The Bossticks - Life Update: Bosstick Baby Number 2 Is On The Way!

Episode Date: January 31, 2022

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The following podcast is a dear media production. She's a lifestyle blogger extraordinaire. Fantastic. And he's a serial entrepreneur. A very smart cookie. And now Lauren Everts and Michael Bostic are bringing you along for the ride. Get ready for some major realness. Welcome to the skinny confidential, him and her.

Aha. We fucking ready? Why's your mic down on, Taylor? There's a free plug right there for pop chips, potato sea salt chips no one wants to hear you chilling I'm leading the interview here Taylor is your mic on

you should be able to hear me takes you 18 fucking years to get the goddamn cameras open in this studio we spend however god knows how much money on the dear media studio we can't even get a fucking camera going here in less than 10 minutes I thought there was going to be a guest no you're back all right daddy's leading this

it's just going to be an episode about how irritated I am with this studio not working up to my speed and standards It is actually not about you. I know that's hard for you to understand. Hold on. Let me have one more pop chip. Okay. The poor audience. Yeah, you should be good. Okay. Let's do this. All right. This fucking thing that, Ann Taylor, the way you had me move with this camera, there's things in my balls right now. It's literally my balls. You know what's not in your balls? The sperm that exited your penis. That's right. Listen, I was so intentional about that sperm, like just traveling as far and as fast as it needed to go. Well, that's a way to announce the pregnancy. I remember when I was doing it.

First of all, I remember the exact moment in time. I pushed harder than I probably should have been in. And I squeezed every ounce of my being out of myself. I have to go. What the fuck, Michael? That is so much information. And it got the job done once again. But that's straight to the point, too.

I thought there was going to be a little bit of caressing to kind of warm up to it. No, I, Taylor, I remember I was zoned in and I was like in a Zen state of mind. and it was like almost in the movie when like you go into like that like you like come outside of your Inception? No, not Inception. That's a dream thing. This is not a dream. This is a reality.

This is reality. No, I like, I basically just like channeled all of my energy and being through my pipe. Leave it to Michael Bostic to make my pregnancy all about him. And, um, fuck, hopefully your dad's not listening to this. You astral projected straight into Lauren's vagina. My dad's for sure listening. That guy tunes in, right? He's the first download every time.

Anyway, Brad, you're about to have another grandchild. Well, Brad knows. Oh, yeah, that's right. We already told Brad. Yeah, Brad knows. But everybody else, here we go again. Here we go again. Here we go again.

You're welcome, Lauren. I guessed it. I knew it. I guessed it, though, because I had a dream. I don't, dude. No, no, let's tell about the lie. You think that, that, okay, so this is what happened. I had a dream that Lauren had basically posted something on social media saying,

guess what, everybody, I'm pregnant. I want to know what the baby's going to be called. Nobody can hear what the fuck you're saying. You know what? But here's the thing. Hold on, hold on. Taylor says he had a dream. That is a blatant lie.

I was doing ads and I probably sent him a recording where in the background I said, I'm pregnant, Michael, go get me a water. No, I swear to you. I swear to you, that never happened. Literally, I had a dream. I thought a wet dream about me. I woke up because it felt so real. It legitimately felt so real.

That's why I sent you a message. I even said, I, I, I'm telling me. you, you're going to get pregnant. I didn't know she was, but I was letting them know that I had an omen that she was going to get pregnant. I don't believe anything. I think you heard something when you're editing one of our shows. I swear on my life. It literally just came to me in my dreams. DM us and tell us if you believe him or not. It's a lie. The results came in. They all think you're lying. All right. So how did you find out? I think I knew before you. Okay. First of all, Michael and I decided that we would start trying.

And I'm thinking, oh, I think I'll get pregnant in January. I had a plan to do ayahuasca. I had a plan to get drunk in Cabo. I had a plan to go to Switzerland and drink Bailey's hot chocolate by the motherfucking fire. I had a plan to have vodka sodas with Ingrid. I had a plan to have Lopacines. I had a plan. And leave it to Michael.

I, it happened right away, which I'm grateful for. You know, but you know what I don't really understand about you? It's like, if you're actively, I mean, listen, we're lucky, we're actively trying and it ended up happening and that's great and very grateful. But like, why did you think that when you're like actively trying and timing and doing all these things that then it would still like magically manifest when you were done with your ayahuasca and like that scene journey? Like, like, and I'm not, I'm actually asking you like why, like, you thought like it was just going

all that, it was just going to hold until you were done going like on a bender or what? I have to be honest. I don't really have that great of a relationship with like my period and ovulation and all these things that are talked about so much. I don't know enough about it. So I just thought usually it takes a couple months. I was, or sometimes it takes even longer than that. I was, I was trying to like humble myself too.

You know what most people do then. They say like, hey, I want to do all these like debauchous things and then try. But like, you've never been good at making plans. If it wasn't for me, then I don't know what would happen. happened to you. We told you this the other day. If I didn't come back in, you'd be dating some guy that fell off a melon truck. Your life would be in shambles. Whatever you want to think, Michael. Thank fucking God I came back to you. Thank God, Lord. Thank God I had such a strong pursuit. Okay. So I found out... Or thank me, actually, I guess.

I found out by being on the phone on a conference call and I took a quick pregnancy test because I was feeling bloated and I was pregnant. And let me tell you something about you taking pregnancy tests. I don't know how you fail a pregnancy test, but you fail, like, you literally get the test and tell, and will tell me it's not. And then I'll go back and look and it'll say it is because. No, that happened my first pregnancy. My first pregnancy to give context. No, it happened on this one too. No, it didn't. My first pregnancy to give context, I took the line one. Don't take the line one. Okay. I'll tell you why. The line, it's like, it's like a light, light, light pink. You need the one that says pregnant, not pregnant. It's like the COVID antibody test. You take it.

and you think you don't have it, and then like you go back a few hours later, and it's like you do have it, but you have to put it under a microscope to see that the lines there? I don't know. But I'm telling you, you did fail because I found one in my toiletry bag

that you took that you said was not. And then I looked at it, remember I showed it to you and I said, hey, this one. Maybe you're right. I am right. Maybe you're right. You think I'm just carrying random. I do want to say this.

So I did 70 days with no alcohol. And in the 70 days I was doing with no alcohol, I got pregnant. So a lot of... Yeah, a lot of people were like, when I was doing it. 70 days no alcohol. They're like, you're pregnant. I was not pregnant. It was towards the end. So not only do I have to be sober for 10 months because pregnancy, I also on top of that was

sober for 70 days. So I've been sober, sober, sober. So yeah, I found out. You just added an extra two months to your punishment. Okay. It sucks because drinking Lauren's is always fun too. I'm always a fun time. I feel I'm like Taylor. I keep the energy flowing. Like you know it. Taylor has two beers box out and tells you a whole life story. Michael's always like, oh, it's getting late. I got to go. Lauren just keeps going. Taylor keeps going.

Yeah. What are you talking about? Taylor had two beers the other night at our house and like, it was like, okay. Oh, I would have stayed dull. We know. I kind of got the vibe. I was like, oh, it looks like it's time. You were in the middle.

You got the vibe when we were like putting the baby down and putting her in a bath and like. Yeah, Lauren's like doing her night routine makeup. I don't do makeup at night. I mean, base care. This is the difference of, I guess, like, somebody who's has children's someone who doesn't? Like you were, you could have, Taylor, you could have just turned up and gone on a full bender that night. Yeah, I would have, it depends, but I would have looked at what everyone else is

doing. I wouldn't have just done it solo. But you know what's funny about you is that you came over and you take three hours to eat one piece of pizza for, I don't know what's going on with the way you eat. Literally, I watched you. It took you three hours to consume one piece of pizza. Yeah, I know. That's why everyone was kind of closing up and I could tell everyone was like, okay, are you done? Time. I've actually never... Time to turn the lights off. Keep going.

That was not bad. We should get you a record deal through the podcast. I've never met somebody, Taylor, in my entire life. That is on such a different wavelength and page when it comes to reading a room. Just take that as a compliment, Taylor. And I mean that in the, in a nice way. Sometimes I look and I'm like, man, this guy is just on his own thing. So I found out I was pregnant and I, um, I,

decided to tell Michael that night, which was a really bad idea. I wish I waited. Because, well, hold on. Now people are going to be like, why, what's the problem? What did he do? I flew from Texas to Los Angeles. Cry me a river. That morning at 5.30 in the morning. I did meetings all day in Los Angeles. Then I got back on the latest flight back from Los Angeles to Texas the same day and got back into, I walked into our bedroom out like one in the morning. And I was like, way creepy with my Kindle. Which I probably should have thought. I thought you just missed me.

I'm like, oh, I can't sleep without my husband. No. No. I was like, oh my gosh, I cannot believe this. And so I decided to take my Chihuahua Boon, put like a gangster hoodie on him, an oversized hoodie, and stuff it with positive pregnancy tests. Well, this is why I was like, I mean, listen, this is why you should, you know, if you're ever giving somebody some big news, maybe don't do it when they have traveled all day and

slept no, like... I got the memo. Because I didn't... I should have thought like, why the fuck's the dog and a sweatshirt in the bed and the night and why you up at 130? But I was so delirious

and so out of it that I didn't even know. And then when you told me, my brain went until like shut down mode and didn't even know how to process it. It's weird because when you're... The first time you're pregnant compared to the second time is different. It's totally different.

It's you can't even compare it. Like the first time you were like crying and sobbing and kissing me and like drinking champagne and the second time you're obviously so excited. too, but it's just, I wanted like fireworks this time. You were, the, the reaction that I gave wasn't up to yours. No, I need like Academy Award winning performance.

Yeah, that wasn't, you cried. I remember editing the video for it. You're like, you're pregnant. You're like, you drank. But you drank. And I'm like, no, I didn't. It was fake. Do you run bloated?

I know I do. I woke up the other morning. So bloated. I had like a histamine reaction. or something. My face was bloated. My eyes were bloated. I looked like a puffer fish. Obviously, I use the ice roller. Of course, I have to have ice on my face because if I don't have ice on my face, I just will blow up even more the first thing in the morning. But another thing that I do to help with bloat that I think you guys will love is I use a ray. And this is a product that I have been talking

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So when I woke up, so puffed up, I used my ice roller. I took my array. I like to take it right after I'm done eating. So I'll do two capsules. And I cannot tell you how much better I felt. They also just launched a bloat latte so you can drink it too. I prefer the capsules because they're quick and they're on the go, but either works. You guys have to try them.

They're so up your alley and they're very skinny confidential-esque. You are going to go to array.com. That's A-R-R-A-E dot com and use code skinny at checkout. This gives you 10% off of one-time purchases or 25% off your first month on subscription. Enjoy. Well, this time, I mean, listen, I would have probably, well, one, you know, I think second-time around. It's not as, you kind of, you've done it. So you're, you know, your future kids listening to this. Yeah. I mean, you know, they're going to understand. Like, they, they'll get me by then.

They'll know who I am. But they, you kind of like, the first time you don't really know, you've never been through, you don't really know what to do. I mean, like, talk to parents that have had like three, four, five kids. Like, they're like, like, the last ones are like, what the fuck ever, you know, whatever, you know. By the six kids, you're like, huh. So I was a sneeze before and I was like, diving to the hospital. Yeah, it'll be different. But no, I think like, you know, this, and I would have probably had a much stronger reaction, but I was dead asleep. Okay. So that was that. And then we just decided that we wanted to, again, enjoy the pregnancy quietly. I just wanted to enjoy it. I didn't want to tell anyone right away. I wanted to go to the doctor. I wanted to wrap my head around it.

I'm usually a very intentional person. And I don't like to go run and tell everyone everything right away. It's just not my personality. It's never been my personality since I've been little. So I decided to take a step back and wait again. Just wait. Again. I'm sorry. And Michael says on the next one I have to be like telling everyone. You know why? Because I don't want to tiptoe around and be like what I might slip out. Maybe I'm having a beer with the guys and I might like say something or someone's like why. You know what slipped out? What? Spirm out of your dick. God, learn. Can we wait. So the pullout game is definitely not a very reliable form of contraception. Are you are you asking for yourself or for a friend? and curious.

Just so, I have a scientific question. So as far as, as far as the unscientific question over. So basically what you've been doing is you've been

100% pulling out and then nutting. Do you want to watch our sex? No. Don't you have enough? This is a personal thing, but let me tell you something. I had to go back to condoms

for a while because, like, you know, I don't love a condom press. I don't trust the pullout game that much. I think that like, especially it's a little dicey. And like, you know,

Lauren and I made the, what do they call them Irish twins? We like, we made the intention. That was a little too soon. We wanted to give ourselves a little bit of the breathing room. So I was, I fucking hate condoms, man. If I could do an advertisement against condoms, this would be it.

I hate him so much. It feels like there's a bag over my... Taylor's trying to ask a question for his own self. No, I do have a question. So when they say, like, quote, unquote, like, pull out. Does that mean that they essentially, that the baby was conceived from, like, leakage? Because it wasn't like, you didn't, you didn't pull out. Oh, you didn't pull out.

No, we were intentionally trying. Did you miss the whole part of this? Oh, my God. Yeah, I missed that whole part. Sorry. never mind. You know, this makes me worried sometimes when you're back there editing the show because you're actively participating in this one and missing things. He's beating his meat to the fact that we had sex and I completely missed that section. Okay. I want a camera installed back there so I could see what's on

your screen right now. For sure, porn. For sure. Yeah. So we decided to keep it on the down low for a while. And then we had a Cabo trip coming up. You can watch it on my Instagram highlights. And we went with my dad and my stepmom and obviously I was in a bathing suit the whole time. So I, I told them. He said, why isn't Lauren having her normal 16 margaritas each day? So what we decided to do, and this was Michael's idea, is when they came and sat down for like our welcome dinner, we had baby bottles delivered of margaritas. I forgot I did that.

That was a good move. Mine was a mock tail in case the internet wants to go back and zoom in like they did last time. Who cares? I can't worry about that. It's not, it wasn't pure tequila. And so we had baby bottles delivered to everyone at the table. and was really cute. They thought it was like a fancy drink that they served in bottles.

Yeah. And then I got to sit and watch everyone drink. Are you going to do the move where you take credit for that in like two years? I literally just said Michael's idea. So we told my parents and then we haven't really told anyone until recently. We decided to wait until Zaza's birthday party, which was last weekend and we decided to announce it to everyone there. I kind of just showed up pregnant. I walked into my mother-in-law's house pregnant. Imagine her surprise. Your sister knew, though, I feel. Yeah, but no more. No more. No more. No more. I mean, I don't know if this could be the end for us. I need to wrap my head around stuff before. No, but no more big announcements or creeping around in the shadows or hiding with the big sweats shirts and all. I've been wearing like, everyone's like, how do you hide a pregnancy for this long? I've been wearing just sweat and sweats and sweats. You know what? I'm telling. Next time, if it happens, I'm just going to, first day, I'm like, hey, pretty, move up. First of all, it's my body. So I'll be deciding. But listen, it's, it's awkward because I'm like creeping around. I don't care about you creeping around. And they're like, it's.

88 degrees outside, why is Lauren in a sweatsuit? Why is she, you know, doing this? And I don't, I don't know, like, I don't know. She gets the chills. I want to talk about how different this pregnancy has been compared to Zaza. It's been tougher on me. Oh, my God. No one cares about you. They want to know

how Lauren is. Every... No shit, Taylor. Single thing grosses me out, okay? This did not happen with Saza. Everything from the smell of Michael's Cologne to my dog's breath to the smell of orange juice, grosses me out. I cannot eat anything. Does anyone else have a pregnancy like this? Everything I have an

adversion to. I have an adversion to even cleaning supplies. I had to switch all my cleaning supplies. When a candle's blown out, the smell that it releases after it's been blown out is the grossest smell I've ever smelled. I can't even describe it. A lot of people like that smell. No, it's disgusting when you're pregnant. But everything tastes like metal. And there's like this name for it. It starts with the D. You'll have to Google it. And I guess it's hormonal. And my whole. entire pregnancy, every single thing I have put in my mouth. And I mean, every single thing I have put in my mouth tastes like metal. Besides, three things. Pomegranate seeds, you've seen me eating a lot of those. When you see me eating pomegranate seeds on Instagram story, I'm pregnant. Tons of

pomegranate seeds, white sushi rice. It cannot be white rice. It has to be white sushi rice, which is super interesting because... It's sweeter? It's sweeter, but Michael is a fourth Japanese. And the sushi rice that I like is, it's Japanese. So you think my ancestors are coming through. Yeah, it's true. And I actually listened to like a whole podcast on this.

It's genetic, like there's something in genetics that that has certain cravings. So then the other thing, and if anyone knows what this is, I will think it's wild. The only person that knew who this was was Ramey, who's on the podcast and my friend Ingrid. but it is called Umboski paste and it's like this acquired taste that tastes like a plum. It is a plum. It's a Japanese plum.

Very tart, very like sour. The most sour, the most tart. And the reason that I found out about it is because I went to an herbalist for this metal taste. And she gave me herbs. And she said, eat this paste. And I have eaten this paste

all day, every day. It's so good. The brand that I get is like Empire or something. So I also talk about it, by the way, on my pregnancy episode on how I lost the pregnancy weight. I wanted to record that before I started to gain weight back from this pregnancy. So I got that up for you guys. And then the next podcast episode is, hey, I'm pregnant. I thought you were going to hint, hint, leaning towards it, you're going to say Michael's dick wasn't the one that tasted like metal. Because you, the way you said,

you're like everything. I mean, everything. I have insinuated. I said everything tastes like metal. Everything. No, he's saying that he thought that the thing that didn't taste like metal was. Yeah, I thought that's the three. I thought the big, the third one was going to be the reveal that it was that. You thought she just let it. You got dick on the mind, man. You thought that it was just like, this is the only thing that I can take right now is just dick. Exactly.

I can't handle any food only dick. No, I can eat. Someone's going to pull that clip and it's going to be me and it's not going to go over well for me. I can eat three things. Maybe in the future if I run for political office, they'll pull that clip and it'll just disqualify me. Who knows? If anyone knows about this metal taste, I'm not joking. I've been wanting to.

to ask the audience this for so long, please DM me. Write it on my Instagram, shout it from the rooftops. I need so much help. Nothing works. It's disgusting. And the first pregnancy I had, I gained 55 pounds. This one, I can't eat anything. I would rather be eating chocolate chip bagels. I can't eat butter. I can't eat cheese. I can't eat this morning. I had a bite a pancake. I can't like, nothing tastes good. I had a chocolate chip bagel for breakfast. You know where the best chocolate chip bagels are? Whitney Port told me this. And it's so true if you're in L.A. Sam's bagel, chocolate chip bagel toasted with butter. I ate those all with us. There's a white space in the Austin market for chocolate chip bagels. If somebody gets that dial in.

No one has them. No one has them. I know. We've looked around. Oh, I've, I've researched around. Yeah. You know what? Like, I'm very sorry that you're going through these aversions. It's like, it seems like a huge mess. And I feel bad. But I will say, you know, the last one, you had me like driving. Remember I was chasing food trucks down in L.A.? They would go change locations. And I had to. map. I had to like go on a map and find out the location and chase them around the city. There was this bagel place called Yeasty Boy Bagels and they moved around. They were a truck. Of course I find like the hardest thing on the planet. But I didn't know. And they just went to the

normal stop and it wasn't there. And she said, and I was like, oh, sorry they're not there. And she went on and made me like track them down. I was like, it was like a high speed chase to get the fucking bagel truck. Okay. Well, now I can't eat anything. So this is miserable. Please help me send all your help. I was trying to think of a bagel name that you could call for like a it would be like called yeast infection. And it be like, a bagel truck, but it could be like a picture of like a big giant bagel, like terrorizing the city. Sometimes I tell you to turn your mic on and then midway through him, like, why did I tell him to turn his mic? You know, I get where you're going with that. It's actually kind of a cool,

like I can like picture the brand actually. It's like a like a bagel that's like maybe like a Godzilla-type bagel. Yeah, that's where I was thinking. But the name is just so terrible. Yeah, and they would need to put a spin on it, but that's where I was going with that because the yeasty boys is like, oh, I wonder if there's a way you could use it in another sense. Yeah, so probably back to the drawing. board on that brand, but I get where you're going, honestly. So what are you, okay, people want to know this. You framed out the questions for me. What are you taking supplement wise right now? What are you doing? What are you doing differently this time than the first time around? Because, you know, I think the first time around, you don't really know you're kind of learning this time now you've, you've, you know,

second time around. First of all, let me ask you, what are you doing differently this pregnancy? Because I feel like you're treating me like nothing is going on. No, that's not true. It's just the first time I think what I think every new partner, every new dad, you know, your future kids listen. You don't know the first time. So I was probably a little bit more freaked out about like, you know, I, okay, I know people are probably getting repulsed. Like, we have some people that can't handle sex conversations or vulgar language. I don't know what the fuck they're doing listening to this show. But for those people, maybe tune out. So there's these times in the first pregnancy where I didn't really know how to maneuver in the bedroom and I was worried that I was going to like hurt you in the baby or like your dick is not

touching the baby's head but I think a lot of a lot of guys go through that they don't know it's the first time no one's dick is touching the baby's head well it's not just that you don't know how to touch you don't want to be too rough you don't want you kind of like and you kind of like boring sex right if the if you're scared to like kind of get after it this time around I'm like I'm grabbing I'm doing whatever I got to do I'm climbing up and down I'm moving around because I'm not as nervous this time. And I probably, the reason I make this point is in the pregnancy as well, I'm not as nervous or, you know, as I was the first time.

But I know it's like, okay, like, this is the process. Is what happens at this stage. It's what happens at that stage. So, like, it's not that I'm not being as attentive. It's just that I'm not as panicky as I was first time. Which is kind of nice. If you've been listening to this podcast for a while, you know we are all about being the best version of yourself.

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chia seeds, a lot of seeds. I'm eating a little bit less meat. I'm trying to up my bone broth. Not because, like, it's intentional because I can't eat anything because of the metal. And I'm actually, along with Pilates, Melissa Wood Health,

P-Volve, I'm doing weightlifting, which is different. So the shape, the shape of my, of my body, this pregnancy is different than the first one because of weightlifting. Well, I think probably like the first time around you were doing like mostly Pilates, right? Yoga.

Yeah, I was, no, I was only doing Pilates and walking the first pregnancy. And this time I've incorporated weightlifting into it. And it's working, I think, well for me. I always thought it was strange though. Like if you're, think about it, like you're carrying something in your body. And you're obviously... Careful. Careful.

And inevitably. you're going to change in body and change in weight. And you would think that like you would do weight. The layman would think you're doing weightlifting because you need to build muscle strength to be able to handle those changes. And I never understood like people that... It wasn't on my mind the first pregnancy.

It just wasn't. I was just focused on Pilates. I think, I mean, we've talked about this on previous shows. I think a lot of women in particular get nervous about weightlifting. They think it's going to make them like big or bulky. No, for me, it wasn't that. And I talked about this on my how I lost my pregnancy weight the first time episode. For me, it was that I am deathly afraid of workouts that spike my cortisol.

I don't want to be around loud music. I don't want to be around someone telling me to get the fuck down screaming at me. I don't want to be with lights and blaring and all that stuff. So I was associating hit and Barry's boot camp with weightlifting. And that was my mistake. And now I've learned that weightlifting is actually, low cortisol workout, which is interesting. So they're different. So that's something that I'm doing different. And then I think another thing that I'm going to be doing very differently is I'm way

more comfortable with a newborn. The first time I had a baby, I had barely had held a baby. I'd barely changed a baby. I knew nothing about it. I went into it with my intuition only. This time I feel really comfortable with having a baby, but I also did not have a maternity leave the first time. And this time, and I'm saying this on air, so everyone hears, I'm taking a maternity leave. Taylor, looks like you and I are just taking over the show, buddy. Oh, my God. We can steer this ship back on track. It's only taking us 450 episodes

to get her off so we can take over the audience and do what we really wanted to do. When she decides to come back, it's going to be like, oh. We're going to be dissecting old sci-fi movies in video games from the 1990s to early 2000s. Taylor's Porn Habit. Movies from the 90s, 80s, early... I'm sure you can talk about all different kinds of movies.

Yeah, I mean, that was kind of, well, that was the kind of crazy thing of the first time. We both didn't really take any kind of leave. Podcasts never stopped. We're not going to stop the podcast. Don't worry. Podcasts never stopped. We did batch a lot before. We did batch. But we're going to batch. I'm taking a maternity leave. Yeah, no. I'm taking space. I went right back into work. I remember I was literally working going into labor. I'm not doing that. You know what makes me nervous about this one. With Zaza, you know, we've been back and forth running around, you know, going where we need to go doing interviews, like, you know, all this stuff. With two, that's not going to be as easy. It's going to be a little more challenging.

Well, guess what? We'll have to do what we always do and figure it out. I love figuring it out. We'll have to find a way. Taylor, start brushing up on your nanny skills. Do we know a name? Yes, we have a name. We've had a name for a long, long time.

Beatrix. Remember, I told you that's for my dream. Beatrix was one of the many. Couldn't be more wrong. I think it was Bernadette, Beatrix and some other one. Literally, if we were playing hot and cold, you're in Finland. Okay, here. Is it going to be something obscure?

It's something. Michael and I, not obscure. Michael and I like, unique, unique names to us, but we don't like to cause confusion on how you say the name. I want the name to be something that's easy to say. What about like eucalyptus, bostic? Explain to me how you come to that.

You're in Antarctica. How do you come to that? I'm just trying to think of anything. Because he watched my Instagram story and saw I had eucalyptus in my shower this morning. No, it's because I put a eucalyptus candle on the table right there. That's why. Okay. Another lie.

And then do we know the gender. Yes, we do. Which is how we know the name. Okay. Wait, here. before. No, sometimes you could do a unisex name. On the record, in my dream, it was a girl.

So I just want to let everybody know. I do not know. You never had the dream. I do not know what it actually is. Why are you still hanging on to this dream thing? You didn't have a dream, man. That's three for three. If this is true, you're going to...

Okay, hold on. So state your, your hypothesis here? Is that the sex of the child is going to be female? Everyone has to go guess on my latest Instagram. Okay. So that's your, that's your hypothesis, which is how you... came to the name Beatrice Eucalyptus. And Bernadette, Beatrice Eucalyptus.

You can save that name for yourself. Which, um... O'Connor. Beatrice O'Connor. I don't want to get you off your hypothesis, but the names are... Yeah, like Lauren said, like if you're in Antarctica, buddy. Yeah, you're off the names. But yes, we have a name.

Yes, we have a gender. The way that I found out the gender was I had the doctor give it to me in an envelope. And then I snuck it from Michael and wouldn't let him look at it. And I knew the whole time... what the gender was. I knew immediately what the gender was, and I had Zaza hand him this envelope. And Zaza came up to you and handed it.

My life is really stressful. Why? Because it's just stressful. Everything has to be so dramatic. Yeah, I got to play all these... I love drama. Let me tell you why it's stressful. What do you want me to do?

Just be boring about it? The dog's in a hoodie, stuffed with pregnancy tests. Let's just set the bar. Zaza has an envelope. Zaza's like Alex Trebek. Taylor, let me... I should have played the Jeopardy sound charge. Let me set the bar here.

Turn on Jeopardy. Why my life is stressful. one, let's just talk about, just straight up, like just talk about the business. When I got to do, we're doing this show eight times a month. I got to keep it fresh. We got to keep it going for the audience. We got to make it so they don't tune the fuck out and get bored. So like that, that's, that's a bar in itself.

Then I got to come to this company that we decided to run and go. And I'm a glutton for punishment. I mean, I love all these women, but it's a lot of women. No one cares. A lot of women shows and a lot of women team members. And it's a lot to manage a lot of the time. And then I got to play games with you all the fucking time. you're trying to, you know, hide this announcement, make this, do this game, do that.

Play hide in the envelope. It's just a lot. I'm going to drop dead in 10 years. I have a hot tip for the audience. Okay. And this may be a little peek into my next book. I have been playing games since I was 12 with you. Yeah, I know.

I'm going to drop dead in 10 years. I have been playing games and I will continue to play games until I'm dead with you. I read a review one time and it said, does Lauren hate her husband? And I'm starting to wonder, is that true? because you play a lot of these games and my heart's going to stop one day. You know what? Let's just go off on a tangent.

Do I hate my husband? What works for my husband and I maybe doesn't work for you, Karen. This works for us. It's a Karen that did it? Well, it's like some, it's like a Susan or something.

Like, like this works for us. And we like to banter. If that doesn't work for you, that's okay. I don't know, Lauren. I'm, I'm, maybe I'm changing. You know what? I also like to keep things spicy,

like a game or 10. We're not playing fucking monopoly. How do you know? I'm playing chess, bitch. It's the longest form of systematic and organized mental abuse ever recorded. Doctors like, hey, man. Taylor, admit, he likes it. Blood pressure is a little hot. Why do you think I can't get rid of him since he was 12? You know what you would do if you did do what he asks? If you just said, hey, I'm pregnant, he would go, oh, that's how you told me. He goes, you took all the fun out of it. His reaction, this is the one thing. His reactions are always kind of the same. But I think that his reaction isn't really conductive of what he's, what he's feeling.

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And he's like, just accept it. And like, I know 99% of the times that if I was just quiet and submissive and took it easy, but I have to do the kickdown, drag out fight thing. So you play your own game. Yeah, I don't have it in me to just be like, okay, let me accept it, honey. It's going to be all right. But this is like our relationship. It's how it works.

It's how it runs. I don't get the problem. I like to systemize the businesses and make those run efficiently. But with the marriage, I like it to be a little rocky. I don't want our marriage to ever get boring. So, yes, you are always going to get a game from. me. All right.

Imagine if it wasn't and Lauren was very vanilla. Imagine if, Antebellum. You know what? I'm going to be honest. I'm a little turned on now. His penis is literally popping over the table. Now that I thought about it.

You like it. Yeah. Okay. So anyone that wants to write a review about our relationship, he is rock. You know what? I threw the review in there. I knew that review would trigger you a little bit and you get a little angry. It's not triggering me.

It's just like, I always do find it. It's just like mind your own business. You're right. I've read the reviews and they're always like, Lauren's always so mean to everybody. She's mean to me. She's me, meaning that the reviews, they say,

to mean to Taylor and mean to Michael, it's, it's not funny. Let me tell you what happened. If I was with a girl like that that didn't have a little bit of spice and fire,

I'd run Rothshed right all over her. Taylor. Taylor, we wouldn't last more in a week. Are you and I best friends? Absolutely. Lauren and Michael have been, I've been best friends of them for a long time.

You don't have to include Michael in that because you're used to try to date girls like that that were a little bit more like tender and sweet, and it didn't work. The girls didn't like missionary style. Oh. Just boring. I mean,

Taylor, don't you love how I pick on you? Absolutely. Trust me. If anybody's asking, I'm not asking for help. This isn't like abuse. I like it. It's fun. It's the dynamic that I have with my friends.

So just thank you for caring. Are they writing in you? They're like, fuck these people are treating you like shit, man. I would say you'd be surprised. If you're reading them, you could tell they're like, they're trying to help. We did make you dress as a stork for my announcement. I forgot to tell everyone that we ordered you a stork costume and made you walk around Zaz's party. I forgot. This is after the fact, too.

As a stork. I was excited doing it and I would have done it any time. When you first asked me about it, I was like, absolutely. I didn't care what I like. I like people, though, who are quirky and on the joke and get it and are witty. Like, it's, I don't, if someone is like a little bit too sensitive about jokes, I don't know. I don't know if they're the right husband for me. I don't know if they're the right friend from me. Weston can take it too. The weird thing, Taylor, was that I remember I was there when she was asking you and she didn't tell you what she needed you to do, you just were saying yes. I think you're one of those guys that like, you like, you'd like to be like chained up and whipped or something. No, the reason that I was saying,

yeah, Lauren is asking me. I was just saying, sure, whatever. Because I, well, to me, I don't really care. But you didn't know what she was asking. You were just in for whatever. I, most likely, yeah, would have been whatever. You know how I know you're a glutton for punishment. How? When you were 12 and I first met you, you were Finn in the Nutcracker. Ballet shoes. You were in ballet shoes and you had a rat tail that was midway down your back. You had just let like your sister and your mom take over. Yeah, exactly. I was just told what to do. I was like it. You like it. So there we have it. Michael and Taylor like it. I'm pregnant. I'm going to title this episode, something really wholesome and people are going to,

it's going to draw all the like people in and then they're going to be like, what in the hell am I listening to it? Let's play a game. Go to my latest Instagram and tell us what you think we're having boy or girl. And maybe who's ever right will get a little DM for me, a little goody from me, a little giveaway. Here we go games again. Here we go. Play Jeopardy. It's my life. Jeopardy. It's my life. Yeah. You know what? It games fun. Guys, I hope you loved that episode. It's kind of all over the place, but, you know,

sometimes... Those are fun. Taylor's got to go beat his meat and Michael's got to go take a cold shower. I've got a closing question. Oh. Are you, so after this, are you going back to the pull-out method or... What is going on with you and your obsession with the pull-out method? I'm just worried about, you know what, not worried. What are you, what's the real question? Hold on. What are you going through right now?

What's going on? You've asked this three times throughout this episode. That gives me anxiety. Are you doing the pull-out method and you're nervous? No, in general, lots I'm just saying it gives me anxiety. So here's what's going on, guys. He is having sex and doing the pull-out method and he's feeling anxiety, so he wants me to subliminally tell him about the pull-out method. Are you asking us to scientifically tell you definitively if the pull-out method works?

Yes, exactly, pretty much. So you can actually have full intercourse and still maybe. Oh, look at the alarm. It's telling me we got to go. Sorry, Taylor. You'll have to find out next week. Wish I could give you the answer, bud. But I think you're, I think you're dancing with the devil there.

The only thing that's for sure is taxes and death. It's like playing Russian roulette. All right. See you next time, guys.