Speaker 2: 0:04

Welcome to another episode of Two Generations, one Mic. My name is Andy and I'm here with my husband, mark, and today's episode is called I don't know, I wasn't even born yet.

Speaker 1: 0:17

Now, yes, and the reason that it's called that is because we've explained before in our backgrounds. I spent the majority of my career in television and radio and so many people that she'll meet now will know me from that and they will always come up and try to reference things to her. Oh, do you remember when he did this on the radio or on television, or this or this? And it was a lot of references from the 80s and 90s, and she's like I wasn't even born yet.

Speaker 2: 0:46

I mean, yeah, I was born in 88., but of course I don't remember him being like this personality in the 80s and 90s. I was like what, two, three and yeah, that usually gets them. They're like wait what?

Speaker 1: 1:02

Yeah, you have no concept of a lot of references that they're making, especially musical references or things like that. You just don't get it. We have this discussion all the time about music because, like, one of the big things in the 80s was, uh, especially the clubs were like industrial dance music. You call it satan's music that's satan's music, bro.

Speaker 2: 1:21

I'm telling you it's horrible right? Well it's, it's an offense to the people that like that music, but it's like I just went to East Berlin or something in the 80s and it's just like a bunch of random noises and See, that's what my generation could also say about your music EDM.

Speaker 1: 1:40

It's very similar. I think it's just the EDM is the industrial music in the generation for today. It's a lot of beats, it's just a lot of music.

Speaker 2: 1:49

Yeah, but then it's you dance to it.

Speaker 1: 1:51

Well, you do that too, they dance to it. That was actually called dancing, what they did in the 80s and 90s, just a bunch of nonsense. Well, yeah, but at that time the X helped you know at that time.

Speaker 1: 2:09

You mean time the x helped, you know at that time because you mean like ecstasy. Yeah, because that was actually illegal. I I'm old enough to remember when x was legal they actually when it was first made, they put it into it was like just in jars on the bar you could walk up and grab some x that was legal and pop some so well, like people just had like peanuts right there.

Speaker 1: 2:20

Well, you people weren't stupid enough to eat a handful of them. But you go get some x or whatever. It was totally legal in the in the club when it first started and then they outlawed it, obviously I think I think this is how bad I am with drugs now because I don't do them, but I think in x what molly is today to your generation I wouldn't know you don't do the molly I don't do the molly I'm.

Speaker 2: 2:42

I'm sleeping at 7 pm you think I will be doing molly no, that's true.

Speaker 1: 2:48

That's true. You are not uh but uh. So there's a lot of things that have to do with our different generation. Because I'm 25 years older than you, that you don't get uh yeah, that's for sure yeah like.

Speaker 2: 2:58

I don't. I don't get that like at all. Also, I don't get how you guys survived without maps.

Speaker 1: 3:07

I mean like Google Maps Without Google Maps or Apple Maps or someone talking to you in the car.

Speaker 2: 3:11

Yeah, like, how do you guys manage to get places? I just feel like I don't know how you guys managed to do that.

Speaker 1: 3:18

Well, we had someone talking to us in the car telling us where to go. It just wasn't a computer voice.

Speaker 2: 3:23

It was a person. What if you didn't have a person?

Speaker 1: 3:30

Well then you had to pull over to a gas station, you had to go get a map, a paper map, and then you tried not to kill yourself by reading it while you were driving your car. So you would pull over and try to figure out on this map, where the hell am I at? Okay, I'm here, I got to get to here. What do you have to do? That was old school style, and we also one of the things that I used to get so frustrated from you, because you would never not know how to get anywhere if you weren't listening to a computer telling you where to go. I always say you know you could read the street signs on the freeways and figure it out too.

Speaker 1: 3:56

that no, that's dangerous well, that's why they're there no, like I.

Speaker 2: 4:00

Like today, when we were driving, I was like like, look at the map. And you're like I cannot look like the screen in our car. You know like, look at the screen. He's asking me direction. I'm like, no, look at the screen. I can't look at the screen. And the same time I'm looking and I'm driving, I'm like what do you mean? Like yes, you can, you just multitask. And he's like, no, I can't. I'm like, oh gosh, see, I don't know how you're still alive driving with normal maps and just getting places.

Speaker 1: 4:30

Well, I got there. I mean, it's taken you longer, but you still got there. Yeah, but there's a lot of little instances like that where you just don't understand how we did things or how we still do things. Or like yesterday, you brought your little play toy here. I actually opened a can of tomato sauce with this and at first this is the cutest thing in the world because I picked it up. I actually pulled it off our fridge because it stays there, because you can see she opens her beers with this.

Speaker 2: 4:54

I thought it was a beer opener all this time all this time beer opener. I was like, okay, that's cool, it's very practical. But I took it off.

Speaker 1: 5:00

I took it off the refrigerator to open a can of tomato sauce. She she goes what are you doing? I said I'm opening the tomato sauce. She goes with that, With the beer opener. I said no, that's what this side is for. You use this side, you make one big hole, you make a smaller hole. So, physics, it flows faster.

Speaker 2: 5:16

I thought this was a beer opener and this was a pokey beer opener. A pokey beer opener opener, a pokey beer opener? I don't know, maybe if you, I don't know what. I never thought there was a can opener. I I'm used to like the normal can opener, but this was amazing. Thank you for showing me that, like if one day we're post-apocalyptic and I need to just open bowls and cans.

Speaker 1: 5:38

There you go it's almost as cute as one of the very first things that she did when we first got together. We've been together for 10 years well, together for 12, married for 10 and one of the cutest things I'd ever seen in my life was she went into my kitchen, went into our kitchen or my kitchen at the time, and she literally looked in the sink and she goes what is this? What is this? I said what is what? Yes, peace. I said the garbage disposal. Yes, yes, what is this? She, he goes this. I said the garbage disposal. She goes yes, what is this? She had no concept of what a garbage disposal was.

Speaker 2: 6:10

I mean, I don't think that's a generational thing, I think that's a cultural thing, because where I grew up, in Mexico City, you don't have garbage disposals because the drain can't handle it right. It's just like in New York City, when we lived in new york city manhattan in manhattan, we didn't have one and oh it was so mad. Like in europe, we don't have one in spain, and that to me says freedom, that to me says america when you have a garbage disposal.

Speaker 2: 6:37

That to me, is like I'm right here, where the freedom is made well, also to the other.

Speaker 1: 6:42

The reason they don't have them is because the plumbing is so old. Of course you know our building in Spain was built in the 1800s, yeah, so everything is very much older there and the systems can't handle it. Same thing with New York. Those are old structures and they can't handle it. I would guess probably the same thing in Mexico City. That's right. If it's a new structure with new plumbing that's associated with it, then you physically couldn't work right. It would clog everything up.

Speaker 2: 7:06

But we make it work. I mean, even with the age difference, we make it work because I'm like an older soul I think he is the one that wants to go out and I'm like can we just stay home, like why do you have to go out? And for us, going out is kind of like just going out to have a couple drinks at 7 pm, unless we're in Spain.

Speaker 1: 7:30

Well no, in Spain it's 7 pm.

Speaker 2: 7:31

Here it's happy hour 5, 6 o'clock. Because here, if it's earlier than that, people judge you. In America, people judge you if you drink earlier than that. But that's a whole other episode and I just think we make it work because you're like the one that parties. Let's say I'm the young soul you're the young soul and I'm like and you're your mom already. I want to have dinner at 3 pm and I just want to be in bed by 7 and just sleep 12 hours yeah, we, her mother lives with us, uh, in spain.

Speaker 1: 8:03

And your mother is how old? 71 so she's 71 years old. She lives with us in spain. She grew up in mexico city, she um, she doesn't speak a lot of english, uh, so that's also really fun so, um, she has this uh way, she's always lived her lifestyle. Uh, and so her. She gets up in the morning, she eats morning, her breakfast is at 11 am and her dinner is at 3-ish, 3.30, sometimes 2, 2.30. That's it. She does not eat another meal later.

Speaker 1: 8:37

Oh, she eats, snackies, she eats snacks, but she doesn't eat a meal and so she likes us to eat with her, tries to eat with us, and I cannot tell you how many arguments we've had, because we've had. You know, we have work, we have business, we have meetings, we're out, we're doing things and we're like, okay, we're not going to be back until like 4, 30 or 5, and she's like, oh, I can't eat at that hour. That's crazy. She just loses her mind if we're not eating by 4, 30 or 5.

Speaker 2: 9:02

So she's already in bed by 7, right? Well, she's already in bed by 7.

Speaker 1: 9:04

Right Well, she's already in bed by 5. She wants to eat her dinner at 3 and be in her pajamas by 5. And then when we're out if we're out, god forbid we're going out at 7, 7.30 or 8, she's calling you an alcoholic, because how dare we be out so late?

Speaker 2: 9:18

Well, but I also don't like that. I really enjoy being at home with you, the puppies. We have three puppies, two senior dogs. Well, the three of them are senior, basically now 15, 14, and 10. And I just like that. I like to be watching TV, cuddling with you guys, and to me, that's the moment where I think this is it, this is family to me. We don't have kids together, so to me, this is it. This is family to me. This we don't have kids together. Uh, so to me, this is family. This is the moment that I enjoy and I feel like if we go out, it disrupts that. I mean, when I was younger, believe me, I I worked at nightclubs, so I really I spent so many nights working in the service industry. That is just so. You enjoy sleeping a lot. When you leave that industry, like you like to just stay in. You hate the noise. I don't like noisy places, I think since COVID probably Like crowds. I can't take crowds anymore, or maybe I'm getting older.

Speaker 1: 10:27

I don't know. Maybe think both. When you were 18, you start off as a bartender. You were bartending in a gay bar in mexico city and it didn't even open till one. Stayed open from one in the morning till seven in the morning 8 am, 8 am.

Speaker 2: 10:38

Sometimes I was like people just go home, like nobody loves you at home, like come on, go.

Speaker 1: 10:43

And I mean the tips were great, uh but your light, your body clock got on that schedule where you're working from one to eight in the morning, exactly at a bar.

Speaker 2: 10:52

So since I was like working on the weekends. I was going out in the middle of the week and I was. It was just not. I don't know. I enjoy sleeping now. I enjoy staying in and just watching the tv and sleep when I want to sleep and I love sleeping. I am one person that I could be like sleeping on the floor until tomorrow. I don't. Yeah, you're a cat now you sleep like a cat.

Speaker 1: 11:14

It's amazing and I don't like to when we say go, go out beautifully yes, well, uh, when I like to go out, I don't ever like. It's never, never a thing where I'm going. Let's go out. We're going to the club at 11 o'clock and that's not my thing. No, it's more like let's go to happy hour. We'll go somewhere, we'll have some cocktails and then we're still home in time for the baby. 738 o'clock.

Speaker 2: 11:34

I think the last time we went to a club we were in Singapore, remember yes, we were in Singapore, and I sometimes when I drink, I the devil takes over and I just want, I swear, I can party all night, I swear. But then it's midnight and I'm like drunk and tired and I'm like I can't do this anymore.

Speaker 2: 11:53

And um, we were in singapore and there was this, uh, really nice nightclub called the marquee yes which they have one in vegas, one in singapore and we, I told him, let's, let's just party, let's go to the club. We're in Singapore.

Speaker 1: 12:10

Why not?

Speaker 2: 12:11

Well, that was, yeah, it was fun, but it was like what time we had to be there.

Speaker 1: 12:23

Well, yeah, the way it works at these clubs, though that are this high end is either there's two choices you go stand in this very, very long line to get in, or you have to buy a table.

Speaker 2: 12:30

Now, what that entails is we're buying a table which means we have to buy two bottles of liquor.

Speaker 1: 12:36

Yeah, and these bottles. So we had to buy two bottles of liquor, I don't know. I think it cost us about $800. It's about $800 that we get a table, we get our mixers and we get bottles of alcohol and we have our own dedicated waiter and that's kind of what the thing is. So we get there early again because we don't want to get there super late. So it's roughly like 10, 30, right, 10, 30, 11. And we're there, we get our little area set up, we get our little private area, we get our table and everything. And Andy's starting to feel it and she's like wanting to dance and the music she's. I've got some great videos of her. I call her super sweet moves where she's just dancing. Uh, I don't even know what that dance would be called. I thought she was having a seizure, but the she's dancing and I was trying to shuffle shut up yeah, that's, that's what that was.

Speaker 1: 13:29

So she's doing that and she's starting to get more frustrated by the minute because, if you remember, we had not been in clubs in a while and we didn't realize that.

Speaker 2: 13:39

I think last time we were there was when we were dating.

Speaker 1: 13:41

Yeah, so we haven't realized that. I guess Gen Z people they don't go there and start dancing.

Speaker 2: 13:47

Yeah, what's wrong with you people? You guys are not dancing anymore.

Speaker 1: 13:50

They just go to. The whole floor was covered by Gen Z people, especially a lot of the girls, and all they were doing they were just on their cell phone standing on the dance floor on their cell phone.

Speaker 2: 14:01

Meanwhile, the music was great. Like Eminem is playing and it's just all the right songs. Like people are not dancing, they're not even talking, they're just on their phones.

Speaker 1: 14:12

Yeah, so what's that about? She goes. This is very depressing. Is that like that? In everywhere in the world? She goes. This is so depressing. I know I can't get my groove on here. Here I got my sweet moves going and nobody's joining me.

Speaker 2: 14:23

I was having my sweet moves and nobody's dancing. What's wrong with these people? So I had a brilliant plan.

Speaker 1: 14:28

Yeah. So I thank God, I cause I drink Bacardi like it's water. So I had a bottle of Bacardi there and you had gin, I think. But I told, I told our waiter. I said, go get me two giant trays of shot glasses, bring some like peach snobs and also bring a like this J was seven up or whatever chasers or whatever. I said, bring that and your shaker, we're going to make shots. And so we started making these giant trays of shots and I said, okay, here, Andy, it's going to be creepy for me to be doing it, Cause that looks weird.

Speaker 1: 15:01

Hey you, a girl, a young girl, come here and have a shot. I don't look like a creeper that's trying to take you and hide you in a trunk somewhere. So I said what I would do. I know what am I P Diddy.

Speaker 1: 15:10

So, I said look, you do this part and I'm going to follow behind you and I'm just going to videotape. And so I used my iPhone and I just started shooting video. And so she went down with these trays of things and she just started going and she just basically just took charge of the dance floor and walked in there and was like all right girls, get off your cell phones.

Speaker 2: 15:30

You look miserable, you need a shot. I was like Oprah you need a shot, you get a shot, everybody gets a shot. And also, the guys were like what? I mean, I don't know if they spoke English or not, probably yes, but all these girls look so miserable, like if I was on a date. Like if I was on a date, like if we were dating and that was our date, I would be. I don't know, I don't think I would be no, no, but it worked because you had everybody and all the girls are drinking shots and they started going and I started going behind them shots shots, shots and they started doing shots and they're chanting shots and they're chanting usa, usa and so like it was great.

Speaker 1: 16:06

So when you got and they, they were USA, usa, and so like it was great. So when you got and they, they were all dead and all of a sudden everybody started dancing on the floor and everything, and we started to walk off and I just looked at the manager and I went you're welcome, and we walked off and went back to our area.

Speaker 2: 16:19

And it was midnight. And then we're back at the hotel because you know we're older people and um yeah, Our work is done here and we went back to the Four Seasons. That was fun. That was a fun night, but that was the last time we went to a nightclub and I can't even imagine doing that every week.

Speaker 1: 16:36

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 16:37

But that's why our gap works in that. Yeah, it doesn't work that much in other things, like technology-wise. You drive me crazy, yes.

Speaker 1: 16:48

Well, and technology and technology wise, you move too fast. Sometimes you're just doing 8 000 things at once, and that's the other thing is you. You do have weaver distress, you have add, and we look at things two different ways. I, when we have a laundry list of things to do, I make a list and I knock one out. I mark it off. Next thing mark it off and I go down the list, so everything gets accomplished. You do 20 things at one time and don't finish any of them.

Speaker 2: 17:17

I'm multitasking.

Speaker 1: 17:18

Yeah, but you don't finish the project. So at the end of the thing I have to come behind you and go. Did you finish this? Oh, no, no.

Speaker 2: 17:29

I haven't done that, oh no, no, I haven't finished that. Here's how my brain works, a brain with ADD. I have a deadline of let's say something that is a week from now. I'll start it today, but I don't finish it until the day is due, because I know I have the time and in the process I can do other things because that's not due yet. So I always finish by the date that it needs to be done. It's just, I perform under pressure. I like the pressure. That's why, when we're at airports, I get there. I know it right. I like the pressure, I like the rush, I like the adrenaline yeah I?

Speaker 2: 18:03

I if our flight leaves at 9 30 in the morning, I like to like to get there at 8.45 am.

Speaker 1: 18:09

Yeah, that's crazy. So that's a whole other thing is us in the airports because we travel a lot, so we're always flying. And, oh my gosh, when Tiffany goes with us sometimes because my daughter Tiffany works for us sometimes she'll fly. It's three different mentalities when it comes to flying. I want to get to the airport roughly an hour and a half, two hours early. Check in. If we're checking luggage, we try not to. But if we have to check luggage, if we're doing it for a long trip, we check luggage. I want to check luggage, get to the next spot, get through security, and we always have fast paths through security. So we go through that really fast. And then my thing is let's go to the lounge. I want to go to the lounge. I want to get my free alcohol. I don't care what time it is. By the way, if you're a world traveler, there's no time in airports. So if you're having.

Speaker 2: 18:59

I have one at 7.30 in the morning.

Speaker 1: 19:01

It's like Vegas. There's no time in airports. So I'll get a glass of wine and we'll chill. We'll get on the internet, we'll do some work, but I want to relax and okay, we have this much time. We're going to be first boarding anyway. Let's stroll down, but why? And we get on and we're in our plane and we get situated and we have everything ready to go. She, on the other hand, she wants to run to barely catch the flight every single time.

Speaker 2: 19:30

Because who wants to be at an airport for four hours like why? Why do you want to just be doing nothing when you can utilize your time being more productive?

Speaker 1: 19:34

or maybe sleeping in another hour.

Speaker 2: 19:36

I don't know why do you have to be there, why you can have wine at the plane. You don't have to have wine, I can have both there's no reason I can't have both.

Speaker 1: 19:45

There's no limit. Nobody's gonna steal your seat right. But then you get to what you just said. Who wants to do it?

Speaker 2: 19:51

Tiffany's on the far end of that spectrum, my poor Tiffany.

Speaker 1: 19:54

Tiffany's idea is she wants to sit at the gate two hours ahead of time and she still thinks she's going to miss the flight. That's the whole thing with Tiffany. That's Tiffany. She's worried she's going to miss the flight and she's been at the gate for two hours. Yes, so that's the three divisions of our travel.

Speaker 2: 20:10

But I like that, I like the rush, I like I mean to be fair sometimes I really think I'm not going to make it, but I always make it, except when it's a connection that I missed because I don't know. Jfk was too busy and then I missed my connection because we took off late. But that was on me, that was on the pilots and the air traffic control people, not my fault. I just like the pressure, I like the rush, the adrenaline, and you hate that about me.

Speaker 1: 20:36

No, I don't like that at all. I don't like that at all. I want to be calm, relaxed.

Speaker 2: 20:45

I have a glass of wine, get in my seat, relax. Yet when we have to go somewhere, you always, you are always.

Speaker 2: 20:49

Oh gosh, this drives me crazy about this guy when we leave the house, when, we leave the house, I sort of got like if I tell him, babe, we have to be at somewhere at I don't know 5 pm. Okay, it's 4's 4.30. We're about to leave. Oh wait, I have to go to the bathroom. Is that a man thing? Like every time we have to leave the house, you have to go pee. It's like in your brain boom, we're leaving, I got to go pee.

Speaker 1: 21:12

Well, it wouldn't be bad if it was just having to go pee.

Speaker 2: 21:26

Or sometimes he goes you know what I really need to do right now shave my arms. I'm like, oh, are you shaving your arms? Right, we are leaving in five minutes. You're half naked. He's like, wait, well, I had some, some hair in my. I'm like nobody cares, you have hair in your arms at this point, like who cared you know how much these tattoos cost.

Speaker 1: 21:40

I want to show them off babe, your hair is blonde.

Speaker 2: 21:43

You can see it through the hair, you're fine yes, but it drives me insane. Or if you have to go pick me up somewhere. I'm like, do you leave the house already? Well, no, because you know, I had to take the puppies out to pee and then I had to go pee myself and I was like, and shave. I guess like, why can't you never be on time?

Speaker 1: 22:02

I can be on time. Sometimes it's just, I don, I don't know, at the last second I feel like I have to get something done.

Speaker 2: 22:07

Gosh drives me crazy. I, on the other hand, try to be on time.

Speaker 1: 22:12

Yeah, that doesn't happen either.

Speaker 2: 22:13

I mean because I think that there's not going to be traffic in my head. I'm fine, I'm looking at the map, but sometimes that changes.

Speaker 1: 22:23

But yeah, because when you plan things, you plan things for the last minute. You plan things thinking that everything's going to work the way it's supposed to work. And what do I always tell you when planning?

Speaker 2: 22:40

You always have to allow for other people to fuck up.

Speaker 1: 22:43

Exactly when you make your plans, always anticipate someone else that you're relying on is going to fuck up somewhere in the solution. So plan on if they fuck up.

Speaker 2: 22:53

I'm allowing myself that's you manifesting it, but no, how many times have you been, and I'm not mansplaining that to you no, manifesting it. Oh, manifesting it. Oh, thank you for okay. Now you're mansplaining it. Oh, thank you for Okay, now you're mansplaining it. Now I'm mansplaining you. No, what?

Speaker 1: 23:04

I'm saying is, especially when you go somewhere and you're on a deadline, you're like, oh, I'm going to get this, this, this. How many times when you were, like, entering warehouses in LA, when you're shipping stuff around, like, oh yeah, and I have the truck coming to get all the pallets on this time at two o'clock and at the airport at five to get on our flight, I'm like you didn't allow for an extra day for them to be late for picking up a truckload of pallets.

Speaker 2: 23:25

See, there you go, you jinxed it.

Speaker 1: 23:27

No, but that's not me. It's like I'm telling you you have to allow, because every single time I've told you that I'm like what happened? Well, they're late.

Speaker 2: 23:40

Well, every single time, because you're like my mom, you're like oh, you're going to get sick. Boom, you get sick.

Speaker 1: 23:45

No, I just anticipate things could happen and I plan for what if that happens.

Speaker 2: 23:50

Then it happens. Why did we win the lottery? Say it.

Speaker 1: 23:55

You don't say it with good enough intention.

Speaker 2: 23:57

You just like me to fail. So you're right. So, yeah, that definitely does happen. Yeah, that's. That's another thing.

Speaker 2: 24:06

And also, again, like we said, like with the technology right, like we with technology gosh, when I try to tell you sometimes, like, babe, like you get frustrated with technology, right, like there was this time that he broke an atm because, okay, so my, so my husband is Wreck-It Ralph. If something is going to break, it's because he touched it and his daughter, tiffany, inherited that. So they're my both Wreck-It Ralph, right. So he usually breaks things just by touching them. Technology with him it never works. When I take over, flawlesslylessly, it works, perfect. And I don't know, I don't know why is that? You guys break things.

Speaker 2: 24:49

And that time you were so frustrated with the atm and you we were, I think, in dallas in an atm and then you were just so yelling at it and then at the end, like it got your card, didn't give your card back, I don't know. You broke the ATM and I was like, if you just calm down, let the machine think for a second, it will be fine, but no, you broke it. And with the computer it's the same thing. I'm like calm down, drag the file to your desktop. No, you want to do it so fast that you're just not able to just click and drag. You're double-clicking, or like when you have to double-click, you just click, click.

Speaker 1: 25:30

I can't handle the double-click. It just drives me crazy.

Speaker 2: 25:32

It's like I never get that right. It's one click, click, click or double-click. It's like different pacing of stuff. If you act too fast on that with that technology.

Speaker 1: 25:44

You also. You and tiffany, both. Apparently. I don't know how to use the uh cameras on the zoom correctly, so I end up getting way too close to the camera I know every time you put your ear on the camera my face way up in the camera you're not a camera Like back up, back up.

Speaker 2: 26:04

Especially now with the Zoom calls all the time.

Speaker 1: 26:07

Oh my gosh, I'm like pulling him back up, because if you don't back up, it's like people just see, I can't tell you how many conference calls were on Zoom calls where, all of a sudden, I feel the back of my shirt being pulled back to lean me back, because my face is up, right up in the camera the more the conversation goes, the more you start approaching the camera and I have to just pull you back pull you back.

Speaker 2: 26:32

That's that's fun, but see it works like I love you.

Speaker 1: 26:35

I love you with all your flaws and your, yeah, but if you, if you, uh, I guess we work through it. So the 25-year age gap is a thing. Older people have a. You know, we do have more of a problem with technology, but sometimes we overcome that, like I, have a lot of my friends my age that bitch constantly about checking themselves out of the grocery store. They hated it, you hated it, I hated it in the beginning, but then I got to know it. Remember, in LA they wanted to give me a job at Ralph's because I was so good at all the codes I was helping all the old people put the codes in.

Speaker 1: 27:10

They're like the manager goes. Can we hire you? Because you're helping all these people check their stuff and I'm like, oh, here's the code for that.

Speaker 2: 27:16

When I started dating you 12 years ago and I, okay, growing up I wanted to be a cashier, right, that was my dream job, a cashier at the grocery store. So I had all my toys and I was playing the cashier. So when I came to America and I saw self-checkout, I was like this is my dream, this is my dream and I always wanted to do the self-checkout. And with this guy he's like no, because the things never work right, no, because you're not pressing the right things or always like assistance needed, assistance needed, assistance needed. I was like stop touching stuff, hold on, let the machine do its thing. But then now you love it right?

Speaker 1: 27:55

No, I do love it. I do love it. The only thing I know is I have to analyze okay, I have alcohol on the card how many trips they're going to have to make over here. Okay, I have alcohol on the card, how many trips they're going to have to make over here? So I cut a deal with them. Hey, can you come over here and knock off all the alcohol at once? So you want to keep coming back? But I generally know the codes on things. I know how to put it in. I feel good, especially when there's long lines and all the old people, of course, are in the long lines and I, just like you, mean your people, other side, knock it out.

Speaker 2: 28:21

How's it sparks being married to to me to a younger person but we work it out.

Speaker 1: 28:26

We get the technology done. I love technology. I can't tell me times. Oh my gosh. On facebook or whatever they're like. You see all these posts again from people my age. They're like I miss the simpler times when we just drank out of a hose and we just played in the yard and that was so simple. It's ironic that they're posting that on Facebook. But to me I'm like no, I don't miss that. I like walking in a place, going. That's a really cool song. Here's my phone in my pocket. I'm going to hit one app. It shazams it and tells me what it is. Oh, I like that. One click. It's now on my playlist in my iTunes and I'm listening to it in 20 minutes. While I'm working out that, is true.

Speaker 1: 29:05

That is what I like. I like technology. I like to go. I don't need cash. Click, click, apple Pay. Goodbye, I'm out of here. I love that. I don't want to carry a bunch of cash around with me, like the world's coming to an end or it's 1955. I like technology. I like the new gadgets, I like the new things. I like ai. I like ai. You know, I I'm pushing ai to take over the world, apparently because you're like, you're yelling at the machine to go faster yeah, when ai takes over you were, you were doomed.

Speaker 1: 29:36

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