2 Babes and a Bad Idea

Episode 1: Welcome to the Show

• Kristine and Carrie • Episode 1

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Hey Besties! Welcome to the first episode of 2 Babes and a Bad Idea! We started this new adventure and we are bringing you along for the ride. In this episode we will be letting you know who we are, how we met, the crazy things we do together and why we decided to put our thoughts on the internet for everyone to hear. Want more? Join us every Thursday for a new episode. We can't wait for you to get to know us better!

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For the Fans by Nyla K
The Housemaid by Freida McFadden

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Carrie:

Hey, I'm Carrie.

Kristine:

Oh my gosh. And I'm Kristine,

Carrie:

and we are best friends

Kristine:

and we have a podcast.

Carrie:

We do. Welcome to our first episode.

Kristine:

This is a little crazy.

Carrie:

This is weird. This is something that has been such a long time coming.

Kristine:

We've been working on this for what, two years now?

Carrie:

Yeah.

Kristine:

The equipment has been sitting in

Carrie:

this room

Kristine:

collecting dust

Carrie:

for two years, and the idea's been even longer.

Kristine:

Oh, yes.

Carrie:

We knew we wanted to do this. We've had the name for.

Kristine:

Forever,

Carrie:

for probably 10 years. We, we bought the domain for this for like years ago,

Kristine:

and it's finally here.

Carrie:

It's finally here.

Kristine:

Oh my gosh.

Carrie:

So welcome to two Babes and a bad idea.

Kristine:

It is a bad idea. It's such a good one.

Carrie:

It's such a bad idea. And we'll add this right at the beginning. Um, this could be explicit, so make sure you don't have little ears around.

Kristine:

Yeah, we don't know exactly what's gonna happen. Carrie and I live very unfiltered lives and we're gonna continue to do so. And you're along for the ride. So buckle up. It could be neat, it could be boring. I don't know.

Carrie:

We'll find out. So today we're just talking about who we are. We're gonna introduce ourselves, let you know who we are, how we know each other, and. Kind of get into that for this episode. So welcome.

Kristine:

All right, let's do it. Okay, so I'm Kristine. Let's start off, um, with that, um, do we wanna go like in deep? I'm 35 5 1. What info do you want? Um, I, Carrie, and I've been best friends for forever, and she's gonna talk about a little bit about herself as well. And then we'll just talk in it, talk about our friendship.

Carrie:

You wanna tell me what you're reading right now?

Kristine:

Yes. Okay. I love this one so much. Okay, so I am currently reading, I'm just ending. Um, it's called for the Fans. It's um, do you remember the author

Carrie:

Nyla Nyla Kay.

Kristine:

Yeah, that's right. Yeah. that is probably one of the dirtiest, raunchiest Most sexy, delicious.

Carrie:

Mm-hmm.

Kristine:

Captivating read, I have read in a very long time. I'm actually reading it for the second time, back to back. I'm just finishing the epilogue. Um, and it is, I just, I don't know if I'm actually done with it yet. I think I'm gonna have to go back to it maybe in a little bit. But it's It's sexy.

Carrie:

It's so good.

Kristine:

It's so sexy. Carrie gave me the recommendation. Yeah. And um, I have yet to put it down right.

Carrie:

It is, it is so unbelievably amazing. I read it back in March. I read it, I devoured it in a day, day and a half. Um, which is crazy cuz it's such a long book and I just, I loved it.

Kristine:

Yep. It is. If you are going to pick it up, please keep an open mind. Um, that's your warning.

Carrie:

It's yeah, read the triggers. They're right at the beginning.

Kristine:

Yeah, it's, but if you do go for it. I promise you it is something that you will love forever. The story is just, I'm like my, I'm like closing my eyes and just like imagining the characters, cuz it just, it makes me feel whole

Carrie:

it's so good. I love it. It's so good. Um, I'm reading the House Maid right now. I'm in my thriller era. I've switched over. I I do love romance reads. Don't get me wrong. They're, they're my. Favorite, but I started reading the housemate and I just cannot get enough of it. It is so good. It's such a good thriller. Um, if you read Verity by Colleen Hoover, you'll love the premise of this book cuz it keeps you on the edge of your seat the whole time, but it's not thrillery enough that it's gonna scare you. So it's really, really good. I highly recommend it. It's called the Housemate.

Kristine:

Can you gimme a snippet of like, what it's what it's about because I, I need a new book here right away.

Carrie:

Yeah. So like, maybe it's something that I wanna read. Yeah, I think you'll like it. So it's this gal and she gal, and she gets out of prison and she's going to find a job, but she doesn't want anyone to know that she's. Just gotten outta prison. Okay. So she goes and interviews for a job being a housemate at mm-hmm. Um, this couple's home and she lies in her interview. She gets the job. Mm-hmm. And they put her up in the attic. That's where she sleeps, in this little room, in the attic on this like little cot. And they're loaded, And they all have these big, huge bedrooms and they put her upstairs. Um, okay. Which is, you know, kind of feels a little weird, but whatever. She was just happy to have somewhere to sleep cuz she was previously living in her car and weird things start happening. I can't g give you any more without giving away big parts of the plot, so,

Kristine:

okay. Yeah. Okay. Interesting.

Carrie:

Mm-hmm. And it has a really big twist and like, it's just good.

Kristine:

I love that. Yeah.

Carrie:

So I highly recommend, that's my read right now.

Kristine:

Okay. I will maybe I'll jump into that next.

Carrie:

Yeah, do it.

Kristine:

Okay. Let's let's talk a little bit about you, Carrie. So I talked a little bit, a little snippet of myself. Mm-hmm. Let's do you baby.

Carrie:

So I'm Carrie. I am currently 36, but I'm going to be 37 in a couple months. Um, and I am married. I've been married for 14 years and I have a little girl. She's eight, almost nine, I guess. She's not so little anymore. And yeah, and I own a business with my best friend.

Kristine:

That's me.

Carrie:

And now we have a podcast. Oh my God. Which is so weird.

Kristine:

So weird. Um, I also am married, I forgot that part. Sorry, Jayce. I've been married for 12 years. Mm-hmm. Is that right? Mm-hmm. Um, 12 years. I have a daughter, she's almost seven. And our husbands are also best friends. So that's a little snippet

Carrie:

Yeah.

Kristine:

Of our lives,

Carrie:

but we are best friends first. Yes. Yeah. We're always though j we're jg.

Kristine:

Mm-hmm. Naturally. Um, yeah. So that's, that's us to begin with. But you guys are gonna learn so much more,

Carrie:

so much about, about us.

Kristine:

So let's start off about how we came to be as friends. Okay. Because Carrie is, I don't know if I actually mentioned my age. I'm 35.

Carrie:

Yeah, you said you're 35.

Kristine:

Okay. So Carrie's two years older. Okay. Um, But that so that doesn't really line up with school?

Carrie:

No.

Kristine:

We've known each other pretty much our whole lives. So how did we come to be Carrie?

Carrie:

So, when I was in grade five, I, um, met a girl in my class. Her name was Amanda, and we became best friends. We were best friends up until probably like mid high school, grade 12. And she happens to be Kristine's oldest sister.

Kristine:

And then I stole Carrie.

Carrie:

She did, she did. She took me, I mean, we, we would always hang out. Oh yeah. When Amanda and I were there. But you were more like my annoying younger sister at that point.

Kristine:

I was actually explaining that today when we were getting her hair done. Um, the lady, the gal, Cindy, who was doing my hair, who's fantastic by the way. Um, she asked how we got to, how we came to be, and I was telling her like, My mom kind of made me play, not play with you guys. Mm-hmm. But hang out with you guys. Mm-hmm And I think that's kind of how it started. Cuz I was always around like I was, I'm my middle child so I was too old to hang out with my little sister cuz it weird. The age gap was just too much. And then I was, I. You know, I was kind of on that cusp mm-hmm. Of teenager. Mm-hmm. I guess with you guys. So my mom kind of was like, just, just hang out with her and shut up kind of thing. Mm-hmm. And then you guys did?

Carrie:

Yeah, we did.

Kristine:

And then that's how we kind of came to be and started being a little bit closer and mm-hmm. Learning who each other were and,

Carrie:

and then it probably wasn't until high school Yeah. That you and I. Like started talking outside of Yeah.

Kristine:

So, well, Amanda was in, she started cheerleading in, in junior high.

Carrie:

Oh yeah. And we, yeah. Yeah. We were not, we used to talk on the phone.

Kristine:

Yeah. So, and we weren't, um, part of the cheer team or any other sport since.

Carrie:

No.

Kristine:

Um, so we would chat on the phone and hang out a little bit more, and then it just kind of like gradually mm-hmm. Snowballed into the fact that like, Amanda kind of drifted off. Um, and I want, I wanna preface by saying you guys are just very different people and like went into their different lives.

Carrie:

Oh yeah.

Kristine:

And I didn't like steal her, like I wasn't a, an asshole.

Carrie:

No, no, no.

Kristine:

I mean, I'm always an asshole, but

Carrie:

yeah. No, no, no. We, Amanda and I are even as adults now, we're just very different. And we were, we were really good friends for a long time and we're still friends. It's just. Yeah, we were

Kristine:

different lives.

Carrie:

We were different from each other,

Kristine:

different strokes for different folks.

Carrie:

Yeah. You're my kind of stroke,

Kristine:

I'm winking. I love that for us. So yeah, that's how we came to be. Mm-hmm. And then as high school and junior high progressed, so Carrie was in high school when I was in junior high. We our friendship kind of mm-hmm. Just blossomed even more.

Carrie:

It really, it really did. And we used to spend a lot of time together. Yeah. And then

Kristine:

so much time.

Carrie:

Yeah. And then you and I kind of have a habit of dating people and friend groups, so

Kristine:

we do,

Carrie:

yeah. Yeah.

Kristine:

We, we dated an entire friend group. There was what, four or five guys?

Carrie:

I don't know. Yeah, probably.

Kristine:

And we went through the whole thing. It was just whole group?

Carrie:

No, that was you. I dated one of them.

Kristine:

Yeah, I did. Okay. I think I didn't, yeah, I didn't date. I use quotation marks or quotation, you know one of them?

Carrie:

Yeah, one of them. And then the one that I was dating,

Kristine:

so two

Carrie:

Oh, I oh two. Okay. I married one of them,

Kristine:

so three. Because, okay. Can we just, can we list them off? Can we use initials?

Carrie:

Sure.

Kristine:

A I did not date him.

Carrie:

No, no.

Kristine:

N did not date him.

Carrie:

No,

Kristine:

you are, we're gonna say his name,

Carrie:

Nick,

Kristine:

later. So Nick, I did not date him. Mm-hmm. It's like my brother. That's gross. Um, S, I did.

Carrie:

Yeah.

Kristine:

Literally. Um,

Carrie:

j

Kristine:

J I did m and m I did.

Carrie:

You did.

Kristine:

I'm a little slutty, so Yeah, we do, we tend to go around the block here.

Carrie:

Yeah. With the friend groups. And now our husbands are best friends, so. Yeah. Apparently we're friend groups.

Kristine:

We're not friends before.

Carrie:

No, no, no. Not at all.

Kristine:

Didn't even know each other. Mm-hmm. Until later on. Mm-hmm. Yeah. So that's what, that's how that happened.

Carrie:

Yeah.

Kristine:

What the heck were we even talking about? How did we get on the SJ and A and

Carrie:

oh us being friends and dating and like,

Kristine:

oh yeah.

Carrie:

And yeah. Yeah. So that's kind of how we stayed friends when we were in university. When I was in university, cuz that's how I met. Yep. Number one. Um,

Kristine:

I love that for us. Yeah.

Carrie:

Yeah. And then,

Kristine:

and then it just continued on

Carrie:

and then we became really close. Yes. When you left me.

Kristine:

Yes, I did. I, went to Bonnyville for five years. Um, my, that's where, so my husband and I met, oh man, I just am a Steeler. Mm-hmm. So I. Started dating my husband, who was actually dating an old friend of mine. Mm-hmm. Back in junior high. And then they broke up and then I just swooped in. I do that apparently, so like, I don't know, watch out or something, watch out. Um, so I swooped in and then when we started getting like real serious, I moved to Bonnyville for five years and And then Carrie was very upset.

Carrie:

I was upset. I still am.

Kristine:

She, she actually sent me gifs

Carrie:

Mr. Rogers

Kristine:

of Mr. Rogers saying like, will you be my neighbor? And like every single day for five every day, five years for five years, begging me to come back and literally not like, just move back to the city like nearby she lives. Like get your ass assure. Park.

Carrie:

Yeah. Be my neighbor. Yeah. No, I was. I didn't, I didn't give up. I was relentless. Yeah.

Kristine:

You did a really good job.

Carrie:

Thank you. Because well you were, you did come back. I did. Yeah. And if you didn't come back, we wouldn't have Lll b

Kristine:

nor nor would we have a podcast. No. It was really cool. Podcast room.

Carrie:

Yeah. But that's how we became such good friends. It. Yeah. Or so we were always good friends, but we got really close while you weren't living here,

Kristine:

which is really funny.

Carrie:

Yeah, that is funny how that works. But I just feel like maybe we treasured our time together more, or like the times we got to, like we talked on the phone all the time.

Kristine:

All the time,

Carrie:

instead of hanging out and maybe it being less. We would talk on the phone every time I was driving somewhere.

Kristine:

We didn't have like real conversation. Yeah. It was nothing like superficial friendship. It was like, no, she knew my feelings.

Carrie:

Yeah. Oh yeah. There was lots of crying dark ones.

Kristine:

Oh yeah. We both crab babies.

Carrie:

Oh, so bad. It was so bad. Yeah. So that was that's kind of how we became really good friends. And then she back shore park because I had a baby and she just couldn't beat without me.

Kristine:

Honestly, I, this is actually one of my, the. I hated the fact that I lived in Bonnyville and you had Brooke.

Carrie:

Yeah.

Kristine:

I hated that.

Carrie:

Yeah,

Kristine:

because the, when she was in labor, I had to go back. Mm-hmm. I had to go.

Carrie:

You left.

Kristine:

Jayce had to go to work. And I had no way of getting to back to home. I had no, I had no way.

Carrie:

It's because I was in labor for 8,000 years.

Kristine:

Yes, I did. I stayed as long as I humanly possibly could. Mm-hmm. But I didn't get the phone call. What time was Brooke born?

Carrie:

Like, like 11 something?

Kristine:

Yeah.

Carrie:

At night. Like really late.

Kristine:

And I didn't, and when I got the phone call I was like, I was just, There. Mm-hmm. Like I like it still breaks my heart.

Carrie:

Yeah, it sucked.

Kristine:

And Oh, I hated that. I'm get a tear up change topic. I just hated that. Yeah. Cause I wasn't here. Yeah. And I was supposed to be here. Yeah.

Carrie:

And then, you know, she was this baby and you'd only get to see her every,

Kristine:

I know.

Carrie:

Time you guys to come to visit. So I'd like to thank Brooke for bringing you back.

Kristine:

Honestly, I think we moved back when she was. Seven, eight months. Mm-hmm.

Carrie:

Something around there. Okay. Because, I mean, we started our business when she was, she wasn't quite a year.

Kristine:

No. And she babys or she babysat me. I babysat her. Or like Jayce and I did. You guys went on a holiday and I think she was around nine months old when

Carrie:

we went to Vegas the first time. Yeah. Um,

Kristine:

I think she was like nine months.

Carrie:

No, cuz it was, it was July. It was 4th of July. So she would've been a year and a half, like a year and a half after that.

Kristine:

She was that old already.

Carrie:

Mm-hmm. Because we were gone for the 4th of July and I wouldn't, I was still. Wow. Yeah. Oh, wow. Unless I did leave her when she was at home.

Kristine:

I thought it, I thought she was nine months. I thought she was a little bit earlier

Carrie:

maybe.

Kristine:

But yeah, regardless,

Carrie:

it's possible.

Kristine:

Bye mama. Out.

Carrie:

Oh yeah.

Kristine:

Well, yeah, whatever. Yeah. And then we moved back and then, mm-hmm. So we moved back into the same town and then now we're neighbors.

Carrie:

Yeah, I can, well, I can't anymore, but I used to be able to see Kristine's house from my front porch.

Kristine:

I, um, I hate that there's houses there now. Like I love that our community is growing, but I hate that. I can't spy on you.

Carrie:

I know I can't see your house.

Kristine:

I liked knowing. When,

Carrie:

when got pulled out of the driveway.

Kristine:

Yes. Yeah. I liked seeing the car on the driveway. I liked seeing Nick mow lawn.

Carrie:

Yeah.

Kristine:

I, I am a creepy

Carrie:

Yeah.

Kristine:

Son of a bitch.

Carrie:

I'll give you to log in for the cameras if you want.

Kristine:

I would really like that.

Carrie:

Just log into the leemur

Kristine:

like you think I'm joking, but like I need to, to

Carrie:

No, no, I know, I know. I get it. Um, yeah, we now live. Two blocks away from each other, a block and a half away from each other. And the walk is, I think like

Kristine:

the timed, we timed it, it was like two minutes and like 48 seconds or something. But like, we can get there way quicker. Mm-hmm. Way quicker.

Carrie:

Way quicker.

Kristine:

Yeah. I agree. Honestly, like I just bolt there

Carrie:

and we do, especially in the summer, we do spend all of our time together. Yeah. I love summer. I love how much time we spend together in the summer.

Kristine:

Our summer consists of music. Twisted tees, Vizzy's, pool, husbands and children. Yep. That's our summers. Yeah. And late nights and like, I know I've mentioned music, but loud music.

Carrie:

Oh yeah. Loudest.

Kristine:

My favorite time of the year.

Carrie:

Mm-hmm.

Kristine:

People ask all the time, they're like, are you like, where, when? When's your next next trip? And I'm like, well, not till August, because I'm not missing out on my summers here. And they're like, what do you mean? Mm-hmm. I'm like, we have the most beautiful summers. Yeah. We have so much fun. I'm not leaving.

Carrie:

When people ask me if I have like any weekend plans in the summer, I'm like, mm-hmm. No. No. Weekends are the time. Yeah.

Kristine:

I'm not giving that up. No. I don't like to leave work early and hit the pool.

Carrie:

Yes.

Kristine:

That's what I'm about.

Carrie:

And Friday's off.

Kristine:

Amen. Yeah. preach girlfriend.

Carrie:

Yeah. That started last summer and never going back.

Kristine:

Yeah. Yeah. Summers are the best.

Carrie:

They really are. They really are. I do. I love a good summer.

Kristine:

And do you know why? That's funny cuz I mean, you weren't here this past weekend, but I was telling Nick when he was over for dinner, I was like, I, as soon as it heats up, I start craving our summer food. Mm-hmm. And like we have like specific meals in the summer.

Carrie:

Yeah. We do

Kristine:

like example, like what we had for dinner.

Carrie:

The chicken buns.

Kristine:

Chicken. Yeah. Chicken on Kaiser's and like that's all I wanted. It. It mm-hmm. Got, it was 25, 26 degrees or whatever it was the other day. And like I woke up and I was like, I want a chicken Kaiser.

Carrie:

Yeah. Yeah. Nachos on the barbecue.

Kristine:

Ah. Yes. And the beef sliders Yes. That Nick makes.

Carrie:

Yes. Smash burgers.

Kristine:

Oh, smash burgers. Yes. Yes.

Carrie:

They're so good. Oh my God. Yeah. We have, we do, we have our summer pasta salad. Yeah. Oh yeah. Nick made some on, was that Friday night?

Kristine:

Oh, yummy.

Carrie:

Yeah. And what a time. I had some last night, some leftovers. Yeah. So good. We love food. Lives do revolve around food.

Kristine:

Yeah. You guys are gonna hear a lot about, um, what we're currently hyper fixating on. Mm-hmm.

Carrie:

Kristine especially. Yeah. She's a hyper fixator.

Kristine:

Yeah. I can't eat the same thing over and over again. It's hard. So like for a long period of time. Mm-hmm. So I'll stick with it for like a week, week and a half, and then, and then it dies.

Carrie:

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. So for me, I can eat the same thing every single day without fail and I do. Um, And I never get sick of it. Maybe, maybe I could take like a day or two off of it, but I don't get so sick of it that it makes me like, wanna die. Yeah. For you, not so much.

Kristine:

No. And like that's a superpower I wish I had. Yeah. Like you're my superhero.

Carrie:

Because when you hyper fixate on a food, you want it every day and then you have to stop or else you'll get sick of it. That you're literally sick. Yeah.

Kristine:

Like right now is avocado toast. And I have to be really careful mm-hmm. Of how often I'm having it. Like I had to take a few days break, um, because I was starting to get. Legitimately giggy. Mm-hmm. And sick to my stomach and I was like, I don't wanna ruin this for myself. I have to stop.

Carrie:

Yeah. Like oatmeal, cold oatmeal or like whatever. overnight oats.

Kristine:

Yeah. That was a bad, bad, bad, bad time.

Carrie:

Grill, cheese sandwiches on the panini maker.

Kristine:

Nope. That smell still makes me sick still. I'll walk into the kitchen and somebody's using the panini maker and I'm like, woo. Gotta go.

Carrie:

Those were the two big ones. Those in the overnight oats

Kristine:

and the tacos.

Carrie:

Oh yeah.

Kristine:

The Costco tacos or whatever.

Carrie:

It's Costco. Fajitas.

Kristine:

Fajitas. Yeah. I can't even think about it. Like it literally gives me goosebumps, but that's fine.

Carrie:

It's never happened to me

Kristine:

and it doesn't happen to most people like Jayce Eats the same thing every day. S Scarlet eats the same thing every single day. Mm-hmm. I cannot do it. Mm-hmm.

Carrie:

That's fair.

Kristine:

I try.

Carrie:

Yeah, I get it. I get it. But I don't, I can't relate

Kristine:

something's wrong with me.

Carrie:

That's fair. I mean, I'm just used to it. Now, sometimes I have to say to Kristine, I have to be like, um, so I think you need to stop eating that because you're, be careful.

Kristine:

Yeah. But yeah, that's how we know each other. That's like, that's what we were supposed to be talking about. Mm-hmm. But we're now we're talking about hyper fixating of food and how I get gagging.

Carrie:

Because I know, I just know you're gonna get there. Yeah. It's, and I don't want you to be sad. No. Especially avocado toast.

Kristine:

Oh my God. It's my favorite. Ugh. So delicious.

Carrie:

Like kb

Kristine:

Ugh. Go for that. Mm-hmm. Love it. So yeah, so that's how we know each other. And then so yeah, we're neighbors and we also own a business together. And we have for eight years. And now we're doing the podcast. So what's our next, that's our next, it's our

Carrie:

thing right now.

Kristine:

Adventure.

Carrie:

It is.

Kristine:

We're being adventurous.

Carrie:

We are being adventurous, and I'm so happy for us.

Kristine:

What's your K? So what's your favorite thing about the podcast room? Because it's so new and different.

Carrie:

Um, it's a toss up between the chairs. They're bright, fuchsia and the neon.

Kristine:

Yeah. I really like the neon.

Carrie:

What about you?

Kristine:

I really like, I know we've had this carpet or this rug for a while, but it just, it's so inviting. Mm-hmm. And then I really like the pictures of us. Ugh. Because

Carrie:

we're so cute.

Kristine:

We're really, really cute. Yep. Like super attractive. And I love how like I look at you very longingly. You do in the pictures.

Carrie:

You do. It's a lot of love.

Kristine:

So like Yeah. Big crush. Big crush. Yeah. So that's what we've got going on.

Carrie:

Yeah. That's Tell Tell me something else about you.

Kristine:

About me? Mm-hmm. Um, okay. So I guess I'm assuming we're gonna have some new listeners here. I don't. I'm really boring. I run a lot.

Carrie:

Same.

Kristine:

I really love Monopoly. I made my family play Monopoly with me yesterday cuz it was Mother's Day. I got away with it. They abandoned me for a while from playing Monopoly. Um, something else about me, I don't know. I feel like I'm just your same old, same old until it comes up. You know what I mean?

Carrie:

Yeah, yeah.

Kristine:

Like I'm just. I'm just that guy. Yeah. I'm just here.

Carrie:

You're just plain, normal,

Kristine:

just plain.

Carrie:

You're not

Kristine:

I'm not at all until it, no, until it comes up. Like I always have that, I always have, have such a hard time. Mm-hmm. Describing myself or like talking about myself until it arises. Mm-hmm. That's fair. I can't just pick it out.

Carrie:

No, that's fair.

Kristine:

What about, what about yourself?

Carrie:

Um, well, I'm a mom has said already. Um, I actually am a cpa. Yeah. That's my claim to fame. Yeah. That's good. That's the only thing I have. Yeah. Um, so I am a designated accountant. I have had my accounting designation for I think over 10 years now.

Kristine:

Congratulations.

Carrie:

I don't. Thank you. Thank you. Um, I used to actually work in accounting. Doing. I wish everyone, I wish everyone could see my face. And I just want everyone to know that I was an actual accountant that worked with numbers. I wasn't the,

Kristine:

she was totally a stripper.

Carrie:

I wasn't the only fans kind of accountant, you know? Um,

Kristine:

I really wish you were like, I think that would be such like that. Wouldn't that bring up such good conversation? Mm-hmm.

Carrie:

It really would.

Kristine:

And like it really would. I'm not just, I'm, I'm just not brave enough.

Carrie:

No.

Kristine:

Like, I don't like seeing myself, you know, like I just think that's a little No too much.

Carrie:

No, I'm not into that for myself,

Kristine:

but for those who do amazing, and I wish I had that confidence. I just, I just can't. See myself in those positions without me, like,

Carrie:

no. And I just, I always envision like, like someone's friend seeing it or like, oh my God, you know, like your dad. Like, you know, like, I don't, I just can't imagine if, or your dad's friend was like, I saw Kristine. I'm like, I don't want that.

Kristine:

I, I think I would just key over Yeah. And die.

Carrie:

So I just, I can't.

Kristine:

I can't imagine being like my dad being like, so Don called me today and Im like, oh yeah, how's Don? He's like, well, not good. Like, oh shit, dad. I'm sorry.

Carrie:

Yeah. So, no. So I do the traditional accounting. Yeah. Um, I don't anymore, but I did and I did that for probably six years and then I just didn't anymore, cuz. I just, I enjoy numbers and I enjoy spreadsheets as you know. Yeah. But it just didn't bring me the joy that it should have. And honestly, my job made me so miserable, as Kristine knows, cuz Yeah. As we talk about me calling her on the phone. On the way home from work that, that was one of my cry sessions often,

Kristine:

almost every other day. Yeah. She would be like, this place, it's awful. Mm-hmm. Or like, my job sucks. I should be as Trevor,

Carrie:

I did. I honestly, I just, I hated everything about, it wasn't even the job itself. It was the things that came with the job. Working with a lot of women, which is ironic since we own, we own a business with a lot of women. Yeah. Just like the drama. The cattiness. The pettiness. It just, No, there was just, there was too much. Yeah. And it just, I had had enough and then I left. And

Kristine:

so much happier.

Carrie:

Oh yeah. No. Yeah.

Kristine:

No more crying.

Carrie:

I took two months off. I didn't work for two months. It was so nice.

Kristine:

Yeah, that's a nice break.

Carrie:

I had a job to go to, but I didn't, and no, for two months.

Kristine:

Well, you can't do that to yourself. No. And that's like one of the best things about. Your, like yourself is just recognizing mm-hmm. That you need that time. Mm-hmm. Because it is a lot Yeah. Of pressure. Yeah. And just, you can't knock yourself down that much. No, I think I be strong.

Carrie:

You really do need to recognize when you're close to that breaking point and you really mm-hmm. Have to take that step back. And I know it's easier said than done, especially from a financial standpoint. It's not, not everyone can take, just quit their job and take two months off. Like I get that. Yeah. I was very blessed that I had that. Option and that opportunity. But I was at this point where I was crying all the time. I couldn't sleep. I was working crazy hours, as you can imagine, doing accounting. And I just, it wasn't healthy. Mm-hmm. And I really, I was struggling with having a baby at the time, and I didn't know if the stress was part of my issue or not, but News flash it was. Yeah. So, It just

Kristine:

takes a lot of courage to do that. Yeah. So good job, Carrie.

Carrie:

Thank you. Thank you.

Kristine:

Standing ovation. And I'm not getting up, so

Carrie:

No,

Kristine:

I'll, no, I'll tell you. Standing ation,

Carrie:

you could pretend no one would know. No.

Kristine:

Good job, buddy.

Carrie:

If I knew what these buttons down here, I know where, where I would push one of them.

Kristine:

I pressed one earlier by accident. It sounded like fairy music.

Carrie:

Do you think one of them could be applause?

Kristine:

Yeah, hit one. It's closer to you than me. Oh, oh. Yeah, we told you to buckle up. We weren't kidding if you made it through this far already.

Carrie:

Yeah. Let supposed the applause button. I know which one it is now.

Kristine:

What number?

Carrie:

Um, it's the, the second yellow one here.

Kristine:

I can't actually see it.

Carrie:

Oh, okay. Well it's that one. Oh, that one. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, so really excited about that. And you know what, as the episode's gone, maybe we'll figure out what all the buttons are.

Kristine:

Yeah. Okay. Who knows?

Carrie:

We'll push one. We'll push one in episode. There's eight here, and take eight episodes.

Kristine:

Perfect. Yeah. That's a time to be alive.

Carrie:

I think so. Good. I think so. Oh. Um, wow. We talked about me for a really long time, or we went off on a tangent. That's the big thing about me though, is that's my claim to fame. I used to do accounting.

Kristine:

I don't have any big things. Mm. Got a mole.

Carrie:

You moved to Bonnyville for five years.

Kristine:

Yeah, it was terrible.

Carrie:

Yeah.

Kristine:

No, no, not terrible. Like I hated being away from you. I actually really enjoy Bonnyville. Um, really nice small town. It's a little shitty here and there, but Nice. Like it wasn't a great people. I made some amazing friends out there mm-hmm. That I miss. Um, but it was fine. Whatever. I had a good house.

Carrie:

Yeah.

Kristine:

Love my house.

Carrie:

Yeah.

Kristine:

Great location. Mm-hmm. It's not a golf course. It was really nice. It was bougie. It was. It was a great bougie house.

Carrie:

Yeah. Yeah. I liked that house.

Kristine:

Yeah. But whatever. I've got nothing else.

Carrie:

Okay.

Kristine:

Got a mole. I like crime. So wait, Gary and I were planning on our podcast and we were talking about like, or like topics that we could be discussing. I just blurted out the word crime, like nothing like. Oh, I like to watch True Crime or Listen to True Crime podcast, which is all true, but I just shouted the word crime. And Carrie wrote down the word crime. Yeah. We literally have

Carrie:

this list of episodes and it says Crime Midway. It just says crime.

Kristine:

So at least we can knock that off now because we did talk about crime.

Carrie:

We did talk about it. I'll, you know what, I'll check it off tonight.

Kristine:

Perfect. Yeah. Yeah. So I got nothing else. Oh. Like I said, things will come up. Mm-hmm. And they come up. Mm-hmm. Then we'll talk about it. Mm-hmm.

Carrie:

And we talked about how we met.

Kristine:

Yeah, I think we did it. I think we did the episode.

Carrie:

Okay.

Kristine:

That's wild. I really didn't, I really didn't know how this was gonna go.

Carrie:

We kind of figured this would be a little shorty. Why don't we talk about what you can expect.

Kristine:

Yeah.

Carrie:

As we come up, that's great.

Kristine:

And then I have a question. Okay. Okay. But let's talk about that first.

Carrie:

Okay. So do you wanna ask your question before you forget it?

Kristine:

Yeah. I'm not very bright sometimes. I just wanted to know, because I said earlier, I'm leaning over to get my drink. Why don't we talk about what we're actually drinking? We have our Starbucks orders in front of us. And we do, we are actually recording this on, I hope to God we've pressed the record button. Could you imagine

Carrie:

that's something we would do?

Kristine:

Yes. So we are recording it and I know we're gonna get questions later, like, what are you drinking? So let's talk about our Starbucks orders.

Carrie:

Okay. So I drink the same thing every time. Yeah. Oh, two things. But um, This is my iced Americano. It's decaf, and I put a little bit of half and half in it. Um, I don't really like sweet drinks. I don't like sugar at all in my coffee, so I can't drink the fufu lala, like fancy ones. Yeah. Which sometimes I'm a little jealous of that. Um, and I also can't drink caffeine after noon because I start getting really shaky. So I go decaf. Yeah, that's what I'm drinking. Happy.

Kristine:

Okay.

Carrie:

I You're welcome. For that drink,

Kristine:

I'm currently hyper fixating on the white chocolate macadamia cookie crumble. Cold brew. Cream cold brew. Whatever it's called. Um, Carrie ordered it for me last week. Week before

Carrie:

last week.

Kristine:

And I. Needed more in my life. Mm-hmm. And I think this is my third one since, yeah.

Carrie:

Did you have one this weekend?

Kristine:

I did, yeah.

Carrie:

After your run or

Kristine:

No, I got a, the strawberry watcha latte thing. That's really good. I really like that. After it's nice and light fruity.

Carrie:

Kristine ran from our house, which if you knew where it was, you would be like, wow. She ran all the way to Starbucks. Normally you'd be like, oh, that's not crazy. No, we live in the boonies. And Kristine ran to the freaking Starbucks.

Kristine:

It's motivating, knowing that I'm gonna get some good out of it, you know?

Carrie:

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Starbucks at the end.

Kristine:

Yeah. And when I see like life, cuz we live in the boonies, so when I start going into town and I see like the SA Avon, I'm like, yeah. Or the McDonald's first. I see that and I'm like, holy shit, there's people, civilization. Um, and then I turn and I see the SaveOn. I'm like, okay, I'm getting closer. I'm getting closer. And then I see that Starbucks and like, yeah, oh, I just, happy dance. Yeah, it's so good. But yeah, so it was a little, it's 13.67 or something kilometers away. Mm-hmm. It's, it's a, it's a good run. Yeah, it's good. But anyway, so yeah, that's what I did. But this drink is so good. I highly recommend it.

Carrie:

Yeah. I mean, it smells good.

Kristine:

Yeah, it's delicious.

Carrie:

I wouldn't drink it, but it smells good.

Kristine:

It's a fufu lala drink. Like, there's lots going on.

Carrie:

I can't, yeah, it's, I just can't. I wish I could, but I can't. Yeah.

Kristine:

I just wanted to know what you were drinking

Carrie:

and I like that

Kristine:

even though I ordered it.

Carrie:

It's Avanti Americano. Um, I, I actually prefer hot coffee to cold coffee all the time. Mm-hmm. Except for today because, um, little fun fact for you. This podcast room is about 8,000 degrees. Cuz we're having some issue with the air conditioning actually coming on in here.

Kristine:

Like, I'm dripping.

Carrie:

Oh yeah. It's hot. Yeah, I'm wearing a sweater. It's for show. So

Kristine:

soaking up the sweat.

Carrie:

So what, what can people expect?

Kristine:

Okay. Yeah. We're gonna talk about so many different things.

Carrie:

Yeah.

Kristine:

We're gonna always talk about what we're currently reading or watching on the old tv. We're gonna be talking about our daily life. Mm-hmm. What's it like to be best friends who own a business? What's it like just to be best friends? What's it like to be best friends with somebody that you've known for your entire life? Mm-hmm. Oh God. What else are we gonna talk about? Food,

Carrie:

crime. Food. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. Food.

Kristine:

We're gonna, um,

Carrie:

We're gonna have some guests. Yeah. We're gonna some surprise guests. We're not gonna, we're not gonna spill all the beans. No. Like, you need to tune in to know who our guests are gonna be. Yeah.

Kristine:

We're going to we're gonna talk a lot. Like a lot. And the things that come up with Kristine and Carrie mm-hmm. Are. Mm-hmm. Very nutty.

Carrie:

Yeah.

Kristine:

And I fall in apologize in advance.

Carrie:

And we're not lying when we say unfiltered. Like this is gonna be just us who we are. And I think that's the cool thing. Um, we always talk about how when we have our lives that we do for L l B or um, have we ever once talked about our businesses?

Kristine:

I was gonna say. So we are going to talk about that probably in the next episode.

Carrie:

Next episode. Yeah.

Kristine:

Um, So you guys will figure out what LL B is and what the heck we actually do. Yeah. Yeah. Which you guys don't know. I mean if you do know, great. If you don't know. Yeah.

Carrie:

I mean you probably do, but if you don't that's amazing. So when we do our lives and stuff, I just feel not that we're hiding who we really are, because that's also who we are. Mm-hmm. We just have to hone it in a little bit, you know, cuz it, it is our business and we, I don't know, I just feel like we're not filtered, but we're just like a little bit. Toned down.

Kristine:

We're toned down, that's for sure. We're tone down

Carrie:

and we can't talk about all this stuff on a live, they'd be be so long.

Kristine:

No, they'd be so, so long. And we're there for like a purpose, like Yeah. Mm-hmm. Granted, when you and I go live, like on Mondays, our lives aren't very informative. It's just a bunch of crap. But like when, like we are there technically for a job.

Carrie:

Yeah.

Kristine:

And we have to get that job done. Yeah. But this, this is our way of just showing who we actually Yeah. Are truly our true selves are,

Carrie:

and just shooting the shit,

Kristine:

which could be a good or a bad thing. I'm interested in seeing if we lose some followers after this. I don't know. I think we're pretty great people.

Carrie:

We are.

Kristine:

We're very nice. We're kind. Yeah.

Carrie:

And we're excited. We're excited to just show you that side of us and give you the opportunity to participate. Yeah. We're super excited.

Kristine:

You guys can DM us your questions. Mm-hmm. Whatever you are burning to ask. And then we're, we'll talk about that.

Carrie:

Yeah. We'll answer them. Yeah. Every episode we'll answer some questions and let you guys know

Kristine:

what a time to be alive.

Carrie:

We what a time to be alive.

Kristine:

Yeah. So we're, we're pretty jacked up about it. It's gonna be a lot of fun. Mm-hmm. To make sure you guys hang out with us. Yeah.

Carrie:

And something else we're gonna do every week,

Kristine:

At the end of every episode. Yep. The classic game of Carrie

Carrie:

Fuck Mary Kill. Mm-hmm.

Kristine:

What a time. Yes, you did hear that right? We are going to do the fuck Mary kill game. Um, would you like to start it off, Carrie?

Carrie:

Yeah. Okay. So I've had, I've had this one like in the bank for a while, like been ready to give this to one to you. Okay. Kristine?

Kristine:

Yes, dear

Carrie:

Loki.

Kristine:

Ooh, love him.

Carrie:

The Hulk Mark Ruffo version.

Kristine:

Oof.

Carrie:

Yeah. Or Ant man, Paul Rud.

Kristine:

Okay. Fuck Mary. Kill for Lowkey.

Carrie:

Loki that don't know. Um, Kristine loves Mark Ruffo. Yeah. Okay. You said Loki Hulk? Yep. Loki Hulk And man. Man.

Kristine:

Okay. Fuck. Um.

Carrie:

I'm so happy.

Kristine:

Okay. I think I'm gonna, you think I'm gonna Fuck me a Hulk? I feel like that would be a lot.

Carrie:

Yeah. Yeah.

Kristine:

I'm into that.

Carrie:

Yeah. Okay.

Kristine:

Okay. I'm gonna fuck Hulk. Okay. Wow. I, oh shit. Oh, I really love Loki.

Carrie:

Was this a good one?

Kristine:

Yeah. This ones hard. Yeah. I have like, like Loki, the character. I love him and I have a huge crush on him. Mm-hmm. Um, But like Paul Red mm-hmm. I knew I would like to take that to town.

Carrie:

I knew, so when I, when I came up with these, I have to flip it over, which you don't see next week's options.

Kristine:

Okay. No, I'm taking it back. Can I take it back?

Carrie:

Yeah.

Kristine:

Or did I lock it in?

Carrie:

No, you didn't look it in.

Kristine:

Okay. I'm killing the Hulk. Okay. I'm gonna, I'm gonna fuck Paul Rud. Okay. Amen.

Carrie:

Okay.

Kristine:

I wanna see what he's about. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. He can get, he can, oh God. He can go small and he can go big. You know what I mean? Yeah. Come and then I'm gonna marry Loki. I think him and I are very misunderstood together. So when we were in Disneyland, um, I was like, God, I love Loki. And I just kept talking about how, I just think that he is so misunderstood.

Carrie:

Yes.

Kristine:

As a character. Yeah. And as a person. And I think that he needs to be appreciated more because he's misunderstood. Yeah. He just, he's a little bad. He's a little gun. Yeah. I'm very passionate about that.

Carrie:

He's very passionate about Loki and that is why I had to ask,

Kristine:

oh fuck. That was really funny. Okay, so I'm. I'm killing the Hulk. Okay. Although I wanted to fucking him first. Yeah, you did. I'm gonna kill him. Okay. I'm gonna fuck Aunt man. Okay. And I'm gonna marry Loki. Mm-hmm. Locked in.

Carrie:

Okay. Okay. It's cause it's cause of Paul. Oh, okay.

Kristine:

Like, not at all.

Carrie:

But I'm, you know what, I have been banking this one for a while, so like, don't expect him to be this good every week.

Kristine:

I'm really upset with mine now. It's not as good.

Carrie:

I told you I was bringing the thunder.

Kristine:

And you did? Yeah.

Carrie:

Thank you.

Kristine:

The thunder has been brought. Mm-hmm. Okay. Well, fuck. Mine sucks now. Shit. Okay. Fuck me. Kill, Carrie. Okay.

Carrie:

Okay.

Kristine:

We're gonna go with fucking sucks. Like, I just want to go home now. Okay. Honestly, they're all bad, so I'm just gonna pick one.

Carrie:

You should see the disappointment on her face right now.

Kristine:

So disappointed. I feel like they can hear it. Okay. Fuck Mary Kay. Okay. Scary spice.

Carrie:

Okay.

Kristine:

Posh Spice. Yeah. Or Ginger Spice. I didn't wanna say baby spice cuz I felt like that was just really weird.

Carrie:

Yeah, it is weird.

Kristine:

Okay. So it's not as good. I regret everything.

Carrie:

Kristine's upset. Okay.

Kristine:

It's cuz I misunderstood.

Carrie:

Okay. I'm gonna kill Scary Spice. She's a lot, she's got a lot of hair and she's just, she's very like,

Kristine:

I just licked myself on camera.

Carrie:

Yeah, you did. You did. Um, people are watching. I know a lot of people might think, wow, Victoria Beckham, why don't you off her? She's really snooty, but I actually think she's quite funny. I follow her on TikTok and she's been with David Beckham, so like, I mean, we've got those, you know, seven separation here. Yeah. But just one. Um, okay. So I would. Fuck Ginger Spice. Yeah.

Kristine:

I feel like she'd be you.

Carrie:

Yeah. She's shout the right spicy home about Yeah. Yeah. She's spicy.

Kristine:

Yeah. She knows what's up.

Carrie:

And then I guess I'd marry Posh Spice. And you know what? I feel like that's great.

Kristine:

I think that's a really good answer.

Carrie:

Yeah. Thank you.

Kristine:

Yeah, lock that in.

Carrie:

I like how I said she had a lot of hair and she's just saying a lot.

Kristine:

I feel like she would. Rip you apart.

Carrie:

Yeah. She's just, she's just a lot personality wise for me.

Kristine:

She would sing the, she would sing you to sleep though.

Carrie:

Yeah. I If you would've picked Sporty Spice though, we would've had a different

Kristine:

yeah. I honestly, I had a really hard time picking Yeah. Baby spice. I was like, I just, I, I just feel like she's too precious. She should stay outta this conversation.

Carrie:

Yeah. She, I would've killed her for sure. Yeah. She seems like someone who would be whiny.

Kristine:

Yeah. You know what? She probably, she does look like a whiny bitch.

Carrie:

Yeah. I don't have that in me.

Kristine:

Yeah. No. Okay.

Carrie:

No. Okay. I'm good now. Locked in. Perfect. Locked and loaded.

Kristine:

So that is how we're gonna end our episodes every week. You can anticipate a bunch of crap.

Carrie:

And Kristine Kristine's going back to the drawing board for her next round.

Kristine:

Oh my God. They suck. Like, okay. I need to, because I don't actually have it finished, so I have one. I have one. Hold on. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Okay. And then I started one, the sixth one was gonna be like, um, A retro version. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. So I had like, I had one outta, three names picked, and the first name was Mr. Dress up. And then I couldn't think of anything more like other retro, so I stopped and said, I give up.

Carrie:

I'm surprised you didn't pick Mr. Rogers.

Kristine:

See? Yeah. That would've been, I was just, I was drawing a blank. I didn't have my phone, I had my computer. Not bright enough to like figure out

Carrie:

like snuff up, I guess.

Kristine:

Snuffle off I guess, but yeah. Yeah. So, okay. Well would you fuck, marry or kill Mr. Dress up? You don't have any other options cause you got nothing.

Carrie:

He's, he's actually already dead.

Kristine:

Poor guy.

Carrie:

Yeah. So,

Kristine:

but Okay, he was still kicking,

Carrie:

I don't know. That's weird. I used to watch him when I was a kid.

Kristine:

Retro version baby.

Carrie:

I think I'd kill him.

Kristine:

Yeah. That's cool. It's the sweaters, it's the animals on the hand.

Carrie:

Yeah.

Kristine:

There's a lot for me.

Carrie:

There's a lot like him and, but if you put Mr. Rogers in there, who do I pick? Because they both wear sweaters. You know? Mr. Dress up, wear his sweater vest.

Kristine:

I don't think he had a sweater ever. I thought it was like a button up. We're gonna have to do some serious Googling. Mm-hmm. He's probably really freaky or he probably was really freaky.

Carrie:

Oh my God. I hope not. That's just her dress up. I'm looking him up for anyone who's wondering. I have my phone out. I'm looking up Mr. Dress up. Oh my God. Yeah. Okay. He Oh yeah. A button up with a bow tie.

Kristine:

Oh. Oh wow. I see. That's not the Mr. Dress up. I remember like I know it's thin guy. But that's like really old. That's way before my time.

Carrie:

But see, there are ones where he did wear cardigans.

Kristine:

Oh yeah.

Carrie:

So I think it just it, he wore lots of different outfits,

Kristine:

that was such a good show.

Carrie:

Like, kind of like lamb chops play along.

Kristine:

That was such a good one too. So, yeah, that's the kind of crap you can expect.

Carrie:

Yeah. Wow.

Kristine:

This is probably a good episode or a bad episode. I don't know.

Carrie:

Yeah, we're, we're not sure.

Kristine:

You tell us.

Carrie:

So thank you guys for listening and we can't wait to see you. Next week. We're gonna recap, um, how we started l b and where it came from, and let you know what our business is since we didn't really talk about it much today because. We're weird like that.

Kristine:

And if you have any questions, make sure you drop them in our Instagram, um, two Babes podcast. Um, and drop them there. And we are going to answer them on our podcast. Mm-hmm. And you guys can learn so much more than Yeah. The stuff we're already.

Carrie:

And if you ever forget our social handles or you want our email or anything, our website is two babes podcast.com. That two is with an actual two, not the word two.

Kristine:

Good. Good call. Bringing that up.

Carrie:

Thank you. Good call. Thank you. So two Babes Podcast is our Instagram and our website. We cannot wait for next week. You can download our podcast on anywhere that you listen to your podcast, like Apple Podcasts or Spotify,

Kristine:

all that other things.

Carrie:

All those other things. Yeah. Okay. All right. Bye. Bye.

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