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SPEAKER_00 (00:00):
Familiar Wilson's
Media.
Relationships are the story.
Anthony?
You are made of meat, my friend,all the way down.
The following podcast uses wordslike and and also.
If you're not into any of thatshit, then now's your chance.
Three, two, one.
(00:20):
Run.
Super familiar with the biggest.
Welcome to Super Familiar withthe Wilsons.
I'm amazing.
You were singing ding dingturtles.
SPEAKER_02 (00:36):
No, I was not in.
SPEAKER_00 (00:37):
You were singing
ding ding turtles, and that was
part of our intro.
SPEAKER_02 (00:40):
I said ding ding
church bells.
I was being the church bells.
SPEAKER_00 (00:43):
I thought you said
ding ding turtles.
SPEAKER_02 (00:45):
And I was just
wander around singing about
turtles.
SPEAKER_00 (00:47):
Welcome to Super
Familiar with the Wilsons.
SPEAKER_02 (00:49):
I'm the bigle, go
turtle, go.
Go turtle, go turtle, go.
Does anybody remember that?
Vanilla Ice and the TeenageMutant Ninja Turtles.
I'm sorry.
Who are you?
SPEAKER_00 (00:57):
I'm Josh.
SPEAKER_02 (00:58):
This is what you get
when you get me on a loopy I
haven't slept in four days.
We're recording on a Mondaynight.
And I'm Amanda.
SPEAKER_00 (01:04):
We're the podcast
about marriage 2.0 with kids.
SPEAKER_02 (01:08):
And all the side
quests.
SPEAKER_00 (01:09):
And today we'll talk
about a visit to Disney.
We'll talk about signs that theuniverse may be talking to us.
And Refine Gay Jeff returns.
He's back.
But first, Amanda.
SPEAKER_02 (01:23):
Yes.
SPEAKER_00 (01:24):
We've had one hell
of a weekend.
It's actually a parenting thingthat I would like to talk about.
SPEAKER_02 (01:28):
Oh, I'm so tired.
SPEAKER_00 (01:30):
Saturday night.
Let me paint the picture for foryou viewers or listeners, not
viewers, unless you're justlooking at your iPhone right
now.
Which a lot of people I thinkdo.
They're listening to thepodcast.
They're also driving and lookingat their phones.
SPEAKER_02 (01:42):
I do that.
SPEAKER_00 (01:43):
When I listen to you
drive and look at your phone?
No.
SPEAKER_02 (01:46):
Can I please fit?
No, I don't.
I really don't.
Can I please finish my my story,my sentence, my words?
When I am driving and I'mlistening to an audiobook, I've
got, you know, my little screenup that'll show me the map or my
messages or whatever.
I keep putting it on the audiobook and looking at the cover,
hoping something will havechanged.
It looks the same every time.
(02:08):
I'm like, am I getting new cluesfrom this?
It's the same damn picture everytime, but I really try to stare
hard at it.
SPEAKER_00 (02:14):
And if the cops see
you looking at your phone while
you're driving, it's not myphone, the display on the car.
Oh, okay.
I was gonna say, you can't evenhave your phone in your hand and
they will pull you over.
SPEAKER_02 (02:25):
I know because you
got a ticket.
SPEAKER_00 (02:27):
Oh that was like a
year and a half ago, wasn't it?
SPEAKER_02 (02:29):
I got a ticket and
they didn't, they didn't accept
my appeal.
SPEAKER_00 (02:34):
Oh no.
SPEAKER_02 (02:35):
I just found that
out today.
I got a parking ticket at worklast week because we have hang
tags, and I just completelyforgot to hang my hang tag up
because I don't drive with it upbecause it, you know, it blocks
my view.
And normally I'm really goodabout it.
I forgot to put it up last week.
I appealed it because the wholepoint is not parking in a space
that you don't have the right topark in.
I have the right to park in it.
(02:55):
I just forgot to put the thingup, and uh yeah, they denied
that request.
SPEAKER_00 (03:00):
So what how much do
you gotta pay?
SPEAKER_02 (03:01):
Like$34.
SPEAKER_00 (03:03):
And it's like not a
traffic school type of thing.
SPEAKER_02 (03:06):
No, it's like, yeah,
it's just it's not even the
police.
No points.
It's not it's like the parkingmeter guy.
There you go.
SPEAKER_00 (03:12):
It's not even the
police.
But I wanted to talk about thisweekend.
I wanted to talk about Saturday.
We actually had a really niceSaturday.
We woke up, we went to thefarmer's market, skipping all
the way to Saturday evening.
Um, Amanda and Josh had a nicebed date.
We had a nice day.
SPEAKER_02 (03:29):
I can't believe you
were telling the world that we
had a bed date.
First of all, can we talk abouthow we had some um we had what
we had what?
We had really good steak.
There was a steak.
We made steak.
We watched the Florida footballgame in which we thought that
they were going to lose horriblybad to Texas, number nine,
Texas.
Florida's one and three.
Zero idea how they did it, butthey beat Texas.
SPEAKER_00 (03:50):
They did.
Um, and then we came to bed andwe had a bed date, and that was
lovely.
SPEAKER_02 (03:57):
I can't believe you
just told the world that again.
Stop saying bed date.
SPEAKER_00 (04:00):
What what would you
rather I say?
SPEAKER_02 (04:03):
I don't want to talk
to the people about it.
SPEAKER_00 (04:06):
We have four
children between us here.
This is there's no surprises.
We've done this before.
I think you need to be become alittle bit more comfortable with
the fact that that we aregrown-ass adults and we are
allowed now.
SPEAKER_02 (04:21):
No, but you
understand how cringed our
children are once we have passedon and they're like, hey, let's
listen to mom and dad's likearchives so we can feel close to
them.
SPEAKER_00 (04:31):
They'll disown us.
Um, so anyway, we settle into anice afterglow.
SPEAKER_02 (04:38):
Um I fall asleep.
SPEAKER_00 (04:43):
Yeah, you do.
And you did you stay awake?
SPEAKER_02 (04:45):
I mean, not much
longer.
I think I was asleep by like 1130.
SPEAKER_00 (04:48):
I mean, you you had
to be tired.
SPEAKER_02 (04:50):
Um God, why are you?
SPEAKER_00 (04:53):
So there's a series
of events that result in us
getting a call at 3 30 in themorning.
2 30 in the morning.
2 30 in the morning.
From Muffy.
SPEAKER_02 (05:02):
From the backseat of
a police car.
SPEAKER_00 (05:04):
From Muffy at the
backseat of a police car.
You better really quickly finishthis story because Muffy did
nothing wrong.
SPEAKER_02 (05:11):
She did nothing
wrong.
In fact, she did everythingright.
So um, yeah, she went out withfriends.
The game, it ended.
The town was crazy because noone expected them to win.
So she went out with somefriends.
They went to uh an 18 and upplace, like, you know, got their
little bands on.
They're under 21.
They can't, you know, they can'tdrink, whatever.
They're just out dancing, havinga good time.
(05:32):
The thing closes at two.
These people are night owls.
I don't remember, I mean, I doremember being out like past
midnight, but I don't remembertwo in the morning.
That just but I mean, again,that was like 30 years ago, so
maybe I don't know.
SPEAKER_00 (05:44):
They didn't have
streetlights back then, I don't
think.
SPEAKER_02 (05:47):
So no, I mean barely
any electricity.
Like we all wandered around withour lanterns.
SPEAKER_00 (05:52):
That's just a little
bit of electricity.
Each town had just like a Teslacoil that would spark every now
and they had one of those globesin the center in the center of
town that everyone would go puttheir hands on and the
electricity.
And that was it.
That was all the electricitythey had.
SPEAKER_02 (06:07):
So she and her
friends that she was out with,
they live on campus.
They all live like boom, boom,boom, dorms like three in a row.
And so they walk together, theywalk back together.
I don't love them walking atnight.
Everything's lit up, there's abunch of people out, police are
trolling the campuses.
Turns out ambulances aretrolling the campus as well.
SPEAKER_00 (06:24):
And I think you want
to say patrolling, not
patrolling.
Patrolling?
SPEAKER_02 (06:26):
Well, maybe they're
trolling.
Who knows?
The parking ticket people weretrolling me.
Anyway, so they leave, they theyleave this club and they're
going to walk home.
And this girl just passes out onthe sidewalk, right?
SPEAKER_00 (06:39):
So who's not with
them?
Who's not with them?
Let's be clear.
SPEAKER_02 (06:42):
Random girl.
SPEAKER_00 (06:42):
They they come upon
a girl who has passed out.
SPEAKER_02 (06:45):
Passed out.
So the way that it unfolds forus is that I wake up about two
o'clock to go to the bathroom.
I look at her her locationbecause she is very like, I want
you to have my location.
I always want somebody to knowwhere I am.
I look at her location, andtypically if I'm awake, I'll
watch her walk back to the dormand okay, everything's fine.
Well, she stayed in this oneplace for like 20 minutes.
SPEAKER_00 (07:04):
Right, which is you
could tell was outside on the
street.
SPEAKER_02 (07:07):
Was well, I mean,
it's like mid-campus, right?
But yeah, I knew.
So I kept thinking, Oh, God,mate, did she drop her phone?
Is she standing there talking topeople?
So I texted her and I said, Areyou okay?
And she wrote back, Yes, I'mokay, but I need to update you.
I'm headed to the hospital.
So then all of the what, what,what's, and she called, um, she
called me and said, I'm in thebackseat of a police car,
(07:28):
everything I am fine.
But this girl passed out infront of them.
So Muffy and her friends wentover, and Muffy happened to
recognize this girl because theywent to the same high school for
like one year.
Random dude is with the girl andtrying to get her up.
And immediately our feministdaughter is like, Wait, who are
(07:50):
you?
Why are you here?
Do you know her?
And this guy was saying thingslike, Oh, it's okay.
I'm a friend of her brother's.
Turns out this girl doesn't haveany siblings.
So it's really suspect.
Muffy is texting somebody whoknows the girl, confirming she
does not have siblings.
So Muffy and her friend say,Okay, we've got her.
Like you go away, we've got her.
So they start trying to walk herback on campus.
(08:12):
Guy is following, girl stops tothrow up, and the EMTs pull up.
So then that's what happened wasthat Muffy and the girls talked
with the EMT, got the guy away.
The police officer got the guyaway.
And then Muffy uh was talking toanother friend and trying to get
a hold of the girl's mom, thegirl's friends, somebody who
could come to the hospital.
(08:33):
And so Muffy said to the policeofficer, May I please go?
Can you please take me to thehospital?
Because we want, don't want thisgirl to be alone.
So Muffy goes, police officersuper nice, drops her off at the
ER, um, and Muffy waits for themom eventually comes and the
uncle.
So then at 3 45, I go pick herup from the ER.
So we got home about 4 15 in themorning.
(08:54):
She came home to stay the restof the weekend.
So it was, it we're very, veryproud of her.
Don't love that she's out at twoin the morning, but absolutely
love that she and her friendshave this uh like climate of
nobody, we don't leave any girlalone.
And unfortunately, that is justsociety we live in, right?
(09:16):
We just we have and this girldid not know her name, could
not, I mean, was totally passedout.
So super scary to get a call inthe middle of the night.
I'm in a police car, I'm goingto the hospital, but absolutely
proud of her actions, of her andher friends.
And um, but we're still reallytired and we're recovering.
SPEAKER_00 (09:34):
I just how much is
too much to know?
SPEAKER_02 (09:38):
It's really hard
because when I came up here, I
was her age.
I mean, I called my mom everyday because I'm super I was
super close to my mom, but I wasout at night.
I was out at midnight, I wasgoing out, I was coming home
late.
And your mom didn't know and mymom didn't know.
Now, my mom was very much tunedinto like the Holy Spirit and
prayer and all of these thingsthat she linded leaned into.
(10:01):
So I think that was a place ofrest and solace for her, like
just praying protection over me.
You and I don't have that justblind faith anymore.
And so we don't have that torest in.
And we also have technology.
Now, do I am I really proud ofher for talking to us about
everything?
Absolutely.
But I have to get to the pointwhere I just stopped checking.
SPEAKER_00 (10:24):
I I don't think
you're gonna be able to do that.
SPEAKER_02 (10:26):
I know, I don't
think I can.
SPEAKER_00 (10:28):
Yeah, and you you
would flip the hell out if she
turned that track and thing offas well.
SPEAKER_02 (10:33):
Yes, well, and but
what I love too is that she and
her close girlfriends all haveeach other's location.
She and her roommate have eachother's location, and they don't
see it as like you're keepingtabs on me, you're spying on me.
It's a a safety thing.
I want somebody to know where Iam.
SPEAKER_00 (10:50):
Yeah, yeah.
No, I get that.
I get that.
It's just I I guess it goes backto the question I asked myself
is like, how much to know is toomuch to know?
Like, how how do we as parentssurvive this?
And I can't imagine that she'sgoing to be 26, 27, 28, and
still have her location on.
SPEAKER_02 (11:10):
Well, uh, you know,
I have a good friend um that I
work with, and her kids are oneis in grad school, one's out of
grad school.
So her kids are, you know,mid-20s, and their family rule
is I don't have to have yourlocation as your parent, but
somebody has to have it.
So it's the sister.
SPEAKER_00 (11:27):
Yeah, I get that.
SPEAKER_02 (11:27):
Like if you don't
want me to have it, then your
brother has it.
SPEAKER_00 (11:31):
So is Muffy gonna
give Winthrop her location?
SPEAKER_02 (11:34):
Winthrop is gonna be
telling on her all the time, and
you know it.
SPEAKER_00 (11:39):
Yes, he can he can
be a a little bit of a jerk
sometimes, this this wonderfulchild of ours.
SPEAKER_02 (11:44):
Well, and then I
mean, she also has my location.
I have yours, but I don't thinkshe has yours.
SPEAKER_00 (11:49):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (11:49):
Um, and she will,
hey, what are you doing at
Trader Joe's?
Can you get me blah, blah, blah?
SPEAKER_00 (11:54):
Like, she will just
like drop in, or I'll be like,
It's like you're the DoorDashdriver, except she always is
tracking your location.
SPEAKER_02 (12:02):
Or you and I have
said, we're gonna go to Home
Depot and get some stuff, andthen we like detour by Black
Adder Brewery and play around adarts, and then she she
messages, what are you doing atBlack Adder?
You said you were coming home.
So she is definitely of the um,I'm keeping track of you, but
could you imagine that power inWinthrop's hands?
SPEAKER_00 (12:25):
It's gonna be
totally different though.
When when he's um when he'sgrown up, it's gonna be like
he's gonna be able to pop inlike a hologram, like from Star
Wars, how the emperor wouldwould message Darth Vader in a
little holographic form.
He's gonna do that.
We're just gonna be out doingsomething, and then blue,
there's his holographic.
God forbid, we're like we have abed date.
SPEAKER_02 (12:45):
Stop talking about
bed dates.
SPEAKER_00 (12:46):
And all in his and
his face is holographic just
pops up in the room.
We're gonna have to figure out away to shield that.
SPEAKER_02 (12:53):
I don't know if we
have to wear like a cam, like
cover up the camera.
SPEAKER_00 (12:55):
That's right.
We're gonna have to wear uhaluminum foil hats or something
so that he can't hologram intoour bed date time.
SPEAKER_02 (13:03):
All right, so
anyway, uh those of you who have
older kids, how do you do it?
SPEAKER_00 (13:09):
How do you do it?
We need to know.
Give us some advice, tell uswhat to do.
Familiarwilsons at gmail.combecause we need to know well,
how to survive this next fewyears.
And but we don't just want tosurvive, we want to thrive.
SPEAKER_02 (13:23):
Yeah, and I will say
she's thriving.
Like what she did I want tothrow.
You want to thrive, but I amlike super, super proud of her.
That was and the girl texted herthe next day and thanked her so
much for staying with her, like,I mean, that's what you want.
If that was your kid, that'swhat you would want.
Um, the concerning thing is, iswhere were this, where was this
girl's friends that she went outwith?
(13:44):
Like that, thank God my kid andin the way we've raised her and
her friends were there to takecare of her.
But I mean, that happened to me.
I was I was a sophomore here, soI was 19, um, moved up here with
one of my best friends fromhome, and we had a third
roommate who dropped out.
So then we had a randomroommate.
She was doing, she did all thepartying, even though she wasn't
(14:06):
21, pre-parting at home, wentout, and there was there was one
weekend where she went out, andthis was right when do you
remember when apartments orhotels switched from keys to the
key cards?
Yeah.
So this was like 1994, and itwas the first year of the key
cards.
This girl would come home blinddrunk, could not get the key
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card in the door, and my roomwas right by the door.
So I would always have to wakeup and let her in.
She she would bring home randomguys, guys she didn't know.
And not like to have the beddates, but just like, oh, this
guy was outside the club and hedidn't have a ride, so I brought
him home.
No, thank you.
I don't know him, I don't wanthim.
And so she came in and the guythrew up from our front door
(14:50):
through the dining room to herbedroom and threw up on her bed
and she slept on the couch.
SPEAKER_00 (14:54):
Wait, what do you
mean that that he was at the
door and the the force of thestream was so strong it crossed
the room?
SPEAKER_02 (15:02):
No, he kept having
to stop in the like 20 feet from
the front door through thedining room to her bedroom.
SPEAKER_00 (15:07):
He's maybe just
marking his territory like a
dog.
SPEAKER_02 (15:10):
So then she's passed
out on the couch.
We can't get her to answer us.
She doesn't know who he is.
So my other roommate and I thinkhis name was Ralph.
Yes.
My other roommate and I, at likethree in the morning, called two
guy friends and say, Yeah,random guy in the apartment,
come get him out.
So these two guys show up, gethim, drop him out on the front
(15:31):
lawn, and they're like, I don'tknow where you're going.
You can sleep it off here, butyou can't be in this apartment,
right?
So the next morning she wakesup, has no idea about what's
happened, and then oh wait, shehad a friend visiting her from
home.
She was like from the FortLauderdale area, has no idea
where her friend is.
Oh doesn't know where she lefther friend.
This was before cell phones andand tracking of the location.
(15:54):
Yeah.
So she just didn't know whereher friend was.
Later found out that her friendhad gone home with some guy, had
sex with him on his balcony, andhad splinters all in her bottom.
So, I mean, this is not new,this thing, but like raising
these girls to not leave eachother behind is a thing.
And I mean, and you say, How dowe survive it?
(16:16):
You have two older boys.
You've been through this, but isit it's just different?
SPEAKER_00 (16:19):
It is not the same.
It is not the same.
These are two taller than me,big boys.
I don't worry so much abouttheir safety.
I worry about their safety maybewith other things.
Like, you know, anyone drivingat night stresses me out.
Any of my children or family oryou driving at night stresses me
out because I don't care how bigyou are, you're in a car,
different story.
But like Muffy's wonderful.
(16:42):
Muffy is very slight and uh girlwho, you know, can be
overpowered.
Yeah, I don't worry about Danieland Andrew being overpowered.
SPEAKER_02 (16:50):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (16:51):
So it's not the
same.
SPEAKER_02 (16:52):
Do you worry about
Winthrop being overpowered?
SPEAKER_00 (16:56):
I can't even
overpower him.
I don't I'm not.
So anyway, give us advice uh ifyou have it.
Familiarwils is at gmail.com.
We woke up the next day.
Well, actually, it was the sameday.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Go back to sleep.
Like four hours later.
Because of course I didn't goback to sleep.
And we left town at one to drivedown to Orlando to meet um
(17:22):
podcaster and friend Josh Scarof the Talking Smack podcast and
his family as they were visitingDisney.
And that was uh wonderful.
Although I will say that wedrove um four and a half hours
all told, you know, two and ahalf hours there, two hours
(17:43):
back, so that we can have a atwo and a half hour uh dinner
and visit.
SPEAKER_02 (17:48):
Yeah, but that was
that was the fact that you've
got these friends from northernIllinois who you've not ever met
in person.
And so it was really theexperience of meeting them, not
the two and a half hours.
SPEAKER_00 (17:57):
I know, and I'm not
complaining about it.
I enjoyed the drive back.
Actually, I was listening to mymusic and rocking out as you
were sleeping.
SPEAKER_02 (18:04):
Went there, but I
went straight to sleep.
SPEAKER_00 (18:06):
Um, so I the drive
didn't bother me, but I don't
actually think that I've everdone that before.
Like driven that long for ashort amount of time.
SPEAKER_02 (18:15):
Yeah.
Well, I really enjoyed it.
His uh Josh and his family,super nice, super kind, uh,
super cute kids.
His youngest, though, I think Imight be insulted.
SPEAKER_00 (18:28):
Why?
SPEAKER_02 (18:29):
Because she asked if
we were his family.
SPEAKER_00 (18:33):
She asked her her
father, Josh.
SPEAKER_02 (18:35):
Yes, are are they
our family?
Right.
Or your family or whatever.
And he said, Well, our podcastfamily, and then she pointed it
to me and said, Is she your mom?
I think I'm about 10 years olderthan him, but I am definitely in
my feelings a little bit aboutlooking like the mom.
Now, behavior-wise, yeah, I momeverybody, but um, I didn't
(18:56):
think that I needed to mom thepodcast group.
SPEAKER_00 (18:58):
I just want to say
that that you you were lovely
and delightful in that visit.
I'm happy to see that you'reback to your old self again.
You're back to your Do we knowwhy I am?
Well, I know why you are, butit's just just you're back to
your outgoing bubblypersonality, which we talked
about.
Perry Menopause stole from you.
(19:20):
Yep, but you got the patch.
SPEAKER_02 (19:21):
I got the patch.
SPEAKER_00 (19:22):
You got the patch on
your butt.
SPEAKER_02 (19:24):
And I that's where
it is.
Um, and I am what?
I'm almost done with my fourthweek.
Tomorrow will be the end of myfourth week.
And I mean, I just woke up oneday last week, I slept seven
hours straight through, which Ihaven't done in actual years, I
think.
And just felt like a differentperson.
And I was texting you, like, Ijust feel like me again.
(19:44):
And it's so funny because that'swhat you see when people talk
about getting the patch becausethere's so much stigma around
getting it because there areissues with- Explain to everyone
what that is.
SPEAKER_00 (19:54):
They they're
thinking now that that you are
mitigating your nicotineaddiction, and that's not what
the patch is.
SPEAKER_02 (19:59):
Right.
So when you're approachingperimenopause, right, your
estrogen, estrogen andprogesterone levels drop and it
affects you in ways that youwould not even believe there are
ways that this affects you.
SPEAKER_00 (20:10):
Loyalty.
SPEAKER_02 (20:11):
I mean, the rage is
a real thing.
You um you know, you you'reexhausted all of the time.
The hot flashes are horrible,aches and pains, and this weird
ass thing called frozenshoulder, which I had no idea.
Also, the perimenopause fog,like not being able to come up
with words and stuff, it's alljust really awful.
(20:31):
But there is a stigma, or atleast I grew up one in my mom's
generation, um, of of takinghormone replacement because
there are some side effects,right?
If you take the oral medication,it goes through your liver, it
can cause issues.
Um, it puts you at a higher ratefor stroke or heart attack.
It also puts you at a higherrate for breast cancer.
(20:52):
I don't have any of thosepre-existing conditions or risk
factors.
Um, and I was talking to thedoctor about it, and she was
like, Yeah, you know, that therejust wasn't there's not a ton of
research around it.
And, you know, the stigma of ofolder generations just not
talking about women's health.
(21:12):
So I I got the patch.
Um, it was in a bit of anadjustment, caused a lot of
headaches, and but now I'm I'mabout a month in, and from it's
my understanding, it will takeabout three months, but I just I
feel different, but what you'resaying is that I present
differently too.
SPEAKER_00 (21:29):
Yeah, yeah,
absolutely.
It's yes.
I'm I'm happy that you're back.
SPEAKER_02 (21:34):
Thanks.
Did you miss me?
I just God were you scared ofthe person in the world.
SPEAKER_00 (21:38):
I was not scared.
I loved that person too.
Um, but now I'm back with you,and I'm I'm happy about it.
That's our Disney adventure.
We were happy to meet Josh andhis family, and you should
listen to Talking Smack, whichis about superheroes and movies
and comic books, and really anenjoyable listen.
(21:58):
So there's my my little Is thatyour recommendation for that?
That's my little ad read, butthey are not a sponsor.
Amanda, do you believe theuniverse gives us signs?
SPEAKER_02 (22:11):
I used to.
I don't know if I do anymore.
SPEAKER_00 (22:15):
Well, I didn't, but
after drafting perhaps the worst
team in the history of fantasyfootball, like they got the
readout from my team and theyconsidered for a second doing
away with fantasy footballbecause my my draft was an
offense to humanity.
But after having done that tothem and to the world, I'm gonna
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win two weeks in a row.
SPEAKER_02 (22:41):
How?
SPEAKER_00 (22:42):
Exactly.
How I don't know how.
I'm wondering, is the universegiving me a sign?
It was the worst possible thing.
There's no way I could win, andthat's happening.
Is the universe telling me totake my shot, to quit my job,
uh, gamble everything onpodcasting?
You know, uh I should make acall right now to everyone
saying if you're listening andyou want to sponsor us or you
(23:05):
want to be our sugar daddy orsugar mama, to go ahead and I
will send you personally ourVenmo information.
Should I buy a lottery ticket?
Um, is my window still evenopen?
Here's another sign that I got.
It's the most amazing thing.
And this is why I think youknow, just one sign is one
thing, but this is I think I'vereceived multiple signs.
I listened to the TaskmasterPodcast, which is the podcast
(23:30):
where Ed Gamble talks to thepeople who are on there after
each show and kind of does abreakdown of each show.
And he was interviewing SanjeevBaskar um on this last one, and
Sanjeev was talking about inpassing, he he did a bit about
um someone called Jeff Dobbins,right?
(23:50):
So the very unusual name, JeffDobbins.
I don't think I've ever heardthe name Dobbins before.
So I thought it was a funny bit,whatever.
I open up my fantasy footballthing playing on a team against
me was a player called JayDobbins.
I kid you not.
SPEAKER_02 (24:07):
That's super
interesting, but what does that
tell you?
Somehow the fact that you havethis player that Sanjay's talked
about somebody similar means youshould quit your job?
SPEAKER_00 (24:16):
I'm just saying that
like these are two different
signs that I've received thisweekend.
The universe is trying to get myattention.
Why?
What is the universe trying totell me?
SPEAKER_02 (24:27):
That you lucked into
a good fantasy football team.
SPEAKER_00 (24:30):
Listeners, do you
believe in the universe giving
you messages?
Has the universe talked to you?
Has the universe talked to youabout me?
SPEAKER_02 (24:40):
Has the universe
talked to you about Jay Dobbins?
SPEAKER_00 (24:42):
Oh my god.
What if I get we get an email atfamiliarwilsons at gmail.com?
Someone saying, you know what?
The name Dobbins came up for metoo.
SPEAKER_02 (24:50):
Oh well.
SPEAKER_00 (24:51):
If that happens, I
guarantee them to you, I'm gonna
do something.
SPEAKER_02 (24:55):
Okay.
SPEAKER_00 (24:56):
Like, like I don't
want the window to close
completely.
I'm gonna make some sort ofdecision based on this.
I'm gonna do it.
SPEAKER_01 (25:02):
All right.
SPEAKER_00 (25:02):
I support you.
Have you heard of Jeff Dobbins?
Uh, listeners, let me know.
And speaking of signs from theuniverse that everything's going
to be okay, we've got an emailfrom Refined Gay Jeff.
SPEAKER_02 (25:17):
I have so missed
you, Jeff.
SPEAKER_00 (25:19):
Jeff says, Ola
Wilsons, how wonderful it is to
be able to contribute again.
I know it's been a minute sinceI've sent some refined gay
thoughts.
Thanks for all the texts andphone calls to check on me.
You know, life can throwcurveballs every now and again,
and it appears that I'vesuccessfully navigated those
curveballs into what I considerto be a home run for me.
(25:40):
Oh my God, that will be my lastsports ball reference today.
I'm just impressed that he usedall of the words correctly.
For your listeners out therethat might be curious, just know
that I transferred to a newschool, the largest high school
in the Houston School District,and they have a brand new
building with, of course, abrand new library.
(26:01):
Last week was my first week, andit was glorious.
I was made to feel so welcome bythe enormous faculty and massive
student body.
Over 3,200 students.
My God.
I made some aesthetic changesthat showcase my refined gay
jeans and everyone from my newprincipal, whom I worked with
(26:22):
before, and faculty and lots ofstudents has commented on how
much they like it and my style.
I think my joy has returned.
SPEAKER_02 (26:30):
I'm so glad.
SPEAKER_00 (26:30):
If you'd like to
have a little synopsis, we
talked about it a bit last weekon what was going on with Jeff.
Jeff continues.
Amanda, I am thinking of youtoday because I'm putting up my
three Halloween wreaths that Imade with orange and purple
lights.
SPEAKER_02 (26:47):
You know how I love
it.
I remember when you made themlast year, Jeff, and I was very
proud of you.
SPEAKER_00 (26:50):
It's October, so
spooky season is upon us.
Have you started yet?
SPEAKER_02 (26:55):
Of course.
I started at the end of August.
SPEAKER_00 (26:58):
Much like Christmas
decorations, spooky season makes
me happy and lifts my spirits.
It also reminds me thatHalloween is the gay, high holy
day for my fellow homosexuals,and it won't be long until the
bears, muscle daddies, and cubsstart flaunting their leather
leather harnesses across theirtight ample pecks for all to
ogle over.
(27:19):
He says oogle over, but I thinkhe meant ogle over.
I've never heard of oogling.
But maybe he oogles.
Maybe that's what refined gaypeople do.
They oogle, not ogle.
Maybe the straits ogle and thegays oogle.
Is that so?
I'd like to know.
Don't get me wrong, he says theystill wear them now and all the
time, but Halloween is a timethat everyone wants a piece of
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the action, along with somesuper incredible, well
thought-out costumes that thegays have spent all year
planning.
Even though we are still alittle less than a month away, I
will still plan on texting yousome of the better versions of
Rapture that I will come acrosson Halloween night.
SPEAKER_02 (27:56):
Oh, yeah.
There's got to be some reallygood rapture costumes.
SPEAKER_00 (28:00):
Double entendre
there, maybe.
To address your swearing topic.
So we talked last week all aboutswearing and our kids' swearing.
He says, like Amanda, I grew upin a household that did not use
swear words at all.
Remember, I grew up in smalltown, South Carolina, where
swearing could go either way,generally, but my family was
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religious, like you talkedabout.
We weren't like the evangelicalzealots of today, but it was the
70s-era Southern Baptists.
Yep.
My parents were heavily involvedin the church.
My mom was and still is theorganist after 65 years of
playing.
Congrats.
My dad was choir director forabout 35 to 40 years.
(28:42):
I was even the assistant choirdirector.
Swearing was looked upon assomething that people who need
Jesus would do.
LOL.
But all of that changed for mewhen I went away to college.
Isn't that always the way?
This is what we're just talkingabout.
These are all these changes.
He says, My eyes were open as tohow the world really worked.
I didn't have my first alcohol,my first alcohol, until a
(29:06):
college choir retreat.
And let me tell you, it wasglorious.
I even remember the drink, rumand coke, which kind of became
my signature for many years.
I did not drink beer because Isimply do not like the taste of
it and still do not.
Um, so I've stayed away fromthat swill my entire life.
Now my preferred alcohol isvodka.
(29:26):
Can't I'm sorry, Jeff, I can'tdo it.
I had a bad experience.
But also enjoy a glass ofJameson whiskey, and I'll never
turn down a margarita.
Had one today for lunch withfriends, in fact.
Rocks, no salt.
Unless I'm really hot, then afrozen margarita will cool me
right off.
Again, no salt.
And Texas knows how to makegreat margaritas.
(29:47):
Wow, how did I get off on thistangent of alcohol when I was
discussing swearing?
Well, it happens.
They go hand in hand.
They do.
They do.
Oh, and speaking of, I fullyembrace my swear words now.
Somehow they are more frequentwhen I'm having cocktails at the
gay bar and my tongue has beenset free by the alcohol.
Generally though, I try to keepthem in reserve.
I usually tell my students if Ihear them swearing a lot, it's
(30:10):
typically a sign of them notbeing able I'm sorry, typically
a sign of them not beingintentional in their speech.
And caveman brain creeps in.
Is that like lizard brain?
Caveman brain?
Mm-hmm.
Do you remember your firstalcoholic beverage?
SPEAKER_02 (30:25):
Yeah, I mean
roommate who brought the weird
boys home in the middle of thenight uh bribed me and my other
roommate into drinking vodka andKool-Aid if we drank vodka and
Kool-Aid.
If we drank one so I was 19, ifwe drank one drink she would
give us anything from her closetand I really wanted one of her
flannel shirts.
(30:46):
So we did.
Bad thing is we then thoughtwe'd go drive around which was a
horrible choice with lights offat night.
Well I wasn't driving.
SPEAKER_00 (30:58):
Yeah you're too busy
enjoying your new flannel shirt
as you were drunk.
Yes that but that was my first Idon't remember my first my my
first was a really bad lot my nomy first taste of alcohol was
beer and my dad would give me asip when I was when I was a
young kid so I was probably likeseven or eight like getting
these occasional sips ofHeineken you know that we got at
(31:18):
the the Esso store in in uhGrand Canyon that's younger than
Winthrop have you been givingWinthrop beer on the side no
dude can you imagine him drunk?
It would be the worst um youthink he doesn't think it's
blligerite now.
That's right.
That's right.
Anyway he he comments uh onmatcha he says I don't like
green tea at all I avoid it likehillbillies avoid dental work to
(31:41):
any of our hillbilly appalachianlisteners we do apologize.
Josh I'm glad that you haveembraced animal based protein
again I totally get it that youthank the animal for giving
their life for your sustenancethat's very Native American in
origin and I actually do thattoo.
I shall have a BLT in your honorand then thank Porky.
(32:02):
I hope that you guys have agreat week I think I may go out
to the ripcord for a littlewhile later on I gotta get my
drink on.
Well Jeff you heard how ourweekend went so there you go he
says peace and cookies.
Have some vodka and Kool-Aid forme Jeff oh gross that is
disgusting I've told you thestory about vodka right yes the
only time no I've onlyprojectile vomited twice in my
(32:24):
life it was that and then it wasway too much beer in Oregon once
in a haunted hotel.
But that's a story for adifferent time.
SPEAKER_02 (32:31):
You gotta drink a
lot of beer to throw up with
beer dude.
SPEAKER_00 (32:34):
Oh I did oh I did
and it was really strong beer as
well and did I mention it was ahaunted hotel so I'm sure that
that had something I've toldthis story right where where I
threw up into I was so pissed Ihad the day before I had the
best burger for a dinner but Icouldn't finish it.
So I put it in one of thosepaper boxes that had kind of has
(32:55):
wax yeah you know on the insideand I couldn't I woke up and I
couldn't find anything to throwup in so I threw up in that.
SPEAKER_02 (33:01):
Why didn't you go to
the bathroom?
I couldn't make it okay whatokay but what does the haunted
hotel have to do with this?
SPEAKER_00 (33:08):
It's a different
story.
We'll tell it later we'rerunning out of time here.
Thanks Jeff good to hear fromyou.
No one likes to be told what todo.
And now is the time in theprogram where we tell you what
to do.
Amanda, what should we do?
SPEAKER_02 (33:22):
Alright so here's
the deal if you don't like the
gluten don't want the gluten areallergic to the gluten or just
are looking for something yummygo to Trader Joe's get the
gluten free pumpkin bread andmuffin mix so you just need like
one egg in uh a little bit ofoil and some water it makes the
best bread and the best um uhmuffins so there you go quick
(33:45):
tip go to Trader Joe's glutenfree pumpkin bread and muffin
mix there you go you like it youeat it I'll eat it yeah but you
like to put butter on it yes Ido all right Amanda that's all
there is there is no more myweekly question to you is what
(34:08):
do you think of that mess?
SPEAKER_00 (34:10):
Always enjoy the
mess but now I'm sleepy yes well
now I have to stay up and try toedit this into into something as
if we edit.
And now we do want toacknowledge the people without
whom we would not be able todeliver unto you yea verily this
content so we'd like to thankAntonio who plays Ricky Mouse
(34:31):
Josh Scar who plays that badvillainous lion uncle forgot his
name Justin who plays Goofus thedog Matt who plays Neptune which
is that other dog but he doesn'tknow how to talk don't ask me
why Leo the Wizard in the wallDanny Buckets who plays the
beast Chicken Tom who playsWhiny the Poop Ryan Baker who
(34:52):
plays Fuzz Bright Ear Moniquewho plays Maggie Mouse Joey Joey
Refined Gay Jeff who playsDaniel Duck Mark and Rachel who
play Happy and Slappy and Danand Gavin as themselves.
SPEAKER_02 (35:07):
That's right oh
friends we love you all when you
when you're out or just tellyour kids when they're out take
care of each other please justdon't leave anybody on the
sidewalk past out with strangemen.
SPEAKER_00 (35:20):
No one left behind.
SPEAKER_02 (35:22):
Alright and go be
kind bye bye