My Sister in Yabs

You're So Right

Rachael and Caitlin engage in a wide-ranging conversation that moves from pop culture commentary on Ed Sheeran to the political tensions surrounding AI on

Key takeaways

• Caitlin reveals that a botched wisdom teeth removal left her tongue permanently numb, affecting her speech and taste.
• Rachael is preparing for a televised debate on the Tamron Hall show regarding whether parents should force children to share toys.

Main topics

• AI and Political Discourse
• Parenting and Social Etiquette

Notable quotes

I'm in a roundabout from hell of my my own making.

Conclusion

The episode offers a relatable look at the intersection of personal li

Transcript preview

Speaker 2 (0:22) How are you doing? Okay. Well, we just talked about how we're not doing well. That was offline. So maybe we'll keep it offline. Speaker 1 (0:28) Keep it offline. You know who we are doing better than? We are doing better than someone, which helps me. We're doing a lot better than Ed Sheeran. Whoa. Speaker 2 (0:38) That's true. Wouldn't want to be that guy. Yikes. Would Speaker 1 (0:42) not want to be that Speaker 2 (0:43) guy. Yikes. Speaker 1 (0:44) That's to suck. Speaker 2 (0:46) This guy, this comedian, Zach Woods, he was on The Office. He was on Veep. And he does the funniest. Who was he on Veep? I fucking love that show. He was a very small character on Veep. Speaker 1 (0:58) Okay. Speaker 2 (0:59) Like he was Amy's boyfriend or something or for like a brief. Okay, whatever. I don't remember what he's mainly from. Maybe he was on Silicon Valley. I don't know. Anyways. He made the funniest video about how Ed Sheeran was the internationally tolerated guitar player. That's so good. But Speaker 1 (1:17) you Speaker 2 (1:17) know who also is having it bad? Listen, so much is going wrong with, like, AI and the climate, et cetera, if we don't need to touch on that. But you know who's having a bad fucking week over on Truth Social? Who? Mr. Donald Trump. Because he tweeted something or whatever. He truthed out whatever the verb is when you're on Truth Social. Something about, like. how AI is a scam. And if you're, okay, if you're on Truth Social, you're clearly like crazy fucking MAGA. Because Speaker 1 (1:45) 100 % there's no other reason. Yeah. It's like even worse than being on X these days. Yeah. Speaker 2 (1:50) And the man was getting a ratio to filth in the comments of his post. People were like, no, AI is like really bad. Like we don't want data centers. Like we're not into this. And it was all of these people, like the most, there was a whole article about how it was like the most. Usually it's like an echo chamber. And it was like the first time that there were like all of these comments against what he was saying. Speaker 1 (2:14) Wow. I love that because Threads is also very anti-AI. So maybe this is like the one thing that can bring us all together. That's what I'm thinking. And to me, I'm like, OK, because Trump just Speaker 2 (2:25) came out and was like, oh, there's something going on. Something Speaker 1 (2:29) fishy is going on. I could say fishy is going on. I could go on for hours about this. Well, we could. Get your tinfoil hat. Something is fucking Speaker 2 (2:37) up. Something's happening. Because did you see? Speaker 1 (2:40) This is Speaker 2 (2:40) not, Speaker 1 (2:41) by the way. No, we've got other fun things to get into. We do. We do. But we have to get into this for one quick second. And in true You're So Right fashion, we are two weeks late to this conversation. And Speaker 2 (2:52) we Speaker 1 (2:52) probably only read the headlines of Speaker 2 (2:53) whatever articles we're talking about. No, actually, Speaker 1 (2:55) I did dive deep into this one. So did you see the tweet from the guy that said he had worked at Anthropic? Yes, of course. And like, we're all going to die within. 10 years, whatever. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. He said by the end of the decade. Got it. He didn't say next decade. Got it. Even better. We're in a decade right now that's ending in three years. True. Okay. Okay. So I stand corrected. Okay. So, okay. There were some fishy things about that account. It was created in August of 2026. It was his first tweet. Like, and all of a sudden, all of these Congress people retweeted it, reposted it. Like, it blew up. I don't think it's fake necessarily, but I do wonder if it's a plant situation because it just got so, like, people have been sounding the alarm about this shit Speaker 2 (3:45) for years. It's like the man in the panda suit. Right. For months Speaker 1 (3:48) slash years, people have been saying this is not good. We need regulation. Something happened. Something happened. Well, I think it's. One of these companies, I'm not sure which, Anthropic maybe, is about to go public. Speaker 2 (4:01) Right, right, right, right. Speaker 1 (4:02) And the bubble is going to burst because their products are not good or profitable. And so they're trying to like save face perhaps by saying, oh my God, look how bad this actually is. Like we're too powerful. China, look at us. Like we're going to kill all of humanity because we're so good at AI. Better reel it back. So then they get to like look like the good guys who are actually taking it seriously. I don't know. It's weird. It's weird. Like all of a sudden, it just seems very fishy. Right. Very fishy. Right. Speaker 2 (4:33) I don't know. I don't know. Speaking of fish, somebody said actually that goldfish, that's a lie that they have. Bad memories? Speaker 1 (4:42) What? Speaker 2 (4:43) Yeah. Speaker 1 (4:44) Really? Yeah. Was this like a marine biologist or something? Like, how do we know that we should trust them? Okay, well. Speaker 2 (4:51) Okay, Speaker 1 (4:52) well, Speaker 2 (4:52) you just went off on some whole conspiracy thing, too. I can't have mine. About memory fish? Speaker 1 (4:57) Goldfish memories? I just don't see how. I mean, they have such tiny brains. Okay, Rachel. What? Speaker 2 (5:05) Now, you know that I have a. birthday present for you. That is a surprise. I do. Now, I want to show you right now on air. I want to send you a picture of it because I need you to see it. I'm so fucking excited about Speaker 1 (5:19) it. Well, my birthday is only like a couple weeks away. I know, but I can't wait for like Speaker 2 (5:23) the mailing and the shipping. Okay. Speaker 1 (5:26) I'm so excited. Speaker 2 (5:27) Okay. I just sent it to you. Is this the thing that you Speaker 1 (5:31) already told me? You already like gave me a hint, but I don't know like the details. When I was in LA, you showed it to me. I think. I think. Speaker 2 (5:40) I Speaker 1 (5:40) might be thinking of something else. Okay, look. I just sent it to you. I just sent it to you. Speaker 2 (5:43) Stop. Look what's on it. Look what's on it. Clip, but please also look bottom left. Speaker 1 (5:52) I'm dead. Okay. I'm going to describe it for our auditory listeners, not our visual listeners who are seeing my phone right now. Okay, wait. I have to say first is this came, my friend Jen, she's on Instagram, Speaker 2 (6:04) Jen Stitches Stuff, does these insane personalized embroidered tote bags. And I wanted to get one for Rachel for her birthday. And that's why I asked her. what symbol would you use to represent the East Coast? And I said a clamshell. I believe I also offered up a tick for Lyme disease because that feels very East Coast. It Speaker 1 (6:25) is. And old Lyme is only 30 minutes from my hometown. There Speaker 2 (6:29) you Speaker 1 (6:29) go. This is so good. Okay, so it's an embroidered toad. It has my initials. It has an iced coffee, a Golden Gate Bridge. It has like some little stars and Zs represent sleep. Yes. So good. Thank you. Speaker 1 (6:43) Me and Marley in the cargo bike. I should say me in the front basket of the cargo bike and him just standing there with his long ass hair. He's dead. He's going to die. It has a female empowerment symbol. It has Dorinda with her famous clip scene, a Diet Coke. I'm obsessed. Do you love it? So my friend was like, I had to Speaker 2 (7:06) write the clip under because Dorinda was looking a little like Nazi salute. Speaker 1 (7:11) Because she's going like this. Yes. Wow. This is pure talent. Do Speaker 2 (7:16) you love it? I love it so much. Are you kidding me? Speaker 1 (7:20) I Speaker 2 (7:20) was trying to think. Like, that's why I asked you randomly the other day. I was like, hey, could you just send me a pic of you and Marley on the bike? I can't believe she did that. That is next level. He is going to die. Because I was like, there was no Marley represented on the tote. And I was like, he should be on there somewhere. And then I thought, what better Speaker 1 (7:39) way than you and your little bike basket. That is so perfect. Oh, my God. I am obsessed. Thank you so much. Does she have like an Etsy shop or something? She has an Instagram. So we'll tag it for people. It was a very fascinating exercise when I was doing my own bag of what represents you. Speaker 2 (7:59) What represents you. And it's like when you have an Instagram, you have to like come up with your bio. Like what? It's so hard. It's so hard. And to really do the exercise of what is my elevator pitch of myself? What are the things that like I would choose to represent me at my core? Speaker 1 (8:15) It's so hard. And I feel like after you become a mom and you don't have like hobbies or a life anymore, it's even harder. It's like when you're... are at a new job or something and you have to do an icebreaker and they're like, tell us a fun fact about you. It's like, I actually would rather kill myself right here in front of all of you. Do you know what my fun Speaker 2 (8:29) fact always was? Was that I had a botched wisdom teeth removal surgery that severed the nerves and my tongue is numb forever. Speaker 1 (8:37) Excuse me? Is that fun? Is that true? Of Speaker 2 (8:41) course it's true. Have we been friends for this long and I didn't know you had Speaker 1 (8:43) a numb tongue? Speaker 2 (8:45) Well, it doesn't casually come up unless somebody's like, tell me something fun about yourself. And then I'm like. Speaker 1 (8:49) What's more fun than a botched dental operation? I have so many questions. Your tongue is literally numb. You don't feel anything. So I Speaker 2 (8:55) have more. Feeling has come back more, but it's definitely not as it was. And if I'm drinking something really cold, my tongue gets like really heavy and I feel like I like get a little slurry. But I had to like retrain myself how to speak basically because so much of speaking Speaker 1 (9:12) is where your tongue is Speaker 2 (9:13) in your mouth. No shit. That was going to be my next question. Speaker 1 (9:15) How Speaker 2 (9:15) do you talk? Well, so I mean, listen, you can't take me down. So for a while, things had a very weird, I like couldn't really taste a lot. My taste is back, but it's very little feeling in my tongue. Speaker 1 (9:30) Wow. I'm so Speaker 2 (9:31) sorry. So Speaker 1 (9:31) at first when it happened too, I would bite my tongue all the time, like really bad because Speaker 2 (9:34) I didn't know where my tongue was. Speaker 1 (9:38) I don't mean to laugh. This is actually horrifying. I'm so sorry. It's fine Speaker 2 (9:41) now. Speaker 1 (9:42) It is Speaker 2 (9:42) better now. But like I don't every time I would bring that out in like a meeting, it would just, you know, it kind of landed like a lead balloon, if you will. Really? I would think that that would be such a fun Speaker 1 (9:53) conversation piece. Speaker 2 (9:53) Well, people would ask a lot of questions, but then it's kind of like, well, who goes next after that? Like, I have a collection of socks from everywhere I've traveled. Like, you're not going to beat the numbtongue. You'll never beat Speaker 1 (10:02) the numbtongue. The only thing that would beat the numbtongue, and this is what I would usually use for my fun fact, is I danced in a Kenyan music video. That's iconic. I Speaker 2 (10:11) mean, Speaker 1 (10:11) that's a good one. That's a good one. Speaker 2 (10:13) I would say another fun fact of mine is that I'm in the background of a lot of Bravo shows. You are. And people to this day will send you like scream grabs of yourself. They will. Top Chef season 13. I was in the audience of an... The thing is, the camera loves me in a background. It's like we're not focusing, Speaker 1 (10:33) but it will always find me in the background. Speaker 2 (10:37) I like that. I was in an audience. I saw an Inside the Actor studio taping, and I was in the audience, and the camera found me there and loved me. I was in the audience of the Kardashian 10th anniversary special, and the camera found me there and loved me. I just, again, it's a background. I'm Speaker 1 (10:52) going Speaker 2 (10:52) to face for background. Speaker 1 (10:53) Speaking of studio television. Yeah, Speaker 2 (10:55) sure. Speaker 1 (10:56) I am going to be on TV. Oh, my God. Okay. In a couple weeks for something completely unrelated to anything that I do. Okay. Okay. I have two things I need to say to you before we Speaker 2 (11:07) get into what this actually is. First, the fact that you didn't tell me any of this as it was happening. The second it was happening. I know. Because I wasn't sure it was real. Speaker 1 (11:16) Okay. And then... Speaker 2 (11:17) I had convinced myself that I did tell you. Well, that's fair because I have gotten many an email where it's like, David Spade would love to have you on his podcast because he Speaker 1 (11:24) loves how you approach postpartum. And it's a Facebook interview. Speaker 2 (11:29) I'm Speaker 1 (11:29) always like, I don't think this is real. Speaker 1 (11:34) No, it's really tough these days. You never know. Real tough. You never know. You really never know. And I don't have my personal email. Like, it's a work email address. But I mean. But I also hope that you know that exciting work things Speaker 2 (11:50) for you. Like, I'm never a jealous Speaker 1 (11:52) friend. No, you're not. I know you're Speaker 2 (11:54) not. Speaker 1 (11:54) Especially Speaker 2 (11:54) not with you. I Speaker 1 (11:56) know. Speaker 2 (11:57) It's strangers. that have nothing to do with me that really take me down. Right. But I hope you know that for you, like anything good that happens for you, it's like it's happening for me. Oh, Speaker 1 (12:08) fully agree. Fully agree. I am the exact same way. Strangers are a completely different story and we need to unpack that. I'm going to throw myself off a Speaker 2 (12:15) roof if a stranger in a different niche gets something that I want. Exactly. Speaker 1 (12:20) Exactly. This, though, was something I didn't even know that I wanted because I had never... Maybe I had heard of it before, but, like, I don't watch daytime TV. Well, you know, I was a big Speaker 2 (12:29) Today Show girl. Okay. Big Today Show girl. Speaker 1 (12:33) And that's where she Speaker 2 (12:34) started. Speaker 1 (12:36) Oh. She was on the Today Show. She was on the... Okay. She was the Speaker 2 (12:39) third hour of the Today Show. Tamron Hall is who we're talking about, by the way. Tamron Hall. Okay. Who, by the way, Stassi had her first Oops, I'm Speaker 1 (12:46) a Speaker 2 (12:46) Racist interview with. Speaker 1 (12:48) So Speaker 2 (12:48) the Tamron Hall lore Speaker 1 (12:50) runs deep. Oh, shit. I need to watch that. Did she grill Stassi? Yeah. Good. Yeah. Rightfully so. Yeah. Speaker 2 (12:57) Okay. So back us all up. Okay. So you're just sitting there, super cute, Speaker 1 (13:00) drinking Speaker 2 (13:00) your iced coffee. Typing away. Just Speaker 1 (13:02) typing. Just tip-tapping at my keyboard. And I get an email and it's to me, which again is unusual because usually it'll go through my like customer service email. Speaker 2 (13:12) And Speaker 1 (13:13) my assistant will forward it to me. So I kind of thought this must be a scam of some kind. But it said basically, hi, I'm... Writing from the Tamron Hall show, we'd love to have you on a segment for this TikTok video. And then they put a link there and I'm like, oh, fuck, this is going to like destroy my computer. Let me click it anyway. And it was one of my TikToks that I had made nearly two years ago. It was like winter of 2025. And I was talking about how I do make my kids share toys when we go to the park and bring toys, which I know is a very hot topic. We have discussed it on this podcast before. Yeah. And I'm Speaker 2 (13:49) a Speaker 1 (13:49) little bit on the other side of it. Right. And a lot of people are. I got my ass handed to me in those comments. Let me tell you. So they said, we're doing a really fun segment. It's not to like pit anybody against each other. It's just to kind of share different points of view and different ideas. And we would have you on to kind of like debate. this topic with another parent who has the opposite point of view. And Speaker 2