July 6, 2025 • 37 mins
This week on Super Familiar with the Wilsons, we unpack the joys (and horrors) of family vacations, talk about Ozzy Osbourne’s farewell concert, forgotten shoes, haunted hotel rooms, near-death experiences, and a surprising number of lost pillows.
Josh vents about sock piles and not being believed. Amanda relives two travel traumas that made her question ever leaving the house again. Plus: the Peace Pack™ (because family road trips require tactical snack deployment), a debate about video podcasting, and our first (possibly last) attempt at the "Beefs" segment.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:29):
Welcome to Super Familiar with the Wilsons.
I'm Amanda.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
And I'm Josh, Amanda guess what?
Speaker 2 (00:37):
happened yesterday the tides turned, the flowers
bloomed, the babies were born.
I don't know what.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
All those things happened Also.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Ozzy Osbourne had his final concert I mean, how many
times has sir ozzy said thathe's going to have his final?
Speaker 1 (00:50):
concert.
Is he knighted?
I don't think he's beenknighted.
I don't think he has an obe?
Speaker 2 (00:54):
I don't think any of those things, but I think he ate
a bat right that's what he did.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
I don't think that they give any sort of anything
to people who eat bats all right, so what?
Speaker 2 (01:04):
anyway?
What?
How many times has he quit?
Speaker 1 (01:07):
I don't know of any.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
I don't think he has has that madonna quit like 50
times I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Billy joel has quit a couple times.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Yes, that's true, because elton john didn't, elton
john just quit did his, likebilly joel went and did his
totally classical music thing,which is fine.
Um, I think elton john has.
He's on his farewell tour againmaybe, or it's finally over,
who knows?
Also, I think Cher quit 70times, but if Ozzy has just said
the one time I quit, he wins.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
So the concert was called the Back to the Beginning
.
It took place yesterday inBirmingham.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Did you say bat to the beginning or back?
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Back to the beginning .
I have been to Birmingham.
It was a 10-hour concert.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
No sir.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
I have seen the gentleman.
He cannot construct threeconsecutive sentences that are
coherent.
How did he do 10 hours of?
Speaker 1 (01:55):
music.
He wasn't on stage the whole 10hours.
No, they had like Tribute bands.
Guns N' Roses and Metallica.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Wait, guns N' Roses were there.
Yes, slayer, did Rachel Plantgo?
Because she no wait, that'snevermind, just kidding.
That's Bon Jovi, just kiddingRachel.
But you kind of like thosemetal bands.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
No.
So anyway, 10 hours of allthese heavy hitter acts and then
the final couple hours.
I guess was Ozzy come out, hewas seated at the right hand of
the father.
He was seated at a like darkthrone.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Of course.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Now we're not going to make fun of him, because I
think he has Parkinson's, likehe is.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
I mean, the gentleman has ridden his body hard.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Yeah, and put up wet but he is he is not doing well,
but he managed to kind of pseudosing for a couple hours and of
course it was very emotional.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Yeah, and so ozzy is no more no, that ozzy is still a
thing, he is just no more ofthe performing what do you think
about that?
Speaker 1 (02:52):
because, to be honest , I didn't know that he was
still alive of course you did.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
You just watched a video of him and sir paul
mccartney mccarthy, who is atmccartney, who was actually a
sir, we were talking aboutjennifer mcc McCarthy earlier
and that's why I got confused.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
This segment is awash in ignorance isn't it?
Speaker 2 (03:09):
No, I had half a bottle of wine before we did
this.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Oh, very good.
Thank you for warning me thatthis was all done for charity.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Which charity?
Speaker 1 (03:17):
PETA.
He split it between three CureParkinson's, birmingham
Children's Hospital and AcornChildren's Hospice.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
That's really sad.
Oh, children's Hospice, that issad.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Yeah, but good on him .
The only thing I did forcharity yesterday was I rounded
up to the nearest dollar at thecheckout.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
I mean, I will always round up to the nearest dollar.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Yeah, I feel really good giving that last 17 cents
to charity.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
All right, you're like yeah, I'll do that, even if
it's 99 cents, it's fine, it'sthe least I can do.
But I mean, you don't want tobe the person who says, no, I
will not round up my cents.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
I have said no to.
Do you want to donate like $5to this and that?
Speaker 2 (03:56):
I have said no to that before.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Like the 17 cents, I'm okay with letting go of that
because I don't want to havethe metaphorical change rattling
around in my pocket.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
No, I will always.
So our local grocery will do adrive for Children's Miracle
Network.
That's their big thing.
And every time they will say doyou want to donate?
So what I do is I donate $5 atthe beginning and then every
time after I say, oh, I just didthat.
Oh, I just did that.
Oh, I just did that because Ifeel like that, I'm done, I'm
good.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Do you believe that?
They believe you, though.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
When you say that they always tell me thank you
for donating.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Oh yeah, what you need to do.
Some of these places you canput your name up.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Yes, they also have me do that.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Yeah, but then you could be like that one over
there, that was me.
That's me.
You should have your littlepicture next to it too.
Artie gave.
This is how I can prove it.
We're going to talk a littlebit today about family vacations
, because we just took a reallyshort family vacation.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Like a micro.
It wasn't even a vacation, thatwas a day trip.
It was a half a day trip.
As far as I'm concerned, whenwe leave town, when I get in the
car for an hour and a half todrive to a place, that's
vacation, okay, so what if youdrive across town and then back,
and then you have to go back toget something and it's an hour
and a half in the car?
Does that count as a vacation?
Speaker 1 (05:10):
No, because I'm going back and forth.
I'm saying straight linedriving somewhere, straight line
, all right.
So this was a trip that Iabsolutely did not want to take.
I know I was aware Hour and ahalf drive I didn't want to take
.
The first stop was a place thatI did not want to go because I
could not go in a cat cafe andI'm really allergic to cats.
So there was that.
It was outside, it was in theheat, heat that I did not want
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to experience.
I mean, it is getting so hotnow that I'm starting to take it
personally.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
No, it's definitely like the seventh level of hell
hot here in Florida.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
No, I am not built for this heat.
I'm built for mild temperaturesand soft lighting.
That's what I'm built for.
We went to St Augustine, andone of the things I love to do
when we go to St Augustine isget a cigar.
Well, I couldn't do that aroundthe kids because they would
have freaked out.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Also.
It's too damn hot.
No, I would have To be smokingthings.
No, I would have enjoyed it.
I kept.
Well, first of all, I kepttelling you to go do it and you
were no, no, no, no becauseMuffy would have lost her mind
if I smoked a cigar.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Like here's the thing If I smoked one every day or
even every week or even everymonth, like I can see being
super concerned for my health.
But I'll do it when we go to StAugustine without the kids, and
so the last time I did that waswhat it was like three years
ago, right?
It was 2001.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
2001.
2021 for your 50th birthday2021 is better than 2001.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
I didn't even know you then, that would have been
your 30th birthday.
That's right.
So, anyway, this is why Iwanted to talk about vacation.
Now I will say that all ofthese things added up to me
potentially having a reallyshitty time.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Yeah.
But I decided when I realizedthere's no way I could get out
of this trip.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
We would have happily left you here.
You would have not happily leftme here.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
You would have been miserable because I was here, we
would have missed you, but ifyou were going to grate, we
didn't want you to be here.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Well, but see, that's the thing.
I decided that none of thatmattered, that I really just
wanted to be around my familyand that, no matter what
happened, I would have a goodtime.
Yeah, and you did it, and I didhave a good time.
And it's just as easy asflipping that switch folks, I'm
here to tell you.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
But the kids were really happy, they were fine.
We ate at the Columbia, whichis a restaurant that we love.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Not a sponsor.
And by the way we're at theColumbia right.
We had a delightful server.
So I saw a lady come throughthat I took to be the manager.
So I took it upon myself tocall her over and say, hey look,
this server we had.
She was exceptional.
She took it upon herself toregale us with her opinions,
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that people of that generationGen.
Z did not have good customerservice skills Right after we
finished telling her that thislady, who or girl or whatever
was exceptional, and so that wasa conversation I probably could
have done without.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Well, I was fine with that because we had just been
talking about that at work.
So she was saying, oh, she's anexception.
Like she was an exception.
It's hard.
You gotta teach him theseskills, which is fine.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Meanwhile, all of her employees were like going back
and forth listening to whatshe's saying which, listening to
what she's saying, which Ithought was pretty crappy.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
I was just annoyed because she kept apologizing for
the placement of our table.
I was not upset with theplacement of our table, she kept
being upset with the placement.
We should have moved this over,ma'am, I'm fine.
Well, as soon as you get up,I'm going to move it.
I don't care about theplacement of this table.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
So she just was looking Out there.
When you have to take your kids, particularly your younger kids
, on a long road trip, what doyou do to keep them occupied?
Because Winthrop, our lovelyson, does not stop talking.
He will not stop talking.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Sometimes he stops talking but then he just makes
noise with his mouth, Like hebeatboxes and sings and does
things.
He constantly needs to bemaking noise.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Being the one who's driving on a trip that does not
work for me.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
I drove over there.
Right, I drove back.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Yeah, I drove back, but he started bup, bup, bup,
bup, bup, bup bup, he was doingthat the whole way over there.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
You just had earbuds in, so you didn't hear it.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Oh, I heard it because they weren't good
earbuds.
Here's the thing, so that I canconcentrate on the road.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
I don't understand how you were married before.
I don't understand your 1.0 andyour children, because in no
existence have I ever had thatyou can drive with it being
silent unless you are byyourself.
I don't know who set thisexpectation for you, that when
you were driving it should besilent other than be alone.
Because it does not happen,friend, there's going to be
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noise right, but marriage 2.0was supposed to be better you
are welcome to travel alone.
No one needs you in this car.
I mean muffy's super easy,because she just goes to sleep
yes immediately as soon as thecar leaves the driveway.
Doesn't matter if she just wokeup from sleeping 12 hours, she
goes to sleep.
She wakes up when we get home,like that is sleeping 12 hours,
she goes to sleep.
She wakes up when we get home,like that is, she is super easy.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Go to sleep, winthrop no what's the worst family trip
you've ever had?
Speaker 2 (10:11):
oh my god, but this one's dark friend.
We had a series of, of a of atravel year, and I'm trying to
think of when it was.
I think it might have been 2018, 2019.
It was definitely before covidand we were traveling for dance,
when muffie was dancing and wewere traveling every.
I think it might have been 2018, 2019.
It was definitely before COVIDand we were traveling for dance,
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when Muffy was dancing and wewere traveling every month.
We had two very horrific thingshappen back to back when we
were traveling.
Do you remember these?
Speaker 1 (10:36):
I remember the one in Miami where a relative of ours
got in big trouble.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Yeah, I know that one .
You're not even thinking ofthat one.
I forgot about that one.
Oh well, sorry, I was veryupset for a while.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Yes, we're on a family vacation to Miami.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
The night we got there.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
The night we got there, we found out that a
relative of ours was in bigtrouble.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
No, I am talking about the time that we were
staying in the Orlando airport.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Oh, my God Did.
Oh my god, did you forget?
Speaker 2 (11:07):
about this.
I intentionally blocked thisout of my mind.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Have we, we want to not talk about this.
No, we can talk about we'vesurely talked about this before
because this is a major lifehappening well, we weren't doing
the podcast when this happened,so I don't know if we have um.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
So when muffie was dancing, the very first
convention of the season wasalways at um, the orlando
airport, at the Hyatt there, andwe loved staying there.
The people watching was amazing.
I mean, just like fun things todo, right, it was great.
Well, the second year we went,so this was like the third time
we went.
The first year we stayed offcamp, off site.
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The second year we stayed there.
This was the third year.
Winthrop was like in a strollerhe must have been maybe two and
Josh and I we dropped Muffy off.
She was going, she was in aballet class and we're walking
through the main terminal by allthe stores and there's just
this loud boom and we happenedto be walking by the Brookstone
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store and they just pulled us inand took us into the back room
and said you must stay here withus.
They shut the door, they shuteverything down.
We had no idea what washappening.
You immediately got on Twitterbecause we thought like active
shooter, we thought a bomb, wedidn't know what to think.
Muffy calls the phone and shesays mommy, they're, they're
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saying there's somebody outsideshooting and I think this was.
Maybe this might have beenbefore parkland or right around
parkland it was in 2019 2019.
So we are in the back room ofthis brickstone store.
I'm on the phone with her.
She is at this point, um 12, 13, maybe winthrop's two or three
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and she's saying mommy, they'resaying if there's somebody out
there shooting and I'm trying totalk her through it you're in
the room, the room is locked,you're with.
You know the teacher, youlisten to the teacher.
Josh, you got on twitter andwhat did you wind up finding out
?
Speaker 1 (13:01):
people in the airport were saying that a dude had
just jumped from like the 10thfloor of the hotel that is, in
the atrium of the airport.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Yeah, so what wound up happening was that he got off
his shift, he went up to thetop floor and he jumped to his
death, incredibly tragic.
We were then released from thestore, we went out and we could
see them performing cbr.
Clearly, it was not successfulI can't believe.
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This is the story listen, youwanted really bad family
vacations I know, but thishappened to us.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
I'm feeling like oh, the a tire went flat.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
No friend or I forgot my shoe.
And I got one more that goescorresponds with it.
Then.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
I don't know that.
I want to hear that, so anywayit was really really bad.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Right, it was really bad.
It took you a really long timeto process and recover.
I remember this really reallygetting to you.
This is a really bad familyvacation.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Don't tell the others .
If the other stories like that,then don't tell that.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Two months later.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Jesus, I'm going to stop you right there just to
tell you that the guy's name wasRobert Henry and I will never
forget his name or what he lookslike.
Seriously, don't tell anothertragic story.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
This one ends better than that one.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
The bar is low.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Two months later later, we're at the gaylord palm
gaylord palms in orlando.
We're at the pool with winthropand then all of a sudden people
start screaming.
There is a child face down inthe water floating.
The grandfather was supposed tobe watching the child, looked
away.
The child drowned.
One of the dads that we werewith got to her first.
He started performing CPR, theytook her out and then we wound
up finding out she spent thenight in the hospital, but they
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were able to revive her.
She did not have any long-terminjuries, right, so it ended
better.
But this was the cursed seasonand I was like we are never
traveling again because everytime we leave something really
tragic happens.
And then you know what was thelast time?
Because the next time we travelfor dance, covid.
So then we just stoppedtraveling for dance.
Why are you putting your handson your face?
Speaker 1 (15:13):
because I don't know what to do now.
Like my story was the timewhere our middle son, andrew god
, I should have let you go first.
Oh no, that's a really goodstory so we're on our way to
orlando on a different trip,because this is what you do when
you're in gainesville you'regoing to orlando right or
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jacksonville or saint pete.
That's what you're doing.
These are the only.
When you're in Gainesville,you're going to Orlando, right,
or Jacksonville or St Pete.
That's what you're doing.
These are the only trips you'reallowed to make.
I think that's right.
We all hop in the car it's meand Muffy and you, and was
Winthrop a thing?
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Winthrop was a thing Okay.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
And middle son, andrew, who's also AJCW.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
And my older son, daniel, was Was he?
Yeah, oh, okay, I don'tremember that.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
I just remember that we drive all the way to Orlando,
get out of the car at theoutlet mall and Andrew's like oh
, I've forgotten to put shoes on.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
He just totally didn't wear shoes and we were
going to be gone for like acouple days.
Oh yeah, this wasn't a day trip.
Oh no, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
So, of course, the first place we went was and got
him some sandals that he worefor the rest of the time, and I
guarantee you it's perfectlypossible that he left them in
that hotel room when we cameback home.
My son, I love him, but this iswhat he does.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Well, I mean, maybe he keeps track of his shoes
better now.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
How many pillows do you think we've lost on these
myriad?
Of dance trips we've taken.
That's the thing that reallyannoys me, and I am super
paranoid about checking anddouble checking and looking
under beds and all the thingsfor chargers for shoes, but we
have left a ridiculous number ofpillows in hotel rooms.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
I have a vivid memory of being young, like maybe four
or five, and leaving my.
I had my brother brought me,when he was in the army, a
little stuffed dog that'ssitting on that shelf right
there and I called it my, my momcalled it my security, so I
named it purity and it had to goeverywhere with me and I left
it in a hotel and my mom and mydad turn around and go get it.
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And we were a couple hours downthe road and my dad did not
want to turn around but he didbecause my mom was like you're
gonna turn around because I washysterical and we went back and
we got this.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
We got this thing so muffie inherited this from you,
then, because how many timeshave we have um needed to get
her blank, her little securityblanket, yeah, from a place?
Speaker 2 (17:29):
my mom's before.
My mom mailed it back, butthat's only two hours away.
But she was with her dad onceflying and she left in a store
in the atlanta airport and theydidn't realize it until they
were on the plane and the gate Imean the door was shut yeah and
she pitched a holy fit untilthey finally opened the door and
let her go get.
Let her dad go with her, go getit.
But yeah, I mean, I get it.
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So my mom, my mom did the samething for me.
I was trying to think you askedme to think of bad family
vacations and before I came upwith the tragedy, I was thinking
of some.
I remember when I was little wewere, we took a road trip.
We never flew anywhere when Iwas young because I didn't fly
until I was 16.
We never flew anywhere when Iwas young.
It was not a thing my familyhad money for.
Most of the time we just droveup to like Pigeon Forge and
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Cherokee and like the SmokyMountains.
But this one time we were goingto DC.
Ronald Reagan was in the WhiteHouse, so it had to have been
mid eighties, right and we werestaying in a hotel in Falls
Church, virginia, and we checked.
It was nighttime.
We checked into the hotel, theygave us the key, we went and
opened the door and there was abody in the bed.
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Now I am going to believe itwas somebody sleeping.
I just remember my dad walkingin seeing the body in the bed
and said, nope, we're leaving.
I am choosing to believe theygave us a key to a room that was
occupied.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
He said you don't even know, Maybe that's where
your bad luck started.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Right.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Jeez.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Did you know?
You flew a lot with your dadright Because he worked for
Eastern.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Airlines.
My dad worked for the airlinesand so I was used to flying and
it didn't phase me until one dayit started to phase me as an
adult.
I think it didn't bother me asa kid because I was a little bit
more ignorant back then, but asan adult, I don't like flying
now.
It's not a thing that I enjoy umthe trips to and from england
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stressed me the hell out, didthey really?
Oh, my god, just yeah, becausethe longer you're in the air,
the more chance you have offalling out of the air so I used
to love airports, loved flying.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Never flew, never flew.
The first time I flew I flew.
It was me, my best friend, whowas fit.
I was 16, she was 15 and heryounger sister was 13.
With what's up with us, we flewfrom the orlando airport direct
flight to baton rouge, becauseher older sister that's a short
flight, though, right a couplehours.
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Her older sister was part ofjimmy swagger church.
If you are a former evangelical, let that sink in, and my mom
was letting us fly up there sowe could go to church camp.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Okay, God, the picture you paint.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
We were up there.
We spent three weeks.
We were flying home and theweather was so bad and we had a
connecting flight going homethrough Knoxville or Nashville.
I can't remember the weatherwas so bad and we had a
connecting flight going homethrough like Knoxville or
Nashville, I can't remember theweather was so bad.
We missed our connecting flight.
We landed in Tennessee and theysaid you have to spend the
night because of the weather,but because you're minors, we're
going to put you up in a hotel.
They put us on the shuttle,they drove us to a hotel.
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I remember them taking us intoan office and having us call our
parents and my mom told thelady no, she said they're going
to have to spend the night.
My mom said no, I don't knowwhat she thought was going to
happen, but I'm sure she didn'tsleep the rest of the night
because it's before cell phones.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Right.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
It's not like she could be in touch with me.
So we're on this shuttle.
There are other people on theshuttle.
They take us to the hotel.
We get into the hotel room.
Boys that were on the shuttlewith us have figured out our
room number and they're callingour room.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
And thinking what exactly?
Speaker 2 (21:02):
I don't know.
So I pushed the dresser upagainst the door and sat with
the Bible all night long,because I thought this was going
to protect me.
Oh you, sweet summer child you.
Yes, that was my first flyingexperience but I liked flying
and I liked airports.
But then, after I flew, likethe month after 9-11, like oh
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god I mean maybe like threeweeks after 9-11 oh, absolutely
not um it was a planned trip andum I I had it and I was really,
really scared.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Of course, and since then like.
So what happened to me on edge?
Speaker 2 (21:39):
We were fine.
But I mean, we were flying outof Gainesville, this teeny
little plane that probably hadpropellers, I don't know, flying
up to Asheville.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
And it was really scary.
So I have flown.
I've flown to Japan.
I've flown to Japan, I've flownto Hawaii, I've flown to the UK
.
Like I've done long haulflights.
I don't like them.
I liked them as a kid.
I do not like them now.
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I got a question for you,amanda.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
I've been listening to this new podcast well, new to
me, not new because they'vebeen going for six years called
Shag Married, annoyed, withChris and Rosie Ramsey.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
I'm enjoying it a great deal.
Super funny, super funny couple.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
And they do this segment called Beefs.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
And so what they do is they?
Every week they tell each otherone thing that really annoys
them about the other person.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Oh, is this something we're going to do?
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Well, do you think we'd be able to do it and
survive?
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Yeah, you do.
I already tell you the thingsthat don't know me on this
podcast.
But go ahead, let's see howthis works out for you.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
No, no, no, I'm not suggesting that we do it.
I'm opening it for discussion,though, because I wanna see if
we can try out new segments, orwhatever.
Yeah, I already got some do itbecause, like this, is their bit
right and we would be justblatantly stealing from their
bit.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Are they gonna know?
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Well, no, but everyone else will know.
Okay.
But secondly, I think that I'dbe fine with receiving your
criticism.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Oh, you receive it anyway.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Yeah, because I get it anyway.
I think you would be so pissed.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Yeah, let's try and see what happens Really.
Yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Really I don't have anything prepared.
All right, we'll be right backfolks.
All right, so go ahead.
What's your beef?
Speaker 2 (25:34):
I have so many Just pick one please.
Right now I am bothered by thatcorner.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Okay, this is not a visual medium.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
But I'm bothered by your desk with all the things on
top of it, and also by theseclothes that are on this thing
that you made me promise Iwouldn't put anything on.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
And also I don't know how many socks build up next to
your head.
Why are the socks up there byyour head?
Speaker 1 (25:57):
What do you mean by my head?
Your feet are down here.
What do you mean by my head?
They're not on my pillow.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
No, but they're on the ground by your head.
I can understand if you takethem off and kick them like
there and then you pick them upthe next morning.
They're just like a graveyardof socks and they don't have
matches.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Well, what I do is I take the socks off and then I
put them.
I don't put them down by thefoot of the bed, I put them down
where I can see them, where Ican get to them, on the floor
next to my head.
What's the problem?
Speaker 2 (26:26):
And when do you get to them?
Speaker 1 (26:28):
When I see them.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Okay, so they must be invisible to everyone but me,
because I see them and they'restill there, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
What's your poultry?
Why don't you pick them up Ifyou see not?
Speaker 2 (26:40):
my socks?
Are they just pick them up?
I actually do, friend, and thisis why you think you've picked
them up.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
I take the garbage out.
Oh, not all my garbage.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
This is good.
This is good.
It's not all my garbage.
I'm sorry.
I clean up the dog's vomit andpoop Not mine either, but you
told me this is the arrangementyou take out the trash and I
clean up the poop and the vomit.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Okay, so we have no issue.
What's your complaint?
We have no issues.
This is why this was a bad ideaand, furthermore, I don't know
that this is entertaining.
Podcast listening.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Well, I think it makes people feel relate that
we're relatable, like.
We still like each other, westill podcast together, but we
still annoy the mess out of eachother and we're still married
and you don't think that that'salready come through just in in
our regular podcasting, that weneed to now really antagonize?
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Okay, I'll tell you mine then, since you you gave me
about seven there, right?
Yes, you don't believe me.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Oh, don't believe me.
Oh, okay, is this like anexistential?
I don't believe you.
Or when, when I ask you ifyou're okay and you say you're
fine, I don't believe you no,well, that too.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
But like, for example , every time we podcast the dog
needs to be in here.
Like he feels this, thiscompulsion to be in here.
He will never let us podcastalone.
So even today we started in thestudio here, door closed, dog
not in here.
First thing I said was Amanda,you should go get the dog
because he's going to be cryingat the door.
(28:03):
You said no, he's in the otherroom with Muffy.
I said you know he's going tobe in here.
You said no, he's in the otherroom with Muffy.
We're setting up, we're gettingready to record what happens.
We hear the dog at the door.
The dog is waiting at the doorHappens all the time, with all
sorts of different subjectswhere I will say this thing is
gonna happen and you say, oh no,it's not gonna happen, and
(28:25):
invariably I'm right.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
I am a glass half full kind of girl.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
You are so full of shame I'm waiting for just.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
I believe in the power of change and love to
change the people in the world,and power of change and love to
change the people in the world,and I believe that that my love
for him is enough to get him tostay away.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Why did you all of a sudden start to sound like jimmy
?
Speaker 2 (28:44):
swagger I believe that my love for him because my
mama put me on some greyhoundbuses and made me go to some
revivals all the time when I waslittle.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
So okay, here's the thing.
If I didn't know you, I wouldbelieve that you believe in the
power of hope and all thatnonsense.
Not the case this is such arealist maybe I'm a pessimist,
my pessimist or a realist Ithink you're a pessimist yeah,
that's sad, so that's my beefwith you when I say things like
I know how things are gonna goand it happens with the kids too
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like oh, he's, he's not goingto like that, or oh, you
shouldn't say that and you don'tbelieve me, so believe me
Because I want to believe thatthings will change if I want it
bad enough.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
I also grew up with Joel Osteen and it is the name
it and claim it thing, so I amnaming it and claiming it.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
So you want to believe that things will change?
Yes, how's that working out foryou with the sock thing?
Speaker 2 (29:37):
I mean, the socks are still over there and the dog is
in my feet, so I don't knowwhat to say All right.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
So, folks, what did you think about this wonderful
new segment?
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Is this something we should keep?
Speaker 1 (29:47):
That we have somehow survived.
Another thing I was thinkingabout, though, that we might
could add.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
No, no, you're done.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
You said all the things.
No, no, this is a differentpodcast angle here.
Video podcasting okay.
It's another thing that thatfolks not even are starting to
go to they have gone to yes andpeople say, oh, you need to have
a video component now.
What do you think about that?
What do you think about that ingeneral?
Speaker 2 (30:10):
I mean it's fine, but we've tried.
I mean because I mean we werereally into, uh, good mythical
morning for a long time.
I still watch it.
You're not into anymore, butthey I mean from the time that
we were listening to theirpodcast ear biscuits.
It's always been televised rightvideo it's a thing or video on
youtube, so it's not a thingthat that's new to me.
(30:30):
But I mean, like we were tryingto watch chris and rosie
ramsey's show and you're likeit's, you know it's, it's boring
to watch.
So I wonder about who wouldwant to watch it.
But I'm fine trying it as longas you let me know ahead of time
.
So I'm not sitting here in myjammies and my hair just out of
the shower and no makeup on.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
It's kind of difficult for me to say whether
I would want us to do it,because I don't know that I
would watch.
Like I don't watch podcasts.
I listen to podcasts as I'mdriving to work or as I'm
working and doing stuff at thedesk, like that, for me, is what
podcasting is all about.
Audio is forgiving.
Yes, right.
Audio doesn't judge me forwearing mismatched clothes.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Audio doesn't require that I put a bra on.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Audio doesn't care that I haven't washed my beard
in three days.
I put a bra on.
Audio doesn't care that Ihaven't washed my beard in three
days, I care.
Audio is my friend, okay.
Video is my enemy.
Yes, and I'm not ready toembrace my enemy quite yet.
So I don't think we will beswitching to video.
I don't think anyone wants tosee us, or me at least.
I mean, I think that they'rehappy to see you.
Maybe if it was just two ofyour faces, like we do ai, where
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there's you and then me withyour ai face telling me that
it's annoyed by me.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
No, I don't like that oh, talk about existential.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Well, I think that half the charm of podcasts is
that people can imagine thatwe're cooler than we actually
are, that's right, so I don'tknow that I'd want to ruin that
illusion, so maybe we won't goto video.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Email.
It's time for emails.
If you want to email us,familiarwilsons at gmailcom.
We have a refined gay thoughtsfrom Jeff.
He said these words reallyspoke to me this week and I
wanted to share.
He says and I really needed tohear them this week From
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Lifecraft, the Art of Meaning inthe Everyday, by someone called
Forest Church.
So what gives our life meaning?
Here's my short list.
Kindness does Also forgiveness,generosity, enthusiasm, ecstasy
, empathy.
Above all, love given andreceived.
For any of these things, oneminute is not a bad start.
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Invest in at least a fewminutes in saving your life
before you lose it.
Finish a good project, start anew one.
Ponder the cosmos, shake yourhead in wonder, tell someone you
love them.
Kindness never hurts.
That's it.
That's what he says.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
I love that.
Thank you, Jeff, for sharingthat.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
If you have any wonderful, lovely thoughts
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No one likes to be told what todo, and now is the time in the
program where we tell you whatto do, amanda.
What should we do?
Speaker 2 (33:15):
If you have not gone and watched the Apple TV show
Shrinking, please go do it.
Watch the first season and thenreally put off the second
season.
You weren't interested inwatching it.
We tried.
It was too difficult for youand so I wasn't watching it.
I just binged the second seasonand, my God, it was so good.
(33:37):
It ended in a really hopefulway.
I'm looking forward to nextseason.
There will be a third season.
If you don't know, harrisonFord plays a therapist who owns
a practice and it's just about.
I love, I love ensemble casts,I love kind of quirky narratives
all around.
And he has Parkinson's and he,his medicine has kind of stopped
(33:57):
working.
And he has Parkinson's and hismedicine has kind of stopped
working and so his Parkinson'sis progressing.
And Michael J Fox is going tobe guest starring on several
episodes in the next season andI'm really looking forward to
that.
And so if you haven't checkedout Shrinking, go do it.
If you only watched the firstseason, by God please go watch
the second season.
So so good.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
I didn't find it too difficult for me, I just didn't
like it.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
No, you liked harrison ford a lot yeah, I just
didn't like any of the otherpeople, I guess well also,
because I mean, it's about a guywhose wife dies in a car
because it like by killed by adrunk driver, and so it's all
about grief and it was reallydifficult for you to, because
he's not processing it well,he's not being a good dad and
that part was really difficultfor you because he's not
processing it well and he's notbeing a good dad and that part
was really hard for you.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Well, mostly I felt like it was inappropriately
cheery.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
I mean to quote the Indigo Girls.
You got to laugh at yourself oryou'll cry your eyes out if you
don't.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Okay, there you go.
All right, amanda.
That's all there is.
There is no more.
What do you have to say aboutall that mess?
Speaker 2 (35:02):
I mean, you ask me every weekend.
I don't know, it's all over theplace, but I hope that people
like it.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
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Speaker 2 (36:00):
I dreamt about Dan and Gavin the other night.
What you didn't tell me, this Idid tell you this they were in
the United States for abasketball tournament.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
The things that would never happen.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
They were in the tournament.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Oh no, it wasn't basketball Wait, they were in
the tournament no no, no, itwasn't basketball.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
It was professional spin cycling, like you know
where the bicycles arestationary, because it's like a
spin class.
That's what it was.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
I can see where you would mistake that for
basketball.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
No, it was because it was in a big like arena thing
and they had the Jumbotronswhich had their pictures up on
it.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Do you need to have working fingers for spin cycling
Because Gavin has a jacked upfinger?
You know this right?
Speaker 2 (36:36):
I mean, I think we could harness him and he'd be
okay.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
Okay, well, we'll see if we can't get a harness for
Gavin Bet you, he already ownsone.
All right, until next week,everyone Go be kind Bye.
Speaker 2 (37:19):
Bye, thank you.
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Speaker 2 (00:29):
Welcome to Super Familiar with the Wilsons.
I'm Amanda.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
And I'm Josh, Amanda guess what?
Speaker 2 (00:37):
happened yesterday the tides turned, the flowers
bloomed, the babies were born.
I don't know what.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
All those things happened Also.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Ozzy Osbourne had his final concert I mean, how many
times has sir ozzy said thathe's going to have his final?
Speaker 1 (00:50):
concert.
Is he knighted?
I don't think he's beenknighted.
I don't think he has an obe?
Speaker 2 (00:54):
I don't think any of those things, but I think he ate
a bat right that's what he did.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
I don't think that they give any sort of anything
to people who eat bats all right, so what?
Speaker 2 (01:04):
anyway?
What?
How many times has he quit?
Speaker 1 (01:07):
I don't know of any.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
I don't think he has has that madonna quit like 50
times I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Billy joel has quit a couple times.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Yes, that's true, because elton john didn't, elton
john just quit did his, likebilly joel went and did his
totally classical music thing,which is fine.
Um, I think elton john has.
He's on his farewell tour againmaybe, or it's finally over,
who knows?
Also, I think Cher quit 70times, but if Ozzy has just said
the one time I quit, he wins.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
So the concert was called the Back to the Beginning
.
It took place yesterday inBirmingham.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Did you say bat to the beginning or back?
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Back to the beginning .
I have been to Birmingham.
It was a 10-hour concert.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
No sir.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
I have seen the gentleman.
He cannot construct threeconsecutive sentences that are
coherent.
How did he do 10 hours of?
Speaker 1 (01:55):
music.
He wasn't on stage the whole 10hours.
No, they had like Tribute bands.
Guns N' Roses and Metallica.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Wait, guns N' Roses were there.
Yes, slayer, did Rachel Plantgo?
Because she no wait, that'snevermind, just kidding.
That's Bon Jovi, just kiddingRachel.
But you kind of like thosemetal bands.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
No.
So anyway, 10 hours of allthese heavy hitter acts and then
the final couple hours.
I guess was Ozzy come out, hewas seated at the right hand of
the father.
He was seated at a like darkthrone.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Of course.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Now we're not going to make fun of him, because I
think he has Parkinson's, likehe is.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
I mean, the gentleman has ridden his body hard.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Yeah, and put up wet but he is he is not doing well,
but he managed to kind of pseudosing for a couple hours and of
course it was very emotional.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Yeah, and so ozzy is no more no, that ozzy is still a
thing, he is just no more ofthe performing what do you think
about that?
Speaker 1 (02:52):
because, to be honest , I didn't know that he was
still alive of course you did.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
You just watched a video of him and sir paul
mccartney mccarthy, who is atmccartney, who was actually a
sir, we were talking aboutjennifer mcc McCarthy earlier
and that's why I got confused.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
This segment is awash in ignorance isn't it?
Speaker 2 (03:09):
No, I had half a bottle of wine before we did
this.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Oh, very good.
Thank you for warning me thatthis was all done for charity.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Which charity?
Speaker 1 (03:17):
PETA.
He split it between three CureParkinson's, birmingham
Children's Hospital and AcornChildren's Hospice.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
That's really sad.
Oh, children's Hospice, that issad.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Yeah, but good on him .
The only thing I did forcharity yesterday was I rounded
up to the nearest dollar at thecheckout.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
I mean, I will always round up to the nearest dollar.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Yeah, I feel really good giving that last 17 cents
to charity.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
All right, you're like yeah, I'll do that, even if
it's 99 cents, it's fine, it'sthe least I can do.
But I mean, you don't want tobe the person who says, no, I
will not round up my cents.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
I have said no to.
Do you want to donate like $5to this and that?
Speaker 2 (03:56):
I have said no to that before.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Like the 17 cents, I'm okay with letting go of that
because I don't want to havethe metaphorical change rattling
around in my pocket.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
No, I will always.
So our local grocery will do adrive for Children's Miracle
Network.
That's their big thing.
And every time they will say doyou want to donate?
So what I do is I donate $5 atthe beginning and then every
time after I say, oh, I just didthat.
Oh, I just did that.
Oh, I just did that because Ifeel like that, I'm done, I'm
good.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Do you believe that?
They believe you, though.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
When you say that they always tell me thank you
for donating.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Oh yeah, what you need to do.
Some of these places you canput your name up.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Yes, they also have me do that.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Yeah, but then you could be like that one over
there, that was me.
That's me.
You should have your littlepicture next to it too.
Artie gave.
This is how I can prove it.
We're going to talk a littlebit today about family vacations
, because we just took a reallyshort family vacation.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Like a micro.
It wasn't even a vacation, thatwas a day trip.
It was a half a day trip.
As far as I'm concerned, whenwe leave town, when I get in the
car for an hour and a half todrive to a place, that's
vacation, okay, so what if youdrive across town and then back,
and then you have to go back toget something and it's an hour
and a half in the car?
Does that count as a vacation?
Speaker 1 (05:10):
No, because I'm going back and forth.
I'm saying straight linedriving somewhere, straight line
, all right.
So this was a trip that Iabsolutely did not want to take.
I know I was aware Hour and ahalf drive I didn't want to take
.
The first stop was a place thatI did not want to go because I
could not go in a cat cafe andI'm really allergic to cats.
So there was that.
It was outside, it was in theheat, heat that I did not want
(05:35):
to experience.
I mean, it is getting so hotnow that I'm starting to take it
personally.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
No, it's definitely like the seventh level of hell
hot here in Florida.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
No, I am not built for this heat.
I'm built for mild temperaturesand soft lighting.
That's what I'm built for.
We went to St Augustine, andone of the things I love to do
when we go to St Augustine isget a cigar.
Well, I couldn't do that aroundthe kids because they would
have freaked out.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Also.
It's too damn hot.
No, I would have To be smokingthings.
No, I would have enjoyed it.
I kept.
Well, first of all, I kepttelling you to go do it and you
were no, no, no, no becauseMuffy would have lost her mind
if I smoked a cigar.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Like here's the thing If I smoked one every day or
even every week or even everymonth, like I can see being
super concerned for my health.
But I'll do it when we go to StAugustine without the kids, and
so the last time I did that waswhat it was like three years
ago, right?
It was 2001.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
2001.
2021 for your 50th birthday2021 is better than 2001.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
I didn't even know you then, that would have been
your 30th birthday.
That's right.
So, anyway, this is why Iwanted to talk about vacation.
Now I will say that all ofthese things added up to me
potentially having a reallyshitty time.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Yeah.
But I decided when I realizedthere's no way I could get out
of this trip.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
We would have happily left you here.
You would have not happily leftme here.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
You would have been miserable because I was here, we
would have missed you, but ifyou were going to grate, we
didn't want you to be here.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Well, but see, that's the thing.
I decided that none of thatmattered, that I really just
wanted to be around my familyand that, no matter what
happened, I would have a goodtime.
Yeah, and you did it, and I didhave a good time.
And it's just as easy asflipping that switch folks, I'm
here to tell you.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
But the kids were really happy, they were fine.
We ate at the Columbia, whichis a restaurant that we love.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Not a sponsor.
And by the way we're at theColumbia right.
We had a delightful server.
So I saw a lady come throughthat I took to be the manager.
So I took it upon myself tocall her over and say, hey look,
this server we had.
She was exceptional.
She took it upon herself toregale us with her opinions,
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that people of that generationGen.
Z did not have good customerservice skills Right after we
finished telling her that thislady, who or girl or whatever
was exceptional, and so that wasa conversation I probably could
have done without.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Well, I was fine with that because we had just been
talking about that at work.
So she was saying, oh, she's anexception.
Like she was an exception.
It's hard.
You gotta teach him theseskills, which is fine.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Meanwhile, all of her employees were like going back
and forth listening to whatshe's saying which, listening to
what she's saying, which Ithought was pretty crappy.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
I was just annoyed because she kept apologizing for
the placement of our table.
I was not upset with theplacement of our table, she kept
being upset with the placement.
We should have moved this over,ma'am, I'm fine.
Well, as soon as you get up,I'm going to move it.
I don't care about theplacement of this table.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
So she just was looking Out there.
When you have to take your kids, particularly your younger kids
, on a long road trip, what doyou do to keep them occupied?
Because Winthrop, our lovelyson, does not stop talking.
He will not stop talking.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Sometimes he stops talking but then he just makes
noise with his mouth, Like hebeatboxes and sings and does
things.
He constantly needs to bemaking noise.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Being the one who's driving on a trip that does not
work for me.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
I drove over there.
Right, I drove back.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Yeah, I drove back, but he started bup, bup, bup,
bup, bup, bup bup, he was doingthat the whole way over there.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
You just had earbuds in, so you didn't hear it.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Oh, I heard it because they weren't good
earbuds.
Here's the thing, so that I canconcentrate on the road.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
I don't understand how you were married before.
I don't understand your 1.0 andyour children, because in no
existence have I ever had thatyou can drive with it being
silent unless you are byyourself.
I don't know who set thisexpectation for you, that when
you were driving it should besilent other than be alone.
Because it does not happen,friend, there's going to be
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noise right, but marriage 2.0was supposed to be better you
are welcome to travel alone.
No one needs you in this car.
I mean muffy's super easy,because she just goes to sleep
yes immediately as soon as thecar leaves the driveway.
Doesn't matter if she just wokeup from sleeping 12 hours, she
goes to sleep.
She wakes up when we get home,like that is sleeping 12 hours,
she goes to sleep.
She wakes up when we get home,like that is, she is super easy.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Go to sleep, winthrop no what's the worst family trip
you've ever had?
Speaker 2 (10:11):
oh my god, but this one's dark friend.
We had a series of, of a of atravel year, and I'm trying to
think of when it was.
I think it might have been 2018, 2019.
It was definitely before covidand we were traveling for dance,
when muffie was dancing and wewere traveling every.
I think it might have been 2018, 2019.
It was definitely before COVIDand we were traveling for dance,
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when Muffy was dancing and wewere traveling every month.
We had two very horrific thingshappen back to back when we
were traveling.
Do you remember these?
Speaker 1 (10:36):
I remember the one in Miami where a relative of ours
got in big trouble.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Yeah, I know that one .
You're not even thinking ofthat one.
I forgot about that one.
Oh well, sorry, I was veryupset for a while.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Yes, we're on a family vacation to Miami.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
The night we got there.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
The night we got there, we found out that a
relative of ours was in bigtrouble.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
No, I am talking about the time that we were
staying in the Orlando airport.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Oh, my God Did.
Oh my god, did you forget?
Speaker 2 (11:07):
about this.
I intentionally blocked thisout of my mind.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Have we, we want to not talk about this.
No, we can talk about we'vesurely talked about this before
because this is a major lifehappening well, we weren't doing
the podcast when this happened,so I don't know if we have um.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
So when muffie was dancing, the very first
convention of the season wasalways at um, the orlando
airport, at the Hyatt there, andwe loved staying there.
The people watching was amazing.
I mean, just like fun things todo, right, it was great.
Well, the second year we went,so this was like the third time
we went.
The first year we stayed offcamp, off site.
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The second year we stayed there.
This was the third year.
Winthrop was like in a strollerhe must have been maybe two and
Josh and I we dropped Muffy off.
She was going, she was in aballet class and we're walking
through the main terminal by allthe stores and there's just
this loud boom and we happenedto be walking by the Brookstone
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store and they just pulled us inand took us into the back room
and said you must stay here withus.
They shut the door, they shuteverything down.
We had no idea what washappening.
You immediately got on Twitterbecause we thought like active
shooter, we thought a bomb, wedidn't know what to think.
Muffy calls the phone and shesays mommy, they're, they're
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saying there's somebody outsideshooting and I think this was.
Maybe this might have beenbefore parkland or right around
parkland it was in 2019 2019.
So we are in the back room ofthis brickstone store.
I'm on the phone with her.
She is at this point, um 12, 13, maybe winthrop's two or three
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and she's saying mommy, they'resaying if there's somebody out
there shooting and I'm trying totalk her through it you're in
the room, the room is locked,you're with.
You know the teacher, youlisten to the teacher.
Josh, you got on twitter andwhat did you wind up finding out
?
Speaker 1 (13:01):
people in the airport were saying that a dude had
just jumped from like the 10thfloor of the hotel that is, in
the atrium of the airport.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Yeah, so what wound up happening was that he got off
his shift, he went up to thetop floor and he jumped to his
death, incredibly tragic.
We were then released from thestore, we went out and we could
see them performing cbr.
Clearly, it was not successfulI can't believe.
(13:34):
This is the story listen, youwanted really bad family
vacations I know, but thishappened to us.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
I'm feeling like oh, the a tire went flat.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
No friend or I forgot my shoe.
And I got one more that goescorresponds with it.
Then.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
I don't know that.
I want to hear that, so anywayit was really really bad.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Right, it was really bad.
It took you a really long timeto process and recover.
I remember this really reallygetting to you.
This is a really bad familyvacation.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Don't tell the others .
If the other stories like that,then don't tell that.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Two months later.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Jesus, I'm going to stop you right there just to
tell you that the guy's name wasRobert Henry and I will never
forget his name or what he lookslike.
Seriously, don't tell anothertragic story.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
This one ends better than that one.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
The bar is low.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Two months later later, we're at the gaylord palm
gaylord palms in orlando.
We're at the pool with winthropand then all of a sudden people
start screaming.
There is a child face down inthe water floating.
The grandfather was supposed tobe watching the child, looked
away.
The child drowned.
One of the dads that we werewith got to her first.
He started performing CPR, theytook her out and then we wound
up finding out she spent thenight in the hospital, but they
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were able to revive her.
She did not have any long-terminjuries, right, so it ended
better.
But this was the cursed seasonand I was like we are never
traveling again because everytime we leave something really
tragic happens.
And then you know what was thelast time?
Because the next time we travelfor dance, covid.
So then we just stoppedtraveling for dance.
Why are you putting your handson your face?
Speaker 1 (15:13):
because I don't know what to do now.
Like my story was the timewhere our middle son, andrew god
, I should have let you go first.
Oh no, that's a really goodstory so we're on our way to
orlando on a different trip,because this is what you do when
you're in gainesville you'regoing to orlando right or
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jacksonville or saint pete.
That's what you're doing.
These are the only.
When you're in Gainesville,you're going to Orlando, right,
or Jacksonville or St Pete.
That's what you're doing.
These are the only trips you'reallowed to make.
I think that's right.
We all hop in the car it's meand Muffy and you, and was
Winthrop a thing?
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Winthrop was a thing Okay.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
And middle son, andrew, who's also AJCW.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
And my older son, daniel, was Was he?
Yeah, oh, okay, I don'tremember that.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
I just remember that we drive all the way to Orlando,
get out of the car at theoutlet mall and Andrew's like oh
, I've forgotten to put shoes on.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
He just totally didn't wear shoes and we were
going to be gone for like acouple days.
Oh yeah, this wasn't a day trip.
Oh no, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
So, of course, the first place we went was and got
him some sandals that he worefor the rest of the time, and I
guarantee you it's perfectlypossible that he left them in
that hotel room when we cameback home.
My son, I love him, but this iswhat he does.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Well, I mean, maybe he keeps track of his shoes
better now.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
How many pillows do you think we've lost on these
myriad?
Of dance trips we've taken.
That's the thing that reallyannoys me, and I am super
paranoid about checking anddouble checking and looking
under beds and all the thingsfor chargers for shoes, but we
have left a ridiculous number ofpillows in hotel rooms.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
I have a vivid memory of being young, like maybe four
or five, and leaving my.
I had my brother brought me,when he was in the army, a
little stuffed dog that'ssitting on that shelf right
there and I called it my, my momcalled it my security, so I
named it purity and it had to goeverywhere with me and I left
it in a hotel and my mom and mydad turn around and go get it.
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And we were a couple hours downthe road and my dad did not
want to turn around but he didbecause my mom was like you're
gonna turn around because I washysterical and we went back and
we got this.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
We got this thing so muffie inherited this from you,
then, because how many timeshave we have um needed to get
her blank, her little securityblanket, yeah, from a place?
Speaker 2 (17:29):
my mom's before.
My mom mailed it back, butthat's only two hours away.
But she was with her dad onceflying and she left in a store
in the atlanta airport and theydidn't realize it until they
were on the plane and the gate Imean the door was shut yeah and
she pitched a holy fit untilthey finally opened the door and
let her go get.
Let her dad go with her, go getit.
But yeah, I mean, I get it.
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So my mom, my mom did the samething for me.
I was trying to think you askedme to think of bad family
vacations and before I came upwith the tragedy, I was thinking
of some.
I remember when I was little wewere, we took a road trip.
We never flew anywhere when Iwas young because I didn't fly
until I was 16.
We never flew anywhere when Iwas young.
It was not a thing my familyhad money for.
Most of the time we just droveup to like Pigeon Forge and
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Cherokee and like the SmokyMountains.
But this one time we were goingto DC.
Ronald Reagan was in the WhiteHouse, so it had to have been
mid eighties, right and we werestaying in a hotel in Falls
Church, virginia, and we checked.
It was nighttime.
We checked into the hotel, theygave us the key, we went and
opened the door and there was abody in the bed.
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Now I am going to believe itwas somebody sleeping.
I just remember my dad walkingin seeing the body in the bed
and said, nope, we're leaving.
I am choosing to believe theygave us a key to a room that was
occupied.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
He said you don't even know, Maybe that's where
your bad luck started.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Right.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Jeez.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Did you know?
You flew a lot with your dadright Because he worked for
Eastern.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Airlines.
My dad worked for the airlinesand so I was used to flying and
it didn't phase me until one dayit started to phase me as an
adult.
I think it didn't bother me asa kid because I was a little bit
more ignorant back then, but asan adult, I don't like flying
now.
It's not a thing that I enjoy umthe trips to and from england
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stressed me the hell out, didthey really?
Oh, my god, just yeah, becausethe longer you're in the air,
the more chance you have offalling out of the air so I used
to love airports, loved flying.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Never flew, never flew.
The first time I flew I flew.
It was me, my best friend, whowas fit.
I was 16, she was 15 and heryounger sister was 13.
With what's up with us, we flewfrom the orlando airport direct
flight to baton rouge, becauseher older sister that's a short
flight, though, right a couplehours.
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Her older sister was part ofjimmy swagger church.
If you are a former evangelical, let that sink in, and my mom
was letting us fly up there sowe could go to church camp.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Okay, God, the picture you paint.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
We were up there.
We spent three weeks.
We were flying home and theweather was so bad and we had a
connecting flight going homethrough Knoxville or Nashville.
I can't remember the weatherwas so bad and we had a
connecting flight going homethrough like Knoxville or
Nashville, I can't remember theweather was so bad.
We missed our connecting flight.
We landed in Tennessee and theysaid you have to spend the
night because of the weather,but because you're minors, we're
going to put you up in a hotel.
They put us on the shuttle,they drove us to a hotel.
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I remember them taking us intoan office and having us call our
parents and my mom told thelady no, she said they're going
to have to spend the night.
My mom said no, I don't knowwhat she thought was going to
happen, but I'm sure she didn'tsleep the rest of the night
because it's before cell phones.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Right.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
It's not like she could be in touch with me.
So we're on this shuttle.
There are other people on theshuttle.
They take us to the hotel.
We get into the hotel room.
Boys that were on the shuttlewith us have figured out our
room number and they're callingour room.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
And thinking what exactly?
Speaker 2 (21:02):
I don't know.
So I pushed the dresser upagainst the door and sat with
the Bible all night long,because I thought this was going
to protect me.
Oh you, sweet summer child you.
Yes, that was my first flyingexperience but I liked flying
and I liked airports.
But then, after I flew, likethe month after 9-11, like oh
(21:26):
god I mean maybe like threeweeks after 9-11 oh, absolutely
not um it was a planned trip andum I I had it and I was really,
really scared.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Of course, and since then like.
So what happened to me on edge?
Speaker 2 (21:39):
We were fine.
But I mean, we were flying outof Gainesville, this teeny
little plane that probably hadpropellers, I don't know, flying
up to Asheville.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
And it was really scary.
So I have flown.
I've flown to Japan.
I've flown to Japan, I've flownto Hawaii, I've flown to the UK
.
Like I've done long haulflights.
I don't like them.
I liked them as a kid.
I do not like them now.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Do you, out there, have any flying stories, any
travel stories, any bad vacationstories that don't wander into
the tragic?
Speaker 2 (22:11):
I told you my stories were dark.
You asked me to think of them.
I said they were dark.
You said that was fine.
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I got a question for you,amanda.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
I've been listening to this new podcast well, new to
me, not new because they'vebeen going for six years called
Shag Married, annoyed, withChris and Rosie Ramsey.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
I'm enjoying it a great deal.
Super funny, super funny couple.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
And they do this segment called Beefs.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
And so what they do is they?
Every week they tell each otherone thing that really annoys
them about the other person.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Oh, is this something we're going to do?
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Well, do you think we'd be able to do it and
survive?
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Yeah, you do.
I already tell you the thingsthat don't know me on this
podcast.
But go ahead, let's see howthis works out for you.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
No, no, no, I'm not suggesting that we do it.
I'm opening it for discussion,though, because I wanna see if
we can try out new segments, orwhatever.
Yeah, I already got some do itbecause, like this, is their bit
right and we would be justblatantly stealing from their
bit.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Are they gonna know?
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Well, no, but everyone else will know.
Okay.
But secondly, I think that I'dbe fine with receiving your
criticism.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Oh, you receive it anyway.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Yeah, because I get it anyway.
I think you would be so pissed.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Yeah, let's try and see what happens Really.
Yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Really I don't have anything prepared.
All right, we'll be right backfolks.
All right, so go ahead.
What's your beef?
Speaker 2 (25:34):
I have so many Just pick one please.
Right now I am bothered by thatcorner.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Okay, this is not a visual medium.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
But I'm bothered by your desk with all the things on
top of it, and also by theseclothes that are on this thing
that you made me promise Iwouldn't put anything on.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
And also I don't know how many socks build up next to
your head.
Why are the socks up there byyour head?
Speaker 1 (25:57):
What do you mean by my head?
Your feet are down here.
What do you mean by my head?
They're not on my pillow.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
No, but they're on the ground by your head.
I can understand if you takethem off and kick them like
there and then you pick them upthe next morning.
They're just like a graveyardof socks and they don't have
matches.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Well, what I do is I take the socks off and then I
put them.
I don't put them down by thefoot of the bed, I put them down
where I can see them, where Ican get to them, on the floor
next to my head.
What's the problem?
Speaker 2 (26:26):
And when do you get to them?
Speaker 1 (26:28):
When I see them.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Okay, so they must be invisible to everyone but me,
because I see them and they'restill there, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
What's your poultry?
Why don't you pick them up Ifyou see not?
Speaker 2 (26:40):
my socks?
Are they just pick them up?
I actually do, friend, and thisis why you think you've picked
them up.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
I take the garbage out.
Oh, not all my garbage.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
This is good.
This is good.
It's not all my garbage.
I'm sorry.
I clean up the dog's vomit andpoop Not mine either, but you
told me this is the arrangementyou take out the trash and I
clean up the poop and the vomit.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Okay, so we have no issue.
What's your complaint?
We have no issues.
This is why this was a bad ideaand, furthermore, I don't know
that this is entertaining.
Podcast listening.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Well, I think it makes people feel relate that
we're relatable, like.
We still like each other, westill podcast together, but we
still annoy the mess out of eachother and we're still married
and you don't think that that'salready come through just in in
our regular podcasting, that weneed to now really antagonize?
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Okay, I'll tell you mine then, since you you gave me
about seven there, right?
Yes, you don't believe me.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Oh, don't believe me.
Oh, okay, is this like anexistential?
I don't believe you.
Or when, when I ask you ifyou're okay and you say you're
fine, I don't believe you no,well, that too.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
But like, for example , every time we podcast the dog
needs to be in here.
Like he feels this, thiscompulsion to be in here.
He will never let us podcastalone.
So even today we started in thestudio here, door closed, dog
not in here.
First thing I said was Amanda,you should go get the dog
because he's going to be cryingat the door.
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You said no, he's in the otherroom with Muffy.
I said you know he's going tobe in here.
You said no, he's in the otherroom with Muffy.
We're setting up, we're gettingready to record what happens.
We hear the dog at the door.
The dog is waiting at the doorHappens all the time, with all
sorts of different subjectswhere I will say this thing is
gonna happen and you say, oh no,it's not gonna happen, and
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invariably I'm right.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
I am a glass half full kind of girl.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
You are so full of shame I'm waiting for just.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
I believe in the power of change and love to
change the people in the world,and power of change and love to
change the people in the world,and I believe that that my love
for him is enough to get him tostay away.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Why did you all of a sudden start to sound like jimmy
?
Speaker 2 (28:44):
swagger I believe that my love for him because my
mama put me on some greyhoundbuses and made me go to some
revivals all the time when I waslittle.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
So okay, here's the thing.
If I didn't know you, I wouldbelieve that you believe in the
power of hope and all thatnonsense.
Not the case this is such arealist maybe I'm a pessimist,
my pessimist or a realist Ithink you're a pessimist yeah,
that's sad, so that's my beefwith you when I say things like
I know how things are gonna goand it happens with the kids too
(29:15):
like oh, he's, he's not goingto like that, or oh, you
shouldn't say that and you don'tbelieve me, so believe me
Because I want to believe thatthings will change if I want it
bad enough.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
I also grew up with Joel Osteen and it is the name
it and claim it thing, so I amnaming it and claiming it.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
So you want to believe that things will change?
Yes, how's that working out foryou with the sock thing?
Speaker 2 (29:37):
I mean, the socks are still over there and the dog is
in my feet, so I don't knowwhat to say All right.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
So, folks, what did you think about this wonderful
new segment?
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Is this something we should keep?
Speaker 1 (29:47):
That we have somehow survived.
Another thing I was thinkingabout, though, that we might
could add.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
No, no, you're done.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
You said all the things.
No, no, this is a differentpodcast angle here.
Video podcasting okay.
It's another thing that thatfolks not even are starting to
go to they have gone to yes andpeople say, oh, you need to have
a video component now.
What do you think about that?
What do you think about that ingeneral?
Speaker 2 (30:10):
I mean it's fine, but we've tried.
I mean because I mean we werereally into, uh, good mythical
morning for a long time.
I still watch it.
You're not into anymore, butthey I mean from the time that
we were listening to theirpodcast ear biscuits.
It's always been televised rightvideo it's a thing or video on
youtube, so it's not a thingthat that's new to me.
(30:30):
But I mean, like we were tryingto watch chris and rosie
ramsey's show and you're likeit's, you know it's, it's boring
to watch.
So I wonder about who wouldwant to watch it.
But I'm fine trying it as longas you let me know ahead of time
.
So I'm not sitting here in myjammies and my hair just out of
the shower and no makeup on.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
It's kind of difficult for me to say whether
I would want us to do it,because I don't know that I
would watch.
Like I don't watch podcasts.
I listen to podcasts as I'mdriving to work or as I'm
working and doing stuff at thedesk, like that, for me, is what
podcasting is all about.
Audio is forgiving.
Yes, right.
Audio doesn't judge me forwearing mismatched clothes.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Audio doesn't require that I put a bra on.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Audio doesn't care that I haven't washed my beard
in three days.
I put a bra on.
Audio doesn't care that Ihaven't washed my beard in three
days, I care.
Audio is my friend, okay.
Video is my enemy.
Yes, and I'm not ready toembrace my enemy quite yet.
So I don't think we will beswitching to video.
I don't think anyone wants tosee us, or me at least.
I mean, I think that they'rehappy to see you.
Maybe if it was just two ofyour faces, like we do ai, where
(31:35):
there's you and then me withyour ai face telling me that
it's annoyed by me.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
No, I don't like that oh, talk about existential.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Well, I think that half the charm of podcasts is
that people can imagine thatwe're cooler than we actually
are, that's right, so I don'tknow that I'd want to ruin that
illusion, so maybe we won't goto video.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Email.
It's time for emails.
If you want to email us,familiarwilsons at gmailcom.
We have a refined gay thoughtsfrom Jeff.
He said these words reallyspoke to me this week and I
wanted to share.
He says and I really needed tohear them this week From
(32:17):
Lifecraft, the Art of Meaning inthe Everyday, by someone called
Forest Church.
So what gives our life meaning?
Here's my short list.
Kindness does Also forgiveness,generosity, enthusiasm, ecstasy
, empathy.
Above all, love given andreceived.
For any of these things, oneminute is not a bad start.
(32:37):
Invest in at least a fewminutes in saving your life
before you lose it.
Finish a good project, start anew one.
Ponder the cosmos, shake yourhead in wonder, tell someone you
love them.
Kindness never hurts.
That's it.
That's what he says.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
I love that.
Thank you, Jeff, for sharingthat.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
If you have any wonderful, lovely thoughts
familiarwilsonsgmailcom.
If you want to tell us about aterrible family vacation
familiarwilsonsgmailcom.
No one likes to be told what todo, and now is the time in the
program where we tell you whatto do, amanda.
What should we do?
Speaker 2 (33:15):
If you have not gone and watched the Apple TV show
Shrinking, please go do it.
Watch the first season and thenreally put off the second
season.
You weren't interested inwatching it.
We tried.
It was too difficult for youand so I wasn't watching it.
I just binged the second seasonand, my God, it was so good.
(33:37):
It ended in a really hopefulway.
I'm looking forward to nextseason.
There will be a third season.
If you don't know, harrisonFord plays a therapist who owns
a practice and it's just about.
I love, I love ensemble casts,I love kind of quirky narratives
all around.
And he has Parkinson's and he,his medicine has kind of stopped
(33:57):
working.
And he has Parkinson's and hismedicine has kind of stopped
working and so his Parkinson'sis progressing.
And Michael J Fox is going tobe guest starring on several
episodes in the next season andI'm really looking forward to
that.
And so if you haven't checkedout Shrinking, go do it.
If you only watched the firstseason, by God please go watch
the second season.
So so good.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
I didn't find it too difficult for me, I just didn't
like it.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
No, you liked harrison ford a lot yeah, I just
didn't like any of the otherpeople, I guess well also,
because I mean, it's about a guywhose wife dies in a car
because it like by killed by adrunk driver, and so it's all
about grief and it was reallydifficult for you to, because
he's not processing it well,he's not being a good dad and
that part was really difficultfor you because he's not
processing it well and he's notbeing a good dad and that part
was really hard for you.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Well, mostly I felt like it was inappropriately
cheery.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
I mean to quote the Indigo Girls.
You got to laugh at yourself oryou'll cry your eyes out if you
don't.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Okay, there you go.
All right, amanda.
That's all there is.
There is no more.
What do you have to say aboutall that mess?
Speaker 2 (35:02):
I mean, you ask me every weekend.
I don't know, it's all over theplace, but I hope that people
like it.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
This show would not be possible except for the
contributions of the followingpeople.
Thank you to Matt, the chiefairport security line analyst
and professional layoverenthusiast.
Leo, the senior vice presidentof airplane armrest negotiations
.
Josh Scar, director of hotelWi-Fi.
Antonio, head of internationalelectrical outlet compatibility
studies.
Danny Buckets, executiveproducer of rental car fuel tank
(35:30):
mysteries.
Chicken Tom, lead coordinatorof poultry and trip advice.
Monique from Germany,ambassador at efficient train
schedule.
Expectations versus reality.
Joey, joey Refined.
Gay Jeff, curator of boutiquehotel bathroom amenity reviews.
Mark and Rachel, co-directorsof couples travel argument
prevention.
(35:50):
And Dan and Gavin, joint chiefsof we should have left earlier
hindsight analysis.
So thank you everyone.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
I dreamt about Dan and Gavin the other night.
What you didn't tell me, this Idid tell you this they were in
the United States for abasketball tournament.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
The things that would never happen.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
They were in the tournament.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Oh no, it wasn't basketball Wait, they were in
the tournament no no, no, itwasn't basketball.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
It was professional spin cycling, like you know
where the bicycles arestationary, because it's like a
spin class.
That's what it was.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
I can see where you would mistake that for
basketball.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
No, it was because it was in a big like arena thing
and they had the Jumbotronswhich had their pictures up on
it.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Do you need to have working fingers for spin cycling
Because Gavin has a jacked upfinger?
You know this right?
Speaker 2 (36:36):
I mean, I think we could harness him and he'd be
okay.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
Okay, well, we'll see if we can't get a harness for
Gavin Bet you, he already ownsone.
All right, until next week,everyone Go be kind Bye.
Speaker 2 (37:19):
Bye, thank you.
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