WRFH/Radio Free Hillsdale 101.7 FM - Thursday Lunch: Best Sisters Ever

Episode Date: October 31, 2024

This Thursday, Jillian and Bella welcome you back to their lunch table, this time “reminiscing” on their childhoods, both being the oldest of five, and at times violent tendencies. Either laugh along or listen horrified to their stories of fights they have had with their siblings. Don’t put a kid with anger issues in kickboxing.

You're listening to Radio Free Hillsdale, 101.7 FM. I'm Jillian and I'm Bella. And you're listening to Thursday lunch. Wow. That's awesome. That's a little bit beautiful. I cried a bit. So thanks so much for joining us for Thursday lunch today where we take you through.

What would a lunch be if you were to sit down with us? And you're at our lunch right now. You're eating lunch with us right now. And you can't even believe it. And there's three parts, isn't there? To the lunch? Yeah. Yeah.

There's true. Appetizer-entre drink. And we did the drink last, which makes me giggle a little bit. Yeah, because at the end we're like, I was so thirsty. Go, go. Okay, you just go four times. And you said you'd never do it again. Oh my gosh. Oh, my gosh.

It's okay. We can keep it. It's fine. It's okay. It's not a big deal. We'll be fine. So would you like to start? Yeah, I'll start with my appetizer story.

I think it's a, it's a, I think we both need to preface. Oh, today's episode is about sibling fights. Yes. It's about fights we've had a lot of fights with our siblings. I've had a lot of fights with my siblings. I have four younger siblings. And me too, similarly enough. We're all pretty strong-willed.

And so we fight about really dumb stuff, and we fight about not-dum stuff that maybe you guys think is dumb. This one is what I would call a not-dum story to me, but maybe to you guys, it's dumb. It was a fight with me and my sister. She's not older than me, but she's the older of my two sisters. Her name's Liberty. I'm going to use her name.

I'm going to shout her out here. I'm going to send this to her. Hopefully she likes it. And she's going to cry and freak out. She's not going to cry and freak out. Basically, we fight all the time over the car because when I come home from college, I assume it's frustrating to her that she's used to having free rein over the car and then I come in and I also need to use it. Which from my perspective is like, duh, I just didn't get to drive for an entire semester and now I get to drive again. She doesn't see it that way.

She sees it more like you're coming and using my car that she didn't pay for and has, I mean, she contributes to in the form of decorations on the dashboard. but she didn't pay for the car by any means, nor the gas. So it's not her car, but she just liked to treat it as such, which is a very typical sibling situation, I feel like. And we fight over driving this car, and I remember one time, I think this was last year over winter break. I had told my mom I needed the car at a certain time. And she was like, you have to tell Liberty,

and I did not want to do that because I knew that if I told Liberty, she'd be like, no, I also have to use the car at that time. So I just didn't. and I hopped in the Jeep We have an orange Jeep In LAX I hopped at the Jeep in front of my house And I started the engine

Who comes running out the garage But my little sister Her name's Liverton And I'm starting the car back and out She's running She's running out of the garage She's yelling, stop, stop, stop, stop I need the car

And I'm like, well I need the car too And I'm leaving I'm car is reversing She's running after the car as I'm reversing out of the driveway. I'm fully backing out and trying to rev forward. She's standing in front of the car. And we, the window is open.

We are screaming back and forth in the street. As she's like, I'm slowly inching the car forward. Like, get out of the way or else I'm going to run you over. And she's standing in front of the car like, nope, you can't run me up because I'm a real person. And we were screaming back and forth, like full volume. And then my dad came out. And my mom came out and they were like, you can't scream in the streetwalk. You can't scream in the street.

there's people and it's going to sound like, it's a murder. And it wasn't a murder. It was just us having a fight. And then I ended up having to give her the car. The way that it ended was she got the Jeep and I had to take the other car. How evil is that? When I say that changed the way that I see my parents fundamentally for the rest of my life, it does. It just does because I was like, she just gets it because she ran after me.

Awesome. So that's my little entree story. I just, I'm literally feeling angry right now. like the visual of it though i like the visual of me in a like a big jeep wrangler that's like orange or what's that word for orange that's not like terra cotta it's like terra cada kind of and i'm like slowly inching on the street like two miles an hour with my sister yes in the middle of the street like pushing back on the cars if it's going to like stop it from going it's a good image i cannot believe she got the car i can't either and i hope everybody out there is justified on my behalf i hope i hope so and if everyone's like

no, you should have told her you needed the car. No, because you don't know her. And she would have been like, no, I need it. It's mine. Did she really, my evil older sister head, I'm like, she didn't even really need the car. She just, like, made plans because she figured out that I needed it. I don't remember.

That's what I came up with in my evil older sister had, too, though. Well. Well, there you have it. Go ahead and hit us with your appetizer. Anyways, so my little appetizer is, let's just say, how do I start? So I went through a really, So there's five of us as well.

But it's kind of like, I think it's kind of like this in Jillian family too. It's kind of the three older and then it's the little's, right? Yep, it is. So Josie is the middle of the three older. She's technically the third. But, wait, not the middle. Sorry, the youngest of the three oldest. And so I hated her.

And I like can't really 100% explain it. And my parents, my dad always makes it like, you guys were just so mean to her. And so that's how he justified. him favoring her when we were young, but I see it as you only, you favored her, so I hated her. That's exactly the dynamic we have

with our brother in the family. Yeah. Different in the lineup, but exact same where it's like, we hated him because you gave him special treatment. And they're like, we gave him special treatment because you hated him. It's like, no.

No, no. I wasn't, maybe I was. I was like I wasn't evil. I didn't just hate her for no reason, but maybe. But maybe, it's possible. Anyway, so I hated her.

I was super mean, and we got into, violent fights. And like it also was never, I also got into violent fights with my, the sister right under me, but it was never really fair with Josie and I because she, like, I'm 21 right now and she just

turned 17. So I'm like four years older than her. And you could probably beat her up. No. Oh, and just listen to this. Oh, okay. So at some point, our violent fights were getting to be a lot. So my parents were like, as a punishment to get us to stop

fighting. They were like, if you guys are going to fight like this, you have to learn how to fight. Like to try to stop, stop fighting because we wouldn't want, oh, because we wouldn't want to go to kickboxing and taekwondo. And they were right. We did it. But so my little sisters went to taekwondo and I went to kickboxing because they didn't have Taekwondo for older kids.

Where did Josie go? Josie went to Taekwondo, which she actually excelled at for many years after. Like she was really good. But, um, like she's a black belt. Wow. But, um, anyways. So it kind of backfired because I did. learn how to fight and I did use those ways. And one certain way we learned is if someone,

so I was in kickboxing, I don't, or I can't remember which one I learned. And so I would learn how to defend myself from mysterious people. And I was like, well, I know who the mysterious person in my life is who it's not, it's not a mystery. So they taught me. J-O-S-I actually. J-O-S-I. S-I-E-Bel. Anyways. Wow. So they taught me, uh, if like someone's coming at you and you can get to their head, you box their ears and it like literally like, temporarily deffens them. I'm sure if you do it hard enough, it's more permanent damage.

So I learned that. I wasn't even thinking about it, but maybe like a couple days later, I get in a fight with my sister, and she's pulling my hair, which was always it for me. If you're pulling my hair, I'm doing whatever I can to kill you.

Not actually, but she was pulling my hair, ripping it off of my scalp, and all of a sudden, it was literally like my muscle memory kicked in, and what you do is you cup your hands and hit them on both their ears on the side of their head,

As hard as you can, it sucks your ears. So I go, and my jersey goes, and I was like, I literally was like, I just deafened her completely. And she goes out there,

she's like, I can't hear, I can't hear. And I must have been, I think I must have been like 12 or 13. So she was little. And I'm like, I'm going to prison.

And I literally, and my parents were, they were like, why would you do that? And I, and in this moment, I was like, well,

you put me in kickboxing, you said you wanted me to learn how to fight so I just did it. And that saved me. My dad was kind of like, you know what? Like, that's kind of our fault. Yeah. So I didn't really get in trouble for that because, like, he was like, yeah, you're kind of right.

Like, yeah. And I literally, I was like, my muscle memory just kicked it out. I'm just really good. And I just like, she was attacking me. I suction her. So I boxed her ears. And it is a horrible thing to have done to you. Like, and so I do feel bad.

But in the moment, like, because I didn't get in trouble, I kind of walked away from that situation, like, yeah. Yeah. And she got what she deserved. Are you ready for my big, yes. Are you ready for my big entree story? I'm ready, I'm ready. This story, the other one I feel like was a little bit more ambivalent.

Like maybe there's room for me to not be the villain. I'm the villain in this story. Bad, like really bad. But I was also, no, I was like probably 15, so a little bit too old. I have a sister who's 10 years younger than me. Her name's Sailor. And when she was roughly five years old, she discovered this song called Christmas Shoes. And I'm going to sing it for you.

It goes something like this. Sir, I want to buy these shoes. for my mother, please. And that's how the song goes. I'm sure there's more lyrics. She only knew that lyric. And so she was singing it in the car ride home all the way, the car ride home.

Sir, I want to buy these shoes for my mother, please, over and over again. And we get into the house, and we're in the living room, and she's still singing Christmas shoes. And I told her once, Saylor, stop singing Christmas shoes. I hate it. And you know what she did? Sing it even more. Even louder, even fuller volume.

She's laying on the ground, like, with her back to the ground. I'm sitting on the couch. And I thought, well, if I step on her, she'll stop singing because she won't be able to. So you're like 15. I was like 15. She was like five. And so I, not joking, we have video footage of it, arabesque on her stomach. If you don't know what an arabesque is, an arabesque is where you step down with one foot and flick the other foot right up into the air, like a little ballerina ice skating move. And I did that on her stomach, knocked the wind out of her crazy. She was five, like, I can't breathe. And I was like, oh, no, oh no. And so I picked her up. I remember, I picked her up and brought her to mom. I was like,

oh, she can't breathe. And my mom was like, what happened? I was like, what happened. I was like, I have no idea. Which is just a big fat lie because I had a full idea of what I had done. And she goes, no, how did this happen? I was like, I just like barely kicked her. I don't know what happened. She's like, you did not barely kick her. Okay, let's look at the cameras. because we had security cameras in our house for a long time because we were a bunch of dirty rotten liars and we would lie about how things happened. My parents also fall into the category

of dirty rotten liars though sometimes. I know they'll probably deny this as well, but there would be times where they would say things like point blank and then we'd be like, you just said this. And they'd be like, no, we didn't. Oh my gosh. I would never say that. It's like, and we were like, so if there were cameras,

we would show you and you would know that you were wrong. And you would feel crazy. You would feel crazy. And like I feel crazy. How would I feel crazy? Exactly. So we had security cameras in our house to capture these moments. And I held to the moment that it played on the camera

that I had not done anything. And then you see me arabesque on her stomach. And it's not even like I'm just stepping on it out of anger. I like gave a, there was a flourish to it where I was like, and then she thought, can't breathe. And I'm picking her up and running her over. And so my sister and my mom and my dad are like, oh my God, you arabesque on her stomach.

Like what is wrong with you? I very clearly got into a lot of trouble. Sailor to this day sings this in this very tune. Erebesk. And she just likes to remind me. Like, we will be with my, I remember all through high school if I had friends over. Oh, so she remembers.

Oh my gosh, yeah. If I had friends over, she'd be like, remember the time you aerobesk on me? Remember the time you knocked the wind out of me and aerobesca on it? And you could have broken my ribs. And she's just at this point, like, regurgitating things my parents have said because they're like, you could have broken all of her ribs. You could have beat her heart stop beating, you know, stuff like that. Which maybe those are things are true, but I don't think so.

And so she regurgitates those things in very inconvenient moments for me. And she'll never get over it and she'll never forget me. And maybe that's her right, her prerogative. But I haven't heard her seeing Christmas shoes since. So there. Can I buy these shoes for my mother, please? Also just sounds like the worst song possibly ever. And I'm like, why did you?

Of course I'm going to step on you. If you're just tuning in, this is Thursday lunch. I'm right of free hills zone. One in 1.1.7 FM. And Jillian and I are talking about sibling fights. Fighting our siblings. But I'm fighting them and I really want to hurt them. I feel like we loki put ourselves in a precarious situation with this episode because we are both the oldest.

And so no matter what we kind of look like the villain. And I really was the villain in a lot of ways. But also, in this, well, this is actually a good lead in because, okay, my sister didn't deserve what happened in this time. But like, did she deserve the suction? No. But this was a moment that angered me because she lied. No. My sister would never lie.

She doesn't lie. She's a sister. Sisters don't lie. Sisters don't lie. They're friends forever. They're friends and they hug. No, I did not hug her for years. That's fine. Anyways.

So, we're back at Josie. Because I basically just fought with her. Because Gigi and I, Gigi was always better than me because she was like just more like peaceful. And my temper was evil. It was evil. That's why we're friends. But sometimes, yeah. I could not be friends with Gigi.

No, you can't. Sometimes Gigi I could pull her in. Just eat your Andre. Now I'm kind of thinking maybe like my appetizer should have been my entree and back and forth, but this is still a good story. And it made me really mad because my sister lied because she, we were like in the hallway fighting about something stupid and she turns around and she's like, you are so stupid. And I was maybe, I was maybe 11. I was like, you did not just say that. Like I'm going to kill you.

Like I was so mad. For some, because we had already been. No. That's so inconsequential. Yeah, I know, but we had already been fighting, and I don't remember what pissed me off so much. I can't say piss me off. Can I? No, you can't.

I don't remember what ticked me off so much, but I was like, oh, you did not just say that. And so I went, I must have been younger because I went to my mom and I like did like start, embezzling, like, um, what's the word? Embezzling, that's not the word. Embellishing? Embellishing. I did start embellishing stores. I started embezzling money. Josie was screaming.

I mean, she called me stupid. And it wasn't even that a big deal, but Josie comes in. She's like, I did not say stupid. I said, Oopid. I said upe. And I was, that was my reaction, right?

I'm laughing. Oh, good one. And my mom's like, maybe she did. And I was like, you're kidding me. Do we have the same parents? My mom would say something like that.

You believe her that she called me upped. Uppid. Are you joking? So immediately, I can feel the rage in me. I guess this conversation ends. We leave my parents' bedroom. I'm like blinded by rage at this point.

So immediately, as we're out of, of my parents' eyesight, I grab her hair, and I'm literally, like, dragging her, basically. She's like, stop, stop. And I'm like, what, you're a liar? You did not say, open. No, and she's, like, scratching my hand, and I'm pulling her hair. I'm like, what is what I'm doing?

And eventually, she gets free of me and runs into her room. And this, my sister is, this is the one they still bring up. Because Jesus was just watching on this, and Josie was living it. She runs in her room, closes, locks the door. She's holding the door handle because you can pick, it's one of those locks that's like the slit. so you can get a coin and pick it. So I'm like there with the coin. I'm like, and I'm literally going.

We did that too. I'm literally like a psycho. I just want to talk. I just want to talk to you. Literally like a cry. And my sisters still say that. They're like, I just want to talk. Yeah.

Oh my gosh. Literally. Lines from fights are perfect ammunition for future jokes. And I'm like, I just want to talk to you, Josie. And she's like crying. She's like, please don't come in. And I'm like, I'm not going to hate you. I just want to talk.

It's okay. I just want to talk. Seriously, because you're crazy. So I just want to talk about why you did that. And there was like, it wasn't just the stupid. That was just like... Does she admit now that she said stupid? I'm sure she does.

I don't like... How are you going to say you said oopid? That's not real. And your mom helping in no way by being like, maybe she did. Maybe you misheard. Maybe she meant a new word that meant beautiful and smart. Exactly. I'm like, oh, now I'm mad at both of you.

Anyways, so I'm trying to break into my sister's room and I, like, it was bad. Like, I really wanted to her, her. And finally, she backs away from the door, because I feel her grip loosen, and I turn the coin, and I open the door so fast that the handle goes through the wall. No way. Because I hit it. It's like, burr. And Josie's crying. I'm like going at her.

I think at this point my dad comes in and breaks us up, and of course, I'm grounded for years and years. And Josie's like, oh, baby! Well, to be fair, you kind of are the villain. But anyways, the funny thing is, a couple days later, my dad notices. this hole in the wall that I don't think Josie noticed and I blamed it on her. Thank God. To this day, do they know? If they listen to this, they'll know.

It was me. Because as soon as I did it, I could feel the handle go through the wall. There was like literally handle shaped hole in the wall. And I was like, when my dad asked it was like, that was literally Josie. Like I was even in the room. Like, she's crazy. Like, she's literally crazy. I love that.

And she, I don't, she probably, the crazy thing is she probably didn't get in trouble for that. And if it was me. Awesome. So, wow, we really picked the stories that made us look the worst. Yeah, I think we're villains. No, but I have lots of stories that could have made me look good probably. Yeah, me too. I remember the ones that I feel guilty about because I carry them with me as older sister baggage. Yes, I think about the box of the ears all the time because she was scared. Let's move into our bubbly delicious drink. And we have to see what kind of drink it is. Well, yeah. This is good. Yeah. So my, should I start with my little drink of the week?

Yes, please. Our drink of the week is also the song of the week, if you guys are. curious. My song in the week is a song called Spring Into Summer. It's off Lizzie McAlpines. She does this thing that everybody else has been doing lately where you release an album and then you release like five more songs that are off the deluxe version. I don't know when that started, but I like it. And this song is probably my favorite song off the whole album. It's called Spring into Summer, like I said. And if I was going to give it a drink, I would probably like, it's so like, hmm, it feels like a big swell summer something. Maybe a glass of lemonade. A glass of lemonade with ice in it that, like, you're drinking with your friends.

Your friends have to be there. It can't be alone. Okay. And it's this big song about, like, well, it's actually about, like, this one person that she's always going to love forever and ever. And all these positive memories that they have together and the fact that she can't go back to them. But she's always going to kind of want that person. It's like a really sweet. Wait, that's sad.

But it's a really, it's not sad. She writes it in a very, like, nostalgic, beautiful way that's like, I'm always going to love you. And she's, like, really at peace with it. And it just, like, feels like, spring into summer. It's, she's moving into summer. She's moving forward, but she's drinking a nice, delicious, refreshing glass of lemonade making it feel beautiful. I think I need to probably get into Lizzie Mac Alpine because I have a lot of people in my life who really like her. I need to be the annoying person right now that says that I came to Hillsdale loving her and no one knew who she was.

And then I started talking about her all the time and singing her every second I got. The only person I know her from originally is you. Yes. And then everybody else followed suit and I'm into it. I love that they all followed suit, but I need credit to be given where credit is due. It's me. I get the credit. And if you disagree, I'll come to your house and I'll be like Bella with a little coin.

And I'll lock in your room and I'll say, I just forget talking and I'm going to make a hole in your wall. And you're going to love it or probably not. Okay. What's your song? Okay. My song in the week is for number four. For me, for me by Malcolm Todd. Is it a new song?

Yes, it's new. He has a new album. Yes. And there's one song that I, this always is what happens. Like, he released a clip of a song that is not released and I want it so bad. But it's not released. So it made me listen to his whole. whole album, though, to try to find the song.

And he's good for that. Yeah. And it's a good, and it's a good album. And the song, it's like, his voice sounds so good. He's like, I just want you touching my face. But like, it's good. I'll play the part I like for you at that. And I think that this song, it's giving, it's, it's root beer, but it's not like

barbecue root beer. It's like late night fast food root beer. Yes. Dairy queen. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. And you're like driving home. It's almost, you finished something.

You finished an essay or something, you're like, I need a reward. It's like 11, so only fast food is open. It's just you. Oh, yeah. But you have ice cold root beer, and you're driving back, and you're like, I'm free. I just want you. Touch in my face. Anyways, so for me, for me, Malcolm Todd.

Root beer. Root beer. Anyways, and that will be up for us today. Wow, that's so awesome. What a wonderful little stories. What a weird way to end. What a lovely way to end a terrible ravenous. We sound like carnivores eating raw meat.

No, we're like, am I'm like, am I to come to. Kill my sister. And we're going to wash it all down with a root being lovely. Woo! Thank you so much to everybody who tuned in to Thursday lunch. We hope you enjoyed a big delicious meal today with us. I'm Jillian. And I'm Bella on Radio Free Hillsdale, 101.1.7 FM.

And we'll talk to you next week. Bye.