The Gin & Juice Podcast | Wrestlemania, Elementary School Group Text, and Adulting

[@angtrotter7622]

I have begun to use old Christmas cards as decorations, I rehang them with the new ones. Store them with the decorations. Toss them when they look worn.

[@katrinathomas5531]

Yall are amazing! ❤

[@JustMe_Toni]

OMG!!! 41:18 - 43:58 💯 my sentiments EXACTLY!! And to others it looks like laziness/procrastination but it literally is just self-induced pressure!

[@thechoosychosen]

As a habitual 'back in parker' I take offense at the assumption of my 'superiority complex'. Because...u r correct.🤣

[@applejackzo]

😂

[@dreaforshort]

Lmaoo🎯 like I did not plan on being read today! 😂

[@kdbaby]

I’m a perpetual backer as well, we are superior. 😊😊

[@1223jns]

😂 facts!

[@tariawashington1220]

I was the parent of that child! Being the parent to that child is a horrid, depressing, miserable, unsatisfying experience ever! My son is super smart one of the smartest kids in his grade level. But has an IEP for behavior. Motherhood the worst hood I eva been to. He just stoped showing his behind this year in 6th grade. He stared second half of vol. And you name it I tried it as far as correcting it goes. So I’m grateful for you all’s empathy for that child’s mother.

[@nca4794]

The hilarity of Mel throwing cards away "as soon as I get to the period."🤣 I have a box of cards I've collected over the years, and I feel personally attacked.😂

[@kweanmiymiy]

Just found a service that will scan the cards into a book... imma get my space back and keep my cards!!

[@nca4794]

@@kweanmiymiy that's a great idea. Def food for thought.

[@cicelyingram7683]

​​@@kweanmiymiy- I'm a sister in the this struggle. If possible, would love the info on the service you found and also hear how it turned out for you. You just unlocked the golden key! Pls and thank you!

[@namer580]

Me too, I feel like a hoarder 😂.

[@amg5967]

I back up in every spot lol freshly washed white car tinted windows custom plates! I'm backing in!

[@tiffanymurraysimmons5870]

Oooh the self awareness and loneliness discussion was sooooooo good 🫶🏾🙏🏾💚

[@shayla218]

This episode 🤌🏽

[@marj2558]

I needed that therapy session! Thank you so much for being vulnerable and transparent. ❤

[@juliamorales797]

This episode is so so good and needed! Thank you for sharing this side of you Melissa, I always enjoy the transparency you and Melanie share with us. ✨💖✨

[@shaylovesthethings]

I am Melissa and trying to be Mel with my items! I feel so bad throwing Christmas photo cards away. But also, I don’t want my kids to inherit things that they don’t want. I have a few tubs I am trying to throw away items out of . Cause do I need my fourth grade report card?

[@mommywithaplan]

Mel is diabolical 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@SincerelyDeniece]

As someone who backs into parking spots everywhere 🗣 get over it!!! 😂😂😂😂I'm better but I do it swiftly.

[@tiffanymurraysimmons5870]

Nooooo Mel.... not throwing away the holiday cards 😮🙄😲😂

[@angtrotter7622]

Liss... girl! I feel you! I'm sure someone has said this, but it may be that you need to go in deeper with God for that thing you're missing? I know it's churchy... I've always been taught that there is a hole inside that only He can fill. Please don't think I am saying you don't have a relationship because I know you do, and sometimes God calls us to come closer.

[@ProduCiera]

Mel drawing the line at ableism has me cracking up🤣 she said "NOW HOLD ON!" 😭 Cuz that's CRAZY!

[@Lady4Life]

That pop the trunk young lady is HILARIOUS!!!

[@Robin-re1mw]

I work in the safety department at my company and for safety reasons it is better to back in to the space because backing out of a space is where all the accidents happens in the parking lot.

[@MissLexiBee]

THIS VIDEO HAD ME ROLLIN! I just need to be y’all’s regular friend in town 😂 Mellllll is who I want to be. Throwing away Christmas cards after you read them?!? Also… it still haunts me that I’ve never sent thank yous. I started when I was pregnant with my first… after I had her? Everything flew away.

[@vc9732]

Listen loneliness of emotion is isolating and drags you down Im there with you and shedding tears as you give voice to my feelings 🙌🏾✌🏾🫶🏾

[@nichelleandrews1173]

Yes, she put my feelings into words 😢.

[@EvolvingMama_]

As a SPED teacher, I feel for everyone in the situation 😩

[@jennysamuel4831]

Love this episode

[@katrinathomas5531]

Come to Texas Liss, I’m your friend. We can do low-key friendship stuff.

[@carlasmall5215]

Christmas cards are gone when the tree comes down.

[@lphillips817]

I remember Melissa wanting to move away from the “serious” “introspective” stuff which was her bag in the Love Hour…still her bag though!!! So good!! Thank you for sharing - so seen, so relatable!!

[@dearnikki21]

Lis: If you back up into a parking spot, you absolutely think you're better than everyone else.. Me: And I am! Lis: ... you have a superiority complex Me: And I do! Lis: ... and you just want to show off Me: And I will! 😂

[@naturallylorindanis]

4:47 Dear @AbbottElementary, Can you make this into an episode pls? Thanks 😊

[@laurenthomas3748]

I really liked the deep turn this podcast took. Thanks for another great episode, Mel and Liss!!

[@amberkirk6230]

Regarding keepsakes, souvenirs, etc.: Melissa is who I wish I was; Mel is who I am. 🤷‍♀🤣 I do keep some cards, but then I wonder why because I know I'll never look at them again. Lol.

[@sierrathompson3014]

We need a Gin & Juice mentorship program because these gems are so helpful. I’m in my early 30s and y’all be helping a sister out!! GOD Bless!!

[@marayamullen9058]

yess i think so lol im 29 and i need one

[@AABEETV]

I still have a box full of notes, cards, and even funeral programs from years past (I graduated high school in 2006) Who still writes notes? 😂I'm just now able to throw cards away without feeling guilty as well as drawings I get from my students. It's a journey lol

[@EvolvingMama_]

Lol yesss I just found a box last week with notes and birthday cards. I had a timeee reading through them with the intricate folding and all 😆 I’m a teacher as well, I have just as a hard time throwing my students drawings away as I do with my own kids 🫣😅

[@AABEETV]

@@EvolvingMama_ The folding was top tier!! I only threw one picture from my student away... it's very hard. I even put dates on them 😊

[@brandi3466]

My truck has awful turning radius so I always back in and I'm great bc I'm not back and forth....so I guess you'll need to get over it 😮😅

[@brandi3466]

Thank you cards for weddings, baby shower and graduation are a must according to my mama 😮

[@traceyrobinson7502]

Enjoy you ladies. I always send ‘Thank You’ cards as a form of appreciation and gratitude.

[@UniqulyBold1]

I feel like some of what Melissa is talking about is what the basketball wives and all those shows about the women in famous mens lives community. Like a support group for that sort of status and companionship. I feel like that’s what those shows were almost supposed to be fr

[@hanacopeland8762]

Emotional loneliness 🤯🥲💜 thank you for the language! That's exactly what I've been struggling to articulate💜

[@marayamullen9058]

Liss i don't see you as an extension of KEV . i would fan girl something serious if I met you ❤❤ so smart and self aware helpee me through darkest times

[@juanitadanridge]

CAN WE TALK ABOUT THE LEWK LISS IS SERVING TODAY?!?!?!?! MAM!! 😍

[@ameliamariah4757]

The parent thread lost the plot of the movie! That is definitely a long story short. I hope that baby gets the wrap-around services that he needs.

[@quaneeshawillingham6548]

First of all I feel attacked. I was taught that you ALWAYS back into a spot in case you need to leave in a rush. And secondly if you making figure 8s to back in you can’t back in lol.

[@dreamAngelXO]

26:51 Mel!!! lmaoooo you better keep them cards

[@madisynclark1497]

Y’all might be my favorite podcast. I be walking around the office with my AirPods in just smiling and cracking up. My coworkers probably think I’m crazy lol

[@rikkigray2264]

Mel is a SAVAGE! I have cards and letters from 20 years ago 😂😂

[@MrMzcurlz1]

One of my favorite podcast❤ I was raised that you wrote thank you cards for gifts you received. I raised my children that way,and they don't write a damn thank you card ever.🤣😂🤣 I raised my children, living with their father for about 11 years. Then we broke up and it was me racing the children he was involved, but the day today stuff was on me. There were times I would be so overwhelmed. I would say to myself crying, I don't have time or luxury for a nervous breakdown right now, but when I get some time I'm gonna do it. Because you were just constantly going and trying to figure stuff out. Cooking the dinner, and picking up the kids, and washing the clothes and breaking up the fight, and putting this one on punishment, AND going to work, and find somebody to do maintenance on your house and somebody to do maintenance on your car and just constantly constantly going and going and doing and doing That you put your emotions on the back burner... compartmentalizing. It will get you through for a while but really, you need to stop take some time and process those emotions and feelings.

[@EvolvingMama_]

🫂 solo parenting is the hardest thing I’ve ever done 😮‍💨🙏🏾

[@Sbp9284]

I’ve been watching since you guys have started. Each week I’m enjoying this more and more. Both Mel and Liss are great. Liss is so insightful please write a book!

[@Thando.-.newera]

These deeper episodes are the best🥺 golden nuggets that come once in a while, and I love it!

[@kateokereke7047]

I grew up in Nigeria where wrestling was a 1pm every Saturday after chores appointment in the 80’s early 90’s

[@liteeyes1882]

I'm with Melissa, I clock out when I'm off work & I work remotely!!!

[@applejackzo]

Bruh my dad didn’t teach me a damn thing and I’m still mad about it 😭

[@celinamartinez247]

FRFR, when you have a charismatic husband or husband period!!, it's truly hard to have a friend-girl who is just there just for YOU 🌸being grown is hard🌸

[@keaubreysumpter2731]

That pop the trunk about backing into parking spaces is definitely my pop the trunk for my boyfriend he always does it luckily it doesn't take him long but still sir just park and go lol

[@EminJai]

I am here for a full POP THE TRUNK episode. People please submit your voice recordings and letters. I KNOW this is finna be good

[@AliAnde]

Mel had me in real tears about the thank you notes and cards 🤣🤣.

[@srswms5157]

Yes, Mel, The oldest child got ALL the things, from the parents and all the grandparents!

[@Soulofatraveler]

Mel is me! In the trash

[@imiandcole]

I like the vibe a bit better when y’all in this setting. Feels like sitting around my home girl house gossiping.❤

[@Heyy_Sirii]

56:09 it is more important to manage your energy than to manage your time. What you put energy into will either consume or free your time.

[@giiemm2633]

Liss in regards to safe spaces for sharing emotions there are Meetup groups for black women for exactly this, in LA too.

[@keithanderson4701]

This may be petty but... When I was a server, for a brief period, we all were on a group chat. 40 of us. You would think all 40 would be on 1 chat? Noooooooooooooooooo. It was about 20 different group chats because it was based on whoever the person wanted to switch shifts with AND anyone else off that day. So, some chats were 3ppl. We had one that was about 25 people. The 25 group chat is when I got fed up. (SN: I was about 30ish at the time. Most of the workers were college aged.) I sent a simple message. I will copy and paste the entire bible and put in the chat and silence my phone. I wasn't serious but it all stopped. It just turned into regular texting. No more GC.

[@tiffaniefrancis5513]

The conversation about interactions was so good, it confirmed so many things I think about daily.

[@MrsSSmith77]

I can relate Mel. My daddy taught me to drive. He taught me how to back in and parallel park first andI swear I back in and parallel park 10x better than pulling in front first. I just tapped a car the other day at my son’s therapy because I was trying to act like the average folk. Lol It feels unnatural.

[@vc9732]

Listen I back in because Im paranoid and need to get out fast when I have to 😂

[@mwanikiamy]

yes Melanie talk about it! Women have been also conformed to the unspoken vulnerability type for sure. we do not talk about it enough especially in this society

[@shaneeselouise]

I love sending a good Christmas Card 😂

[@jacquelinemorris7572]

Good Morning ladies...Real talk is always a thing. I appreciate you both. This sounds like my conversations with my sister friends on the back deck...

[@mrsallister32]

I am Mel and Mel is me 😂😂😂 throw it in the TRASH 🗑️ and then money and gifts!! but only the exact gift I want!! if you saw something and thought of me, send me a picture!! 🤣 an old boss of mine received gifts and cards ALL the time. I literally watched him read a card all the way through and drop it directly into the garbage 🤣🤣🤣

[@ecow1994]

Why do people who don't like people who back in to parking spaces think they don't have to back out of a space it's really the same principle just at a different time.

[@Keys31880]

Okay! Hear me out! Love hour reboot with both Mel and Kev including relationships outside of romantic. i.e. coworkers, friends, parents, siblings ❤

[@dee_scussions]

I can't stand people who make everyone wait while the unnecessarily back into a parking space. I get so enraged. Lol. Also they have a portable cables attached to a battery so you don't need to do that anymore. Lol

[@speakinglifewiththeholly]

lol I just like being able to leave quickly! That’s it that’s all 😂

[@tishthoughts]

Are you looking Melissa find friendship outside of the “celebrity “ group?

[@1LocWonder]

I go dates every week,& they high key just be dinner…it’s weekly, but it ain’t fancy. And sometimes it’s Date Night IN& a nap is LITERALLY a date 😛

[@Carolina-zo9io]

@19:00 Juice even got a fly version of The Undertaker's hat🤠

[@hb8413]

For the thank yous, maybe not a card but it's definitely good practice to say thank you to people that took the time to come celebrate you - wedding and baby shower especially. It doesn't need to specify the gift but a call or text is important. I wonder if it's cultural

[@kellonwheelz_66]

As a perpetual backer upper, I accept the trunk pop on my life. 🙋🏾‍♀️ HOWEVER, I am also a professional truck driver, so I do know how to hurry and back the heck up into a parking spot. 😂❤ (Oh, and my car is a stick shift. 😊)

[@dee_scussions]

Baby this is why teachers quit. This here. I suggest people read FERPA. If this is a public school, the law says the child has a right to public education. That's why the child could not be removed....they can protest all you want but if the child's IEP say the child can have inclusive education, then that's what has to be provided.

[@shevy_shev93]

EXACTLY. From what it sounds they need to revise the IEP and he needs to be in a self-contained class. It’s scary scary and with all that’s going on with teachers and this social climate, I would leave too!

[@dee_scussions]

@shevy_shev93 I did. See how they harassed that teacher all night as ifbshe was able to kick the child out of class. The parent can request a reval of the IEP but parents don't want to believe their child needs an IEP. It's a vicious cycle.

[@shevy_shev93]

@@dee_scussions that part! The parents were disgusting. How can you use that language against another child talking about “normal..” the teacher should’ve left the chat. She did not have to be included

[@dee_scussions]

@@shevy_shev93 I wish I would give parents my phone number. No ma'am. Lol. I had a Google number. Call that number or REMIND.

[@AdayaAmore]

26:00 The Christmas letters are awesome. They started way back when there wasn’t internet and postcards were just for quick notes. I work with the elderly and come across them all the time.

[@lynngevity3724]

I have EVERY SINGLE anniversary and birthday card from my spouse!!! He don’t even notice…ITS TIME!!!😂😂😂😂…also, I have a problem, i have also kept all Christmas cards…luckily those cards ended during the pandemic!!!

[@tyesha2275]

Im with Mel, dont send me no mf christmas or thank you card!

[@shannonhamilton1570]

Listen here! That "Pop the trunk" is a personal attack! I am backing in every time! It sounds like people are mad that they can't back in smoothly. 🤷🏾‍♀️

[@kirabofg]

Whew Melissa hit the nail on the head with the loneliness bit 😔

[@latarapatton5241]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 For the record … I keep Christmas cards til I take my tree down … 🤣Birthday cards … I keep a month and only their away the ones that done really matter for real 😵‍💫😵‍💫 I Love Y’all! I wish I could sit in the floor with y’all and laugh REALLY HARD!

[@MrsScott6907]

If you don't know how to park, just say so. Signed the back in Queen 🤷🏾‍♀️😂😂😂

[@empoweryouwellnessandtarot]

THE UNDERTAKER‼️‼️‼️‼️ I LITERALLY DROPPED WHAT I WAS DOING AND LET OUT A SCREAM‼️‼️‼️ OMG I WISH I COULD'VE SEEN THAT

[@mitsymorgan3674]

@Mel, we had a similar experience with a student when my daughter was in elementary. The student stole my daughter’s apple juice and then threw the empty box at my daughter and it hit her. The student had a ton of incidents in the classroom and the school community. We ended up having a meeting with the student’s mom and discovered that the student’s father was murdered and she was exposed to the details of what took place 😮🤯. We decided to pull our daughter out of that school.

[@TheCSPretty]

Melissa, i tell you i have just realised these lonely thoughts, etc, is me. And scared of releasing the full me, thoughrs and feelings. Wow. Mel, yes, i back in every time, so i can. Just go when i wa t to lol

[@whobutcrissy]

I watched Buying Beverly Hill because of y’all, so next can we discuss that. Also want to suggest Love Match Atlanta

[@AKAtude08]

Hey all!!!!

[@beautiful_greenie7053]

HEY COCKTAIL BOO'S!!!!

[@victoriacurry2006]

I’m horrible at the Thank you cards 🫣

[@dreaforshort]

Being a women in the field of transportation as a truck driver… I am absolutely backing in 🤣 that is a transferrable skill from this truck to the car so I must stay sharp Lol. The men out here already doubt our ability so I must rise to the occasion whether that’s at work or at Walmart amen! 🫡🙏🏾😂 And I absolutely loved the transparency of the conversation today. Love a good girl chat/moment of reflection. I will be using your code for better help in the months to come. I’m so ready to prioritize professional guidance.