April 27, 2025 • 49 mins
Topics
• The great bra disposal debate
• Unexpected sheriff visit
• First visit to Blaze Pizza
• The absurdity of everyday items
• "Game Time"
• Menopause symptoms men should know about
• Winthrop's soccer dilemma
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:19):
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Super Familiar with the Wilsons, I'm Amanda.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
And I'm Josh Amanda, it's been a long week.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
It's been Thursday since, like Monday, it has been
the longest week.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
It's weird because earlier in the week I had said
to you it's been a long week andyou said for you too, and I'm
wondering if anyone else outthere have.
You thought that this week hasbeen particularly longer than
any other week?
Get in touch,familiarwilsongmailcom, because
I wonder if it's a global thing.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I mean everybody I talked to at work expressed how
long it has felt.
So at least in my sphere, ithas been long for everyone, and
also, though, for the18-year-old, because she's going
through finals week and it'sbeen super long.
So maybe it's just this time ofyear school's wrapping up.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Days are longer.
We've had the time change.
It's true that time does seemto stretch out, or our
perception of time seems tostretch out when we experience
novelty or anything that taxesour cognition beyond the norm,
and maybe that's just this timeof year and I'm just noticing it
right now.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Well, I can tell you from an education perspective,
once spring break is over,between spring break and the end
of school it feels about sevenmonths long, because there's no
break, everybody's done, but youstill have to be at school, and
it just goes on and on and onforever.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Yeah well, is anyone else experiencing this?
I'd really like to know.
We can make this a littleWilson science experiment.
I have a question for you.
I went downstairs just now toget some water to come back up
so that we can record in thisluxurious Wilson studio.
And there is a bra just in thegarbage.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
It broke, I threw it away.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Aren't you supposed to dispose of that sort of thing
, are you?
Speaker 2 (02:12):
upset that it was on top of the broken eggshells in
the egg carton, because whatelse do you want me to do with
it?
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Isn't there supposed to be a separate bag or
something for those type ofthings?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
to get rid of.
Well, your delicate sensibilityis offended by seeing the bra
in the trash.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Can I just it just surprised me.
It's not a thing that I expect,it's just open the trash.
Can there's a bra?
Speaker 2 (02:30):
well, it broke in the dryer.
It can't be fixed.
I threw it away okay, well, nowI added to the landfill and I
shouldn't have.
But I don't know what to dowith a broken bra.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
I can't give it to anybody did you grow up in a
house where you would repurposelike clothes, like t-shirts or
whatever, as like rags?
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Yeah, I mean yeah, my dad did for like washing the
car and stuff right or dryingthe car.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
I will say that I do remember drying the car with old
underwear.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
No, that's gross.
No t-shirts Rip them apart sothey don't look like what they
used to be.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
It was clean.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
What do you think that you could do with this bra
then?
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Do we have any use to store two things?
Two things that are delicate,that need to be cushioned, or it
doesn't even have to be thatspecific usage.
Maybe it could be a tool beltand I'll keep my screws here and
my nuts here.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Wait, I'm mixing my euphemisms here, not no, I mean
you can, you can.
The cups are rather small.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
You can use them for your nuts if you want to know
not what I meant to say, butyeah, so surely that we have use
for stuff you're welcome to getit out and get all the eggshell
grossness off of it, but Ithrew it away what if we cut out
the cups and use them forsomething?
Speaker 2 (03:46):
No, listen.
Any woman who's ever bought abathing suit or a bra with
removable cups will tell youwhat a giant pain in the ass
that is.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Well then, you're putting them in the wrong place.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Yes, they never go back where they're supposed to.
They always fold if they getwashed that way, no.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
No one likes removable cups.
Move along, yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
But I'm saying I'm not saying no.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
You said remove the cups and I'm telling you that
separate the cups and then likeperhaps we could use it to get
stuff out of the oven it's not aoven.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Okay, the bra has is in the trash.
It is I will consult you thenext time that an intimate piece
of clothing needs to berepurposed, but right now this
one lives in the trash.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
If our kid is going to play sports, then let's start
saving up, especially the onesthat are padded.
Start saving those up so thathe can use them as protection.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
When you play soccer or football or whatever you want
to call it, do you wear anathletic cup?
Speaker 1 (04:43):
I think that you should and you do.
Let's send the used bras to DanBelson.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
With the egg yolks on it.
Watch out, Dan.
Look for some posts coming atyou soon.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
We had an alarm adventure this morning, oh.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Lord.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Just to catch everyone up on what we've
already experienced we went outto walk the dog and apparently
Amanda did not turn the alarmoff correctly.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
I pushed the buttons with the code.
I guess it didn't actually turnit off.
I guess, the alarm pad is in adifferent room and so I didn't
like usually just I it, just itworks and it didn't work today.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
We went out front and the area in front of our house
is a couple of undevelopedblocks, so we can walk up and
down those those blocks andstill of our house is a couple
of undeveloped blocks, so we canwalk up and down those blocks
and still see our house.
So we're walking around with thedog, chatting you know having a
great old time being byourselves for once and we get
back to the house and thechildren come running down the
stairs.
What was that alarm?
What was that alarm?
There's an alarm that was justgoing off and it just stopped.
(05:40):
And we figured out that it wasour home alarm system that
Amanda had not set correctly.
So then, when we opened thedoor, the alarm went off.
Now the alarm company sent me atext that was like is this
alarm for reals or do you wantus to cancel?
Well, unfortunately orfortunately, depending on how
you look at it this was one ofthose times where both Amanda
(06:01):
and I decided look, we're goingto step outside, we don't need
our phones, let's just have alittle separation from our
phones, have a little moment.
We did that, and thatexperience ended with a sheriff
driving up to the house.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Turns out, there's a reason why we are all attached
to our phones.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Well, I mean, that is the lesson.
The lesson I've learned now isI will never, ever, ever be
separate from my phone again.
So I had to tell the sheriff,who was really cool about it.
I had to say look, dude, youknow we went out and my wife
doesn't know how to usetechnology.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Right, thank you.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
And he was like, oh, that's great.
I'm like do you need to come inand check on something?
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Because you thought that he had to in and like,
check the joint out.
My only experience with analarm going off was that was
that so?
When I first moved togainesville, it was in 1994, and
this was maybe three yearsafter the gainesville murders
which danny rolling came throughin a horrible killing spree.
It's what the movie scream wasbased on.
If you're not familiar, we didan episode with our friends at
sugar-coated murder uh, ann andk about it.
But every new build apartmenthad panic buttons in the rooms
(07:10):
because of this right, and so Iwas babysitting and the kid
pushed the panic button.
I didn't think to tell the kiddon't push this button, the
share.
The police showed up.
I met them outside and said, oh, I'm so sorry, this is what
happened.
And they said, okay, but westill have to come in and check.
So I assumed that anytimethere's an alarm that goes off
and you meet them outside andtell them it's fine that they
(07:33):
still have to come in and checkto make sure you're not being
held hostage and being told tosay something.
But this guy did not seem tocare.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
He didn't.
He was cool, although it wasweird.
Between the time that I saw thenotification that the
authorities had been dispatchedand and him showing up like I, I
was like what do I do?
Do I wait for him to knock onthe door?
You know, that's weird.
So what I did was I opened thefront door and I sat outside on
a chair that was on the on thefront porch and just waited for
(08:01):
him.
I figured that that would he'dsee the door was open.
He'd see me sitting there.
There's no mystery necessarilyand, like I said, he was pretty
cool with it, but it is astrange experience to know that
the police are coming to yourhouse.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Yeah, but I mean, at least we know our alarm and
dispatch system works.
Now I'm waiting to see if weget charged for it, because
sometimes-.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
You mean charged a fee, not charged with a crime.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
No, charged a fee for the dispatch.
I don't know we weren't toldthat we would, but at the school
that I used to teach at we hadan alarm system and you got one
free dispatch a month and thenanything after that.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
You had to pay for it sounds like a deal that you get
.
You buy 12 tapes, you get onefree alarm dispatch.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
I wonder what would have happened if we were still
out in front of the house.
But like a couple of blocksaway If we'd have seen the
sheriff roll up and walk to our.
Would we have run like towardshim, or would we have just hung
back and said let's see whathappens.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Well, knowing our children are in here, I think we
would have probably run Now.
I'm really glad, though hedidn't come.
Well, I don't know, I'm of twominds.
I'm glad he didn't come rollingup to the house with the alarms
on, like with his siren on andlights on, although, but maybe
he should have, because hedidn't know what had happened.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
He just kept strolling up.
Here we go.
But could you imagine?
Did you watch him?
By the way, Were you watching?
Speaker 2 (09:19):
him come up.
I didn't see him get out.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
I mean he was pretty calm and didn't seem like he was
in that much of a hurry and,like I said, my expectation
would be like he's gonna checkmy id to see if the address
matches but I'm just sittingthere and I'm I'm like, hey, you
know.
So either he's a very goodjudge of character or, at the
(09:44):
end of the day, he really,really wasn't enthusiastic about
meeting the needs of thehomeowners here.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
I don't know, but the response time was pretty quick,
so I appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
I don't know we were.
We were walking around for along time.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
No, it was six minutes from the time he lorm
off to the time he got here.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
I'm just thinking.
We see the sheriff roll up tothe house.
Am I panicking or am I thinking?
Well, we knew it was going tohappen at some point what the,
the eight-year-old one of thechildren, caused mass chaos so
that that was the kids werereally stressed out about.
I actually wasn't that stressedout about it.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
No, they were but and then both of our kids are such
rule followers that they're justlike are we gonna make trouble?
And then the eight-year-old waslike the police gonna come,
we're gonna tell them I don'twant them, what are they gonna
do?
And we're like just go upstairs.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
We just everybody, go upstairs and we'll deal with it
that's good we've taught ourchildren when the police come,
go hide.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
That's right and then we called him back down.
Why?
Speaker 1 (10:42):
He's gone, he's gone.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Okay.
Oh, God we're training him wellfor house parties in his
teenage years.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
That's right.
The police are coming,everybody scream.
We had a good day yesterday.
I want to chat a little bitabout our first visit to Blaze
Pizza.
Yes, yes, so LeBron'srestaurant chain which you
avoided for so long because,LeBron?
No, that's not why I avoided it.
Why are you forgetting theactual reason why I avoided it?
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Before the actual thing that happened.
You also didn't want to patronLeBron's restaurant.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
I mean, I would prefer not to.
But AJCW, who is our son Andrewand also a very talented
musician, provides some musicfor this podcast, including the
Game Time theme, which is myfavorite piece of music.
He used to work at Blaze.
For a long time I had nevervisited because LeBron.
So one day there was a schoolfundraiser.
(11:37):
Like a spirit night Like aspirit night, and it was at
Blaze.
And so I take theeight-year-old, then like
five-year-old or whatever he was, and you weren't there for some
reason, I don't remember why,and we're like we're going to go
to Blaze, we're going to seeAndrew there as he's working,
we're going to eat the pizza andit's going to be great.
Coming out of the door ran meand the five-year-old over and I
just said, well, forget this.
(11:58):
And I was turned off to theexperience.
And then fast forward to thisSaturday.
We went to Winthrop soccer game, which they lost again by a lot
, and after our tradition is togo to breakfast with, or to
(12:20):
lunch, sorry, with, Winthrop andhis two older brothers, Andrew
and Daniel.
So we did and we decided to goto Blaze.
Well, loved Blaze.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
It was really good.
I was pleasantly surprised.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Andrew described it to me as the subway of pizza
places.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Fair enough, because it's assembly line.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
It is assembly line, but if you're selling, don't say
that that can't be your pitch.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Winthrop loved Subway , so it was fine for him so we
go through the.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
The first of all, the pizza itself was really, really
good.
They have a lot of options.
I just got a simple um cheeseand and pepperoni and basil
pizza and bacon and bacon.
That's right.
The crust is always my concern,but they, they did wood fire it
yeah and it was nice and crispyand delicious great.
(13:08):
Yeah, also, I got to meet someof andrew's work friends that he
had for years.
I mean, he worked there for along time and as we're going
through like I'm quizzing eachof them, do you have a story on
andrew?
And of course they're loving itand and it was just real fun
and funny.
So, all in all, a greatexperience.
I recommend it, or at the veryleast I recommend the
(13:29):
gainesville, florida right, wecan't speak for all the other
ones, right but at the end wewere sitting there and across
from us was a table about ofabout nine college students yeah
obnoxiously.
When they got up, they allscraped their chairs across the
floor.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
I think like one person made that noise and then
they are all like, oh, this isfun, and just kept making it
several times.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
So incredibly obnoxious?
What is wrong with you?
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Well, I don't know if you noticed, but you put your
fingers in your ears.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
I did.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Because you have sensitivity right, and I watched
some kid look at you and smirkabout it.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
I'm glad that I did not know that I wasn't going to
tell you.
But the weirdest thing, though,is that, after they were all
done being assholes and gettingready to leave, one of the ones
who did it took time to go get anapkin and wipe the table down.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
It's your conscience about the table.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Make that make sense.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Right, I can't.
I mean sorry, I thought thatwas just rhetorical, I didn't
know I needed to actually makeit make sense, because I can't.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
I need someone to.
That's the person who robs yourhouse but then rakes the leaves
before they leave.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Exactly, yeah, I don't know, but it was good.
You should try Blaze Pizza.
Maybe don't sit next to thekids who scrape their chairs on
the floor Idiots.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
I think that one of the good things about this
podcast is that we wake theworld up every now and again to
how ridiculous we are as humanbeings, and we're surrounded by
this stuff.
Every day.
We're surrounded by things thatare just ridiculous, that we do
, that we take part in, that wehave, that.
If we just stopped and thoughtabout it, we'd be like why did
we do this?
And one of them actually isright here on the table.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
No, that's mine, don't take that.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Okay, sparkling water .
Speaker 2 (15:34):
I love it with my whole heart.
You can't ruin it for me.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Yes, but sparkling water is one of those examples
of how, as a species, we havefailed.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
No, what's wrong with you?
I how, as a species, we havefailed.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
No, what's wrong with you?
I like this.
We took two very free thingsand we've made it into an
expensive luxury item Water andair Stuff that's like we cannot
help but breathe around us andthen stuff that the clouds
ejaculate from themselveswhenever they're full.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
I don't need you to ever say ejaculate clouds ever
again.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
But what I'm saying to you is why have we turned
this into a luxury item?
Speaker 2 (16:04):
I like it.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
I almost bought some of that.
What's that stuff Topo.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Chico, which I really like.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Topo Chico, which I like the bottle.
So maybe I'll just buy a bottleand fill it with water and have
that be a refillable water.
But I picked it up and I'm likeit's not four dollars, it's
(16:29):
like two something no, it'sthree dollars, at least three
dollars.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Three dollars and change okay, the reason why you
turned or you were gonna committo buying it and the reason why
you turned around is because wewere in Whole Foods and they
have a water, ice free, cupthing station and I said to you,
would you rather just havewater?
Speaker 1 (16:45):
and so then you realize that that was free, so
you took it back I'm justwondering what amount of
marketing and what they've doneto convince us that this is
worth it.
Are they like trying to saythat it's artisanal, that, like
somewhere in italy, an old manhas lovingly handmade these
bubbles and place them in yourwater, like what is happening?
Why are we doing this?
Speaker 2 (17:04):
I like it because I don't drink soda.
Right, I don't drink soda, butthis satisfies some sort of
something.
It's just different thanregular water.
And also this one, though Ididn't realize until we
purchased it, is waterloo, whichI like.
Waterloo brand sparkling water.
It's um guy fieri's flavor,town version, so he has them for
the summer you are such asucker.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Look, look, look, it's right there.
You are such a sucker I didn'trealize it.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
I got it because it was lemon italian ice and that
sounded interesting.
He had one that was like aspicy mango something.
Rather, I don't know how youmake sparkling water spicy yeah,
we didn't get it because you'reallergic to mango probably no
mango actually in there.
But now I'm upset that I haveguy fieri's flavor town
sparkling water.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Oh so you didn't know that.
I didn't know that, so youdidn't know.
I didn't know until I got home.
That wasn't a selling point.
No, I didn't know until I gothome.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
I just saw Lemon Italian Ice and I thought that
was interesting.
My favorite one is theLimoncello version of La Croix,
because I don't know what it is,but it tastes sweet.
There's no sugar, there's nocalories, but it tastes sweet me
it's your mind.
It's your mind, that's fine, mymind is an interesting and
confusing place to be then thereare other things.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
I think this whole perpetuation of buying air and
water and charging for it, thatthat's bad right there's other
things that that we have andthat we do, that are just
ridiculous, like this whole ideaof ball caps.
Have you ever stopped andthought what a ball cap is?
Speaker 2 (18:27):
it's a hat that covered your head and keeps it
from the sun, and people wear itwhen they play baseball, which
is why it's called ball cap.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
It is a miniature awning for your face.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Yes, it protects it from the sun.
I don't know why this is aproblem for you.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Because you were wearing an awning on your head.
We need to then now add likedrapes, so that if you also want
it to be dark, you can justclose your drapes on your awning
.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
I am certain those exist somewhere.
Yeah, like the beekeeper's hat,because it has the drapes and
it just drops down by the way.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
I'm so surprised, especially in Florida, that the
beekeeper's hat hasn't becomelike a normal fashion accessory
for people because of all thebugs and the gnats and shit that
are all around.
Can you imagine that would be athing?
I think it's ridiculous, but itit can be Wilson branded and we
couldn't call it beekeepers hat, we'd have to call it, you know
, florida fashion wear orsomething.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
But that's a thing.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Now, that's taking the absurd, but still intensely
practical.
But I've got a quiz for youbased on these, and so it is now
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game time.
What time is it that music is?
By the aforementioned AJCW?
Check his work out on Apple, onSpotify, on all the places.
Now, amanda, I'm going to giveyou a ridiculous description of
a common everyday item and youwork out what it's really called
(20:02):
.
So, for example, if I said tinypersonal awnings for our faces,
you would say Ball cap.
Okay, so you ready, you get it?
Yes.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Really easy, yes.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
So your first one, I think, is rather easy Decorative
business nooses.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Neckties.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Neckties, very good.
Next, intentionally unstablefashion stilts, stilettos,
stilettos or high heels ingeneral.
Do you remember the first timeyou wore high heels?
Was it a problem?
Did you have to learn how towalk?
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Oh, I've never been good at wearing high heels, ever
, ever.
I've never worn stilettos.
First of all, I fall, justbeing flat-footed.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
That's very true.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Like I mean I just am unstable anyway.
I mean I don't mind like achunky heel or like a character
heel, but I don't do stilettos,I don't do it.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Go ahead, fragile magnifying nose windows.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Okay, well, glasses.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Glasses, which, by the way, you've gone back now.
I'm so annoyed You've gone back.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
I am so annoyed.
Why are you annoyed?
And everybody at work is likedid you get new glasses?
I'm like no, I got old.
These are readers.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
But you wore glasses before you were pregnant.
Then you got pregnant anddidn't need glasses.
But surely you figured thatglasses would have to return.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Yeah, I guess it was in my late 30s, so I was wearing
glasses and contacts when youand I were dating, right, we got
married was like 38.
Right.
And then, yeah, my vision, justlike in my early 40s, just got
better.
So I've not needed because ofpregnancy, though I don't know
if it was because of pregnancy,but I have just for all of my
40s not needed glasses, like myvision's been perfect.
And then all of a sudden I justhaving a headache when I'm
(21:39):
looking at the screens at workand I thought, well, maybe it's
just too much like blue lightand whatever.
But then when I really realizedit was because I bought a
coloring book I had been usinglike a coloring app on my phone
to kind of wind down.
So I got a real coloring bookand couldn't see the lines in it
.
And it may be so like I couldsee the big lines but not the
small lines, and so I have now.
(21:59):
I have readers at home andreaders at work.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
And the other day where you determined you need a
third set of readers.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
No, we were at dinner and I couldn't read the menu.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
So now you need going out glasses too.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
I'm so annoyed, I'm so annoyed by this.
Do they make contacts?
Speaker 1 (22:17):
for people who need readers.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
But that would no.
I mean maybe, but how do you?
Because it would be likebifocals, right, like I would
need bifocals that were justlike the reading thing and the
rest of it was clear, because mydistance vision is fine, I
don't think it works.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
I don't think that you could do that with contacts.
When I wore contacts, I didthis thing because I hated
wearing contacts, where I wouldhave a contacted one eye, so the
uncontacted eye would be forreading or whatever, and then
the contacted eye would be fordriving a distance.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
How did that not make you nauseated?
Speaker 1 (22:47):
It didn't make me nauseated, but it was really
weird.
I never got used to it, but Idid try it.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Yeah, I don't recommend that.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Don't do that I think people do that, though I think
I got that idea from a person,not that I just thought one day
well, I can't be bothered to putthe second lens in.
Let's see how it goes.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
People also sell water and air, and you don't
like that either.
So it doesn't.
All right, I'm three for threego.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Next one Clothes caves.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Closets, suitcases, clothes caves yes, washing
machine dryers.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Pockets.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Oh, okay, all right, all right, fair enough.
I thought the thing that youput the clothes in was the cave.
All right, all right.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
All right, portable filing cabinet, your phone?
Well, that could be, but that'snot what I'm going for.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Briefcase.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Wallet.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Oh, that's good.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Miniature metal shackles voluntarily worn as a
public announcement a medicalalert bracelet miniature metal
shackles voluntarily worn as apublic announcement wedding
rings wedding rings.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
That's rude wedding rings.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Whatever, I always wear my weight you, I wear.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
I don't wear mine as much as you wear yours, you
don't.
Because I cannot sleep injewelry.
I cannot do it.
I've never been able to sleepin necklaces, earrings.
I can't even sleep in my Fitbit.
I try, so I take my ring off atnight and sometimes I forget to
put it back on.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Hmm, sometimes you forget.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Hmm, all right.
Next, invisible electricitycommand lever Garage door opener
Light switches.
Oh, okay.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Sacrificial bread ovens.
Toaster ovens, toaster ovens.
Are you marking these down thatyou're?
Speaker 2 (24:45):
getting right.
Oh, I do.
Okay, I'm five for whateveryou've asked me.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Okay, fancy cloth, darkness walls drapes yeah
curtains, yep morning screamingmachines oh god, alarm clocks.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
I hate them.
Do you hate our alarm clock?
Alexa gets so annoyed at mebecause I tell her to stop so
many times.
Do you think she would be likeyou're not getting up?
I'm just gonna stop, like I'dbe like alexa stop.
And then I'd tell her fiveminutes and like whatever you
think at some point she'd belike listen, you're not gonna
get up, so we're done I'm quitecertain we're really close to
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that with ai.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
I'm quite certain that pretty soon these machines
are going to give us input intoour lives that we do not want
and that we cannot stop yeah sothey're going to become in-laws
that's like the progression allright, mutual micro wrestling to
prove that we're not a threathandshakes handshakes.
Yeah, tiny rolling thronesstrollers.
(25:50):
Yes, because they're alldictators, these children
valuable mini pictures of deadpeople oh god money two more
negotiated freedom contractsbetween humans and canines um
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dog collars.
I'll give you that Dog tag, Petleashes yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Oh, leashes okay.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
And then, lastly, a chain of tiny trophies for
remembering where we're allowedto be.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Keys, key chains.
Okay, so I got 12.
How many did you ask me?
Speaker 1 (26:26):
That's 12 out of 17.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
All right, so let me do that math.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Is that a C?
What is that Low B?
Speaker 2 (26:34):
It's a 70, 71, 71%.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Okay, well, there you go, Good job.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Thanks.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
And now it's time for Poetry Corner.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
We haven't had a poem in a while.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
I know, but you inspired me.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Oh Lord, I don't want to hear it.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
You inspired me because you have purchased what?
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Stop laughing at me.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
It's not kind it is kind, you love it, but you have
purchased a laundry hamper thatyou can carry around on your
back.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Oh my God, I love my backpack hamper so much.
It is the most ridiculous thing.
No, because I the laundry roomis downstairs.
I have always thought peoplewho have a laundry room upstairs
and downstairs are very likefrou frou.
However, now that I have brokenmy foot on these damn stairs
and you have fallen many times,I can see the appeal to having
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an upstairs laundry room.
Right, I've fallen like twice.
No friend, You've fallen morethan twice and there's a hole in
that wall to prove it that youneed to spackle over because you
fell into the wall.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
There's no fucking hole in the wall.
What are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Because we have a landing right.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
We go down, there's a landing.
You fell into the landing andyou fell into the landing.
There's no hole in the wall.
Yes, there is why are youtelling lies?
And damn lies.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
No, it's true.
Anyway, because I cannot betrusted to go down these stairs
holding laundry baskets, I foundthis wonderful thing at Target,
where I just carry it on myback, and it's the best thing
that's ever happened to me.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
All right.
So I've written a poem aboutthe feelings that this has given
me.
Now, this is a special poem,filled with imagery, filled with
deep felt things, and I onlyhope that it resonates with you.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
With your listener, or me With you.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Amanda, the symbolism and all the things.
So I'm going to roll this veryspecial mood music by AJCW, by
the way, giving him.
So here we go.
It's not a laundry hamper, it'san act of domestic subterfuge.
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A Trojan horse of cotton andmesh rolling casually through
the hallway, unassuming innocent, but inside a calculated
archive of compromise.
The shirt she wore when shedidn't want to talk, the
leggings that outlasted athree-day Zoom meeting, a lone
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sock, retired from its partnerlike an astronaut who came back
changed.
She wears it like a pack mulewith tenure.
She's foraging not for food butfor signs of innocence.
She doesn't carry dirty clothes.
She carries the evidence of alife well nested in, cushioned,
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spilled on sweat, through lived.
It's wearable compromise, anelegant solution to the awkward
ballet of domesticity where thegrace is not in the folding but
in the knowing glance over hershoulder, as if to say I don't
need help, I have straps my back.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
It's surprisingly moving, did you cry.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
I don't need help.
I have straps.
This is my backpack.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
It's surprisingly moving.
Did you cry?
Are you crying?
I'm not crying.
Shut up, you're crying.
I am not crying.
And if I am, I blameperimenopause, it is not me.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Oh, perimenopause.
What about perimenopause iscausing you to cry at my
wonderful poem?
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Well, do you know the difference between
perimenopause is causing you tocry at my wonderful poem.
Well, do you know thedifference?
Speaker 1 (30:20):
between perimenopause and menopause.
I just think that this one's alittle bit more specific to
people called peri.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
No no perimenopause.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
I'm not an ignorant idiot.
It's the precursor right.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
It's the lead up to Perimenopause is the transition.
Menopause is one day.
Wait what Menopause is definedas 12 months from your last
menstrual cycle.
It is just the one day, andthen everything is
post-menopause, so what peoplehave usually called menopause is
really perimenopause.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Oh my gosh.
So you've already taught mesomething I didn't know that.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Right, that's what I'm saying.
Perimenopause is the transitionof everything.
It's the fluctuation ofhormones, it's usually it.
So it starts usually in yourmid to late 40s.
Right, hi, I'm here.
Uh, but it can happen earlier.
It's usually signified byirregular periods, but because I
have an iud, I don't reallyknow like I haven't because I
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have birth control, it keeps mefrom having it.
Um, but I have asked ChatGPT togive me perimenopause symptoms
men should know about, right,and it said absolutely.
It's so important for men tounderstand perimenopause, both
to support partners and just tobe better humans.
So here we're going to tell youto be a better human.
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Okay, here's a clear and honestlist of perimenopause symptoms
men should know about.
Here are the top ones irregularperiods we talked about that.
Hot flashes and night sweats.
Human okay, here's a clear andhonest list of perimenopause
symptoms mentioned know about.
Here are the top ones irregularperiods we talked about that.
Hot flashes and night sweatsyeah, okay right.
Sudden intense heat that cancause sweating, flushing and
discomfort, sometimes evenduring sleep.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
Sleep problems, difficulty can I ask you, can I
ask you questions as we go?
So do you actually, when youhave these hot flashes, does
your temperature temperature goup?
Do you if you were to take athermometer?
Would that be.
Would you be hotter?
Speaker 2 (32:02):
No, my, my, I've tried it.
No, my temperature doesn'tchange, but it feels like you're
burning from the inside.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
So that is the worst, because not only do you feel
that, like I can't even benefitfrom it, Like if we lived in a
cold, in cold climes, itcouldn't be like, well, I'm
warmer now, but at least myfamily is getting a little more.
You know climate control.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
I'm so glad we've made this about you already.
Go ahead Now.
I haven't gotten night sweatsyet but we have been turning the
air down lower for nighttime.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Well, I like that anyway.
I enjoy that.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Well, and I read somewhere like the optimal
temperature for sleep is between68 and 72 degrees Fahrenheit,
and we typically Between 60 and72?
Speaker 1 (32:45):
68 and 72.
Oh, 68.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
But we have been keeping it at like 74.
So now we're putting it down tolike 72 or 70.
Yeah yeah, okay, sleep problems.
Right, I've always had them,but they're worse Difficulty
falling asleep or staying asleep, often tied to night sweats or
anxiety.
Mine are probably anxiety.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Or the eight-year-old coming in every night.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
He's gotten much better.
All right.
Mood changes, irritability,sadness, mood swings and even
episodes of rage.
It's hormonal, not personal,and like the rage is starting to
settle in.
I was on Friday.
So I have a really good friendwho is also experiencing the
same type of perimenopause as Iam.
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I have my genetics group offriends and one has already been
through it.
The rest of them are not quitethere yet, but she and I are
going through it at the sametime and I texted her and I said
so-and-so's voice makes meangry.
It's not just that I don't liketheir voice, I'm actually
physically angry about thisvoice.
Like rage is now becoming athing Brain fog, trouble
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concentrating, forgetfulness andfeeling mentally fuzzy.
I liken it to like thatpregnancy brain fog and new
parent brain fog.
I do have a good friend that isthe same age as me really good
friend from high school and sheand I were talking about it and
she said that she has beenpromised that it does get better
on the other side of it,because she is incredibly
forgetful too.
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Now we both have parents whohave had cognitive decline she
and I have and so we talkedabout how that makes us really
nervous, but she said that shehas been told by people who have
been through it that it doesget better.
Decreased libido.
We don't need to go into thatDryness and discomfort in other
places.
I don't want to go into Weightchanges.
Weight might redistribute,especially around the waist, and
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it can be harder to lose weight.
Yep, high Fatigue, deep,persistent tiredness not easily
fixed with sleep, and you'vesaid that to me the other day.
I am worried about you.
You're tired in the mornings,or you seem more tired, and you
don't laugh or smile like youused to Like.
You don't seem to be findinglike joy in life and my response
was just perimenopause issucking out my soul.
So anxiety and panic attacks.
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Some women experience anxietyor sudden panic that seems to
come out of nowhere.
Get those anyway.
Changes in skin, hair and nailsSkin might get drier, hair might
thin, nails become more brittleThat's's happened to me.
My nails have always been superstrong.
They're not anymore.
Joint muscle pain, aches andpains, often mistaken for just
getting older, can be hormonerelated headaches.
Some women who have never hadmigraines start getting them.
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For others, migraines worsen.
I've been getting worse ones.
Here's a fun one for us changesin body odor.
Have you noticed that no shiftsin hormone levels can change
natural scent well, your hairsmells different, my hair smells
different yeah, because you'vechanged your shampoo odor.
Have you noticed that no Shiftsin hormone levels can change
natural scent?
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Well, your hair smells different.
Do I smell different?
My hair smells different?
Yeah, because you've changedyour shampoo.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
Okay, well, right, okay.
And then breast tenderness is athing.
So here it is important thingsthat men should understand.
It's a physiological process,it's not all in our head.
Symptoms can last for years.
Perimenopause can stretchPerimenopause can stretch for
four to 10 years before fullmenopause.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
What's the medicine?
What medicine Can we go getmedicine?
Is there medicine?
Speaker 2 (35:46):
Support matters is the next one.
Understanding patience andcompassion can make a huge
difference.
And then open communication,asking how you can help instead
of assuming, is key.
Then it asked me if I wanted aquick cheat sheet or visual
infographic, which I asked it tomake and I'm going to email it
to you.
But then here are some lesserknown, unusual perimenopause
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symptoms that can totally catchpeople off guard.
Here are the ones men andhonestly everyone should know
about Burning mouth syndrome, aweird burning, tingly or numb
feeling in the mouth or tongue,sometimes like eating something
spicy but without any foodinvolved.
Electric shock sensations,random zaps or jolts under the
skin, sometimes right before ahot flash.
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Jesus, formication.
Do you know what formication is?
uh, you better not do thatthat's fornication, this is
formication which is itchy skin.
Skin can feel itchy, crawly orlike bugs are under it again.
Hormone shifts affecting thenerves, gum problems, swollen,
bleeding or sensitive gumswithout major dental issues.
Tinnitus, ringing in the earssudden or worsening ringing,
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buzzing or whooshing sounds inthe ears.
I have been getting moreringing, dizziness or vertigo.
Feeling lightheaded, wobbly oroff balance, sometimes mistaken
for inner ear issues.
Changes in taste or smell.
Food might taste weird,metallic or different than usual
.
Smells might seem stronger ordistorted, which is interesting
because I've been much moresmell sensitive and I jokingly
said to you I might be pregnantbecause that was always the tell
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for me was smells were superbad.
This is just perimenopause.
Dry eyes eyes can feel gritty,dirty or watery, and not just
from screens.
I've been having that.
Heart palpitations, having thosetwo.
Increased allergies orsensitivity, more sensitive to
food, fabrics or environmentalallergens they were fine with
before.
Bladder problems yep likefeeling like I just have to pee
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when they just went Me, but allthe time Body temperature
sensitivity Can't tolerate coldor heat anymore.
Hair growth in new places likemustaches and things.
Weird aches in hands and feet.
Depression or grief feelings,even without a clear reason.
Someone experienced deepexistential sadness or mourning,
sometimes tied to hormonalchanges or the life stage shift.
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I walk around Publix crying.
Publix just makes me cry.
The grocery store makes me cry.
Anyway, here's why these thingsare happening.
Hormone fluctuations,especially in estrogen and
progesterone swings, affect notjust the reproductive system but
the nerves, brain chemistry,muscles, skin and internal
organs too.
That's why the symptoms canfeel so random and wide ranging.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
Now Can we just go back to all these symptoms or
consequences?
I feel like the next time we dothis podcast, you need to learn
to talk quick like they do inthose drug commercials.
Speaker 2 (38:33):
Oh yes.
Speaker 1 (38:33):
Because that's what that sounded like to me.
Side effects include, yes,absolutely Side effects of being
a woman include?
Speaker 2 (38:40):
Okay, I would like.
And you asked me where themedicine is.
I can tell you that if men wentthrough this and not women,
there would be several medicinesalready developed.
Now it asked me if I wanted aone sentence, super simple
version to explain to someone,and it said I can make a funny
one if you want to.
So I said, yes, please.
So here is my funny onesentence version for you to help
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you understand the women inyour life who might be
experiencing perimenopause.
Perimenopause is like thechaotic, drunken pre-party,
where everything's unpredictable.
Menopause is when the musicstops, the lights come on and
your ovaries ghost you forever.
I asked it to do aShakespearean one.
For me, Perimenopause is whenthine body becometh a theater of
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most curious humors sweats,rages, aches and menopause is
when the players all leave, thestage is barren and thine
ovaries retire to a tavern inthe next village.
Speaker 1 (39:34):
Very well.
Speaker 2 (39:36):
I want my ovaries to retire to the tavern.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
I'm okay with this.
Yeah, I don't.
I don't mind.
I don't mind that, all right.
Well, thank you for thatexhaustive overview listen.
Speaker 2 (39:45):
uh-uh.
You can be okay with having tolisten to about five minutes of
content.
If I have to go through four toeight years of this nonsense,
remember when, yes, you arecomplaining because you were
sitting there doing this, likehurry it up with me, do you not
listen?
It's not about you.
It's not about how this is liketoo long for you Going to the
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tavern with my ovaries.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
Okay, I love you.
Okay, I love you.
I did read somewhere that mencan help by reminding women to
get exercise to eat better andto not drink as much, and I will
put a foot in your face if youdo that to me.
I know Even I'm smarter thanall that.
A dude wrote that.
Yes, a dude wrote that Well, wehad to take about a 20-minute
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rage break there and Amanda hadto go break a bunch of shit
outside.
So now we have our letters.
Amanda, you ready for thisletter?
You asked for feedback for ourproblem with Winthrop.
Yeah, did somebody give usfeedback they did you want to
recap really quickly, like whatthe problem is?
Speaker 2 (41:10):
Yeah, so the problem is that Winthrop is pretty
decent at soccer and last seasonhe was on a, I mean a pretty, a
pretty good team.
He would score goals, like hehad another little friend,
gunter.
We've talked about who.
They were a good team togetherand he really enjoyed it.
This season he's on a team withkids who are younger than him,
kids who are less experiencedthan him, and they don't try
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like they just.
I mean they run around andthey're and they're having fun,
but I mean they'll stand next tothe goal and just watch the
ball roll into it and it'sfrustrating.
Speaker 1 (41:40):
Oh, no, no, no.
Worse than that.
Worse than that.
This week, one kid on his team.
The ball was rolling towardsthe goal.
The kid ran towards it andstopped it and then moved away
from it and then moved away fromit like he was setting the golf
ball up on the tee.
Yeah, he did tiger woods.
Speaker 2 (41:56):
That happened twice yes, and winthrop's just getting
really defeated, like he beforereally didn't care if they won
or lost, like he, just reallyhad a good time.
He would say, it doesn't matterif we win, like he.
But now he's he's starting toreally get defeated and we were
talking to him yesterday.
He's now starting to havestomach aches as we're going
there.
He's got some anxiety about it.
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He still has fun when he'srunning around, but Josh and I
were saying you know, don'tworry about winning, just have a
really good time.
And then he said but can wejust at least try to win one?
And that's so sad to me becausehe's trying and all the other
parents are like, wow, he's sogood.
No, he's just trying.
And you and I have had thisconversation where you say it's
just a game and I say it's notjust a game whether he wins or
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lose, that's just a game.
But what this is supposed toteach him is working hard for
something, being committed tosomething, teamwork,
collaboration, going towardgoals.
And when you do all thosethings and you just keep getting
beaten down week after week,what that's actually teaching
you is it doesn't matter if youtry, because you're just not
going to succeed.
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So, dan belson, has written usoh good, because gavin had
chimed in and I was wondering ifdan was ever going to chime in.
So my question was do we keepmaking him go because we see
that he has natural talent, ordo we just say fine, you don't.
You know like this has been abad experience, we're not going
to have you go anymore yeah.
Speaker 1 (43:17):
So here we go, and, by the way, I don't I don't
ascribe to that like.
I want him to keep goingbecause I love that he's getting
the exercise.
He says this wilson's, what arewe even doing here?
We can't stand by and let yourson's talent go to waste.
No wonder he says he doesn'twant to play, when each week his
team is on the receiving end ofa thrashing.
Get him off that team of losers.
Get him a trade to a winningteam and let him flourish.
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Call the GMs of the Jaguars theGoldfish, the Chimpanzees,
whatever it takes.
Hashtag justice for Winthrop PS.
Josh, I hope you had awonderful birthday week like a
16-year-old girl.
Warmest regards, dan.
Speaker 2 (43:54):
Thank you, dan.
So yeah, so here's where I am.
We need to look at this league,because this league that he's
in is again like, yeah, theydon't, they don't keep standings
, they do scores.
And the younger ages, theydon't even do scores.
And we tried this league withMuffy when she was three and she
got so pissed and she stilltalks about it Because they
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weren't supposed to have keepers, like people were not even
supposed to be near the goal andit's, and somebody like like
blocked her from kicking, andshe is still angry about it 15
years later.
It's just very good.
So, um, this league is maybenot the right thing for us.
I do want him because he hasnatural talent.
I do want him to kind ofcultivate that a little bit.
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We're gonna take a break forsummer.
I asked him if he asked him ifhe wanted to try gymnastics, and
he said, no, I don't want totry gymnastics, but I want to do
that thing where you jump offof stuff, and she said parkour.
He's like yeah, I want to doparkour.
Speaker 1 (44:53):
So we're not just like his mom yeah, but you break
your feet.
Speaker 2 (44:57):
I um, they have a ninja class at the local
gymnasium like gymnastics place,so we're gonna maybe try, try
ninja class this summer, becauseone it'll be indoors and it'll
be, uh, air conditioned we'regonna teach our eight-year-old
how to silently sneak up on usand kill us in our sleep.
Speaker 1 (45:14):
He already knows how to do that he does it daily
anyway, he hasn't, he hasn'tbrought a ninja star with him
yet, but he does know how to dothat.
Speaker 2 (45:18):
He does it daily anyway.
He hasn't.
He hasn't brought a ninja starwith him yet, but he does know
how to sneak up in the middle ofthe night.
Anyway, we're gonna go back tosoccer in the fall, but we're
gonna look for a league that isa little bit more structured for
him.
I don't need him to be incompetitive soccer, like super
hard competitive soccer, but Ido want to have him, you know,
get the chance to see if helikes it in a more structured
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environment.
So thank you, dan.
Speaker 1 (45:41):
Thank you, Dan.
Anyone else have an opinion?
Let us know.
Familiarwilsons at gmailcom.
All right, Amanda, that's allthere is.
There is no more.
I just pray that the rage hasdissipated a little bit.
Now We've had this lovelyrecording.
Speaker 2 (46:01):
I'm just looking lovingly at my Guy Fieri seltzer
water and I'm fine, okay, verygood.
I might need to put, like somewhiskey or gin in it, though.
Speaker 1 (46:11):
I drank the last of the Jamesons yesterday.
Speaker 2 (46:14):
Happy birthday.
That was your birthday present.
Speaker 1 (46:16):
It was my birthday from Professor O'Malley.
So that was good, ProfessorO'Malley.
So that was good, ProfessorO'Malley.
I got to give him a call.
He wants to be on the show, bythe way.
Speaker 2 (46:22):
Well, yes, but he needs to bring more Jameson when
we record.
He wants to record in person,right?
Speaker 1 (46:26):
Right, yeah, yeah, bring the Jameson mic.
All right, we'll have himtonight, all right?
So this episode of SuperFamiliar with the was conjured
into existence by a consortiumof these weird beings and
metaphysical anomalies.
So you ready?
Yes, many thanks to Matt, ourchief architect of the infinite
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staircase that leads to nowhere,to Antonio, the minister of
whispered secrets, to Josh Scar,curator of the Museum of
Forgotten Things, danny Buckets,the overseer of Eternal Rain,
chicken Tom, the ambassador tothe Galactic Council of Sentient
Poultry.
Monique from Germany, theEmpress of the Clockwork Forest,
and, of course, thank you toJoey, joey.
Thank you to Refined Gay Jeff,designer of the universe's most
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fabulous black holes, to Markand Rachel, co-chairs of the
Committee of UnexplainedLaughter, and, of course, dan
and Gavin, joint directors ofthe Bureau of Unfinished
Sentences.
Speaker 2 (47:20):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (47:22):
Special thanks to the sentient cloud that provided
emotional support duringrecording and to the invisible
orchestra of jellyfish thatcomprise some of the music.
And remember reality is just asuggestion, not a rule.
Go, be kind, bye, bye.
Speaker 2 (47:34):
Not a rule Go be kind .
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Bye.
Speaker 2 (47:37):
Bye.
Speaker 1 (47:44):
About the type.
The text for this episodeappears in Wilson's Bold
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Speaker 2 (00:19):
Three, two, one run.
I'm super familiar with you, sorun.
I'm super familiar with theWilsons.
Get it Welcome to.
Super Familiar with the Wilsons, I'm Amanda.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
And I'm Josh Amanda, it's been a long week.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
It's been Thursday since, like Monday, it has been
the longest week.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
It's weird because earlier in the week I had said
to you it's been a long week andyou said for you too, and I'm
wondering if anyone else outthere have.
You thought that this week hasbeen particularly longer than
any other week?
Get in touch,familiarwilsongmailcom, because
I wonder if it's a global thing.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I mean everybody I talked to at work expressed how
long it has felt.
So at least in my sphere, ithas been long for everyone, and
also, though, for the18-year-old, because she's going
through finals week and it'sbeen super long.
So maybe it's just this time ofyear school's wrapping up.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Days are longer.
We've had the time change.
It's true that time does seemto stretch out, or our
perception of time seems tostretch out when we experience
novelty or anything that taxesour cognition beyond the norm,
and maybe that's just this timeof year and I'm just noticing it
right now.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Well, I can tell you from an education perspective,
once spring break is over,between spring break and the end
of school it feels about sevenmonths long, because there's no
break, everybody's done, but youstill have to be at school, and
it just goes on and on and onforever.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Yeah well, is anyone else experiencing this?
I'd really like to know.
We can make this a littleWilson science experiment.
I have a question for you.
I went downstairs just now toget some water to come back up
so that we can record in thisluxurious Wilson studio.
And there is a bra just in thegarbage.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
It broke, I threw it away.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Aren't you supposed to dispose of that sort of thing
, are you?
Speaker 2 (02:12):
upset that it was on top of the broken eggshells in
the egg carton, because whatelse do you want me to do with
it?
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Isn't there supposed to be a separate bag or
something for those type ofthings?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
to get rid of.
Well, your delicate sensibilityis offended by seeing the bra
in the trash.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Can I just it just surprised me.
It's not a thing that I expect,it's just open the trash.
Can there's a bra?
Speaker 2 (02:30):
well, it broke in the dryer.
It can't be fixed.
I threw it away okay, well, nowI added to the landfill and I
shouldn't have.
But I don't know what to dowith a broken bra.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
I can't give it to anybody did you grow up in a
house where you would repurposelike clothes, like t-shirts or
whatever, as like rags?
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Yeah, I mean yeah, my dad did for like washing the
car and stuff right or dryingthe car.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
I will say that I do remember drying the car with old
underwear.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
No, that's gross.
No t-shirts Rip them apart sothey don't look like what they
used to be.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
It was clean.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
What do you think that you could do with this bra
then?
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Do we have any use to store two things?
Two things that are delicate,that need to be cushioned, or it
doesn't even have to be thatspecific usage.
Maybe it could be a tool beltand I'll keep my screws here and
my nuts here.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Wait, I'm mixing my euphemisms here, not no, I mean
you can, you can.
The cups are rather small.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
You can use them for your nuts if you want to know
not what I meant to say, butyeah, so surely that we have use
for stuff you're welcome to getit out and get all the eggshell
grossness off of it, but Ithrew it away what if we cut out
the cups and use them forsomething?
Speaker 2 (03:46):
No, listen.
Any woman who's ever bought abathing suit or a bra with
removable cups will tell youwhat a giant pain in the ass
that is.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Well then, you're putting them in the wrong place.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Yes, they never go back where they're supposed to.
They always fold if they getwashed that way, no.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
No one likes removable cups.
Move along, yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
But I'm saying I'm not saying no.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
You said remove the cups and I'm telling you that
separate the cups and then likeperhaps we could use it to get
stuff out of the oven it's not aoven.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Okay, the bra has is in the trash.
It is I will consult you thenext time that an intimate piece
of clothing needs to berepurposed, but right now this
one lives in the trash.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
If our kid is going to play sports, then let's start
saving up, especially the onesthat are padded.
Start saving those up so thathe can use them as protection.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
When you play soccer or football or whatever you want
to call it, do you wear anathletic cup?
Speaker 1 (04:43):
I think that you should and you do.
Let's send the used bras to DanBelson.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
With the egg yolks on it.
Watch out, Dan.
Look for some posts coming atyou soon.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
We had an alarm adventure this morning, oh.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Lord.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Just to catch everyone up on what we've
already experienced we went outto walk the dog and apparently
Amanda did not turn the alarmoff correctly.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
I pushed the buttons with the code.
I guess it didn't actually turnit off.
I guess, the alarm pad is in adifferent room and so I didn't
like usually just I it, just itworks and it didn't work today.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
We went out front and the area in front of our house
is a couple of undevelopedblocks, so we can walk up and
down those those blocks andstill of our house is a couple
of undeveloped blocks, so we canwalk up and down those blocks
and still see our house.
So we're walking around with thedog, chatting you know having a
great old time being byourselves for once and we get
back to the house and thechildren come running down the
stairs.
What was that alarm?
What was that alarm?
There's an alarm that was justgoing off and it just stopped.
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And we figured out that it wasour home alarm system that
Amanda had not set correctly.
So then, when we opened thedoor, the alarm went off.
Now the alarm company sent me atext that was like is this
alarm for reals or do you wantus to cancel?
Well, unfortunately orfortunately, depending on how
you look at it this was one ofthose times where both Amanda
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and I decided look, we're goingto step outside, we don't need
our phones, let's just have alittle separation from our
phones, have a little moment.
We did that, and thatexperience ended with a sheriff
driving up to the house.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Turns out, there's a reason why we are all attached
to our phones.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Well, I mean, that is the lesson.
The lesson I've learned now isI will never, ever, ever be
separate from my phone again.
So I had to tell the sheriff,who was really cool about it.
I had to say look, dude, youknow we went out and my wife
doesn't know how to usetechnology.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Right, thank you.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
And he was like, oh, that's great.
I'm like do you need to come inand check on something?
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Because you thought that he had to in and like,
check the joint out.
My only experience with analarm going off was that was
that so?
When I first moved togainesville, it was in 1994, and
this was maybe three yearsafter the gainesville murders
which danny rolling came throughin a horrible killing spree.
It's what the movie scream wasbased on.
If you're not familiar, we didan episode with our friends at
sugar-coated murder uh, ann andk about it.
But every new build apartmenthad panic buttons in the rooms
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because of this right, and so Iwas babysitting and the kid
pushed the panic button.
I didn't think to tell the kiddon't push this button, the
share.
The police showed up.
I met them outside and said, oh, I'm so sorry, this is what
happened.
And they said, okay, but westill have to come in and check.
So I assumed that anytimethere's an alarm that goes off
and you meet them outside andtell them it's fine that they
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still have to come in and checkto make sure you're not being
held hostage and being told tosay something.
But this guy did not seem tocare.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
He didn't.
He was cool, although it wasweird.
Between the time that I saw thenotification that the
authorities had been dispatchedand and him showing up like I, I
was like what do I do?
Do I wait for him to knock onthe door?
You know, that's weird.
So what I did was I opened thefront door and I sat outside on
a chair that was on the on thefront porch and just waited for
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him.
I figured that that would he'dsee the door was open.
He'd see me sitting there.
There's no mystery necessarilyand, like I said, he was pretty
cool with it, but it is astrange experience to know that
the police are coming to yourhouse.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Yeah, but I mean, at least we know our alarm and
dispatch system works.
Now I'm waiting to see if weget charged for it, because
sometimes-.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
You mean charged a fee, not charged with a crime.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
No, charged a fee for the dispatch.
I don't know we weren't toldthat we would, but at the school
that I used to teach at we hadan alarm system and you got one
free dispatch a month and thenanything after that.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
You had to pay for it sounds like a deal that you get
.
You buy 12 tapes, you get onefree alarm dispatch.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
I wonder what would have happened if we were still
out in front of the house.
But like a couple of blocksaway If we'd have seen the
sheriff roll up and walk to our.
Would we have run like towardshim, or would we have just hung
back and said let's see whathappens.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Well, knowing our children are in here, I think we
would have probably run Now.
I'm really glad, though hedidn't come.
Well, I don't know, I'm of twominds.
I'm glad he didn't come rollingup to the house with the alarms
on, like with his siren on andlights on, although, but maybe
he should have, because hedidn't know what had happened.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
He just kept strolling up.
Here we go.
But could you imagine?
Did you watch him?
By the way, Were you watching?
Speaker 2 (09:19):
him come up.
I didn't see him get out.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
I mean he was pretty calm and didn't seem like he was
in that much of a hurry and,like I said, my expectation
would be like he's gonna checkmy id to see if the address
matches but I'm just sittingthere and I'm I'm like, hey, you
know.
So either he's a very goodjudge of character or, at the
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end of the day, he really,really wasn't enthusiastic about
meeting the needs of thehomeowners here.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
I don't know, but the response time was pretty quick,
so I appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
I don't know we were.
We were walking around for along time.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
No, it was six minutes from the time he lorm
off to the time he got here.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
I'm just thinking.
We see the sheriff roll up tothe house.
Am I panicking or am I thinking?
Well, we knew it was going tohappen at some point what the,
the eight-year-old one of thechildren, caused mass chaos so
that that was the kids werereally stressed out about.
I actually wasn't that stressedout about it.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
No, they were but and then both of our kids are such
rule followers that they're justlike are we gonna make trouble?
And then the eight-year-old waslike the police gonna come,
we're gonna tell them I don'twant them, what are they gonna
do?
And we're like just go upstairs.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
We just everybody, go upstairs and we'll deal with it
that's good we've taught ourchildren when the police come,
go hide.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
That's right and then we called him back down.
Why?
Speaker 1 (10:42):
He's gone, he's gone.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Okay.
Oh, God we're training him wellfor house parties in his
teenage years.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
That's right.
The police are coming,everybody scream.
We had a good day yesterday.
I want to chat a little bitabout our first visit to Blaze
Pizza.
Yes, yes, so LeBron'srestaurant chain which you
avoided for so long because,LeBron?
No, that's not why I avoided it.
Why are you forgetting theactual reason why I avoided it?
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Before the actual thing that happened.
You also didn't want to patronLeBron's restaurant.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
I mean, I would prefer not to.
But AJCW, who is our son Andrewand also a very talented
musician, provides some musicfor this podcast, including the
Game Time theme, which is myfavorite piece of music.
He used to work at Blaze.
For a long time I had nevervisited because LeBron.
So one day there was a schoolfundraiser.
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Like a spirit night Like aspirit night, and it was at
Blaze.
And so I take theeight-year-old, then like
five-year-old or whatever he was, and you weren't there for some
reason, I don't remember why,and we're like we're going to go
to Blaze, we're going to seeAndrew there as he's working,
we're going to eat the pizza andit's going to be great.
Coming out of the door ran meand the five-year-old over and I
just said, well, forget this.
(11:58):
And I was turned off to theexperience.
And then fast forward to thisSaturday.
We went to Winthrop soccer game, which they lost again by a lot
, and after our tradition is togo to breakfast with, or to
(12:20):
lunch, sorry, with, Winthrop andhis two older brothers, Andrew
and Daniel.
So we did and we decided to goto Blaze.
Well, loved Blaze.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
It was really good.
I was pleasantly surprised.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Andrew described it to me as the subway of pizza
places.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Fair enough, because it's assembly line.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
It is assembly line, but if you're selling, don't say
that that can't be your pitch.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Winthrop loved Subway , so it was fine for him so we
go through the.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
The first of all, the pizza itself was really, really
good.
They have a lot of options.
I just got a simple um cheeseand and pepperoni and basil
pizza and bacon and bacon.
That's right.
The crust is always my concern,but they, they did wood fire it
yeah and it was nice and crispyand delicious great.
(13:08):
Yeah, also, I got to meet someof andrew's work friends that he
had for years.
I mean, he worked there for along time and as we're going
through like I'm quizzing eachof them, do you have a story on
andrew?
And of course they're loving itand and it was just real fun
and funny.
So, all in all, a greatexperience.
I recommend it, or at the veryleast I recommend the
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gainesville, florida right, wecan't speak for all the other
ones, right but at the end wewere sitting there and across
from us was a table about ofabout nine college students yeah
obnoxiously.
When they got up, they allscraped their chairs across the
floor.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
I think like one person made that noise and then
they are all like, oh, this isfun, and just kept making it
several times.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
So incredibly obnoxious?
What is wrong with you?
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Well, I don't know if you noticed, but you put your
fingers in your ears.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
I did.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Because you have sensitivity right, and I watched
some kid look at you and smirkabout it.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
I'm glad that I did not know that I wasn't going to
tell you.
But the weirdest thing, though,is that, after they were all
done being assholes and gettingready to leave, one of the ones
who did it took time to go get anapkin and wipe the table down.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
It's your conscience about the table.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Make that make sense.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Right, I can't.
I mean sorry, I thought thatwas just rhetorical, I didn't
know I needed to actually makeit make sense, because I can't.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
I need someone to.
That's the person who robs yourhouse but then rakes the leaves
before they leave.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Exactly, yeah, I don't know, but it was good.
You should try Blaze Pizza.
Maybe don't sit next to thekids who scrape their chairs on
the floor Idiots.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
I think that one of the good things about this
podcast is that we wake theworld up every now and again to
how ridiculous we are as humanbeings, and we're surrounded by
this stuff.
Every day.
We're surrounded by things thatare just ridiculous, that we do
, that we take part in, that wehave, that.
If we just stopped and thoughtabout it, we'd be like why did
we do this?
And one of them actually isright here on the table.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
No, that's mine, don't take that.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Okay, sparkling water .
Speaker 2 (15:34):
I love it with my whole heart.
You can't ruin it for me.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Yes, but sparkling water is one of those examples
of how, as a species, we havefailed.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
No, what's wrong with you?
I how, as a species, we havefailed.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
No, what's wrong with you?
I like this.
We took two very free thingsand we've made it into an
expensive luxury item Water andair Stuff that's like we cannot
help but breathe around us andthen stuff that the clouds
ejaculate from themselveswhenever they're full.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
I don't need you to ever say ejaculate clouds ever
again.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
But what I'm saying to you is why have we turned
this into a luxury item?
Speaker 2 (16:04):
I like it.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
I almost bought some of that.
What's that stuff Topo.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Chico, which I really like.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Topo Chico, which I like the bottle.
So maybe I'll just buy a bottleand fill it with water and have
that be a refillable water.
But I picked it up and I'm likeit's not four dollars, it's
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like two something no, it'sthree dollars, at least three
dollars.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Three dollars and change okay, the reason why you
turned or you were gonna committo buying it and the reason why
you turned around is because wewere in Whole Foods and they
have a water, ice free, cupthing station and I said to you,
would you rather just havewater?
Speaker 1 (16:45):
and so then you realize that that was free, so
you took it back I'm justwondering what amount of
marketing and what they've doneto convince us that this is
worth it.
Are they like trying to saythat it's artisanal, that, like
somewhere in italy, an old manhas lovingly handmade these
bubbles and place them in yourwater, like what is happening?
Why are we doing this?
Speaker 2 (17:04):
I like it because I don't drink soda.
Right, I don't drink soda, butthis satisfies some sort of
something.
It's just different thanregular water.
And also this one, though Ididn't realize until we
purchased it, is waterloo, whichI like.
Waterloo brand sparkling water.
It's um guy fieri's flavor,town version, so he has them for
the summer you are such asucker.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Look, look, look, it's right there.
You are such a sucker I didn'trealize it.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
I got it because it was lemon italian ice and that
sounded interesting.
He had one that was like aspicy mango something.
Rather, I don't know how youmake sparkling water spicy yeah,
we didn't get it because you'reallergic to mango probably no
mango actually in there.
But now I'm upset that I haveguy fieri's flavor town
sparkling water.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Oh so you didn't know that.
I didn't know that, so youdidn't know.
I didn't know until I got home.
That wasn't a selling point.
No, I didn't know until I gothome.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
I just saw Lemon Italian Ice and I thought that
was interesting.
My favorite one is theLimoncello version of La Croix,
because I don't know what it is,but it tastes sweet.
There's no sugar, there's nocalories, but it tastes sweet me
it's your mind.
It's your mind, that's fine, mymind is an interesting and
confusing place to be then thereare other things.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
I think this whole perpetuation of buying air and
water and charging for it, thatthat's bad right there's other
things that that we have andthat we do, that are just
ridiculous, like this whole ideaof ball caps.
Have you ever stopped andthought what a ball cap is?
Speaker 2 (18:27):
it's a hat that covered your head and keeps it
from the sun, and people wear itwhen they play baseball, which
is why it's called ball cap.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
It is a miniature awning for your face.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Yes, it protects it from the sun.
I don't know why this is aproblem for you.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Because you were wearing an awning on your head.
We need to then now add likedrapes, so that if you also want
it to be dark, you can justclose your drapes on your awning
.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
I am certain those exist somewhere.
Yeah, like the beekeeper's hat,because it has the drapes and
it just drops down by the way.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
I'm so surprised, especially in Florida, that the
beekeeper's hat hasn't becomelike a normal fashion accessory
for people because of all thebugs and the gnats and shit that
are all around.
Can you imagine that would be athing?
I think it's ridiculous, but itit can be Wilson branded and we
couldn't call it beekeepers hat, we'd have to call it, you know
, florida fashion wear orsomething.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
But that's a thing.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Now, that's taking the absurd, but still intensely
practical.
But I've got a quiz for youbased on these, and so it is now
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game time.
What time is it that music is?
By the aforementioned AJCW?
Check his work out on Apple, onSpotify, on all the places.
Now, amanda, I'm going to giveyou a ridiculous description of
a common everyday item and youwork out what it's really called
(20:02):
.
So, for example, if I said tinypersonal awnings for our faces,
you would say Ball cap.
Okay, so you ready, you get it?
Yes.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Really easy, yes.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
So your first one, I think, is rather easy Decorative
business nooses.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Neckties.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Neckties, very good.
Next, intentionally unstablefashion stilts, stilettos,
stilettos or high heels ingeneral.
Do you remember the first timeyou wore high heels?
Was it a problem?
Did you have to learn how towalk?
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Oh, I've never been good at wearing high heels, ever
, ever.
I've never worn stilettos.
First of all, I fall, justbeing flat-footed.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
That's very true.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Like I mean I just am unstable anyway.
I mean I don't mind like achunky heel or like a character
heel, but I don't do stilettos,I don't do it.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Go ahead, fragile magnifying nose windows.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Okay, well, glasses.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Glasses, which, by the way, you've gone back now.
I'm so annoyed You've gone back.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
I am so annoyed.
Why are you annoyed?
And everybody at work is likedid you get new glasses?
I'm like no, I got old.
These are readers.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
But you wore glasses before you were pregnant.
Then you got pregnant anddidn't need glasses.
But surely you figured thatglasses would have to return.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Yeah, I guess it was in my late 30s, so I was wearing
glasses and contacts when youand I were dating, right, we got
married was like 38.
Right.
And then, yeah, my vision, justlike in my early 40s, just got
better.
So I've not needed because ofpregnancy, though I don't know
if it was because of pregnancy,but I have just for all of my
40s not needed glasses, like myvision's been perfect.
And then all of a sudden I justhaving a headache when I'm
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looking at the screens at workand I thought, well, maybe it's
just too much like blue lightand whatever.
But then when I really realizedit was because I bought a
coloring book I had been usinglike a coloring app on my phone
to kind of wind down.
So I got a real coloring bookand couldn't see the lines in it
.
And it may be so like I couldsee the big lines but not the
small lines, and so I have now.
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I have readers at home andreaders at work.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
And the other day where you determined you need a
third set of readers.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
No, we were at dinner and I couldn't read the menu.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
So now you need going out glasses too.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
I'm so annoyed, I'm so annoyed by this.
Do they make contacts?
Speaker 1 (22:17):
for people who need readers.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
But that would no.
I mean maybe, but how do you?
Because it would be likebifocals, right, like I would
need bifocals that were justlike the reading thing and the
rest of it was clear, because mydistance vision is fine, I
don't think it works.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
I don't think that you could do that with contacts.
When I wore contacts, I didthis thing because I hated
wearing contacts, where I wouldhave a contacted one eye, so the
uncontacted eye would be forreading or whatever, and then
the contacted eye would be fordriving a distance.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
How did that not make you nauseated?
Speaker 1 (22:47):
It didn't make me nauseated, but it was really
weird.
I never got used to it, but Idid try it.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Yeah, I don't recommend that.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Don't do that I think people do that, though I think
I got that idea from a person,not that I just thought one day
well, I can't be bothered to putthe second lens in.
Let's see how it goes.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
People also sell water and air, and you don't
like that either.
So it doesn't.
All right, I'm three for threego.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Next one Clothes caves.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Closets, suitcases, clothes caves yes, washing
machine dryers.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Pockets.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Oh, okay, all right, all right, fair enough.
I thought the thing that youput the clothes in was the cave.
All right, all right.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
All right, portable filing cabinet, your phone?
Well, that could be, but that'snot what I'm going for.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Briefcase.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Wallet.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Oh, that's good.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Miniature metal shackles voluntarily worn as a
public announcement a medicalalert bracelet miniature metal
shackles voluntarily worn as apublic announcement wedding
rings wedding rings.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
That's rude wedding rings.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Whatever, I always wear my weight you, I wear.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
I don't wear mine as much as you wear yours, you
don't.
Because I cannot sleep injewelry.
I cannot do it.
I've never been able to sleepin necklaces, earrings.
I can't even sleep in my Fitbit.
I try, so I take my ring off atnight and sometimes I forget to
put it back on.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Hmm, sometimes you forget.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Hmm, all right.
Next, invisible electricitycommand lever Garage door opener
Light switches.
Oh, okay.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Sacrificial bread ovens.
Toaster ovens, toaster ovens.
Are you marking these down thatyou're?
Speaker 2 (24:45):
getting right.
Oh, I do.
Okay, I'm five for whateveryou've asked me.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Okay, fancy cloth, darkness walls drapes yeah
curtains, yep morning screamingmachines oh god, alarm clocks.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
I hate them.
Do you hate our alarm clock?
Alexa gets so annoyed at mebecause I tell her to stop so
many times.
Do you think she would be likeyou're not getting up?
I'm just gonna stop, like I'dbe like alexa stop.
And then I'd tell her fiveminutes and like whatever you
think at some point she'd belike listen, you're not gonna
get up, so we're done I'm quitecertain we're really close to
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that with ai.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
I'm quite certain that pretty soon these machines
are going to give us input intoour lives that we do not want
and that we cannot stop yeah sothey're going to become in-laws
that's like the progression allright, mutual micro wrestling to
prove that we're not a threathandshakes handshakes.
Yeah, tiny rolling thronesstrollers.
(25:50):
Yes, because they're alldictators, these children
valuable mini pictures of deadpeople oh god money two more
negotiated freedom contractsbetween humans and canines um
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dog collars.
I'll give you that Dog tag, Petleashes yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Oh, leashes okay.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
And then, lastly, a chain of tiny trophies for
remembering where we're allowedto be.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Keys, key chains.
Okay, so I got 12.
How many did you ask me?
Speaker 1 (26:26):
That's 12 out of 17.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
All right, so let me do that math.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Is that a C?
What is that Low B?
Speaker 2 (26:34):
It's a 70, 71, 71%.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Okay, well, there you go, Good job.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Thanks.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
And now it's time for Poetry Corner.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
We haven't had a poem in a while.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
I know, but you inspired me.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Oh Lord, I don't want to hear it.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
You inspired me because you have purchased what?
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Stop laughing at me.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
It's not kind it is kind, you love it, but you have
purchased a laundry hamper thatyou can carry around on your
back.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Oh my God, I love my backpack hamper so much.
It is the most ridiculous thing.
No, because I the laundry roomis downstairs.
I have always thought peoplewho have a laundry room upstairs
and downstairs are very likefrou frou.
However, now that I have brokenmy foot on these damn stairs
and you have fallen many times,I can see the appeal to having
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an upstairs laundry room.
Right, I've fallen like twice.
No friend, You've fallen morethan twice and there's a hole in
that wall to prove it that youneed to spackle over because you
fell into the wall.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
There's no fucking hole in the wall.
What are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Because we have a landing right.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
We go down, there's a landing.
You fell into the landing andyou fell into the landing.
There's no hole in the wall.
Yes, there is why are youtelling lies?
And damn lies.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
No, it's true.
Anyway, because I cannot betrusted to go down these stairs
holding laundry baskets, I foundthis wonderful thing at Target,
where I just carry it on myback, and it's the best thing
that's ever happened to me.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
All right.
So I've written a poem aboutthe feelings that this has given
me.
Now, this is a special poem,filled with imagery, filled with
deep felt things, and I onlyhope that it resonates with you.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
With your listener, or me With you.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Amanda, the symbolism and all the things.
So I'm going to roll this veryspecial mood music by AJCW, by
the way, giving him.
So here we go.
It's not a laundry hamper, it'san act of domestic subterfuge.
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A Trojan horse of cotton andmesh rolling casually through
the hallway, unassuming innocent, but inside a calculated
archive of compromise.
The shirt she wore when shedidn't want to talk, the
leggings that outlasted athree-day Zoom meeting, a lone
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sock, retired from its partnerlike an astronaut who came back
changed.
She wears it like a pack mulewith tenure.
She's foraging not for food butfor signs of innocence.
She doesn't carry dirty clothes.
She carries the evidence of alife well nested in, cushioned,
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spilled on sweat, through lived.
It's wearable compromise, anelegant solution to the awkward
ballet of domesticity where thegrace is not in the folding but
in the knowing glance over hershoulder, as if to say I don't
need help, I have straps my back.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
It's surprisingly moving, did you cry.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
I don't need help.
I have straps.
This is my backpack.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
It's surprisingly moving.
Did you cry?
Are you crying?
I'm not crying.
Shut up, you're crying.
I am not crying.
And if I am, I blameperimenopause, it is not me.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Oh, perimenopause.
What about perimenopause iscausing you to cry at my
wonderful poem?
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Well, do you know the difference between
perimenopause is causing you tocry at my wonderful poem.
Well, do you know thedifference?
Speaker 1 (30:20):
between perimenopause and menopause.
I just think that this one's alittle bit more specific to
people called peri.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
No no perimenopause.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
I'm not an ignorant idiot.
It's the precursor right.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
It's the lead up to Perimenopause is the transition.
Menopause is one day.
Wait what Menopause is definedas 12 months from your last
menstrual cycle.
It is just the one day, andthen everything is
post-menopause, so what peoplehave usually called menopause is
really perimenopause.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Oh my gosh.
So you've already taught mesomething I didn't know that.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Right, that's what I'm saying.
Perimenopause is the transitionof everything.
It's the fluctuation ofhormones, it's usually it.
So it starts usually in yourmid to late 40s.
Right, hi, I'm here.
Uh, but it can happen earlier.
It's usually signified byirregular periods, but because I
have an iud, I don't reallyknow like I haven't because I
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have birth control, it keeps mefrom having it.
Um, but I have asked ChatGPT togive me perimenopause symptoms
men should know about, right,and it said absolutely.
It's so important for men tounderstand perimenopause, both
to support partners and just tobe better humans.
So here we're going to tell youto be a better human.
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Okay, here's a clear and honestlist of perimenopause symptoms
men should know about.
Here are the top ones irregularperiods we talked about that.
Hot flashes and night sweats.
Human okay, here's a clear andhonest list of perimenopause
symptoms mentioned know about.
Here are the top ones irregularperiods we talked about that.
Hot flashes and night sweatsyeah, okay right.
Sudden intense heat that cancause sweating, flushing and
discomfort, sometimes evenduring sleep.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
Sleep problems, difficulty can I ask you, can I
ask you questions as we go?
So do you actually, when youhave these hot flashes, does
your temperature temperature goup?
Do you if you were to take athermometer?
Would that be.
Would you be hotter?
Speaker 2 (32:02):
No, my, my, I've tried it.
No, my temperature doesn'tchange, but it feels like you're
burning from the inside.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
So that is the worst, because not only do you feel
that, like I can't even benefitfrom it, Like if we lived in a
cold, in cold climes, itcouldn't be like, well, I'm
warmer now, but at least myfamily is getting a little more.
You know climate control.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
I'm so glad we've made this about you already.
Go ahead Now.
I haven't gotten night sweatsyet but we have been turning the
air down lower for nighttime.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Well, I like that anyway.
I enjoy that.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Well, and I read somewhere like the optimal
temperature for sleep is between68 and 72 degrees Fahrenheit,
and we typically Between 60 and72?
Speaker 1 (32:45):
68 and 72.
Oh, 68.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
But we have been keeping it at like 74.
So now we're putting it down tolike 72 or 70.
Yeah yeah, okay, sleep problems.
Right, I've always had them,but they're worse Difficulty
falling asleep or staying asleep, often tied to night sweats or
anxiety.
Mine are probably anxiety.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Or the eight-year-old coming in every night.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
He's gotten much better.
All right.
Mood changes, irritability,sadness, mood swings and even
episodes of rage.
It's hormonal, not personal,and like the rage is starting to
settle in.
I was on Friday.
So I have a really good friendwho is also experiencing the
same type of perimenopause as Iam.
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I have my genetics group offriends and one has already been
through it.
The rest of them are not quitethere yet, but she and I are
going through it at the sametime and I texted her and I said
so-and-so's voice makes meangry.
It's not just that I don't liketheir voice, I'm actually
physically angry about thisvoice.
Like rage is now becoming athing Brain fog, trouble
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concentrating, forgetfulness andfeeling mentally fuzzy.
I liken it to like thatpregnancy brain fog and new
parent brain fog.
I do have a good friend that isthe same age as me really good
friend from high school and sheand I were talking about it and
she said that she has beenpromised that it does get better
on the other side of it,because she is incredibly
forgetful too.
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Now we both have parents whohave had cognitive decline she
and I have and so we talkedabout how that makes us really
nervous, but she said that shehas been told by people who have
been through it that it doesget better.
Decreased libido.
We don't need to go into thatDryness and discomfort in other
places.
I don't want to go into Weightchanges.
Weight might redistribute,especially around the waist, and
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it can be harder to lose weight.
Yep, high Fatigue, deep,persistent tiredness not easily
fixed with sleep, and you'vesaid that to me the other day.
I am worried about you.
You're tired in the mornings,or you seem more tired, and you
don't laugh or smile like youused to Like.
You don't seem to be findinglike joy in life and my response
was just perimenopause issucking out my soul.
So anxiety and panic attacks.
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Some women experience anxietyor sudden panic that seems to
come out of nowhere.
Get those anyway.
Changes in skin, hair and nailsSkin might get drier, hair might
thin, nails become more brittleThat's's happened to me.
My nails have always been superstrong.
They're not anymore.
Joint muscle pain, aches andpains, often mistaken for just
getting older, can be hormonerelated headaches.
Some women who have never hadmigraines start getting them.
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For others, migraines worsen.
I've been getting worse ones.
Here's a fun one for us changesin body odor.
Have you noticed that no shiftsin hormone levels can change
natural scent well, your hairsmells different, my hair smells
different yeah, because you'vechanged your shampoo odor.
Have you noticed that no Shiftsin hormone levels can change
natural scent?
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Well, your hair smells different.
Do I smell different?
My hair smells different?
Yeah, because you've changedyour shampoo.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
Okay, well, right, okay.
And then breast tenderness is athing.
So here it is important thingsthat men should understand.
It's a physiological process,it's not all in our head.
Symptoms can last for years.
Perimenopause can stretchPerimenopause can stretch for
four to 10 years before fullmenopause.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
What's the medicine?
What medicine Can we go getmedicine?
Is there medicine?
Speaker 2 (35:46):
Support matters is the next one.
Understanding patience andcompassion can make a huge
difference.
And then open communication,asking how you can help instead
of assuming, is key.
Then it asked me if I wanted aquick cheat sheet or visual
infographic, which I asked it tomake and I'm going to email it
to you.
But then here are some lesserknown, unusual perimenopause
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symptoms that can totally catchpeople off guard.
Here are the ones men andhonestly everyone should know
about Burning mouth syndrome, aweird burning, tingly or numb
feeling in the mouth or tongue,sometimes like eating something
spicy but without any foodinvolved.
Electric shock sensations,random zaps or jolts under the
skin, sometimes right before ahot flash.
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Jesus, formication.
Do you know what formication is?
uh, you better not do thatthat's fornication, this is
formication which is itchy skin.
Skin can feel itchy, crawly orlike bugs are under it again.
Hormone shifts affecting thenerves, gum problems, swollen,
bleeding or sensitive gumswithout major dental issues.
Tinnitus, ringing in the earssudden or worsening ringing,
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buzzing or whooshing sounds inthe ears.
I have been getting moreringing, dizziness or vertigo.
Feeling lightheaded, wobbly oroff balance, sometimes mistaken
for inner ear issues.
Changes in taste or smell.
Food might taste weird,metallic or different than usual
.
Smells might seem stronger ordistorted, which is interesting
because I've been much moresmell sensitive and I jokingly
said to you I might be pregnantbecause that was always the tell
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for me was smells were superbad.
This is just perimenopause.
Dry eyes eyes can feel gritty,dirty or watery, and not just
from screens.
I've been having that.
Heart palpitations, having thosetwo.
Increased allergies orsensitivity, more sensitive to
food, fabrics or environmentalallergens they were fine with
before.
Bladder problems yep likefeeling like I just have to pee
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when they just went Me, but allthe time Body temperature
sensitivity Can't tolerate coldor heat anymore.
Hair growth in new places likemustaches and things.
Weird aches in hands and feet.
Depression or grief feelings,even without a clear reason.
Someone experienced deepexistential sadness or mourning,
sometimes tied to hormonalchanges or the life stage shift.
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I walk around Publix crying.
Publix just makes me cry.
The grocery store makes me cry.
Anyway, here's why these thingsare happening.
Hormone fluctuations,especially in estrogen and
progesterone swings, affect notjust the reproductive system but
the nerves, brain chemistry,muscles, skin and internal
organs too.
That's why the symptoms canfeel so random and wide ranging.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
Now Can we just go back to all these symptoms or
consequences?
I feel like the next time we dothis podcast, you need to learn
to talk quick like they do inthose drug commercials.
Speaker 2 (38:33):
Oh yes.
Speaker 1 (38:33):
Because that's what that sounded like to me.
Side effects include, yes,absolutely Side effects of being
a woman include?
Speaker 2 (38:40):
Okay, I would like.
And you asked me where themedicine is.
I can tell you that if men wentthrough this and not women,
there would be several medicinesalready developed.
Now it asked me if I wanted aone sentence, super simple
version to explain to someone,and it said I can make a funny
one if you want to.
So I said, yes, please.
So here is my funny onesentence version for you to help
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you understand the women inyour life who might be
experiencing perimenopause.
Perimenopause is like thechaotic, drunken pre-party,
where everything's unpredictable.
Menopause is when the musicstops, the lights come on and
your ovaries ghost you forever.
I asked it to do aShakespearean one.
For me, Perimenopause is whenthine body becometh a theater of
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most curious humors sweats,rages, aches and menopause is
when the players all leave, thestage is barren and thine
ovaries retire to a tavern inthe next village.
Speaker 1 (39:34):
Very well.
Speaker 2 (39:36):
I want my ovaries to retire to the tavern.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
I'm okay with this.
Yeah, I don't.
I don't mind.
I don't mind that, all right.
Well, thank you for thatexhaustive overview listen.
Speaker 2 (39:45):
uh-uh.
You can be okay with having tolisten to about five minutes of
content.
If I have to go through four toeight years of this nonsense,
remember when, yes, you arecomplaining because you were
sitting there doing this, likehurry it up with me, do you not
listen?
It's not about you.
It's not about how this is liketoo long for you Going to the
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tavern with my ovaries.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
Okay, I love you.
Okay, I love you.
I did read somewhere that mencan help by reminding women to
get exercise to eat better andto not drink as much, and I will
put a foot in your face if youdo that to me.
I know Even I'm smarter thanall that.
A dude wrote that.
Yes, a dude wrote that Well, wehad to take about a 20-minute
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rage break there and Amanda hadto go break a bunch of shit
outside.
So now we have our letters.
Amanda, you ready for thisletter?
You asked for feedback for ourproblem with Winthrop.
Yeah, did somebody give usfeedback they did you want to
recap really quickly, like whatthe problem is?
Speaker 2 (41:10):
Yeah, so the problem is that Winthrop is pretty
decent at soccer and last seasonhe was on a, I mean a pretty, a
pretty good team.
He would score goals, like hehad another little friend,
gunter.
We've talked about who.
They were a good team togetherand he really enjoyed it.
This season he's on a team withkids who are younger than him,
kids who are less experiencedthan him, and they don't try
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like they just.
I mean they run around andthey're and they're having fun,
but I mean they'll stand next tothe goal and just watch the
ball roll into it and it'sfrustrating.
Speaker 1 (41:40):
Oh, no, no, no.
Worse than that.
Worse than that.
This week, one kid on his team.
The ball was rolling towardsthe goal.
The kid ran towards it andstopped it and then moved away
from it and then moved away fromit like he was setting the golf
ball up on the tee.
Yeah, he did tiger woods.
Speaker 2 (41:56):
That happened twice yes, and winthrop's just getting
really defeated, like he beforereally didn't care if they won
or lost, like he, just reallyhad a good time.
He would say, it doesn't matterif we win, like he.
But now he's he's starting toreally get defeated and we were
talking to him yesterday.
He's now starting to havestomach aches as we're going
there.
He's got some anxiety about it.
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He still has fun when he'srunning around, but Josh and I
were saying you know, don'tworry about winning, just have a
really good time.
And then he said but can wejust at least try to win one?
And that's so sad to me becausehe's trying and all the other
parents are like, wow, he's sogood.
No, he's just trying.
And you and I have had thisconversation where you say it's
just a game and I say it's notjust a game whether he wins or
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lose, that's just a game.
But what this is supposed toteach him is working hard for
something, being committed tosomething, teamwork,
collaboration, going towardgoals.
And when you do all thosethings and you just keep getting
beaten down week after week,what that's actually teaching
you is it doesn't matter if youtry, because you're just not
going to succeed.
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So, dan belson, has written usoh good, because gavin had
chimed in and I was wondering ifdan was ever going to chime in.
So my question was do we keepmaking him go because we see
that he has natural talent, ordo we just say fine, you don't.
You know like this has been abad experience, we're not going
to have you go anymore yeah.
Speaker 1 (43:17):
So here we go, and, by the way, I don't I don't
ascribe to that like.
I want him to keep goingbecause I love that he's getting
the exercise.
He says this wilson's, what arewe even doing here?
We can't stand by and let yourson's talent go to waste.
No wonder he says he doesn'twant to play, when each week his
team is on the receiving end ofa thrashing.
Get him off that team of losers.
Get him a trade to a winningteam and let him flourish.
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Call the GMs of the Jaguars theGoldfish, the Chimpanzees,
whatever it takes.
Hashtag justice for Winthrop PS.
Josh, I hope you had awonderful birthday week like a
16-year-old girl.
Warmest regards, dan.
Speaker 2 (43:54):
Thank you, dan.
So yeah, so here's where I am.
We need to look at this league,because this league that he's
in is again like, yeah, theydon't, they don't keep standings
, they do scores.
And the younger ages, theydon't even do scores.
And we tried this league withMuffy when she was three and she
got so pissed and she stilltalks about it Because they
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weren't supposed to have keepers, like people were not even
supposed to be near the goal andit's, and somebody like like
blocked her from kicking, andshe is still angry about it 15
years later.
It's just very good.
So, um, this league is maybenot the right thing for us.
I do want him because he hasnatural talent.
I do want him to kind ofcultivate that a little bit.
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We're gonna take a break forsummer.
I asked him if he asked him ifhe wanted to try gymnastics, and
he said, no, I don't want totry gymnastics, but I want to do
that thing where you jump offof stuff, and she said parkour.
He's like yeah, I want to doparkour.
Speaker 1 (44:53):
So we're not just like his mom yeah, but you break
your feet.
Speaker 2 (44:57):
I um, they have a ninja class at the local
gymnasium like gymnastics place,so we're gonna maybe try, try
ninja class this summer, becauseone it'll be indoors and it'll
be, uh, air conditioned we'regonna teach our eight-year-old
how to silently sneak up on usand kill us in our sleep.
Speaker 1 (45:14):
He already knows how to do that he does it daily
anyway, he hasn't, he hasn'tbrought a ninja star with him
yet, but he does know how to dothat.
Speaker 2 (45:18):
He does it daily anyway.
He hasn't.
He hasn't brought a ninja starwith him yet, but he does know
how to sneak up in the middle ofthe night.
Anyway, we're gonna go back tosoccer in the fall, but we're
gonna look for a league that isa little bit more structured for
him.
I don't need him to be incompetitive soccer, like super
hard competitive soccer, but Ido want to have him, you know,
get the chance to see if helikes it in a more structured
(45:39):
environment.
So thank you, dan.
Speaker 1 (45:41):
Thank you, Dan.
Anyone else have an opinion?
Let us know.
Familiarwilsons at gmailcom.
All right, Amanda, that's allthere is.
There is no more.
I just pray that the rage hasdissipated a little bit.
Now We've had this lovelyrecording.
Speaker 2 (46:01):
I'm just looking lovingly at my Guy Fieri seltzer
water and I'm fine, okay, verygood.
I might need to put, like somewhiskey or gin in it, though.
Speaker 1 (46:11):
I drank the last of the Jamesons yesterday.
Speaker 2 (46:14):
Happy birthday.
That was your birthday present.
Speaker 1 (46:16):
It was my birthday from Professor O'Malley.
So that was good, ProfessorO'Malley.
So that was good, ProfessorO'Malley.
I got to give him a call.
He wants to be on the show, bythe way.
Speaker 2 (46:22):
Well, yes, but he needs to bring more Jameson when
we record.
He wants to record in person,right?
Speaker 1 (46:26):
Right, yeah, yeah, bring the Jameson mic.
All right, we'll have himtonight, all right?
So this episode of SuperFamiliar with the was conjured
into existence by a consortiumof these weird beings and
metaphysical anomalies.
So you ready?
Yes, many thanks to Matt, ourchief architect of the infinite
(46:46):
staircase that leads to nowhere,to Antonio, the minister of
whispered secrets, to Josh Scar,curator of the Museum of
Forgotten Things, danny Buckets,the overseer of Eternal Rain,
chicken Tom, the ambassador tothe Galactic Council of Sentient
Poultry.
Monique from Germany, theEmpress of the Clockwork Forest,
and, of course, thank you toJoey, joey.
Thank you to Refined Gay Jeff,designer of the universe's most
(47:09):
fabulous black holes, to Markand Rachel, co-chairs of the
Committee of UnexplainedLaughter, and, of course, dan
and Gavin, joint directors ofthe Bureau of Unfinished
Sentences.
Speaker 2 (47:20):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (47:22):
Special thanks to the sentient cloud that provided
emotional support duringrecording and to the invisible
orchestra of jellyfish thatcomprise some of the music.
And remember reality is just asuggestion, not a rule.
Go, be kind, bye, bye.
Speaker 2 (47:34):
Not a rule Go be kind .
Speaker 1 (47:36):
Bye.
Speaker 2 (47:37):
Bye.
Speaker 1 (47:44):
About the type.
The text for this episodeappears in Wilson's Bold
Breakfast, a typefacerediscovered in 1954 when
archaeologists unearthed a cafemenu etched into the walls of an
ancient subterranean churchBelieved to have originated
sometime around 1611, possiblyduring the Great Pancake
Enlightenment.
Wilson's Bold Breakfast wasinitially banned by the Royal
(48:07):
Society of Typographic Decencyfor being too enthusiastic.
Thank you, I'm going to go getsome food.
I have shoes made out of cheese.
They make me feel so good.
(49:30):
They roll to my feet Like goodshoes, shoulda.
They're not made of suede orfine patent leather.
They're made of the finest.
Sharp aged cheddar.
Easy by sake, easy girl.
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