September 15, 2025 • 34 mins
Josh declares himself a genius after inventing a shockingly effective fly-eviction method and surviving “new math” after a Negroni. Amanda breaks down acronyms vs. initialisms, we celebrate the Strongly Worded Email that moved a construction dumpster, unpack a social-anxiety misunderstanding, and confirm AI is terrible at fantasy football. Plus: spooky-season TV recs and neighborly shout-outs. Gainesville, marriage, chaos, and cozy...served warm.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Familiar Wilson's Media Relationships are the
story.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
You are made of meat, my friend, all the way down.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
The following podcast uses words like and, and also.
If you're not into any of thatshit, then now's your chance.
Three, two one run.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
I'm super familiar with the Wilsons Get it.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Welcome to Super Familiar with the Wilsons.
I'm Amanda.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
And I'm Josh Amanda.
I am a freaking genius.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Oh, is it because you did math problems really well
tonight?
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Oh, don't talk to me.
Do we want to start with math?
Why is it that we're trying tofigure out this eight-year-old's
math right?
And I don't understand why mathneeds to keep changing, because
math is one of those thingsthat shouldn't change.
Math is math.
One plus one should always betwo, but I this is this the
third iteration of math thatI've personally witnessed.
(01:02):
First, like me going through itand how much I freaking hated
it right.
Then Andrew and Daniel wentthrough it.
They're in their 20s now andthat math was different, like
they had changed math.
It's new math Right, but nowwith Winthrop, who's eight, now
math is different again.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
What the hell is going on here.
I listen, I think I figured itout okay I think that that
whoever has been creating themath across generations, all of
them had serious issues withtheir parents, because all of
them got to the point where theywere, like, appointed to the
math council and they said fuckmy parents, I'm gonna do my math
(01:46):
differently than them.
Like this is the way that thenerds chose to rebel is to do
math differently because it'sdifferent.
Now I can't figure it out.
I don't know what the hell ison this piece of paper that
winthrop needs to figure out andturn into his teacher.
I can't help.
I tried to figure out a thingtonight with you and and me, him
on the couch, and like Ifigured it out and you're like,
(02:06):
well, you need to explain it tohim how you figure it out.
I'm like, fuck, no, I figuredit out.
Like that should be.
The point of math is that youfigure out the problem.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
But then he won't know how to figure it out.
And then you kept trying toexplain it, and then you weren't
even right.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
And then I was right.
By the way, I was right.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
But you asked Alexa and she kept telling you a
different number.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Well, because I kept slurring my words.
That's a different problem.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
This is why you should not do math after a
Negroni.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Yes, but I got it right.
The point is that I got itright using our like.
Apparently we're the dumbasseswith the old math, but I figured
it out.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
I actually don't mind this math because it is math in
a way that never was taught tome and it took me a while to
figure out how to teach it whenI was teaching.
But it's really just logic andit's just thinking about it like
reasonably.
So anyway, we got through math,but you're a freaking genius
and it's not because of math.
Go ahead.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
It's not because of math.
I went out and I watered ourlittle back garden, which, by
the way, we need to talk aboutmy new obsession, and that is
greening up our back garden.
There's so many stories that Ihave there.
They're all interrelated,because then we need to go back
to this fight that we're havingwith the developers of our
(03:17):
neighborhood who built thishouse next to us, right?
Speaker 3 (03:22):
They sort of built it .
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Well, they halfway built it, and actually they
halfway built it before theyfinished our house.
And that's five years that ahalfway built house has been
next to our house.
And I'm gonna tell you thatthis house, the siding was green
right, because it was theconstruction wrap.
The construction, whatever itwas, I felt like I lived on a
movie set for five years because, this fucking like green screen
(03:45):
against everything.
Well, the, the, the housestarted to fall apart we get
legit falling apart into ouryard and I've talked about this
before.
But yeah, the part of the, thesoffit or the, the, the trim of
the roof fell and and messed upone of your bird feeders, which
you're still salty about.
I am salty about it Crushedsome plants and I'm a pretty
(04:06):
easygoing guy.
I don't like confrontation, butat that point, after five years
of roofing shingles fallinginto our yard, scratching up my
car.
Nails falling into our yard,and now that had happened like I
had reached the end of my ropeand I wrote a strongly worded
email to code enforcement andthen magically, it got ripped
(04:30):
down the next week.
I felt so powerful, my ballswere so big.
That's not an image anyone wants, I know, but it's just, it's a
euphemism, for I felt sopowerful for just sending the
email, I know, but it's just,it's a euphemism, for I felt so
powerful for just sending theemail.
And then they had ripped thisthing down.
And damn it if these people,they've mastered the art, these
(04:51):
developers, of doing the jobright, almost done, yes.
Yes, it's like you ask your kidto mow the lawn and he mows the
whole lawn, except for like theone foot that's closest to the
house.
For some inexplicable reason,he leaves that unmowed.
(05:12):
That's these people yeah so whatthey did was they ripped the
house down and happy, I was forit and um, but they left the the
dumpster full of constructionmaterial in the driveway of the
old house just sitting there fora couple weeks.
I'm like, well, okay, what'sgoing on?
So a couple weeks went by.
(05:34):
I sent an email saying, hey,what's going on?
No answer.
I wait six days.
I send another email.
No answer, I wait six days.
I send another email.
No answer, I wait six days.
And the last email I sent was alist of all of the county and
(05:55):
state statues that I felt likethat they were breaking or
possibly breaking, and thenmiraculously, two days later,
the dumpster full of theconstruction material disappears
.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
You guys don't need attorneys anymore.
You just need Josh on an angerbent.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
So like I said, I'm feeling pretty good about myself
, I'm feeling my oats rightBecause I have all this power
through these emails.
But then it hit me.
I think I'm turning into my daddad, which is not a good thing.
My dad was the master of thestrongly worded letter.
He didn't use email.
(06:35):
He would send letters and afterhe died I was digging through
some of his old shit and I foundsome of his old letters and
actually he would send me.
When he'd send a letter tosomeone he would also send me a
copy, as if he's bragging likelook what I did the most
ridiculous things that he wouldwrite and he would threaten and
I don't want to be that guy hewants, because he sent me the
(06:57):
letter that he sent to thiscompany where he had a floor fan
right, one of these oscillatingfans that broke, and he had
written a few letters to thecompany asking for a replacement
.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
The last letter was threatening to call the FBI.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
What were the FBI going to do?
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Well, I have a feeling it was just a threat.
It's just I'm surprised he wentwith FBI.
He didn't even go to BetterBusiness Bureau, he went
straight to FBI.
I don't want to be that guy.
I really don't Like.
I'm happy to do something foryou and the family and the
neighbors by sending theseemails.
I just want you to to just keepyour eyes out for when I start
(07:43):
making ridiculous threats,because I do not want to be that
guy then how do I stop you?
I don't want to be a guy wherehe sends an email, a threatening
email, to someone, and they getit at the office and they print
it out and they frame it andthey keep it in their office.
I don't want to be that guy isall I'm saying to you.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Well, at least you put yours into written word.
I just disagree loudly and whenI'm upset with things.
So I took Muffy wanted to getcontacts, her contacts renewed,
right, but with our visioninsurance you can only use it
once per calendar year forsomething.
So she got her glass, she gotnew glasses this year in January
(08:21):
and so we have to wait untilnext year to use the vision
insurance.
So we were looking for just oneof these, like I just need to
get my contacts exam and then wecan go to 1-800-CONTACTS.
And so we go to the place,right, and it was not at all
what it said.
It was going to be on the site.
It was like it's going to be a$99 exam and then you can get
your prescription.
Well, no, no, no, it wasn't $99.
(08:44):
It was like 130 something, andalso you had to order your
contacts from them.
Now I am willing to concedethat that probably was in fine
print that I didn't see.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
So that's fine because I needed contacts.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
No, those Muffy's contacts.
I do wear readers now, but I'mwilling to concede that I didn't
read the fine print.
However, when we got there andshe went back, she came out and
she's like mom, it's going to be130 something, is that okay?
And so I said well, wait, thisis what it said on the website.
And the girl said oh yes, I'mjust waiting for the power to
(09:19):
come back on because apparentlythere had been a storm and the
computer wasn't working.
I'm just waiting for the powerto come back on so I can show
you that it still says that it'sbeen changed to 130.
I said but last night, when Ibooked the appointment, it said
this amount yes, yes.
Well, it's really been 130 fora couple of weeks, but it's not
(09:40):
updated on the website yet.
But here I'm going to show itto you in, like this email or
whatever.
And I said no, no, no, youshould honor whatever it is that
your marketing is.
And so I looked at my face andsaid, no, we're going.
And as I'm walking out of thestore, I'm saying this isn't
okay.
You have something advertisedon your website.
That is the thing you honoruntil it's updated.
(10:02):
Like I get that you're tellingme it increased.
Go to Publix.
The Publix promise is a thing.
If it's marked wrong on theshelf, not only do you, you
don't get the discounted price,you get it for free.
Get the discounted price, youget it for free.
Did you know this?
The public's promise is, if itis misrepresented the price, you
get the whole thing for free.
I have worked retail my entirehigh school and college career.
(10:26):
I know that when a marketingthing is up, even if that sale
expired yesterday, you have tohonor it.
So I let everybody at VisionExpress know, as I was walking
out of the door, my displeasure.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Did you not ask to speak to the manager?
Speaker 3 (10:41):
No, I didn't need to speak to the manager.
I didn't need to care in it, Ijust telegraphed to the whole
place why I knew that they werewrong.
And I looked at Muffy.
I said I'm sorry.
Was that embarrassing?
She goes kind of little and Iwas like I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
But as you're, as you're skulking out, yelling
over your shoulder, you're,you're impotent rage, because
nothing, nothing happened,nothing was changed nothing was
changed, but they needed tounderstand why they were wrong.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
My sense of justice very finely tuned, yes okay, so
anyway at least you write emails.
I just yell at people as I'mleaving stores.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
All of this leads back to I'm making the
connections in my mind.
How we started this is thatI've kind of gone crazy because
now we don't have this giantugly ass house, right, yes,
backed up, excuse me to our backgarden.
And so now I'm planting all ofthese plants because I'm so
thrilled, I'm so happy with, butI think that I've kind of
(11:38):
become like, whatever the plantversion of the cat lady is, oh,
you have so many differentplants.
So many plants, so many plants.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Palm trees, you got like hedges, you got hibiscus,
you got lots of things and Idon't even think that these
plants are supposed to beplanted together.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
I feel like they're sitting there looking at each
other.
It's like, what the hell areyou doing here?
It's like I don't know, dude,this crazy bald guy bought me
and then plopped me here.
There's so many.
I'm just, I'm out of control.
I think I'm spending too muchmoney on these plants.
I think you spend a lot ofmoney on me, but I can't help it
.
I think it's just that theworld has gone so nuts, so crazy
(12:17):
that I'm like I'm just going togo over here and plant plants,
Like thank God I've not pursued,like something a little bit
less innocuous right?
I'm not on a street corneryelling into a bullhorn.
I'm planting, you know,hibiscuses next to palm trees.
That's what I'm doing.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Right, well, that still sounds rather tropical,
but you started this podcast bysaying you were a freaking
genius, so I'm still waiting forthat part.
Oh my God, did I not get tothat?
Speaker 1 (12:40):
No, so I'm out watering my plants today.
This is how this all connectstogether.
I'm out watering all of myplethora of plants, my back
garden, here, that's right, lotsof oxygen.
My post-distant that's right,so I'm watering all that.
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I left the door, the sign glassdoor open.
I come back in and there are noless than six flies buzzing
around.
I felt like I was the freakingqueen bee in the hive.
It was so loud for the buzzing.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
That's when I got home.
I walked in and all of a suddenthere's just like flies
everywhere.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
So loud these flies and so I'm losing my mind
because I'm like how the hell amI going to get these?
I grabbed a washcloth.
I'm waving around like afreaking idiot, like I'm.
What is it?
Tom Hanks on the island wavingat the plane, you know, coming
by and waving this damnwashcloth, and then I had a
freaking, brilliant flash rightof how to get all six of these
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flies out and I executed it andonce I started to use my method,
I got them out in five minutes.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
All right, so what did you do?
Speaker 1 (13:49):
So a couple of them had flown into the laundry room.
Okay, Right so I closed thepocket doors of the laundry room
.
Okay, right, so I closed thethe pocket doors of the laundry
room I'll say I'll get to thosefuckers later, right, so I'm,
I'm chasing these others aroundthe kitchen like an idiot and
then I'm like, well, forget that, I'm gonna go into the laundry
room, I'm gonna kill those two.
So I have some sense of mastery, some sense of efficacy.
And then I'm gonna continue onon my my battle, like don
(14:13):
quixote against the windmills.
So I go into the laundry roomand I notice that the flies are
all gathered around the windowand I'm like, oh, wait a second.
These flies are attracted tolight, they're just trying to
get out.
Yeah, yeah.
But like whatever you know,like you have these fly buzzers
that they're attracted to.
So I'm like, oh my gosh.
So what I did was the laundryroom is connected to the garage,
(14:38):
so I opened the garage door,turn on the light there.
They go out into the garage,and so now I've got this system
where I turn on the light in thelaundry room.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
You corral them into different spaces.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
No, I'm just like coaxing them into the airlock in
like one of those space moviesand then shooting them out into
the void.
So I turn off all the lights inthe kitchen, I turn on the
light in the laundry room.
A few fly into the laundry room.
I close the pocket door, I openthe garage door, turn off the
light in the laundry room, turnon the light in the garage.
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They go out.
And it took like three cyclesof that and I got all those
flies out.
And I am a freaking genius man.
Call me the fly whisperer, callme St Patrick getting all the
snakes out of England.
That's how he did it.
He coaxed all the snakes intothe laundry room and then let
them out of the garage.
Did he get them out of Englandor out of Ireland, wherever?
I don't know where he got themout.
(15:40):
There's no snakes in englandeither.
I don't know, doesn't matter.
Okay, I'm not from over thereand I don't want all of our our
english listeners to email usabout this.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
It's ridiculous.
Doesn't matter, I am the flywhisperer, this is all I'm
saying.
I appreciate the stroke ofgenius because I just
immediately went outside withthe dogs.
I couldn't take all of thechaos and you texted me where's
the small vacuum.
So I then I thought you weregoing to start vacuuming them
out of the air.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Well, that was one of the suggestions from from the
internet is to get a vacuum justsuck them out of the air and I
was dubious but I was willing totry it.
But you said you did not knowwhere the vac was.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
I remembered where it was, and so I texted you and
told you where it was.
Oh, I didn't, I didn't get thattext.
It was in the laundry room.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
It was in the laundry room.
Was it in the laundry room?
Where was it On the ground nextto the dryer?
I kept looking up.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Anyway, but you didn't succeed with one.
There was a fly carcass on thefloor in the kitchen.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Oh no, I killed that one.
Yeah, okay, that's one of theones I got with the washcloth.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Yeah, because the dog tried to eat it.
Yeah, well, well, good, it'sprotein.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
What you know.
They're trying to feed humanbeings flies now, because they
say that that's the food of thefuture.
I thought it was ants, ants andflies and insects and
grasshoppers and all the thingsthis is going to save us, so you
should have eaten that thing.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
I didn't want it, thank you.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
So I learned how to whisper to flies and get them to
do what I want them to do.
Have you learned anything thisweek?
This is a segment that we'vedone before.
What have you learned this week?
So I'm giving you an impromptu,Amanda.
What have you learned this week?
Speaker 3 (16:59):
Well, I have actually learned something this week.
I learned something today.
I did not know the differencebetween so okay, abbreviations.
Right, abbreviations is to makesomething shorter.
I did not know the differencebetween acronyms and initialisms
.
Did you know that initialismswere a thing?
Speaker 1 (17:16):
I don't know what an initialism is.
What is that?
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Okay, I learned about this today.
It is initialism is like anacronym, but an acronym can be
pronounced as a word.
The initialism is when you like.
Ncaa like you don't pronounceit NCAW, right, NCAW.
So yeah, or or CIA or FBI, likeNCAA.
Like you don't pronounce itNACA, right NACA.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
So yeah, or or CIA, or FBI, which my dad's gonna
call on the fan company.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
But I never really thought about this.
The two types of abbreviationsare acronyms and initialisms,
but usually, you know, theacronym for the Federal Bureau
of Investigation is the FBI.
Well, no, it's not.
That's the initialism.
Acronyms are abbreviations thatcan be spoken as words, like
YOLO.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
YOLO.
So how is it that you learnedthis?
Speaker 3 (18:03):
I belong to a WordSmart email.
I read it occasionally, but canyou name the two abbreviations,
the two acronyms that havebecome actual words that they're
no longer like thought of asacronyms in the English language
?
I only knew of one.
Nasa, no, that stands for theNational Aeronautic and Space
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Administration Laser.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Laser.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Oh, maybe laser.
What does that stand for?
Speaker 1 (18:29):
I don't know Scuba.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Scuba is one.
I knew that.
Self-contained underwaterbreathing apparatus, but see we
think of scuba as a word, thoughright, like we know, like it's
a scuba tank, it's this.
We don't think of it as theacronym.
Are you looking this up?
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Don't look this up.
Well, no, because I think laserlight light something,
something, something Laser.
I am looking this up.
Tell me what the other one is.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Radar.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Radar, Damn it.
I thought of radar.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
But I didn't realize that radar was an acronym.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
I'm sure that there are others as well.
Laser I think laser is as well,but I can't be bothered to read
this whole damn thing to figureit out.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Too long didn't read.
That is an initialism.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
That's right.
That's right.
That's right, that's excellent,that's excellent.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
So it's just a little word, nerdy kind of thing, but
I'd never really thought aboutit.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
You are a word nerd aren't you, I am a word nerd.
It is week two of my fantasyfootball league and I I think
that it's entirely possible that, out of all of the fantasy
football teams that exist onthis planet currently, I have
the worst well, there's got tobe some sort of like prize for
(19:47):
that.
I think that I need to get thatprize because I am here to tell
you that I don't think that I'veever seen so low a score in
FNFC football, and so, again,this just goes to show you.
If you didn't listen to I thinkit was last week's episode I
said that I let AI pick myentire team.
(20:08):
Right, I let ChatGPT pick myentire team.
This is the worst team ever.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
So what did we learn?
Speaker 1 (20:17):
That we have nothing to fear AI is not gonna come and
take over.
But also this thing with AI.
It is so prone to mistakes,right, and we've talked about
this before it is so prone tomistakes that I would make,
which is to say that if you askit a question, it's actually
(20:37):
worse than me, because ChatGPTand some of these other AI
things.
They have access to all theinformation, right, but
apparently they can't bebothered to look it up.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
No, they tell you, they're looking it up though.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Right, but they don't .
They make stuff up, they makestuff up, they make stuff up.
I was doing a thing for workthe other day where I was trying
to justify a this or a thatright, and so I asked for the
industry standard of somethingor another right.
And it gave me an answer I'mlike, okay, well, good, please
give me the citations so that Ican look these things up and I
can just verify.
(21:10):
It's like, oh well, actually, Idon't have actual citations,
these are more anecdotal.
I'm like, okay, please thencite the anecdotes that you've
taken this from.
Oh well, actually.
And it reached a point whereI'm like, well, where the fuck
did you get this information?
Speaker 3 (21:26):
from then.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
It's the most ridiculous thing, so that AI now
is no better than humans it didit to me the other day.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
I asked it.
I always ask it for.
So if I'm saying like I needevidence-based strategies on
teaching text, evidence whateverin middle school, and then I
will say well, sure, if you putin that prompt it's not going to
return.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
But rubbish, because what did you just say?
Speaker 3 (21:49):
right.
And so I tell it that it needsto um research only
peer-reviewed scholarly journalsright.
And then I need in-textcitations with the research that
it brings back to me and thenan apa citation list.
And it does that.
And then I'm like, okay, cool,and I click on the links to make
sure that these are realarticles, not phantom articles.
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And then I like read through ita little bit and then it gave
me a table of something.
I'm like, oh, this is great,I'm gonna use this.
So then I asked it for thecitations for the table and it
said, oh, I synthesize things tome.
Okay, please tell me where yousynthesize this from.
Well, it's kind of generalguidelines from like what's out
(22:30):
in the world.
Well, it's kind of generalguidelines from like what's out
in the world.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
So it does the same thing to me.
Ai now is no better than youasking someone where'd you hear
that?
And someone saying my uncleFrank told me.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Right, yes, yes.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
No, absolutely not Ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
It's my favorite too, when I will say something and
then I go.
Well, you make it clarify.
Oh, you're absolutely right.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Thank you for bringing that to my attention.
No, thank you.
It's ridiculous that I had aweird social situation that
you're aware of that I want toshare with the listeners.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
I was told by a friend of mine that a friend of
his thought that I hated him.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Those were strong words.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Yeah, it was a really weird thing.
So I get a text from a friendof mine who's doing a project
for me and in passing he says"'Oh, and this guy?
I was talking to him about you.
"'and he says I think JoshWilson really hates me'" and I
was like wait what?
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
That was really weird , because this guy I've met him
like once or twice I don't thinkI've ever like had a full
conversation with him, neverinteracted with him to any
appreciable degree, and so justout of the blue to be hit with
this guy thinks I hate him.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
I freaking hated that .
That drove me crazy.
I couldn't believe it.
What would you do in asituation like that?
You'd probably just let it goright, Because you wouldn't care
.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
No, no, no, no.
Of course I'd care.
I mean I'd talk to people, butI mean a lot of people think I
don't like them when they firstmeet me.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Do they?
Yeah, you're so freakingdelightful though.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Thanks, or it used to be like that or like.
I mean, I got that a lot when Iwas younger, because it was
like they thought that I thoughtthat I was better than them or
whatever, but it was more.
I was just intimidated by thembut they were intimidated by me,
kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Wait, but how would that manifest that they thought
that you didn't like them andyou're intimidating?
In other words, you wouldignore them, or how would that?
Shake out.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Yeah, I would ignore them or I would come across as
aloof.
But really I was just beinglike shy.
I guess I don't know, becauseas far as extroverted as I am,
I'm still rather insecure.
So anyway, it doesn't matter.
Do you hate this guy?
Speaker 1 (24:44):
I don't hate this guy and I didn't know what to do.
So the first thing I did was Itexted my friend back and I said
oh, tell him that you know I'mjust really shy.
Or tell him that.
What I said was tell him thatI'm due for a new prescription
of glasses.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Well, and probably hearing aids, Because what I
think happened is this guyprobably tried to talk to you
and you didn't hear him.
You're probably like in acrowded place, and then he was
like, well, that guy justignored me.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
That's probably what happened I think that that is
what happened.
So I didn't know what to do.
I didn't want to put my friendin the middle of it and do that
middle school thing where I waslike tell him that you know,
give him a piece of paper thatI've checked, this is I like you
, or whatever.
So what I ended up doing, afterstewing over it, like this past
weekend not this past weekend,but the weekend before last,
(25:35):
like I was thinking about it allthe time is I finally just got
this guy's number from ourfriend and I called him.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
But he did not answer the phone.
Well, I don't think that peoplelike taking calls anymore is
what I think.
I know that I don't.
I'm not used to taking callsanymore is what I think.
I know that I don't.
I'm not used to taking callsanymore.
I'm not used to answering thephone.
So I called him.
No answer.
I left a voicemail message andhe texted me back the next day.
Cause that that also happened.
(26:04):
I left him a voicemail messagearound like five 45 at night.
No answer that whole night.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
And I'm like wait, wait what.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
Now he hates you.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
So then he texted me the next day, the next morning,
said hey, got your message thismorning.
I'll call you at lunch.
I'm like great, but at the sametime I'm like I can't believe I
just called this guy.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Yeah, I was surprised .
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Well, it's not my usual move, but I'm trying
really hard to not do everythingby text.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Like face-to-face means so much more you can get.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
That wasn't face-to-face right, you can.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Well, I'm sorry, hearing face-to-face, but then
hearing the person's voice Shutup, hearing the person's voice
and at least having more cues togo on on what the person's
thinking, what the person saysor whatever.
So he said he'd call me atlunch.
He didn't call me at lunch.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Yeah, were you like really starting to stress?
Speaker 1 (27:01):
No, I was starting to let go of it.
Actually I was like I was kindof like I've done my bit.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
Yeah, I've done my bit, that's fair.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
But Gainesville is so small.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Yeah, it really is.
I done my bit, that's fair.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
But gainesville's so small.
Yeah, that is.
I figured I couldn't justignore this situation.
Yeah, because like I'm gonnarun into this guy again and
bless him.
He seems like a perfectly sweetguy.
So I finally, like the next day, just texted him and said, look
, I would have rather have donethis by phone, but I just want
you to know that whatever I'vedone to make you think this you
(27:33):
know I apologize the reality isis that there are certain
situations I get into where Ihave extreme social anxiety.
And number one and number two,I never assume that people know
who I am, which is a weirdassumption to make.
Number one I'm in Gainesville.
Number two, I've been in someprominent positions in different
(27:56):
jobs I've had.
And then number three, I havehad my artwork shown out in the
community and people havepurchased it and I used to be in
an events, a promotion littlething with my friend Jacob.
But I still don't assume thatpeople know who I am.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
So I told him all this.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
No, it's not.
I'm not humble.
I have extremely social anxiety, like I said extreme social.
So I explained all that to him.
He said oh good, I'm glad thatit turned out that I didn't
offend you.
So, he thought that I hadsomehow taken offense to
something he had said.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
Oh, wow, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
So I'm so glad that I dealt with this yeah, yeah,
yeah yeah.
So anyway I said, yeah, I'llbuy you a beer next time I see
you.
You know case closed, and soyou know, I don't know when the
next time I'll see him is.
I don't know when the next timeI'll see him is, but yeah, so
that's.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
That was very mature on both of your parts.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Well, more mature by me, I would say Well I mean he
did leave you on read for awhile.
So there you go, and that wouldbe my recommendation for you
this week.
If you have any weird danglingsort of socialist situations, go
ahead and take care of it.
Amanda, do you have anyrecommendations for the week?
(29:17):
No one likes to be told what todo, yeah, and now is the time
of the program where we tell youwhat to do, amanda.
What should you do?
What should we do?
What should they do?
Speaker 3 (29:26):
Listen it's spooky season.
I love baking, I love cozy.
The Halloween BakingChampionship started today on
the Food Network, so you shouldgo watch that and enjoy the
spooky.
And it's John Davidson.
And am I remembering that JohnDavidson hosted Super Sloppy
Double Dare, or is that just?
Am I remembering that wrong?
Speaker 2 (29:45):
That was Mark, somebody I don't know, mark
Summers.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
No, that was Mark Summers, and then he did the
unwrapped thing where he taughtyou how Tootsie Rolls are made
and stuff.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
I'm quite certain that whenever this shit came out
that you're talking about, Iwas already a grown-ass adult,
so I didn't watch any of thatyou don't remember Super
Sloppy's Double Dare I?
Freaking.
Didn't watch Nickelodeon, right.
Yeah, yeah yeah, no, no, no,dude.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
I was like 12 and you were 17, 16.
So, yeah, that would have beenweird.
But no, they would do thingswhere, like, you'd ask you
questions and then you'd have todo the obstacle course and
there would be like a giant noseand you'd have to stick your
hand up inside with all thegreen slimy this is where the
Nickelodeon slime came from andfind something in the big nose
and occasionally, to be extragross, the big nose would have a
big zit on it.
This is the super sloppy doublethere.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Very good.
What's your recommendation?
I've already forgotten.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Watch.
The Halloween BakingChampionship was not hosted by
Mark Summers.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
All right, very good, Y'all go do that.
All right, Amanda.
That's all there is.
There is no more.
What do you have to say aboutall that?
Speaker 3 (30:54):
I caught you mid-yawn , you did.
I'm so, so sorry.
That's what I had to say aboutall that.
I caught you mid-yawn, you did,I'm so so sorry, that's what I
had to say about that.
No, we are recording on aMonday night.
We typically record on a Sundaymorning, and so I'm just
struggling with the fact thatit's dark out this window where
usually I'm watching the lovelybirds in the trees.
Okay, so I think that I'm happyI got through it, because I'm
just tired.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
All right, there's a couple of people that we want to
give special love and attentionto, actually three people that
I'm thinking of.
I'm going to go ahead and putthe positive energy out for them
and I'd like for you to thinkabout them as they're going
through things.
We're fine, gay Jeff.
Of course we are thinking ofyou right now.
Our friend Karen is goingthrough a bit of a time right
(31:34):
now.
We're thinking about you.
And then also our friend Terryis going through a time right
now.
We're thinking about you, terry.
These following people are thepeople without whom we would not
be able to do this show.
We'd like to thank Josh Scar,who played the horsefly today.
Keeps showing up where youleast expect him.
Monique from Germany, playedthe fruit fly.
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Tiny International, alwaysaround the good stuff.
Matt was the firefly.
Glows brightest after dark,mostly near coolers.
Antonio was the house fly.
Everyone's seen him.
No one can get rid of him.
Leo, the mayfly shows up once ina while.
Lives fast gone by morning.
Ryan Baker, the gadfly,constantly stirring things up
just for fun.
Refined gay Jeff, the gadfly,constantly stirring things up
(32:16):
just for fun.
Refine Gay Jeff, the butterfly,technically not a fly, but
fabulous enough to bend therules, joey.
Danny Buckets the dumpster, fly.
You'll find him where theaction really happens.
Chicken Tom, the horseflyjunior, clucks, pecks and still
manages to annoy the cattle.
Mark and Rachel are thedragonflies elegant in tandem
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flight, but don't cross them.
And Dan and Gavin, theclusterflies, never just one of
them, always in a swarm.
Thanks you all.
We appreciate you, we love youand we do what we do because of
you.
If you out there would like tobe on that list, if you'd like
to contact us about anything atall, email us at familiarwilsons
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That is, familiarwilsons atgmailcom.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
I'm just waiting.
Are you done singing to us?
Speaker 1 (33:08):
I'm done, I'm done now.
So, folks, until next week,amanda's going to go straight to
bed right now.
Night night, we will talk toyou again.
Take care of each other.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
All right, go be kind .
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Bye, bye.
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Speaker 3 (00:30):
Welcome to Super Familiar with the Wilsons.
I'm Amanda.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
And I'm Josh Amanda.
I am a freaking genius.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Oh, is it because you did math problems really well
tonight?
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Oh, don't talk to me.
Do we want to start with math?
Why is it that we're trying tofigure out this eight-year-old's
math right?
And I don't understand why mathneeds to keep changing, because
math is one of those thingsthat shouldn't change.
Math is math.
One plus one should always betwo, but I this is this the
third iteration of math thatI've personally witnessed.
(01:02):
First, like me going through itand how much I freaking hated
it right.
Then Andrew and Daniel wentthrough it.
They're in their 20s now andthat math was different, like
they had changed math.
It's new math Right, but nowwith Winthrop, who's eight, now
math is different again.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
What the hell is going on here.
I listen, I think I figured itout okay I think that that
whoever has been creating themath across generations, all of
them had serious issues withtheir parents, because all of
them got to the point where theywere, like, appointed to the
math council and they said fuckmy parents, I'm gonna do my math
(01:46):
differently than them.
Like this is the way that thenerds chose to rebel is to do
math differently because it'sdifferent.
Now I can't figure it out.
I don't know what the hell ison this piece of paper that
winthrop needs to figure out andturn into his teacher.
I can't help.
I tried to figure out a thingtonight with you and and me, him
on the couch, and like Ifigured it out and you're like,
(02:06):
well, you need to explain it tohim how you figure it out.
I'm like, fuck, no, I figuredit out.
Like that should be.
The point of math is that youfigure out the problem.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
But then he won't know how to figure it out.
And then you kept trying toexplain it, and then you weren't
even right.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
And then I was right.
By the way, I was right.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
But you asked Alexa and she kept telling you a
different number.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Well, because I kept slurring my words.
That's a different problem.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
This is why you should not do math after a
Negroni.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Yes, but I got it right.
The point is that I got itright using our like.
Apparently we're the dumbasseswith the old math, but I figured
it out.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
I actually don't mind this math because it is math in
a way that never was taught tome and it took me a while to
figure out how to teach it whenI was teaching.
But it's really just logic andit's just thinking about it like
reasonably.
So anyway, we got through math,but you're a freaking genius
and it's not because of math.
Go ahead.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
It's not because of math.
I went out and I watered ourlittle back garden, which, by
the way, we need to talk aboutmy new obsession, and that is
greening up our back garden.
There's so many stories that Ihave there.
They're all interrelated,because then we need to go back
to this fight that we're havingwith the developers of our
(03:17):
neighborhood who built thishouse next to us, right?
Speaker 3 (03:22):
They sort of built it .
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Well, they halfway built it, and actually they
halfway built it before theyfinished our house.
And that's five years that ahalfway built house has been
next to our house.
And I'm gonna tell you thatthis house, the siding was green
right, because it was theconstruction wrap.
The construction, whatever itwas, I felt like I lived on a
movie set for five years because, this fucking like green screen
(03:45):
against everything.
Well, the, the, the housestarted to fall apart we get
legit falling apart into ouryard and I've talked about this
before.
But yeah, the part of the, thesoffit or the, the, the trim of
the roof fell and and messed upone of your bird feeders, which
you're still salty about.
I am salty about it Crushedsome plants and I'm a pretty
(04:06):
easygoing guy.
I don't like confrontation, butat that point, after five years
of roofing shingles fallinginto our yard, scratching up my
car.
Nails falling into our yard,and now that had happened like I
had reached the end of my ropeand I wrote a strongly worded
email to code enforcement andthen magically, it got ripped
(04:30):
down the next week.
I felt so powerful, my ballswere so big.
That's not an image anyone wants, I know, but it's just, it's a
euphemism, for I felt sopowerful for just sending the
email, I know, but it's just,it's a euphemism, for I felt so
powerful for just sending theemail.
And then they had ripped thisthing down.
And damn it if these people,they've mastered the art, these
(04:51):
developers, of doing the jobright, almost done, yes.
Yes, it's like you ask your kidto mow the lawn and he mows the
whole lawn, except for like theone foot that's closest to the
house.
For some inexplicable reason,he leaves that unmowed.
(05:12):
That's these people yeah so whatthey did was they ripped the
house down and happy, I was forit and um, but they left the the
dumpster full of constructionmaterial in the driveway of the
old house just sitting there fora couple weeks.
I'm like, well, okay, what'sgoing on?
So a couple weeks went by.
(05:34):
I sent an email saying, hey,what's going on?
No answer.
I wait six days.
I send another email.
No answer, I wait six days.
I send another email.
No answer, I wait six days.
And the last email I sent was alist of all of the county and
(05:55):
state statues that I felt likethat they were breaking or
possibly breaking, and thenmiraculously, two days later,
the dumpster full of theconstruction material disappears
.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
You guys don't need attorneys anymore.
You just need Josh on an angerbent.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
So like I said, I'm feeling pretty good about myself
, I'm feeling my oats rightBecause I have all this power
through these emails.
But then it hit me.
I think I'm turning into my daddad, which is not a good thing.
My dad was the master of thestrongly worded letter.
He didn't use email.
(06:35):
He would send letters and afterhe died I was digging through
some of his old shit and I foundsome of his old letters and
actually he would send me.
When he'd send a letter tosomeone he would also send me a
copy, as if he's bragging likelook what I did the most
ridiculous things that he wouldwrite and he would threaten and
I don't want to be that guy hewants, because he sent me the
(06:57):
letter that he sent to thiscompany where he had a floor fan
right, one of these oscillatingfans that broke, and he had
written a few letters to thecompany asking for a replacement
.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
The last letter was threatening to call the FBI.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
What were the FBI going to do?
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Well, I have a feeling it was just a threat.
It's just I'm surprised he wentwith FBI.
He didn't even go to BetterBusiness Bureau, he went
straight to FBI.
I don't want to be that guy.
I really don't Like.
I'm happy to do something foryou and the family and the
neighbors by sending theseemails.
I just want you to to just keepyour eyes out for when I start
(07:43):
making ridiculous threats,because I do not want to be that
guy then how do I stop you?
I don't want to be a guy wherehe sends an email, a threatening
email, to someone, and they getit at the office and they print
it out and they frame it andthey keep it in their office.
I don't want to be that guy isall I'm saying to you.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Well, at least you put yours into written word.
I just disagree loudly and whenI'm upset with things.
So I took Muffy wanted to getcontacts, her contacts renewed,
right, but with our visioninsurance you can only use it
once per calendar year forsomething.
So she got her glass, she gotnew glasses this year in January
(08:21):
and so we have to wait untilnext year to use the vision
insurance.
So we were looking for just oneof these, like I just need to
get my contacts exam and then wecan go to 1-800-CONTACTS.
And so we go to the place,right, and it was not at all
what it said.
It was going to be on the site.
It was like it's going to be a$99 exam and then you can get
your prescription.
Well, no, no, no, it wasn't $99.
(08:44):
It was like 130 something, andalso you had to order your
contacts from them.
Now I am willing to concedethat that probably was in fine
print that I didn't see.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
So that's fine because I needed contacts.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
No, those Muffy's contacts.
I do wear readers now, but I'mwilling to concede that I didn't
read the fine print.
However, when we got there andshe went back, she came out and
she's like mom, it's going to be130 something, is that okay?
And so I said well, wait, thisis what it said on the website.
And the girl said oh yes, I'mjust waiting for the power to
(09:19):
come back on because apparentlythere had been a storm and the
computer wasn't working.
I'm just waiting for the powerto come back on so I can show
you that it still says that it'sbeen changed to 130.
I said but last night, when Ibooked the appointment, it said
this amount yes, yes.
Well, it's really been 130 fora couple of weeks, but it's not
(09:40):
updated on the website yet.
But here I'm going to show itto you in, like this email or
whatever.
And I said no, no, no, youshould honor whatever it is that
your marketing is.
And so I looked at my face andsaid, no, we're going.
And as I'm walking out of thestore, I'm saying this isn't
okay.
You have something advertisedon your website.
That is the thing you honoruntil it's updated.
(10:02):
Like I get that you're tellingme it increased.
Go to Publix.
The Publix promise is a thing.
If it's marked wrong on theshelf, not only do you, you
don't get the discounted price,you get it for free.
Get the discounted price, youget it for free.
Did you know this?
The public's promise is, if itis misrepresented the price, you
get the whole thing for free.
I have worked retail my entirehigh school and college career.
(10:26):
I know that when a marketingthing is up, even if that sale
expired yesterday, you have tohonor it.
So I let everybody at VisionExpress know, as I was walking
out of the door, my displeasure.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Did you not ask to speak to the manager?
Speaker 3 (10:41):
No, I didn't need to speak to the manager.
I didn't need to care in it, Ijust telegraphed to the whole
place why I knew that they werewrong.
And I looked at Muffy.
I said I'm sorry.
Was that embarrassing?
She goes kind of little and Iwas like I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
But as you're, as you're skulking out, yelling
over your shoulder, you're,you're impotent rage, because
nothing, nothing happened,nothing was changed nothing was
changed, but they needed tounderstand why they were wrong.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
My sense of justice very finely tuned, yes okay, so
anyway at least you write emails.
I just yell at people as I'mleaving stores.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
All of this leads back to I'm making the
connections in my mind.
How we started this is thatI've kind of gone crazy because
now we don't have this giantugly ass house, right, yes,
backed up, excuse me to our backgarden.
And so now I'm planting all ofthese plants because I'm so
thrilled, I'm so happy with, butI think that I've kind of
(11:38):
become like, whatever the plantversion of the cat lady is, oh,
you have so many differentplants.
So many plants, so many plants.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Palm trees, you got like hedges, you got hibiscus,
you got lots of things and Idon't even think that these
plants are supposed to beplanted together.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
I feel like they're sitting there looking at each
other.
It's like, what the hell areyou doing here?
It's like I don't know, dude,this crazy bald guy bought me
and then plopped me here.
There's so many.
I'm just, I'm out of control.
I think I'm spending too muchmoney on these plants.
I think you spend a lot ofmoney on me, but I can't help it
.
I think it's just that theworld has gone so nuts, so crazy
(12:17):
that I'm like I'm just going togo over here and plant plants,
Like thank God I've not pursued,like something a little bit
less innocuous right?
I'm not on a street corneryelling into a bullhorn.
I'm planting, you know,hibiscuses next to palm trees.
That's what I'm doing.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Right, well, that still sounds rather tropical,
but you started this podcast bysaying you were a freaking
genius, so I'm still waiting forthat part.
Oh my God, did I not get tothat?
Speaker 1 (12:40):
No, so I'm out watering my plants today.
This is how this all connectstogether.
I'm out watering all of myplethora of plants, my back
garden, here, that's right, lotsof oxygen.
My post-distant that's right,so I'm watering all that.
(13:01):
I left the door, the sign glassdoor open.
I come back in and there are noless than six flies buzzing
around.
I felt like I was the freakingqueen bee in the hive.
It was so loud for the buzzing.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
That's when I got home.
I walked in and all of a suddenthere's just like flies
everywhere.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
So loud these flies and so I'm losing my mind
because I'm like how the hell amI going to get these?
I grabbed a washcloth.
I'm waving around like afreaking idiot, like I'm.
What is it?
Tom Hanks on the island wavingat the plane, you know, coming
by and waving this damnwashcloth, and then I had a
freaking, brilliant flash rightof how to get all six of these
(13:40):
flies out and I executed it andonce I started to use my method,
I got them out in five minutes.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
All right, so what did you do?
Speaker 1 (13:49):
So a couple of them had flown into the laundry room.
Okay, Right so I closed thepocket doors of the laundry room
.
Okay, right, so I closed thethe pocket doors of the laundry
room I'll say I'll get to thosefuckers later, right, so I'm,
I'm chasing these others aroundthe kitchen like an idiot and
then I'm like, well, forget that, I'm gonna go into the laundry
room, I'm gonna kill those two.
So I have some sense of mastery, some sense of efficacy.
And then I'm gonna continue onon my my battle, like don
(14:13):
quixote against the windmills.
So I go into the laundry roomand I notice that the flies are
all gathered around the windowand I'm like, oh, wait a second.
These flies are attracted tolight, they're just trying to
get out.
Yeah, yeah.
But like whatever you know,like you have these fly buzzers
that they're attracted to.
So I'm like, oh my gosh.
So what I did was the laundryroom is connected to the garage,
(14:38):
so I opened the garage door,turn on the light there.
They go out into the garage,and so now I've got this system
where I turn on the light in thelaundry room.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
You corral them into different spaces.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
No, I'm just like coaxing them into the airlock in
like one of those space moviesand then shooting them out into
the void.
So I turn off all the lights inthe kitchen, I turn on the
light in the laundry room.
A few fly into the laundry room.
I close the pocket door, I openthe garage door, turn off the
light in the laundry room, turnon the light in the garage.
(15:10):
They go out.
And it took like three cyclesof that and I got all those
flies out.
And I am a freaking genius man.
Call me the fly whisperer, callme St Patrick getting all the
snakes out of England.
That's how he did it.
He coaxed all the snakes intothe laundry room and then let
them out of the garage.
Did he get them out of Englandor out of Ireland, wherever?
I don't know where he got themout.
(15:40):
There's no snakes in englandeither.
I don't know, doesn't matter.
Okay, I'm not from over thereand I don't want all of our our
english listeners to email usabout this.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
It's ridiculous.
Doesn't matter, I am the flywhisperer, this is all I'm
saying.
I appreciate the stroke ofgenius because I just
immediately went outside withthe dogs.
I couldn't take all of thechaos and you texted me where's
the small vacuum.
So I then I thought you weregoing to start vacuuming them
out of the air.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Well, that was one of the suggestions from from the
internet is to get a vacuum justsuck them out of the air and I
was dubious but I was willing totry it.
But you said you did not knowwhere the vac was.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
I remembered where it was, and so I texted you and
told you where it was.
Oh, I didn't, I didn't get thattext.
It was in the laundry room.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
It was in the laundry room.
Was it in the laundry room?
Where was it On the ground nextto the dryer?
I kept looking up.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Anyway, but you didn't succeed with one.
There was a fly carcass on thefloor in the kitchen.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Oh no, I killed that one.
Yeah, okay, that's one of theones I got with the washcloth.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Yeah, because the dog tried to eat it.
Yeah, well, well, good, it'sprotein.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
What you know.
They're trying to feed humanbeings flies now, because they
say that that's the food of thefuture.
I thought it was ants, ants andflies and insects and
grasshoppers and all the thingsthis is going to save us, so you
should have eaten that thing.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
I didn't want it, thank you.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
So I learned how to whisper to flies and get them to
do what I want them to do.
Have you learned anything thisweek?
This is a segment that we'vedone before.
What have you learned this week?
So I'm giving you an impromptu,Amanda.
What have you learned this week?
Speaker 3 (16:59):
Well, I have actually learned something this week.
I learned something today.
I did not know the differencebetween so okay, abbreviations.
Right, abbreviations is to makesomething shorter.
I did not know the differencebetween acronyms and initialisms
.
Did you know that initialismswere a thing?
Speaker 1 (17:16):
I don't know what an initialism is.
What is that?
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Okay, I learned about this today.
It is initialism is like anacronym, but an acronym can be
pronounced as a word.
The initialism is when you like.
Ncaa like you don't pronounceit NCAW, right, NCAW.
So yeah, or or CIA or FBI, likeNCAA.
Like you don't pronounce itNACA, right NACA.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
So yeah, or or CIA, or FBI, which my dad's gonna
call on the fan company.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
But I never really thought about this.
The two types of abbreviationsare acronyms and initialisms,
but usually, you know, theacronym for the Federal Bureau
of Investigation is the FBI.
Well, no, it's not.
That's the initialism.
Acronyms are abbreviations thatcan be spoken as words, like
YOLO.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
YOLO.
So how is it that you learnedthis?
Speaker 3 (18:03):
I belong to a WordSmart email.
I read it occasionally, but canyou name the two abbreviations,
the two acronyms that havebecome actual words that they're
no longer like thought of asacronyms in the English language
?
I only knew of one.
Nasa, no, that stands for theNational Aeronautic and Space
(18:25):
Administration Laser.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Laser.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Oh, maybe laser.
What does that stand for?
Speaker 1 (18:29):
I don't know Scuba.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Scuba is one.
I knew that.
Self-contained underwaterbreathing apparatus, but see we
think of scuba as a word, thoughright, like we know, like it's
a scuba tank, it's this.
We don't think of it as theacronym.
Are you looking this up?
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Don't look this up.
Well, no, because I think laserlight light something,
something, something Laser.
I am looking this up.
Tell me what the other one is.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Radar.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Radar, Damn it.
I thought of radar.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
But I didn't realize that radar was an acronym.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
I'm sure that there are others as well.
Laser I think laser is as well,but I can't be bothered to read
this whole damn thing to figureit out.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Too long didn't read.
That is an initialism.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
That's right.
That's right.
That's right, that's excellent,that's excellent.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
So it's just a little word, nerdy kind of thing, but
I'd never really thought aboutit.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
You are a word nerd aren't you, I am a word nerd.
It is week two of my fantasyfootball league and I I think
that it's entirely possible that, out of all of the fantasy
football teams that exist onthis planet currently, I have
the worst well, there's got tobe some sort of like prize for
(19:47):
that.
I think that I need to get thatprize because I am here to tell
you that I don't think that I'veever seen so low a score in
FNFC football, and so, again,this just goes to show you.
If you didn't listen to I thinkit was last week's episode I
said that I let AI pick myentire team.
(20:08):
Right, I let ChatGPT pick myentire team.
This is the worst team ever.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
So what did we learn?
Speaker 1 (20:17):
That we have nothing to fear AI is not gonna come and
take over.
But also this thing with AI.
It is so prone to mistakes,right, and we've talked about
this before it is so prone tomistakes that I would make,
which is to say that if you askit a question, it's actually
(20:37):
worse than me, because ChatGPTand some of these other AI
things.
They have access to all theinformation, right, but
apparently they can't bebothered to look it up.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
No, they tell you, they're looking it up though.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Right, but they don't .
They make stuff up, they makestuff up, they make stuff up.
I was doing a thing for workthe other day where I was trying
to justify a this or a thatright, and so I asked for the
industry standard of somethingor another right.
And it gave me an answer I'mlike, okay, well, good, please
give me the citations so that Ican look these things up and I
can just verify.
(21:10):
It's like, oh well, actually, Idon't have actual citations,
these are more anecdotal.
I'm like, okay, please thencite the anecdotes that you've
taken this from.
Oh well, actually.
And it reached a point whereI'm like, well, where the fuck
did you get this information?
Speaker 3 (21:26):
from then.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
It's the most ridiculous thing, so that AI now
is no better than humans it didit to me the other day.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
I asked it.
I always ask it for.
So if I'm saying like I needevidence-based strategies on
teaching text, evidence whateverin middle school, and then I
will say well, sure, if you putin that prompt it's not going to
return.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
But rubbish, because what did you just say?
Speaker 3 (21:49):
right.
And so I tell it that it needsto um research only
peer-reviewed scholarly journalsright.
And then I need in-textcitations with the research that
it brings back to me and thenan apa citation list.
And it does that.
And then I'm like, okay, cool,and I click on the links to make
sure that these are realarticles, not phantom articles.
(22:10):
And then I like read through ita little bit and then it gave
me a table of something.
I'm like, oh, this is great,I'm gonna use this.
So then I asked it for thecitations for the table and it
said, oh, I synthesize things tome.
Okay, please tell me where yousynthesize this from.
Well, it's kind of generalguidelines from like what's out
(22:30):
in the world.
Well, it's kind of generalguidelines from like what's out
in the world.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
So it does the same thing to me.
Ai now is no better than youasking someone where'd you hear
that?
And someone saying my uncleFrank told me.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Right, yes, yes.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
No, absolutely not Ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
It's my favorite too, when I will say something and
then I go.
Well, you make it clarify.
Oh, you're absolutely right.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Thank you for bringing that to my attention.
No, thank you.
It's ridiculous that I had aweird social situation that
you're aware of that I want toshare with the listeners.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
I was told by a friend of mine that a friend of
his thought that I hated him.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Those were strong words.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Yeah, it was a really weird thing.
So I get a text from a friendof mine who's doing a project
for me and in passing he says"'Oh, and this guy?
I was talking to him about you.
"'and he says I think JoshWilson really hates me'" and I
was like wait what?
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
That was really weird , because this guy I've met him
like once or twice I don't thinkI've ever like had a full
conversation with him, neverinteracted with him to any
appreciable degree, and so justout of the blue to be hit with
this guy thinks I hate him.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
I freaking hated that .
That drove me crazy.
I couldn't believe it.
What would you do in asituation like that?
You'd probably just let it goright, Because you wouldn't care
.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
No, no, no, no.
Of course I'd care.
I mean I'd talk to people, butI mean a lot of people think I
don't like them when they firstmeet me.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Do they?
Yeah, you're so freakingdelightful though.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Thanks, or it used to be like that or like.
I mean, I got that a lot when Iwas younger, because it was
like they thought that I thoughtthat I was better than them or
whatever, but it was more.
I was just intimidated by thembut they were intimidated by me,
kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Wait, but how would that manifest that they thought
that you didn't like them andyou're intimidating?
In other words, you wouldignore them, or how would that?
Shake out.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Yeah, I would ignore them or I would come across as
aloof.
But really I was just beinglike shy.
I guess I don't know, becauseas far as extroverted as I am,
I'm still rather insecure.
So anyway, it doesn't matter.
Do you hate this guy?
Speaker 1 (24:44):
I don't hate this guy and I didn't know what to do.
So the first thing I did was Itexted my friend back and I said
oh, tell him that you know I'mjust really shy.
Or tell him that.
What I said was tell him thatI'm due for a new prescription
of glasses.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Well, and probably hearing aids, Because what I
think happened is this guyprobably tried to talk to you
and you didn't hear him.
You're probably like in acrowded place, and then he was
like, well, that guy justignored me.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
That's probably what happened I think that that is
what happened.
So I didn't know what to do.
I didn't want to put my friendin the middle of it and do that
middle school thing where I waslike tell him that you know,
give him a piece of paper thatI've checked, this is I like you
, or whatever.
So what I ended up doing, afterstewing over it, like this past
weekend not this past weekend,but the weekend before last,
(25:35):
like I was thinking about it allthe time is I finally just got
this guy's number from ourfriend and I called him.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
But he did not answer the phone.
Well, I don't think that peoplelike taking calls anymore is
what I think.
I know that I don't.
I'm not used to taking callsanymore is what I think.
I know that I don't.
I'm not used to taking callsanymore.
I'm not used to answering thephone.
So I called him.
No answer.
I left a voicemail message andhe texted me back the next day.
Cause that that also happened.
(26:04):
I left him a voicemail messagearound like five 45 at night.
No answer that whole night.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
And I'm like wait, wait what.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
Now he hates you.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
So then he texted me the next day, the next morning,
said hey, got your message thismorning.
I'll call you at lunch.
I'm like great, but at the sametime I'm like I can't believe I
just called this guy.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Yeah, I was surprised .
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Well, it's not my usual move, but I'm trying
really hard to not do everythingby text.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Like face-to-face means so much more you can get.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
That wasn't face-to-face right, you can.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Well, I'm sorry, hearing face-to-face, but then
hearing the person's voice Shutup, hearing the person's voice
and at least having more cues togo on on what the person's
thinking, what the person saysor whatever.
So he said he'd call me atlunch.
He didn't call me at lunch.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Yeah, were you like really starting to stress?
Speaker 1 (27:01):
No, I was starting to let go of it.
Actually I was like I was kindof like I've done my bit.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
Yeah, I've done my bit, that's fair.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
But Gainesville is so small.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Yeah, it really is.
I done my bit, that's fair.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
But gainesville's so small.
Yeah, that is.
I figured I couldn't justignore this situation.
Yeah, because like I'm gonnarun into this guy again and
bless him.
He seems like a perfectly sweetguy.
So I finally, like the next day, just texted him and said, look
, I would have rather have donethis by phone, but I just want
you to know that whatever I'vedone to make you think this you
(27:33):
know I apologize the reality isis that there are certain
situations I get into where Ihave extreme social anxiety.
And number one and number two,I never assume that people know
who I am, which is a weirdassumption to make.
Number one I'm in Gainesville.
Number two, I've been in someprominent positions in different
(27:56):
jobs I've had.
And then number three, I havehad my artwork shown out in the
community and people havepurchased it and I used to be in
an events, a promotion littlething with my friend Jacob.
But I still don't assume thatpeople know who I am.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
So I told him all this.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
No, it's not.
I'm not humble.
I have extremely social anxiety, like I said extreme social.
So I explained all that to him.
He said oh good, I'm glad thatit turned out that I didn't
offend you.
So, he thought that I hadsomehow taken offense to
something he had said.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
Oh, wow, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
So I'm so glad that I dealt with this yeah, yeah,
yeah yeah.
So anyway I said, yeah, I'llbuy you a beer next time I see
you.
You know case closed, and soyou know, I don't know when the
next time I'll see him is.
I don't know when the next timeI'll see him is, but yeah, so
that's.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
That was very mature on both of your parts.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Well, more mature by me, I would say Well I mean he
did leave you on read for awhile.
So there you go, and that wouldbe my recommendation for you
this week.
If you have any weird danglingsort of socialist situations, go
ahead and take care of it.
Amanda, do you have anyrecommendations for the week?
(29:17):
No one likes to be told what todo, yeah, and now is the time
of the program where we tell youwhat to do, amanda.
What should you do?
What should we do?
What should they do?
Speaker 3 (29:26):
Listen it's spooky season.
I love baking, I love cozy.
The Halloween BakingChampionship started today on
the Food Network, so you shouldgo watch that and enjoy the
spooky.
And it's John Davidson.
And am I remembering that JohnDavidson hosted Super Sloppy
Double Dare, or is that just?
Am I remembering that wrong?
Speaker 2 (29:45):
That was Mark, somebody I don't know, mark
Summers.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
No, that was Mark Summers, and then he did the
unwrapped thing where he taughtyou how Tootsie Rolls are made
and stuff.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
I'm quite certain that whenever this shit came out
that you're talking about, Iwas already a grown-ass adult,
so I didn't watch any of thatyou don't remember Super
Sloppy's Double Dare I?
Freaking.
Didn't watch Nickelodeon, right.
Yeah, yeah yeah, no, no, no,dude.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
I was like 12 and you were 17, 16.
So, yeah, that would have beenweird.
But no, they would do thingswhere, like, you'd ask you
questions and then you'd have todo the obstacle course and
there would be like a giant noseand you'd have to stick your
hand up inside with all thegreen slimy this is where the
Nickelodeon slime came from andfind something in the big nose
and occasionally, to be extragross, the big nose would have a
big zit on it.
This is the super sloppy doublethere.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Very good.
What's your recommendation?
I've already forgotten.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Watch.
The Halloween BakingChampionship was not hosted by
Mark Summers.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
All right, very good, Y'all go do that.
All right, Amanda.
That's all there is.
There is no more.
What do you have to say aboutall that?
Speaker 3 (30:54):
I caught you mid-yawn , you did.
I'm so, so sorry.
That's what I had to say aboutall that.
I caught you mid-yawn, you did,I'm so so sorry, that's what I
had to say about that.
No, we are recording on aMonday night.
We typically record on a Sundaymorning, and so I'm just
struggling with the fact thatit's dark out this window where
usually I'm watching the lovelybirds in the trees.
Okay, so I think that I'm happyI got through it, because I'm
just tired.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
All right, there's a couple of people that we want to
give special love and attentionto, actually three people that
I'm thinking of.
I'm going to go ahead and putthe positive energy out for them
and I'd like for you to thinkabout them as they're going
through things.
We're fine, gay Jeff.
Of course we are thinking ofyou right now.
Our friend Karen is goingthrough a bit of a time right
(31:34):
now.
We're thinking about you.
And then also our friend Terryis going through a time right
now.
We're thinking about you, terry.
These following people are thepeople without whom we would not
be able to do this show.
We'd like to thank Josh Scar,who played the horsefly today.
Keeps showing up where youleast expect him.
Monique from Germany, playedthe fruit fly.
(31:55):
Tiny International, alwaysaround the good stuff.
Matt was the firefly.
Glows brightest after dark,mostly near coolers.
Antonio was the house fly.
Everyone's seen him.
No one can get rid of him.
Leo, the mayfly shows up once ina while.
Lives fast gone by morning.
Ryan Baker, the gadfly,constantly stirring things up
just for fun.
Refined gay Jeff, the gadfly,constantly stirring things up
(32:16):
just for fun.
Refine Gay Jeff, the butterfly,technically not a fly, but
fabulous enough to bend therules, joey.
Danny Buckets the dumpster, fly.
You'll find him where theaction really happens.
Chicken Tom, the horseflyjunior, clucks, pecks and still
manages to annoy the cattle.
Mark and Rachel are thedragonflies elegant in tandem
(32:36):
flight, but don't cross them.
And Dan and Gavin, theclusterflies, never just one of
them, always in a swarm.
Thanks you all.
We appreciate you, we love youand we do what we do because of
you.
If you out there would like tobe on that list, if you'd like
to contact us about anything atall, email us at familiarwilsons
(32:56):
at gmailcom.
That is, familiarwilsons atgmailcom.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
I'm just waiting.
Are you done singing to us?
Speaker 1 (33:08):
I'm done, I'm done now.
So, folks, until next week,amanda's going to go straight to
bed right now.
Night night, we will talk toyou again.
Take care of each other.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
All right, go be kind .
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Bye, bye.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Bye, bye,
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