March 25, 2025 • 27 mins
Mailbag Episode!
• Winthrop begins a new soccer season with the Mighty Eagles
• Exploring the delicate balance between giving kids autonomy and making parental decisions
• Nighttime reminiscences of creepy household encounters and ghost stories
• Letter from Refined Gay Jeff prompts discussion about the importance of knowing your neighbors
• Jeff shares memories of his childhood community where everyone knew each other and looked out for one another
• Amanda and Josh question if it's too late to build relationships with neighbors after four years
• The practical benefits of neighborhood connections from emergency repairs to shared meals
• Unexpected encounters with people from your hometown while traveling
• The Wilsons announce upcoming podcast projects including Josh's business podcast and Tom's "In-Law and Out-Law" show
• Exciting news about the Wilsons' interview with Chris Barron of the Spin Doctors
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Josh (00:00):
Familiar Wilson's Media Relationships are the story.
You are made of meat, my friend, all the way down.
The following podcast useswords like and and also.
If you're not into any of thatshit, then now's your chance.
Three, two, one run.
(00:21):
I'm super familiar with you.
Wilson Run.
I'm super familiar with theWilsons.
Get it.
Amanda (00:30):
Welcome to Super Familiar with the Wilsons.
I'm Amanda.
Josh (00:32):
And I'm Josh.
Amanda (00:34):
Why are you laughing?
Josh (00:37):
Because I had my finger pointed at you that you should
start, but you were looking away.
I was looking at the dogSitting there pointing at you.
It's another mailbag episode.
So we have a nice letter fromrefined gay jeff.
But first some updates aboutmembers of the wilson family.
Amanda (00:52):
Winthrop has some news so winthrop is starting a new
soccer season after last seasonended.
He was a little meh about doingit again but we decided.
The mother and the father ofWinthrop decided it was good for
him.
It's good exercise, he needs toget out.
So we registered him yesterday,presented a unified front last
(01:13):
night to tell him that this washappening and his response was
fine.
Josh (01:18):
Here's the thing.
It's so funny because when Iwas a kid, my dad would be like,
oh, you're doing something, andthen I would have to go do it.
I feel like sometimes westruggle as parents telling him
you're going to do this or that.
I think sometimes it's possiblethat we give him too much
choice.
Amanda (01:38):
Yes, I mean, I am sensitive to making sure that
everybody in this family feelslike they have choice.
It is very it's not unusual forthe youngest child to feel like
they don't have choice.
But you're right, I think thatwe have, at least I have gone
too far the other way and givehim way too much choice.
Josh (01:56):
Wait, what did you just say?
Amanda (01:58):
Were you not listening to me?
Josh (01:59):
No, I'm what you said.
You're what you said.
Do you think I'm what?
Amanda (02:04):
You said.
You're what you said.
Do you think I'm what I said?
That I've gone too far theother way and given him too much
choice Right, but then thatwould make me what?
Oh, I'm sorry, that would makeyou not wrong, it's such a
struggle for you.
Josh (02:21):
We're kind of doing a bit here, but it's still such a
struggle for you to say that I'mright.
So, anyway, winthrop isstarting soccer is the point of
all this.
Yes, and Amanda, we got theemail today.
What is his new mascot?
Amanda (02:35):
Yeah, so he's going to be on the Mighty Eagles?
Yeah, so my question for you iswhen he was a mighty wolf, you
would, oh yes.
So what are you going to do forthe eagles?
Oh my God, oh my God, I hateyou so much.
Oh my God, if you wake up thischild, I'm going to be so angry
at you.
I cannot believe you just didthat.
Josh (02:56):
The machine, the computer.
It actually popped up a warningthat I've never seen before.
Amanda (03:04):
I think you need.
The dog is under my feet.
The dog has gotten out of hisbed and is under the chair,
under my feet the thing is isthat I don't know what that's
gonna sound like.
I'm gonna you need to warnpeople because you're not gonna
be responsible.
Jeff listens to this when hedrives to work.
You cannot be responsible forJeff running off the road.
Josh (03:25):
It's funny because I guess a year ago or so, our friend
Antonio, I think it was waslistening and I'd put a sound
effect in a little bit tooloudly and he definitely had a
start, had a fright.
It's funny.
It reminds me of the time wherethe guy who I used to work for
was like this crusty guy Ialmost said crusty old guy, but
(03:49):
he's only 10 years older than mebut he presented as just like
Clint Eastwood and Gran Torino,get off my lawn type of attitude
.
So he definitely carried himselfas older than he actually was.
But he was telling this storycracked me up because I pictured
it.
He would go running everymorning and he'd be running in
(04:11):
his like much shorter shorts andt-shirt, listening to music.
And he said that he was listrunning listening to um, dire
straits, money for nothing.
Now, if you're familiar withthis song, you know that it
starts real chill with somesynthesizers and then Sting
(04:32):
going.
I want my.
MTV, and it goes on that forwhat feels like hours, and then
all of a sudden there's thisdrum break.
That's just all of a suddenba-da-dun.
He said that, he heard that andhe jumped almost off of a cliff
because he thought that someonewas behind him or something
shooting at him.
(04:52):
Oh, no yeah so I definitelydon't want to cause anyone to
jump off a cliff.
Amanda (04:58):
No, yes, please don't.
We should also say that we so.
We typically record on a Sundaymorning and it's lovely, and I
have my coffee and I look at thebirds.
Well, no, it's after nineo'clock on a Tuesday night.
I have already had my sleepytime tea and Josh comes in here
and says, okay, get up, wherewe're going, we're gonna record.
So, all right, fine, I'm, I'mdoing this all for you all, but
(05:21):
nobody signed up for that noiseyeah, and if you just undid all
of my sleepy time tea, and I'mgonna be wired for the rest of
the night because my adrenalinespiked.
You're staying up with me.
Josh (05:31):
Well, I'm gonna stay up anyway.
The only reason I have theenergy to record this late is
because I had a large coffee andI didn't have decaf, like I
usually have.
I had calf, yes.
So I'm just giving myself tothe fact that I probably won't
fall asleep until 12 30, that'sjust a thing oh god, that means
I'm not gonna sleep either.
Amanda (05:51):
Do you remember the night that um, somebody was
standing next to our bed andthen I could not?
I couldn't sleep and made youstay up with me for the rest of
the night yes, we've told thisstory and it was a balloon yeah,
but we both woke up screamingyeah.
Yeah and so.
But I mean, we legit like-.
Josh (06:06):
The story is that there was one of those Mylar balloons
that maybe I'd given you forValentine's Day or whatever.
Amanda (06:13):
It was a Valentine's balloon.
Josh (06:14):
But it was flying above the bed on her side.
But we both woke up in themiddle of the night screaming,
and both of us thought thatsomeone was in the room, and so
I didn't sleep for the rest ofthat night.
Because it's not the fact thatI imagined there was someone in
the room because I havenightmares all the time.
I wake up, it takes me a fewseconds to calm myself down, I
(06:36):
go to sleep but the fact thatyou pictured the same thing,
folks I am here to tell you thatthat freaked me the hell out,
and so I was up and we turnedthe lights on too yeah, yeah, we
had the lights on brave 40 plusyear old people scared of the
dark.
Amanda (06:52):
And then the next day is when we realized that oh,
it's that balloon and we bothbecame aware of that balloon
yeah kind of at the same time Idon't know, because this house,
though we were renting thishouse and the people that we
were renting it from their likeelderly aunts lived in it.
I'm very sure that somebodydied in this house, so it just
(07:12):
kind of, I think, already hadlike some sort of feeling to it.
And then Winthrop, when he was,we moved out of that house when
he was about to turn four, so Idon't know, maybe he was like
two or three.
He was sitting on my lap in theliving room and I was we had a
that club chair then and I itwould swivel and I was sitting
there and he, he just looked upand stared behind me and he said
(07:35):
mommy, who's that man?
And I said what man?
Josh (07:40):
he said the one with the umbrella I'm here to tell you
that so many people, so manygenerations of people, have
lived and died on this earth.
I'll bet you there's very fewplaces that we can go that's
occupied right now by humanbeings.
Hadn't had a person die there,like I'm certain there's people
who died here on this propertybefore this house was developed.
Amanda (07:58):
No, I agree with that, but I do have a question why are
there no modern ghosts, likewhen you see, when you hear the
ghost stories and you see theghost things.
Josh (08:08):
They're all like when you see these shows on tv nobody's
rolling up in.
Amanda (08:12):
Like a deaf leopard t-shirt with some jelly
bracelets and like theirwayfarers on, like they all have
the pinafores and they're alllike in the civil war uniform I
want to know why it is you'recomplaining why there's no
modern ghost, but the pictureyou just painted is a ghost from
the 80s.
Yes, that's what I'm saying.
Some people died in the 80s, sowhere are those ghosts?
Josh (08:34):
Yeah, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know.
So let's get to our letter.
I don't know where the hellthis all came from.
Let hell this all came from.
Let's get to our letter fromrefined gay jeff.
He wishes us a happy springbreak.
For us, because he sent it lastweek and we did have spring
break last week, but it wasn'treally much of a break for me
(08:54):
because I worked right through,and it wasn't really a break for
you because you were you wereworking as well, just from home,
because winthrop was off.
Amanda (09:03):
I had some real COVID quarantine flashbacks because I
was trying to work with himwanting the attention and it was
a little bit triggering, alittle bit triggering.
I did take the day off onFriday and took the kids to a
farm not too far from here andwe did some strawberry picking
and then he got to go to Daveand Buster's so they both had a
(09:25):
good end to the spring springbreak yeah, no, it was.
Josh (09:28):
It was good, but I could definitely tell that you were a
little on edge by the end of theweek.
Yep, I was ready for us to haveother people in our lives
during the daytime so last weekwe talked about neighbors, and
so Jeff has some thoughts on onneighbors which I thought that
he would.
He says personally, personally,and this makes me sad, but I
think that people are not asinvested in their neighbors as
(09:49):
they need to be.
Well, that really was what wewere talking about last week and
on that front, I am findingmyself now that I had that
thought in my mind.
I am finding myself inpositions to talk to like today
we went walking and we talked topeople in our neighborhood.
I really do feel like withanything, the more we talk to
(10:11):
ourselves about it and tellourselves it's important, the
more we're presented withopportunities or we notice
opportunities so more to come onthat because the Wilsons are
going to break through and makeour neighbors like us.
Amanda (10:23):
You will like me, damn it.
Josh (10:24):
Jeff continues.
He says it has become commonfor households to just stay
within their own parameters andeschew getting to know their
neighbors like we used to.
I don't know if people are justscared or really just want to
keep to themselves for fear ofgetting involved in others'
lives.
I'm gonna tell you that thethird option that Jeff has not
spelled out is this Everyone'sso damn tired.
Amanda (10:46):
It's true.
Josh (10:47):
You know work will wring you out.
So you come home and you justwant to lay down and blob out.
Amanda (10:54):
Now do.
Josh (10:54):
I think that's a great use of our time Not necessarily,
but it's easy to do, and sopeople can fall into that habit.
Personally, Jeff says I feelthat you can involve yourself in
others while not getting all upin their business.
Well, where's the fun in that?
Amanda (11:13):
I was gonna say I like being up in people's business
from afar, Like if you wannahave an argument outside in your
front yard, I'll listen to it.
Josh (11:21):
What were we doing the other day where we were outside.
We're sitting on our postagestamp of a patio in the postage
stamp back garden and we have afence.
We can hear everything going onand we were just trying really
hard to hear the differentconversations that were
happening.
Amanda (11:38):
There were children screaming out there like
screaming, and she was screaming.
Stop talking.
She was screaming at her sister, and then the dad came out and
screamed at them to stop yelling, or yelled at them to stop
screaming, whatever.
So clearly we know where theygot it from.
Josh (11:52):
Yeah there you go.
So he goes on, jeff does, hesays.
When I was a small child, myneighbors included my great aunt
and uncle next door, along withmy great grandmother that lived
with them until she passed.
So again, he's from a littleold town in South Carolina where
families are probably a littlebit more likely to live in
(12:14):
proximity.
Amanda (12:15):
We don't have that, no Well, I've never lived next door
to family, though my ex-wifelives in the neighborhood over
and my ex-in-laws live threehouses down.
We do live near your family.
Josh (12:27):
Jeff and Jill across the street, who are the same age as
my brother and me, mr Leroy, wholived directly next door, my
Uncle Lloyd we called him UncleLord for years who lived
diagonally across the street, mrRoy and Miss Lucille, two
houses down.
Can you tell it's a southerntown here?
Did you used to do that Becauseyour family's southern?
(12:48):
Was it like Miss Lucille and Mr?
Amanda (12:51):
Oh yeah, everybody got a Miss and a Mister to their
first name.
Josh (12:56):
yes, he says, one of my fave childhood memories was
sitting on Mr Leroy's porch withmy brother, craig, and Jeff and
Jill from across the streetlistening to him tell stories,
asking him questions and justtalking for the hell of it.
And that's another thing thatwe don't really do anymore is.
Amanda (13:14):
Just visit.
Josh (13:14):
we call that visiting yeah but visiting with the older
generation.
Amanda (13:18):
That's true too.
Josh (13:19):
Which I guess are we, the older generation.
We are now yes, geez, awesomeneighbors there as well Randy, a
South Carolina HighwayPatrolman, and his wife Amanda
oh hey, blackie, a game wardenobviously a nickname, and I
never learned his given name myentire life and his wife Holly,
(13:40):
whose family owned textile millsand was worth 500 million the
family, not Holly.
It never went to her head thatshe was so wealthy.
Oh, maybe she is worth thatmuch, or she was.
And there's also Elliot andElaine diagonally across the
street, a lot of alliterativecouples here, and mr parks
(14:00):
diagonally across to the left,bill and brenda behind us again
with the alliterations and samand janice behind us.
I could also name every otherperson in the neighborhood, just
because that's how we were.
The neighborhood kids all treateach other like their mom and
dad, and the mom and dads alltreat us like their kids.
So does that mean that the andthis is a question for you, Jeff
(14:21):
did the neighborhood moms anddads have permission to
discipline the children?
That's a good question.
When you were growing up, didyou have that kind of
neighborhood where everyone waslike, no, you didn't.
Amanda (14:34):
No, I mean we knew our neighbors, but it wasn't.
Shelby and Helen lived acrossthe street and they had Stingray
Corvettes that they showed atcar shows.
Josh (14:43):
Oh, very nice.
Amanda (14:44):
And they were older and they had a pool that we could
swim in.
That's what I remember, ohthat's cool.
I don't know the name ofanybody else in our neighborhood
, oh, okay, except the girl thatwanted me to wait on her while
we were being chased by aretired canine yes yes yes.
Josh (15:02):
So then he talks about his neighbors today, and I think
this is really interesting.
Right next door to my left areJaime and his wife, Gregoria.
Jaime's a contractor, so he'sthe one who did my new roof.
Amanda (15:13):
Oh, yes, nice.
Josh (15:14):
And fence and has done so many other things for me as well
.
See again, this is the beautyof knowing your neighbors.
Yes, that definitely benefitedhim.
He was in Houston.
All of those crazy storms havegone up and down through Houston
for the last few years, rightyeah.
And he's had roof problems morethan once and Jaime was able to
(15:35):
help him because he knew hisneighbor, that's really great
and his neighbor was helpful.
He also says he throws killerparties and hires his own DJ for
the backyard.
Also brings me all kinds ofbarbecue or fresh fish.
If he's having a fish fry, well, that is awesome.
Amanda (15:49):
Josh would like to live next to Jaime.
Josh (15:51):
I really would.
Angela and Levi are across thestreet.
Santos and Monica arediagonally across the street,
kick-ass lesbians.
Jenny and Lauren are diagonallyacross the street, john beside
me and John behind me,surrounded by John.
John to the left of me, john tothe right of me.
I am supremely blessed withincredible neighbors and
(16:12):
everyone actually likes everyone.
Amanda (16:13):
That's great.
Josh (16:14):
I do think, however, it's incumbent upon us to seek our
neighbors out at first and makethese introductions and
establish thosepre-relationships.
Amanda (16:22):
Okay, but can I interrupt here?
Because, Jeff, this is thequestion.
We've lived here for four years.
Is it too late?
Josh (16:27):
I would say well, clearly it's not.
Clearly, it's not because Iwant us to do it and you're
supposed to be the social one.
Amanda (16:35):
Yeah, but I get.
I mean, I get social anxietytoo.
Josh (16:38):
No, it's not what I signed up for.
Amanda (16:40):
Oh, thanks.
Josh (16:45):
You're supposed to counter my social anxiety with your
outgoing nature.
Amanda (16:47):
Well, I also.
You're an extroverted introvert, so I thought I was getting an
extrovert and I got an introvert, so somehow we wound up not at
all.
I don't like where thisconversation is going.
I think my sleepy time tea is.
I love you.
My sleepy time tea is kickingin, I love you.
Get back to Jeff, please.
Josh (17:06):
Okay, he said he's sorry that I had that experience of
seeing your neighbor as she wasexiting the shower.
Yes, the first naked woman Isaw.
Amanda (17:15):
I was like six, seven or eight.
It's not traumatizing,confusing probably.
Josh (17:19):
He says I cannot remember the first time I saw a nod, a
nod woman, a naughty woman, no,a nude woman.
I guess that's a good thing,different strokes.
You never said.
But was the woman aware you sawher?
Oh, yes, I mean, we're talkingabout me going into the bathroom
from the outside door, from thepatio, and she was right there,
(17:41):
like she was just getting out.
Amanda (17:44):
If I close my eyes, you can see it all still.
Josh (17:47):
I can see it all still, he says.
The closest I came was yearsago when I was in my apartment
here in Houston and my next doorbalcony neighbor was in various
stages of undress while on thebalcony.
This was not unfortunate,because he was actually a member
of the now defunct professionalhockey team, the Houston Arrows
.
That's A-E-R-O-S.
Amanda (18:09):
Oh, like aerospace.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Josh (18:11):
Which would make sense for .
Houston.
To say that he was incrediblyfit and muscular would be a
supreme understatement that mancould have had a career in any
fitness fashion magazine inexistence.
Let's say I still think of himevery time I see a hockey stick.
Amanda (18:28):
Good memories, jeff good.
Josh (18:29):
My question for you, jeff does he tape his stick?
Anyway, I do have a monk storythat kind of corresponds with
your Benedictine monk in lastweek's Game.
Amanda (18:39):
Time.
I was like do we know, monks?
Okay, it was Game Time.
Josh (18:42):
yes, I don't think I've ever met a monk.
Have you ever met a?
Amanda (18:45):
monk, I have.
Josh (18:47):
Have you met a monk?
I have.
Where did you?
Amanda (18:48):
meet a monk I have in Japan.
Josh (18:50):
Where does one go to meet monks In Japan?
Oh, okay, you had to go toanother country.
Go ahead.
Amanda (18:54):
Well, it was really interesting because my
sister-in-law at the time sothey were living on the Navy
base in Yokosuka.
My brother was stationed thereand and she was tutoring.
I don't think it was a Buddhistmonk, I think it might have
been a Shinto monk I can'tremember A monk in English and
(19:14):
what he wanted to do was readfrom the Bible Like he wanted to
.
Like he wanted his Englishlessons to be out of the Bible
because he wanted to try tounderstand, like Christianity.
Josh (19:27):
Oh.
Amanda (19:27):
Anyway, I met him while I was there.
I was going to.
Did that work out for him?
Did he come to try tounderstand?
Josh (19:28):
like christianity.
Oh, anyway, I met him while Iwas there.
I was gonna did it?
Did that work out for him?
Did he come to understand it?
Amanda (19:33):
no, I don't think that he was trying to convert.
I think he just wanted to beable to talk to people.
Um, anyway, I don't know, Idon't know what happened so this
is jeff's um story here.
Josh (19:43):
Back in the late 90s my family went to italy, which I've
talked about before.
We took a side trip to Assisito tour the Basilica of St
Francis of Assisi.
It's one of the most beautiful,well-preserved medieval towns
in all of Europe.
Walking the streets was just asit was in the 1100s, when St'm
(20:04):
sorry, 11,000 is quite some timefrom now.
Yeah no, when St Francis wasborn, on our tour of the
Basilica we had a Franciscanmonk that went into great detail
about life in the monastery andit was fascinating.
But imagine our utter surpriseand delight when we found out
that the monk talking was fromSnellville, georgia.
(20:24):
Oh, wow Just right outside ofAtlanta.
I did not see that coming inthis story.
He was delightful and he stillhad his Southern accent even
though he had been there forquite some time, since we were
from upstate South Carolina.
He of course knew our hometownsand the area.
I think he got a big kick outof seeing us.
Amanda (20:41):
That's really fun.
It's always nice when you youknow a little bit of home right,
a little bit of home whenyou're traveling.
Josh (20:48):
Yeah, it's so interesting to me.
When I moved up here toGainesville, first of all, I
came across a lot of people whoare from Miami.
Amanda (20:58):
Yeah, that happens.
Josh (20:59):
Which surprised me, and then I saw this girl in the
grocery store.
Amanda (21:06):
Was she naked?
Josh (21:08):
No, she was most definitely clothed.
If she was naked, you wouldhave heard the story before now.
And I kind of saw we made eyecontact.
Amanda (21:19):
I'm like I know you.
Josh (21:21):
She had gone to my church in.
Amanda (21:23):
Miami when I was growing up?
Josh (21:24):
Yeah, and she's old like me and there she was.
Isn't that crazy?
That is weird.
Would not expect that.
I would expect to find people,I guess, in Miami from other
places, because Miami is a bigplace and you're more likely to
meet people, but little oldGainesville, I was shocked.
Amanda (21:42):
Well, I don't know if I told you and I don't want to
deviate too much from Jeff'sletter, but when we were coming
back from Atlanta speaking ofAtlanta, and we stopped at
Bucky's and I was in line to goto the bathroom and it was
really long and this is whenWinthrop was having his car
sickness.
So I don't know if I told youthe story or not, but I was in
line and I heard this womantalking in front of me and she
(22:06):
said something about being fromLakeland.
Well, that's where I'm from,lakeland, florida.
And I said, oh, I'm fromLakeland.
And she turned around and wejust happened to be in line,
right, and she's in front of me.
So we started talking.
We went to the same high schoolshe's about 10 years older than
me, lived on the same side oftown, and I said something and
then the woman behind me goeswait, are you from Lakeland?
(22:29):
And we said, yeah, she was fromLakeland, but none of us were
together.
We just happened to be threepeople in a row from the same
town.
Josh (22:38):
And then you came to find out you were related.
Amanda (22:40):
No, we weren't related.
Well, I mean, possibly we couldbe, but I mean, but yeah, it's
just like I mean we weren't.
Josh (22:46):
And that was in Warner Robins.
Georgia, that's right that wewere in.
Okay, so, although I guessyou're more likely to meet
someone that you know inBuc-ee's- because there's five
million people in.
Buc-ee's.
Buc-ee's is like a city state.
Yes, Buc-ee's doesn't have amanager, it has a mayor.
Amanda (23:05):
Bucky's managers make so much money because they have
to manage the town.
Josh (23:11):
Jeff ends his letter by saying Josh, do you ever stand
at your privacy fence and talkto your neighbors, showing only
half your face and become areal-life Wilson character from
the TV show Home Improvement.
If not, you're missing out onan experience that could right
the world of all of its striferight now.
Amanda (23:30):
Wilson, if I remember correctly, was a very cool dude.
Josh (23:31):
But yeah, no, he says.
I hope the rest of the weekbrings joy and we'll talk later.
Peace and cookies, Jeff.
Good night, Jeff.
If you would like to get intouch with us, email us at
familiarwilsons at gmailcom.
We will answer questions aboutourselves.
We will solve your problems.
We'll give you lottery numbers.
Amanda (23:54):
You know we'll do all the things.
I mean, we have never won thelottery, so I don't know that it
will be productive for you.
Josh (24:03):
No, my luck, my luck, my luck is to pick six numbers for
someone.
Amanda (24:06):
I know, and they win.
Josh (24:07):
And they win, and then they just, and I'll be like, oh
well, first of all, they won'ttell me right, you won't get a
commission.
I won't get a commission, butif I find out they'll be like
Wilson, who Right.
Absolutely.
Yes, not gonna do it All right,folks.
That's the end of this mailbagepisode.
We did have a really long andinteresting to us conversation
(24:29):
with Chris Barron, lead singerof the Spin Doctors, earlier in
the week, so I'm going to editthat to something that's usable
and let you all hear that.
Maybe I'll break it into parts.
We talked about all sorts ofdifferent things.
Amanda (24:41):
Well, it's fun because this is what like the fourth
time that we've had aconversation, fifth time, I
think like well, you and he arekind of texting buddies every
once in a while, but I thinkwe're developing sort of just
like this, like a little bit ofa weird friendship, and so it
was just kind of like hangingout for an hour and catching up
with somebody.
Josh (24:59):
I don't think there's anything weird about it.
Amanda (25:00):
No, I mean weird in the like we met this person off of
Twitter and now we like knowthings about each other that
probably we don't talk about,Meaning like grief.
That sounded a little weird,but like grief and other things,
like, we talk about prettyheavy things and it's pretty
cool just how connected theworld can be and how isolating
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at the same time.
Josh (25:22):
Very good and this is a comedy podcast.
What else cool has happened?
Oh, I've started anotherpodcast with this gentleman
called Brent Ransom and nothinglike this.
It's a business podcast.
I met him at a training like amanagement training and started
talking to him and yeah, so belooking for that If you're in
(25:47):
any sort of situation whereyou're a supervisor or a manager
or something like that.
He's really smart and he hasreally good advice to give on
being a leader.
Set up for Chicken Tom, his veryown podcast hosting, podcast
(26:10):
hosting platform, and his firstepisode is ready to go and
that's called In-Law and theOut-Law, with him and his
country ass son-in-law.
So that'll be fun, so belooking for that.
All sorts of cool things.
Amanda (26:27):
So until next week, you all take it easy and be nice to
each other no, that's my lineno, your line is go, be kind,
you always forget no, I know myline, but basically it's a
synonym, simile, synonym.
I don't know.
Josh (26:43):
I'm tired, go be kind uh, goodbye, know, I'm tired Go be
(27:29):
kind, goodbye, 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.
Three, two, one run.
(00:21):
I'm super familiar with you.
Wilson Run.
I'm super familiar with theWilsons.
Get it.
Amanda (00:30):
Welcome to Super Familiar with the Wilsons.
I'm Amanda.
Josh (00:32):
And I'm Josh.
Amanda (00:34):
Why are you laughing?
Josh (00:37):
Because I had my finger pointed at you that you should
start, but you were looking away.
I was looking at the dogSitting there pointing at you.
It's another mailbag episode.
So we have a nice letter fromrefined gay jeff.
But first some updates aboutmembers of the wilson family.
Amanda (00:52):
Winthrop has some news so winthrop is starting a new
soccer season after last seasonended.
He was a little meh about doingit again but we decided.
The mother and the father ofWinthrop decided it was good for
him.
It's good exercise, he needs toget out.
So we registered him yesterday,presented a unified front last
(01:13):
night to tell him that this washappening and his response was
fine.
Josh (01:18):
Here's the thing.
It's so funny because when Iwas a kid, my dad would be like,
oh, you're doing something, andthen I would have to go do it.
I feel like sometimes westruggle as parents telling him
you're going to do this or that.
I think sometimes it's possiblethat we give him too much
choice.
Amanda (01:38):
Yes, I mean, I am sensitive to making sure that
everybody in this family feelslike they have choice.
It is very it's not unusual forthe youngest child to feel like
they don't have choice.
But you're right, I think thatwe have, at least I have gone
too far the other way and givehim way too much choice.
Josh (01:56):
Wait, what did you just say?
Amanda (01:58):
Were you not listening to me?
Josh (01:59):
No, I'm what you said.
You're what you said.
Do you think I'm what?
Amanda (02:04):
You said.
You're what you said.
Do you think I'm what I said?
That I've gone too far theother way and given him too much
choice Right, but then thatwould make me what?
Oh, I'm sorry, that would makeyou not wrong, it's such a
struggle for you.
Josh (02:21):
We're kind of doing a bit here, but it's still such a
struggle for you to say that I'mright.
So, anyway, winthrop isstarting soccer is the point of
all this.
Yes, and Amanda, we got theemail today.
What is his new mascot?
Amanda (02:35):
Yeah, so he's going to be on the Mighty Eagles?
Yeah, so my question for you iswhen he was a mighty wolf, you
would, oh yes.
So what are you going to do forthe eagles?
Oh my God, oh my God, I hateyou so much.
Oh my God, if you wake up thischild, I'm going to be so angry
at you.
I cannot believe you just didthat.
Josh (02:56):
The machine, the computer.
It actually popped up a warningthat I've never seen before.
Amanda (03:04):
I think you need.
The dog is under my feet.
The dog has gotten out of hisbed and is under the chair,
under my feet the thing is isthat I don't know what that's
gonna sound like.
I'm gonna you need to warnpeople because you're not gonna
be responsible.
Jeff listens to this when hedrives to work.
You cannot be responsible forJeff running off the road.
Josh (03:25):
It's funny because I guess a year ago or so, our friend
Antonio, I think it was waslistening and I'd put a sound
effect in a little bit tooloudly and he definitely had a
start, had a fright.
It's funny.
It reminds me of the time wherethe guy who I used to work for
was like this crusty guy Ialmost said crusty old guy, but
(03:49):
he's only 10 years older than mebut he presented as just like
Clint Eastwood and Gran Torino,get off my lawn type of attitude
.
So he definitely carried himselfas older than he actually was.
But he was telling this storycracked me up because I pictured
it.
He would go running everymorning and he'd be running in
(04:11):
his like much shorter shorts andt-shirt, listening to music.
And he said that he was listrunning listening to um, dire
straits, money for nothing.
Now, if you're familiar withthis song, you know that it
starts real chill with somesynthesizers and then Sting
(04:32):
going.
I want my.
MTV, and it goes on that forwhat feels like hours, and then
all of a sudden there's thisdrum break.
That's just all of a suddenba-da-dun.
He said that, he heard that andhe jumped almost off of a cliff
because he thought that someonewas behind him or something
shooting at him.
(04:52):
Oh, no yeah so I definitelydon't want to cause anyone to
jump off a cliff.
Amanda (04:58):
No, yes, please don't.
We should also say that we so.
We typically record on a Sundaymorning and it's lovely, and I
have my coffee and I look at thebirds.
Well, no, it's after nineo'clock on a Tuesday night.
I have already had my sleepytime tea and Josh comes in here
and says, okay, get up, wherewe're going, we're gonna record.
So, all right, fine, I'm, I'mdoing this all for you all, but
(05:21):
nobody signed up for that noiseyeah, and if you just undid all
of my sleepy time tea, and I'mgonna be wired for the rest of
the night because my adrenalinespiked.
You're staying up with me.
Josh (05:31):
Well, I'm gonna stay up anyway.
The only reason I have theenergy to record this late is
because I had a large coffee andI didn't have decaf, like I
usually have.
I had calf, yes.
So I'm just giving myself tothe fact that I probably won't
fall asleep until 12 30, that'sjust a thing oh god, that means
I'm not gonna sleep either.
Amanda (05:51):
Do you remember the night that um, somebody was
standing next to our bed andthen I could not?
I couldn't sleep and made youstay up with me for the rest of
the night yes, we've told thisstory and it was a balloon yeah,
but we both woke up screamingyeah.
Yeah and so.
But I mean, we legit like-.
Josh (06:06):
The story is that there was one of those Mylar balloons
that maybe I'd given you forValentine's Day or whatever.
Amanda (06:13):
It was a Valentine's balloon.
Josh (06:14):
But it was flying above the bed on her side.
But we both woke up in themiddle of the night screaming,
and both of us thought thatsomeone was in the room, and so
I didn't sleep for the rest ofthat night.
Because it's not the fact thatI imagined there was someone in
the room because I havenightmares all the time.
I wake up, it takes me a fewseconds to calm myself down, I
(06:36):
go to sleep but the fact thatyou pictured the same thing,
folks I am here to tell you thatthat freaked me the hell out,
and so I was up and we turnedthe lights on too yeah, yeah, we
had the lights on brave 40 plusyear old people scared of the
dark.
Amanda (06:52):
And then the next day is when we realized that oh,
it's that balloon and we bothbecame aware of that balloon
yeah kind of at the same time Idon't know, because this house,
though we were renting thishouse and the people that we
were renting it from their likeelderly aunts lived in it.
I'm very sure that somebodydied in this house, so it just
(07:12):
kind of, I think, already hadlike some sort of feeling to it.
And then Winthrop, when he was,we moved out of that house when
he was about to turn four, so Idon't know, maybe he was like
two or three.
He was sitting on my lap in theliving room and I was we had a
that club chair then and I itwould swivel and I was sitting
there and he, he just looked upand stared behind me and he said
(07:35):
mommy, who's that man?
And I said what man?
Josh (07:40):
he said the one with the umbrella I'm here to tell you
that so many people, so manygenerations of people, have
lived and died on this earth.
I'll bet you there's very fewplaces that we can go that's
occupied right now by humanbeings.
Hadn't had a person die there,like I'm certain there's people
who died here on this propertybefore this house was developed.
Amanda (07:58):
No, I agree with that, but I do have a question why are
there no modern ghosts, likewhen you see, when you hear the
ghost stories and you see theghost things.
Josh (08:08):
They're all like when you see these shows on tv nobody's
rolling up in.
Amanda (08:12):
Like a deaf leopard t-shirt with some jelly
bracelets and like theirwayfarers on, like they all have
the pinafores and they're alllike in the civil war uniform I
want to know why it is you'recomplaining why there's no
modern ghost, but the pictureyou just painted is a ghost from
the 80s.
Yes, that's what I'm saying.
Some people died in the 80s, sowhere are those ghosts?
Josh (08:34):
Yeah, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know.
So let's get to our letter.
I don't know where the hellthis all came from.
Let hell this all came from.
Let's get to our letter fromrefined gay jeff.
He wishes us a happy springbreak.
For us, because he sent it lastweek and we did have spring
break last week, but it wasn'treally much of a break for me
(08:54):
because I worked right through,and it wasn't really a break for
you because you were you wereworking as well, just from home,
because winthrop was off.
Amanda (09:03):
I had some real COVID quarantine flashbacks because I
was trying to work with himwanting the attention and it was
a little bit triggering, alittle bit triggering.
I did take the day off onFriday and took the kids to a
farm not too far from here andwe did some strawberry picking
and then he got to go to Daveand Buster's so they both had a
(09:25):
good end to the spring springbreak yeah, no, it was.
Josh (09:28):
It was good, but I could definitely tell that you were a
little on edge by the end of theweek.
Yep, I was ready for us to haveother people in our lives
during the daytime so last weekwe talked about neighbors, and
so Jeff has some thoughts on onneighbors which I thought that
he would.
He says personally, personally,and this makes me sad, but I
think that people are not asinvested in their neighbors as
(09:49):
they need to be.
Well, that really was what wewere talking about last week and
on that front, I am findingmyself now that I had that
thought in my mind.
I am finding myself inpositions to talk to like today
we went walking and we talked topeople in our neighborhood.
I really do feel like withanything, the more we talk to
(10:11):
ourselves about it and tellourselves it's important, the
more we're presented withopportunities or we notice
opportunities so more to come onthat because the Wilsons are
going to break through and makeour neighbors like us.
Amanda (10:23):
You will like me, damn it.
Josh (10:24):
Jeff continues.
He says it has become commonfor households to just stay
within their own parameters andeschew getting to know their
neighbors like we used to.
I don't know if people are justscared or really just want to
keep to themselves for fear ofgetting involved in others'
lives.
I'm gonna tell you that thethird option that Jeff has not
spelled out is this Everyone'sso damn tired.
Amanda (10:46):
It's true.
Josh (10:47):
You know work will wring you out.
So you come home and you justwant to lay down and blob out.
Amanda (10:54):
Now do.
Josh (10:54):
I think that's a great use of our time Not necessarily,
but it's easy to do, and sopeople can fall into that habit.
Personally, Jeff says I feelthat you can involve yourself in
others while not getting all upin their business.
Well, where's the fun in that?
Amanda (11:13):
I was gonna say I like being up in people's business
from afar, Like if you wannahave an argument outside in your
front yard, I'll listen to it.
Josh (11:21):
What were we doing the other day where we were outside.
We're sitting on our postagestamp of a patio in the postage
stamp back garden and we have afence.
We can hear everything going onand we were just trying really
hard to hear the differentconversations that were
happening.
Amanda (11:38):
There were children screaming out there like
screaming, and she was screaming.
Stop talking.
She was screaming at her sister, and then the dad came out and
screamed at them to stop yelling, or yelled at them to stop
screaming, whatever.
So clearly we know where theygot it from.
Josh (11:52):
Yeah there you go.
So he goes on, jeff does, hesays.
When I was a small child, myneighbors included my great aunt
and uncle next door, along withmy great grandmother that lived
with them until she passed.
So again, he's from a littleold town in South Carolina where
families are probably a littlebit more likely to live in
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proximity.
Amanda (12:15):
We don't have that, no Well, I've never lived next door
to family, though my ex-wifelives in the neighborhood over
and my ex-in-laws live threehouses down.
We do live near your family.
Josh (12:27):
Jeff and Jill across the street, who are the same age as
my brother and me, mr Leroy, wholived directly next door, my
Uncle Lloyd we called him UncleLord for years who lived
diagonally across the street, mrRoy and Miss Lucille, two
houses down.
Can you tell it's a southerntown here?
Did you used to do that Becauseyour family's southern?
(12:48):
Was it like Miss Lucille and Mr?
Amanda (12:51):
Oh yeah, everybody got a Miss and a Mister to their
first name.
Josh (12:56):
yes, he says, one of my fave childhood memories was
sitting on Mr Leroy's porch withmy brother, craig, and Jeff and
Jill from across the streetlistening to him tell stories,
asking him questions and justtalking for the hell of it.
And that's another thing thatwe don't really do anymore is.
Amanda (13:14):
Just visit.
Josh (13:14):
we call that visiting yeah but visiting with the older
generation.
Amanda (13:18):
That's true too.
Josh (13:19):
Which I guess are we, the older generation.
We are now yes, geez, awesomeneighbors there as well Randy, a
South Carolina HighwayPatrolman, and his wife Amanda
oh hey, blackie, a game wardenobviously a nickname, and I
never learned his given name myentire life and his wife Holly,
(13:40):
whose family owned textile millsand was worth 500 million the
family, not Holly.
It never went to her head thatshe was so wealthy.
Oh, maybe she is worth thatmuch, or she was.
And there's also Elliot andElaine diagonally across the
street, a lot of alliterativecouples here, and mr parks
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diagonally across to the left,bill and brenda behind us again
with the alliterations and samand janice behind us.
I could also name every otherperson in the neighborhood, just
because that's how we were.
The neighborhood kids all treateach other like their mom and
dad, and the mom and dads alltreat us like their kids.
So does that mean that the andthis is a question for you, Jeff
(14:21):
did the neighborhood moms anddads have permission to
discipline the children?
That's a good question.
When you were growing up, didyou have that kind of
neighborhood where everyone waslike, no, you didn't.
Amanda (14:34):
No, I mean we knew our neighbors, but it wasn't.
Shelby and Helen lived acrossthe street and they had Stingray
Corvettes that they showed atcar shows.
Josh (14:43):
Oh, very nice.
Amanda (14:44):
And they were older and they had a pool that we could
swim in.
That's what I remember, ohthat's cool.
I don't know the name ofanybody else in our neighborhood
, oh, okay, except the girl thatwanted me to wait on her while
we were being chased by aretired canine yes yes yes.
Josh (15:02):
So then he talks about his neighbors today, and I think
this is really interesting.
Right next door to my left areJaime and his wife, Gregoria.
Jaime's a contractor, so he'sthe one who did my new roof.
Amanda (15:13):
Oh, yes, nice.
Josh (15:14):
And fence and has done so many other things for me as well
.
See again, this is the beautyof knowing your neighbors.
Yes, that definitely benefitedhim.
He was in Houston.
All of those crazy storms havegone up and down through Houston
for the last few years, rightyeah.
And he's had roof problems morethan once and Jaime was able to
(15:35):
help him because he knew hisneighbor, that's really great
and his neighbor was helpful.
He also says he throws killerparties and hires his own DJ for
the backyard.
Also brings me all kinds ofbarbecue or fresh fish.
If he's having a fish fry, well, that is awesome.
Amanda (15:49):
Josh would like to live next to Jaime.
Josh (15:51):
I really would.
Angela and Levi are across thestreet.
Santos and Monica arediagonally across the street,
kick-ass lesbians.
Jenny and Lauren are diagonallyacross the street, john beside
me and John behind me,surrounded by John.
John to the left of me, john tothe right of me.
I am supremely blessed withincredible neighbors and
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everyone actually likes everyone.
Amanda (16:13):
That's great.
Josh (16:14):
I do think, however, it's incumbent upon us to seek our
neighbors out at first and makethese introductions and
establish thosepre-relationships.
Amanda (16:22):
Okay, but can I interrupt here?
Because, Jeff, this is thequestion.
We've lived here for four years.
Is it too late?
Josh (16:27):
I would say well, clearly it's not.
Clearly, it's not because Iwant us to do it and you're
supposed to be the social one.
Amanda (16:35):
Yeah, but I get.
I mean, I get social anxietytoo.
Josh (16:38):
No, it's not what I signed up for.
Amanda (16:40):
Oh, thanks.
Josh (16:45):
You're supposed to counter my social anxiety with your
outgoing nature.
Amanda (16:47):
Well, I also.
You're an extroverted introvert, so I thought I was getting an
extrovert and I got an introvert, so somehow we wound up not at
all.
I don't like where thisconversation is going.
I think my sleepy time tea is.
I love you.
My sleepy time tea is kickingin, I love you.
Get back to Jeff, please.
Josh (17:06):
Okay, he said he's sorry that I had that experience of
seeing your neighbor as she wasexiting the shower.
Yes, the first naked woman Isaw.
Amanda (17:15):
I was like six, seven or eight.
It's not traumatizing,confusing probably.
Josh (17:19):
He says I cannot remember the first time I saw a nod, a
nod woman, a naughty woman, no,a nude woman.
I guess that's a good thing,different strokes.
You never said.
But was the woman aware you sawher?
Oh, yes, I mean, we're talkingabout me going into the bathroom
from the outside door, from thepatio, and she was right there,
(17:41):
like she was just getting out.
Amanda (17:44):
If I close my eyes, you can see it all still.
Josh (17:47):
I can see it all still, he says.
The closest I came was yearsago when I was in my apartment
here in Houston and my next doorbalcony neighbor was in various
stages of undress while on thebalcony.
This was not unfortunate,because he was actually a member
of the now defunct professionalhockey team, the Houston Arrows
.
That's A-E-R-O-S.
Amanda (18:09):
Oh, like aerospace.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Josh (18:11):
Which would make sense for .
Houston.
To say that he was incrediblyfit and muscular would be a
supreme understatement that mancould have had a career in any
fitness fashion magazine inexistence.
Let's say I still think of himevery time I see a hockey stick.
Amanda (18:28):
Good memories, jeff good.
Josh (18:29):
My question for you, jeff does he tape his stick?
Anyway, I do have a monk storythat kind of corresponds with
your Benedictine monk in lastweek's Game.
Amanda (18:39):
Time.
I was like do we know, monks?
Okay, it was Game Time.
Josh (18:42):
yes, I don't think I've ever met a monk.
Have you ever met a?
Amanda (18:45):
monk, I have.
Josh (18:47):
Have you met a monk?
I have.
Where did you?
Amanda (18:48):
meet a monk I have in Japan.
Josh (18:50):
Where does one go to meet monks In Japan?
Oh, okay, you had to go toanother country.
Go ahead.
Amanda (18:54):
Well, it was really interesting because my
sister-in-law at the time sothey were living on the Navy
base in Yokosuka.
My brother was stationed thereand and she was tutoring.
I don't think it was a Buddhistmonk, I think it might have
been a Shinto monk I can'tremember A monk in English and
(19:14):
what he wanted to do was readfrom the Bible Like he wanted to
.
Like he wanted his Englishlessons to be out of the Bible
because he wanted to try tounderstand, like Christianity.
Josh (19:27):
Oh.
Amanda (19:27):
Anyway, I met him while I was there.
I was going to.
Did that work out for him?
Did he come to try tounderstand?
Josh (19:28):
like christianity.
Oh, anyway, I met him while Iwas there.
I was gonna did it?
Did that work out for him?
Did he come to understand it?
Amanda (19:33):
no, I don't think that he was trying to convert.
I think he just wanted to beable to talk to people.
Um, anyway, I don't know, Idon't know what happened so this
is jeff's um story here.
Josh (19:43):
Back in the late 90s my family went to italy, which I've
talked about before.
We took a side trip to Assisito tour the Basilica of St
Francis of Assisi.
It's one of the most beautiful,well-preserved medieval towns
in all of Europe.
Walking the streets was just asit was in the 1100s, when St'm
(20:04):
sorry, 11,000 is quite some timefrom now.
Yeah no, when St Francis wasborn, on our tour of the
Basilica we had a Franciscanmonk that went into great detail
about life in the monastery andit was fascinating.
But imagine our utter surpriseand delight when we found out
that the monk talking was fromSnellville, georgia.
(20:24):
Oh, wow Just right outside ofAtlanta.
I did not see that coming inthis story.
He was delightful and he stillhad his Southern accent even
though he had been there forquite some time, since we were
from upstate South Carolina.
He of course knew our hometownsand the area.
I think he got a big kick outof seeing us.
Amanda (20:41):
That's really fun.
It's always nice when you youknow a little bit of home right,
a little bit of home whenyou're traveling.
Josh (20:48):
Yeah, it's so interesting to me.
When I moved up here toGainesville, first of all, I
came across a lot of people whoare from Miami.
Amanda (20:58):
Yeah, that happens.
Josh (20:59):
Which surprised me, and then I saw this girl in the
grocery store.
Amanda (21:06):
Was she naked?
Josh (21:08):
No, she was most definitely clothed.
If she was naked, you wouldhave heard the story before now.
And I kind of saw we made eyecontact.
Amanda (21:19):
I'm like I know you.
Josh (21:21):
She had gone to my church in.
Amanda (21:23):
Miami when I was growing up?
Josh (21:24):
Yeah, and she's old like me and there she was.
Isn't that crazy?
That is weird.
Would not expect that.
I would expect to find people,I guess, in Miami from other
places, because Miami is a bigplace and you're more likely to
meet people, but little oldGainesville, I was shocked.
Amanda (21:42):
Well, I don't know if I told you and I don't want to
deviate too much from Jeff'sletter, but when we were coming
back from Atlanta speaking ofAtlanta, and we stopped at
Bucky's and I was in line to goto the bathroom and it was
really long and this is whenWinthrop was having his car
sickness.
So I don't know if I told youthe story or not, but I was in
line and I heard this womantalking in front of me and she
(22:06):
said something about being fromLakeland.
Well, that's where I'm from,lakeland, florida.
And I said, oh, I'm fromLakeland.
And she turned around and wejust happened to be in line,
right, and she's in front of me.
So we started talking.
We went to the same high schoolshe's about 10 years older than
me, lived on the same side oftown, and I said something and
then the woman behind me goeswait, are you from Lakeland?
(22:29):
And we said, yeah, she was fromLakeland, but none of us were
together.
We just happened to be threepeople in a row from the same
town.
Josh (22:38):
And then you came to find out you were related.
Amanda (22:40):
No, we weren't related.
Well, I mean, possibly we couldbe, but I mean, but yeah, it's
just like I mean we weren't.
Josh (22:46):
And that was in Warner Robins.
Georgia, that's right that wewere in.
Okay, so, although I guessyou're more likely to meet
someone that you know inBuc-ee's- because there's five
million people in.
Buc-ee's.
Buc-ee's is like a city state.
Yes, Buc-ee's doesn't have amanager, it has a mayor.
Amanda (23:05):
Bucky's managers make so much money because they have
to manage the town.
Josh (23:11):
Jeff ends his letter by saying Josh, do you ever stand
at your privacy fence and talkto your neighbors, showing only
half your face and become areal-life Wilson character from
the TV show Home Improvement.
If not, you're missing out onan experience that could right
the world of all of its striferight now.
Amanda (23:30):
Wilson, if I remember correctly, was a very cool dude.
Josh (23:31):
But yeah, no, he says.
I hope the rest of the weekbrings joy and we'll talk later.
Peace and cookies, Jeff.
Good night, Jeff.
If you would like to get intouch with us, email us at
familiarwilsons at gmailcom.
We will answer questions aboutourselves.
We will solve your problems.
We'll give you lottery numbers.
Amanda (23:54):
You know we'll do all the things.
I mean, we have never won thelottery, so I don't know that it
will be productive for you.
Josh (24:03):
No, my luck, my luck, my luck is to pick six numbers for
someone.
Amanda (24:06):
I know, and they win.
Josh (24:07):
And they win, and then they just, and I'll be like, oh
well, first of all, they won'ttell me right, you won't get a
commission.
I won't get a commission, butif I find out they'll be like
Wilson, who Right.
Absolutely.
Yes, not gonna do it All right,folks.
That's the end of this mailbagepisode.
We did have a really long andinteresting to us conversation
(24:29):
with Chris Barron, lead singerof the Spin Doctors, earlier in
the week, so I'm going to editthat to something that's usable
and let you all hear that.
Maybe I'll break it into parts.
We talked about all sorts ofdifferent things.
Amanda (24:41):
Well, it's fun because this is what like the fourth
time that we've had aconversation, fifth time, I
think like well, you and he arekind of texting buddies every
once in a while, but I thinkwe're developing sort of just
like this, like a little bit ofa weird friendship, and so it
was just kind of like hangingout for an hour and catching up
with somebody.
Josh (24:59):
I don't think there's anything weird about it.
Amanda (25:00):
No, I mean weird in the like we met this person off of
Twitter and now we like knowthings about each other that
probably we don't talk about,Meaning like grief.
That sounded a little weird,but like grief and other things,
like, we talk about prettyheavy things and it's pretty
cool just how connected theworld can be and how isolating
(25:21):
at the same time.
Josh (25:22):
Very good and this is a comedy podcast.
What else cool has happened?
Oh, I've started anotherpodcast with this gentleman
called Brent Ransom and nothinglike this.
It's a business podcast.
I met him at a training like amanagement training and started
talking to him and yeah, so belooking for that If you're in
(25:47):
any sort of situation whereyou're a supervisor or a manager
or something like that.
He's really smart and he hasreally good advice to give on
being a leader.
Set up for Chicken Tom, his veryown podcast hosting, podcast
(26:10):
hosting platform, and his firstepisode is ready to go and
that's called In-Law and theOut-Law, with him and his
country ass son-in-law.
So that'll be fun, so belooking for that.
All sorts of cool things.
Amanda (26:27):
So until next week, you all take it easy and be nice to
each other no, that's my lineno, your line is go, be kind,
you always forget no, I know myline, but basically it's a
synonym, simile, synonym.
I don't know.
Josh (26:43):
I'm tired, go be kind uh, goodbye, know, I'm tired Go be
(27:29):
kind, goodbye, bye, thank you.
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