April 10, 2025 • 48 mins
Ever wonder why you maintain odd routines that make no logical sense? You're definitely not alone! This light-hearted, revealing conversation explores the mysterious world of personal rituals, superstitions, and habits that shape our daily lives.
We start by questioning whether luck actually exists or if we create our own good fortune through preparation. Sharing stories of unexpected windfalls—from discovering hidden cash in inherited quilt supplies to winning expensive power tools in random drawings—we examine those rare moments when the universe seems to single us out for special treatment. These experiences leave us wondering: was it pure chance, or something more?
The conversation takes a fascinating turn when we confess our quirky personal habits. One of us always books seats on the right side of the airplane and feels genuinely uncomfortable breaking this pattern. Another meticulously organizes office binders with all labels facing precisely the same direction. Most surprisingly, we discover 2 out of the 3 of us count steps when climbing stairs—every single time, on every staircase, anywhere we go!
We explore the fine line between beneficial habits and anxiety-driven compulsions, noting how these patterns provide comfort and predictability. From the ancient pagan origins of "knocking on wood" to why certain numbers are considered lucky or unlucky across different cultures, we examine how humans have always sought to create meaning and control through ritual.
What quirky habits do you maintain? Do you count steps like us? We'd love to hear about your unexplainable routines! Share them in the comments when this episode posts—let's normalize the wonderfully weird things we all do when no one's watching.
Amy, Kitty & Stacey
P.S. Isn't our intro music great?! Yah, we think so too. Thank you, Ivy States for "I Got That Wow".
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Speaker 2 (00:26):
Hello and welcome to another episode of Three
Cocktails In.
We are the Three CocktailsChecking In.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
We are.
You know what's funny abouttonight?
I usually have a cocktail andI'm drinking Fresca.
I know Kitty won't have acocktail and I think Amy, aren't
you drinking Diet Coke?
Speaker 4 (00:47):
I'm drinking caffeine-free Diet Coke, so I
think mine is the least cocktailthat one could get.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Well, mine is Propel water, oh well, not plain water.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Yeah, wow, we're hitting hard.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
That's for sure.
Hey it's Wednesday night.
It's a school night.
It is Wednesday.
I had a margarita.
We went out for mexicans.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
So I already had a margarita.
So, oh yum, it was nice, verygood.
Not even taco tuesday.
No, taco tuesday.
Is that a good segue?
Speaker 3 (01:21):
is it sure?
What are we talking about?
That has to do with tacos arewe?
Speaker 2 (01:27):
we're jumping right into it, I guess okay okay, our
topic tonight is we are talkinga little bit about luck, habit
and superstition, and this justkind of came up in casual
conversation with us and I think, you know, as we grow up and we
(01:47):
move into adulthood and youknow, we can get very set in our
ways and I think we find thatwe do things the same way over
and over again and I got tothinking so I have these quirky
things that I do.
(02:08):
Is that normal?
Do other people do this?
Why do I do it?
No, it's not normal.
Why do I feel uncomfortable ifI, you know, think, oh, I'm
going to do it differently thistime and I'm like, no, I can't
do that because it works out.
Oh, my gosh, it's too much.
It's too much.
(02:28):
We're going to talk a littlebit about that tonight.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Yeah, and that's what I mean by Taco Tuesday.
Yeah, it's Tuesdays.
On Tuesday you have tacosMm-hmm, oh Well so well.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
So I don't know I could have tacos in it.
Yeah, same, and we in thishouse we have always had tacos
on monday night, like for years.
Oh, no, fail, monday night, wehave tacos, see what happens if
you switch it up if you switchit up, bo gets grumpy.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
If you do, do you then have tacos on Tuesday or do
you just skip it and have thenext Monday?
You?
Know what I mean you have tohave tacos, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
So okay, let's just.
Let's start with just kind of ageneral question here Related
to luck Do you believe in luckor do you think that we create
our own luck?
Speaker 4 (03:38):
I do think that preparation being well prepared
for situations you're in canmake it seem like, when a good
outcome happens, that you gotlucky.
But I think that yourpreparation had a time.
(03:59):
Yeah, I agree.
I think you then don't have toworry about the focus.
You don't have to be so rigidin your focus in that moment
because you've gone through itso many times, that then you're
a little bit more spontaneousand it goes the way you wanted.
It can come off feeling lucky.
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Yeah, definitely.
Yep, I agree, you know if we'retalking specifically about you
know, like winning the lotteryor things like that.
Um, I think two things about it.
I think you could play once andyou could get lucky and win it.
I also also think the more youplay, in theory you have a
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better chance at winning lotteryright, or even winning at, you
know, blackjack or in the casino.
You know, the more you play,you're going to win something
eventually.
But I also think you could dropa quarter in some machine and
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win a bunch.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Just take so.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
So I think it still has to do with luck A lot of
luck.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Have you guys ever had something happen to you in
your life where you thought I, Iam so lucky, that was so lucky,
or that was just something thatwas just so big and amazing and
truly chalked it up to luck?
Speaker 4 (05:36):
I remember finding money as a kid.
You know you'd find a random $5bill that obviously came out of
somebody's pocket, in Target orsomething or the grocery store,
and there is nobody around.
There's nobody in the aisle.
It's not like they just droppedit and you kept it.
I remember thinking that I wasthe luckiest person in the world
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.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
That's a great memory great memory.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
I once I inherited I'm sure you guys know this
story, but as an adult married.
My great aunt, Zira passed away.
No, she moved into the nursinghome at like age 97.
She went to the nursing home.
Evidently I was the only onethat quilted and she was a big
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quilter.
I was the only one that quiltedand she was a big quilter.
So my aunt, arlene or, and mydad I don't know who did it
exactly, but I got one of thoselawn leaf bags of quilt notions,
the old chocolate candy boxes,you know, full of bobbins, and
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then a whole bunch of manilaenvelopes with um pattern like
template pieces.
And so I'm at mom and dad's,kevin's, there, we're going
through it and I'm like, oh,look the daisy chain, oh, look
this, oh, look a wad of cash.
And I pull out this wad of cashand it's hundreds and I'm
counting it out and you know itwas.
It was actually it was probably50s, because I had to count
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quite a bit and it turned out tobe something like 750 bucks or
something.
You would have thought my dadwas like stretch armstrong
because from like 10 feet awayhis hand comes reaching over and
grabs that money out of myhands.
It's like that is not for youoh.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Oh Right.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Right.
So on the way home, I'm drivinghome with this big bag of quilt
pieces and no cash and Kevingoes.
You just had to go through allthe pieces in front of your mom
and dad, Right.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Right If you'd waited at home.
Nobody didn't know, Right?
So?
Speaker 4 (07:47):
lucky and then unlucky in a snap.
Yeah, that's not right.
Yeah, tell Fred, I did remindhim often he's gone, but you
know but that to me that feltvery lucky.
Yes.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Wow, I just remembered that years ago.
So we I mean it was within thelast 20 years because we were in
this house and at one pointwe'd been up at Home Depot and
Bill had filled in.
They were doing a giveaway forsomething.
So he'd filled out one of thelittle cards and popped it in
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and we got a call from HomeDepot said you won this Ryobi.
It was massive.
So am I saying that right?
Speaker 4 (08:39):
I don't know what that is.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
It's a brand of power tools.
And so we went and Bill wasjust like, cause he knew what it
was.
So we went up there and it wasthis giant bag, you know, like
rolling bag and stuffed full ofpower tools.
Wow, I mean it was probably athousand dollars worth of tools.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Thousand dollars worth of tools, that would be
like us winning like a bag, youknow this size, full of Tiffany.
Um, we take a bag this size.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
So he was ecstatic and that would be a time that I
think he would say that was pureluck.
Because it is, you're justyou're getting your name pulled
out of something.
That was just pure luck.
And it's just so nice to havethose random moments in life
where you feel like you were,you were anointed, it's, it's
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your time.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
Yeah, exactly, and also inspiring to keep doing
that activity.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Yeah, yeah, so does he fill out the card on
everything now um, I don't seehim do it on everything, but
he's, he chooses the things thathe's like.
Okay, that would be worth it.
Okay, yeah, that would be worthit yeah, yeah, it doesn't take
very long yeah, it's nice.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Yeah, I don't consider myself a lucky person,
honestly, you know, because,yeah, there's no winning things.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
And now you know what I mean but you don't consider
yourself an unlucky person, doyou?
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Okay, I would not say I'm unlucky either.
No, just kind of average, justabout like everything, pretty
average, pretty average.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
You're not average.
There's nothing average aboutyou, Stacey.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Oh, you've never heard me say that, that I'm
pretty average at everything.
I can do about everything, butI'm really average at it.
I'm not very good at anything,I'm not below average.
Pretty average Pretty steady.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
So, on that note, do we know people who say they have
bad luck?
If you believe in being lucky,do you also believe in people
having bad luck?
Speaker 2 (11:10):
I mean, I certainly hear people say that, and
sometimes people just say it injest, you know they'll just say,
oh, with my luck, Right.
I feel like we hear people saythat all the time and I think
that's a sign of you know theperson really kind of feeling
like, well, I never win anythingRight and I always feel bad
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when I hear people say that.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
It comes back to mindset.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Yeah, it's a mindset thing.
You know, woe is me, poor me,because this happened and you
know the rest of us, whatever.
You know woe is me, poor me,because this happened and you
know the rest of us.
Whatever.
You know it happened and you'reover it.
I wouldn't call it a.
You know the reason.
Some things happen becauseyou're unlucky.
They just kind of happen.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Yeah, randall things happen, yeah yeah, mm-hmm,
random things happen, mm-hmm,yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Got to go with the flow, okay.
So if we think about the topicof superstition, so the
relationship to me, I feel likeI can influence some things if I
wear the same.
Okay, I had a really good showthat night.
(12:27):
I know what shirt I was wearing, I'm going to wear that now, or
, or?
Um.
So I use I use a text alertsystem.
So before I go live, I send atext alert to you know, people
who are signed up for textalerts and I, every once in a
while, will change the littleemoji that I use on it, and
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there have been a couple timesthat I've had a little bit of a
like a show that wasn't quite asgood as some of the other ones
and my little brain thinks youchanged the emoji on your text.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
I think that was it.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
It was the emoji on your on your chest, so that was
it it was the emoji yeahabsolutely so kind of like you
know, like people that are, youknow, fans of a football team or
a baseball team or whatever youknow always wear the same shirt
, the same hat, the same socksand whatever whatever the thing
is, or you know watch it in thesame place, or you know to to
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help.
I don't think that does squat.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
I think it comes
Speaker 3 (13:33):
back to pooing your emoji on your message.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
I don't think.
I think it comes back tomindset.
So athletes are notoriouslysuperstitious.
Oh, superstitious Again.
My sister, Ann, in high schoolI mean she's still a beautiful
vocalist she sang the nationalanthem for the hockey team.
They won that game.
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They said Ann, you got to comeback, You've got to sing the
national anthem.
She ended up having to sing thenational anthem so many times
in a row because they keptwinning and that was part of it.
They didn't want to jinx it, ohmy gosh.
And so I think that that'sfunny.
But if that's what makes youfeel comfortable, so that you
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can be free, flowing and in themoment again, Yep, I agree, I
agree in the moment again.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Yep, I agree, I agree , they needed to know.
Yes, If you're the one that isparticipating and have the, you
know what do I want to say.
So I don't think a baseball fanwearing an outfit has anything
to do with the baseball teamplaying.
A baseball fan wearing anoutfit has anything to do with
the baseball team playing.
Now, in your case, where thehockey team wanted her to sing,
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that's different.
You know they think that's, youknow what's gonna, that's their
mindset and you know didn't doanything.
You know that makes sense.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
You didn't have a magical voice that cast a spell,
like Ariel the mermaid, I'msure she did.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
But if they wouldn't have known it, it wouldn't have
been her juju to help them win.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
But they did know that she was singing, and so
they went into that game withmore confidence.
Yeah, that's true, and that'swhat won the game.
That's the difference.
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
Maybe Now I don't necessarily consider myself
superstitious, mm-hmm, but I'mnot walking under ladders.
I remember as a very smallchild not stepping on any cracks
, so I didn't break my mother'sback.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
I bet you did accidentally well, it wasn't
without cause.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Yeah right, you know, when you're like I'm just going
to cry.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
I'm going to go, step out of the crack.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Yeah, those are the longstanding superstitions,
definitely.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
All right.
So, Miss Catherine, what elseare you superstitious about?
Speaker 3 (16:35):
um what?
Speaker 2 (16:40):
no, go ahead, go ahead.
Well, I just just general.
I find that I will follow thesame process or the same
procedures and try not to varythings that are related to you
know, things that I'mparticularly like.
I need this to go this way.
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I was using the example of theshirt.
I don't necessarily do that.
It's a good example, but Idon't really do that.
But I don't know, I just Idon't.
I kind of do everything ingeneral the same way If things
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have gone well, if things havegone well, if they haven't, I'm
fine blowing the whole system up.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Yeah, right, but then that doesn't that move towards
habit.
I mean, aren't you forming goodhabits or processes, or you
know?
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Yes, that's a way to make me feel good about my
neuroses.
Yes, right.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
I have one that has nothing to do with process, but
when I don't do it, it makes meuncomfortable, okay.
When I don't do it, it makes meuncomfortable, okay.
And so it's totally appropriate, because we just posted
something that said Stacey and Iare going on vacation and one
of the things you know, I'vebeen the travel agent for my
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family, always booking flights,all that.
I always book seats, as you'relooking at the airplane, on the
right-hand row of the airplane.
I cannot tell you.
Matter of fact, kitty, when wewent to Vegas last year and
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somebody else bought our tickets, I moved us.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
I do recall that, yes .
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Okay, because, okay, that's interesting.
I can understand.
Like, when I go to book tickets, I would say most of the time
I'm looking on the right, but ifthe same seat is on the left
that doesn't bother me at all.
But why would you, even whensomeone else does it, need to be
on the right side?
Speaker 4 (19:09):
No rationale to it.
And this is where we get intoone of those things that you
know, maybe I'm super I don'tthink about it as being
superstitious but I just knowthat there is a comfort for me
on the right-hand side, onpicking the right-hand side.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
So, yeah, the key here is that there's no specific
reason, right, correct, right.
Nothing has ever happened,nothing, okay, it's just, it's a
comfort, that's what you'vealways done.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
Yes done?
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Yes, what would happen if you couldn't sit on
the right side?
Everything was booked and youhad to sit on the other side.
What would happen?
Speaker 4 (19:57):
Well, I do it because I still want to go on the trip.
I just would feel generally, Imean it hasn't happened in a
million years, so I don't know.
I mean I do it, Of course Iwould do it.
I wouldn't feel like anythingbad was going to happen.
It just would feel reallyawkward, Really really awkward.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
It's more like you're used to the other side.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
And I don't know when it started, because I don't
think it's always been that way.
You know, I don't think that.
I don't know.
If somebody wants to book me onfirst class, I will sit on the
left-hand side.
That would make it okay.
Yes, I'll take it one-hand side, right, that?
Speaker 3 (20:45):
would make it okay.
Yes, I'll take it one for theteam.
Yeah, so I was thinking aboutdifferent.
You know things I feel like Ihave to do.
You know habits or processes atwork that I have to do, right,
and so I've.
Sometimes I'll joke that youknow I'm OCD, but that shouldn't
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be a joke, because a lotdifferent than what most of us
actually have.
So and I looked up what's thedifference.
So habits are generallymanageable and often beneficial.
So you think, whether right orwrong, you know honestly, you
think it's beneficial wherecompulsive behaviors are driven
by anxiety and can bedistressing and disruptive.
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So it'd be more like you know,you know, you just can't.
You're so anxious aboutsomething.
You have to do something acertain way, you know, whereas
you know just, a habit is ahabit and my, my funny one is at
work and my boss one time, well, two times, I think.
Now he's kind of made fun of me.
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But I have this bookshelf right.
Big, tall bookshelf has likesix, six shelves, it goes to the
ceiling and one, two, three,four of the shelves have binders
right.
So they have binders andthere's contracts in half of
them.
There's, you know, historicalbids going for 20 years in one
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shelf and just some differentthings on the rest.
They're all white, they allhave a nice blue paper label
going this way, because so thewords go to the this way, right,
and they're all just lined upand blah, blah, blah, right, and
so he's made fun of it.
You know like, however, youknow like, oh my gosh, that's,
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you know, too neat and too puttogether.
You know what, too organized,whatever.
So that's my thing, everythinghas to be look the same, facing
the same way.
You know what I mean nice, tidy, neat.
So so there you go, is that aproblem or is that just a nice
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organized?
Speaker 4 (22:57):
habit.
So the question becomes andthis is just like, I gotta put
this down.
This is just like when youasked me if I sit on the other
side, what happens if somebodytakes it out and just puts it
back any in which way?
Speaker 3 (23:11):
which happens, which does happen, because I don't
file stuff in everything anymore.
Somebody else will do it.
Um, I'll change it.
I won't have to that minute,but I'll change it.
You know, like if one would beupside down the other way which
it could be you could still readit.
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I'll eventually change it.
Yeah, yeah, just because Idon't know.
See, like I said, that soundsvery OCD.
Am I anxious about it or can'tfunction not the right way?
Speaker 4 (23:55):
no, if somebody put a purple label in, would it be
irritating.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
But would I change the label?
Oh, I would.
I would change the label, oh, Iwould.
Eventually, yeah, but you know,yeah, so weird things like that
.
I'm sure, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
I'm sure people think that's weird well, they have
their own weird things too.
Right, everybody probably does.
Yep, everybody, yeah, everybodyhas their weird things.
No, I noticed, and I've donethis for years.
I've noticed.
I mean talk about quirky things.
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So when I go up or down stairs,I count the steps.
Do you guys do that.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Does everybody.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Please tell me, everybody does that.
I do that, yep.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Every single time Every single Every time.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Every single time.
That's a lot, every single,every time.
Even here in my house, I knowthere are eight steps that go
from the living room upstairs.
There are eight steps that gofrom the kitchen downstairs.
I know how many steps there areand I count them every time,
but you still count them.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Do you count them?
So, on the eighth one, you knowyou're at the end, or you just
count them.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
I think I'm just counting them because I do it
anywhere.
I could be at the mall takingthe steps.
I could be at the airport, itdoesn't matter where it is.
I will count the steps.
Amy, do you do the?
Speaker 3 (25:20):
same thing I do Yep Every time, every step.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
Every stairway and and weirdly, I don't do it when
I'm walking flat, right.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
You know I don't count the number of steps from
the elevator to my home.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
Yeah, yeah, step only every time.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Wow, what happens on an escalator.
Are you confused?
You just say one.
No there's no counting on theescalator.
It looks like steps, but itwould just be one.
Maybe it's two.
Is the escalator reallyactually two?
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Oh, that is funny.
Yeah, that's interesting.
So we need to research.
Why is that?
Because that's an interestingone, especially where you have
to.
I can see once in a while, butif you do it, every single
staircase, that's interesting tome I'm so glad to know that at
least two of the three of us dothat.
You're not the only weirdo.
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I'm not the only one.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
What else that's a good one.
So I have a little.
Do you guys know what theorigin is of knocking on wood?
No, okay.
So whenever you hear you knowsomebody says something and they
don't want to jinx it, sayknock on wood.
This superstition comes fromancient pagan cultures who
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believed spirits lived in trees.
Knocking on wood was a way tocall upon them for protection or
for good fortune.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
Those pagans have all sorts of really good, helpful
hints For sure when to plant,when to to sow, when to bring
the spirit yeah, how do theyknow they were only getting good
spirits and not bad ones?
That's it oh, to ward them off.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Yep, that's interesting Lucky versus unlucky
numbers.
So 13 is always lucky, 13 isunlucky.
So in many Western cultures thenumber seven is considered
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lucky, while 13 is unlucky.
However, in China, eight islucky because it sounds like
wealth and four is unluckybecause it sounds like death.
So it doesn't really explainwhy, why luck or bad luck has
been attached to those numbers,but for China it does.
I don't speak Chinese, so Idon't know those words.
I don't know those words.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
I don't have lucky numbers.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
I don't either.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
So if I win the lottery, it truly will be a
lucky circumstance, because I'venot picked the numbers Right,
just saying.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Yeah, I would think that if you're picking the
numbers, your odds would be evenless.
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
If you're picking the numbers.
That's a good question.
I think if you're picking thesame numbers all the time, like
if you always pick yourbirthdays or I don't know, like
if you always pick yourbirthdays or, I don't know,
kids' birthdays, I don't knowand playing the same number all
the time, I think those oddswould be greater that you'd win.
But what do I know?
(28:53):
You just let them random pickAgain.
I think you have the same.
You probably have the same oddseither way.
I don't know.
Have you guys ever won?
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Do you play the lottery?
Either of you Ever Scratch offtickets.
Speaker 4 (29:12):
Pull tabs.
I like a good pull tab, but Iwill tell you.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
Occasionally Go ahead .
Speaker 4 (29:22):
I don't think pull tabs are quite as heavily
leaning towards luck, because bylaw they have to put up there
what the winnings are and youcan see how many have been
scratched off and you can lookat how many are left in the
basket.
So to me there's a little bit.
It's not just straight up luck,yeah.
(29:46):
Yeah.
If there's hardly any left inthe basket and there's, majority
of the prize winnings are stillhere, I'm playing them Right.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
Yeah, yeah, that's a little different, yep.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
Not done scratch offs .
Speaker 2 (30:03):
No, do you know people who have won the lottery?
Speaker 4 (30:07):
Yes, my aunt has my aunt who has passed away, I
think she won it three timeslike maybe 10,000 the first time
, maybe like 50,000 the secondtime, and then she was in a pool
with some other coworkers andthey won a couple hundred
(30:28):
thousand split amongst them.
Wow, I know.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Yeah, yeah, it would be cool, but again you have to
play to win.
You can't.
You can't win if you're notgoing to play.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
Yeah, I think there is a hundred percent of shots,
you don't take.
That is true, don't you lovethat?
Speaker 2 (30:51):
let's get back to sports.
Um, so well, I guess, ingeneral on this topic, the
habits, and I can't one one ofyou said this basically a little
bit earlier if you're doingsomething over and over again
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and it's producing positiveresults, you're just kind of
continue, you're getting betterat things, and I think this is
what they call keystone habits.
So there are these habits thatactually end up creating
positive results in other partsof your life.
So, like, exercise would be oneof those.
(31:32):
So if you decide, okay, I'm inreally bad shape, I'm going to
start exercising, so you startexercising and so not only do
you improve your health, but youalso improve your mindset, your
social life, your, you knowother things.
So I guess, just on the topic,I am going to look at these
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things more, as these are habitsof mine, and these are habits.
They're not weird, they mightbe quirky, but as long as
they're working, this is a goodthing.
Speaker 4 (32:14):
So we're going to come back and ask you how many
times you've switched up youremojis on your text to see if
there's one emoji that is abetter habit than another emoji.
Maybe it's the fact that youput an emoji in the text oh,
it's a good habit okay, what amI gonna do with that Stacy?
Speaker 2 (32:35):
are you on text alerts cuz you?
Speaker 3 (32:37):
yeah, I think you are yeah, oh yeah, I get them, and
I never pay attention to theemoji.
I'll tell you that I justthought oh yeah, there's a show
today.
You know what I mean?
I don't know, but I read, Ihave to.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
I open it and look at it, but I guess I've never
here's what's funny like so ifyou yeah, and I don't know if
you delete those or not, solet's just say that you didn't.
If you don't delete those, youcould go and you could look at
the whole.
You know the progression ofthem and you could see when the
emoji changes and know ooh, shewas good to know now, that's
(33:13):
good to know.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
I would be happy with that show.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
So if I reply to that , are you going to get the reply
or does it go to who knowswhere?
Speaker 2 (33:21):
I do get the reply.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
I'll start replying and say oh, I don't know, I
didn't like this, I'm notwatching this show.
Weird emoji.
Speaker 4 (33:30):
Don't use that emoji again.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
Don't use that one.
That's not going to get you anypeople, any viewers, that's
funny what else.
It can't just be that, it can'tjust be those things.
Are there any other funnythings we do?
Speaker 4 (33:50):
Well, I mean, I think we all have a lot of habits
that are just the default.
The habit becomes default, yeah, for no apparent reason.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
Right and, like we said, if it's working then it
must be a good habit.
You know, I read somewherewhere there's passive habits
like brushing your teeth.
You know you're always going tobrush your teeth.
Right, it obviously is good.
But do you really think of itlike, oh, I'm making a choice
today?
(34:22):
No, it's just a habit, it's inyour routine.
You know, you just always do it.
You know other things might beharder and you know I can't
remember the word.
I don't know what the otherword was, besides passive.
What other kind of habit thatyou really have to make a
conscious effort to?
You know to do and exercisewould fall in that?
(34:46):
You know things like that whereyou have to make more of an
effort to include that habit.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
What side of the bed do you guys sleep on?
As you're facing the bed, asyou're facing the bed, as you're
facing, as you're facing thebed.
Speaker 3 (35:09):
Yeah, I'm, I'm a right Okay.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
I'm a left, amy's a middle.
Speaker 4 (35:17):
No, I'm not a middle.
I'm, I'm weirdly I'm not amiddle, but I told you guys my
approach to bed.
Yeah, I sleep on, I really dosleep on one half and as a
matter of fact, I sleep reallyclose to the edge of the bed
because I like to always have myfeet out.
So the other half of the bedtotally clean, so I switch and
(35:41):
then sleep on the other side.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
So I think that makes perfect sense to me, because I
don't you know.
And then I thought maybe yournext question was me Do you have
to sleep on that side, Likewhen we go to hotels or
somewhere else?
It makes no difference to me, Ican sleep on either side.
I'm just like that.
I don't do a lot of moving, I'mright at the edge of the bed
(36:03):
and you know, and it reallydoesn't make any difference how
about when you go to arestaurant?
Speaker 4 (36:11):
can you sit with your back to the door?
Speaker 2 (36:16):
I have to because bill insists that he has to see
the door yep, yeah, so itdoesn't bother me, I can.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
Yeah, I just know that about barney too, he'll
want to, so I just sit in theother spot what about you, amy?
Speaker 4 (36:33):
um, this person that I've been seeing is such a
gentleman.
He always says, where would youlike to sit?
And I'm always like I want tosee what's going on in the room.
So I always sit with my back tothe wall, not because I want to
see the door, but I'm I lovelooking around, so that this
poor man always ends up sittingwith his back and only being
able to look at me or the twopeople next to us.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
Right, poor guy, meanwhile you're watching
basketball.
Speaker 4 (37:03):
Now, if that's something that's on, we will sit
at the bar so we can both seewhat's going on.
Yeah, and it's, but I don'tfeel, I don't feel anxious if I
sit on the other side.
You know, it's fine that isn'tone of those things.
Not gonna die on a hill forthat one yeah um, I have another
(37:26):
little quirky one, and kitty.
You probably might remember thiswhenever I go for a walk or a
drive, I go in a circle.
I need to.
I need to make a loop thatconnects.
I cannot stand walking outsomewhere and turn around and
walking back.
That feels okay, that doesn'tfeel right, correct.
(37:48):
That doesn't feel right,correct.
That doesn't feel comfortable,okay, I much prefer to walk in a
loop.
Hmm, all those walks we went onalways a loop, always a loop.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
That's right, always a loop.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
Hmm, so you can't just walk to the end of the road
and then come back and that beit.
You know what I mean?
It has to be where you can goaround the block and get back to
the same spot.
Yes, in other words, yes.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
You feel like it's because you're not making the
most of the walk.
I feel like I already saw that.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (38:30):
It's like back to my airplane thing, because if I
always sit on the right I get tosee both sides.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
I get to see the view out of both sides of the trip
well, you kind of do yeah yeah,people have a lot of funny
superstitions about flying yes,yeah, I used to have to get a
visual on the pilot.
I used to travel a ton for workand so every time I would get
(38:57):
on, I would, before I would turnright to go into the cabin, I
would take a look left and thedoor was usually door to the
cockpit was usually open and Iwould have to see the pilot, and
what I needed to see was anappropriate amount of gray hair.
Speaker 3 (39:18):
So if he looked 12, you were going to get right back
off.
I mean, what would happen ifthat would be the case?
Speaker 2 (39:25):
I wasn't going to be, happy about it.
Speaker 3 (39:27):
Oh, you were just going to sit.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
It would make me uncomfortable.
And then the best of the bestwas when you get a bonus pilot.
So you've got a pilot who'sjust flying home somewhere and
because then you're like, okay,well, if something bad does
happen up there, so that guy'sgonna that guy's gonna know what
to do.
Speaker 3 (39:48):
he could take over.
Yes, yeah.
I suppose, yeah, that wasalways good.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
Yeah, I was fairly neurotic about that and this now
just came to me.
And also and I would always flywith a co-worker We'd get to
the airport.
We have to go to Caribou, wehave to get a coffee, the same
kind of coffee every time and nomatter what time of the day it
was that we were flying.
We had to get a cotton and wedid that for the safety of
(40:22):
everyone on that airplane.
Speaker 4 (40:24):
oh good, good, okay, you guys, we talked about this a
little bit when we werethrowing around this idea about
church.
We talked about this a littlebit when we were throwing around
this idea about church and how,if you went to church for a
long time, you always sat in thesame spot in church.
Speaker 3 (40:40):
Yeah, didn't have our name on a plaque on that part
of the bench, but nobody elsesat there, yeah, and if somebody
did, you walked up.
Like what are you doing?
Speaker 4 (40:57):
You know you didn't say anything, but it was like
what are you doing in my pew?
Interestingly enough, we alwayssat on the left side of the
church, which, when I took mykids to church, we also sat on
the left side of the church.
Speaker 1 (41:10):
I've always been a right sitter Right side.
Speaker 4 (41:15):
Now I will tell you the church that I grew up in in
Wilmer and the church that wetook our kids to.
They had windows along the leftside of the church, and in
Wilmer there are these gorgeousstained glass windows.
So I always felt like if thekids were, if you know, when we
(41:37):
were there, if we were zoned out, at least we had these
beautiful stained glass windowsto look at.
The other side just had thislarge brick wall.
There was no daydreaming withthat large brick wall.
And so I did the same thingwith our kids.
They had more windows on theleft, and I tried to push us up
(41:58):
a little bit towards the frontso they could at least see what
was going on outside, in hopesthat I could keep them, you know
, occupied.
What else has everybody got?
I can't wait.
I hope people let us know whattheir odd quirks are.
Speaker 2 (42:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (42:18):
We'd love to hear.
Speaker 2 (42:18):
Let us know, send us messages, drop comments on the
post when this drops on Facebook.
We would love to know thatwe're not the only ones that are
a little.
Speaker 4 (42:28):
Yeah, especially if you count your stairs.
Speaker 3 (42:30):
Yes, Please, let us know we need to take a poll and
figure out the percentage of thepeople that actually do that.
Speaker 4 (42:38):
So right now we're I think I read that people who
count stairs are brighter.
Speaker 2 (42:45):
Highly intelligent.
Oh yes, they're high achievingindividuals.
Speaker 3 (42:50):
No, I'm thinking the people that are smart.
Don't need to count them,they're there, you don't need to
count them, they're not goingto change, fine.
Speaker 2 (43:02):
All right, all right, let's wrap this.
I have a couple things to sharethat I can share real quick.
Oh, you've got shots.
I've got shots.
Did you guys happen to catchOprah's menopause special?
Speaker 4 (43:17):
No, but I've been watching reels and I want to
find I want to watch it myfavorite Dr Mary.
Speaker 2 (43:25):
Claire, yeah, and um, it's been fun to kind of watch
her socials too, because thishas been a huge exposure for her
.
This will be life-changing forher career it.
Speaker 4 (43:36):
You know, since we started following her, her
socials have gone bananas justyeah, and so this is going to be
yeah.
Speaker 3 (43:46):
Uh, well, if we haven't, if we hadn't talked
about it, I thought I might havementioned it, but I'm going to
mention again.
When we first started this, wekept, you know, googling or, you
know, doing AI searches.
For what topics would women ofour age want to?
Blah, blah, blah.
And number one was alwaysmenopause.
And we've steered clear of thattopic, not because we're
(44:08):
necessarily afraid of it or, youknow, don't want to talk about
it.
We just don't feel like we'revery, you know, medically
qualified to have a lot of sayabout it, so we've just stayed
away from it.
But yeah, there's lots ofresources today.
I thought it was interesting.
Did you know Halle Berry didher?
(44:29):
Oh, I blanked, Amy.
What did you get Alex forChristmas?
That, oh, masterclass,Masterclass.
Halle Berry did a masterclasson menopause.
I thought that was aninteresting flex for her to go
that direction for a masterclass.
Speaker 2 (44:48):
So there you go.
Yeah, so she was on it.
She was one of the guests onthe Oprah special.
So, yeah, I feel like this isthe best advice that we can give
on this topic, that that willbe a great resource.
You can catch it in replay.
I'm sure that it's available.
It's on one of the streamingservices.
(45:11):
Yeah, it's got to be so that'sreally good.
Cool, um, and then I want toshow you my latest Amazon find.
Speaker 3 (45:20):
Oh, oh, is that a chicken shredder?
Speaker 2 (45:25):
No, it looks like it.
This is a microwave popcornpopper.
So you guys know how much Ilove popcorn, have always loved
popcorn.
I can eat popcorn every day andI don't because I don't buy
microwave popcorn.
When I make it, I make it onthe stove, so it's oil and
(45:46):
butter and it's not good for you.
So I stumbled upon this.
So this is just a siliconething, basically, and so it
flattens down.
So when you go to use it youjust pop it open like this.
There's two lines in here forthe size or for your fill lines.
(46:08):
So if you just want a smallbatch, you just put it in there.
If you want a bigger batch, youput it here.
You put your little siliconething on, it fits down in it and
then and it pops.
And I have made this and youknow how.
You just wait until you itstarts to slow down.
I have had no burns, I have hadminimal unpopped kernels and
(46:30):
it's basically like air poppedpopcorn and then I put butter on
it.
I have to have butter on mypopcorn, but I don't have all
the oil that I was having beforeand I also don't have a big
mess inter so what brand is that?
Speaker 3 (46:44):
because I did buy that oh pop pop one, oh yeah I
saw that.
Speaker 2 (46:48):
I saw that one.
This is called this Popco youcan barely see the logo over
here but just on Amazon, Popcomicrowave popcorn and there were
lots of options.
So I looked at them all andthis was cheap.
I don't remember how much, itwas $12, $15, something like
that.
Cool, Great.
(47:08):
And then yeah, and then it justcollapses down so it goes into
your cabinet like this Love itCool.
Speaker 4 (47:17):
Now I'm hungry for popcorn, I know.
Speaker 3 (47:19):
I think we'll all go make popcorn.
Speaker 4 (47:22):
I might go make some too.
Speaker 3 (47:25):
There we go.
Amy, do you have a shot?
I've got nothing.
I don't today.
I can't remember the last timeI had a shot.
I need to pay more attentionand plan ahead, right.
Speaker 4 (47:36):
Make it a habit.
It's been for eight homes andmy brain has been.
I have been fried.
I did absolutely nothing todaybut dink around on the computer
because I just needed to zoneout.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (47:48):
Good, yep, yep Good.
You have to do that when youcan.
Speaker 3 (47:54):
All right, yep good you have to do that when you can
all right.
Speaker 2 (47:56):
Well, let's wrap.
We will see you guys next week.
Have a good week.
Yes, you too.
Now we're all going to be,hyper focused on our, on our
habits.
So come up with other quirks.
Speaker 3 (48:05):
We can talk about it next week for sure that's right
all right, all right, bye, bye,ladies, bye, all right, alright,
alright.
Speaker 1 (48:15):
Bye, bye, ladies, bye .
(48:35):
So you're wondering how I gotthat vibe.
Here I go.
Here I go, coming.
I can't ever stop.
I'm a tour de force running.
Get me to the top, I don't needan invitation.
Knock, knock.
I'm about to start acelebration.
Let me in brought a good timefor some friends.
Turn it up loud past ten.
Hello and welcome to another episode of Three
Cocktails In.
We are the Three CocktailsChecking In.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
We are.
You know what's funny abouttonight?
I usually have a cocktail andI'm drinking Fresca.
I know Kitty won't have acocktail and I think Amy, aren't
you drinking Diet Coke?
Speaker 4 (00:47):
I'm drinking caffeine-free Diet Coke, so I
think mine is the least cocktailthat one could get.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Well, mine is Propel water, oh well, not plain water.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Yeah, wow, we're hitting hard.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
That's for sure.
Hey it's Wednesday night.
It's a school night.
It is Wednesday.
I had a margarita.
We went out for mexicans.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
So I already had a margarita.
So, oh yum, it was nice, verygood.
Not even taco tuesday.
No, taco tuesday.
Is that a good segue?
Speaker 3 (01:21):
is it sure?
What are we talking about?
That has to do with tacos arewe?
Speaker 2 (01:27):
we're jumping right into it, I guess okay okay, our
topic tonight is we are talkinga little bit about luck, habit
and superstition, and this justkind of came up in casual
conversation with us and I think, you know, as we grow up and we
(01:47):
move into adulthood and youknow, we can get very set in our
ways and I think we find thatwe do things the same way over
and over again and I got tothinking so I have these quirky
things that I do.
(02:08):
Is that normal?
Do other people do this?
Why do I do it?
No, it's not normal.
Why do I feel uncomfortable ifI, you know, think, oh, I'm
going to do it differently thistime and I'm like, no, I can't
do that because it works out.
Oh, my gosh, it's too much.
It's too much.
(02:28):
We're going to talk a littlebit about that tonight.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Yeah, and that's what I mean by Taco Tuesday.
Yeah, it's Tuesdays.
On Tuesday you have tacosMm-hmm, oh Well so well.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
So I don't know I could have tacos in it.
Yeah, same, and we in thishouse we have always had tacos
on monday night, like for years.
Oh, no, fail, monday night, wehave tacos, see what happens if
you switch it up if you switchit up, bo gets grumpy.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
If you do, do you then have tacos on Tuesday or do
you just skip it and have thenext Monday?
You?
Know what I mean you have tohave tacos, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
So okay, let's just.
Let's start with just kind of ageneral question here Related
to luck Do you believe in luckor do you think that we create
our own luck?
Speaker 4 (03:38):
I do think that preparation being well prepared
for situations you're in canmake it seem like, when a good
outcome happens, that you gotlucky.
But I think that yourpreparation had a time.
(03:59):
Yeah, I agree.
I think you then don't have toworry about the focus.
You don't have to be so rigidin your focus in that moment
because you've gone through itso many times, that then you're
a little bit more spontaneousand it goes the way you wanted.
It can come off feeling lucky.
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Yeah, definitely.
Yep, I agree, you know if we'retalking specifically about you
know, like winning the lotteryor things like that.
Um, I think two things about it.
I think you could play once andyou could get lucky and win it.
I also also think the more youplay, in theory you have a
(04:46):
better chance at winning lotteryright, or even winning at, you
know, blackjack or in the casino.
You know, the more you play,you're going to win something
eventually.
But I also think you could dropa quarter in some machine and
(05:07):
win a bunch.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Just take so.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
So I think it still has to do with luck A lot of
luck.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Have you guys ever had something happen to you in
your life where you thought I, Iam so lucky, that was so lucky,
or that was just something thatwas just so big and amazing and
truly chalked it up to luck?
Speaker 4 (05:36):
I remember finding money as a kid.
You know you'd find a random $5bill that obviously came out of
somebody's pocket, in Target orsomething or the grocery store,
and there is nobody around.
There's nobody in the aisle.
It's not like they just droppedit and you kept it.
I remember thinking that I wasthe luckiest person in the world
(05:57):
.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
That's a great memory great memory.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
I once I inherited I'm sure you guys know this
story, but as an adult married.
My great aunt, Zira passed away.
No, she moved into the nursinghome at like age 97.
She went to the nursing home.
Evidently I was the only onethat quilted and she was a big
(06:24):
quilter.
I was the only one that quiltedand she was a big quilter.
So my aunt, arlene or, and mydad I don't know who did it
exactly, but I got one of thoselawn leaf bags of quilt notions,
the old chocolate candy boxes,you know, full of bobbins, and
(06:49):
then a whole bunch of manilaenvelopes with um pattern like
template pieces.
And so I'm at mom and dad's,kevin's, there, we're going
through it and I'm like, oh,look the daisy chain, oh, look
this, oh, look a wad of cash.
And I pull out this wad of cashand it's hundreds and I'm
counting it out and you know itwas.
It was actually it was probably50s, because I had to count
(07:09):
quite a bit and it turned out tobe something like 750 bucks or
something.
You would have thought my dadwas like stretch armstrong
because from like 10 feet awayhis hand comes reaching over and
grabs that money out of myhands.
It's like that is not for youoh.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Oh Right.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Right.
So on the way home, I'm drivinghome with this big bag of quilt
pieces and no cash and Kevingoes.
You just had to go through allthe pieces in front of your mom
and dad, Right.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Right If you'd waited at home.
Nobody didn't know, Right?
So?
Speaker 4 (07:47):
lucky and then unlucky in a snap.
Yeah, that's not right.
Yeah, tell Fred, I did remindhim often he's gone, but you
know but that to me that feltvery lucky.
Yes.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Wow, I just remembered that years ago.
So we I mean it was within thelast 20 years because we were in
this house and at one pointwe'd been up at Home Depot and
Bill had filled in.
They were doing a giveaway forsomething.
So he'd filled out one of thelittle cards and popped it in
(08:26):
and we got a call from HomeDepot said you won this Ryobi.
It was massive.
So am I saying that right?
Speaker 4 (08:39):
I don't know what that is.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
It's a brand of power tools.
And so we went and Bill wasjust like, cause he knew what it
was.
So we went up there and it wasthis giant bag, you know, like
rolling bag and stuffed full ofpower tools.
Wow, I mean it was probably athousand dollars worth of tools.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Thousand dollars worth of tools, that would be
like us winning like a bag, youknow this size, full of Tiffany.
Um, we take a bag this size.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
So he was ecstatic and that would be a time that I
think he would say that was pureluck.
Because it is, you're justyou're getting your name pulled
out of something.
That was just pure luck.
And it's just so nice to havethose random moments in life
where you feel like you were,you were anointed, it's, it's
(09:39):
your time.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
Yeah, exactly, and also inspiring to keep doing
that activity.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Yeah, yeah, so does he fill out the card on
everything now um, I don't seehim do it on everything, but
he's, he chooses the things thathe's like.
Okay, that would be worth it.
Okay, yeah, that would be worthit yeah, yeah, it doesn't take
very long yeah, it's nice.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Yeah, I don't consider myself a lucky person,
honestly, you know, because,yeah, there's no winning things.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
And now you know what I mean but you don't consider
yourself an unlucky person, doyou?
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Okay, I would not say I'm unlucky either.
No, just kind of average, justabout like everything, pretty
average, pretty average.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
You're not average.
There's nothing average aboutyou, Stacey.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Oh, you've never heard me say that, that I'm
pretty average at everything.
I can do about everything, butI'm really average at it.
I'm not very good at anything,I'm not below average.
Pretty average Pretty steady.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
So, on that note, do we know people who say they have
bad luck?
If you believe in being lucky,do you also believe in people
having bad luck?
Speaker 2 (11:10):
I mean, I certainly hear people say that, and
sometimes people just say it injest, you know they'll just say,
oh, with my luck, Right.
I feel like we hear people saythat all the time and I think
that's a sign of you know theperson really kind of feeling
like, well, I never win anythingRight and I always feel bad
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when I hear people say that.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
It comes back to mindset.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Yeah, it's a mindset thing.
You know, woe is me, poor me,because this happened and you
know the rest of us, whatever.
You know woe is me, poor me,because this happened and you
know the rest of us.
Whatever.
You know it happened and you'reover it.
I wouldn't call it a.
You know the reason.
Some things happen becauseyou're unlucky.
They just kind of happen.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Yeah, randall things happen, yeah yeah, mm-hmm,
random things happen, mm-hmm,yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Got to go with the flow, okay.
So if we think about the topicof superstition, so the
relationship to me, I feel likeI can influence some things if I
wear the same.
Okay, I had a really good showthat night.
(12:27):
I know what shirt I was wearing, I'm going to wear that now, or
, or?
Um.
So I use I use a text alertsystem.
So before I go live, I send atext alert to you know, people
who are signed up for textalerts and I, every once in a
while, will change the littleemoji that I use on it, and
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there have been a couple timesthat I've had a little bit of a
like a show that wasn't quite asgood as some of the other ones
and my little brain thinks youchanged the emoji on your text.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
I think that was it.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
It was the emoji on your on your chest, so that was
it it was the emoji yeahabsolutely so kind of like you
know, like people that are, youknow, fans of a football team or
a baseball team or whatever youknow always wear the same shirt
, the same hat, the same socksand whatever whatever the thing
is, or you know watch it in thesame place, or you know to to
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help.
I don't think that does squat.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
I think it comes
Speaker 3 (13:33):
back to pooing your emoji on your message.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
I don't think.
I think it comes back tomindset.
So athletes are notoriouslysuperstitious.
Oh, superstitious Again.
My sister, Ann, in high schoolI mean she's still a beautiful
vocalist she sang the nationalanthem for the hockey team.
They won that game.
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They said Ann, you got to comeback, You've got to sing the
national anthem.
She ended up having to sing thenational anthem so many times
in a row because they keptwinning and that was part of it.
They didn't want to jinx it, ohmy gosh.
And so I think that that'sfunny.
But if that's what makes youfeel comfortable, so that you
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can be free, flowing and in themoment again, Yep, I agree, I
agree in the moment again.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Yep, I agree, I agree , they needed to know.
Yes, If you're the one that isparticipating and have the, you
know what do I want to say.
So I don't think a baseball fanwearing an outfit has anything
to do with the baseball teamplaying.
A baseball fan wearing anoutfit has anything to do with
the baseball team playing.
Now, in your case, where thehockey team wanted her to sing,
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that's different.
You know they think that's, youknow what's gonna, that's their
mindset and you know didn't doanything.
You know that makes sense.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
You didn't have a magical voice that cast a spell,
like Ariel the mermaid, I'msure she did.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
But if they wouldn't have known it, it wouldn't have
been her juju to help them win.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
But they did know that she was singing, and so
they went into that game withmore confidence.
Yeah, that's true, and that'swhat won the game.
That's the difference.
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
Maybe Now I don't necessarily consider myself
superstitious, mm-hmm, but I'mnot walking under ladders.
I remember as a very smallchild not stepping on any cracks
, so I didn't break my mother'sback.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
I bet you did accidentally well, it wasn't
without cause.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Yeah right, you know, when you're like I'm just going
to cry.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
I'm going to go, step out of the crack.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Yeah, those are the longstanding superstitions,
definitely.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
All right.
So, Miss Catherine, what elseare you superstitious about?
Speaker 3 (16:35):
um what?
Speaker 2 (16:40):
no, go ahead, go ahead.
Well, I just just general.
I find that I will follow thesame process or the same
procedures and try not to varythings that are related to you
know, things that I'mparticularly like.
I need this to go this way.
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I was using the example of theshirt.
I don't necessarily do that.
It's a good example, but Idon't really do that.
But I don't know, I just Idon't.
I kind of do everything ingeneral the same way If things
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have gone well, if things havegone well, if they haven't, I'm
fine blowing the whole system up.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Yeah, right, but then that doesn't that move towards
habit.
I mean, aren't you forming goodhabits or processes, or you
know?
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Yes, that's a way to make me feel good about my
neuroses.
Yes, right.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
I have one that has nothing to do with process, but
when I don't do it, it makes meuncomfortable, okay.
When I don't do it, it makes meuncomfortable, okay.
And so it's totally appropriate, because we just posted
something that said Stacey and Iare going on vacation and one
of the things you know, I'vebeen the travel agent for my
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family, always booking flights,all that.
I always book seats, as you'relooking at the airplane, on the
right-hand row of the airplane.
I cannot tell you.
Matter of fact, kitty, when wewent to Vegas last year and
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somebody else bought our tickets, I moved us.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
I do recall that, yes .
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Okay, because, okay, that's interesting.
I can understand.
Like, when I go to book tickets, I would say most of the time
I'm looking on the right, but ifthe same seat is on the left
that doesn't bother me at all.
But why would you, even whensomeone else does it, need to be
on the right side?
Speaker 4 (19:09):
No rationale to it.
And this is where we get intoone of those things that you
know, maybe I'm super I don'tthink about it as being
superstitious but I just knowthat there is a comfort for me
on the right-hand side, onpicking the right-hand side.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
So, yeah, the key here is that there's no specific
reason, right, correct, right.
Nothing has ever happened,nothing, okay, it's just, it's a
comfort, that's what you'vealways done.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
Yes done?
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Yes, what would happen if you couldn't sit on
the right side?
Everything was booked and youhad to sit on the other side.
What would happen?
Speaker 4 (19:57):
Well, I do it because I still want to go on the trip.
I just would feel generally, Imean it hasn't happened in a
million years, so I don't know.
I mean I do it, Of course Iwould do it.
I wouldn't feel like anythingbad was going to happen.
It just would feel reallyawkward, Really really awkward.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
It's more like you're used to the other side.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
And I don't know when it started, because I don't
think it's always been that way.
You know, I don't think that.
I don't know.
If somebody wants to book me onfirst class, I will sit on the
left-hand side.
That would make it okay.
Yes, I'll take it one-hand side, right, that?
Speaker 3 (20:45):
would make it okay.
Yes, I'll take it one for theteam.
Yeah, so I was thinking aboutdifferent.
You know things I feel like Ihave to do.
You know habits or processes atwork that I have to do, right,
and so I've.
Sometimes I'll joke that youknow I'm OCD, but that shouldn't
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be a joke, because a lotdifferent than what most of us
actually have.
So and I looked up what's thedifference.
So habits are generallymanageable and often beneficial.
So you think, whether right orwrong, you know honestly, you
think it's beneficial wherecompulsive behaviors are driven
by anxiety and can bedistressing and disruptive.
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So it'd be more like you know,you know, you just can't.
You're so anxious aboutsomething.
You have to do something acertain way, you know, whereas
you know just, a habit is ahabit and my, my funny one is at
work and my boss one time, well, two times, I think.
Now he's kind of made fun of me.
(21:51):
But I have this bookshelf right.
Big, tall bookshelf has likesix, six shelves, it goes to the
ceiling and one, two, three,four of the shelves have binders
right.
So they have binders andthere's contracts in half of
them.
There's, you know, historicalbids going for 20 years in one
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shelf and just some differentthings on the rest.
They're all white, they allhave a nice blue paper label
going this way, because so thewords go to the this way, right,
and they're all just lined upand blah, blah, blah, right, and
so he's made fun of it.
You know like, however, youknow like, oh my gosh, that's,
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you know, too neat and too puttogether.
You know what, too organized,whatever.
So that's my thing, everythinghas to be look the same, facing
the same way.
You know what I mean nice, tidy, neat.
So so there you go, is that aproblem or is that just a nice
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organized?
Speaker 4 (22:57):
habit.
So the question becomes andthis is just like, I gotta put
this down.
This is just like when youasked me if I sit on the other
side, what happens if somebodytakes it out and just puts it
back any in which way?
Speaker 3 (23:11):
which happens, which does happen, because I don't
file stuff in everything anymore.
Somebody else will do it.
Um, I'll change it.
I won't have to that minute,but I'll change it.
You know, like if one would beupside down the other way which
it could be you could still readit.
(23:31):
I'll eventually change it.
Yeah, yeah, just because Idon't know.
See, like I said, that soundsvery OCD.
Am I anxious about it or can'tfunction not the right way?
Speaker 4 (23:55):
no, if somebody put a purple label in, would it be
irritating.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
But would I change the label?
Oh, I would.
I would change the label, oh, Iwould.
Eventually, yeah, but you know,yeah, so weird things like that
.
I'm sure, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
I'm sure people think that's weird well, they have
their own weird things too.
Right, everybody probably does.
Yep, everybody, yeah, everybodyhas their weird things.
No, I noticed, and I've donethis for years.
I've noticed.
I mean talk about quirky things.
(24:31):
So when I go up or down stairs,I count the steps.
Do you guys do that.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Does everybody.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Please tell me, everybody does that.
I do that, yep.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Every single time Every single Every time.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Every single time.
That's a lot, every single,every time.
Even here in my house, I knowthere are eight steps that go
from the living room upstairs.
There are eight steps that gofrom the kitchen downstairs.
I know how many steps there areand I count them every time,
but you still count them.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Do you count them?
So, on the eighth one, you knowyou're at the end, or you just
count them.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
I think I'm just counting them because I do it
anywhere.
I could be at the mall takingthe steps.
I could be at the airport, itdoesn't matter where it is.
I will count the steps.
Amy, do you do the?
Speaker 3 (25:20):
same thing I do Yep Every time, every step.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
Every stairway and and weirdly, I don't do it when
I'm walking flat, right.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
You know I don't count the number of steps from
the elevator to my home.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
Yeah, yeah, step only every time.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Wow, what happens on an escalator.
Are you confused?
You just say one.
No there's no counting on theescalator.
It looks like steps, but itwould just be one.
Maybe it's two.
Is the escalator reallyactually two?
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Oh, that is funny.
Yeah, that's interesting.
So we need to research.
Why is that?
Because that's an interestingone, especially where you have
to.
I can see once in a while, butif you do it, every single
staircase, that's interesting tome I'm so glad to know that at
least two of the three of us dothat.
You're not the only weirdo.
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I'm not the only one.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
What else that's a good one.
So I have a little.
Do you guys know what theorigin is of knocking on wood?
No, okay.
So whenever you hear you knowsomebody says something and they
don't want to jinx it, sayknock on wood.
This superstition comes fromancient pagan cultures who
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believed spirits lived in trees.
Knocking on wood was a way tocall upon them for protection or
for good fortune.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
Those pagans have all sorts of really good, helpful
hints For sure when to plant,when to to sow, when to bring
the spirit yeah, how do theyknow they were only getting good
spirits and not bad ones?
That's it oh, to ward them off.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Yep, that's interesting Lucky versus unlucky
numbers.
So 13 is always lucky, 13 isunlucky.
So in many Western cultures thenumber seven is considered
(27:48):
lucky, while 13 is unlucky.
However, in China, eight islucky because it sounds like
wealth and four is unluckybecause it sounds like death.
So it doesn't really explainwhy, why luck or bad luck has
been attached to those numbers,but for China it does.
I don't speak Chinese, so Idon't know those words.
I don't know those words.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
I don't have lucky numbers.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
I don't either.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
So if I win the lottery, it truly will be a
lucky circumstance, because I'venot picked the numbers Right,
just saying.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Yeah, I would think that if you're picking the
numbers, your odds would be evenless.
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
If you're picking the numbers.
That's a good question.
I think if you're picking thesame numbers all the time, like
if you always pick yourbirthdays or I don't know, like
if you always pick yourbirthdays or, I don't know,
kids' birthdays, I don't knowand playing the same number all
the time, I think those oddswould be greater that you'd win.
But what do I know?
(28:53):
You just let them random pickAgain.
I think you have the same.
You probably have the same oddseither way.
I don't know.
Have you guys ever won?
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Do you play the lottery?
Either of you Ever Scratch offtickets.
Speaker 4 (29:12):
Pull tabs.
I like a good pull tab, but Iwill tell you.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
Occasionally Go ahead .
Speaker 4 (29:22):
I don't think pull tabs are quite as heavily
leaning towards luck, because bylaw they have to put up there
what the winnings are and youcan see how many have been
scratched off and you can lookat how many are left in the
basket.
So to me there's a little bit.
It's not just straight up luck,yeah.
(29:46):
Yeah.
If there's hardly any left inthe basket and there's, majority
of the prize winnings are stillhere, I'm playing them Right.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
Yeah, yeah, that's a little different, yep.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
Not done scratch offs .
Speaker 2 (30:03):
No, do you know people who have won the lottery?
Speaker 4 (30:07):
Yes, my aunt has my aunt who has passed away, I
think she won it three timeslike maybe 10,000 the first time
, maybe like 50,000 the secondtime, and then she was in a pool
with some other coworkers andthey won a couple hundred
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thousand split amongst them.
Wow, I know.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Yeah, yeah, it would be cool, but again you have to
play to win.
You can't.
You can't win if you're notgoing to play.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
Yeah, I think there is a hundred percent of shots,
you don't take.
That is true, don't you lovethat?
Speaker 2 (30:51):
let's get back to sports.
Um, so well, I guess, ingeneral on this topic, the
habits, and I can't one one ofyou said this basically a little
bit earlier if you're doingsomething over and over again
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and it's producing positiveresults, you're just kind of
continue, you're getting betterat things, and I think this is
what they call keystone habits.
So there are these habits thatactually end up creating
positive results in other partsof your life.
So, like, exercise would be oneof those.
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So if you decide, okay, I'm inreally bad shape, I'm going to
start exercising, so you startexercising and so not only do
you improve your health, but youalso improve your mindset, your
social life, your, you knowother things.
So I guess, just on the topic,I am going to look at these
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things more, as these are habitsof mine, and these are habits.
They're not weird, they mightbe quirky, but as long as
they're working, this is a goodthing.
Speaker 4 (32:14):
So we're going to come back and ask you how many
times you've switched up youremojis on your text to see if
there's one emoji that is abetter habit than another emoji.
Maybe it's the fact that youput an emoji in the text oh,
it's a good habit okay, what amI gonna do with that Stacy?
Speaker 2 (32:35):
are you on text alerts cuz you?
Speaker 3 (32:37):
yeah, I think you are yeah, oh yeah, I get them, and
I never pay attention to theemoji.
I'll tell you that I justthought oh yeah, there's a show
today.
You know what I mean?
I don't know, but I read, Ihave to.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
I open it and look at it, but I guess I've never
here's what's funny like so ifyou yeah, and I don't know if
you delete those or not, solet's just say that you didn't.
If you don't delete those, youcould go and you could look at
the whole.
You know the progression ofthem and you could see when the
emoji changes and know ooh, shewas good to know now, that's
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good to know.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
I would be happy with that show.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
So if I reply to that , are you going to get the reply
or does it go to who knowswhere?
Speaker 2 (33:21):
I do get the reply.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
I'll start replying and say oh, I don't know, I
didn't like this, I'm notwatching this show.
Weird emoji.
Speaker 4 (33:30):
Don't use that emoji again.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
Don't use that one.
That's not going to get you anypeople, any viewers, that's
funny what else.
It can't just be that, it can'tjust be those things.
Are there any other funnythings we do?
Speaker 4 (33:50):
Well, I mean, I think we all have a lot of habits
that are just the default.
The habit becomes default, yeah, for no apparent reason.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
Right and, like we said, if it's working then it
must be a good habit.
You know, I read somewherewhere there's passive habits
like brushing your teeth.
You know you're always going tobrush your teeth.
Right, it obviously is good.
But do you really think of itlike, oh, I'm making a choice
today?
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No, it's just a habit, it's inyour routine.
You know, you just always do it.
You know other things might beharder and you know I can't
remember the word.
I don't know what the otherword was, besides passive.
What other kind of habit thatyou really have to make a
conscious effort to?
You know to do and exercisewould fall in that?
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You know things like that whereyou have to make more of an
effort to include that habit.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
What side of the bed do you guys sleep on?
As you're facing the bed, asyou're facing the bed, as you're
facing, as you're facing thebed.
Speaker 3 (35:09):
Yeah, I'm, I'm a right Okay.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
I'm a left, amy's a middle.
Speaker 4 (35:17):
No, I'm not a middle.
I'm, I'm weirdly I'm not amiddle, but I told you guys my
approach to bed.
Yeah, I sleep on, I really dosleep on one half and as a
matter of fact, I sleep reallyclose to the edge of the bed
because I like to always have myfeet out.
So the other half of the bedtotally clean, so I switch and
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then sleep on the other side.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
So I think that makes perfect sense to me, because I
don't you know.
And then I thought maybe yournext question was me Do you have
to sleep on that side, Likewhen we go to hotels or
somewhere else?
It makes no difference to me, Ican sleep on either side.
I'm just like that.
I don't do a lot of moving, I'mright at the edge of the bed
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and you know, and it reallydoesn't make any difference how
about when you go to arestaurant?
Speaker 4 (36:11):
can you sit with your back to the door?
Speaker 2 (36:16):
I have to because bill insists that he has to see
the door yep, yeah, so itdoesn't bother me, I can.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
Yeah, I just know that about barney too, he'll
want to, so I just sit in theother spot what about you, amy?
Speaker 4 (36:33):
um, this person that I've been seeing is such a
gentleman.
He always says, where would youlike to sit?
And I'm always like I want tosee what's going on in the room.
So I always sit with my back tothe wall, not because I want to
see the door, but I'm I lovelooking around, so that this
poor man always ends up sittingwith his back and only being
able to look at me or the twopeople next to us.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
Right, poor guy, meanwhile you're watching
basketball.
Speaker 4 (37:03):
Now, if that's something that's on, we will sit
at the bar so we can both seewhat's going on.
Yeah, and it's, but I don'tfeel, I don't feel anxious if I
sit on the other side.
You know, it's fine that isn'tone of those things.
Not gonna die on a hill forthat one yeah um, I have another
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little quirky one, and kitty.
You probably might remember thiswhenever I go for a walk or a
drive, I go in a circle.
I need to.
I need to make a loop thatconnects.
I cannot stand walking outsomewhere and turn around and
walking back.
That feels okay, that doesn'tfeel right, correct.
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That doesn't feel right,correct.
That doesn't feel comfortable,okay, I much prefer to walk in a
loop.
Hmm, all those walks we went onalways a loop, always a loop.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
That's right, always a loop.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
Hmm, so you can't just walk to the end of the road
and then come back and that beit.
You know what I mean?
It has to be where you can goaround the block and get back to
the same spot.
Yes, in other words, yes.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
You feel like it's because you're not making the
most of the walk.
I feel like I already saw that.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (38:30):
It's like back to my airplane thing, because if I
always sit on the right I get tosee both sides.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
I get to see the view out of both sides of the trip
well, you kind of do yeah yeah,people have a lot of funny
superstitions about flying yes,yeah, I used to have to get a
visual on the pilot.
I used to travel a ton for workand so every time I would get
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on, I would, before I would turnright to go into the cabin, I
would take a look left and thedoor was usually door to the
cockpit was usually open and Iwould have to see the pilot, and
what I needed to see was anappropriate amount of gray hair.
Speaker 3 (39:18):
So if he looked 12, you were going to get right back
off.
I mean, what would happen ifthat would be the case?
Speaker 2 (39:25):
I wasn't going to be, happy about it.
Speaker 3 (39:27):
Oh, you were just going to sit.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
It would make me uncomfortable.
And then the best of the bestwas when you get a bonus pilot.
So you've got a pilot who'sjust flying home somewhere and
because then you're like, okay,well, if something bad does
happen up there, so that guy'sgonna that guy's gonna know what
to do.
Speaker 3 (39:48):
he could take over.
Yes, yeah.
I suppose, yeah, that wasalways good.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
Yeah, I was fairly neurotic about that and this now
just came to me.
And also and I would always flywith a co-worker We'd get to
the airport.
We have to go to Caribou, wehave to get a coffee, the same
kind of coffee every time and nomatter what time of the day it
was that we were flying.
We had to get a cotton and wedid that for the safety of
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everyone on that airplane.
Speaker 4 (40:24):
oh good, good, okay, you guys, we talked about this a
little bit when we werethrowing around this idea about
church.
We talked about this a littlebit when we were throwing around
this idea about church and how,if you went to church for a
long time, you always sat in thesame spot in church.
Speaker 3 (40:40):
Yeah, didn't have our name on a plaque on that part
of the bench, but nobody elsesat there, yeah, and if somebody
did, you walked up.
Like what are you doing?
Speaker 4 (40:57):
You know you didn't say anything, but it was like
what are you doing in my pew?
Interestingly enough, we alwayssat on the left side of the
church, which, when I took mykids to church, we also sat on
the left side of the church.
Speaker 1 (41:10):
I've always been a right sitter Right side.
Speaker 4 (41:15):
Now I will tell you the church that I grew up in in
Wilmer and the church that wetook our kids to.
They had windows along the leftside of the church, and in
Wilmer there are these gorgeousstained glass windows.
So I always felt like if thekids were, if you know, when we
(41:37):
were there, if we were zoned out, at least we had these
beautiful stained glass windowsto look at.
The other side just had thislarge brick wall.
There was no daydreaming withthat large brick wall.
And so I did the same thingwith our kids.
They had more windows on theleft, and I tried to push us up
(41:58):
a little bit towards the frontso they could at least see what
was going on outside, in hopesthat I could keep them, you know
, occupied.
What else has everybody got?
I can't wait.
I hope people let us know whattheir odd quirks are.
Speaker 2 (42:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (42:18):
We'd love to hear.
Speaker 2 (42:18):
Let us know, send us messages, drop comments on the
post when this drops on Facebook.
We would love to know thatwe're not the only ones that are
a little.
Speaker 4 (42:28):
Yeah, especially if you count your stairs.
Speaker 3 (42:30):
Yes, Please, let us know we need to take a poll and
figure out the percentage of thepeople that actually do that.
Speaker 4 (42:38):
So right now we're I think I read that people who
count stairs are brighter.
Speaker 2 (42:45):
Highly intelligent.
Oh yes, they're high achievingindividuals.
Speaker 3 (42:50):
No, I'm thinking the people that are smart.
Don't need to count them,they're there, you don't need to
count them, they're not goingto change, fine.
Speaker 2 (43:02):
All right, all right, let's wrap this.
I have a couple things to sharethat I can share real quick.
Oh, you've got shots.
I've got shots.
Did you guys happen to catchOprah's menopause special?
Speaker 4 (43:17):
No, but I've been watching reels and I want to
find I want to watch it myfavorite Dr Mary.
Speaker 2 (43:25):
Claire, yeah, and um, it's been fun to kind of watch
her socials too, because thishas been a huge exposure for her
.
This will be life-changing forher career it.
Speaker 4 (43:36):
You know, since we started following her, her
socials have gone bananas justyeah, and so this is going to be
yeah.
Speaker 3 (43:46):
Uh, well, if we haven't, if we hadn't talked
about it, I thought I might havementioned it, but I'm going to
mention again.
When we first started this, wekept, you know, googling or, you
know, doing AI searches.
For what topics would women ofour age want to?
Blah, blah, blah.
And number one was alwaysmenopause.
And we've steered clear of thattopic, not because we're
(44:08):
necessarily afraid of it or, youknow, don't want to talk about
it.
We just don't feel like we'revery, you know, medically
qualified to have a lot of sayabout it, so we've just stayed
away from it.
But yeah, there's lots ofresources today.
I thought it was interesting.
Did you know Halle Berry didher?
(44:29):
Oh, I blanked, Amy.
What did you get Alex forChristmas?
That, oh, masterclass,Masterclass.
Halle Berry did a masterclasson menopause.
I thought that was aninteresting flex for her to go
that direction for a masterclass.
Speaker 2 (44:48):
So there you go.
Yeah, so she was on it.
She was one of the guests onthe Oprah special.
So, yeah, I feel like this isthe best advice that we can give
on this topic, that that willbe a great resource.
You can catch it in replay.
I'm sure that it's available.
It's on one of the streamingservices.
(45:11):
Yeah, it's got to be so that'sreally good.
Cool, um, and then I want toshow you my latest Amazon find.
Speaker 3 (45:20):
Oh, oh, is that a chicken shredder?
Speaker 2 (45:25):
No, it looks like it.
This is a microwave popcornpopper.
So you guys know how much Ilove popcorn, have always loved
popcorn.
I can eat popcorn every day andI don't because I don't buy
microwave popcorn.
When I make it, I make it onthe stove, so it's oil and
(45:46):
butter and it's not good for you.
So I stumbled upon this.
So this is just a siliconething, basically, and so it
flattens down.
So when you go to use it youjust pop it open like this.
There's two lines in here forthe size or for your fill lines.
(46:08):
So if you just want a smallbatch, you just put it in there.
If you want a bigger batch, youput it here.
You put your little siliconething on, it fits down in it and
then and it pops.
And I have made this and youknow how.
You just wait until you itstarts to slow down.
I have had no burns, I have hadminimal unpopped kernels and
(46:30):
it's basically like air poppedpopcorn and then I put butter on
it.
I have to have butter on mypopcorn, but I don't have all
the oil that I was having beforeand I also don't have a big
mess inter so what brand is that?
Speaker 3 (46:44):
because I did buy that oh pop pop one, oh yeah I
saw that.
Speaker 2 (46:48):
I saw that one.
This is called this Popco youcan barely see the logo over
here but just on Amazon, Popcomicrowave popcorn and there were
lots of options.
So I looked at them all andthis was cheap.
I don't remember how much, itwas $12, $15, something like
that.
Cool, Great.
(47:08):
And then yeah, and then it justcollapses down so it goes into
your cabinet like this Love itCool.
Speaker 4 (47:17):
Now I'm hungry for popcorn, I know.
Speaker 3 (47:19):
I think we'll all go make popcorn.
Speaker 4 (47:22):
I might go make some too.
Speaker 3 (47:25):
There we go.
Amy, do you have a shot?
I've got nothing.
I don't today.
I can't remember the last timeI had a shot.
I need to pay more attentionand plan ahead, right.
Speaker 4 (47:36):
Make it a habit.
It's been for eight homes andmy brain has been.
I have been fried.
I did absolutely nothing todaybut dink around on the computer
because I just needed to zoneout.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (47:48):
Good, yep, yep Good.
You have to do that when youcan.
Speaker 3 (47:54):
All right, yep good you have to do that when you can
all right.
Speaker 2 (47:56):
Well, let's wrap.
We will see you guys next week.
Have a good week.
Yes, you too.
Now we're all going to be,hyper focused on our, on our
habits.
So come up with other quirks.
Speaker 3 (48:05):
We can talk about it next week for sure that's right
all right, all right, bye, bye,ladies, bye, all right, alright,
alright.
Speaker 1 (48:15):
Bye, bye, ladies, bye .
(48:35):
So you're wondering how I gotthat vibe.
Here I go.
Here I go, coming.
I can't ever stop.
I'm a tour de force running.
Get me to the top, I don't needan invitation.
Knock, knock.
I'm about to start acelebration.
Let me in brought a good timefor some friends.
Turn it up loud past ten.
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