June 29, 2025 • 48 mins
In this episode of Super Familiar with the Wilsons, Amanda and Josh wrestle with the joys and indignities of modern parenting, including teaching their kid to ride a bike, spoiler: there’s crying, possibly from all parties.
Along the way, they dive into caffeinated reflux regrets, debate the ethics of bird ownership, and get surprisingly philosophical about poop. Listener emails bring tales of Pride parades, pottery pilgrimages, and coffee mug addiction, while the Wilsons unpack what it means to really be helpful to your kids... even if it means outsourcing the hard stuff.
Featuring: nostalgic parenting fails, suburban social anxiety, a new product ad from Wilson Technologies, and some questionable thoughts about pelicans.
If you’re into marriage 2.0, secondhand life lessons, and the kind of podcast where "you're welcome" might start an argument...this one’s for you.
Email us at familiarwilsons@gmail.com to share your experiences with teaching your children important life skills!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Familiar Wilson's Media Relationships are the
story.
You are made of meat, my friend, all the way down.
The following podcast useswords like and and also.
If you're not into any of thatshit, then now's your chance.
Three, two, one run.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
I'm super familiar with you.
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Speaker 1 (00:26):
Get it.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Welcome to Super Familiar with the Wilsons.
I'm Amanda.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
And I'm Josh and we are the podcast about marriage
2.0 with kids and all the sidequests.
That's right, we're both on oursecond marriages because
apparently one life partnerwasn't enough.
Character development.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
The way you say this.
We're on our second Like thisis just like a stop in the road
and we're going to have more.
Listen, I'm done.
If this does not work out, Iwill have companions, but I'm
not living in a house withanybody else Like what do you
mean companions?
You know, like Doctor who, Idon't know.
I'm just people who will goalong with me in my life, but
(01:05):
I'm not living with anybody else.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
So you're saying that after me is butler.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
That's it, that's right, I'll get a butler.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Or a maidservant or something.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Yeah, and then they can drive me around.
No, I don't even want them todrive me around, I don't even
prefer to drive.
Well, because we always go inmy car and it's just my car, and
so it's my car.
You don't let me drive your car.
You were so funny.
I thought I was gonna have todrive your car the other night
for the first time yes becausemuffie was off with my car and
(01:37):
it wasn't starting.
It was like 10 o'clock at nightand I went to and you're like do
you know how to drive it?
It's a stand, I mean, it's anautomatic car, it's a four-door,
it's a four-wheeled car, I meanit has lights.
I've driven many, manydifferent cars in my lifetime
but you were like do you knowhow to drive it?
Speaker 1 (01:58):
We need to start doing video, because how you
describe that is that it's as ifI was a chihuahua and I was
shaking.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
You were twitchy, I was not twitchy at all.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
It's a different car, it's a different layout, and
you were going at night and so Ijust wanted to listen.
I'm just trying to protect you,as we have determined, my job
is to protect you and make surethat you are fully prepared for
every challenge in life.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Is that because you plan on leaving me soon?
You need to know that I'mwell-adjusted.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
We all know the answer to that.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
But let's get off this topic.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
I don't know how that happened.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
All I was saying is that you said words.
That's how we got there, Allright.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Well, let me very quickly change the subject then.
So this week I have starteddrinking caffeinated coffee
again.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Yeah, how long were you not drinking caffeinated
coffee?
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Oh, a long while, maybe six months.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Oh really, yeah, yeah , it's been a while.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
So I do this thing where I'll drink coffee and
really enjoy the focus that thecaffeine gives me, but then two
things happen It'll start towear off you know, become less
effective, and so then I'll haveto have more coffee, and within
the last couple of years,caffeinated coffee now gives me
really bad reflux.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
So I head cut it for those two reasons.
Work has been such that likeI've just kind of felt like I
needed to be a little bitsharper, a little bit more
focused.
So I started doing it and II've been a house of fire for
the last couple of weeks.
No really, it's been reallygood.
I've really enjoyed the focus,enjoyed this and that, but I'm
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starting to get this really badreflux.
So it's a really weirdsituation.
That's probably some sort ofmetaphor for our capitalistic
society, and that is that I haveto be more focused to do more
work.
But the way I get there is withsomething that slightly hurts
me it causes you pain so I'mback on coffee now.
We'll see how long that lasts,but, man, this weekend I've had
(03:57):
really bad reflux I'm sorry,coffee and I've never broken up
you're still on your firstrelationship.
Yeah, coffee and I have along-standing relationship.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
It's probably my longest term relationship.
Yeah, coffee and I have along-standing relationship.
It's probably my longest termrelationship being coffee oh,
okay, I think I started drinkingcoffee at like 14 oh, did you?
Speaker 1 (04:11):
yeah, that's way that doesn't seem right.
Is that why you're so short?
Speaker 2 (04:16):
yes, honey, the coffee stunted.
My growth has nothing to dowith the fact.
Genetics so you remember thefirst time you had coffee yeah,
because my mom I mean my mom wasa big coffee drinker.
My mom always liked coffeestrong.
She would have um cream, halfand half and milk.
I mean no, half, half and halfmilk, half and half and honey in
hers oh god, that sounds grossum, it wasn't, but then.
So I used to drink it sweetenedand then by the time I hit my
(04:38):
20s I was like, no, I don't wantsweet in my coffee.
Like I don't.
Every once in a while I'll getlike a want sweet in my coffee.
Like I don't.
Every once in a while I'll getlike a frou-frou, like holiday
flavor of some sort of likelatte or something.
But I really I'm not even apumpkin spice kind of girly.
My favorite was Starbucks.
A while ago used to have agingerbread latte and I loved
that, but they don't have thatanymore.
So no, I think I've beendrinking at least since high
(05:00):
school.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Okay, well, I've been drinking a long time too, but
now this reflux thing ishappening, so that kind of hurts
.
And then also, the 18 year oldis out of town right now and we
got the eight year old to sleepearly on Friday night, so
therefore we got to have alittle special Josh and Amanda
time, and my abs are really,really hurting right now.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
I can't believe you're saying this, because we
now know that at least one ofher friends listens to this
podcast and they are gonna bescandalized and tell her,
Scandalized by what exactly?
The fact that you have talkedabout how now your abs hurt from
your strenuous Friday nightactivity.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
I'm trying to figure out if that means I've reached a
certain age now or if I'm justout of shape.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Or a little of both.
I think it's probably a littleof both.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Okay, well.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
I don't remember you doing crunches.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
I mean Kind of I'm embarrassed.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
You are so embarrassed my face is turning
red.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
It is red.
So this is telling me I do needto do more crunches and get in
better shape.
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Anyway, moving along andspeaking of movements, I noticed
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something the other day as wewere walking the dog Dogs, I
think.
Out of all the creatures thatI've had the misfortune to see
excrete, they look the mostuncomfortable and ashamed while
they are doing it.
Dogs.
I feel like know just enough tohave shame right, but not
enough to do anything about it.
If he could talk, he'd be likestop looking at me, don't look
(08:12):
at me.
But, as it is, he will do itand always he will look over to
see if I'm looking at him andmeanwhile he looks so
uncomfortable, bent up like apretzel, so unnatural looking.
While he looks so uncomfortable, bent up like a pretzel, so
unnatural looking, something sonatural and so commonplace.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
And animals shouldn't look so uncomfortable and
unnatural I read somethingsomewhere where, if dogs look in
your eyes while they're doingit, it means this one thing I
think that when he's looking youthe eyes, it may just be like
to see who will look away first,just having a staring contest.
Imagine if people were likedogs and you had to circle like
700 times in front of the toiletbefore you went our bathroom is
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not big enough like, then youjust invited me for a staring
contest.
No, thank you now, it's unlikehorses, who they'll just walk
and they won't break stride theywon't do it while they're
walking it just happens and youwould have no clue except for
the splat sound you know, what Ithink is the worst, though, is
birds, because it's not only didthey just do it while they're
(09:11):
flying, like it targets, you, doyou really think that they're
targeting you know I got hit theother day when we were did you
really?
Speaker 1 (09:17):
orlando.
Yeah, it was so annoying too,because I was sitting out by the
pool with the kids and I wasjust past the umbrella Like
maybe there was about I don'tknow, four or five inches of me
that wasn't covered by theumbrella, and then just right
there, I was so annoyed Icouldn't believe it.
Yes, in that case I absolutelybelieved they were targeting me,
(09:38):
and he may have been with abuddy and been like hey, watch
this, I've been practicing Wasit your leg though.
No, but it's on those new pantsthat I just bought and I was so
fucking annoyed.
That's annoying.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Winthrop now is really into birds and when we go
to PetSmart he wants to go lookat the birds and he keeps
telling me how cute birds areand would ever want a bird.
And I said no, I mean, I thinkbirds are cute, but I don't want
a bird.
They're a.
They're a lot of work to youknow, to keep up with and clean
their cage and everything and hesaid but they're so cute,
(10:12):
they're like hamsters, but withwings.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
I think like the most pathetic things that people
have as pets are birds, not tobring us down, but you
intentionally take away theirmain source of mobility right
because you clip their wings andthen you keep them in a little
cage.
At least with fish they canstill swim.
Dogs and cats they can go aboutand do their thing.
Mice and gerbils and hamsterscan be on their little fucking
(10:34):
wheels.
Birds, it's like it's awful.
No one should own a bird.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Yeah, I mean, I'm not gonna disagree with you.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Except for maybe a vulture Then you could use, or a
pelican.
You can use it like theFlintstones use it and then put
all your refuse in there.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Oh, was it like a compost pile, A compost thing?
Yeah, I think it was thepelican.
Pelicans I don't see pelicansin person very often, but they
are interesting looking things.
Oh yeah, they're big.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
If you mean big, that I didn't realize until I saw
one in the flesh Eagles arefreaking huge man.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Are they?
Where did you see one?
We went on.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Alaska cruise back in marriage 1.0 and they had a
thing like a conservatory thatyou could go there and they
would have an eagle and thatdamn thing like its talons were
bigger than my hands, just togive you an idea.
And yeah, the freaking thing ismassive.
They're huge.
Some of them can be huge.
Another weird thing abouteagles in Alaska is they are so
prevalent.
They're like pigeons.
In New York, Really, we're like, oh, the majestic eagle, and in
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Alaska they're like.
These damn things are shittingall over my storefront.
Can we please get rid of them?
Speaker 2 (11:40):
I need this.
It's trying to eat my chips.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
We have friends who are currently in Scotland.
In Scotland they were doing afalconry thing.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
And so the boys had their arms out and the falcons
were landing on them.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Sure.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Giant too, Like they were.
And the boys were chill and itwas like kids in their 20s and
they were.
It was terrifying to me towatch.
Really fascinating but justlike chill.
The other thing they did isthey paid to go watch sheep
herding dogs.
This is like you have to paymoney to go watch these dogs
herd their sheep, don't theyhave to herd the sheep anyway?
Speaker 1 (12:16):
I feel like that is a much more ethical and
entertaining option tobullfighting.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
It's kind of the same thing, right.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Except with the sheep herding.
You're watching all this motionand this action and A equals B
and all this stuff and no one'sgetting hurt.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Right.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
I think that would be very fascinating.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Oh, I do too, I'm just saying, but they charge
admission to watch somethingthat was already happening
anyway.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Yeah, that's called capitalism, my friend Scotland.
Yes, they have capitalism inScotland.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
It's like if we went to Krispy Kreme and you know how
they have the window where youcan watch the donuts being made,
but we had to pay them to watchthe donuts being made on top of
paying for our donuts.
That's basically what that is.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
I see that wouldn't be a draw to me.
It's like we were at a placeyesterday, at a pizza place, a
local pizza place and you saw apainting on the wall and you
said, is that an $800 painting?
Speaker 2 (13:06):
And my answer was not yet I mean it had an $800 price
tag on it.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
It's not an $800 painting until someone pays that
for it.
That's right.
Anyway, let's move on to ourmain topic teaching stuff to our
kids.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Yes, so we are teaching Winthrop how to ride a
bike.
So neither one of our youngerkids know how to ride a bike.
The 18-year-old doesn't and the8-year-old doesn't, and I don't
know if it's just a function ofthey just were never interested
, at least with the 18-year-old.
I know that she and I moved outfrom marriage 1.0 when she was
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four, so we lived in anapartment until you and I got
married when she was eight, sothere was no place really for
her to ride a bike, so it wasn'tsomething that I I did, and
then by then I don't know thatshe was super interested in it,
winthrop, we just never did.
I don't know why.
Why didn't we?
Speaker 1 (14:09):
I don't think we're ever the type of parents to send
our kids outside without us.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Well, I'm not saying that they should go without us?
Speaker 1 (14:15):
No, but I mean.
That's why I learned how toride a bike in the 80s.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Your dad was like you got to learn how to ride a bike
so you can get out of here youcan get out of here.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
No, he was like get out of here, I don't want you to
to come back in the house untilnightfall, type of thing, yeah,
on saturdays and sundays.
And I was like well, my friendsride bikes and so I want to
ride a bike.
And so a lot of it for me waswell, my friends ride bikes yeah
and then also it's like I don'twant to walk to the woods where
they keep the porno mags, so II want a bike type of thing
still, every time you say it, Iam flabbergasted at the fact
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that there were nudie mags in inthe woods.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
But okay, I don't.
I don't remember learning toride a bike.
I didn't have friends in theneighborhood that rode bikes.
That was just really me and mynephew and who's like seven
years younger than me, and so webasically grew up together we
rode bikes.
But I think I just I just thinkI just went out riding on my
bike like by myself, cause itwas the eighties and why not,
but I think I had trainingwheels for a really long time
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until I was probably like nineor something.
And you started when I don'tknow, like five, six, something
like that.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Did you ever have someone try to teach you?
Or you're just like I'm goingto go do this until I get it.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Listen, this is what teaching me was like.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Do you know?
Speaker 2 (15:25):
how I learned how to swim.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Yes, I do.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
They just threw you in and said swim right, like I
thought my brother was jumpingin with me.
One brother was at one end ofthe pool, one brother was at the
other end and the brotherbehind me said jump in, I'm
coming with you.
And I jumped because I trustedmy brothers.
And guess what?
No one came with me and they'relike now swim.
This is how people taught methings.
So I don't know that anybodytaught me how to ride a bike.
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They were just like here's abike.
Figure that nonsense out whichI almost kind of wanted to do
with Renthrope today.
I'm like maybe if we just leavehim here by himself, he will
work through this.
He wants to know how to ride abike.
He's in summer camp and they'renow having bike and scooter
time, which we love, and he'sgot his scooter there, but he's
always just ridden road.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
This is why he doesn't has ridden upon Right.
We can't even conjugate thismess.
No wonder he can't do this inthis family.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
He has traveled primarily by scooter.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Ridden.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
He has ridden a scooter, he's primarily ridden a
scooter, and we asked him if hewanted a bike and he was like
no, I just like my scooter.
But now, because his bestfriends have bikes, he wants to
ride a bike.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Now, if he had friends in the neighborhood,
then I think that the motivationwould be a lot more and it
would have been earlier.
As it is, it's just the friendsat school and he's going to
take his, his bike to school,ostensibly, and just use it
there.
I don't know but I'm trying toremember if the two older boys I
don't think they ever reallylearned how to ride a bike
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either.
Bike riding was never a thingfor me in my neighborhood
because when the boys the twoolder ones were born in the
early two thousands, we alsodidn't let them wander by
themselves because we lived inMiami and it was not a thing we
were going to do.
We weren't comfortable doing itand I didn't really have a bike
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, so that wouldn't have worked.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
But they know how to ride a bike.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
I don't think that Andrew knows how to ride a bike.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
No, because Andrew wanted the bike that's in the
garage.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Right, but I don't think he knows how to ride it.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
He wanted the bike, that's in the garage right, but
I don't think he knows how toride it he just wanted it, I
think.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
So there's the same with windsor if we just bought
him a bike, he doesn't know howto ride the damn thing.
What can go hand in hand withthis conversation, though?
Two milestones that I see askids, things that your parents
teach you bike riding andswimming yes so the two older
boys again.
We grew up in miami and wealways had a pool so they could
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swim from.
Basically, when they popped out, they've always swum, and so
that wasn't even really a thingthat I had to teach them.
We just had them in the pooland be like okay, now do this
and that.
Now, with Winthrop, we took himto swimming lessons, which was
not a thing that I had growingup.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
No see, I mean we've already established that I was
thrown in a pool and saidsurvive.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
And then you hate the water now, don't you?
Well?
Speaker 2 (18:11):
I hate the water because I was stung by a
jellyfish when I was eight andI'm all over that now.
But when Muffy was little welived in a neighborhood with a
pool, and so we took her to swimlessons at like two and three
oh, wow so she got swim lessonsreally early and she can swim,
she can survive.
She's always that she's not avery strong swimmer.
Well, me neither, but like she,she can swim like a beast.
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He is a really strong swimmer,but we didn't do swim lessons
with him at that age because itwas during covid he was three
when we went in a lockdown andthen five or six when we came.
You know when everything startedlike really opening back up and
we wanted to get him swimlessons but he couldn't swim and
if we put him in the beginningclasses he was going to be with
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little tiny kids.
So I was fortunate that I had aformer colleague who was a swim
teacher and would do lessons ather home.
So we just paid for privatelessons and it really only took
maybe four or five lessons andthen he was a swimmer.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Is it that it's just a fact, at least with our kids,
that other people are moreeffective in teaching them stuff
than we are?
Speaker 2 (19:17):
A hundred percent.
But it's not just our kids, Imean.
I hear that from families allthe time, teaching like why will
they do this for you but theywon't do it for me?
And it's like well, I meanbecause you are the place where
they can, you're the safe space,although it doesn't feel great
because they'll yell at you andwhine at you and whatever.
I was trying to teach Muffy howto read when she was I don't
know like in kindergarten, she'dget so mad at me and she'd
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throw the book at me and likestop, mom.
And I was talking to theprincipal at our school and she
was like you just need to be mom.
Like stop turning a teacher,let somebody else do that, just
be mom.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
And you think that this is the way it's been like
throughout history.
I mean, I don't.
Like way back in the cavemandays they're like I'm trying to
teach this kid how to make thisfucking fire, but he's not going
to do it, so send him to Ogover there in the next cave over
to learn how to ride a mammothand make fire.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Well, and I used to get so frustrated with Winthrop
when he was working through mathbecause I taught first grade
math and so I tried to work withhim on it, and so the way they
teach math now makes a whole lotof sense.
We weren't taught that way, butit's a lot of reasoning and a
lot of thinking in differentways, and he was not here for me
trying to help him withhomework and I was like dude, I
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have a degree in this.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Like this.
You don't know, but this iswhat I do.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Like it's what I do with my whole damn life.
You are gonna listen.
I'm like you don't teach kidsanymore.
You teach teachers.
I'm like right, but I stillremember.
So I don't know.
He wasn't hearing it, we didn'tI.
We didn't teach muffy how toride a ride a car.
We didn't teach her how todrive a car.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
We paid for driving lessons no, but you would take
her driving, though that'sdifferent she would practice.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
But like I mean, I needed to not be there because I
was stressed about it and thenI'd stress her out.
So she did better with people.
I actually thought today, whilewe were watching him trying to
do this bike, who can we sendhim to?
Speaker 1 (21:02):
I don't know that they have bike lessons in the
same way they have swim lessons.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Somebody, somebody has got to teach us.
So we I did a little researchand what he really needs is to
learn his balance first.
So I have a colleague who's gota a balance bike.
If you don't know what abalance bike is, it's basically
a bike with thicker tires and nopedals where they just imagine
if the flintstones had inventedbikes it would be this balance
bike, no pedals, and you're justyabba dabba doing along yes, so
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we are getting the balance bikeand gonna start there.
I don't know how muffie's gonnalearn to ride a bike.
Her thing is like I'm going tocollege and I can't ride a bike.
So I mean, you know, like if Igo to Europe on vacation, how am
I going to get around town?
Speaker 1 (21:41):
See, now I'm trying to remember back, and who taught
me the stuff that I know?
Like this my neighbors taughtme how to ride a bike and swim,
right, so that wasn't my dad, ofcourse.
My dad wasn't going to teach meshit.
He.
The only thing he taught me washow to write a check.
Um, I went to driving schoolfor to learn how to drive a car.
Yeah, I guess.
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I guess I need to not be soannoyed that he is not open to
any sort of instruction, butthen now that just doesn't seem
right, though it seems like it'sour job as parents to teach
them stuff.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Right.
So I am much more patient withhim than I was with Buffy,
Because I'm older, I've had alot more experience and I am
much more patient with him.
I think that you've regressed alittle bit since the boys were
little and so you're relearningyour patience.
I mean, you're trying, You'rereally, really trying.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
But today you said Ow , ow, what.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Ow that trying, but today you ow ow, what ow that
hurts.
Ow, what have you just done?
Today, you said to me I'mallowed to be annoyed because
you're having to do something.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
It's like you are, but you need to just I'm allowed
to be annoyed because I wasjust trying to tell him that
when you're trying to balance onthe bike, you need to to move
the, the um, I almost saidsteering wheel, the handlebars,
back and forth a little bit tosteady yourself.
I said here, let me, um, let meget on and let me show you.
And he's like, no, I don't wantto see it.
I'm like, well, we're at animpasse now I don't know what to
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do.
We need to call in the un tonegotiate this, because that's a
ridiculous point of view tohave you were so funny.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
I'm allowed to be annoyed, like I know, but like,
don't be annoyed like out loud.
You're allowed to be annoyed,like I know, but like, don't be
annoyed like out loud.
You're allowed to be annoyed,just not out loud.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Well, this is why I think we need to get to know our
neighbors better.
You know, this quest that wehave to try to break through and
make the people around us likeus is because then we'll have
access to other parents that canteach our kids stuff, and then
we can teach their kids stuff.
All right, yeah, right, yeah,yeah, okay.
I mean, that's the way itshould be, that's the way it
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used to be, right neighborhoodsof people, families getting
together, and that's probablyhow it is in a lot of places.
Just not that way around here,or at least not that way in any
place that I've lived with youyou just made it sound like
that's my fault.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
first of all, the first place that we lived in
when we got married we lived onlike three acres and the only
thing that visited were thedeers and the really nosy next
door neighbor lady who drove younuts.
So I mean that wasn't me.
And then we moved.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
RIP.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
And raise a glass.
Then we moved here duringquarantine and there was nobody
around us.
We don't have neighbors oneither side of us.
One house is being used as anAirbnb.
The other side is not finished,so we don't have neighbors.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
We have neighbors behind us, we have several
families live behind us.
They formed a little group thatwe cannot penetrate.
We can't.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
But have you seen they do?
Just let their children out andthe children just ride around
the neighborhood without anyadult supervision right, but is
that?
Speaker 1 (24:37):
I mean that's the way we were and look how we turned
out like?
Is that that's fine?
Speaker 2 (24:42):
how much therapy do you both, you and I need?
Speaker 1 (24:44):
but I'm talking about my shit has nothing to do with
the fact that I rode bikes onsaturday um, I'm more concerned
about like not looking for carslike that.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
There's not a whole lot of traffic in our
neighborhood but when there is,people drive through here like
they really need to pee pee intheir pants or something because
they drive really fast.
So I don't know I, do you wantme to go next to back door
neighbor and knock on the doorand say I need someone to teach
my kid how to ride a bike?
Can we be friends?
Speaker 1 (25:12):
I mean, I'd probably start with hey, would you like
to come over for dinner?
But that would be the goal.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Is that we can farm out some of this stuff to
younger parents.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Well, his best friend knows how to ride a bike, and
his best friend's mom and I chatand we've been talking about
doing a play date, so maybe Iactually need to be like hey,
listen, this is my deal.
What do you want me to teachyour kid?
We'll do some sort of trade-off.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
You're bartering, yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
I'll teach your kid this if you teach my kid how to
ride a bike, and his friend canride a bike, so it's positive
peer pressure.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
So have we determined , then, that the way to do this
is to not do it?
I feel like that's the answer.
Is the way to teach our kidsstuff is to find someone to
teach our kids stuff Well is tofind someone to teach our kids
stuff.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Well, I think, with him and this bike, what's going
to happen is we're just going tohave to slowly start with the
balance bike and get him reallycomfortable with it.
I think he's going to be able.
He's going to really wind upteaching himself, because he's
so freaking stubborn and doesn'twant to hear from us.
And the problem is that he'sgoing to be nine and he's just
not trying.
You know, if you're like fouror five, you're a little bit
more like my parents know whatthey're talking about and
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they're also not as afraid Well,he didn't at four or five, but
I mean like most kids, but andthey're also not as afraid to
fall, right, he's now much moreaware of what happens if he
falls.
So, but I mean, if you notice,today he fell off the bike a
couple of times and laid in thegrass crying and said he
couldn't pick the bike upbecause it was too heavy.
And I said, okay, well, we'lljust be here.
We are here until you get up,like, okay, take all the time
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you need.
And he eventually got up anddid it right.
So I think it's the notfighting with him, the not.
You know, god forbid.
Don't you show him how thosehandlebars work?
Speaker 1 (26:49):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
I think you and I need to be near.
It's like when a toddler ishaving a tantrum.
The advice from all of thebehavior experts and I know that
it works is that you don'tengage with them.
You sit near them Because ifyou try to engage with them they
are in lizard brain, right Likethey are operating from the
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base of their brain what that'scalled.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
A mygdala.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Yeah, and they're in fight or flight.
They can't process and youcan't reason with the toddler
anyway.
But what you're supposed to dois sit near them so that you
make sure that they are safe,they're not hurting anybody else
, and you just let them burn out, and they will eventually come
over and look for some sort ofsolace or co-regulation from you
(27:38):
.
This is what we're going tohave to do with the bike.
We just need to be near him,but let him work it out on his
own.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Can I bring my headphones?
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Yes, your headphones and your Negroni Go ahead.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Excellent, I'm down All right.
Well, hopefully this washelpful to you.
How did you teach your kids howto ride a bike or swim?
Familiarwilsons at gmailcom isour email address.
Please do let us know Email.
We have emails If you'd like toreach out to us.
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As I said, our email address isfamiliarwilsons at gmailcom and
we are thrilled to receive youremails.
Let's hear what Leo has to sayfirst.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Hi friend Leo.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Leo says hey, wilsons , not sure who wrote to you
about your welcome, but they aremy long-lost kin.
I too have always questionedwhy we say you're welcome.
Like you, josh, I've alwaysfelt thank you was pretty much
final.
I rarely say you're welcome,but instead have most always
replied no problem, meaningsimply that it's no burden for
me.
Thank you, leo.
I agree with you.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
It's rare that Leo validates you.
Usually he validates me.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
I don't know that that's so.
Leo continues.
He says for the love of God,coffee mugs so many.
Over the years I've had tobreak the habit of purchasing
coffee mugs whenever we travel.
Very good, you know.
What I started to try to do, bythe way, was shot glasses.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Yeah, but you don't drink shots.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
No, I mean you use shot glasses to put the gin in
the Negroni.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
But anyway, I gave that up, because usually they
don't end up looking coolbecause usually they don't end
up looking cool.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
You have like three, yeah, yeah, anyway, he goes on.
One of them has a marijuanaleaf on it that you got at Cedar
Key.
It's so strange.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Does it really?
Yes, I don't remember that.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
It was the odd.
You went into a store and cameback with it.
I was very confused.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Okay, don't remember that, that ain't me Okay.
Hoodies or sweatshirts, Atleast they're more practical and
once I've outgrown theirusefulness, they make great
garage rags.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Leo, I'm assuming that you mean hoodies,
sweatshirts that have like alogo or like the name of the
place that you're at.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
No, just plain ones.
He'll go into a Walmart in PortSt Lucie and get a plain white
shirt.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
First of all, why'd you, why'd you pull port st
lucie out?
That's like a deep cut in theflorida geography, but the other
no.
I do this, I will.
When I'm traveling, I will lookfor an article of clothing that
I really like, and then Iremember like I bought a sweater
with rachel when I was inLondon at H&M and now that's my
like.
When we I took the kids toStratford-upon-Avon there was an
M&S there and I got like awhite billowy, like poet shirt
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that's my Shakespeare shirt.
I was down in West Palm at anH&M and bought a black shirt.
But every time I wear it and Ilove the shirt, I think about
when I was in West Palm for thatteacher professional learning.
So I will buy items of clothingbut then I attach it to that
experience.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
It's a little suspicious that every place
we've ever gone happens to havean H&M.
I don't know what's happeningthere, but Stratford-upon-Avon
had an M&S not an H&M.
Whatever he says, I also feltthat TLDR is one of the dumbest
insults to date.
Too long, didn't read.
I've had people comment suchthings on posts of mine in the
past, to which I've replied.
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No one asked if you're able toread anything longer than four
words at a time.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
No one invited you and or needed you to read this.
Like no, Did we talk about TLDR?
Speaker 1 (31:10):
We did, we did, we did.
It's like going into a libraryand getting every book in and
writing too long, didn't read onthe inside cover.
In my opinion, using that as aninsult over a paragraph says
much more about that person thanit does about the person who
wrote the paragraph Of course.
And it illustrates the starkreality that far too many people
in society have the attentionspan of gnats.
(31:31):
He concludes by saying Josh,I've also grown to choke down
beetroot.
In the process, I've made amental note to self whenever
something is described as havingan earthy flavor, it means it
tastes like dirt.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
Yes, and beet juice tastes like dirt juice.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
And Leo ends with finally, why didn't you tell me
I left Miami?
Speaker 2 (31:55):
Update the friends who didn't listen to last week.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Yeah, you're going to have to listen to last week for
that punchline.
But very good, leo, thank you.
And happily we have an emailfrom Jeff.
So here's some refined gaythoughts from refined gay Jeff.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Happy Pride Jeff.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Well, he starts with saying Happy Pride Wilsons.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
I didn't know, but thanks.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Today, there are a myriad pride parades and
celebrations scheduled acrossthe nation, and Houston is no
different.
I started today's Pride withhaving lunch with two of my
favorite homosexuals, Daniel andShane.
We went to a really nice sushiplace and had all-you-can-eat
lunch.
I've never had all-you-can-eatsushi before.
I didn't know that that was athing.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
You don't like all you can eat things, period,
because you say they take toolong, intentionally to keep you
from eating the things.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Well, I mean, that's my experience with the rib place
down the street where they'llbring you three, you'll eat
those.
And then they'll bring you two,you'll eat those.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
They'll get you one.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Yeah, it's kind of ridiculous.
I was thinking of how long theywould let you sit there and eat
, Because I know that theyprobably have some sort of
restriction so that they comeout on top right.
So it's probably like okay,after an hour you got to go,
whereas as long as I can have afull rack then I'm pretty
satisfied.
(33:12):
But how long are we stretchingthat out to where it's not even
fun anymore?
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Right, it has nothing to do with Jeff.
Zero to do with.
I hope the sushi was good.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Zero to do with.
So Jeff talks about how hespent his day, including a nap
in there.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
He says- Wait, you napped in the sushi restaurant.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
No, he went home and napped.
He got a nap in his day.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
You said a nap in there.
I thought Jeff was working thesystem of the all you can eat.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
I think that if there's a nap in there they
might kick you out.
He says the Houston PrideParade is always at night, as,
josh you will remember.
It just helps keeping the tempsdown in this oppressive Texas
sun.
He says the parade also moveddowntown many years ago and
that's where my attendancestopped, With past attendance
crowds of 850,000 people.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
I want the option of a quick exit.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Damn.
So that is a lot of people.
Amanda, a couple weeks ago youmentioned the restaurant Ryan's.
My family went weekly.
I was a fan of their salad bar.
My family was really close tothis other family that actually
started Ryan's.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
Oh really.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Our friend Greg and his wife Bobbi actually came to
us to see if we're interested ininvesting and providing seed
money for the organization.
Alas, it was many thousands ofdollars and my parents just
didn't have that kind of cashthing around, so we had to pass.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
Greg and Bobbi and their family went on to
obviously make untold millionsof dollars with the success of
this restaurant, the loadedbaked potatoes and that salad
bar and the Hawaiian chicken anda petite sirloin.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
As you know, jeff is in the educational industry.
He says I have thoughts aboutyour 51 coffee cups.
I also went through a stretchin my teaching career where
coffee cups were accumulatingfaster than mock Jesus.
I had to make the decision tosimply get rid of them.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
I mean, we've already gotten rid of a lot, friend.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
I know, but this is what he's done.
He says currently I have six,Four of them he bought at Crate
and Barrel that are clear glasscafe mugs that are pretty
generic.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
I have those.
I like them.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
The other two I have are my favorite ones I kept.
One is a beautiful forest mossflat green mug that says Acadian
National Park on it.
I got it on a trip therebecause I'd never seen that
color before and it spoke to me.
The other is a large-ish redand black buffalo plaid mug that
I found several years ago.
We both know about hisobsession with buffalo plaid and
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it brings him comfort.
He uses that in fall and winterfor the obvious connection yes,
absolutely.
He says there's other thingsthat I do collect and I'd like
to hear other things that folkscollect.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
Yeah, that's interesting.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
Email us at familiarwilsons at gmailcom with
your collections.
He likes to collect dinnerware,as do you.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Apparently I do that's all I have to say, just
my heavy sigh.
Please talk about Jeff'sdinnerware.
You won't give him a hard time.
I like my dinnerware, hush.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
He says I commissioned my favorite North
Carolina potter, bill Stewart,to make me a full set of
dinnerware about 40 years agowhich I still use to this day.
Now, that's cool.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
That is cool.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
That's handmade, that is specific to him.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
That's a thing that you pass on.
You're just mad because theplates that I have a lot of in
the cabinet are from Marriage1.0.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
I hadn't thought about that.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
But I love them and got them in the end of Marriage
1.0.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Yeah, another complete set of dinnerware that
I have is from Thailand.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
That's cool.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
I love the white plate with blue tie design along
the edge.
So he has about 12 of thoseplates.
Sauce trays, really cool,smaller raised plates.
It sounds like a full set thathe has.
Speaker 2 (36:44):
I have a full set from Japan when I went, jeff,
and it's blue and white as well.
So I love all of our dishesthat are real.
Actual ceramic dishes are allblue and white as well.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
He says.
I usually pick up one or twowhen I'm in Western North
Carolina where the potters areprolific.
Seven Sisters Gallery in Black.
Mountain and New MorningGallery in Asheville are my two
favorite places.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
I know Seven Sisters.
I'm just agreeing with him Iknow Seven Sisters.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
A few years ago I was in Japan and Richmond, our
mutual friend, took me to thepottery village Mashiko, a
little more than two hours northof Tokyo.
It's famous for its pottery,called Mashiko ware.
That makes sense.
I was happier than if thecoyote caught the roadrunner.
Dozens and dozens of potterystores with their kilns right
out back In one store.
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We went in.
The owner spoke English andcorrectly surmised that we were
American, but was pleasantlysurprised when Richmond told her
that he had been living inJapan for 30 years.
Come to find out she knew whereNorth Carolina was and even
Black Mountain because she tookpottery chips every year to keep
abreast of what's going on inthe pottery world.
I could not believe it when shesaid she had been to Seven
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Sisters in Black Mountain manytimes as a favorite place.
Speaker 2 (37:54):
That's amazing.
The world is a small place.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
Yeah.
So there you go.
What else do you all collect?
That's what I want to know, hesays.
I also have a completely filledbookcase of books from the past
40 years.
They range from my favoriteauthors to gardening books, to
travel books, to coffee tablebooks, to biographies, to
cookbooks, to some prizedautograph books by some really
cool authors, some with reallycool personal messages.
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Several years ago, though, Icame to the realization that I
didn't need to buy any morebooks, because I'm a freaking
librarian and I have 15 000books at work every day too long
didn't read oh what I'm sayingall of the books in the library.
That's what you said, not you,jeff so the only books that he
continues to buy are autographbooks.
That that's cool.
(38:38):
I get that.
I can see that that would becool.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
The only autographed books I have are cookbooks.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
I can sign some books for you.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
Thanks.
He talks about this issue ofbless you when you sneeze.
That's a social custom that iscarried over from the Middle
Ages, depending on whichfolklore you want to believe.
Originally, it was thought backthen that the soul left the
body when you sneezed, andsaying bless you was a way to
counteract this.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
That's like shoved it back in.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
Yeah, apparently, or God shoves it back in.
The popular Gesundheit inGermany simply means health, I
believe.
So it's just a way ofacknowledging someone wishing
you good health.
Of course, monique from Germanywould be able to clarify it.
If it really does mean health,the same goes for salute in
spanish, meaning health.
Amanda, I did not know thething about my pleasure being
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from chick-fil-a simply becauseI do not go to chick-fil-a.
Let me be the first to say hereon this pride day that I do not
support their views against theLGBTQ community or eat their
hate chicken any longer.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
So, jeff, this is an ongoing debate in this house
where we all do not want tosupport Chick-fil-A, and Josh
takes a very firm stance in it.
It's difficult because the onlychicken our children like to
eat are either popcorn, chickenfrom Publix or Chick-fil-A
nuggets.
We think of, like I have areally good friend whose whose
son is is openly gay and he'sstill eats Chick-fil-A, and his
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reasoning is that it is afranchise, locally owned, that
he's supporting locally ownedbusiness.
But I get it.
I mean, I get it, I get it.
And Josh draws a really hardline.
Sometimes we do, but it feelsicky.
Speaker 1 (40:19):
Jeff also has thoughts on people who say too
long didn't read.
Speaker 2 (40:24):
Like I just said about your library, sorry.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
This has become the mainstay of ignorant people that
want to ban books.
They'll be the first to jump onthe bandwagon of banning
specific books without havingactually read the book as a
librarian.
It infuriates me to see thishappening with more repetition
these days.
It's getting absolutelyridiculous.
The latest ones being bannedI've heard that really take the
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cake are the DK or DorlingKindersley.
Speaker 2 (40:50):
Really.
Speaker 1 (40:51):
Amanda is probably familiar with DK books.
Speaker 2 (40:54):
Yeah, shockingly.
This is why it surprises me.
Speaker 1 (40:56):
They are a British publishing company of very, very
fun and easy to understandreference books for adults and
children, and the latest to banthem is a county in Tennessee
that wants to ban the completebook of cats and the complete
book of dogs.
Please make it make sense.
Speaker 2 (41:11):
Why?
What is in the books of catsand dogs?
I can understand if it's likeunderstanding your body, Like
I'm not saying I agree with it,but I could see where there may
be.
Like I don't want you to teachmy child about their body, but
dogs and cats- yeah, I don'tknow.
With their past, dk space books.
Speaker 1 (41:28):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
They're cool.
Dk is super cool.
Yeah well, unless you're tryingto read it to a kid at bedtime
and then it's got way too manywords in it.
Speaker 1 (41:35):
I feel like I need to end with something to lighten
the mood.
So he has a question that YachtRock gives him.
He says we all know that Brandywears a braided chain made of
finest silver from the north ofSpain, a locket that bears the
name of a man that Brandy loved.
My question is this, and wewill never know the answer what
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was his name?
Familiarwilsons at gmailcom, ifyou know the answer to that
eternal and universal question.
Thanks Jeff, thanks Leo, andagain, if you want to get in
touch with us, familiarwilsonsat gmailcom.
They say in advertising youshould repeat something seven
(42:18):
times before people remember it.
I think that this is probablyaround six.
So far this episode.
No one likes to be told what todo, and now is the time in the
program where we tell you whatto do, amanda.
What should we do?
Speaker 2 (42:30):
We should all get very excited because, coming
this fall, steve Burns isstarting a podcast.
Do you know who Steve Burns isstarting a podcast?
Do you know who Steve Burns?
Speaker 1 (42:39):
is.
I know who Steve Burns is.
I know that he's starting apodcast.
Why?
Speaker 2 (42:43):
are you sounding so sad?
I'm so excited.
You know, because I sent it toyou.
I sent the TikTok to youbecause I'm so excited about it.
Okay, If you don't know whoSteve Burns is, Steve Burns is
the original Steve from Blue'sClues and while he was the one
talking to the millennials whenthey were kids, I got super into
Blue's Clues when Muffy waslittle.
She was really into it and whenI was going through a really
(43:05):
difficult period of time it wasincredibly comforting to just
sit there with her and watchthese things and have it on.
Steve went away and then Joecame right, Like Steve went away
to college or whatever andSteve was gone.
Lots of speculation Did Stevedie?
Did Steve go bald?
Is that why he left?
Yes, Steve went bald.
We don't know.
That's why he left.
He wears a hat all the time now.
Speaker 1 (43:27):
I thought that Steve left because he wanted to be a
rock star Legit.
I thought he wanted to go be ina band.
Speaker 2 (43:31):
Maybe he did who than Blippi, that's all that matters
.
He now, after COVID, starteddoing social media posts where
just talking to the kids likehow are you doing?
But the grown-up kids, right,how are you doing?
It just made everybody feel soseen and so comforted.
(43:51):
It's kind of like Mr Rogers,but what I love is that on his
bio on his socials is I'm not MrRogers, so he's just like I'm
not Please stop calling me that.
But he's starting a podcastcalled Alive with the Lemonada,
I think, network and his wholething is like let's just have a
conversation, let's just talkabout when he was doing Blue's
(44:14):
Clues.
It was all learning aboutletters and shapes and numbers
and vegetables and all thisstuffues.
It was all learning aboutletters and shapes and numbers
and vegetables and all thisstuff.
And now it's like we're adultsand we're trying to navigate
sexism, racism, you know,political issues and wars in the
world and we still need support.
Adults still need support andthat's the idea of it.
It's just navigating all thesethings of what it means to be
(44:36):
alive.
I will probably listen, but I'mannoyed that there's yet another
podcast that will takeattention away from my podcast
that's all I'm saying to youWell, if you get yourself a
cardigan and start singing aboutyour neighborhood, maybe people
will find you comforting.
Speaker 1 (44:50):
I'm going to sing about the gayborhood me and Jeff
.
Okay, I recommend that you goand you find this account, this
social media account calledFesshole.
I like to read from itoccasionally on this podcast,
but feel free to go and find itand read things on your own and
enjoy it, Like this one, Amandahow about this?
Ghosted by boyfriend of twoyears?
Speaker 2 (45:12):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (45:13):
Been texting him as someone else for the last six
months.
I'm about to ghost him thecheating bastard.
Speaker 2 (45:18):
Oh yeah, I cheating bastard.
Speaker 1 (45:19):
Oh yeah, I like that.
The people in the comments theones who seem to be the lads are
saying you're pretty unhinged,what a waste of time and effort.
And the other people are reallyenjoying it, and I really enjoy
it too.
So there you go.
Speaker 2 (45:34):
Good on you.
Speaker 1 (45:35):
The comments are very interesting.
So, anyway, check out Fess Hole, You'll enjoy it.
Also, I recommend that youcheck out Chicken Tom's podcast,
In-Law and the Out-Law.
It is a suburban father-in-lawand a country son-in-law and
they just like to talk a littleshit and it's fun to listen to.
All right, Amanda, that's allthere is.
(46:02):
There is no more.
What'd you think about thatmess?
Speaker 2 (46:04):
I mean the same, as I always think about it.
It's a mess, but we're happy toconnect and please connect back
with us.
Speaker 1 (46:10):
This episode of Super Familiar with the Wilsons was
made possible by Antonio forpatching the bike tires with
chewing gum and sheer confidence.
Josh Scar for the synchronizedswimming choreography that no
one asked for.
Daniel James Buckets for doingwheelies directly into the deep
end.
Chicken Tom for trying to teachthe fish how to ride a Schwinn.
(46:31):
Monique from Germany forshouting Das ist nicht safe
right after every gloriousdisaster.
Joey, joey.
Speaker 2 (46:39):
Joey.
Speaker 1 (46:40):
Matt for bringing snacks and for getting the
breaks.
Leo for the whispered rumorsthat the lifeguard is actually a
ghost Refined.
Gay, jeff for the elegantbreaststroke with a glass of
rosé in hand.
Mark and Rachel for the tandembike that leads directly into
the abyss.
And Dan and Gavin for themotivational poster that simply
reads pedal or shut up.
Speaker 2 (47:02):
I'm laughing right now because we have a group chat
on WhatsApp with Dan and Gavin,and you and Dan have just been
in hinge today and I I have saidto you that I'm I have many
questions for both of you, butI've decided and said I'm solely
going to engage with Gavin.
I'm not talking to either oneof you anymore.
And Gavin's response was whydoes it feel like if I'm not
paying attention, I come back tochaos?
Speaker 1 (47:24):
yeah, yes, sir, that's.
Let me get a t-shirt that saysthat, because that's the world
right now.
All right, y'all, until nextweek.
Make sure to hold your nosebefore you jump in the water and
always wear a bike helmet go bekind.
Bye, bye, thank you.
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The following podcast useswords like and and also.
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
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Speaker 1 (00:26):
Get it.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
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I'm Amanda.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
And I'm Josh and we are the podcast about marriage
2.0 with kids and all the sidequests.
That's right, we're both on oursecond marriages because
apparently one life partnerwasn't enough.
Character development.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
The way you say this.
We're on our second Like thisis just like a stop in the road
and we're going to have more.
Listen, I'm done.
If this does not work out, Iwill have companions, but I'm
not living in a house withanybody else Like what do you
mean companions?
You know, like Doctor who, Idon't know.
I'm just people who will goalong with me in my life, but
(01:05):
I'm not living with anybody else.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
So you're saying that after me is butler.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
That's it, that's right, I'll get a butler.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Or a maidservant or something.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Yeah, and then they can drive me around.
No, I don't even want them todrive me around, I don't even
prefer to drive.
Well, because we always go inmy car and it's just my car, and
so it's my car.
You don't let me drive your car.
You were so funny.
I thought I was gonna have todrive your car the other night
for the first time yes becausemuffie was off with my car and
(01:37):
it wasn't starting.
It was like 10 o'clock at nightand I went to and you're like do
you know how to drive it?
It's a stand, I mean, it's anautomatic car, it's a four-door,
it's a four-wheeled car, I meanit has lights.
I've driven many, manydifferent cars in my lifetime
but you were like do you knowhow to drive it?
Speaker 1 (01:58):
We need to start doing video, because how you
describe that is that it's as ifI was a chihuahua and I was
shaking.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
You were twitchy, I was not twitchy at all.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
It's a different car, it's a different layout, and
you were going at night and so Ijust wanted to listen.
I'm just trying to protect you,as we have determined, my job
is to protect you and make surethat you are fully prepared for
every challenge in life.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Is that because you plan on leaving me soon?
You need to know that I'mwell-adjusted.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
We all know the answer to that.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
But let's get off this topic.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
I don't know how that happened.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
All I was saying is that you said words.
That's how we got there, Allright.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Well, let me very quickly change the subject then.
So this week I have starteddrinking caffeinated coffee
again.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Yeah, how long were you not drinking caffeinated
coffee?
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Oh, a long while, maybe six months.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Oh really, yeah, yeah , it's been a while.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
So I do this thing where I'll drink coffee and
really enjoy the focus that thecaffeine gives me, but then two
things happen It'll start towear off you know, become less
effective, and so then I'll haveto have more coffee, and within
the last couple of years,caffeinated coffee now gives me
really bad reflux.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
So I head cut it for those two reasons.
Work has been such that likeI've just kind of felt like I
needed to be a little bitsharper, a little bit more
focused.
So I started doing it and II've been a house of fire for
the last couple of weeks.
No really, it's been reallygood.
I've really enjoyed the focus,enjoyed this and that, but I'm
(03:35):
starting to get this really badreflux.
So it's a really weirdsituation.
That's probably some sort ofmetaphor for our capitalistic
society, and that is that I haveto be more focused to do more
work.
But the way I get there is withsomething that slightly hurts
me it causes you pain so I'mback on coffee now.
We'll see how long that lasts,but, man, this weekend I've had
(03:57):
really bad reflux I'm sorry,coffee and I've never broken up
you're still on your firstrelationship.
Yeah, coffee and I have along-standing relationship.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
It's probably my longest term relationship.
Yeah, coffee and I have along-standing relationship.
It's probably my longest termrelationship being coffee oh,
okay, I think I started drinkingcoffee at like 14 oh, did you?
Speaker 1 (04:11):
yeah, that's way that doesn't seem right.
Is that why you're so short?
Speaker 2 (04:16):
yes, honey, the coffee stunted.
My growth has nothing to dowith the fact.
Genetics so you remember thefirst time you had coffee yeah,
because my mom I mean my mom wasa big coffee drinker.
My mom always liked coffeestrong.
She would have um cream, halfand half and milk.
I mean no, half, half and halfmilk, half and half and honey in
hers oh god, that sounds grossum, it wasn't, but then.
So I used to drink it sweetenedand then by the time I hit my
(04:38):
20s I was like, no, I don't wantsweet in my coffee.
Like I don't.
Every once in a while I'll getlike a want sweet in my coffee.
Like I don't.
Every once in a while I'll getlike a frou-frou, like holiday
flavor of some sort of likelatte or something.
But I really I'm not even apumpkin spice kind of girly.
My favorite was Starbucks.
A while ago used to have agingerbread latte and I loved
that, but they don't have thatanymore.
So no, I think I've beendrinking at least since high
(05:00):
school.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Okay, well, I've been drinking a long time too, but
now this reflux thing ishappening, so that kind of hurts
.
And then also, the 18 year oldis out of town right now and we
got the eight year old to sleepearly on Friday night, so
therefore we got to have alittle special Josh and Amanda
time, and my abs are really,really hurting right now.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
I can't believe you're saying this, because we
now know that at least one ofher friends listens to this
podcast and they are gonna bescandalized and tell her,
Scandalized by what exactly?
The fact that you have talkedabout how now your abs hurt from
your strenuous Friday nightactivity.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
I'm trying to figure out if that means I've reached a
certain age now or if I'm justout of shape.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Or a little of both.
I think it's probably a littleof both.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Okay, well.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
I don't remember you doing crunches.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
I mean Kind of I'm embarrassed.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
You are so embarrassed my face is turning
red.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
It is red.
So this is telling me I do needto do more crunches and get in
better shape.
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Anyway, moving along andspeaking of movements, I noticed
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something the other day as wewere walking the dog Dogs, I
think.
Out of all the creatures thatI've had the misfortune to see
excrete, they look the mostuncomfortable and ashamed while
they are doing it.
Dogs.
I feel like know just enough tohave shame right, but not
enough to do anything about it.
If he could talk, he'd be likestop looking at me, don't look
(08:12):
at me.
But, as it is, he will do itand always he will look over to
see if I'm looking at him andmeanwhile he looks so
uncomfortable, bent up like apretzel, so unnatural looking.
While he looks so uncomfortable, bent up like a pretzel, so
unnatural looking, something sonatural and so commonplace.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
And animals shouldn't look so uncomfortable and
unnatural I read somethingsomewhere where, if dogs look in
your eyes while they're doingit, it means this one thing I
think that when he's looking youthe eyes, it may just be like
to see who will look away first,just having a staring contest.
Imagine if people were likedogs and you had to circle like
700 times in front of the toiletbefore you went our bathroom is
(08:49):
not big enough like, then youjust invited me for a staring
contest.
No, thank you now, it's unlikehorses, who they'll just walk
and they won't break stride theywon't do it while they're
walking it just happens and youwould have no clue except for
the splat sound you know, what Ithink is the worst, though, is
birds, because it's not only didthey just do it while they're
(09:11):
flying, like it targets, you, doyou really think that they're
targeting you know I got hit theother day when we were did you
really?
Speaker 1 (09:17):
orlando.
Yeah, it was so annoying too,because I was sitting out by the
pool with the kids and I wasjust past the umbrella Like
maybe there was about I don'tknow, four or five inches of me
that wasn't covered by theumbrella, and then just right
there, I was so annoyed Icouldn't believe it.
Yes, in that case I absolutelybelieved they were targeting me,
(09:38):
and he may have been with abuddy and been like hey, watch
this, I've been practicing Wasit your leg though.
No, but it's on those new pantsthat I just bought and I was so
fucking annoyed.
That's annoying.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Winthrop now is really into birds and when we go
to PetSmart he wants to go lookat the birds and he keeps
telling me how cute birds areand would ever want a bird.
And I said no, I mean, I thinkbirds are cute, but I don't want
a bird.
They're a.
They're a lot of work to youknow, to keep up with and clean
their cage and everything and hesaid but they're so cute,
(10:12):
they're like hamsters, but withwings.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
I think like the most pathetic things that people
have as pets are birds, not tobring us down, but you
intentionally take away theirmain source of mobility right
because you clip their wings andthen you keep them in a little
cage.
At least with fish they canstill swim.
Dogs and cats they can go aboutand do their thing.
Mice and gerbils and hamsterscan be on their little fucking
(10:34):
wheels.
Birds, it's like it's awful.
No one should own a bird.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Yeah, I mean, I'm not gonna disagree with you.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Except for maybe a vulture Then you could use, or a
pelican.
You can use it like theFlintstones use it and then put
all your refuse in there.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Oh, was it like a compost pile, A compost thing?
Yeah, I think it was thepelican.
Pelicans I don't see pelicansin person very often, but they
are interesting looking things.
Oh yeah, they're big.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
If you mean big, that I didn't realize until I saw
one in the flesh Eagles arefreaking huge man.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Are they?
Where did you see one?
We went on.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Alaska cruise back in marriage 1.0 and they had a
thing like a conservatory thatyou could go there and they
would have an eagle and thatdamn thing like its talons were
bigger than my hands, just togive you an idea.
And yeah, the freaking thing ismassive.
They're huge.
Some of them can be huge.
Another weird thing abouteagles in Alaska is they are so
prevalent.
They're like pigeons.
In New York, Really, we're like, oh, the majestic eagle, and in
(11:36):
Alaska they're like.
These damn things are shittingall over my storefront.
Can we please get rid of them?
Speaker 2 (11:40):
I need this.
It's trying to eat my chips.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
We have friends who are currently in Scotland.
In Scotland they were doing afalconry thing.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
And so the boys had their arms out and the falcons
were landing on them.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Sure.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Giant too, Like they were.
And the boys were chill and itwas like kids in their 20s and
they were.
It was terrifying to me towatch.
Really fascinating but justlike chill.
The other thing they did isthey paid to go watch sheep
herding dogs.
This is like you have to paymoney to go watch these dogs
herd their sheep, don't theyhave to herd the sheep anyway?
Speaker 1 (12:16):
I feel like that is a much more ethical and
entertaining option tobullfighting.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
It's kind of the same thing, right.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Except with the sheep herding.
You're watching all this motionand this action and A equals B
and all this stuff and no one'sgetting hurt.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Right.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
I think that would be very fascinating.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Oh, I do too, I'm just saying, but they charge
admission to watch somethingthat was already happening
anyway.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Yeah, that's called capitalism, my friend Scotland.
Yes, they have capitalism inScotland.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
It's like if we went to Krispy Kreme and you know how
they have the window where youcan watch the donuts being made,
but we had to pay them to watchthe donuts being made on top of
paying for our donuts.
That's basically what that is.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
I see that wouldn't be a draw to me.
It's like we were at a placeyesterday, at a pizza place, a
local pizza place and you saw apainting on the wall and you
said, is that an $800 painting?
Speaker 2 (13:06):
And my answer was not yet I mean it had an $800 price
tag on it.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
It's not an $800 painting until someone pays that
for it.
That's right.
Anyway, let's move on to ourmain topic teaching stuff to our
kids.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Yes, so we are teaching Winthrop how to ride a
bike.
So neither one of our youngerkids know how to ride a bike.
The 18-year-old doesn't and the8-year-old doesn't, and I don't
know if it's just a function ofthey just were never interested
, at least with the 18-year-old.
I know that she and I moved outfrom marriage 1.0 when she was
(13:49):
four, so we lived in anapartment until you and I got
married when she was eight, sothere was no place really for
her to ride a bike, so it wasn'tsomething that I I did, and
then by then I don't know thatshe was super interested in it,
winthrop, we just never did.
I don't know why.
Why didn't we?
Speaker 1 (14:09):
I don't think we're ever the type of parents to send
our kids outside without us.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Well, I'm not saying that they should go without us?
Speaker 1 (14:15):
No, but I mean.
That's why I learned how toride a bike in the 80s.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Your dad was like you got to learn how to ride a bike
so you can get out of here youcan get out of here.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
No, he was like get out of here, I don't want you to
to come back in the house untilnightfall, type of thing, yeah,
on saturdays and sundays.
And I was like well, my friendsride bikes and so I want to
ride a bike.
And so a lot of it for me waswell, my friends ride bikes yeah
and then also it's like I don'twant to walk to the woods where
they keep the porno mags, so II want a bike type of thing
still, every time you say it, Iam flabbergasted at the fact
(14:46):
that there were nudie mags in inthe woods.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
But okay, I don't.
I don't remember learning toride a bike.
I didn't have friends in theneighborhood that rode bikes.
That was just really me and mynephew and who's like seven
years younger than me, and so webasically grew up together we
rode bikes.
But I think I just I just thinkI just went out riding on my
bike like by myself, cause itwas the eighties and why not,
but I think I had trainingwheels for a really long time
(15:11):
until I was probably like nineor something.
And you started when I don'tknow, like five, six, something
like that.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Did you ever have someone try to teach you?
Or you're just like I'm goingto go do this until I get it.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Listen, this is what teaching me was like.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Do you know?
Speaker 2 (15:25):
how I learned how to swim.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Yes, I do.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
They just threw you in and said swim right, like I
thought my brother was jumpingin with me.
One brother was at one end ofthe pool, one brother was at the
other end and the brotherbehind me said jump in, I'm
coming with you.
And I jumped because I trustedmy brothers.
And guess what?
No one came with me and they'relike now swim.
This is how people taught methings.
So I don't know that anybodytaught me how to ride a bike.
(15:49):
They were just like here's abike.
Figure that nonsense out whichI almost kind of wanted to do
with Renthrope today.
I'm like maybe if we just leavehim here by himself, he will
work through this.
He wants to know how to ride abike.
He's in summer camp and they'renow having bike and scooter
time, which we love, and he'sgot his scooter there, but he's
always just ridden road.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
This is why he doesn't has ridden upon Right.
We can't even conjugate thismess.
No wonder he can't do this inthis family.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
He has traveled primarily by scooter.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Ridden.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
He has ridden a scooter, he's primarily ridden a
scooter, and we asked him if hewanted a bike and he was like
no, I just like my scooter.
But now, because his bestfriends have bikes, he wants to
ride a bike.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Now, if he had friends in the neighborhood,
then I think that the motivationwould be a lot more and it
would have been earlier.
As it is, it's just the friendsat school and he's going to
take his, his bike to school,ostensibly, and just use it
there.
I don't know but I'm trying toremember if the two older boys I
don't think they ever reallylearned how to ride a bike
(16:52):
either.
Bike riding was never a thingfor me in my neighborhood
because when the boys the twoolder ones were born in the
early two thousands, we alsodidn't let them wander by
themselves because we lived inMiami and it was not a thing we
were going to do.
We weren't comfortable doing itand I didn't really have a bike
(17:12):
, so that wouldn't have worked.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
But they know how to ride a bike.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
I don't think that Andrew knows how to ride a bike.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
No, because Andrew wanted the bike that's in the
garage.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Right, but I don't think he knows how to ride it.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
He wanted the bike, that's in the garage right, but
I don't think he knows how toride it he just wanted it, I
think.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
So there's the same with windsor if we just bought
him a bike, he doesn't know howto ride the damn thing.
What can go hand in hand withthis conversation, though?
Two milestones that I see askids, things that your parents
teach you bike riding andswimming yes so the two older
boys again.
We grew up in miami and wealways had a pool so they could
(17:52):
swim from.
Basically, when they popped out, they've always swum, and so
that wasn't even really a thingthat I had to teach them.
We just had them in the pooland be like okay, now do this
and that.
Now, with Winthrop, we took himto swimming lessons, which was
not a thing that I had growingup.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
No see, I mean we've already established that I was
thrown in a pool and saidsurvive.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
And then you hate the water now, don't you?
Well?
Speaker 2 (18:11):
I hate the water because I was stung by a
jellyfish when I was eight andI'm all over that now.
But when Muffy was little welived in a neighborhood with a
pool, and so we took her to swimlessons at like two and three
oh, wow so she got swim lessonsreally early and she can swim,
she can survive.
She's always that she's not avery strong swimmer.
Well, me neither, but like she,she can swim like a beast.
(18:33):
He is a really strong swimmer,but we didn't do swim lessons
with him at that age because itwas during covid he was three
when we went in a lockdown andthen five or six when we came.
You know when everything startedlike really opening back up and
we wanted to get him swimlessons but he couldn't swim and
if we put him in the beginningclasses he was going to be with
(18:55):
little tiny kids.
So I was fortunate that I had aformer colleague who was a swim
teacher and would do lessons ather home.
So we just paid for privatelessons and it really only took
maybe four or five lessons andthen he was a swimmer.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Is it that it's just a fact, at least with our kids,
that other people are moreeffective in teaching them stuff
than we are?
Speaker 2 (19:17):
A hundred percent.
But it's not just our kids, Imean.
I hear that from families allthe time, teaching like why will
they do this for you but theywon't do it for me?
And it's like well, I meanbecause you are the place where
they can, you're the safe space,although it doesn't feel great
because they'll yell at you andwhine at you and whatever.
I was trying to teach Muffy howto read when she was I don't
know like in kindergarten, she'dget so mad at me and she'd
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throw the book at me and likestop, mom.
And I was talking to theprincipal at our school and she
was like you just need to be mom.
Like stop turning a teacher,let somebody else do that, just
be mom.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
And you think that this is the way it's been like
throughout history.
I mean, I don't.
Like way back in the cavemandays they're like I'm trying to
teach this kid how to make thisfucking fire, but he's not going
to do it, so send him to Ogover there in the next cave over
to learn how to ride a mammothand make fire.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Well, and I used to get so frustrated with Winthrop
when he was working through mathbecause I taught first grade
math and so I tried to work withhim on it, and so the way they
teach math now makes a whole lotof sense.
We weren't taught that way, butit's a lot of reasoning and a
lot of thinking in differentways, and he was not here for me
trying to help him withhomework and I was like dude, I
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have a degree in this.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Like this.
You don't know, but this iswhat I do.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Like it's what I do with my whole damn life.
You are gonna listen.
I'm like you don't teach kidsanymore.
You teach teachers.
I'm like right, but I stillremember.
So I don't know.
He wasn't hearing it, we didn'tI.
We didn't teach muffy how toride a ride a car.
We didn't teach her how todrive a car.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
We paid for driving lessons no, but you would take
her driving, though that'sdifferent she would practice.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
But like I mean, I needed to not be there because I
was stressed about it and thenI'd stress her out.
So she did better with people.
I actually thought today, whilewe were watching him trying to
do this bike, who can we sendhim to?
Speaker 1 (21:02):
I don't know that they have bike lessons in the
same way they have swim lessons.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Somebody, somebody has got to teach us.
So we I did a little researchand what he really needs is to
learn his balance first.
So I have a colleague who's gota a balance bike.
If you don't know what abalance bike is, it's basically
a bike with thicker tires and nopedals where they just imagine
if the flintstones had inventedbikes it would be this balance
bike, no pedals, and you're justyabba dabba doing along yes, so
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we are getting the balance bikeand gonna start there.
I don't know how muffie's gonnalearn to ride a bike.
Her thing is like I'm going tocollege and I can't ride a bike.
So I mean, you know, like if Igo to Europe on vacation, how am
I going to get around town?
Speaker 1 (21:41):
See, now I'm trying to remember back, and who taught
me the stuff that I know?
Like this my neighbors taughtme how to ride a bike and swim,
right, so that wasn't my dad, ofcourse.
My dad wasn't going to teach meshit.
He.
The only thing he taught me washow to write a check.
Um, I went to driving schoolfor to learn how to drive a car.
Yeah, I guess.
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I guess I need to not be soannoyed that he is not open to
any sort of instruction, butthen now that just doesn't seem
right, though it seems like it'sour job as parents to teach
them stuff.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Right.
So I am much more patient withhim than I was with Buffy,
Because I'm older, I've had alot more experience and I am
much more patient with him.
I think that you've regressed alittle bit since the boys were
little and so you're relearningyour patience.
I mean, you're trying, You'rereally, really trying.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
But today you said Ow , ow, what.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Ow that trying, but today you ow ow, what ow that
hurts.
Ow, what have you just done?
Today, you said to me I'mallowed to be annoyed because
you're having to do something.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
It's like you are, but you need to just I'm allowed
to be annoyed because I wasjust trying to tell him that
when you're trying to balance onthe bike, you need to to move
the, the um, I almost saidsteering wheel, the handlebars,
back and forth a little bit tosteady yourself.
I said here, let me, um, let meget on and let me show you.
And he's like, no, I don't wantto see it.
I'm like, well, we're at animpasse now I don't know what to
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do.
We need to call in the un tonegotiate this, because that's a
ridiculous point of view tohave you were so funny.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
I'm allowed to be annoyed, like I know, but like,
don't be annoyed like out loud.
You're allowed to be annoyed,like I know, but like, don't be
annoyed like out loud.
You're allowed to be annoyed,just not out loud.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Well, this is why I think we need to get to know our
neighbors better.
You know, this quest that wehave to try to break through and
make the people around us likeus is because then we'll have
access to other parents that canteach our kids stuff, and then
we can teach their kids stuff.
All right, yeah, right, yeah,yeah, okay.
I mean, that's the way itshould be, that's the way it
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used to be, right neighborhoodsof people, families getting
together, and that's probablyhow it is in a lot of places.
Just not that way around here,or at least not that way in any
place that I've lived with youyou just made it sound like
that's my fault.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
first of all, the first place that we lived in
when we got married we lived onlike three acres and the only
thing that visited were thedeers and the really nosy next
door neighbor lady who drove younuts.
So I mean that wasn't me.
And then we moved.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
RIP.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
And raise a glass.
Then we moved here duringquarantine and there was nobody
around us.
We don't have neighbors oneither side of us.
One house is being used as anAirbnb.
The other side is not finished,so we don't have neighbors.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
We have neighbors behind us, we have several
families live behind us.
They formed a little group thatwe cannot penetrate.
We can't.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
But have you seen they do?
Just let their children out andthe children just ride around
the neighborhood without anyadult supervision right, but is
that?
Speaker 1 (24:37):
I mean that's the way we were and look how we turned
out like?
Is that that's fine?
Speaker 2 (24:42):
how much therapy do you both, you and I need?
Speaker 1 (24:44):
but I'm talking about my shit has nothing to do with
the fact that I rode bikes onsaturday um, I'm more concerned
about like not looking for carslike that.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
There's not a whole lot of traffic in our
neighborhood but when there is,people drive through here like
they really need to pee pee intheir pants or something because
they drive really fast.
So I don't know I, do you wantme to go next to back door
neighbor and knock on the doorand say I need someone to teach
my kid how to ride a bike?
Can we be friends?
Speaker 1 (25:12):
I mean, I'd probably start with hey, would you like
to come over for dinner?
But that would be the goal.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Is that we can farm out some of this stuff to
younger parents.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Well, his best friend knows how to ride a bike, and
his best friend's mom and I chatand we've been talking about
doing a play date, so maybe Iactually need to be like hey,
listen, this is my deal.
What do you want me to teachyour kid?
We'll do some sort of trade-off.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
You're bartering, yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
I'll teach your kid this if you teach my kid how to
ride a bike, and his friend canride a bike, so it's positive
peer pressure.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
So have we determined , then, that the way to do this
is to not do it?
I feel like that's the answer.
Is the way to teach our kidsstuff is to find someone to
teach our kids stuff Well is tofind someone to teach our kids
stuff.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Well, I think, with him and this bike, what's going
to happen is we're just going tohave to slowly start with the
balance bike and get him reallycomfortable with it.
I think he's going to be able.
He's going to really wind upteaching himself, because he's
so freaking stubborn and doesn'twant to hear from us.
And the problem is that he'sgoing to be nine and he's just
not trying.
You know, if you're like fouror five, you're a little bit
more like my parents know whatthey're talking about and
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they're also not as afraid Well,he didn't at four or five, but
I mean like most kids, but andthey're also not as afraid to
fall, right, he's now much moreaware of what happens if he
falls.
So, but I mean, if you notice,today he fell off the bike a
couple of times and laid in thegrass crying and said he
couldn't pick the bike upbecause it was too heavy.
And I said, okay, well, we'lljust be here.
We are here until you get up,like, okay, take all the time
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you need.
And he eventually got up anddid it right.
So I think it's the notfighting with him, the not.
You know, god forbid.
Don't you show him how thosehandlebars work?
Speaker 1 (26:49):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
I think you and I need to be near.
It's like when a toddler ishaving a tantrum.
The advice from all of thebehavior experts and I know that
it works is that you don'tengage with them.
You sit near them Because ifyou try to engage with them they
are in lizard brain, right Likethey are operating from the
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base of their brain what that'scalled.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
A mygdala.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Yeah, and they're in fight or flight.
They can't process and youcan't reason with the toddler
anyway.
But what you're supposed to dois sit near them so that you
make sure that they are safe,they're not hurting anybody else
, and you just let them burn out, and they will eventually come
over and look for some sort ofsolace or co-regulation from you
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.
This is what we're going tohave to do with the bike.
We just need to be near him,but let him work it out on his
own.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Can I bring my headphones?
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Yes, your headphones and your Negroni Go ahead.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Excellent, I'm down All right.
Well, hopefully this washelpful to you.
How did you teach your kids howto ride a bike or swim?
Familiarwilsons at gmailcom isour email address.
Please do let us know Email.
We have emails If you'd like toreach out to us.
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As I said, our email address isfamiliarwilsons at gmailcom and
we are thrilled to receive youremails.
Let's hear what Leo has to sayfirst.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Hi friend Leo.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Leo says hey, wilsons , not sure who wrote to you
about your welcome, but they aremy long-lost kin.
I too have always questionedwhy we say you're welcome.
Like you, josh, I've alwaysfelt thank you was pretty much
final.
I rarely say you're welcome,but instead have most always
replied no problem, meaningsimply that it's no burden for
me.
Thank you, leo.
I agree with you.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
It's rare that Leo validates you.
Usually he validates me.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
I don't know that that's so.
Leo continues.
He says for the love of God,coffee mugs so many.
Over the years I've had tobreak the habit of purchasing
coffee mugs whenever we travel.
Very good, you know.
What I started to try to do, bythe way, was shot glasses.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Yeah, but you don't drink shots.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
No, I mean you use shot glasses to put the gin in
the Negroni.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
But anyway, I gave that up, because usually they
don't end up looking coolbecause usually they don't end
up looking cool.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
You have like three, yeah, yeah, anyway, he goes on.
One of them has a marijuanaleaf on it that you got at Cedar
Key.
It's so strange.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Does it really?
Yes, I don't remember that.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
It was the odd.
You went into a store and cameback with it.
I was very confused.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Okay, don't remember that, that ain't me Okay.
Hoodies or sweatshirts, Atleast they're more practical and
once I've outgrown theirusefulness, they make great
garage rags.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Leo, I'm assuming that you mean hoodies,
sweatshirts that have like alogo or like the name of the
place that you're at.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
No, just plain ones.
He'll go into a Walmart in PortSt Lucie and get a plain white
shirt.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
First of all, why'd you, why'd you pull port st
lucie out?
That's like a deep cut in theflorida geography, but the other
no.
I do this, I will.
When I'm traveling, I will lookfor an article of clothing that
I really like, and then Iremember like I bought a sweater
with rachel when I was inLondon at H&M and now that's my
like.
When we I took the kids toStratford-upon-Avon there was an
M&S there and I got like awhite billowy, like poet shirt
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that's my Shakespeare shirt.
I was down in West Palm at anH&M and bought a black shirt.
But every time I wear it and Ilove the shirt, I think about
when I was in West Palm for thatteacher professional learning.
So I will buy items of clothingbut then I attach it to that
experience.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
It's a little suspicious that every place
we've ever gone happens to havean H&M.
I don't know what's happeningthere, but Stratford-upon-Avon
had an M&S not an H&M.
Whatever he says, I also feltthat TLDR is one of the dumbest
insults to date.
Too long, didn't read.
I've had people comment suchthings on posts of mine in the
past, to which I've replied.
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No one asked if you're able toread anything longer than four
words at a time.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
No one invited you and or needed you to read this.
Like no, Did we talk about TLDR?
Speaker 1 (31:10):
We did, we did, we did.
It's like going into a libraryand getting every book in and
writing too long, didn't read onthe inside cover.
In my opinion, using that as aninsult over a paragraph says
much more about that person thanit does about the person who
wrote the paragraph Of course.
And it illustrates the starkreality that far too many people
in society have the attentionspan of gnats.
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He concludes by saying Josh,I've also grown to choke down
beetroot.
In the process, I've made amental note to self whenever
something is described as havingan earthy flavor, it means it
tastes like dirt.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
Yes, and beet juice tastes like dirt juice.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
And Leo ends with finally, why didn't you tell me
I left Miami?
Speaker 2 (31:55):
Update the friends who didn't listen to last week.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Yeah, you're going to have to listen to last week for
that punchline.
But very good, leo, thank you.
And happily we have an emailfrom Jeff.
So here's some refined gaythoughts from refined gay Jeff.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Happy Pride Jeff.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Well, he starts with saying Happy Pride Wilsons.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
I didn't know, but thanks.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Today, there are a myriad pride parades and
celebrations scheduled acrossthe nation, and Houston is no
different.
I started today's Pride withhaving lunch with two of my
favorite homosexuals, Daniel andShane.
We went to a really nice sushiplace and had all-you-can-eat
lunch.
I've never had all-you-can-eatsushi before.
I didn't know that that was athing.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
You don't like all you can eat things, period,
because you say they take toolong, intentionally to keep you
from eating the things.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Well, I mean, that's my experience with the rib place
down the street where they'llbring you three, you'll eat
those.
And then they'll bring you two,you'll eat those.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
They'll get you one.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Yeah, it's kind of ridiculous.
I was thinking of how long theywould let you sit there and eat
, Because I know that theyprobably have some sort of
restriction so that they comeout on top right.
So it's probably like okay,after an hour you got to go,
whereas as long as I can have afull rack then I'm pretty
satisfied.
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But how long are we stretchingthat out to where it's not even
fun anymore?
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Right, it has nothing to do with Jeff.
Zero to do with.
I hope the sushi was good.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Zero to do with.
So Jeff talks about how hespent his day, including a nap
in there.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
He says- Wait, you napped in the sushi restaurant.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
No, he went home and napped.
He got a nap in his day.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
You said a nap in there.
I thought Jeff was working thesystem of the all you can eat.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
I think that if there's a nap in there they
might kick you out.
He says the Houston PrideParade is always at night, as,
josh you will remember.
It just helps keeping the tempsdown in this oppressive Texas
sun.
He says the parade also moveddowntown many years ago and
that's where my attendancestopped, With past attendance
crowds of 850,000 people.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
I want the option of a quick exit.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Damn.
So that is a lot of people.
Amanda, a couple weeks ago youmentioned the restaurant Ryan's.
My family went weekly.
I was a fan of their salad bar.
My family was really close tothis other family that actually
started Ryan's.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
Oh really.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Our friend Greg and his wife Bobbi actually came to
us to see if we're interested ininvesting and providing seed
money for the organization.
Alas, it was many thousands ofdollars and my parents just
didn't have that kind of cashthing around, so we had to pass.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
Greg and Bobbi and their family went on to
obviously make untold millionsof dollars with the success of
this restaurant, the loadedbaked potatoes and that salad
bar and the Hawaiian chicken anda petite sirloin.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
As you know, jeff is in the educational industry.
He says I have thoughts aboutyour 51 coffee cups.
I also went through a stretchin my teaching career where
coffee cups were accumulatingfaster than mock Jesus.
I had to make the decision tosimply get rid of them.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
I mean, we've already gotten rid of a lot, friend.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
I know, but this is what he's done.
He says currently I have six,Four of them he bought at Crate
and Barrel that are clear glasscafe mugs that are pretty
generic.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
I have those.
I like them.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
The other two I have are my favorite ones I kept.
One is a beautiful forest mossflat green mug that says Acadian
National Park on it.
I got it on a trip therebecause I'd never seen that
color before and it spoke to me.
The other is a large-ish redand black buffalo plaid mug that
I found several years ago.
We both know about hisobsession with buffalo plaid and
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it brings him comfort.
He uses that in fall and winterfor the obvious connection yes,
absolutely.
He says there's other thingsthat I do collect and I'd like
to hear other things that folkscollect.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
Yeah, that's interesting.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
Email us at familiarwilsons at gmailcom with
your collections.
He likes to collect dinnerware,as do you.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Apparently I do that's all I have to say, just
my heavy sigh.
Please talk about Jeff'sdinnerware.
You won't give him a hard time.
I like my dinnerware, hush.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
He says I commissioned my favorite North
Carolina potter, bill Stewart,to make me a full set of
dinnerware about 40 years agowhich I still use to this day.
Now, that's cool.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
That is cool.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
That's handmade, that is specific to him.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
That's a thing that you pass on.
You're just mad because theplates that I have a lot of in
the cabinet are from Marriage1.0.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
I hadn't thought about that.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
But I love them and got them in the end of Marriage
1.0.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Yeah, another complete set of dinnerware that
I have is from Thailand.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
That's cool.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
I love the white plate with blue tie design along
the edge.
So he has about 12 of thoseplates.
Sauce trays, really cool,smaller raised plates.
It sounds like a full set thathe has.
Speaker 2 (36:44):
I have a full set from Japan when I went, jeff,
and it's blue and white as well.
So I love all of our dishesthat are real.
Actual ceramic dishes are allblue and white as well.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
He says.
I usually pick up one or twowhen I'm in Western North
Carolina where the potters areprolific.
Seven Sisters Gallery in Black.
Mountain and New MorningGallery in Asheville are my two
favorite places.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
I know Seven Sisters.
I'm just agreeing with him Iknow Seven Sisters.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
A few years ago I was in Japan and Richmond, our
mutual friend, took me to thepottery village Mashiko, a
little more than two hours northof Tokyo.
It's famous for its pottery,called Mashiko ware.
That makes sense.
I was happier than if thecoyote caught the roadrunner.
Dozens and dozens of potterystores with their kilns right
out back In one store.
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We went in.
The owner spoke English andcorrectly surmised that we were
American, but was pleasantlysurprised when Richmond told her
that he had been living inJapan for 30 years.
Come to find out she knew whereNorth Carolina was and even
Black Mountain because she tookpottery chips every year to keep
abreast of what's going on inthe pottery world.
I could not believe it when shesaid she had been to Seven
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Sisters in Black Mountain manytimes as a favorite place.
Speaker 2 (37:54):
That's amazing.
The world is a small place.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
Yeah.
So there you go.
What else do you all collect?
That's what I want to know, hesays.
I also have a completely filledbookcase of books from the past
40 years.
They range from my favoriteauthors to gardening books, to
travel books, to coffee tablebooks, to biographies, to
cookbooks, to some prizedautograph books by some really
cool authors, some with reallycool personal messages.
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Several years ago, though, Icame to the realization that I
didn't need to buy any morebooks, because I'm a freaking
librarian and I have 15 000books at work every day too long
didn't read oh what I'm sayingall of the books in the library.
That's what you said, not you,jeff so the only books that he
continues to buy are autographbooks.
That that's cool.
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I get that.
I can see that that would becool.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
The only autographed books I have are cookbooks.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
I can sign some books for you.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
Thanks.
He talks about this issue ofbless you when you sneeze.
That's a social custom that iscarried over from the Middle
Ages, depending on whichfolklore you want to believe.
Originally, it was thought backthen that the soul left the
body when you sneezed, andsaying bless you was a way to
counteract this.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
That's like shoved it back in.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
Yeah, apparently, or God shoves it back in.
The popular Gesundheit inGermany simply means health, I
believe.
So it's just a way ofacknowledging someone wishing
you good health.
Of course, monique from Germanywould be able to clarify it.
If it really does mean health,the same goes for salute in
spanish, meaning health.
Amanda, I did not know thething about my pleasure being
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from chick-fil-a simply becauseI do not go to chick-fil-a.
Let me be the first to say hereon this pride day that I do not
support their views against theLGBTQ community or eat their
hate chicken any longer.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
So, jeff, this is an ongoing debate in this house
where we all do not want tosupport Chick-fil-A, and Josh
takes a very firm stance in it.
It's difficult because the onlychicken our children like to
eat are either popcorn, chickenfrom Publix or Chick-fil-A
nuggets.
We think of, like I have areally good friend whose whose
son is is openly gay and he'sstill eats Chick-fil-A, and his
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reasoning is that it is afranchise, locally owned, that
he's supporting locally ownedbusiness.
But I get it.
I mean, I get it, I get it.
And Josh draws a really hardline.
Sometimes we do, but it feelsicky.
Speaker 1 (40:19):
Jeff also has thoughts on people who say too
long didn't read.
Speaker 2 (40:24):
Like I just said about your library, sorry.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
This has become the mainstay of ignorant people that
want to ban books.
They'll be the first to jump onthe bandwagon of banning
specific books without havingactually read the book as a
librarian.
It infuriates me to see thishappening with more repetition
these days.
It's getting absolutelyridiculous.
The latest ones being bannedI've heard that really take the
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cake are the DK or DorlingKindersley.
Speaker 2 (40:50):
Really.
Speaker 1 (40:51):
Amanda is probably familiar with DK books.
Speaker 2 (40:54):
Yeah, shockingly.
This is why it surprises me.
Speaker 1 (40:56):
They are a British publishing company of very, very
fun and easy to understandreference books for adults and
children, and the latest to banthem is a county in Tennessee
that wants to ban the completebook of cats and the complete
book of dogs.
Please make it make sense.
Speaker 2 (41:11):
Why?
What is in the books of catsand dogs?
I can understand if it's likeunderstanding your body, Like
I'm not saying I agree with it,but I could see where there may
be.
Like I don't want you to teachmy child about their body, but
dogs and cats- yeah, I don'tknow.
With their past, dk space books.
Speaker 1 (41:28):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
They're cool.
Dk is super cool.
Yeah well, unless you're tryingto read it to a kid at bedtime
and then it's got way too manywords in it.
Speaker 1 (41:35):
I feel like I need to end with something to lighten
the mood.
So he has a question that YachtRock gives him.
He says we all know that Brandywears a braided chain made of
finest silver from the north ofSpain, a locket that bears the
name of a man that Brandy loved.
My question is this, and wewill never know the answer what
(41:58):
was his name?
Familiarwilsons at gmailcom, ifyou know the answer to that
eternal and universal question.
Thanks Jeff, thanks Leo, andagain, if you want to get in
touch with us, familiarwilsonsat gmailcom.
They say in advertising youshould repeat something seven
(42:18):
times before people remember it.
I think that this is probablyaround six.
So far this episode.
No one likes to be told what todo, and now is the time in the
program where we tell you whatto do, amanda.
What should we do?
Speaker 2 (42:30):
We should all get very excited because, coming
this fall, steve Burns isstarting a podcast.
Do you know who Steve Burns isstarting a podcast?
Do you know who Steve Burns?
Speaker 1 (42:39):
is.
I know who Steve Burns is.
I know that he's starting apodcast.
Why?
Speaker 2 (42:43):
are you sounding so sad?
I'm so excited.
You know, because I sent it toyou.
I sent the TikTok to youbecause I'm so excited about it.
Okay, If you don't know whoSteve Burns is, Steve Burns is
the original Steve from Blue'sClues and while he was the one
talking to the millennials whenthey were kids, I got super into
Blue's Clues when Muffy waslittle.
She was really into it and whenI was going through a really
(43:05):
difficult period of time it wasincredibly comforting to just
sit there with her and watchthese things and have it on.
Steve went away and then Joecame right, Like Steve went away
to college or whatever andSteve was gone.
Lots of speculation Did Stevedie?
Did Steve go bald?
Is that why he left?
Yes, Steve went bald.
We don't know.
That's why he left.
He wears a hat all the time now.
Speaker 1 (43:27):
I thought that Steve left because he wanted to be a
rock star Legit.
I thought he wanted to go be ina band.
Speaker 2 (43:31):
Maybe he did who than Blippi, that's all that matters
.
He now, after COVID, starteddoing social media posts where
just talking to the kids likehow are you doing?
But the grown-up kids, right,how are you doing?
It just made everybody feel soseen and so comforted.
(43:51):
It's kind of like Mr Rogers,but what I love is that on his
bio on his socials is I'm not MrRogers, so he's just like I'm
not Please stop calling me that.
But he's starting a podcastcalled Alive with the Lemonada,
I think, network and his wholething is like let's just have a
conversation, let's just talkabout when he was doing Blue's
(44:14):
Clues.
It was all learning aboutletters and shapes and numbers
and vegetables and all thisstuffues.
It was all learning aboutletters and shapes and numbers
and vegetables and all thisstuff.
And now it's like we're adultsand we're trying to navigate
sexism, racism, you know,political issues and wars in the
world and we still need support.
Adults still need support andthat's the idea of it.
It's just navigating all thesethings of what it means to be
(44:36):
alive.
I will probably listen, but I'mannoyed that there's yet another
podcast that will takeattention away from my podcast
that's all I'm saying to youWell, if you get yourself a
cardigan and start singing aboutyour neighborhood, maybe people
will find you comforting.
Speaker 1 (44:50):
I'm going to sing about the gayborhood me and Jeff
.
Okay, I recommend that you goand you find this account, this
social media account calledFesshole.
I like to read from itoccasionally on this podcast,
but feel free to go and find itand read things on your own and
enjoy it, Like this one, Amandahow about this?
Ghosted by boyfriend of twoyears?
Speaker 2 (45:12):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (45:13):
Been texting him as someone else for the last six
months.
I'm about to ghost him thecheating bastard.
Speaker 2 (45:18):
Oh yeah, I cheating bastard.
Speaker 1 (45:19):
Oh yeah, I like that.
The people in the comments theones who seem to be the lads are
saying you're pretty unhinged,what a waste of time and effort.
And the other people are reallyenjoying it, and I really enjoy
it too.
So there you go.
Speaker 2 (45:34):
Good on you.
Speaker 1 (45:35):
The comments are very interesting.
So, anyway, check out Fess Hole, You'll enjoy it.
Also, I recommend that youcheck out Chicken Tom's podcast,
In-Law and the Out-Law.
It is a suburban father-in-lawand a country son-in-law and
they just like to talk a littleshit and it's fun to listen to.
All right, Amanda, that's allthere is.
(46:02):
There is no more.
What'd you think about thatmess?
Speaker 2 (46:04):
I mean the same, as I always think about it.
It's a mess, but we're happy toconnect and please connect back
with us.
Speaker 1 (46:10):
This episode of Super Familiar with the Wilsons was
made possible by Antonio forpatching the bike tires with
chewing gum and sheer confidence.
Josh Scar for the synchronizedswimming choreography that no
one asked for.
Daniel James Buckets for doingwheelies directly into the deep
end.
Chicken Tom for trying to teachthe fish how to ride a Schwinn.
(46:31):
Monique from Germany forshouting Das ist nicht safe
right after every gloriousdisaster.
Joey, joey.
Speaker 2 (46:39):
Joey.
Speaker 1 (46:40):
Matt for bringing snacks and for getting the
breaks.
Leo for the whispered rumorsthat the lifeguard is actually a
ghost Refined.
Gay, jeff for the elegantbreaststroke with a glass of
rosé in hand.
Mark and Rachel for the tandembike that leads directly into
the abyss.
And Dan and Gavin for themotivational poster that simply
reads pedal or shut up.
Speaker 2 (47:02):
I'm laughing right now because we have a group chat
on WhatsApp with Dan and Gavin,and you and Dan have just been
in hinge today and I I have saidto you that I'm I have many
questions for both of you, butI've decided and said I'm solely
going to engage with Gavin.
I'm not talking to either oneof you anymore.
And Gavin's response was whydoes it feel like if I'm not
paying attention, I come back tochaos?
Speaker 1 (47:24):
yeah, yes, sir, that's.
Let me get a t-shirt that saysthat, because that's the world
right now.
All right, y'all, until nextweek.
Make sure to hold your nosebefore you jump in the water and
always wear a bike helmet go bekind.
Bye, bye, thank you.
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