Girls Gotta Eat - Not Our First Rodeo

Episode Date: April 8, 2024

YEEHAW, we are back in our NEWLY REDESIGNED studio with a fun little (ad-free) episode for y'all. We are spilling tour tea and sharing some of the most hilarious and heartwarming stories our listeners submitted from past live shows (spoiler alert: we're crying!). We're also going country and discussing Beyoncé's new album, the Montana Boyz, and our mechanical bull riding experiences and tips. Enjoy! Get tickets to the NO CRUMBS TOUR! Follow us on Instagram @girlsgottaeatpodcast, Ashley @ashhess, and Rayna @rayna.greenberg. Visit our website for merchandise and more. Shop Vibes Only. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I can't wait for the outfits, for the travel, for the stories. Nothing crazier happens than at our live shows. Girls got to eat. Yeeha. Biches. Cowboy Greenberg. Cowboy Hustledon does not work. I just want to be clear.

And a Jewish cowgirl sounds more realistic to you. Something about Cowboy Greenberg. I really like cowboys, and I feel like I predated all this. Cowboys are like chic now. Everybody is like obsessed with cowboys. I've always liked Cowboys. Beyonce just took it for me. I predate, yes, actually,

Viance stole my look. I dated somebody who worked for a cowboy team. Just the one. And I think that you guys take your guesses. Yeah, there's one. I'm pretty sure my other ex who is with a Christmas time is the cowboy now. No, it's your vibe. Yes.

So tickets on sale today. Guys, 10 a.m. local time for the no crumbs tour, 2024. I think I can name all the cities? Let me pull it up and see. Backcheck me? I think it's not that many cities. Okay, so I'm going to say that city and I'm going to try to do the dates.

Okay, we are starting in Vegas. Cannot fucking wait. I can't fucking wait to start a tour in Las Vegas. Shut up and put your money where you're laughing. She has her? Katie Perry. Yeah. You think, oh, by the way, everyone told me to dress up like, drum roll please.

Share. Nailed it. Done. Do it. Okay. Vegas starting, if you want to get married at our show, let us know. I'll dress up like Elvis. I don't care.

I'm going to be a show girl. Maybe a couple outfits. Tessa really wants this to wear nipple tassels. I'm not sure why. I want to come up from the stage. That's all I care about. I'm so excited. We've never done a show there.

Opening the tour there. Cannot wait. September 21st. Okay. Hear me out. Maybe we need to get Mateo there to do his share impression. Mateo has evaded us for every single show.

He's so busy. Every single time we're like, can you please do this? I'm sorry. I've sold out in 19 theaters. I have to go do those. I would love that. Okay.

Then we're going to head to Raina's corner of the world. Pittsburgh, Indy, and Detroit. Royal Oak. Killed it. Okay. 26, 27, 28th of September. I'm panicked.

Then... Holiday shows. Then it's holiday? Holiday. Oh, holiday. Yes. Then we were going to Portland, Maine, on October 24th, our first show in Maine. By holiday, we mean Halloween.

And Raina Coyne and that term in 2021. It's a holiday here. Then we are going to be in Philly for our second Halloween holiday show on October 26th, Saturday night. My family will be there. Matt Heseltine stuff, the whole gang, which is going to be iconic. And then I think we're November 14th in Denver, November 15th in Minneapolis, and November 16th in Madison, Wisconsin. First time there.

And then, do we have any before New York? No. No. New York, December 14th. Times Square, Palladium. Yeah, we brought downtown for you guys a little bit. Yeah. Maybe we're going to get a billboard.

Of course, our holiday shows are always iconic. We have so much planned. We're already starting to plan for this shit. And then we're ending 20th in Boston on December 20th and the 21st at the Wilbur. I did that without looking. You know it. That's the tour. We're so excited.

We've missed you guys so much. It's going to be wild and crazy. If you've never been to a girl's got any show, it is unlike any night you've ever had. So bring your birthday parties there, bachelor parties, your significant others, your moms. We just have the most fun stuff planned. I can't wait. I have full body chills just even like thinking about it. I can't wait for the outfits, for the travel, for the stories.

nothing crazier happens than at our live shows. I've never seen anything like it. Yeah, so we're going to read some stories today and we're going to save some and maybe read them throughout the year as we lead up to the tour. But just the stuff that happens at our shows, I mean, and we're not always privy to it. If it's happening after the show, it's happening in the audience while we're on stage. I mean, crazy stuff. I mean, I was reading these stories just laughing and crying. And yes, people like meeting their partners at the shows or bringing their moms or reuniting with friends.

Yes, having threesomes, having orgies out to the show. I mean, it was just really, really special. Our shows were like nothing else. And we are just so excited to do all these cities, especially the new ones that we haven't been to. And we'll be doing more touring. Like, this isn't it. I mean, it is it for 2024. But everyone's like, where's L.A.?

It's like we were just in L.A. We're like, where's Atlanta? You know, we did those not that long ago. You may be new around here and we love that. But, you know, we were just in a lot of these cities like in the fall of 2023. So we're just kind of, you know, we're spaced everything out. Put a little time in between. But yeah, there'll be a 2025 list of stop.

So stay tuned, but we just can't wait to be there. So get those tickets at Girls Gotta Eat.com. Everything is on sale, 10 a.m. your local time today. And we'll see you there. Yeah. And I mean, if you're really just like, what is this show? I mean, it's just the ultimate like Girls Night Out.

These aren't sit down podcasts that Rain and I record. They're just a total start to finish entertainment extravaganza, just ultimate girlhood, female empowerment, you know, but sexy too. People always get so horny at the shows. You know, we do a lot of stuff with couples. It's just, we have vibrators again to give away. We have other entertainers, too. We've had like drumlines and strippers and dancers and cheerleaders and we bring people up on stage

and we never know what's going to happen. If that doesn't sound fun to you, then we don't make anything in common. Yeah. And then last thing. Okay. The No Crumbs Tour, we are doing merch for it. So we have really cute hats, crop teeth, and a crew neck. You can go to Girls Gotta Eat.com.

And then there's a merch button in the heading. So we have all of our cute little merch there too for the tour. So get that in anticipation. And then just tag us and all your stories. It's the best day of my life when you guys start buying tickets. and tagging us, I cry the whole day. Yes. Like, we announced last week on the first and all the stories and people getting excited, all the comments, but like on sale day, huge day. One day is a big day for us. I know. We're recording with somebody really big. Oh my God. Like, as we speak, as you guys

listen to this episode, we're recording with one of the hottest Meta Live. Do you know that you just started an only fan? That was April 4th. No, he really did, though. You can go on it. It's sexy. Do you really? I don't know it was April Fool. Tess says it was April Fool. I know somebody who's subscribed to it And there are some sexy photos I listen, I'm not going to But can I look at yours Tessa, use the company card to sign up

We all join Oh my God, we follow one person He's like, this is creepy I have to cancel the interview Okay, so you guys will see Anyways, Elephant in the room We are back in the studio I could not be happier

I feel emotional This has been months of work Tessa has been unbelievably helpful I'm going to stop you right there. It's you have done so much. Yeah. And I want to thank you so much.

Tessa, too, of course. But I really wanted to take a moment to shine the light on you and Tessa for like all the work that you guys have done. I mean, this is out of your home. So that's why you kind of took the reins. And, you know, I do a lot of the other stuff. But a lot of it just kind of fell on you because you live here and you cowboyed a lot of it.

Cowboyed the situation. And Tessa was such a huge help and was coming every year on weekends if she needed to and everything. So you two really kind of took the rain. and then, you know, I came in and helped a lot too, and we actually, we stole one of the producers of Stip Sox for a few days. We gave him back and he was fine. But he was so wonderful and he came in with some of his guys and set all this up. So we just had a lot of help and, like, great people around us and our task rabbits and everybody to get this group effort. But it really was you kind of

leading the whole thing. And I'm just so grateful for you. Thank you. I appreciate that. It's been a lot of work. It has been months of dozens of people in and out of this house, tearing down walls, building walls, painting. I mean, like a dozen trips of task rabbits. Tessa and I carrying boxes in, it hasn't stopped raining in two months. Tess and I have just been carrying boxes just like across my whole house. Upstairs, my whole house stunk. It was crazy. I mean, so if you guys are kind of new around here, this is going to be a little bit different type of episode. It is kind of...

Clearly dressed different. Yeah, dress different for one. We're back in the studio. We had this studio when we moved to L.A. We built it out. We were really excited about it. And then it flooded with all this rain. and then we were at Spotify and they were so wonderful.

They did really write by us. Like, we will be forever grateful. They even, you know, bet some rules here and there to let us record there and record video there. And they were just so wonderful. So we were there in the interim and now we're back in here and totally knew everything. I mean, you'll see us on the same stuff in terms of like everything should just feel way more professional and elevated and cinematic. We're no longer on the couch. No, the couch is just, it's at Ashley's house.

Guys, I can't part of that couch. The couch stinks. I was like, Ashley, it smells really bad. She was like, I don't care, bring it to my house. I can't. It's so sentimental to me. It means so much to me because we brought it all the way from New York. It was in our first studio we ever had.

I just can't part with it. And I have the space for it to be in my garage. So I was like, just get it over there. I'll deal with it. I'm not that sentimental. But I do feel really connected to that. It's the only thing I didn't want to put out on the curb. Azul, if you're watching on YouTube, Azul is back with us.

That's obviously so special about being back here. We couldn't bring him to Spotify. I don't know. We never asked. They might have let us. But we were going to bring him downtown. So he's here. If you're watching, we bought this thing for him.

Arguably one of the more expensive things in the studio. It's the most expensive thing. This is Ottoman and he won't get up on it. It's so insulting. He's like, I'll sit right next to it though. Like, we bought him a stage. Yes, and he won't get on it. We have a blanket coming.

So stay tuned. We'll see. He's weird about surfaces. He's sensitive about different surfaces where he wants to lay. What do you want? Yeah. You told me that we collaborated on that. But I like the, it's a good ass carpet.

I know. He just wants to be on this carpet. But if you guys are watching, the way that Gabe and the producers of Siv Sox set this up, It's just, it looks so beautiful and different. So I encourage you guys. We encourage you to go to YouTube, watch it. It's just, it looks like a television show. I know.

And Anna, our editor, she's in town from New York. And I just feel so happy that this can look the way she would want it. Because, yeah, I feel like she was just hinting over the years of like, I'd love if we had some more depth on this. Yeah, maybe you guys move the couch off the wall. And, like, backlighted it a little bit. And I was like, that's stupid. Jeremy's been telling me for years.

We didn't say that stupid. But we were like, I've been talking Jeremy was stupid. We'll get to it. Jeremy, I'm like, how could our podcast be anybody? better than it already is. I don't need to move the couch off of the wall. Well, lo and behold, yeah, now we don't have a couch. So I want to say one thing, we did also dress kind of in this cowboy era because it is Cowboy Carter era. And we are about, as we record, a few days out from Beyonce's album dropping. And what a masterpiece. How does she do it? So I have to tell you, I don't know.

What are you going to say? You didn't listen? You don't like it. I hate Beyonce and I don't like the album. Oh, my God. We had our first on-air fight. No, it inspired me to, like, go back and make, like, a whole country album. Like, I just always really loved country. And I just, like, was driving down to the beach. And I was, like, I loved to, like, drive to the beach with some country music on. And so I just, like, made a whole playlist with her stuff and just, like, really old shit,

like Tim McGraw, Kenny Chesney, Keith Urban, like, I love it. Dina Carter. Yeah. Trisha Yearwood. Yes, I love it. So that's the thing. Like, I've never been a person. I think a lot of people are coming out and saying, you know, Beyonce got me to listen to a country album.

Also, by the way, it's not a country album. It's a Beyonce album. Country inspired. You guys know. But I've never had an issue with country. Like, I've always, I grew up in a town that was like the primary form of music. I mean, I wasn't really listened to it then. I was like rebellion against.

I was listening to my rap and hip hop. But I've always been down with it. I've never been like Toby Keith fan. Donald just like Toby Keith. I got a little Toby Keith in there. Maybe one or two. RIP. But wasn't he just, didn't he?

Was he problematic? Yeah. I think he was like the only person that sang at like Donald Trump's inauguration. Wasn't it? It was like Toby Keith and like, what's Garth Brooks's deal? Well, when he's not murdering. Tom Siguris, he's a murderer. This is a deep cut if you are fans of Tom Segura, but he kind of started this thing that Garth Brooks is like a murderer.

It's not even like a deep cut. It's his newest special. He's like, where's the body? Yeah, his newest special. I'm down with kind of the douchebag, Florida Georgia Line type country too. I love it. I know some of these people are problematic, but like I like a song by Jason Haldine. I love it. Dirt Road anthem is one of my favorite songs of all time. I'm on a dirt road. I love it.

That song. I love it so much. I've been driving around. I'm having the time of my life. Just blasting it all over the city. I love it so much. Also, I went to college in Indiana. We went to college in the South.

We grew up with this stuff. I love it. Totally. Yeah. And that new song that everybody's doing the TikTok dances too. And she's like, did your boot stop working? Did your truck? Cowboys are having a moment.

Montana boys. The Montana boys. Kristen and Mark. And the Montana boys, Kristen Cavaleri, if you don't know. A lot of people are not on the corner of the internet, but that is my Roman Empire. Andrew Huberman is my Roman Empire and Kristen Cavalary is yours. More on Andrew Huberman next week. More next week.

Kristen Cavalary, it's, you talk about it a lot. And listen, I'm here for it. It's wild. I don't know that anyone's into it quite like I am. I watched the whole, did you watch the YouTube interview with them? I put it on my TV like it was a TV show at night. I settled in to watch it. No. We love Kristen.

We want to have her on the show. You know, I think she's living her truth and she's happy. and that's fine. But I'm very interested in the relationship, you know, and all the aspects of it. And people are like, I don't know what they have in comment. Listen, it's so crazy because here we are. We're talking about a 37-year-old woman and she's with this 24-year-old guy. And I'm not going to name me names, but we were talking about a podcast host. We know, 38, 39, he might even be 40. Just started dating a girl who's 24 in grad school. You don't even think about it. There's another, Nick Fial is 43. I think his fiance is 25.

She's 25. Nobody does anything about it. I was talking to Brittany Schmidt about this and like why it's different. I mean, we don't need to get into gender roles and patriarchy and all that kind of stuff. But like, a lot of it is because women tend to like date up. It's like a hypergamy and hypogamy type thing. So you don't usually see this dynamic, which is why it's like bumping people. But whatever, people shouldn't be bothered by this. It's not your life. Why do you care? You know what I mean? I'm just like it's something no one would even bat and eye. about the reverse and everyone is so interested in this.

I mean, I'm fascinated by it. It's also not the craziest age difference. Right. It's a huge life stage difference. Like, that podcast was a podcast where he was talking to his friends. His friends were like my girlfriends were 19. I will tell you, he went and did some podcasts, some no-name podcast. I mean, maybe I don't know.

I don't think it's that popular. And the podcast host asked Kristen Cutler's boyfriend, well, what if you guys came over and you know, we're grilling out and like my girlfriend's 19. like Kristen's going to get along better with her mom. And I was like, I dare my boyfriend to go on a podcast talking about me like that. I, you better clear your podcast appearances with me. I am elevating your, I'm making your career. She's making their career.

He's going to go on podcasts where his little podcast host friends are going to be like, so anyway, she'd probably get along with my girlfriend's mom. I'd be like, get out of here. Absolutely. You're not going to use me to climb the ladder and then make me look like an idiot. I mean, and listen, I don't think she cares and she's so cool about it. She's unbothered. Yeah, she's unbothered.

She's not going to probably care, but I personally, maybe I'm a little more sensitive. I wouldn't like it. And I'd be like, first of all, why did you even go on that show? They have six downloads a week. I don't need somebody standing on my shoulders going on shows talking about me that otherwise would not have had these opportunities. And not singing my praises. I don't want to be like the butt of the joke if you've also used me as a means to get on this. I was saying he's quote unquote using her because I think that he had a TikTok presence already.

He already wanted to be in the spotlight a little bit. Yeah, yeah. And she's happy to elevate him. Right, and put her on her own show. I mean, she put the story out. Yeah, she is helping him actively with his career. She's clearly not opposed to it. But I don't like the tone of that. You know what I mean? Like, I feel like I'd be like, let me know which podcast you're going to do. And I'll tell you if you got to keep my name out your mouth. You know what if he did a whole podcast and never mentioned her. That would be crazy. He just stays silent. He just talks about his own life. He speaks about her respectfully. Okay. But still, you have someone coming at you with a question like that. It's just like, oh, my. God, grow up. I know.

I'll be like, I'll say, literally get it. I grow up. Tell your 19-year-old girlfriend to grow up. She should be older. Ew. Just kidding.

Kristen probably looks better than half the 19-year-old. It looks amazing. I know. Seriously. So anyway, back to Beyonce. Just to round it out, this album has everything. It has country.

It has a touch of blues. It has that like hard-hitting Beyonce swag. It does Dolly Parton, as Post Malone, as Miley. I've loved Miley's voice forever. I think she was one of the best voices

in the game. And, Miley's Jolene cover is iconic. I actually wish they would have done Jolene together, but it's okay. And, you know, I just think like one song I'm crying, one song I'm line dancing in the kitchen. One song I want to be riding around with my man listening to it. One song made me call my dad. And it's just like a beautiful journey and an emotional ride. And I just love the album.

We love to see it. So I just wanted to shout out to Beyonce, you know, such a hot take. Okay. So we got this email. And someone wrote in and said they had a dream about me and my boyfriend, who we call him Sparkle Eyes. so it said dream about ash and Sparkle Eyes. And Rayne and I say, like, there's nothing people want to hear less. The lowest form of conversation is I had a dream about. I'm always just like, I don't have to be here for this. I don't hate it that much. But it was a joke when one of my best friends in high school, like in the cafeteria at lunchtime, she would start talking about her dreams.

And everyone would just be like, is she done yet? Like it kind of turned into a thing. And like, I like talking about dreams. And I've had dreams like come true, like seeing stuff happen. And my mom's kind of like that too. Sure. If something happens, like dot, dot, dot, dot in real life after the dream. dream. Sure. Then I want to hear about it. Most of the time when someone starts telling a long-winded dream, you're like, is this happening? Am I blacking out? Did you check in with yourself about if other people would find this interesting? But this one, I was like, let me open this and see what this is about. Raina, it is a wild ride. Okay. I also saw the length of it and checked out. So I'm very excited to circle back. I know. So I was just excited to dramatically read this to you. Okay. Hey guys. It's a gloomy, rainy day in the East Coast today. She's a writer. She does set the

stage. Yeah. Like, she should write a screenplay. I mean, this is, it's iconic. Okay. It's a gloomy, rainy day in the East Coast today, so I thought I'd share my wild dream from last night that Ashley and Sparkleyes were in. It's an extensive dream, but I'll try to keep it concise to the part that you guys were in. That we were in. How long was this? I just think, I like that she's like, I'm mostly a part of it, so I'm also going to include me a lot. So Ashley, in this dream, I saw you in Sparkleyes at Texas Roadhouse, which is crazy

because I don't even like Texas Roadhouse. So why was I even there? She said she was going to be concise. And here we are. She's contemplating why it was even. She's giving chain reviews. Anyway, I stopped by your table. started chatting with you about the pod when Sparkleyes got up and disappeared. Apparently this

Texas Roadhouse had an arena in the center where they had a bull hanging from bungee cords. The goal was to stay on the bull while some bald jack dude, Raina's type, pulled the bull and shot you from one side of the arena to the other a few times. Think mechanical bull but manual. I'm picturing a slingshot. This is hysterical. There's so many details. It's very detailed. Sparkleys was very confident he could stay on the bowl, so he went to try it. So as I was asking you where he disappeared to, an employee announced the next contestant. I look up in there, Sparkleys was. Sparkleyes in a black leather spito and leather gloves.

Not the gloves. The bald dude was also dressed like a daddy dungeon master. So I guess he was matching the theme. It was a whole vibe. Anyway, people are cheering and gathering and you get up to get front row and record the whole thing, obviously. I watch on this jumbotron, not the jumbotron in the Texas Roadhouse. This is the best dream I've ever heard up. As Sparkleyes confidently walks up to the bowl, waves to the cheering crowd, and straddles the bowl.

The bald dude cracks his neck. The crack is that comes over and aggressively grabs the bull and starts whipping it around. At this point, Sparkleyes isn't even breaking a sweat. He's laughing. He's taunting the ball, dude. So Daddy Master turns up the heat and launches Sparkalize across the arena. He goes flying. His eyes widen.

Instant regret is written all over his face. He's holding up for Dear Life as the bull violently swings back to Daddy. He launches Sparkalize again. Sparklice is looking queasy. He's just hoping for this to end. He thinks he can make it to the end. He gets launched one last time. and as the bull is at the apex of the launch, Sparkle Eyes, loses his grip and falls to the ground hard.

He vomits. The crowd is disappointed. Everyone goes back to their tables. You are downright cackling, wheezing, crying, saying, I'm so glad I got that in video. Sparkle Eyes hobbles out of the arena towards you and you just laugh harder and ask him if he wants to see the video. My dream then took a hard turn and you guys were gone. Moral the story, this is what happens when I get up at 1 a.m. to eat cheese like a little gremlin and go back to bed. Love the pod. Hope you got a chuckle out of my deranged dream, XO, Cass. If this girl is not a writer, she missed her calling. She said apex in this email.

She was like, listen, this happened to you eat cheese at night. The dairy did it? The way I know this is real is because if she was making it up, she would have ended it with, and then Raina came and fucked the bouncer or the daddy master. That's how I would have ended it. The level of detail, I mean, it makes me wonder if this is like real, but I don't care either way. There's so much. The way she tells it is so good. It's so good. She's a real storyteller. Also, can you imagine that there would be no chance in hell he would do that? I like the gloves. Do you think he'd a shirt on? Or he's leather speed on gloves? No shirt.

Just so dead. How is he holding onto this with his bare thighs? Actually, they go all sweaty. They could stick to leather. Actually, the way to do this is to wear no pants. He did it right. He did it right. The JumboTron at the Texas Roadhouse is what did it for me. She's working at the Texas Roadhouse or she's eating at the Texas Roadhouse. She was just there. And she just spotted us. She came over. Yeah. She lives in New York City. She came over to our tables. Yeah. Anyway, that inspired me to look up mechanical bowls for the tour. So stay tuned.

As soon as you're reading that, I was like, that's where she got the idea from. I don't see why not. At no point have I even suggested that I don't want to do this, pay for this, watch this. I'm dying to do this. Do you have mechanical bowl history to share? Like, is that something you've done? I feel like I have, but like I don't know where I would have done it. we would have them at some frat parties every once in a while.

Like game day, like one time these guys, they had one in like, I don't know, maybe it was like the front lawn of the Pye Cap House or something. But then I've done them at like a few different bars throughout my life. And I went to school in the South. And then I went to that one in New York. There was a bar with a mechanical bull in New York when I was like in my 20s. I feel like if I didn't do it with you in like Nashville or Texas somewhere, then I haven't done it. But in my mind, I am a great mechanical bull rider.

So that's what I was going to say. You always think you're good and you're not. You're like, I get thrown off immediately. I was watching it on Summerhouse last week. Oh, yeah. And, like, what's his name? West thinks he's, like, so good. He's like, taunt all the shit.

If you watched a guy get thrown off within, like, under five seconds, it was less of that and more of like he was talking such a game. He was like, wasn't he like a rodeo guy? What are they called? A rodeo. Something else. A bullfighter. Cowboys? What's a rodeo?

What's a Belhade's boyfriend? What is it called? It is a cowboy, right? Is it a cowboy? Bull rider Rodeo? Like a rodeo cowboy. Yeah.

I don't know what there. Is there a real name for this? She's a supermodel. She's a supermodels. Jesus Christ. Her boyfriend, he's a, her boyfriend is a rodeo master. Is there a word? I'm like, I think there's like a word for a rodeo cowboy.

Okay. Supermodel. Yeah. So I would love to see you on one. Maybe you have a special skill. I just think I'm good at it. I'm little. Yeah.

And so like I'm just, there's not so much body to throw around. You know, like long limbs. Like I think I could just hunker down on it. I'm just part of it. Yeah. And I feel like you gotta do bare thighs. Yeah. To like stick to it better.

Like I feel like clothing is too slippy. Yeah, that's a good call. You got to get like real leather pants. Leather pants. Yeah. Sparkleys. Leather speedo. I feel like in my mind I'm really good at this.

So let's test it somewhere. Let's test it. You guys are going to come out to the tour. We changed the whole name of the door. Okay. Are we ready for tell us any stories? Yeah. So this is a little different of an episode.

We wanted to just talk about some things that were special that happened to the show. We asked you guys to send us stories. We've done hundreds of shows over the years, just the craziest and also the most beautiful things have happened. And you guys just write us the nicest emails after the tours and share so much of your lives and come up on stage and share your partners with us and not sexually, just to dance. You know, so we compiled some of these emails and just some of the craziest stories. We hope that you would enjoy some wild, wild tales. Yeah, I think you guys will really appreciate all of these. And I'm going to kick it off with this journey that started in.

March of 2023. So we're at like a year. So I just want to take you guys through the year. And we got this email before Sacramento, Snacramento, which was last March. The original email was sent on March 14th, 2023. And she writes, hi, Rain and Ashley. I purchased two tickets for the show, one for me and one for my best friend. Her name is Deb. My name is also Deb. Together, we're the Debs. Anyway, I just want everyone to know that Deb is single and a fucking amazing catch. I'm not sure for other girlfriends that she's dated know how badass she is and I've been trying to get her the fuck out in the world because these ladies need to know who Deb is. Personally, I would whisk her away and marry her for myself, but I like dudes, unfortunately. So I'm ready to you girls because she needs to be showcased.

She's a little shy, but she will get over it. She needs to be seen. These ladies need to know Deb. Any woman would be lucky to have her. She is a treasure, a one of a kind, a beautiful soul, and she can make some bomb-ass chicken and waffles. Thank you for all the content you create. Love you girls. Love Deb. And then we named a vibrator after her. No, I'm just kidding. Oh, we should have. So we had the show. We bring Deb up. Deb number two, single Deb. And she was so sweet.

She's such a sweet energy, but she was like definitely shy. And I don't remember every detail. But we just, you know, had some people meet her. And then we were like, if you're interested in Deb, do you ever? Have it, Deb. Yeah. April 17th. So about a month after the show.

Hey, Rain and Ashley, I just wanted to give you a quick update on Deb. So it's been a month since the Snackrammo show, the night Deb went on stage. Her phone blew up with IG followers from audience members. The following week, one of the girls who saw her. stage and followed her that night at the show DM'd her. They've been seeing each other ever since and they're obsessed with each other. As her best friend, I approve of her. She's very sweet and appreciative of all the amazing things. Deb does for her. I'm not trying to jinx anything, but I swear these two might get married someday. It's insane. Don't update on the podcast yet or anything.

I don't want to jinx it yet, yada, yada, yada. But I'll keep you post as the relationship progresses. And the thing is, it's like, listen, we just kept emailing. Like, we weren't responding to all these. We missed some of them, but I appreciated the update. It's so funny, how this has gone over the years. So April 17th, April 23rd, a week later. She's like, I'm going to follow up. Okay, fam, update on Deb and Sarah. They are officially girlfriend and girlfriend. And we got ticks to the San Francisco show in November.

There will be nine of us there, including the Debs. And hopefully, Sarah, assuming they stick this out. It sounds bitchy, but we did this at the show and they were cool with it. Like, we didn't respond to this. Like, we're just getting, like. That was funny that we didn't respond to it. So she follows up May 18th. She's just writing to herself.

I love that. Longtime listener, fourth time email her. She was like, May 18th. So another month later. Hey, sexy bitches. Another update here from Sacramento and Deb. She and her girlfriend Sarah are still going strong. I'm not sure if you've seen my other few update emails. Not sure if you've seen the other. But they met at your show. Yadiyadh, they're obsessed with each other. Have a great weekend. She takes a few months off. She takes the summer off. She takes the summer off. She's a summer vacation. Check back in after Labor Day. October 5th. Hey, girls. It's been a minute. It's been a minute since I sent you a Deb update. So I thought I'd send one. She is still eating. Sarah, which I think she met her dating. So she's still eating or dating Sarah. Who she met at your show in Sacramento.

I've attached a pick. They're doing good. They're so cute. More on that. Yada yada. We adore Sarah. We're coming in San Francisco show next month. So we'll see you there.

And then we have the show a month or so later. They're front row with the show. They're so cute. And they're just a beautiful couple. It's really fucking crazy. I wrote her back and we're like, can we share these stories on the podcast? You use your name and all that kind of stuff. But before we even did that, she emailed.

It was so crazy. We were on the same way. Right. Oh, I forgot. So the day I was going to email and ask, can we share your story? She emailed. So March 26, 2024. What's up, my beautiful bitches? I'm sitting here with a glass of wine and thinking of you girls.

I wanted to tell you that today is Deb and Sarah's one-year anniversary. I'm emotional. I've got my period. I'm very emotional. And I can't even believe it. I thought you girls would like to know. You really need to start a dating service. Anyway, I love you.

I'm fine. like fully crying. And she sent a video. We won't show this out them, but I just want to show Raina and Raina can have a live reaction on her. Cry back and cries more. I'm not going to be okay. No. Oh my God. Oh my gosh. Just like a montage of them together.

They are the most beautiful couple. Country music. Why is it so? They're just like all over the place. It's just like being cute, kissing and taking vacations. I can't look at this anymore. I know. I know. It's so special. I just like, like, like, can you just like believe it? Like, if nothing, else stuff like that. I mean, and of course it's not all about like a partner, but just even meeting

like a new friend of the show, which we hear those stories all the time. Like, yeah. The fact that you could come to our show and meet someone that is in your life potentially forever or your partner. I mean, a friend. Like it's just, I don't know. It's so special. It's such an honor. I feel like we talk about the butterfly effect all the time. And I just think like you could have just skipped the show, not come, been sick. Like, or not want to come up on stage. The weather was bad. Yeah. Not wanting to come up. We could have not picked that email. Right. Exactly. I think about that every day. I mean, she was, Deb was reluctant. And her other friend, Deb, I mean, just the two Debs, I can't.

It is really special. And to, like, be a part of that is just really an honor. I know. I mean, they're here in California. Like, they would, they invite us with their wedding. I would go. Are you going to officiate it? I'm thinking about the game.

You said you want to enjoy yourself. Andrew Collin just said, like, we thought about asking you to officiate and Brenna's brother's going to do it. And I was like, thanks for, I don't know. I just want to enjoy myself. I'm with you. Just want to drink and party. Yeah.

Exactly. Okay. Okay. By the way, you're having a housewarming party this week. Your vibe is I just want to enjoy myself because me and Sparkleizer hosting it. I don't like to host because I'm too worried about like, you know, is everybody having a good time? I don't know. I'm going to do that.

I got refill of chips. No, he'll do that. No, I'm getting like catering. There's no chips to refill. You got catering? What'd you got? I'm going to get Mendo. Catering.

I told you that. Oh, you did. That big credit. Okay. But your vibe is I just want to enjoy myself. So yes, I'm having a housewarming this Friday as we record and I got a karaoke machine. because I'm just taking inspo from you because the beer pong

and there's something to do. Yes. Yeah. I don't want to stand around and have drinking to be the only activity. Yeah. I'm just, I'm too old for the show.

So the party starts at seven. Tessa designed the funniest flyer. I told her I was like, I want cutouts of me and Azul and Raina and Sparkalize and have fun. And she came up, I mean, just one take.

She nailed it. One draft. It was perfect. She did a whole thing. Welcome to the West Side. She did the cutouts. And she was like, I use the vibes color palette.

Remember she was like, I used the vibes color palette. I wasn't sure what she wanted. She misses designing stuff more. You killed it, Tess. I did not expect the cutouts. You know, I hate a cutout. It's the only time she's ever sent a cutout that I went, oh, I like that. Okay. And Anna designed my new flyer for my show that I run with Andrew Collin, which will be April 18th of the improv. We just have such a good team of women. Women only. Well, we have some men that we let work for us. They're on the payroll. Men are 1099 only. You got to be ready to cut them loose when they miss a deadline, which they will miss every deadline. Ryan's been fired so many times. But if you guys don't know, this is our video

person that I sexually harassed for years. He put our tour poster on his Instagram story and was like, back on tour with girls got to eat. I was like, no one hired you. Yeah, Brina, I did hire him. I said, you're coming on the tour. Did I tell you?

No, he keeps saying stuff to me like, when we're in Vegas, when we're in, when we're in Boston, when we're in Newark. I'm like, oh, you're just, you hired yourself for every single stop. I would never say no to him. I thought... I would never say no. Yeah, I kind of hired him. I love him. He didn't mention it. Well, Sparkle-I's... He was going to post this while we're saying. He's always hired. Sparkle-I was going to post a picture of the tour and say, me and Ryan LeCore back on tour with the girls or something like funny. Uh-huh. Yeah. With our co-hosts or something. That's funny. Oh, they have like a cute friendship.

They really do. I'm really excited. We have some pictures of the four of us that can never see the light of day. Tessa hates them. I love them. She thinks are disrespectful. Of who? Me? They're disrespectful because I'm bent over and he's gripping my ponytail. No, there's one where they're high-fiving. Remember, Tessica's, I hate it. I might frame it. Okay, all right.

But anyways, he's actually amazing. Ryan's the go. And as we speak April 8th today, this episode drops, we have a hype video probably depends on when you're listening, but that will be posted on Girls Got to Eat and Ash Hess and Raina.org. We're in a collab and I haven't seen it yet as I'm, saying this, but I know the vision and, well, I came up with the vision and we... And you came up with the deadline also. So let's say. Yeah. And then we basically incorporated a

bunch of our friends into it. You'll see. It's going to be so dope. I can't wait. So check that out and that will be the work of Ryan. And yeah, he's so fucking good. No one's better. Yeah. He can do no wrong. Okay. Next email. Dear Ashley and Raina, I'm a long-time listener and have been a big fan of you roles for years. The two of you have fundamentally shifted my 30s and your show has kept me company during quiet nights and long drives. I never thought I'd hear the words, fucking my doorman while doing laundry or sob over a dog I've never met. But here we are. And needless to say, I thank you too for your vulnerability and efforts into making girls got to eat such a fun listen. That was really sweet. Thank you.

Anyways, my live show story. It was my best friend's birthday and I had purchased her front row slash meet and greet tickets. This was planned ahead of time. I did not anticipate not being fully healed from my surgery that I had had a month prior. For a bit of context, I found out I had stage three cancer in 2017 and needed nephrostomy? Nephrostomy. And needed nephrostomy tubes. I hope I said that right. On both my kidneys, this is my second attempt at reversing the radiation damage and undergoing

a bladder reconstruction surgery. Oh, she's gone through it. It was February 2020 and despite being dead ass bedridden with a catheter, I proceeded to throw on joggers with stitches still lining my stomach and the catheter bag literally strapped to the inside of my leg and accompanied my bestie. so that she could sit front row of your show. It's true and they say that laughter is the best medicine. I suppose the most heartwarming part is when I look back at the night,

we were fueled with girlhood and optimism, while also still very aware of the fact that we were settling for less than we deserve. We have worked so hard on ourselves. Since then, went to therapy, found new partners, etc. And I'm so happy to say that my best friend who attended with me got engaged last October. I moved him with my boyfriend in January and just celebrated six years. Cancer-free. I can't do you want this today.

Four of which without tubes earlier this year, I will always be cheering for you girls from the sidelines and can't tell you how happy I am to see you guys in California. I live in Newport Beach. I also attach a few memories from the show. Love, Marissa. To show up to our show with a catheter bag under your joggers. Like, I can't, there's so many layers of the story that I just,

it is such an honor and just I wanted to congratulate her on being cancer-free and celebrate her. And just what a bad bitch. even just the way she writes, you can tell she's optimistic and really celebrates life. And, I mean, one honor. It really is such an honor. Like, the amount of people that have come to the show and said, like, I'm celebrating, like, being over cancer. Ugh, that guy in Denver said his wife and him lost a baby.

And it was the first time we'd seen her laugh in too long. Oh, my God. Like, to be a part of these moments in your guys' lives. I really can't record him about to get my period. This is crazy. Oh, right. Yeah. I'm just so dead.

She had a bag full of pee. I mean, at least you know you're not going to pee your pants. from laughing. You're like, it's going straight into the bag. You're like, I can pee. I can't pee. Yeah. She didn't have to wait in a bathroom line. Good for her. I've been really close a few times at the show. Yeah. You've one time I peed myself. Yeah, you talked about it. Just a drop, a little drop. So thank you to her. Thank you to her. Such a beautiful email. Yeah. And obviously just to have you use our show as a time to celebrating celebrate milestones in your life is really like such an honor. Yeah. Okay. Next email. We have two more,

you guys, if you're counting. Hi, Rain and Ashley. First, thanks. first. I bought the Lucy and I'm loving it. 1010 review from your girl over here. We have a sex toy company. If you guys don't know, it's called vibes only. And the Lucy is one of my very personal favorite toys. We just absolutely love it. So check it out. It's a great price points. Very versatile. Okay. So y'all read my story at the Columbus show about the maintenance man. So Columbus was just in 2023. It was in June. Yeah. So I'm going to read that email. So the email that we read at the show, she said, hi guys, I submitted this late, but that's on brand for me. I'm coming to your show tonight with a group of friends I work with. One of them recently had a flame with her maintenance man,

which reminded me of Raina and her task rabbit journey. She started hooking up with her building maintenance man. He put together furniture for her, all the things. He would write some filthy text messages when they were apart. She found out shortly after that he was married with a child. Insane. I would love for you guys to roast her or make some jokes about it. Added a receipt of the filthy text message. So I'm not going to read it, but it's everything dirty. I mean, it's just, you know, all the nasty stuff he wants to do to her. So, she said excited for Wild Night. So we read this email at the show and now I'll go back into her current email. So she says, you read the text messages of the filthy things that my friend received

from her maintenance man not once but twice because the second time you had the sign language girl acted out. I forgot the sign language girl. You guys, we've dreamed our whole lives of having a sign language people at the show to do this. Because we had had one that we were required to have at one the shows. Like if, you know, that happens sometimes at different shows at concerts and comedy shows and whatnot. So then it was just this funny thing that we were bringing up. And then someone in the front row was like, I, you know, no ASL. I'm an interpreter. So she signed some of the show. It was unbelievable Columbus. We get so lit in Ohio, you guys. Okay. At that show, she had just started dating a new man who wasn't the filthy maintenance man. Obviously, he was married. Well, her new boyfriend's close family

friends were also there. And we were hooting and hollering about the filthy text she was getting in front of them. Safe to say she was mortified. I loved every second. I am way too excited for the tour in the fall. I'll travel the closest city although the snacks in Ohio love you so come back.

Thanks for all the laughs and the Monday therapy. You all have changed my life. So Ashley and I don't encourage people to get blacked out for our shows and we want you to come, remember it, enjoy it, but like I would hope

that those people were blacked out. I have so dead. She's there. I'm assuming with the new man and his like family and friends. Oh, she's sitting with them. I don't know all the logistics, but that's hysterical.

Like she's got this new boyfriend, what his mom and sister are there, and they're hearing about the dirty text messages. Of the handyman, he fucked to her building. Married handyman, she fucked. What do you think they were thinking? She sounds fun. It's she parties. Yeah, she fucks.

Okay. Last email on September 9th, 2021, I'm at the love of my life at your show in Raleigh, North Carolina. Prior to the show, I fell into a deep depression from various life happenings. The biggest one being moving to Ireland for work, catching my long-distance boyfriend, cheating on me with a college student. a week before my $1,200 plane ticket to see him. And the cherry on top was the COVID shutdown and my boss telling me that there are zero flights to America and I'd be living in Ireland indefinitely. I moved to Raleigh in 2021 after the Ireland slash COVID fiasco. You girls pulled me on stage at your show, projected my hinge, and facetimed Robbie to set up a date for us.

We have been together ever since, bought a house together, adopted a dog and bought my dream ring. Thank you for what you do. Best Meg. I don't know why. This one, like, hits close to home for me. Because I met my boyfriend in a live show. Can you believe it? She sent photos.

They're so cute. The house, the dog, the ring. I can believe it. People meet these shows all the time. I met that one guy on Hinge on stage at our show that I dated. I just, like, also this, like, crazy stuff that happened to her before, you know. I just, it's such a good, like, reminder to say yes to things to go to the show, up on stage, do the thing, put yourself in uncontrable situations, like, do something that you

maybe wouldn't always that is just like wild and crazy. And like the roads that leads you to are just so special and beautiful. So I just like really encourage people to say yes. Just as much as you can, just do the thing. I mean, this is probably one of many. I mean, people really connect at the shows. I mean, we can't promise you'll make the love of your life. But we've brought two single people up on stage that ended up dating, even if it was short lived or they fought that night or they've a great story to share and we have so many more that came through. So to everyone that email, thank you so much. And we'll go through and respond to these and maybe kind of, you know, breadcrumbed them throughout the next couple months like I mentioned because there's some they're just too good. You picked really good emails.

You're really sappy, special ones. Well, I also wanted to pick ones that kind of highlighted what we do with the show, you know, like different stuff. You never know what's going to happen. So yeah, those are some stories from the shows. This was a nice little ad-free treat this episode. I didn't even mention why we weren't going to do an episode this week. We were going to take the week off because we're going to Hawaii and we just wanted to have like a break. Then we were planning to have a week off. And then Raina was like, it's the day the tour goes on sale. So I was like, okay, well, why don't we do a live show special episode and dress up? And so that's the whole reason for this little bonus. I love being dressed up. I like talking to you guys. And you know, thank you for five years of

live shows. I mean, you guys have really traveled all over the world to see us. I can't believe it. I can't believe it's happening again. I mean, I can't because I'm dying for it. But thank you guys so much for just sharing your lives with us every week. We love you so much. We can't wait to see you in the ball. We cannot wait to see you guys. So get those tickets. I anticipate them going fast. They're on sale today.

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