July 20, 2025 • 50 mins
In this rambling episode, Josh and Amanda tackle the Coldplay concert scandal, Balloon Boy’s comeback, and why BuzzFeed has decided Josh's relationship status. Along the way, they review restaurants by a different metric (food is for cowards), invent two useful new words, and dissect why the “nuclear family” is more marketing myth than timeless tradition. Plus: listener emails, celebrity sightings, a poetic meltdown about a neurotic dog, and relationship revelations over scallops. It’s funny, chaotic, and slightly sweat-drenched...just like Florida.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Familiar Wilson's Media Relationships are the
story.
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The following podcast useswords like and and also If
you're not into any of that shit, then now's your chance.
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(00:21):
I'm super familiar with theWilsons Get it.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Welcome to Super Familiar with the Wilsons.
I'm Amanda.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
And I'm Josh.
Amanda, I have got such newsfor you.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Oh, okay, does it involve a Coldplay concert?
Speaker 1 (00:38):
No, we can briefly touch on that in a few minutes.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Well, that seems to be all the news.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
So I just thought that was the news.
It is, but it's almost, I think, run its course, because this
is, yeah, this is the news cycle.
Now it's like 15 secondsliterally, and then boom, we're
on to the next thing.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Someone had commented I don't remember who it was,
but it was in a conversationthat was having through text and
they said imagine how manyHalloween costumes couples are
going to have this year thatrefer to that like trying to be
cute, and my point was that'llbe so forgotten by then.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
By a handful of people we'll still remember,
probably those who are directlyinvolved, but I don't think
they'll be dressing up like thatfor Halloween.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Well, it's funny because I was going to do a
segment about this whole thing,as I guess all content creators
have decided.
Ooh, this topic is going to beso hot and trending.
Then I got online and everyonehas a take on it, so boring.
Here's my only take on it,right, because I was trying to
think of what could possiblyhappen as a result of this, like
, what are the consequences ofthis?
I think it's possible that thisis going to turn into a new way
, a new power move.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
how to resign?
Okay, fair enough.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Romantic resignation.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Frolicking at a concert, or you just mean like,
maybe sending an emailaccidentally to the wrong person
, or like, what do you mean?
I don't know you can do itsending an email accidentally to
the wrong person, or like whatdo you mean?
Speaker 1 (02:05):
I don't know.
You can do it as an email.
Auto reply.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Okay.
Well, I have to set mine upbecause I'm going out of town
for work this week, so I'll bemindful.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
All right.
So then type this down.
I am currently unavailable asI'm dramatically throwing away
my corporate career for passionand love.
Okay, virgin Matter, urgentmatters.
Please contact for myreplacement.
Or, like your new linkedinstatus, oh yes, change it from
senior vp of operations tounemployed but deeply in love,
(02:32):
that's right.
So there, that's.
My unique wilson's take on thiswhole thing is that this is
going to spawn a movement,because everything spawns a
movement until something bettercomes along.
But that's not what I wanted totell you.
That's not the thing that's notthe news.
I'm sorry do you rememberballoon boy?
Speaker 2 (02:48):
no, you don't remember no I remember bubble
boy, who was in a bubble andlike a giant hamster wheel thing
.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
He wasn't really in a giant hamster wheel, but no, no
, no, balloon boy, it's a hoaxright that occurred in oh yeah
october 2009, you remember thisthey Like he floated away or
something.
So a homemade helium-filled gasballoon shaped to resemble a
silver flying saucer wasreleased into the atmosphere
above Fort Collins, colorado, bythe Heen family.
(03:18):
They then claimed that theirsix-year-old son, falcon, was
trapped inside of it.
Do you remember this?
I do remember this now theauthorities spent all this money
national guard helicopters, allthe police pursuing this
balloon.
It fly it.
It flew for more than an hourand and went about 50 miles
right and it landed and falconwas not found inside had had
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Falcon disintegrated within thehelium.
Well, it was reported that anobject had been seen falling
from the balloon, and then theysearched, but later the boy was
found hiding in the attic of hishome, where he had apparently
been the entire time.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
How much did this?
I hope these people had to payfor all of the first responders
and all of the money that wasspent looking for this child who
was just upstairs.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Suspicions of a hoax arose, particularly after an
interview um on larry king livethat same evening.
When asked why he was hiding,falcon said his father.
You guys said that, um, we didthis for the show what show?
Right?
Well, they didn't.
They didn't say that, so anyway, they concluded that it was a
hoax.
The, the parents served a fewdays in jail and then there you
go right now.
They always maintain theirimage.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Now, they always maintain their innocence they
say he was in the balloon and hefell no, they say that he like
hid and they didn't know that hewas hiding so they didn't check
the balloon before theyreleased it into the air dude,
what's happening right now?
Speaker 1 (04:50):
I'm just telling you I can't speak to, to what they
did, not the point of any ofthis.
You remember the incident andlike it was a big deal for a
while I found out on the in-lawand the outlaw podcast which is
a familiar wilson's mediapodcast done by chicken tom yes
and his son-in-law.
They live right down the streetfrom Chicken Tom.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
No, they don't.
Those people live here.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
They moved and they live here now.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
That's crazy.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
How about that?
That's like celebrities.
We should get them on the show.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Balloon Boy is like 15 now.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
No, I think he's no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
That was 16 years ago .
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Yeah, yeah, now.
No, I think he's 16.
I think, no, no, no, that was16 years ago, yeah, yeah, yeah,
he's older than all that now.
So I what chicken tom says isthat he thinks balloon boy works
in, um, and get this sellingtiny houses.
And so I asked him are theyaround and filled with gas?
Speaker 2 (05:35):
right, or is it like the up house?
Speaker 1 (05:38):
that's the house from up they.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
That's how he can combine his two loves balloons
and tiny houses.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
I don't know, but isn't that?
Speaker 2 (05:45):
something that's crazy.
So does Balloon Boy live herewith his parents or just by
himself?
I've given you all theinformation that I have and he's
still in the attic.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
I don't well, no, he's selling tiny houses.
Keep up.
Have you ever lived nearsomeone famous or found out that
you live near someone famous?
Speaker 2 (06:02):
I mean, John Travolta doesn't live too far from us,
but not like a couple of streetsaway or something Freaking half
an hour to 45 minutes away.
So the answer is no.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
That's super interesting though.
It's interesting because Jeffsent us his refined gay Jeff
thoughts and we'll read a littlebit of that.
But one of his things that hewrites in there is that he
encountered Yao Ming last weekor the week before in Houston.
Yao Ming, the seven foot sixChinese NBA player, a former NBA
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player, which I think is superinteresting.
But to find out like thisfamous person lives down the
road, especially if it's afamous person for a slightly
offbeat thing very interesting.
Like what do you do if, likeBalloon Boy's, parents come over
and ask for like butter orsomething?
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Wait, wasn't the guy who had like the Christian World
Center?
Wasn't he in this town?
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Bob Jones or Jim Jones or Jim Jones had the
Kool-Aid.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
I don't remember who.
Yeah, no, terry, terry Jones.
Yeah, so he was the one whothreatened to destroy or burn
the korans yes uh, way, way backgosh.
It's like 10, 15 years, 20years ago.
How long ago was that um?
I mean, it was like 2010, Ithink anyway, he lived in
gainesville and I think he waslast seen in was it tampa or
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some other florida town runninga chicken place out of a mall
food court.
Nope, oh yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Excellent.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
So anyway, have you ever lived near a celebrity,
especially a celebrity for aweird reason?
Let us know at familiarwilsonsat gmailcom.
Also go ahead and listen to theIn Law and the Out Law podcast.
That's a Familiar Wilson'smedia joint and you can get that
on your streaming apps Pocketwatch, ticking constricting coat
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and vest.
I invented a couple words thisweek.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Oh, okay.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
The combination of heat and humidity outside in
this state.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Oh my God, what is that called?
It's the worst.
I have a word for it.
It's called the seventh layerof hell or the surface of the
sun.
I don't know what it's called,but it's awful.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Yeah, no, we are experiencing that right now.
We were just in St Petersburg,florida, which was lovely, but
it was so hot, as we werewalking around outside, that I
had to take off my wedding ringbecause it was too hot, and I
don't mean that it was too hot,it was burning me.
It just felt like my God.
I got to get all the things offand I could not take off all of
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my clothes.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Thank you for not taking your clothes off at the
farmer's market.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
That wasn't an option , so I took off my wedding ring
and I actually felt cooler.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
I had.
I mean, I constantly had sweatlike dripping from places, like
down my back, like just rollingdown my back constantly.
It was so bad.
And yesterday we were out andour heat index and so that's
like not the actual temperaturebut what it feels and that's
what matters Until seven o'clocklast night was 111 degrees
Fahrenheit.
Like that's just not okay.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
This is what I call that, though, that mixture of
moisture in the air with heat.
It's flora damp.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
That's a very good one, because it is flora damp,
that's actually very, very good.
I'm very proud of you.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Okay, the other word that I created is that migraine
that's brought about bydecorating.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
There's this particular pain that you get as
you're trying to decide willthis match Will?
Speaker 2 (09:29):
that match.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
You go to Pinterest and you look at the pictures and
you're like, oh shit, that'sawesome, I'm going to have that
in my house.
Your house is never going tolook like that picture.
In fact that house in thepicture does not look like that
no no, no, no, no, it like that.
No, no, no, no, no, it's, it'simpossible.
And then you know, if you werestarting from scratch and you
had all the money in the world,maybe you can, but you know,
invariably you have likegrandma's vase that you can't
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get rid of and that's gonnascrew up your picture.
Perfect pinterest picture there, because you got like the vase
with the ashes in it.
That's because grandma's in it,okay yeah, so that's called an
aesthetic oh, okay, excellent,yes, good so those are your two
words, your two wilson coinwords that you can fold into
your vocab aesthetic andfloridamp the more you know
(10:14):
keeping time till kingdom come.
Every heartbeat, every backbeat, every breath we draw.
Dear listener, as you may beable to suss out from my voice,
I am sick, you're on the otherside of sick.
I am on the other side of sick.
All I know is that I was doingfine, doing great, hadn't been
sick in a while, and I go to thegym.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
You did.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
I forgot For the first time in like literally
years I forgot you went to thegym last week, the next day I'm
sick.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Because I was sick so I totally forgot that's what
you did.
Oh, you're right, that's funny.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
So I think I've learned a very valuable lesson.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
You shouldn't go to the gym.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Don't go to the gym, don't work out, don't quote,
unquote.
Get healthy, because it's justgoing to screw me.
Maybe my body now is allergicto that because it's been so
very long.
I rode a bike like three blocksyesterday.
Yes, I have not recovered.
I'm probably going to get sickagain.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Are you sore?
Speaker 1 (11:11):
My legs hurt, my knees hurt, my ankles hurt, my
neck hurts, my ear hurts.
I don't understand.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Your neck hurts from riding the bike.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Well, my neck hurts and I'm blaming riding the bike,
because that's the only unusualthing that happened.
So I'm just saying that perhapsthe gym and I we got to break
up because we're not good foreach other.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
All right well.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
At work.
Someone suggested that it wouldbe a funny podcast a bit to
have you impersonate me when I'msick, when I'm ill, because you
know, the whole cliche is thatmen can't handle being sick, and
yet women regularly pop thingsthe size of bowling balls out of
their vagina and then still goback to work.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
But no, this wouldn't work with you, because you
don't do that.
You texted me and said musthave been when you were having
this conversation.
You said am I, um,stereotypically like whiny when
I'm sick?
it was, and then I didn't answerbecause I was in a meeting and
then he wrote it's okay if it'syes, and I was like, and I still
didn't respond, and then it washello with all these question
(12:10):
marks.
I was like I'm sorry, I'm in ameeting, but no, you don't.
You are the opposite of that.
You don't want help, you don'taccept help, like if I say go
lay down no, no, and then youstand around like you're a
(12:31):
martyr and then you get.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Okay, wait a second now.
Now, okay, here it is, there itis Like you're characterizing,
like I say no, no, I'll be allright, I'll be okay, and then
I'm a martyr nailing myself upon a cross.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
so you are saying that, that I know you're not
like I can't stand up, I'm sick,I have a sneeze.
No, you're like I'm fine, I'llbe, I'm okay, I can be here.
It's not fair.
You do this a lot.
It's not fair when I say go,it's not fair if I don't help.
No, it's okay, please go, laydown, because if I lay down, I'm
like I, if I'm not feeling well, I I'm check out right.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
That's not true.
That's not true.
I want to check out, yeah, butyou don't.
You fight through it and you dothe things that need to be done
.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
I was talking to somebody the other day who was
also going through perimenopauseand she and I were talking
about how, like maybe like anappendectomy at this point
wouldn't be bad, like aweek-long stay in the hospital
for nothing like really bad, thehospital for nothing like
really bad.
I was like you know, it's badwhen you're like just minor
surgery would be okay with meright now, cause then I could
just like disassociate fromeverything for a little bit.
(13:30):
But no, but you don't even wantmedicine.
I'll be like let me get yousome mucinex.
No, let me get you this.
No, I don't want to becomereliant on medicine.
It's not like you take it daily, it's when you're sick.
So if I forced a shot of nyquildown you the other day because
I had spent two nights sleepingin muffie's bed, because your
snoring was so loud because ofall the congestion, that I
forced a shot of nyquil on youand you and I both slept and you
(13:52):
woke up the next morning youwere like I feel a little better
.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
I'm like, yeah, because you slept well, I have
two things about that.
Yes, it was helpful to do, butthen also I didn't before know
that liquid NyQuil could be usedas a suppository, so also
thanks for that You're welcome.
Moving on from that, I have anew idea for a podcast segment.
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Right, we talked before aboutdoing reviews and how review
podcasts do really well, likemovie reviews and restaurant
reviews and this, and that Ithink that I enjoy the idea of
doing a restaurant review, whichwe've kind of done bits like
that before.
(14:37):
But going in and ratingrestaurants based on how the
food tastes, that's boring.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Yes, okay.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
So an idea we either do restaurant reviews based on
number one the decor.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Just go in and rate the decor of the restaurant,
nothing else.
Not the food, not anything else, or on the friendliness.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Now I think that that idea has legs, the idea of
rating restaurants onfriendliness.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Do you have a particular restaurant experience
in mind while you're thinkingabout this?
Speaker 1 (15:09):
I do.
We went to an Italianrestaurant when we were in St
Pete, a very expensive Italianrestaurant.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
I wasn't in an.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Italian restaurant, so I was confused.
It was so freaking Italian thatplace Okay fine, go ahead.
I was thinking let's do areview of that.
But that's boring because we goin and the food was very
expensive.
It was good food, mine wasfabulous, right, but like that's
boring, it's like of coursethat's what your expectation is.
You go into a really expensiverestaurant.
The food should at least at abaseline, be fine or be good
(15:37):
Right.
Mine was OK, nothing special.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
I made the mistake of ordering scallops.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
you got like three yeah, I got screwed, but it was
good it was just like I gotscrewed.
But as far as the friendlinessis concerned, did you find that
place pretty friendly?
The service I thought it wasyeah I think that as we rate
places for friendly, we need toadjust it also the rating based
on price and setting.
Okay.
So if we had gone into thatitalian restaurant with no other
factors and rated it onfriendliness and hospitality
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based on price and setting Okay.
So if we had gone into thatItalian restaurant with no other
factors and rated it onfriendliness and hospitality, it
would have been a four out offive.
But we adjust it for price andsetting.
It was at best 2.5 out of five.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Oh, I thought the setting was beautiful.
It was by the water.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Yeah, but like again with how much this bill ended up
being Okay but you need toconcede because I was going to
pay for dinner.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
You paid for dinner and then you've done nothing but
complain about how much thisdinner was.
A good portion of that wasalcohol, because you and I had
two drinks each, which I think Iwound up only drinking a half
of each one of those and thenyou wound up drinking them so
and I drove friends.
By the way, I almost A third ofthat bill was alcohol, was four
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drinks.
Okay, so I can't say the foodwas like super, because my food
was like 20 something dollarsfor a really lovely mushroom
pasta, right.
Muffy got a salad that was like$15.
The eight-year-old whatever hisname is, winthrop got a
cheeseburger that was 12.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
The rest of that was scallops and alcohol, okay, but
still it's part of the price.
I mean, you can't deny it.
I'm going to go out in arestaurant, I'm going to get
alcohol.
It's just a fun thing to do.
That doesn't matter to me.
I'm just saying that for whatwe paid, I want them to rub my
feet.
I want them to bring out a hottowel, like mid-meal, as I've
got, like the eating sweats,like they do on airplanes.
(17:37):
Yeah, absolutely.
Now let's take the oppositeapproach.
The hotel that we stayed inright, and I'm not going to name
it or whatever they had a, ahotel bar.
I woke up early one morning.
I went down.
I had an egg burrito and I gotyou coffee?
that you ended up coming downlater.
It was two out of five yeahright, it wasn't great wasn't
great.
It was good.
It's not great, but adjustedfor the setting and for the fact
that the the lady behind thething was relatively friendly
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and she actually brought my foodto my table.
4.5 out of five.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Okay, I'm glad you had that experience, because I
had to go to the front desk toget somebody to give me coffee
the other day because nobody wasworking there.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Okay, so then that would Mine was like a one out of
five.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Well but but my coffee was good, so that was a
three out of five.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
See, there you go, but this will be the basis of
our new restaurant reviews, Likebased on hospitality and
friendliness alone.
We take all the other stuffinto account, but we don't, we
just don't, you know we don'trate that.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
We will have plenty of opportunity and Savannah
supposed to just be the city ofSouthern hospitality.
The nickname is the hostesscity, so let's see if they do it
right.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Yeah, but again, if they charge more, then my
expectation is going to be awhole hell of a lot more than
wandering into the Burger King.
Listen, at Burger King, if theyacknowledge my presence and get
the order right five out offive.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
All right, let's just don't order any scallops in
Savannah because it's on a river.
River scallops don't need it.
We were at least on the baywhen we were in St Pete.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
There Done.
So, Amanda, this whole thingthat happened with the CEO at
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the Coldplay concert.
Not the first time somethinglike this has happened.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Really.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Not exactly like this , but check this out.
In 2013, a woman in Russiadiscovered her boyfriend was
cheating when she saw a photo ofhim with another woman while
searching an address usingYandex Maps, which is the
Russian equivalent of StreetView.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
So Google Maps just happened to catch this guy with
a girl and take a picture of it,and then she happened to be
looking for an address and saw apicture of him.
And what?
She happened to be looking foran address and saw a picture of
him.
And what were they doingoutside that clearly he was
cheating.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
I mean they must have been locked in an embrace.
But can you imagine that?
Now again, it's like theRussian equivalent.
I know on Street View now theyblur the faces because they
don't have permission to showpeople although they're in a
public place, so you shouldn'thave presumption of privacy when
you're in a public place.
That's why newspapers can takea picture of an event that's
happening in a public place, andthey don't need to get
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everyone's permission.
But isn't that just a kick inthe teeth right there, though,
because that's not just even aone time like that's up forever,
unless they sue to remove that.
That is something though yougotta think at that point like
the universe just wants you.
That's karma.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
No, yeah, that is karma hard because, right, no,
that like the, the percentageprobability, whatever math I
can't do of that, is so like onein millions that it has to be
karma it has to be, has to be.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
So there you go.
So this executive guy I meansorry it happened to you, but
come on, you're at a publicplace, you're at a concert,
everyone has a phone.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Everyone has a phone.
You show up on the big screen.
At that point you're like well,this isn't going to work.
One of the things that peoplehave been saying and that I said
when I saw it, was if theyhadn't reacted, no one would
find out.
But that's not true.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
That's not true, because what would have happened
is is they were on this screen.
They're in their hometown, Iassume.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
They weren't, they were in Boston.
Oh, they weren't in theirhometown, and they're I think
from New York.
Okay.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
They're on this screen.
At some point someone wouldhave recognized these people
Also.
He's like he's a public figure.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
He's kind of well-known.
I guess I've never freakingheard of him.
I mean in that sphere I don't.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
I just think that it would have come out no matter
what, even if they would haveplayed it off Now, worst
possible thing you could havedone.
I mean, where did he go?
He just disappeared.
I don't know that's such a goodquestion.
I have this comic impression inmy mind of him crawling around
on all fours amidst the peanutsand the popcorn, just trying to
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get away.
But the interesting thing isthat we've not seen any video
from the other direction.
Yeah, like them from someone onthe row when they realized
what's going on very quicklyjust whipping up their phone.
And that's what I want to see.
I want to see where he went, Iwant to see what he did and
where he went.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
So there's so, many, many memes, but my favorite that
I've seen is the PhiladelphiaPhillies mascots.
You know these goofy?
What are they?
They're like big green blobs.
I don't even know what they are, but it's the girl version and
the guy version and they'rerecreating this at a Phillies
game.
But when the camera pans, hedoes, he just drops.
And it's so funny to watch thisbig blobby mascot just drop to
(22:41):
the ground and so you assumehe's just laying there in a heap
.
But is that what the guy did?
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
I don't think that he can be hired now, and I say
that not because of the incidentitself, because unfortunately,
unfortunately, people cheat allthe time and they get caught all
the time and it's public allthe time.
It's for what he did after,like we're looking for a leader
of our company, but not the guy,when, faced with difficult
times, drops to the floor andcockroaches his way away I mean
(23:09):
that is like some toddler levelstuff right there, right like
just throwing yourself on theground.
I can't deal with it anymore.
See, you say that.
What if he threw himself on theground, just started crying?
Speaker 2 (23:19):
I know right, that's what I'm saying that's what he
would do in a boardroom Arms andlegs in the air.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
That'd be amazing.
You're on a Zoom with him, likea very tense Zoom.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Sunny goes down.
Zoom, he's just gone.
I think the thing that I findthe most annoying about this
because I was not personallylike it's really none of my
business, it has nothing to dowith me I feel for their
partners and their families andtheir children the thing that I
am the most hung up on is thename of the company is
astronomer.
That's does not tell me what youdo.
Astronomer is a job description.
Astronomer is a career.
It is a profession description.
Astronomer is a career.
It is a profession.
What is his?
(23:56):
Wealth management company orwhatever.
It is just called astronomer.
That's not a name for yourcompany.
I thought he was an astronomer.
When people kept sayingastronomer, ceo, I thought it
was like businessman CEO.
He was an astronomer CEO.
I'm more annoyed about the nameof his company right now.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Yeah, there we go, and that explains my wife's
mindset ladies and gentlemen,one, two, three, four.
We used to do a segment calledwhat Did I Learn this Week?
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Remember that I do and I don't think I learned
anything this week.
Did you learn something thisweek?
I did?
What'd you learn?
I do and I don't.
I don't.
I don't think I learnedanything this week.
Did you learn something thisweek?
I did?
What'd you?
Speaker 1 (24:35):
learn.
I did learn.
Okay, you heard this idea of anuclear family.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Do you know where it comes from or what it means?
Speaker 2 (24:40):
I mean it's, it's talking about the idea of not
just mother living in the home.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
No.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
I thought that's what that was.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
No.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Well then, clearly I need to learn something this
week.
What is it?
Speaker 1 (24:55):
In most of the world, extended families were and are
the norm right, Especially inpre-industrial societies way
back through history Right.
So households includedgrandparents aunts and uncles
cousins.
Everyone contributed to, likethe farming or the caregiving
that lived in big clumps.
You couldn't travel and move toanother city necessarily so
(25:15):
easily, so everyone tended tostay together right, and that's
the norm for hundreds uponthousands of years.
The idea is that familiesfunction, not as just emotional
units, but as caregiving units,as economic units yeah sure,
like to survive, and it worked.
It worked a storm, it was great,it was fine.
Units like to survive, and itworked.
It worked a storm, it was great, it was fine.
Industrial revolution comesalong and people started to move
(25:37):
to cities for factory jobs,right.
So you had smaller, more mobilefamilies, and so the idea of,
like smaller, two-parenthouseholds gained traction in
like these urban settings, andthat's the direction that it
went Post-World War II America.
This is when the nuclear familytruly became idealized,
(25:58):
especially in the United States.
Not only did you have theeconomic impetus for people to
move to cities, to get jobs andto support themselves, but also
you had this idea in TVadvertising politics, pushing
the opposite of communistcollectivism, the opposite of
(26:20):
socialism, which was what theytermed as this basic building
block, this strong foundation ofthe nucleus.
Yeah, of society, which is thisquote unquote nuclear family.
This is new.
Again, I'm talking about1945-ish.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
I had that really wrong in my head, though.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
But this is a new invention, this idea of nuclear
family, and I think that itreally contributed and
contributes to the breakdown ofsociety, this whole idea of
American individualism.
We can go it on our own, wedon't need other people.
You know, as long as we havethis little perfect family,
we're okay.
Now, what we do as Americans,or what we have done, we have
(27:04):
pushed this idea out beyond theUnited States and globally.
Now they've been affected withthe idea of, oh, like the
nuclear family, and it's falselyseen as a universal tradition
or as traditional values, whenit's not, it's relatively new.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
I had no idea.
I thought it meant extendedfamily all living in one place.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
No, no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
I think it's interesting that they call it
nuclear family, because whensomething bad happens in the
nuclear plant, you know, you seewhat you get.
The fallout is wide.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Yeah, so that's what.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
I learned this week.
That's cool.
Thank you for sharing that.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
And it really kind of gave me a perspective or made
me re-examine, like, how ourfamily is.
We don't have a nuclear family.
Well, we kind of do and kind ofdon't, because we have kids
from our first marriages and nowwe have this little being from
this marriage.
That's not what I would call atraditional nuclear family.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Yeah, we have a lot of like chosen family too,
though, because you and I don'thave very many relatives left
really, so it's more the idea ofthe people that we choose to
surround ourselves with.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
It's interesting because the idea of chosen
family I resisted for thelongest time Because I came from
like a single mother.
Yeah Right, she couldn't takecare of me.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
And so I was adopted by a single man who happened to
be very good friends with mymother's family, and so, in that
way, he chose me.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
But also very miserable person.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Yeah, right.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Yeah, right, yeah.
So I was provided forphysically by and large, but
emotionally my childhood andearly adulthood was a fucking
train wreck.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
I did not enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Now I can appreciate the benefits that I got from him
adopting me, but also like Ineeded to have a family family
and I did not have a family,family, yeah.
So it took me a long time, whenI heard this idea of chosen
family, to really embrace thegood parts of what that means I
guess in my head I would thinkit would be more like he chose
(29:07):
you and that wasn't.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
you have this very dichotomous relationship because
you recognize that he, you know, physically provided for you
but not emotionally orpsychologically.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
But then therefore, you choosing family would be you
having control over that andwho you choose yeah, but we're
all a product of, of, yeah, ourupbringing, and I know that
living with me ain't the easiest, you know, pumpkin pie no, but
it's true, like I carry baggage,so we all have it we do all
(30:06):
right.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
so we're talking about nuclear families, we're
talking about extended families,we're talking about chosen
family, but really the thecenter of all of that right is
the relationship of whateverpeople have started this family.
One thing that we used to do along time ago that we've not
done in a while, if you notice,that was the Game Time music by
AJCW.
(30:26):
It's four letters that I neverget right.
So that was that pause.
That was that dramatic pause.
I have to do his full name inmy head before I can do it AJCW,
is that right?
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Yes, or is it AJWC?
You had it, man you had it, Iknow Anyway.
That's our son Andrew, who doesmusic.
You should check him out bysearching AJCW on your music
streaming apps of choice.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Yes.
So one thing we used to do awhile ago and I loved it with my
whole heart and you hated itwith your whole heart is that I
used to torment you withBuzzFeed quizzes.
Oh shit, and we have not donethis in a while.
Like, I got real serious withmy flashbacks.
Some people were learningthings.
No, no, the BuzzF buzzfeed isback.
And since we're talking abouthow families get started or how
(31:13):
they um continue, this buzzfeedquiz I have for you is can we
guess your relationship statusbased on the grocery shopping
you do?
So, people, this is notnecessary to guess what is so
people have been concerned aboutthe the state of.0.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Of our 2.0 marriage, our second marriage.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
They are worried that I am leaving you because I'm
grumpy all the time.
So this is a way for us toassure the listeners that we are
okay as long as you get yourgrocery list right.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
This is a trap.
This is a trap.
You're trapping me and go ahead, and go ahead, go ahead, but
you have to promise not to beupset with any of the answers it
comes up with, because BuzzFeeddon't know shit about me.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Okay, all right, pick some ice cream, chocolate,
vanilla, strawberry.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Neapolitan is my favorite.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
I can't pick all three of these Joker.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
All right, strawberry then.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
All right, so is my favorite.
I can't pick all three of these, joker.
All right, strawberry, then.
All right, so you pickedstrawberry ice cream.
Now pick some pizza to eat.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Pepperoni cheese or supreme Pepperoni.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
Okay, this is what you're buying in the store.
Pick some bread Cinnamon raisinbread, wheat bread, white bread
.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Those are my choices.
Yeah, friend.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
You get three.
No, no here pick one wheat okayum choose a type of pasta
spaghetti, fettuccine or pastasalad fettuccine, that's easy.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Love me some fettuccine.
Linguine though is, I love thatbetter.
You know, what I hate is I hatebow ties and I hate the spiral
ones, because I don't rotinidon't like them.
I don't know why.
I don't feel like they.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
They deliver the they don't get the as a medium they
don't deliver uh as well to meas I want.
Okay, choose your favorite,damn it, I was hoping to to
totally redirect you there?
Nope, choose your favoritecereal, honey, nut cheerios,
special k, red berries or cocoapebbles no, none of them.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Okay, but you have to choose from this, the only
place.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
This is the gorgeous store you go to only has three
choices for everything all right, whatever the whatever the
first one was Honey Nut Cheerios.
Okay, choose a type ofshellfish, lobster, shrimp,
oysters I don't like shellfishLobster.
Pick a vegetable Broccoli,sweet potato or eggplant.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
Oh God.
Well, everyone's going to pickbroccoli out of that, yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
I don't know.
Choose a type of rice Brownrice.
I don't know.
Choose a type of rice brownrice.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
I don't like rice, white rice, uh brown choose
fruit, avocado, grapes, bananaavocado it's only one banana,
but multiple grapes.
Okay, ready yeah, sure, andwhatever this says, I guess this
is what we got to do.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
BuzzFeed says according to your grocery picks,
you are single.
Oh, fuck off, all right.
So, friends, if you wereworried about the state of our
relationship, you might have hada reason to, because BuzzFeed
has spoken and we must listen.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Here's the thing I think that I do shop as if I'm
single because no one in thishouse wants to eat the same
thing.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
No, it's really frustrating.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Yeah, but no no, no, no, no.
You don't want to eat the samething that I eat.
I know, and you don't want toeat at dinner anymore.
You know that's the breakdownof the nuclear family.
Right here is we're supposed toall be sharing a table right At
mealtime is sharing our day andjust getting to know each other
just a little bit more andproviding support and love and
freaking.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
no one will eat at the table or near the table you
pace in the kitchen when you eatRight, because no one wants to
sit at the table Lies you'retelling lies.
This is why you're single.
You lie.
No, you stand in the kitchenand eat because you don't want
us to get on to you aboutwhatever's falling into your
beard or whatever.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
Jesus Christ, eat because you don't want us to get
on to you about whatever'sfalling into your beard or
whatever anyway, but no onewants to eat the same thing
either.
It's like winthrop, like onlyhas a selection of four things.
He will eat if four, and maybeit's two, I don't know.
Um, and then muffie is avegetarian, which good on on
muffie with trina and sesameallergies.
With allergies really hard yeahand then you never want to eat
(35:11):
dinner anymore because you eatlunch and therefore you don't
want to eat dinner, which Iapplaud again, the intermittent
fasting and all this and that,but can we adjust it somehow so
that we all eat the same thingat the same table?
Speaker 2 (35:23):
Well, so the issue is that out of six people in the
family, we've always had someversion of dietary restrictions,
choices, choices and or foodallergies.
You have food allergies.
She has food allergies.
Daniel, our oldest, wasgluten-free vegetarian for a
while.
Andrew, me and Winthrop willtry anything, and then you and
(35:45):
Muffy have.
You don't like vegetables,clearly based on how you didn't
want to choose any of them fromthe grocery store.
And she there are a lot ofthings she cannot eat, because I
mean sesame's in so much now.
So I've always amended just afood for her based on her food
allergies.
But then I think back to likemy mom made dinner and this is
(36:06):
what dinner was.
Yep, same and you ate it, or youdidn't eat it, but this is what
dinner was.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
Same.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
I have created this with him because I'm constantly,
you know, like thinking what'sshe going to have?
Because it's typicallydifferent if we're having a
protein or you know there'ssomething that she can't eat in
it.
But now you're right, he willeat grilled cheese, he will eat
a veggie burger, he willoccasionally eat a nugget, but
that's it.
And so I don't know, do we justpivot and be like, hey, this is
(36:33):
what we're eating, you can eat,or not?
Like, is he too old to do this?
Speaker 1 (36:37):
No, of course he's not too old to do this.
People go on like new diets andnew ways to eat all the time.
It's never too late.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
All right, well, let's start it this fall.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
And then we also eat at the table or near the table
at the same time.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
Near the table, you can stand near the table.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
And then you'll eat too at dinnertime.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
Yes, ooh, very good, love that.
Maybe you don't have to besingle anymore.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
Yes, Email that sound tells us it's time for our
emails.
We have a couple of emails thisweek.
First of all, Mark Plant got intouch and we talked a little
bit about people drinking duringwork hours last week.
He says this.
Back in the early 2000s we hada rule in the call center where
we were allowed an alcoholicdrink with a meal at lunch.
(37:22):
So that's they had to have arule about it, number one.
So that's interesting, he said.
When England played Argentinain the 2002 World Cup, I managed
five pints and in my hour, ohand a sandwich oh my god, did
you go back to work and answerany of the questions I?
feel like he did, and maybe hedid a better job maybe.
But an alcoholic meal with adrink does that mean he had a
(37:44):
five pint bucket that he wasdrinking from, because I think
that that's the way you getaround that right, you just have
a bigger container.
One receptacle, or you justdrink directly from the tap.
Speaker 2 (37:54):
From the tap.
Okay, fair.
Speaker 1 (37:56):
Yeah, where's Mark?
Oh, he's off doing keg standsin the cafeteria.
Refined Gay Jeff got in touchand he had some feedback on a
couple of things that we talkedabout.
We always love that.
A couple of episodes ago wetalked about, and we always love
that.
A couple episodes ago we talkedabout how I had given up coffee
.
So he says, um, that he drinksonly decaffeinated coffee and
(38:18):
tea, because he discovered manyyears ago that caffeine affects
his system in a way that is notat all pleasurable.
His heart races uncontrollably,he starts to perspire and it
gives him a feeling that he doesnot enjoy at all yeah, no, that
does not sound good yeah, so heonly drinks decaf coffee at
home and and tea, and then helaments the price of tea going
(38:41):
out, like he's saying it's justwater with some brew tea leaves,
but why is that four dollars?
Speaker 2 (38:45):
yeah, I know right it everything's expensive.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
Now, I think that that's the point.
He does mention this idea.
We're talking about teachingWinthrop and Muffy how to ride a
bike.
Yes, he says that one of hisearliest memories is learning
how to ride a bike, his dadpushing him on the driveway
while everyone basically crossedtheir fingers for success.
And success did come.
I think I remember mastering itpretty quickly.
(39:09):
I was maybe late, four, earlyfive years old possibly.
Anyway, that's a happy corememory that he has.
He says that swimming also wasvery easy and we have determined
that you don't teach your kidshow to ride a bike, they just
learn how to ride a bike.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
We had no teaching, no teaching was involved.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
You can't teach someone how to balance.
Now, winthrop and muffie pickedup really quickly.
But let's just, let's just takethe, the myth out of it,
because I was really stressedlike, oh, how am I gonna teach
them?
No, no, they just learn theyjust learn.
Speaker 2 (39:44):
Yep, I mean, and they are.
They are champion bikers now soit was what.
Let's not go, okay well, but Iwas amazed watching him last
night and then I remembered doyou remember when he was three
and we got him his first scooter?
Yeah and we lived in a in astreet that had a cul-de-sac and
he would just whip around thatcul-de-sac so fast and you and I
(40:04):
were talking about how likenerve-wracking it was yep now
that he can ride he's going fast, like we kept telling him to
stay behind Muffy and he wasjust like on her heels and
waiting to pass her.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
Like I think this kid has a need for speed why
couldn't we have just had alittle sloth come out?
Speaker 2 (40:24):
well, I mean, he can be a sloth when it's time to
take a shower.
Speaker 1 (40:26):
Yeah, that's true, jeff continues.
He talks about how um he hadsome celebrity sightings this
past week so talked aboutyamming a little bit.
He says he doesn't havephotographic proof that that
happened.
But he was um he I had to runto dxl.
Speaker 2 (40:43):
He said if you don't even know what.
Speaker 1 (40:45):
That is okay, but it's a big boy store, okay as I
entered the store, turned thecorner while walking to where
the shorts are and practicallyran into someone I've been
waiting to at least see inperson since I moved to Houston
24 years ago Yao Ming Absolutelycould not believe my eyes.
All seven foot six inches ofhim.
All you saw all of him Was hein the changing room.
(41:07):
I never made it to a HoustonRockets game when he played here
and just thought that I wouldnever realize that dream of
seeing him.
Not only did I see him today, Ialso spoke with him.
I rarely get nervous or bashfulwhen I do meet famous people
and I've met a few, but I wasabsolutely awestruck today.
I was just humbled seeing andtalking to one of the tallest
(41:28):
people currently on the planetright now he also says that that
Yao Ming's wife 6'3".
Speaker 2 (41:33):
Oh, wow, I mean, I guess she would have to be yes.
Speaker 1 (41:36):
I mean, if you want to have kids, yes, Things need
to be similar.
At least it can't be as if it'stwo different species.
You know what I'm saying.
So he said that he said hisgoodbyes to the store employees
and to Yao Ming, got in his carand had to decompress and then
realized that he had parkedright next to Yao Ming in his
(41:59):
all-black Mercedes Sprinter.
Speaker 2 (42:00):
I don't know what a Sprinter is, cars that I don't
even know what's a Sprinter.
Speaker 1 (42:04):
I don't know Very tall, I would assume.
Or the seat goes all the wayback and he just like a, like a
shower rod that you buy fromhome depot and then you got to
put all the seats back to put inthere.
He says of course he had adriver.
Maybe they put yow just on theroof and strapped him down
looking like he's a kayak hesays in closing.
let me share with you thislittle bit of strangeness that I
(42:26):
have started doing josh in yourclosing.
Every week, when you list thecontributions of everyone, you
invariably get to this oneperson, whom I have no idea who
he is because I don't evenremember you talking about him,
but Amanda always repeats hisname, joey, so he has gotten
into the habit of saying Joey intandem with Amanda.
Don't ask me why it brings mejoy.
Speaker 2 (42:47):
Thanks, because Joey brings me joy.
Jeff Joey is a listener of thepodcast and he is a good friend
of ours and his family, and sowhile we've never had Joey on
the podcast, Joey is a fan ofthe pod and so I'm just happy.
Every time I see Joey in person, I say Joey and give Joey a hug
, and his wife and his childrenare lovely too.
Speaker 1 (43:08):
Yeah, he is a big teddy bear of a guy and just the
friendliest dude.
So, that's Joey.
Everyone should have a Joey intheir life.
Yes, we need to have more Joeyin our life.
No one likes to be told what todo.
Now is the time in the show, inthe big program, where we tell
you what to do, amanda.
What should we do?
Speaker 2 (43:26):
If you haven't yet go see Superman, so you haven't
yet go see superman.
So you took andrew and muffieum earlier in the week, and then
muffie loved it so much thatshe really thought I would love
it and she wanted me to go seeit with her.
So I went to see it with her Idon't know wednesday or thursday
, a couple days later, but itwas so good, it was just so
charming.
It.
(43:46):
Um, I had good messages.
It made you feel good.
The end of it made me cry.
The guy who plays Superman iscute.
I don't know where he came from.
He's got nice dimples and alsoCrypto the dog, cgi, but I still
love him.
So anyway, I recommend you gosee Superman.
Speaker 1 (44:05):
This is the reason why we have art Just to make us
feel better about the world, tomake us feel like there's hope,
and none of that is silly.
All of that is essential to thehuman spirit, and it also
doesn't matter that it is aquote, unquote, silly, cartoon
comic book movie.
So we look at that these greatworks of art from history, from
(44:28):
Van Gogh and Leonardo da Vinciand yeah, they're good and
they're skillfully made, butalso, because they're hundreds
of years old, we revere themlike this is the pinnacle of art
.
Well, no bullshit.
There's things that are createdtoday that are just as
meaningful and contribute tobeauty to society as those
things did.
It's just that they're new andfor whatever reason we deem them
(44:49):
to not be those things did.
It's just that they're new andfor whatever reason we deem them
to not be worthy Nah, that's BS.
Art is art.
Art that contributes to yoursense of well-being and your
sense of hope in humanity and inthe future, that's good art,
that's great art, that is holyart, that is elevated art.
(45:10):
I don't care what form it takes.
Speaker 2 (45:12):
Well, and also, I think, if we did a little bit of
dive into the history ofgraphic novels or comic books, I
think a lot of these storiesare born out of suffering and
out of feeling like you have noagency, and so that's therefore
the creation of the superhero isto feel like you have some
agency, and I would argue thatjust by expressing, you're
(45:36):
taking back some agency yep,love that.
Speaker 1 (45:38):
All right, so go see that comic book movie with the
cute dog yeah, and the dimplesall right, amanda, that's all
there is.
There is no more.
What do you think about thatgiant conglomeration of kind of
random bits this week?
Speaker 2 (45:55):
It was random this week and I'm sorry.
I've got a headache going thatI've had about four days
straight, and it's not fromdecorating.
I don't know what it's from,but it's not from decorating.
So I just ramble and moan aboutthe world, so thanks for
listening.
Okay, on the back of ramble andmoan about the world, so thanks
for listening.
Speaker 1 (46:11):
Okay, on the back of that, do we have a birthday
shout?
Speaker 2 (46:14):
out.
Yes, our friend, our goodfriend, rachel Plant, celebrated
her birthday this week, and sowe are sending happy, happy
birthday thoughts across thepond to the north of England, to
Rachel Plant.
Speaker 1 (46:24):
And also I think that coming up really soon is Joey's
birthday.
Speaker 2 (46:27):
Joey.
Speaker 1 (46:28):
I think I saw that on a calendar somewhere.
So happy soon as joey'sbirthday, joey.
I think I saw that on acalendar somewhere.
So happy birthday, joey.
We have our credits, withoutwhom this podcast would not be
able to be produced this week.
Of course, we talked about thenuclear family, and so let's
recognize today's nuclear heroes, thanks to antonio, who still
won't wear pants in the reactorcore.
To matt, who successfullydiverted the meltdown.
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To leo, who keeps mistakinguranium rods for pool noodles.
To josh scar, the head oflunchroom safety he has banned
irradiated tuna forever.
To danny buckets, who installeda basketball hoop above the
coolant tanks.
To chicken tom, who istechnically a, but he runs the
entire facility schedulingsoftware.
To Monique from Germany, oursafety compliance officer, who
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just keeps saying this wouldnever happen in Germany.
To Refined Gay Jeff, whoredesigned the hazmat suits into
something more chic.
To Joey Joey.
To Rachel and Mark from HR, whorecently added emotional
contamination to the incidentreport forms.
And to Dan and Gavin,co-managers of the Nuclear
Karaoke Night.
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And, of course, to my loveAmanda, our plant's emotional
core, who only occasionallymelts down.
Speaker 2 (47:44):
Oh, thank you.
I was going to say you neverthank me in this list.
How did you know?
I was thinking that.
Speaker 1 (48:11):
Yeah well, until next week, remember, if it glows,
don't touch it.
Go, be kind Bye, Thank you.
That dog's at it again neuroticvigilance, barking at the
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postman's left shoe with caninediligence, A phantom menace in
every dust speck that floatsthis hairy paranoid with dental
overbite.
Notes the wind picks up.
He's off his daggum head,barking at the concept of
Tuesday.
Instead of lying down likenormal dogs should do, he's
protesting the color magenta.
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He apparently also hates blue.
Tax returns, microwaves, theneighbor's toupee.
He's barking at shadows cast byEarl Grey.
The doorbell rings he thinksit's a conspiracy between the
cat next door and fancy Frenchpastry.
Ballpoint pens drive him up thewall.
Abstract paintings he hatesthem all.
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Clouds shaped like Nebraska.
Silent documentaries hisendless complaints about modern
dentistry.
In the dead of night he'llstart without warning, barking
at the concept of global warming.
I haven't slept right since2002, thanks to his vendetta
against bamboo.
So why does my dog bark at thewind and IKEA furniture that
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needs assembling and a harshcritic of interpretive ballet?
I reckon he's just wired thatway.
In a world where garden gnomesplot revolution and sock drawers
require canine retribution fromquantum physics to leftover
curry, real or imagined danger.
He's a Karen, but furry.
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He will remain my barkingfriend.
His hatred of jazz bands willnever end.
The neighborhood thinks we'vegone insane with his howling
dislike of cellophane.
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 that shit, then now's your chance.
Three, two, one run.
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I'm super familiar with theWilsons Get it.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Welcome to Super Familiar with the Wilsons.
I'm Amanda.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
And I'm Josh.
Amanda, I have got such newsfor you.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Oh, okay, does it involve a Coldplay concert?
Speaker 1 (00:38):
No, we can briefly touch on that in a few minutes.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Well, that seems to be all the news.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
So I just thought that was the news.
It is, but it's almost, I think, run its course, because this
is, yeah, this is the news cycle.
Now it's like 15 secondsliterally, and then boom, we're
on to the next thing.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Someone had commented I don't remember who it was,
but it was in a conversationthat was having through text and
they said imagine how manyHalloween costumes couples are
going to have this year thatrefer to that like trying to be
cute, and my point was that'llbe so forgotten by then.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
By a handful of people we'll still remember,
probably those who are directlyinvolved, but I don't think
they'll be dressing up like thatfor Halloween.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Well, it's funny because I was going to do a
segment about this whole thing,as I guess all content creators
have decided.
Ooh, this topic is going to beso hot and trending.
Then I got online and everyonehas a take on it, so boring.
Here's my only take on it,right, because I was trying to
think of what could possiblyhappen as a result of this, like
, what are the consequences ofthis?
I think it's possible that thisis going to turn into a new way
, a new power move.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
how to resign?
Okay, fair enough.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Romantic resignation.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Frolicking at a concert, or you just mean like,
maybe sending an emailaccidentally to the wrong person
, or like, what do you mean?
I don't know you can do itsending an email accidentally to
the wrong person, or like whatdo you mean?
Speaker 1 (02:05):
I don't know.
You can do it as an email.
Auto reply.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Okay.
Well, I have to set mine upbecause I'm going out of town
for work this week, so I'll bemindful.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
All right.
So then type this down.
I am currently unavailable asI'm dramatically throwing away
my corporate career for passionand love.
Okay, virgin Matter, urgentmatters.
Please contact for myreplacement.
Or, like your new linkedinstatus, oh yes, change it from
senior vp of operations tounemployed but deeply in love,
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that's right.
So there, that's.
My unique wilson's take on thiswhole thing is that this is
going to spawn a movement,because everything spawns a
movement until something bettercomes along.
But that's not what I wanted totell you.
That's not the thing that's notthe news.
I'm sorry do you rememberballoon boy?
Speaker 2 (02:48):
no, you don't remember no I remember bubble
boy, who was in a bubble andlike a giant hamster wheel thing
.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
He wasn't really in a giant hamster wheel, but no, no
, no, balloon boy, it's a hoaxright that occurred in oh yeah
october 2009, you remember thisthey Like he floated away or
something.
So a homemade helium-filled gasballoon shaped to resemble a
silver flying saucer wasreleased into the atmosphere
above Fort Collins, colorado, bythe Heen family.
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They then claimed that theirsix-year-old son, falcon, was
trapped inside of it.
Do you remember this?
I do remember this now theauthorities spent all this money
national guard helicopters, allthe police pursuing this
balloon.
It fly it.
It flew for more than an hourand and went about 50 miles
right and it landed and falconwas not found inside had had
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Falcon disintegrated within thehelium.
Well, it was reported that anobject had been seen falling
from the balloon, and then theysearched, but later the boy was
found hiding in the attic of hishome, where he had apparently
been the entire time.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
How much did this?
I hope these people had to payfor all of the first responders
and all of the money that wasspent looking for this child who
was just upstairs.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Suspicions of a hoax arose, particularly after an
interview um on larry king livethat same evening.
When asked why he was hiding,falcon said his father.
You guys said that, um, we didthis for the show what show?
Right?
Well, they didn't.
They didn't say that, so anyway, they concluded that it was a
hoax.
The, the parents served a fewdays in jail and then there you
go right now.
They always maintain theirimage.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Now, they always maintain their innocence they
say he was in the balloon and hefell no, they say that he like
hid and they didn't know that hewas hiding so they didn't check
the balloon before theyreleased it into the air dude,
what's happening right now?
Speaker 1 (04:50):
I'm just telling you I can't speak to, to what they
did, not the point of any ofthis.
You remember the incident andlike it was a big deal for a
while I found out on the in-lawand the outlaw podcast which is
a familiar wilson's mediapodcast done by chicken tom yes
and his son-in-law.
They live right down the streetfrom Chicken Tom.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
No, they don't.
Those people live here.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
They moved and they live here now.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
That's crazy.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
How about that?
That's like celebrities.
We should get them on the show.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Balloon Boy is like 15 now.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
No, I think he's no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
That was 16 years ago .
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Yeah, yeah, now.
No, I think he's 16.
I think, no, no, no, that was16 years ago, yeah, yeah, yeah,
he's older than all that now.
So I what chicken tom says isthat he thinks balloon boy works
in, um, and get this sellingtiny houses.
And so I asked him are theyaround and filled with gas?
Speaker 2 (05:35):
right, or is it like the up house?
Speaker 1 (05:38):
that's the house from up they.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
That's how he can combine his two loves balloons
and tiny houses.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
I don't know, but isn't that?
Speaker 2 (05:45):
something that's crazy.
So does Balloon Boy live herewith his parents or just by
himself?
I've given you all theinformation that I have and he's
still in the attic.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
I don't well, no, he's selling tiny houses.
Keep up.
Have you ever lived nearsomeone famous or found out that
you live near someone famous?
Speaker 2 (06:02):
I mean, John Travolta doesn't live too far from us,
but not like a couple of streetsaway or something Freaking half
an hour to 45 minutes away.
So the answer is no.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
That's super interesting though.
It's interesting because Jeffsent us his refined gay Jeff
thoughts and we'll read a littlebit of that.
But one of his things that hewrites in there is that he
encountered Yao Ming last weekor the week before in Houston.
Yao Ming, the seven foot sixChinese NBA player, a former NBA
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player, which I think is superinteresting.
But to find out like thisfamous person lives down the
road, especially if it's afamous person for a slightly
offbeat thing very interesting.
Like what do you do if, likeBalloon Boy's, parents come over
and ask for like butter orsomething?
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Wait, wasn't the guy who had like the Christian World
Center?
Wasn't he in this town?
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Bob Jones or Jim Jones or Jim Jones had the
Kool-Aid.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
I don't remember who.
Yeah, no, terry, terry Jones.
Yeah, so he was the one whothreatened to destroy or burn
the korans yes uh, way, way backgosh.
It's like 10, 15 years, 20years ago.
How long ago was that um?
I mean, it was like 2010, Ithink anyway, he lived in
gainesville and I think he waslast seen in was it tampa or
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some other florida town runninga chicken place out of a mall
food court.
Nope, oh yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Excellent.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
So anyway, have you ever lived near a celebrity,
especially a celebrity for aweird reason?
Let us know at familiarwilsonsat gmailcom.
Also go ahead and listen to theIn Law and the Out Law podcast.
That's a Familiar Wilson'smedia joint and you can get that
on your streaming apps Pocketwatch, ticking constricting coat
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and vest.
I invented a couple words thisweek.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Oh, okay.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
The combination of heat and humidity outside in
this state.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Oh my God, what is that called?
It's the worst.
I have a word for it.
It's called the seventh layerof hell or the surface of the
sun.
I don't know what it's called,but it's awful.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Yeah, no, we are experiencing that right now.
We were just in St Petersburg,florida, which was lovely, but
it was so hot, as we werewalking around outside, that I
had to take off my wedding ringbecause it was too hot, and I
don't mean that it was too hot,it was burning me.
It just felt like my God.
I got to get all the things offand I could not take off all of
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my clothes.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Thank you for not taking your clothes off at the
farmer's market.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
That wasn't an option , so I took off my wedding ring
and I actually felt cooler.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
I had.
I mean, I constantly had sweatlike dripping from places, like
down my back, like just rollingdown my back constantly.
It was so bad.
And yesterday we were out andour heat index and so that's
like not the actual temperaturebut what it feels and that's
what matters Until seven o'clocklast night was 111 degrees
Fahrenheit.
Like that's just not okay.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
This is what I call that, though, that mixture of
moisture in the air with heat.
It's flora damp.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
That's a very good one, because it is flora damp,
that's actually very, very good.
I'm very proud of you.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Okay, the other word that I created is that migraine
that's brought about bydecorating.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
There's this particular pain that you get as
you're trying to decide willthis match Will?
Speaker 2 (09:29):
that match.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
You go to Pinterest and you look at the pictures and
you're like, oh shit, that'sawesome, I'm going to have that
in my house.
Your house is never going tolook like that picture.
In fact that house in thepicture does not look like that
no no, no, no, no, it like that.
No, no, no, no, no, it's, it'simpossible.
And then you know, if you werestarting from scratch and you
had all the money in the world,maybe you can, but you know,
invariably you have likegrandma's vase that you can't
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get rid of and that's gonnascrew up your picture.
Perfect pinterest picture there, because you got like the vase
with the ashes in it.
That's because grandma's in it,okay yeah, so that's called an
aesthetic oh, okay, excellent,yes, good so those are your two
words, your two wilson coinwords that you can fold into
your vocab aesthetic andfloridamp the more you know
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keeping time till kingdom come.
Every heartbeat, every backbeat, every breath we draw.
Dear listener, as you may beable to suss out from my voice,
I am sick, you're on the otherside of sick.
I am on the other side of sick.
All I know is that I was doingfine, doing great, hadn't been
sick in a while, and I go to thegym.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
You did.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
I forgot For the first time in like literally
years I forgot you went to thegym last week, the next day I'm
sick.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Because I was sick so I totally forgot that's what
you did.
Oh, you're right, that's funny.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
So I think I've learned a very valuable lesson.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
You shouldn't go to the gym.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Don't go to the gym, don't work out, don't quote,
unquote.
Get healthy, because it's justgoing to screw me.
Maybe my body now is allergicto that because it's been so
very long.
I rode a bike like three blocksyesterday.
Yes, I have not recovered.
I'm probably going to get sickagain.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Are you sore?
Speaker 1 (11:11):
My legs hurt, my knees hurt, my ankles hurt, my
neck hurts, my ear hurts.
I don't understand.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Your neck hurts from riding the bike.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Well, my neck hurts and I'm blaming riding the bike,
because that's the only unusualthing that happened.
So I'm just saying that perhapsthe gym and I we got to break
up because we're not good foreach other.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
All right well.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
At work.
Someone suggested that it wouldbe a funny podcast a bit to
have you impersonate me when I'msick, when I'm ill, because you
know, the whole cliche is thatmen can't handle being sick, and
yet women regularly pop thingsthe size of bowling balls out of
their vagina and then still goback to work.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
But no, this wouldn't work with you, because you
don't do that.
You texted me and said musthave been when you were having
this conversation.
You said am I, um,stereotypically like whiny when
I'm sick?
it was, and then I didn't answerbecause I was in a meeting and
then he wrote it's okay if it'syes, and I was like, and I still
didn't respond, and then it washello with all these question
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marks.
I was like I'm sorry, I'm in ameeting, but no, you don't.
You are the opposite of that.
You don't want help, you don'taccept help, like if I say go
lay down no, no, and then youstand around like you're a
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martyr and then you get.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Okay, wait a second now.
Now, okay, here it is, there itis Like you're characterizing,
like I say no, no, I'll be allright, I'll be okay, and then
I'm a martyr nailing myself upon a cross.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
so you are saying that, that I know you're not
like I can't stand up, I'm sick,I have a sneeze.
No, you're like I'm fine, I'llbe, I'm okay, I can be here.
It's not fair.
You do this a lot.
It's not fair when I say go,it's not fair if I don't help.
No, it's okay, please go, laydown, because if I lay down, I'm
like I, if I'm not feeling well, I I'm check out right.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
That's not true.
That's not true.
I want to check out, yeah, butyou don't.
You fight through it and you dothe things that need to be done
.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
I was talking to somebody the other day who was
also going through perimenopauseand she and I were talking
about how, like maybe like anappendectomy at this point
wouldn't be bad, like aweek-long stay in the hospital
for nothing like really bad, thehospital for nothing like
really bad.
I was like you know, it's badwhen you're like just minor
surgery would be okay with meright now, cause then I could
just like disassociate fromeverything for a little bit.
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But no, but you don't even wantmedicine.
I'll be like let me get yousome mucinex.
No, let me get you this.
No, I don't want to becomereliant on medicine.
It's not like you take it daily, it's when you're sick.
So if I forced a shot of nyquildown you the other day because
I had spent two nights sleepingin muffie's bed, because your
snoring was so loud because ofall the congestion, that I
forced a shot of nyquil on youand you and I both slept and you
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woke up the next morning youwere like I feel a little better
.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
I'm like, yeah, because you slept well, I have
two things about that.
Yes, it was helpful to do, butthen also I didn't before know
that liquid NyQuil could be usedas a suppository, so also
thanks for that You're welcome.
Moving on from that, I have anew idea for a podcast segment.
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Right, we talked before aboutdoing reviews and how review
podcasts do really well, likemovie reviews and restaurant
reviews and this, and that Ithink that I enjoy the idea of
doing a restaurant review, whichwe've kind of done bits like
that before.
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But going in and ratingrestaurants based on how the
food tastes, that's boring.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Yes, okay.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
So an idea we either do restaurant reviews based on
number one the decor.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Just go in and rate the decor of the restaurant,
nothing else.
Not the food, not anything else, or on the friendliness.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Now I think that that idea has legs, the idea of
rating restaurants onfriendliness.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Do you have a particular restaurant experience
in mind while you're thinkingabout this?
Speaker 1 (15:09):
I do.
We went to an Italianrestaurant when we were in St
Pete, a very expensive Italianrestaurant.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
I wasn't in an.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Italian restaurant, so I was confused.
It was so freaking Italian thatplace Okay fine, go ahead.
I was thinking let's do areview of that.
But that's boring because we goin and the food was very
expensive.
It was good food, mine wasfabulous, right, but like that's
boring, it's like of coursethat's what your expectation is.
You go into a really expensiverestaurant.
The food should at least at abaseline, be fine or be good
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Right.
Mine was OK, nothing special.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
I made the mistake of ordering scallops.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
you got like three yeah, I got screwed, but it was
good it was just like I gotscrewed.
But as far as the friendlinessis concerned, did you find that
place pretty friendly?
The service I thought it wasyeah I think that as we rate
places for friendly, we need toadjust it also the rating based
on price and setting.
Okay.
So if we had gone into thatitalian restaurant with no other
factors and rated it onfriendliness and hospitality
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based on price and setting Okay.
So if we had gone into thatItalian restaurant with no other
factors and rated it onfriendliness and hospitality, it
would have been a four out offive.
But we adjust it for price andsetting.
It was at best 2.5 out of five.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Oh, I thought the setting was beautiful.
It was by the water.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Yeah, but like again with how much this bill ended up
being Okay but you need toconcede because I was going to
pay for dinner.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
You paid for dinner and then you've done nothing but
complain about how much thisdinner was.
A good portion of that wasalcohol, because you and I had
two drinks each, which I think Iwound up only drinking a half
of each one of those and thenyou wound up drinking them so
and I drove friends.
By the way, I almost A third ofthat bill was alcohol, was four
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drinks.
Okay, so I can't say the foodwas like super, because my food
was like 20 something dollarsfor a really lovely mushroom
pasta, right.
Muffy got a salad that was like$15.
The eight-year-old whatever hisname is, winthrop got a
cheeseburger that was 12.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
The rest of that was scallops and alcohol, okay, but
still it's part of the price.
I mean, you can't deny it.
I'm going to go out in arestaurant, I'm going to get
alcohol.
It's just a fun thing to do.
That doesn't matter to me.
I'm just saying that for whatwe paid, I want them to rub my
feet.
I want them to bring out a hottowel, like mid-meal, as I've
got, like the eating sweats,like they do on airplanes.
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Yeah, absolutely.
Now let's take the oppositeapproach.
The hotel that we stayed inright, and I'm not going to name
it or whatever they had a, ahotel bar.
I woke up early one morning.
I went down.
I had an egg burrito and I gotyou coffee?
that you ended up coming downlater.
It was two out of five yeahright, it wasn't great wasn't
great.
It was good.
It's not great, but adjustedfor the setting and for the fact
that the the lady behind thething was relatively friendly
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and she actually brought my foodto my table.
4.5 out of five.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Okay, I'm glad you had that experience, because I
had to go to the front desk toget somebody to give me coffee
the other day because nobody wasworking there.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Okay, so then that would Mine was like a one out of
five.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Well but but my coffee was good, so that was a
three out of five.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
See, there you go, but this will be the basis of
our new restaurant reviews, Likebased on hospitality and
friendliness alone.
We take all the other stuffinto account, but we don't, we
just don't, you know we don'trate that.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
We will have plenty of opportunity and Savannah
supposed to just be the city ofSouthern hospitality.
The nickname is the hostesscity, so let's see if they do it
right.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Yeah, but again, if they charge more, then my
expectation is going to be awhole hell of a lot more than
wandering into the Burger King.
Listen, at Burger King, if theyacknowledge my presence and get
the order right five out offive.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
All right, let's just don't order any scallops in
Savannah because it's on a river.
River scallops don't need it.
We were at least on the baywhen we were in St Pete.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
There Done.
So, Amanda, this whole thingthat happened with the CEO at
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the Coldplay concert.
Not the first time somethinglike this has happened.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Really.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Not exactly like this , but check this out.
In 2013, a woman in Russiadiscovered her boyfriend was
cheating when she saw a photo ofhim with another woman while
searching an address usingYandex Maps, which is the
Russian equivalent of StreetView.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
So Google Maps just happened to catch this guy with
a girl and take a picture of it,and then she happened to be
looking for an address and saw apicture of him.
And what?
She happened to be looking foran address and saw a picture of
him.
And what were they doingoutside that clearly he was
cheating.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
I mean they must have been locked in an embrace.
But can you imagine that?
Now again, it's like theRussian equivalent.
I know on Street View now theyblur the faces because they
don't have permission to showpeople although they're in a
public place, so you shouldn'thave presumption of privacy when
you're in a public place.
That's why newspapers can takea picture of an event that's
happening in a public place, andthey don't need to get
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everyone's permission.
But isn't that just a kick inthe teeth right there, though,
because that's not just even aone time like that's up forever,
unless they sue to remove that.
That is something though yougotta think at that point like
the universe just wants you.
That's karma.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
No, yeah, that is karma hard because, right, no,
that like the, the percentageprobability, whatever math I
can't do of that, is so like onein millions that it has to be
karma it has to be, has to be.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
So there you go.
So this executive guy I meansorry it happened to you, but
come on, you're at a publicplace, you're at a concert,
everyone has a phone.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Everyone has a phone.
You show up on the big screen.
At that point you're like well,this isn't going to work.
One of the things that peoplehave been saying and that I said
when I saw it, was if theyhadn't reacted, no one would
find out.
But that's not true.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
That's not true, because what would have happened
is is they were on this screen.
They're in their hometown, Iassume.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
They weren't, they were in Boston.
Oh, they weren't in theirhometown, and they're I think
from New York.
Okay.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
They're on this screen.
At some point someone wouldhave recognized these people
Also.
He's like he's a public figure.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
He's kind of well-known.
I guess I've never freakingheard of him.
I mean in that sphere I don't.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
I just think that it would have come out no matter
what, even if they would haveplayed it off Now, worst
possible thing you could havedone.
I mean, where did he go?
He just disappeared.
I don't know that's such a goodquestion.
I have this comic impression inmy mind of him crawling around
on all fours amidst the peanutsand the popcorn, just trying to
(21:58):
get away.
But the interesting thing isthat we've not seen any video
from the other direction.
Yeah, like them from someone onthe row when they realized
what's going on very quicklyjust whipping up their phone.
And that's what I want to see.
I want to see where he went, Iwant to see what he did and
where he went.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
So there's so, many, many memes, but my favorite that
I've seen is the PhiladelphiaPhillies mascots.
You know these goofy?
What are they?
They're like big green blobs.
I don't even know what they are, but it's the girl version and
the guy version and they'rerecreating this at a Phillies
game.
But when the camera pans, hedoes, he just drops.
And it's so funny to watch thisbig blobby mascot just drop to
(22:41):
the ground and so you assumehe's just laying there in a heap
.
But is that what the guy did?
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
I don't think that he can be hired now, and I say
that not because of the incidentitself, because unfortunately,
unfortunately, people cheat allthe time and they get caught all
the time and it's public allthe time.
It's for what he did after,like we're looking for a leader
of our company, but not the guy,when, faced with difficult
times, drops to the floor andcockroaches his way away I mean
(23:09):
that is like some toddler levelstuff right there, right like
just throwing yourself on theground.
I can't deal with it anymore.
See, you say that.
What if he threw himself on theground, just started crying?
Speaker 2 (23:19):
I know right, that's what I'm saying that's what he
would do in a boardroom Arms andlegs in the air.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
That'd be amazing.
You're on a Zoom with him, likea very tense Zoom.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Sunny goes down.
Zoom, he's just gone.
I think the thing that I findthe most annoying about this
because I was not personallylike it's really none of my
business, it has nothing to dowith me I feel for their
partners and their families andtheir children the thing that I
am the most hung up on is thename of the company is
astronomer.
That's does not tell me what youdo.
Astronomer is a job description.
Astronomer is a career.
It is a profession description.
Astronomer is a career.
It is a profession.
What is his?
(23:56):
Wealth management company orwhatever.
It is just called astronomer.
That's not a name for yourcompany.
I thought he was an astronomer.
When people kept sayingastronomer, ceo, I thought it
was like businessman CEO.
He was an astronomer CEO.
I'm more annoyed about the nameof his company right now.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Yeah, there we go, and that explains my wife's
mindset ladies and gentlemen,one, two, three, four.
We used to do a segment calledwhat Did I Learn this Week?
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Remember that I do and I don't think I learned
anything this week.
Did you learn something thisweek?
I did?
What'd you learn?
I do and I don't.
I don't.
I don't think I learnedanything this week.
Did you learn something thisweek?
I did?
What'd you?
Speaker 1 (24:35):
learn.
I did learn.
Okay, you heard this idea of anuclear family.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Do you know where it comes from or what it means?
Speaker 2 (24:40):
I mean it's, it's talking about the idea of not
just mother living in the home.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
No.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
I thought that's what that was.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
No.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Well then, clearly I need to learn something this
week.
What is it?
Speaker 1 (24:55):
In most of the world, extended families were and are
the norm right, Especially inpre-industrial societies way
back through history Right.
So households includedgrandparents aunts and uncles
cousins.
Everyone contributed to, likethe farming or the caregiving
that lived in big clumps.
You couldn't travel and move toanother city necessarily so
(25:15):
easily, so everyone tended tostay together right, and that's
the norm for hundreds uponthousands of years.
The idea is that familiesfunction, not as just emotional
units, but as caregiving units,as economic units yeah sure,
like to survive, and it worked.
It worked a storm, it was great,it was fine.
Units like to survive, and itworked.
It worked a storm, it was great, it was fine.
Industrial revolution comesalong and people started to move
(25:37):
to cities for factory jobs,right.
So you had smaller, more mobilefamilies, and so the idea of,
like smaller, two-parenthouseholds gained traction in
like these urban settings, andthat's the direction that it
went Post-World War II America.
This is when the nuclear familytruly became idealized,
(25:58):
especially in the United States.
Not only did you have theeconomic impetus for people to
move to cities, to get jobs andto support themselves, but also
you had this idea in TVadvertising politics, pushing
the opposite of communistcollectivism, the opposite of
(26:20):
socialism, which was what theytermed as this basic building
block, this strong foundation ofthe nucleus.
Yeah, of society, which is thisquote unquote nuclear family.
This is new.
Again, I'm talking about1945-ish.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
I had that really wrong in my head, though.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
But this is a new invention, this idea of nuclear
family, and I think that itreally contributed and
contributes to the breakdown ofsociety, this whole idea of
American individualism.
We can go it on our own, wedon't need other people.
You know, as long as we havethis little perfect family,
we're okay.
Now, what we do as Americans,or what we have done, we have
(27:04):
pushed this idea out beyond theUnited States and globally.
Now they've been affected withthe idea of, oh, like the
nuclear family, and it's falselyseen as a universal tradition
or as traditional values, whenit's not, it's relatively new.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
I had no idea.
I thought it meant extendedfamily all living in one place.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
No, no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
I think it's interesting that they call it
nuclear family, because whensomething bad happens in the
nuclear plant, you know, you seewhat you get.
The fallout is wide.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Yeah, so that's what.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
I learned this week.
That's cool.
Thank you for sharing that.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
And it really kind of gave me a perspective or made
me re-examine, like, how ourfamily is.
We don't have a nuclear family.
Well, we kind of do and kind ofdon't, because we have kids
from our first marriages and nowwe have this little being from
this marriage.
That's not what I would call atraditional nuclear family.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Yeah, we have a lot of like chosen family too,
though, because you and I don'thave very many relatives left
really, so it's more the idea ofthe people that we choose to
surround ourselves with.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
It's interesting because the idea of chosen
family I resisted for thelongest time Because I came from
like a single mother.
Yeah Right, she couldn't takecare of me.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
And so I was adopted by a single man who happened to
be very good friends with mymother's family, and so, in that
way, he chose me.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
But also very miserable person.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Yeah, right.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Yeah, right, yeah.
So I was provided forphysically by and large, but
emotionally my childhood andearly adulthood was a fucking
train wreck.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
I did not enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Now I can appreciate the benefits that I got from him
adopting me, but also like Ineeded to have a family family
and I did not have a family,family, yeah.
So it took me a long time, whenI heard this idea of chosen
family, to really embrace thegood parts of what that means I
guess in my head I would thinkit would be more like he chose
(29:07):
you and that wasn't.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
you have this very dichotomous relationship because
you recognize that he, you know, physically provided for you
but not emotionally orpsychologically.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
But then therefore, you choosing family would be you
having control over that andwho you choose yeah, but we're
all a product of, of, yeah, ourupbringing, and I know that
living with me ain't the easiest, you know, pumpkin pie no, but
it's true, like I carry baggage,so we all have it we do all
(30:06):
right.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
so we're talking about nuclear families, we're
talking about extended families,we're talking about chosen
family, but really the thecenter of all of that right is
the relationship of whateverpeople have started this family.
One thing that we used to do along time ago that we've not
done in a while, if you notice,that was the Game Time music by
AJCW.
(30:26):
It's four letters that I neverget right.
So that was that pause.
That was that dramatic pause.
I have to do his full name inmy head before I can do it AJCW,
is that right?
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Yes, or is it AJWC?
You had it, man you had it, Iknow Anyway.
That's our son Andrew, who doesmusic.
You should check him out bysearching AJCW on your music
streaming apps of choice.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Yes.
So one thing we used to do awhile ago and I loved it with my
whole heart and you hated itwith your whole heart is that I
used to torment you withBuzzFeed quizzes.
Oh shit, and we have not donethis in a while.
Like, I got real serious withmy flashbacks.
Some people were learningthings.
No, no, the BuzzF buzzfeed isback.
And since we're talking abouthow families get started or how
(31:13):
they um continue, this buzzfeedquiz I have for you is can we
guess your relationship statusbased on the grocery shopping
you do?
So, people, this is notnecessary to guess what is so
people have been concerned aboutthe the state of.0.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Of our 2.0 marriage, our second marriage.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
They are worried that I am leaving you because I'm
grumpy all the time.
So this is a way for us toassure the listeners that we are
okay as long as you get yourgrocery list right.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
This is a trap.
This is a trap.
You're trapping me and go ahead, and go ahead, go ahead, but
you have to promise not to beupset with any of the answers it
comes up with, because BuzzFeeddon't know shit about me.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Okay, all right, pick some ice cream, chocolate,
vanilla, strawberry.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Neapolitan is my favorite.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
I can't pick all three of these Joker.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
All right, strawberry then.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
All right, so is my favorite.
I can't pick all three of these, joker.
All right, strawberry, then.
All right, so you pickedstrawberry ice cream.
Now pick some pizza to eat.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Pepperoni cheese or supreme Pepperoni.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
Okay, this is what you're buying in the store.
Pick some bread Cinnamon raisinbread, wheat bread, white bread
.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Those are my choices.
Yeah, friend.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
You get three.
No, no here pick one wheat okayum choose a type of pasta
spaghetti, fettuccine or pastasalad fettuccine, that's easy.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Love me some fettuccine.
Linguine though is, I love thatbetter.
You know, what I hate is I hatebow ties and I hate the spiral
ones, because I don't rotinidon't like them.
I don't know why.
I don't feel like they.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
They deliver the they don't get the as a medium they
don't deliver uh as well to meas I want.
Okay, choose your favorite,damn it, I was hoping to to
totally redirect you there?
Nope, choose your favoritecereal, honey, nut cheerios,
special k, red berries or cocoapebbles no, none of them.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Okay, but you have to choose from this, the only
place.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
This is the gorgeous store you go to only has three
choices for everything all right, whatever the whatever the
first one was Honey Nut Cheerios.
Okay, choose a type ofshellfish, lobster, shrimp,
oysters I don't like shellfishLobster.
Pick a vegetable Broccoli,sweet potato or eggplant.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
Oh God.
Well, everyone's going to pickbroccoli out of that, yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
I don't know.
Choose a type of rice Brownrice.
I don't know.
Choose a type of rice brownrice.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
I don't like rice, white rice, uh brown choose
fruit, avocado, grapes, bananaavocado it's only one banana,
but multiple grapes.
Okay, ready yeah, sure, andwhatever this says, I guess this
is what we got to do.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
BuzzFeed says according to your grocery picks,
you are single.
Oh, fuck off, all right.
So, friends, if you wereworried about the state of our
relationship, you might have hada reason to, because BuzzFeed
has spoken and we must listen.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Here's the thing I think that I do shop as if I'm
single because no one in thishouse wants to eat the same
thing.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
No, it's really frustrating.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Yeah, but no no, no, no, no.
You don't want to eat the samething that I eat.
I know, and you don't want toeat at dinner anymore.
You know that's the breakdownof the nuclear family.
Right here is we're supposed toall be sharing a table right At
mealtime is sharing our day andjust getting to know each other
just a little bit more andproviding support and love and
freaking.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
no one will eat at the table or near the table you
pace in the kitchen when you eatRight, because no one wants to
sit at the table Lies you'retelling lies.
This is why you're single.
You lie.
No, you stand in the kitchenand eat because you don't want
us to get on to you aboutwhatever's falling into your
beard or whatever.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
Jesus Christ, eat because you don't want us to get
on to you about whatever'sfalling into your beard or
whatever anyway, but no onewants to eat the same thing
either.
It's like winthrop, like onlyhas a selection of four things.
He will eat if four, and maybeit's two, I don't know.
Um, and then muffie is avegetarian, which good on on
muffie with trina and sesameallergies.
With allergies really hard yeahand then you never want to eat
(35:11):
dinner anymore because you eatlunch and therefore you don't
want to eat dinner, which Iapplaud again, the intermittent
fasting and all this and that,but can we adjust it somehow so
that we all eat the same thingat the same table?
Speaker 2 (35:23):
Well, so the issue is that out of six people in the
family, we've always had someversion of dietary restrictions,
choices, choices and or foodallergies.
You have food allergies.
She has food allergies.
Daniel, our oldest, wasgluten-free vegetarian for a
while.
Andrew, me and Winthrop willtry anything, and then you and
(35:45):
Muffy have.
You don't like vegetables,clearly based on how you didn't
want to choose any of them fromthe grocery store.
And she there are a lot ofthings she cannot eat, because I
mean sesame's in so much now.
So I've always amended just afood for her based on her food
allergies.
But then I think back to likemy mom made dinner and this is
(36:06):
what dinner was.
Yep, same and you ate it, or youdidn't eat it, but this is what
dinner was.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
Same.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
I have created this with him because I'm constantly,
you know, like thinking what'sshe going to have?
Because it's typicallydifferent if we're having a
protein or you know there'ssomething that she can't eat in
it.
But now you're right, he willeat grilled cheese, he will eat
a veggie burger, he willoccasionally eat a nugget, but
that's it.
And so I don't know, do we justpivot and be like, hey, this is
(36:33):
what we're eating, you can eat,or not?
Like, is he too old to do this?
Speaker 1 (36:37):
No, of course he's not too old to do this.
People go on like new diets andnew ways to eat all the time.
It's never too late.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
All right, well, let's start it this fall.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
And then we also eat at the table or near the table
at the same time.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
Near the table, you can stand near the table.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
And then you'll eat too at dinnertime.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
Yes, ooh, very good, love that.
Maybe you don't have to besingle anymore.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
Yes, Email that sound tells us it's time for our
emails.
We have a couple of emails thisweek.
First of all, Mark Plant got intouch and we talked a little
bit about people drinking duringwork hours last week.
He says this.
Back in the early 2000s we hada rule in the call center where
we were allowed an alcoholicdrink with a meal at lunch.
(37:22):
So that's they had to have arule about it, number one.
So that's interesting, he said.
When England played Argentinain the 2002 World Cup, I managed
five pints and in my hour, ohand a sandwich oh my god, did
you go back to work and answerany of the questions I?
feel like he did, and maybe hedid a better job maybe.
But an alcoholic meal with adrink does that mean he had a
(37:44):
five pint bucket that he wasdrinking from, because I think
that that's the way you getaround that right, you just have
a bigger container.
One receptacle, or you justdrink directly from the tap.
Speaker 2 (37:54):
From the tap.
Okay, fair.
Speaker 1 (37:56):
Yeah, where's Mark?
Oh, he's off doing keg standsin the cafeteria.
Refined Gay Jeff got in touchand he had some feedback on a
couple of things that we talkedabout.
We always love that.
A couple of episodes ago wetalked about, and we always love
that.
A couple episodes ago we talkedabout how I had given up coffee
.
So he says, um, that he drinksonly decaffeinated coffee and
(38:18):
tea, because he discovered manyyears ago that caffeine affects
his system in a way that is notat all pleasurable.
His heart races uncontrollably,he starts to perspire and it
gives him a feeling that he doesnot enjoy at all yeah, no, that
does not sound good yeah, so heonly drinks decaf coffee at
home and and tea, and then helaments the price of tea going
(38:41):
out, like he's saying it's justwater with some brew tea leaves,
but why is that four dollars?
Speaker 2 (38:45):
yeah, I know right it everything's expensive.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
Now, I think that that's the point.
He does mention this idea.
We're talking about teachingWinthrop and Muffy how to ride a
bike.
Yes, he says that one of hisearliest memories is learning
how to ride a bike, his dadpushing him on the driveway
while everyone basically crossedtheir fingers for success.
And success did come.
I think I remember mastering itpretty quickly.
(39:09):
I was maybe late, four, earlyfive years old possibly.
Anyway, that's a happy corememory that he has.
He says that swimming also wasvery easy and we have determined
that you don't teach your kidshow to ride a bike, they just
learn how to ride a bike.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
We had no teaching, no teaching was involved.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
You can't teach someone how to balance.
Now, winthrop and muffie pickedup really quickly.
But let's just, let's just takethe, the myth out of it,
because I was really stressedlike, oh, how am I gonna teach
them?
No, no, they just learn theyjust learn.
Speaker 2 (39:44):
Yep, I mean, and they are.
They are champion bikers now soit was what.
Let's not go, okay well, but Iwas amazed watching him last
night and then I remembered doyou remember when he was three
and we got him his first scooter?
Yeah and we lived in a in astreet that had a cul-de-sac and
he would just whip around thatcul-de-sac so fast and you and I
(40:04):
were talking about how likenerve-wracking it was yep now
that he can ride he's going fast, like we kept telling him to
stay behind Muffy and he wasjust like on her heels and
waiting to pass her.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
Like I think this kid has a need for speed why
couldn't we have just had alittle sloth come out?
Speaker 2 (40:24):
well, I mean, he can be a sloth when it's time to
take a shower.
Speaker 1 (40:26):
Yeah, that's true, jeff continues.
He talks about how um he hadsome celebrity sightings this
past week so talked aboutyamming a little bit.
He says he doesn't havephotographic proof that that
happened.
But he was um he I had to runto dxl.
Speaker 2 (40:43):
He said if you don't even know what.
Speaker 1 (40:45):
That is okay, but it's a big boy store, okay as I
entered the store, turned thecorner while walking to where
the shorts are and practicallyran into someone I've been
waiting to at least see inperson since I moved to Houston
24 years ago Yao Ming Absolutelycould not believe my eyes.
All seven foot six inches ofhim.
All you saw all of him Was hein the changing room.
(41:07):
I never made it to a HoustonRockets game when he played here
and just thought that I wouldnever realize that dream of
seeing him.
Not only did I see him today, Ialso spoke with him.
I rarely get nervous or bashfulwhen I do meet famous people
and I've met a few, but I wasabsolutely awestruck today.
I was just humbled seeing andtalking to one of the tallest
(41:28):
people currently on the planetright now he also says that that
Yao Ming's wife 6'3".
Speaker 2 (41:33):
Oh, wow, I mean, I guess she would have to be yes.
Speaker 1 (41:36):
I mean, if you want to have kids, yes, Things need
to be similar.
At least it can't be as if it'stwo different species.
You know what I'm saying.
So he said that he said hisgoodbyes to the store employees
and to Yao Ming, got in his carand had to decompress and then
realized that he had parkedright next to Yao Ming in his
(41:59):
all-black Mercedes Sprinter.
Speaker 2 (42:00):
I don't know what a Sprinter is, cars that I don't
even know what's a Sprinter.
Speaker 1 (42:04):
I don't know Very tall, I would assume.
Or the seat goes all the wayback and he just like a, like a
shower rod that you buy fromhome depot and then you got to
put all the seats back to put inthere.
He says of course he had adriver.
Maybe they put yow just on theroof and strapped him down
looking like he's a kayak hesays in closing.
let me share with you thislittle bit of strangeness that I
(42:26):
have started doing josh in yourclosing.
Every week, when you list thecontributions of everyone, you
invariably get to this oneperson, whom I have no idea who
he is because I don't evenremember you talking about him,
but Amanda always repeats hisname, joey, so he has gotten
into the habit of saying Joey intandem with Amanda.
Don't ask me why it brings mejoy.
Speaker 2 (42:47):
Thanks, because Joey brings me joy.
Jeff Joey is a listener of thepodcast and he is a good friend
of ours and his family, and sowhile we've never had Joey on
the podcast, Joey is a fan ofthe pod and so I'm just happy.
Every time I see Joey in person, I say Joey and give Joey a hug
, and his wife and his childrenare lovely too.
Speaker 1 (43:08):
Yeah, he is a big teddy bear of a guy and just the
friendliest dude.
So, that's Joey.
Everyone should have a Joey intheir life.
Yes, we need to have more Joeyin our life.
No one likes to be told what todo.
Now is the time in the show, inthe big program, where we tell
you what to do, amanda.
What should we do?
Speaker 2 (43:26):
If you haven't yet go see Superman, so you haven't
yet go see superman.
So you took andrew and muffieum earlier in the week, and then
muffie loved it so much thatshe really thought I would love
it and she wanted me to go seeit with her.
So I went to see it with her Idon't know wednesday or thursday
, a couple days later, but itwas so good, it was just so
charming.
It.
(43:46):
Um, I had good messages.
It made you feel good.
The end of it made me cry.
The guy who plays Superman iscute.
I don't know where he came from.
He's got nice dimples and alsoCrypto the dog, cgi, but I still
love him.
So anyway, I recommend you gosee Superman.
Speaker 1 (44:05):
This is the reason why we have art Just to make us
feel better about the world, tomake us feel like there's hope,
and none of that is silly.
All of that is essential to thehuman spirit, and it also
doesn't matter that it is aquote, unquote, silly, cartoon
comic book movie.
So we look at that these greatworks of art from history, from
(44:28):
Van Gogh and Leonardo da Vinciand yeah, they're good and
they're skillfully made, butalso, because they're hundreds
of years old, we revere themlike this is the pinnacle of art
.
Well, no bullshit.
There's things that are createdtoday that are just as
meaningful and contribute tobeauty to society as those
things did.
It's just that they're new andfor whatever reason we deem them
(44:49):
to not be those things did.
It's just that they're new andfor whatever reason we deem them
to not be worthy Nah, that's BS.
Art is art.
Art that contributes to yoursense of well-being and your
sense of hope in humanity and inthe future, that's good art,
that's great art, that is holyart, that is elevated art.
(45:10):
I don't care what form it takes.
Speaker 2 (45:12):
Well, and also, I think, if we did a little bit of
dive into the history ofgraphic novels or comic books, I
think a lot of these storiesare born out of suffering and
out of feeling like you have noagency, and so that's therefore
the creation of the superhero isto feel like you have some
agency, and I would argue thatjust by expressing, you're
(45:36):
taking back some agency yep,love that.
Speaker 1 (45:38):
All right, so go see that comic book movie with the
cute dog yeah, and the dimplesall right, amanda, that's all
there is.
There is no more.
What do you think about thatgiant conglomeration of kind of
random bits this week?
Speaker 2 (45:55):
It was random this week and I'm sorry.
I've got a headache going thatI've had about four days
straight, and it's not fromdecorating.
I don't know what it's from,but it's not from decorating.
So I just ramble and moan aboutthe world, so thanks for
listening.
Okay, on the back of ramble andmoan about the world, so thanks
for listening.
Speaker 1 (46:11):
Okay, on the back of that, do we have a birthday
shout?
Speaker 2 (46:14):
out.
Yes, our friend, our goodfriend, rachel Plant, celebrated
her birthday this week, and sowe are sending happy, happy
birthday thoughts across thepond to the north of England, to
Rachel Plant.
Speaker 1 (46:24):
And also I think that coming up really soon is Joey's
birthday.
Speaker 2 (46:27):
Joey.
Speaker 1 (46:28):
I think I saw that on a calendar somewhere.
So happy soon as joey'sbirthday, joey.
I think I saw that on acalendar somewhere.
So happy birthday, joey.
We have our credits, withoutwhom this podcast would not be
able to be produced this week.
Of course, we talked about thenuclear family, and so let's
recognize today's nuclear heroes, thanks to antonio, who still
won't wear pants in the reactorcore.
To matt, who successfullydiverted the meltdown.
(46:51):
To leo, who keeps mistakinguranium rods for pool noodles.
To josh scar, the head oflunchroom safety he has banned
irradiated tuna forever.
To danny buckets, who installeda basketball hoop above the
coolant tanks.
To chicken tom, who istechnically a, but he runs the
entire facility schedulingsoftware.
To Monique from Germany, oursafety compliance officer, who
(47:15):
just keeps saying this wouldnever happen in Germany.
To Refined Gay Jeff, whoredesigned the hazmat suits into
something more chic.
To Joey Joey.
To Rachel and Mark from HR, whorecently added emotional
contamination to the incidentreport forms.
And to Dan and Gavin,co-managers of the Nuclear
Karaoke Night.
(47:35):
And, of course, to my loveAmanda, our plant's emotional
core, who only occasionallymelts down.
Speaker 2 (47:44):
Oh, thank you.
I was going to say you neverthank me in this list.
How did you know?
I was thinking that.
Speaker 1 (48:11):
Yeah well, until next week, remember, if it glows,
don't touch it.
Go, be kind Bye, Thank you.
That dog's at it again neuroticvigilance, barking at the
(48:44):
postman's left shoe with caninediligence, A phantom menace in
every dust speck that floatsthis hairy paranoid with dental
overbite.
Notes the wind picks up.
He's off his daggum head,barking at the concept of
Tuesday.
Instead of lying down likenormal dogs should do, he's
protesting the color magenta.
(49:05):
He apparently also hates blue.
Tax returns, microwaves, theneighbor's toupee.
He's barking at shadows cast byEarl Grey.
The doorbell rings he thinksit's a conspiracy between the
cat next door and fancy Frenchpastry.
Ballpoint pens drive him up thewall.
Abstract paintings he hatesthem all.
(49:26):
Clouds shaped like Nebraska.
Silent documentaries hisendless complaints about modern
dentistry.
In the dead of night he'llstart without warning, barking
at the concept of global warming.
I haven't slept right since2002, thanks to his vendetta
against bamboo.
So why does my dog bark at thewind and IKEA furniture that
(49:49):
needs assembling and a harshcritic of interpretive ballet?
I reckon he's just wired thatway.
In a world where garden gnomesplot revolution and sock drawers
require canine retribution fromquantum physics to leftover
curry, real or imagined danger.
He's a Karen, but furry.
(50:09):
He will remain my barkingfriend.
His hatred of jazz bands willnever end.
The neighborhood thinks we'vegone insane with his howling
dislike of cellophane.
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