Probably none of it which we can afford, but that's okay. So, yeah, big, big show coming up. But what what's been going on in your life?

I think first we need to talk about Taylor Swift. No. Okay. Jeez. But that was mean.

No. It's just like I can see where people are getting Taylor fatigue. It's just it's if you're not, like, a hardcore swifty, it's like, okay. It's we get it.

She's not doing it. She's just so popular that everyone wants a piece of putting her on their platform. Yeah. And she's doing, like, four

what she's

doing. She's doing, like, four radio I mean, a few radio shows and, like, two TV shows, but, like, everybody's taking the clips and then their quotes and then the thing And she made a movie. That makes them money.

And she made a movie about the release of her album.

Yes. But that's not what you're seeing.

I'm yes. It is in my house. Like, that might Yeah. Hattie went. Like, it's I just see where people would get Taylor fatigue. It's it's kind of like, okay. I get it. I will.

It's, like, been amazing for for me.

Right. But for me, I'm like, I get it. I think she's great. I it's just it's a lot. Yeah. It's a lot of Taylor. It's a lot of Taylor.

Yeah. Well, she's great. She just became the, like, highest Yes. Grossing Amazing. Female artist of all time passing Madonna. So Mhmm. I guess that's what you get, you know, when you're that famous. It's like, that's why, and that's everybody. That's what being really famous is is you're everywhere.

Yeah. I just don't care

to talk about it anymore.

I'm just kind of done talking about Taylor Swift.

I wasn't you put it in the rundown, didn't you?

Well, because it's Julie, let's be fair. Yeah. You're getting defensive of Taylor Swift right now.

Well, you said you don't wanna talk about it. You brought it up and then said you don't wanna talk about it.

I no. We can talk that's why I said let's get it out. Let's get it out of the way.

I wasn't gonna talk about it off the top. I was gonna talk about my ass. Okay. That's what I was gonna talk about. Okay?

So you're telling me right now you were not gonna bring up Taylor Swift. I don't know. At some point. Okay.

But not off the top.

Okay. Oh, okay. The four

because we talked about your face. We talked about celebrities and their faces and what they were doing, and I would well, not your face. Celebrities and their faces. I was gonna say talk about your face and my face and who's been helping us. That was my whole plan.

Okay.

That's what I was about to

do. Okay. Go ahead.

Because you've been getting your face and your butt and everything worked on, we've talked about it a lot. Yes. At the House of Skin and Health. Yes. With our friend Morgan.

Yes.

And I was very excited when I came in today because I just was finally approved to do it myself, and I did it today.

Your testosterone. So

I got pelleted Yes. With testosterone and estrogen because I had the estrogen patches that I've been taking now for, like, three years. Got it. And now I don't have to even wear those. So it's all been pelleted and inserted into my upper butt. Yeah. I mean, like your hip. I don't know. Whatever. Yeah. And I'm so excited to see the effects of it because, like, we talk about a lot, like, menopause, perimenopause, whatever it is, for me, it was medical, like, full on menopause sucks ass, and it you feel terrible. And you're grumpy and you're tired and, you know, low libido and, like, all the things. Yeah. And women for so long have just dealt with it and just been like, well, this is what being forty is or this is what being fifty is. Sure. And I think it's just so cool that now we're we're doing something about it, and we're taking care of it. So she had referred me to a doctor who was, like, a brilliant, brilliant man. I drove out to Frisco yesterday yesterday last week and met with him, and he was kinda like, yes. You need this, and you can do this. And Oh, good. If you're abandoning all of this after you have a hysterectomy, you lose a basically, like, when you're not getting all of these hormones, testosterone, progesterone, estrogen, there's a lot of other things problems that it causes, and you're abandoning all of that if you just don't take care of it because of a maybe risk of cancer recurrence that's not even proven by anybody, but it's just a maybe because mine was triple negative and blah blah blah. So it was just really interesting to hear. Like, your bones and, you know, all all kinds of other things, osteoporosis, like, all this stuff, if you're not getting any hormones, then that's something that you have to worry about. Yeah. Needless to say, I was finally approved to do it, and my other doctor, Ian Morgan, had all said yes too. So that's three. I'm like, okay. I'm in, and got the shots up. And she says it's, like, about ten days

Yeah.

Or not shots, but got them

pellets. Pellets.

Yeah. And then, you know, you'll be feeling great. And I've just, like, sat here literally and watched your

Yeah.

Experience and, like, noticed and and been envious of, like, oh, I wanna feel and look good. So I'm excited to start my journey, and I'm so grateful for Morgan at House of Skin and Health.

Yeah. She's awesome. She's super comprehensive, and there's no magic recipe for everyone. It's very individualized, and she takes very good care of everyone. I mean, even when I went back this last time last week, she was like, okay. Where are you with this? How are you feeling with this? Like, oh, let's do let's swap this out for this. Like, it's a constant, you know, trying to figure out exactly what's the best, you know, formula for you and for your body, how your body responds to what we're trying. And then if that doesn't work, then let's go down this road. So it's, and it's and you think about it, you're like, I can't believe I'm this person where I have the pillbox and I've got, but then I'm like, if this is what it this is part of getting older, like, and if it's this is what it takes to feel good and these are all, like, you know, for the most part, natural ish, you know, supplements and all that kind of stuff, I feel really good about it. Yeah. You know, I'm fine with getting testosterone pellets put in my ass and shooting myself up with NAD plus, you know, every couple

Yeah.

Because our bodies need it. So yeah. Well, in your body might need something totally different than what my body needs. Yeah. You know? And same for anybody else. But that's why it's important to to reach out to someone who's in that space because I used to just rely on my OB GYN. She doesn't have the time to spend with me Right. You know, to to do all of this Right. Adjusting and all that kind of stuff. So I'm super excited for you, and, hopefully, you'll see some positive Yeah. Results.

Thanks.

Energy, I feel like, was the

That's my big one. I was so tired. Yeah. Yeah. Too like, tired that I've never been before. Yeah. It's like, what? Why do I wanna, like, lay on the couch at two PM? But Yeah. You know? Yeah. So I'm excited.

Well, good for you. Okay.

Yeah. Thank you.

Do you want to talk about Taylor Swift? Not really.

Oh, no. I don't wanna I we heard your take, and that's fine.

So It that I am not saying not everyone wants to hear about Taylor Swift, but people in our audience, I'm sure, want to hear about Taylor Swift, what you thought of her album, all that kind of stuff.

Yeah.

I'm just saying there's also a segment of the population that is just I love her. I'm just kind of overhearing about her. So I'm we can't make everybody happy, so I'm gonna speak for the people that don't really care about hearing daily about Taylor Swift these days. But then let's come from someone from your perspective that really likes Taylor Swift and listened to her new album and

Yeah.

Thought it was great.

I love it. It's it's brought me a lot of happiness over the last week, like, genuine happiness. I love it. And that's great. It's really, really good music. It's bops. It's fun. It's dancy. Anna and I love it together. Ryder even loves it. I went and saw the movie, brought Anna. I'm just like, these are memories that I'm making with my daughter, and she is a good, positive, awesome person in the world that's doing great things, and she's happy. And

So I will tell you about about

her life.

My daughter got in the car saying after that movie, and her and her friend both said we really felt like it was inappropriate, that her butt was hanging out the whole time, that her clothes were really inappropriate. Your daughter said said that? This is what I said, wow. It must have really been inappropriate for you to say something, hadn't you? Boy, her and her friend Mary both said. We we called Mary's mom on the way home to see if she could come over, and she was like they're like she was like, how

much how was the movie? And they

were like, it was good, but it was really inappropriate. And I was like, how was it inappropriate? And then I was worried about the whole woods song, opening my thighs, like, how

It was all clean in the movie.

Right. But, anyway, that I just thought that was interesting that interesting that

sitting there with my seven year old. Like, I didn't I didn't even think about it, I guess.

And listen. I'm not Yeah. I could give two shits. She can have her tits out for all I care. I can't care. I mean, whatever. I mean, I don't think it's inappropriate to show a kid with that, but I'm saying I don't think there was I mean, I'm not offended by ass hanging out or whatever.

Yeah.

I just thought it was interesting that the perspective of two twelve year old girls who did like Taylor Swift. They're not like Swifties. They're not obsessed. But they were like, yeah. It was inappropriate. She was showing her butt.

Yeah. I don't know. I just see that everywhere, I guess. Like, everyone's always skimpy skimpy clothes.

Yeah. I mean, she can do whatever she wants.

Yeah. But I mean, she's hot

AF.

Yeah. She did look very hot in the movie. I'm like, she's gotten hotter.

Yeah. Good for her. And I I I don't I don't think she's ever wanted to be, like, a sex symbol Yeah. Until now. Yeah. And maybe And it's apparent that that's that's what she's she wants to be seen as

Yeah. I don't know. I have a lot of But But yeah.

I mean, but you can acknowledge

different well, she did say it because she was on Fallon last night, and I watched. And she said she's like, I have just like anybody, I have so many different, like, personalities, things inside of me, things I'm feeling. Like, so tortured poet's department was, like, very lyric y, very she was miserable. She was sad. She wrote it all out. It was like a double album with, you know, however many songs, thirty, whatever, what ended up being, where she just put everything on paper and released it, almost to, like, cleanse a little bit of, like, this whole shitty situation that she'd been in. She's like, now I'm a different person. I'm I'm wanting to be flirty. I'm wanting to be fun. I'm wanting this to be dance music. Like, I'm wanting to be a little bit, like, cheeky. I'm wanting to, like, be a little bit more risque. Like, she's just it's just different personalities just like, I guess, all of us have all these different personalities. Like, sometimes I feel like shit. Sometimes I am funny, cheeky, like, whatever. So I think it's just she uses her music to kinda display all these different versions of of a Yeah. Person. So I think that's all it is. I don't know that she's, like, really trying to push some sort of sexual, like, I'm hot thing. It's just like that at this phase in my life when I was writing this music, I was super happy. I'm having great sex. I'm engaged.

Right. Oh, yeah.

And she wasn't afraid to, like, put it all out there. Right.

Yeah. I just look at, like, the pictures of those, and it's like, wow. She's really sexing it up, you know, which is great. I mean, that's good for her. Yeah. But I just think that the the thing about Taylor Swift is she it's hard to find some a knock on her. It really is. And the only knock is, I think, is the overexposure that I think people just get fatigued by it. Yeah. But the but what she's done is she's built such a loyal cultish fan base that she could literally put out a pile of dump, and it people are going to love it because they love her. Yeah. You know what I mean?

Yeah. And and, well, the thing is is, like, anyone that post about her or those people succeed because they're writing about her, because they post a picture about her. Like, she's those posts are gonna get blown up. Like, she went on on Fallon. He asked her, what's the last movie you saw? And she said the name of the movie I saw this morning. That exact movie put the clip on me. Like, thanks, Taylor Swift, and that they're getting a lot of pubs. So anybody that talks about her, mentions her, anything, is helping their income their business, right, by doing it so that more and more people are doing it, and then that tends to lead to overexposure because people are it's whether you like it or not, like She's a hot button. Business. She's

a brilliant businesswoman. Yeah.

For sure. I mean Brilliant. Yeah. The movie was I don't know. I think if you aren't a huge fan, then, like, why then don't go. But if you are, it was really cool to see, like, some of the behind the scenes and all that because people want to know all these things if they're a big fan of hers. But, yeah, it was just another brilliant way to, like it's not like she put a whole bunch of it was like a behind the scenes of the music video and then lyric videos where it just flashes up the lyrics of every song. So she made a quick however much money. It was thirty million on the first weekend. Just from, like, repurposing something that

she don't I don't think anyone would ever So it's super relevant. Brilliant businesswoman. I'm just saying there's a segment of the population, and I'm included that I I love her, but I'm just I

I thought that we had you after the podcast.

No. I I it's just like excited. But it's just like anything else. I overexposure for me, I think with anything, I'm just like, okay.

Yeah.

Well, I

get it. You're smart and you're talented, and, you know, we can watch you make, you know, an album and and a movie and then a tour. I mean, it's just a it's just a lot. And, you know Yeah. And I've I have been a consumer of it, and I'm sure I will continue to be. I think she's fantastic. I'm just kinda it's just like it's like the cowboys.

Like

Yeah. You know, when there's in this I just can't keep talking about the cowboys when they're just still the cowboys.

That's why people talk about them because it makes money. That's why Right. At the ticket, they told all of us to talk about him all day long, at least for an hour or so because the advertisers want that because that's what gets them the numbers

and where they need money. Advertisers care about Taylor Swift, but, you know, I can't really see that.

Why you're seeing so much of her everywhere. Right. Like, it's people are they push it because Right. It's successful. Yeah. So yeah. No. I I definitely didn't plan to come in here and talk about Taylor for an hour or anything, but that's why I've been posting using my personal channels and just sharing. Well and I thought I would ask you. I can't I can't help it. Like, it's legit. I it's legit made me happy over the last week.

Well, then that's great.

So yeah. I mean, you don't like the do you like the songs?

I haven't listened to any of them. Oh.

Yeah. They're really good. Yeah. They're really fun.

And I've heard mixed reviews on those too. Right? Yes. They're but it the thing is, like I said, it she is so influential and so impactful in so many people's lives, like, has such an impact on people's lives like you that she is going to it it's she it's going to skew in her favor more times than not because of all of the good Yeah. Like, what do you call it? Good grace she's built up with her audience and her fan base is

But I'll say if I don't like her music. Like, I this I like this a lot more than the Torch and Poets department.

Right.

Like, I don't I'm not just gonna be like, I love it if I don't. This music is really good in my opinion because I like I Yeah. And everyone Some people once said Yeah. There's just a million different types of Sure. She's a a million different artists in one, honestly, like, just in how how much music she's put out, how many albums and all of that. But this one is my vibe. Like, I love this type of music. So I think that's why I've been so excited, because it's happy.

Yeah. I like being happy. I wish I could find this much joy out of something like that. Out of you should try. I I oh, for fuck's sake. Alright. Let's move on to sports courts, presented to us by our friends at Baylor Scott and White.

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Okay. The aforementioned cowboys, here they are. They're Yep. They're revelant, relevant, relevant, relevant. It's football season, so we always have cowboys in the rundown. They won. We usually give them a good solid ninety seconds to two minutes. Yeah. They won, big over the Jets, and they're two two and one, and they're fun to watch.

The fur third time they finished regulation with exactly thirty seven points. That's kinda weird.

Yeah. Their offense is ridiculous. Yeah. Dak is amazing.

And the exact same amount of points. Yeah. So that's good. If nothing else, that's fun to watch. Right? If you if I had to pick if I have to watch the Cowboys, which I sorta do just because, I would rather pick a team that can explode offensively, I guess, than one that's, like, really stout defensively. That's just me. But, I mean, they're doing pretty well so far this season.

Yeah. I mean, they're the whole league isn't great. Yeah. The whole league is schizophrenic. Like, you can't it's hard to make sense of it. No more undefeateds. It seems like it's pretty wide open. Yeah. I mean, the Chiefs have a sub five hundred record. They just lost. Yep. Lost Lamar Jackson. I mean, the league is pretty pretty wide open.

Which is fun. It's fun for the fan. Yeah.

It's fun for the fan. Same as the case in college football. You feel like things are pretty wide open.

Yeah.

This is,

Like, this is lost again.

They're out of the top twenty five as is Penn State. So you have the number one and number two preseason ranked teams are both out of the top twenty five after five games. Yeah. Which just goes to show you what an effing joke preseason rankings are, period. End of story. I've been beating this drum for approximately twenty five years. It's ridiculous. It's insane. Preseason rankings, when these teams have not played a single game, you're giving them a ranking. And do they mean anything? People say, oh, they don't mean anything. Oh, bullshit. Because where where you start, if you start in the top five and you lose once, you're barely gonna get bumped down. When you lose twice to unranked teams like Texas and Penn State is, they get knocked out. Mhmm. But let's say you start at number twenty nine or you're not ranked at all. There's really no number twenty nine. It's just the top twenty five. But let's say you start out of the poll. Well, you're probably gonna have to rattle off six wins five or six straight wins with no losses to even get considered for that top ten spot. Whereas, you know, it just doesn't make sense.

No. It makes

sense it makes no sense in determining long term. I feel like they should they should wait a minimum of, like, at least five, maybe even six games to where you get into at least two games into your conference schedule before you release the first poll, because you just don't know anything. And I guess it all works itself out. You know? Texas loses twice to teams that well, I mean, the first loss was not bad. No. I mean, that was to Ohio State. But the second loss, I mean, unranked Florida, they had been reeling, and and then Penn State was even worse.

Yeah. They had to give the poll people all kinds of reason to reasons to finally take them out of the top twenty five. Yeah. Because people want Texas up there. People want, like, these big schools, but now Aggies' number five.

Dude. How about that?

Aggies are legit. Aggies are legit. They are so legit. OU right behind them at number six. Alabama is number eight. Mizzou plays Alabama this weekend. In I think it's at Alabama. Yeah. No. Actually, I don't know. I don't know. But Missouri is number fourteen, so it's Alabama has one loss, and Missouri's undefeated. Yeah. And then

Because it's where Alabama started the year probably in the preseason poll. Yep. You know what I mean? Yep. For sure. Tech won again. Big game in Houston. Who knows how good Houston is, but bottom line is they're winning the games that are on their schedule. They have Kansas this weekend. Tech is fun to watch.

Yeah. They got well, this is fun. I still say, like, big twelve, but it's not the big twelve anymore, all these teams. But it's fun for old school big twelve fans right now because you've got A and M, Oklahoma, Tech, Missouri, all within the top fifteen. Yeah. So it's fun. Those are the schools that I like to watch. Like, I was flipping around on Saturday. I actually had a minute to, like, sit on the couch and watch, and I was like, none of the teams none of my normal teams. Mizzou wasn't even playing, but I always wanna land on one of those Right. Teams that I'm just more familiar with, and you kinda know their their story and their journey and, you know, you know how hyped a and m is right now to be number five. So I wanna watch and see what happens to them. So it's fun. It's exciting, and I like it when there's not just a a favorite that everybody thinks is gonna run away with the thing.

Yeah. There's definitely not. Yeah. So college football, I love it's my favorite time of year. Also too because it's it may be playoffs. Obviously, no Rangers. But,

Yes. Can you give me a quick little rundown where we're at with the wild card

stuff? ALDS wild card's done. ALDS, we are But who wanna yeah. Who thickened. So right now, it is well, so we're taping on Tuesday. Brewers are up two games to none on the Cubs. It's they're all best of five. Mhmm. Mariners and Tigers are tied at one apiece. Mhmm. Dodgers and Phillies, Dodgers are up two nothing two games to nothing to none. And then what series am I forgetting? Oh, Brewers and did I say Brewers and

You did.

They're up to nothing. Who's the other American League? Oh, Yankees. Yankees are getting absolutely destroyed by the Blue Jays. Destroyed. Oh, right. Like, I feel like the combined score has been, like They got thirty five to four. Maybe the Red

Sox to get here.

Correct.

And, all of Canada's going crazy.

Yeah. That's what so, yes, we've had had the conversation with our friend Jen yesterday Yes. That even on the east or the West Coast Yeah. Of Canada, they're going crazy for the Blue Jays who are on

the West Coast Canada. That's the all of Canada is a Blue Jays fan because that's their only team. Because, like, Kelly grew up, like, his his family he wasn't a huge baseball guy, but his I think it's his grandma was, like, a hardcore Blue Jays fan, and he's on the West Coast of Canada. Yeah. They don't they need more teams up there, you know, and the kids are all playing.

Well, they had the expos.

Yeah. Montreal. Yeah. Yeah. So it's exciting for the Blue Jays, I guess.

I don't know. It still hurts

me to say that a little bit because I don't like them because of the Rangers history.

I mean, would you rather root for the Blue Jays or the Yankees?

They both hurt. Blue Jays, I guess. Yeah. Because same. Because of Canada.

Same. Same. Yep. And because I just don't like to root for the Yankees.

No. I can't.

Fatigue. I have Yankees fatigue because they get so much attention. This is the this is the this is a theme with me. Okay. Oh, and then the Rangers Big Rangers news. Yeah. Skip Schumacher is the new manager. Boach is out, which made my heart sport sad, but, part part of the game. So Skip is in. He was with the Marlins previously, NL manager of the year a few years ago. He did not see eye to eye with their kind of long term vision for that organization and and stepped down and was with us last year in the front office, and now he's taking that over. Very interested to see what happens with the staff. Bobby Wilson, the catching coordinator, already out. He's making some moves. So I am curious to see what it'll look like. I know I have a feeling a lot of the guys that have been big parts of this thing for number of years will not be back, but, maybe I'm wrong. Who knows?

Yeah. But yeah. We like him. What's his whole Skip. What's his whole He's

a great dude.

Yeah.

I've only had limited experienced. Yeah. Yeah. I've have had limited interactions with him. Seems like a great guy, very well respected. With St. Louis? Young. Yes. Before this? No. It was with the Marlins.

Oh, the Marlins. Okay. Maybe before.

Yeah. I don't I don't I'm not I don't I haven't read his bio recently. Sure he was Cardinals. But, yeah, he, he's, like, super I mean, he's fresh out of the game ish. I think he'll be able to relate to the players well, and I think maybe he's got a little more of that vocalness that maybe this group needs. And I think that our roster is gonna change tremendously. Chris Young has already indicated that the payroll oh, Glenn telling me to sit up again. It's because okay. Glenn, I hear you, and I'm sitting up. But let me tell you something. The I I despise this shot. It's awful.

Oh, dear.

Because if Can I eat anyone? Yeah. You can eat it. Sure. Because this shot, it the there's there's no way for it to be flattering, and I'm sitting up. Even if I, like, suck in, I still look like I weigh eight hundred pounds. So I don't know what else to do. So take this shot away. I hate

this shot and shove it.

I hate this shot. Make make Julie smile.

T shot. T shots? Oh, testosterone shots. We do like, two shots.

Two shots are much better

than Anyway, we can dive home.

Yeah. Sorry, Glenn. But no. And I appreciate the heads up to, like, sit up. Look at this little hidden Yes. There is I'm gonna make Julie sit over here and see

No. Not until my testosterone kicks in

in my body. Gosh. It sucks. Okay. Sorry, Glenn. I didn't mean to go crazy on that, but I do I every time I see this the shot of my the side shot, it's terrible.

There's our TMG shit show moment of the week.

There we go.

It's a new franchise.

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So it's cool. Yeah. See that. Yeah.

Yeah. So I switched but, yeah, I switched our we switched our energy provider because of the savings that we could get, through their plan. And then I just did a we did, like, nine months, I think, because then we'll just reevaluate after that so I'm not stuck in a long term contract or anything like that so I can continue to evaluate. If you wanna do a long term contract, you can do that. You can kinda set it and forget it, but, like, for you, you were in a variable rate plan. So some months were, like, you could really felt like you were getting a deal, and then other months, you were just getting gouged. Yes. So, yeah, I mean, it like I said, it's super easy. I kind of was skeptical of the process thinking there's no way this is gonna be simple. Like, it doesn't seem like anything house related is ever simple.

Right.

This was super simple.

Yeah. And our former energy provider, like, sent us a note, like, oh,

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I know. It was

like, like, Kelly said, this is the first time they've reached out to me about anything Exactly. In six years.

Yeah. Well, and two, the website's super user friendly. Yeah. I mean, I'm a technological idiot, and it was super easy.

So yeah. We have our own link. We do. Energy bot dot com slash mom game. It's really cute. It's like its personal little homepage. It'll say, hey there, mama. Yeah. So go click on it. See for yourself.

Even if you're a dad, you can do it.

Hey there,

dad. Okay. I was going to do I'm gonna save the do you wanna talk about no shoes at work? No. This gives me the ick.

Yeah. Me too. Wear your shoes.

So it says there's a new work trend with where companies are saying no shoes allowed. Oh. Like, you have to wear socks or you can wear slippers or something.

Is that how they're gonna, like, get people to be excited to

like,

people that don't wanna come to work and wanna work from home go, like, but you can take your shoes off.

The idea is to make the office feel more relaxed and collaborative and makes people feel less anxious. I would feel so much more anxious. So there's a a certain person on the Rangers charters that

Goes barefoot.

He takes his shoes off. And they he's wearing socks.

Player, coach. I can't I'm

not gonna I cannot I cannot reveal things that happen on the plane. I have to stay on the plane. Okay. It's there's a lot of barefootedness.

Are they? It's it's I don't Harry?

No. No. No. No. He wears socks.

Okay.

But it's like it's just now where you're you're just one more layer. But then I'm sure people will be like, you wear open toed shoes all the fucking time. What's wrong with you?

And I'm like, I don't know. The same.

It's weird. It's there's something about The bottom

of your foot hanging out.

There's just something about no shoes in a place where there should be shoes.

I agree. And not at work. That's gross. You don't wanna, like Yeah. I'm out. See, like, Doug from sales'

hairy feet. No. I think they want you to wear socks. Like, surely we're not going barefoot.

But, like yeah. But if you're in sandals or you're in

Well, you need to pack some socks.

Yeah. Like bowling. I never have socks when I go bowling.

Do you wear those shoes without

socks? Forget. Or do I have socks? Bowl. Or they they either have socks or I don't bowl, which is fine. I'm usually good with that. I'm like, oh, sorry. Don't know if it sucks.

So unfortunate. See you later, kids. I'm gonna

be Drinking wine.

Okay. Also too, when I was you were doing that read, I was trying to be quiet with my eating of char.

Yeah.

And I, like, dipped into your shot while I was, like, mid bite. So that should be I

was wondering what was happening.

Yeah. There was a lot going on.

Oh, we didn't introduce Labooboo.

Oh, Jesus.

We have a Labooboo on the show today, and it's Emily doesn't like her him.

I don't I don't not like her. I just don't understand the point of

I don't either, but it was in my purse.

The fact that it was in your purse tells me

everything. I I was, like, one I was gonna try and hold firm on no little boo boos. And then next thing you know, this is mom life. I'm driving somewhere, like So you just have that to some random address to pick up a little boo boo out of someone's mailbox and leaving cash in it. Found it on Facebook. My kids just really want it. They both love the little boo boo,

and it's like Probably not even real.

I think

it is.

She told me it was. Something about, like, their head People

don't lie on Facebook, do they?

It says Pop Mart. Like, that's the store where you get them. Oh. And, apparently, like, the teeth I don't know. It might not be real, but I don't care. I don't think that Oh my gosh. There's so many kids know. So this is a little bit yeah. They each have one now. So I'm like, you know, I'm done. And they they paid for the they paid for it with money that they earned from doing chores.

Okay.

So there but I don't know.

Maybe it's growing on me a little bit.

Anything that brings my kids joy that's, like, not a screen. I'm like, okay. Yeah. Whatever.

Yes. Well, congratulations and

Anna's telling everyone she has five in her locker. I don't know what that says about her that she feels the need to lie and make up. And, like, she tells me there's five in her locker. Right? Or there's five. All her friends are like, Anna, can we see all your Laboopoos? She's like, oh, no. They're in the locker. They don't they don't come out. I was like, Anna, how did where'd you get them? Because I didn't buy them for you.

That brings up a good question. Yeah. So at what point do you call your kid out online and be like, you're, no, you don't, and you're lying.

I I I've told her that, but she's still telling me she's not. So I was just like, whatever. Like, Annie, that's not true because how how would you have gotten them? I didn't buy them for you. Dad didn't buy them for you. I haven't seen them. Maybe she's a thief. And I'm like, Annie, you don't need to lie to, like, make yourself it doesn't make you cool to have little boo boos. Like, you're cool just the way you are.

Absolutely. She was just like, I know, mom.

I know, but I do have them. Like, she's still holding on to it. So I'm like, okay.

She's seven.

She's seven. She's seven.

But it's

so funny because people I

mean, give it a couple years, and we've got some probably we got some pretty big red flags here, but, I think you're okay at seven. I think so too. I think not even a couple years. I think, I don't know, fourteen, fifteen, if you're lying about shit, then you're in

big trouble. Yeah. We'll write a lies too. So it They both fly.

At what so what I do we get concerned about? Like and then there's

You can't be an adult that lies.

Well, no.

But I think there are. There's adults that lie.

Well, no kidding. Yes. You're right. And it's not okay. No? But at what at what age do you, like, put your foot down about, you don't have fucking five Levuvus in your locker, Anna? At what age do we do this?

It's sad. I mean, I should do it now. But I told her, and she didn't wanna admit, so I just kinda ran out of energy on it. That's how I usually solve all my parenting problems. I just run out of energy.

That's why

I need the testosterone in my butt. Like, I have no energy to parent properly. Like, I should probably tell her, like, go look in her locker and be like, see. But nothing here. But What locker

is this? At home? At school.

She says there's five little boo boos in her locker at school. And, like, her she tells all her friends this because her friends will come up to me and be like, Anna has five little boo boos. And I'm like, no.

Oh, no. Yeah. It's a whole thing. So okay. Do you ever lie do you ever, like, go along with her lies? No. Okay. Good.

No. I call her out, but, like, she's she's still holding on. She won't admit it to me that she's lying because I think that's, like, me winning and she's very stubborn. Right. So, yeah. I don't go with the flow, like, oh, what are their names? You know? I'm like, no. You don't. Like, I how would did the Labou Boos, like, come in your I think I literally said. I was like, so did the Labou Boos, like, go into your locker and, like, hook up and make five more Labou Boos? Oh. Like, how did the Labou Boos happen without me? They're procreating. Yeah. Like, how does this happen? Were they born in your lock I think I said that. It's like, were they born in your locker? Like, how did they get there? I was like, no.

Yeah. So you're calling her out.

I'm calling her out, but I was not, like, making it a bit more.

I don't I don't feel like the labooboos in the locker is the place to, like, really put your foot down on this whole No. Stretching the truth thing.

But it could be a sign of, like you said I don't think things to come.

I think it's seven, you're fine.

Can we call this Labooboo's in the locker and Shar? And Shar hootery? Mhmm.

Okay. So, well, I don't know how we divulged divers.

Well, because we just hadn't introduced him yet, and I felt rude.

Bless. Okay. So we're out on no shoes

to work. You, and I hear

you. Thank you. Okay. I want a quick hit on

this you. The little boo boo.

Wild or gross wellness hacks shared by celebrities. Okay. So these are kind of dumb, but I'm gonna go through them. Tom Brady said drinking large amount of water will help prevent sunburns. What? I don't know. Even make sense.

No. I mean, large amount of water amounts of water is good for you in so many ways. Maybe it helps a little bit. I don't know.

It's dumb. Beyonce dropped twenty pounds in two weeks for dream girls by giving up all solid food and drinking just a concoction of lemon juice, cayenne pepper, and

By not

eating. Right. Yes. Okay. But did you ever do this this concoction, this cleanse or whatever, where it was lemon juice, cayenne pepper, and maple syrup? No. Did you? Oh, a hundred percent. Yeah. But it wasn't you didn't just eat that or drink that. Like, you ate shit, like, raw vegetables or something. This was a trend, like, ten, fifteen years ago. This cayenne I just remember the cayenne pepper, the syrup, and the lemon juice. Yeah. Yeah. It's but don't I mean

I think you've mentioned that.

You're probably too young, but, like, there was a time, like, when I was in my maybe mid twenties, early thirties to where there was always some kind of, like, this. Yeah. Like, there was a some kind of, cabbage soup recipe thing. There I mean, there was all kinds of things that people would try.

Just different versions of saying don't eat, and you'll lose weight.

Yeah. Yes. And drink broth, and it'll be you'll be amazing. Now

they just have shot.

But yes. Now we just take testosterone in our ass. Megan Fox claimed that drinking apple cider vinegar before meals keeps you slim by cleansing out your system entirely. I don't think it cleanses out your system entirely, but there are benefits of ACV, and I will do ACV shots every once in a while.

Yeah. Just, like, take a quick shot of it.

Yeah. I mean, I have some.

Yeah. I mean, I it I have some of that.

Think it's tear I mean, it's I don't think it's bad for you. I don't think it's gonna I don't think it's changing my life Right. When I do it. Kesha drank her own pee because she thought it was good for you. Sick. Why would it be good for you? Kesha. Well, it's coming out of your body.

It's just like the placenta thing.

It doesn't want to be there. Right. But isn't there something about the placenta that has, like, so many nutrients and things? Because it's it's literally, like people

will eat.

Shed your baby for right? Yeah.

I don't know.

Or something. Whatever. Gwyneth Paltrow and Goop sold Jade and Rose quartz eggs for women to put inside there to increase feminine energy and Oh. Increase vaginal muscle tone.

They got sued.

And they got sued. So I will tell you something that I did get I I got prescribed to me from my OB GYN Mhmm. Was something it's not jade and rose quartz eggs, but it's something that is supposed to help with going to the bath like frequent urination and

Does it help?

A lot some other things that happen. I I keep forgetting to do it. Oh. So I need to do it, and then I'll report back. I don't know what it's called. But Yeah. The my OBGYN or my or nurse nurse practitioner for my OBGYN said it was like, we need to get ahead of this as as you age. I mean, they're so

tired of being like, every crevice of our body. Every inch square inch of our body is something I we can take medicine for, take a shot for That's a lot. Plastic surgery for

I know. Like, just when I think I've got figured out, they're like, then shove this there and see what happens. I'm like, okay.

Good luck with that.

And then finally kid what?

I heard girls aren't doing damn ones anymore. What? Yeah. Speaking of shoving things up Woah. Who said this? A mom in our neighborhood. Yeah. Because, like, they they don't like the idea of putting something up there, and so they're all wearing pads.

Okay. But maybe that's just in the beginning. Because in the beginning, that's the way I was. I was scared of them. Yeah. And then I realized how disgusting it was to walk around traveling in my own.

And, like, you can't swim. You can't

You can't and and you're you feel like you're wearing a diaper.

In Fort Worth, is this not the case? Because in our neighborhood, apparently, this is a thing, and it'll last, like, years.

Wait. So, I mean, I didn't wear them in the beginning, but because I was scared. But then after, like But, like, the a year, I was like like a nuisance. Ridiculous.

Yeah. Like, because everyone's so you know, they can be toxic, like t x Oh, yeah.

Toxic shock. Because that's if you forget one's not there.

Right. So I think girls are just like, well, I wanna do it the right way and not do something that's risky. I don't know. Okay.

Well, more power too. Yeah. Right? Okay. Alright. Let's get to the news. We gotta talk about Mark Sanchez. Okay. And then we've got Jules Bidey coming up. Mhmm. Don't forget. Great great interview with her. Yeah. She wrote a children's book, and she was part of the whole, you know Yeah. Me too Harvey Weinstein trial movement, all that kind of stuff.

She was.

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Yeah. Come hang out with us. Should be fun. Okay. We teased this a little bit earlier, the Mark Sanchez story. It's just so very weird. So he's in Indianapolis to work the Colts game. He's part of the Fox crew, one of their TV packages. And so I forget who the Colts were playing, but it was Friday night, like, Friday night into early, early Saturday morning. And the reports started coming out on Saturday, like, you know, prayers up for Mark Sanchez. He's recovering from stab wounds in the hospital. So he was at a Indianapolis hotel, and, you know, police were called, officers found, and they took him to the hospital. Well, come to find out, he was the aggressor in this attack.

That was, like, the the plot twist. Right? Well, there

was there is even more plot twist because, yes, the fact that he's the one who's, you know, in the hospital, but even though he okay. Yeah. He's the one that got stabbed, but he was the aggressor. Right. So I I guess, if that makes sense. Yep. So, apparently, the sixty nine year old man who, like, swaps out old vegetable oil at restaurants and hotels was, like, in this loading dock area. And for some reason, Mark sand because at first, it was they said it was an Uber driver.

Mhmm.

But it wasn't an Uber driver. It was this vegetable oil truck driver.

Just a guy doing his job?

Yes. And for some reason, he, like, told him he wasn't they got into this altercation. There was one part of the story was, like, that Mark Sanchez was doing, like, wind sprints. I mean, like, just insane. But, apparently, like, tried to get into this guy's truck, and then he tried to, like, spray him with mace or something, and that didn't work. So then he got a knife and just started going at him because he was fearful for his life, this truck driver.

Do you have a knife? Do people just have knives?

If you're driving a truck in in a oh, no. It's not Chicago. I don't know why I was thinking Chicago. But if you're if you're if you're a truck driver because think about, like, when they sleep on the side of the road and stuff, yeah, they're they're armed in some way Yeah. With something that can f you up.

Several stab wounds.

Yeah. It was upper torso. Yes. So What the Right. And so it it originally, everybody thought that, like, Mark Sanchez got And there's video. And that but, apparently, like, Marriott, the hotel he was staying at, and, like, all this surveillance video, and they were like, no. It corroborates exactly what this truck driver said. And so now the truck driver is suing not only Mark Sanchez but Fox also for, like, all these things.

And he came he went and got arrested when he was in the hospital. Right?

Like Yes. So then he gets but then not only did he get arrested, they upped the charges. So it's like a felony now. Oh my god. So he's got he's looking at, like, one to eight years in prison if convicted.

Oh my god. Yeah. And he

says he doesn't remember anything. The cops said he smelled of booze. Like Can

you imagine getting that angry drunk that, like, you are that crazy and not doing something about it by the time you're thirty eight and doing national TV broadcast for Fox. Like, well, I just got like, I get People magazine headlines, and I need to make it stop because it's only terrible headlines that come to your inbox. But it was like, Mark Sanchez stabbed. And then it was like, Mark Sanchez in in hospital. Mark Sanchez arrested in hospital. I'm like, what the like, I couldn't follow the whole thing. It was bizarre to see happening over the weekend. And, of course, with everything going on in the world, like, your first reaction is like, oh, no. Like, oh, he's just trying to be there to travel to go do his job, and he got stabbed. And then you read it and you're like, oh, no. Like, this guy's insane, and he was the one that was, like, the aggressor, as you said. It's it's it's wild. Brady Quinn stepped in for him to broadcast. He can't broadcast after going to the hospital and getting stabbed. I don't know his whole scene, like, if he's does he have kids?

I don't know. I don't know that either. But I know he's been on the Fox. He's been on their I mean, a part of their network crew for a while. Yeah.

I think. I get him a little confused sometimes with, Matt Liner who is Oh, yeah. Married, and they do really funny stuff on social media.

They do.

But

Jumpy somebody sent me one of her videos, like the oblivious mom video.

Yeah. She's funny. Yeah. What like, there's so

much so many things that go on, and they'll be like like, there'll be a mom text, and I'll be like, such and such, it just meet at our house and for the for the Blue Jay tailgate. And I'm like, oh, tell me more about this Blue Jay tailgate. And they're like, and I'm like, not kidding. Right. And then they're like, and I was like, oh, I'll just sign up and register. They're like, oh, that's funny. That registration was due twenty days ago. And I'm like, man, I suck as a parent.

You need to just pay someone to tell you when

Well, I kind of rely on my friends to to fill the Two

kids and a wife.

Two kids and a wife.

Let's just in.

Oh, bless. How old are his kids? That's gonna be so embarrassing.

Why is he getting so drunk on the road? Like, why is

he Listen. Oh, no.

A brand new baby born in March. Okay. No. He's in denial. He doesn't like his life.

Let me tell you something. Can I call you outright fast when you said why is he getting so drunk on the road? Do I need to remind you of

I know. I know. Free pizza. Oh, hey. That was pre kids. Pre family.

Blue free pizza was before kids?

Yeah. It was? I'm I'm pretty sure. I mean, if I had a kid, it'd be, like, Ryder and he'd be baby. Yeah. But I think it was before kids.

Well, but still

I didn't make a habit of it. It was, like, one time. I'm just kidding. No. That is funny.

But listen. I will say, like, the road though is where that is where because you don't have any putting a burden on that.

With people traveling, and this is why I was I, like, started to resent my husband for traveling all the time because I'm like, you you get this escape. Like, you

don't have anything to take care of.

You you can just escape. You can go travel, do these fancy things, not worry about what's going on back home while we can't. But like, this is next level, man.

This is so next level.

It sounds like he's got issues. Yeah. That's gotta be embarrassing for his wife.

Oh my gosh. It has to be embarrassing for everybody.

Oh, I mean, and the whole, like, being stabbed, that sounds so crazy to me. Yeah. Like, who's who's who's stabbing? Who what? Who's stabbing? Who's stabbing people?

Well, apparently, if you have to defend yourself against crazy ex football players I know. But could you imagine if you're sixty nine and there's, like, this,

I mean, I I was He doesn't know how to stab anybody.

He's in pretty good shape. Can you imagine stabbing him? If you're if your life like, if you feel like your life is in jeopardy Yeah. You're stabbing a bitch.

Well, I'm never traveling with a knife. Like, I just don't have a knife on my person Same. Ever. Like a knife that's stabable. Maybe that's true. If I were to, it would be like in an in a Swiss army

knife and it'd be like But like

who's just got like a big old dink knife on there.

Dink. I'm telling you, truck drivers.

Truck drivers. Yes.

Truck drivers.

Yes. If you if you were a vegetable oil late in the night, man, at age sixty nine, then yes. Yes. You probably got all kinds of stuff to protect yourself.

Absolutely.

But you hear about stabbings. It's like I know. You gotta get real close to someone. Like, what do you say to them to woo them to get close enough to stab them?

Well, I think he didn't have any problem. Apparently, Marcus Andrews was coming, like,

a straight

out of

the but other stabbing scenarios. Like, come here. Let me tell you a secret.

Let me just scare me.

Like, how do you do that? I don't think there's

a lot of secret stabbings going on. I don't know. This is this is really not the conversation I thought we're gonna have.

No. But it weirds me out. Anytime you hear about a stabbing

I know. It's, yeah, it's creepy. Yikes. Okay. We should probably

The truck driver said he thought he was trying to kill him. Well, yeah. Like, what?

Wouldn't you? If somebody came after you crazy at, like, midnight

I'd probably be like,

let's party. When you're when you're trying to

Like, I know you. I know what you're doing. You're hammered. When you're Where are we going? You know what? It's not a bad defense. What? Strip club?

I mean, it's late. It's not it's not

it's not a bad defense, really. Right? It's not a bad way. I was gonna say we've all been there, but we haven't been there. It's not we've all been, like, I don't know, drunk late at night on random streets Not a long time.

Okay. Well, tell me more about these drunk random night on random streets.

Yeah. Late Late at night.

I mean,

I had a bachelorette party in Nashville,

and Okay.

We wandered around till, like, four AM.

You were doing bachelorette parties that I built before

they were people.

Oh, yeah. They were famous.

Yeah. Before it was cool. You were

a trendsetter.

I was a trendsetter.

Okay.

Yeah. We had yeah. Yeah. It was fun. Yeah. I'm sure. Say that.

Okay.

It was fun.

Okay. Anything else with Mark Sanchez before we

No. Hit target? What's the wildest story ever?

It's pretty wild. Okay. Alright.

Just be buttoned up and go travel and do your job. You have kids at home. Oh, don't get stabbed behind a bar in the middle of the night. And you know what? If you've got issues with your life, go talk to somebody. Go get a counselor. This isn't the way to do it, Mark Sanchez. Sanchez, I've never known. Don't do that. Don't get stabbed, and don't try to stab. Don't assault a vegetable oil man. Get therapy.

Is that it? That's it. K. Just gonna let you go as long as you want it. I wonder where that

knew my message will make it to him in his hospital bed.

Exactly where that was gonna go.

Mhmm.

Okay. Great show. Let's it's not over, though. No. We got a really, really cool guest, and here

she is. And it is guest time now here on The Mom Game. Have been looking forward to chatting with this one, Jules Bindi. Thank you so much for joining us. I'm excited to hear all about your story.

Yeah. Thanks for having me, y'all.

Yeah. So tell us, just a little bit about your story, what kind of inspired you to do, what it is that you're you're doing now.

Wow. Well, I'm currently well, I'm currently living in Austin, Texas. I was born and raised in San Jose in the Bay Area, and my childhood was a very interesting one, to say the least. I was surrounded by a lot of challenges, a lot of hurdles. When I was four years old, I I witnessed my sister getting molested in front of me by our next door neighbor, and I was spoke up for her. And that basically spiraled down a whole chain of events that consistently men would show up in my life consistently harming me in one sense or another. Assaults, rapes, and a lot of different other circumstances that I fell into a victim mindset. And from there, I ended up finding my voice and standing up for myself and a lot of other women. I came forward about Harvey Weinstein before the NATO movement, and that's what really started my journey in wanting to write emotional intelligence children's books for children. So that's when I started my body, my rules, and it's a book that supports children to understand what their roles are for their bodies, to start building children's blueprints at a young age of knowing what their roles are for their bodies because we have roles for school, roles for our house, roles for so many different things. But as as children, what are our rules for our body? Mhmm. So that's what really inspired this whole thing with, EQ Kidbooks and the my body my rules.

So what was it that you mentioned that, you know, you'd had fallen into that kind of you know, you were a victim and you kind of let that, for lack of a better word, snowball into that, you know, the victim mentality. What switched then to say, I'm I'm not going to be a a victim anymore, and I'm going to take these experiences as difficult as they've been and turn them into something positive. Was there one moment that where that happened?

I think it just spiraled over years. I think I was just sick and tired of being sick and tired of just blaming everyone else, and I kept seeing things happening in my life that I just got tired of hearing myself complain. I don't know if that makes any sense to

you guys. Absolutely.

But I was so sick and tired of listening to my myself talk and complain about everything that's happening to me in my life instead of taking ownership and saying things are actually happening for me and just taking responsibility and accountability for things that happened to me in my life.

Mhmm. What did you get to that kinda conclusion on your own? I mean, that's that's such a a big revelation, I guess, to have that a lot of times you get through, like, counseling and that type of thing. Was it just kind of within you where you felt that turning point happen?

Well, it it it took a lot of work. I I've read self help books, and those actually didn't really help me because you're trying to help yourself and you already can't help yourself. So self help books weren't really, like, my, like, go to.

Yeah.

I started looking into emotional intelligence workshops. And one in particular was here in Austin, Texas, and it it exponentially changed my life. It was like a one of those, workshops that it's like a four month program. And I did it, and I excelled, and it it just clicked. But when you do these programs, you really have to want it for yourself.

Mhmm.

You have to really want to do it. And I was committed to just change my life, change the trajectory. I was, you know, I was now a mom, and I'm like, I don't want my daughter to have the same blueprint I did. Mhmm. Energy is energy. Vibration is vibration, and our nervous systems are combined. So I I had to learn how to regulate myself. I I didn't give myself a choice.

So what at what age did that happen? That that that turning point for you?

I think I I started I started understanding more about what manifestation was. I believe that was in two thousand two thousand I think it was four. It was it was around when the secret came out. Do y'all remember the secret?

No. I don't think so.

It's about manifestation and whatnot. It came out long time ago. And, also, I started listening to a friend of mine turned me on to Abraham Hicks, and he had me read the book, Ask and It Is Given. And I read that book. I'm like, oh, this is this is an interesting concept. I'm like, okay. Let's I wanna look more into this. Okay. You think about what you want, and then you can get it, but it just seemed too simple. But there was a lot of different stuff that didn't make sense to me. I'm like, how do you just think about something when you get it? I was like, wait a second. I've always been saying, oh, you know, men are men are doing this to me. I can't trust them. This and that, and it keeps happening. I It's like, well, maybe what if that's my manifestation? So what if I change my mindset to start thinking positively instead of negatively and see what happens? And it took a lot of work. It took me monitoring my thoughts and really focusing hard. And whenever I said a negative thought to myself, I would have to say something positive, at least five or six things positive for every one negative. And that really supported me, and it took a lot of work. Took me about, like, at least, I think, two or three years in order to get that mindset. And then I kept getting deeper and deeper with wanting to know more about, okay. Well, what is emotional intelligence? What is EQ? We only work on IQ in school, but EQ isn't really taught. And EQ is what supports you with thriving in this life, with communicating with friends, with with your family. And it's just like, IQ doesn't really catch you many friends. You know? It makes you money. It can make you grow your companies and whatnot. I had a great IQ, but my EQ was lacking.

Yeah. There's probably a lot of people in that same boat that that aren't doing anything about it. Right? And then it's something that might cause some problems for them in their life. So it's very cool that that you did all that work on yourself and were able to now come up with something that can help children. So I wanna talk about the book a little bit. I when I saw your story, it kinda struck me because I have, a seven year old girl and a ten year old boy. And so they're right there in the thick of, like, learning about all of this, learning about their bodies and and, you know, some stuff's funny, and and they don't understand why they can't do or say certain things. And I think there's a lot of parents that don't know how to talk to even their kids properly about it, or they just think maybe I this is kind of a weird deal. I'm just not gonna say anything and see what happens, and then their kids aren't getting that education from anywhere. So, I think what you're doing is very cool. Can you tell us a little bit about about the book and why this was important to you to kinda speak to children about this?

Yeah. You know, it's it's interesting how there's a lot of books out there that talk about your genitals, you know, what they are, and but there's not many books that make difficult conversations easy, and that's what my books do. For instance, I I don't scare kids in my books. I don't say, don't kick a shower with anybody and let them touch your genitals. It's more of I I I got a hug from somebody and when I didn't want it. So it's more based upon a character. I wrote this book actually for my daughter, Sage, and she's the main character in the book. And I had her, my really dear friend, Rachel, and I made her a main character as well. And so Rachel gave Sage a hug, and she didn't wanna hug that day. And she got really sad and frustrated. And it's like, I don't wanna I didn't wanna hug. And then the mom was like, oh, well, did you did you tell her that? And she said, yes. Wait. No. I didn't. So it was more of like she wanted to express herself that she didn't wanna give a hug, and she wished she did. And she was pulling it back and saying, I actually didn't. I was feeling it. I was thinking it, and I didn't say anything. I didn't speak up. And so the moms and the the I've written actually thirteen books, but this is the only one I've released so far. And the parents in my books, they do not give kids solutions. They allow kids to come up with the solutions for themselves to be just to be fully expressed and to think and not us not give them the answers. So the mom says, well, what do you think you can do? You know, like, to let Rachel know what your rules are and, like, what what you what you want for your body. And she's like, let me think about that. And so the book basically is the journey of a little girl in saying, I think I wanna make rules for my body because we have rules for school, rules for work, rule you know, all these rules for our house. And but why don't I not have body rules for myself? And because this is my this is my body. Like, this is my temple. This is something I this is mine that I get to protect. So she came up with some rules. And when she came up with the rules, she ended up wearing them around her neck. And she wanted to wear them there so she can go to school and show all the other kids what her rules are. And in the book, it basically supports children to learn how to activate their voice, to speak what they want. And I thought it was very important to have a child hugging another child and having that conflict because I don't know if you know the statistics, but more than fifty percent of all assaults, like sexual assaults, happen with children and child and child. It's child and child. And it's because one child understands, like, oh, I learned my body parts, and and they're like, oh, I wanna teach someone else because this feels good. So I wanna do it on this child to show them how to feel good. Or it's like, you know, there's other ways and other other situations that I've heard personally that's very traumatizing to hear, but sometimes it is intentional. And young kids intentionally touch other kids and assault them and sexually assault them. And that happened to me when I was I think I was, like, five years old at my babysitter's house. And there was this child, and he taught me how to touch myself. And I was so confused. I didn't understand, like, what was happening, but he taught me how to do it. And I didn't like it. And but it felt good, but I didn't want him to do it to me. But I let him because it felt good.

Mhmm.

And so that was the first time I was violated. So it's it's a very, very strong book to where it supports children having a soft conversation and not making it scary, but still allowing them to learn boundaries on what their rules are.

So how old is your daughter now? And do you have other children, or is it just her?

I have one. She's she's six.

She's six. Okay. So when did you decide? Was it, you know, like, immediately? Like, okay. Because of what you had experienced, now knowing you have not just saying this doesn't happen to boys, but knowing that, you know, you could see yourself and your daughter, how important that was for you to to write these books.

I actually started writing them two years ago. Two years ago, I started writing it, and that was while I was going through the the Harvey Weinstein trial. And I really felt that it was very important for this book to come out because I was going over a lot. It's like when when you when you are assaulted, you block stuff out. You block out a lot of things, a lot of trauma from your past. And I had a lot of time to think about everything that happened for me, and a lot of different memories popped up. And I said, how did this all start? How did I start manifesting this into my life? And I was like, it started from my childhood. And I said, if something happened to me ever, how am I going to support my child if something traumatic happened? I passed away or whatnot. And that's what encouraged me to write the book. And I didn't want to leave my emotional intelligence just in the hands of my ex husband who, you know, were no longer together, and I wanted to make sure I left some type of legacy behind for her.

Wow. That's pretty powerful. Okay. So tell us about your role in the Harvey Weinstein trial. That's interesting.

Yeah. So I I was a Jane Doe in the Harvey Weinstein trial. I, you know, I came forward before the Me Too movement, and I came out in a really big way. A friend of mine, you know, approached me and said, Jules, it's time to come forward about Harvey. And I'm like, let's go. Let's do it. This is after the New York Times article came out. So, Allison Wiener, she was the head of twenty twenty ABC. She flew out to Austin, Texas, and she she filmed me. I'm like, let's let's go in a big way. Let's hit this a home run. Let's get other people out and start talking about this now. So she interviewed me, and then I believe the twenty twenty came out in October, like, around October seventeenth, and then the Me Too movement came out after my show aired, like, I think a day or two days later.

So at what point so what what triggered that if you had been silent for for so long? Or how long had you been silent on the the the Weinstein stuff?

A long a long time. Yeah. A long time. I was initially gonna come out after five years. I I I believe I was twenty eight twenty eight when that happened to me. And, then I was going to come out five five years later. And but that's, like, when the Italian girl, the Italian girl came out about what happened to her, and then she was paid off by Harvey. I think she got, like, a million dollars or something like that. So I ended up becoming silent again, so I was scared. I worked on I was a massage therapist of the stars in in Hollywood for a very long time for about fifteen years, and I worked on all the celebrities you you can possibly imagine. There was a joke, that one of my my clients had. They're like, Jules, you know, you're so famous that celebrities name drop you. I just went to the Emmy's, and someone said you got they got the best massage in the world from somebody. And I'm like, I did and happened to be with you. It was like the same person. We're arguing about our our massage therapist, and they're talking we're just talking about you. So I I I worked on a lot of people. So, unfortunately, I was one of the people that was paid by Harvey to give him a massage and not just an actress trying to give her a massage or, you know, vice versa for a part. I was actually hired to massage him, and that's when I was sexually assaulted. So, moving forward, after the five years, I pulled back. Then after the New York Times article came out, I decided to step forward by because my friends basically encouraged me. And the reason why I didn't before was because if I I felt if I stood alone and spoke about what happened, then I would probably never work on a celebrity again. And I was I was scared. I was I was scared that, you know, when you would look up my name, all you would see is Harvey Weinstein and, you know, and Jules Bindi. And, ultimately, going forward, that's not all the things that you see about me online. It's other things as well. But I just confronted my fear. I ended up just being brave. I did it for my daughter. I said, who am I as a mom if something happens to my daughter to, you know, not go forward and press charges against him in court? And this is you know, I had Sage back in, two thousand nineteen. So I made the decision, like, who am I not to go all the way and take him to court in Los Angeles with the DA? If my daughter was assaulted or raped, who am I to tell her to come forward if I never did? Even though I came forward on television, it that's not that's not pure justice. And by the way, there's a difference between forgiveness and justice. So I fully forgave everything from my past. I I forgave Harvey. I forgave my next door neighbor, you know, all the things that's ever happened for me. But it's a difference between justice, and justice is preventing it so harm doesn't come upon anyone else after me. Mhmm.

So I'm curious now, what is your relationship like with with men, just in general? Do you still find yourself not being in a trustworthy position, or do you find yourself because of the work that you've done on yourself, you know, being open minded to, I guess or or not too scared to go down those roads again?

I love this question. I love this question. So I was I was married for about seven years. And while I was going through the whole trial, I came out. I was in a relationship that it wasn't a healthy relationship, to be honest. And that's when I started looking into emotional intelligence and everything like that. But ever since my my divorce, I I'm my my current boyfriend says I'm a rarity because I love so hard. I I'm I'm a person that now I'm fully open and fully expressed, and I have met one of the most incredible men in my life. He's he does the work. He does men groups. He's a he's a coach. And when I met him, we I I said, like, you know, me saying yes to you and being in relationship with you is you allowing allowing you're allowed to hurt me. Like, it's okay if you end up hurting me because that's growth, and I'm in it for I'm in it. I'm just I'm just fully in it and fully embodied in the relationship, and it's literally been the best relationship of my life. So to answer your question, I don't I don't hold back in relationships because all the things that happen in my life has been such a blessing. I mean, literally, everything in my life has been a blessing because it's really gotten to me where I am today, and I would not change a thing at all. If I was given a choice, if you can change your life and have an amazing life and, you know, amazing life with not any trauma or anything like that, I would choose the trauma.

Wow. It's a great perspective to have, and and you're using it for good now by writing the book, by coming and and talking about it like this, and, obviously, the role you had in the the Harvey Weinstein trial that changed, that changed a lot for so many people in that me too movement. So props to you, girl. It's pretty amazing what you've been able to do, and, we're really glad that you spent some time with us today. How can people get ahold of your book and and follow along with any of your other endeavors?

Oh, well, if you would like to look me up on social media, it's Jules Bindi, j u l s b I n d I. Or if you like my book, go to e q kid books dot com, or you can follow me on social media on b q kid books as well on all social media outlets.

Awesome. Jules, you are fantastic. Thank you so much for spending some time with us. We really do appreciate it. And, and and I I hope that that relationship lasts a lifetime. And, even if it doesn't, I have a feeling you'll come out just fine on the other side.

Thanks, Y'all.

Don't tell him I said that. Don't tell him I

said that.

You wanna stay together. Oh, he will not watch this.

Of course, he won't watch this.

Okay. Well, we end all of our shows by it's cheesy, but we throw up the peace signs and look into our cameras and say mom game out. So we're gonna end it that way for the two hundred and ninety first time on the count of three. One, two, three. Mom game

out. Game out.