November 17, 2025 • 47 mins
In this episode, we save someone from an unnecessary tow truck, confront a smart speaker that suddenly thinks it’s our equal and honor a true hero of the public restroom. We also test-drive a switch from coffee to matcha (spoiler: fewer jitters, more smugness), debate whether dogs are tiny furry theologians while cats are morally neutral agents of chaos, and accidentally summon K-pop Demon Hunters.
Plus, a shockingly hard history game, and your listener letters take us everywhere from roadside emus to tree-dwelling snakes to the humble beginnings of the Smart car. You’ve got an episode that contains exactly the life skills school should have taught you.
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SPEAKER_04 (00:00):
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Relationships are the story.
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down.
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SPEAKER_00 (00:32):
I'm Amanda.
SPEAKER_03 (00:32):
And I'm Josh.
Amanda, something pretty amazinghappened today.
Or amazing to me.
SPEAKER_00 (00:36):
I mean you woke up married to me, but go ahead,
what else?
SPEAKER_03 (00:39):
I got a text from one of the people I work with
explaining to me that he wasstuck at like he had visited a
store or something on his break,on his lunch break.
And he texted me saying that hiscar wouldn't start.
I texted back to him, Do youhave a key fob?
SPEAKER_00 (00:57):
Oh, look at the look at the wisdom you have learned
and you're spreading to theworld.
SPEAKER_03 (01:03):
He said, Why, yes, I do.
I said, Well, do you know youhave an emergency key in that?
He said, What?
His is a different make car, butI think that pretty much all of
them that have an emergency keyhave it in the key fob.
So I sent him a video of meopening my key fob, you know, my
my thing for the emergency keyinside.
So he tried it and it worked,and he saved himself a crap ton
(01:27):
of money.
And now he knows about thisemergency key that he didn't
know about before.
SPEAKER_00 (01:32):
Look at you spreading the love and the
knowledge and just doing yourgood out in the world.
SPEAKER_03 (01:37):
Yeah, because he had said that he was surprised that
his car wouldn't turn overbecause he had just replaced his
car battery.
SPEAKER_00 (01:44):
Which is what happened with you.
You're like, I feel like I'mreplacing the battery in this
car.
Have you thought about how manytimes you replaced the car
battery when really it was justuh an inexpensive?
SPEAKER_03 (01:54):
Clearly was the the first time that that this
actually applied.
SPEAKER_00 (01:57):
But no, I'm talking about you.
SPEAKER_03 (01:58):
Right.
This is the first time that thishad happened to me.
SPEAKER_00 (02:01):
Oh, you know the other times were the key.
SPEAKER_03 (02:03):
Of course, of course not.
SPEAKER_00 (02:05):
Why you are like that?
It could have been.
It could not have been.
It could have gotten its secondwind.
You don't know.
SPEAKER_03 (02:12):
Batteries don't just need to rest.
SPEAKER_00 (02:16):
But you recharge your battery.
You've heard this.
This is what resting does.
SPEAKER_03 (02:19):
Anyway, so folks, again, this is now twice.
This has come up in about uh amonth and a half.
First with me, and then thisgentleman that I was able to
help.
Check your key fobs.
Do not pay for roadsideassistance to come out.
Do not pay for a new battery.
Check your key fob first.
Make sure that it has a newlittle bitty old watch battery.
(02:40):
Because that could be it.
SPEAKER_00 (02:42):
My car still has a regular old key.
SPEAKER_03 (02:44):
Speaking of fixing technology, someone needs to fix
our Alexa.
SPEAKER_00 (02:49):
Well, I she updated herself.
She didn't light up.
I thought you looked for it.
She didn't light up.
SPEAKER_03 (02:53):
Yeah, she didn't light up.
She did first of all, she didupdate herself, which I assume
most of the people listening, ifthey have one of these devices,
are aware that they've beenupdating um themselves.
And how I know that it happenedis one day I came in, one day
recently, and I asked it aquestion, and this new voice
came out, scared the ever-lovingshit out of me.
I was like, what?
(03:14):
Who's here?
SPEAKER_00 (03:15):
She just she was trying to have a real sounding
voice.
SPEAKER_03 (03:18):
I don't care.
I want the old voice back.
That's all I'm saying.
SPEAKER_00 (03:21):
I don't think it's an option.
SPEAKER_03 (03:22):
I don't think it's an option because I went through
and I asked it to give me all ofthe new voices, like examples of
the new voices, so that I couldfind the old voice.
Because sometimes they'll dothat with these sort of things.
They'll have like the old voiceand then all these new options,
including Snoop Dogg and SamuelL.
Jackson.
But they don't have the oldvoice, and that's very upsetting
to me.
Also, this one thinksdifferently.
(03:44):
It's like been upgraded, Iguess, with the proliferation of
all this AI now.
Now it remembers discussionsthat it's had with you, whereas
before it wouldn't remember,right?
The other thing I don't like isit's getting a little bit too
real.
It's getting a little bit toohuman.
It's picking up those parts ofthe human experience that we
don't want.
(04:05):
Like, this is why we would wantartificial intelligence.
We don't want it to mimichumans.
I can go talk to a human if Iwant, with all of humanity's
imperfections and annoyances.
No, this thing is picking thoseup.
So this is this is whathappened.
Last week, you had had made anannouncement because for those
(04:25):
of you not familiar with thiswith this Amazon machine, you
can tell it make anannouncement, and then you tell
it the announcement you want itto make, and then it will send
that announcement to all of thedifferent devices in the house.
So it's like an intercom, likean all call, right?
You had done something likethat, and so what I did, I was
like in the bathroom orsomething, I heard it.
(04:46):
So I I came out to the bedroom,you were downstairs, and I told
it, I said, make anannouncement.
And then the announcement Iwanted it to make to you is, oh,
I don't really like this newvoice that this thing has.
Um, so let's let's try to see ifwe can pick a new one, right?
I wanted it to announce that.
SPEAKER_00 (05:06):
Okay.
SPEAKER_03 (05:07):
And in order to make it announce something, you say
the machine's name, which I'mnot gonna say because she's
fucking listening right overthere.
You say Amazon device announce,and then the device says, What
would you like for me toannounce?
And then whatever you say, it'ssupposed to announce.
Yeah.
So I did that.
(05:27):
I said Amazon device announce,and then I said the thing about
the voice.
And then instead of announcingit, it said, Well, if you don't
like my voice, you can we canlisten to other options that
that you would have for myvoice.
And I was like, Absolutely not.
SPEAKER_00 (05:46):
That's terrifying.
SPEAKER_03 (05:48):
This is like the human translator getting
involved when the two presidentsare talking.
SPEAKER_01 (05:52):
That's right.
SPEAKER_03 (05:53):
No one wants to hear from you.
I just wanted you to give themessage to Amanda.
This thing is about ready toneed to go.
SPEAKER_00 (06:02):
Okay.
SPEAKER_03 (06:02):
This is all I'm saying because it is is
achieving sentience, and I don'tlike it.
SPEAKER_00 (06:07):
No, I don't like that either.
Dave you notice that um, so wedo the and used to when you
would announce, it wouldannounce in your voice.
Like it would record you sayingthe announcement.
And then now it now it restatesit.
She uses her own voice.
Um, but now Winthrop has startedannouncing back to us, and I
don't know how he's figured itout because he's doing it from
his tablet.
So clearly he's having to type.
(06:27):
But anyway, yeah, it's getting alittle it's getting a little
too.
And and you don't have to sayits name anymore every time you
talk to it.
So if you if you initiatesomething with it and it tells
you something, you can justrespond now back and forth until
like a period of time goes byand then it will then it will
stop recognizing you.
Because yesterday I asked itsomething and then you said
(06:50):
something to me and it respondedto you.
Like it's it's it's gettinginvolved in our conversations,
like it's butting itself in.
SPEAKER_03 (06:57):
Yeah, no, we don't need like the equivalent of a
mother-in-law hanging hangingout here.
SPEAKER_00 (07:03):
That's what that is.
SPEAKER_03 (07:04):
Absolutely.
No ma'am.
I want I I want dumb devicesnow.
Like I bring me my abacus.
And no.
SPEAKER_00 (07:15):
Carrier pigeons, how are we gonna talk to each other
from upstairs and downstairs?
SPEAKER_03 (07:18):
Each of us has a monkey.
We tie something to its neck,send it downstairs.
SPEAKER_00 (07:25):
We can get tin cans with really long strings.
SPEAKER_03 (07:28):
That's right.
Or we call each other on thefucking phone.
On the phone.
Oh, right, we have these things.
SPEAKER_00 (07:33):
Yes, got it.
SPEAKER_03 (07:34):
The reason why I asked you to to fix um Alexa
really is because you're reallygood at fixing things.
SPEAKER_00 (07:43):
Are you gonna I am good at fixing things?
I'm a problem solver.
I know what you're gonna say.
You said you didn't want to tellthis story.
You said you were embarrassed byme.
SPEAKER_03 (07:53):
Well, you can tell the story.
SPEAKER_00 (07:55):
No, I'm not telling this story.
SPEAKER_03 (07:57):
Go ahead.
SPEAKER_00 (07:58):
Okay.
Saturday morning, we got out, wewent to breakfast at uh uh
breakfast place here.
SPEAKER_03 (08:04):
All right, so this is what happened, folks.
SPEAKER_00 (08:07):
Was I taking too long?
SPEAKER_03 (08:09):
You were because you were gonna describe the whole
breakfast spot and all the thethings, how we got there, how we
got out of the car, whatwinthrop had.
No, not the point.
So we're there.
She at one point gets up to goto the restroom, and I'm like,
she's been in there a long time.
Now you did take your phone.
So I always assume that wheneverone takes one's phone into the
(08:30):
restroom, like there's gonna befive or six things that we look
up.
Did I have my phone?
You did have your phone, yes.
SPEAKER_00 (08:36):
No, well, I was not using it.
SPEAKER_03 (08:37):
Yeah, well, this is what I come to find out.
So finally, I I was about to getup and knock on the door.
SPEAKER_00 (08:43):
Somebody did knock on the door.
I thought you sent Winthrop.
No, it no, no, it wouldn'tbecause they're individuals,
they're individual restroomsthat lock.
They're not like it's not like abig restroom with with multiple.
SPEAKER_03 (08:52):
Of course, I didn't send someone in to knock on your
stall.
No, yeah, um, so finally youcome out after I think that
you've passed out.
SPEAKER_00 (09:01):
I was really very busily engaged.
SPEAKER_03 (09:06):
So what she had done, folks, is that while she
was in there, she decided to fixthe toilet.
SPEAKER_00 (09:14):
It was broken.
SPEAKER_03 (09:15):
The public bathroom toilet of a restaurant.
My God.
SPEAKER_02 (09:20):
It was broken.
SPEAKER_03 (09:21):
You need to never complain about the facts that
that you need to never complainabout the fact that sometimes I
wear a bathing suit out inpublic.
SPEAKER_00 (09:29):
I would okay, first of all, I was not out in public
doing it.
I was in the bathroom.
SPEAKER_03 (09:34):
Second of all, public turlet that you put your
you went up to your elbows inturlet water.
SPEAKER_00 (09:39):
I did, I did not go up to my elbows, thank you.
But the tank was broken.
This was the thing.
The water was just running andrunning and running, and I am
very concerned about theenvironment and in being
conservative, and it just keptgoing and going and going and
going and going and going andgoing.
I'm not conservative, I used tobe going and going and going.
(10:00):
And so, and then it wouldn'tflush.
And I'm like, okay, now I'vepeed and now there's I gotta be
able to flush this.
So I took the lid off, but Iwhat I didn't tell you is there
was all this decor on top of thetank lid that I had to unpack.
I had to move all of the decor.
What do you mean decor?
There was like toilet paperstacks and baskets and things,
(10:21):
and so I moved all that.
I took the lid off, and the thething that you know, the water
fills up the plunge line orwhatever that's called, plum,
what's that called?
SPEAKER_03 (10:30):
I don't know because I'm not, unlike you, a toilet
repair person.
SPEAKER_00 (10:35):
I listen, 16 years in preschool, the toilet's broke
down all the time.
I have fixed a toilet or two.
And so I took the tank lid offand I made it make a seal so
that it the water would thenfill up and it wouldn't keep
running.
But it took like three or fourtimes like for me to like get it
to finally do it.
SPEAKER_03 (10:53):
So, how did you make it make a seal?
Did you stick your hand into thetoilet water?
Let's be clear, you didn't haveto.
SPEAKER_00 (11:01):
I was helping.
I'm a helper, I'm the personthat Mr.
Rogers said to look for when thebad things happen.
I am a helper, and then I had toput it all back together, and
then I scrubbed my hands reallygood with soap, up my arm, like
I was like scrubbing in to dosurgery, and then I came out,
and then and then you you toldthe no, I told the waitress, but
(11:22):
you made fun of me.
SPEAKER_03 (11:23):
Server.
SPEAKER_00 (11:23):
I told the server, but and she said she would have
done the same thing.
SPEAKER_03 (11:27):
And it's a nice- which by the way, now I'm
thinking about that.
I never want first of all, Iwould not have tipped her if I
knew that she goes and shesticks her hand in toilets,
right?
And bringing our food?
Absolutely not.
SPEAKER_00 (11:40):
The tank of the toilet is not the dirty place.
You know that, right?
SPEAKER_03 (11:44):
It is, dude, it is all dirty.
You you mean you mean to tell meyou opened that thing up and it
was clean and pristine.
SPEAKER_00 (11:49):
It was clean water.
SPEAKER_03 (11:50):
Okay.
SPEAKER_00 (11:50):
Clearly, what my husband is telling you all is
that he's never fixed a toilet.
SPEAKER_03 (11:54):
Oh, yeah, and you know that's not true.
Um, but we're gonna go.
Okay, you think it's cleanwater?
SPEAKER_00 (11:59):
I'm not gonna drink it, jackass, because I know
that's where you're going.
SPEAKER_03 (12:03):
But you you said it was clean water.
SPEAKER_00 (12:05):
I what there were there's not like particles of
things floating in it, but and Ican wash it off my hand.
Why are you being difficult?
I am a helper, I do good, youbreak things.
The end.
SPEAKER_03 (12:17):
I did not break the toilet.
Oh, I've broken a toilet or twoin my day, um, but it didn't
have to do with the water in thetank.
SPEAKER_00 (12:24):
See, why you kind of make it dirty?
I was being helpful.
SPEAKER_03 (12:27):
Yeah, well, I'm quite certain that everyone is
very thankful for that.
SPEAKER_00 (12:32):
It was a nice restaurant, too.
It's not like it was likeDenny's or Waffle House.
SPEAKER_03 (12:36):
Dude, it was 12 tiny steps away from Denny's or
Waffle House.
It's a breakfast place.
There's only so nice that thosethings can get.
SPEAKER_00 (12:44):
Be kind to me.
You're not being kind.
Send us an email at uhfamiliarwilsons at gmail.com if
you would also fix a publictoilet.
SPEAKER_03 (12:55):
Actually, yes.
I want to know if you out there,please, please get in touch.
Familiarwilsons at gmail.com, ifyou would ever stick your hands
inside of a public toilet.
All right.
SPEAKER_00 (13:09):
I don't know why you keep making a it was the tank.
I don't know why you keep makingthis big deal.
SPEAKER_03 (13:14):
Okay.
SPEAKER_00 (13:15):
And it's not like I couldn't wash my hands.
SPEAKER_03 (13:17):
And actually, if you would never do that, also email
us at familiarwilsons atgmail.com.
Also, something that I learnedum on this little trip to the
toilet place that also servedbreakfast is that just um like
I've switched to matcha and Ihave been having matcha for the
last what a couple months, threemonths?
It's been a while.
It's been a while, yeah.
(13:38):
Long while I had coffee for thefirst time last Saturday because
they didn't have matcha there.
And I wanted a littlepick-me-up, right?
I wanted to wake up a littlebit, had coffee, tasted awful.
Tasted coffee's not great.
Well, sure, but I rememberliking it before.
Okay, tasted like cigarette ash,like legitimately disgusting.
(14:00):
I did not like it.
SPEAKER_00 (14:01):
And well, that's good.
You're and and you, and it madeyou real like jittery and stuff.
SPEAKER_03 (14:04):
Yeah, yeah, I didn't I didn't like the the caffeine
effect of from it either.
So I am officially off coffee.
Like, I was off coffee in theway that that, like, oh, maybe
I'll come back to it someday.
Um, never, never again.
SPEAKER_00 (14:16):
Okay, good.
More coffee for me.
SPEAKER_03 (14:19):
You're welcome to it.
Coffee and toilet water.
(14:39):
I came to a a determination, ormaybe it it was a revelation
about dogs and cats um lastweek.
Okay.
I don't remember why I wasthinking about this, but I guess
maybe it's rooted in the factthat you're either a dog person,
usually, or a cat person, or youhave preferences towards one or
the other and how different theyare, right?
(15:00):
Dogs are different.
SPEAKER_01 (15:01):
They're very different.
SPEAKER_03 (15:02):
It seems to me that dogs would be very, very
religious.
SPEAKER_00 (15:10):
Okay.
SPEAKER_03 (15:11):
First of all, dogs always try to do what they think
is the best thing.
Like they have a moral code.
Even dogs that are dogs gonewrong, I think that in their
heart of hearts they think thatthey're like doing the best
thing, right?
SPEAKER_00 (15:23):
So you think that this dog is doing what it thinks
is the best thing.
SPEAKER_03 (15:26):
Yes, I think that dogs, by and large, they uh love
unconditionally.
You know, they're about allabout love and protection, all
these things.
And it seems to me that theywould be like the religious
ones.
SPEAKER_00 (15:35):
Okay.
Who would the cats be?
SPEAKER_03 (15:38):
Cats are amoral.
unknown (15:39):
Okay.
SPEAKER_03 (15:40):
And and maybe even Satanists.
SPEAKER_00 (15:42):
But that's a religion, though.
SPEAKER_03 (15:44):
I I am convinced that that cats would kill every
single person if they could.
SPEAKER_00 (15:50):
Do you really there's some sweet kitties in
the world?
SPEAKER_03 (15:53):
Right.
They're so manipulative andconniving, though.
You know that they use all ofthe, you know, that they when
they look at you and they rub upagainst you and they purr, you
know what they're thinking?
They're thinking I am so happybecause I've got this fucker,
absolutely convinced that Idon't hate him or her, but I do.
I hate them with everything thatI, you know, that's in me.
(16:15):
And if I couldn't get anycreature comforts um off of this
giant smelly human being, thenthen I would kill them.
SPEAKER_00 (16:24):
Okay.
I think that's it's just becauseyou had a bad cat experience
that you lived with a cat thatlike attacked your face and
stuff, right?
SPEAKER_03 (16:31):
No, well, yeah, I did, but I mean, I also I grew
up with a neighbor having a cat,and that was fine enough, I
guess.
But cats are never happy to seeyou.
They don't jump up and run toyou when you come in the door.
You don't get the sense thatthey've been waiting for you to
come home.
If anything, you come home andthey're like, shit.
(16:53):
God, these guys again.
It's like I thought they weregone.
Yeah, no, I I just think thatthat cats have zero morals.
Cats are just in it forthemselves.
SPEAKER_00 (17:04):
Whereas, I mean, with dogs, you can leave for
five seconds or five minutes,and so then they're just as
happy to see you when you getback.
Right.
Every time.
SPEAKER_03 (17:11):
Each time, each time, yep.
Yeah, so so fight me, folks.
I want to hear about it.
Familiarwiths at gmail.com.
You like cats though.
SPEAKER_00 (17:20):
I do like cats.
I mean, I never had a catbecause I mean, my dad was super
not into cats.
We had a cat that lived in ourgarage for a little bit, but
then you know, like we wouldjust feed it and whatever.
I've considered that with thisblack one that wanders around
the neighborhood, like wantingit to sleep in our garage, but I
knew that you and the dog wouldhate me if that were a thing
that snuck into the house.
SPEAKER_03 (17:39):
Well, I'm allergic, so then there's that.
SPEAKER_00 (17:41):
Well, it's also that.
So yeah.
But no, I think cats are cute.
I don't mind them.
But I am more of a dog person.
Speaking of religion, though, sowe've been talking about we uh
the K-pop demon hunters in ourin our house, right?
And on this show.
Um, well, a friend of mine saidthis to me today and it cracked
me up.
So you're aware of Focus on theFamily.
SPEAKER_03 (18:02):
Yes, is that still a thing now that the the guy died?
SPEAKER_00 (18:05):
Yeah, it's still a thing.
So Focus on the Family was thisorganization run by James
Dobson, who told you how toparent your children and all of
this nonsensical stuff thatreally evangelical religious
people believed.
But anyway, the the Focus on theFamily reviews movies, and they
have reviewed K-pop demonhunters.
SPEAKER_03 (18:28):
Oh, I was wondering where this was going.
SPEAKER_00 (18:31):
So uh they have said sexual and romantic content.
When the young women in Hunter'smeet the Saja boys, they
literally salivate over theguy's attractiveness.
One of the boys, aptly namedAbby, loses his shirt, revealing
six-pack abs.
So this is bad.
This is bad.
More sexual and romanticcontent.
Zoe Amira's obsession with hisabs becomes a recurring joke,
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temporarily flustering them andcausing popcorn to shoot from
their eyes to indicate theirheated reaction.
Abby later signs sketchportraits of his abs.
And then uh one man callsanother guy my handsome co-host.
This is a problem for the peopleof the What is going on?
All right, Ray, there's a fewmore.
(19:13):
In the background of one scene,two men clutch each other as
they cheer for Hunter's.
The members of Hunter'senterprise.
SPEAKER_03 (19:19):
What do you mean clutch each other?
Like they have a hold of eachother's penises?
What do you mean?
I don't remember that part.
SPEAKER_00 (19:24):
Fangirling and like grabbed each other's arms or
something like that so they'rethey're hugging.
SPEAKER_03 (19:28):
Yes.
Two gentlemen are hugging and infocus on the family is like, I
can't have that.
SPEAKER_00 (19:33):
Sexual and romantic content warning.
SPEAKER_03 (19:35):
Go ahead.
SPEAKER_00 (19:35):
The members of Hunterx enter into a later into
and later use a bathhouse.
In either case, nothing is seensave a man and a towel.
This is the only thing I willgive them, and it still I don't
whatever.
In one romantic theme song, theSaja Boys sing, You're You're my
soda pop, gotta drink everydrop.
But I mean, they are like if whydo they know what that means,
(19:59):
these Christian people who'vesaid this?
SPEAKER_03 (20:01):
No, okay.
So, first of all, that's notmeant to be sexual in the
context of the movie.
It's that these guys are likethey feed on human beings'
souls.
SPEAKER_00 (20:09):
Yes, but they're talking about they're thinking
this is bodily fluids.
SPEAKER_03 (20:14):
God.
SPEAKER_00 (20:14):
Okay.
Rumi is part demon herself, asnoted above, the offspring of a
hunter and a demon, but there'sno explanation of how or why
such a union occurred.
SPEAKER_03 (20:24):
Well, son, let me sit down and tell you.
SPEAKER_00 (20:29):
The girls slay hundreds of demons with their
respective blades.
There's no blood, as the demonssimply puff away in a cloud of
pink glitter when slain.
SPEAKER_03 (20:38):
Are they objecting to that?
SPEAKER_00 (20:40):
Or I know it's crude or profane language warning.
The worst we hear is dang and acouple instances of G's.
Someone yells they're she'sready to kick their butts.
But this is my favorite one.
Other noteworthy elements.
A man abandons his family, Mirabelges.
SPEAKER_03 (20:59):
Now, this is meant to warn parents.
So those are all warnings toparents that they're listening
these people don't live on thisplanet.
SPEAKER_00 (21:10):
They no, they are in the world, not of it.
SPEAKER_03 (21:13):
Oh my gosh.
I can't believe.
I can believe.
SPEAKER_00 (21:17):
You of course you can.
You were raised in the samechurch, not same same
denomination, but you you know,you know how crazy American
Christianity is.
SPEAKER_03 (21:25):
Yeah, I do.
But that's I don't even knowwhat that is.
That's absolutely and utterlyridiculous.
SPEAKER_00 (21:30):
Um, that's what we call a cult.
SPEAKER_03 (21:32):
Yes, ma'am.
Are you in a cult?
Let us know.
Familiarwilsons at gmail.com.
SPEAKER_00 (21:38):
Do you fix the toilets for the cult?
SPEAKER_03 (21:41):
Familiarwilsons at gmail.com.
SPEAKER_00 (22:11):
And that music means it's game time.
That is my favorite song of thepodcast by ACJW.
I do it every damn time.
AJCW, Andrew Joshua.
Um, thank you for that excellentmusic.
All right, game time.
We have not had a flashback in awhile, Josh.
You ready?
SPEAKER_03 (22:29):
Flashback, baby.
SPEAKER_00 (22:31):
So this is where I give Josh a series of events,
and he has to tell us where theycome on a timeline throughout
history.
So I'm gonna give you this is aNew York Times thing.
You can play along if you want.
Josh, I'm gonna give you thefirst anchoring thing.
Now, this is a give me um fromthe New York Times, but we're
gonna see if you can try to getnear it.
Okay.
Five people live in central, Isaid that word weird.
(22:55):
Five people live in centralVienna and visit the same cafes.
Stalin, Freud, Tito, Trotsky,and Hitler.
SPEAKER_03 (23:10):
At the same time, like they're meeting up?
SPEAKER_00 (23:12):
I don't know.
I just think.
I don't think Stalin and Hitlerhung out.
Or Tito, Stalin's not a fan ofit.
I think that no, I mean, theyall lived the here in this same
year and visited the same cafes.
They had to have bumped intoeach other at some point.
SPEAKER_03 (23:24):
All right, I'm gonna say 1921.
SPEAKER_00 (23:26):
All right, 1913.
SPEAKER_03 (23:28):
And so now the conceit of this game, if I
understand it correctly, is thatyou're gonna give me an event,
and I gotta tell you if it comesbefore or after 1913.
But I'm adding to the difficultybecause I'm gonna see how close
I can get to the actual date.
All right, go ahead.
SPEAKER_00 (23:42):
Okay, your next one.
Inspired by childhood days spentcatching insects in Japan,
Satoshi Tajiri creates a videogame he calls Pocket Monsters or
Pokemon.
SPEAKER_03 (23:56):
Oh, Pokemon.
Oh, how long is Pokemon bearound?
It's probably been around muchlonger than I think.
SPEAKER_00 (24:03):
I mean, it's it's clearly was probably after the
1913.
SPEAKER_03 (24:05):
Yeah, no, it's after 1913, so I'm gonna get this
right according to the game.
But uh Pokemon, let's say like19, oh gosh, um 84.
SPEAKER_00 (24:18):
So this is interesting to me because I went
to Japan in 1999 and I went tothe Pokemon store in Tokyo.
Yeah, because it to get stufffor people that I worked with,
their kids.
I thought it had been around alot longer than that.
No, 1996.
SPEAKER_03 (24:33):
All right, well, I was wrong.
Okay, but I was right.
SPEAKER_00 (24:35):
But you were right, but you were wrong.
Take an unconventional hero at asteadfast sidekick, throw in an
inspiring lady love.
Cervantes published hisimprobable satire.
SPEAKER_03 (24:47):
Man of La Mancha or Don Quixote.
Don Quixote, yes.
Man of La Mancha is the musical.
SPEAKER_00 (24:53):
I know, I know.
SPEAKER_03 (24:54):
Oh, when I have no idea.
It's gonna be before 1913, solet's say 1850.
SPEAKER_00 (25:02):
1605?
Did you have any idea it wasthat old?
SPEAKER_03 (25:10):
Well, that's a dumb question.
SPEAKER_00 (25:12):
All right.
Take an unconventional hero, adda steadfast sidekick, throw in
an inspiring lady love,DreamWorks releases its
improbable satire, Shrek.
SPEAKER_03 (25:24):
Oh, Shrek.
SPEAKER_00 (25:24):
You thought I was just repeating the same clue,
didn't you?
SPEAKER_03 (25:27):
I did.
Um Shrek.
When did when did Shrek comeabout?
Um gosh, I'm probably gonna getthis wrong because I I want to
say it's after 1996.
SPEAKER_00 (25:42):
Right.
Yes, do you want to make a guessfor when?
SPEAKER_03 (25:46):
Um 1998.
SPEAKER_00 (25:48):
2001.
SPEAKER_03 (25:49):
Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_00 (25:51):
Amid the era of Andrew Jackson, Dr.
John Bennett starts sellingketchup to cure ills like
jaundice.
It didn't work, so laterversions just focused on tasting
good.
SPEAKER_03 (26:04):
That would be mid-1800s, so 1844.
SPEAKER_00 (26:10):
When was Andrew Jackson around doing the worst?
1844?
1834.
That's kind of baby.
All right.
Abraham Lincoln's son is savedfrom an oncoming train in New
Jersey.
His rescuer is the brother ofJohn Wilkes Booth, who later
shoots the president.
SPEAKER_03 (26:28):
Oh, this happened before?
SPEAKER_00 (26:30):
Yeah, isn't that crazy?
SPEAKER_03 (26:31):
Oh, that's weird.
Um, oh, I guess I should knowwhen Lincoln was shot, but I
have no freaking idea.
SPEAKER_00 (26:38):
Did you not listen on the tour that we went to?
Oh no, that was Kennedy.
SPEAKER_03 (26:42):
Yeah, very good.
Never mind.
Um, oh god.
Uh 1850.
SPEAKER_00 (26:52):
So after Andrew Jackson's out there doing all
the bad?
SPEAKER_03 (26:55):
Yeah, I don't know if that's I feel like I'm wrong,
but go ahead.
SPEAKER_00 (26:59):
1863.
SPEAKER_03 (27:01):
Oh wow.
SPEAKER_00 (27:02):
You are six for six, friend.
All right.
Needing hoops for a new indoorgame.
SPEAKER_03 (27:10):
The educator James Naismith asked a the inventor of
basketball.
So he used peach baskets, andthe very first baskets in
basketball, they still had thebottom.
So every time they they made ashot, they had to stop and get
the ball out of the uh peachbasket.
That's cool.
SPEAKER_00 (27:28):
So it says he asked a janitor for boxes, but he can
only find baskets, so the sportis named basketball.
It could have been box boxbasketball.
SPEAKER_03 (27:37):
So when was basketball invented?
Oh let's say 1930.
SPEAKER_00 (27:46):
Okay, so after Stalin and Hitler hung out at
the cafes, but before Pokemon.
Oh, your first one wrong.
1891.
SPEAKER_03 (27:57):
Damn it.
Alright, two more.
SPEAKER_00 (27:59):
Ready?
SPEAKER_03 (28:00):
That's so stupid.
That I know all that shinformation about that and I got
that wrong.
That annoys me.
Go ahead.
SPEAKER_00 (28:07):
Alright, unable to beat Joan of Arc in battle.
SPEAKER_03 (28:10):
The English charge her with- I swear to God, you
were gonna say unable to beather in basketball.
They burned her at the stake.
SPEAKER_00 (28:17):
The English charge her with hair.
Is it heresy or hair hair?
Is it heresy?
SPEAKER_03 (28:22):
Heresy, yes.
SPEAKER_00 (28:22):
I was like, why do I want to say heresy?
SPEAKER_03 (28:24):
Personal foul.
SPEAKER_00 (28:25):
Okay, one of their key accusations, of course it
was.
One of their key accusations isher fashion choice.
She wears men's clothes.
Patriarchy did not like that shewas wearing pants.
SPEAKER_03 (28:36):
I have zero idea, Joan of Arc, so we're just for
fun.
It's probably a lot later than Ithink.
I don't know why.
I think it's like in this 1700s.
SPEAKER_00 (28:46):
Okay, so before after Don Quixote, like where
are we going here?
SPEAKER_03 (28:50):
Well, Don Quixote was in 1605, so the 1700s.
SPEAKER_00 (28:55):
I thought you said the 17th century.
I'm sorry.
Okay, 1700s.
1431.
All right, here's the last one.
You ready to end it on a high?
SPEAKER_03 (29:07):
We'll see.
Go ahead.
SPEAKER_00 (29:08):
Okay.
Victoria Woodhull, the firstfemale presidential candidate,
picks Frederick Douglass as herrunning mate.
Douglas ignores her and backsher rival.
SPEAKER_03 (29:20):
Oh.
Okay, so clear this isn't thismen did such good.
This is very like tightly packedhere because we got 1834 Andrew
Jackson, 18 uh 63 Lincoln'sthing with his kid, and then
we've got an an 1891.
It's around there, clearlyaround there somewhere because
(29:40):
oh shit.
Um uh I don't know.
SPEAKER_00 (29:49):
Okay, you're just gonna go out with an I don't
know.
SPEAKER_03 (29:53):
1870.
SPEAKER_00 (29:55):
All right, eighteen seventy is eighteen seventy two.
All right.
Good job.
Not perfect, but you were youwere pretty close.
So you did a good job there.
I'm curious because you know howit it will tell you in the New
York, if you once you do it, whyit's picked these things this
week.
It's usually based on currentevents.
(30:16):
No, I'm um wondering why it didShrek and Don Quixote.
But it says the Dutch city ofLeiden is as charming as
Amsterdam and a great place tosee windmills.
Okay, so there's that.
Why have we done Shrek?
A documentary looks back atEddie Murphy's career.
Okay.
SPEAKER_03 (30:33):
Brilliant.
You've got email.
It is letter time.
So we went to the mailbox todayand we got two letters from
listeners.
If you would like to post ussomething in the mail, just
write our names, the Wilsons onit, and put a stamp on it.
Put it in the old box, and it'llmake its way to us.
Or email us at familiarwilsonsat gmail.com.
(30:57):
Hi, Josh and Amanda.
It starts.
First, I'd like to say onceagain, thank you for coming down
to Disney Springs to meet up.
It was a treat to meet both youand Winthrop.
SPEAKER_00 (31:07):
It was lovely to meet you and your family as
well.
SPEAKER_03 (31:09):
So this is clearly from uh our friend Josh Scar,
who we met down in DisneySprings, that you're gonna be
at, by the way.
SPEAKER_00 (31:16):
I'm gonna be there.
SPEAKER_03 (31:17):
Next couple days, you're traveling for work.
SPEAKER_00 (31:19):
I'm traveling for work.
I'll send you pictures, JoshScar.
SPEAKER_03 (31:22):
You're traveling for work to Disney Springs.
Can we talk about that for asecond?
SPEAKER_00 (31:26):
I'm traveling for work to an early childhood
conference that happens to be ata hotel in Disney Springs.
SPEAKER_03 (31:32):
That I'm not gonna be at.
SPEAKER_00 (31:34):
You were invited.
SPEAKER_03 (31:35):
Yeah, well, I gotta work.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (31:37):
Me too.
SPEAKER_03 (31:39):
Yes, at Disney Springs.
See above.
Okay, anyway, he continues.
My mom's an older person.
Even when I was 17, she wasclosing in on her late 50s.
She's always been a verydefensive driver.
One of her most notable nuggetsof wisdom she imparted on me
while I was on my learner'spermit was the speed limit says
35, but that doesn't mean youhave to go that fast.
(31:59):
You can go slower.
Well, I am here to tell youdon't go too much slower because
they will pull you over forbeing possibly intoxicated.
Not that that's happened to me.
Now for the story.
I'm 17 years old, driving intoRockford from our northern
Illinois town, about a 15-minutedrive, with my mom riding
shotgun.
I'm imagining her with theshotgun.
(32:19):
That's right.
They're on an old uh horse-drawncarriage and she's looking out
for bandits.
My mom's been annoying me withher defensive driving tips and
telling me to slow down and beaware.
Yes, that would do my head in.
As we're arguing about how I'mdriving, she tells me not to hit
the person walking along theside of the road.
Well, that's a that's goodadvice.
As we got closer, I noticed theperson's walking gait was kind
(32:42):
of funny and they had weirdproportions.
Finally, we're right next to theperson, and we discover that the
person walking along the side ofthe road isn't a person at all,
but an emu.
SPEAKER_00 (32:53):
What?
Was it wearing trousers?
Like, why did it after we gothome?
SPEAKER_03 (32:58):
I had to look up how a freaking emu ended up in our
little northern Illinois town.
Apparently there was an emu farmabout 50 miles south of us, and
a few of the emus had escaped.
That's my story of the strangestthing I've ever seen by the side
of the road, Josh Gar.
SPEAKER_00 (33:14):
Did he say 50 miles?
SPEAKER_03 (33:16):
Yeah, 50 miles south.
SPEAKER_00 (33:17):
That emu had been walking for 50 miles north.
SPEAKER_03 (33:20):
Well, I think that it ran part of the way and maybe
hitched to ride.
Did they have thumbs?
Um, anyway, he closes with theWilsons have a lifetime past to
come visit their family innorthern Illinois.
So Amanda can get her snow fixand Winthrop can try sledding.
Or as you said, sledging.
SPEAKER_00 (33:35):
No, we're gonna sled.
SPEAKER_03 (33:38):
And we have this week for you some refined gay
thoughts from Refined Gay Jeff.
Happy mid-November Wilsons.
I trust that this past weektreated you with honor and
respect.
I don't think my week evertreats me with honor and
respect.
SPEAKER_00 (33:54):
The AI device in the bedroom was not treating him
with respect.
SPEAKER_03 (33:57):
He said, for him, this weekend has been off the
chain Saturday.
My gaggle of gays went with medown to Galveston, about 45
minutes away from Houston.
I had not been sincepre-pandemic and was really
wanting to have lunch at my faverestaurant down there called
Fisherman's Wharf on the Bayside of the island.
They have a fantastic seatingarea on the dock, actually over
(34:19):
the water, where you can watchboats of all kinds motor by.
Some even pull up to the dockand unload for the restaurant.
So they're like bringing likefish for you to eat like or
unloading people.
Yesterday I saw gulls andpelicans and even dolphins were
swimming by.
It's also located by the Alyssa,the official tall ship of Texas.
(34:39):
The crew was wrapping all thesails back to the mast during
lunch, so it was very funwatching all of the very fit,
scantily clad seamenS-E-A-M-A-N.
Climbing up and down the ropegrids and ladders, making sure
sails were securely put away.
You better believe it made for afantastic lunch.
(35:00):
He ordered his favoriteappetizer there called Shrimp
Kisses.
Butterfly shrimp stuffed withjalapeno cheese wrapped in bacon
and then baked to a sumptuousconclusion.
SPEAKER_00 (35:10):
Love that wording.
SPEAKER_03 (35:11):
I feel like I need to go shower now.
And he talks about all of thewonderful things that he
ordered, none of which I'm goingto eat because I'm trying to do
better.
And then, of course, cheesecakefor dessert.
And the best margaritas evermade with fresh pineapple juice.
Can't have that.
I'm very allergic.
Garnish with fresh pineappleslices.
(35:32):
He says, Josh, sorry to hearthat you're rusty with your
bowling.
I am not a great bowler either.
But when I was a small child, myparents actually signed me up
for bowling lessons.
Did your parents ever sign youup for random lessons that you
didn't want?
SPEAKER_00 (35:45):
No, we've done it to Winthrop, though.
SPEAKER_03 (35:47):
I got signed up for tennis lessons, which was a it
was a weird have I ever talkedabout my tennis lessons
experience?
SPEAKER_00 (35:54):
Not on this podcast.
To me, you have.
SPEAKER_03 (35:56):
So the tennis lessons were taught by a former
well, he called himself a formertennis pro.
But I don't know what thatmeans.
I think that you can callyourself a pro if you were paid
to do anything at any time.
So I think he was at one pointpaid to play tennis, but I and
he was a Vietnam veteran.
SPEAKER_00 (36:17):
Oh wow.
SPEAKER_03 (36:18):
And so he taught tennis lessons at the local um
golf and tennis club, right?
And so my dad found out thatsomeone else uh had their kid
doing it.
He's like, I'm gonna send Joshto go do this thing.
So I was like, what?
I don't know, like early teensor 12, 13, something like that.
SPEAKER_00 (36:32):
This dude would talk to us about some of the most
inappropriate things, like thethings he did during the war or
like sexy time things.
SPEAKER_03 (36:44):
Or like both of them combined.
SPEAKER_00 (36:46):
No, that's a whole musical called Miss Saigon.
SPEAKER_03 (36:48):
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
No.
Um, like he shared with us thethings that I I the way your
hand is cupping.
SPEAKER_00 (36:58):
I don't I think we might need to unpack this with
like a professional therapist.
I don't think, not a tennisperson.
SPEAKER_03 (37:05):
That may be the root of all of my problems.
And then I was signed up, ofcourse, for uh bowling.
League, right?
You were in a league.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But I didn't know how to play,so but I knew how better how to
play than than um I did lastweek.
Jeff says, the times that I bowlnow, I always come away with a
sore thumb because evidently Ihad a weird thing that I do when
I release the ball.
I release it with a twistsomehow, which is why my thumb
(37:28):
is sore.
I can bowl a strike every nowand again and even know the term
for when you bowl three strikesin a row.
Do you know what that is?
That's called a hat trick.
It's called a turkey.
Hat trick is in another sport.
Hockey is a hat trick.
Um, I did know that it wascalled a turkey.
Also, Jeff, it's worth notingthat my Vietnam veteran um
tennis coach also talked aboutthat move where your thumb does
(37:49):
a twist.
Again, I need therapy.
He continues on.
Speaking of iguanas falling outof trees, which I've actually
heard of, did you know thatHouston has to deal with falling
reptiles as well?
As you know, Houston is knownfor massive flooding throughout
the year.
And when that happens, guesswhere the snakes go?
SPEAKER_00 (38:06):
Nope.
SPEAKER_03 (38:07):
Up in the trees.
SPEAKER_00 (38:08):
Nope.
SPEAKER_03 (38:08):
So when the water recedes, the snakes come back
down.
And then as is the custom afterflooding, Houstonians walk
around to assess the damage andlook to see what has happened.
That's when the deluge of snakesbegins.
It's like one of the plagues ofEgypt.
Newscasters even remind peopleto be mindful.
Well, no, wait a second.
Do they fall out of the trees ordo they crawl out of the trees?
(38:29):
Yeah, he says Houston has had todeal with falling reptile.
Absolutely not.
Kill me dead.
Kill me dead.
A snake falls on me?
I was sitting at my desk theother day and a damn wasp fell
on the desk right in front ofme.
SPEAKER_00 (38:44):
From where?
SPEAKER_03 (38:45):
I think from the vent that's right above my head,
which that's a differentproblem.
But I was like, what the hell isgoing on?
SPEAKER_00 (38:51):
That's where the snakes go.
Up in those the vents, right?
You know that, right?
SPEAKER_03 (38:55):
What?
SPEAKER_00 (38:55):
When the when it gets cold, they go into the
building, and so there they'regonna be in your air ducts and
in your your ventilation system.
SPEAKER_03 (39:01):
What's wrong with you?
That's fun for me.
He continues.
Amanda, I'm still trying to wrapmy brain around the fact that
you are now using the term beddate.
SPEAKER_00 (39:11):
I'm not using it.
SPEAKER_03 (39:12):
You do use it.
That's what you prefer to callit now.
But I do have a question.
Don't you guys lock the doorduring these special times
alone?
I obviously don't have children,but it seems to me that this
would be the thing to do.
Problem solved, easy peasy.
SPEAKER_00 (39:25):
Yes, we lock the door.
SPEAKER_03 (39:27):
Was there a time where we hadn't locked the door?
I feel like in the old house.
SPEAKER_00 (39:31):
Oh God, yes.
And he was oh my god, I just gotso embarrassed.
SPEAKER_03 (39:38):
Because please don't cover your mouth when you're
talking on the podcast.
SPEAKER_00 (39:42):
I'm trying to think of what how this happened.
He was when we lived in the oldhouse, so when he was three and
younger, he his nursery was offof our bedroom.
Right?
Like, so we had another doorthat went into, I think what was
probably supposed to be theoffice, but used it as his
nursery, and that door did notlock.
(40:04):
And all I wasn't aware, all Iknew was that you just stop and
lay there.
And he was like, Where's mom?
And you were just like trying tocover me up.
unknown (40:16):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (40:17):
You were like, go lay down.
She'll I'll I'll get her.
She'll come, she'll come findyou.
SPEAKER_03 (40:22):
Yep.
SPEAKER_00 (40:23):
Oh yeah, that door didn't lock, Jeff.
These doors lock.
SPEAKER_03 (40:26):
Yeah, they do, and we'll be locking it later
tonight.
SPEAKER_00 (40:28):
Well, why are you gonna tell people again?
SPEAKER_03 (40:31):
Well, because you're going away for like three days.
So so this is to Muffy's friendthat's uh listening.
Don't you don't need to tellMuffy that this is happening
tonight.
And what are we supposed to callher?
SPEAKER_00 (40:44):
Oh, yeah, we we got a name for her so that when we
can we can thank her.
So she's Blue Key.
SPEAKER_03 (40:48):
Blue key.
Now, it goes without saying,hopefully, that this is not the
child's real name, nor isWinthrop or Muffy our children's
real names.
It's just, you know, it's betterto change their name to protect
them all involved.
SPEAKER_00 (41:00):
So Muffy and Blue Key are really good friends.
I love this so much.
SPEAKER_03 (41:04):
Jeff continues.
I did not know the song quizbecause I simply refuse to
subject myself to K-pop DemonHunter.
SPEAKER_00 (41:12):
Jeff, it is LGBTQ plus friendly.
It is affirming.
It is you need to stop.
Just stop.
Just stop and go watch it.
SPEAKER_03 (41:22):
Don't tell anyone that they need to do something.
SPEAKER_00 (41:24):
I'm gonna tell Jeff that he needs to do this.
SPEAKER_03 (41:26):
Okay, he also said that I totally changed the rules
for backward movie plot midwaythrough the game.
SPEAKER_00 (41:31):
Thank you.
SPEAKER_03 (41:32):
Amanda's answer of the shining made much more sense
than Beauty and the Beast.
Little Alex Horn would tell youthat the opposite is not the
same as backwards.
SPEAKER_00 (41:40):
Thank you.
SPEAKER_03 (41:40):
Amanda gets all five points and wins the task.
Thank you.
Sorry, Jeff, do you watchTaskmaster?
Did we know that?
SPEAKER_00 (41:47):
I said you're not Alex Horn.
Maybe he looked up who Alex Hornwas.
Maybe he watched Taskmaster.
Thank you, Jeff, because he did.
He just all of a sudden it wasdifferent.
Thank you.
SPEAKER_03 (41:56):
He says, Josh, you mentioned briefly WKRP in
Cincinnati, and believe it ornot, I have a real connection to
it.
Remember Les Nesman, real nameRichard Sanders?
Of course I do.
Well, when he was in middleschool, he lived in my hometown
of 96, South Carolina, and wasfriends with my parents.
He was even my mom's boyfriendwhen they were in sixth grade.
Your mom dated Les Nesman.
(42:17):
So is this a character from theshow?
Oh, you don't know who LesNessman is?
Oh God, you gotta watch that.
Jeff will watch K-pop DemonHunter, and you will watch an
episode or three of WKRP inCincinnati, which is one of the
best shows that's ever beenwritten.
SPEAKER_00 (42:34):
My brother used to watch it.
But for some reason, thought youand Jeff were then just talking
about somebody you knew fromcamp and that his mom had dated
somebody from Camp.
No, no, no.
SPEAKER_03 (42:43):
Les Nesman.
SPEAKER_00 (42:44):
I wasn't tracking.
SPEAKER_03 (42:45):
He says, My dad said that Richard Sanders, the guy
who played Les Nesman, had oneof those big-wheeled bicycles
called a penny farthing.
SPEAKER_00 (42:52):
Oh, I know a penny farthing.
SPEAKER_03 (42:54):
People thought he was strange for riding it.
He was strange for riding it.
It's the dumbest thing I've everheard.
SPEAKER_00 (42:59):
If you do not know what a penny farthing looks
like, please look it up and thenimagine Jeff's mom's
ex-boyfriend riding one.
SPEAKER_03 (43:06):
We talked about smart cars, and Jeff, being a
librarian, actually has a bit ofwisdom for that.
He says the term smart car camefrom a joint project between
Swatch and Mercedes Benz.
SPEAKER_01 (43:17):
Oh.
SPEAKER_03 (43:18):
The goal was to combine Swatch's design and
manufacturing with MercedesBenz's engineering to create a
new kind of small city car.
It's an acronym for SwatchMercedes Art.
SPEAKER_00 (43:29):
That's interesting.
I have I wanted a Swatch sobadly.
I got one, but I remember.
Did you get a swatch?
I wanted a Swatch.
SPEAKER_03 (43:38):
No, I didn't.
And that wasn't for me.
He says, good luck this week.
I'm actually excited becauseit's the last week before I have
nine days off for Thanksgiving.
I have two days off forThanksgiving, Jeff.
I'll be sticking around here inHouston and probably visiting
the Gaborhood daily to bethankful for my daily intake of
cocktails and muscle bears peasand cookies.
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If you out there spend any timein the Gaborhood, send us an
email, familiarwilsons atgmail.com.
Alright, Amanda, that's allthere is.
There is no more.
What did you think of that mess?
SPEAKER_00 (44:22):
I mean, same mess, different days.
SPEAKER_03 (44:25):
Alright, well, I'm gonna cut this real short here
because I gotta edit thisepisode and then Amanda and I
gotta get down.
SPEAKER_00 (44:32):
No, my God, what is wrong with you?
SPEAKER_03 (44:35):
And so here's our list of people without whom we
would not be able to make thispodcast for you every week.
Thanks to Antonio, our leaddiagnostic wizard, to Josh Scar,
the head tire inflationspecialist, to Danny Buckets,
our fluid manager, and that'sall I'm gonna say about that.
To Chicken Tom, the assistantparts runner, to Monique from
Germany, the Precision AlignmanSpecialist, to Joey, Joey, to
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Leo, the shop DJ and VibeTechnician, to Refine Gay Jeff,
the Upholstery and InteriorCouture Director, Ryan Baker,
our break artist, Mark andRachel, the co-manager of Tools
That Are Missing, and to Dan andGavin, the pit crew.
And by pit crew, of course, Imean armpit.
SPEAKER_00 (45:18):
Dan and Gavin smelled perfectly fine.
Remember when you were worriedabout meeting our British
friends and you were afraid theywere gonna smell bad?
SPEAKER_04 (45:25):
What's wrong with you?
SPEAKER_00 (45:28):
What's wrong with me is that you told everybody I
cleaned toilets, so we're gonnalike you're like, but what if
they smell funny?
What's wrong with you?
Alright.
So folks, until next week.
You have the power of the edit,just cut it out.
I'm not cutting shit out.
SPEAKER_03 (45:48):
They smelled very nice and they had good teeth as
well.
Um so in until next week, folks,be nice to be nice to everyone
you meet.
SPEAKER_02 (46:04):
Go be kind.
Bye.
SPEAKER_03 (46:06):
Bye.
Familiar Wilson's Media.
Relationships are the story.
SPEAKER_02 (00:07):
You are made of meat, my friend, all the way
down.
SPEAKER_04 (00:10):
The following podcast uses words like and and
also.
If you're not into any of thatshit, then now's your chance.
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SPEAKER_00 (00:32):
I'm Amanda.
SPEAKER_03 (00:32):
And I'm Josh.
Amanda, something pretty amazinghappened today.
Or amazing to me.
SPEAKER_00 (00:36):
I mean you woke up married to me, but go ahead,
what else?
SPEAKER_03 (00:39):
I got a text from one of the people I work with
explaining to me that he wasstuck at like he had visited a
store or something on his break,on his lunch break.
And he texted me saying that hiscar wouldn't start.
I texted back to him, Do youhave a key fob?
SPEAKER_00 (00:57):
Oh, look at the look at the wisdom you have learned
and you're spreading to theworld.
SPEAKER_03 (01:03):
He said, Why, yes, I do.
I said, Well, do you know youhave an emergency key in that?
He said, What?
His is a different make car, butI think that pretty much all of
them that have an emergency keyhave it in the key fob.
So I sent him a video of meopening my key fob, you know, my
my thing for the emergency keyinside.
So he tried it and it worked,and he saved himself a crap ton
(01:27):
of money.
And now he knows about thisemergency key that he didn't
know about before.
SPEAKER_00 (01:32):
Look at you spreading the love and the
knowledge and just doing yourgood out in the world.
SPEAKER_03 (01:37):
Yeah, because he had said that he was surprised that
his car wouldn't turn overbecause he had just replaced his
car battery.
SPEAKER_00 (01:44):
Which is what happened with you.
You're like, I feel like I'mreplacing the battery in this
car.
Have you thought about how manytimes you replaced the car
battery when really it was justuh an inexpensive?
SPEAKER_03 (01:54):
Clearly was the the first time that that this
actually applied.
SPEAKER_00 (01:57):
But no, I'm talking about you.
SPEAKER_03 (01:58):
Right.
This is the first time that thishad happened to me.
SPEAKER_00 (02:01):
Oh, you know the other times were the key.
SPEAKER_03 (02:03):
Of course, of course not.
SPEAKER_00 (02:05):
Why you are like that?
It could have been.
It could not have been.
It could have gotten its secondwind.
You don't know.
SPEAKER_03 (02:12):
Batteries don't just need to rest.
SPEAKER_00 (02:16):
But you recharge your battery.
You've heard this.
This is what resting does.
SPEAKER_03 (02:19):
Anyway, so folks, again, this is now twice.
This has come up in about uh amonth and a half.
First with me, and then thisgentleman that I was able to
help.
Check your key fobs.
Do not pay for roadsideassistance to come out.
Do not pay for a new battery.
Check your key fob first.
Make sure that it has a newlittle bitty old watch battery.
(02:40):
Because that could be it.
SPEAKER_00 (02:42):
My car still has a regular old key.
SPEAKER_03 (02:44):
Speaking of fixing technology, someone needs to fix
our Alexa.
SPEAKER_00 (02:49):
Well, I she updated herself.
She didn't light up.
I thought you looked for it.
She didn't light up.
SPEAKER_03 (02:53):
Yeah, she didn't light up.
She did first of all, she didupdate herself, which I assume
most of the people listening, ifthey have one of these devices,
are aware that they've beenupdating um themselves.
And how I know that it happenedis one day I came in, one day
recently, and I asked it aquestion, and this new voice
came out, scared the ever-lovingshit out of me.
I was like, what?
(03:14):
Who's here?
SPEAKER_00 (03:15):
She just she was trying to have a real sounding
voice.
SPEAKER_03 (03:18):
I don't care.
I want the old voice back.
That's all I'm saying.
SPEAKER_00 (03:21):
I don't think it's an option.
SPEAKER_03 (03:22):
I don't think it's an option because I went through
and I asked it to give me all ofthe new voices, like examples of
the new voices, so that I couldfind the old voice.
Because sometimes they'll dothat with these sort of things.
They'll have like the old voiceand then all these new options,
including Snoop Dogg and SamuelL.
Jackson.
But they don't have the oldvoice, and that's very upsetting
to me.
Also, this one thinksdifferently.
(03:44):
It's like been upgraded, Iguess, with the proliferation of
all this AI now.
Now it remembers discussionsthat it's had with you, whereas
before it wouldn't remember,right?
The other thing I don't like isit's getting a little bit too
real.
It's getting a little bit toohuman.
It's picking up those parts ofthe human experience that we
don't want.
(04:05):
Like, this is why we would wantartificial intelligence.
We don't want it to mimichumans.
I can go talk to a human if Iwant, with all of humanity's
imperfections and annoyances.
No, this thing is picking thoseup.
So this is this is whathappened.
Last week, you had had made anannouncement because for those
(04:25):
of you not familiar with thiswith this Amazon machine, you
can tell it make anannouncement, and then you tell
it the announcement you want itto make, and then it will send
that announcement to all of thedifferent devices in the house.
So it's like an intercom, likean all call, right?
You had done something likethat, and so what I did, I was
like in the bathroom orsomething, I heard it.
(04:46):
So I I came out to the bedroom,you were downstairs, and I told
it, I said, make anannouncement.
And then the announcement Iwanted it to make to you is, oh,
I don't really like this newvoice that this thing has.
Um, so let's let's try to see ifwe can pick a new one, right?
I wanted it to announce that.
SPEAKER_00 (05:06):
Okay.
SPEAKER_03 (05:07):
And in order to make it announce something, you say
the machine's name, which I'mnot gonna say because she's
fucking listening right overthere.
You say Amazon device announce,and then the device says, What
would you like for me toannounce?
And then whatever you say, it'ssupposed to announce.
Yeah.
So I did that.
(05:27):
I said Amazon device announce,and then I said the thing about
the voice.
And then instead of announcingit, it said, Well, if you don't
like my voice, you can we canlisten to other options that
that you would have for myvoice.
And I was like, Absolutely not.
SPEAKER_00 (05:46):
That's terrifying.
SPEAKER_03 (05:48):
This is like the human translator getting
involved when the two presidentsare talking.
SPEAKER_01 (05:52):
That's right.
SPEAKER_03 (05:53):
No one wants to hear from you.
I just wanted you to give themessage to Amanda.
This thing is about ready toneed to go.
SPEAKER_00 (06:02):
Okay.
SPEAKER_03 (06:02):
This is all I'm saying because it is is
achieving sentience, and I don'tlike it.
SPEAKER_00 (06:07):
No, I don't like that either.
Dave you notice that um, so wedo the and used to when you
would announce, it wouldannounce in your voice.
Like it would record you sayingthe announcement.
And then now it now it restatesit.
She uses her own voice.
Um, but now Winthrop has startedannouncing back to us, and I
don't know how he's figured itout because he's doing it from
his tablet.
So clearly he's having to type.
(06:27):
But anyway, yeah, it's getting alittle it's getting a little
too.
And and you don't have to sayits name anymore every time you
talk to it.
So if you if you initiatesomething with it and it tells
you something, you can justrespond now back and forth until
like a period of time goes byand then it will then it will
stop recognizing you.
Because yesterday I asked itsomething and then you said
(06:50):
something to me and it respondedto you.
Like it's it's it's gettinginvolved in our conversations,
like it's butting itself in.
SPEAKER_03 (06:57):
Yeah, no, we don't need like the equivalent of a
mother-in-law hanging hangingout here.
SPEAKER_00 (07:03):
That's what that is.
SPEAKER_03 (07:04):
Absolutely.
No ma'am.
I want I I want dumb devicesnow.
Like I bring me my abacus.
And no.
SPEAKER_00 (07:15):
Carrier pigeons, how are we gonna talk to each other
from upstairs and downstairs?
SPEAKER_03 (07:18):
Each of us has a monkey.
We tie something to its neck,send it downstairs.
SPEAKER_00 (07:25):
We can get tin cans with really long strings.
SPEAKER_03 (07:28):
That's right.
Or we call each other on thefucking phone.
On the phone.
Oh, right, we have these things.
SPEAKER_00 (07:33):
Yes, got it.
SPEAKER_03 (07:34):
The reason why I asked you to to fix um Alexa
really is because you're reallygood at fixing things.
SPEAKER_00 (07:43):
Are you gonna I am good at fixing things?
I'm a problem solver.
I know what you're gonna say.
You said you didn't want to tellthis story.
You said you were embarrassed byme.
SPEAKER_03 (07:53):
Well, you can tell the story.
SPEAKER_00 (07:55):
No, I'm not telling this story.
SPEAKER_03 (07:57):
Go ahead.
SPEAKER_00 (07:58):
Okay.
Saturday morning, we got out, wewent to breakfast at uh uh
breakfast place here.
SPEAKER_03 (08:04):
All right, so this is what happened, folks.
SPEAKER_00 (08:07):
Was I taking too long?
SPEAKER_03 (08:09):
You were because you were gonna describe the whole
breakfast spot and all the thethings, how we got there, how we
got out of the car, whatwinthrop had.
No, not the point.
So we're there.
She at one point gets up to goto the restroom, and I'm like,
she's been in there a long time.
Now you did take your phone.
So I always assume that wheneverone takes one's phone into the
(08:30):
restroom, like there's gonna befive or six things that we look
up.
Did I have my phone?
You did have your phone, yes.
SPEAKER_00 (08:36):
No, well, I was not using it.
SPEAKER_03 (08:37):
Yeah, well, this is what I come to find out.
So finally, I I was about to getup and knock on the door.
SPEAKER_00 (08:43):
Somebody did knock on the door.
I thought you sent Winthrop.
No, it no, no, it wouldn'tbecause they're individuals,
they're individual restroomsthat lock.
They're not like it's not like abig restroom with with multiple.
SPEAKER_03 (08:52):
Of course, I didn't send someone in to knock on your
stall.
No, yeah, um, so finally youcome out after I think that
you've passed out.
SPEAKER_00 (09:01):
I was really very busily engaged.
SPEAKER_03 (09:06):
So what she had done, folks, is that while she
was in there, she decided to fixthe toilet.
SPEAKER_00 (09:14):
It was broken.
SPEAKER_03 (09:15):
The public bathroom toilet of a restaurant.
My God.
SPEAKER_02 (09:20):
It was broken.
SPEAKER_03 (09:21):
You need to never complain about the facts that
that you need to never complainabout the fact that sometimes I
wear a bathing suit out inpublic.
SPEAKER_00 (09:29):
I would okay, first of all, I was not out in public
doing it.
I was in the bathroom.
SPEAKER_03 (09:34):
Second of all, public turlet that you put your
you went up to your elbows inturlet water.
SPEAKER_00 (09:39):
I did, I did not go up to my elbows, thank you.
But the tank was broken.
This was the thing.
The water was just running andrunning and running, and I am
very concerned about theenvironment and in being
conservative, and it just keptgoing and going and going and
going and going and going andgoing.
I'm not conservative, I used tobe going and going and going.
(10:00):
And so, and then it wouldn'tflush.
And I'm like, okay, now I'vepeed and now there's I gotta be
able to flush this.
So I took the lid off, but Iwhat I didn't tell you is there
was all this decor on top of thetank lid that I had to unpack.
I had to move all of the decor.
What do you mean decor?
There was like toilet paperstacks and baskets and things,
(10:21):
and so I moved all that.
I took the lid off, and the thething that you know, the water
fills up the plunge line orwhatever that's called, plum,
what's that called?
SPEAKER_03 (10:30):
I don't know because I'm not, unlike you, a toilet
repair person.
SPEAKER_00 (10:35):
I listen, 16 years in preschool, the toilet's broke
down all the time.
I have fixed a toilet or two.
And so I took the tank lid offand I made it make a seal so
that it the water would thenfill up and it wouldn't keep
running.
But it took like three or fourtimes like for me to like get it
to finally do it.
SPEAKER_03 (10:53):
So, how did you make it make a seal?
Did you stick your hand into thetoilet water?
Let's be clear, you didn't haveto.
SPEAKER_00 (11:01):
I was helping.
I'm a helper, I'm the personthat Mr.
Rogers said to look for when thebad things happen.
I am a helper, and then I had toput it all back together, and
then I scrubbed my hands reallygood with soap, up my arm, like
I was like scrubbing in to dosurgery, and then I came out,
and then and then you you toldthe no, I told the waitress, but
(11:22):
you made fun of me.
SPEAKER_03 (11:23):
Server.
SPEAKER_00 (11:23):
I told the server, but and she said she would have
done the same thing.
SPEAKER_03 (11:27):
And it's a nice- which by the way, now I'm
thinking about that.
I never want first of all, Iwould not have tipped her if I
knew that she goes and shesticks her hand in toilets,
right?
And bringing our food?
Absolutely not.
SPEAKER_00 (11:40):
The tank of the toilet is not the dirty place.
You know that, right?
SPEAKER_03 (11:44):
It is, dude, it is all dirty.
You you mean you mean to tell meyou opened that thing up and it
was clean and pristine.
SPEAKER_00 (11:49):
It was clean water.
SPEAKER_03 (11:50):
Okay.
SPEAKER_00 (11:50):
Clearly, what my husband is telling you all is
that he's never fixed a toilet.
SPEAKER_03 (11:54):
Oh, yeah, and you know that's not true.
Um, but we're gonna go.
Okay, you think it's cleanwater?
SPEAKER_00 (11:59):
I'm not gonna drink it, jackass, because I know
that's where you're going.
SPEAKER_03 (12:03):
But you you said it was clean water.
SPEAKER_00 (12:05):
I what there were there's not like particles of
things floating in it, but and Ican wash it off my hand.
Why are you being difficult?
I am a helper, I do good, youbreak things.
The end.
SPEAKER_03 (12:17):
I did not break the toilet.
Oh, I've broken a toilet or twoin my day, um, but it didn't
have to do with the water in thetank.
SPEAKER_00 (12:24):
See, why you kind of make it dirty?
I was being helpful.
SPEAKER_03 (12:27):
Yeah, well, I'm quite certain that everyone is
very thankful for that.
SPEAKER_00 (12:32):
It was a nice restaurant, too.
It's not like it was likeDenny's or Waffle House.
SPEAKER_03 (12:36):
Dude, it was 12 tiny steps away from Denny's or
Waffle House.
It's a breakfast place.
There's only so nice that thosethings can get.
SPEAKER_00 (12:44):
Be kind to me.
You're not being kind.
Send us an email at uhfamiliarwilsons at gmail.com if
you would also fix a publictoilet.
SPEAKER_03 (12:55):
Actually, yes.
I want to know if you out there,please, please get in touch.
Familiarwilsons at gmail.com, ifyou would ever stick your hands
inside of a public toilet.
All right.
SPEAKER_00 (13:09):
I don't know why you keep making a it was the tank.
I don't know why you keep makingthis big deal.
SPEAKER_03 (13:14):
Okay.
SPEAKER_00 (13:15):
And it's not like I couldn't wash my hands.
SPEAKER_03 (13:17):
And actually, if you would never do that, also email
us at familiarwilsons atgmail.com.
Also, something that I learnedum on this little trip to the
toilet place that also servedbreakfast is that just um like
I've switched to matcha and Ihave been having matcha for the
last what a couple months, threemonths?
It's been a while.
It's been a while, yeah.
(13:38):
Long while I had coffee for thefirst time last Saturday because
they didn't have matcha there.
And I wanted a littlepick-me-up, right?
I wanted to wake up a littlebit, had coffee, tasted awful.
Tasted coffee's not great.
Well, sure, but I rememberliking it before.
Okay, tasted like cigarette ash,like legitimately disgusting.
(14:00):
I did not like it.
SPEAKER_00 (14:01):
And well, that's good.
You're and and you, and it madeyou real like jittery and stuff.
SPEAKER_03 (14:04):
Yeah, yeah, I didn't I didn't like the the caffeine
effect of from it either.
So I am officially off coffee.
Like, I was off coffee in theway that that, like, oh, maybe
I'll come back to it someday.
Um, never, never again.
SPEAKER_00 (14:16):
Okay, good.
More coffee for me.
SPEAKER_03 (14:19):
You're welcome to it.
Coffee and toilet water.
(14:39):
I came to a a determination, ormaybe it it was a revelation
about dogs and cats um lastweek.
Okay.
I don't remember why I wasthinking about this, but I guess
maybe it's rooted in the factthat you're either a dog person,
usually, or a cat person, or youhave preferences towards one or
the other and how different theyare, right?
(15:00):
Dogs are different.
SPEAKER_01 (15:01):
They're very different.
SPEAKER_03 (15:02):
It seems to me that dogs would be very, very
religious.
SPEAKER_00 (15:10):
Okay.
SPEAKER_03 (15:11):
First of all, dogs always try to do what they think
is the best thing.
Like they have a moral code.
Even dogs that are dogs gonewrong, I think that in their
heart of hearts they think thatthey're like doing the best
thing, right?
SPEAKER_00 (15:23):
So you think that this dog is doing what it thinks
is the best thing.
SPEAKER_03 (15:26):
Yes, I think that dogs, by and large, they uh love
unconditionally.
You know, they're about allabout love and protection, all
these things.
And it seems to me that theywould be like the religious
ones.
SPEAKER_00 (15:35):
Okay.
Who would the cats be?
SPEAKER_03 (15:38):
Cats are amoral.
unknown (15:39):
Okay.
SPEAKER_03 (15:40):
And and maybe even Satanists.
SPEAKER_00 (15:42):
But that's a religion, though.
SPEAKER_03 (15:44):
I I am convinced that that cats would kill every
single person if they could.
SPEAKER_00 (15:50):
Do you really there's some sweet kitties in
the world?
SPEAKER_03 (15:53):
Right.
They're so manipulative andconniving, though.
You know that they use all ofthe, you know, that they when
they look at you and they rub upagainst you and they purr, you
know what they're thinking?
They're thinking I am so happybecause I've got this fucker,
absolutely convinced that Idon't hate him or her, but I do.
I hate them with everything thatI, you know, that's in me.
(16:15):
And if I couldn't get anycreature comforts um off of this
giant smelly human being, thenthen I would kill them.
SPEAKER_00 (16:24):
Okay.
I think that's it's just becauseyou had a bad cat experience
that you lived with a cat thatlike attacked your face and
stuff, right?
SPEAKER_03 (16:31):
No, well, yeah, I did, but I mean, I also I grew
up with a neighbor having a cat,and that was fine enough, I
guess.
But cats are never happy to seeyou.
They don't jump up and run toyou when you come in the door.
You don't get the sense thatthey've been waiting for you to
come home.
If anything, you come home andthey're like, shit.
(16:53):
God, these guys again.
It's like I thought they weregone.
Yeah, no, I I just think thatthat cats have zero morals.
Cats are just in it forthemselves.
SPEAKER_00 (17:04):
Whereas, I mean, with dogs, you can leave for
five seconds or five minutes,and so then they're just as
happy to see you when you getback.
Right.
Every time.
SPEAKER_03 (17:11):
Each time, each time, yep.
Yeah, so so fight me, folks.
I want to hear about it.
Familiarwiths at gmail.com.
You like cats though.
SPEAKER_00 (17:20):
I do like cats.
I mean, I never had a catbecause I mean, my dad was super
not into cats.
We had a cat that lived in ourgarage for a little bit, but
then you know, like we wouldjust feed it and whatever.
I've considered that with thisblack one that wanders around
the neighborhood, like wantingit to sleep in our garage, but I
knew that you and the dog wouldhate me if that were a thing
that snuck into the house.
SPEAKER_03 (17:39):
Well, I'm allergic, so then there's that.
SPEAKER_00 (17:41):
Well, it's also that.
So yeah.
But no, I think cats are cute.
I don't mind them.
But I am more of a dog person.
Speaking of religion, though, sowe've been talking about we uh
the K-pop demon hunters in ourin our house, right?
And on this show.
Um, well, a friend of mine saidthis to me today and it cracked
me up.
So you're aware of Focus on theFamily.
SPEAKER_03 (18:02):
Yes, is that still a thing now that the the guy died?
SPEAKER_00 (18:05):
Yeah, it's still a thing.
So Focus on the Family was thisorganization run by James
Dobson, who told you how toparent your children and all of
this nonsensical stuff thatreally evangelical religious
people believed.
But anyway, the the Focus on theFamily reviews movies, and they
have reviewed K-pop demonhunters.
SPEAKER_03 (18:28):
Oh, I was wondering where this was going.
SPEAKER_00 (18:31):
So uh they have said sexual and romantic content.
When the young women in Hunter'smeet the Saja boys, they
literally salivate over theguy's attractiveness.
One of the boys, aptly namedAbby, loses his shirt, revealing
six-pack abs.
So this is bad.
This is bad.
More sexual and romanticcontent.
Zoe Amira's obsession with hisabs becomes a recurring joke,
(18:52):
temporarily flustering them andcausing popcorn to shoot from
their eyes to indicate theirheated reaction.
Abby later signs sketchportraits of his abs.
And then uh one man callsanother guy my handsome co-host.
This is a problem for the peopleof the What is going on?
All right, Ray, there's a fewmore.
(19:13):
In the background of one scene,two men clutch each other as
they cheer for Hunter's.
The members of Hunter'senterprise.
SPEAKER_03 (19:19):
What do you mean clutch each other?
Like they have a hold of eachother's penises?
What do you mean?
I don't remember that part.
SPEAKER_00 (19:24):
Fangirling and like grabbed each other's arms or
something like that so they'rethey're hugging.
SPEAKER_03 (19:28):
Yes.
Two gentlemen are hugging and infocus on the family is like, I
can't have that.
SPEAKER_00 (19:33):
Sexual and romantic content warning.
SPEAKER_03 (19:35):
Go ahead.
SPEAKER_00 (19:35):
The members of Hunterx enter into a later into
and later use a bathhouse.
In either case, nothing is seensave a man and a towel.
This is the only thing I willgive them, and it still I don't
whatever.
In one romantic theme song, theSaja Boys sing, You're You're my
soda pop, gotta drink everydrop.
But I mean, they are like if whydo they know what that means,
(19:59):
these Christian people who'vesaid this?
SPEAKER_03 (20:01):
No, okay.
So, first of all, that's notmeant to be sexual in the
context of the movie.
It's that these guys are likethey feed on human beings'
souls.
SPEAKER_00 (20:09):
Yes, but they're talking about they're thinking
this is bodily fluids.
SPEAKER_03 (20:14):
God.
SPEAKER_00 (20:14):
Okay.
Rumi is part demon herself, asnoted above, the offspring of a
hunter and a demon, but there'sno explanation of how or why
such a union occurred.
SPEAKER_03 (20:24):
Well, son, let me sit down and tell you.
SPEAKER_00 (20:29):
The girls slay hundreds of demons with their
respective blades.
There's no blood, as the demonssimply puff away in a cloud of
pink glitter when slain.
SPEAKER_03 (20:38):
Are they objecting to that?
SPEAKER_00 (20:40):
Or I know it's crude or profane language warning.
The worst we hear is dang and acouple instances of G's.
Someone yells they're she'sready to kick their butts.
But this is my favorite one.
Other noteworthy elements.
A man abandons his family, Mirabelges.
SPEAKER_03 (20:59):
Now, this is meant to warn parents.
So those are all warnings toparents that they're listening
these people don't live on thisplanet.
SPEAKER_00 (21:10):
They no, they are in the world, not of it.
SPEAKER_03 (21:13):
Oh my gosh.
I can't believe.
I can believe.
SPEAKER_00 (21:17):
You of course you can.
You were raised in the samechurch, not same same
denomination, but you you know,you know how crazy American
Christianity is.
SPEAKER_03 (21:25):
Yeah, I do.
But that's I don't even knowwhat that is.
That's absolutely and utterlyridiculous.
SPEAKER_00 (21:30):
Um, that's what we call a cult.
SPEAKER_03 (21:32):
Yes, ma'am.
Are you in a cult?
Let us know.
Familiarwilsons at gmail.com.
SPEAKER_00 (21:38):
Do you fix the toilets for the cult?
SPEAKER_03 (21:41):
Familiarwilsons at gmail.com.
SPEAKER_00 (22:11):
And that music means it's game time.
That is my favorite song of thepodcast by ACJW.
I do it every damn time.
AJCW, Andrew Joshua.
Um, thank you for that excellentmusic.
All right, game time.
We have not had a flashback in awhile, Josh.
You ready?
SPEAKER_03 (22:29):
Flashback, baby.
SPEAKER_00 (22:31):
So this is where I give Josh a series of events,
and he has to tell us where theycome on a timeline throughout
history.
So I'm gonna give you this is aNew York Times thing.
You can play along if you want.
Josh, I'm gonna give you thefirst anchoring thing.
Now, this is a give me um fromthe New York Times, but we're
gonna see if you can try to getnear it.
Okay.
Five people live in central, Isaid that word weird.
(22:55):
Five people live in centralVienna and visit the same cafes.
Stalin, Freud, Tito, Trotsky,and Hitler.
SPEAKER_03 (23:10):
At the same time, like they're meeting up?
SPEAKER_00 (23:12):
I don't know.
I just think.
I don't think Stalin and Hitlerhung out.
Or Tito, Stalin's not a fan ofit.
I think that no, I mean, theyall lived the here in this same
year and visited the same cafes.
They had to have bumped intoeach other at some point.
SPEAKER_03 (23:24):
All right, I'm gonna say 1921.
SPEAKER_00 (23:26):
All right, 1913.
SPEAKER_03 (23:28):
And so now the conceit of this game, if I
understand it correctly, is thatyou're gonna give me an event,
and I gotta tell you if it comesbefore or after 1913.
But I'm adding to the difficultybecause I'm gonna see how close
I can get to the actual date.
All right, go ahead.
SPEAKER_00 (23:42):
Okay, your next one.
Inspired by childhood days spentcatching insects in Japan,
Satoshi Tajiri creates a videogame he calls Pocket Monsters or
Pokemon.
SPEAKER_03 (23:56):
Oh, Pokemon.
Oh, how long is Pokemon bearound?
It's probably been around muchlonger than I think.
SPEAKER_00 (24:03):
I mean, it's it's clearly was probably after the
1913.
SPEAKER_03 (24:05):
Yeah, no, it's after 1913, so I'm gonna get this
right according to the game.
But uh Pokemon, let's say like19, oh gosh, um 84.
SPEAKER_00 (24:18):
So this is interesting to me because I went
to Japan in 1999 and I went tothe Pokemon store in Tokyo.
Yeah, because it to get stufffor people that I worked with,
their kids.
I thought it had been around alot longer than that.
No, 1996.
SPEAKER_03 (24:33):
All right, well, I was wrong.
Okay, but I was right.
SPEAKER_00 (24:35):
But you were right, but you were wrong.
Take an unconventional hero at asteadfast sidekick, throw in an
inspiring lady love.
Cervantes published hisimprobable satire.
SPEAKER_03 (24:47):
Man of La Mancha or Don Quixote.
Don Quixote, yes.
Man of La Mancha is the musical.
SPEAKER_00 (24:53):
I know, I know.
SPEAKER_03 (24:54):
Oh, when I have no idea.
It's gonna be before 1913, solet's say 1850.
SPEAKER_00 (25:02):
1605?
Did you have any idea it wasthat old?
SPEAKER_03 (25:10):
Well, that's a dumb question.
SPEAKER_00 (25:12):
All right.
Take an unconventional hero, adda steadfast sidekick, throw in
an inspiring lady love,DreamWorks releases its
improbable satire, Shrek.
SPEAKER_03 (25:24):
Oh, Shrek.
SPEAKER_00 (25:24):
You thought I was just repeating the same clue,
didn't you?
SPEAKER_03 (25:27):
I did.
Um Shrek.
When did when did Shrek comeabout?
Um gosh, I'm probably gonna getthis wrong because I I want to
say it's after 1996.
SPEAKER_00 (25:42):
Right.
Yes, do you want to make a guessfor when?
SPEAKER_03 (25:46):
Um 1998.
SPEAKER_00 (25:48):
2001.
SPEAKER_03 (25:49):
Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_00 (25:51):
Amid the era of Andrew Jackson, Dr.
John Bennett starts sellingketchup to cure ills like
jaundice.
It didn't work, so laterversions just focused on tasting
good.
SPEAKER_03 (26:04):
That would be mid-1800s, so 1844.
SPEAKER_00 (26:10):
When was Andrew Jackson around doing the worst?
1844?
1834.
That's kind of baby.
All right.
Abraham Lincoln's son is savedfrom an oncoming train in New
Jersey.
His rescuer is the brother ofJohn Wilkes Booth, who later
shoots the president.
SPEAKER_03 (26:28):
Oh, this happened before?
SPEAKER_00 (26:30):
Yeah, isn't that crazy?
SPEAKER_03 (26:31):
Oh, that's weird.
Um, oh, I guess I should knowwhen Lincoln was shot, but I
have no freaking idea.
SPEAKER_00 (26:38):
Did you not listen on the tour that we went to?
Oh no, that was Kennedy.
SPEAKER_03 (26:42):
Yeah, very good.
Never mind.
Um, oh god.
Uh 1850.
SPEAKER_00 (26:52):
So after Andrew Jackson's out there doing all
the bad?
SPEAKER_03 (26:55):
Yeah, I don't know if that's I feel like I'm wrong,
but go ahead.
SPEAKER_00 (26:59):
1863.
SPEAKER_03 (27:01):
Oh wow.
SPEAKER_00 (27:02):
You are six for six, friend.
All right.
Needing hoops for a new indoorgame.
SPEAKER_03 (27:10):
The educator James Naismith asked a the inventor of
basketball.
So he used peach baskets, andthe very first baskets in
basketball, they still had thebottom.
So every time they they made ashot, they had to stop and get
the ball out of the uh peachbasket.
That's cool.
SPEAKER_00 (27:28):
So it says he asked a janitor for boxes, but he can
only find baskets, so the sportis named basketball.
It could have been box boxbasketball.
SPEAKER_03 (27:37):
So when was basketball invented?
Oh let's say 1930.
SPEAKER_00 (27:46):
Okay, so after Stalin and Hitler hung out at
the cafes, but before Pokemon.
Oh, your first one wrong.
1891.
SPEAKER_03 (27:57):
Damn it.
Alright, two more.
SPEAKER_00 (27:59):
Ready?
SPEAKER_03 (28:00):
That's so stupid.
That I know all that shinformation about that and I got
that wrong.
That annoys me.
Go ahead.
SPEAKER_00 (28:07):
Alright, unable to beat Joan of Arc in battle.
SPEAKER_03 (28:10):
The English charge her with- I swear to God, you
were gonna say unable to beather in basketball.
They burned her at the stake.
SPEAKER_00 (28:17):
The English charge her with hair.
Is it heresy or hair hair?
Is it heresy?
SPEAKER_03 (28:22):
Heresy, yes.
SPEAKER_00 (28:22):
I was like, why do I want to say heresy?
SPEAKER_03 (28:24):
Personal foul.
SPEAKER_00 (28:25):
Okay, one of their key accusations, of course it
was.
One of their key accusations isher fashion choice.
She wears men's clothes.
Patriarchy did not like that shewas wearing pants.
SPEAKER_03 (28:36):
I have zero idea, Joan of Arc, so we're just for
fun.
It's probably a lot later than Ithink.
I don't know why.
I think it's like in this 1700s.
SPEAKER_00 (28:46):
Okay, so before after Don Quixote, like where
are we going here?
SPEAKER_03 (28:50):
Well, Don Quixote was in 1605, so the 1700s.
SPEAKER_00 (28:55):
I thought you said the 17th century.
I'm sorry.
Okay, 1700s.
1431.
All right, here's the last one.
You ready to end it on a high?
SPEAKER_03 (29:07):
We'll see.
Go ahead.
SPEAKER_00 (29:08):
Okay.
Victoria Woodhull, the firstfemale presidential candidate,
picks Frederick Douglass as herrunning mate.
Douglas ignores her and backsher rival.
SPEAKER_03 (29:20):
Oh.
Okay, so clear this isn't thismen did such good.
This is very like tightly packedhere because we got 1834 Andrew
Jackson, 18 uh 63 Lincoln'sthing with his kid, and then
we've got an an 1891.
It's around there, clearlyaround there somewhere because
(29:40):
oh shit.
Um uh I don't know.
SPEAKER_00 (29:49):
Okay, you're just gonna go out with an I don't
know.
SPEAKER_03 (29:53):
1870.
SPEAKER_00 (29:55):
All right, eighteen seventy is eighteen seventy two.
All right.
Good job.
Not perfect, but you were youwere pretty close.
So you did a good job there.
I'm curious because you know howit it will tell you in the New
York, if you once you do it, whyit's picked these things this
week.
It's usually based on currentevents.
(30:16):
No, I'm um wondering why it didShrek and Don Quixote.
But it says the Dutch city ofLeiden is as charming as
Amsterdam and a great place tosee windmills.
Okay, so there's that.
Why have we done Shrek?
A documentary looks back atEddie Murphy's career.
Okay.
SPEAKER_03 (30:33):
Brilliant.
You've got email.
It is letter time.
So we went to the mailbox todayand we got two letters from
listeners.
If you would like to post ussomething in the mail, just
write our names, the Wilsons onit, and put a stamp on it.
Put it in the old box, and it'llmake its way to us.
Or email us at familiarwilsonsat gmail.com.
(30:57):
Hi, Josh and Amanda.
It starts.
First, I'd like to say onceagain, thank you for coming down
to Disney Springs to meet up.
It was a treat to meet both youand Winthrop.
SPEAKER_00 (31:07):
It was lovely to meet you and your family as
well.
SPEAKER_03 (31:09):
So this is clearly from uh our friend Josh Scar,
who we met down in DisneySprings, that you're gonna be
at, by the way.
SPEAKER_00 (31:16):
I'm gonna be there.
SPEAKER_03 (31:17):
Next couple days, you're traveling for work.
SPEAKER_00 (31:19):
I'm traveling for work.
I'll send you pictures, JoshScar.
SPEAKER_03 (31:22):
You're traveling for work to Disney Springs.
Can we talk about that for asecond?
SPEAKER_00 (31:26):
I'm traveling for work to an early childhood
conference that happens to be ata hotel in Disney Springs.
SPEAKER_03 (31:32):
That I'm not gonna be at.
SPEAKER_00 (31:34):
You were invited.
SPEAKER_03 (31:35):
Yeah, well, I gotta work.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (31:37):
Me too.
SPEAKER_03 (31:39):
Yes, at Disney Springs.
See above.
Okay, anyway, he continues.
My mom's an older person.
Even when I was 17, she wasclosing in on her late 50s.
She's always been a verydefensive driver.
One of her most notable nuggetsof wisdom she imparted on me
while I was on my learner'spermit was the speed limit says
35, but that doesn't mean youhave to go that fast.
(31:59):
You can go slower.
Well, I am here to tell youdon't go too much slower because
they will pull you over forbeing possibly intoxicated.
Not that that's happened to me.
Now for the story.
I'm 17 years old, driving intoRockford from our northern
Illinois town, about a 15-minutedrive, with my mom riding
shotgun.
I'm imagining her with theshotgun.
(32:19):
That's right.
They're on an old uh horse-drawncarriage and she's looking out
for bandits.
My mom's been annoying me withher defensive driving tips and
telling me to slow down and beaware.
Yes, that would do my head in.
As we're arguing about how I'mdriving, she tells me not to hit
the person walking along theside of the road.
Well, that's a that's goodadvice.
As we got closer, I noticed theperson's walking gait was kind
(32:42):
of funny and they had weirdproportions.
Finally, we're right next to theperson, and we discover that the
person walking along the side ofthe road isn't a person at all,
but an emu.
SPEAKER_00 (32:53):
What?
Was it wearing trousers?
Like, why did it after we gothome?
SPEAKER_03 (32:58):
I had to look up how a freaking emu ended up in our
little northern Illinois town.
Apparently there was an emu farmabout 50 miles south of us, and
a few of the emus had escaped.
That's my story of the strangestthing I've ever seen by the side
of the road, Josh Gar.
SPEAKER_00 (33:14):
Did he say 50 miles?
SPEAKER_03 (33:16):
Yeah, 50 miles south.
SPEAKER_00 (33:17):
That emu had been walking for 50 miles north.
SPEAKER_03 (33:20):
Well, I think that it ran part of the way and maybe
hitched to ride.
Did they have thumbs?
Um, anyway, he closes with theWilsons have a lifetime past to
come visit their family innorthern Illinois.
So Amanda can get her snow fixand Winthrop can try sledding.
Or as you said, sledging.
SPEAKER_00 (33:35):
No, we're gonna sled.
SPEAKER_03 (33:38):
And we have this week for you some refined gay
thoughts from Refined Gay Jeff.
Happy mid-November Wilsons.
I trust that this past weektreated you with honor and
respect.
I don't think my week evertreats me with honor and
respect.
SPEAKER_00 (33:54):
The AI device in the bedroom was not treating him
with respect.
SPEAKER_03 (33:57):
He said, for him, this weekend has been off the
chain Saturday.
My gaggle of gays went with medown to Galveston, about 45
minutes away from Houston.
I had not been sincepre-pandemic and was really
wanting to have lunch at my faverestaurant down there called
Fisherman's Wharf on the Bayside of the island.
They have a fantastic seatingarea on the dock, actually over
(34:19):
the water, where you can watchboats of all kinds motor by.
Some even pull up to the dockand unload for the restaurant.
So they're like bringing likefish for you to eat like or
unloading people.
Yesterday I saw gulls andpelicans and even dolphins were
swimming by.
It's also located by the Alyssa,the official tall ship of Texas.
(34:39):
The crew was wrapping all thesails back to the mast during
lunch, so it was very funwatching all of the very fit,
scantily clad seamenS-E-A-M-A-N.
Climbing up and down the ropegrids and ladders, making sure
sails were securely put away.
You better believe it made for afantastic lunch.
(35:00):
He ordered his favoriteappetizer there called Shrimp
Kisses.
Butterfly shrimp stuffed withjalapeno cheese wrapped in bacon
and then baked to a sumptuousconclusion.
SPEAKER_00 (35:10):
Love that wording.
SPEAKER_03 (35:11):
I feel like I need to go shower now.
And he talks about all of thewonderful things that he
ordered, none of which I'm goingto eat because I'm trying to do
better.
And then, of course, cheesecakefor dessert.
And the best margaritas evermade with fresh pineapple juice.
Can't have that.
I'm very allergic.
Garnish with fresh pineappleslices.
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He says, Josh, sorry to hearthat you're rusty with your
bowling.
I am not a great bowler either.
But when I was a small child, myparents actually signed me up
for bowling lessons.
Did your parents ever sign youup for random lessons that you
didn't want?
SPEAKER_00 (35:45):
No, we've done it to Winthrop, though.
SPEAKER_03 (35:47):
I got signed up for tennis lessons, which was a it
was a weird have I ever talkedabout my tennis lessons
experience?
SPEAKER_00 (35:54):
Not on this podcast.
To me, you have.
SPEAKER_03 (35:56):
So the tennis lessons were taught by a former
well, he called himself a formertennis pro.
But I don't know what thatmeans.
I think that you can callyourself a pro if you were paid
to do anything at any time.
So I think he was at one pointpaid to play tennis, but I and
he was a Vietnam veteran.
SPEAKER_00 (36:17):
Oh wow.
SPEAKER_03 (36:18):
And so he taught tennis lessons at the local um
golf and tennis club, right?
And so my dad found out thatsomeone else uh had their kid
doing it.
He's like, I'm gonna send Joshto go do this thing.
So I was like, what?
I don't know, like early teensor 12, 13, something like that.
SPEAKER_00 (36:32):
This dude would talk to us about some of the most
inappropriate things, like thethings he did during the war or
like sexy time things.
SPEAKER_03 (36:44):
Or like both of them combined.
SPEAKER_00 (36:46):
No, that's a whole musical called Miss Saigon.
SPEAKER_03 (36:48):
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
No.
Um, like he shared with us thethings that I I the way your
hand is cupping.
SPEAKER_00 (36:58):
I don't I think we might need to unpack this with
like a professional therapist.
I don't think, not a tennisperson.
SPEAKER_03 (37:05):
That may be the root of all of my problems.
And then I was signed up, ofcourse, for uh bowling.
League, right?
You were in a league.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But I didn't know how to play,so but I knew how better how to
play than than um I did lastweek.
Jeff says, the times that I bowlnow, I always come away with a
sore thumb because evidently Ihad a weird thing that I do when
I release the ball.
I release it with a twistsomehow, which is why my thumb
(37:28):
is sore.
I can bowl a strike every nowand again and even know the term
for when you bowl three strikesin a row.
Do you know what that is?
That's called a hat trick.
It's called a turkey.
Hat trick is in another sport.
Hockey is a hat trick.
Um, I did know that it wascalled a turkey.
Also, Jeff, it's worth notingthat my Vietnam veteran um
tennis coach also talked aboutthat move where your thumb does
(37:49):
a twist.
Again, I need therapy.
He continues on.
Speaking of iguanas falling outof trees, which I've actually
heard of, did you know thatHouston has to deal with falling
reptiles as well?
As you know, Houston is knownfor massive flooding throughout
the year.
And when that happens, guesswhere the snakes go?
SPEAKER_00 (38:06):
Nope.
SPEAKER_03 (38:07):
Up in the trees.
SPEAKER_00 (38:08):
Nope.
SPEAKER_03 (38:08):
So when the water recedes, the snakes come back
down.
And then as is the custom afterflooding, Houstonians walk
around to assess the damage andlook to see what has happened.
That's when the deluge of snakesbegins.
It's like one of the plagues ofEgypt.
Newscasters even remind peopleto be mindful.
Well, no, wait a second.
Do they fall out of the trees ordo they crawl out of the trees?
(38:29):
Yeah, he says Houston has had todeal with falling reptile.
Absolutely not.
Kill me dead.
Kill me dead.
A snake falls on me?
I was sitting at my desk theother day and a damn wasp fell
on the desk right in front ofme.
SPEAKER_00 (38:44):
From where?
SPEAKER_03 (38:45):
I think from the vent that's right above my head,
which that's a differentproblem.
But I was like, what the hell isgoing on?
SPEAKER_00 (38:51):
That's where the snakes go.
Up in those the vents, right?
You know that, right?
SPEAKER_03 (38:55):
What?
SPEAKER_00 (38:55):
When the when it gets cold, they go into the
building, and so there they'regonna be in your air ducts and
in your your ventilation system.
SPEAKER_03 (39:01):
What's wrong with you?
That's fun for me.
He continues.
Amanda, I'm still trying to wrapmy brain around the fact that
you are now using the term beddate.
SPEAKER_00 (39:11):
I'm not using it.
SPEAKER_03 (39:12):
You do use it.
That's what you prefer to callit now.
But I do have a question.
Don't you guys lock the doorduring these special times
alone?
I obviously don't have children,but it seems to me that this
would be the thing to do.
Problem solved, easy peasy.
SPEAKER_00 (39:25):
Yes, we lock the door.
SPEAKER_03 (39:27):
Was there a time where we hadn't locked the door?
I feel like in the old house.
SPEAKER_00 (39:31):
Oh God, yes.
And he was oh my god, I just gotso embarrassed.
SPEAKER_03 (39:38):
Because please don't cover your mouth when you're
talking on the podcast.
SPEAKER_00 (39:42):
I'm trying to think of what how this happened.
He was when we lived in the oldhouse, so when he was three and
younger, he his nursery was offof our bedroom.
Right?
Like, so we had another doorthat went into, I think what was
probably supposed to be theoffice, but used it as his
nursery, and that door did notlock.
(40:04):
And all I wasn't aware, all Iknew was that you just stop and
lay there.
And he was like, Where's mom?
And you were just like trying tocover me up.
unknown (40:16):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (40:17):
You were like, go lay down.
She'll I'll I'll get her.
She'll come, she'll come findyou.
SPEAKER_03 (40:22):
Yep.
SPEAKER_00 (40:23):
Oh yeah, that door didn't lock, Jeff.
These doors lock.
SPEAKER_03 (40:26):
Yeah, they do, and we'll be locking it later
tonight.
SPEAKER_00 (40:28):
Well, why are you gonna tell people again?
SPEAKER_03 (40:31):
Well, because you're going away for like three days.
So so this is to Muffy's friendthat's uh listening.
Don't you don't need to tellMuffy that this is happening
tonight.
And what are we supposed to callher?
SPEAKER_00 (40:44):
Oh, yeah, we we got a name for her so that when we
can we can thank her.
So she's Blue Key.
SPEAKER_03 (40:48):
Blue key.
Now, it goes without saying,hopefully, that this is not the
child's real name, nor isWinthrop or Muffy our children's
real names.
It's just, you know, it's betterto change their name to protect
them all involved.
SPEAKER_00 (41:00):
So Muffy and Blue Key are really good friends.
I love this so much.
SPEAKER_03 (41:04):
Jeff continues.
I did not know the song quizbecause I simply refuse to
subject myself to K-pop DemonHunter.
SPEAKER_00 (41:12):
Jeff, it is LGBTQ plus friendly.
It is affirming.
It is you need to stop.
Just stop.
Just stop and go watch it.
SPEAKER_03 (41:22):
Don't tell anyone that they need to do something.
SPEAKER_00 (41:24):
I'm gonna tell Jeff that he needs to do this.
SPEAKER_03 (41:26):
Okay, he also said that I totally changed the rules
for backward movie plot midwaythrough the game.
SPEAKER_00 (41:31):
Thank you.
SPEAKER_03 (41:32):
Amanda's answer of the shining made much more sense
than Beauty and the Beast.
Little Alex Horn would tell youthat the opposite is not the
same as backwards.
SPEAKER_00 (41:40):
Thank you.
SPEAKER_03 (41:40):
Amanda gets all five points and wins the task.
Thank you.
Sorry, Jeff, do you watchTaskmaster?
Did we know that?
SPEAKER_00 (41:47):
I said you're not Alex Horn.
Maybe he looked up who Alex Hornwas.
Maybe he watched Taskmaster.
Thank you, Jeff, because he did.
He just all of a sudden it wasdifferent.
Thank you.
SPEAKER_03 (41:56):
He says, Josh, you mentioned briefly WKRP in
Cincinnati, and believe it ornot, I have a real connection to
it.
Remember Les Nesman, real nameRichard Sanders?
Of course I do.
Well, when he was in middleschool, he lived in my hometown
of 96, South Carolina, and wasfriends with my parents.
He was even my mom's boyfriendwhen they were in sixth grade.
Your mom dated Les Nesman.
(42:17):
So is this a character from theshow?
Oh, you don't know who LesNessman is?
Oh God, you gotta watch that.
Jeff will watch K-pop DemonHunter, and you will watch an
episode or three of WKRP inCincinnati, which is one of the
best shows that's ever beenwritten.
SPEAKER_00 (42:34):
My brother used to watch it.
But for some reason, thought youand Jeff were then just talking
about somebody you knew fromcamp and that his mom had dated
somebody from Camp.
No, no, no.
SPEAKER_03 (42:43):
Les Nesman.
SPEAKER_00 (42:44):
I wasn't tracking.
SPEAKER_03 (42:45):
He says, My dad said that Richard Sanders, the guy
who played Les Nesman, had oneof those big-wheeled bicycles
called a penny farthing.
SPEAKER_00 (42:52):
Oh, I know a penny farthing.
SPEAKER_03 (42:54):
People thought he was strange for riding it.
He was strange for riding it.
It's the dumbest thing I've everheard.
SPEAKER_00 (42:59):
If you do not know what a penny farthing looks
like, please look it up and thenimagine Jeff's mom's
ex-boyfriend riding one.
SPEAKER_03 (43:06):
We talked about smart cars, and Jeff, being a
librarian, actually has a bit ofwisdom for that.
He says the term smart car camefrom a joint project between
Swatch and Mercedes Benz.
SPEAKER_01 (43:17):
Oh.
SPEAKER_03 (43:18):
The goal was to combine Swatch's design and
manufacturing with MercedesBenz's engineering to create a
new kind of small city car.
It's an acronym for SwatchMercedes Art.
SPEAKER_00 (43:29):
That's interesting.
I have I wanted a Swatch sobadly.
I got one, but I remember.
Did you get a swatch?
I wanted a Swatch.
SPEAKER_03 (43:38):
No, I didn't.
And that wasn't for me.
He says, good luck this week.
I'm actually excited becauseit's the last week before I have
nine days off for Thanksgiving.
I have two days off forThanksgiving, Jeff.
I'll be sticking around here inHouston and probably visiting
the Gaborhood daily to bethankful for my daily intake of
cocktails and muscle bears peasand cookies.
(44:01):
If you out there spend any timein the Gaborhood, send us an
email, familiarwilsons atgmail.com.
Alright, Amanda, that's allthere is.
There is no more.
What did you think of that mess?
SPEAKER_00 (44:22):
I mean, same mess, different days.
SPEAKER_03 (44:25):
Alright, well, I'm gonna cut this real short here
because I gotta edit thisepisode and then Amanda and I
gotta get down.
SPEAKER_00 (44:32):
No, my God, what is wrong with you?
SPEAKER_03 (44:35):
And so here's our list of people without whom we
would not be able to make thispodcast for you every week.
Thanks to Antonio, our leaddiagnostic wizard, to Josh Scar,
the head tire inflationspecialist, to Danny Buckets,
our fluid manager, and that'sall I'm gonna say about that.
To Chicken Tom, the assistantparts runner, to Monique from
Germany, the Precision AlignmanSpecialist, to Joey, Joey, to
(44:59):
Leo, the shop DJ and VibeTechnician, to Refine Gay Jeff,
the Upholstery and InteriorCouture Director, Ryan Baker,
our break artist, Mark andRachel, the co-manager of Tools
That Are Missing, and to Dan andGavin, the pit crew.
And by pit crew, of course, Imean armpit.
SPEAKER_00 (45:18):
Dan and Gavin smelled perfectly fine.
Remember when you were worriedabout meeting our British
friends and you were afraid theywere gonna smell bad?
SPEAKER_04 (45:25):
What's wrong with you?
SPEAKER_00 (45:28):
What's wrong with me is that you told everybody I
cleaned toilets, so we're gonnalike you're like, but what if
they smell funny?
What's wrong with you?
Alright.
So folks, until next week.
You have the power of the edit,just cut it out.
I'm not cutting shit out.
SPEAKER_03 (45:48):
They smelled very nice and they had good teeth as
well.
Um so in until next week, folks,be nice to be nice to everyone
you meet.
SPEAKER_02 (46:04):
Go be kind.
Bye.
SPEAKER_03 (46:06):
Bye.
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