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3 Cocktails In
Addicting conversations between friends who have been there, done that and still want more.
We are 3 friends who got this crazy idea to start a podcast based on our friendships, family lives, professional lives and experiences! This idea kept coming up in our conversations, especially after a cocktail or two or maybe three, and we finally decided to ACT on it!
We don't claim to be experts on too many things, but friendship? Well, we've got that down. We're making our way through major life changes, searching for work that excites us, busting myths associated with 'old' people, and keeping a sense of humor about it all.
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Amy, Kitty & Stacey
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3 Cocktails In
Cheers to Personal Branding
Ever turned leftover cocktails into slushies? That's just one of the fun tidbits we're serving up on this episode of "3 Cocktails In". From quirky kitchen hacks to the ever-evolving landscape of fashion norms, we explore how attire speaks volumes about who we are and how we're perceived. As we sip on our drinks, we ponder the shift from formal to business casual attire, sharing personal tales of fashion faux pas and triumphs. Whether you're the type to challenge dress codes or strategically overdress, join us for a conversation that ties together creativity, personal style, and societal expectations.
But professional attire is just the start. We venture into the realm of personal branding, where every small habit can leave a lasting imprint. Drawing inspiration from films like "The Intern," we question if there's still merit in the traditional suit and tie and how it stacks up in today's casual world. Through anecdotes, like Grandpa Fred's poignant legacy, we reflect on how consistent actions can define how we're remembered. This episode promises to inspire self-awareness and offers insights into aligning our outward image with our inner essence, all while sharing a laugh and a toast along the way.
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Amy, Kitty & Stacey
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All right running, get me to the top, I don't need a.
Speaker 2:Well, good afternoon, good evening, good morning, whatever, whatever it is. Hi guys, how are you? Welcome to another episode of Three Cocktails In. We are excited to be here with you today and thank you for tuning in.
Speaker 3:It is delightful to be back and feeling fairly normal. How many days?
Speaker 2:How many days was it?
Speaker 3:This Friday will be three weeks, I think three weeks. I do think I had COVID, just because one person in my office who was in that big meeting with me, she had COVID. And now I talked to another woman who said, oh yeah, I got COVID and I sat right next to her. I said, oh, you mean when you were bragging how you felt fine and you had nothing wrong. She goes, yeah, yeah, that night I started to feel crappy. So this was a little bit different Lots in the chest. The first couple was more of a whole body ache. But yeah, I think I only took Sudafed once today. So I'm going to say woo-hoo.
Speaker 2:That's good. You've definitely turned the corner.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and thus I have a cocktail. Cheers in the corner? Yeah, and thus I have a cocktail. I need to clear out my refrigerator like Stacy does.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, I'm still working on that and I'm not getting very far oh well, keep at it, you can, can do it.
Speaker 2:Power through, that's what we do here.
Speaker 4:We cheer each other on yes, yes of all things.
Speaker 3:And we've got to think out of the box. So just stupid. This is not really what we're talking about tonight, but I made this grapefruit Paloma tequila cocktails at Christmas and after the girls left left, there was a huge pitcher left. I poured that in a tupperware and I froze it. So now I have slush oh, I bet that's good.
Speaker 4:That sounds a little potent. Well, use it, use the slush and then put a little mixer in with it.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah it's like a half and half. It's so potent and it's a lot of grapefruit. I'm not that strong of a grapefruit person, oh, but yeah, you know. Reuse, renew, recycle, yeah, do your part Repurposed.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Right, good, yeah, that's a shot. That is a shot. Yeah, thank you for the tip. I'm here for you. So I had a really fun experience last week that, I think, is going to kind of help us transition into our topic today. So, as you guys know, once a month I go and co-host a networking event with a former colleague of mine, and last week he was traveling and so I co-hosted with someone else and I co-hosted with a man named James Damien who is a just, he's an amazing design leader. I almost said thought leader. Thank you, he's a design leader. He worked, has worked for Tiffany's. He's worked. He was at Best buy for many, many years. And the man exudes this um, uh, what is the word? The words are very important here because I I want to do him justice. He is so classy and like whenever we knew that we were going to be seeing him or having a meeting with him, literally I would say what am I going?
Speaker 3:to wear. Yeah.
Speaker 2:So because, because I wanted to, I wanted to show up in such a way that he would look at me and say, oh, she really looks put together. So, in he walks last week for our session and of course he was smashing, he had a beautiful suit on and we got to chatting a little bit before the event started and before we started the panel discussion and he said Kitty, you always look so nice. It's astonishing to me how poor so many people look.
Speaker 4:Poor meaning out.
Speaker 2:People just don't dress up anymore, they purposely dress down, and so we just got on a really really short conversation about how, you know, when business casual kind of entered the scene, business casual meant something very different, but it was just sort of the super slide down that kind of took us to today, where people just kind of show up I'm just talking about at work first of all, yeah, at work, wearing whatever, whatever they want to wear. So it was an interesting exchange that he and I had last week and COVID made.
Speaker 3:Dressing in social functions brought all that down. Leggings and sweatshirts are acceptable behavior going out, I'm not so much.
Speaker 4:Yeah, leggings and sweatshirts are acceptable behavior going out, yeah, I'm not so much if you're just going out to dinner or whatever. I don't like it, but whatever. But I'll give you an example. We had a big corporate meeting, you know, with customers, and it's not quite a year ago and we've we did it two times that way and we're not doing that again this year. But I just felt like, as you know us as employees, we should dress, dress up, number one and much better than what we wear during the day. Because I admit, we wear jeans and you know a uniform shirt, you know, um, or sweater or something. It's not just a t-shirt, right, or a sweatshirt, it's a uniform sweater or long sleeve or whatever, you know. I just felt like, as a outing at Eve in the evening, we should look, you know, very dressed up, different than everybody that's attending the meeting. And you think anybody did, but me, nope, no.
Speaker 2:No, and in fact, I've found that when somebody at a higher level establishes or states a dress code for something, people automatically want to revolt against it. Yeah, because they can't tell. Automatically want to revolt against it. Yeah, because they can't tell me what to wear, exactly, exactly. And oh my gosh, as we go into this conversation the whole time, I'm sitting here thinking, okay, are we going to sound like those angry women who are complaining about you know whatever, but I am on the side of there's nothing wrong with your employer saying this is how. This is the presentation that we want to have, because it's important.
Speaker 2:What we're talking about tonight is personal branding. We're kind of kicking off the conversation from a business from a business perspective, right, we're kind of kicking off the conversation from a business from a business perspective, right, but the three of us um, so our listeners, the three of us, were just kind of chatting a week or so ago and we started talking about how we show up in our personal circles. Um, I was kind of sharing a little bit about beau, who's 23, and I look at him sometimes and I think, wow, we could really do better here. You are a privileged 23-year-old, you don't need to look like you just walked in off the street. So, talking about personal branding tonight and why it's so important, I'm very passionate about this topic.
Speaker 3:You know I have to agree and beyond just work. But because of the rise of social media, is there any different? Do you have two different personas? I don't think you do. I think that how you present yourself on your social media, unless you're private, unless your social media is private, then you do you Absolutely fine. I think we have to take a bigger look at what the total package is. Yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and it really doesn't. It doesn't take a lot of money and it doesn't have to take a lot of time. To use many of Stacy's favorite words, there are multiple hacks out there. To get yourself to an elevated state, yeah, you don't have to be rich. You don't have to even elevated state, yeah, you don't have to be rich. You don't have to even do makeup. There are many ways to um like, you know the old dress for the job you want. You know your audience.
Speaker 2:Another good thing you know, if you want someone else to feel special, yeah, To show that you appreciate what they're doing yeah, yeah, or that, if, if so, if you're, let's say, you're going on a date with somebody and thanks, get on me right now. Well, actually I'm thinking about this in terms of beau with his, with his girlfriend.
Speaker 2:Okay, because they've been together now for three years, maybe over three years, and so it's probably it's gotten a little comfortable. Yeah, as I look at the difference between you know, when they were getting ready to go out three years ago, when, when they first met, kid cleaned up, and now it's not quite so much. But I think that says something when you do, when you say, all right, we're going out, this is a meaningful time that we're going to spend together. I'm going to shave, I'm going to comb my hair, I'm going to put on a nice outfit. You're showing that you care about how you show up along with this person and there can be pushback on this. When he and I have had conversations, he'll say it doesn't matter, and I think I understand what he's trying to say. He's trying to say why does this material thing or this physical thing matter, but you know what it does?
Speaker 4:It does, yeah, I don't think that's just the dating world either. Think about it, as you're married forever and you, you know. Do you work as hard as you once did, you know? Or do you just again put leggings and tennis shoes on and run out to dinner? Yeah?
Speaker 3:Um. So I am dating, as you all know you are, am I'm dating um. If you're new here, I am dating.
Speaker 3:But I'm at the point now where I've seen somebody um six weeks, multiple dates, maybe getting close to two months, and you know he's come here. I've gone to his house. We still state what the dress code is, yeah, and I'm going over for dinner tomorrow night and he says, hey, super casual, wear your sweats if you'd like. You know, I just want you to feel really comfortable here. So I may very well wear sweats, but this whole thing is still going to be working.
Speaker 4:Yeah, because one he's not ready for what happens, you know, for what's behind the mask, or I'm not ready to show what's behind the mask and I think that is super, you know, polite and thoughtful, because then you both are on the same page and you know you don't show up super casual when he didn't mean it to be and you don't go out and be, you know, casual if you, you know, if that's not what one of you had in mind, the other one, yeah you know say, oh well, I'll just sort that, you know where you talk about it. I think that's very, you know, like I said, very thoughtful of both of you.
Speaker 3:So you're both on the same page, yeah well, and you know, I mean going out in the, in the metro area, is much different than going out in smaller communities. And I often wonder you know if your work people are in your same community? How do you? What's your personal brand as you're out and not at work, you know? Do you have two different personas? Yeah, it's all us.
Speaker 2:It's all that's right, I don't, I don't At least I don't feel like I do, and you know. So, on this topic, some people might look at it and say, well, I'm not sure I know what that means. Like some people might look at it and say, well, I'm not sure I know what that means, or I'm not really sure how do I know what my personal brand is or what, or why do I need one, or why do I need one? And I think one of the best questions to ask yourself is what do you want to be known for? Or what do you want Like. If somebody said, oh yeah, I know, I know Kitty Hart, she's something, how would they answer that question? Um, I think sometimes that's a. That's a good place to start.
Speaker 2:And I I don't see any difference in my life between me professionally and me personally. I rarely leave the house without some jewelry on, without a little bit of makeup on, and some people might look at that and say, well, why do you need that? Or that's frivolous, or whatever. It's for me, yes, it's largely, largely for me. And yeah, and I, just I I want to look decent, I want to look nice when I leave the house or when I'm, you know, on Zoom, I mean, our lives are very much in this environment, as well as in person.
Speaker 3:I'm thinking of some people that I know that are heavily into the. They're activists, for lack of a better term. They perhaps don't work outside the home and they take on a lot of heavy community work, and I can hear the conversation going. It does not matter what I wear. This is not what I'm fighting for. This is not in key with my goals and I understand that with my goals and I understand that. I very much understand that. But when you're going in front of somebody who, it is their goal, I think it's important to read the room, yeah.
Speaker 4:Yeah, you mentioned it before. You know dress for your audience. You know, I think if you know who you're, who you're trying to, you know who you're talking to, who you're speaking to. You know in that case, if you're out as speaking, you know to a group about your cause, cause, sure, I mean, why wouldn't you want to look your best? And you know, I think that helps your, you know, yes, or just that you look like you're you are trying to portray, you know, someone that's knowledgeable and yeah, credibility.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it goes to credibility. Sure, I think I've always wanted to look like my peers. Maybe that's not quite the right way to put it, but especially you know work. I want I want to look professional. You're entrusting me with a large amount of money to help you make a major life investment. Yeah, you know, it doesn't mean I'm wearing a banker's suit, you know sort of thing, but I want you to feel like I'm competent and you know whatever. I think that, even if you are in a non-professional office corporate environment, but you want to be taken seriously, maybe that's it. To be taken seriously, I feel like you've got to put a little work in.
Speaker 3:Again. Doesn't have to be. Makeup Doesn't have to be colored, hair Doesn't have to be. But can you actually go into a space in and let's talk about men too, because this isn't just about women Can you go into a space where you're asking or presenting? Anytime you're asking or presenting, you're asking or presenting, you're selling something right, trying to present an idea that you want other people to buy into, to agree with? Can you do that in jeans and a hoodie, unless everybody else that you're presenting to is also in jeans and a hoodie then maybe coming in in a suit isn't the best move either, but are you ever out of place? And, kitty, you've said this a number of times by being just a little bit overdressed, can you ever go wrong being just a little bit more than the group you're coming to?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't think so. I think it's a good, I think it's a good practice, sort of. So what you were, as you were just kind of laying that out there, I was reminded of the movie the intern oh, I love that movie with robert de niro and with Robert De Niro and Anne Hathaway, anne. Hathaway. It's just so funny to watch the interaction between the guys and Robert De Niro's character coming in and he's in his 60s, I don't know.
Speaker 2:Maybe he was even older than that, so maybe 60s, and he was just looking for something to do. And so he's the intern and oh, it's okay, that's a good movie. If you guys haven't seen that, go watch the intern the good. It's a good, uh, late, good, light movie. But and it's it. You know, he there were certain behaviors and practices and beliefs that he held so dear and nobody was going to tell him otherwise. That he was going to show up every day in a suit, yeah, or whatever it was that he wore every day.
Speaker 2:Even though everybody else around him, they were wearing the hoodies.
Speaker 4:Yeah, and he was the first one there and the last one to leave. Yeah, you know, and he was very professional throughout the day.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, that's a good one.
Speaker 3:So let's talk about you guys, with your men. Do you ever feel the need to have a discussion with them about what's the image, what is the look you're going for here, the old? Is that what you're wearing? Yeah, yeah, and any suggestions on how to couch that conversation? Oh it's it's a hard one.
Speaker 2:And I, I know it, you know, even though I feel compelled to say is this what we're going to wear? Because a lot of times, that's what I say Is this what we're going to wear?
Speaker 2:Which isn't very, but you know, he knows that, he knows it's coming. Bill is very, very, very casual. He has never really cared about clothes. He would never consider what he's wearing an outfit An outfit is something that women wear and yeah, this is a real thing. And I have to accept the fact that that stuff just doesn just doesn't matter to him, and obviously I've been able to accept it just fine because we've been married for 25 years. Um, so you know it, it's also one of the things that I love about him that he doesn't care about that stuff so does he not care.
Speaker 4:If you pick out what he's gonna wear, do you pick out what he's gonna wear?
Speaker 2:um, sometimes he will like if, if we're going to something that's not just going out to dinner, the two of us, if we're like going to a company event or you know an event event, he will actually say can you please help me pick out what I'm going to wear? He will ask, for, you know, we'll stand in the closet and we'll look at things and we'll pick them together, yeah, yeah. So I mean, he knows when he needs to.
Speaker 4:How about Barney? He's pretty standard. You know what I mean. He doesn't. He's not a t-shirt and hoodie sweatshirt kind of person.
Speaker 3:Anyway, no, I he's always got a. It seems to me he's always got a button down and pants on. Yeah, I've worn a suit a few times that I've seen him and looks quite comfortable in them.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, no, he, I, he's not. He doesn't dress up much. The only times he wears a suit is to weddings and funerals, but otherwise he doesn't hate wearing a pair of khakis and a dress shirt.
Speaker 3:Summer's more a better golf shirt type of dress, so yeah, that was one of the things that I kind of I kind of promised myself as I started the whole dating thing was that I was not. I was going to learn to accept people as they are and not try and change them to dress the way I wanted them to be. That was just something that I'm like. You know what, if that's how they want to be, either I'm going to like it or I'm not. Either I'm going to be comfortable with it and go with it or I'm not. Yeah, and there have been a couple of times when I've gone out on a first date with someone and went, huh, okay. Couple times when I've gone out on a first date with someone and went, huh, okay. Especially if it's been where I've said I'm, I'm going to be coming from work. Yeah, where I've already stated, you know, and all my pictures on my profile are from me at work, because it's the only time I ever take a selfie or somebody has taken a photo of me or whatever.
Speaker 2:So I'm in dressy clothes all the time, not fancy, but you know, but also it's a first date, so why would you not dress up?
Speaker 3:a little bit. Right, not dress up a little bit, right? Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2:so as how do we?
Speaker 4:talk about brand beyond, beyond appearance, oh yeah, talk about brand beyond appearance, for sure, yes, behaviors yeah, some of the stuff I was reading about you know also includes you know your, your presence on social media. You know things you put out, things you post. You know things you like and share. You is all going to go towards how everyone sees you and your brand. You know what I mean, unless you share something and have an opposing opinion and state that. You know that's all wrapped up in the same.
Speaker 2:You know in the same thing you know, in the same thing, everything you, everything you do, everything you put out, everything you say, it all, it all will be perceived by people and people will perceive things in different ways. But, yes, our brand is more than just our physical appearance, just as it is with, you know, retail brands or corporate brands. So Chick-fil-A is a good example that they've you know, when you go there, they don't say thank you. When you say thank you, they don't say you're welcome.
Speaker 3:They say my pleasure, thank God. They don't say no problem, yes, right.
Speaker 2:It's not allowed. The behavior of the brand is that the vernacular is my pleasure and that becomes a very memorable thing. So we as people so something that Bill always does Bill will always open a door for me door, any door, a car door, no matter where we're going, he'll come around to my side. That's a behavior that says something grand about him. So yeah, things like that. You know people who show up late all the time, that's just you, just.
Speaker 4:I'm not saying you, Amy, oh all the time.
Speaker 2:You know that that says something. That says something about you.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it doesn't say anything good about me. I'm good at clients, the rest of my world. We're not perfect and I just keep thinking to my dear friends who are on screen with me that thank god you know me and love me and also know that you always lie to me about when things start.
Speaker 4:Yeah, give her a half hour yeah, let's just say that.
Speaker 2:Um, whenever I was waiting for you to come and pick me up on our way to girls weekend, I always knew that I had a good maybe 30 to 45 minutes in there.
Speaker 3:Um, before you would actually get there to pick me up, okay, that girls weekend yeah, but most of the time it's not that long no, it's not.
Speaker 2:It's. You're right, girls weekend is different.
Speaker 3:We were there was a lot of shit and a lot of people. Yeah, and if everybody's 10 minutes late, yeah, yeah, we got the domino effect. Yep, yep, that is right. Yeah, yes.
Speaker 4:I don't know, Can you change your brand? Can you change the way people perceive you? You know, can you? Can you grow into something new? I think that's possible.
Speaker 3:Lordy, I hope so. Yeah, I do.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, but it takes more than just words and it just like with anything, it takes time to develop the habit of it or, you know, to have it really stick.
Speaker 3:But yeah, I believe so um, I, yeah, yes, absolutely got nothing on that thought there. It was going to say something about whether or not we need to be concerned about it in this stage of our life, but I think we do. You know people, especially as they even start to get older. I've never heard any of us say it, other than as you start to think about what am I leaving my children? Legacy, legacy. You'll hear politicians. You'll hear politicians. You'll hear um, um, professors, professionals, ceos, leaders of organizations, what, what will be? What will my legacy be? What will I leave for my kids? What will they remember me as? What's the story that they'll tell their kids? That really gets to the heart of brand for a better sure, for a. You know you probably wouldn't think about it that way, but it is the same thing. What are you known for? Yeah, what are you known for? What do people remember about you? That's your brand. What do people remember about you?
Speaker 2:yeah, and you know it's. I think for people who don't think about this topic or have never thought about this topic, you have a brand, whether you know it or not, and so it is. It is kind of a good practice to step back and maybe take a look at it. Ask people like, if you're curious, ask people you know three people that you're close to and say, hey, how would you describe me? Or at you know, hey, what, what, what do you think I'm really good at? Just little questions like that can start to help you understand how you're perceived. It could be kind of an eye-opening exercise?
Speaker 4:Yes, could be. Maybe you won't like the answer.
Speaker 3:Maybe I was just going to talk a little bit about that. When you talk about brands changing, can you change your image? After my mom passed away, my dad became a crotchety, angry man. He offended people left and right it or to be the joyful partner he was left with a not a fun man to be around and it really broke my heart as I listened to my kids and the other grandkids. Their memory of Grandpa Fred is of him yelling at them all the time, is of him yelling at them all the time, and it just is so. It just crushes me because when they were all babies, grandpa fred was their favorite. He taught them how to. I mean he bought them their first banana split. He always had the candy in his pocket. He always, you know, took them. He was such a loving, fun, joyful man, especially with those kids. And then my mom died and things completely changed and unfortunately, all those kids were at that, that age where they started to remember stuff.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:And that's what their stories are about. My sister has said the same thing that you know. They went to see mom and dad's graves or put flowers on it or whatever, and they started talking about different stories and the stories were about Grandpa Fred yelling at them and they were laughing about them. But at the same time that's so, so disappointing. I mean, here was a man who he would give up his days to go help bag sand down in those small southwestern Minnesota towns when the river was flooding. He didn't live there, he had clients there and he knew how important that that community, that small town community, that's what he went and did. Yeah, but that's not. That wasn't the last memory. A bad brand for even a short amount of time can sometimes ruin a lifetime of good work of good thoughts.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's too, bad, that's too bad, yeah. So I correct them often and draw the. I don't correct them, but I draw them back to the funny pictures of them with grandpa Fred and the you know the different things that he did for them and letting them drive the golf cart and you know those things. So that that's good. Can try and keep those thoughts in there. But yeah, you're so right, we have a brand, whether you call it brand or your image or you know, modern day corporate world speaks brand real life.
Speaker 3:We grew up thinking about our image yeah yeah, it's the same thing yes, and it's important. Yeah, so that was on our mind this week as I'm going to get my nails done tomorrow, so I don they look good. They look good, I know, but there's like a quarter of them thrown out.
Speaker 4:Yes. That happens.
Speaker 2:Yeah, at least you don't have you know your nails aren't. You don't have like half your nail polish has come half off your that.
Speaker 4:That's what mine look like at the moment.
Speaker 2:I doubt it, Stacey. They're at the moment.
Speaker 4:They're really bad. They're really bad.
Speaker 3:Well also one of the reasons why I don't want to ever put acrylics on, because you've popped one off on a yeah, I missed my nine fingernails done in one? That's not.
Speaker 4:Oh, there it is yeah, I'm missing one. Yeah, sometimes things happen, that's for sure. Oh, never know.
Speaker 2:All right, well, um, any parting thoughts here, things to share. Does anybody have a shot tonight? A shot, oh hey.
Speaker 3:I'm asking for um crowd participation. If any of you have tried that lip stain, lip liner that turns like blue purple and then stays on your lips, and had luck either liked it or hated it could you please let me know? I want to try that and I'd love to know what brand you tried. Okay, so there's a reverse shot. Somebody help me out with that, help, help Amy.
Speaker 4:Help Amy, help Amy, if you've tried that lip stain. Yeah, I got bamboozled again. Remember, before Christmas, I said I'm never going to make a new recipe off the internet. Oh, what'd you do? Did it again. What'd you do again? Would you try? Yeah, I made one, and I saw like two and three posts of this same the same recipe, and so I thought, okay, I'm gonna give that a try. And it was like a? Um, you know, and maybe people don't like it, but it's like chicken pot pie. You know, homemade chicken pot pie, but the crust top is a red lobster biscuit mix. Oh, which we like. We have that occasionally. I thought that would be so good. Oh my gosh, it was terrible. It was awful. Was there no flavor? Yes, and no, you know, know too. Almost like the bottom, the part that you think's going to be, you know, soupy and veggie and chicken, yeah, was was too dry and the top, you know, was almost too soggy. It was just, it was weird.
Speaker 3:So, yeah, don't make that. Every time I've tried to make a pot pie like that, it's way too soupy. Yeah, it doesn't have that good kind of thicker gravy like yeah it's not mrs swans, yeah I know
Speaker 2:might as well stick with Marie Callender, yeah so with finding recipes on social media, you have to be, you have to really look at the source, because there are so many groups on Facebook that it'll it'll say like pioneer woman. It makes it look like it's pioneer woman, but then, but then underneath it it it's gonna say the person who posted it and it's some name from a foreign country so it's, it's. Yeah, you have to you have to dig, to find, to figure out with the source. And then you know, I know.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it was interesting, cause I follow a guy that has a cookbook, you know, and he he made it and I copied him and I just did it a little different. Like somebody else said, oh, it improves if you flip the whatever. And yeah, the whole taste of it wasn't good. So I don't know, it's weird, but yes, that's difficult to do because you know some things. Just, I, I swear, sometimes people just make up recipes you know, yeah, you know, they just make them up to have a post. I don't know yeah, could be.
Speaker 2:So I I discovered something um thanks to social media this week this is an odd one than a vegetable peeler this thing, sorry, sorry, vegetable peeler, we're going to use it.
Speaker 2:We're going to use it on a carrot. Okay, the vegetable peeler, did you guys know that you're not supposed to go like this? You're supposed to go like this? You're supposed to go like this? So the reason that that little blade kind of rocks back and forth in the vegetable peeler, so you're holding the carrot and you actually go like this as you turn the carrot, and so you're not doing this, which is a little bit extra work. You're doing this, which is a little bit extra work. You're doing this, so you're peeling as it goes down and you're peeling as it goes up.
Speaker 3:Interesting. Did you rip your finger to shreds that was holding the carrot?
Speaker 4:Did you cut your knuckle when you came back this way?
Speaker 2:No, but it did take a little bit of finesse to not cut my knuckles.
Speaker 4:There you go.
Speaker 2:But when I watched the video, it was one of those moments like have I been doing it wrong?
Speaker 3:Today's. You're old when I learned.
Speaker 4:There's some of those things. I just feel like a carrot would be the only thing it'd work on, because it wouldn't work for a potato, does it?
Speaker 2:That would be hard. Maybe, maybe a cucumber, yeah, maybe. The skin of that might be a little bit too hard too, I don't know. So anyway, you guys, if you go try it, go grab your vegetable peeler and give it a whirl.
Speaker 4:Well, I buy baby carrots. Yeah, me too.
Speaker 3:Yeah, oh yeah, oh, good shots, good shots. Ladies, don't try Stacy's pot pie recipe.
Speaker 4:No, if you see one don't.
Speaker 3:Yes, do try the back and forth motion with the vegetable peeler. Yes, huh, did I have a shot at the early part of this?
Speaker 4:Yeah, your frozen drink.
Speaker 3:If you have an extra in your pitcher of whatever cocktail you've been mixing up over the weekend, pour it in a Tupperware, put it in the fridge, put it in the freezer. Waste, not, want, not that's right, all right.
Speaker 2:Well let's wrap her up up. We will see you guys next week. Until then, have a wonderful week everybody. Yep, bye-bye, peace out, peace out everyone bye, all right, I can't ever stop.
Speaker 1:I'ma tour the forest running. Get me to the top. I don't need an invitation. I'm about to start a celebration. Let me in Brought a good time for some friends. Turn it up loud past ten.
