Thank U, Next w/ Abbey & Christine Romeo from Love on the Spectrum

Indexado: 2026-05-21

[00:00:00]Last time we saw you, you were in a relationship and now you're not in a relationship. You're single. So, how are you feeling as a single woman?

[00:00:08]>> Um, being a single lady, like what Beyonce said.

[00:00:11]>> Yes. All my single ladies.

[00:00:12]>> How is it going for you?

[00:00:13]>> It feels amazing. It feels like um David and I decided to call each other best friends, not boyfriend and girlfriend anymore. I have grown and changed a lot for the past four and a half years.

[00:00:25]>> Yes.

[00:00:26]>> But without David, I wouldn't be where I am today. He was a good start.

[00:00:30]>> Great. And you know what? It's so important to have those first relationships so we can learn things about ourselves. We can learn what we want in our next relationship. It's so so important, I think, to everyone's evolution. And we know that. We >> You know who said it best? Who? Ariana Grande.

[00:00:46]>> Oh, what did she say?

[00:00:48]>> Thank you. Next. Thank you, Next.

[00:00:57]Welcome back to another episode of Tea Time. I am Miranda Mayday.

[00:01:02]>> And I'm Raven Simone.

[00:01:03]>> And you you guys biscuits. Hi. How have you been? We missed you. We have so much to catch up over. And babes, how are you?

[00:01:10]>> I'm okay. I'm hungry.

[00:01:12]>> You just gave me the look of like what just happened to you, Miranda? And I'm going to tell you biscuits. What happened to me? Sometimes it's like and the tongue doesn't move that fast even though I just did it really that fast.

[00:01:23]And it just and then and then it's just like word vomit and just and then I just ingesting ingesting and it's really difficult sometimes to be in my brain and body. Welcome to the show.

[00:01:33]>> Great babes. You're doing great.

[00:01:35]>> Thank you. Thank you so much. So, what have you been obsessed with that you can share with all the biscuits for this week?

[00:01:42]>> Okay, biscuits. This is not totally new news to you because we did mention this on a podcast episode before, but it's the golden yolk of these eggs from the farmers market. And I swear to God, if you are a person who loves eggs, you understand the difference between a grocery store egg and a fresh farmers market egg or a freshly laid egg that your friend has because they have chickens and they bring them over to you. And when I tell you it's life-changing to eat anything that is that fresh, that good, whether it's a beet or an egg or, I don't know, a great pasta dish, it's just so lovely to have a pure ingredient. And I really am loving these eggs. I love the fact that they are fed only um worms and they're not fed grain or corn. They're also fed like scraps from vegetables and stuff.

[00:02:38]>> Yeah. Veggie scraps and worms and I think a little bit of what's that word?

[00:02:44]>> Like a protein feed.

[00:02:45]>> Yeah.

[00:02:45]>> But a healthy one >> and grass. And I think it's really reflected in the color of the egg. It's a special kind of chicken that has a blue shell. It kind of looks like this.

[00:02:55]And then again these gorgeous amber amber yolk.

[00:02:58]>> And how do you cook how do you cook the perfect egg?

[00:03:01]>> So I like a 9minut boiled egg. nine minutes, six seconds, actually. And then I take it out and I put it in an ice bath. It's perfect. It's not actually easy to peel at all. That's a myth. My my peeling is still complicated. But I do love the consistency that I get, which is my white is fully cooked. I do not want any white. And the yolk is firm, but still a little like tacky in the center. So, just enough jamminess.

[00:03:35]It's delicious.

[00:03:36]>> And what do you put on your um your egg?

[00:03:39]>> I have been eating my eggs plain.

[00:03:41]>> Wow.

[00:03:42]>> Used to do some cayenne, but cayenne is giving me acid reflux for whatever reason. I don't understand it because I can have Frank's red hot hot sauce all the time. No problem. She puts that [ __ ] on everything. I I do clock that. I love it. But the cayenne gives me just And then I was doing olive oil on my eggs, but I haven't recently. These eggs are so good. You don't need them. You don't need anything extra on them. They're literally that good. They also don't smell the entire car up with a feric smell, which has been, you know, interesting in the past.

[00:04:18]>> For sure. Yeah.

[00:04:18]>> Yeah. You don't love that.

[00:04:22]>> When I made you a jammy egg on toast the other day and smooshed a wish, you loved it. It was delicious, but it also did not have that sulfuric smell. You know, I've had a lovehate relationship with eggs since my childhood. My mom is not a great cook. She tries her best, but she hates it. She was the youngest child in her family, so everyone cooked and she just consumed. So, when she had kids, her breakfast was always scrambled eggs and sliced turkey ham inside of it and that's all she made. So, when I was able to say no, cuz not every family allows their kid to say no.

[00:04:53]>> Is a complete sentence.

[00:04:54]>> No is a complete sentence. I stopped eating eggs for probably about 15 years.

[00:04:59]>> I didn't start eating eggs until recently >> and it really I love a poached egg because I love a runny yolk. I can actually eat a raw yolk. I love raw yolk with beef. And then you made me a fantastic I would I'm going to say egg toast instead of a instead of a avocado toast. It was an egg toast and it was absolutely amazing.

[00:05:21]>> Biscuits. Tell me if any of you have ever had this before. In my house growing up, we used to have dippy egg with soldiers. And it is one of the most nostalgic foods, I think, meals. And it's also so comforting. And I really want to make it for you because when we were in London, I got us these super super cute egg holders. But a dippy egg is probably a 7minute egg. And then you take your bread, your toast, and you butter it.

[00:05:48]And then you cut it into soldiers and then you dip. And that was something that my mom would make for me when I was sick as a kid. Dinner when we didn't know what to make. Dippy egg and soldiers was always a go-to. And it's so >> The soldiers remind me of the Burger King French toast sticks.

[00:06:07]>> Yeah. You know what that is?

[00:06:08]>> Yeah, those were those shits were delicious.

[00:06:10]>> That's totally But they're Yeah, >> but they're not, you know, fake battered.

[00:06:14]>> Um, that sounds amazing, babe. And so, how many of these eggs do you have >> left? Well, no. Just How many eggs do you eat? My bad. How many eggs do you eat?

[00:06:22]>> Oh, I eat two eggs usually. And they're delicious. They're great. You know what else I on the topic of eggs? Core memory when I was a kid. I must have been I don't know, eight, maybe nine. And my Opair >> Opair honey >> my Opair honey from England her name is Wendy Holmes. Hey Wendy. She made me eggs, scrambled eggs, and served them to you with a side of ketchup. Changed my life. Wow. It was the It was like, this is the most delicious thing. And that's how I always ate scrambled eggs from that point on because I thought they were so delicious. Have you ever had scrambled eggs with ketchup?

[00:07:03]>> Uh, no. I don't like scrambled eggs.

[00:07:05]>> I know. But you like the ones I made you. And I think I put I think I made you ketchup with them. I've had that once and that was delicious. But I am not When they say, "How do you want your eggs?"

[00:07:14]>> Yeah. You're never ordering scrambled eggs.

[00:07:15]>> I'm never ordering scrambled eggs. I it core memory trauma. I used to eat scrambled eggs with ketchup and watch grease. My brother used to like a scrambled egg on a toasted sesame bagel with cream cheese and a sausage. And I just remember the egg and the cream cheese getting mushed together and I'd be like >> gag reflux.

[00:07:36]>> Not good. Not good.

[00:07:37]>> So, what have you been focused on recently thinking about?

[00:07:41]>> I um I'm going to be 100 with you. I don't remember last week.

[00:07:46]That's fair. I don't remember last weekend. The only This weekend was really great biscuits because I got my Miracle Knots taken out. And remember when I was so obsessed with my Miracle Knots? I loved them. However, they're hell to take out and I just I wanted to save some, but the person who installed it was being mean and it was hell to take out and I lost a good 80% of them. I had a old school friend come over. what up Chrissy and her son came over and there was a was a journey in the house. Um, and I just I've been going through a little bit of hair problems recently because of that and I had to cut out my extensions from my locks. So, I've just kind of been in hair repair mode. I'm learning a lot about Brahmi. So, again, it's um my obsession is trying to get the best hair care routine for my locks so that I can grow it. I'm I'm I ordered brahine brahmy I think it's called brahmi today and it is a type of arurvedic powder that you mix with a little bit of oil and hopefully it will stimulate my follicles. Um, >> you know what I love >> is that this whole segment started or the idea of this segment because of your hyperfixations and as someone who knows you well >> when I tell other people about just my observations of living with you it's it's kind of like >> she's just obsessed for 3 months four months she's locked in on this thing that's all she thinks about she sees and then the day comes for 3 to four months in where it just stops. It drops. And you're really proving me correctly because every week when we have to do our hyperfixations, it's just hair. It's just another thing that's happened in the hair journey. And you guys are going to clock this and you're going to put it in the comments on the day that it happens. And Raven actually has a new hyperfixation to bring into the chat.

[00:09:41]It's going to be fantastic. But within my hyperfixation, I go >> through trials and tribulations.

[00:09:46]>> I go through trials and tribulations, but I go through all of the side quests with it. Like I started off with the oils. I started off with, you know, how to make the locks work and now I'm into the hair care part and I'm actually looking into some ways of washing hair without using shampoo.

[00:10:02]I think it's amazing. I saw a Tik Tok yesterday about this village in China where the women I'm I'm going to show it to you because I meant to show it to you and I Yeah, I think it's China. a village in China, maybe Japan anyway, where these women are in their late 60s,7s, and none of them have gray hair. They're using a type of powder.

[00:10:25]>> No. What? What do you like to cover up their grays?

[00:10:28]>> No. It's a hair mask that you use, and it gets rid of your grays.

[00:10:32]>> Oh, not these. Not these women. No, no, no. These women also have hair that's down past their ankles. It's extremely long. None of them have gray hair. And it's the rice. They're all rice farmers and it's not and the and the woman who was doing the Tik Tok who went there to figure this out learned it's not like you can buy grocery store rice and make rice water. These women >> cultivate this rice. It's prepared in a certain way. It's mixed with other herbs which they didn't disclose. It is fermented. It's fermented. It comes in this big bottle and it's cloudy. And these women are in this rice >> all day long. They bathe their heads in it at least twice a week. And I want to do like a a soak. I know I had mentioned this to you before, but I really want to do but they have no gray hair. And I think that there's a diff few different reasons because first of all oxidative stress, life stress, they're not exposed to that. And their diets, they eat rice, meat, and vegetables.

[00:11:29]>> Yeah. But then there's also within the Indian um community and the arurveda community. Arurveda, you know, you have henna powder, you have brahmy, you have hibiscus, and you have um fine. There's so many other hair masks that also help to strengthen and to prevent grays. I think there are so many other cultures that have mastered the hair growth that Americans just use Redkins. Not sponsored. And so I think that when we go back to basics, fermented rice water, these beautiful herbs that come from plants and and things that you can consume as well as put topically. I've also just dived into I just started today. I'm starting to look into MSM BC >> powder. It just reminds me of that in my head even though it's not MSN, but when I hear S.

[00:12:23]>> Yeah, >> it's MSM. It is a sulfur molecule that is ingestable. I don't know if I'm going to ingest it. I think I want to try it topically, but I'm I'm starting to learn about it. I'll come back to you biscuits when I learn more about it. But it's supposed to really help bind to your hair to help it grow and to open the follicle and all these things. But again, I'm YouTube University, so I'll let you guys know what I >> Something else that has happened to us recently is we got massages.

[00:12:51]>> Oh my god, I'm in pain. We started we started this thing where we've decided to go to as many massage places in our neighborhood as possible to try and kind of find the best one and we went to a new spot yesterday.

[00:13:05]>> I wouldn't write it off.

[00:13:07]>> I wouldn't write it off.

[00:13:08]>> I loved that when we entered you were hit with tiger and like camper and all the right smells so good. The cup the glass cups were right by the door for cupping.

[00:13:19]>> Yes, they added that like they flipflops everywhere. It was correct. But we both had experiences that left us walking out of there like >> in pain.

[00:13:28]>> Whoa. Like my guy, he was so rough. He was so strong. And I asked prior to the massage starting cuz they offer a sugar scrub. And I was like, great. And it said feet only sugar scrub. I was like, love that. Let me just like exfoliate my feet a little bit. Oh my god. He sugar scrubbed me like knee down. And when I tell you this man was like actually I was like I'm gonna have no skin left.

[00:13:53]This is so intense. I felt fire. And then I love when it's like please stop.

[00:13:59]You get the towel. He gets the towel and then he just uses the towel as the next towel burning hot as well.

[00:14:05]>> Oh my goodness. I mean my experience I asked for cupping and when it was time for cupping I had three ladies come into the room. I thought >> it was a dream come true. I thought it was amazing going to happen but it was just people making bruises on my back.

[00:14:16]But no, it was a place to where I'd go back and I'd have more communication on my end because we got this done on Sunday and we both woke up hard to walk and it was, you know, I have bruises all over my legs.

[00:14:29]>> But it's much better than going to a place that they're like gently just brushing you with a feather and you're like, I have Hello. That's the worst.

[00:14:37]That is actually so irritating. I had a massage once where somebody was just kind of like lightly petting me and I kept just having visions of kicking the person in the face with my foot because I had to do something with the anger.

[00:14:51]>> Bugle snatcher moment. That's crazy, babes.

[00:14:53]>> But the anger, >> the fact that you visualize kicking someone in the face is wild >> because it's >> Don't put that in. It's Oh, you can keep that in because I know that there is a biscuit out there who gets it because the sensation it's like of just this when you want to be it's just like oh my god it's I couldn't I could even talking about it now I feel the visceral response and it makes me just go like this like I just crack my knee.

[00:15:18]>> Well, you're having a visceral response.

[00:15:20]We had a visceral response. And our next guest, oh my goodness, if they know about visceral responses or feelings, emotions, and being overwhelmed in scenarios, >> sematic responses, >> sematic responses, that is definitely our next guest. You have seen them on Love on the Spectrum. She is a musician.

[00:15:39]She is funny as all get out. We will be right back with Abby and Christine Romero.

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[00:16:59]Have so much fun with your lady.

[00:17:08]>> Abby and Christine, welcome to tea time.

[00:17:11]>> Welcome.

[00:17:12]>> Thank you so much. Welcome to tea time.

[00:17:14]It's been a pleasure to be back. I know this is your second time here.

[00:17:18]>> It is.

[00:17:18]>> Do you like the improvements?

[00:17:20]>> I love it. It's so beautiful and I love your sweet little dog.

[00:17:24]>> A thank you. Definitely.

[00:17:27]>> Christine, how are you doing today?

[00:17:28]>> We're doing great. Thank you so much for having us back. We love you guys.

[00:17:31]>> And this is gorgeous.

[00:17:32]>> Thank you.

[00:17:32]>> This you are gorgeous and it's gorgeous.

[00:17:34]>> I've poured us some tea and I'm going to put Do you take milk in your tea, Abby?

[00:17:39]>> I do.

[00:17:40]>> Christine. Okay, great. I'm going to add a spot of milk.

[00:17:43]>> Fresh from the cows.

[00:17:44]>> It is.

[00:17:44]>> It is. Absolutely.

[00:17:45]>> There's cows.

[00:17:46]>> There's cows out back there.

[00:17:47]>> Hilarious. Gosh. Um, so my mom Abby had a saying that there was no problem in this world that a good cup of tea couldn't solve. And she meant what she meant by that was tea is super cozy and comforting and just can help you think more clearly. I'm wondering if either of you have a problem big or small right now that you're working through that Raven and I can maybe give you some advice on. You can take a minute and think about it while I pour milk in the tea.

[00:18:17]>> Do you have anything that's bothering you that's like a problem or something you're thinking about?

[00:18:22]>> I wouldn't say bothering me, but sometimes I do have bad days. So, just getting over bad days. That's >> getting over bad days can be a big challenge for me.

[00:18:32]>> That makes sense. And I mean that is extremely normal. Everybody has bad days and it takes a lot of different ideas to get over bad days because it depends. Is it a bad day because you don't feel so good? Is it a bad day because somebody else made it a bad day? Is it a bad day because you just wake up and have the funk?

[00:18:51]>> Sometimes I get disregulated, but >> yeah, >> for a neurode divergent person like me, disregulated feelings can last a little bit longer.

[00:19:00]>> It could linger, but it depends on the situation.

[00:19:03]>> It does. And I'm actually going to say I don't have a good recommendation for you in your dysregulation. I think you work with a lot of people that could actually inform us on how to be better at disregulating warnings. What are certain types of tips that you've received in your life to help you get over your disregulated days?

[00:19:21]>> Auditory input, visual input, and sensory input. Like for example, whenever I'm feeling disregulated, I need to do some auditory input. My favorite preferred sound is the old internet dialup sound from back in the 90s.

[00:19:34]>> Oh, yeah. Is that soothing?

[00:19:37]>> How old were you when it came out?

[00:19:38]>> Oh, 11.

[00:19:40]>> Yeah. No, I was more like eight, Abby.

[00:19:42]>> Eight or nine? You were just a kid, right?

[00:19:44]>> Yeah, I was just a kid. I'm old now, Abby.

[00:19:47]>> No, I'm old.

[00:19:49]>> I was like I think I remember hearing it when I was like in preschool.

[00:19:55]>> And that makes you feel what? This is the remember of when I was when I was like almost 3 years old. I was sitting in the office. We had a big Apple iMac G3. Whenever we go on the internet, a little telephone pole came up with our planet next to it and it made the dialup modem noise. That's where I first heard it for the first time.

[00:20:15]>> I love that. Okay, so audio first and then then you said visual input. What?

[00:20:20]>> Looking at pictures of puppies and kittens, newborn babies, even though I'm not going to have any.

[00:20:26]>> No.

[00:20:26]>> No. They give you stress, Abby. I heard it gives you grays. Don't do it.

[00:20:30]>> Yeah. It's too much responsibility and it can be a big challenge.

[00:20:35]>> Definitely.

[00:20:35]>> It's my responsibility to wake up in the middle of the night cuz the baby's going to >> um be screaming >> and it's I can't do it. I just can't afford it.

[00:20:44]>> Yeah. No, both ways of affording it, moneywise and just mentally. Um, okay.

[00:20:49]So, since you gave us those type of ways of dealing with dysregulation, I'm going to tell you what I would do if I had a bad day. My sound or my my audio stem to to make sure that I'm um regulating would probably be a BTS song.

[00:21:06]>> Mine too. Mine would be like all different sound effects like on this website called Free Sound. Even animal sounds.

[00:21:12]>> Love an animal sound. And then >> even car alarms. those multi-tonone car alarms like from they still go off but occasionally but there's also found one that sounds like multi-tonone animal sounds.

[00:21:23]>> Wow.

[00:21:24]>> One with animals >> and and babes, what would your um tonal sound be?

[00:21:29]>> Ooh, my tonal sound would have to be it would have to be in a frequency that is soothing and not too high pitched because anything too high just hurts me.

[00:21:40]>> Me too. So, I would need maybe like a something in the om or a deep humming.

[00:21:47]That would be >> I used to do that in yoga when I was in sixth grade.

[00:21:50]>> Yeah, me too.

[00:21:51]>> Oming is and Christine, what's your sound?

[00:21:54]>> Um, Led Zeppelin, the ocean specifically.

[00:21:58]>> Perfect.

[00:21:59]>> Like, anything classic rocks, I say, Alexa, turn on classic rock and somehow it brings me out. What I love what Abby said though was that for her and autism and neurody divergent, they are I believe more connected to memories. It's okay, but it's not my favorite.

[00:22:15]>> Is it too hot?

[00:22:17]>> Yeah, it's too um has a weird taste. But I am much more adventurous than I was before.

[00:22:21]>> Good for you.

[00:22:22]>> It tastes like EpiCac.

[00:22:26]>> What is a drink that makes you throw up?

[00:22:29]>> Yes, there's this one episode of Family Guy.

[00:22:32]>> Have you ever had to take it?

[00:22:34]>> Have you ever had it? No, I don't think I've ever took tooken it before.

[00:22:38]>> Yeah. No, >> you wouldn't want to. You know, my sister one time she ate an entire bottle of Fred Flintstone vitamins because she thought they were candy.

[00:22:46]>> What happened?

[00:22:46]>> She had to take Ipac and then she had to throw up for a long time and she was then absolutely traumatized.

[00:22:55]>> That exactly.

[00:22:58]>> So good.

[00:22:58]>> Christine, do you want to try your tea?

[00:23:00]>> I do, but see, I'm a tea drinker. And I take no offense to this because >> it's totally fine. So be honest is my point.

[00:23:07]>> I went to school in England.

[00:23:08]>> Oh.

[00:23:08]>> Oh yeah.

[00:23:09]>> So for a year and so we had tea in the afternoons. We really did have that whole tea sort of celebration and social thing. So I love it.

[00:23:16]>> So you know about a PG tip then probably.

[00:23:18]>> I just love all tea things. Yes. I love it all.

[00:23:21]>> As do we.

[00:23:22]>> That's actually perfect. See, I love this.

[00:23:25]>> Do you not like it, babe? I do like it, but I also understand what she's talking about.

[00:23:29]>> Abby likes things kind of sweet. That makes sense.

[00:23:31]>> That could be the difference. No sugar.

[00:23:33]>> I have gotten so much adventurous.

[00:23:35]What's your Starbucks order, Abby?

[00:23:37]>> Uh, sweet blonde vanilla coffee and ham and cheese croissants cuz I used to remember eating ham turkey cheese sandwiches at my training school.

[00:23:45]>> And sometimes with lettuce in it, but doesn't really have a taste.

[00:23:48]>> The lettuce.

[00:23:49]>> Lettuce. Yeah.

[00:23:50]>> Yeah. A good lettuce does though. You have to try a red lettuce. But like the iceberg is just like water.

[00:23:56]>> Oh, it's just clear. It's just fresh.

[00:23:59]It's just refreshing. Very refreshing.

[00:24:01]So, Abby, I heard that.

[00:24:02]>> And bunny rabbits eat it.

[00:24:03]>> Oh, bunny rabbits eat lettuce.

[00:24:05]>> That is very true.

[00:24:06]>> I had a bunny rabbit.

[00:24:06]>> I heard that recently you were doing speaking engagements. When were you speaking to Help me out, Christine, what where were you guys today?

[00:24:15]>> So, Abby and I do a lot of different things, but in April, we wanted to be available for autism awareness month. M >> so we went to New York and Abby did I don't know seven or eight major news outlets including where did you sing downtown >> Autism Gala >> Autism Speaks Celebrity Chef Gala on Wall Street which was absolutely gorgeous and she sang three songs and then she sang the national anthem at remember the hockey arena.

[00:24:43]>> Abby I want to pause. The national anthem is the hardest song in the history of music. Did you find it difficult or did you >> It was pretty short. It was like a minute. Oh, so you shrunk it.

[00:24:53]>> Yeah. I say, >> "What about the the earplugs?" Remember that part was >> It was pretty hard. It was kind of I was kind of like I felt like hard of hearing.

[00:25:00]>> Yeah.

[00:25:00]>> So they have to put earplugs in you because the delay is literally 3 seconds. So it's constantly three three beats behind you when you're singing.

[00:25:10]>> So she had to put earplugs in and she did it beautifully.

[00:25:13]>> I bet you did an amazing job. I got booed singing the national anthem once.

[00:25:17]>> What?

[00:25:17]>> I did.

[00:25:18]>> It's a song. It's a heart song. I sucked at it.

[00:25:21]>> Where did that happen?

[00:25:22]>> My childhood.

[00:25:23]>> Oh gosh.

[00:25:24]>> Let's remember that.

[00:25:25]>> That was some bullies.

[00:25:26]>> No, it was at a basketball game.

[00:25:28]>> It's okay, you guys. We're moving on.

[00:25:29]>> How was your experience though? Were you on the ice?

[00:25:32]>> I was. So, it was cold.

[00:25:34]>> Do you like cold?

[00:25:37]>> Do I like cold? I like hot and cold.

[00:25:40]>> If you had to choose, >> I prefer more summer weather.

[00:25:43]>> There it is. That's what I wanted to know.

[00:25:44]>> That makes sense.

[00:25:45]>> Me, too, Abby. Me, too. So Abby, what else has been going on in your life since we've seen you last?

[00:25:50]>> It's been a while. It's been a few years.

[00:25:52]>> You got a new season of your show back.

[00:25:54]>> And as you can see, Madison and Tyler got engaged.

[00:25:57]>> They got engaged.

[00:25:58]>> You went to that party, didn't you?

[00:25:59]>> Rainbow in the sky with all different colors.

[00:26:01]>> Two rainbows. And you guys sang a great ending song.

[00:26:05]>> Somewhere over the rainbow. Yeah.

[00:26:07]>> That from the Wizard of Oz. And as a matter of fact, the dog in here looks like bat dog Toto. To >> But his name is Queen.

[00:26:14]>> How was that party? It looked beautiful.

[00:26:16]>> It was awesome. Yeah.

[00:26:18]>> And it it really rained in the middle of it and the winds came as Connor says. Um and a rainbow really did happen. And we looked over at the like the the water and saw this rainbow appear and thought this is really happening. And then I was like how much did Netflix pay to arrange for a rainbow to appear before our eyes?

[00:26:40]>> No. No. It was the most I mean I have pictures of it on my phone because it was so actually beautiful and organic.

[00:26:46]>> Really felt like the heavens were aligning >> during that party.

[00:26:50]>> How many seasons has Love on the Spectrum been on?

[00:26:53]>> Abby, how many seasons so far that they've aired?

[00:26:56]>> Four.

[00:26:56]>> How many seasons has this been four?

[00:26:58]Four season.

[00:26:59]>> Four seasons. And has it gotten easier to film with people watching you and cameras in your space?

[00:27:06]>> Yes, it feels pretty easy, right, Abs?

[00:27:09]>> Yes, it does. it it's almost like you're not aware they're there. They there's no like action or cut. You actually don't know. I've been they've been in my house and I'm on the phone like really chucking my phone and I go, "Oh, I forgot to send an email." And I just get up and I go to my office >> because it's almost like you're not aware. I think that's why it has such a real flavor because I mean they might occasionally say, "Oh, come in the house, Abby." Or something goes in wrong and they'll say, "Come in the house again." But it's not like a setup thing.

[00:27:41]Yeah. So it's it's it's very uh I think just organic love that >> which is good for you abs. Right.

[00:27:48]Because >> Yes, it is.

[00:27:48]>> Abby will speak her mind if she's not in interested >> as you should. We like that.

[00:27:55]>> Would you like to do another show, Abby?

[00:27:56]>> I would love to.

[00:27:58]>> Yeah. Any type of show or something specific? Would you want to do another reality show or would you want to be on the new Hannah Montana series? Oh yes, since I really relate to that show because she felt like two people. As a matter of fact, >> I feel that way with my autism. I feel like two two different people. And you recently met Miley, right?

[00:28:18]>> Yep, I did.

[00:28:19]>> How was that?

[00:28:20]>> It was amazing cuz she she said hi to me in the middle of her performance.

[00:28:25]>> Wow. You're like famous.

[00:28:27]>> You are. And I heard Abby, I want to talk to you about this because you met somebody that I would love to meet and her name is Chapel Ran, >> right? Please tell me about this experience. She came to see me. Chapel Chapel came to see you and Chapel's quite shy. Okay. So, I I do want to say that as a as a supersonic eye for neurodiversity and just shy people and just everyone's needs, >> you know, we didn't run up to her and scream out her name. They told us that Chapel was there and she kind of likes privacy. So, I said, "Oh, with all due respect, she was working and busy." So I kind of turned Abby around so she wouldn't see Chapel because if she did see Chapel she would have screamed Chapel and she was working and I thought that was kind of dis disruptive. So we just flipped around but she knew that Abby was there and she knew Abby wanted to meet her. So when she was ready she told the PA to come over and say Chapel's ready to meet you. So then Abby went over and and Chapel was prepared.

[00:29:21]But what I got in those moments cuz I was with Abby was just that she's a little shy >> and and when people don't understand that for celebrities, not everyone's prepared that every 10 seconds you're out in public, someone's calling your name and and demanding something of you and you want to embrace everybody, but sometimes you just can't. And that is so true. We were watching the season, the new season of Love on the Spectrum, and I forgot her name, but the people that just got engaged, >> Madison.

[00:29:49]>> Madison was having a date and someone called out her name that she doesn't like to be called, Maddie. And she had to stop and she had to regulate herself.

[00:29:58]>> That is It doesn't matter if you're on the spectrum or not. Everyone deserves time to regulate in space and and things of that. Are you friends with Maddie?

[00:30:07]>> I am.

[00:30:09]>> She has a ton of dolls.

[00:30:10]>> She has a lot of dolls. dolls and she knows a lot of really interesting facts about all of the Disney princesses and I was remembering that she could put them in chronological order of knowing when a certain doll was released or a certain character was released. So, her autism brain has really given her this amazing ability to remember facts. What is your autism superpower, I guess, is what I'm asking. Hm. What is my autism superpower? It is um I'm a gestalt learner. That's is that my power or no?

[00:30:41]>> Well, that's not really your power.

[00:30:42]That's definitely a part of your memory.

[00:30:44]>> Oh, talk about your memory and your vision.

[00:30:46]>> People's faces. I can see things from far away. Like one time I saw a bald eagle in the sky as a matter of fact.

[00:30:52]>> Wow. When no one else believed.

[00:30:53]>> No one else saw it. It was >> She was six. It was at a party and she said, "Bald eagle." And we all looked up and there was nothing in the sky. I mean, there was nothing. And one of the dads kept looking and sure enough about 30 seconds later or 20 seconds later that speck showed up and it was a bald eagle.

[00:31:10]>> Wow.

[00:31:11]>> Yeah.

[00:31:12]>> What's your What's your favorite thing in your memory superpower to recite?

[00:31:17]>> I could remember people's birthdays, people's faces. I could remember what when their birthdays were. I could remember what people wore.

[00:31:26]>> And you said that sometimes you feel like two different people.

[00:31:29]>> Yes. Are they both named Abby or is one Abby and somebody else?

[00:31:32]>> Uh, one's called The Girl Inside like her like Miley Cyrus's pop star secret was Hannah Montana.

[00:31:39]>> I love that.

[00:31:39]>> That's why I relate to that show. And plus I It's the 20th anniversary.

[00:31:43]>> It's the 20th anniversary.

[00:31:45]>> Crazy.

[00:31:45]>> And same with High School Musical.

[00:31:47]>> What about Cheetah Girls?

[00:31:49]>> Cheetah Girls 2.

[00:31:50]>> Got it. Second one.

[00:31:52]>> Okay, just the second one. I appreciate that, Abby. Um, but the girl inside, does she like knock on the door to come out?

[00:32:00]>> I just let her in >> in the music video.

[00:32:04]>> That makes sense.

[00:32:05]>> Okay, >> that is one of your songs, right, Abby?

[00:32:07]>> We must love each other to be free.

[00:32:09]>> Abby, do you have another song?

[00:32:12]>> Yes, I do. It's called Right Here, Right Now. It's about learning how to stay in the present moment and pushing old memories away.

[00:32:19]>> Wow.

[00:32:19]>> I love that you write. I love that you sing. I love that you're exploring your creative before I can talk.

[00:32:25]>> I mean, that's real talent.

[00:32:26]>> And what does it feel like when you're singing?

[00:32:28]>> My autism goes away. When I'm done, it's back.

[00:32:31]>> It's like a when when it came to language and language development, I noticed Abby using scripted lyrics as if she was communicating because words didn't have meaning for her. This is the gestalt language processing part of her autism, which just some people have, but not not a lot on the spectrum. It's just a certain part of the population. So, memories become language of when you have an emotion. So, let's say the there's a water bottle spills and you're startled and water spills everywhere. In that feeling of startled, the next time that you're startled, you'll say, "The water bottle spilled >> instead of I'm startled."

[00:33:07]>> And so, it's like a reverse. And it's I I feel like I've been decoding Aby's language to help her access functional language just for self- advocacy so she can be heard. I'm not going to be here forever. So, it's more of you can have your memories and honor your memories, but can we add a step in where we translate >> so that you guys understand?

[00:33:26]>> Yeah, >> that makes sense. And you know, in in other people's world, that's a trigger.

[00:33:32]And hers is just connected in a different way in the brain synapsis >> and and for her, she feels and experiences things like sight, touch, sound, and taste so much more than I think an average boring brain like mine.

[00:33:43]M >> so she's experiencing things in just such a greater level which is why the experience of living becomes um more of a challenge overwhelm so many people that's such a heightened sensitivity.

[00:33:55]>> Exactly. But just like with the disregulated day when you wake up and you don't know why you're not in a funk there's usually a trigger. We just don't know how to trace back what was that trigger. Oh, I saw a car out the window that looked like my ex-boyfriend's. Now I'm in a bad mood >> pretty much every time I do that. Yeah.

[00:34:12]like you you have these these triggers, but for Abby, they're they're her memories are Abby, why don't you tell us about um those memories? What show is it like? Remember that?

[00:34:20]>> This Is Us? Remember the show This Is Us with Mandy Moore?

[00:34:23]>> Yes.

[00:34:23]>> When you watch it, you see flashbacks from when they were babies to toddlers to children to teenagers. That's exactly how my mind works >> at all times. Is that how you feel that you're >> No, I just learning how to stay. I just want to stay in the moment. It's just like in what happens in the show. This is us.

[00:34:42]>> The flashback. The flashbacks.

[00:34:44]>> What I'm understanding is if you're over stimulated or something's happening, you start going into flashback mode and recalling those moments and then you start to get a little overwhelmed or feeling and then you have to bring yourself back to the present, >> right? So, that's an exhausting struggle for her to stay in the present moment even like sitting right here, right now, you know? And so, what we learned was that um I started binge watching This Is Us after it was streaming. I was one of those people that missed that boat and I was watching it every night. I loved it for like months and she started to listen to the show from the other room.

[00:35:18]Not watch it, listen. And then she started asking me questions and then she started appearing on it because episodic TV not her favorite.

[00:35:24]>> Oh, I don't blame you.

[00:35:26]>> And then and then she said, "Can I watch this with you?" And she sat down next to me. To this day, it is the only show that we have ever sat down together and binged watched.

[00:35:34]>> Wow.

[00:35:35]>> And she became fascinated. Then one one night, Abby, do you remember you said to me, you said, "This is how my mind works."

[00:35:40]>> Oh, yeah. I remember that.

[00:35:41]>> You said, "I think in flashbacks." New to me, folks. New to me.

[00:35:45]>> This was a couple years ago. I mean, wasn't that long ago, so it really helped me understand >> what might be going on in her processing.

[00:35:51]>> Yeah, that's incredible.

[00:35:53]>> That's beautiful. I have to say, Abby, I think it's been maybe like two or three years since we last saw you, and I feel like you've grown so much. Truly, I feel like you've m you have done so much work and I just feel like there's no question here. But I just want to tell you that it's apparent that I feel like you have really changed in such a beautiful way and I'm just feel proud of you and it's so amazing and exciting to see you growing and changing and having all these amazing life experiences. I keep up with you on social media and see all the things you're doing and it's just really wonderful. I'm really happy for you.

[00:36:29]Thank you so much. You're welcome. You also look great.

[00:36:32]>> Your jawline is popping. Your outfit is so cute. I gave you a compliment on your makeup as well.

[00:36:38]>> All right.

[00:36:39]>> I What else do you know?

[00:36:42]>> Your hair, your beautiful seashell clips.

[00:36:44]>> Are you exercising?

[00:36:47]>> Uh, I'm in much better shape than before, that's for sure.

[00:36:50]>> What are you doing?

[00:36:51]>> I studied health and nutrition with a guy named Steve in about five of the the five food groups. The grains, the protein, the dairy, the fruit, and the vegetables. All five food groups together.

[00:37:02]>> What's your favorite food, Abby?

[00:37:04]>> My favorite food is burgers and fries is my number one. And hot dogs.

[00:37:10]>> Delicious.

[00:37:11]>> Hot dogs. I like because the show Hannah Montana, there's a lot of hot dogs in there.

[00:37:15]>> And now Rico had his own hot dog stand.

[00:37:18]>> Oh. And so with the five food groups, when you have your hot dog, do you eat it with a salad?

[00:37:23]>> Um, I've got it in some more Caesar salad lately >> cuz it's delicious.

[00:37:27]>> Yeah.

[00:37:28]>> What are some of your newer choices? Why don't you share that?

[00:37:30]>> Yeah, but I just ate rabbit recently in New York. I ate a rabbit's leg.

[00:37:35]>> Did you like it?

[00:37:36]>> It was pretty good. Like chicken. It was a bunny rabbit.

[00:37:38]>> Yeah. Wow.

[00:37:40]>> Love that.

[00:37:42]>> Duck.

[00:37:43]>> And when I went to beaches, I went I I had duck.

[00:37:46]>> It's my favorite app.

[00:37:47]>> And I had pork belly. The belly of a pig.

[00:37:49]>> Delicious.

[00:37:50]>> Wow. Raven loves that.

[00:37:51]>> Octopus.

[00:37:52]>> Mhm.

[00:37:52]>> You are out here.

[00:37:53]>> Esargo snails in France in Paris.

[00:37:56]>> I don't like it. Did you like it? Oh, I did.

[00:37:59]>> Okay, that's fair.

[00:38:01]>> Something else that's different and we can see how we want to take this conversation. You tell me, Abby.

[00:38:06]>> But another thing that's changed is last time we saw you, you were in a relationship and now you're not in a relationship. You're single. So, how are you feeling as a single woman?

[00:38:16]>> Um, being a single lady, like what Beyonce said.

[00:38:19]>> Yes. All my single ladies.

[00:38:20]>> How is it going for you?

[00:38:22]>> It feels amazing. It feels like um David and I decided to call each other best friends. not boyfriend and girlfriend anymore. I have grown and changed a lots for the past four and a half years.

[00:38:34]>> Yes.

[00:38:35]>> But without David, I wouldn't be where I am today. He was a good start.

[00:38:38]>> Great. And you know what? It's so important to have those first relationships so we can learn things about ourselves. We can learn what we want in our next relationship. It's so so important, I think, to everyone's evolution. And we know that. We >> You know who said it best? Ariana Grande.

[00:38:55]>> Oh, what did she say?

[00:38:56]>> Thank you. Next.

[00:38:58]>> Thank you. Next.

[00:39:01]>> Thank you. Next. You know what I mean?

[00:39:02]>> She really did. I'm really happy that you're single and you're going to be exploring and also just really focusing on yourself as well, right?

[00:39:10]>> What's your funny line that you like to say sometimes about David? You said >> David at least >> David was great, but >> but at least David was a great guy, but at least he wasn't cheating in lying like my brother's ex.

[00:39:21]>> My brother's ex-girlfriend was awful.

[00:39:24]She was a wolf in sheep's clothing. She was smiling, but she was pretending.

[00:39:28]>> Oh my gosh.

[00:39:28]>> She She was probably a wolf in sheep's clothing. Wow. Or a bobcat in a homeless's clothing.

[00:39:34]>> Oh my goodness. Coyote.

[00:39:35]>> Yeah, she was a bobcat in a coyote's outfit.

[00:39:38]>> Yeah, we all know those people and that is good. And it's so nice that you and David can remain best friends and that you have appreciation for the relationship you had because the relationship is beautiful from what we saw. And I just want to say this. I know that all of our lives are online now.

[00:39:54]And I know that sometimes things can get a little wonky because everybody has opinions. And I think it's so amazing that you have your mother and your friends around you to support you during this time because a lot of people online aren't out for the best of you. They're out for the best for them. And I'm really happy that you're taking it as stride and you're smiling and whatever you know comes your way is going to be amazing. and we're excited for your future.

[00:40:19]>> Thank you very much.

[00:40:21]>> Always try to look at the positive.

[00:40:22]>> Yeah.

[00:40:23]>> We we we have a sort of a theory in our family, Abby. What's our saying?

[00:40:27]>> We say if I can do it, >> if I could do it, you could do it.

[00:40:30]>> And then the more you practice.

[00:40:31]>> More practice, the easier it gets. And recently, I got to go to my favorite water park near New York based on DreamWorks themed.

[00:40:39]>> What was that called?

[00:40:40]>> DreamWorks water park. It's inside a big mall, the American Dream Mall in Newark, New Jersey.

[00:40:46]>> You like water parks?

[00:40:48]Oh, I love this. We'll have to have our conversation.

[00:40:50]>> Where's the water park on your list to go to next? That's >> Santego Water Park in Poland.

[00:40:55]>> Do you want to pause one second? Hold on, Abby. You want to go into this pot and pull out a topic because there should be one in here for you.

[00:41:02]>> Sure.

[00:41:05]>> Water parks.

[00:41:07]>> You're so psychic. You're psychic. Abby, why do you love water parks so much?

[00:41:12]Because the water when I go down the slide, especially if it's steep, it's like very therapeutic. Like a like Wade from Elemental giving me a big hug.

[00:41:20]>> Oh wow.

[00:41:20]>> Like he's giving me a shiatsu massage.

[00:41:22]>> Oh, I love that.

[00:41:24]>> I just want to say I want to point something out. Your regulating sound is the internet dialup. It is a water park and you like the sirens from the cars.

[00:41:34]I'm just going to be 100. All of those things get on my last nerve. I cannot function with those sounds. I just find it interesting that those calm you down.

[00:41:44]Some people on the spectrum might have auditory issues to those multi-tonone car alarms. They >> they might. But >> some people on the spectrum do.

[00:41:51]>> Yeah. And some people do you not have any issue with crowds? Because I feel like water parks get very crowded.

[00:41:57]>> But usually when I go up to the 14 story slides at Thrillagar, the line's not as long. It's very short. Cuz a lot of people might be scared.

[00:42:04]>> I would be.

[00:42:04]>> Yeah, I am.

[00:42:05]>> A lot of people are. And especially everyone else who was at my family reunion I had in September is probably afraid. And I guess I was the only one at the family reunion who could do them.

[00:42:14]>> Why do you want to go to Poland?

[00:42:15]>> Because I've seen a video on it.

[00:42:17]>> Yeah.

[00:42:18]>> And I'm probably going to do it maybe when I'm in my 30s. Cuz they say 30s you have more fun when you're in your 30s.

[00:42:25]>> At water parks and everything. It's it's it's really amazing to me that there is a water park in Poland. Christine, are you ready for this?

[00:42:31]>> No. She came to me one time and I always try to listen to what Abby wants and I always try >> water.

[00:42:37]>> Don't even get me started.

[00:42:40]My eyes are burning. It's >> my eyes get itchy. Um, it's the chlorine that makes them.

[00:42:46]>> We were talking about why you want to go to Poland, but I've always been like a doer. Like, let's make it happen. I've been like this since I was a kid. And I I grew up in a family where that was not the energy. They kind of had an overall buzzkill vibe of it won't, it will never, you can't. And I wanted to break that. So, I was like traveling in Europe when I was 21. I had a backpack. There was no internet. I was like gone. So when Abby says she wants to do something, I really want to try and make it happen. She said, I want to go to Santego Water Park. I was like, great.

[00:43:13]We're going to do it. And then I found out it was in Poland.

[00:43:17]>> I was like, damn, I got to save my money.

[00:43:19]>> Someone in Poland and have them.

[00:43:21]>> We're going to figure that out for you.

[00:43:22]Sentgo Water Park needs to call you and get you out there. Abby, >> what's your favorite water park ride?

[00:43:28]>> The ones where you stand on this trapoor slide. I usually start it and then it shoots you down. You go fast like a cheetah.

[00:43:35]>> Wow.

[00:43:35]>> Wow. Like a drop.

[00:43:36]>> Like a big drop. My brother did it and he was terrified.

[00:43:41]>> My brother was so scared.

[00:43:42]>> Do you remember the first time you went to a water park?

[00:43:44]>> Yeah. It was like in 2018 because I used to be terrified of the water and I wrote a song about it and we had a woman who lived with us. Her name was Jenny Frell and she introduced she's the one who introduced me to them.

[00:43:56]>> Oh wow.

[00:43:57]>> Jenny introduced me to water parks.

[00:43:58]>> Oh. What made you what did you have to learn before you went to the water park?

[00:44:01]>> Swim. I started at 17 and few years later I got to go to a water park that >> since since first since I first met Mary since Mary first came to California.

[00:44:13]>> I think that's when Mary first came into our lives.

[00:44:15]>> Oh, I love >> Could you go to a water park every day?

[00:44:21]>> Uh in the summer? Yes. But in the winter they have to close it because it's going to be cold.

[00:44:25]>> Yeah.

[00:44:25]>> Yeah.

[00:44:26]>> Except Olaf the snowman from Frozen.

[00:44:28]>> Yeah. He could withstand some cold. Do you have specific >> Well, he likes He does like summertime.

[00:44:34]>> That's true. Stay alive during summer time.

[00:44:36]>> Well, he'll melt, but Elsa has to stop him from melting.

[00:44:39]>> Okay, that's true. Do you have an amazing collection of swimsuits?

[00:44:43]>> Oh, yes. And as a matter of fact, I started wearing more bikinis cuz I have more confident in them.

[00:44:48]>> I got more confident.

[00:44:49]>> I haven't even >> I love that for you. It's so important to more confident than I was before.

[00:44:54]>> Yeah. Congratulations. You're feeling good in your bikini and you're wearing Do you have to wear any type of like floaty or anything?

[00:45:01]>> Cuz I do.

[00:45:02]>> No, not really. But >> I'm not really good at swimming, Abby.

[00:45:04]>> Well, I float in the deep end like um >> as a matter of fact, in Hawaii, I went far out in the ocean in Maui like 5 years ago.

[00:45:13]>> In at water parks though, there isn't very deep water, right?

[00:45:17]>> Yes.

[00:45:18]>> Except in that >> the wave pool.

[00:45:20]>> Pool. Um where are those slides in? And I went I touched the bottom. I dove down and hit the bottom of the deep end. And Mary said, you know, you know what she thought or anyone would think that I looked exactly like a mermaid because I was going like this.

[00:45:33]>> I bet. And I feel more confident when I do that because of my personal trainer.

[00:45:38]>> Yes, Coach T.

[00:45:40]>> Coach, I'm going to see him tomorrow.

[00:45:42]>> Oh my gosh. We're going to do some planks and some mountain climbers.

[00:45:45]That's amazing.

[00:45:50]I I've never been well actually that's not true. I've been to two water parks in my life and I really didn't like them.

[00:45:57]>> It was really I found it too crowded. I didn't like the smell. I just it w it did not work for me. It just really wasn't my thing. So, I really I really appreciate the fact that you love them so much and I'm trying to find the connection as to where I would maybe see the appeal, but I don't. And then I get worried about germs. Yeah, >> one time I saw a dirty diaper at Dream Works on the floor >> and I had to walk around it.

[00:46:23]>> You just ignore it. But I want to say one two things about water if I may as an observer.

[00:46:28]>> When you were younger, you started to enjoy sensory input via deep pressure massage. We had a friend stay at our house. I thought she's not going to sit still. And this is when she was quite young, very young. And the guy just started doing seats. I've never seen her focus and stop. That's sensory input.

[00:46:46]Water does the same thing.

[00:46:48]>> Yeah.

[00:46:48]>> So the So going into the water is like a squeezing machine which Temple Grandon used when she was struggling >> was going down the thrill of gason >> just like you know why because that's where OT without OT I wouldn't feel that without OT.

[00:47:04]>> Yeah. Right.

[00:47:04]>> Have you ever have have either of you ever done um Babes what's the thing that we did with the doctor and you go in a little machine and the pressure?

[00:47:12]>> Oh a hyperaric chamber. Thought about it. Totally believe in it. if it works, just didn't have the money to do it. Got it. But but very interested in that because the deep pressure really does do something to I believe the nervous system. So water in and it of itself in the deep end. That's why a lot of kids don't want to get out of the pool in the water because it actually feels good.

[00:47:31]It's not just defiance or I'm having fun, but there's actually a sensory component. And the other thing is the drop slides that she is like evil conval daredevil that dates me but >> going down like this um 13 stories or whatever 14 stories like it's it's terrifying to look at >> the the sensation of dropping like that is also sensory input. It's the geforce which you also get in amusement parks.

[00:47:56]So when you go on that ride the roundup that spins around and you're glued to the wall.

[00:48:00]>> That's my favorite. That's all sensory input because your your body feels like it's almost like a deeper gravitational force, but you can feel your body more in space and time and that has an OT effect in the input in the processing of external stimuli. That's an OT term.

[00:48:18]>> That makes sense.

[00:48:18]>> Vestibular input propreceptive input and such. But those two reasons are why I think Abby got totally like into those >> that makes you know the water and the and the the diving. Can we offer to take your teacup away?

[00:48:31]>> Yes.

[00:48:31]>> Yeah.

[00:48:32]>> I've had most of it, ladies. I just want you to know.

[00:48:34]>> Oh my gosh. No worries.

[00:48:36]>> You balanced that so beautifully. Even when I came on jump off a cliff into the ocean.

[00:48:41]>> Well, you're not going to free dive.

[00:48:42]That's free diving.

[00:48:43]>> Oh, you cuz last time I did it because I don't want to Sometimes you end up paralyzed and I'm afraid I'm going to get hurt, you know, and I don't want to go to have to end up go to the hospital and have to get an an operation.

[00:48:54]>> Nobody wants that. I agree with you. And last, what if the what if whoever did my operation is a huge fan?

[00:49:00]>> What if they're a big fan?

[00:49:01]>> Then what?

[00:49:02]>> They're going to see your insides.

[00:49:04]>> Oh, but you know what?

[00:49:05]>> Your tummy.

[00:49:05]>> That would be very vulnerable.

[00:49:07]>> Yeah, I don't think I don't want to go to medical school, but >> some people I love having my fans.

[00:49:15]>> Yeah, having fans is lovely. Have you ever looked into or heard about a float tank, Abby?

[00:49:22]>> I might do that in beaches.

[00:49:24]>> Oh, that'll be fun. And sometimes water.

[00:49:26]It's where um it's a resort place.

[00:49:28]Resort place is Turks and Caos. And sometimes water goes into my nasal part.

[00:49:32]>> Yes.

[00:49:32]>> I don't know if you guys heard, but she's going to Turks and Caos to beaches. Like she just skipped that over real quick. She's like, I'm going to >> Abby, let me get on that next.

[00:49:40]>> I think you might like I think you might like them because do you know about them, Christine? There's like actual like sensory >> um deprivation pods where you just go into a body of water and you just float and you can put earplugs in and you can put a nose clip on. You never cover your face fully. So you're just floating so you can breathe easily.

[00:49:59]>> I can blow out bubbles. Well, >> did you ever watch Stranger Things you feel totally >> What's Stranger Things? But I'm concerned about sharks.

[00:50:06]>> Yeah, we are too. This is in sharks because of what happened to this girl named Bethany Hamilton. She got attacked by a shark and bit her entire right left arm off.

[00:50:17]>> Totally. Yeah, totally. We hate it.

[00:50:19]>> Yeah.

[00:50:19]>> Yes. We don't want sharks either.

[00:50:21]>> You can't go out into that is their territory. You >> need to be aware of sharks.

[00:50:24]>> Yes. What you're supposed to do is you're supposed to push it gently. You don't splash. You stay calm. And >> but I don't even want to be in a space where I have to do this to a shark though, Abby. I want to be on land to where they don't even come to me. You know what I mean?

[00:50:37]>> Agreed.

[00:50:37]>> Yeah.

[00:50:38]>> Yeah. Let's just stay on land.

[00:50:39]>> At least there's no sharks. worry about the sharks.

[00:50:42]>> Yeah, me too.

[00:50:43]>> So, you'll go swimming in the ocean freely and have fun out there, too.

[00:50:48]Yeah.

[00:50:48]>> Yeah. And as a matter of fact, I did it recently.

[00:50:51]>> Wow.

[00:50:51]>> Remember what did you do in um that last trip we took with the sea creature?

[00:50:56]Remember what you did?

[00:50:57]>> I swam far out in the ocean with a sea turtle named Steve. His name was Steve.

[00:51:02]>> Oh my god.

[00:51:03]>> We named it Steve.

[00:51:04]>> I was going to say, how did you know his name was Steve? Or you just named him?

[00:51:08]>> Yeah, he was. He's like one of the sea turtles from Finding Nemo.

[00:51:11]>> I was going to say, does he like to ride the waves?

[00:51:13]>> Yeah. And my favorite snack to eat on Finding Nemo submarine voyage is goldfish crackers. Sometimes colored goldfish with a different colors.

[00:51:21]>> Yeah. My wife ask her what she names Goldfish crackers.

[00:51:25]>> I had a goldfish when I was little as a pet.

[00:51:28]>> Yeah, >> I did too. But I call fish. Well, I call them fishy crackers.

[00:51:33]>> But I don't think that's that weird. Do you think that's weird, Abby?

[00:51:37]They're fishy crackers, not goldfish crackers.

[00:51:39]>> I do too.

[00:51:40]>> I like that. I think >> we always called them fishy crackers in my house growing up. And I'll tell you something else that's really amazing that you can do with a fishy cracker or a goldfish. If you put it in your mouth and you put the tail in first and then you go like this, it's aerodynamic in a really great way and that launches. And I used to launch them all the time at school or at my little sister and they really sore. So Abby, if you ever need to launch a gold >> I think I might use that strategy. You you definitely should. You definitely should. Um, do you guys want to play a game?

[00:52:10]>> Yes.

[00:52:11]>> Yes. Let's play a game, babe.

[00:52:13]>> So, Abby, here's the game. You ready?

[00:52:16]>> I and Babes and Christine, everyone can play. I'm going to sing the start of a song and you're going to complete the lyric. Okay.

[00:52:23]>> And we're doing it Disney edition.

[00:52:27]>> Ready?

[00:52:27]>> Yeah.

[00:52:28]>> Okay. Don't judge my singing, Abby.

[00:52:30]>> Judge it fully, Abby.

[00:52:31]>> You can. I'm going to be a mighty king.

[00:52:35]So enemies beware. Oh, I've never seen a king of beasts with quite so little hair. I'm going to be the main event like no king was before.

[00:52:45]>> Good job you guys. You really >> Abby got that. Abby got that point and you followed it up. Amazing.

[00:52:50]>> Did you?

[00:52:51]>> You're going to get this one right away.

[00:52:53]Look at this stuff. Isn't it neat?

[00:52:55]Wouldn't you think my collection's complete? Wouldn't you think of the girl?

[00:53:01]>> It's my favorite one.

[00:53:04]>> Amazing.

[00:53:06]>> Let it go. Let it go.

[00:53:08]>> It holds it back anymore.

[00:53:12]Let it go. Let it go. I love this song.

[00:53:15]This is my favorite because I love ice.

[00:53:16]It keep it cools me down.

[00:53:18]>> I love that for you.

[00:53:19]>> Whenever I'm sweating so that I don't get all sweaty and sticky.

[00:53:22]>> Yeah. You know, I recently had a panic attack. We were at an event and I had this crazy panic attack and I pushed myself out of the crowd and I found a little corner and I went and I got ice from the bartender and I put it on the back of my neck and on my wrists and I sat in a corner and I waited until Raven was done and ready to go and it really helped me. So I love ice, too. All right, I can show you the world.

[00:53:47]>> Shining shiver is blended. Tell me princess, Christine, we have not heard a single note from you.

[00:53:55]>> I saw Do you have any Led Zeppelin?

[00:53:57]>> Was it good?

[00:53:57]>> It was great.

[00:53:58]>> Yeah. Yeah, it was really good. You got any Led Zeppelin in there, babe?

[00:54:02]>> I don't. I didn't know that.

[00:54:04]>> You need cooling.

[00:54:06]>> There you go.

[00:54:08]>> Tail as old as time.

[00:54:10]>> True as it can be. Both a little scared.

[00:54:14]Neither one prepared. Beauty and the beast.

[00:54:19]Let's get down to business. Who defeat the hunts? The Huns. Mulan. As a matter of fact, I had a Disney cabaret.

[00:54:27]>> You did?

[00:54:28]>> Really? Kristen Bell. I sang with her.

[00:54:30]That's good. She has such a beautiful voice. I don't remember this one. Do you?

[00:54:35]>> Um, see the line where the sky meets the sea. It calls me, but no one knows how far it goes.

[00:54:49]Yes.

[00:54:49]>> Yes. Beautiful. Abby, congratulations.

[00:54:52]You It takes me It takes me want to be Take me back to Disneyland. Yes.

[00:54:57]>> And speaking of Disney, the funniest guy, Jesus, who I met on social media, he loves Disney.

[00:55:02]>> Really?

[00:55:03]>> Oh, really?

[00:55:03]>> More than you?

[00:55:04]>> Well, he has a Disney shirt.

[00:55:06]>> Well, I I saw him first met him at Disneyland.

[00:55:08]>> Oh.

[00:55:09]>> Abby, last time you were on the podcast, you shared some of your song with us.

[00:55:13]Are you willing to share some of your new song with us?

[00:55:15]>> Yeah. My original. Yes. Whichever one you're new, you're original. Right here, right now, find the joy like Inside Out.

[00:55:22]That's a Disney Pixar movie. It's one of my favorites. Can we hear you sing anything you want? Right here, right now. Find the joy like inside out.

[00:55:35]The past doesn't serve me anymore. The present and future mean so much more.

[00:55:42]And yes, I've got a brain with a mind of its own. So I'll take a deep breath and look out the window.

[00:55:51]See all there is to see.

[00:55:54]Put away the memory.

[00:55:58]That's just the first chorus. That's beautiful. Abby, you have such a beautiful voice. I really I really think >> Oh, you want to give Abby her what she won?

[00:56:07]>> Give you a present. What you won. it.

[00:56:10]>> This is >> Go ahead.

[00:56:12]>> That's our tea time fidget spinner.

[00:56:14]>> Oh, >> see the teapot on the top.

[00:56:16]>> We got little custom tea time fidgets.

[00:56:19]>> Cute.

[00:56:19]>> So that's Do you like the way it feels?

[00:56:21]>> Your prize for being such amazing.

[00:56:23]>> See the little tea?

[00:56:24]>> Well, we hope you enjoy that and thank you so much for serenating us. We love every single time you write a song.

[00:56:30]>> I'm just trying to be my real self because I just like the being on the bright side because >> Me too. Yeah, >> you're doing a great job on the bright side.

[00:56:40]>> Me, too. The dark side, not so much because it's kind of like people who are like that act don't act their age.

[00:56:46]>> I agree. I agree.

[00:56:48]>> And you're acting your age and you're just as we said, Abby, you're doing >> haters. Are they on the dark side?

[00:56:54]>> Your haters.

[00:56:54]>> Who's haters?

[00:56:55]>> All the haters does.

[00:56:58]>> We got a lot of haters. Yeah, they're definitely on the dark side.

[00:57:01]>> I agree. My mama would agree with you.

[00:57:03]>> Villain songs for mom's haters.

[00:57:05]>> Oh my gosh. Who what villain song would you pick?

[00:57:08]>> Probably poor Unfortunate Souls. Like even though >> Unfortunate Souls.

[00:57:12]>> Yes.

[00:57:12]>> My friend Jenna Greybel sings that really well.

[00:57:15]>> Really?

[00:57:16]>> She's a girl I went to school with. Wow.

[00:57:18]Yeah. I mean, >> we'll get her to sing some Ursula songs for your hat for your haters.

[00:57:22]>> My friend Jenna would she's one of my best friends.

[00:57:25]>> And she does a company called Shop Beauty by Jenna. She does lip balms.

[00:57:29]>> Oh, that's cute. Are you wearing it right now?

[00:57:31]>> Um I have some at home.

[00:57:32]>> That's fair. Shout out your friends. And as a matter of fact, my brother's little Australian Shepherd chewed one up and I had to throw it out.

[00:57:38]>> He's chewing a lot of stuff.

[00:57:40]>> Puppies, man. Abby, thank you so much for coming back to the podcast.

[00:57:44]>> We love you guys so much. We love you.

[00:57:46]We're going to do a quick toast. We don't have to >> Abby. Well, >> come on. Clink. Clink. Abby.

[00:57:53]>> Clink. You don't have to drink it.

[00:57:54]>> Tea time.

[00:57:57]Today on the podcast, we are toasting to the Central Pierce Fire and Rescue Team in Washington who responded to a motor vehicle collision involving a driver who was delivering groceries for an Instacart customer. The driver was thankfully uninjured, but their vehicle was damaged and waiting for a tow, leaving the delivery unfinished. Without hesitation, the Rescue 66 crew stepped in, gathered the groceries, and completed the delivery themselves. Wow, that person is lucky they got their groceries. Oh my god.

[00:58:27]>> Wow. Thank you to those people. We always need people that are thinking outside of the box and willing to help and going above and beyond. And I feel like that's what you guys are doing with the show that you're on and always making yourselves available to speak on what your experience is like.

[00:58:42]>> Oh, he's the dog. He's Yeah, he's wants it now.

[00:58:46]>> So, thank you for doing all the work.

[00:58:48]Thank you so much.

[00:58:49]>> You guys are awesome. I love that story.

[00:58:50]>> I think he wants it.

[00:58:52]>> He does want it.

[00:58:53]>> You You're right.

[00:58:54]>> Thanks, guys. Thank you.

[00:58:56]>> Thank you so much.

[00:58:57]>> Thank you, Biscuits, so much for watching this episode. We hope you loved it. Make sure you like, comment, subscribe, and go find Abby and Christine on their socials. You guys want to tell us where we can find you?

[00:59:07]>> Do you know your socials, Abs? Remember?

[00:59:10]>> Instagram.

[00:59:11]>> Hats by Hats by Abby.

[00:59:12]>> Yes.

[00:59:13]>> Amazing.

[00:59:13]>> And I'm Christine Aby's mom on YouTube, Instagram, and Tik Tok.

[00:59:16]>> Beautiful. Thanks everybody. Bye.

[00:59:28]Pioneer.