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May 9, 2025 31 mins

Mothers get spa days while fathers get power tools—what does that tell us about how we view parenting roles? This candid, humor-filled conversation peels back the layers on Mother's Day and Father's Day gift traditions that reveal deeply rooted cultural assumptions.

Did you know Father's Day wasn't officially recognized until 1966, decades after Mother's Day became official in 1914? This surprising gap mirrors how differently we celebrate these parental holidays. While mothers receive gifts centered on relaxation and temporary freedom from domestic duties, fathers typically get gifts that involve more work or reinforce stereotypical masculine activities.

The gift-giving awkwardness around Father's Day deserves special attention. As we joke about men uncomfortably receiving presents ("You would think it was empty...and then put the top back on it"), we explore why finding appropriate gifts for fathers proves perpetually challenging. Not every dad plays golf or grills, yet these remain default gift categories year after year. Meanwhile, the perfect Mother's Day revolves around one simple principle: "I ain't loading a dishwasher...that's literally all I want."

Beyond gifts, we explore the brunch phenomenon that dominates Mother's Day celebrations and share practical advice for making both holidays more meaningful. Whether you're crafting homemade cards (saving $7 each time!) or seeking the perfect brunch spot, there's value in remembering that the best parental gifts often benefit the entire family rather than just the individual.

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Speaker 1 (00:20):
Welcome to hey Real Quick Hello.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
We have Mother's Day coming up.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
Two days people.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Two days.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
Yeah, may 11th.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
Yeah, the second.
It's always the second Sundayin May right, yes, it is.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
And sometimes it's the 10th, which coincides with
my birthday.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
Oh yeah, your birthday, yeah, sometimes.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
I get the double, the combo, but not this year.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
Well, birthday's a legitimate.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
I'm not saying.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
Being a mother is not legit.
Yeah, I'm not trying to bash onMother's Day, no.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
I'm just saying it's made up, but whatever.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
But a birthday.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
A birthday?
Yeah, we celebrate that.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
What are you doing for your birthday?
I don't know Nothing.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
We are not celebrating.
Yeah, I'm doing something.
I think my daughter and I aredoing something, Maybe like a
little spa-ish apparently.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
Oh, that's nice.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
I think apparently that's nice, I think it's gonna
be her treat.
This is what happens when yourkids grow up and go to work, um,
and then just super nice, andthen I don't know, I think we'll
probably get.
If it's not raining, we mightgo to cheekwood oh yeah, there
you go you know I'm gonna be 52,so it basically means I want to
put on ugly walking shoes andwalk around and look at flowers,
because that's where we are.

(01:49):
Yeah, we have the bird app onour phone right now and we were
on the porch the other night.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
Wait a minute.
Wait a minute, is it calledTwitter?

Speaker 1 (01:58):
Sorry, but I was like OK, because they were.
Well, you've heard me when I'vetalked to you on the phone
while I'm on my porch and you'relike what is going on?
Are you in a bird sanctuary?
Yeah, I guess I am.
And you hit the little thingand it was like you know, Robin,
and then it was likeMockingbird, and then it was
like something warbler, and thenit's like it tells you

(02:21):
everything and it's like alittle.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
Oh, so you just have it on yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
And you can watch it when they make the noises.
It's as if you're in a soundstudio or like watching a heart
monitor or something where itgoes beep, beep and the little
lines go up every time.
It's fascinating.

Speaker 2 (02:39):
Can you play it back, yeah?

Speaker 1 (02:41):
you can.
I don't know if people aredoing that or if they're being
like hey, y'all listen to this.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
I don't think they're going to like flock to you.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
No Land on your arm while you're holding an iPhone.

Speaker 2 (02:51):
Who's that?
Snow White or something?
Yeah With all the birds.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
Ha, ha, ha, ha.
Oh yeah, snow White, yeah yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
The bird app.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
No, but yeah.
So me birthday, then the nextday it's Mother's Day, so call
your mother.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
Yeah, or go buy something.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
Because they've roped you into that.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
Sorry, cards Hallmark .
Yeah, oh, yeah you got to doall of it.
It's the biggest selling cardholiday.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
I think it should always be.
I think any holiday, you shouldchoose to celebrate it, but
they should all just be.
It should all just be food.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
There should be no gifts.
That would take the pressureoff Christmas.
I kind of get a little bit Sure, yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
But like Father's Day and Mother's Day, it should
just be like what are you goingto make or where are you going
to go eat?

Speaker 1 (03:43):
Right, because those people should not have to cook.
Somebody said what do you wantfor Mother's Day?
I said to not cook anything ortouch a dish.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
Yeah, I ain't cleaning up the kitchen.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
I ain't going in the kitchen except for get some
coffee.
The only thing that's touching.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
That plate is my fork .

Speaker 1 (03:57):
Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
I ain't loading a dishwasher.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
No, please, that's like literally.
That's all I want.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
Or laundry.
You shouldn't have to use anappliance other than a TV.

Speaker 1 (04:08):
Yeah right, that's basically it.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
Yeah, we're taking our mom to, I think, or the plan
is.

Speaker 1 (04:16):
The plan is Uncle Julio's.
Which is nice Mexican.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
Yeah, a little bougie-ish Fresh guac, if you
like it.

Speaker 1 (04:25):
Yeah, it's a little bougie mexican it's our bougie
mexican.
Yeah, we get our specialholidays.

Speaker 2 (04:28):
It's festive yeah it's fun I can always eat
mexican food me too but, yeahanyway, yeah yeah, I was trying
to think um, which I didn't know, because I said it's made up.
It's not made up.

Speaker 1 (04:45):
It's not made up, it is a day.

Speaker 2 (04:49):
But what would you think came first, Mother's Day
or Father's Day?

Speaker 1 (04:55):
Unlike a lot of other things, probably, mother's Day
came first.
Yeah, you got it right.

Speaker 2 (05:01):
So it was first observed in 1908 while Father's
Day was first celebrated in 1910.

Speaker 1 (05:09):
All right.

Speaker 2 (05:11):
So yeah, I was just wondering where it came from.

Speaker 1 (05:13):
Yeah, I don't know where it came from, the Old.

Speaker 2 (05:15):
Farmer's Almanac, which I don't know, I still
don't understand that says thatAnna Jarvis, shout out, driven
by a desire to honor her ownmother, spearheaded the movement
for National Mother's Day,which was officially declared by
President Woodrow Wilson in1914.

Speaker 1 (05:34):
Okay, so it took her six years to get going.
She stuck with it, yeah, shedidn't have like Instagram and
stuff to get the word out.

Speaker 2 (05:42):
And then somebody got mad because fathers weren't
represented.

Speaker 1 (05:45):
Right, don't do it.

Speaker 2 (05:46):
So then good old Sonora Smart Dodd sought to
establish a similar day forfathers.
That was back in 1910.
But the kicker was that wasn'tofficial until 1966.

Speaker 1 (06:07):
Really.

Speaker 2 (06:07):
Yeah, lyndon B Johnson made the first
proclamation honoring fathers.
I don't know why that took solong.

Speaker 1 (06:13):
So that means that like when our parents grew up,
it wasn't until after highschool that they had a Father's
Day for their dads.
I guess yeah.

Speaker 2 (06:23):
My belief on that is somebody at like Ace Hardware or
I don't know, the localhardware store or something, had
too many grills or too manyhammers or something.

Speaker 1 (06:34):
We gotta move.

Speaker 2 (06:35):
It was like this ain't, we ain't getting rid of
none of this.

Speaker 1 (06:39):
Yeah, we got yeah.

Speaker 2 (06:40):
Call the Prez.
We need a day where people feellike they have to buy their dad
a grill.
Right.
We need a day where people feellike they have to buy their dad
a grill Right.

Speaker 1 (06:45):
We are covered in golf clubs or something.

Speaker 2 (06:48):
These ties are just sitting on the shelf.

Speaker 1 (06:50):
And you know what I'll say this about Father's Day
.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
It's the most awkward day to give a present, I think
because they don't want it.

Speaker 1 (07:01):
It's hard, and this is true for other kind of
shopping.
For men, I feel like, but likenot every man and or dad plays
golf or grills.
My husband does neither.

Speaker 2 (07:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (07:16):
And what's up with the like?
Every man's got a grill.

Speaker 2 (07:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (07:21):
It's kind of a stereotype.
I mean, I know men, you knowmen have been first in lots of
other things and some people arelike, well, who cares?
But, however, if you're tryingto think of a good gift for
somebody, yeah.
I'm always like well, myhusband doesn't need a grill
apron or grill accessories.

(07:43):
Now you know, he could useanother wheelbarrow probably.
And then you're buying likeflowers and stuff.

Speaker 2 (07:50):
It's not just for Mother's Day.

Speaker 1 (07:52):
Yeah, exactly, I don't know, it's a little.

Speaker 2 (07:57):
Barbaric.
It's like it's kind ofcaveman-ish.
Yeah, it's like you're a dumb,go hit this ball or grill this
meat.
You dumb man, stand by fire.
Yeah, it's like you're a dumb.
Go hit this ball or grill thismeat.
You dumb man, stand by fire,yeah Right.

Speaker 1 (08:07):
Or beer steins or something like that.
I don't know.
It's weird.
So yeah, I'll say this aboutgrilling.

Speaker 2 (08:16):
Yes, there are people who are pros at it.

Speaker 1 (08:18):
Oh yeah, so there's Respect, there is an art to it.

Speaker 2 (08:22):
Yeah, I get it Like you do it for a living of
competitions.

Speaker 1 (08:30):
Good on you.

Speaker 2 (08:31):
Right, but for the general stuff it's not hard.

Speaker 1 (08:36):
Right.

Speaker 2 (08:37):
It cracks me up.
People are like oh man, that'sgood.
It's like what'd you do?
I put it on the fire.

Speaker 1 (08:44):
Lowry season's off, and then I flipped it over and
then I took it off.
And I just made sure it wasn'tdripping blood.

Speaker 2 (08:51):
And yeah, we're good, it's men's excuse not to have
to do everything in the kitchen,but you know what it's hot out
there?

Speaker 1 (08:57):
Yeah, that's true, I don't want to do it, not in the
summer.

Speaker 2 (09:00):
I don't grill.

Speaker 1 (09:06):
Well, I don't really grill much anymore, because I
almost blew myself up with apropane tank one time.

Speaker 2 (09:09):
Oh, I wish we had a video.
Yeah, I do too, but so I don'tgrill a lot.

Speaker 1 (09:13):
Mm-hmm.

Speaker 2 (09:15):
But like 4th of July and all that stuff, like it's
100 out here.
I know I can just put theburger on the driveway.

Speaker 1 (09:21):
The grill season should be from March to May and
then from honestly like October,November.

Speaker 2 (09:28):
Yeah, even December if it's warm.

Speaker 1 (09:29):
That's nice because you don't mind being outside
November, even December if it'swarm.
That's nice because you don'tmind being outside.

Speaker 2 (09:33):
I think it should match up with.
It's the same way as playinggolf, or whatever 50 degrees to
80.
Grill, play golf, do whateveryou want.
If it's 92, I ain't doing anyof one of them.

Speaker 1 (09:46):
No, technically you should get a ticket, but
whatever, it's too hot.
However, our neighbor, nextdoor neighbor, has one of those.
Technically you should get aticket, but whatever, but it's
too hot, yeah.
However, our neighbor next doorneighbor has one of those that
uses the pebbles.

Speaker 2 (09:58):
Oh, the pellet grill.

Speaker 1 (09:59):
Pellet and it's like hooked up to his phone.
But his is a smoker.

Speaker 2 (10:02):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 1 (10:03):
And now granted.
That's a deep dive right therePeople get into that I'm not
going to go all the way in it,but like he's also a hunter,
like he hunts for sport, hetaught his kid how to duck hunt
all this kind of stuff.
So they're like in it from thebeginning to the.
You know they're getting themeat.
But sometimes he just goes toCostco and gets like pork roast
and does the barbecue, there'salways a Boston butt.

Speaker 2 (10:25):
You'll be talking to a mid conversation like hold on.
It's at 160.

Speaker 1 (10:29):
Yeah, and he like will bring us meat sometimes and
it is unbelievable.
He goes it's not hard, you justlike hook it up and da, da, da,
and I'm like okay, I just wantsomebody to go, can you just do?
It for me and like, give me alesson, I need a couple of
videos, but anyway, which I love, that we're.
I'm not going to do that.
I love that.

Speaker 2 (10:49):
I'm saying I don't.
Well, first of all, dads.
I don't care what a dad says,they don't want anything,
because I think men are awkward.

Speaker 1 (10:58):
When you receive like you get a gift and they're just
like I remember giving mygrandparents or something and
you give them a gift, you wouldthink it was empty.

Speaker 2 (11:11):
Like they would open the box and be like oh yeah,
that's nice.
And then put the top back on it, Put the top on, like, throw it
back on the floor and be likeso.
Anyway, like I was saying, likedude, we spent three and a half
hours trying to pick out whatcolor shirt to get you.

Speaker 1 (11:24):
And we wrapped it yeah.
With wrapping paper and then,like a bow and tape on the box,
paid for it.
We didn't even steal it, likeyeah, yeah, um, yeah.
And then the stereotypical tiesand socks, socks and business
socks, and first of all, themmake his feet sweat, okay.
Second of all, I don't know aton of men that are wearing that

(11:46):
many ties no, I don't wear noties you know, I don't even tuck
my shirt in.

Speaker 2 (11:52):
I'm at that point in my life I don't remember.
I'm trying to think of the lasttime I tucked my shirt in.
It's been a minute.

Speaker 1 (11:58):
A dinner?
Yeah, no, I don't tuck my shirtin.
Oh, I guess, if I go, if I weara suit, yeah, I tuck my yeah,
go back to Mother's Day.

Speaker 2 (12:13):
Sorry I derailed.

Speaker 1 (12:14):
No, also biggest flower.
I think it's bigger thanValentine's for floral.

Speaker 2 (12:21):
That has to be where florists like Valentine's Day
and Mother's Day.

Speaker 1 (12:27):
They got to be like Maybe they're tied, but I guess,
I know, hallmark Mother's dayis a little bit bigger yeah as
far as cards yeah, dads don'twant cards.

Speaker 2 (12:37):
I say I don't want anything.
And then when you're we'retalking about grills, I'm like
it's not even that hard yeah andI'll I'm gonna go off on a
grill tangent okay so I almostblew myself up one time with a
propane tank I remember youtelling me, so I got a charcoal
grill.

Speaker 1 (12:51):
What's up, weber?
I've been rocking that for aminute, yeah.
However if you're like, let'sgrill some burgers.
Let's wait an hour till theyget white yeah.

Speaker 2 (13:01):
Sump the briquettes in there.

Speaker 1 (13:03):
These are old, ready to throw them on in 40 minutes.

Speaker 2 (13:05):
Nope, Gotta do all this stuff Meanwhile kids just
want a hot dog that takes 17seconds to grill, yeah, so now I
want to get rid of it and Iwant to buy a charcoal grill.
I want one of those Blackstone.

Speaker 1 (13:21):
What is a Blackstone?

Speaker 2 (13:22):
It's just the.
It's like a hibachi grill.

Speaker 1 (13:26):
But it's flat.
It's just a griddle, but foroutside it's just a griddle?

Speaker 2 (13:30):
Yeah, exactly, but like gas powered or plug it in,
it's just flat, it's a griddle.
But for outside, yeah, it'sjust a griddle.

Speaker 1 (13:32):
Yeah, exactly, but like everybody does, is it gas
powered or plug it in?
Well, it's propane tank.
You got to blow yourself up,but it's a.
They scare me to death.

Speaker 2 (13:38):
But yeah, everybody does.
Oh for smash burgers.
Everybody does the smashburgers, or?

Speaker 1 (13:41):
veggies Grill veggies on them.

Speaker 2 (13:44):
You can do Volcano if you want Little choo-choo train
.

Speaker 1 (13:49):
What's choo-choo train?
What have you never been to aJapanese restaurant?
It's been a minute, 20 yearsago.

Speaker 2 (13:55):
Maybe you know the clang-a-dee-clang thing.
Yeah, hibachi.
Yeah, it's been 20 years, okay,but anyway.

Speaker 1 (14:01):
If you want to do that, your neighbors will bring
chairs over and watch you.

Speaker 2 (14:06):
It Cool, easy, okay, and nothing can fall through the
grill.
That's my biggest beef with,like sorry, charcoal grills.
Yeah, it's like you got aburger or fish or whatever it is
Half of it.

Speaker 1 (14:19):
Yeah, there's half the salmon in the briquettes
yeah.

Speaker 2 (14:27):
Also, let's do it.

Speaker 1 (14:28):
Let's do it.

Speaker 2 (14:29):
Making the sale there's too many accessories for
charcoal grill, so it's thefish basket.
There's the like.

Speaker 1 (14:36):
Ain't nobody using that stuff?
Get a roll of Reynolds, y'all.

Speaker 2 (14:40):
I did have the fish basket.

Speaker 1 (14:42):
Lord have mercy.

Speaker 2 (14:43):
But it did make it easier.
Did it Because it sticks to thewrap.

Speaker 1 (14:48):
Then you're like why didn't I just fix this on the
stove?
I'm basically using the pan ontop of the grill.
What is the power out?

Speaker 2 (14:54):
you know what we don't have in the house
mosquitoes?
Yeah, we have an airconditioner yeah, hvac is
working beautifully.

Speaker 1 (15:00):
Why are we out here sweat bees, wasps anyway,
mosquitoes, yeah.

Speaker 2 (15:06):
That's why we don't get mom's grills, yeah we
already have.

Speaker 1 (15:09):
they're like don't get me a grills.
Yeah, we already have a stove.

Speaker 2 (15:11):
They're like don't get me a job, Something else to
cook on.

Speaker 1 (15:14):
Yeah, I know, I mean, if anybody's going to grill in
our family, it's usually meRandall will do it.
But like I don't, I don't likeit.

Speaker 2 (15:22):
It's too much work.

Speaker 1 (15:23):
I know I like the stuff about it, you know, like
marinating and all that andputting it on there and kind of
being like, hey, what's up?
I don't know I'm dripping sweat, but then you go back in and
you're a little bit stinky.

Speaker 2 (15:39):
But then the neighbors start grilling and
you're outside and you're sojealous we should grill.

Speaker 1 (15:44):
I know, gosh, that smells good.
You know, that's what I do.

Speaker 2 (15:49):
I think there was one time like I was grilling and I
got done and we had some ofthose wood chips.
I never really used them oh youknow you like soak them and
like it just makes stuff likesmokier soak them okay.

Speaker 1 (16:00):
Yeah, that's another step.

Speaker 2 (16:01):
Okay, I got you but it's not that hard um okay but I
didn't really use them becauseI don't love like real smoky,
like I don't love like realsmoky foot oh.
Anyway, yeah, so, but I wasdone grilling.
I was like I just threw them onthere after I was done.

Speaker 1 (16:15):
Yeah, just smell up the neighborhood.
Just smell up the neighborhoodYou're welcome.

Speaker 2 (16:18):
I bet people are like what is that?
Ooh, is that brisket?

Speaker 1 (16:20):
What is that Hickory?
What is that man that smellsgood Guess what?
Learning stuff now.

Speaker 2 (16:30):
Anyway, all right.

Speaker 1 (16:31):
What's it called A smash grill?
No a Blackstone.
I think they just call it asmash grill, but Blackstone,
there was a Blackstone breweryrestaurant.
Say that fast five times onWest End for years.

Speaker 2 (16:43):
I can't say it slow one time.

Speaker 1 (16:45):
I can't say brewery, because it just sounds like you
got B and an R.

Speaker 2 (16:48):
It sounds like you've been at one for a minute when
you say it.

Speaker 1 (17:00):
Y'all want to go to the brewery?
I don't think you need to.
Um, you mean, go back um, um,yeah, so grills, okay, yeah, I
bet you get one for father's day.
Are you gonna be awkward whenyou receive it?

Speaker 2 (17:05):
or are you gonna say I'd really like some socks and a
tie, but no, I won't be awkward, because if I get get one, I
will have picked it out and toldthem which one I want.

Speaker 1 (17:13):
Oh yeah, I'm a big fan of.

Speaker 2 (17:15):
If you want it, just order it.

Speaker 1 (17:17):
Yeah, and then if you want to put a bow on it, and if
you want to celebrate, we cango eat.
Or buy some meat for theBlackstone, yeah.

Speaker 2 (17:27):
It's like when you get a link to something Like,
hey, this is what I want, yeah,okay.

Speaker 1 (17:32):
Easy for me, yeah, free delivery.

Speaker 2 (17:34):
Sounds great.
Do you want to wrap it too?
Yeah, what kind of paper do youwant?

Speaker 1 (17:38):
Yeah, how much effort Zero.

Speaker 2 (17:42):
Which I will say, with Mother's Day coming up,
robin asked me.
She was like, hey, are we doing?
What are we doing for your mom?

Speaker 1 (17:52):
Oh right, and I'm like I don't know.

Speaker 2 (17:53):
I mean, I guess we'll you know what are we going to
do?

Speaker 1 (17:56):
Yeah, yeah, take dinner, yeah.

Speaker 2 (17:59):
Maybe there's surprises.

Speaker 1 (18:00):
Maybe there's handsome surprises.

Speaker 2 (18:02):
Shout out mom, but I forget.
I'm like, oh yeah.

Speaker 1 (18:09):
It's also your wife.

Speaker 2 (18:10):
I think she's also saying like hey, are we doing
anything for?
Your mother's birthday.
Yeah, we have two children.

Speaker 1 (18:21):
Yeah, exactly.
So what are the gifts formothers?
So let's go through that for aminute.
Spa, spa, things, spa themed.
Some people don't like the spa.
They don't want people touchingthem.
Whatever, get off my face, Idon't want- Self-care.
Yeah, but like the little itemslike hand lotions and scrubs
and things like that, those arebig.

Speaker 2 (18:43):
Flowers.

Speaker 1 (18:43):
Flowers, pajamas, robes slip like the summery
because we're in May, but thoseare big mom gifts.

Speaker 2 (18:51):
I feel like everything for mothers is like
here.
You should treat yourself andrelax and just be comfortable.
And everything for a man islike you should go outside and
sweat and make me something orput on a tie and go somewhere
you don't want to be dressed upor go hit a golf ball if you
like golf.
Put on business socks.
Where are we going?

Speaker 1 (19:10):
Yeah, or the hardware store.
I'm going to go do a project.
Yeah, yeah, tools, tools.

Speaker 2 (19:16):
It's the opposite.
Yeah, men, get like.
Here's a weed eater.

Speaker 1 (19:19):
Yeah, grass looks like garbage.
Okay, I will say this Early inour marriage.

Speaker 2 (19:26):
You got a weed eater.

Speaker 1 (19:32):
Did you?

Speaker 2 (19:35):
Oh yeah, like yard stuff.

Speaker 1 (19:36):
Yard stuff and granted, our family enjoyed
working in the yard, right, so Ilearned about watching that and
we were married maybe I don'tknow seven, eight years, and I
got Randall a power washer.

Speaker 2 (19:57):
Most dudes would be like he didn't like that.

Speaker 1 (20:03):
No, what do you say?
I think I wanted to get him apower washer.
Must be like he didn't likethat.
No, I think I wanted to get hima power washer.
Well, there was part of it likewell, it's a power washer, we
can power wash our house andit's father's day, right, I'm
and I'm in the tool zone, I'mthinking tools or nice whatever.
And he was like you just wantto power wash the driveway and
stuff.
And I was like you just want topower wash the driveway and
stuff.
And I was like, yeah, well, weneed to.
And he was basically I've neverlived that down.

(20:25):
He's never let me live thatdown.

Speaker 2 (20:26):
But I will say, when you're a father or a mother, I
think if you are going to get agift, that's my hot take on it.
If you're going to get a giftas a mother or a father
especially, in the ages of like,it's different when you've done
your work, you've done.
Yeah, it should be somethingthat's practical and you're

(20:49):
going to buy anyway.

Speaker 1 (20:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (20:51):
You're a mother, it should benefit the family You're
a father.
It should benefit the family.
You get a grill, you grill foreverybody.
You know what I'm saying?
Yeah, benefit family.
You get a grill, you grill foreverybody.

Speaker 1 (20:58):
You know what I'm saying?
Yeah, we're celebrating thisbecause you made people.

Speaker 2 (21:01):
Yeah, so take care of the people.

Speaker 1 (21:02):
Yeah, I don't know, go figure, but, and then a few
years ago he got me a hedgetrimmer, Ryobi.

Speaker 2 (21:10):
Right back at you.
Yeah, you want to back him.
And then guess what?

Speaker 1 (21:14):
Okay, I'm going to talk about that for a minute.
But Okay, I'm going to talkabout that for a minute.
But we pulled out all ourhedges except for one, which
we're going to have to cut downwith a chainsaw Because it's so
big and so overgrown.
And it's embarrassing and I'msuper sorry to my neighbors but
it's on the side of our houseand we haven't had a hot minute
to do it.
But now I don't need the hedgetrimmer.

(21:37):
He has never bought me a vacuum, but one year he did get me a
crock pot for Christmas.

Speaker 2 (21:44):
That's the gift that keeps on giving it does, I'm
sorry.

Speaker 1 (21:46):
Because you cook it all day.
But I also was excited about itNot because I'm Betty Crocker
or anything like barefoot in thekitchen all the time, but like
I like to cook a crock pot.
And I still got that crock pot.
And now I got two crock potswith a little mini crock pot,
because sometimes I do bigdinners and sometimes I have
chicken and beef and whatever.

Speaker 2 (22:07):
Where's the Rotel going to go?

Speaker 1 (22:10):
Here's a side of Velveeta on top.

Speaker 2 (22:12):
A crock pot is an indoor pellet grill.
That's all it is.
Because you put it on there,you put the top on grill.

Speaker 1 (22:18):
That's all, it is Because you put it on there you
put the top on, you set it, youforget it, you set it and forget
it, yeah.
You just smell it.

Speaker 2 (22:23):
Oh gosh, yeah, there's nothing better than
leaving the house, coming backhome and be like, oh man.

Speaker 1 (22:30):
So I gotta tell you sorry.

Speaker 2 (22:32):
By the way, don't put your pellet grill in the house.

Speaker 1 (22:36):
Soon, I'm gonna make some birria tacos.
Do you know what those are?
Birria B-I-R-R-I-A.

Speaker 2 (22:44):
Do they have those at Uncle Julio's?

Speaker 1 (22:46):
They might, but it's a regional variation of tacos,
usually made with beef, but youcan make it with, you know,
whatever lamb, whatever, but youmarinate it in vinegar, dried
chilies, garlic, herbs and youput it in the crock pot, by the
way, this is why.
But you get a roast and you dothat I want this now yeah, and
then you make the littletortillas kind of crunchy, so

(23:09):
it's almost like a french dip oran au jus sauce, but like taco
version, and so you save, likethe, the broth, and you can do
like a bowl with rice orwhatever, or you can like dip in
the crunchy, like what is thiscalled again?

Speaker 2 (23:23):
birria tacos b-a-r-r-i-a it's a lot of ours,
it's just ours but we ate itfirst.

Speaker 1 (23:34):
A few years ago, when we were out west, we were like,
what is this?
And they were like, oh, youwant to, you want to probably
get that one, and so they'reamazing.
Yeah, it's like lots of peppers, like I'm about to buy these
dried ancho guajillo andsomething other kind of peppers
when do you get?
That?
Where do you buy that?
It says you can buy them atKroger, which you probably can

(23:56):
in the international section,but they're dried chilies.
But I may go one of thoselittle like local I don't know
where.

Speaker 2 (24:05):
Yeah, I guess I ain't seen that at Publix, or maybe
I'm just not paying attention.

Speaker 1 (24:09):
Well, you buy that.
You either buy, like Chipotle,already in the can and you can
do it, but I think I'm going todo it from scratch.
Where you like, cut the chilies, you shake out the things, you
roast them, then you make thebeef sauce.
I love how this yeah, sorry Ifeel like Splendid Table on NPR
right now.
Anyway, I'm excited.

Speaker 2 (24:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (24:32):
Yeah, crockpot.

Speaker 2 (24:34):
Let's see, a crockpot is practical.

Speaker 1 (24:35):
It is the time to yes .

Speaker 2 (24:38):
I'm not saying every mom should get a vacuum cleaner.

Speaker 1 (24:42):
No, if you give me something to clean the house
with.

Speaker 2 (24:44):
Yeah, I get it.

Speaker 1 (24:46):
I'm going to give you one look and you will know what
I mean.
But yeah, I just don't want tohave to cook.
I don't really need a gift forMother's Day.
If you want to give me a gift,you can give me a gift.

Speaker 2 (24:57):
But for your birthday .

Speaker 1 (24:59):
Or my birthday.
Actually, can I not cook allweekend?
I don't want to cook tomorrowor Sunday.

Speaker 2 (25:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (25:06):
Because one day I'm celebrating my birthday, the
next day is Mother's Day.

Speaker 2 (25:11):
That's a good weekend .
You ain't got to do squat.

Speaker 1 (25:14):
No, I'm just going to lay around and eat bonbons.
Yeah, let's watch.
Lay around eat bonbons and yeah, that's one.
Yeah, netflix, yeah, right umgo to the spa.

Speaker 2 (25:27):
I don't know, not, not grill, somebody else grill,
yeah, so I guess, if you, Iguess people still do presents
oh yeah, they do presents theydo flowers, they do brunch.

Speaker 1 (25:36):
Mother's day brunch is big.

Speaker 2 (25:38):
Mother's Day brunch is big, I will say this, and my
wife loves brunch.

Speaker 1 (25:42):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (25:42):
I think I've said this before.

Speaker 1 (25:44):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (25:46):
But it ain't gonna stop me, I'm gonna say it again
Brunch yeah.
And an earlier supper.
I'm a big, I don't do it.
But if I could plan, if sevendays a week, I would have like a
legit brunch.

Speaker 1 (26:00):
Yeah, and then I'd have like eat it like 5.30 or 6.

Speaker 2 (26:03):
Two meals.

Speaker 1 (26:04):
Yeah, donsky.

Speaker 2 (26:05):
Love it.

Speaker 1 (26:06):
Yeah, I could eat at 4.30 sometimes.

Speaker 2 (26:09):
And problem solving.
That is oh, yeah, woo.
But yeah, brunch is legit.
I do love brunch.

Speaker 1 (26:14):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (26:25):
So where are your top ?

Speaker 1 (26:26):
places that you have gone in the past for Mother's
Day brunch.

Speaker 2 (26:27):
Okay, so as far as I guess, nashville, cool Springs,
franklin-ish Franklin, I'm goingto go blank right now, oh man
Tupelo Honey.
Tupelo Honey, and then I thinkthere's I've never been there.
Honeysuckle, honeysuckle.

Speaker 1 (26:39):
Honeysuckle Cafe, which is I think right.

Speaker 2 (26:43):
First Watch is good too.
It's legit.
We've done Mirabelle's oh.
I've never done that.
That one's like.
It's kind of like an old house,it's like a what did I say,
mirabelles?

Speaker 1 (26:57):
Is that right?

Speaker 2 (26:57):
Mirabelle, mirabelle, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (27:00):
M-E-R-E-B-U-L-E-S.

Speaker 2 (27:02):
Well everybody to be honest, everybody that says it
goes like y'all gonna murmle?

Speaker 1 (27:05):
Yeah, it does sound like that.

Speaker 2 (27:07):
Well, go to mirror bellies, whatever it is.

Speaker 1 (27:11):
They shouldn't have named it, anything Frenchy at
all.

Speaker 2 (27:16):
It's nice, but I felt like.
I was at the buffet of a bedand breakfast downstairs in an
old home.

Speaker 1 (27:24):
It's just, you go in a different room and there's a
guy at the omelet station.

Speaker 2 (27:28):
I don't even bother him because I'm just like when I
see him I'm like I can helpmyself right over here.

Speaker 1 (27:34):
I just get scrambled.

Speaker 2 (27:35):
It's fine, you don't have to do a special, you know.

Speaker 1 (27:39):
And then I'm going to watch you do it All of a sudden
, you're like, it's like acooking show in front of you.
The pressure I couldn't take it.

Speaker 2 (27:45):
All of a sudden he's like the jester You're just like
I want ham and turkey andpeppers and like uh-uh, just on
demand.
I'll just take some bacon.
Yeah, I'll eat a donut.
I'm out, that's so Southern.

Speaker 1 (27:57):
I'm not even going to go over there because I don't
want to bother him yeah, he'sworking.

Speaker 2 (28:01):
I don't want to bother him, he wants to do it.

Speaker 1 (28:04):
It's less boring if he has an omelet to make.

Speaker 2 (28:08):
He's just going to make himself one.

Speaker 1 (28:10):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 2 (28:11):
But yeah, honeysuckle's pretty good.
I think I've been there withy'all for.

Speaker 1 (28:23):
Mother's Day.
One time I will say I don'tknow if it's, I wouldn't
consider it brunch, but big badbreakfast.
I've been there with you.
That's a good breakfast place.
That's a good breakfast joint.
Good night.

Speaker 2 (28:28):
I get the mother of all biscuits which is not which
is perfect for Mother's Day,which I don't think it's.
It's not ginormous.

Speaker 1 (28:37):
Uh-huh.

Speaker 2 (28:38):
But it's got like a little kind of peppery green hot
sauce on it.
Mm or you can get it on theside if you want.

Speaker 1 (28:45):
If you want to dip it .

Speaker 2 (28:47):
It's not that bad.
Yeah, that's good.

Speaker 1 (28:49):
Wow, I'm hungry.

Speaker 2 (28:52):
I know we always end up eating, just go eat.

Speaker 1 (28:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (28:56):
And get a card.

Speaker 1 (29:00):
Or make a card, or go grow some flowers real quick,
or go buy some meat to grill orsomething.

Speaker 2 (29:05):
We did.
We used to make cards.
We did.
You know how?

Speaker 1 (29:08):
much money, you save A lot yeah.

Speaker 2 (29:11):
So I would get that construction paper.

Speaker 1 (29:13):
Fold it in half, baby .
I'm about to drop someknowledge.

Speaker 2 (29:16):
Fold it in half right .

Speaker 1 (29:17):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 2 (29:17):
Tell the kids you draw your little stick people.

Speaker 1 (29:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (29:20):
Love you, mommy.
Draw a flower.

Speaker 1 (29:22):
Right Bamski.

Speaker 2 (29:24):
Every piece of paper just saved $7.
Yeah, oh yeah, oh, this is bad.
I feel bad saying this.
Yeah, for like card stores.

Speaker 1 (29:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (29:40):
Stuff like that, I would be at a store and I'd be
in the car dial and, first ofall, when it's covered in
plastic, don't even pick it up.

Speaker 1 (29:45):
It's $14.99.
Yeah, got a piece of woodcarved out on it or something
like that, right?
What is the payment plan forthis card?

Speaker 2 (29:51):
Yeah, I'm just going to lease it.
I'll bring it back in goodcondition, but I would open a
card and first of all, you'dopen some bougie card like that,
yeah, and it'd have, like Idon't know, like a fake dime.
There's always like somethingthat could fall off glitter,
something attached with a sadribbon and then you'd open it
and it'd be like happy mother'sday.

(30:14):
You're the best or somethingjust random and like that's
that's all you wrote yeah, right, yeah but sometimes out of my
open one, I'll be like man,that's good and I'm like it's
really good and I would take outmy phone.
Oh, and just take a little shotof that and then I go home and

(30:35):
grab a piece of paper pull thatback up bam, bam, bam, bam.
I'm just saying.

Speaker 1 (30:41):
No English teachers grading it.
They don't know.
Play your eyes.

Speaker 2 (30:46):
Wait a minute.
Yeah, I mean, it's kind of.

Speaker 1 (30:52):
It's cheating.

Speaker 2 (30:53):
This will be a different episode, but that is
very chat, gpt, write me aMother's Day card or a birthday
card for my wife, or whatever.

Speaker 1 (31:03):
You were just pre-Chet GPT in it, which that
is so hard to say.
Can someone do a rebrand onthat name?
It's.

Speaker 2 (31:12):
Chet.

Speaker 1 (31:12):
GPT.

Speaker 2 (31:15):
Anyway, sorry.

Speaker 1 (31:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (31:18):
Anyway.
Well, well, happy mother's dayyeah, enjoy your cards or your
crock pot or your brunch, oryour flour enjoy, not cooking
yeah, make people bring you food, yeah all day.
Yeah, yeah, that's it all right.
Have a good one, bye.
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