The Tri Deltas in the TV Room are back for their first episode of 2025! Join our hosts Mindy Tucker, Southern Methodist, Meredith Davies, Rhodes, Avery Sadler Hill, Mississippi, and Lexi Leggs, Millikin, as their personalities shine in this fun, spirited conversation. They'll catch you up on all the latest pop culture moments and trending topics. You'll laugh out loud, learn something new and feel like you're right there in the living room with them. Grab a coffee and get ready to keep up!
Do you have strong feelings about baby tees? Turns out, you’re not alone! The Tri Deltas in the TV Room are back, and they’re diving into all the latest trends—fashion, pop culture, food and even a few hot takes on going down the TikTok rabbit hole.
From SNL and Fleetwood Mac to Super Bowl commercials and DIY parties, this episode has it all. Mindy shares the app that revolutionized her grocery shopping (seriously, game-changer), Avery gives us her take on destination weddings, and the group debates what’s actually appropriate as a bridesmaid or wedding guest. Plus, they chat about the Buy Now documentary, never-ending subscriptions and products they can’t live without.
What’s the verdict on baby tees, bubble skirts, and duck-shaped nails? Meredith is all about comfort, Lexi is saying no to duck nails, and Mindy is still not on board with high-waisted jeans. But flair jeans? Yes, please!
[TV Room January 2025 Transcript]
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Hello and Happy New Year, everybody. Welcome back to another episode of Tri Deltas in the TV Room, where we are going to dive into current events and trending topics and
pop culture, all of that through the lens of sisterhood and shared experiences. I am
Mindy Tucker. I'm Tri Delta's CEO. And if you haven't listened to the podcast before,
I'm joined by my co -hosts. They are Tri Deltas. They are colleagues of mine.
They are all wonderful women. Avery Hill, Lexi Leggs, and Meredith Davies. And I'll
let them introduce themselves in a minute. But welcome to the TV room. We're going
to have a lively and spirited episode today. We're going to cover a ton of exciting
things going on, lots of hot topics. Lots of learning to happen because I don't
even know that I understand all of their hop topics going into this. So here we
go. First, let's do a quick round, Robin, just to reintroduce ourselves to everybody
for our new listeners that haven't been here before. Obviously, I've already
introduced myself. Mindy Tri Delta CEO. I'm coming to you from San Diego, California.
Lexi, you're next. Thank you, Mindy. Hey, everybody. I'm Lexi Leggs, and I am
Tri Delta's newly minted diversity, equity, inclusion, access and belonging manager, or
you can call me the DEIB manager for short, because that's a long title, and I'll
pass it over to Meredith. - Hi, Meredith Davies. I am Tri Delta's development manager.
I live in Dallas, and today I am in Gambier, Ohio, helping our Kenyon chapter.
- Love it.
Hello again, everyone. My name is Avery. I am our housing development manager as of
August ish. I am a Tri Delta from Ole Miss. I recently moved to Boston.
I think we talked about my fiance every episode, who is now my husband. So we got
married and we moved to Boston and Lexi, you didn't say where you're, did you say
- Or my chapter, yeah. I just forgot all of my introductions, sorry y 'all. I'm from
our chapter, Delta Epsilon chapter of Milliken University, very small school in the
middle of Illinois, but we love her. And I am still joining us here from Dallas,
Texas. So originally from Chicago, but Levin Dallas, especially now in the wintertime.
Wonderful. - It is. All right, what's next, Lexie? - All right, we're gonna do a
quick lightning round you like to start off with those every once in a while and
since it's still January when we're recording this i'm curious to know for you all
for new year's eve are you more of a dress up and go out type of a person or
are you like a pj's and stay home and celebrate type of a person
i'm in the middle i am just go to someone's house for a a But I'm going to wear
something sparkly because it's not every day that you get to wear your sparkly
clothes.
I'm in the middle, depending on who I'm with. So if it's me and my kids, stay
home, PJs, hang out, homebodies. But if I have the chance to go out with a date,
we'll have to get dressed up and go. So it depends on the situation.
- Okay, New Year's Eve tangent question. Would you go on a first date for New
Year's Eve? - I would not. - Like would that be too much? - That's a lot of
pressure. - That feels like a lot, yeah. - That just feels like a lot. I guess I
forgot that you're supposed to-- - Are there movies? - There definitely are. I forgot
that you're supposed to kiss on New Year's and until I just asked that question.
And then now I see why that would be a lot. Yeah. I feel like there'd be some
pressure there. Just like, what do you do in midnight? Unless you've already
discussed it beforehand, but who knows? Yeah. But you don't know if it's the first
day. Am I like, am I happy on this first day? Do I want to celebrate New Year's
on, you know, Eastern time at nine o 'clock when it's only midnight there at nine o
'clock here? Maybe I do. I don't know. So. These are good questions. Yeah. I went
out for New years this year, because we're I'm in my hosting era. And we had three
of Greg's friends come for New Year's. It was so fun. It's fun living in the
Northeast now because all of his friends live so I mean, like driving distance to
us. So they came we went to dinner in the North and got some lasagna went to a
comedy show, which that's my new New Year's Eve recommendation. It was like late to
where you had something to do post dinner before midnight, but not too late to
where you were tired. It was just like the perfect thing and then we watched
fireworks right out on the water. It was a lovely time. Walked back. It was so
nice. Avery's being my next New Year's Eve. I don't know about y 'all. Your next
New Year's Eve date.
You can arrange that. That'd be great. All right, so we're into spring. What are
our, what, what is everybody hearing about spring recruitment?
Oh my gosh, so much. That's my life right now. I have been, I feel like I'm back
in my consulting times. I've visited three chapters in two weeks. I went to Tulane,
then I went to Northwestern, and now I'm at Kenyon. And people want to go through
recruitment. It's really, really fun. Our chapters are doing really well. It's been
very exciting. Bows are still in everybody's got bows. I saw so many cute bid days.
So far I've seen at Tulane, they did like a Fleetwood Mac theme, which was perfect
for them. It was very Tulane Trydalta. And then at Northwestern, they did Trydalta
is the perfect fit and it was all denim, and they made a banner out of rifted
denim that they cut up and wrote "Try Delta" is the perfect fit on. I love all
the bid day ideas. I feel like people are getting very creative this year. Fun.
Anyone? I have a hot take on Fleetwood Mac. Since we're talking hot topics,
which I'm turning into hot takes. Did anybody watch her performance - SNL?
- No. - A couple of months ago? - Yeah. - A couple of months ago. It's not recent,
but it's within the last year. - Yeah. - Listen, I'm not educated in pop culture
enough to... My best friend, if she listened to this would hate me. I didn't
realize Flew and Mack was a woman, first of all. Second, I know she's like, I
mean, I obviously know the name enough to know, like, okay, that's a celebrity, but
I did not think that her SNL performance was good at all, for my best friend to
be her favorite artist ever. I was like, I don't think that I didn't like it.
Is it just me? I don't know. It's SNL is hard. Nobody, it's like performing at the
Thanksgiving Day Parade. No one's doing their best work on SNL. I yeah, we had
venue. Yeah. Yeah. I feel like you've had a million other opportunities to hear
Stevie Nicks besides SNL. Like, why did we make this song? And like, have you ever
listened to just a song or recorded song by Sweetwood Mac? - Well, yes, but like,
give me one so I can think of it. - Pop on landslide, pop on landslide. And
that's, I mean, she's got a great voice. - Yeah, Avery, you like owe this to
yourself to dive into it. - To go listen, to feel like it's my friend. - I have a
playlists. I'll send it to you. Okay. Well, I'm going to send you guys the YouTube
link to the SNL and then you can make me feel a little bit better about that
opinion as well. Alright, everybody has off nights. Yeah, maybe as a queen.
Maybe we'll revisit your hot take next. Okay. Thank you.
What else are our hot topics now? It's just sad to jump into that when you brought
that up. Spring recruitment though, sounds like it's going well. - Yeah, it is going
well. I feel like I see the regular like reports. This is how so -and -so did,
this is how so -and -so. And like open house pools are up generally and it's nice
to see women interested in the Greek experience, more women interested in the Greek
experience. So I think that's good for Trotelta, that's good for the whole panel and
at conference. I love it. So fun.
All right. You know what's coming. I have a spring recruitment update. Oh my gosh,
wait, I just forgot this. I am helping. I'm all over the place today, everyone. I'm
helping Boston recruitment this year, which is so different from my Ole Miss
experience. So I'm excited to go and help out that chapter.
It is over President's Day weekend in February. So that's my, I'll have to come
back with a spring recruitment update on that because I'm so excited to help our
alpha ladies and their recruitment. - One of the things that we're doing is we're
deploying more resources to help. I think we've identified some chapters that need
some assistance. And I love hearing all the stories about people going to help and
dropping in and helping with PR or how we prep recruitment for this party or that
party or whatever. So I love that you're going.
You're at Kenyon right now, right? I don't know if that's recruitment related or...
Yep, they're recruiting right now. It is a different experience.
There is, for the recruitment listeners, there's no RFM, there's no invitation round,
really. Everybody can come every day. They can not come and then come the next day.
We can't really tell who likes us until three days from now. It's very different,
but more low -key, a lot less late nights. We're going to bed at midnight instead
of like three, just nice. >> I love it. Good. Well, thank you for going to help
and good luck to all of our deltas out there that are recruiting.
Okay, it's almost Super Bowl weekend. I'm a little bit sad to hear that college
football is over, because that's the whole thing for me. But we still have one
weekend of playoffs in the Super Bowl, where we get to see really good television
ads.
So true. Yes.
The Nerds Gummy Clusters one was my favorite last year. - Okay. - Oh,
wait, I'm gonna have to read, we're gonna have to create, we'll have to do the
show notes and start linking all the things that we're talking about because I am
also not familiar with that. So I need to, I need to pull that up and watch.
- It's like the gummy piece and then he gets showered and nerds. It was really,
really well done. - It's so cute.
I'm hosting a Super Bowl party in my hosting era really to connect all.
I have not a lot of friends in Boston yet, but I've hung out with a lot of
people, you know, separately, so I'm trying to bring everyone together. My apartment
is small, so you have to keep the numbers down, which shouldn't be too hard. But I
am hosting a Super Bowl party, but I do you guys have any good like Super Bowl
party games. You know how like the square games, where you can guess the score and
stuff. It's the only one that I know.
- Good question. I'll be on the lookout. I'm like game chair for our Christmas and
holiday party every year, so I'll get my eye out for you. - Okay, please do.
- Yeah. - I need to make it fun. - Parties, last year I do this.
I see things on Pinterest or Instagram and I'm a crafty girl, so I think I can do
that. And then I get halfway into it and realize I've bitten off a little more
than I can chew. And so last year, I built the whole stadium snack bar thing,
where it had all the slots in the stadium seats. Oh yeah, I built a hole in last
year, out of like foam core and poster board. And how long did that take you?
Way more than I had anticipated.
But it turned out it was fine. It turned out there there was, it worked. It was
not my best effort, but it worked. So, um, I love Superbowl Park.
I'm asking the important question, how long did it take? Ugh, like if you think
about days and days, like at night, because obviously I'm not, you know, it's like
at night when work's done and the kids are quiet or whatever, you know, uh, so a
couple, like several days of nights.
I don't know if I can sign up for that yet. It's my first one, so I have to
start small. Every, are you crafty?
No, I'm just going to try and make something up. I'm really, well, maybe I am. And
my patient is the real question. No, can I figure something out? Can my little
engineering brain work something together? Yes. Am I good at instruction manuals? yes.
Do I have the patience to put something like that together? I don't, I don't think
that I do.
I like it because it's cathartic, like there's, it's mindless, like there's nothing
else. You work all day, you make decisions, you do, like, and then it's like a
different kind of work from there, right? You just, it's kind of mindless and
therapeutic, so I like it. But I'm not undertaking a cerebral craft this year,
so can't wait to see what you come up with April.
Yes, okay. We'll recap that again in the next one. Hosting era. Do you feel like
you're a good host? I feel like I am a totally incompetent host, like I will plan
out things and then something will always go wrong or I will have forgotten
something crucially important to hosting responsive, but like I just, it's not my
thing. I want it to be my thing. It's just not my thing. - See, and I think
flexibility is an attribute of a good host because you can't have an agenda for the
night. You have to let things organically happen. Oh, somebody wants to do this. Oh,
you have to have things on hand. I was listening to this dinner podcast that said
you should always have something to make a charcuterie board. Like you should have
all the stuff that in an instant you can, oh, somebody's coming over whip up the
charcuterie board. So I think you have to be like ready, you know, like all the
time to be like me. Are you hosters? Yes, I'm working on it.
I would say I'm not in my era, but we're creeping into it. I am I'm getting
prepared. I'm learning all of my favorite recipes and appetizers to make so that
when people come over, they can try them. I feel like I'm in my cooking era. But
yes, I think I really love every that statement of flexibilities, the attribute of a
planner. I feel like I've got to work on that. That's like the epitome of Tried
Delta's events team. I feel like you embodied that very well, every event. So you
can see that. Thank you. Got to go with the flow. Lexie, you have been on your
cooking. You're in your cooking era because your Instagram is all of your meals that
you've been whipping up. Yes, yes. I love to cook. I did before I moved to Dallas
because I lived in a place that didn't have as many food options as I did in
Chicago. So I was always cooking then, and like obviously the pandemic happened, got
into TikTok, saw recipes, was all into it. Then I moved to Dallas, had an abundance
of food options and kind of slacked on the cooking a little bit, but I'm back into
it. It's definitely financially advantageous and it's just exciting, it's really nice.
And I think in a way it's kind of mindless for me to like working all day. I
finally just go in the kitchen and just do something I'm used to do it and that's
just and it's fun. Okay if y 'all if you cook I found an app that I like I like
want to be an influencer for them because I love it so much. It's called recipe
like recipe but recipe and I'm one of those people that has like a million things
saved in Instagram or Facebook like links like this recipe that I saw that person
make that there this this app you download it you see the thing on instagram you
want to make you click share to recipe it goes in pulls all the information puts
it all in one place so it's like a recipe book it'll make your grocery list for
you it is amazing amazing it's changed my life everything was like locked in my,
see y 'all were like writing it down. It was locked in my Instagram. I couldn't
remember where the recipe was. I couldn't remember what link it was. Now I've, oh,
wow. - We should ask them to sponsor our podcast. - We should, because I will sing
their praises all day long. I love it. - Wow. - Well, you influenced me because I
just downloaded it. - There you go. - If only I was on Twitter. - Try not to shake
that up for that.
I'm working on my paper recipe book, like paper recipe books, such a big thing in
my family. I got one for Christmas last year and I have like 30 recipes in there
and I keep trying to get new ones, but then I don't like something all the way
and I don't want to write it down. I don't want to write it down until it's
right. And then like I'll go on TikTok and find the recipe. Something's changed and
it's becoming a problem for me to write things down, but I need to. - Okay, I
found this is for more advanced chefs, which I am not. I was gonna get this for
my sister, but Meredith, I think you might like this. It's the New York Times non
-cookbook, or it's called something like cookbook, not cookbook. And it, instead of
giving you measurements for every item, it just is like, this is what you're making
and this is what you need. and you can kind of like do it to your liking so if
you don't want as much of one thing or more of another you can kind of like pick
and choose how to put it together. I want to be a cook like I this is one of my
one of my topics that I want to talk about is I am obsessed with which wishbone
kitchen Meredith Hayden she when I watch her cook She is just making it up as she
goes. She knows what's going to go well together. That is the place I want to be
as a cook. And like, I love to bake. I know I'll never be like, that's just not
baking, but that's the kind of cook I'd like to be. And I just love her so much.
- Is that a kitchen? - Mm -hmm. - Never heard of it. - You should look her up. She's
gone super viral in the last couple of years. She started out as a private chef in
the Hamptons and was working for like not celebrity,
but influential family in the Hamptons and went viral on TikTok. And now she owns
her own house in the Hamptons, has a cookbook, doing it all and she's 29.
She turned 29 last week. And I just like, she's lived the coolest life. And I
think she's Martha Stewart of our generation. - You know, I didn't really grow up
cooking. I didn't know how to cook. And after COVID, when I just ate too much and
like we all did, you know, gain the COVID -15, not the freshman 15, I got on a
meal kit. So it got delivered, ingredients, I made stuff. That's how I learned to
cook. And since then, I feel more like that. We're like, I'm like, oh, I don't
have this. I'll just make it this way or I'll do that. I know how to cook this
now or I never would have known how to do any of that stuff but I learned it
through the meal kits because it would show up and I would cook what was there and
like oh that's how you do that.
So I don't have the same thing with one of those gift cards. I haven't used it.
She got it for me for Christmas 2023.
Don't tell her that I haven't used it. Hopefully she doesn't listen. - She doesn't
listen. - I know. (laughing) - There are no secrets on the podcast. You don't hear
them all the way this evening. I think she does know. Sorry, mom. - All right,
Lexie, you take it from here. - Well, maybe you do have a point that I wanted to
talk about, which was the TikTok Van. I am a big avid TikTok user.
I know it was a very interesting. How long was it down for? Does anybody remember
14 agonizing hours? - A lot.
for that to happen. It was three hours earlier, at least for us here in Central
Time Zone. So they said 830. So I was prepared at 830.
And I was scrolling. I'm sitting, I'm at Membership Selection Committee at
Northwestern, scrolling TikTok, like taking in every last minute that I had on the
app. And it goes down for others. And I'm still scrolling, like waiting for it to
go out. And I make it like another few minutes I think I was one of the last
people to like like a tick tock before it went down and then went down I'm warned.
I went to Instagram reels. It was terrible
Yeah, shouldn't know what I like on tick tock. It's just it's not for public
consumption Like it's it's like my diary one of the differences. - Is that one of
the differences? Like on TikTok, it says that nobody knows, but if I like it on
Instagram, you're gonna see that I liked it. - Yes, yeah. And when it came back up,
I was-- - I'm gonna ask the old people, I don't do TikTok questions. - I didn't
know that either. - Yeah, it says it in the bottom. So you can see what people
like and like-- - Yeah. - I just feel like my TikTok humor is not for everyone. And
I can't, I can't bring it to it. And I didn't want to start liking things on
Instagram reels to get the algorithm right. - Okay. You have to like it to see more
of what you like. Got it. - It's like minutes watched and what you like. But then
when TikTok came back up, I was one of the first people to get it back. So I
think that I truly am like one of the most addicted people because they let me
have it the longest and they gave it back to me first. - So what do we think, do
we have scoop on who's buying it? Are they gonna sell it? What's gonna happen? I
don't think there's already speculation that it's already been sold. People are saying
now that it's been reopened that it's not the same TikTok. There's a lot of
distress because I think his name is Shu. The CEO took CEO out of his bio.
Facebook and Instagram now have TikTok accounts where at first they did not. So
there's speculation that meta has already purchased it. When I can see speculation,
it's operating the same for me. I'm trying not to go too deep into the rabbit
hole, but I don't know. People are very protective over this app right now. I am
people, I should say. I am protective.
I think that it's 25 % is going to go to Zuck. 25 % is going to go to Elon and
she will keep the other half. And that's what Donald Trump said he needed was 50 %
ownership by US people. You think it's gonna be 50 or 51 % because I feel like
that's always the business thing is like to have control you have to have the 51%.
I don't know. He said 50 in his was it interesting executive order.
I tried to step on that stuff with TikTok. I was just so happy. It was back. I
don't even really know what happened But we have 90 days now Wait, did you guys
download red note? Yes. What is red note? Red note was like the
Yeah, you explain red notes into you downloaded it It's like the real thing that we
should be fearful of it's like that the version of TikTok that is allowed in China
and that was not being banned and all of these Americans went to Red Note and were
TikTok refugees. Right, right,
that's the thing, they're like we don't care, we don't care if they have our data,
if you want my data about the cat videos that I like to watch on TikTok, that's
fine. So yeah, I'll go to Red Note. Here's me being skeptical is I have heard now
this is where do I get into the fine print? No, but I have heard that the access
that not just TikTok but other apps, how many times have you clicked agree to terms
and conditions and you have no idea what it says like 99 % of the time. I heard
that some of these can get access to everything on your phone. It's not just your
algorithm. It is like, here, okay, give me your contacts and your location and all
of that. Like that's the sketchy part that we have to admit is sketchy. The
interesting thing is though, it's not like you can opt out. You could just not have
the app. It's like you go in and say, here's what I decide that you can have
access to. In some cases, very rarely you can. But on meta, you can make those
preferences, but they will default to meta can track every single thing you do on
your device and you have to go and turn it off. And I did because I was mad at
Instagram. I was mad at meta. I turned everything off. I took off all the
permissions and then my ads were awful and I still had ads, but they just weren't
relevant to me at all. So then I was like, would I rather share my data with them
and get good ads or get bad ads? So I turned it back on, actually,
which I hate to admit.
There's so much. Wow. We can do a whole podcast just on the data. Confession era.
I'm glad you guys survived your TikTok outage. I'm sorry that you had to endure
that. I hope it doesn't happen again because I hope that was for you.
I was very brave. It was a time for sure. I like instinctively clicking the app
during that time. And then every time I saw the message pop up, just the rush of
sadness came back over again. - I have a question about, 'cause I'm not on the tiki
-taki. Do you, were there any influencers who deleted their accounts when they heard
the ban was gonna happen? 'Cause that was what I, when it came back, I was like,
oh, I hope that nobody just totally got rid of their whole account and business and
whatnot and then has to restart. But that didn't happen. Not from what I know,
but I do know that quite a few popular influencers started to reveal their lies and
their secrets. There's a popular mukbang eater and she came out and was like, "I
don't actually eat all the food," which people had already speculated for the past
few years. So they had done that right before it shut down and then it opened back
back up and they were like, Oh, like a lot of fitness influencers really out that
they had plastic surgery or work done. And that one was a really big yes,
I don't think they're on the GLP ones. Yes. Yes. So that was a controversy. Tiktok
was going down. So they were like, I'm gonna tell all my but what's I'm trying to
think like, what's the rationale for that? I'm gonna tell all my secrets. It makes
me more popular and feel more vulnerable for a minute.
- I think it's because they got so much fame and so much attraction from this app.
And they're like, "Hey guys, now that this is going away, I want you to know I
was faking it." Like honestly, that's kind of what they're saying. Like, "You like
me, but I wasn't being real." - I guess I'll move away from TikTok, but still kind
of on it. The touchdown celebrations, do you all see those videos popping up
anywhere or if they're on road? - They have rehearsal. - Yes, that's what I was
gonna say. - And rehearsed, They're so cute. Yes. So when y 'all have a chance,
I've linked it in the script for you to view. But my favorite right now is the
Vikings and them rehearsing the high school musical. We're all in this together. I
know that one was really fun just to see them outside of their element and they
got the whole team. We're not the whole team together, but quite a few people every
week. Like they look like they're so cute. I like the camp rock two one,
the camp rock, that one cracked me up. - Yes, yeah. I don't know where they get
the ideas from. Like, I don't know if people are like, if it's just them or if
their fans tell them. Joe Burrow, of course, kind of broke the internet for a
second, he did the gritty. I think it's just 'cause it's Joe Burrow, but the dance,
you know. - I like to think that there's a girl our age who picks these dances for
them. - That's what I'm saying. I'm like, someone is in their ear 'cause you just
picked we're all in this together. Camp Rock is a-- - Why, one of the player wives
is choreographing. - Right, she's on TikTok just as much as we are.
She knows what's popular. - Does that change your perspective on them though?
I've never been big into like following sports super seriously and like knowing
athletes' names. But for me, this humanizes them in a way.
You know, it's like, okay, you have your helmet on, I just see your number, you
play this game, you come up in my news headlines every once in a while, and that's
the end of that. But I feel like this kind of in the stereotype around professional
athletes, I feel like this kind of, for me, shifts that perspective of them,
my perspective of them. Yeah, definitely. Yeah, especially somebody that's not really
into football as a sport itself, it gives me a way to engage with it and still
have a little bit of fun too and keep up with it. Yeah. Yeah, it gave me a nice
entry point. And I'm like, okay, I know who Joe Burrow is. It could be the Taylor
Swift influence on professional football, you know,
like really getting, getting the girls involved and - Now the players are making
TikToks. I don't know, that's a theory. - I love the human side of TikTok. Oh no,
TikTok, my gosh, of football. I have always felt this way about football, like
especially college football, listening to grown men scream at 18,
19, 20 year old, young men who are just playing their sport drives me crazy.
And I sometimes say things at football games, I can't help myself. I was once told
at a TC football game that I had a mouth because I made a call and because I was
a woman making the call, I had a mouth. Of course. But I'll turn around and say
like, he's just a kid. Like they are just people. They're gonna make mistakes.
They're not robots. If robots were playing football, it fun. So I like, I like that
it's really more human. I am so we have a rule in the house that Caleb will only
watch the SMU football games with me if I don't yell. And he's like, you know, the
rule, I'm only going to sit here if you don't yell. And I'm like, that is real
difficult for me. But I agree with you. I will one,
I think it's the Taylor effect a little bit. I think what she's, you know, people
all the guys complain and I'm like so many more people are watching football because
she is dating Travis Kelsey and say what you will about that. I think it's just a
whole nother viewpoint of the sport and of him and the fact that these are normal
real people that have lives and so I love that. I love that effect on it.
I love knowing you have a little bit of a mouth passion around football Meredith,
that's good to learn about you. I got it from my mom. She, my little mother,
if you've ever seen my mother, she is the most dainty, preppy, redheaded little
girl. And she, my whole life, watching football, like,
rip his guts out, like slam him to the ground, like the most crazy things she says
when she's watching football and my dad, he hates it. And now she like she refuses
to work. She works for Leanne Snowma in a retail store. She refuses to work on
Saturday because she has to watch football and she assists there all day and yells
at the TV for hours. And it's so funny. She's a completely different person when
she's watching football and I picked it up,
I'm with her.
All right, what's next? Avery, you want to take it over with your hot topics? Well,
I'll be honest, Meredith and I were doing this together in Brainstorm, so many
things. You might have to pick one or two. How about it? No, I'll definitely pick
one or two. And I will just start with my first one, which is the extravagance of
wedding worlds. I was bride, okay, I'll admit it. I fell victim to it as well.
But now I am a part and before, but now after doing my own wedding,
I think that I've realized what is in my opinion, like what's necessary and what's
not. And then when people deem other things necessary that I don't think are,
and now I have to be a part of them. It's just a little frustrating. My sister's
getting married. She's not, she's not the problem. Now I'm totally sub tweeting one
of my friends, but I just feel like I am, I've been in all the weddings. I'm
doing all the weddings things. You guys have seen all of the SNL videos on the
bridesmaids proposals and the like the Ariana Grande singing of what I like.
It's just such a joke that being a bridesmaid, you're like taking on a new persona.
You're stepping into a character for the next however long your friend is engaged
and to be married. Do you guys feel like you've experienced,
maybe this isn't the world that you're in, but it's the world that I'm engulfed in
right now. So it's just all around, can't escape. - Anyone else? - Just me.
I'm alone on this island and you know what? That's okay because there are listeners
out there who understand what I'm going through. - There's probably just a subculture
of people that this is like the wedding is becoming a little much. - A little much.
The destination weddings. I'm for a destination wedding if you invite your immediate
family. I want to go to that. We were talking about that with my sister. I said
all for it. Go to Italy. Let's invite 20 people, you know, let's not worry about
it. We ran into somebody the other day and she said her daughters doing a wedding
in Italy. No, they're not sending any invitations because everybody who knows to be
there knows because they're the important ones. Just all I'm like that stuff sounds
so nice. But when you're like I'm having a four day wedding in Mexico. Everyone's
expected to attend. You have to stay at an all inclusive resort. There's no group
like all of that. And then you're getting the wedding I'm going to in April. I
have one of those. Oh my gosh, you that's so tough. No, we can't we can't buy we
can't buy flights. We can't buy flights because it's too expensive and we have the
hotel and we're sitting on this waiting with the hopper alert on because flights
from Dallas to Cancun are six hundred dollars and that's on top of you know the
engagement party the other parties she I was not a bride day but she had her
bachelorette trip she's that little clue which is nice but like it's just it's a
lot it's very expensive and the bachelorette parties cost a fortune and then what
are you going to do when it's your turn you want it's like Michael too like You
you hit a certain age everybody's getting married and you have like I remember the
year that I had like eight weddings in one year You know and you're in five of
them and it's just And then it hits with the babies and then it's like the cycle
of Just your whole social life becomes going to weddings going to engagement parties
going to showers Going to baby shout like it's just It's it takes over And I feel
like everybody's is elevating, like now we have to do gender reveals and then we
have to like shut off fireworks when we do the gender reveal. We have to, you
know, like it's just, everything has to elevate. Tick tock, responsible, probably. How
about that? - Consumerism, consumerism. Exactly. - Did y 'all see the Buy Now
documentary? - No.
- Go watch it, Netflix, it's good. - Give us the five seconds.
It's about consumerism. I feel like that describes it enough. It kind of talks about
just how we like to buy and how the companies were buying from how they market in
a way for us to purchase more and for things to break more and for repairs to be
less common. So we buy more things and then it talks about like the end the
landing spot of the product you buy which goes into really poor countries and all
that and if we like how can we reduce the waste that we have if we repair more
if we buy secondhand clothes like things like that maybe I have seen that we've
heard it after the holidays it's good and there's a moment where you've like loaded
up your car to take things to Goodwill or the Salvation Army and you think to
yourself, am I just going to go replace all of this? What have I done? Why did I
buy all of it? Like you just have this moment where you realize how much you have
in your house that you don't need and it feels ridiculous.
Something else that has really been coming I've been more aware of is not just the
items you buy but the amount of things that you buy that also require a
subscription to use them and that's just another cost like camera. I was so
surprised when I got my ring camera for the first time and realized you can't
access the recordings unless you pay for the subscription. I'm like, oh, so this
wasn't just a $60 camera. This is a $110 camera or whatever it is. So yeah,
subscriptions are starting to get out of hand too. It just costs too much to exist
right now. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Because Because we're suckers. I'm gonna say it because it's cuz we buy it. It's
cuz we do it Well, but oh like well, it's been built up this way.
Like what are we gonna do suddenly stop wearing makeup? I don't think I could I
don't think I could look at myself in the mirror Like be like yes, I'm ready for
work if I like didn't do all the things that I do now
like leveling up situation that I can't handle because I have makeup and I'd be
perfectly happy and fine for the rest of my life using the makeup I have in front
of me but you know what I will see a video on Instagram about the thing that's
actually gonna do it better and now I'm older so I need this or I need to look
at it this way or that's not the hip way to do it anymore and you're constantly
in this like and then I have to have the next product or the next product. It's
just great and you can't keep up. I mean, I feel lost all the time just trying to
keep up.
It's the hot girls. Yeah.
Y 'all are hot girls. He's one of the hot girls.
I've been influenced by the hot girls. I wouldn't look this way if it weren't for
the real hot girls.
It's true. I like it. I like to watch all that stuff. And I feel like I learned
how to do my makeup on Tik Tok. I figured out how I wanted to color my hair on
Tik Tok. I learned about Pilates. That's what I'm saying. We're suckers. You just
admitted it.
At least I look cute now. I stopped wearing black eyeliner. You looked cute before
that's the thing right you're amazing without all the hotgirl stuff
that's the try dealt away all
right who's next
okay i'll do i'll do one it is is, this is a question,
a fashion trend you can't get behind, and then a fashion trend you don't want to
leave behind. So my fashion trend that I can't get behind, every college campus I've
been on for like the last three years, they're all wearing baby tees, and I can't
get behind the baby tee. I want a size large comfort colors t -shirt, maybe even an
extra large. I don't want my shorts to show 'cause that's when I was in college,
that's what we were wearing. That is like my comfort piece of clothing. They're all
wearing these itty bitty shirts, my arm muscles, I can't wear these skinny sleeve
shirts and I'm like, I don't like to, I don't like it. I don't like the baby
tees, but the bow trend, I don't wanna leave it behind. Here I am in a bow
sweater on purpose. I'll be really sad. I never, I think that the last time bows
were trendy, I was still like, I was rocking bows and I rocked them all the way
through them coming back again. So I won't be leaving bows behind when other people
do.
- And she's a pretty kick up on the fact that her muscles are too big for the
baby teeth. - She's too small. - I'm a strong girl. - I just want to go back to
that for a
I'm gonna look like the Hulk. - Good girl. - I took every picture. - My theory
friend, you go. - Right.
- I don't own a baby T yet, but I'm about to because of Boston recruitment.
Apparently that is my required attire. So I'll let you know my review on it. I
just haven't gotten in one yet. So we'll see how it goes. I don't know if my arm
muscles will have the same issue that yours are, but maybe some other things. We'll
just see. - You have to, yeah. - Guys, yes. - They want you to fit in.
- It's their, yeah, I don't know the extent of how I am assisting with them, but
they are ordering me a T -shirt. And that's what they said it was. They asked, they
said, "They're ordering baby T's, what size would you like?" I said, "What is the
baby T?" And she was just like, It's kind of like, it's just a smaller-- - But
that's the largest size of baby tea you can tell. - Well, she said, she told me,
she goes, "It looks like everybody's just ordering the regular size." And I was
like, "Okay, I'll just get my regular size "and we'll, I'll let you know. "I'll
share it with you." - They said, Meredith, you're small. And I'm like, I hold this
thing up. And I'm like, I feel old now. - Here's what I worry about though, in our
chapters. everybody is going to rock a baby tea and I think we have to be
inclusive enough to realize that like it's cute but we got to have some options for
somebody who does not want to put a doesn't feel comfortable doesn't like the way
they look and it's just not for everybody and it may be sad when I hear like that
we're doing that somewhere so that's what I know we're trying to fit
getting on campus, there's got to be a balance. - But that's what I thought.
That's what I've been saying for a year. Since I was a consultant, I was like,
stop with the baby tees. It's not inclusive. Not everybody wants to wear a baby
tee. And they're like, no matter if you're wrong, actually everybody wants to wear a
baby tee. And I've like asked around. And apparently they all love them and feel
comfortable and confident wearing them regardless of their size. - Are they saying
that out of peer pressure though? - Could be. I don't know. I'd like to trust that
the collegians I work with would offer an unwanted-- - There's like an ask. We
shouldn't be asking. Like-- - I know. - Provide options. I don't know. - Do you?
- There's nobody gonna catch me in a baby tea ever. Ever. I'm just telling you now
I'll save you one not that anyone was worried about that but that's not happening
the CEO will not be in the baby tea um that's probably appropriate yeah
um you still haven't given me your fashion things that you can't get behind and can
i don't want to leave behind i'm waiting i have one
well Lexi you go my - This is exciting, Lexie, you go, go. - I don't think that's
exciting, but I just really don't understand where the trend came from, but the
bubble skirts, I'm not a fan, can't get behind that one. And this one isn't
technically a tire, but duck shaped nails, if you don't know what they are, they
look like bell -bottom jeans, but for your nails. They basically flare out, they're
horrendous. I don't know who thought it was cute, I don't know why, but I see them
everywhere and people enjoy them. So definitely cannot get those. Something that I
don't want to leave behind is just plain white tees. I have loved plain white tees
since I was like, like a little kid. And I think even now as an adult, it's still
just like my go to doesn't matter what's happening. So can't believe you. So I have
just Googled duck shape. Yes, like duck nails. Yeah, they flair. It's very I do.
They flair. Okay. We'll be getting by. I've never really seen anybody with them in
person. Yeah. Interesting. Yes, definitely a choice. All right,
Avery, what's yours? What I'm not getting behind and never did golden goose sneakers.
Those things are $500 pre scuffed tennis shoes. I can give me some cheap ones.
I'll take them outside and I'll do it for you and add some bedazzles. Like I just
think that it's like the stupidest. That's probably offensive, but I think it's an
unwise decision to purchase those. And I apologize if any of you own them, but
that's how I feel about it.
And what I have been really, as I'm wearing this green sweater, but I have been
like all about neutrals recently, it's easy to travel when you have gray, black,
white denim. You can wear everything like 100 times. So I will never get rid of my
boring basics because kind of like what you said, Lexi, you just can keep them and
wear them and they go with everything.
Okay. I'm going to say a few things. They may or may not be actual trends because
it's me.
I'm I'm just gonna say things I like and don't like and you can just tell me if
it's a trend or not But I very much do not like high -waisted jeans. Are those
still in? Are those still a trend? Yeah, I like really
Jeans like I try my whole life to wear something besides mom jeans and now they're
like in and I can't do it I can't do it. So there's that
Trends. I love the flare trend. Anything with a flared leg, I am in.
I'm all over that. Tall boots. Yeah, I love it. That's a trend,
right? Yeah, flare and wide leg pants. I love those with like a pointy heel.
Yeah, I'm trying to figure out the, it's hard to find the wide leg pants that
work. Like you really have to search, at least I do.
So I'm going to go back to the tennis shoes for a second Avery and tell you a
really funny story about my Avery, my niece, who is a freshman in college.
I really wanted some of those cute white, like thick bottom tennis shoes and I
think it was last year, maybe before CLC and I went shopping with her and I was
like, I just want some of these. And so I kept trying them on and I finally found
some of these are really cute aren't they? And I kept asking her, are these like
cool? Can I wear these she's 18 at the time and she approved the ones that I
bought and there are Dr. Scholls.
Okay you're not alone in that because so many I think what like doing events stuff
I think a lot of Tri Delta staff when you're out and about the Dr. Scholl sneakers
are cute and she told me they were cute everybody comments me all the time there's
those sneakers are so cute. I'm like, yes, it's comfortable. Yeah, I will say I
think the golden goose is are kind of gone. But if you're still wearing them,
I have my opinions, you should anymore.
Okay, I'm gonna land the plane here for us unless anyone has any more hot takes to
offer about football dances or
movie situations or TikTok, I think we're good.
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