This week on Barely Famous, Kail and Kristen catch up on Kail’s trip to Madrid, Spain. Kail shares her experience battling strep throat and sleepless nights, exploring the Royal Palace, and adjusting to stark cultural differences—all while traveling abroad with kids. The duo dives into everything, including Spain’s lack of seasoning and how Kail and the kids were traumatized at a roasted pig dinner. Please support the show by checking out our sponsors! Hers: Start your free online visit today at forhers.com/FAMOUS Posh Peanut: Go to PoshPeanut.com/FAMOUS, and use promo code FAMOUS for 20% off your first order. Shopify: Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial period at SHOPIFY.COM/barelyfamous See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Chapter 1: What was Kail's experience with strep throat in Spain?
but absolutely not here. I was diagnosed with, is diagnosed the right word? That feels really dramatic to say I was diagnosed with strep throat. I have strep throat, so I'm currently on ibuprofen and the lovely steroid prednisone. They also prescribed me a Probiotic, which is nice. That was really kind of them. And I'm just truly pushing through.
This is the first day that I don't feel like I'm swallowing glass. So I'm able to actually... They're still swollen, but I'm able to swallow it down.
Should we talk about why you got strep throat? Because it's absolutely because you haven't been sleeping.
We need to talk to a doctor, okay? Like, here's the thing. This is the craziest... connection but I because you have to be exposed to that bacteria or to that virus or to whatever in order to get said illness right like the people that say oh if you go outside in the cold you're gonna get sick no actually that's not how it works you have to be exposed to said illness right for some reason
Every time I don't sleep for several days in a row, and when I say don't sleep, I mean significant hours in the night where I'm not sleeping. I'm not just talking about waking up once, twice, three times, tossing and turning. Like, truly not sleeping, up from one to five, up from one to four, just really, really bad sleep. That LA trip fucked me up. So I'm wondering if...
Either I was exposed to strep that caused me to not sleep for those days leading up to having strep. Or if not sleeping, I couldn't fight off the exposure to strep. Like, I just don't understand why it's always strep. Like, Kristen, you've known me for 13 years. Why, when I don't sleep, I immediately get strep? I don't understand.
You have had strep in 13 years? Yes. At least 15 times. Do you know how many times I've had strep in those same 13 years? Never. Hasn't happened. It's not, it's not common. Like in adults, it's not common at all. I do know a little bit about strep, like bacteria or whatever. It is so like, It is everywhere. It is so everywhere. So I think personally, you are so affected by lack of sleep.
Like I think there's a lot of things that affect people differently. I don't think not sleeping is good for any of us, but like I can handle not sleeping. Like it doesn't do to me what it does to you. Like my brain will be foggy, but like you get fucked up like you immediately.
And it's actually crazy now that I put this connection together, because when you were texting me about your neck and your throat and whatever, I'm out here thinking like COVID or the flu or something like that.
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Chapter 2: Why is the food in Madrid disappointing?
I am with, especially with, your handy dandy straw toppers that you got me?
Yes.
I'm not. I, this is me when, if it, if it's like, if he forgets to put one in and it sat there for a little bit, I'm like,
Why are you and Isaac the same person? Because Isaac has the Olivia Rodrigo one and he left it in the classroom. He got it back and he's like, I can't drink out of it. I'll never look at it the same with the straw. And me and Eliza are like, change the fucking straw.
Replace the straw. Yep. I am so suspect about it. I don't know why. I'm just like, there's definitely a bug in here. I don't know.
When I went to Thailand, I had a spider in my straw, but I saw it.
I think that really did me in. Like, for you. Thanks. Thank you. I think that really, I'm also eating alongside you. This would be Thanksgiving leftovers.
I'm so jealous. The food here is absolutely horrible.
I need to know why. Go ahead. Is it seasoning? Is it spice? Is it flavor? Like, what is bad?
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Chapter 3: What cultural differences did Kail notice in Spain?
um but we you know he emailed me the one day and he's like i'm not gonna go to practices on your weeks like if you're gonna be there he only he doesn't need us both to be at every single practice and so that kind of opened my eyes and so it's been okay and i know that he's right here in the hotel and they you know go to the it's it's good and so there was an opportunity for parents to go on a tour with the team
And I looked at him and I said, do you want me to go on the tour or do you want to be with your friends? And he was like, I want to be with my friends. And I was like, okay. So it was one of those things where like I was trying to let him have a space. I think living with a roommate for a week has really opened his eyes because, you know, he doesn't even share a room at my house.
So sharing a room with two people that you don't know that you've never met is truly like a college or sleep away camp experience. I think he's really liked it overall. I think it's hard meshing personalities together to sleep in the same room, but he's like, can I come shower in your room? Can I come take a poop in your room? Can I do?
And so it's just been, I think as a mom, a really, really good experience for him. I don't know how he... I don't know how he feels about it, but I think for him as a mom, I think it's really, really great.
I think that's also really cool for Lincoln that all of you guys got to come for him.
Oh, and his, and his grandparents, which is so cool. It's also his godmother, which is really cool. And it's for, you know, that's his first cousin. So.
And you had walks there and Creed there, like his, some of his siblings came. Like, I don't think this is, I think Lincoln will always remember this. I don't think this is something like that he'll ever forget.
I don't think any, I mean, I think even Lux and Creed will remember it forever. And Lux and Creed have been making the best of all of it. And, you know, they've learned a lot on the trip. We've been practicing Spanish vocabulary because I can still get on the app for school. And so Lux has been, and we're in the perfect place for that. And so we see words in Spanish and that's helping.
I mean, I would absolutely do another trip like this, just not here. And I would definitely, do a lot more research about where, because the other thing too, is if I would have known Madrid is what it is, I maybe would have split the trip up with six days and six days being somewhere else. So that way it would have been like two pieces. Yeah. Because like I said, it would just take a train ride.
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Chapter 4: How does Kail's son Lincoln's soccer experience go?
And I was telling you about it because I didn't understand. And you were saying how like poor Muslim people. It was something about pork is, like, dirty.
Yeah.
So, like, here, you're somewhere else, and they, like, it seems like it's, like, a delicacy.
Yeah, like a delicacy or a traditional meal that they do.
That's so interesting to me. Like, just in, like, how some, you could literally have both sides of pork.
Well, so it's sort of the same, and I don't think there's any religious, I don't think there's religious contact, or there might be, actually. Some cultures won't eat, like, shrimp because they're, like, dirty. Yeah, they're, like, bottom feeders. And so in some cultures, it's like, we don't eat shrimp for that reason. And then in other cultures, you're like, throw shrimp on everything.
Oh, my God. I never, I, because I literally have never left the country, I've never even, like, researched, like, other cultures.
so i'm just like now that makes me want to know like what foods do y'all not eat compared to like food oh that's a good question so that is really intriguing to me because like i wonder if it's the same thing with like i wonder if there's anywhere that doesn't eat chicken i'm sure i'm sure there's places that don't i mean i don't know that's a good question i don't know food poisoning is big around here
When I Googled that and found that out, I was like, no, I'm telling this bitch immediately because she's got kids that'll be puking everywhere.
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Chapter 5: What was the roasted pig dinner experience like?
Chapter 6: What are Kail's travel tips for visiting Spain?
What else? So what else has been different? You were telling me about like, there's no like, um,
little like convenience stores and stuff okay so hotels in america have like a little chance in them yeah like i i don't think you'll see a hotel with a convenience store in them more frequently than you won't here there's no convenience items in the hotel so there's no little corner of the hotel that has snacks and toothbrushes and whatever like tylenol like they don't have that
um there's also not a variety of snack foods in general like if you go to the grocery store we went to the grocery store and we got bananas apples and oranges as the kids snacks were in here but they don't have like a snack aisle and if they have an aisle that has snacks and it's very minimal which is really just so interesting compared to america i mean there's a reason why we're obese and they're not here um
Obviously, the outlets are different. So if you're traveling to Europe and you've never been out of the country or you've never been to Europe specifically, you have to get an adapter. And this is an example of an adapter. Oh, these are the prongs that they use here. OK, just check the country that you're going to. And it'll and then get the right adapter accordingly.
The convenience of things nearby is also like everything from where I'm at right now in this hotel is about 40 minutes. So there's not a whole lot that's like super close.
I was shocked. Like when you were initially telling me like all the things I was so shocked. But that's like because I'm naive because I live where I live. You know what I mean? Like I have a Wawa on every single corner. If I don't have Wawa, I have 7-Eleven.
There's not like a convenience store nearby to like go get a snack or go get it. Like there's just not that. And then the executive lounge that's here, like upstairs, I, you know, I paid a little extra for it because in another hotel, when we went to Disney, it was like a snack bar with drinks.
So if you needed a quick snack, you know, and or small plate hors d'oeuvres, whatever small light breakfast, just like anything like that, that's sort of the vibes that I would thought it was. No, there's no food up there. It's just drinks.
But a Coke, you can get a Coke anywhere. Which we love. But you did tell me it is not the same thing as a Mexican Coke.
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