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I feel like you guys need a segment every once in a while where you try foods/products that you have never heard of or never tried before. The first one being sonic. I would live for that. I’m speaking as a long time viewer and I haven’t missed a single vlog or podcast episode since 2020! Thanks for all you guys do to make our days a little brighter :)
High school English teacher here! I've had so many flipping issues with frigin chat gpt and the kids using it. It's usually pretty obvious because the kids who tend to use it, are the kids who can barely write a paragraph, let alone an essay so it tends to sound way more mature and advanced than the kids actual ability. If the kids are smart, they'll ask chat gpt to "dumb" down the essay or make it sound like a 15 year old wrote it. It was such a pain in my butt last year. Now, I don't allow kids to write essays at home or with computers/cellphones (unless they have sort of condition that they need one), so I know it's literally them writing it. I give them a couple days of prep to be prepared but on the days of writing, paper and pen baby!
My son is turning 6 in a month and a simple phrase I say often to him is... 2 feelings (or things) can be true at the same time. He has 2 loose teeth at the moment and he was saying how nervous he was about it coming out. I told him, when your teeth come out it can be scary, it may hurt a little AND.. I know you can get through it, you will be okay. In other instances where you're validating Flynn's feelings, try rephrasing "but you will be okay" to "and I know you will be okay"... or some variation of that. I hope that helps! ❤❤
"Does anybody do that, or is that just a cartoon thing?" About tying a string to a tooth and a doorknob... that is EXACTLY what I thought my whole life, because it never ever worked for me as a kid... until my husband managed to get literally 3 loose teeth out painlessly for my son this way, who now begs to try it whenever he thinks a tooth might be ready. Apparently, it DOES work!
Colleen I love this podcast! I’m curious if there’s another way that you can discuss learning things without calling yourself stupid or dumb. I feel like I want to reach into the screen and reassure you that just because you didn’t know something doesn’t mean you’re insufficient. You’re such a curious person and you ask great questions and look things up and find cool answers! I think you’re inquisitive and learning not unintelligent. Love you!
New Mexican here. FYI, we put green chile (hatch chili) in EVERYTHING. We literally mark the start of Fall with chile roasting season. Every New Mexican has a freezer full of green chile that we eat throughout the year. We are so prideful of our chile. The common question asked as all restaurants is “red or green chile?” And when we are feeling spicy, we have Christmas chile (red and green). We hate anybody who says that Colorado chile is good. It’s a whole thing. Careful with your hatred of hatch chile. It’s like going after someone’s favorite football team. lol
I think if you wanted to get Flynn into video games, you should get a Nintendo switch and he might like animal crossing because you can catch bugs and fish for things and he gets discover a bunch of different types of creatures in the game and you can also build
ABOUT THE HATCH CHILE TOPIC: hi im a viewer from New Mexico, born and raised. Hatch Chile is not a fad and is apart of the New Mexican culture. Yes we put (green or red) Chile on everything. The most popular things that it comes on that isn’t traditionally Hispanic food are breakfast burritos with eggs, sometimes with meat and cheese, pizza (ex: pepperoni and green chile pizza), and burgers ( just straight up as a topping like lettuce and tomatoes. Currently it is peak chile season, these are traditionally roasted. You can go to any grocery store and they roast it fresh for you outside. So in New Mexico it is very common to see hatch Chile pop up in all sorts of things during this season. But it is VARY interesting to hear that it has made it all the way to California. Anyways I love you guys! Love from Burque 🌶️❤️
Teacher here: there are AI websites to run a paper through and it will tell you what % is AI. It can highlight what is plagiarism. But sometimes the websites are wrong.
As someone who grew up in NM, we are VERY proud of our hatch chiles! They have such a good flavor, and a lot of stores nationwide have picked up on it. Hatch season is in the early fall, so advertising ramps up at that time (similar to pumpkin spice everything). In NM, many grocery stores will have chile vendors outside and they roast them for you and it smells heavenly
You and your sister both had a silly moment in the same day. Rachel thought the expression was an "old wise tale". She didn't realize it was actually an "old wives tale". And you didn't know that HQ stood for Headquarters...Lol. It's silly but also cute : )
As a teacher you can tell people are cheating because it talks about things you know you didn’t teach or the writing is way too good for the student. I love my students but most people do not have clean error free writing till late high school or college.
Erik! I am from New Mexico and hatch chiles are NOT a fad. These have been around forever but it must be that they are making their way outside of NM now. Hatch chiles can be picked early and fresh and that's called green chile. Then you can have red chile where you allow the chile to get more ripe and it's dried out to become a spicy sauce. I personally love both for different reasons. And fun fact our state question is "red or green" often times people can't pick a favorite so they say "christmas"
I'm listening to this in the car with my 8 year old on the way to school - thank you for the careful take on the tooth fairy! I started to panic and tried to pause but it ended up ok 😂 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
I was just typing that Flynn has Erik’s dad’s brain and got half way through the sentence then Colleen said it. Can we see a conversation between Flynn and grandpa yoda talking about sea creatures.
As a child, I remember trying hard to believe the lies people will tell me about Santa Claus, tooth fairy, etc. I’m having a hard time deciding whether I want to lie to my child or not. 😢 I want to see my child smile and laugh but I’m afraid of the disappointment when she realizes it’s made up.
They grow out of their childish ways eventually. No harm creating a little magic and fun while they're still young enough to enjoy it. Real life is tough enough when it comes
Another high school English teacher here: the people who make the AI websites also help make the AI detectors. We have programs like TurnItIn and Writeable that have plagiarism and AI detectors to flag suspicious essays. I also have my students write in class so I can offer help as they write.
I'm pretty sure Erik was just being funny, but my comment from 4 weeks ago applies, so I'm going to copy and paste it here: Every episode of the podcast: Erik: "did you do that thing in gym class?" Colleen: "no, I never took gym class." Erik: "but how about that one time... Colleen: "no"
I love listening to this while cleaning or just chilling or making biscuits at my job. I don't listen to this I always watch these videos because yall are so funny. Side note I do have the audio podcast as well. My 7 year old step son didn't realize The Ballinger Family was related to yall. When he seen Flynn. And the twins he had mixed emotions. I think he was shocked , confused, and excited all at the same time. Yall could tell Chris and Jessica this comment. He is Duncan's age and he thinks that's exciting and says he wishes he could play with all of yalls kids. Oh funny thing I shocked him when he found out who Miranda was. We watched ur regular channel then Miranda Sings channel and he was so shocked when he realized. Thanks for all the great content and when u left (Colleen) I searched ur channel daily to see if u finally posted a video. One day u did and I cried with excitement that u had came back. I wish the ones who supported u could have had the opportunity to stil watch u some way and Haters can back off.😂😂😂😂
I’m so excited for the sonics podcast. Can yall go get a tattoo together also. Colleen you gotta get be brave on your arm. Make it a fun day! Love y’all! ❤
K, I thought I was losing it, but I actually scrolled back and double-checked, and yes, FYI episode #84 is titled Colleen Ballinger Is Not Smart. I may be the only person who comfort re-listens to old Relax episodes though so probably no one else would have noticed or cared that you pretty much reused a title 😅 If I need something familiar to fall asleep to I almost always just play an old episode.🤪
5:49 At my old school i was enrolled in college classes I was in an essay writing class where we had to write 3 essays per semester, annotated bibs and all. My professor caught a few kids using chat gpt 1 kid literally left the chat gpt little message at the top And the other students she said she only knew because the AI takes the…personality out of the essay…apparently. She said when she read them it sounded like robots. (She got all those students expelled from the course 😭)
Question for you guys! If Erik was on board with getting another cat what would potential names be?? My little buddy is named Philly Cheesesteak 😆 silly cat names are my fave
Lmao I love that Colleen calls herself out when she’s wrong. Also please Colleen tell Flynn we are so proud of him losing his tooth❤. Been here since way before u met Erik so to watch Flynn grow up is just amazing. He’s incredible
Eric, wait until you turn 53 and look in the mirror and realize that your eldest child is 29 and is a denturologist, your second kid who is 26 is an english teacher at a high school and your baby boy who is 23 is in his last year of College to become a lab technician.
I never had my tooth tied with a string but I remember my mom having a towel over her hand while wiggling my tooth and pulling it out. I don’t remember it being painful and we definitely did it for multiple teeth but only once they were EXTREMELY loose!
I agree with you about validating the scary feelings but I always wanted to make sure my son knew, in times of panic and fear, that "Everything will be ok and you are safe and secure, and we are here. You are safe."
Guys, when my first born daughter told me she knew Santa wasn’t real, I bawled. And not just a little tear, a full on Kim Kardashian cry. My heart hurt that she was growing up. Do I still write from Santa on her gifts - yes. Even thought she is 14 now, her eyes still sparkle when she gets that gift from “Santa.” 😌
My daughter lost her first tooth at the dentist and the dental assistant accidentally sucked it up with the little sucker thingy. The dentist wrote a letter to the tooth fairy and we put the note under her pillow! It made my daughter like the dentist more lol
The Wii is so good though!! Wii party is a VIBE me and my mum play it all the time and laugh so hard at the swap meet game where we would team up and try and beat the machine for the other 2 players and then sabotage each other in the process even though we agreed to not take each others mii’s and call each other cheaters 🤣 if you and Erik were to play that it would be the most funniest thing ever!! Sometimes I play sims 3 the social and pretend I have a life and then self sabotage my sim life it’s great therapy 😂
My daughter did actually question what the tooth fairy does with all the teeth, we landed on the idea that they are building a castle out of them. (Not my Idea I feel like it's a little creepy to think of honestly 😂)
The Hatch pepper scene has hit California, apparently. I live in Texas and this time of year it is a big deal and everything in the store has Hatch chilis in it. If you ever go to Albuquerque, it is big there all year long. They ask at burger drive thrus if you want chili sauce on your burger. I found them to be rather hot but I have since learned to really like spicier foods and regularly eat jalapenos, so I might feel differently about them now. Can't wait until you guys go to sonic.. definitely should get tater tots with cheese (you can also get it with chili but their chili here sucks) and jalapeno poppers with ranch dressing. To drink, a cherry coke is always my go to. You might like Ocean Water if you like blue coconut. Peace out!
Hatch chile is super popular in Texas! It is a seasonal thing so usually starts in the middle of July to the end of August. This isn't something new for us so prob is just making its way to y'all. But yeah its in bread, popcorn, salsa, mac and cheese, etc. SO freaking GOOD!
I absolutely tied dental floss around my son’s tooth and slammed a door shut 😂 he also swallowed his tooth and wrote the tooth fairy a note, and she was very understanding about the exchange 😅
“The days go slowly but the years fly by”. So true! Also, EVERYTHING about you is so me! ( except I’m 61). Including the teeth grinding ( I’m a very anxious person) ! I have ground my teeth for my whole life😮
I can tell you right now, every time my job asks me to do a presentation on whatever topic, I 💯 using CHAT GPT to do it for me 😂😂😂 Also I worked at the dry cleaners and there is a machine of chemicals that dry clean the clothes. We tag the clothes on the garment tags usually or on seem of the garment so there's no damage. It's pretty tedious tbh
In Maryland at Wegmans, they bring in award winning chefs to grill and cook recipes using Hatch Peppers. It is almost like a festival and has been going on for at least 15 years. During that weekend is the only time you can buy these peppers all year long. Also, you can buy dry cleaning kits at grocery stores or big superstores. The kit contains the solution to put on a large rectangular pad, the pad itself, and a couple of garment bags. You put the pad with the article of clothing in the bag, put it in the dryer, and follow directions as to how long you let it run. Fun podcast!
Hatch chile from a native New Mexican - Hatch is a city in New Mexico which started growing green chile. If you let it ripen it will turn to red. These are a 🌶️ pepper that looks a lot like that emoji. In New Mexico it has been used for way past my entire almost 50 years of life to make a green chile (which is like a sauce you would put over a burrito for example) with onions and garlic and yummy seasonings. About this time of the year it is harvested and the grocery stores in New Mexico (Hatch is quite a ways from where I lived) would roast the chile peppers but you could also buy them and take them home to roast. Once roasted we would cut them open, remove most of the seeds and then skin them to get the fleshy part of it but not the pulpy part of it. At my house we would then freeze it in baggies the right size to make a thing of green chile. That way we had fresh green chile all year. Not that you mentioned it but if those peppers turn red it’s turned into a red chile (again like a sauce…red is more of a puréed one and green is small chunky one). And because of that…New Mexico has a state question which is “Red or green?” To which you can reply red, green or Christmas which is both but not like mixed together. It’s also vital to note that New Mexico Mexican food is NOT like what people anywhere else are used to. In fact New Mexican food is different as you go further north in the state. The difference is primarily that there is a very distinct Navajo influence to it and that influence is stronger the more northern in New Mexico you go. Why it’s now popping up in things is probably just because it is good. A lot better than a jalapeño for sure. But I don’t like the stuff it’s being put in. I just want it homemade like I grew up with.
Tooth Fairy business seems like too much trouble. I don't even know where my kids' lost teeth disappeared to. Sixty little teeth never saw the light of day past sleep time... if we even remembered to make the exchange. And, there were never any "presents," that's for sure. Maybe, 5 bucks, tops.
Spearmint or wintergreen lifesavers are very good mints IMO. They have a more mild mint flavor but it's strong enough to make your breath fresh. I think they're yummy.
I predict Flynn in an Animal Crossing New Horizons era because in the game you catch real insects, fish and deep sea creatures that you put in a museum, and can also display in your home or island and you learn real facts about them. You catch the deep sea ones by diving in the ocean. The creatures are also seasonal like in real life. Flynn would go nuts!
I never heard of hatch chilies until I moved to Arizona. There is a grocery store here that actually roasts them in front of the store for you to purchase.
As a teacher, I recognise something is written by Chat GPT when it sounds like a robot, ir too formal and unnatural in a way that sounds a little cheesy or too formated. Sometimes, however, students are smart, and they post edit the work. It wouldn't sound too robot if the student did do the work and used the AI to proofread or rewrite to correct grammer or rephrase something better. That's fair enough because Grammerly does that students are allowed to use it. I am NOT adveritising for Grammerly, by the way 😅
Obviously I’m old, but I remember when spray deodorant was all the rage in America. “Two seconds by the clock, Right Guard tick tock, Right Guard tick tock gives 24 hour protection.” I’ll go sit in my rocking chair now.
I went to college from 2019-2023, chatGPT came out when I was a junior. People talked about it and said they used it for their essays but it wasn’t until my senior year that it became really big. Teachers use a bot detector to see if it seems like it’s written by a human or AI, but it’s hard to tell. It was written into some syllabus’s saying you cannot use it at all or other teachers said you can but have to report that you did or else it would be cheating. My boyfriend and sister both have gotten caught for plagiarism using it but teachers were somewhat lenient when I was in school since it was brand new.
What I find interesting is that everyone remembers what they were eating or where they were when they lost their first tooth! How is this possible?! It is that big of an event. You never forget it. I was eating soft serve ice cream.
I'm over 40 and still have my baby canine teeth. My adult ones formed at an angle and my dentist said they can pull them but there is no guarantee that the adult ones would come down. So my parents decided to leave them be. That feeling about looking into a mirror and expecting to see a young teenage version is true. My son just turned 17 and started 11th grade. I look at him in amazement that I have a kid. Even after 17 years
I feel with Erick on that Flinn is growing so fast bc i feel like it was just yesterday that Coleen curling her hair + vlogging in the bathroom bc her water was broke 😭
Oh Colleen!!! Spray deodorant was TOTALLY a thing in the 80’s in the United States!! I’m completely aging myself here (I turn 55 this year), and I always had to use spray deodorant after PE the whole time I was in high school. And here is a clip from a favorite 80’s classic called Better Off Dead, filmed in the 80’s, in the US for proof!! th-cam.com/video/Aq85pCfobXc/w-d-xo.htmlsi=5LO2CW1ADOf5w-0Z&t=1m24s
I'm dying of laughter!!🤣🤣🤣 Hatch Chiles are Anaheim chiles that are specifically grown in the Hatch Valley, New Mexico. They are used in most green Chile recipes. They come in mild and spicy versions. They are DEFINITELY NOT NEW!😂🤣🌶
I’m currently listening getting ready for my kids leaving party before he goes to university! Which is weird because in my head I’m not even mature enough to go to university x
Hearing you say spray deodorant isn’t a thing in America is WILD here in Australia we pretty much all use spray unless ur someone who uses the natural stuff.. but everyone I know uses like dove or rexona spray deodorant 😂
Fun fact: I lost my last tooth as a freshman in college 😂 18 year old me at the dentist worried about a loose tooth that I came to find out was actually my last baby tooth still holding on
My home dryer is supposed to dry clean clothes. Of course it wouldn't be as good as the industrial machines. I've never used it, but it would definitely be without water if it's in the dryer. If I remember correctly, there's a rack that goes in the dryer (don't know where that is). You use something on the spots, not regular detergent. It basically steams them clean. I think it's the Steam Fresh setting on my dryer.
Our family always said that the tooth fairy had a bag of teeth and when it got full she would fly through the sky and let the teeth fly out and they became stars 😂
I took an ethics class a few semesters ago and we had weekly assignment to talk about our different ethical opinions. Our professor told us that someone went into Chat GPT and just copy pasted the question into chat GPT and then copy pasted the response into the assignment and submitted it. He told us that if we are going to cheat at least proof read what you submitted. It said, “as a robot for chat GPT I don’t have an ethical opinion and can’t have one” we all died laughing! Also love you guys! I’ve been a follower for over 5 years and love watching you, and your family! Keep being amazing!🫶🏼
Man, I was not cautious about losing teeth. I have a vivid memory of being late to dinner because I was DETERMINED to yank a loose tooth out. It was definitely not ready to go. I guess maybe I just hated having a loose tooth, so once one was loose, it had to go! 😂
My aunt owns a dry cleaners for decades in marina del Rey I always go visit her there when I'm in town, I've never given it a thought on how it works, and I'm always back there with her when I visit 🤣
Yes, you’re seeing Hatch chilies everywhere right now because it’s Hatch chili season in late summer so I guess big hatch (ha) thinks we want hatch peppers in everything. And yes, here in Texas, they even have cookies in our grocery store with Hatch Chilies in them 😂🤦🏻♀️
I use chat gpt for college. I feel like it needs to be embraced. Just like it used to be against the rules to Google things and now you're allowed to use Google, AI is going to be the same thing. In fact, for my grad school orientation they said that we could use it as long as it's within the boundaries of what's allowed. It really is like magic. But I've found it's most useful if you give it very specific instructions and also that you don't ask it to write more than like 300 words. It's not good at complex things. But I have used it to write essays for me (with editing) one paragraph at a time. I think the best way to utilize it is to ask it to reword something to make it sound more clear. But you have to ask it to not be redundant or use bullet points. Chat gpt is extremely redundant. But play around with it more, it's really like magic. But you do have to fact check it. And it's extremely biased.
My mom worked at a cleaners majority of her life and she always tells me to NEVER take my clothes to the dry cleaners to get cleaned. People are really dirty and take their dirty clothes and all of the clothes is washed together. You can take your clothes to get pressed (basically getting ironed) but make sure you wash and dry your clothes at home! Also, they put small tickets in each clothes with a different number sequence for each customer to know who's clothes it is.
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I feel like you guys need a segment every once in a while where you try foods/products that you have never heard of or never tried before. The first one being sonic. I would live for that. I’m speaking as a long time viewer and I haven’t missed a single vlog or podcast episode since 2020! Thanks for all you guys do to make our days a little brighter :)
High school English teacher here! I've had so many flipping issues with frigin chat gpt and the kids using it. It's usually pretty obvious because the kids who tend to use it, are the kids who can barely write a paragraph, let alone an essay so it tends to sound way more mature and advanced than the kids actual ability. If the kids are smart, they'll ask chat gpt to "dumb" down the essay or make it sound like a 15 year old wrote it. It was such a pain in my butt last year. Now, I don't allow kids to write essays at home or with computers/cellphones (unless they have sort of condition that they need one), so I know it's literally them writing it. I give them a couple days of prep to be prepared but on the days of writing, paper and pen baby!
I will never get over yall calling each other “Lovey”. It melts my heart every time 😭🥹💕
Colleen! We are all supporting you in speaking more nicely to yourself!!! You ARE smart. and wonderful. Be nicer to yourself! You deserve it!
On TH-cam it's HD, not HQ. High Definition
My son is turning 6 in a month and a simple phrase I say often to him is... 2 feelings (or things) can be true at the same time. He has 2 loose teeth at the moment and he was saying how nervous he was about it coming out. I told him, when your teeth come out it can be scary, it may hurt a little AND.. I know you can get through it, you will be okay. In other instances where you're validating Flynn's feelings, try rephrasing "but you will be okay" to "and I know you will be okay"... or some variation of that. I hope that helps! ❤❤
Colleen, you see HD (High Definition) and not HQ ;)
I work in a grocery store, and this is hatch chile season. This time every year they put it in anything and everything.
Hatch Chile is just Chile from Hatch, New Mexico. Hatch is a village an hour from where I live lol
"Does anybody do that, or is that just a cartoon thing?" About tying a string to a tooth and a doorknob... that is EXACTLY what I thought my whole life, because it never ever worked for me as a kid... until my husband managed to get literally 3 loose teeth out painlessly for my son this way, who now begs to try it whenever he thinks a tooth might be ready.
Apparently, it DOES work!
Colleen I love this podcast! I’m curious if there’s another way that you can discuss learning things without calling yourself stupid or dumb. I feel like I want to reach into the screen and reassure you that just because you didn’t know something doesn’t mean you’re insufficient. You’re such a curious person and you ask great questions and look things up and find cool answers! I think you’re inquisitive and learning not unintelligent. Love you!
New Mexican here. FYI, we put green chile (hatch chili) in EVERYTHING. We literally mark the start of Fall with chile roasting season. Every New Mexican has a freezer full of green chile that we eat throughout the year. We are so prideful of our chile. The common question asked as all restaurants is “red or green chile?” And when we are feeling spicy, we have Christmas chile (red and green). We hate anybody who says that Colorado chile is good. It’s a whole thing. Careful with your hatred of hatch chile. It’s like going after someone’s favorite football team. lol
I think if you wanted to get Flynn into video games, you should get a Nintendo switch and he might like animal crossing because you can catch bugs and fish for things and he gets discover a bunch of different types of creatures in the game and you can also build
Has anyone noticed the puppets being moved every episode?!? Today they are perfection 😂 the make out one the other day was hilarious 🤣
ABOUT THE HATCH CHILE TOPIC:
hi im a viewer from New Mexico, born and raised. Hatch Chile is not a fad and is apart of the New Mexican culture. Yes we put (green or red) Chile on everything. The most popular things that it comes on that isn’t traditionally Hispanic food are breakfast burritos with eggs, sometimes with meat and cheese, pizza (ex: pepperoni and green chile pizza), and burgers ( just straight up as a topping like lettuce and tomatoes.
Currently it is peak chile season, these are traditionally roasted. You can go to any grocery store and they roast it fresh for you outside.
So in New Mexico it is very common to see hatch Chile pop up in all sorts of things during this season. But it is VARY interesting to hear that it has made it all the way to California.
Anyways I love you guys! Love from Burque 🌶️❤️
Teacher here: there are AI websites to run a paper through and it will tell you what % is AI. It can highlight what is plagiarism. But sometimes the websites are wrong.
My dad owned a dry cleaning store for 30 years and my grandpa owned it before him so this conversation was so interesting.
Not Colleen continuing to say GBT when she already acknowledged that it’s GPT🤦♂️🤦♂️
IT’S P BABE. PEEEEEEEE
As someone who grew up in NM, we are VERY proud of our hatch chiles! They have such a good flavor, and a lot of stores nationwide have picked up on it. Hatch season is in the early fall, so advertising ramps up at that time (similar to pumpkin spice everything). In NM, many grocery stores will have chile vendors outside and they roast them for you and it smells heavenly
Colleen, there’s a difference from stupidity and naivety, love
You and your sister both had a silly moment in the same day. Rachel thought the expression was an "old wise tale". She didn't realize it was actually an "old wives tale". And you didn't know that HQ stood for Headquarters...Lol. It's silly but also cute : )
As a teacher you can tell people are cheating because it talks about things you know you didn’t teach or the writing is way too good for the student. I love my students but most people do not have clean error free writing till late high school or college.
Erik! I am from New Mexico and hatch chiles are NOT a fad. These have been around forever but it must be that they are making their way outside of NM now. Hatch chiles can be picked early and fresh and that's called green chile. Then you can have red chile where you allow the chile to get more ripe and it's dried out to become a spicy sauce. I personally love both for different reasons. And fun fact our state question is "red or green" often times people can't pick a favorite so they say "christmas"
I'm listening to this in the car with my 8 year old on the way to school - thank you for the careful take on the tooth fairy! I started to panic and tried to pause but it ended up ok 😂 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
I was just typing that Flynn has Erik’s dad’s brain and got half way through the sentence then Colleen said it. Can we see a conversation between Flynn and grandpa yoda talking about sea creatures.
I’ve thought this for months now too!!
As a child, I remember trying hard to believe the lies people will tell me about Santa Claus, tooth fairy, etc. I’m having a hard time deciding whether I want to lie to my child or not. 😢 I want to see my child smile and laugh but I’m afraid of the disappointment when she realizes it’s made up.
They grow out of their childish ways eventually. No harm creating a little magic and fun while they're still young enough to enjoy it. Real life is tough enough when it comes
Another high school English teacher here: the people who make the AI websites also help make the AI detectors. We have programs like TurnItIn and Writeable that have plagiarism and AI detectors to flag suspicious essays. I also have my students write in class so I can offer help as they write.
I'm pretty sure Erik was just being funny, but my comment from 4 weeks ago applies, so I'm going to copy and paste it here:
Every episode of the podcast:
Erik: "did you do that thing in gym class?"
Colleen: "no, I never took gym class."
Erik: "but how about that one time...
Colleen: "no"
I love listening to this while cleaning or just chilling or making biscuits at my job. I don't listen to this I always watch these videos because yall are so funny. Side note I do have the audio podcast as well. My 7 year old step son didn't realize The Ballinger Family was related to yall. When he seen Flynn. And the twins he had mixed emotions. I think he was shocked , confused, and excited all at the same time. Yall could tell Chris and Jessica this comment. He is Duncan's age and he thinks that's exciting and says he wishes he could play with all of yalls kids. Oh funny thing I shocked him when he found out who Miranda was. We watched ur regular channel then Miranda Sings channel and he was so shocked when he realized. Thanks for all the great content and when u left (Colleen) I searched ur channel daily to see if u finally posted a video. One day u did and I cried with excitement that u had came back. I wish the ones who supported u could have had the opportunity to stil watch u some way and Haters can back off.😂😂😂😂
I’m so excited for the sonics podcast. Can yall go get a tattoo together also. Colleen you gotta get be brave on your arm.
Make it a fun day! Love y’all! ❤
Ok so Colleen needs to relax with putting herself down. Colleen you and Eric ARE THE BEST.
My father in law is a retired dry cleaner! You two just unlocked soooooo much new convo for us now!
K, I thought I was losing it, but I actually scrolled back and double-checked, and yes, FYI episode #84 is titled Colleen Ballinger Is Not Smart. I may be the only person who comfort re-listens to old Relax episodes though so probably no one else would have noticed or cared that you pretty much reused a title 😅 If I need something familiar to fall asleep to I almost always just play an old episode.🤪
5:49 At my old school i was enrolled in college classes
I was in an essay writing class where we had to write 3 essays per semester, annotated bibs and all.
My professor caught a few kids using chat gpt
1 kid literally left the chat gpt little message at the top
And the other students she said she only knew because the AI takes the…personality out of the essay…apparently.
She said when she read them it sounded like robots.
(She got all those students expelled from the course 😭)
Question for you guys! If Erik was on board with getting another cat what would potential names be?? My little buddy is named Philly Cheesesteak 😆 silly cat names are my fave
Lmao I love that Colleen calls herself out when she’s wrong. Also please Colleen tell Flynn we are so proud of him losing his tooth❤. Been here since way before u met Erik so to watch Flynn grow up is just amazing. He’s incredible
RELAX! with Colleen and Erik, Yay! I liked this video so much, it made me smile!
Eric, wait until you turn 53 and look in the mirror and realize that your eldest child is 29 and is a denturologist, your second kid who is 26 is an english teacher at a high school and your baby boy who is 23 is in his last year of College to become a lab technician.
I never had my tooth tied with a string but I remember my mom having a towel over her hand while wiggling my tooth and pulling it out. I don’t remember it being painful and we definitely did it for multiple teeth but only once they were EXTREMELY loose!
I agree with you about validating the scary feelings but I always wanted to make sure my son knew, in times of panic and fear, that "Everything will be ok and you are safe and secure, and we are here. You are safe."
Guys, when my first born daughter told me she knew Santa wasn’t real, I bawled. And not just a little tear, a full on Kim Kardashian cry. My heart hurt that she was growing up. Do I still write from Santa on her gifts - yes. Even thought she is 14 now, her eyes still sparkle when she gets that gift from “Santa.” 😌
My daughter lost her first tooth at the dentist and the dental assistant accidentally sucked it up with the little sucker thingy. The dentist wrote a letter to the tooth fairy and we put the note under her pillow! It made my daughter like the dentist more lol
August is hatch chili season. Every year, there’s big displays like that at the grocery stores in the southwest. It’s been a thing, Erik😂
The Wii is so good though!! Wii party is a VIBE me and my mum play it all the time and laugh so hard at the swap meet game where we would team up and try and beat the machine for the other 2 players and then sabotage each other in the process even though we agreed to not take each others mii’s and call each other cheaters 🤣 if you and Erik were to play that it would be the most funniest thing ever!! Sometimes I play sims 3 the social and pretend I have a life and then self sabotage my sim life it’s great therapy 😂
My daughter did actually question what the tooth fairy does with all the teeth, we landed on the idea that they are building a castle out of them. (Not my Idea I feel like it's a little creepy to think of honestly 😂)
Can you do an episode of all the topics we lie to kids about? 😂 the tooth fairy thing is wild to me
i looked up how dry cleaning works. I'm like Erik, I just never gave it a second thought, but while watching your podcast I got curious.
The Hatch pepper scene has hit California, apparently. I live in Texas and this time of year it is a big deal and everything in the store has Hatch chilis in it. If you ever go to Albuquerque, it is big there all year long. They ask at burger drive thrus if you want chili sauce on your burger. I found them to be rather hot but I have since learned to really like spicier foods and regularly eat jalapenos, so I might feel differently about them now. Can't wait until you guys go to sonic.. definitely should get tater tots with cheese (you can also get it with chili but their chili here sucks) and jalapeno poppers with ranch dressing. To drink, a cherry coke is always my go to. You might like Ocean Water if you like blue coconut. Peace out!
Apparently, hatch chiles have become a trend in California... took a while.
I just realized that Maisy's baby laugh kinda of sounds like Erik's laugh.
Hatch chile is super popular in Texas! It is a seasonal thing so usually starts in the middle of July to the end of August. This isn't something new for us so prob is just making its way to y'all. But yeah its in bread, popcorn, salsa, mac and cheese, etc. SO freaking GOOD!
I absolutely tied dental floss around my son’s tooth and slammed a door shut 😂 he also swallowed his tooth and wrote the tooth fairy a note, and she was very understanding about the exchange 😅
“The days go slowly but the years fly by”. So true! Also, EVERYTHING about you is so me! ( except I’m 61). Including the teeth grinding ( I’m a very anxious person) ! I have ground my teeth for my whole life😮
I can tell you right now, every time my job asks me to do a presentation on whatever topic, I 💯 using CHAT GPT to do it for me 😂😂😂
Also I worked at the dry cleaners and there is a machine of chemicals that dry clean the clothes. We tag the clothes on the garment tags usually or on seem of the garment so there's no damage. It's pretty tedious tbh
I love that Colleen has so many tabs open, I thought I was the only one that did that.
In Maryland at Wegmans, they bring in award winning chefs to grill and cook recipes using Hatch Peppers. It is almost like a festival and has been going on for at least 15 years. During that weekend is the only time you can buy these peppers all year long. Also, you can buy dry cleaning kits at grocery stores or big superstores. The kit contains the solution to put on a large rectangular pad, the pad itself, and a couple of garment bags. You put the pad with the article of clothing in the bag, put it in the dryer, and follow directions as to how long you let it run. Fun podcast!
Hatch chile from a native New Mexican -
Hatch is a city in New Mexico which started growing green chile. If you let it ripen it will turn to red. These are a 🌶️ pepper that looks a lot like that emoji.
In New Mexico it has been used for way past my entire almost 50 years of life to make a green chile (which is like a sauce you would put over a burrito for example) with onions and garlic and yummy seasonings. About this time of the year it is harvested and the grocery stores in New Mexico (Hatch is quite a ways from where I lived) would roast the chile peppers but you could also buy them and take them home to roast. Once roasted we would cut them open, remove most of the seeds and then skin them to get the fleshy part of it but not the pulpy part of it. At my house we would then freeze it in baggies the right size to make a thing of green chile. That way we had fresh green chile all year.
Not that you mentioned it but if those peppers turn red it’s turned into a red chile (again like a sauce…red is more of a puréed one and green is small chunky one).
And because of that…New Mexico has a state question which is “Red or green?” To which you can reply red, green or Christmas which is both but not like mixed together.
It’s also vital to note that New Mexico Mexican food is NOT like what people anywhere else are used to. In fact New Mexican food is different as you go further north in the state. The difference is primarily that there is a very distinct Navajo influence to it and that influence is stronger the more northern in New Mexico you go.
Why it’s now popping up in things is probably just because it is good. A lot better than a jalapeño for sure. But I don’t like the stuff it’s being put in. I just want it homemade like I grew up with.
Tooth Fairy business seems like too much trouble. I don't even know where my kids' lost teeth disappeared to. Sixty little teeth never saw the light of day past sleep time... if we even remembered to make the exchange. And, there were never any "presents," that's for sure. Maybe, 5 bucks, tops.
When I was little my dad took his clothes to the dry cleaner and they would sew a little tag with his name on it to the edge of the garment
Spearmint or wintergreen lifesavers are very good mints IMO. They have a more mild mint flavor but it's strong enough to make your breath fresh. I think they're yummy.
i wanna see you guys play overcooked
Colleen I thought it was Kamala High Quality too 😂😂😂
We could never have the tooth fairy at my house. My daughter was always freaked out about a fairy coming into her room while she was sleeping 😂😂😂
I predict Flynn in an Animal Crossing New Horizons era because in the game you catch real insects, fish and deep sea creatures that you put in a museum, and can also display in your home or island and you learn real facts about them. You catch the deep sea ones by diving in the ocean. The creatures are also seasonal like in real life. Flynn would go nuts!
My favourite phrase about parenthood is: the days are long but the years are quick
I never heard of hatch chilies until I moved to Arizona. There is a grocery store here that actually roasts them in front of the store for you to purchase.
As a teacher, I recognise something is written by Chat GPT when it sounds like a robot, ir too formal and unnatural in a way that sounds a little cheesy or too formated. Sometimes, however, students are smart, and they post edit the work. It wouldn't sound too robot if the student did do the work and used the AI to proofread or rewrite to correct grammer or rephrase something better. That's fair enough because Grammerly does that students are allowed to use it.
I am NOT adveritising for Grammerly, by the way 😅
I feel like Colleen would be a Sims girly. Imagine if they recreated themselves in Sims for the podcast
Obviously I’m old, but I remember when spray deodorant was all the rage in America. “Two seconds by the clock, Right Guard tick tock, Right Guard tick tock gives 24 hour protection.” I’ll go sit in my rocking chair now.
I went to college from 2019-2023, chatGPT came out when I was a junior. People talked about it and said they used it for their essays but it wasn’t until my senior year that it became really big. Teachers use a bot detector to see if it seems like it’s written by a human or AI, but it’s hard to tell. It was written into some syllabus’s saying you cannot use it at all or other teachers said you can but have to report that you did or else it would be cheating. My boyfriend and sister both have gotten caught for plagiarism using it but teachers were somewhat lenient when I was in school since it was brand new.
What I find interesting is that everyone remembers what they were eating or where they were when they lost their first tooth! How is this possible?! It is that big of an event. You never forget it. I was eating soft serve ice cream.
Colleen- how did you clean all of your costumes? Sequined dresses? Corsets?
I'm over 40 and still have my baby canine teeth. My adult ones formed at an angle and my dentist said they can pull them but there is no guarantee that the adult ones would come down. So my parents decided to leave them be.
That feeling about looking into a mirror and expecting to see a young teenage version is true. My son just turned 17 and started 11th grade. I look at him in amazement that I have a kid. Even after 17 years
I feel with Erick on that Flinn is growing so fast bc i feel like it was just yesterday that Coleen curling her hair + vlogging in the bathroom bc her water was broke 😭
Oh Colleen!!! Spray deodorant was TOTALLY a thing in the 80’s in the United States!! I’m completely aging myself here (I turn 55 this year), and I always had to use spray deodorant after PE the whole time I was in high school. And here is a clip from a favorite 80’s classic called Better Off Dead, filmed in the 80’s, in the US for proof!! th-cam.com/video/Aq85pCfobXc/w-d-xo.htmlsi=5LO2CW1ADOf5w-0Z&t=1m24s
Erik puppet trying to save Colleen puppet?😂😂😂❤❤
I'm dying of laughter!!🤣🤣🤣
Hatch Chiles are Anaheim chiles that are specifically grown in the Hatch Valley, New Mexico.
They are used in most green Chile recipes. They come in mild and spicy versions.
They are DEFINITELY NOT NEW!😂🤣🌶
I’m currently listening getting ready for my kids leaving party before he goes to university! Which is weird because in my head I’m not even mature enough to go to university x
“What was the game boy called that came in color” Game Boy Color… 😂😂
Hearing you say spray deodorant isn’t a thing in America is WILD here in Australia we pretty much all use spray unless ur someone who uses the natural stuff.. but everyone I know uses like dove or rexona spray deodorant 😂
Spray deodorant WAS definitely a thing in America in the 70s/80s
If it makes you feel better I didn’t lose my last tooth until sophomore year haha
Fun fact: I lost my last tooth as a freshman in college 😂 18 year old me at the dentist worried about a loose tooth that I came to find out was actually my last baby tooth still holding on
And spoiler alert the tooth fairy didn't come that time 😂
My first tooth was pulled out by tying it to the basement door knob. Well, it came out but they LOST my first tooth, as well!! 😂
can we take a second for erik’s shoes game 😍
My home dryer is supposed to dry clean clothes. Of course it wouldn't be as good as the industrial machines. I've never used it, but it would definitely be without water if it's in the dryer. If I remember correctly, there's a rack that goes in the dryer (don't know where that is). You use something on the spots, not regular detergent. It basically steams them clean. I think it's the Steam Fresh setting on my dryer.
In my house the story was that the tooth fairy would use the teeth in her gardens to build walking paths and walls etc. 😂
can you talk about the typewriter on the next epsiode
Our family always said that the tooth fairy had a bag of teeth and when it got full she would fly through the sky and let the teeth fly out and they became stars 😂
I’m so excited for Flynn starting Kindergarten! I taught K for many years and it’s a magical place! I hope he has so much fun!
I took an ethics class a few semesters ago and we had weekly assignment to talk about our different ethical opinions. Our professor told us that someone went into Chat GPT and just copy pasted the question into chat GPT and then copy pasted the response into the assignment and submitted it. He told us that if we are going to cheat at least proof read what you submitted. It said, “as a robot for chat GPT I don’t have an ethical opinion and can’t have one” we all died laughing! Also love you guys! I’ve been a follower for over 5 years and love watching you, and your family! Keep being amazing!🫶🏼
It’s definitely always been HD (High Definition) for video and tech related things. Not HQ! 😅
Man, I was not cautious about losing teeth. I have a vivid memory of being late to dinner because I was DETERMINED to yank a loose tooth out. It was definitely not ready to go. I guess maybe I just hated having a loose tooth, so once one was loose, it had to go! 😂
With kids, sometimes the days are long but the years are short!
OMGGGG ERIK, SKATE 3 IS LITERALLY MY FAV GAME OF ALL TIMEEEE, ITS LITERALLY THE BEST GAME EVER
My aunt owns a dry cleaners for decades in marina del Rey I always go visit her there when I'm in town, I've never given it a thought on how it works, and I'm always back there with her when I visit 🤣
Yes, you’re seeing Hatch chilies everywhere right now because it’s Hatch chili season in late summer so I guess big hatch (ha) thinks we want hatch peppers in everything. And yes, here in Texas, they even have cookies in our grocery store with Hatch Chilies in them 😂🤦🏻♀️
I use chat gpt for college. I feel like it needs to be embraced. Just like it used to be against the rules to Google things and now you're allowed to use Google, AI is going to be the same thing. In fact, for my grad school orientation they said that we could use it as long as it's within the boundaries of what's allowed. It really is like magic. But I've found it's most useful if you give it very specific instructions and also that you don't ask it to write more than like 300 words. It's not good at complex things. But I have used it to write essays for me (with editing) one paragraph at a time. I think the best way to utilize it is to ask it to reword something to make it sound more clear. But you have to ask it to not be redundant or use bullet points. Chat gpt is extremely redundant. But play around with it more, it's really like magic. But you do have to fact check it. And it's extremely biased.
My mom worked at a cleaners majority of her life and she always tells me to NEVER take my clothes to the dry cleaners to get cleaned. People are really dirty and take their dirty clothes and all of the clothes is washed together. You can take your clothes to get pressed (basically getting ironed) but make sure you wash and dry your clothes at home! Also, they put small tickets in each clothes with a different number sequence for each customer to know who's clothes it is.