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How the Wise One Grows
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Navigating Life's Most Embarrassing Moments with Laughter (100)
Celebrate two years and 100 episodes of spreading the How the Wise One Grows podcast with laughter as we share our most embarrassing moments.
Imagine beginning every friendship with the raw, unfiltered stories that make us human—this episode does just that with host Holly Zajur and guests Emma Hern and Kelly Eberle, as they introduce themselves by sharing their most embarrassing stories.
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So some days, the very best thing you can do to take care of yourself and the people around you is to laugh, and that is exactly what we're going to do on the podcast. Today we are celebrating two whole years of how the Wise One Grows and 100 episodes, and the ultimate way to celebrate, in my opinion, is with laughter. And you're going to get to laugh your asses off because you're going to hear my most embarrassing story and you're going to hear the most embarrassing stories of two of my favorite people. And one more thing we now have a free, intentional living community on Discord where you can come together with fellow listeners to reflect on the conversations we've had on the podcast. We not only talk about the podcast, but really all the things that support us in living with intention.
Speaker 1:There's also a link in the show notes to join this free community, and I would be honored to have you there and the first 15 people to join will enter to win a coaching call with me. But before we get started, let's just take a moment to land here together with three deep breaths. So take a moment to notice where your body makes contact with the earth and take a big breath in and a big breath out Again, inhale, exhale, one more inhale and exhale. So get ready, it's time to start laughing.
Speaker 2:It's time to start laughing.
Speaker 1:Um, I am so excited. Today we are recording with two of my favorite people in the entire world and this is our 100th episode. And it's also on we're recording this on the anniversary of the very first how the Wise Women Grow recording. So I just felt like the best way to celebrate. Honestly, I didn't actually know it was the two-year anniversary. That was just like the university wonderful. But to celebrate 100 episodes, I was like we need to just laugh and hang out with two of my favorite people. So today I have the one and only Kelly Everly and Emma Hearn Rounds of applause.
Speaker 1:Luna is also joining the show, and Luna, so you'll definitely hear Luna throughout today, but I thought that the best way to get to know these people was so you don't know at all. Sidebar here. You actually do know emma hearn. She was in episodes 12 and 50 on the podcast and they are both linked in the show notes is to share our most embarrassing stories I just feel like that should be the way that everyone meets each other is by sharing their most embarrassing stories that'd'd be a fast icebreaker Right.
Speaker 1:I mean like if you can't know the realest shit about me quite literally like what are we doing?
Speaker 3:I think this is just going to evolve into us telling bathroom stories, which is great when you're meeting people, because you're like I was intimidated by that girl, but then I learned how she shit her pants. It's always it is. That's the thing that I'm kind of like. You know how they say when you're nervous, to picture people in that, like, picture everyone in the audience in their underwear.
Speaker 2:I forget.
Speaker 1:It might be my mom. Do you prefer to?
Speaker 3:see them shitting their pants. No, my mom I think it was my mom who first was like, just remember, everyone gets diarrhea sometimes. Like it's not that it's like. Even whoever you're intimidated by diarrhea get the runs. We should just start doing ads for like, like, natural body, disasters, natural body. Why do we describe them that way?
Speaker 1:natural. I had a natural body disaster. Natural body disaster today, um, but I feel like the best way to solve who goes first as Emma suggested is go to a fashion game Rock paper scissors shoot.
Speaker 3:How do we do it? Three?
Speaker 2:ways I think whoever.
Speaker 3:I think normally you can do it with three people and then like one whoever's out first. I think has to go first, oh, whoever loses first, Okay, all right, Okay first. Oh, whoever loses first Rock paper scissors shoot. We all got scissors Ready Rock paper scissors, shoot MJ. So now we go. Wait, wait, wait, Emma, and I won't watch Emma and I both lost. Wait, I did scissors.
Speaker 1:Those fools did paper. Those fools. Rock paper scissors shoot Two rocks. Rock paper scissors shoot Two papers. Rock paper scissors shoot Two rocks. It's like they live together. Oh no, emma's stuck it. Emma won with some paper over rock, I kind of forgot which one wins honestly.
Speaker 3:For a second I got excited I was like rock is stronger than paper.
Speaker 3:I don't think that one really makes sense. Like paper can cover rock, but if you're outside and it rains, like I think rock like ultimately wins everything. But Rules are rules. This actually works best for me, because then I can get mine out of the way and then just sit back while you fools have to be nervous. Oh, so that was a strategy. Um, okay, I, this is the one that I like thought of. Also, I don't know if I I've told you. Have I told you about my crew story?
Speaker 1:I haven't heard it. Remember we, we oathed, we talked about this idea.
Speaker 3:Well, did you guys go behind my back and told each other? No, no, no no, but she's known this, like this, view has gone on until 10 years ago. And there's like the common link. So she knows the dirt on both of us. Yeah, that's true. Do you know Holly's most embarrassing story? Surely I have so many.
Speaker 1:It's definitely got to do with poop.
Speaker 3:Why are you going to spoil things for me? Sorry, how are?
Speaker 2:you going to?
Speaker 3:be like that. Well, we'll get to that later All right All right, I'll kick things off light and easy. Mine is a piss story. You got one of those too, who doesn't Okay. I had one problem in middle school, high school, college Yesterday.
Speaker 1:It's happening on me right now. Anyway, okay, it's happening on me right now.
Speaker 2:Anyway, okay. This is my embarrassing pee story which I'm really hoping, like now, as I'm saying it, I'm like oh my God, my old crew coach is going to hear this episode somehow and know.
Speaker 3:But you know what it is, what it is. Sorry, mr Mahon. Okay Okay. So when I was younger, I did crew like rowing she's from Connecticut, oh, okay. So when I was younger, I did crew like rowing she's from Connecticut. All right, you grew up on a golf course bitch, we all have something.
Speaker 3:I'm from Connecticut, I rode crew, but there was one day we did summer crew that was like first thing in the morning you had to be at the lake at like seven, I want to say, and you did not mess around with being late because the coach was intense and I was late and I had, like I had to pee, to the point where I had to pee already. It was already an emergency before I left the house. But I was like I can't be late, so I'm not going to, so I'm going to pee when I get there.
Speaker 3:Nope, I got there, everyone was already in the boat ready to go and the coach was like get in the boat now, like you're late. So I was like, oh my God. So I didn't, I didn't speak up and I just was like it's fine, I didn't speak up and I just was like it's fine, I'm sure I can hold it for an hour long practice. Also this is okay, maybe one of you is going to have to explain the visuals of this, because if you don't know about crew, I was the coxswain that day.
Speaker 3:Which means I don't know what that is Okay, I'm going to explain it to you, and then you'll have to explain it visually for the podcast. Okay, so Kelly is doing shakes for us so everyone's are like this is what my yoga teaching company is crisscross applesauce. Wait, I'm not starting it. There are 8 people rowing in the boat and then the 9th person is the coxswain, who faces all of them and tells them to row with a little yes, but are you rowing?
Speaker 2:no, and here's the thing.
Speaker 3:No, no, no no, no, no.
Speaker 2:I want to be very clear because it's always assumed.
Speaker 3:When people see my height especially, people are like coxswain a coxswain and you're. You have a little microphone so that everyone can hear you, which is called a cox box. Nice, and you go, bro. Yeah, there's so much to worry about this is gonna be a lot of backstory before we even get to the second episode she's just trying to tell us about rowing, so she doesn't tell us about p.
Speaker 1:No, no, no, okay, here's the deal. You'll get it in one second.
Speaker 3:So I'm very proud of the fact that I did row, because I'm a strong bitch but I'm a short bitch.
Speaker 2:But this particular day I was late, so he was like you're the coxswain, get in the boat now so I got in the boat.
Speaker 3:The whole issue with this setup is that there are eight people facing you and then, when you're in the coxswain, your legs are up, basically like in stirrups, facing the first person. Who's?
Speaker 2:like rowing towards you and away from you, so everyone just has a visual. Like straight into the crotch.
Speaker 3:Of your crotch and meanwhile I'm in this little and I have to pee, so bad and I'm like just get through it, kelly, just you got this, you got this. But I'm like row, row, row, just like trying to like not think about it also, you're on a lake and so you're just hearing like the swishing of like it was bad.
Speaker 3:We got out into the lake. I was like this is just. It was the kind of I need to pee, where I felt feverish because I had been holding it for so long and I was like this isn't happening it's over so it just keeps getting worse. So I peed.
Speaker 1:I mean you know, so did you, like I do notify anyone, did you?
Speaker 3:or did you have a moment where you were like I'm just gonna let this. I pictured it like shooting out of you like a waterfall into the people that you're yelling at.
Speaker 1:I got a strong.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I was like I want to know the physics, how you feel she's really got it down A geyser.
Speaker 3:I believe in you. No, I just peed Like a normal woman, but you're in stirrups. I am, but I think my Vag is still down.
Speaker 2:I wasn't like.
Speaker 3:My question was stir up? I am, but I think my vag is still down. I wasn't like in love, did you? My question was did you, were you like? I feel like in those moments I have a moment of I've lost control.
Speaker 2:It's happening.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and we're just gonna let the body do what the body's gonna do.
Speaker 2:It was such.
Speaker 3:Or were you just like oh no, it happened.
Speaker 2:No, no, no. Who's in charge?
Speaker 3:here. No, there was a full moment of complete defeat. I was like it's over, the fight has been lost.
Speaker 1:I know High school career I've held on so long and I can't hold on anymore.
Speaker 3:This was probably the summer before my freshman year.
Speaker 1:That's a great time for that. How old are?
Speaker 3:you in eighth grade 13? Yeah.
Speaker 1:Thirteen fourteen Right before freshman year.
Speaker 3:That's and this is with people you're going to high school with.
Speaker 2:Yes, yeah, that's right, and this is with.
Speaker 3:I specifically remember the girl in front of me was, like a badass, one year older than me.
Speaker 2:So she's already in high school.
Speaker 3:So I was like I'd like to do some investigative journalism to the people in the boat.
Speaker 2:Do they know? Oh?
Speaker 3:it gets so much worse. All of this is build up. I peed and there's more, so basically, at this point I have fully lost it. I'm like admit to feed you peed. You're peeing right now and I'm this close to the next girl who's just like rowing looking at me as I'm like row Row. I'm just like rowing looking at me as I'm like row row, like just like pissing my, my seat, oh my gosh. Um. So then I panic after it's happened and I'm like well, I've already peed, so naturally I just start to splash water into the boat, for sure yeah, you got it.
Speaker 3:I was like I'm just gonna cover this up and actually I'm just, and I'm sure the girl right in front of me was like why is she?
Speaker 2:trying to put more water in the boat. That's not how boats work. I'd rather you think I'm bad at boat. Yeah, I was just like like handfuls of water in the boat. I'm like water in my lap.
Speaker 3:Okay, this is where, this is where it all goes wrong. So so basically, then we finally row back to the shore. Our coach is like all right, come back in. And when you're in crew, there's like an order of things where you get out of the boat a certain way and then everyone, like like, leans over on the dock once you're out of the boat to pick it up by, like the riggers where your seat is. And then it's like an order of commands where it's like up to up to hips.
Speaker 3:How much longer is this after you leave? That's a great question.
Speaker 2:It probably was like an annoyingly short amount of time like I held on until I couldn't, and then they were like all right, bring it back in, and I'm like great yeah exactly as soon as I peed, they were like and they're like someone peed, someone peed.
Speaker 1:Hey, we clearly have to leave.
Speaker 3:Someone pissed the boat someone called kelly's mom yeah, she needs to go home, she's scared. So, basically, this is the thing where I'm like, okay, whatever, I've splashed so much water into this, but this is my plan. I'm just we're gonna do whatever the commands were that were like up to shoulder or up to hips, up to shoulders, and then you would roll the boat over top of your head. Kelly's feet is just going to pour on everything. Well, no, here's the thing I was like. You are in charge of your own seat.
Speaker 2:So I'm going to be the last one to be like overhead.
Speaker 3:I'm going to step out of the way because I know and it's going to be fine, so you've got to play Instead. I knew I was like. I gamed this out At the very last minute. Coach, I should not be saying his real name.
Speaker 2:I'm like actually like nervous about this.
Speaker 3:He does not know this, Absolutely not.
Speaker 2:He at the last minute went, I got that.
Speaker 3:Kel and grabs my thing and goes over it and they lift it up over him and he goes all over him and he literally goes cool, a lot of water in there today and then just walks like they all walk it into the boathouse and I just was like wait, did you tell anyone? Like not for so long? Yeah, that is to this day I think I'm like yeah until this podcast gets somehow back to coach m
Speaker 3:wow, that's my story of how I keep on my coach I'm just impressed with you. That sounds worse. Yeah, because you executed that and it sounds like you added a lot of water in the boat to get away with it yeah I still think about that, though I'm like he had to know right, he was like no, you wouldn't have to know.
Speaker 1:I don't think yeah I don't think you would know unless you don't think it would be like. This doesn't smell, you're dehydrated and hadn't had.
Speaker 3:This is like okay, maybe I got away with it I think you got away well, that Well, that's my embarrassing story. Wow, that's impressive World. You know Kelly At her finest.
Speaker 1:Bladder and all Bladder and all Dying little bladder.
Speaker 3:Okay, time for story number two.
Speaker 1:Paper scissors shoot. I am so good, I am so good, I am so good, I'm in.
Speaker 3:Emily with a scissor paper. Well, this was actually. It was definitely a paper. This was actually Cliff she's trying to defend. This is Cliff. What does Cliff mean?
Speaker 1:It's a male person.
Speaker 3:Not like Cliff, okay cheat. So my name is Emma Hearn and this is my embarrassing story. We're ready Maybe 2016, maybe 2017. This was the time when people would just come over to our house as if it was their own house. Yeah, yeah, and I was nannying, I was trying to get my music career going and it was like one of those times when you should choose to sleep well, work and social you remember that?
Speaker 3:because that's what they told us at st michael's. Really, that's what they told us. That's brainwashing, I know we well, I chose.
Speaker 2:I've never heard of this.
Speaker 3:Yeah, like you're a healthy lifestyle have, like sports social life like rest academics. And it was like, yeah, choose, pick three, three, yeah. And then I heard the same thing, like just in general in life, like don't try and do it all sleep or social. You can't do three all at the same time. And I was trying to do three all at the same time and um was sick all the time because I was nannying, which?
Speaker 3:I'm not nannying and yeah let's change we're still in, yeah know yeah, and that night this was in the days of tinder.
Speaker 3:Oh, this is my one and only tinder story. Okay, set the scene I've been nannying all day Wasn't great, and you'll hear more about your decision if you want to have kids or not have kids in an upcoming episode. And so I was also like dealing with I think it was on the tail end of like having some type of like strep throat thing, because I was given cough, medicated cough syrup from my doctor. Don't do a spit take, don't do it. I was giving, I was just following instructions. I was given medicated cough syrup.
Speaker 3:I think I was still on that and I came back to my house and some of our friends.
Speaker 3:I want to say like Zach and those people, kelly, all those people were at the house and I was like, oh, I have this. I'm supposed to meet this person at Dino's. It's my first tender date tonight, but I just don't feel good and I'm retired because I'm sick. And I think Zach was the one I was like you never, like you're always with all of us, like you're with you're the guys, you're with the band. You're never gonna meet anyone, you're gonna die alone so to
Speaker 3:the supportive friends that we are like go anyway, go on cough syrup, and so not even thinking no one here knows that I'm on cough syrup and I'm like, I'm just gonna take my medicine before I go.
Speaker 3:I'm gonna take my medicine before I go. I'm gonna drive, I'm gonna have one beer, I'm gonna have an okay time. Come home early, all is good say I did it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that was the plan. I get ready, I'm like I don't want to do this and take my cough syrup and go on my date. And when I get there, it's Dino's, which is the bar. This was where the place to be. Me, kelly and Holly spent way too much time, so much, so much time.
Speaker 3:And this was in the heyday, when they also would have jazz night. So great start to night and it's just a dive bar and they just have people in the corner playing jazz. Love, yeah, iconic. Yes, easter egg, one of the guys playing jazz was the guy I would date later.
Speaker 3:Thank, you stay tuned, old man sam. So I meet this guy. It's like there are pictures on tinder but he's like insert band boy in Nashville so I'm like I kind of know what he looks like and this is going to be a good place because safety, this will be a good place to meet because I guarantee there are five people.
Speaker 3:I will already know that are at this bar too, Plus, everybody else knows where I am, so go in there. He's at the bar, he comes up. He's really very nice, very long hair. Some would say too long. Okay, would you say too long. She's bringing her hands like to her waist, yeah, so yeah, too long. Okay, very cute, you can see that this is her thing.
Speaker 2:You know like you identified her Rapunzel, rapunzel, yeah okay, that's your vibe.
Speaker 1:Part two Otherwise wonderful.
Speaker 3:So he comes up, he's very sweet and he's just like to be honest, I'm pretty nervous I told the bartender I was here for like a date, a tinder date, and then I'm pretty nervous. So him and I took one shot. The bartender was trying to like amp me up and I was like that's good. And then we're saying like that, the cough syrup was already starting to hit.
Speaker 3:That's dope, yeah. And I would just like to say this medicated cough syrup. I did, I genuinely did not know that you should not drink medicated cough syrup.
Speaker 3:Me neither, so in my head I was like oh, it's something you take to just suppress a cough right Like a throat soother kind of thing. If you've heard of leaning, it's when you mix cough syrup scissor with alcohol so that you kind of get near hallucination. So you scissor yes, I was leaning. By the end of the night Leaning I've never heard. Yes, she was leaning, I love the idea that Emma's the one to teach us about like drugs.
Speaker 2:Yeah, have you ever heard?
Speaker 3:of. So I get there, we're actually having a great date. I would like. Well, I'm high, so I was like I remember this fondly. I I had a great time. I was like he is very kind, he is a musician. The colors are more vivid than I've ever seen. I love jazz.
Speaker 2:I love jazz, jazz hands. Emma just did jazz hands.
Speaker 3:This was also the era when I was trying to be a tough rock and roll girl, so I ordered whiskey meat or whiskey with on ice. So this is the part of the story where you make Mike proud. Yes, but this is also after you. I'm for my father, okay so actually, mike, you do have to listen to this, sponsored by Jack Daniels. I like that this started out with you being like I'm gonna go, I'm gonna have one beer.
Speaker 2:So naturally I go.
Speaker 3:I get whiskey neat. Because I'm cool and I'm not like the other girls. I'm not like the other girls. I'm different. I feel different, hi Hi, leaning, leaning, leaning. So anyway, I know, don't do it, kids. This is sponsored by DARE. Just saying no. So this was a bad decision. And then I am now high. I remember the date fondly. I suddenly realized this one drink has hit me like a brick wall because it's been mixed with my medicated cough syrup.
Speaker 3:I look at him. I think we've had a good time. We're like hanging out. I had one drink, we had french fries, we're having a good time. And I say I can't drive home. And he's like oh, I was like will you drive me home? Also probably not a good idea, but you know, you just kind of sense it out and I was like it's just up the street, he hasn't been drinking a lot. Will you drive me home? And he goes.
Speaker 3:She's trying so hard to defend himself, been drinking a lot. Will you drive me home? And he goes. Okay, so I did start this out by saying he had a shot. His hair is so long that he can't respond to we drive, you're not advising I was young. You have to learn from your mistakes. Don't listen to emma. Don't listen to Emma. She was leaning, I was leaning, Okay. Anyway, I don't know how I said this, but it was like can? We get out of here, Can you drive me?
Speaker 2:And he was like oh, you want to go back to my place and I was like no, I do not.
Speaker 3:You can drive me home, to my home, to my home where I live, which is a short few blocks away. Then you will depart and then you leave. Sir, I have a house full of friends, your hair is far too long, it's full of secrets, and so he is a gentleman in a darkened home. I got in the car a little bit and then I decided to abruptly stop making out with him because I'm also.
Speaker 2:My tummy is feeling a little weird, okay a little weird, and so then I open up the door.
Speaker 3:I'm like, okay, this is fun, bye, open up the door, jump out and I close the door and I'm walking up to my house and he rolls down the window and he's like am I ever gonna see you again? That was so fun. And I say probably not. And then I go inside because I'm on drugs.
Speaker 1:I thought you were gonna say probably not, and I projectile no, that's coming.
Speaker 3:Oh, oh yeah, I was like what happened with your weird? Feeling tummy, and so I quietly open the door because I think Quietly but you're on scissor Okay well, kelly was there, I think, so Kelly can do the follow up story.
Speaker 3:I'm quietly opening the door and I quietly shut it behind me and I turn around and all of our friends are still there Because they haven't gone home. They're like well, well, well, it is a little genre I. It becomes very apparent that I am hammered off of this one drink. I left my car at the bar and I don't know defending yourself I
Speaker 2:do not drink and drive.
Speaker 3:I don't know I goending herself Do not drink and drive. I don't know. I go in and I'm like, yeah, I'm trying to keep it under control, it's not going well, she's not in control. I remember asking someone maybe Kelly? I was like I need a peanut butter sandwich.
Speaker 2:I need a peanut butter sandwich.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, who's going to make it for me? Because the little princess can't make it. This is who's gonna make it for me, because little princess can't make it so this is what I had to deal with back in the day. Fast forward, I don't know what happened from the time where I asked for peanut butter sandwich to no one made it for you is what happened, so you have to be left to your own resources.
Speaker 3:And I put my hands in the peanut butter container and I start to finger paint is the only way to describe this. On our table.
Speaker 3:Yeah, question mark, she's like I'm happy Flashback, smearing the peanut butter, not eating it. No one's helping me. Whoa, you did sound like you were having fun. I have my own version of this story to tell after this. Oh, great To clarify. And then at some point, the peanut butter's no longer on my hands. I go into my room because I think Kelly's like let's get you a glass of water and put your PJs on, because you were the only one defending me, that's right, and I kind of made. And then she switches from Kelly wasn't helping me, because it's coming back to me. And then I remember I think I don't fully get in my pajamas. Oh, oh, you're like. You're like why don't you put your pajamas on?
Speaker 3:I'm going to go get you a glass of water is how I remember this yes, I'm partially pajama and Kelly goes to get me partially pajama and in my bed and I have, I think. You think that I've just fallen asleep, yeah, yeah, but I also threw up all over the floor before that. Yes, nice, how did I miss that? Because I have a special thing where if I'm going to throw up, I have to lay flat or else I will pass out. So I knew that, because I have this special thing where if I'm going to grow up, I have to lay flat or else I will pass out. So I knew that and I laid flat on the bed and just said this is fine, this will do.
Speaker 3:We need to clarify flat not on your back, flat on your side, on my side, on my side, Flat on my side. I'm like I would not have loved you. The floor is fine here. I would not have loved you. And I said the floor is fine here, and I know that I didn't put on my Dino shirt because I'm a Dino's girly through and through, because my shirt was also on the floor and if you've had a Dino shirt you've grown up on it.
Speaker 3:At least once I puked tikka masal on mine. I never have. There's still time, we'll get there, we'll get there. Oh, you guys, yeah. And then I have passed out at this point just probably 30 minutes post, coming in the front door, gone to sleep now because I have to nanny at 7am the next morning.
Speaker 2:And.
Speaker 3:I wake up the next morning, running late for work, go over next door to where I'm nannying and the mom opens the door and said hi, are you feeling okay today? And I was like, yeah, just mom opens the door and said, hi, are you? Feeling okay today and I was like, yeah, just because I am so incredibly hungover at this point, and it's been like during that time when I look and I have a string of text messages from this guy that's just like, wow, what a great night.
Speaker 3:Hope you got home safe. How did you feel how this went? I just didn't expect to connect with someone on such a deep spiritual level, and it just went on, and on, and on and on. And I'm like, sir you, I went on a Tinder date with you and I had scissors, was leaning, yeah, you connected with my shadow self. I was not there. I was not there.
Speaker 1:So maybe that is your soulmate, I don't think there.
Speaker 3:I was not there, so maybe that is your soulmate. I don't think so. I'm fully team Holly on this. I don't know when she would continue, like continually. I was just like, nah, I was like, blast that out, no, Is he still around?
Speaker 2:Is he still in?
Speaker 3:Nashville. Who's to say he would like come, he would be on tour. We're going to parent trap Emma. He would come back into town whenever he was in town. He was like in town for three days on tour. I would love to take you out for dinner and I'd be like nah, Did you ever see him again? No, Emma, Except for once when he was also playing guitar at a show that I was playing. But he was like last at the High Watt and I was just like Emma. Who are you? Who are you?
Speaker 2:and that's your soulmate.
Speaker 3:It is not my soulmate. So that's my story. Wow, and that was my one and only timid day. Here's how I remember the last part of it. I remember getting you at least partially into pjs, being like I will get water, I. All of that is true. I don't remember anything with peanut butter until the next day. I don't think this is why I think it's possible. She was waiting for a little. Did I wake up in the middle of the night? What I think? Probably happened is that you got home.
Speaker 3:You were trying to play it cool. We were like, well, well, well, it was an Emma Tinder date. And then you were probably like, and I was like all right let's get you in bed. I got you water. You puke, whatever.
Speaker 2:I think you fall asleep, and then later, when I was already asleep, then you get up and start finger painting.
Speaker 1:Because the next morning no one is helping her. Oh my God, she was hallucinating, it's all in the kitchen?
Speaker 3:No one was in the kitchen.
Speaker 1:I wish we had like, like you know, those night vision cameras that are just like drunkenly like knowing ratatouille when he's controlling.
Speaker 3:I remember the next morning being like why is there peanut butter all over every surface? Oh, I'm so sorry. I'd like to formally apologize for my peanut butter eating, my peanut butter escapades, if you will. The escapades, wow, okay, so your embarrassing story, you also like, still managed to have someone completely fall in love with you. That's very, emma, a version of myself, a version who knows, that is one version, a version that we love.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we love so deeply and I will say did she learn? No, because then maybe this was another time. I was on cough syrup and I think I told this story and Joel was in town. He was like you should get your cough syrup. I'll make a cocktail with cough syrup and we did that in dinty's guys.
Speaker 2:Oh so you did that for fun just one other time. This is not sponsored by dare in a controlled environment at home where it's there drugs, just try them.
Speaker 3:Dare do a responsible, responsible experience, experience nice guys. Responsible experiences, yeah nice, we just reclaimed it we did.
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Speaker 3:Okay, you know what time it is. So, yeah, I'm in college Currently. It's rough Currently. Wish no, I don't, I was like, wish I had the worst time in college.
Speaker 1:I went to UVA, did not have many friends. Really, I didn't have some great friends. Uva is not a great place, but yeah, so I'm in college at UVA. I think this is like second semester. I was still hating it. That never really changed. Yeah, but we all went to this Mediterranean restaurant that I really love. I was so excited to go there. We got this like amazing food, amazing fish, like loving it, and we're taking the buses back to our suite.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and I'm on the bus and my stomach starts to feel bad.
Speaker 1:I hate this it's just feel bad. I'm on the bus with, like everyone I live with.
Speaker 3:Oh no and I'm like escape yeah, no escape, but I'm increasingly like, oh, like. I'm losing the battle.
Speaker 1:I know I'm losing the battle like I still think I have like some time to save it, but I'm like I will not make it all the way to our dorm into the bathroom and I know this for certain.
Speaker 3:I'm so scared and I'm deeply upset, oh yeah, and I come up with a great plan. I'm like oh one of my roommates is doing this dance thing at the stadium.
Speaker 1:It's in like an hour or two, but like I'm gonna get off now to check on her. I tell them I'm like yeah, I'm gonna get off here.
Speaker 3:I'm gonna check on yeah, yeah, like gotta go bye, I like successfully get off the bus. Yes, I'm like.
Speaker 1:I see the building oh no, in front of me I'm in in the middle.
Speaker 3:Most of my embarrassing stories happen at a sports stadium.
Speaker 1:Yeah, sports do not.
Speaker 3:I'm in the football stadium parking lot. I see the student activities building that I'm walking to.
Speaker 1:You can do it, I'm like you can't do it, I just shit my pants.
Speaker 3:You bridesmaids, yeah. Oh, you bridesmaids, yeah.
Speaker 1:I bridesmaids all in my jeans in the jeans.
Speaker 3:Oh no, is this? What time of night this?
Speaker 1:is dark it's winter, it's like 6, 7 maybe 8. Like it's dark. Do you have a coat on too? No, not a long one but like the thing is I live with, I live in a suite full of people, yeah, and there's no like laundry. I'm like what am? I'm just like crying. I call my then boyfriend and like he parker was so sweet.
Speaker 3:It was like people were walking by and I'm just like hysterical like they're gonna know, and he's like no, no, they'll just think like some god pardon, I'm like no, this is what do I do? I call my parents, who are an hour away. I'm like you have to come take me out.
Speaker 1:Yes, I will not go back to my.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I'm like this and they're like we can't do that, like your sister's there?
Speaker 1:no, she wasn't, she was in richmond.
Speaker 3:So I am like freaking out, and then I call my sister's roommate and I'm like victoria, here's what happened you, gotta you have to pick me up. She picks me up in the parking lot as I've just been crying there for like 30 minutes with poop in my pants, and she pulls up and I just lay flat on my stomach and the back seat of her car.
Speaker 1:So that you don't, so that I don't feel no.
Speaker 3:And then I get to their apartment, she just gives me a trash bag and I I like go into the bathroom and just like Get rid of the evidence, get rid of everything. Shower, stay at my sister's house. All my roommates and people are like where are you, are you okay? Like and yeah, oh honey, oh, that's rough. It was rough, was it the fish? What was the culprit? Maybe I don't think anyone else got sick. This podcast is not sponsored by that Mediterranean restaurant it's not sponsored by fish.
Speaker 3:Not sponsored by fish? Absolutely not. Oh, that's rough. Yeah, that is rough. I got more of them In my head. She put down cardboard. No, that's how I felt the story went, like I love the idea that you planked in.
Speaker 1:Oh, I just planked in the back seat.
Speaker 3:It was like also how close were you with this? Like, is this pretty close?
Speaker 2:okay, you're pretty close.
Speaker 3:She was like I will come to you in your time yeah, for sure, yeah, like I I felt really close with her.
Speaker 1:Obviously, I would have rather not had her be the one in that scenario.
Speaker 3:But, it was my best option.
Speaker 2:And.
Speaker 3:I'm forever grateful.
Speaker 2:Wow.
Speaker 3:But can you?
Speaker 1:imagine if I had to go back to that dorm full of people that I live with With shit pants yeah, having shit in my pants and you'd be shit pants girl yeah, forever Wow. But if you give them some space and then tell them, you're shit pants, girl, then wow.
Speaker 3:but if you give them some space and then tell them you're shit pants girl, then it's funny, then it's funny, then it's funny and then it's on it's character then.
Speaker 1:But they have to love you enough first oh wow, that's the worst not to take any, and that was not the last time.
Speaker 3:no that you shat your pants, no, it wasn't well, I would say yes, definitive.
Speaker 1:I would say no, I didn't shit my pants.
Speaker 3:Shorts. I took them off oh.
Speaker 1:I have so many.
Speaker 3:Oh my God, this like slow ping pong game.
Speaker 1:You know, I can't reveal all of my secrets in one episode. I have to keep you coming back for more the owl issues run in the family?
Speaker 3:Hey, it's real, everyone has them. Hot girl with tummy issues yeah, ibs yeah the way.
Speaker 1:So now we are all really close and comfortable with each other.
Speaker 3:And I feel like, and so, and I feel like, so are you, and so are you a listener.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I hope you feel like you really know kelly and emma. I hope you laughed. I hope you don't judge us too much and I want to hear your embarrassing story.
Speaker 3:can they write in? I think anyone who wants to share their embarrassing stories should.
Speaker 1:I'm not more If you think yours isn't like too much. Every story you send in, we'll share another.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we'll raise you an embarrassing story.
Speaker 1:So if you want these embarrassing stories to keep going, you can submit your embarrassing story. You can leave it anonymous. You can say your embarrassing story. You can leave it anonymous. You can say your name. You decide by going to howthewisewongrowscom there's a link in the show notes and click the microphone in the bottom right-hand corner. From there you can leave a voicemail for us of your most embarrassing story and I'll keep my word. For every embarrassing story we receive, we will give you one embarrassing story of ours I don't think yours is.
Speaker 3:Uh, you got, you got drunk. You made a man fall in love with you yeah, you made a sandwich for yourself you were drunk at home. I never once made a sandwich for myself. I like the record. She made a masterpiece, and holly and I get the privilege of knowing that there is in fact a little more to the story.
Speaker 2:That does make it a funny, embarrassing story, but the listeners don't know that all right, emma kelly.
Speaker 1:Any final words for the listeners? What?
Speaker 3:do you want them?
Speaker 1:to know about you, aside your embarrassing story.
Speaker 3:I have better bladder control now do I?
Speaker 2:But I don't row anymore so.
Speaker 3:That will never happen to me again. I feel like your embarrassing stories make you stronger. They define you or what you do with them, or if you don't ever tell anyone them, that's okay too. You are, that's telling. Yeah, you're more than just your embarrassing stories.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you're more than your big mom and everyone everybody poops their pants more than others, once a quarter, once a quarter if you're a good business woman.
Speaker 2:If you're a good business woman shit your pants once a Keeps you honest.
Speaker 1:Welcome back to how the Wise One Grows and my friend's gonna tell a story now, yeah.
Speaker 3:Okay. So we all know, we all know that I've had stomach issues from a young age. Tell me problems, if you will. Hot girl IBS. Hot girl IBS as regaining like proper Use, use of my intestines. I would say, like I was at the point where I was like, oh, this isn't college, no, no, no, no, this was early, early Nashville. Okay, like my stomach was starting to get better, mm-hmm, it wasn't like, oh, I'm either like not shitting or I have to shit in the next 10 seconds.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you know, there was like not there was not a lot of wiggle room between that, and so I was. I don't even know who I was with. I was with someone. I blocked this out. I kind of forgot I did this.
Speaker 1:Like that's, how Was this after I moved?
Speaker 3:Yes, you were no longer there. You were there, you. Yes, you were no longer there, you were there, you weren't there, and I don't know, about it? No, you don't know about it. No one knows about this Is this really You've never told this story. I've only told one person because it happened to them in the same place and they said this to me and I fell down laughing so hard because I was like what are the chances? Are you going to reveal who the other person is? That's fine, I will never Okay, that's fine.
Speaker 3:And so I am at a, I am at the coffee shop and I am having some coffee and maybe a treat or two, and I'm like Ooh, ooh, huh, I have to go to the bathroom. I really have to go to the bathroom. And I was still at the stage where I was like I would try to drive home if I could. Yeah, yeah, public is not. And because this specific coffee shop, their like lock didn't always work, yes, and I shit, and that's normal, and that's fine in the toilet. Okay, there's not a problem in the story yet.
Speaker 3:Uh-huh, yet you gave me operative word, and then I flush the toilet and the toilet doesn't work and it's not like it's clogged, clogged, it's just not working. And I remember, like huh, I remember that this is kind of a finicky. They have two bathrooms and this is like the one that's more finicky and it's busy time and there are people and people line up outside of that bathroom in the corridor and I am like I I'll, I'll die before I walk out of here with a shit filled toilet.
Speaker 3:So naturally I have to dispose of the evidence no no, whatever you're about to say is going to be so much worse than just leaving in a shitty. I don't know why my brain was like you have to get rid of the even shitty. I don't know why my brain was like you have to get rid of the bomb. That's hilarious, I don't know why. I don't know why you could have pretended it was something else. That's when you just walk out and go. Oh my.
Speaker 2:God, the guy who was in here really left a mess. I don't know I don't know what happened.
Speaker 3:Something malfunctioned in my brain and I was like this is your only option? Look at yourself in the mirror. You never look at yourself the same way. Buck up, Buck up, Herne. It's time to scoop the poop. And I look around. I look around to see what I can use and where I can dispose of it.
Speaker 1:And what did you come?
Speaker 3:up with. I'm so scared right now. Not just napkins, no, the sink. Bare hands, you ate it, sorry, awesome. I look around and I decide I'm going to use the plunger, because first I'm using the plunger Like Scoopy, I see what you're saying. Oh, it's like you use the. Yeah, first I try to use the plunger. So I'm like maybe it's clogged, yeah, maybe this will be okay. Yeah, emma crying, so maybe it'll be okay. Someone's knocked on the door at this point.
Speaker 2:Yeah, of course. So now there's a clock.
Speaker 3:There's a clock. Yeah, yeah, yeah, countdown is on. I can't do option A, Kelly, because I've been in here. Yeah, I can't just be like I.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I've been hanging out in here with this toilet full of someone else's shit.
Speaker 3:And so I use the plunger and I scoop it out. But before that had to be so hard to do. It was so hard I didn't get it all but enough. I was like this is better, uh-huh, and I put it in the trash can and I close the trash can and I sit the plunger down and I walk out of there and I don't come back for a year and a half oh my gosh, my friend had already paid and I was like, great, good, let's go.
Speaker 3:You were there with someone. I was like we gotta go yeah good, you already paid. Great, okay, I'm gonna leave, let's go. Yep, time to go bye. And I left and I didn't come back for at least a year and I thought to myself you've worked at restaurants. What if you were the person? The person who has to take the charge. And that's when, years later, I found out that I have a friend who did the exact same thing. So I'm like like, are they used to that? Is that something?
Speaker 1:that people do.
Speaker 3:Specifically there in the toilet, toilet where you don't think you can just walk out? Scoop the poop once. Shame on you.
Speaker 2:You know what?
Speaker 3:I mean that toilet should have been fixed. If that's the second or more time that someone has had to manually remove their shit it was in her bag In the toilet. Does that help? Not the toilet In the trash, no, in the trash. I kind of wish it would like they have like a little wicker waste basket instead. You know she wouldn't have done it, I couldn't yeah.
Speaker 2:I don't know what.
Speaker 3:I would have done. I looked around when that first happened. I looked around to see if there was a window, no, to crawl out.
Speaker 2:Oh, I was like to throw it out of, like the old days.
Speaker 3:That's what I was saying. No, I would have crawled out the window. If there wasn't a working window, I would have left that way, or you just made out the person who's talking there would have been no bathrooms.
Speaker 2:that's why you just stay there until they're like man, we're closing.
Speaker 3:What's happening? I didn't, I didn't have an option that is my most embarrassing story and I have never told anyone wow, thank you for sharing that.
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