March 31, 2025 • 29 mins
Soccer season returns with Winthrop joining a new, not-so-skilled team while his former teammate Gunter shines on the opposing side, Winthrop remains blissfully happy to be running around.
• Josh's sports viewing curse continues.
• An evening at the pub
• Reading a letter from German listener M, who corrects Josh on German traditions and pronunciation
• Debate about farmer's market pricing.
• Josh loses his newly purchased mug.
• "Ludwig,"
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Amanda Wilson (00:00):
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Josh Wilson (00:19):
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Amanda Wilson (00:31):
Welcome to Super Familiar with the Wilsons.
I'm Amanda.
Josh Wilson (00:33):
And I'm Josh Amanda , it's soccer season again.
Amanda Wilson (00:37):
It is.
We had a brief interlude and weare back on.
What is it a pitch, a field?
What's a soccer?
Josh Wilson (00:42):
The pitch what's?
Amanda Wilson (00:43):
the pitch.
Okay, there you go.
Josh Wilson (00:45):
So here's the thing about Winthrop's new team.
They are not good.
Amanda Wilson (00:49):
No, so Winthrop didn't keep the same team.
I don't even think the coachfrom the Wolves is even coaching
this go-round.
And when we fill out theregistration form because it's
rec soccer, it's not club socceryou have to put beginner,
intermediate or advanced.
This is only his second season,so we put beginner, but there
(01:11):
should be like a classificationof beginners, because there are
some very tiny people on histeam.
Josh Wilson (01:15):
And they had way too many kids on the field.
It's interesting because thislast season we didn't see that
cliched.
All the kids gathered aroundthe ball that you see kind of
like a dusting of gnats aroundthe light.
But this time we definitely did.
First of all, both teams hadeight kids and last season both
teams usually would have like upto up to six but they're
(01:37):
supposed to play five on five iswhat the what the, what the
league says they play.
Amanda Wilson (01:41):
That didn't happen.
Josh Wilson (01:42):
So they had eight kids out there and I just am
glad that no one got seriouslyinjured.
Amanda Wilson (01:47):
I know it was mass chaos.
It was like a herd of catstrying to get the laser pointer.
I mean, it was just it was alot.
They were not good.
They were not good.
And how not good were they IfTed Lasso were their coach, he
would have quit, he would havetorn down the Believe sign, torn
(02:08):
it in 100 pieces and left and,to add a twist to it, if you
were listening to our synopsisof last season, he had a little
boy on his team called Gunterand he was pretty good last
season.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
The two of them together were,I think, the only ones who
scored the whole season.
Yeah, fire and ice is what Icall them.
Yes.
(02:28):
Gunter has gotten better so Italked to his dad and they've
been like training.
Winthrop has not been training.
I take that back.
If playing Minecraft prepares,you for soccer then he is going
to be a killer this season.
Otherwise, he has not reallydone any training.
Gunter was on the opposing teamand he smashed it.
He scored like, I think, fourtimes no, it's only twice, just
(02:50):
twice.
Yeah, they lost two nothing itfelt like so much more but the
best part about it is he didn'tcare no, he didn't, he really
didn't care the reason why I say, say it's the best part about
it, is because we made him play.
Yeah.
And it's like when you tell yourkid eat this broccoli because
(03:10):
it's good for you and theybegrudgingly eat it.
Well, we didn't have thatreaction.
Yeah.
Which is what we could have had.
He is just happy as Larry to gorunning up and down full speed.
Didn't really care I think heclocked a little bit more that
they lost.
I'll tell you.
I don't want him to care aboutwinning and losing, because I
just want him to run around andget the energy out.
(03:31):
I know you and I differ alittle bit there, because I
think he has a little bit ofnatural talent and I'd like for
him to be able to hone that, tofeel good about something like
that.
I get the not wanting him tocare if they win or lose, and I
agree with that, but I alsodon't want him to get frustrated
that he is able to do somethingand the rest of them are just
running around like the wildthings.
(03:54):
Right, but that's what I'msaying.
I think he's happy in themoment and he's happy to kick
the ball around, but I don'tthink he cares.
Like I said, it's like a ferretat a book club he's just there
and he's happy, doesn'tnecessarily know what's going on
, and I think that that's thebest.
Did you say a ferret at a bookclub?
(04:15):
Yeah.
I thought you said an affair ata book club and then I had this
whole narrative about I don'tthink that's a good thing, like.
Josh Wilson (04:27):
don't think that's a good thing like affairs should
not be going on in the bookclub.
I wonder what books they werereading where they were hosting
it.
Amanda Wilson (04:31):
I had a whole narrative in that very brief
second 50 shades, no, no, no, no, definitely 50 shades.
No, no, no, no.
I will also say, though, he andgunter were very like good
sportsmen to each other, likethey said hi to each other at
the end, went there, put up,told him good game, so gunter's
dad is a cool dude as well.
I think he's Jamaican orsomething and he definitely
plays right.
He's got the build as if he hasplayed.
(04:51):
He is constantly calling out tohim and saying you know, stay
back, but he doesn't overdo it.
He seems like too cool to hangout with us, yeah yeah, yeah,
but I'd like to hang out withhim.
I'd like to like to hang outwell.
And when we were leaving,gunter's mom said oh, you know,
winthrop did really well.
I think she wanted us to feellike like they were saying.
But as we were leaving, thecoach said winthrop, we're
(05:13):
really glad we have you on ourteam.
And then other the coach's wifewas like winthrop, you're
really good.
So I think because he's the onlyone who tries yeah, he tries
yeah he does this thing where hegoes to stop the ball, but he
stops the ball by stepping onand doing some sort of like spin
or something, maybe ballet ishis thing.
So, speaking of sports and ofwinning and of losing, the
(05:38):
gators have advanced in themadness.
That is march, that'sbasketball for those of you
paying attention, college level,and we watched the game.
They played the Texas Tech.
Whatever the hell they are.
Red Raiders or something I don'tknow Texas Tech.
I have not paid attention togame one.
(05:58):
Yes, and you're a basketball fan.
Yeah, it's difficult for me toget into college ball.
But historically you have been abasketball fan.
Yeah, yeah.
So we go to this bar and I'mlike, okay, the Gators are there
in Sweet 16, I think is whatthat was.
No, that was the Elite Eight.
That was the Elite.
Okay, so even better.
I said I guess we should sitand watch this game.
Now mind, I have not beenpaying attention.
(06:19):
They've been House of Fire,right throughout the season.
We sit down, we start to watchit and, wouldn't you freaking
know it, they start to lose, andthen they lose their lead, and
then they start to lose and thegap between the two teams grows.
And I'm just like, of course,Of course, because you're
invested in this game Because Ihave a curse.
(06:43):
I am cursed.
Any team that I get into, anyteam that I watch and that I
start to root for, they lose.
And really the pattern usuallyis like with the Miami Dolphins
not last season, because theypretty much sucked from jump
last season, but especially theseason before they were doing
really well at the beginning ofthe season I was like, okay, I
(07:05):
think I'm gonna watch some games, and as soon as I did that, the
Dolphins, their quarterback gotinjured and then that was that
right.
But like throughout the years,the Dolphins and the Heat, when
I get into them after havingignored them for the season,
they start to do badly.
But isn't this a thing?
That's like fabled lore comingout of Miami, though that, like
(07:27):
you know, in Hootie sang aboutit, the Dolphins made me cry.
Isn't this just what being aMiami fan is?
Clearly it's not just that,because then we watch the Gators
.
They're playing basketball,they're doing great.
We show up at the bar, watchthe TV and all of a sudden
they're melting like flan in thesunlight.
So we say, well, forget this,and we leave the bar because it
(07:49):
just gets too painful.
Okay, but hold on, it wasn't abar, we were at a pub.
We were at a.
I'm just saying it wasn't likea sports bar.
There's a point of this we wereat a pub and the game was on,
but we were not paying attention.
We were playing darts, so thewhole time they were winning.
We were not paying attention.
We finished darts, sit downwith food and go to go to watch
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it.
It's when they started losing.
This is my point to you.
But I'm saying you can even bein the building and it's fine.
You just can't look directly atthe screen yes, yes, that's
exactly what it is.
And the quarterback will getinjured.
The star player has suddenonset vertigo, and then I'm
screwed.
So I figured out how we canmake big money off of this.
(08:32):
Okay, opposing teams are goingto pay you.
No, I can't be involved.
But see, that's the point of it.
You have to start to place betson teams that I'm rooting for,
but never tell me that you'redoing so.
Okay, because as soon as I know, then obviously I have a vested
interest.
Yes, and then it's all fuckedup, then that's that.
This is what you need to do.
(08:52):
You need to bet on sports teamsthat I'm rooting for.
Never tell me until we've madeenough money that we can retire
and just podcast for a living inTahiti, right, I can never know
.
I think that this gambling thatyou're proposing is illegal.
No, there's legal.
Is there a legal betting?
All right, that's fine.
(09:12):
Well, okay, so tell the rest ofyour story.
We left.
They were down by a 10 pointdeficit.
They were down by like 10.
We get home.
I think it was like there waslike three minutes left in the
game or something.
We came home and we were bothjust we can't let.
It was the lead eight and wehave not been at the final four
(09:33):
since 2014, so we, we couldn'tlook at it.
I you decided to take the dogout.
I was cleaning up the kitchen.
I thought you know what?
I'm just gonna check, I'm justgonna check.
And there was 40 seconds leftand they were up by four and I
was.
You have got to be kidding me.
So I'm running around trying tofind the remote.
I'm yelling Winthrop comesdownstairs, mom, you know, I
(09:54):
don't like it when you yell,which is very hypocritical.
And so you opened the door andI said you're going to want to
get in here?
And I said you're gonna wannaget in here?
And you were like what?
And I was like look.
And then, sure enough, if theydid, you came in.
They were up by five with threeseconds left.
So I guess there was nothingyou could do at that point to
screw it up.
The question remains if we hadstayed at the pub, would that
(10:20):
have happened?
Very different, no.
The next question is do wewatch the final four next week?
Well, it depends.
Are you going to put money onthe game and not?
Tell me about it.
The other thing we did at thepub is we did play darts.
Now, we are both not great atdarts.
I enjoy it.
I'm not good at it.
(10:41):
It's great fun.
I wonder, though, what it'slike to watch us play darts,
because it's not that we'refunny, it's just that we're bad.
Yeah.
It's just we throw it Likeyou've got this knack of
throwing the dart and midair.
I look at the dart and it'ssideways.
But then it still rights itself,it rights itself, and it hits
the dart board, but a lot oftimes it'll bounce off.
(11:03):
We are.
Let me put it this wayStormtroopers could play darts
better than we could play darts.
That's how bad we are.
It's really bad.
So at the very end of it all,we were playing the version of
darts where you have to hit acertain numbers three times,
right, Right.
So you have to hit like 20, 19,18, 17, 16.
(11:25):
15.
15, three times, and then thebullseye three times and we had
gotten threes on everything.
Everything was closed.
Except for the bullseye.
We both needed a bullseye andwe just kept throwing it and
just missing, and kept throwingit and missing, and finally I
said what did I say?
I said you had said all right,because I said this is going to
(11:45):
go on forever.
So you said all right, well,the next, whatever double,
whoever can hit just any double,double ones, doesn't matter.
Whoever can hit a double nextwins.
And I agreed to it.
You turned around, threw yourdart and hit a double bullseye.
I mean, I could not believe it.
You know why?
(12:05):
Because you had given up.
You were like the pressure wasoff.
You shouldn't have counted itthen, because this ties into my
thing about how I can't win.
Technically speaking, thatdidn't count because I just said
that you had to get doublesright.
Well, you hit the doublebullseye.
That's not my curse.
No, your curse is making otherteams lose.
Do you think the next time weplay darts we should wear body
(12:27):
armor?
Why the next time we play darts?
we should wear body armor.
Why I don't throw it at you?
Because we're really that bad.
No, I don't ever throw it atyou or hit you with it.
Or the people around us.
No, I don't hit anybody.
And the pub cat?
I don't hit the pub cat.
Oh, you want to talk about thispub cat?
Go ahead I love this pub cat soapparently pubs in the UK that
(12:48):
we go to Black Outer Brewing.
It's a Belgian-inspired pub.
They have a pub cat and hisname is Edmund and he's a big,
fluffy black cat and he livesthere and I love him with my
whole heart but I don't hit him.
His cat toy basket's right nearthe darts and I don't hit him.
I'm allergic to cats, that'sall I have to say about that
(13:11):
Nobody rubbed the cat on you.
Is that a euphemism?
We got a letter from our friendin Germany.
Shall I give you a part of it.
Yes, please.
She says she loves our podcastand she's been listening back
through our episodes.
She asked this question.
She said why are several of theearlier episodes missing from
my listing?
Is that just my podcast or wasthat your decision Because in
(13:33):
retrospect you did not like themanymore?
Is there another reason We'vehad problems with our host?
Oh okay, so if you want to sendme like oh number, whatever is
missing, I can go see if I canfind it and then see if I can
make it re-upload or whatever.
But we've also been podcastingfor close to five years.
Yeah, yeah, so that's a lot ofepisodes.
Five years in March, oh, no,over, yeah, five years already.
(13:54):
Yeah yeah, but she does say thisbecause I talked about my
fascination with warm Guinness.
Yes, Actually I should say hotGuinness and she is in Germany
because you mentioned maybe ordid I mention?
No, you said it was a Germantradition.
There's a thing at Christmasmarkets the warm beer markets
yes, she says yeah, but actuallyno.
(14:15):
We've seen it two or three timesover the last couple of years,
but it's more like an attempt tohave something different than
the rest of the vendors and it'snot very popular.
It's also not just warm beer,which frankly sounds just
disgusting.
Well, I like it, but mulledbeer spiced with things like
nutmeg.
I do not like nutmeg.
My husband has not yet met abeer he doesn't like, but so far
(14:37):
even he is not tempted to trythis stuff.
I like mulled wine.
She also says like most Germansand the tourists who visit these
highly popular Christmasmarkets, we prefer the tradition
of Gullwein, so mulled wine,which is had in enormous amounts
.
Sorry, I cannot resist makingJosh pronounce German words.
(15:00):
How did he do Em?
How did he do I?
don't know.
She talks about our son, daniel, who's learning German.
Good on him, and actually no,german is not particularly angry
sounding, although you can useit to say perfectly nasty things
, but that seems to be the trueabout just about any language.
But I guess German does soundfairly aggressive to
(15:21):
English-speaking people becauseof several of the sounds used,
especially the G, which ispronounced extremely sharp and
guttural.
Yes, and a lot of you know alot of that stuff too.
As that sound is pronounced evensharper in Dutch, I am not
bothered at all by it.
I wish Daniel much success inlearning German, because knowing
a foreign language broadensyour horizon, which is always a
(15:42):
great thing, and of coursecognitively, as I've said before
, it really helps you.
I wonder if I would speakEnglish better if I learned a
different language or if I wouldjust suck in both languages.
You just suck at all the things,no.
Kudos to Jeff for calling me.
What are you doing to me here?
Mevrouw In Dutch.
(16:02):
What I don't know.
That's not a word.
You just gave up halfwaythrough.
Look at that word, say it gaveup halfway through.
Look at that word, say it intothe mic mevral okay in dutch,
but the german frow line is notentirely correct, because I am
married and thus officially I'ma frow.
Dutch people are a lot lessformal than germans and
generally use first names, evenfor your boss or the teachers at
(16:25):
school.
Do you do that like as astudent, though?
Do you say hey, frank, I didn'tbring in my homework.
It's Mr Frank.
Well, no, mr Frank is Anne'sfather, unheard of in Germany,
who generally love rules,although the younger generations
now are being a little bit moreinformal.
She says I love that you callme M in your podcast.
Sounds deliciously mysterious,but using my first name, monique
(16:47):
, is okay.
So thank you, monique, ourfriend in Germany who's
originally Dutch.
There you go, that's super cool.
I had a student I taughtpreschool which here is four and
five-year-olds for a reallylong time In the school that I
taught at, we had a lot ofvisiting professors at the major
university in town, so I've hadso many students from so many
(17:09):
different countries that I'mpretty proficient in lots of
languages.
But just saying hello, goodbye,and counting to five and
whatever they celebrate in thewinter holidays because I would
do holidays around the world butI had two German students.
It's super interesting to me towatch the language acquisition
of what in early childhood wecall them dual language learners
(17:31):
, because they're still learningtheir native language while
they're learning the schoollanguage as well or getting
mastering their native language.
And it's really fascinating towatch the process.
Because I had one student andher mom is still a good friend
of mine.
They live in Berlin and she'snow like in her 30s.
This child and she would notspeak.
(17:52):
I mean, did not speak and ouroffice manager was born in
Germany, so she would come inand speak to her in German, but
the child would not speak.
Until halfway through the yearshe opened her mouth and spoke
perfect English, like she wouldnot.
She wasn't trying to use herlanguage, she just took
everything in until she couldspeak English Like she would not
(18:13):
.
She wasn't trying to use herlanguage, she just took
everything in until she couldspeak English, like she did not
try.
Then I had another student whowould speak a lot in German and
then like kind of switch backand forth, but she didn't think
we knew what Scheisse was.
And so she, this five-year-oldwill walk around.
Ah, scheisse, and we were likeno rock around and we're like no
, no we know that one.
That's not okay, that's verygood.
So we made our way over to thefarmer's market this past
(18:37):
Saturday.
I like me a farmer's market,although they're really like.
It is such an experience and Idon't know should we be paying
more for this stuff or less.
I don't know, because the onlything I buy at the farmer's
market anymore is a cup ofcoffee.
It's the same vendors everytime and it's fabulous people
watching.
It's not very big, it's whatlike maybe two blocks long?
(18:59):
yeah, I mean it's not long andbut you made me walk it four
times just so you could beamongst the people and and
absorb the energy.
But I mean all I buy is a $2cup of coffee, which is cheaper,
because two cups of coffee forboth you and me were $4, which
is good.
Well, that's because it's justfrom the local coffee shop.
It's not like organic coffee.
(19:21):
It is organic coffee, yeah, butit's the same stuff that they.
What I'm saying, though, back tomy original question.
This is a legitimate question,like if I go in there and we've
got this uh farmer who's who'sgot a lovely pair of overalls
offering me his honey that ismade by carefully massaged,
singing bees like, should I bepaying more for that because of
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the singing of the bees, orshould I be paying less for that
because it's not been, like,checked for any sort of
contaminants or all the thingsthat happen when you buy food in
the stores, what you're buyingis not just the food, but you're
buying the guarantee that it'snot going to kill you yeah, um,
I don't care if you gentlymassage your kale if it's if
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it's not had the necessary sprayon it or whatever I'm gonna eat
a larvae, and I definitelydon't want to pay more for that.
This way, you don't wash yourvegetables.
What is wrong with you?
But this is where we get back tomy point.
This produce that we're buyinghere from this market, shouldn't
it be discount Because we'renot guaranteed of its safety.
It's not been checked by anyone, it's not been washed, it's not
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been carefully packaged.
You know what I'm saying.
Am I alone here?
yes, I mean I don't want thepasteurized milk, I mean the
unpasteurized milk.
That makes me nervous.
I'm not really looking to buythe shrimp out of the cooler
that that one table is selling,but produce, I'm just gonna take
it and wash it I, and it'scomparable to what we pay in the
store and I'm happy to supportlocal business it's not
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comparable.
Most of the stuff there's moreexpensive was the last time you
bought a bunch of kale in thestore what I.
I can look at the.
I can look at the prices.
It's it's more expensive.
Most of the stuff is more eggslike nine dollars an egg or well
, but also nine dollars an egg,not an egg.
Nine dollars for um a dozen eggsin the grocery store is not
(21:10):
unusual either.
Josh Wilson (21:11):
What do you think out there, when you go to a
farmer's market, are you payingfor?
Not just the stuff that you'rebuying, but are you paying for?
Oh, the experience and thefeeling that you get, feeling
like you're getting back to asimpler time where everyone wore
wide brim hats.
Amanda Wilson (21:28):
No, you're supporting local businesses and
local farmers.
This is why you do it To keepthe money within the community.
I don't know there was a secondpart of that.
Josh Wilson (21:44):
I was waiting for that.
You just kind of All right.
Well, right in folks.
I want to know what you thinkOur farmer's market's worth it.
I like to go just for thepeople watching.
I certainly love to admire allthe different creative canvas
totes that everyone brings, butI like to know if you think that
the experience of buying from afarmer's market is worth the
money.
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Because you're paying extramoney.
Write to us familiarwilsons atgmailcom.
You can tell me that I'm crazy.
I don't care, I'm fine with it.
I'm still going to go peoplewatch.
Amanda Wilson (22:13):
I don't care.
Well, I mean, you boughtsomething this week.
I bought goat milk shampoo barfor my head.
Josh Wilson (22:22):
What else did I buy ?
Way too many, that's like thescrabble of adjectives there
goat milk, soap, bar, shampoo.
What did you?
Amanda Wilson (22:31):
say it was a shampoo bar made out of goat
milk for my head.
Josh Wilson (22:33):
For my head okay, how many goats have you seen
that have long, luscious, softhair?
Amanda Wilson (22:38):
anyway, none goat's milk is really
moisturizing goat's milk.
Josh Wilson (22:40):
Listen if you start using this goat's milk shit on
your head and you wake up oneday with those oval pupils.
I'm going to lose my mind.
Amanda Wilson (22:49):
Like the screaming goat.
Josh Wilson (22:50):
No.
Amanda Wilson (22:51):
Did Jeff run off the road?
Josh Wilson (22:52):
again, and so we're going to get another email from
Antonio saying that Amandascared me as I was driving
because you made a loud noiseinto the podcast.
Amanda Wilson (23:00):
Also made Jeff step on the brake because he
thought he had run over someonefrom the yelling.
I also bought a candle, alovely soy-based candle, but
then you bought something andwas it worth it to you?
Josh Wilson (23:16):
I did.
I bought a mug.
I bought a mug to replace themug that I broke.
That I also bought at thatfarmer's market and I believe
that I've related the storyabout how me breaking that mug
caused me never to want to buyanother piece of ceramic wear
again, because it's not worth itLike.
I bought this mug and it was aunique mug and I was so happy
that this is mine.
This is my mug.
No one else has a mug like mine.
And then I dropped the fuckingthing and I felt like I dropped
(23:38):
my baby.
But I decided that it's betterto have mugged and lost than to
never have mugged at all.
So I decided to buy areplacement mug.
It is lovely and I'm very happywith it.
Amanda Wilson (23:49):
But do you know where this mug is right now?
Because I bet you don't what doyou?
I have seen the mug.
I've passed the mug severaltimes today and the location of
the mug.
Lets me know that you don'tknow where this mug is now okay.
Josh Wilson (24:01):
So I don't know where the mug is, where, okay,
I've not seen the mug sinceSunday because I was using the
mug, because I was recording apodcast with our friend Chris
McClellan and I was drinking teaout of that mug, and now I
don't know where the mug is.
But clearly you know where thedamn mug is.
Where's the mug?
Amanda Wilson (24:18):
It is on the.
We have a light in the livingroom that has three shelves on
it.
It is behind the vase room thathas three shelves on it.
It is behind the vase on thatlamp with two-thirds of the tea
that you were drinking on sundayin it and still the tea bag.
So you aren't as attached tothis mug at like your baby as
you think you are is it stillthere?
yeah, I didn't pick it up, it'syour mug.
(24:39):
You brought me tea for thisrecording in this other mug.
Yeah, I know, but I'm nottouching that mug because if
heaven.
Yeah, I know, but I'm nottouching that mug because if
heaven forbid I break it.
I'm not doing it jackass.
Josh Wilson (24:52):
Well listen, that lamp is now called the bermuda
triangle because I was lookingfor that mug and I could not
find you put it there Iunderstand it happens also with
my wallet and my keys.
Yes, they all go to the sameplace together All the things I
love, I put them somewhere andthen I can never find them again
.
Amanda Wilson (25:09):
So if I go missing.
Josh has put me somewhere andhe has forgotten where he put me
.
Josh Wilson (25:14):
Don't ever let me watch the child alone.
That's all I'm saying.
Have you ever lost anything?
You're fond of friends.
Maybe you just purchasedsomething and then you
immediately lose it.
Maybe you've done this thingwhere you're searching,
searching, searching for yourphone and it's in your hand yeah
, that, that's called middle agehave you ever put stuff in the?
(25:37):
You've put stuff in the fridgethat didn't belong in the fridge
, haven't you?
Amanda Wilson (25:40):
yeah, I put something in there the other day
.
I can't even remember what itwas like my shampoo or something
.
I was putting groceries awayand I had shampoo or something
and and I put it in there.
Um, yeah day, I can't evenremember what it was like my
shampoo or something.
I was putting Gershwitz awayand I had shampoo or something
and I put it in there, yeah.
But I mean it got really badwhen Winthrop was little.
I mean I couldn't find anything.
I mean I kept track of him,okay, but like I couldn't find
anything, and apparentlymenopause, which has afflicted
(26:02):
me, which has afflicted me, doesthe same thing.
Fuzzy brain gives you fuzzybrain, fuzzy brains, you yep.
Josh Wilson (26:07):
That would be an amusing podcast bit that we can
do riffing on menopause.
Amanda Wilson (26:12):
No, I'm currently having a hot flash, so I don't
find any of it funny right now.
Josh Wilson (26:16):
Are you having hot flashes out there?
Familiawilson's at gmailcom.
No one likes to be told what todo, and now's the time in the
program where we tell you whatto do, amanda.
What should we do?
Amanda Wilson (26:25):
Well, I have a recommendation about and I don't
know if it's yourrecommendation.
Josh Wilson (26:28):
Go ahead.
Amanda Wilson (26:29):
There is a show.
It's a British detective slashcomedy show, david Mitchell, who
is one of our favorite British.
Is he a comedian?
Josh Wilson (26:38):
Yes.
Amanda Wilson (26:38):
He's a comedian, but he's also an actor from the
show what I Lie to.
You is doing the show, he playstwin brothers, but mostly he is
the one brother.
The other one is missing and heis a reclusive puzzle maker.
He writes crosswords, hecreates puzzles for publication
(26:58):
and he goes undercover to try tofind his brother, who is a
detective.
And it's just about himstumbling upon these, these
murder mysteries, and being ableto solve them because of
puzzles, whilst he is unravelingthe story of looking for his
brother it's basically likesherlock holmes, but a little
sillier but it's, it's really.
(27:19):
It's really great.
It drops uh every thursday onbrit box.
If you don't have brit box,it's 8.95 a.
I think you get the first monthfree.
You might want to try it out.
Check out, ludwig.
Josh Wilson (27:29):
I endorse that recommendation.
Amanda Wilson (27:32):
Thank you, so happy to have your seal of
approval.
Josh Wilson (27:44):
All right, Amanda.
That's all there is.
There is no more.
Next week, we will be bringingyou our interview with Chris
Barron, lead singer of the SpinDoctors.
Just giving them a little plugthey have a new album coming out
soon and three of the singleshave been released, so check
them out and see if you likethem.
Until next week, I want you allto smile, to love, to laugh, to
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learn to live go be kind bye,thank you.
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.
Josh Wilson (00:19):
Three, two, one run .
I'm super familiar with you.
Wilson run.
I'm super familiar with theWilsons.
Get it.
Amanda Wilson (00:31):
Welcome to Super Familiar with the Wilsons.
I'm Amanda.
Josh Wilson (00:33):
And I'm Josh Amanda , it's soccer season again.
Amanda Wilson (00:37):
It is.
We had a brief interlude and weare back on.
What is it a pitch, a field?
What's a soccer?
Josh Wilson (00:42):
The pitch what's?
Amanda Wilson (00:43):
the pitch.
Okay, there you go.
Josh Wilson (00:45):
So here's the thing about Winthrop's new team.
They are not good.
Amanda Wilson (00:49):
No, so Winthrop didn't keep the same team.
I don't even think the coachfrom the Wolves is even coaching
this go-round.
And when we fill out theregistration form because it's
rec soccer, it's not club socceryou have to put beginner,
intermediate or advanced.
This is only his second season,so we put beginner, but there
(01:11):
should be like a classificationof beginners, because there are
some very tiny people on histeam.
Josh Wilson (01:15):
And they had way too many kids on the field.
It's interesting because thislast season we didn't see that
cliched.
All the kids gathered aroundthe ball that you see kind of
like a dusting of gnats aroundthe light.
But this time we definitely did.
First of all, both teams hadeight kids and last season both
teams usually would have like upto up to six but they're
(01:37):
supposed to play five on five iswhat the what the, what the
league says they play.
Amanda Wilson (01:41):
That didn't happen.
Josh Wilson (01:42):
So they had eight kids out there and I just am
glad that no one got seriouslyinjured.
Amanda Wilson (01:47):
I know it was mass chaos.
It was like a herd of catstrying to get the laser pointer.
I mean, it was just it was alot.
They were not good.
They were not good.
And how not good were they IfTed Lasso were their coach, he
would have quit, he would havetorn down the Believe sign, torn
(02:08):
it in 100 pieces and left and,to add a twist to it, if you
were listening to our synopsisof last season, he had a little
boy on his team called Gunterand he was pretty good last
season.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
The two of them together were,I think, the only ones who
scored the whole season.
Yeah, fire and ice is what Icall them.
Yes.
(02:28):
Gunter has gotten better so Italked to his dad and they've
been like training.
Winthrop has not been training.
I take that back.
If playing Minecraft prepares,you for soccer then he is going
to be a killer this season.
Otherwise, he has not reallydone any training.
Gunter was on the opposing teamand he smashed it.
He scored like, I think, fourtimes no, it's only twice, just
(02:50):
twice.
Yeah, they lost two nothing itfelt like so much more but the
best part about it is he didn'tcare no, he didn't, he really
didn't care the reason why I say, say it's the best part about
it, is because we made him play.
Yeah.
And it's like when you tell yourkid eat this broccoli because
(03:10):
it's good for you and theybegrudgingly eat it.
Well, we didn't have thatreaction.
Yeah.
Which is what we could have had.
He is just happy as Larry to gorunning up and down full speed.
Didn't really care I think heclocked a little bit more that
they lost.
I'll tell you.
I don't want him to care aboutwinning and losing, because I
just want him to run around andget the energy out.
(03:31):
I know you and I differ alittle bit there, because I
think he has a little bit ofnatural talent and I'd like for
him to be able to hone that, tofeel good about something like
that.
I get the not wanting him tocare if they win or lose, and I
agree with that, but I alsodon't want him to get frustrated
that he is able to do somethingand the rest of them are just
running around like the wildthings.
(03:54):
Right, but that's what I'msaying.
I think he's happy in themoment and he's happy to kick
the ball around, but I don'tthink he cares.
Like I said, it's like a ferretat a book club he's just there
and he's happy, doesn'tnecessarily know what's going on
, and I think that that's thebest.
Did you say a ferret at a bookclub?
(04:15):
Yeah.
I thought you said an affair ata book club and then I had this
whole narrative about I don'tthink that's a good thing, like.
Josh Wilson (04:27):
don't think that's a good thing like affairs should
not be going on in the bookclub.
I wonder what books they werereading where they were hosting
it.
Amanda Wilson (04:31):
I had a whole narrative in that very brief
second 50 shades, no, no, no, no, definitely 50 shades.
No, no, no, no.
I will also say, though, he andgunter were very like good
sportsmen to each other, likethey said hi to each other at
the end, went there, put up,told him good game, so gunter's
dad is a cool dude as well.
I think he's Jamaican orsomething and he definitely
plays right.
He's got the build as if he hasplayed.
(04:51):
He is constantly calling out tohim and saying you know, stay
back, but he doesn't overdo it.
He seems like too cool to hangout with us, yeah yeah, yeah,
but I'd like to hang out withhim.
I'd like to like to hang outwell.
And when we were leaving,gunter's mom said oh, you know,
winthrop did really well.
I think she wanted us to feellike like they were saying.
But as we were leaving, thecoach said winthrop, we're
(05:13):
really glad we have you on ourteam.
And then other the coach's wifewas like winthrop, you're
really good.
So I think because he's the onlyone who tries yeah, he tries
yeah he does this thing where hegoes to stop the ball, but he
stops the ball by stepping onand doing some sort of like spin
or something, maybe ballet ishis thing.
So, speaking of sports and ofwinning and of losing, the
(05:38):
gators have advanced in themadness.
That is march, that'sbasketball for those of you
paying attention, college level,and we watched the game.
They played the Texas Tech.
Whatever the hell they are.
Red Raiders or something I don'tknow Texas Tech.
I have not paid attention togame one.
(05:58):
Yes, and you're a basketball fan.
Yeah, it's difficult for me toget into college ball.
But historically you have been abasketball fan.
Yeah, yeah.
So we go to this bar and I'mlike, okay, the Gators are there
in Sweet 16, I think is whatthat was.
No, that was the Elite Eight.
That was the Elite.
Okay, so even better.
I said I guess we should sitand watch this game.
Now mind, I have not beenpaying attention.
(06:19):
They've been House of Fire,right throughout the season.
We sit down, we start to watchit and, wouldn't you freaking
know it, they start to lose, andthen they lose their lead, and
then they start to lose and thegap between the two teams grows.
And I'm just like, of course,Of course, because you're
invested in this game Because Ihave a curse.
(06:43):
I am cursed.
Any team that I get into, anyteam that I watch and that I
start to root for, they lose.
And really the pattern usuallyis like with the Miami Dolphins
not last season, because theypretty much sucked from jump
last season, but especially theseason before they were doing
really well at the beginning ofthe season I was like, okay, I
(07:05):
think I'm gonna watch some games, and as soon as I did that, the
Dolphins, their quarterback gotinjured and then that was that
right.
But like throughout the years,the Dolphins and the Heat, when
I get into them after havingignored them for the season,
they start to do badly.
But isn't this a thing?
That's like fabled lore comingout of Miami, though that, like
(07:27):
you know, in Hootie sang aboutit, the Dolphins made me cry.
Isn't this just what being aMiami fan is?
Clearly it's not just that,because then we watch the Gators
.
They're playing basketball,they're doing great.
We show up at the bar, watchthe TV and all of a sudden
they're melting like flan in thesunlight.
So we say, well, forget this,and we leave the bar because it
(07:49):
just gets too painful.
Okay, but hold on, it wasn't abar, we were at a pub.
We were at a.
I'm just saying it wasn't likea sports bar.
There's a point of this we wereat a pub and the game was on,
but we were not paying attention.
We were playing darts, so thewhole time they were winning.
We were not paying attention.
We finished darts, sit downwith food and go to go to watch
(08:11):
it.
It's when they started losing.
This is my point to you.
But I'm saying you can even bein the building and it's fine.
You just can't look directly atthe screen yes, yes, that's
exactly what it is.
And the quarterback will getinjured.
The star player has suddenonset vertigo, and then I'm
screwed.
So I figured out how we canmake big money off of this.
(08:32):
Okay, opposing teams are goingto pay you.
No, I can't be involved.
But see, that's the point of it.
You have to start to place betson teams that I'm rooting for,
but never tell me that you'redoing so.
Okay, because as soon as I know, then obviously I have a vested
interest.
Yes, and then it's all fuckedup, then that's that.
This is what you need to do.
(08:52):
You need to bet on sports teamsthat I'm rooting for.
Never tell me until we've madeenough money that we can retire
and just podcast for a living inTahiti, right, I can never know
.
I think that this gambling thatyou're proposing is illegal.
No, there's legal.
Is there a legal betting?
All right, that's fine.
(09:12):
Well, okay, so tell the rest ofyour story.
We left.
They were down by a 10 pointdeficit.
They were down by like 10.
We get home.
I think it was like there waslike three minutes left in the
game or something.
We came home and we were bothjust we can't let.
It was the lead eight and wehave not been at the final four
(09:33):
since 2014, so we, we couldn'tlook at it.
I you decided to take the dogout.
I was cleaning up the kitchen.
I thought you know what?
I'm just gonna check, I'm justgonna check.
And there was 40 seconds leftand they were up by four and I
was.
You have got to be kidding me.
So I'm running around trying tofind the remote.
I'm yelling Winthrop comesdownstairs, mom, you know, I
(09:54):
don't like it when you yell,which is very hypocritical.
And so you opened the door andI said you're going to want to
get in here?
And I said you're gonna wannaget in here?
And you were like what?
And I was like look.
And then, sure enough, if theydid, you came in.
They were up by five with threeseconds left.
So I guess there was nothingyou could do at that point to
screw it up.
The question remains if we hadstayed at the pub, would that
(10:20):
have happened?
Very different, no.
The next question is do wewatch the final four next week?
Well, it depends.
Are you going to put money onthe game and not?
Tell me about it.
The other thing we did at thepub is we did play darts.
Now, we are both not great atdarts.
I enjoy it.
I'm not good at it.
(10:41):
It's great fun.
I wonder, though, what it'slike to watch us play darts,
because it's not that we'refunny, it's just that we're bad.
Yeah.
It's just we throw it Likeyou've got this knack of
throwing the dart and midair.
I look at the dart and it'ssideways.
But then it still rights itself,it rights itself, and it hits
the dart board, but a lot oftimes it'll bounce off.
(11:03):
We are.
Let me put it this wayStormtroopers could play darts
better than we could play darts.
That's how bad we are.
It's really bad.
So at the very end of it all,we were playing the version of
darts where you have to hit acertain numbers three times,
right, Right.
So you have to hit like 20, 19,18, 17, 16.
(11:25):
15.
15, three times, and then thebullseye three times and we had
gotten threes on everything.
Everything was closed.
Except for the bullseye.
We both needed a bullseye andwe just kept throwing it and
just missing, and kept throwingit and missing, and finally I
said what did I say?
I said you had said all right,because I said this is going to
(11:45):
go on forever.
So you said all right, well,the next, whatever double,
whoever can hit just any double,double ones, doesn't matter.
Whoever can hit a double nextwins.
And I agreed to it.
You turned around, threw yourdart and hit a double bullseye.
I mean, I could not believe it.
You know why?
(12:05):
Because you had given up.
You were like the pressure wasoff.
You shouldn't have counted itthen, because this ties into my
thing about how I can't win.
Technically speaking, thatdidn't count because I just said
that you had to get doublesright.
Well, you hit the doublebullseye.
That's not my curse.
No, your curse is making otherteams lose.
Do you think the next time weplay darts we should wear body
(12:27):
armor?
Why the next time we play darts?
we should wear body armor.
Why I don't throw it at you?
Because we're really that bad.
No, I don't ever throw it atyou or hit you with it.
Or the people around us.
No, I don't hit anybody.
And the pub cat?
I don't hit the pub cat.
Oh, you want to talk about thispub cat?
Go ahead I love this pub cat soapparently pubs in the UK that
(12:48):
we go to Black Outer Brewing.
It's a Belgian-inspired pub.
They have a pub cat and hisname is Edmund and he's a big,
fluffy black cat and he livesthere and I love him with my
whole heart but I don't hit him.
His cat toy basket's right nearthe darts and I don't hit him.
I'm allergic to cats, that'sall I have to say about that
(13:11):
Nobody rubbed the cat on you.
Is that a euphemism?
We got a letter from our friendin Germany.
Shall I give you a part of it.
Yes, please.
She says she loves our podcastand she's been listening back
through our episodes.
She asked this question.
She said why are several of theearlier episodes missing from
my listing?
Is that just my podcast or wasthat your decision Because in
(13:33):
retrospect you did not like themanymore?
Is there another reason We'vehad problems with our host?
Oh okay, so if you want to sendme like oh number, whatever is
missing, I can go see if I canfind it and then see if I can
make it re-upload or whatever.
But we've also been podcastingfor close to five years.
Yeah, yeah, so that's a lot ofepisodes.
Five years in March, oh, no,over, yeah, five years already.
(13:54):
Yeah yeah, but she does say thisbecause I talked about my
fascination with warm Guinness.
Yes, Actually I should say hotGuinness and she is in Germany
because you mentioned maybe ordid I mention?
No, you said it was a Germantradition.
There's a thing at Christmasmarkets the warm beer markets
yes, she says yeah, but actuallyno.
(14:15):
We've seen it two or three timesover the last couple of years,
but it's more like an attempt tohave something different than
the rest of the vendors and it'snot very popular.
It's also not just warm beer,which frankly sounds just
disgusting.
Well, I like it, but mulledbeer spiced with things like
nutmeg.
I do not like nutmeg.
My husband has not yet met abeer he doesn't like, but so far
(14:37):
even he is not tempted to trythis stuff.
I like mulled wine.
She also says like most Germansand the tourists who visit these
highly popular Christmasmarkets, we prefer the tradition
of Gullwein, so mulled wine,which is had in enormous amounts
.
Sorry, I cannot resist makingJosh pronounce German words.
(15:00):
How did he do Em?
How did he do I?
don't know.
She talks about our son, daniel, who's learning German.
Good on him, and actually no,german is not particularly angry
sounding, although you can useit to say perfectly nasty things
, but that seems to be the trueabout just about any language.
But I guess German does soundfairly aggressive to
(15:21):
English-speaking people becauseof several of the sounds used,
especially the G, which ispronounced extremely sharp and
guttural.
Yes, and a lot of you know alot of that stuff too.
As that sound is pronounced evensharper in Dutch, I am not
bothered at all by it.
I wish Daniel much success inlearning German, because knowing
a foreign language broadensyour horizon, which is always a
(15:42):
great thing, and of coursecognitively, as I've said before
, it really helps you.
I wonder if I would speakEnglish better if I learned a
different language or if I wouldjust suck in both languages.
You just suck at all the things,no.
Kudos to Jeff for calling me.
What are you doing to me here?
Mevrouw In Dutch.
(16:02):
What I don't know.
That's not a word.
You just gave up halfwaythrough.
Look at that word, say it gaveup halfway through.
Look at that word, say it intothe mic mevral okay in dutch,
but the german frow line is notentirely correct, because I am
married and thus officially I'ma frow.
Dutch people are a lot lessformal than germans and
generally use first names, evenfor your boss or the teachers at
(16:25):
school.
Do you do that like as astudent, though?
Do you say hey, frank, I didn'tbring in my homework.
It's Mr Frank.
Well, no, mr Frank is Anne'sfather, unheard of in Germany,
who generally love rules,although the younger generations
now are being a little bit moreinformal.
She says I love that you callme M in your podcast.
Sounds deliciously mysterious,but using my first name, monique
(16:47):
, is okay.
So thank you, monique, ourfriend in Germany who's
originally Dutch.
There you go, that's super cool.
I had a student I taughtpreschool which here is four and
five-year-olds for a reallylong time In the school that I
taught at, we had a lot ofvisiting professors at the major
university in town, so I've hadso many students from so many
(17:09):
different countries that I'mpretty proficient in lots of
languages.
But just saying hello, goodbye,and counting to five and
whatever they celebrate in thewinter holidays because I would
do holidays around the world butI had two German students.
It's super interesting to me towatch the language acquisition
of what in early childhood wecall them dual language learners
(17:31):
, because they're still learningtheir native language while
they're learning the schoollanguage as well or getting
mastering their native language.
And it's really fascinating towatch the process.
Because I had one student andher mom is still a good friend
of mine.
They live in Berlin and she'snow like in her 30s.
This child and she would notspeak.
(17:52):
I mean, did not speak and ouroffice manager was born in
Germany, so she would come inand speak to her in German, but
the child would not speak.
Until halfway through the yearshe opened her mouth and spoke
perfect English, like she wouldnot.
She wasn't trying to use herlanguage, she just took
everything in until she couldspeak English Like she would not
(18:13):
.
She wasn't trying to use herlanguage, she just took
everything in until she couldspeak English, like she did not
try.
Then I had another student whowould speak a lot in German and
then like kind of switch backand forth, but she didn't think
we knew what Scheisse was.
And so she, this five-year-oldwill walk around.
Ah, scheisse, and we were likeno rock around and we're like no
, no we know that one.
That's not okay, that's verygood.
So we made our way over to thefarmer's market this past
(18:37):
Saturday.
I like me a farmer's market,although they're really like.
It is such an experience and Idon't know should we be paying
more for this stuff or less.
I don't know, because the onlything I buy at the farmer's
market anymore is a cup ofcoffee.
It's the same vendors everytime and it's fabulous people
watching.
It's not very big, it's whatlike maybe two blocks long?
(18:59):
yeah, I mean it's not long andbut you made me walk it four
times just so you could beamongst the people and and
absorb the energy.
But I mean all I buy is a $2cup of coffee, which is cheaper,
because two cups of coffee forboth you and me were $4, which
is good.
Well, that's because it's justfrom the local coffee shop.
It's not like organic coffee.
(19:21):
It is organic coffee, yeah, butit's the same stuff that they.
What I'm saying, though, back tomy original question.
This is a legitimate question,like if I go in there and we've
got this uh farmer who's who'sgot a lovely pair of overalls
offering me his honey that ismade by carefully massaged,
singing bees like, should I bepaying more for that because of
(19:43):
the singing of the bees, orshould I be paying less for that
because it's not been, like,checked for any sort of
contaminants or all the thingsthat happen when you buy food in
the stores, what you're buyingis not just the food, but you're
buying the guarantee that it'snot going to kill you yeah, um,
I don't care if you gentlymassage your kale if it's if
(20:03):
it's not had the necessary sprayon it or whatever I'm gonna eat
a larvae, and I definitelydon't want to pay more for that.
This way, you don't wash yourvegetables.
What is wrong with you?
But this is where we get back tomy point.
This produce that we're buyinghere from this market, shouldn't
it be discount Because we'renot guaranteed of its safety.
It's not been checked by anyone, it's not been washed, it's not
(20:27):
been carefully packaged.
You know what I'm saying.
Am I alone here?
yes, I mean I don't want thepasteurized milk, I mean the
unpasteurized milk.
That makes me nervous.
I'm not really looking to buythe shrimp out of the cooler
that that one table is selling,but produce, I'm just gonna take
it and wash it I, and it'scomparable to what we pay in the
store and I'm happy to supportlocal business it's not
(20:49):
comparable.
Most of the stuff there's moreexpensive was the last time you
bought a bunch of kale in thestore what I.
I can look at the.
I can look at the prices.
It's it's more expensive.
Most of the stuff is more eggslike nine dollars an egg or well
, but also nine dollars an egg,not an egg.
Nine dollars for um a dozen eggsin the grocery store is not
(21:10):
unusual either.
Josh Wilson (21:11):
What do you think out there, when you go to a
farmer's market, are you payingfor?
Not just the stuff that you'rebuying, but are you paying for?
Oh, the experience and thefeeling that you get, feeling
like you're getting back to asimpler time where everyone wore
wide brim hats.
Amanda Wilson (21:28):
No, you're supporting local businesses and
local farmers.
This is why you do it To keepthe money within the community.
I don't know there was a secondpart of that.
Josh Wilson (21:44):
I was waiting for that.
You just kind of All right.
Well, right in folks.
I want to know what you thinkOur farmer's market's worth it.
I like to go just for thepeople watching.
I certainly love to admire allthe different creative canvas
totes that everyone brings, butI like to know if you think that
the experience of buying from afarmer's market is worth the
money.
(22:04):
Because you're paying extramoney.
Write to us familiarwilsons atgmailcom.
You can tell me that I'm crazy.
I don't care, I'm fine with it.
I'm still going to go peoplewatch.
Amanda Wilson (22:13):
I don't care.
Well, I mean, you boughtsomething this week.
I bought goat milk shampoo barfor my head.
Josh Wilson (22:22):
What else did I buy ?
Way too many, that's like thescrabble of adjectives there
goat milk, soap, bar, shampoo.
What did you?
Amanda Wilson (22:31):
say it was a shampoo bar made out of goat
milk for my head.
Josh Wilson (22:33):
For my head okay, how many goats have you seen
that have long, luscious, softhair?
Amanda Wilson (22:38):
anyway, none goat's milk is really
moisturizing goat's milk.
Josh Wilson (22:40):
Listen if you start using this goat's milk shit on
your head and you wake up oneday with those oval pupils.
I'm going to lose my mind.
Amanda Wilson (22:49):
Like the screaming goat.
Josh Wilson (22:50):
No.
Amanda Wilson (22:51):
Did Jeff run off the road?
Josh Wilson (22:52):
again, and so we're going to get another email from
Antonio saying that Amandascared me as I was driving
because you made a loud noiseinto the podcast.
Amanda Wilson (23:00):
Also made Jeff step on the brake because he
thought he had run over someonefrom the yelling.
I also bought a candle, alovely soy-based candle, but
then you bought something andwas it worth it to you?
Josh Wilson (23:16):
I did.
I bought a mug.
I bought a mug to replace themug that I broke.
That I also bought at thatfarmer's market and I believe
that I've related the storyabout how me breaking that mug
caused me never to want to buyanother piece of ceramic wear
again, because it's not worth itLike.
I bought this mug and it was aunique mug and I was so happy
that this is mine.
This is my mug.
No one else has a mug like mine.
And then I dropped the fuckingthing and I felt like I dropped
(23:38):
my baby.
But I decided that it's betterto have mugged and lost than to
never have mugged at all.
So I decided to buy areplacement mug.
It is lovely and I'm very happywith it.
Amanda Wilson (23:49):
But do you know where this mug is right now?
Because I bet you don't what doyou?
I have seen the mug.
I've passed the mug severaltimes today and the location of
the mug.
Lets me know that you don'tknow where this mug is now okay.
Josh Wilson (24:01):
So I don't know where the mug is, where, okay,
I've not seen the mug sinceSunday because I was using the
mug, because I was recording apodcast with our friend Chris
McClellan and I was drinking teaout of that mug, and now I
don't know where the mug is.
But clearly you know where thedamn mug is.
Where's the mug?
Amanda Wilson (24:18):
It is on the.
We have a light in the livingroom that has three shelves on
it.
It is behind the vase room thathas three shelves on it.
It is behind the vase on thatlamp with two-thirds of the tea
that you were drinking on sundayin it and still the tea bag.
So you aren't as attached tothis mug at like your baby as
you think you are is it stillthere?
yeah, I didn't pick it up, it'syour mug.
(24:39):
You brought me tea for thisrecording in this other mug.
Yeah, I know, but I'm nottouching that mug because if
heaven.
Yeah, I know, but I'm nottouching that mug because if
heaven forbid I break it.
I'm not doing it jackass.
Josh Wilson (24:52):
Well listen, that lamp is now called the bermuda
triangle because I was lookingfor that mug and I could not
find you put it there Iunderstand it happens also with
my wallet and my keys.
Yes, they all go to the sameplace together All the things I
love, I put them somewhere andthen I can never find them again
.
Amanda Wilson (25:09):
So if I go missing.
Josh has put me somewhere andhe has forgotten where he put me
.
Josh Wilson (25:14):
Don't ever let me watch the child alone.
That's all I'm saying.
Have you ever lost anything?
You're fond of friends.
Maybe you just purchasedsomething and then you
immediately lose it.
Maybe you've done this thingwhere you're searching,
searching, searching for yourphone and it's in your hand yeah
, that, that's called middle agehave you ever put stuff in the?
(25:37):
You've put stuff in the fridgethat didn't belong in the fridge
, haven't you?
Amanda Wilson (25:40):
yeah, I put something in there the other day
.
I can't even remember what itwas like my shampoo or something
.
I was putting groceries awayand I had shampoo or something
and and I put it in there.
Um, yeah day, I can't evenremember what it was like my
shampoo or something.
I was putting Gershwitz awayand I had shampoo or something
and I put it in there, yeah.
But I mean it got really badwhen Winthrop was little.
I mean I couldn't find anything.
I mean I kept track of him,okay, but like I couldn't find
anything, and apparentlymenopause, which has afflicted
(26:02):
me, which has afflicted me, doesthe same thing.
Fuzzy brain gives you fuzzybrain, fuzzy brains, you yep.
Josh Wilson (26:07):
That would be an amusing podcast bit that we can
do riffing on menopause.
Amanda Wilson (26:12):
No, I'm currently having a hot flash, so I don't
find any of it funny right now.
Josh Wilson (26:16):
Are you having hot flashes out there?
Familiawilson's at gmailcom.
No one likes to be told what todo, and now's the time in the
program where we tell you whatto do, amanda.
What should we do?
Amanda Wilson (26:25):
Well, I have a recommendation about and I don't
know if it's yourrecommendation.
Josh Wilson (26:28):
Go ahead.
Amanda Wilson (26:29):
There is a show.
It's a British detective slashcomedy show, david Mitchell, who
is one of our favorite British.
Is he a comedian?
Josh Wilson (26:38):
Yes.
Amanda Wilson (26:38):
He's a comedian, but he's also an actor from the
show what I Lie to.
You is doing the show, he playstwin brothers, but mostly he is
the one brother.
The other one is missing and heis a reclusive puzzle maker.
He writes crosswords, hecreates puzzles for publication
(26:58):
and he goes undercover to try tofind his brother, who is a
detective.
And it's just about himstumbling upon these, these
murder mysteries, and being ableto solve them because of
puzzles, whilst he is unravelingthe story of looking for his
brother it's basically likesherlock holmes, but a little
sillier but it's, it's really.
(27:19):
It's really great.
It drops uh every thursday onbrit box.
If you don't have brit box,it's 8.95 a.
I think you get the first monthfree.
You might want to try it out.
Check out, ludwig.
Josh Wilson (27:29):
I endorse that recommendation.
Amanda Wilson (27:32):
Thank you, so happy to have your seal of
approval.
Josh Wilson (27:44):
All right, Amanda.
That's all there is.
There is no more.
Next week, we will be bringingyou our interview with Chris
Barron, lead singer of the SpinDoctors.
Just giving them a little plugthey have a new album coming out
soon and three of the singleshave been released, so check
them out and see if you likethem.
Until next week, I want you allto smile, to love, to laugh, to
(28:10):
learn to live go be kind bye,thank you.
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