This Is What We Fight About // RELAX #86 

Erik, a literal tv and film actor, being recognized because of Colleen 😂 like his immediate thought wasn’t all of the stuff he’s been in, his thought was her 🥰

Are we gonna talk about how angelic Colleen's hair looks in this video?

We NEED this video of Colleen trying to put the pop-up tent away 🤣 only because I feel like this is the MOST relatable couple argument 😂

The pop up tent story killed me. There is literally a pop-up cornhole set that’s been sitting in my living room for 3 months because neither my husband or myself can collapse it and we refuse to let it win by getting rid of it 😂

You guys are such a cute married couple. They way Colleen let Erik tell his WHOLE story without a single interruption, and the way Erik apologized in the end and took accountability was great. I feel like arguing is healthy when both parties go in with an open mind to hear the other person out and when the person in the wrong apologizes. I wish I grew up around an environment like that. You guys are great.

never thought i’d see the day where y’all would podcast from a baby playpen but i’m excited for this episode lmao

There is something about Colleen and Erik sitting in the play pen while podcasting that seems so relaxed (no pun intended) like it's their safe space. There is a calm energy about this episode. Love it.

My mom is a school nurse and was my school nurse for 7 years. There was nothing better than seeking safety and comfort in her clinic. I even peed my pants one time in the 8th grade and we just laughed and laughed. She still tells me how kids big and little will come in and ask for just 10 minutes of quiet time on a cot.

We need you two to write a book. Filled with all the funny story's and adventures throughout the years.

I can totally relate to Colleen's anxiety when she doesn't hear from her family. When my parents don't come home when I expected them too or they are taking longer than normal I always assume the worst.

😂😂 Colleen imitating the surfer dude! “Oh man, the oak barrels”. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

I totally understand Colleen's anxiety when she hasn't heard from Erik. One night my husband was out of town for work. I tried texting him when I knew he should have been done working and for a while he wasn't answering. Then suddenly he started answering but with just one word sentences, which is something he normally doesn't do. My brain went to, this isn't my husband, someone has his phone somehow and is just answering these questions so I think it is him. I finally got to the point where I messaged him and said my anxiety brain is going crazy, please call me so I can hear your voice and know it is you. Thankfully within like a minute of me sending the message, he called.

Erik needs to read more ADs lmao 😂 the manscaped AD had me dying in laughter

The nostalgia that came rushing back when Erik mentioned the school nurse’s office/infirmary. My school was small so the “nurse” was the secretary & the “infirmary” was a large filing closest with 2 cots in the middle. In the most unexplainable way, the metal framed cots covered in paper with the fleece blanket brought so much comfort & safety.

Story time: I remember going to the nurse in 8th grade and demanding that my mom come and pick me up. I thought I had to poop and I NEVER pooped at school, so I pretended to be sick. My mom picked me up and I told her to take me home so I could poop and then bring me back in time for play rehearsal after school (I was the female lead). My mom refused because I wasn’t really sick and because we lived in Montecito and I went to SB jr. high and if you know the area it’s considered a far drive (it’s literally ten minutes but she wasn’t having it). Well for some reason I was PISSED (wait for it) and I told her never mind, I’d just hold it and probably have internal damage and she’d have to live with it. I went back to school and got home after rehearsal only to find out that sometimes when you’re bitchy and feel like you need to poop, you’re really just getting your period for the first time! It’s the only time I remember lying to the school nurse, just so I wouldn’t have to poop at school!

Colleen acts different on her Colleen Ballinger channel, It seems very scripted, but on her Colleen vlogs channel and this podcast she comes threw as genuine ♥️

i’m sure erik’s reaction to last week was adorable 🥺

"it's fun to fight sometimes, I feel like it adds excitement" my favorite thing Erik has ever said!

OMG! You read my comment! lol I was not expecting that and I almost choked on my soda. Also, made me smile and scream excitedly to my fiance that you liked my name.

When Erik was talking about the nurses room and how it was a calming and quiet place to reset it made me think of this documentary I had seen…. Inside this elementary school classroom the teacher had a quiet room with all sorts of calming things. I thought it was wonderful!! So if the child was feeling overwhelmed or upset or mad they could go to that room and reset their emotions.

I just love how Erick and Colleen talk with each other, you can see how genuine it is. And I also love how Erick is so scared of Colleen by telling the story of the beach Hahahha I can’t stop laughing 😂

Erik's face when Colleen was explaining how she felt regarding the tent... Aw man, he felt bad

please always have erik read the manscaped sponsor blurb, it was so good :'D

If the tent is anything like mine, I have to twist it in a figure 8 n then fold in half..most ridiculous thing EVER!! Totally understand the frustration! I watched the b-day videos and it looked absolutely amazing! I live vicariously thru RU-vid videos as I had 4 kiddos young and put my entire life on hold to raise them by myself. I've never been on a plane, took a Vacation, went to a concert ect. Now that my kids are grown, I am gonna try to live a little!

I love that you're in a play pen talking about being at a winery

I went to such a small school we didn’t even have a nurse. The front desk lady would take your temperature and call your mom. While you waited they let you sleep on this huge cozy couch with the lights off! So I can totally relate to the relaxing feeling Eric is talking about!

Colleen telling the story better than Eric, but disguising it as her version of events! 🤣

i suffered with migraines in high school and my nurses office had 2 rooms full of just those beds with curtains that could close between each bed and that was definitely my safe place, the nurses all knew me and they'd hand me my 800mg ibuprofen and let me lay down for like 30-45 min

I had same experience as Erik with the elementary school nurse's room thing. Was a small, darkish room, with one "diner-booth" bed thing, and if I was not feeling well (faked it few times cause wanted to get away from class and socialising) they'd ask symptoms and then usually just say I should lie down, relax or sleep on the bed for an hour or more. I also experienced it as relaxing, just being able to take a break from life for a bit. Also, when I was younger in daycare, they didn't have a specific room for this type thing, and they just let me sleep in a very small, cramped closet on like a blanket and pillow and that was also quite nice lol

38:17 I felt Colleen’s response across the planes of existence 😂😂😂 and then Erik’s eyes looked like Flynn questioning the meaning of life. You two are such an amazing couple to watch grow and learn with each other. 💗💗

colleen, when you read my comment from last week's episode, i lowkey freaked out to my partner with my mouth gasped open that you were mentioning me on the podcast (i adore and love you/this podcast), haha but i just wanted to say that i definitely did not mean to imply that you are or act very different on or off camera, i just thought it was funny (and cute) the way some of your reactions to erik's responses were a bit silly like when you said "ooo sexy" in a smirky way, and it made him wonder if you were recording based on that. but nonetheless, i love you both. and your gifts to erik were the most thoughtful, sweet, and kind way to celebrate him and his existence. you both are so lucky to have each other and it's been one of the loveliest honors to watch you, your family, and your love for each other grow throughout these past many years :')

Can I just share before finishing the video how happy I am to hear this convo about “ acting different when recording “ and all along no u do not act different u are this way .. this is why I love watching you. You often mention how u cry in vlogs or how u don’t think anyone cares to hear a story u share with us anyway. We all love it and are here for it.

Yes! The cot in the nurse’s office. Looking back now, I was probably an anxious little kid being “sick” for a reprieve from socialization and expectations of elementary school. Those naps were gold.

Happy birthday to you Erik. You guys are so amazing together !!!!

OMG!!!! I can't watch the end of the tent story because I can feel the RAGE!!! Geez, I normally side with Eric, but I feel you Colleen, I feel you. It's cool that both of you are able to understand each other and resolve this kind of things.

When Erik first said that being barefoot helps against insomnia all I could think of was Insomnia Cookies fighting the barefoot couple 😂

I love Erik's ad reads!! Happy birthday Erik!

I totally relate to Erik’s story about the tent 😭 i have a tent like that and I went through the same thing the first time I used it 😭 but now that I know how to fold it up, I love it!!

We have "pop-up" UV window screens in our car for baby. My hubby put the window down with one of them on it and bent the wiring. Even just a flat little pop up thing is impossible to re-circle with a bent wire, I can't imagine a tent! LOL

Why did I find the funniest part of the podcast the Manscaping ad by Erik? I was laughing out loud

It’s nice to get to know you both better . Thank you for this channel - Really enjoying it ☮️♥️

Erik just opened up a DEEP memory of going to the nurse's office in elementary school. As soon as he said it I was transported to that dark cozy room, like I remembered the smell of it too. Lol thanks I guess 😅

I'm old but we had 2 of those vinyl table beds and a skeleton named 'boney joney' in the nurses office. The nurse wouldn't call your parents either unless you were vomiting or had a fever, so I'd take the thermometer probe cover off (the disposable thing they'd put on the thermometer that hurt) rub the thermometer in the blanket, then shake it down (old school mercury thermometers) to around 101° put the probe cover back on and back in my mouth before the nurse came back to check the thermometer so I'd be able to go home! Oh the good old days! I still own an old mercury thermometer! When my kids were in school the nurse would normally just call me 99% of the time to pick up my kid and the other 1% of the time the nurse would only call if my kid(s) went to the nurse twice.

I 100% took full advantage of the reprieve of the nurse’s office! I remember many times where I avoided having to speak in front of the class or present something by saying I didn’t feel well the class period before and I would just lay on these hard plastic cot like beds and wait for time to pass. I’d either go back once I’d avoided everything I wanted to or would get my parents to come get me. I obviously went there for real reasons too, but definitely more for just a break as Erik said!

I can’t believe Colleen sat that long with her legs under her without her legs /feet falling asleep. Wild.

I am SCREAMING with the manscaped ad read 😂😂😂

My school nurse was awful. I remember being in 3rd grade and going in because my stomach hurt, and I walked into the nurse yelling at a kid to stop coming in because he had the common cold and she couldn't do anything about it. This kid was crying, begging for her to call his mom and she wouldn't... needless to say I was terrified of going into the nurses office! I also remember them getting a shot station, I definitely did not go in after finding that out.

my school doesn’t have a nurse 😭 instead we have office ladies who, are very nice and sweet, but definitely are not qualified to be nurses. if you’re injured they’ll give you either a ziplock bag of ice or when i was in elementary school they would give you a frozen sponge in a bag that you would have to take back to the office when you were done with it. in elementary they would have these horrendously uncomfortable weird bed yoga matt things to lay on if you weren’t feeling well but now in hs they just let you go home. my school is kinda weird tho bc it’s charter so it’s all in one building so hearing stories from other schools is always so fascinating to me

That fact that you're in the baby cage is endlessly hilarious.

Gooood evening from central Florida! Hope everyone has a great night!

Omg Eric I can totally relate to the Nurses Cot story. Like the little bed thingy in the dark was great after a long day. I only did this like 4 times in high school and I’ll tell you it is so relaxing. Watching a VLOG video of you two recreating one of these would be funny. ❤

Oh my gosh yes!! All of this!! Erik you are wonderful at being all of those things. I thought I loved you for your ability to be an awesome werewolf but I love you way more as an awesome husband and dad!

You guys are so funny i love it that your in a play pen. You guy's are so alike to me and my lovey we in our mid 20s n marrying this Saturday on the 8th oct. We both love your podcast. ❤

I love the role reversal with the two of you in the playpen! 💗 Also, the cat hair on Erik’s microphone conversation made me laugh so loudly that I woke up Hendrix (my Frenchie pup) from a deep sleep! 😂 I love your podcast and your witty banter. Thank you for sharing your incredible marriage, family, and lives with all of us. 💞

The whole barefoot discussion made me laugh so much because going down the street barefoot is pretty normal here in Australia😂

I remember when I went to the nurse in elementary school I would always be so stressed out that my mom would be mad at me. Like I would have a fever or hurt my foot, etc. and for some reason I would have full on panic attacks that when my mom would come pick me up and see that I was at the nurse she would yell at me and be mad. It was so strange now thinking back because its not like she would yell at me outside of school, so I wonder why I would think that.

Colleen I'm so with you over the tent. You should buy multiple shapes and sizes of pop-up items and give them to Erik to fold-up while recording him (maybe show us...?). Start with easy items and work up to more complicated, like the babies tent.

As for the school nurse’s office: I went through a phase in the 2nd grade where I went to the nurse’s office almost everyday for a month. I had major anxiety because another student had vomited in class once after lunch. I was terrified it would happen again, and my solution was to get away from the classroom after lunch by saying that I didn’t feel well. Sometimes I would just hang out in the nurse’s office for awhile. Sometimes a guardian would come pick me up. I absolutely remember the paper thermometers and the small cot with plastic covering it for easy clean up. Once when I was visiting, a boy had a tick on his scalp. The nurse cut a bunch of his hair off, then removed the tick before flushing it down the toilet.

my school didn't have a nurse, but hearing this I feel like a relaxing room should be provided for the more sensitive, not so social kids...I would've loved that and it would make school so much more bearable

Please be the rugrats for Halloween! The twins as Phil and lil and Flynn and Timmy!!

Colleen- There’s so much cat hair on your microphone Erik- No, Don’t take it off, it’s part of my microphone 😂

Eric, There are youtube channels that show you how to fold the pop-up tents.. I had to look it up

Omg Colleen, I was a middle school nurse for 11 years! This podcast was for me. You are thinking about a glass thermometer but the plastic covers had very sharp seamlines on the side that was rough on your tongue. And I had kids like you, with separation anxiety, all day long. People think school nurses just put bandaid on boo boos but we do so much more, we are counselors, janitors, surrogate mommies. I had 5 diabetic students at one point, we do tube feedings, dispense medications, give hygiene talks, hearing and vision screenings, teach cpr.....I won't bore you with the rest. Yes Eric, we have vinyl cots that squeak when you lay down on them!! And we give out ALOT of ice packs🤣

School Nurse Rooms were the best! I was definitely a separation-anxiety kid like Colleen, but my parents worked full time so I couldn't be picked up until school was over. But man! Erik is so right. Those little dorm-like beds covered with the thick plastic, paired with the dim lighting and faint office noises in the background? Immaculate. Unmatched. Phenomenal.

My school nurse was legit the worst woman on planet earth. I was at the same school for 14 years and she made me cry at least once a year. Once, I went to her office with the most EXCRUCIATING period pains in the hopes that she would give me something to help. We were only allowed to go to the nurse during lunch so she was supposed to take a different lunch period. When I got there, her office door was closed with a sign saying ‘I’m out for lunch’ on it but I could hear her laughing and gossiping with someone inside. I knocked and knocked for five minutes but she ignored me so eventually I left. Later, during class time, I asked my teacher to go back and when I did, the nurse wasn’t there. I stood outside and waited until she got back. When she did, she shouted at me for five minutes for being out of class (even though I had a letter from my teacher) and when I told her that I came during lunch but she was talking to someone else and didn’t open the door, she shouted at me more. She threatened to give me detention for talking back and send me to the principles office. She then refused to give me medicine (which is against school rules) and didn’t allow me to lie down on one of the plastic beds. When I asked her to phone my mom to come and get me (since she wouldn’t get me any medicine), she refused to do so and told me to stop being so dramatic. She was absolutely horrible

7 minutes in and they still haven’t mentioned why they’re in a baby playpen! 😂

I love the baby cage 😂 we call ours BABY JAIL 🤣🤣🤣

Not Erik being so happy about being Colleen. “SHES AMAZING”-Erik Stocklin 2022.

i remember going to the nurse at least once week in elementary school. the room was so peaceful and the cold diner booth beds are so comfortable for no reason. even if i didn't go home, it was a nice 20-30 min escape to lay down and avoid the weird eye exams we took once a term.

I have always been a barefoot person. When I go to stores, church, doctor or school I wear shoes. Once, as a teen, I walked across the street to get the mail in a foot of snow barefoot. My neighbor called and offered to buy me shoes. My mom explained I had them but refused to wear them. As for the school nurse, they had a desk and chair, no bed and you had to have a temperature to go home. My brothers taught me to stop in the bathroom and drink hot water on the way. We lived close enough and had to walk home.

In middle school I was a nurse assistant a have a few stories. Disposable thermometers where like laminated paper. We played with those all day trying to give ourselves a fever. There where kids we had to hand their medicine to. But I was never a patient at my middle school. Or elementary school. But in high school I heard a girl say she would take a nap in the nurse office when on her period. So I started to go every month on running day if I was on my period. I was given a heating pad and would take a nap. Back to my middle school nursing assistant stories. I had a guy friend in middle school and then found out he was a nurse assistant for another period. And the nurse would say we where her children so we called eachother brothers and sisters. And we would leave notes for eachother in the nurse office. Even though he was like a best friend of mine at the time, so we talked and hangout outside the nurses office. When I went to high school I moved cities and lost touch with 99% of my friends. He was one of them. Back in MySpace days he didn't have one and we didn't have cellphones either. But I guess 10th grade he made a MySpace found me and added me. From the day I seen his friend request till this day we had not stop talking. We actually have 2 kids together and the 3rd on the way. Now I call him my husband!

I think I saw the moment eric kinda caught on is he said something and colleen turned to us and said "intresting" and its not she was acting diffrent but she was talking to both eric and us at the same time and it came though to eric that her response sent like it was to some one else and we'll she was, she was talking to us XD

39:43 - when you "bickered" I pictured the song "Therapy" from Tik Tik BOOM! hahaha. "...I'm not mad, that you got mad, when I got mad..."

The nurse’s office whenever I was on my period was the best!! They would give me a warm thermal water bag thing and it would ALWAYS make me feel so much better. I would always take a nap, good reset for sure!

I didn’t go to the school nurse very often, but I have vivid memories of the times I did. We absolutely had that same vinyl bed!

Love your guys podcast! Always enjoy watching/listening! I vividly remember the School nurses office! The thermometer they used had the plastic covers that snapped on & popped off with a click of a button. I also feel like school nurses offices had the best "boo-boo" ice packs ever. we had 2 "diner booth beds" & they had a curtain that hung from ceiling & it could be pulled around the bed for privacy & yes many times I'd go down there for a reset half way through the day. My elementary years i was bullied & my mom's best friend was the school nurse & I would go in and hang out with her & she'd give me lil pep talks & a snack then send me back to class ❤

I have a sun shade in my car that is the same type of pop-up material. My husband ALWAYS gets so frustrated at this shade when he drives. He’s just thrown it into the back seat on several occasions…he denies bending it but I believe he did when he couldn’t put it together the first time. 😂😂😂

The talk about the tent is cracking me up LOL Its like that tiktok about how dehumanizing the walk back from the beach is 😂😭🤣 especially with kiddos! & 3 at that!

I listen to y’all while at work and hang on to every last work. It makes my night. I’m older than you guys and the only “paper” thermometers I know about didn’t go into your mouth, they went across your forehead. In elementary school our nurses office kind of sucked but I was really close with the counselor and he owned a Mr McGruff puppet (the take a bite out of crime mascot) and he would cheer us up with him when we felt bad. Thanks for keeping me entertained during my long shifts. Love y’all!

I love when they bicker. I know some get annoyed but teasing is clearly one of their love languages & it’s adorable and funny. ✨💞

Hi! When u guys were talking about the school nurse I can relate so much to Colleen. I’m in middle school and I get out at 3 and sometimes my mom is a little late, and I think she got in a car crash or something. Also with calling my mom and she had to be there right away

I remember going into the nurses when I was in elementary school and it was these two vinyl beds like Erik was talking about with two of those small plastic chairs at the end with a trash can. As well as the whole nurses cabinet in front of there. I never had that 10 mins of quiet time bcs it was connected to the front office but I do agree for some reason the nurses always made that space accommodating and made it feel safe. Growing up tho I relate to colleen whenever I feel sick in high school I immediately text one of my parents and beg the nurse to call one of them . I love your podcast and love watching Colleens vlogs.

OMG YEESS! my elementary school had a full on couch, pillow, blankets, saltine crackers and ginger ale in the office and when you were sick they would turn the lights completely off in the one corner. it was HEAVEN 😍

Colleen you’re talking about catastrophizing!! My therapist teaching me this concept was life changing. Look up cognitive distortions and it’ll make a lot more sense for you! And I spent an ample amount of time at the nurses office like Erik so I can totally relate there too! Love you guys ❤

I love how much Erik gets excited to answer the phone! I removed when he was so nervous about it & then the people were so kind and now he so stoked about it 😊 Can I add that “grounding” is great. But, when there is a barrier (I.e. concrete) between you and the earth you don’t get the benefits. Js

Am Putting Up Christmas Decoration's Up After Halloween And Canadian Thankgiving Yay🎃🎄Happy Birthday Weekend Erik Your The Best🎉🎊

I was a school nurse and that is the best for a child needs a reset. The school nurse does a Lot of mothering

When I was a kid in elementary we had a nurses office & they had a couch & the booth bed! I usually sat on the couch.

I'm convinced those pop up items are only to be used by half the population. I'm in Erik's camp, I have the pop open windshield covers, and i can NEVER refold them. I literally just set them open in the backseat. My boyfriend on the other hand can do the one move and fold them every time.

Living for the playpen podcast 🥰😂😍🥰💜💜💜💜💜💜

You two are such a lovely couple 🥰

1:17:15 Colleen, the thing you're remembering are the plastic sanitary covers that the nurse would put over the thermometer. It would cut into your tongue every time. I hated those things!!!

Ahhh so early hi friends :) I have grown to love these episodes so much 💗

Omg an hour 20 minutes! And I’m here before I got the notification!!

The setup is interesting but love it 🥰

The manscaped ad was my favorite ever!

Yes to the nurses offices having vinyl almost booth like beds but I also stayed on a chair I don’t remember ever laying down. The thermometer had a thin plastic cover that were so sharp … my parents used to use them at home too. I also make worse case scenarios for everyone I care about.

Omg yeah about the school getting out early on fridays, my middle school finished at 3:30 every day and on fridays it ended at 3:15 like “wow we get to leave school 15 minutes before we usually do that’s crazy!”

Haha the shoe thing cracks me up, here in New Zealand you will often find people walking in supermarkets and shops with bare feet 🤢 it's a bit yicky.

lol I want to see the tent footage, it should be included in her birthday podcast episode as payback