, I love them so much. Oh, Paige almost spilled her entire Duncan Refresher

on Daphne. Except that I'm an actual, did you see that athleticism? Yeah, let's do a replay on the YouTube, slow-mo replay. Well, your fingers are so long, you like grabbed it with the tip of your finger. That was crazy. That was crazy. None even got on my floor.

I mean, look, it's a sports podcast. Literally. No, but yeah, the look nailed it. It's funny, you were nervous about it, and I was just immediately like, podcast. No but yeah the look nailed it. It's funny you were nervous about it and I was just immediately like maybe it's cuz I I do have crazy looks on carpets I was like that's chill that's a chill nice good look. I had this picture that I was trying to like kind of recreate and I just like felt like I just got back

from Italy like I was super tan and it was just and also here's the other thing on why I did it it was girls and gays it was just, and also here's the other thing on why I did it, it was girls and gays. It was a night for the girls and the gays. Also, you don't need an explanation for anything, but I feel like you're in a creative place and I'm really inspired. I'm inspired by it. I was really creative.

Can I have a quick warning, PSA? We've all been drinking from our Stanleys. I don't know if we all are washing our Stanleys properly. And by we, I mean me. And you too, are you putting your hand up as well? Okay, I thought that after I finished my Stanley, I put the water in it and it's washed. Somehow I see the straw of my Stanley.

And it's humbling. What? Yeah. Live animals are living in a full ecosystem in the straw of my Stanley. And it's cause I put my electrolytes in every day. So if you put sugar in it, which that's all I'm doing, I'm drinking sugar with a little water.

And God forbid you're a girl who wants to throw a lipstick on once in a while. It's like. God forbid you have. God forbid. A peach, you know, road lip tint. God forbid you have a literal peptide. A peptide a peptide Going into your lip pores when I tell you I've been just drinking straight mold from my Stanley Which by the way tastes kind of good. Um

For who knows how long so now I'm worried like am do I have everything that tik-tok says I have Okay. Well as a longtime Stanley drinker, I would classify myself as, I went through this epiphany a couple months ago, and so I ended up ordering a bunch of extra straws. Yeah, you just throw it away. I throw them away, or then I can rotate washing them, because it's like, okay, well, I can't take 15 minutes out of my day every day

to deal with the Stanley situation. What do I look like? I don't have kids. I don't have to go as hard. They have Stanley straw cleaners that you can buy, which again, that's above my pay grade. That's so organized. You're like, oh, time to clean the straw.

Let me use my accessory. Like, we're not doing that. We're not doing that, oh, time to clean the straw, let me use my accessory. Like we're not doing that. We're not doing that. I'm throwing everything in the dishwasher. I'm doing it the normal way, like in the faucet, whatever. Yeah, you pull out and pray, pull out and pray. I feel like I have so many Stanleys now that I just like started rotating them.

Yeah, yeah. And I was like, cause I can't. And your apartment's so big, you can fit so many Stanleys as in like five rotating them. Yeah, yeah. And I was like, cause I can't. And your apartment's so big, you can fit so many Stanleys, as in like five of them. I literally think I might have five Stanleys. Do you know what this made me think about? What happened to juicing? Like juice cleansing?

Yeah, and do you remember when juices were like the thing? Every block in New York City was a juice store and then the girls woke up one day. It was Gwen of Paltrow. Remember when Gwen would do that like crazy juice cleanse and she would say she would do it like once a year? Yeah but then like people were doing it like every day you should have a green juice and all this stuff and now like one day woke up no juices anywhere. Remember when everyone was doing celery juice? Yeah that's insane. That was disgusting. Celery juice is disgusting. At least do a fruit. The thing

with juicing is I think it like was, it was a trend. People realized there was so much sugar when you like did that to the fruits and vegetables. It was actually like a lot of calories it's like just eat an apple. Yeah and so I think it just kind of fell off. You don't need nine apples. Which you know, it's so crazy and this is way above our pay grade. This is above our pay grade's pay grade. Why do the composition of fruit,

like the sugar in fruit change when you blend it into like a smoothie or like juice it into a juice? It's like, who told you to be that self-aware as a fruit? I feel like it loses nutrients when you- Yeah, how? I guess, cause the, oh my God, my brain just malfunctioned. Like it gets mushed again.

It's like the fiber, like I like, oh my God, ow, something hurts. No, I hurt something in my head. I pulled something in my fucking forehead. You glitched. There was just a glitch. I literally glitched. I was just like, wow.

Power down. Power down. Cause I would drink a smoothie every single day, but I just feel like they're not actually good for you. No, it's dessert. And I'm already so, I eat way too much sugar. I love sugar. I love a banana

strawberry smoothie, but my like trick is to throw peanut butter in it because then it tastes like a fucking cookie and Turns out you shouldn't be having like tons of peanut butter every day in your smoothie like hey also also turns out That acai bowls, like not that good for you. Okay, then stop marketing them with the other healthy bullshit. Why is a girl wearing a sports bra holding the acai bowl if it's ice cream?

Literally. Why is it in the Equinox? Why is it in the Equinox? It's a hot fudge sundae. It's a hot fudge sundae? It's a hot fudge sundae. The peanut butter I'd get in those. I love that shit. No, I fucking love an acai bowl. And then they put cacao nubs on it, cacao nibs. That's chocolate, babe.

You're just, it's chocolate. It's chocolate. And acai. Just because that chocolate is like European does not mean that you can't set boundaries. Just because it's crushed up differently, it's the same, it's the same. So anyway, we're just warning you guys,

don't be tricked, like don't get tricked. I don't know how we got here, but I do wanna speak on something. Yeah. The Justin Bieber album? Have you listened? So I did listen but it was like in a car and the car was kind of loud and it was kind of low so I didn't have like the right experience. You know when like it wasn't ideal? Totally no I totally get it. I feel like, one, I think it's amazing. I love it.

Like, I think every song is so good. And I think that some people that are hating on it are millennials that like, and I'm a millennial, I love being a millennial. I think that wanted like his dance music that he did when he was like 13. And I don't want that Justin Bieber. Like, I love this new era, new vibe.

I'm obsessed with him. I think he's also like a genius. I do think this album is like really good Pilates music for like the beginning of the session. When you're like, you're getting into it and you need to get hyped, but you don't want to be too pumped up. It's like perfect, like daisies.

And then you're getting the pelvis involved. And then you're lifting the glutes. Sorry, I've been doing a lot of Pilates lately. Oh my God, wait, you've been really describing things today that are just spot on, I feel like. Wait, that's the nicest thing you've ever said to me. Cause I actually, I'm bad at words in general, but I'm working on it.

But Justin Bieber also, this is the thing. I feel like real music people really like it, but then there's like top 40 people who are like, where's the chorus? Cause there's like, Totally. And he's a chorus master. Like he can make anything sound like a bop.

So he almost like, he's choosing to be like, let me take you on this lyrical journey. And I don't think I'm creative in a musical sense whatsoever. I'm simply just an observer of what I think sounds good to my ears or not. Like, so I wouldn't know about a chorus or about... You just like the vibes.

I like the vibes. Were you high? No. Okay. No, I've listened to it a lot. I've actively gone on my Spotify and played it. We don't talk about how good his tone of voice is. No.

And I'm not even being nostalgic. It just is a good voice. Well and also as his voice has changed, obviously as he's gotten older, he's still, it still sounds good. Yeah, yeah. Speaking of boyfriends slash husbands, Des and I had an interesting moment the other day

because he sent me something and I pulled it up on my phone and he was like, why is my name Des Bishop in your phone? And I was like, that's your name. And he was like, you have my government name in your phone. And I was like, when I met you, I put your name in and that's what happened. And then he showed me his phone

and it's burned with like a heart. Cause I think I put that in as, that's how I did it. And he kept it, which is cute. But this is the question. Is it psychopathic that I have my husband's government name? No. No. I think, look, that's your name?

No, I have so many friends who are like married and for like a couple years and I still have like Katie's boyfriend, Cam. And I'm like, I'm not changing that to his government name or her husband. I feel like it's how you had it in before. It's very nostalgic. Yeah, that's fate.

I agree. Also, I've been dabbling with manifestation, as you know. Yeah. For years now. Yes. And I wrote, I will pass my driving test, like 400 times. I saw that.

Because Coco Groff wrote, I will win the French Open, and she did, and it's like pretty similar. Yeah. So, I realized if little ways of manifesting is to set your phone background to something that's like channeling like a mood. I think your phone background, cause you look at your phone 8,000 times a day,

is a really good opportunity for manifesting. I agree with that. Like don't pick a bad color, don't pick a bad image, pick positivity. I feel like also just like writing, you don't even have to write it 400 times, but if you have it in your phone somewhere and you've written it down,

and I don't even feel like you have to go and look at it. Like I feel like it just like that energy being with you. Yes, love wins. So stupid. Love is literally all you need. Because I remember, this is how I really got hooked on it. I one time wrote down things I wanted to manifest. This was when I lived in my first apartment. And I lived in that apartment for like five years.

So when I finally moved, I found that piece of paper because it was like put in some random book. And when I looked at the piece of paper, I had done all of the things, but like I had forgotten about that. I mean, I don't even know where it went. I really have chills. And that's when I really like started getting hooked on it.

And so then I would always like write down like my manifestations. Hooked on phonics? No. Do you know my brother used to call me that when I was in middle school because I couldn't read no the bullying was so important not only was it important for me people No, it was so important. Not only was it important for my growth, but. People who haven't been bullied are not fully grown. Developed. They're not developed.

If you haven't been bullied, what have you dealt with in your life? And bullied by people who know you. No, I think it's really important to be bullied specifically by your siblings, I think. By someone that knows you in and out and can really find the root cause. Yeah, the root cause, the weaknesses right there. I don't want a random person tell me something that's not bullying. No, my brother has literally like in my, in my almost 33 years of knowing him,

he has been able to like change the course of my life with one word. Like, like, like I've had boyfriends before. And like we'll be somewhere and my brother will like lock eyes with me across the room. He'll say one word and I will have to immediately break up with

the next day So like the bullying it does not end and I'm actually more thankful for it now No, cuz he's a real one. Yeah, cuz he's like if no one's gonna tell you mom's not even gonna tell you guess what? Hey guess what everyone the family is too scared gonna tell you, mom's not even gonna tell you. Guess what? Like, hey, guess what? Everyone in the family is too scared to tell you. Like, that's how most of my phone calls start out. I feel like with my brother, hey, guess what? Everyone's been talking about you. About you.

You guys, look, we've all had a meeting and this is what we've come up with. The high council has come together and they've decided that you're done. You're done. I do think what's interesting is we have the same family dynamic of a boy, a girl, and parents. And I feel like it's great because there's,

I love that you can turn on anyone at any time. Like we can all turn on dad. Totally. We can do us versus the parents. It can be the girls versus the boys. Like there's so many good teams that can be built. You learn camaraderie and you learn that life has never changed.

Life has never changed. Alliances change in a second. Alliances change in a fucking second. And then when the siblings turn on each other, that's when shit gets dark. Cause you're not strong without each other. The parents, they don't normally have each other's back. So when you lose each other, then it's haywire.

Then it's scary. I do think, obviously not that I'm a parent, but my mom genuinely wouldn't let me and my brother fight for longer than a couple hours or like a day. Like we never like ended the day fighting, you know? And I think that like is important for siblings. Yeah, I mean, I feel like I never fought with my brother that much.

He would just like, we'd be like annoyed. Gary would just like beat me up, but like we didn't like, what were we fighting about? But that was, I think that's like important. I remember what we fight about, Nintendo. Nintendo was the source of all our drama as kids. Cause I would play Pokemon and there was, this is the thing, look, I come from humble beginnings.

God forbid we had two Nintendos. We had one Nintendo that we had to fight for every second of the day. And look, I was stronger. You know what's funny is like thinking about having kids now, what is, how do you, as the parent, how do you know what the cool toy is for that age group? Oh, cause yeah, you can't like ask

what are the kids doing? Cause they're like three and can't talk. Yeah, like how do you know what to get? I guess you have to start reading. And do you wanna know what's crazy? Is toy stores aren't a thing anymore. Do you remember that as a child going, the first time you ever went- Toy stores.

Could really remember going into a big toy store that you were just like, what the fuck is this? Is Toys R Us gone? Gone. You have to find mom and pop shops now. It's AI now. No, it's still. Toys are AI.

That is so sad to me. Like I had to order like a friend's kids toy and I was like, I guess I'll just get it on Amazon. Like, I don't know. And you like look at what charts the highest. But, and honestly, kid stuff does well, but that's what mommy vloggers are for, to be like, hey.

Also, there are kids who are like really, really famous on YouTube. Like a five-year-old boy is like hugely famous. All he does is like they put a toy in front of him and he's like, he'll be like glad he did. Yes or no. And the him and he's like, he'll be like glad he did. Yes or no. And the toy companies would be like, no, Jeremy didn't like it.

We're fucked. We're fucked. No, I don't wanna ever get into that world. One thing I do miss though, is going with your friends to rent a movie. Yeah, that is like a very, I think about, that's probably one of the number one, like nostalgic outings that I think about the most.

Because you're like, tonight's going to be fucking crazy. And regardless, we're getting the Spice Girls movie for the 18th time. And it's going to be so fucking good. And one of us can fall asleep and the other one is gonna feel for eating too much candy. And no one talks about how this Spice Girls movie actually never made sense. No but do you heard they're like getting back together? Really? I don't know everything's AI nowadays. No I don't think that's true. You guys you cannot trust anything you read in the media including us. anything you read in the media, including us. the lid of a long lost treasure chest. While you cooked a lasagna.

There's more to imagine when you listen. Discover bestselling adventure stories on Audible. Have you seen this Nellie and Ashanti show? No. There's a reality show, Nellie and Ashanti show? No. There's a reality show, Nellie and Ashanti are together. I knew that. But it's like a TV show about their relationship, like a Jessica Simpson, Nick Lachey type thing.

On what channel, why is that not coming up in my algorithm? How did that not come across her desk? See, I'm the biggest Nellie Ashanti fan ever. Where is it airing? Like, what stream are you? I actually don't know. We need Chris, but Chris left us for dead today. Just kidding, we're virtual, so he's not here.

So I want you to watch that show and report back. Let's just, for a moment, then being together is also, not to be nostalgic, but like, hello. That's like prom king and queen, getting married, like years later. It feels like for whatever reason, they feel like to me, like they were high school sweethearts.

They were. It's like love wins. Also, can Ashanti drop some bangers? Yeah, like I'd love if they came out with like an album right now. Oh, imagine if they did a tour and it was just them. That would be amazing. I feel like everyone's like touring, like Kesha's back.

Have you seen Kesha's stuff? I haven't seen that. Our algorithms are so different. So different. What is on your algorithm right now? This is great. Wait, I'm going to Hannah's house in like a couple of weeks for the weekend.

For like 10 minutes, let's just take each other's phone and go on TikTok and see like what each other's mental illness is. Yours is just hummers. Actually, I haven't been on TikTok in four days. Oh, not on purpose. Oh my God. But I've also been, I've been driving.

Okay, you know what? I've been driving around. Quick name drop. Yeah. I had a good follow this week that like you know when someone follows you and you're like yeah Bobby Flay stop I know I know that is a really good one because what does he have in common with you

What does he have in common with you? Okay. Okay. First of all, he's from Queens. Oh, is he? So he's literally my ally and he's his addy, but like I'm taken. Wait, you actually want to know something? His daughter I've met a couple times. Really?

She is, well, he, I think he used to have a house in Saratoga So he was always like in Saratoga during the summers and she's like friends with one of my girlfriends So I'd met her a couple times. She is The nicest person I've like every time I've seen her She's always like been so nice and like remembered my name and like whatever well after this pod We'll find out if she's a giggler. She does the news in LA. She's on like their local news. Oh my god, I have to look into this Bobby Flay lore.

But fun fact about Bobby Flay, he loves cats and he has his own cat food company. He do- I didn't know that. And when I'm on the road and they don't have Netflix on the TV, I watch Beat Bobby Flay as my comfort show. My favorite was when he was on Entourage. Oh my God, was he good?

Well he was sleeping with Ari Gold's wife and it was just a really good montage. Wait that's really funny. I think he likes comedians, but he also might have seen that I'm fostering cats, who knows? But I'm also looking. Or maybe he's just a giggler and he loves our comedy. No, that's possible.

Maybe he loves women and the arts, but I love the Food Network. I'm a real Food Network nerd, and also I watch HGTV sometimes. Bring back Cable. Yeah, you love Cable. Actually, in LA, I didn't watch any streaming networks because I was like when I get home I want to save all my shows for when I get home so I can just like binge like four

hours of my shows. Wait that's literally like when you have a meal and you only like one thing on the plate and you're like I'm gonna wait till the end to eat the good part of the plate. Daphne is being obsessed with me today like she she's love-served she's like just keeps jumping on me and like right now she's just sitting on the ground and I'm petting her neck and she's purring. If you haven't gotten a cat. What are you doing? Let me explain one thing about cats because I'm now fostering three new cats. Are they gonna be there when I'm there? Yeah.

Okay, phew. Two of them are shy. One of them is the most outgoing cat I've ever met. Let me tell you this, dogs can never, this cat slowly comes up on my chest, is staring me in the eyes like a human. Like you know when your cat looks through your soul? Yes. Like, and you're looking at her and I'm'm like do I know you in a past life? Yeah.

What are you trying to say? What do you want to say? And I'm like I'll figure it out. What do you want? Hannah, why do I always think like my ancestors are trying to tell me something through Daphne? No, because cats are spiritual. Yes. But I think they're actually just like looking at my eyelashes and think it's a spider or something when I'm blinking, but I'm- No, we need the pet psychic. Like we needed the pet psychic yesterday.

Yesterday. The only guest we're ever having on the pod again is a pet psychic and we need her. Okay, we'll get her. Any recommendations please send. Oh, one thing about dogs. Now look, I love all animals, I love dogs. Barking is insane.

Yeah. Imagine, this is what barking is. If I'm a human, this is me. You're having a conversation with someone and you just start going, hey, hey, hey, hey! Well, it's so male coded also. Why are you yelling? It's like, just because you're louder

doesn't mean you're right. Just because you're taking up more space doesn't mean your idea is the best idea in the room. Oh, you're scaring me. You're so scary. The fact that they bark should be illegal. It's noise pollution. And then some people who have barky dogs start to have that thing where they stop hearing

it where you're like your dog your dog's yelling and they're like, Okay, stop. I don't hear it. And then you're they're having a normal conversation. I'm like, I'm sorry, I can't think when your dog is yelling. Here's the thing all dogs to me I feel like our kids like I'm like, Oh, you have like kids where cats are young women and when they do meow like they don't even want to it's like cuz they have to they're like like I was trying to tell one of my friends like the difference between

having a dog and a cat and I was just like you own your dog like your dog is in a cult and you are the dog's leader and it literally will do anything you say. And you're like responsible for it. Like every second the dog's like, what are we doing? And you're like, I don't know. I didn't plan. I do not own Daphne.

She simply lives in my home. She pays her rent on time. What am my favorite? She has things to do. So who am I to mess up her day or her schedule when like, hello, she like, what does she bring to the table? She is the table.

She is the table, a marble table scape. One of my favorite jokes is the guy from Crashing. What's his name? What's Crashing? It's his name? What's Crashing? It's like a TV show, Crashing show. Pete Holmes. He has the funniest joke where he was like, cats are like,

C-list celebrities in your house. Yes. Where you're like. Wait, yes. You're like, is that? Is that? Do we have a cast? Is that Heidi Montag? That just comes out every so often.

And you're like, I think I just saw Heidi Montag on the beach, but I'm not sure. That is so good, and honestly so true. It's like, she's here, she's coming, she might be here, you might get a photo, you might not. And it depends on her mood. I just wanted to let you know that we're so connected that we've drank the same amount.

Look. That is like creepy best friend stuff. That's witchcraft. That's witchcraft. That's witchcraft and wizardry. Like. Oh my God. That's so weird.

That's so crazy and we don't end the podcast till we're finished at the very end. No, we're drinking our Dunkin' Refreshers. I have to say, I made a mistake last pod. I said I was drinking mango peach. I wasn't, I lied to you guys. And I own full responsibility for that, I'm so sorry. It's mango pineapple refresher with green tea.

That's what I'm drinking. My refresher, see I go like rogue. What did you get? No, like you, cause you can like add different things and like really make it your own. So like, I don't think I've ever drank the same one, the same concoction that I've come up with. This one right now is strawberry dragon fruit tropical guava green tea and then like raspberry something else. It's like when you go to the soda station you just put them all in.

Wait you know what else happened to me tonight? Which like this never happens to me. I ordered my Duncan refresher and that's all I ordered. They accidentally gave me two donuts. Wait. And someone's getting fired but it's not me. Life is worth a living. Yeah, and I was like, you know what? I do actually deserve a sweet treat.

You do. Also you guys, keep submitting your summer stories at gigglysummer.com to win our Dunkin' Giggly collab merch. Okay, so keep doing it. Last story, not to end, but I think it's important to be humble. Do you agree? I agree.

So I saw one of my family friends, this woman who said she loves Giggly Squad, she loves listening to it, and she was with her 14 year old daughter, and I made a little joke like, do you let her listen to it? And she was like, not really. And I was like, I don't know,

maybe it's good for her to start hearing about some things. And the girl looks at me and she goes, oh yeah, and the mom goes, I mean, maybe she's listening, but I don't know it. And the girl looks up, she goes, no, I'm not. No. No. No. She goes, no, she goes, she could be listening without me knowing, nope.

I actually think, someone was asking me that the other day too, like how young is the youngest like fan that's ever come up to you? And I was like, anywhere I think like under 17, we've lost them. Like we're too old. I'm randomly on some weird TikTok algorithms though where some like 14 year old girls will be like, are you on TikTok?

Really? And I'll be like, I'm obsessed with you. I'm obsessed. And then I just hang out with teenage girls all the time. And we talk about our acne and learning to drive Hannah me and you have had that's the theme of the summer and that's what it was and we just needed this to realize We just call our mom in high school summer

Always you've literally been studying for your road test. You finally got it. I'm coming for the weekend. We're jacked up. Sleepover. We're sleepovers. We're getting tan. We're calling our moms.

We're staying out late. We can eat whatever we want. We're literally just getting in the car to go to Dunkin' just because you have a license. You know, it's like we literally can't stop peeing. We've had seven, but we're just running an errand. All weekend I'm gonna be like, do you need me to grab milk?

Do you, did you run out of hair ties? Do you want me to go get it? You want to get a hair tie with me really quick? No, I'm obsessed with high school summer. No, I'm not driving to Montauk ever. That's like going to Europe and diabolical. I'm not, but oh my God. I mean, oh, I'm never getting in the car with you.

Oh yeah, I forgot. That's crazy. Well, I'd be too nervous. No. I don't want your life in my hands. I'd have to look away. No, I don't want your life in my hands. I also don't want, that's like too intimate. I'd have to sit in the back seat. No, we sit in the back seat and let like Des drive.

Yeah, perfect. Wait, that's so weird. One of us is not sitting in the front with Des. That's weird. We're going full Uber. We're in the back. I was wondering, should we bring Grace or is that like HR she doesn't want to?

We can, but she might be with her family, which is like kind of rude. but she might be with her family, which is kind of rude. See, my grace is, we're her family. See, if we wanna be a real cult, we have to start getting her away from her family. That's like rule number one of cults, so we're like failing.

We have to like make up a story of why she can't go to see her family. She has to work. She literally has to work. Wait, I just see us sitting in the back of the car and Des being like, are you guys hungry? And we're like, yeah. Yeah. Where can we, I'm hungry now though.

We're like, where's the silence button? Are we there yet? I'm not even sure. He presses the eject button. Anyway, you guys, thank you for giggling with us. Thank you for all your kind, supportive messages on my driver's test. Whether I failed or passed, we giggle, okay?

And that's what we learned today. And also thank you to Duncan. Shout out to you for making this episode possible. Bye. Bye. Bye. Okay, so hot tips, some of the best trips I've ever taken are to those tiny towns that literally no one's heard of, just like a random small town. And there's an Airbnb in Hinton, Alberta

that's perfect for the summer. And it's one of their guest favorites, which is a home loved by other guests on Airbnb. And the host will even leave sweet notes like, go check out this waterfall, it's not on Google Maps, which is just so cute and you don't find those kind of personal touches just anywhere. And there's so much more space, there's no small talk on weird elevators, and you feel like it's your own secret. So book your Airbnb this summer and go find your own secret spot. the city, driving closer to the truth, while curled up on the couch with your cat.

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