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Giggling about pregnancy, pearadise, and pink trauma

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Giggling about pregnancy, pearadise, and pink trauma

The podcast features a lively, intimate conversation among close friends about personal growth, mental health, and self-perception. They reflect on how therapy became a vital tool in their 30s, contrasting their past avoidance of therapy in their 20s due to guilt or financial constraints. They discuss societal shifts, like fashion choices and body positivity, and how these mirror their own evolving identities. A key moment is when one friend links her early morning motivation to the belief that negative energy (such as online criticism) fuels her creativity and positivity, reflecting a deeper spiritual connection. The group also shares humorous anecdotes, including a wedding experience, TikTok trends, and a deep dive into reality TV culture, particularly Mormon Wives, which they praise for its authentic portrayal of pregnancy, relationships, and female agency. They touch on religion, friendship dynamics, and the power of community, emphasizing how the "Giggly Squad" functions as both a support network and a form of emotional therapy. The conversation ends with a lighthearted note on social media, algorithmic influence, and the joy of shared experiences, culminating in gratitude for each other’s presence and support. The tone is warm, self-aware, and deeply rooted in authenticity, highlighting how friendship, personal struggle, and resilience shape identity in everyday life.

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(upbeat music) - Sup, Giggler? - Very big for Wi-Fi. - Manifest that shit. We can't be managed. (laughing) (upbeat music) - I'm in the day just got away from me. - Hello, my gratifying Gigglers. We have so much to talk about today. I'm like, I have like a notebook out. I'm like-- - You're bursting. - The doc is crazy. - We were on FaceTime last night. We had to hang up. I don't think that was so sad. - It was actually sad. - We were like vibing and then I was like, coming up with more shit and that some point page was like, stop, we need to save this for the Gigglers. - We're gonna have no content. - We've just laughed about it all. - Do you realize Giggly Squad is an actual therapy for us? 'Cause I actually stopped doing therapy a couple months ago 'cause I was busy. And you know in therapy, you're doing well and you just complained to your therapist about how you're so busy and how the therapy's stressing you out. - And then you're like, I think you're the problem. - I didn't think we were gonna get this deep this quickly and it's also like 10 a.m. on a Monday. - We're under a minute in. - Wait, I have something witchy I wanna say too. - Okay, okay. - One of the reasons I think that in my 20s, I would go on and off with therapy so much is which is different than in my early 30s. My early 30s, it's like, I really am so busy. Like, I'm fucking up your schedule with your other clients because of me, like, let's take a minute. Let's take a beat for a couple of months. In my early 20s, I would fall off because I, which now I can recognize, I didn't think my problems were big enough to take up someone's time one hour during the week. Like, I felt guilty getting on a Zoom and being like, I really didn't have any childhood trauma. Like, I felt. - No, you were like my friend wore a halter top after she saw me wearing a halter top. - I felt shame of like, you don't have any issues. - But you're supporting a small business regardless. - Correct. - It didn't take me till my early 30s to be like that, you need to be in therapy for that thought alone. - My problem was the opposite. I couldn't afford therapy in my 20s until I, until I couldn't afford not to. And then every session I would period, every set, write that down, every session, I would be like, is this worth $200? - Yes. - And then I would start needing therapy to be like, I'm stressed about if this is worth it 'cause I need to pay rent. And $600 a, what, $800 a therapy a month? - Yeah, that's a lot. - Yeah, it's a lot. The thing came out that it's now stylish to like, not brush your hair. And now I'm starting to feel like people are just like, coming for your brand, coming for my brand. - I mean, I grew my hair out. - You grew, look, we have the same hair right now. - We have the same hair. - We're merging in the same person. - We're becoming one. - And the gigglers still have not gotten a firm answer from you on the socks and sandals outfit. I keep getting tagged. - What's up and sandals outfit? - I wore that like brown outfit. - Oh, yeah. - With socks and sand tautatia. And I don't think you commented and the gigglers are kind of upset because they don't know which way to go. - Okay, I apologize. I can't give a, I can't come up with something witty every time my friend posts. - Oh, I had a press tour. Like it was a lot of stuff to keep up with. - I love socks and like a heel like that. I think it's cunt. That's the only word I can describe. Like it's just cunty. And there is something about it that feels British. - Okay, yes, 'cause it's like rainy so you have to wear a sock when you go out. I do have to warn people though, like a sock with a heel. - Sorry. - First sleeping is like, I almost tore my ACL three times. - You've never real grip on your toes. - And you can't, wait. We have to invent a Pilates sock for a sock sandal. - If it just had like a couple little button things on the bottom, it'd be better. - I'm surprised that more, the inside of more shoes don't have those. Like heels specifically. Like in a lot of my like sandal heels, if I had those little grippy things at the bottom, right where my toes go, it'd be so much easier to walk. - So I know this is so us. - Really? - For minutes we've come up with a business idea. We've talked about our therapy. And we wanna hear my witchy thing. - You wanna hear my witchy? - Yes. - Over the weekend I went to a wedding. I had so much fun. Granted, it was like loud events. Like Friday night, welcome dinner. There was like loud music, Saturday night, wedding, obviously loud. But my ears were ringing all weekend, okay? And ever since I was little, like if I ever said, like my ears were ringing, my mom would be like, someone's talking about you. Like that like cliche. - She's so Italian. She's like, someone's talking shit. Someone's talking shit on your grave. - Whatever I didn't think anything up but over the weekend. Monday morning, this morning, I wake up and I'm just like so motivated. I like wake up at like 8 a.m. I take a shower. I put workout clothes on. I go for a like 45 minute walk. I get a coffee. I do some emails. I start, I'm like, okay, I'm wondering if we do a giggly squat. I woke up so motivated and rarely on a Monday morning and I'm motivated. Takes me to like Tuesday night, Wednesday night, you know? I'm like, then we can start it and we're going, Thursday half past noon. (laughs) I think that my ears were ringing all weekend and someone was talking bad about me and that's why Monday morning my, because my energy is so connected to the universe. I feel like my body woke me up Monday morning motivated because that's what I do. I take negativity and I create positivity. - Positivity. - And success and my mind. - And so I feel like that's what happened to me. - Do you know what's weird? Normally I just send you comedy videos but my TikTok was bringing me like, really? Like fuck the haters videos? - Yeah. - I don't know why and it was like, you know who believes in you more than anyone? The people talking bad about you. And for some reason, I was like, I need to send this to page. So if you look at your TikTok, it's just me sending you motivational videos against people who don't believe in you. So. - I love it. - We're really on the same page with that. - I really love it. - But finally, but I just say therapy is like, this is really therapy for us and I also just have to do a thank you to the gigglers because my special came out. The gigglers watched it. If you loved me, put it on one more time today. But like, there's so many people like, if I didn't have the gigglers like, who cares about us? I have the gigglers. I don't need other people's support. I don't need, you know, fake friends. I don't need industry. Like I just need the gigglers. - You're our Jalen Brunson, you know? (laughs) Okay. No, someone posted a old, like your our comedian, Jalen Brunson. - Someone posted a old article of like, someone making fun of me when I, you know, left reality TV being like, now she's gonna make fart jokes in comedy clubs. And it was, I was like, that's a quote taken exactly from you though. - I just said that. (laughs) - No words were changed. - Were they just reporting what they heard? - The news. (laughs) - The news. No, but whatever was making fun of me for like, this is gonna suck. I was like, you all created a monster now. But what would we do without the love and support of this community like? - I met a lot of gigglers this weekend like at airports. - I mean the gigglers are traveling. - They're traveling. - They're summering. - Just to get over with. I haven't taken my nicksured off since the last podcast just kidding, but the next one, and the funniest thing about it was Jalen Brunson looked at the camera and was like, "Guys, just be safe." - Yeah. There were 63 people injured and seven stabbings, and someone commented and said double, double, double, almost a double double, which is a hilarious basketball joke. But then someone goes, "No one died, a win is a win." And the bar is so low for men. (laughs) They're like, "Yeah, a bunch of people got stabbed "in Times Square, but no one died." (laughs) - Did you feel the video of the taxi driver that was just like, (laughs) "This is my livelihood." (laughs) I understand that the city is erupting. Like you could feel like it's moving. It's actually-- - It's moving. - I'm like, "Guys, we're gonna sink into the Hudson." (laughs) - Well, there were some gay guys that were like, I thought it was 9/11 again. I know there was a game going on. I just heard people yelling in the streets. (laughs) - There were two guys up on a like light pole, and they started making out. (laughs) - Fried one next to-- - And the comments were like, "If these were identifying straight men," and they're like, "It's not gay if it's 'cause the next one." - That is so-- - Here's another thing. (laughs) Also don't like the school buses on fire. Like it's really scary. (laughs) I'm so proud of the next. I'm so proud of the individual players because if there's one thing I'm gonna do while I'm watching a sports game, is like, I'm gonna just end up looking up like, "What's their girlfriend like?" And like, what's their vibe, you know? And so like, once you said that the one guy's parents passed away, I was like-- - No, I need to look up everyone's lore. - I need to look up everyone's lore. Such Ben Stiller's making a documentary, right? - Yeah, that's why he's walk around horizontal videoing everything. - Okay, such good stories for each of like the starting players. But I would be remissed if I did not bring up the number one thing And I thought the entire time, at the end of the game, the entire New York Knicks organization was wearing matching t-shirts, and we love that. I will have to point out that they were bedazzles. The second I saw it, I texted you. You texted me. We were like, "No one's gonna say anything about this?" "Now, be you, wherever style you want. What makes you happy? You like it, I love it." Someone at the corner office was like, "What had to make an actual call to be like, can we add bedazzles?" Girl made a tic-tac and she said, "Ladies, I hate to inform you, but we have in fact lost the war." And I'm not coming on here being a hater of it. I love it. I'm like, "Yes, this is what the men are missing. They need to be able to express their feelings. This is why." Our girls go. And that's all I'm saying. I'm like, "Okay, like totally, guys, do what you want, but I'm talking about who actually won the championship. First of all, we have Jordan Woods who like with her magical bag." And everyone was joking about it and then my the unknown was joking. People were like, "Where the fuck's the bag?" And I love that it was her own brand. Her own brand. I love it so much. I hope it sells out. And I hope that Tristan Thompson is somewhere, having a miserable time, well, that's not a problem. And I love that Jordan was like, "I never needed anyone." No. I was always that girl. And I like that. That's entrepreneurship at its finest. And then not to name job, but Jaylen Bronson's wife, Ali, who they've been dating since high school. Oh, I didn't know they've been dating since high school. I did watch a video of their wedding now. I did watch a full recap of their wedding. I did get to their wedding website. She's a giggler. Yes. And we met her. We've met her. It's fucking insane. My favorite part was he gave her the trophy at one point. And I don't know if you guys know the shape of the trophy, but like she started holding it like a baby. And it was so cute. And I'm like, and that's the mother of the team. For Daphne, we can like, we gift to like a lot of people. And we can see when they've been like, yes, I'll accept this gifting. And she accepted it like last week. And I was just like, oh my god, a girls girl. Ali, you're welcome to come on the pod. Chat the nix, huge sports podcast. Also, I have to do Women's Summer of the Week is Sandra's braids. She's been braiding a lot of the nix hair. And Josh Hart in particular, she braided it to have like a New York sign on top. And the guys like swear by it. And they need Sandra to do their hair before I do love the superstition that is involved in sports because it's like, oh, you guys don't believe in astrology. But if you don't wear the same underwear every day, okay, guys, why don't you keep it dazzling your shirts? Okay. We'll be over here. I also shut out New York Liberty. They're playing. The girls are still playing. But I do think it was a beautiful moment for New York in general. We needed the city coming together. People from all different places and stories and us all just syncing with the happiness. Well, also I think New York City has so much influence over the rest of the country. And so I feel like one wore up. Yeah. We set a tone. We set a certain tone. Yeah. And I really feel like New York City is, it is feeling very 2016. It literally was giving 2016. Yeah, I do kind of feel like I just got like out of college and I'm like, let's day drink somewhere with a breeze. Yeah. Wait. Are we still talking about the next or can we? No, we can move on. Okay. Thank you for asking for consent. This girl made a take-talk and she was like, I have best friend best friend with my best friend so hard that I know all of her fears, all of her hopes and dreams. Like, I know everything about her and she was like, but I don't know basic things about her. So they spent the night asking. And I sat there and I go, oh my God, gone to my head. Someone said, what's Hannah's favorite color? I have no fucking idea. We could like guess, but we've not, we don't know. I have no idea. Our next thing I'm going to get into is Mormon wives, which like might take the whole bod. However, they're, you know, Macy and Michaela don't hug. Like they hug everyone else. They look each other like, we don't hug. And I was like, we that's so best friend. Why can't best friends hug? I don't know. Because it's because I know too much. It's like we're so mentally connected that we're like, I don't need to touch you. It almost feels perfect. It feels that's why best friends like don't have photos together. Yeah, because I'm like this bit. Yeah, I'm gonna go like, it feels like we're making fun of our French. No, even on the road when they were like, can you guys make a TikTok together? We're like, with her. And anytime we're taking pictures and they say, look at each other and laugh. Oh my God. We physically can't do it. It's actually so uncomfy. Like we don't make eye contact. We just talk at each other. We only make eye contact when it's like, it's like, hey, look at me. I have to tell you something. And like, it's, it's like one more in a search situation. We're not speaking exactly. But also I was looking at a TikTok. There was like two types of girls growing up. The girls who liked pink and then the girls who like didn't like pink because it was like a statement. Yes. But like, that's me and you like, I know your favorite color was pink. Of course. Hannah, I remember. I remember the day the girls turned on me. They were like, you still like pink. And I was like, first of all, purple is for haters. Like you, it's like you want to be pink, but you won't commit to it. I'll never forget. I was in second grade when all of the sudden the girls were like, no, my favorite color is not pink. And I was like, the mason purple. Yeah. Yeah. Cause they, you know what it is. It's a little pick me to be like, I don't like pink. Well, then there'd be like one rogue girl that would be like orange. I was like, oh, freak. Well, I was like, find the patriarchy. So I probably said blue, but I didn't feel attached to blue. I just knew I didn't want pink. And when you start liking pink again, it shows like you're healing. I personally pink brings out like bed tones in my skin, so I personally don't, I think I, I really like green. It's funny that mystic. Michaela said that my aura is pink because from a very young age, I've actually felt an inanimate object vibe toward the color pink. Like if I didn't, if there was an option to get something, there were all different colors. I would feel guilty if I didn't get the pink one. Yeah, because it's because that's part of me. Like that's for me, even now as an adult, if there's like color options, everyone always knows page is going to want the pink one. You believe a pink microphone right now? Yeah. Cause it's cute. I really like the ugly green color that Dakota Johnson's kitchen was. Like that's my vibe. Yes. But that's also anyway, you guys, I've been in a cable. This is a top podcast. We literally the other day I was opening my fridge and I was like, we have a lot of responsibility. We so many people are listening to the bottom. Like, what do I want to say on the pod tomorrow that will like change humanity? And then I was like, I want to talk about Dakota Johnson's color of her. I have not stopped quoting Grace's date since I found out about it. And all I keep saying is like, we're going to make history. Like, I've been leaving the kitchen and saying it, like the show kids say the darnedest things. Yeah. Men say the darnedest things needs to be like the next show. Like, please send us all the things that men have said to you and we'll start a segment with it. Also, it's Grace's birthday. Happy birthday, Grace. Yes. Our Lord and Savior. Okay. I've been in a true K-hole with Mormon wives and look, I know I'm annoying. God forbid I watch something when everyone else is watching it. I have to wait like six years later and then I text page. I'm like, wait, the show's really good. You're like Kim Kardashian. How did she do that? Oh, yeah, she's like, have you guys listen to Insync? Game of Thrones was like the biggest phenomenon of the whole country. It was like the last time we were actually united as a country was what the season finale was on and people like hated it. I didn't watch the season. Three weeks later, Kim Kardashian, like comes on Instagram stories and is like, have you guys heard of Game of Thrones? Everyone's like, yeah. I'm obsessed with her. So Mormon wives is one of the best, like it's, I might be better than VaynerPump rules. 100%. Because for so many reasons, but one positive thing I want to say about it is I've never seen women on TV pregnant going about their life in such a normal way. I feel like whenever someone's pregnant, they're either hiding it or they're like, everyone's making a big deal of it. I don't know, but these girls are just fully pregnant, having fights, talking shit, taking care of their kids, talking about their sex life. It is not. Like, I'm learning more about being pregnant than ever before. - Yeah, it's, they make it feel very like, your life doesn't stop. You're just adding like bonus fun to it. Like, what are you talking about? You could do anything with a baby. - Yeah, there's like nine girls. Someone's always pregnant and they don't even acknowledge it. They're like, "Oh, it's you today." (laughing) - Yeah, it's, I don't think people talk about that enough because like, what other reality show is really about like the early lives of people, like the early relationships of people? - Or like, when someone is pregnant, they're like, she's pregnant, she can't come, she's pregnant. These girls are literally like, yelling at people's husbands, fully pregnant. And then all Michaela and Macy do is eat. And I'm obsessed, they had like a road trip and they stopped to pee like eight times and eat. And I'm like, that's incredible journalism of what it's like being pregnant in like a funny way. And it makes me feel like, I was always so scared of pregnancy in terms of like, what do you do? You're just like sad and pregnant in a corner. - Yeah. - These girls are like, you can do anything pregnant. - Yeah, and I feel like I already have, and you too, we've already gone to so many functions where people will be like drinking, where we're not drinking. And I'm like, oh, okay, like I can survive it. I think of it as like, sorry, I'm Irish exiting pregnant. I'm rolling a human. God forbid I have to leave and use the bathroom. - I'm getting a cheese fry. - Yeah, like, okay, what about it? - Also, now I realize like, first of all, I'm kind of a Mormon wife because they all wear their hair down the middle with waves. But you know, that's what I ask for. Then, Loki, everywhere they go, like the one problem with me with reality TV is I actually didn't like drinking and I wasn't good at drinking. And but I was in my mid 20s, so like, you could have convinced me to do anything. - Yeah. - Even though no one asked me to do cocaine, which is a whole, you can listen to that episode another time. But all these girls go everywhere and they're like, we got these mock tails and I'm like, fun. - Cute. - And said, I'm the loser that's like whispering the mock tail. I want to order. Everyone's like, what's that? What's that? What's that? And I'm like, it's the Hibiscus tea, like men. And it's really expensive. - Wait, it's always the Hibiscus. - It's always the Hibiscus with some gender in mind. - So where people love Hibiscus. And then they're making them like shots. And I'm like, I want to hang out with these girls 'cause all they're doing is drinking cute fun drinks all this. Everywhere they go, they're like, here's your fun drink. And don't tell me that like they need alcohol to fight 'cause these girls do not. And they're pregnant. Like, how do they have the fucking energy? I'm just like so impressed. I have so many thoughts. - Well, they're young. - And I'm learning more about Mormonism, which you guys know like we have a recess with. Do you know what a BYU Super Weekend is? A BYU Super Weekend. Okay, so bring 'em, bring 'em, bring 'em young. - Mr. Young. - Is the college. - Yeah, so all of them are Mormons in college. - And a Super Weekend. - Ooh. - You're gonna love this. - Is a Super Weekend when you have like mixers and you meet like potentially your husband? - It has to do with Vegas. - Page. - No. - When they want to have sex, they go to Vegas. Get married, have sex, and then a null it, and then go back home. And I said, these people are fucking geniuses. I'm upset. You would have loved to be why you're surprised. - That is like rebellion at a 14 year old reading level because what do you mean you're a grown adult? (laughing) - Well, they want to go to heaven. - Okay. - They want to go to heaven. - God created sex. - I never, I'll never got that. Like if he didn't want you to do it, it wouldn't like. - Why? - So I don't think that God cares about the details that much. - No. - God's dealing with like serious things. He's not gonna get into semantics. - The nitty gritty of if the penis fully went in. - Okay. - So leave me out of it. - Okay, so then they have this thing called docking. - Okay. - It's like a little gross, but it's basically when this how they describe it. They put the hot dog in the bun and just move it, but it doesn't go in anything. - What's bun? - The vagina labia. So they just like put the dick on top of it. - Yeah. And they call it docking. - And they just stare at it. - They do it. - They do it. - What do we do? - And do what? - By the way, all this stuff is bigger than sex, by the way. - It's like so weird. (laughing) - It's actually 10 times more intimate. - Imagine going to Vegas, going through a whole ceremony and then he comes in 13 seconds, 'cause you know these men will, 'cause they're like not watching porn or anything. And then you're like, we did a whole, we did paperwork for you to come in 13 seconds. And you know these girls are in orgasm. - If I have to match a shoe to an outfit. (laughing) - My libido is down. I've ruined the moment. How horned up are they? - And they're all doing anal. - I'm for an extent. - They're all doing anal. - Not all of them. - Okay. - But they're all doing anal. - They're the freakyest. Look, I, fully, this is why I love Mormonism. I believe that you should be able to believe any religion you want at any, as long as you're not murdering people. Like I think you should believe whatever the fuck you want. - I forgot what I was going to say. (laughing) - No, I agree. And as long as your religion isn't hurting other people. - Well, you could argue that any religion is a little bit culty. Like you could hear something. - Sure. - And that's a little culty. - No, I would argue all of them. (laughing) - I think what's happening to these women is, it started to be like a couple things. They're like, that's weird. But then by the end, they're like literally all these rules are like to suppress us. And we love God and we love morals. But at this point. - Well, we were talking about this last night that like obviously we think that reality TV is such the best study of anthropology, but Mormon wives is even 10 times better than that because when they do certain things, you can exactly pinpoint why. So it's like these things have been done to your mom and then she did them to you. And now that's how you think and you might do it to your daughter where like the Mormon housewives are kind of being like, "But I am not gonna do it." Like I don't think any of those women are going to put the sexual shame on their daughters that was put on them. - A hundred percent. - Like I really don't see them ever heard. - They're gonna talk to them. They're gonna ask, like, imagine putting your daughter in a room with a man and she doesn't know anything. You need to send her in equipped. I'm gonna tell her all the bad things to look out for, all the good things. Like I'm sending her in with a fucking checklist. - Did you sex talk with your mom? - Yeah. - Because Lenore is a principal. Like did she? I wonder if she had like a strategic. - Well this is the thing. I was a huge prune 'cause I was just cared about tennis and I was the oldest of the family. So I didn't have like older sisters or older brothers telling me things. Like I remember being a sleepover and someone's like so-and-so's horny and I was like, do they need to get that check? Like are there bumps? Like I thought they meant they had like horns coming out of their skin. And I was like- - Like I remember the first time someone said 69. - I was like, no, yeah. - My mom literally, like, it was, she laughed 'cause I was the last to find out everything and she's like, you're such a big loser. - No, but that's very sweet. And yeah, she didn't have to, I one point she was like, do you want to talk to a boy? - Yeah. - When I dated my super religious football player that I talk about in the special, we did have a moment and he literally was like, you have to come to Bible study with me or like I don't feel like you're like a good enough person. And I was like, wait, but I'm trying to make good decisions and be kind to people just out of my heart not because someone's telling me to. - Exactly. - And he, like his brain exploded. I'm like, you don't actually need someone to tell you to be a good person. That's just how I was raised and what I'm trying to be. - I feel like people that are bad people, like really, really bad people, they know. Like they know they're bad people because like if something happens in front of you and your immediate reaction isn't like, to help that person or check on that person, you're a bad person. - But also, I do think religion really helps people. - Yeah, in terms of a lot of ways, but I just don't like when people- - Did anyone see Giggly Squad discussing religion? (laughing) - This is a crazy, this is a faith-based podcast. - Yeah, and you know what? This is a faith-based podcast. - Would you consider yourself- - What's your religion? (laughing) - No, like honestly. - So I say that I'm agnostic, which means I'm not saying I don't believe anything. I just like know that I don't know what's happening. - But did you make your confirmation? - No. - Did you make your first Holy Communion? - Yes. - Yeah, I had a little dress. But my parents wanted us to be raised like, knowing about a lot of different religions. But like, like in my class, so diverse, like- - So you've never been like, oh, I'm Catholic or oh, I'm Jewish, or you just say yeah. - I would joke that like I'm half and half, but like we weren't really celebrating much. It was mostly my Italian Nana being like, it's Christmas and I'm like, this is fucking awesome. - Yeah. - Also, my Nana wanted me to text, let you guys know. When the next one, the other game, and I said everyone was asleep. my Nan and Papa were awake and I call them. - Well, Nan and Papa saw the one in the 70s. - Nan and Papa been awake. Nan and Papa stay up late party. - Do they? - Oh yeah, Nan is up on her Instagram, responding to people's DMs. - Wait, now I'm like, what is Nan and schedule? If you had to pinpoint a time that she's resting her head on a pillow, like 11 p.m. - Late. - Like my parents are asleep by 10. Nan is 11.30, sending me DMs. - No way. - And what time do you think she's waking up? - Good question. I know that she wakes up, she doesn't exercise is, then she calls Rosemary and they gossip. - You think she's waking up at like 7 a.m. or like 9.30. - I don't think 9.30 now. I think she's awake. I don't know, I guess yeah, I feel like you need less hours. - Wait, I need to know Nan and schedule. - We need to know, we might have to get her on. - Yeah. - Oh, my final thing that the Mormons say, I guess they don't say God, so they say oh my hell, oh my hell. - I didn't pick up on that. - They love saying oh my hell, and I'm like that doesn't come off the tongue easy. - Oh my hell. - But like when you're raised, everyone's saying oh my hell, that's just what they say. Oh my God, it's a lot, a lot harder. - I say oh my God, literally every other sentence. - But like they don't say God's name and vein. - The wedding I went to this weekend, the I think she was the maid of honor, whatever she spoke for the bride. - She started, she would know she was doing a prayer. She started it out, dear God, me again. (laughs) - And it just started, like she's leaving a voicemail. - Hey. - I thought it was like so cute and like fun. Like she found a way to make the prayer. Like she had to get up in front of everyone. She found a way to like make it a little funny. - She's like some other people are, you're on speaker. I just thought it was so cute. - No, I love that also, by the way, I pray. - Do you? Okay, interesting. - Like not fully committed, but every now and then, I just have a moment where like honestly, I pray when something good happens to me, when something good happens, I just go, thank you whoever. - Do you say, okay, so I was gonna say, do you say dear God or like? - I feel like I say that I'm like God, Jesus, whoever you are, you're my girl, thank you. Like when something really good happens, I feel like you foric. I always feel like there's like. - Yeah. - Something going on bit's bigger than me, and I like to acknowledge like. - That this was not just me. - Or it's just like thinking life, you know? Like thank you life for this moment. And then like in two seconds, I'm annoyed with something. - Right. - It's very, I do feel, I would classify myself as like pretty religious. - No, I know. - Yeah. - My blonde best friend, Hailey Nicola, Hailey's like Sue for religious. - Hailey's very religious. - I love having friends who have different like perspectives than I do, 'cause it's perfect. - 100%. - No, no, you're super religious. Also Kim preys for the success of Gateway Squad every day, and that's why we're here. - Kim preys all the time. - You got any prayers from Nikkeh? I told you this story when I like went through her prayer journal one time. - She's a prayer journal. - Oh my God, yeah. We were like, we were somewhere together. Oh no, I think she was just like at my apartment. - Of course she goes 'cause she's Kim Shakespeare to Sorbo with her feather pen. And I'm just like, no, her handwriting is so good. And I'm just like going through her prayer journal and all I see is like, Gary, Gary, Gary. (laughing) And I'm like, oh, wait, you can't go through a prayer journal, it's like going through her literal-- - Are you kidding? Hannah, I've been crazy from a young age. Are you seeing? I used to go through my own dad's phone. Like when he got a cell phone, I'd be like, yeah, let me see. - And I would go through his own text messages. And when I'll never forget one day asking my mom, like, do you ever go through dad's phone? And she was like, no, why would I? You do it for me. (laughing) - So she's on your email, you're on Gary's phone point. (laughing) - We know no peace at that house. We know everyone knows everything about everyone. - She is Russia. - The second my brother leaves her house, she's on the phone. She goes, you'll never guess what he said. (laughing) - All we do is talk about the four of us with each other. - I see my dad like still can't figure out how to post an Instagram story, so my mom and I literally are like, how does he even use his phone? (laughing) - The one day my dad like deleted a text and I go, why'd you delete that? That was like a new conversation. - And he got like confused. - And he was like, well, it's said I had no storage left anymore and I was like, okay, you're lucky. 'Cause I was like, oh, you learned how to delete a text message. Like what was in the first session? - Who told you that? Someone cooked here. - And he was like, what? (laughing) Also, I saw a TikTok from Trixie Mattel who's randomly like David Attenborough talking about birds, how scientists did a study where they let birds FaceTime each other. So like a bunch of birds, the birds are FaceTime each other and using their little tongues and they're calling, like the ones that are calling more birds are getting more calls back. So like they have like a full social system. - They're recognizing like the birds? - Yes, these birds, birds are literally like key keying on FaceTime. They're like, they have best friends. - What kind of birds? - It looks like a like, it wasn't a parrot but it was like a parakeet type thing. - I don't know. - Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. - They literally like, they're bonding with each other. They're like picking the birds. They like more, they're bullying each other. But like, they're recognizing the birds owners. Like, its birds are really out here being smart as fuck and that's why I'm like, are the pigeons okay? Like these pigeons are not getting what they need to be the best versions of themselves. - My Aunt Pam used to have a pet parakeet and her name was Lovey and she was like, this is my favorite pet, like I've literally ever had. Like it was like the sweetest bird ever and this is like really morbid but one day I asked her like how, I mean, the bird was alive for like maybe like seven years, maybe 10, I don't know. This was years ago, we're going back like 20 years ago and the one day I really wanted to know how she knew it died and she said that it was literally standing on its perch and it just. - I don't know. - No, because it's not funny. - And it's not funny. I'm not making fun of the dub of Annoy. It's like giving Shrek when she starts singing really high in the bird pups. No wait, now I want a bird. - Butter would be like, I fucking kidding me. Like butter would have to murder the bird. That's like in their nature. - This is so deep in our friendship. I am, I woke up, I had a dream that me, you, Daphne and Butter were hanging out and then I looked and but and Daphne was bleeding and I was like, oh my God. And I'm petting, I'm like, Daphne is bleeding and you were like, are you sure? And I'm like, butter, butter scratched her and I'm like, how did, talked to Butter, I said butter. She has an agent, she has a manager, she's a team. You're gonna get sued, you can't act this way. I know she probably said something that pissed you off but like, you're gonna get in trouble now. - Her hind legs are actually injured. - Like Jules, but. - I'm also on a crazy algorithm. Have you seen the Jojo Siwa cruise? - I know. - Paige, I watched one video and now I'm getting, everyone's tick-tocking from the Jojo Siwa cruise. - Where is it, like, what's the route? - I don't know the route but I do have to say the reviews are incredible. Like 10 out of 10, everyone's like, this is the greatest cruise of my life. - Wait, that makes me so happy for her. - I think it's 'cause it's not like that many people. So Jojo Siwa is literally like talking to everyone. Like they're giving each other gifts. Like it's like this community and these are not like, these are like 30 year old girls going on this cruise and they just love Jojo Siwa. They're getting the best gift bags. - Well, they grew up with her. - Exactly. - They watch dance bombs, yeah. - And they talk about how like Jojo gets so much online hate so to see her doing what she loves is so beautiful. And you know what? - Hell yeah. - Hell yeah. - That makes me really happy for her. - Yeah. - My algorithm is I keep getting two nuns. - Oh, with the podcast? - Yeah. - Sister, what's your favorite hobby? - Sister, I don't have a hobby. - I was like, sister, I've seen you playing ultimate frisbee and sister. - You're good, sister. - I literally stopped and was like, this is me and Hannah in a different time box. (laughing) Imagine if we were nuns. - There's a difference between sisters and nuns. I didn't know that. - What's the difference? - One legitimately devotes their entire life to prying for you. Like there are, and I think that's a nun. I'm gonna make sure though. Like there are nuns somewhere right now in a church prying for like you. Like they pray for everyone. Like that is for a job. - There's factories of prayer where they're mass producing prayer. - There's like the sheen of prayer. - It's like a clickbait farm, it's, but it's like a click for a prayer. - I love how you're like religion is my whole life. No idea between a nun and a sister. (laughing) - Yeah, I had no idea there was a difference. A nun lives cloistered, and which is like focused on just prayer. And then a sister lives an active life. So like if you had a teacher, they're a sister. Which I did not know that. - So, but it sounds like it's a little rectangle square. - A nun takes solemn vows, a sister takes simple vows. So like a solemn vow. [BLANK_AUDIO] sister have a boyfriend? No, neither of them can. Okay. So like if you're a sister, you have a, you live a regular life, you go have a job. But if you're a non, you're all about prayer. I would love some stats of like how many people their entire life are part of the sisterhood? Is that what they call it? Sisterhood of the traveling pants and they also have a traveling skirt that they send back and forth to each other? No, I wonder like if you become a sister or a non, I wonder how many of them do it for a certain amount of years and then are like, so yeah. Yeah, like I wonder like what if I wanted to like be a sister for a year? Like page and how to try new things? I think I actually, I want to say that I graduated high school. I'm an up to ask Stephanie, but I want to say that I graduated high school and a girl went to the nunhood? Yeah, to the nunnery. Like went to the nunnery. I think my mom actually might have like even thought about it. Try to get you to be a nun? No, thought about it like for herself. I feel like I have to ask. I feel like every, there was an age for Italian women where it's like you become a nun or you get married, which one do you want? There was no one between. Yeah. They were like choose Jesus or a guy named Joe. My second grade teacher was her name was sister Sheila. And she hated me. She hated me so much. She's so mean. I'm not going to show so mean to me. I was like stupid so I didn't know when people were being mean to me. I'd have to go home and tell my mom about it. That's kind of like being you though. I feel like I get home from something and I tell you how someone talked to me and you were like, you didn't say anything back. What? Hold on. Say verbatim what they said to you. No, so many times. It's funny with our friendship because like obviously we're from reality TV. So like I've seen whole dissertations about you, like on the internet before. And like, like there are so many things that I've wanted to comment where I was like, I will come to your home and kill you. I do say one thing. I'm not a fighter like my family never fought. I'm not fighting with my brother. I don't fight with people. I don't fight with my friends. I'm more of like, I run away from any conflict. Only fights I've had is like on the tennis court, which is like, that just works. You're not confrontational. No. So like on TV, those were like the only fights I've ever had in my life, which is why I think when like a man would yell at me, I'd be like, does anyone else see this crazy? I was like, I've never been spoken to like, this is insane. This is crazy. Where I feel like people have been mean to me my whole life. Like when someone yelled at me, I was like, I'm calling the police. I'm calling the police. Yes. Like if there's a woman now, we're women, that's mean to me. I'm like, you're not my first mean girl. Like think of something new. Like you are not my first situation where like, you're being a bitch to me. Where I feel like for you, when we were on reality TV, there were a lot of things where you like, that's my first time. And I'm fighting with seasoned veterans. Okay. Like I remember the first time I had approached someone about something, I was shaking. But also, I've also been like bullied a lot growing up. Like we're similar in different ways. We're like, people talk shit on me for sure. But my dad was always like, speak with your racket. Like speak with your, it was very like, do not address the haters. Like I've never had to sit in a room and like talk to someone who I knew like wanted to destroy me. Yeah. Where like guys, when I see, if I see like a rumor about myself or like something that's just like categorically false or whatever, I'm like, yeah, like people have been making up rumors about me since I was in sixth grade. Like I knew you've like confronted people. Yeah. And I'm just like, yeah, I've never confronted. But also I haven't too. I'm like, so it depends. Yeah. There's sometimes where I'm like, well, I don't even know you. So why would I confront? But that's why I feel so performative because it's like cameras everywhere. And you're like, let's see how this goes. And then you're like, even like boyfriends, I never felt with boyfriends. It was more like, no, I've made a whole sport of that page. When I tell you like, yeah, I've had, I definitely had my fights. But it was, it was like someone would get up and leave. There was never like name calling, it never would escalate. And it would be like, it would happen once or twice. And then I'm like, and I'm done here. Yeah. Or like someone would get mad and the other one wouldn't. Yeah. It's like our friendship, like how many times have me and you off camera? Never. Never. Here's the thing. I do think that you get to a certain amount of years with a friend that like, you just can't do it anymore. Like you both have to bow out. You know, we're at a point where like, for us to not be friends again, we would have to do something to the other one. Diabolical. That's so fucking crazy that it would be someone would be like trying to self-sabotage something. Yes. Yeah. But I would argue because we're so close that it would be as there would be a sit-down and we'd be like, we'd catch it. Are you okay? Yeah. What's going on? Yeah. Also, we can just, it is really a relationship where it's two people. It's like, if we didn't want to make this work, we could have ended it immediately. Totally. Like we choose each other. Wait, I was at a wedding. You started the vows and you thought of me. There was a moment where she was like someone was saying something and I was like, and in my head, I thought, that's true of friendship. You raise your hand, you're like, sorry. No, because it actually is very true of friendship. You have to actively choose that person every day and be like, that is my friend. And I'm going to treat her like my friend. Period. And it's almost like Mormon wives where I like to watch to see like, who starts hating people, like, who's the villain? And I realize like, the villain is who just everyone decides they're over. Because if you look at what actually was done, like so many things were done by so many people, but it's the thing that everyone decides being like, that's a thing that we're not forgiving you for. Because no one wanted to like that person. Well, everyone's done bad things before and everyone's been meant to someone. Everyone's made someone feel hurt. Like you're alive. That's like what it is supposed to be experiencing life. It's how you change or if someone says you hurt my feelings, it's how you apologize and don't do it again. Like that is a whole part of life. You're supposed to make mistakes so that you become a better fucking person in these shows. Like people will straight up apologize and people like, I don't believe you, but then someone else will apologize and they're like, we know we love you. And yeah, that's why also in like a reunion when the girls are yelling at each other, I'm like, but you did that to hurt too. Right. You're yelling at her about it. Right. Right. Well, reality TV has to be hypocritical because then they wouldn't have a show. Like everyone can have the same stance and storyline every year. You have to switch it up or else it would be boring. So a lot of the things people get in trouble for they've done. The accuser has done. It just rotates. It literally rotates. There is a crazy documentary out on HBO right now called Paradise P-E-A-R. And it's this guy who during COVID, he invades, sorry, anytime someone brings up pairs, I think of Rick Ross. And I just, sorry, there's just a video of Rick Ross. I'm not kidding. This is like 15 years old. And he just says shout out to all the pairs, like, like an actual pair. Like he's like, I love pairs. And anytime someone talks about pairs, I just think like, I love a green pair. You know, I'm not someone to grab a pair from a fruit basket and bite. Arguably the best bite is the fat part of a pair. Like I probably haven't bit into a pair in 15 years. This is an old pair. That I left on my blog as does from two days ago. Wow. Are you eating a lot of fruit during the day? No, I went, I'm like at home for like a week, so I tried to go grocery shopping and I bought like tons of fruit and I got home when I ate a pair and that was about it. And I never buy pairs. Interesting. Okay, keep going with what you're saying. So this guy during COVID, he's like this nerd from Berlin. And he goes to America and he decided he want to get rich. So he invents this thing. You know, this is so bougie. But you know, I guess convertibles, you can't put your convertible up while you're moving. Yeah. So he invented something to help whatever his got. The rich people can't stop this option. So he buys this mansion in Vegas. And he starts telling people I love plus size women. Okay. And I created this thing called Paradise. P-E-A-R. He thought he was like so slick for it. And he's like, I want to create a community where women could be themselves. And I want to be a friend, come live with me. And he's, he's has this obsession with women who are like over six feet and over 500 pounds. Like that's his like type. So these girls who have fell over 500 pounds. Are there that many people that he's finding that are over We're 500 pounds. - Well, with the TikTok algorithm, it's like these girls who have felt like outsiders and low self esteem are like, this guy is creating a community where I'm the norm. So you walk in and all the girls have the same body type. And I mean, they're so funny, they're all gorgeous. I'm like, funny, you found me the most beautiful woman. And over time, people are like, he's a creep. And then there's this concept called fetism. Are you aware of fetarism? - No. (laughing) - I actually wasn't that familiar, but it's actually like really dangerous. It's like a kink where men like to watch, I don't know if it's just men and women, but people like to watch people eat and have their body change. So like they get turned on by women eating and they're stomach getting bigger. To the point they want the person to eat so much that they like can't walk. - Wait, this feels really illegal. - No, this feels like a weird type of abuse. - But these girls can go on these sites and make money where men will watch them eat and get bigger, but then girls can die from fetarism 'cause they're like need money, but then they're eating so much that their body shuts down. - Oh. - Yeah, so anyway, that's on HBO. (laughing) It's crazy. It's crazy. - So anyway, if you're trying to take the edge off tonight, let me throw that on. Okay. - We really, today was weird. (laughing) - I feel weird, you feel weird. But that's a good way to-- - Today was really weird. Wait, the last thing, and then we'll leave it on that. - Tyra Banks, who winged Netflix. - Did you see that? - I feel like she should do her own documentary. - Right. - Instead of fighting with Netflix because that has to be expensive. - I'm just interested to follow the story. - She's suing them for defamation. - It's annoying 'cause she was in it. So that's why she probably feels like she can't just do in her own, but I would argue like, yeah, do your own. We'll watch. Let's hear your silence. - All I do is watch TV. So yeah, send it to me. - Her argument was like, Jay Manuel was saying, I didn't visit him in the hospital, and she was like, I lived in Australia. - Well, Kelly Catrone was on a podcast recently, and I saw a bunch of clips on TikTok, and she was like, are you kidding? You're gonna make a documentary about how Tyra was awful. She gave you relevance, jobs, full careers, and you're gonna sit and make a documentary about how she didn't like, I mean, she was really team Tyra and really against. - Jay Manuel, I do think too. It's easy to be like Tyra's the worst and everyone else were like innocent angels that were just like along for the ride, and it's like, that's not, that's not for the case. Lastly, I just wanted you guys to know, you apparently could reorder your grid on Instagram. Have you seen this? - No. - Is that true though? - I have it on mind that like, but I don't love it 'cause it's like too many options, like I feel like you are gonna be like obsessed with it and like changing your grid every five minutes. - Can we hang up and can you like, FaceTime me how you're doing that because I need to know that I'm gonna be like. - No, like, you created a monster. - So you're gonna like, no, like you're never gonna be available again. - Sorry, I have to go. - Sorry, I'm reorganizing my grid. - Sorry, I'm working on my grid right now. Someone DM me and was like, your grid's really good right now. And I was like, period. - Period. - We love you guys so much. Thanks for giggling and have an amazing week. - Bye.

Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. The group reflects on how their friendship and personal growth have mirrored therapy, with members realizing that therapy helped them process stress, shame, and the pressure of self-perception in early adulthood.
  2. Financial strain and societal trends—like the rise of unbrushed hair and "cunt" fashion—have influenced their self-image and brand identity, while also showing how personal comfort and authenticity are becoming more valued.
  3. A shared spiritual and emotional insight emerges

Summary:

The podcast features a lively, intimate conversation among close friends about personal growth, mental health, and self-perception. They reflect on how therapy became a vital tool in their 30s, contrasting their past avoidance of therapy in their 20s due to guilt or financial constraints. They discuss societal shifts, like fashion choices and body positivity, and how these mirror their own evolving identities.

A key moment is when one friend links her early morning motivation to the belief that negative energy (such as online criticism) fuels her creativity and positivity, reflecting a deeper spiritual connection. The group also shares humorous anecdotes, including a wedding experience, TikTok trends, and a deep dive into reality TV culture, particularly Mormon Wives, which they praise for its authentic portrayal of pregnancy, relationships, and female agency. They touch on religion, friendship dynamics, and the power of community, emphasizing how the "Giggly Squad" functions as both a support network and a form of emotional therapy.

The conversation ends with a lighthearted note on social media, algorithmic influence, and the joy of shared experiences, culminating in gratitude for each other’s presence and support. The tone is warm, self-aware, and deeply rooted in authenticity, highlighting how friendship, personal struggle, and resilience shape identity in everyday life.

FAQs

The Giggly Squad serves as a therapeutic and supportive community, helping members process emotions, navigate life challenges, and find joy through shared experiences and laughter.

They felt their issues weren’t serious enough to warrant therapy and felt guilty about using someone else’s time, especially since they didn’t have childhood trauma or deep psychological issues.

They believe the ringing in their ears was a sign that someone was talking badly about them, and that this negativity led to a surge of motivation and positivity, which inspired their morning routine.

They see reality TV, particularly shows like 'Mormon Wives,' as a valuable study of real-life behaviors and relationships, showing how women navigate pregnancy, relationships, and emotional challenges with authenticity.

A sister lives an active, worldly life and may have a job or a career, while a nun takes solemn vows and dedicates her life to prayer and spiritual devotion, often living in a cloistered environment.

They believe that facing criticism and negativity — especially online — actually fuels their motivation and leads to personal growth, turning negative energy into positivity and success.

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