May 4, 2025 • 49 mins
Navigating parenting dilemmas and celebrating academic achievements while sharing real-talk about the everyday quirks of Wilson life.
Talking Points:
• 8 year old Winthrop "character building" as his soccer team hasn't won a single game.
• 18-year-old Muffy graduated with her AA degree featuring bagpipes and lengthy speeches,
• Food territorialism creates marital tension
• Fun with portmanteaus
• Refined Gay Jeff's excitement about Fleet Week
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:29):
Welcome to Super Familiar with the Wilsons.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
We are the podcast about marriage 2.0 with kids and
all the side quests.
I'm Amanda and I'm Josh, andone of the side quests that
we've been embarking on thisyear is soccer.
The soccer season foreight-year-old Winthrop is,
mercifully, almost over, becausethey have not won a game.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
No, I think they've scored two goals the entire
season.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Yeah, and so there's a lot of character building
that's happening with oureight-year-old here.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Oh, he's getting a stomach ache every Saturday
morning.
Let me ask you though?
Speaker 1 (01:00):
at what point do we abandon the character building,
for we just want him to have agood time.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Well, but the thing is he's not having a good time
and if you want to hear my wholefeelings on everything, go back
and listen to two episodes agoand last week, because I'm still
talking about it.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Yes, it's one of those things.
But parents out there, what arecharacter building moments that
your kid has been going through?
That at some point you said,okay, that's enough, we need
this kid just to enjoy life andnot be like a acting like a
little 72 year old man justcomplaining about all the things
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Let us know about those inother wilson children news.
The 18 year old girl muffie hasgraduated with her aa degree
from university and we just hadthe ceremony this past weekend.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Yeah.
So if you are not American, anAA degree is an associate's
degree and it's basicallyhalfway to your bachelor's
degree, which is a four-yearcollege degree, and a lot of
people start with theirassociate's degree and transfer
to another college.
The school she was at was alsoa four year college.
But here's the deal Muffy hasyet to graduate from high school
(02:09):
, so it's a really big deal.
So she did a program here.
It's a dual enrollment program.
You can go to take some of yourclasses either at the University
of Florida or Santa Fe Collegeand she did a full time dual
enrollment, meaning she wasgoing full-time to college while
it's counting for her highschool diploma.
She's now taking one more classat her high school, but she has
(02:33):
finished and officiallygraduated with her associate's
degree in art history.
So that's a ton of work and weare very, very proud of her
because, like a lot of people, Ithink, around the world, covid
about did us in when we had topivot to online school.
She went from being a greatstudent to being very depressed
(02:54):
and not caring at all and at onepoint said I don't even need a
high school diploma.
So we have come very far backas she's worked very, very hard
and found a group of friendsthat also have the same goals as
she does, and I think that'smade a giant difference.
So she and two of her closestfriends graduated Friday night
with their degrees.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Here's my question, then, because of this whole dual
enroll thing, which didn'texist when I was a kid Is this
telling us that the last twoyears of high school are useless
, or that the first two years ofcollege are useless?
What is it telling us?
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Because, clearly, I don't know that it tells us that
the last two years of highschool are not important or that
the first two years of collegearen't important.
But what it is is all of therequirements that you have to
graduate for high school are acertain number of science
classes, a certain number ofmath classes.
They just let her switch thatout for the college classes.
And in college you have to do acertain number of gen ed
(03:46):
classes, right, and so she waspoised to be really well set up
going into college, because shegot into the University of
Florida really difficult to getinto was going to go in studying
art history, had done all ofher gen ed classes.
The girl was going to be ableto take just tons of like really
super interesting classes, andthen she had a complete 180 and
(04:09):
has decided she wants to be avet, which makes sense for her.
She likes animals more thanpeople, but now she has to take
a ton of science and mathclasses that she hasn't taken,
and it's gonna be.
It's gonna be a rigorous fouryears, but I believe in her.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
She can definitely do it.
I mean, she'll do it at thelast minute.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
She'll do it the night before it's due, but she
will do it.
She graduated with her AAdegree with highest distinction,
which means she carried a 4.0in college as a 16 to 18 year
old.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Begs back to my question, but I won't ask it
again.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
I know I can't tell you other than we're just very
grateful because the other thingis, through this program it was
all free, her books were free,her tuition was free.
I mean, if you've got kids whoare motivated and it's available
to you, it's a phenomenalprogram.
And it worked well for herbecause she went to a school
that was a kindergarten through12th grade school and had been
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with the same kids.
I mean she went there in secondgrade, had been with the same
kids.
I mean she went there in secondgrade, had been with the same
kids for so long and was justready for something different.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
The ceremony was interesting too.
It had points that I was reallyinto, like, for example, they
started and they ended it with asingle bagpiper processing and
recessing up and down thisaisleway playing I don't know
greatest hits of Scottishbagpipes or something.
At one point he was playingScotland the Brave, which is a
very nationalistic Scotlandishsong, and I could not figure the
(05:31):
connection other than wouldn'tit be cool if we had a musical
cosplayer walking around ourthing?
I mean, I loved it, I loved it,but I couldn't get the
connection.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
I looked and tried to find the connection Like was
the founding person someone fromscotland?
I could not figure it out otherthan this college has a bag,
pipe and drum corps, so maybethey were just like, hey, we've
got these people they're reallygood at it, we gotta use them.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Gotta justify this dude's salary.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
He's probably the professor and I'm not far from
here, about an hour from hereand Dunnell in Florida are the
largest Highland games outsideof Scotland or something, or in
the Southeast I guess.
At least there's a very bigScottish community there and so
maybe there's some sort ofconnection.
I don't know.
I really enjoyed it.
It was very confusing.
(06:20):
But Winthrop did not, becausehere's why he told me he does
not like bags and he does notlike sewer pipes, so therefore
he does not like bagpipes.
I don't think he understandshow they're constructed.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
I feel like to some people, the idea of sewer pipes
and the noise that bagpipesmakes, that that connection
works.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
I don't know A child is.
He said.
You know I like music, but onlythe kind that I make.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
That's brilliant, he's already a snobby musician.
We saw the bagpiper standingoutside and I really wanted to
get a picture with him.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Oh, he reminded me of like a Disney character just
posted up after a performance,waiting for people to queue up
to get pictures with him.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Oh see, I wish I'd have made that connection,
because if he's like a Disneycharacter, that means I could
have hugged him and he wouldn'thave been allowed to break the
hug.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
So if you don't know Disney characters, they are not
allowed to break a hug.
So if a child is hugging them,they have to continue to hold
the hug until the child breaksthe hug.
And Winthrop, at the age of two, put this into place with Doc
McStuffins, because he just laidon her and like up against her
and I think he had had a roughday at the park and just needed
(07:32):
some emotional support from thisgiant Doc McStuffins with his
giant head and, bless her, sheor he or whoever was in the
costume, just took it.
But no, it is a thing.
They are not allowed to break ahug, which is sweet for kids.
Is it the same thing for, likethese disney adults that are
super into it?
Are they not allowed to breakthose hugs either, because at
some point that just gets alittle awkward I think that they
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charge extra the longer the hug, you know for each additional
minute type of thing.
But I wonder if I would havehugged that guy if the bagpipe
would have gone um, I think thatwe go back to the commencement
ceremony next year, even thoughwe have no one graduating from
it, just so you can do that.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
I think that that might constitute an illegal
action, so we shan't be doingthat.
I thought the ceremony itselfwent way too long.
I understand that when you'rehaving a ceremony like that it's
about the kids, but I guessit's also about the teachers and
professors who've put in allthe long hours.
I found the number of speechesto be excessive.
(08:31):
We didn't need that many peopletalking the length of time.
Apparently they were onlysupposed to go two minutes and I
know that because a guy got upone of the professors and he did
a little monologue right tostart.
His remarks probably last abouta minute and a half and then he
said oh well, the professortold me I could go only two
(08:52):
minutes and he's just like oh,sorry, or whatever, and then he
went to two or three moreminutes.
No, I did not like that.
I mean, I understand, at theend of a semester you want to as
a teacher or a professor, youwant to be able to express
yourself too, because you were apart of this educational
experience with the kids, butkeep in mind that there's a room
(09:13):
full of like a thousand peoplewho just want to see their kid
graduate.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Right, and I do public speaking, and I like
public speaking, I like thefeedback that I get, I like
giving people knowledge thatthey need and, hopefully, that
they want.
I am also, though, mortifiedwith the prospect of getting up
there and having someone think,oh geez, this guy just really
likes the sound of his own voice.
Now, that's not the case onthis podcast, because you
(09:40):
fuckers can turn it off wheneveryou want.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
I don't know that it went too long, because I have
been in some graduate ceremoniesfor so long.
But I mean, winthrop was done.
I mean done.
I said to him you need, he wasall over me and I said I need
you to give me space because Ihave to stand up to take a
picture.
And he said, well, I have toleave.
Said well, that's not an optionright now, because not only is
(10:05):
it not done, we are like halfwayup these, we were in gym
bleachers too, like it's.
I mean, it's a small college,so it took place in their gym
and we were in front of peoplethat you know had canes and
walkers.
We were not going to be able toget out, so he just had to get
over himself.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
What do you do, though, though, when you're in a
position where, where you're ina social situation and them
just being a kid means thatthere's great potential for that
to inconvenience the peoplearound them yeah what do you do?
because, like there are a fewtimes where I moved his feet
away from the people in front ofhim and like he got, he got
(10:43):
upset, right, but I don't wanthim to bother the people around
me.
But then also, should we haveput him in that position where
him just being a kid who's awiggly kid it's going to result
in him like making noise or nothaving full control of his limbs
and so he's going to knockagainst someone.
That's kind of of on us isn'tit so?
(11:05):
I struggle to come down too hardon him in those situations.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Yeah, no, I think you're just trying to make him
aware of his body space andwhere his body is in space is
what I'm trying to say.
And then also the lady in frontof us.
That was very nice about it.
Like I kept saying I'm so sorry, and she was like got it.
Um, I mean, she was an olderlady, but clearly probably had
(11:29):
her own children and wentthrough this, so she was fine.
Um, I am, though the highschool graduation will be in the
performing art center, so therewill be actual chairs that he
will be sitting in, so it willbe much better.
This one was a little difficult, though.
One of her good friends satwith us and told told her how
well behaved she was, so maybewe were just feeling it, but he
(11:49):
was well, I'm always like ultraconcerned about that even with
the two older boys.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
I was always like when they were teenagers and
they were in public, I wouldhave to remind them dude, you
can't stand in the middle ofthis aisle and just talk while
people are trying to get by likeI understand that you've got a
really cool joke about minecraftthat you want to relate to your
brother just at this time, butthere's people around trying to
shop and so I was real hard onthem for that I mean, I had an
(12:15):
experience with them like thatin the grocery store once too,
because they just stopped.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
They would just stop and talk to each other, but it's
like, guys, you got to be awareof what's going on around you
and I mean, so I think there's aline of like please be aware,
but then also making them superanxious about being in public,
right.
So I mean, all of parenting isa fine line.
I did like that.
They they did, though.
The president of the collegecalled out specific individuals,
(12:38):
and I liked that because therewas a guy graduating who was a
US veteran, who had becomehomeless and was graduating with
like a 3.9 and had showed uplike living in his car, and that
was a cool thing.
He also brought out the peoplewho are first-generation college
graduates, which I thought wasreally cool.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
All that is great because it's about the students.
I love that bit.
And there was a 63-year-oldwoman who just 65.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
She was 65.
She was the very-.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
She aged two years, just sitting in that audience
waiting for them to stop theirfreaking speeches.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
They let her graduate first.
She was the first graduateacross the stage and I thought
that was super cool yeah thatwas great.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
There's a new phenomenon that I only became
aware of at this graduationceremony, and that is the
frequency at which people droptheir phones.
We were sitting on bleachers onwooden bleachers and so every
12 seconds there was a thud, youknow, because someone else
dropped their freaking brick ofan iPhone you know out of their
hands or they pushed it off thething.
It was like fruit droppingduring harvest season.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
And it echoed because the bleachers were hollow
underneath.
So it was just like this loudthumping echo.
I became aware of the fact thatthere are a lot of shoes in the
world that I wouldn't wear.
I was just looking at the shoesaround me, I mean, and there
were, I mean, fancy, fancystilettos that had rainbow
(13:59):
sparkles all over them and then,like, the thing that wrapped
around the ankle was basicallylike a giant scrunchie that you
would put in your hair and Imean, good on you, but I
wouldn't have been able to getup with bleachers in those shoes
.
So I just was looking at thefootwear around me wait a second
.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
I'm trying to envision this.
Did they have the scrunchies tokeep the leg hair off of their
ankles?
Speaker 2 (14:19):
no, silly, that was like, instead of a buckle wrap
that goes around you.
It was a scrunchie, I see.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
I've had it up to here not to break away from the
fashion talk, but I've had it upto here with people screeching
in public.
You know, listen, your kid doesnot want you to.
As they are walking across thestage, screech and whistle and
call their name.
Your kid doesn't want that.
That will embarrass your kidand will inconvenience everyone
around you.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
When you graduated, were people still allowed to
bring air horns.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
What do you mean?
Still allowed to bring airhorns?
I've never been in a placewhere air horns were encouraged
or allowed.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Oh my gosh, like my high school graduation, people
had air horns and then, like itseems like they've stopped,
they've started becoming on the.
You may not bring this in list.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
No.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
But yeah, that was.
That would have annoyed you too, because you don't like the
sudden loud noises.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
No, no, no, no.
That's the audio equivalent ofa laser pointer, so obnoxious
that Listen.
We were packed shoulder toshoulder with other people and
by the end of this thing I feltlike a wrung out washcloth.
It was just, it was mybatteries.
My social batteries weredepleted at that point.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Oh, Winthrop fell asleep on the way home.
I mean, he was just done atthat point.
He complained about bagpipesand went to sleep.
Muffy had a great time.
She and her friends went out todinner.
They had a lovely time and theygot to celebrate how hard they
have worked.
So we're very proud of that.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Yeah, now we got to wait.
What 10 years.
And then we got to go throughit with Winthrop.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
No, it's okay, in two weeks we get to do high school
graduation, graduation.
So you get more of the samescreeching with less maturity.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Parents.
Let's talk about clapping.
Not one clap, not a few claps,I'm talking about hundreds of
claps.
At a graduation ceremony, yourhands basically go into
full-time applause labor.
You clap for your kids, sure,but also for av, for Ava, blake,
cassidy, dylan and everyonewhose name starts with E and
never ends, and somewhere aroundXavier, michael Zombrowski.
(16:11):
Your palms have gone numb, yoursoul has left your body and
you're still clapping out ofsheer social pressure.
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Technologies, because you'reproud.
But let's not get ridiculous.
(17:10):
It's game time game time this isa very easy one.
All you have to do is guesswords stick blue horse with a
prompt.
Oh, I'm going to give you aportmanteau, a phrase, and
you're going to tell me what itmeans what a portmanteau is.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
It's a name for.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
It's another name for something no, portmanteau is
when you take two words and youput them together like benifer
and all that stuff right, right,you're so over this already how
are you?
Over this already all right, soI'm gonna, I'm gonna give you
the thing and then you tell mewhat.
The thing is Ready.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
What is techspectation?
Speaker 2 (17:48):
I mean, that's where you send a text and you're
expecting something good orwhatever to come back from it.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Okay, well, that's close enough.
Techspectation is theirrational hope that this time
the notification you get is fromsomeone you actually want to
hear it from.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Okay, fair, not like Buff City, city soap telling me
they've got 20 off.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Today I got.
I'm really like, really annoyedby I don't know how these
people have gotten my textnumber, but I'm getting texts
from from people that like, whoare you like?
Why, no, I am I.
I understand you're from hr atthis great company, but I do not
want to apply for this job thatdoes not exist there has been
an upswing in those recently Iget those.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
And I'm getting a ton of spam calls right now.
I don't like it.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
So it used to be that whenever you would move house,
you would get a new phone number.
That's how it went.
But now I've had this phonenumber that I have for years and
years and years, and noweveryone wants to keep or save
their phone number.
But there was a certainwonderful freedom about getting
a new phone number.
It was so easy, like just toleave certain parts of your past
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behind you by getting a newphone number.
People don't do that anymore,unless, of course, something
tragic has happened and theyreally need to get a new phone
number because they're in a badsituation.
But it used to be commonplace.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Do you remember we had to do that when Muffy got
her first phone?
Yeah, do you remember?
Why?
No, because we found out afterall of the text she was getting
about buying a dime bag, thather phone number had been
associated with a locallow-level drug dealer.
So she was getting hit up aslike this 12-year-old.
Because we got her a phone,because she was going to the
(19:24):
dance studio and stuff and shewas getting people texting her
asking if they could score oh mygod and so I called at&t and
was like this is what's going on, we need to get a new phone
number, and those mfers chargedus to change the phone number.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
They charged us like 50 to get her a new phone number
see, now I'm rethinking thisidea of getting a new number,
because this number has beenaround for however long you know
that you're getting or youdon't know how long it's been
around, but it's like movinginto a house without getting an
inspection.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Yeah, or you know, like ghosts that are still there
too.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Yeah, no, okay, nevermind.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
I'll keep my number.
Next, what's chore-a-phobiawhen you don't want to unload
the dishwasher?
Speaker 1 (20:09):
An intense, irrational fear of doing chores.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
But for you it's really what's your least
favorite chore, because you hateunloading the dishwasher.
No.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
I don't hate unloading the dishwasher, I hate
unloading silverware.
Oh, that's interesting.
It's too fiddly.
Silverware is always the lastthing I do and every now and
again I have asked you if youwanted to do the silverware.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Yeah, I don't mind doing the silverware, I hate
doing the dishes.
You know why?
Because I'm short and I can'treach the stuff that goes up
high.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
We've not taken advantage of this in our
marriage, then the fact of this,that you like doing silverware
and I freaking hate it.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Oh well, I will do.
I hate cleaning the toiletsmost of my life yeah, well, it's
gotta happen apparently I'm theonly one in this house who
cleans the toilet, so I don'tknow what to tell you.
Today is your day I'll justpour bleach in it and flush no
sir, there has to be lifting oflids and it's always like a
surprise as to what you're goingto get when you lift the lid,
and I hate it so much all right.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
What is yanarchy?
Speaker 2 (21:05):
oh gosh.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Yawnarchy.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Is that like when you're trying to be awake but
you're so tired that your yawnsare just coming out anyway?
There's anarchy with the yawns.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
I mean, that's close.
I'll give that to you the stateof a room full of people
pretending to be alert during aboring meeting.
Okay, moodge, moodge.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Oh, so this is definitely me.
This is when you get in a moodto judge people, and so you're
moody because you're goingthrough perimenopause If you
want to know about that, go backand listen to last week and so
then everything's just makingyou mad and you're grumpy and
you're just judging everybody inthat meeting, or that Zoom call
.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
It's not the definition that I have here, but
I'm going to give it to youbecause I don't want to argue
with that All right.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
What is your definition?
Speaker 1 (21:56):
This whole perimenopause thing.
I want to come up with acharacter.
Right, I want to come up with acharacter that embodies maybe
this can be a perimenopausebranding thing, and I will have
invented it, and I will haveinvented it, and that is the
character like the mascot ofthis would be an Irish person
called Perryman Opaus.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Yes, okay, and is this like a little leprechaun,
or is this a grumpy Irish lady?
Speaker 1 (22:24):
It would have to be a combination oh top of the
morning to you motherfuckers.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
That's right.
It's like nobody's saying topof the morning.
They're saying like give me themorning to you motherfuckers.
That's right.
It's like nobody's saying topof the morning.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
They're saying like give me the coffee and shut up.
What I had for this is acombination of mood and sludge,
that thick emotional funk thatmakes you scroll in bed for two
hours instead of doing anythinguseful.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Oh, that's a good one too.
I'm about to do that whenyou're editing this podcast.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
All right, how about a shamelet?
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
A shamelet.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Okay, so you're ashamed of something that you've
done, but I don't know what thelet is.
I don't know what is that.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
A hastily thrown together excuse with many
different parts that's clearlyhiding a poor decision.
It's a portmanteau of shame andomelet.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Okay, that is reaching friend.
I didn't know what an omeletomelet, I couldn't have gotten
there, but okay, a shamelet gotit.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Snackrifice.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Is that when you give up on your goals for the day so
you're sacrificing your healthyeating and you eat the yummy
snack?
Or is that when you eat thereally like carrots and celery,
because you're sacrificing yoursnacky yumminess to be healthy?
Speaker 1 (23:32):
No.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
It's neither one of those.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
No, it's giving up your treat for someone else and
then immediately regretting it.
Oh, happens with Winthrop all,the time, all the time, All the
time, and it annoys me.
I am real territorial about myfood anyway.
I am aware I just if I getsomething on my plate, my
expectation is I'm going to beable to eat all of it, right?
So give me a bite of your pizza.
Oh, let me try that.
(23:54):
What's that sauce like?
It sets me off and I don't knowwhy.
You would think that I wasraised with siblings.
How territorial I am with myfood.
Nope, only child.
So I don't know where thatcomes from, but I do not like
snack-rificing.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Well, it didn't start with Winthrop, because one of
the older children did that alot too, and I mean bless you as
a parent, you'll do it, but youget mad about it.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
I do.
I do that noise.
Andrew Middle son Andrew, usedto always want to taste my food,
but it's because he no, no, no,still does.
By the way, still does, he's 21.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Still does, by the way still does he's 21.
No, he is not.
He's going to be 23.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
No, he just turned 21 .
Friend he was born in 2022.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
It is 2025.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Jesus.
Okay, man, time is going waytoo fast, anyway, it doesn't
matter, not the point I said.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
He was born in 2022.
He was born in 2002.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Yes, see how I just glossed right over that.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Anyway, he still does it, though, but he does it from
a space of he's curious aboutfood Like this is the kid that
every time he went to thegrocery store would want to go
to the produce section and pickout the weirdest fruit or
vegetable and get it and justtry it.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Okay, you're in your 20s, buy it.
You want to know what it is sobad?
Buy it.
Leave my food alone.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
And I know not to ask .
And now we've gotten to thepoint where I'm not even allowed
to ask you how your food iswhile you're eating.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
No, okay, we're not doing that.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
We're not doing that, you just need to eat in a
bubble by yourself, so nobodycan take your food and nobody
can ask you about your food.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Well, it's just that your go-to move.
If we're going to do this now,your go-to move is I've had
three bites.
How is it?
How is it?
Is that good?
How is it?
Speaker 2 (25:30):
okay, first of all, I'm not doing it like how is it?
How is it?
Like I'm angry at you.
I'm like is it good?
How is it?
I mean because I care thatyou're enjoying your food
experience.
We were married for 10 yearsbefore you told me.
That stressed you out, and sonow and then yesterday, I said
you were such a jackass.
Yesterday I looked at you andwe were eating at blaze pizza
again because you're obsessedand I forgot that I'm supposed
(25:52):
to behave in this way.
And I looked at you and I said,like, do you like it or is it
good?
And you just looked at me doyou know what you said?
Speaker 1 (26:01):
I don't remember.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
I was in a food consuming induced haze you
looked at me and went I'm stilleating it.
You, you're such a jackass.
I'm just asking you if it'sgood and you're like, hold on,
I'm still eating it.
So you know what?
I don't care anymore.
I don't care if you're likingyour food, I don't care if
you're enjoying your food, itdoesn't matter to me anymore,
(26:22):
and I don't want to taste yourfood.
And don't taste my food, though.
Oh, but this is the thing youdo.
That, though, you will will saywhat are you eating, what do
you have there?
If I have something that you'renot expecting me to have, and
then it'd be like, well, can I,can?
I just know what it tastes like.
So you do it.
Your double standard is very,very big here, friend.
I feel like maybe it's becauseyou were a preemie that, like
(26:43):
you had to fight for your food,and now you're just like a
picture of like I'm in the nickUward with a little tiny
switchblade going around to theother things.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Give me that hose.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Get out of here.
I don't know, I have to fightfor my food.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
I don't even know what that means.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
If you're ever dining with Josh, don't ask him if he
likes it and don't expect him toshare it, but be willing to
give him a bite of it if he soasks.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Next one.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Because we're moving quickly along.
Procrastinate oh, that's whenthat this is muffy.
This is when she has got apaper due or an exam to study
for, and she instead decides togo make cookies or banana bread
or something yeah, that iscorrect?
Was it based on her?
Speaker 1 (27:28):
no, no, no, that's actually a word, that's out
there oh, really yeah, becauseshe for real does it.
Dreadmill.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Oh, is that when you have to go work out on a
treadmill?
Speaker 1 (27:36):
No, it's a task.
You're endlessly running on,but never making any progress.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Oh, so it's a work thing, ready yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
All right, slackramony.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Oh, this is.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
When you don't clean the toilet, you're slacking in
our matrimony, no get out ofhere the unspoken hostility
simmering on apassive-aggressive work trap.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
What is the monie then?
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Acrimony.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Oh, acrimony, okay, got it.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Slackrimony, yeah, the app Slack that people work
on.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Got it.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Acrimony yep.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Yeah.
Grumpathy is that when you feel, when this is when you
understand why I'm being grumpy,so you have grumpy empathy for
me.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
No, no no, it's not that nice.
It's feeling sorry for someonebut still wishing they'd shut up
yeah, that's for real, true,though all.
Here's one.
You may have heard Snub Scribe.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Oh, snub Scribe, like you're snubbing somebody by not
subscribing to them.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Ghosting a friend by slowly fading from their social
feed and never liking theirposts again.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
I like it.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
All right couple more here Glueminous, Glueminous.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
That's when you put glue on something and then throw
glitter on it.
So then it's glitter, glue andgloominous.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Oh, that's good.
But no, that strangelybeautiful cinematic sadness you
feel and sometimes you enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Oh gloom, I was thinking gloominous, all right,
sassacre, I mean that's whenyou're just being sassy and you
take somebody out with yourwords.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
That's exactly what it means, and boy, do you know
how to do that.
And then, lastly, cringeship,cringeship.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Is this when you tell somebody you love them but you
feel cringey about it, like yourfriend you're like I love you,
but it makes you feel cringey?
Or is this like a guiltypleasure, like you're friends
with somebody but you don't wantother people to know about?
Speaker 1 (29:33):
it that longstanding relationship held together by
mutual embarrassment and insidejokes that no one else would
understand?
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Okay, so like me and my friends that I went to the
Twilight Convention and theForks High School prom with got
it.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
You went to a Twilight Convention.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
I did and I took pictures with the hand model
from the book covers.
We all held apples with her,you you actually took first of
all a hand model showed up at aconvention yeah, because they
couldn't get real people, sothey just the person who holds
the apple in the front of thebook she showed up can I ask the
obvious question?
Speaker 1 (30:04):
yeah, how did you know it was the real person?
Speaker 2 (30:06):
I mean, she showed us the book and it looked like her
hand.
I don't know it was a time.
It was before you and I weredating.
After I got divorced, beforeyou and I were dating.
It was a time.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Let's just Wait, you were an adult when you did.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Yes, Twilight came out when I was an adult.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Oh, I guess.
So yeah, damn, oh, I saved you.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Yes, but she won't share your food with me, so I
don't know I bet, I bet edwardcullen would share food.
I don't know.
He's a vampire.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
I don't want to drink blood never mind, I'll get you
an apple thank you and I'll holdit in that same pose.
Oh my God.
And now it's time for RefineGay Thoughts with Refine Gay
(31:03):
Jeff.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Hey Jeff.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Jeff is back and he apologizes for his absence
because things have been ultrafantastically, epically busy.
He says we have entered testingseason here in education land
and unfortunately I am the onewho's responsible for making
sure it ultimately happens.
Yeah, he is a media specialist,and so he doesn't give the test
(31:26):
, but he makes sure everythinghappens with the test and it's
all computer-based now.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
So you gotta make sure everybody's got their
technology and the technology isworking and everybody can log
into it.
It's a whole thing.
Bless you, Jeff.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Yeah, no, absolutely.
But he gives us some happy newsfor him.
He says and now for some ratherinteresting and gargantuan news
Drum roll please.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Guess what was announced this week?
For the first time in americanhistory, the us navy announced
that they will have navy fleetweek here in houston.
Oh, that is very, very epic hesays I'm having a very sex in
the city samantha jones momentright now and am already
(32:07):
rehearsing the dismount in myhead.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
I love it so much, so Fleet Week happens in multiple
places.
Usually you hear about New YorkCity Fleet Week, but it happens
in San Francisco.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
What is Fleet Week so ?
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Fleet Week is where my brother was career Navy, so
Fleet Week is where the navalships will pull into port in
these anchor cities and thesailors and the marines will get
off the ship and then go enjoythe sights and the sounds and
the tastes and the feels,apparently, of of the local
culture.
But then also the people wholive in those in those cities
(32:43):
can go and tour the ships.
And it's meant to, um, you know, just make the american public
aware of what the Navy and theMarines do.
But this year they'recelebrating the 250th
anniversary of the creation ofthe Navy and the Marines.
And so they just had one at PortEverglades.
Did you know that?
Speaker 1 (33:01):
I did not know that.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
So they had Fleet Week in Miami.
They had Fleet Week, my.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
God Fleet Week in Miami.
I can only imagine it justhappened.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
It was at the end of April, flea Week in Miami.
I can only imagine it justhappened.
It was at the end of April.
But I think, jeff, I lookedthis up.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
I think yours is coming in.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Well, sorry that was the wrong verb.
Yours is happening.
I said coming.
Yours is happening in November,I think.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Yeah that's what he says.
We'll be in the second week ofNovember.
He is giddy with anticipation.
Time for me to find a refinedgay naval officer.
Husband.
All right we can even playbattleship in my pool.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
So I looked this up and there was an interview I
think it's like a K Hugh, Iguess it's maybe like Houston
News from KHOU11.
And it was talking about howthe mayor invited Admiral Daryl
Cottle, I guess, is his name.
He's the commander of the USFleet Forces and he announced on
Facebook that he was formallyaccepting Mayor John Whitmore's
(33:57):
invitation to bring the.
So this is just a Facebookinvite, is basically what
happened, right, and it saysit's really to expose the public
, the greater Houston area, towhat the Navy and Marine Corps
are about.
We don't really have any largenaval concentration areas of
marines or sailors or ships downthere.
This is a chance to see some ofour ships on the line, some of
our surface combatants, andwe'll be able to demonstrate
(34:18):
what it's all about.
So that's the fun, I mean,that's the like military side of
it.
But then the sailors and themarines all go out and they
spend a week just getting alittle bit crazy in houston.
But I did look it up and therewas somebody that said us navy
operations specialist cordericwalton and us navy undesignated
sailor joshua wilson, bothhouston area natives are
(34:40):
thrilled for fleet to come totheir hometown.
So I need to know, sir, what isthis double life that you are
leading?
I need to know what anundesignated sailor is it's an
enlisted seaman, go ahead,because that's what they're
called, and they either enlistedwithout having a job
designation or they got introuble for something and
(35:01):
weren't given one yet so.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Joshua Wilson getting up to some stuff well, it's
because I've never reported, Ijust stay here so you've been
MIA for like ever.
That's right, jeff continues forthose in listener land that may
not know, and this is a littlehistorical teaching moment about
Houston Houston is actually aport city on the Gulf of Mexico.
The Houston Ship Channel wasbuilt many decades ago and comes
(35:27):
52 miles inland to the TuringBasin, where ships obviously
turn around to head back out tosea.
The port of Houston is locatedin the Turing Basin.
It's just nine miles fromdowntown.
It's the fifth largestcontainer port in the US.
Cruise ships are handled out ofthis port in Galveston, 45
minutes away.
So it's just the containerships, the industrial ships go
(35:49):
up to Houston.
I was unaware that Houston wasattached to the Gulf in that way
.
That's just the container ships, the industrial ships go up to
houston.
I was unaware that houston wasattached to the gulf in that way
.
That's really interesting.
He's already envisioning thestreets of montrose, houston's
gaberhood, thriving andthrobbing with navy guys in
their white sailor uniformslooking for a place to drop
their anchor.
And yes, that was a doubleentendre.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
Now listen, jeff.
I am a giant fan of all theNCIS franchise because of being
a Navy sibling.
I have seen NCIS New Orleanswhen they got into all kinds of
trouble at Fleet Week there.
So please, please, please,don't wind up with like some
kind of murdered sailor near youor at your local bar.
(36:30):
Don't do it, please, be careful.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
He agrees that last week was eternal it was.
Yeah, no, he said that.
You're correct in that afterspring break, the distance to
school year closure isinterminable.
Houston is going until June 4th, so we have about a month to go
.
In middle school, you can getthe feels like time by
multiplying one month to afactor of four to the seventh
power.
Let's be real.
(36:54):
Nothing gets done because kidsalready know all the major
grades and testings havehappened.
High school kids know thattheir class rank was set long
ago, so lots of people justcoast until graduation.
I'm going to tell you, though,as a parent, it's the opposite.
For a professional educator, Ican see that it feels like
forever between spring break andthe close of school, but as a
(37:14):
parent, it feels like boom.
All of a sudden my kid is outand he's in the next grade.
I feel like, at this point I'mstaggered by how quickly it goes
, and maybe it's just markingthe passage of time and your kid
is getting older and all ofthese things.
But I don't perceive it thatway.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
Well, winthrop said to me can you believe how long
ago the first day of secondgrade was?
And I thought he meant that itwas going to go by really
quickly and I said do you meanthat's fast?
He said no, it's been a reallylong year.
So I don't know what's going onin second grade.
But Winthrop is also feeling it, jeff, I feel you, and we go to
June 3rd here and while I am nolonger in the classroom, I'm
(37:53):
still working with schools anddistricts and we haven't even
started our progress.
Our final window of progressmonitoring testing friend, ours
is like the middle of May.
So it's a real thing and it'sinteresting because, as an
educator, like Jeff and I said,it takes forever between spring
break and the end of the year.
There are no holidays, there'sno teacher work days, it just
(38:14):
goes on.
But in the fall we have thisthing called what we call the
Hallow Thankmas slide.
So it starts at Halloween andit goes to when you get out for
the winter holidays and it isjust one intense crazy.
Kids are hopped up on sugar,they're excited because presents
are coming or they're getting,and it is like a really
(38:35):
condensed craziness, whereas theend of the year is the really
extended craziness.
So I'm feeling for you, jeff,stay strong.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
He goes on to talk about this discarded bra.
That kind of put me off lastweek.
Speaker 2 (38:50):
I don't know where you expect me to throw away
clothing articles that arebroken.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
He says Josh, I am sorry that you were taken aback
by the discarded bra.
Thank you for the sympathy.
As Bette Midler once sang in asoundtrack to Beaches, the
fictional character of OttoTitzling invented the brassiere
and called it anover-the-shoulder boulder holder
.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
This is the thing.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
I am sorry, amanda, for being so crude, because you
know I don't like humor based onthe body or body parts, but
it's Bette Midler, she can do nowrong.
I hope this justifies a passfor me.
Speaker 2 (39:21):
I had forgotten that that movie was where that term
came from, because that is avery pervasive term.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
He says I've never had the Popo police show up to
my house for my alarmdischarging, which happened to
us this past week.
I also get one to two freedispatches per month.
Luckily I never had to call forsomeone, but I'm wondering if I
could request hot cop with abilly stick and furry handcuffs.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
Well, let us tell you .
I was wondering if we weregoing to get charged for this.
Guess what we did.
We did.
How much was that?
Bill Josh?
Speaker 1 (39:55):
Too much.
Speaker 2 (39:56):
Like over $300.
Now they say it's because wedidn't have a permit.
We didn't know we had to have apermit because we went through
an alarm company.
One would think the alarmcompany would let you know that
you had to have a permit.
And so I think they said, if wepay the $25 for the permit,
they'll greatly reduce our fine.
Well, let's see how this goes.
You set the alarm off thismorning.
Speaker 1 (40:19):
I did.
Speaker 2 (40:19):
It was set when you went out to take the trash out
or whatever you went out thegarage for, and I happened to be
downstairs and heard it startbeeping.
Speaker 1 (40:26):
And so I ran and turned it off.
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 2 (40:29):
This can't be a Sunday morning event for us now
it might be.
Speaker 1 (40:31):
Yep, we talked about sparkling water last week.
Jeff has an opinion.
He says we talked aboutsparkling water last week.
Jeff has an opinion.
He says I told you guys thisbefore, but I don't do sparkling
water at all.
I like you, like the bottle forTopo Chico, but we'll pass on
the contents.
I actually have several bottlesin my fridge right now that I
brought for my friend ChristyNot long ago.
(40:52):
I invited friends over fortequila tasting, but I don't
think that we were invited.
Amanda, everyone brought abottle of tequila that we were
not familiar with, and then theydid flights to compare them,
and so he bought this Topo Chicofor his friend Christy, but he
still has it and I guess he'snot going to use it.
Can you water plants withsparkling?
Speaker 2 (41:10):
water.
I actually wondered that I didwater one of the plants the
other day because I picked up acan that was half empty, that
had sat overnight, so I wateredone of the plants with it.
Speaker 1 (41:18):
We'll see, we talked about hats with drapes.
He points out that at the 2020Grammys, billy Porter wore a hat
with a motorized curtain ofdrapes.
Google it, you'll find itquickly.
Speaker 2 (41:31):
I knew that it existed and it makes total sense
that it was Billy Porter.
Speaker 1 (41:34):
Which reminds me of the fact that this whole idea of
decorating your hat forgraduation was in full force
this last weekend, as we sawhats that had lights on them.
Speaker 2 (41:46):
Yes, some of them had LED lights.
Speaker 1 (41:49):
And Muffy did a nice painting on hers.
I thought that that was reallyinteresting, although, like, I
don't know who you're doing itfor, because in the audience you
can't really make out what theysay, and so the ones that I
really noticed were the oneswith lights on them.
Speaker 2 (42:04):
Yeah, but I think it's a little bit different
because the environment that wewere in was very we were not
very much up above the graduates, but at UF or when I graduated
undergrad from USF, when wedecorated our hats, you were in
the arena and so you could seelike it's interesting to look
out, and then you can make outwhat all is on all of the hats
because you're sitting at anincline to it and that's
(42:26):
interesting.
Speaker 1 (42:27):
Surely there must be some sort of requirements or
specs.
Like you can't come in with aheaddress, Like you're going to,
like you know carnival orsomething because that would be
amazing.
That's what I was thinking of.
Like pretty soon it's going toclimb.
It's going to be storiesthey're going to have, like
helium balloons or some suchthings like that.
Speaker 2 (42:43):
The uphouse on the thing I don't know.
They're not allowed to decoratethem in high school because no
one can trust the high schoolersto.
You know, not make them saydirty words.
Speaker 1 (42:51):
And college students.
You can.
I don't know he, I don't knowhe says, yes, contact lenses do
exist that have bifocalsembedded somehow in them.
He has a pair.
He doesn't know how they work.
Speaker 2 (43:03):
Does it work for you, though?
Huh, I mean, I'm asking himdoes it work for you or does it
give you a headache Like what'sthe experience like?
Speaker 1 (43:10):
No, he says.
He says he has a pair.
He doesn't know how they work.
All he knows that you look downwith your eyeballs and it
accesses the bifocal area of thelens.
He has no idea how they don'tspin around during the day or in
your eyes.
It's magic and I'm notquestioning it.
So yes, it works.
I don't know how that wouldwork.
I don't understand, becauseyour iris doesn't work that way.
Speaker 2 (43:33):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (43:34):
Yeah, well, clearly it doesn't.
I don't know what the hell I'mtalking about.
He says Amanda, I also cannotsleep with any jewelry and feel
like I'm going throughperimenopause, because I pretty
much have all these symptomsthat you described.
Speaker 2 (43:46):
Jeff, you are welcome to the tavern with me and my
ovaries.
That's what he says.
Speaker 1 (43:49):
Let me know when you want to take your ovaries to the
tavern and I will go with youand drink and wine and bitch
about men that I'm here for allof it, but I'm bitching about
everybody he said.
He didn't say drink and wine,he said drink wine okay but I, I
isn't.
Speaker 2 (44:05):
I don't limit my anger to just men.
I'm angry at inanimate objects.
I'm angry at people that I workwith.
Their voices just bother me.
Speaker 1 (44:13):
I'm just angry at everything right now yeah well,
I Well, I don't, I know it, I'mPerryman.
Oh pause, don't you know?
Still eating my food.
Speaker 2 (44:21):
You don't help you.
You say all the time like whatcan I do to help?
Like you want to know what youcan do to help, but you don't.
You don't enact this when itcomes to just not being mean.
When your food Like what youcan do to help is think before
you speak, this is what you cando.
Speaker 1 (44:40):
I don't know when our podcast changed.
Speaker 2 (44:44):
Probably when Paramon O'Paws showed up to live with
us.
Speaker 1 (44:55):
No one likes to be told what to do, and now's the
time in the program where wetell you what to do.
I'm telling you, men, that ifyou have a wife who is
experiencing perimenopause,please listen to our last
episode and get educated.
Learn from my mistakes or not,even if you have a partner who's
(45:15):
going through that.
If there's someone in youroffice going through that, do
the same, because it ain't nojoke, friends.
Speaker 2 (45:22):
Just go be a good human, like just go learn how to
be a good human.
Speaker 1 (45:28):
Well, but I'm also sensing that sometimes being a
good human won't be enough ifyou've got this rage inside of
you.
Speaker 2 (45:34):
Yeah, I don't know.
I was talking to somebody theother day that said their doctor
had asked them when they weregoing through this if they
thought about hurting themselves.
And they said immediately no.
Then the doctor said have youthought about hurting anyone
that lives in your house?
And they paused and the doctorsaid okay, that's a yes.
So I mean we're gonna.
I don't know how long the pauseneeds to be before, and she was
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telling me she would just getangry when she heard her
husband's truck come in thedriveway.
So I'm not angry when you comehome I'm not there yet.
I love you very much.
I just get angry when you getmad at me for asking if you're
enjoying your pizza.
Speaker 1 (46:09):
Maybe that's where the term menopause came from.
It's really just the timebetween when the doctor asks you
are you wanting?
To hurt someone, and the timebetween when the doctor asks you
are you wanting to hurt someone?
And when you answer and that'syour menopause.
Speaker 2 (46:21):
I don't know.
It's no joke, though You'reright, it is no joke.
Like we laugh about it and we,you know we make light of it
because it's the whole.
You gotta laugh at yourself oryou're gonna cry your eyes out.
But it's not a joke, andyesterday was the first time
that I felt like I wanted tocrawl out of my own skin, like
it was absolutely insane.
So it's real.
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If you have experienced it oryou are experiencing it, the
Wilsons are thinking of you.
Speaker 1 (46:55):
All right, Amanda, that's all there is.
There is no more what?
Speaker 2 (46:59):
do you think about that mess?
I mean, I'm filled with angerand rage and yet I love it all
at the same time.
Speaker 1 (47:05):
Great, wonderful.
This podcast, of course, wouldnot be possible without our cast
of characters, in addition toAmanda and me also appearing in
today's show Matt as the brain,antonio as the recluse, josh
Scar as the Philosopher, dannyBuckets as the Dreamer, chicken
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Icon, mark and Rachel as theChaos Twins and Dan and Gavin as
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Speaker 2 (47:49):
I mean, that's a lot of people and that's a lot of
words.
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So until next week, y'all take it easy and just one
thing at a time, don't try to doit all at once, thing at a time
but, also, while you're doingit, be kind bye.
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Welcome to Super Familiar with the wilsons and
I'm josh no, you were gonna.
We were supposed to say welcometo super familiar with the
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, blah.
And then I say amanda, and yousay I'm josh, we just went over
this all right, let's try itagain.
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What's wrong with you?
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What's?
Wrong with you.
Welcome to Super Familiar withthe Wilsons.
What was that?
I don't know.
I was enjoying the way you werepointing.
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All right, you ready.
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No, welcome to Super Familiar with the Wilsons.
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God damn it to hell.
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I started all over.
Okay, ready.
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Welcome.
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You should not start thispodcast off with flipping me off
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No, please don't.
No one wants to hear thisMarital strife.
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Yeah, I think that they do it makes them feel
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What?
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We are the podcast about marriage 2.0 with kids and
all the side quests.
I'm Amanda and I'm Josh, andone of the side quests that
we've been embarking on thisyear is soccer.
The soccer season foreight-year-old Winthrop is,
mercifully, almost over, becausethey have not won a game.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
No, I think they've scored two goals the entire
season.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Yeah, and so there's a lot of character building
that's happening with oureight-year-old here.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Oh, he's getting a stomach ache every Saturday
morning.
Let me ask you though?
Speaker 1 (01:00):
at what point do we abandon the character building,
for we just want him to have agood time.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Well, but the thing is he's not having a good time
and if you want to hear my wholefeelings on everything, go back
and listen to two episodes agoand last week, because I'm still
talking about it.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Yes, it's one of those things.
But parents out there, what arecharacter building moments that
your kid has been going through?
That at some point you said,okay, that's enough, we need
this kid just to enjoy life andnot be like a acting like a
little 72 year old man justcomplaining about all the things
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Let us know about those inother wilson children news.
The 18 year old girl muffie hasgraduated with her aa degree
from university and we just hadthe ceremony this past weekend.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Yeah.
So if you are not American, anAA degree is an associate's
degree and it's basicallyhalfway to your bachelor's
degree, which is a four-yearcollege degree, and a lot of
people start with theirassociate's degree and transfer
to another college.
The school she was at was alsoa four year college.
But here's the deal Muffy hasyet to graduate from high school
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, so it's a really big deal.
So she did a program here.
It's a dual enrollment program.
You can go to take some of yourclasses either at the University
of Florida or Santa Fe Collegeand she did a full time dual
enrollment, meaning she wasgoing full-time to college while
it's counting for her highschool diploma.
She's now taking one more classat her high school, but she has
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finished and officiallygraduated with her associate's
degree in art history.
So that's a ton of work and weare very, very proud of her
because, like a lot of people, Ithink, around the world, covid
about did us in when we had topivot to online school.
She went from being a greatstudent to being very depressed
(02:54):
and not caring at all and at onepoint said I don't even need a
high school diploma.
So we have come very far backas she's worked very, very hard
and found a group of friendsthat also have the same goals as
she does, and I think that'smade a giant difference.
So she and two of her closestfriends graduated Friday night
with their degrees.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Here's my question, then, because of this whole dual
enroll thing, which didn'texist when I was a kid Is this
telling us that the last twoyears of high school are useless
, or that the first two years ofcollege are useless?
What is it telling us?
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Because, clearly, I don't know that it tells us that
the last two years of highschool are not important or that
the first two years of collegearen't important.
But what it is is all of therequirements that you have to
graduate for high school are acertain number of science
classes, a certain number ofmath classes.
They just let her switch thatout for the college classes.
And in college you have to do acertain number of gen ed
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classes, right, and so she waspoised to be really well set up
going into college, because shegot into the University of
Florida really difficult to getinto was going to go in studying
art history, had done all ofher gen ed classes.
The girl was going to be ableto take just tons of like really
super interesting classes, andthen she had a complete 180 and
(04:09):
has decided she wants to be avet, which makes sense for her.
She likes animals more thanpeople, but now she has to take
a ton of science and mathclasses that she hasn't taken,
and it's gonna be.
It's gonna be a rigorous fouryears, but I believe in her.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
She can definitely do it.
I mean, she'll do it at thelast minute.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
She'll do it the night before it's due, but she
will do it.
She graduated with her AAdegree with highest distinction,
which means she carried a 4.0in college as a 16 to 18 year
old.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Begs back to my question, but I won't ask it
again.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
I know I can't tell you other than we're just very
grateful because the other thingis, through this program it was
all free, her books were free,her tuition was free.
I mean, if you've got kids whoare motivated and it's available
to you, it's a phenomenalprogram.
And it worked well for herbecause she went to a school
that was a kindergarten through12th grade school and had been
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with the same kids.
I mean she went there in secondgrade, had been with the same
kids.
I mean she went there in secondgrade, had been with the same
kids for so long and was justready for something different.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
The ceremony was interesting too.
It had points that I was reallyinto, like, for example, they
started and they ended it with asingle bagpiper processing and
recessing up and down thisaisleway playing I don't know
greatest hits of Scottishbagpipes or something.
At one point he was playingScotland the Brave, which is a
very nationalistic Scotlandishsong, and I could not figure the
(05:31):
connection other than wouldn'tit be cool if we had a musical
cosplayer walking around ourthing?
I mean, I loved it, I loved it,but I couldn't get the
connection.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
I looked and tried to find the connection Like was
the founding person someone fromscotland?
I could not figure it out otherthan this college has a bag,
pipe and drum corps, so maybethey were just like, hey, we've
got these people they're reallygood at it, we gotta use them.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Gotta justify this dude's salary.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
He's probably the professor and I'm not far from
here, about an hour from hereand Dunnell in Florida are the
largest Highland games outsideof Scotland or something, or in
the Southeast I guess.
At least there's a very bigScottish community there and so
maybe there's some sort ofconnection.
I don't know.
I really enjoyed it.
It was very confusing.
(06:20):
But Winthrop did not, becausehere's why he told me he does
not like bags and he does notlike sewer pipes, so therefore
he does not like bagpipes.
I don't think he understandshow they're constructed.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
I feel like to some people, the idea of sewer pipes
and the noise that bagpipesmakes, that that connection
works.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
I don't know A child is.
He said.
You know I like music, but onlythe kind that I make.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
That's brilliant, he's already a snobby musician.
We saw the bagpiper standingoutside and I really wanted to
get a picture with him.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Oh, he reminded me of like a Disney character just
posted up after a performance,waiting for people to queue up
to get pictures with him.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Oh see, I wish I'd have made that connection,
because if he's like a Disneycharacter, that means I could
have hugged him and he wouldn'thave been allowed to break the
hug.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
So if you don't know Disney characters, they are not
allowed to break a hug.
So if a child is hugging them,they have to continue to hold
the hug until the child breaksthe hug.
And Winthrop, at the age of two, put this into place with Doc
McStuffins, because he just laidon her and like up against her
and I think he had had a roughday at the park and just needed
(07:32):
some emotional support from thisgiant Doc McStuffins with his
giant head and, bless her, sheor he or whoever was in the
costume, just took it.
But no, it is a thing.
They are not allowed to break ahug, which is sweet for kids.
Is it the same thing for, likethese disney adults that are
super into it?
Are they not allowed to breakthose hugs either, because at
some point that just gets alittle awkward I think that they
(07:53):
charge extra the longer the hug, you know for each additional
minute type of thing.
But I wonder if I would havehugged that guy if the bagpipe
would have gone um, I think thatwe go back to the commencement
ceremony next year, even thoughwe have no one graduating from
it, just so you can do that.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
I think that that might constitute an illegal
action, so we shan't be doingthat.
I thought the ceremony itselfwent way too long.
I understand that when you'rehaving a ceremony like that it's
about the kids, but I guessit's also about the teachers and
professors who've put in allthe long hours.
I found the number of speechesto be excessive.
(08:31):
We didn't need that many peopletalking the length of time.
Apparently they were onlysupposed to go two minutes and I
know that because a guy got upone of the professors and he did
a little monologue right tostart.
His remarks probably last abouta minute and a half and then he
said oh well, the professortold me I could go only two
(08:52):
minutes and he's just like oh,sorry, or whatever, and then he
went to two or three moreminutes.
No, I did not like that.
I mean, I understand, at theend of a semester you want to as
a teacher or a professor, youwant to be able to express
yourself too, because you were apart of this educational
experience with the kids, butkeep in mind that there's a room
(09:13):
full of like a thousand peoplewho just want to see their kid
graduate.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Right, and I do public speaking, and I like
public speaking, I like thefeedback that I get, I like
giving people knowledge thatthey need and, hopefully, that
they want.
I am also, though, mortifiedwith the prospect of getting up
there and having someone think,oh geez, this guy just really
likes the sound of his own voice.
Now, that's not the case onthis podcast, because you
(09:40):
fuckers can turn it off wheneveryou want.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
I don't know that it went too long, because I have
been in some graduate ceremoniesfor so long.
But I mean, winthrop was done.
I mean done.
I said to him you need, he wasall over me and I said I need
you to give me space because Ihave to stand up to take a
picture.
And he said, well, I have toleave.
Said well, that's not an optionright now, because not only is
(10:05):
it not done, we are like halfwayup these, we were in gym
bleachers too, like it's.
I mean, it's a small college,so it took place in their gym
and we were in front of peoplethat you know had canes and
walkers.
We were not going to be able toget out, so he just had to get
over himself.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
What do you do, though, though, when you're in a
position where, where you're ina social situation and them
just being a kid means thatthere's great potential for that
to inconvenience the peoplearound them yeah what do you do?
because, like there are a fewtimes where I moved his feet
away from the people in front ofhim and like he got, he got
(10:43):
upset, right, but I don't wanthim to bother the people around
me.
But then also, should we haveput him in that position where
him just being a kid who's awiggly kid it's going to result
in him like making noise or nothaving full control of his limbs
and so he's going to knockagainst someone.
That's kind of of on us isn'tit so?
(11:05):
I struggle to come down too hardon him in those situations.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Yeah, no, I think you're just trying to make him
aware of his body space andwhere his body is in space is
what I'm trying to say.
And then also the lady in frontof us.
That was very nice about it.
Like I kept saying I'm so sorry, and she was like got it.
Um, I mean, she was an olderlady, but clearly probably had
(11:29):
her own children and wentthrough this, so she was fine.
Um, I am, though the highschool graduation will be in the
performing art center, so therewill be actual chairs that he
will be sitting in, so it willbe much better.
This one was a little difficult, though.
One of her good friends satwith us and told told her how
well behaved she was, so maybewe were just feeling it, but he
(11:49):
was well, I'm always like ultraconcerned about that even with
the two older boys.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
I was always like when they were teenagers and
they were in public, I wouldhave to remind them dude, you
can't stand in the middle ofthis aisle and just talk while
people are trying to get by likeI understand that you've got a
really cool joke about minecraftthat you want to relate to your
brother just at this time, butthere's people around trying to
shop and so I was real hard onthem for that I mean, I had an
(12:15):
experience with them like thatin the grocery store once too,
because they just stopped.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
They would just stop and talk to each other, but it's
like, guys, you got to be awareof what's going on around you
and I mean, so I think there's aline of like please be aware,
but then also making them superanxious about being in public,
right.
So I mean, all of parenting isa fine line.
I did like that.
They they did, though.
The president of the collegecalled out specific individuals,
(12:38):
and I liked that because therewas a guy graduating who was a
US veteran, who had becomehomeless and was graduating with
like a 3.9 and had showed uplike living in his car, and that
was a cool thing.
He also brought out the peoplewho are first-generation college
graduates, which I thought wasreally cool.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
All that is great because it's about the students.
I love that bit.
And there was a 63-year-oldwoman who just 65.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
She was 65.
She was the very-.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
She aged two years, just sitting in that audience
waiting for them to stop theirfreaking speeches.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
They let her graduate first.
She was the first graduateacross the stage and I thought
that was super cool yeah thatwas great.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
There's a new phenomenon that I only became
aware of at this graduationceremony, and that is the
frequency at which people droptheir phones.
We were sitting on bleachers onwooden bleachers and so every
12 seconds there was a thud, youknow, because someone else
dropped their freaking brick ofan iPhone you know out of their
hands or they pushed it off thething.
It was like fruit droppingduring harvest season.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
And it echoed because the bleachers were hollow
underneath.
So it was just like this loudthumping echo.
I became aware of the fact thatthere are a lot of shoes in the
world that I wouldn't wear.
I was just looking at the shoesaround me, I mean, and there
were, I mean, fancy, fancystilettos that had rainbow
(13:59):
sparkles all over them and then,like, the thing that wrapped
around the ankle was basicallylike a giant scrunchie that you
would put in your hair and Imean, good on you, but I
wouldn't have been able to getup with bleachers in those shoes
.
So I just was looking at thefootwear around me wait a second
.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
I'm trying to envision this.
Did they have the scrunchies tokeep the leg hair off of their
ankles?
Speaker 2 (14:19):
no, silly, that was like, instead of a buckle wrap
that goes around you.
It was a scrunchie, I see.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
I've had it up to here not to break away from the
fashion talk, but I've had it upto here with people screeching
in public.
You know, listen, your kid doesnot want you to.
As they are walking across thestage, screech and whistle and
call their name.
Your kid doesn't want that.
That will embarrass your kidand will inconvenience everyone
around you.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
When you graduated, were people still allowed to
bring air horns.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
What do you mean?
Still allowed to bring airhorns?
I've never been in a placewhere air horns were encouraged
or allowed.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Oh my gosh, like my high school graduation, people
had air horns and then, like itseems like they've stopped,
they've started becoming on the.
You may not bring this in list.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
No.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
But yeah, that was.
That would have annoyed you too, because you don't like the
sudden loud noises.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
No, no, no, no.
That's the audio equivalent ofa laser pointer, so obnoxious
that Listen.
We were packed shoulder toshoulder with other people and
by the end of this thing I feltlike a wrung out washcloth.
It was just, it was mybatteries.
My social batteries weredepleted at that point.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Oh, Winthrop fell asleep on the way home.
I mean, he was just done atthat point.
He complained about bagpipesand went to sleep.
Muffy had a great time.
She and her friends went out todinner.
They had a lovely time and theygot to celebrate how hard they
have worked.
So we're very proud of that.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Yeah, now we got to wait.
What 10 years.
And then we got to go throughit with Winthrop.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
No, it's okay, in two weeks we get to do high school
graduation, graduation.
So you get more of the samescreeching with less maturity.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Parents.
Let's talk about clapping.
Not one clap, not a few claps,I'm talking about hundreds of
claps.
At a graduation ceremony, yourhands basically go into
full-time applause labor.
You clap for your kids, sure,but also for av, for Ava, blake,
cassidy, dylan and everyonewhose name starts with E and
never ends, and somewhere aroundXavier, michael Zombrowski.
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Your palms have gone numb, yoursoul has left your body and
you're still clapping out ofsheer social pressure.
That's where the new productfrom Wilson Technologies comes
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Technologies, because you'reproud.
But let's not get ridiculous.
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It's game time game time this isa very easy one.
All you have to do is guesswords stick blue horse with a
prompt.
Oh, I'm going to give you aportmanteau, a phrase, and
you're going to tell me what itmeans what a portmanteau is.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
It's a name for.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
It's another name for something no, portmanteau is
when you take two words and youput them together like benifer
and all that stuff right, right,you're so over this already how
are you?
Over this already all right, soI'm gonna, I'm gonna give you
the thing and then you tell mewhat.
The thing is Ready.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
What is techspectation?
Speaker 2 (17:48):
I mean, that's where you send a text and you're
expecting something good orwhatever to come back from it.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Okay, well, that's close enough.
Techspectation is theirrational hope that this time
the notification you get is fromsomeone you actually want to
hear it from.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Okay, fair, not like Buff City, city soap telling me
they've got 20 off.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Today I got.
I'm really like, really annoyedby I don't know how these
people have gotten my textnumber, but I'm getting texts
from from people that like, whoare you like?
Why, no, I am I.
I understand you're from hr atthis great company, but I do not
want to apply for this job thatdoes not exist there has been
an upswing in those recently Iget those.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
And I'm getting a ton of spam calls right now.
I don't like it.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
So it used to be that whenever you would move house,
you would get a new phone number.
That's how it went.
But now I've had this phonenumber that I have for years and
years and years, and noweveryone wants to keep or save
their phone number.
But there was a certainwonderful freedom about getting
a new phone number.
It was so easy, like just toleave certain parts of your past
(18:51):
behind you by getting a newphone number.
People don't do that anymore,unless, of course, something
tragic has happened and theyreally need to get a new phone
number because they're in a badsituation.
But it used to be commonplace.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Do you remember we had to do that when Muffy got
her first phone?
Yeah, do you remember?
Why?
No, because we found out afterall of the text she was getting
about buying a dime bag, thather phone number had been
associated with a locallow-level drug dealer.
So she was getting hit up aslike this 12-year-old.
Because we got her a phone,because she was going to the
(19:24):
dance studio and stuff and shewas getting people texting her
asking if they could score oh mygod and so I called at&t and
was like this is what's going on, we need to get a new phone
number, and those mfers chargedus to change the phone number.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
They charged us like 50 to get her a new phone number
see, now I'm rethinking thisidea of getting a new number,
because this number has beenaround for however long you know
that you're getting or youdon't know how long it's been
around, but it's like movinginto a house without getting an
inspection.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Yeah, or you know, like ghosts that are still there
too.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Yeah, no, okay, nevermind.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
I'll keep my number.
Next, what's chore-a-phobiawhen you don't want to unload
the dishwasher?
Speaker 1 (20:09):
An intense, irrational fear of doing chores.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
But for you it's really what's your least
favorite chore, because you hateunloading the dishwasher.
No.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
I don't hate unloading the dishwasher, I hate
unloading silverware.
Oh, that's interesting.
It's too fiddly.
Silverware is always the lastthing I do and every now and
again I have asked you if youwanted to do the silverware.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Yeah, I don't mind doing the silverware, I hate
doing the dishes.
You know why?
Because I'm short and I can'treach the stuff that goes up
high.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
We've not taken advantage of this in our
marriage, then the fact of this,that you like doing silverware
and I freaking hate it.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Oh well, I will do.
I hate cleaning the toiletsmost of my life yeah, well, it's
gotta happen apparently I'm theonly one in this house who
cleans the toilet, so I don'tknow what to tell you.
Today is your day I'll justpour bleach in it and flush no
sir, there has to be lifting oflids and it's always like a
surprise as to what you're goingto get when you lift the lid,
and I hate it so much all right.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
What is yanarchy?
Speaker 2 (21:05):
oh gosh.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Yawnarchy.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Is that like when you're trying to be awake but
you're so tired that your yawnsare just coming out anyway?
There's anarchy with the yawns.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
I mean, that's close.
I'll give that to you the stateof a room full of people
pretending to be alert during aboring meeting.
Okay, moodge, moodge.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Oh, so this is definitely me.
This is when you get in a moodto judge people, and so you're
moody because you're goingthrough perimenopause If you
want to know about that, go backand listen to last week and so
then everything's just makingyou mad and you're grumpy and
you're just judging everybody inthat meeting, or that Zoom call
.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
It's not the definition that I have here, but
I'm going to give it to youbecause I don't want to argue
with that All right.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
What is your definition?
Speaker 1 (21:56):
This whole perimenopause thing.
I want to come up with acharacter.
Right, I want to come up with acharacter that embodies maybe
this can be a perimenopausebranding thing, and I will have
invented it, and I will haveinvented it, and that is the
character like the mascot ofthis would be an Irish person
called Perryman Opaus.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Yes, okay, and is this like a little leprechaun,
or is this a grumpy Irish lady?
Speaker 1 (22:24):
It would have to be a combination oh top of the
morning to you motherfuckers.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
That's right.
It's like nobody's saying topof the morning.
They're saying like give me themorning to you motherfuckers.
That's right.
It's like nobody's saying topof the morning.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
They're saying like give me the coffee and shut up.
What I had for this is acombination of mood and sludge,
that thick emotional funk thatmakes you scroll in bed for two
hours instead of doing anythinguseful.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Oh, that's a good one too.
I'm about to do that whenyou're editing this podcast.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
All right, how about a shamelet?
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
A shamelet.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Okay, so you're ashamed of something that you've
done, but I don't know what thelet is.
I don't know what is that.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
A hastily thrown together excuse with many
different parts that's clearlyhiding a poor decision.
It's a portmanteau of shame andomelet.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Okay, that is reaching friend.
I didn't know what an omeletomelet, I couldn't have gotten
there, but okay, a shamelet gotit.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Snackrifice.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Is that when you give up on your goals for the day so
you're sacrificing your healthyeating and you eat the yummy
snack?
Or is that when you eat thereally like carrots and celery,
because you're sacrificing yoursnacky yumminess to be healthy?
Speaker 1 (23:32):
No.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
It's neither one of those.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
No, it's giving up your treat for someone else and
then immediately regretting it.
Oh, happens with Winthrop all,the time, all the time, All the
time, and it annoys me.
I am real territorial about myfood anyway.
I am aware I just if I getsomething on my plate, my
expectation is I'm going to beable to eat all of it, right?
So give me a bite of your pizza.
Oh, let me try that.
(23:54):
What's that sauce like?
It sets me off and I don't knowwhy.
You would think that I wasraised with siblings.
How territorial I am with myfood.
Nope, only child.
So I don't know where thatcomes from, but I do not like
snack-rificing.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Well, it didn't start with Winthrop, because one of
the older children did that alot too, and I mean bless you as
a parent, you'll do it, but youget mad about it.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
I do.
I do that noise.
Andrew Middle son Andrew, usedto always want to taste my food,
but it's because he no, no, no,still does.
By the way, still does, he's 21.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Still does, by the way still does he's 21.
No, he is not.
He's going to be 23.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
No, he just turned 21 .
Friend he was born in 2022.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
It is 2025.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Jesus.
Okay, man, time is going waytoo fast, anyway, it doesn't
matter, not the point I said.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
He was born in 2022.
He was born in 2002.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Yes, see how I just glossed right over that.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Anyway, he still does it, though, but he does it from
a space of he's curious aboutfood Like this is the kid that
every time he went to thegrocery store would want to go
to the produce section and pickout the weirdest fruit or
vegetable and get it and justtry it.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Okay, you're in your 20s, buy it.
You want to know what it is sobad?
Buy it.
Leave my food alone.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
And I know not to ask .
And now we've gotten to thepoint where I'm not even allowed
to ask you how your food iswhile you're eating.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
No, okay, we're not doing that.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
We're not doing that, you just need to eat in a
bubble by yourself, so nobodycan take your food and nobody
can ask you about your food.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Well, it's just that your go-to move.
If we're going to do this now,your go-to move is I've had
three bites.
How is it?
How is it?
Is that good?
How is it?
Speaker 2 (25:30):
okay, first of all, I'm not doing it like how is it?
How is it?
Like I'm angry at you.
I'm like is it good?
How is it?
I mean because I care thatyou're enjoying your food
experience.
We were married for 10 yearsbefore you told me.
That stressed you out, and sonow and then yesterday, I said
you were such a jackass.
Yesterday I looked at you andwe were eating at blaze pizza
again because you're obsessedand I forgot that I'm supposed
(25:52):
to behave in this way.
And I looked at you and I said,like, do you like it or is it
good?
And you just looked at me doyou know what you said?
Speaker 1 (26:01):
I don't remember.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
I was in a food consuming induced haze you
looked at me and went I'm stilleating it.
You, you're such a jackass.
I'm just asking you if it'sgood and you're like, hold on,
I'm still eating it.
So you know what?
I don't care anymore.
I don't care if you're likingyour food, I don't care if
you're enjoying your food, itdoesn't matter to me anymore,
(26:22):
and I don't want to taste yourfood.
And don't taste my food, though.
Oh, but this is the thing youdo.
That, though, you will will saywhat are you eating, what do
you have there?
If I have something that you'renot expecting me to have, and
then it'd be like, well, can I,can?
I just know what it tastes like.
So you do it.
Your double standard is very,very big here, friend.
I feel like maybe it's becauseyou were a preemie that, like
(26:43):
you had to fight for your food,and now you're just like a
picture of like I'm in the nickUward with a little tiny
switchblade going around to theother things.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Give me that hose.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Get out of here.
I don't know, I have to fightfor my food.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
I don't even know what that means.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
If you're ever dining with Josh, don't ask him if he
likes it and don't expect him toshare it, but be willing to
give him a bite of it if he soasks.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Next one.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Because we're moving quickly along.
Procrastinate oh, that's whenthat this is muffy.
This is when she has got apaper due or an exam to study
for, and she instead decides togo make cookies or banana bread
or something yeah, that iscorrect?
Was it based on her?
Speaker 1 (27:28):
no, no, no, that's actually a word, that's out
there oh, really yeah, becauseshe for real does it.
Dreadmill.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Oh, is that when you have to go work out on a
treadmill?
Speaker 1 (27:36):
No, it's a task.
You're endlessly running on,but never making any progress.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Oh, so it's a work thing, ready yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
All right, slackramony.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Oh, this is.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
When you don't clean the toilet, you're slacking in
our matrimony, no get out ofhere the unspoken hostility
simmering on apassive-aggressive work trap.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
What is the monie then?
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Acrimony.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Oh, acrimony, okay, got it.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Slackrimony, yeah, the app Slack that people work
on.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Got it.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Acrimony yep.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Yeah.
Grumpathy is that when you feel, when this is when you
understand why I'm being grumpy,so you have grumpy empathy for
me.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
No, no no, it's not that nice.
It's feeling sorry for someonebut still wishing they'd shut up
yeah, that's for real, true,though all.
Here's one.
You may have heard Snub Scribe.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Oh, snub Scribe, like you're snubbing somebody by not
subscribing to them.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Ghosting a friend by slowly fading from their social
feed and never liking theirposts again.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
I like it.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
All right couple more here Glueminous, Glueminous.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
That's when you put glue on something and then throw
glitter on it.
So then it's glitter, glue andgloominous.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Oh, that's good.
But no, that strangelybeautiful cinematic sadness you
feel and sometimes you enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Oh gloom, I was thinking gloominous, all right,
sassacre, I mean that's whenyou're just being sassy and you
take somebody out with yourwords.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
That's exactly what it means, and boy, do you know
how to do that.
And then, lastly, cringeship,cringeship.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Is this when you tell somebody you love them but you
feel cringey about it, like yourfriend you're like I love you,
but it makes you feel cringey?
Or is this like a guiltypleasure, like you're friends
with somebody but you don't wantother people to know about?
Speaker 1 (29:33):
it that longstanding relationship held together by
mutual embarrassment and insidejokes that no one else would
understand?
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Okay, so like me and my friends that I went to the
Twilight Convention and theForks High School prom with got
it.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
You went to a Twilight Convention.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
I did and I took pictures with the hand model
from the book covers.
We all held apples with her,you you actually took first of
all a hand model showed up at aconvention yeah, because they
couldn't get real people, sothey just the person who holds
the apple in the front of thebook she showed up can I ask the
obvious question?
Speaker 1 (30:04):
yeah, how did you know it was the real person?
Speaker 2 (30:06):
I mean, she showed us the book and it looked like her
hand.
I don't know it was a time.
It was before you and I weredating.
After I got divorced, beforeyou and I were dating.
It was a time.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Let's just Wait, you were an adult when you did.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Yes, Twilight came out when I was an adult.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Oh, I guess.
So yeah, damn, oh, I saved you.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Yes, but she won't share your food with me, so I
don't know I bet, I bet edwardcullen would share food.
I don't know.
He's a vampire.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
I don't want to drink blood never mind, I'll get you
an apple thank you and I'll holdit in that same pose.
Oh my God.
And now it's time for RefineGay Thoughts with Refine Gay
(31:03):
Jeff.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Hey Jeff.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Jeff is back and he apologizes for his absence
because things have been ultrafantastically, epically busy.
He says we have entered testingseason here in education land
and unfortunately I am the onewho's responsible for making
sure it ultimately happens.
Yeah, he is a media specialist,and so he doesn't give the test
(31:26):
, but he makes sure everythinghappens with the test and it's
all computer-based now.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
So you gotta make sure everybody's got their
technology and the technology isworking and everybody can log
into it.
It's a whole thing.
Bless you, Jeff.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Yeah, no, absolutely.
But he gives us some happy newsfor him.
He says and now for some ratherinteresting and gargantuan news
Drum roll please.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Guess what was announced this week?
For the first time in americanhistory, the us navy announced
that they will have navy fleetweek here in houston.
Oh, that is very, very epic hesays I'm having a very sex in
the city samantha jones momentright now and am already
(32:07):
rehearsing the dismount in myhead.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
I love it so much, so Fleet Week happens in multiple
places.
Usually you hear about New YorkCity Fleet Week, but it happens
in San Francisco.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
What is Fleet Week so ?
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Fleet Week is where my brother was career Navy, so
Fleet Week is where the navalships will pull into port in
these anchor cities and thesailors and the marines will get
off the ship and then go enjoythe sights and the sounds and
the tastes and the feels,apparently, of of the local
culture.
But then also the people wholive in those in those cities
(32:43):
can go and tour the ships.
And it's meant to, um, you know, just make the american public
aware of what the Navy and theMarines do.
But this year they'recelebrating the 250th
anniversary of the creation ofthe Navy and the Marines.
And so they just had one at PortEverglades.
Did you know that?
Speaker 1 (33:01):
I did not know that.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
So they had Fleet Week in Miami.
They had Fleet Week, my.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
God Fleet Week in Miami.
I can only imagine it justhappened.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
It was at the end of April, flea Week in Miami.
I can only imagine it justhappened.
It was at the end of April.
But I think, jeff, I lookedthis up.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
I think yours is coming in.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Well, sorry that was the wrong verb.
Yours is happening.
I said coming.
Yours is happening in November,I think.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Yeah that's what he says.
We'll be in the second week ofNovember.
He is giddy with anticipation.
Time for me to find a refinedgay naval officer.
Husband.
All right we can even playbattleship in my pool.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
So I looked this up and there was an interview I
think it's like a K Hugh, Iguess it's maybe like Houston
News from KHOU11.
And it was talking about howthe mayor invited Admiral Daryl
Cottle, I guess, is his name.
He's the commander of the USFleet Forces and he announced on
Facebook that he was formallyaccepting Mayor John Whitmore's
(33:57):
invitation to bring the.
So this is just a Facebookinvite, is basically what
happened, right, and it saysit's really to expose the public
, the greater Houston area, towhat the Navy and Marine Corps
are about.
We don't really have any largenaval concentration areas of
marines or sailors or ships downthere.
This is a chance to see some ofour ships on the line, some of
our surface combatants, andwe'll be able to demonstrate
(34:18):
what it's all about.
So that's the fun, I mean,that's the like military side of
it.
But then the sailors and themarines all go out and they
spend a week just getting alittle bit crazy in houston.
But I did look it up and therewas somebody that said us navy
operations specialist cordericwalton and us navy undesignated
sailor joshua wilson, bothhouston area natives are
(34:40):
thrilled for fleet to come totheir hometown.
So I need to know, sir, what isthis double life that you are
leading?
I need to know what anundesignated sailor is it's an
enlisted seaman, go ahead,because that's what they're
called, and they either enlistedwithout having a job
designation or they got introuble for something and
(35:01):
weren't given one yet so.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Joshua Wilson getting up to some stuff well, it's
because I've never reported, Ijust stay here so you've been
MIA for like ever.
That's right, jeff continues forthose in listener land that may
not know, and this is a littlehistorical teaching moment about
Houston Houston is actually aport city on the Gulf of Mexico.
The Houston Ship Channel wasbuilt many decades ago and comes
(35:27):
52 miles inland to the TuringBasin, where ships obviously
turn around to head back out tosea.
The port of Houston is locatedin the Turing Basin.
It's just nine miles fromdowntown.
It's the fifth largestcontainer port in the US.
Cruise ships are handled out ofthis port in Galveston, 45
minutes away.
So it's just the containerships, the industrial ships go
(35:49):
up to Houston.
I was unaware that Houston wasattached to the Gulf in that way
.
That's just the container ships, the industrial ships go up to
houston.
I was unaware that houston wasattached to the gulf in that way
.
That's really interesting.
He's already envisioning thestreets of montrose, houston's
gaberhood, thriving andthrobbing with navy guys in
their white sailor uniformslooking for a place to drop
their anchor.
And yes, that was a doubleentendre.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
Now listen, jeff.
I am a giant fan of all theNCIS franchise because of being
a Navy sibling.
I have seen NCIS New Orleanswhen they got into all kinds of
trouble at Fleet Week there.
So please, please, please,don't wind up with like some
kind of murdered sailor near youor at your local bar.
(36:30):
Don't do it, please, be careful.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
He agrees that last week was eternal it was.
Yeah, no, he said that.
You're correct in that afterspring break, the distance to
school year closure isinterminable.
Houston is going until June 4th, so we have about a month to go
.
In middle school, you can getthe feels like time by
multiplying one month to afactor of four to the seventh
power.
Let's be real.
(36:54):
Nothing gets done because kidsalready know all the major
grades and testings havehappened.
High school kids know thattheir class rank was set long
ago, so lots of people justcoast until graduation.
I'm going to tell you, though,as a parent, it's the opposite.
For a professional educator, Ican see that it feels like
forever between spring break andthe close of school, but as a
(37:14):
parent, it feels like boom.
All of a sudden my kid is outand he's in the next grade.
I feel like, at this point I'mstaggered by how quickly it goes
, and maybe it's just markingthe passage of time and your kid
is getting older and all ofthese things.
But I don't perceive it thatway.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
Well, winthrop said to me can you believe how long
ago the first day of secondgrade was?
And I thought he meant that itwas going to go by really
quickly and I said do you meanthat's fast?
He said no, it's been a reallylong year.
So I don't know what's going onin second grade.
But Winthrop is also feeling it, jeff, I feel you, and we go to
June 3rd here and while I am nolonger in the classroom, I'm
(37:53):
still working with schools anddistricts and we haven't even
started our progress.
Our final window of progressmonitoring testing friend, ours
is like the middle of May.
So it's a real thing and it'sinteresting because, as an
educator, like Jeff and I said,it takes forever between spring
break and the end of the year.
There are no holidays, there'sno teacher work days, it just
(38:14):
goes on.
But in the fall we have thisthing called what we call the
Hallow Thankmas slide.
So it starts at Halloween andit goes to when you get out for
the winter holidays and it isjust one intense crazy.
Kids are hopped up on sugar,they're excited because presents
are coming or they're getting,and it is like a really
(38:35):
condensed craziness, whereas theend of the year is the really
extended craziness.
So I'm feeling for you, jeff,stay strong.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
He goes on to talk about this discarded bra.
That kind of put me off lastweek.
Speaker 2 (38:50):
I don't know where you expect me to throw away
clothing articles that arebroken.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
He says Josh, I am sorry that you were taken aback
by the discarded bra.
Thank you for the sympathy.
As Bette Midler once sang in asoundtrack to Beaches, the
fictional character of OttoTitzling invented the brassiere
and called it anover-the-shoulder boulder holder
.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
This is the thing.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
I am sorry, amanda, for being so crude, because you
know I don't like humor based onthe body or body parts, but
it's Bette Midler, she can do nowrong.
I hope this justifies a passfor me.
Speaker 2 (39:21):
I had forgotten that that movie was where that term
came from, because that is avery pervasive term.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
He says I've never had the Popo police show up to
my house for my alarmdischarging, which happened to
us this past week.
I also get one to two freedispatches per month.
Luckily I never had to call forsomeone, but I'm wondering if I
could request hot cop with abilly stick and furry handcuffs.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
Well, let us tell you .
I was wondering if we weregoing to get charged for this.
Guess what we did.
We did.
How much was that?
Bill Josh?
Speaker 1 (39:55):
Too much.
Speaker 2 (39:56):
Like over $300.
Now they say it's because wedidn't have a permit.
We didn't know we had to have apermit because we went through
an alarm company.
One would think the alarmcompany would let you know that
you had to have a permit.
And so I think they said, if wepay the $25 for the permit,
they'll greatly reduce our fine.
Well, let's see how this goes.
You set the alarm off thismorning.
Speaker 1 (40:19):
I did.
Speaker 2 (40:19):
It was set when you went out to take the trash out
or whatever you went out thegarage for, and I happened to be
downstairs and heard it startbeeping.
Speaker 1 (40:26):
And so I ran and turned it off.
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 2 (40:29):
This can't be a Sunday morning event for us now
it might be.
Speaker 1 (40:31):
Yep, we talked about sparkling water last week.
Jeff has an opinion.
He says we talked aboutsparkling water last week.
Jeff has an opinion.
He says I told you guys thisbefore, but I don't do sparkling
water at all.
I like you, like the bottle forTopo Chico, but we'll pass on
the contents.
I actually have several bottlesin my fridge right now that I
brought for my friend ChristyNot long ago.
(40:52):
I invited friends over fortequila tasting, but I don't
think that we were invited.
Amanda, everyone brought abottle of tequila that we were
not familiar with, and then theydid flights to compare them,
and so he bought this Topo Chicofor his friend Christy, but he
still has it and I guess he'snot going to use it.
Can you water plants withsparkling?
Speaker 2 (41:10):
water.
I actually wondered that I didwater one of the plants the
other day because I picked up acan that was half empty, that
had sat overnight, so I wateredone of the plants with it.
Speaker 1 (41:18):
We'll see, we talked about hats with drapes.
He points out that at the 2020Grammys, billy Porter wore a hat
with a motorized curtain ofdrapes.
Google it, you'll find itquickly.
Speaker 2 (41:31):
I knew that it existed and it makes total sense
that it was Billy Porter.
Speaker 1 (41:34):
Which reminds me of the fact that this whole idea of
decorating your hat forgraduation was in full force
this last weekend, as we sawhats that had lights on them.
Speaker 2 (41:46):
Yes, some of them had LED lights.
Speaker 1 (41:49):
And Muffy did a nice painting on hers.
I thought that that was reallyinteresting, although, like, I
don't know who you're doing itfor, because in the audience you
can't really make out what theysay, and so the ones that I
really noticed were the oneswith lights on them.
Speaker 2 (42:04):
Yeah, but I think it's a little bit different
because the environment that wewere in was very we were not
very much up above the graduates, but at UF or when I graduated
undergrad from USF, when wedecorated our hats, you were in
the arena and so you could seelike it's interesting to look
out, and then you can make outwhat all is on all of the hats
because you're sitting at anincline to it and that's
(42:26):
interesting.
Speaker 1 (42:27):
Surely there must be some sort of requirements or
specs.
Like you can't come in with aheaddress, Like you're going to,
like you know carnival orsomething because that would be
amazing.
That's what I was thinking of.
Like pretty soon it's going toclimb.
It's going to be storiesthey're going to have, like
helium balloons or some suchthings like that.
Speaker 2 (42:43):
The uphouse on the thing I don't know.
They're not allowed to decoratethem in high school because no
one can trust the high schoolersto.
You know, not make them saydirty words.
Speaker 1 (42:51):
And college students.
You can.
I don't know he, I don't knowhe says, yes, contact lenses do
exist that have bifocalsembedded somehow in them.
He has a pair.
He doesn't know how they work.
Speaker 2 (43:03):
Does it work for you, though?
Huh, I mean, I'm asking himdoes it work for you or does it
give you a headache Like what'sthe experience like?
Speaker 1 (43:10):
No, he says.
He says he has a pair.
He doesn't know how they work.
All he knows that you look downwith your eyeballs and it
accesses the bifocal area of thelens.
He has no idea how they don'tspin around during the day or in
your eyes.
It's magic and I'm notquestioning it.
So yes, it works.
I don't know how that wouldwork.
I don't understand, becauseyour iris doesn't work that way.
Speaker 2 (43:33):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (43:34):
Yeah, well, clearly it doesn't.
I don't know what the hell I'mtalking about.
He says Amanda, I also cannotsleep with any jewelry and feel
like I'm going throughperimenopause, because I pretty
much have all these symptomsthat you described.
Speaker 2 (43:46):
Jeff, you are welcome to the tavern with me and my
ovaries.
That's what he says.
Speaker 1 (43:49):
Let me know when you want to take your ovaries to the
tavern and I will go with youand drink and wine and bitch
about men that I'm here for allof it, but I'm bitching about
everybody he said.
He didn't say drink and wine,he said drink wine okay but I, I
isn't.
Speaker 2 (44:05):
I don't limit my anger to just men.
I'm angry at inanimate objects.
I'm angry at people that I workwith.
Their voices just bother me.
Speaker 1 (44:13):
I'm just angry at everything right now yeah well,
I Well, I don't, I know it, I'mPerryman.
Oh pause, don't you know?
Still eating my food.
Speaker 2 (44:21):
You don't help you.
You say all the time like whatcan I do to help?
Like you want to know what youcan do to help, but you don't.
You don't enact this when itcomes to just not being mean.
When your food Like what youcan do to help is think before
you speak, this is what you cando.
Speaker 1 (44:40):
I don't know when our podcast changed.
Speaker 2 (44:44):
Probably when Paramon O'Paws showed up to live with
us.
Speaker 1 (44:55):
No one likes to be told what to do, and now's the
time in the program where wetell you what to do.
I'm telling you, men, that ifyou have a wife who is
experiencing perimenopause,please listen to our last
episode and get educated.
Learn from my mistakes or not,even if you have a partner who's
(45:15):
going through that.
If there's someone in youroffice going through that, do
the same, because it ain't nojoke, friends.
Speaker 2 (45:22):
Just go be a good human, like just go learn how to
be a good human.
Speaker 1 (45:28):
Well, but I'm also sensing that sometimes being a
good human won't be enough ifyou've got this rage inside of
you.
Speaker 2 (45:34):
Yeah, I don't know.
I was talking to somebody theother day that said their doctor
had asked them when they weregoing through this if they
thought about hurting themselves.
And they said immediately no.
Then the doctor said have youthought about hurting anyone
that lives in your house?
And they paused and the doctorsaid okay, that's a yes.
So I mean we're gonna.
I don't know how long the pauseneeds to be before, and she was
(45:57):
telling me she would just getangry when she heard her
husband's truck come in thedriveway.
So I'm not angry when you comehome I'm not there yet.
I love you very much.
I just get angry when you getmad at me for asking if you're
enjoying your pizza.
Speaker 1 (46:09):
Maybe that's where the term menopause came from.
It's really just the timebetween when the doctor asks you
are you wanting?
To hurt someone, and the timebetween when the doctor asks you
are you wanting to hurt someone?
And when you answer and that'syour menopause.
Speaker 2 (46:21):
I don't know.
It's no joke, though You'reright, it is no joke.
Like we laugh about it and we,you know we make light of it
because it's the whole.
You gotta laugh at yourself oryou're gonna cry your eyes out.
But it's not a joke, andyesterday was the first time
that I felt like I wanted tocrawl out of my own skin, like
it was absolutely insane.
So it's real.
(46:41):
If you have experienced it oryou are experiencing it, the
Wilsons are thinking of you.
Speaker 1 (46:55):
All right, Amanda, that's all there is.
There is no more what?
Speaker 2 (46:59):
do you think about that mess?
I mean, I'm filled with angerand rage and yet I love it all
at the same time.
Speaker 1 (47:05):
Great, wonderful.
This podcast, of course, wouldnot be possible without our cast
of characters, in addition toAmanda and me also appearing in
today's show Matt as the brain,antonio as the recluse, josh
Scar as the Philosopher, dannyBuckets as the Dreamer, chicken
Tom as the Wild Card, moniquefrom Germany as the Ambassador.
(47:26):
Then, of course, there's JoeyJoey Refined Gay, jeff as the
Icon, mark and Rachel as theChaos Twins and Dan and Gavin as
the Talkers who Never Finish aThought.
Twins and Dan and Gavin as thetalkers who never finish a
thought.
This show was filmed onlocation at the abandoned wing
of Jefferson High, the parkinglot behind the Sock Emporium and
(47:47):
that one diner that's alwaysclosed but somehow always still
open.
Speaker 2 (47:49):
I mean, that's a lot of people and that's a lot of
words.
Speaker 1 (47:52):
So until next week, y'all take it easy and just one
thing at a time, don't try to doit all at once, thing at a time
but, also, while you're doingit, be kind bye.
Speaker 2 (48:36):
Welcome to Super Familiar with the wilsons and
I'm josh no, you were gonna.
We were supposed to say welcometo super familiar with the
wilsons and then you say we'rethe marriage podcast, blah, blah
, blah.
And then I say amanda, and yousay I'm josh, we just went over
this all right, let's try itagain.
Speaker 1 (48:53):
And now we have our blooper reel.
What's wrong with you?
And now we have our blooperreel.
Speaker 2 (48:57):
What's?
Wrong with you.
Welcome to Super Familiar withthe Wilsons.
What was that?
I don't know.
I was enjoying the way you werepointing.
Speaker 1 (49:08):
All right, you ready.
Speaker 2 (49:10):
No, welcome to Super Familiar with the Wilsons.
I didn't point, I know I justGod damn it.
God damn it to hell.
I didn't point, I know I justGod damn it.
Speaker 1 (49:20):
God damn it to hell.
I started all over.
Okay, ready.
Speaker 2 (49:26):
Welcome.
It is the Lord's Day.
You should not start thispodcast off with flipping me off
.
Speaker 1 (49:32):
Okay, point with me your index finger.
Please, sir, Point with me yourindex finger yes, as good as
Google Translate Ready.
Speaker 2 (49:40):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (49:41):
I'm going to leave all this shit in.
Speaker 2 (49:42):
No, please don't.
No one wants to hear thisMarital strife.
Speaker 1 (49:46):
Yeah, I think that they do it makes them feel
better?
Speaker 2 (49:48):
What?
Speaker 1 (49:49):
All right, hang on.
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