What Would You Tuck Inside a Time Capsule?

What would you tuck inside a time capsule that tells the story of your life right now? What objects capture your authentic self, your daily rhythms, and what brings you joy? More importantly, how do you want to be remembered when you're gone?

In this surprisingly deep conversation, Amy, Stacey, and Kitty explore the powerful concept of preservation and legacy. What begins as a lighthearted discussion about childhood time capsules quickly evolves into a thoughtful examination of what truly matters in our lives and the impression we hope to leave behind.

Stacey reveals how her basement has become an unintentional museum of memories, housing everything from high school clothes to her grandmother's vintage hats from the 1950s. "To most people it's going to say, well, this is just junk. It's more like a museum, I suppose. But I just can't get rid of some of that stuff because it is nostalgic and it does have a story."

Kitty shares that she'd include jewelry symbolizing her entrepreneurial journey, a handwritten note to future female entrepreneurs, and the podcast microphone – all emblems of her current happiness. "I'm in this whole new phase of life and it's the happiest I've been in my life, and I want a snapshot of this."

Amy contemplates documenting her downtown living experience before her next chapter begins, highlighting how our time capsule selections might change throughout different life stages. The hosts also discuss how preservation methods have evolved from meticulously created photo albums to thousands of digital photos that never get printed.

The conversation naturally flows to the deeper question of legacy. "I want to be remembered as somebody who lifts other people up with authenticity and sparkle and helps people feel really great about themselves," Kitty explains. Amy shares her hope to be remembered for bringing laughter and joy, making others feel understood and less alone.

Listen in as the trio explores family recipes that create bonds between generations, technology that will become fascinating artifacts for future generations, and the realization that legacy isn't about grand accomplishments but about the impact we have on those closest to us.

What would you preserve from your life right now? And how do you hope to be remembered? Join the conversation and let us know your thoughts!

Amy, Kitty & Stacey

P.S. Isn't our intro music great?! Yah, we think so too. Thank you, Ivy States for "I Got That Wow".

Chapters

• 0:00 Welcome and Show Introduction
• 4:25 Today's Topic: Time Capsules
• 11:01 What Would You Preserve?
• 27:55 How Do You Want to Be Remembered?
• 38:14 Technology and Nostalgia
• 40:36 Final Thoughts and Recommendations

Transcript

Welcome and Show Introduction

Speaker 1 0:05

All right, look I got that. Wow, who wants some handsome right now? We got that. Turn it up loud. I know you're wondering how I got that. Wow, here I go, here I go, coming. I can't ever stop. I'm a tour de force running. Get me to the top. I don't need a.

Speaker 2 0:27

Oh well, good evening. Where's Amy? I don't know when is Amy. I'm here Surprise.

Speaker 3 0:38

Are you fashionably late? Yes, can't you tell I'm fashionably late.

Speaker 4 0:44

I'm just late. Did you just get out of bed to show up to this show?

Speaker 3 0:49

It kind of looks like it, doesn't it?

Speaker 2 0:51

That's right. Today is your day off, isn't it?

Speaker 3 0:55

Yes, well, actually what happened was I always have my phone right by me in case I need to hit the Googles, and I always turn the sound off yeah, which I thought I did and I turn it on airplane mode so that I don't suck up the you know all the things. And I got, and I got a text that came through. I'm like what? Oh yeah, and then it was something like an easy answer, so I got confused, okay all right, okay, well, welcome.

Speaker 2 1:23

how about that for a welcome? Welcome everyone to another episode of Three Cocktails In Amy Stacey and I. We gather once a week, so if you are listening to this and if you are new here, you've got lots of episodes to catch up on, because we've been doing. We are in our second year now of capturing these addicting conversations.

Speaker 4 1:46

Yeah.

Speaker 2 1:47

It's been fun? Yeah, it has, yeah, and so we are always thinking about okay, what do we want to talk about? What are those? What are the topics that jump out at us at who knows what day or time of the night? Right, and then we'll shoot each other a message and say put this on the list for a future topic. So our list is pretty eclectic. Just like us right.

Speaker 3 2:16

That is such a kind way of saying. There's no rhyme or reason to any of the things. Right, right.

Speaker 4 2:27

Yeah, my, my husband asked me what we were talking about tonight and I told him he goes. Wow, you're really reaching for.

Speaker 3 2:37

Except we're not. There is an overriding theme. Yes, there really is an overriding theme.

Speaker 2 2:44

Yes.

Speaker 3 2:46

And at first I thought, you know, when we first started doing this, I thought it was going to be about one thing, but I think what I'm getting from all this is what we have. I think we've done a ton of self reflection. We've done a ton of self-reflection yeah, internal self-reflection, and out of that self-reflection we have now identified pathways, relationships, stumbling blocks um funny things that turns out everybody has. So, you know, I think that today's topic falls into that category.

Today's Topic: Time Capsules

Speaker 2 3:30

Yeah, I agree, and it's something that I think you don't think about every day, and so hopefully, this conversation kind of generates some interest in our listeners, our viewers, in thinking about this as well, giving it some thought. Here it is. So, with all of that buildup, today's conversation is. Today's conversation is rooted really into pretty powerful ideas, what we choose to preserve and how we hope to be remembered. It's kind of a lot, really. So we first started talking about the concept of a time capsule, and I'm remembering back to when I was little, my little family of four, my dad's like let's do a time capsule. We put a whole bunch of stuff in it, we buried it and I don't have any idea what was in it. It brings about it's got sort of a playful nature to it, brings about a little bit of nostalgia, but when you really stop and think about it, it's a surprisingly deep exercise. Do you guys feel the same way? Yes, yes, way, yes, yes, because as we prepared for this, we the three of us did not chat about this. So I'm really excited. I'm really excited to hear about what you guys talk about it.

Speaker 2 4:55

So a time capsule isn't just a box of stuff right, it's. It can be a story. It's like a mirror of our lives, and that's you know it's all about. Like this is what mattered, this is who I was, this is how I want someone to remember me. So let's throw the question out there and listeners, as you're listening to this, ask these questions of yourself as well. What objects would you tuck inside a time capsule that tells the story of your life right now, because that needs to be factored in as well. Is it right now or is it the life of the whole? So let's just talk about right now.

Speaker 3 5:38

Hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm, yeah.

Speaker 2 5:45

And you know, it doesn't necessarily even have to be like a highlight reel, but like the real deal stuff, like the real specific things, things that might remind you of why you do what you do. Um, you know, things that would would represent kind of your daily rhythm, what brings you joy? These sorts of things, these are the things that would represent kind of your daily rhythm. What brings you joy? These sorts of things, these are the things that I asked myself when I put mine together, and I'm happy to share mine, unless somebody else wants to go first.

Speaker 3 6:17

I don't think I have one formulated, because I took it from you know kind of the second half of what we're going to talk about sort of.

Speaker 1 6:29

Thing.

Speaker 3 6:29

Okay.

Speaker 4 6:32

I have. I will, if you know me at all. You know that I have a basement that is a time capsule.

Speaker 3 6:41

It houses some of my stuff too, I know right, I collected some of Amy's time caps before.

Speaker 2 6:49

Hey, I've got some of your shit too, amy. I've got some of your shit here at my house too.

Speaker 4 6:53

Yeah.

Speaker 2 6:55

Thank you. Thank you both. You're welcome. Okay, go ahead. Stace.

Speaker 4 7:00

A lot of the stuff I have kept over the years. You know I've kept it because it meant something at the time. I mean, I get it. There's a lot of junk, I admit that too. But I have, you know, a box of, you know, clothes from high school. Okay, I have a box Well, multiple boxes of kids stuff you know, from school to clothes to you know different things like that. I have a hat box full of my grandma's hats, you know, back in the fifties when they wore hats.

Speaker 4 7:41

I have hats from way back then that I just can't get rid of. To most people it's going to say, well, this is just junk. It's more like a museum, I suppose. But I just can't get rid of some of that stuff because it is nostalgic and it does have a story. Most of the time it's just memories from a long time ago.

Speaker 2 8:09

Yeah, memories that you would want somebody else to pull it out and say, wow, I wonder. You know, I'd like to know this story, and maybe some of the best time capsules out there have a little bit of narrative with. You know, if there are specific artifacts in there, put a little bit of that story in there. And I mean, wouldn't it be cool to find one?

Speaker 4 8:39

Oh, I know, yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know how cool my kids are going to think it is. Some days they pull all this junk out, but I don't know. I think it's cool.

Speaker 3 8:53

I would be really, you know, like all of us, we all have stuff. I'm really interested in knowing what it is my kids think are cool, what it is my kids think is cool, mm-hmm, what it is my, what it is my kids think is cool. Okay, there we go. You know, I thought about I would probably put a quilt in that I made. I have a photo of some irises that I would like to put in because that's a running that.

Speaker 3 9:26

I've got a photo of my I I think it was uh Madeline in Georgia when they were very, very little, in the backyard in my gram in front of my grandma's garden that had the beautiful garden. Um, I think it's funny that I keep hitting on this garden and I live in a. I live in downtown Minneapolis without any outdoor space to garden myself, but I would put that um, you know, those are older things, but I think the the idea of quilting is all my quilts are loud, I love color, I love color and I, you know, I think that says something about me. As you guys can see back here, I got fabric and stuff back there and flowers, and it'd be really hard for me to try and pick out something now. Yeah, that would be indicative of my current life. I mean, although I do have two very large jars of wine corks I don't know what that really says that I've been collecting for the last four years since I moved down here. Um, it's hard, it's hard to think of things, yeah, yeah and I think it can.

What Would You Preserve?

Speaker 2 10:49

It can also seem almost like, uh, we talked, we talked about creating a bucket list and how you can totally get overwhelmed by that, because you feel like these things that you put on the bucket list have to be these big grand things and even with the time put on the bucket list have to be these big grand things and even with the time capsule they it doesn't have to be. And and maybe there are even like different times in our life. Well, at different times in our life, we would put different things into the time capsule. For sure, absolutely yeah, what are you putting in yours? So I went from the perspective of right now, and and and I did that because I feel like I I'm just so happy in my life right now and one thing that I haven't shared with this audience have shared, I have shared with Amy and Stacey, but Bill, my husband, is retiring and he's given his notice. He he's still going in and wrapping up some projects, so his last day hasn't officially happened. But I feel like the two of us are in this whole new phase of life and it's the happiest I've been in my in my life, and I want a snapshot of this, and so, of course, I'm putting a piece of jewelry into my time capsule as a significant piece of me taking the leap and saying I'm done with what I've done in the past, I'm going to be my own boss, I'm going to have my own thing going, and just the freedom that has come from that. So that's got to be in there right now. That has to be. That's a sparkly symbol of my happiness right now. I would also write a note, a handwritten note, to future female entrepreneurs, and I think our podcast is a little bit of that. So I'm also putting the podcast microphone in there.

Speaker 2 13:15

So a lot of what we talk about here is empowerment, and it's one of the reasons why we wanted to do this right. I mean, we just felt, like you guys, we're in the prime of our lives right now, and so we and we want more people to be empowered by that. So I it would be a short letter of encouragement um, straight talk, talking about you know. Straight talk Talking about you know. Find your groove, find your voice. It's true that you do what you love. You'll never work another day in your life.

Speaker 2 13:54

So that's going to be in there, and the mic, and that's as far as I've gotten. Of course I would put a family photo in there. I have a very small family. I mean it's Bill Bo and I, my mom, my sister and her husband. You know, bill's sisters are all over. We have this tiny little family. So there's got to be a family photo in there. But that's where I'm going with it right now. That's good, and it would be in a pretty pink box with a ribbon on. That's good, and it would be in a pretty pink box with a ribbon on it.

Speaker 3 14:26

There'd be pink somewhere, of course.

Speaker 4 14:31

I have a question for your letter. Yeah, as you were talking, you know, is there any part of it in there that says but you have to, you know, because you mentioned, do what you love, so you never work a day. But is there a little piece ahead of that where it's pay your dues first? Because I don't think even I don't think me for sure, I'm assuming either both of you too. You didn't start out, and maybe for a lot of years there was. You know that wasn't the case. You know it's easy to have that today, but early on it's hard to so what was your?

Speaker 4 15:11

advice. What would be your advice to?

Speaker 2 15:14

the advice would be and as much as I hate the, the analogy of the journey, I like to come up with a different analogy for that but you kind of you have to trust the path, and I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing today had I not had that very first job back in 1999 that sent me on this specific path. And one of the things that I think we've all talked about is one of the things that I find, especially when we talk to this young generation just entering the workforce, they all feel like they have to have it figured out, they have to know what they want to do and they have to land the dream job. No and no, but you have to start somewhere. So start the journey, start going.

Speaker 2 16:05

You're the journey, start going. You're going to get beat down, you're going to have successes, you're going to have moments in time where you're like interesting, this is not what I want to do, I'm going to make a pivot. And where you really have that full happiness and I'm not saying I don't have days where I'm like, oh, I hate this part of what I do or I get frustrated by whatever, but landing getting to this point is just, is just such a beautiful feeling and I want every I hope everybody is able to do that. I think about that with bo. He hasn't even started yet right.

Speaker 2 17:00

He's not even done with school, hasn't really even had a first job, and I'm just thinking about all the shit that he's going to, all this crap that we went through to learn, all the hard lessons they all have to do. It Can't be that easy.

Speaker 3 17:20

But there's also a whole hell of a lot of fun along the way.

Speaker 2 17:23

Yes, we had fun. Yes, the way yes, we had fun.

Speaker 3 17:28

Yes, we did. Yeah, you know, as you were talking about this snapshot and I talked about how much I love downtown, you know, and I do like living here and I have said that for a while, I find myself more and more lately looking to my next home, yeah, which I'm surprised by, like I don't think that I moved in here thinking I was going to stay forever, but I, um, that's coming. I can see somewhere down the lane that that's coming, and so I'm trying very much to enjoy this downtown sort of experience, because I, because I think a lot of people don't have the opportunity, no, no, no, don't have the courage to do it, don't have the. You know, they think it's for the young, not the old. I've heard people say, oh well, aren't you living the whatever? And you know, it's just one of those choices, it's just a choice. So maybe I, you know, do a little video of my place, tuck that, tuck that in there a little, you know a.

Speaker 3 18:52

USB port that people would look at like an eight track.

Speaker 4 18:55

Yeah, like how do we, what do we do with this?

Speaker 2 19:02

Yeah, I mean really, it's a moment in time, is all it is.

Speaker 3 19:06

Yeah, yep.

Speaker 2 19:11

Do you guys so? When you were growing up, did you have photo albums and scrapbooks?

Speaker 3 19:19

Do you see that on my little lower shelf right over there? Yeah, got some second shelf up. Yes, and I get such a kick. Actually, I'm horrible at keeping them for my kids, but I love looking through my grandparents albums. You know the ones they had?

Speaker 2 19:36

yeah, I love it, so you have you. You have their albums um, I have, I.

Speaker 3 19:44

I somehow ended up being the keeper. Well, georgia, and I kind of call it the keeper of the crypt. Okay, we have a rolling suitcase, a carry-on suitcase, that has a bunch of photos and albums and things from my parents and there is from my mom's parents. I don't really have too many from my dad's parents. My cousin Jenny has got all those and she is a great historian and she loves to get them out and every once in a while I'll get a package with a bunch of photos in it or old carts that my parents had sent to her. You know our grandmother, because we, because we share that, and I love seeing that old stuff. I have always loved history, so I find that so cool to look at old things.

Speaker 2 20:39

Okay, so, but current. I'm asking this because I have I don't know 9,000 photos in my phone and I have not developed one over the last 10 years, but that was, I mean, that's my dad in particular. He was the one he loved photo albums and scrapbooks and so when he passed I mean there were so many to go through and it was actually overwhelming my mom was like what do I do with all these? And so I got to thinking about that and preparing for tonight in this conversation, because I feel like now we don't really do that we don't go and get photos developed and put them into albums. Like now we don't really do that we don't go and get photos developed and put them into albums.

Speaker 3 21:33

I'll tell you, my youngest daughter has so many photographs that she has taken from her phone and went and had them printed out and she's got them in frames all over her room, all over their house and stuff, and maybe it's coming back. Maybe it's just us that have, maybe, you know, opted out I'm, I'm halfway.

Speaker 4 21:57

I every, I would say, year, maybe a little less. I print everything. I get pictures. It's cheap to do. I just did it not very long ago, um, and I put some in frames. Otherwise I just have them in a box and so someday somebody's going to have thousands of you know pictures to dig through. I even have some empty photo albums that I bought, but I just never get them into the photo album. I don't know.

Speaker 3 22:27

I'll tell you from a trip that I took many years ago. I clicked on a whole bunch of our photos and I put them into a Shutterfly book and I had an actual book made.

Speaker 4 22:40

And.

Speaker 3 22:41

I think I'm going to do that. I haven't done it yet. Maybe I should do it on the plane ride to Italy. From the pictures from France, yeah, from last year. There you go From last year, because then it's not a photo album. That's what I find. So I From last year. Here you go From last year, because I cause then it's not a photo album. That's what I find. So I find that tedious. Of all the creative things I like to do, putting up, I'm just too. It's too much I could make. That could be a full-time job for me. Yeah, yeah, it's a lot yeah, yeah, yeah it's a lot, okay.

Speaker 2 23:16

So part of this conversation also is how do we want to be remembered or what do we want to be remembered for? Have you so a lot of people that? I'm not just talking about writing an obituary. We're not necessarily talking about that, although I know a lot of people write their own obituary and have that all wrapped up and ready to go, which I did.

Speaker 4 23:47

I did it. Well, first I have a funny story, so I thought I would kind of cheat and use AI, you know to do it. So the funny part of this is I get into. You know, I've been using Snap AI. I wrote in there, you know, write my obituary but leave, you know, out the details for me to fill it and hit enter. And it says I'm sorry I can't do that, but if you need someone to talk to, you know, maybe you know where it's going. If you need someone to talk to and if you're having problems, you know, maybe you can get help. And it's like no, no, write me a sample obituary. So yeah, write it.

Speaker 2 24:33

Write an obituary template.

Speaker 4 24:35

Yes, there we go yeah, I just didn't word that quite right. And a lesson for ai if you want the outcome to be good, you have to the inputs gotta be pretty good too, yes. I thought I was having a mental day, oh gosh.

Speaker 2 24:54

Well, it's good to know that there's, you know that there's a computer looking out for you.

Speaker 4 25:00

Yes, right, real helpful. Do you need to talk to somebody? No, oh well. So yeah, I did write mine. It was interesting and hard at the same time. You know, the part I thought was the hardest is, you know the. What do you want to be remembered by? You know what did you? You know what will people remember you by?

Speaker 2 25:25

Yeah.

Speaker 4 25:28

I put in.

Speaker 4 25:29

Oh, go ahead I put in oh, go ahead, the. I think people will be interested to find out some of the weird places I've lived, because I've lived in quite a few places, which is kind of funny, but most people wouldn't know that, but I don't know. And my funny thing because I decided to kind of make it funny is things that I'm known for, and I've said this before my ability to do almost anything, but do it very average in ability. So then I listed a few things I like to do, but pretty average at it.

Speaker 2 26:13

Are your cheesy potatoes in the list?

Speaker 4 26:15

No, I didn't even add your scotcheroos. She was known for her cheesy potatoes and scotcheroos. I'll have to add that no, I did not even. Well, if you don't, we will yeah that's fine.

Speaker 3 26:28

Yeah, you can do that. Matter of fact, youngest is serving cheesy potatoes to the housemates tonight and had to call me like four times again about when do I do this? How do I do that? Yeah, I'm like stacy says shredded potatoes are better than cubed.

Speaker 2 26:45

Okay and that's exactly what I used when I delivered easter dinner to Amy.

Speaker 3 26:51

There were your cheesy potatoes yes, oh, and that was the first thing to disappear.

Speaker 4 26:57

Yeah, it is a good oddly good recipe. Yes, I'll have to go back and edit my obituary. There you go, and maybe that's the thing that we put in the time capsule is. You know, wouldn't you love to have like your, you know, grandma's recipe box, or you?

Speaker 1 27:16

know I've got them.

Speaker 4 27:17

I know I have a few and I have a lot of my mom's, but I think that's the thing we should pass down, because you said you know I'm assuming it was Ava had to call you for the recipe. I bet we've given her the recipe five times. She's got it, she's got it.

Speaker 3 27:34

And she takes a picture of it and sends it to me. She goes is this the one I'm supposed to use?

Speaker 4 27:40

Mine do the same thing. They call me every time they have to make something. It's why don't you just somehow save it.

Speaker 3 27:48

I love that I get those little phone calls.

How Do You Want to Be Remembered?

Speaker 2 27:52

So, I'm okay with it. Yep, I before the Googles. I remember calling my mom and so she'd answer and say mom got a cooking question, and then you know my dad would be somewhere around it. Kitty's got a cooking question, and I know I know how much that meant to her that I was calling and I was asking a cooking question.

Speaker 2 28:14

So thanks sure yeah, yeah so the topic of how do you want to be remembered, what do you want to be to be remembered for? I from, and Bill and I actually talked about this at dinner tonight. I start from well, who are the people? Who are the people that are going to remember me? It's not like we're the Pope.

Speaker 1 28:42

It's very timely because the Pope just passed. I mean it's a small circle.

Speaker 2 28:48

It's an important circle of friends, right, it's the besties, it's the family and extended family, so that's not a lot of people, um, so um, I kind of went to again. I think, just because I'm in this rose colored time of my life right now, I want to be remembered as somebody who lifts other people up with authenticity and sparkle and helps people feel really great about themselves. I think I I mean she could take the sparkle out for Bo but I mean that's a lot of you know, when you're parenting a young 20-something, you're helping them have the confidence that they need to go and do what they need. He needs to fly right. Kid has not launched yet, so you know, giving him the confidence to do that.

Speaker 2 30:06

And it's the piece of my jewelry business that makes me the most proud and the most happy. The messages that I get from people on what the group means to them. First and foremost, it's not jewelry, what the group means to them and the friendships that have been developed People who never would have known each other and the friendships that have been developed people who never would have known each other and then the confidence that they get from wearing the jewelry and buying the jewelry. It's something I never expected and that's central to how I want to be remembered want to be remembered.

Speaker 3 31:01

I would hope people would remember that I love being around people. I love somebody I was listening to described one of their friends as a party pumper-upper, that anytime they came to an occasion, an event, you knew things were going to go, you know that things were going to be good, it was going to be fun, that this person committed 100% to anything they got involved with. And I want to be that. I want to be remembered for that. I love being in a group. I love a good laugh. Oh, there is nothing greater to me than to be able to share things from the truly funny to the sad, funny to the oh my God, I can't believe this happened with a laugh. I just feel that laughter is one of the most soothing, one of the most healing things that we can do with and for each other. And I do that with the people that I work with, the people that I'm selling to the people, my kids.

Speaker 3 32:13

One of my lovely daughters called and told me and said I need to tell you this, but I'm hoping that you know. And she kind of went on and she started telling me something that had happened and she was, she goes. I am equal parts horrified, and I laughed through the whole telling. She was really worried that I was going to be upset about something and she goes. You cannot believe how much better I feel knowing that you are laughing through this whole thing.

Speaker 3 32:42

And so it's not that I make light of situations, because I really do hear people and I and I can understand their anxiety and their apprehension, but I so want people to feel that they are not alone, and most everything, just like every conversation in our head, is worse than the real one. Every situation that we've gone through, somebody else has probably gone through it as well, and I just really would love to be remembered as the person. Like she's going to be on my side. We're going to get a good laugh out of this. It's, it's going to be okay, and if I can do that, I, I, if I am remembered that way, I will feel like I've lived a successful life.

Speaker 4 33:34

It's beautiful yeah, yes, very good.

Speaker 2 33:44

I mean, this is kind of a feel-good episode.

Speaker 3 33:48

I hope aren't all of ours a feel good episode maybe?

Speaker 2 33:55

not when we start talking about hot flashes which we don't talk about no we don't.

Speaker 3 34:03

No politics, no religion, no menopause you know what?

Speaker 2 34:09

now I want to watch Conclave it's so good.

Speaker 4 34:14

Yes, I watched it. Oh, and I saw some uh stat which I won't be able to repeat, but but after the pope dying, the um, you know every everybody's been watching conclave now, so it's like gone sky high and viewership because of that just to see it. Yeah, I, without giving anything away, I'm, I don't know what amy thinks, but I never saw it coming. What happened in the end?

Speaker 3 34:43

I didn't either, um I I. I anticipated how the vote was going to go, but I did not anticipate. Yeah, so, yes, it's so good. So I saw something as we're talking about conclave, I saw something on threads that some parent was explaining to their middle schooler all about how a new pope is elected, voted in, whatever. And they're like, wow, catholic school must really. You really studied that. And the mom was like, no, dan Brown, from all the books Stop.

Speaker 2 35:26

I thought she was going to say no, I just watched Conclave.

Speaker 3 35:29

I know she was basically saying what was that? Angels and Demons, and what was some of the other books that he's written? All about the Vinci Code. The Vinci Code, right, yeah. And then I saw somebody else at comics saying that there's no way they could elect a woman pope, because they lost some religious artifact 500 years ago and the first thing she'd do is open a cupboard somewhere and find it.

Speaker 4 36:00

All these men throughout the ages haven't been able to find anything I can't bend over and look Right in front of you, move the stock sheets.

Speaker 3 36:10

There it is. I thought that was kind of funny. Oh my, I'm sorry. See, there we go taking a very sad, sad event the passing of the pope, and I'm, yes, making a joke. I'm not making a joke of it, I'm lightning the. You know, yeah, I'm the buffer, so so stace. Um, you said you've got, you wrote your obituary, kitty. You got your list. I don't, you know whatever sort of thing, any oddities that you're putting in there.

Speaker 2 36:51

Oddities.

Speaker 3 36:52

Like you guys probably can't see it behind me, but I have a photograph up there of Joe Maur, mauer and johan santana from the twins from about I don't know 1999. That that is one photo I have up in my house. I took the picture of them at spring training. I think I should throw that in there. There'd be like what, what?

Speaker 4 37:22

your grandkids are gonna look at it and like who are these? Did my grandma date? We'll follow that one? Oh, yeah, sure, sure, she did. They're both way too young so.

Speaker 3 37:39

I yeah, we'll follow that one, oh yeah sure.

Speaker 2 37:40

I'm sure she did. They're both way too young so I don't know. If there are oddities I'll have to think about that. I have kept shoot. I was going to grab it and bring it down here. I kept. I think what is my very first iPhone.

Speaker 3 37:57

Oh, that would be awesome to throw in.

Speaker 2 38:00

Yeah, and so that would have been 2008 when I got it.

Speaker 3 38:03

You should also throw in some cords, just some random cords, yeah.

Speaker 4 38:11

Yeah, enough of those.

Technology and Nostalgia

Speaker 2 38:13

I don't know, just kind of looking around to see.

Speaker 4 38:17

Yeah, those are good ideas. Technology, things that have gone, technology that's gone by the wayside, that you know. You'd look at it and like what did this do so?

Speaker 3 38:29

like a regular watch that I still wear every single day. A.

Speaker 2 38:35

Walkman.

Speaker 3 38:38

That you strap to your arm.

Speaker 4 38:41

Yeah.

Speaker 2 38:44

The first? Yeah, a lot of those kind of things. The first, oh gosh, ipod, ipod, yeah, first iPod.

Speaker 3 38:57

Or even the laptop we're using right right now.

Speaker 4 38:59

I'm sure would be so archaic yeah, I just threw mallory's ipod little pink, you know this big ipod in the garbage. She says I don't want to know, throw it away.

Speaker 2 39:11

So I said and I mean, when you think about it, all it is is a flash drive. Yeah, for the most part it's a flash drive with a little directory on it. It's, yeah, the tech, the innovate, the technology, innovation that we have seen in our lifetime. What an 80 or 90 year old has seen in their lifetime? Oh my gosh, it's amazing.

Speaker 3 39:39

Yeah.

Speaker 2 39:42

Well, any other thoughts you guys on this topic?

Speaker 4 39:49

I just think it's a good one. It was a good idea to think about. Yeah, you know.

Speaker 2 39:58

Yeah, and hopefully this sparks ideas Because it's kind of a fun exercise. I mean, like, if you're sitting around with a bunch of friends, throw the question out. It's because I think it's kind of fun to just on the fly say, oh okay, well, let's brainstorm a little bit. What would I put in?

Speaker 3 40:14

Yeah, and if you can't think of some fun, cool things to put in or you don't have an idea of how you want to be remembered. It is not too late. Right to make changes.

Final Thoughts and Recommendations

Speaker 2 40:28

Yes, yep, exactly amen, sister. Um, who's got a shot? I?

Speaker 4 40:40

do.

Speaker 3 40:41

Oh my gosh amy does, she's excited speaking of amen sisters, um, you guys, I um, you know how we are all about supporting women. Yes, and a very, very good friend of the show has. I want everybody to give her a listen. It's very, you know. I'm not going to say that that she copied us, because it's um, she's hanging with some friends and talking about stuff, you know, and it's so hilarious. Um, but amy poehler has got a new podcast called Good Hang and I love it.

Speaker 4 41:21

Good Hang, good Hang. Yeah, I think on Insta it's Good Hang with Amy Yep, yep.

Speaker 3 41:27

She is. I love her. You know we love her. She's a comedian I especially love she's done. She's probably only done like five or six there aren't too many. Of course, I love the first one with Tina Fey, but one of the most recent she did is with Katherine Hahn, and I adore Katherine Hahn. I just think she is so smart and so funny and a riot. I think she burped like three times in the middle of the whole podcast and then the two of them got to laughing so hard they couldn't continue. So it's our type of it's our type of listening yeah, it is I think the one.

Speaker 4 42:07

The one I was watching today was jack.

Speaker 4 42:10

Oh, I haven't seen that one equally, equally as funny, because they're just silly together was funny. Yeah, that's a good one. On a side note, this wasn't my shot, but did you know that? Oh my gosh, I lost it. Okay, so I'm gonna do my shot. My shot is I I don't know if this is gonna work, work.

Speaker 4 42:37

So Tartlet tubing mascara, oh Okay, and it's kind of a pink. I've worn this for a long time so I thought I would show this. But the reason why I brought this up and you can get this at Ulta I think it's not the cheapest, so I think it's like $28 at Ulta. So my favorite. But here's my thing.

Speaker 4 43:02

So you know the usual go on the Internet and you know you're scrolling through stuff. I saw an ad where the woman was talking exactly about Tarte, tartelette mascara, tubing mascara, and it looked just like this and she was putting it on and she called it out and you know below that where you do the shop now. So I said, huh, wonder if I can get it over the you know, online and see what the price is. When you do that shop now it takes you to a whole nother you know, whole nother site. The picture was a pinkish tube, didn't say tartlet anywhere on it and I know that is one of those where it's, you know, selling you the product that isn't the product you know what I mean, and I just get so frustrated with that, yeah, which I thought was interesting, considering they probably used her video.

Speaker 4 44:02

You know yep for this product and that is so frustrating whenever I see ads whenever I see ads or promos on facebook or instagram.

Speaker 2 44:13

I'll go all the way out and I'll go to the actual website and then search for the products.

Speaker 3 44:18

Yeah, that happened to a lot. That happened a lot with um Gudrun GE designs, because she does fabulous product videos and um especially overseas companies would take clips of her videos and it was her ring in her hands and they're selling their knockoff and it was a it was a huge problem, so the original product.

Speaker 2 44:48

So do they? Do they have a legal team that takes over then and goes after them?

Speaker 3 44:55

You know, some of it is like you can't even tell who the people are.

Speaker 2 44:59

Yeah, you know that are doing it.

Speaker 3 45:00

But yeah, there's been some things that were that happened, that she had to bring in the legal team to send some letters and get some stuff down. And you know, the one thing you can do when you're on socials and you see that you can report the ad. Yeah, pretending to be somebody, they're not pretending to be somebody they're not.

Speaker 4 45:27

Yeah, okay, yep, and I thought about my other thing, and this is not a shot, it's just a question did you know that mel robbins put out a new book? I heard about it for the first time this morning. We'll have to do a little more research. Her new book is Let Me. The first one was Let them. The new one, just a bit, what I'm getting is Let Me. Where, giving yourself the permission to you know, I don't know set boundaries and that kind of thing for yourself. So, like I said, I don't know a lot about it, but I'm sure It'll be interesting. So yeah, I didn't know that. Let's see Me. Neither.

Speaker 2 46:20

What about. Okay, I did think of one thing, and I think this would be a fun thing for all of us to do, so I just learned today that you can have AI roast you.

Speaker 3 46:34

Oh, no, have you heard this?

Speaker 2 46:36

No, this is fun.

Speaker 3 46:37

I don't want AI to roast me, it's all in fun.

Speaker 2 46:40

It's all in fun. So you pick a photo and I think it's hilarious when you pick, like, a family photo. So let's say I pick a photo, it's Bill Bo and I, or Bill Bo and Mackenzie and I, so you put a photo into ChatGPT. So you put a photo into ChatGPT and you know. So I mean I would pick a good photo, maybe where expressions are funny, or you know it's a photo, you're not just all sitting there like this, okay, and then the prompt is roast us, basically. So it's roast us, and then you can set the vibe, so like, if you want it to be just sort of mild, you know a mild spicy. If you want it to be medium, if you want to be you know like AI, go all out like bird to crisp, roast us, um, and then it will come back and it will and it's hilarious. I think we should all do this and post them on our page. It's in fun, it's all in fun okay, I'll go first and then we'll follow.

Speaker 2 47:55

I'll do it first, so I we'll follow it. I'll do it first, so I need to find a photo.

Speaker 4 47:59

Yes, more to come on that, I guess We'll see.

Speaker 2 48:02

Okay, the hilarious side of AI.

Speaker 1 48:08

All right?

Speaker 2 48:08

Well, you guys, have a good week, thank you. Have a good rest of the week, yes, and we'll see you all next week with more addicting conversations. Peace out everybody. Bye, bye.

Speaker 4 48:23

Cheers.

Speaker 1 48:25

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