April 20, 2025 • 40 mins
Is Josh becoming less of a curmudgeon?, birthday celebrations, and hastily-repaired chairs. More talking points:
- Soccer woes with Winthrop
- "Wilson Wanderings"
- Someone lost the remote control
- National Josh Day on May 8th
- The New York Times "Flashbacks" Quiz
- Book recommendation: "How to Solve Your Own Murder" by Kristen Perrin
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Familiar Wilson's Media Relationships are the
story.
You are made of meat, my friend, all the way down.
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Speaker 2 (00:19):
Three, two, one run.
Welcome to Super Familiar withthe Wilsons.
I'm super familiar with theWilson's.
Get it.
Welcome to Super Familiar withthe Wilson's.
I'm Amanda.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
And I'm Josh Amanda.
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Phone lines are now open If youtoo would like to join hundreds
and hundreds of our otherlisteners in contributing to the
success and welfare of theWilson family.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
I have seen no returns.
Are you hoarding all of thefundraising?
Speaker 1 (00:56):
No, your birthday's coming up and it's all to be a
big surprise.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
All right, keep sending money my way, then,
friends.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Since we last spoke to you, I've had a birthday,
We've had a soccer game and Ithought we would start there.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Oh, do we have to.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Forget it.
Let's do a silly quiz and thenget out of here and screw
sharing our lives with thesepeople.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
No, it's just.
Soccer is sad right now.
No, just start with my birthdaythen that's how oh that was
fine.
I wasn't talking about yourbirthday.
You said soccer and we'll startthere, and that's why I was
like that's that's setting usoff on a depressing tone.
But you had a birthday.
Josh is officially nine let youdo the math on what part of nine
puts together his, his age.
We had three sort ofcelebrations this week.
(01:41):
We had one on tuesday with thefamily.
Th night we had friends overfor a lovely dinner party.
And then Friday no Saturday, itwas Saturday Muffy made a from
scratch key lime pie, josh'sfavorite to celebrate him yet
once again.
So happy birthday Josh.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
And your birthday is coming up, but I bring that up
to talk about this.
My wife, ladies and gentlemen,is one of the most sensitive,
caring people in the world, andthe way that she shows her love
for people is doing stuff forthem or buying stuff for them.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Gifts and acts of service.
These are my love languages.
Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
My love language is a pat on the butt and I thank you
very much.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Words of affirmation and physical touch.
That's what you meant.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Sure, whatever.
But yeah, we had some folksover and the reason why I wanted
to bring this up is just anacknowledgement of, as I age,
I'm becoming a little lesscrusty.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Meaning I bathe more, a little less curmudgeonly and
a little more willing to letpeople in.
Better late than never.
And so it was lovely just tosit around with friends and eat
at our dinner table, and eventhough the chair upon which I
sat broke midway through the thedinner doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
I had a great time the thing is you never told
anybody it broke.
Like the next day you're like,yeah, that broke.
I mean, to be fair, it hadalready broken and you had
repaired it.
So it wasn't like the weight ofyou broke it, it just your
repair job wasn't super solid.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Well, no, the weight of me did break it.
This is one of those thingswhere I put off fixing it
because I really didn't know howto fix it.
And it's a very nice higherchair, but the seat, the actual
seat itself, just the plank ofwood is like particle board and
it had broken last week and Isaid, yeah, yeah, I'll fix it,
it'll be easy.
I went to the store Wednesdaynight, eve of my birthday,
(03:32):
looked around I was like, ohwell, I guess I've not really
thought out this trip to the DIYstore.
I just figured I would go thereand the DIY gods would gift me
with enlightenment and how tofix this thing with a minimum of
tools.
I'll put that out there as well.
Don't have a lot of tools forthat.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
You really needed a saw that you could cut, like
plywood or something right.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
No, I have a saw that can cut plywood.
But I have a saw that can cutplywood.
It's like the saw blade is verylarge, toothed.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
I'm just like you and um Rob Beckett, not me.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Just like Rob Beckett , and it wouldn't be good for
that fine type of work.
I would end up taking a pieceof wood home using the saw on it
, and then there'd be splinters.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
And that's a different kind of chair that
that we do not want.
Yes, what I ended up doing wastaking one of the lids to one of
our plastic containers out inthe garage and destroying it and
then gluing it to the three.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Oh my God, I did not know, this is what you did.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Gluing it to the four different pieces of the chair
figuring.
Oh, that'll hold it.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
What made you think it would?
Speaker 1 (04:40):
It did for half of the dinner.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Yes, oh Lord.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Is it good that I didn't tell you that beforehand.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
I mean, yes, and I also thank you for being the one
to sit upon it and not give itto one of our guests.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Well, of course I wasn't going to do that.
So anyway, we had a lovely time, it was nice to have friends
over, and all of that is to sayI'm very evangelical right now
about us getting together withour friends instead of deciding,
oh, it's too comfortable not to.
Well, that's great until you're98 laying there with no friends
(05:13):
.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Oh, that's really sad .
Yeah, it is isn't it?
Speaker 1 (05:16):
So no, you need to encourage yourself to make
relationships grow that you'vehad for a while, and then make
new relationships, and there yougo.
So that's my birthday.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
It was really lovely.
I was very proud of all thefood I made.
Everything turned out great.
But I will tell you, though,that I was feeling the 11 pm
bedtime the next day in the redwine, like I'm not.
Usually, you and I are in bedby nine, and so having a dinner
party on a weeknight, just beprepared to to need some extra
coffee in the morning.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
And let me just tell you me being to bed early is not
a function of age.
I've always wanted just to goto sleep early.
That's always been a thing thatI've tried to do.
There's a period of time whereI was going downtown and
spending time downtown where I'dstay up super late.
It was never good for me, Neverleft me at my best.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
I was before I met you, because you've always been
a late I mean an early tucker inher.
I don't know how to say that.
Tuck, Do you?
Speaker 1 (06:16):
tuck.
No, I do not tuck.
So just a brief word on thesoccer Saturday that we had.
Yesterday Winthrop's team lostlike six to one.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
No, it was four to one.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Yesterday when we were watching the game, we sat
at the end of one of the goals,like on the goal side, and we
sat back because it was shadyand we wanted to do that Instead
of sitting on the sideline,pretty much in the middle, right
up on the action, which is whatwe've done thus far, and at
first I was a little annoyedthat you wanted to sit in the
shade.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
I told you you did not have to sit with me.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
But then I realized that the further away the game
was, the less I cared whathappened on the field.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Oh, okay.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
So it was a good thing, because they got
absolutely smashed.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Is that why you kept getting up from your chair and
walking over to the sideline?
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Well, yeah because I had an option to come back when
I was starting to get agitatedagain.
So that's perfect.
The further away I am fromsomething, the less it bothers
me which actually kind ofreinforces my avoidant behavior.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Let's dive into that one a little bit.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Well, yesterday we played a very good team with a
person on it that I feel shouldprobably go pro yeah, I mean,
that's how good this kid is andso we weren't gonna win.
And I knew we weren't gonna win.
So my job as a parent was tomake sure that Winthrop didn't
care.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Well, but he's starting to care about the
winning and the losing, and thejoy of soccer is starting to
leave his bones.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Well, okay, so here I actually need some advice here,
and this is aimed at theBelsons or anybody else who's
played the footy or a team sport.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Or any other parents out there, let's ask.
Let's rely less on Dan Belsonfor parenting advice and more on
the parents out there, please.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Dan Belson, I'm happily here because you, though
, were in Winthrop's shoes, andso I'm asking about how you were
parented.
So excuse my husband's verylimited view of your expertise.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
No, I think it's pretty realistic.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Okay, hush.
So anybody who has played haveyou played a team competitive
sport or do you parent childrenwho played a team competitive
sport?
We had this experience withMuffy, but she danced
competitively on a dance teamand that's different.
That's a whole differentballgame right?
Winthrop has been heretoforefine, because the last season he
was on the team with the kidwho just killed us yesterday and
the two of them together made areally good team Like they.
(08:39):
Just they were scoring, theywere defending, they outshone
everybody on their team.
Well, this time they're onopposing teams and Winthrop has
wound up on a team with kids whoare younger than him, kids who
haven't played before.
So his just natural skill levelis a little more advanced than
theirs.
And last season he was happy,fine, win or lose didn't care,
(08:59):
had a good time this season.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
It's because they won more than they lost, although
they did lose last season.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
They did and he was okay and they lost.
I mean this is now our fourthgame, right, they lost the first
two games.
They tied last week, they lostyesterday and that's starting to
get to him.
I mean he didn't want to goyesterday.
My stomach hurts, but one thingwe know about him when we get
there he has a really good time,like he wants to go.
So he was my stomach hurts andkind of like fussing on the way
(09:26):
in and I said you're just goingto do practice, because this
league does 30 minute practicein the game.
Do practice, see how you feel.
And as soon as we got therehe's like can I go?
Can I go, can I go play?
Like he wants to go.
But you could see him start toflag Like he was still trying to
stay up with this kid that heplayed with.
You know he's.
He's a pretty good defender.
(09:47):
He's not being aggressive withtrying to score like he was last
season.
He's hanging back a little bit.
But he started to get like justreal droopy and they had our
team had more players than theother, so they alternated
quarters and he was sitting outand he was sitting on me and he
said this is why I don't likesoccer because we don't win, and
I think that it's not that wedon't win every time, it's just
(10:12):
very defeating because they havenot won.
Four games into a season theyhaven't won.
And Josh and I might be atopposing views on this, because
I am of the mindset that he'sgot natural talent.
When he's out there, he likesit and I don't want him to
become just defeated becausehe's trying and the other kids
(10:34):
aren't able to or they're nottrying or whatever.
That is my question is how muchdo we push him to keep going or
how much do we just say, okay,you don't like it and we stop?
Josh just wants him to be happyplaying and not care about
winning or losing.
I want him to develop sometechnique and get some
discipline behind it.
There's also a lot of researcharound team sports and what it
(10:58):
does positively to your mentalhealth I mean you can get into a
situation where it's bad andalso just developing teamwork
skills.
So, anyway, my question is dowe push him or do we just let
him say, well, you weren'twinning, you got defeated, and
we give up?
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Apropos of nothing, on January 6, 1994, nancy
Kerrigan, an American figureskater, was struck on the lower
right thigh with a baton byassailant Shane Stant as she
walked down a corridor at CoboArena in Detroit.
Kerrigan had been practicingskating on an ice rink in the
arena shortly beforehand.
Well, they came to find outthat the striking on the knee
(11:36):
with a baton was at the behestof Tonya Harding, or at least
Tonya Harding's husband, jeffGaluli.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Are you comparing my wanting the child to develop
some skills with Tonya Hardingand Nancy Kerrigan?
Because that's absolutelyridiculous.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
No, I'm saying that I would never condone doing
anything to a child, but maybewe got to take out a couple of
these opposing coaches.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Oh okay, sorry, I didn't realize you were planning
.
I thought you were like here'swhat happens if you get
competitive.
Please stop, you can't take outany of the coaches.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
I'm not condoning hitting anyone with anything.
I'm basically a pacifist, butI'm not above giving someone
like a chocolate donut that iscoated with chocolate favorite
Exlax or something.
Yeah, if you're not Because therestrooms at the field are
really far away and they'rereally gross too, so no one
wants to be lingering there fora while.
So I'm just throwing that outthere.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
No, you can't, that's not okay.
But maybe we should not havehim enroll in the beginner
league anymore, because flat outkid we played yesterday should
not be in the beginner league,like that just isn't a thing.
So maybe we need to do theintermediate level, not saying
advanced, but where people aretrying a little bit more.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
All right.
So parents out there or Belsons, let us know what you think.
What do you think we should do?
Familiarwilsons at gmailcom.
Amanda, it's been a while sincewe've had our segment called
(13:22):
Wilson Wanderings.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Oh, yes, are you wondering things?
Speaker 1 (13:24):
I am wondering, I wonder a lot of things.
Why are there flower designs ontoilet paper?
Speaker 2 (13:35):
That's a really good question.
Are we supposed to equate thecleaning of our bottoms with,
like lovely spring days?
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Maybe it's that in ancient times they used to use
flowers and not leaves to cleanthemselves up.
Okay, all right.
Next one Is it true thatscissors feel more trustworthy
in elementary school colors?
Speaker 2 (13:57):
I don't think that it's elementary school colors.
I think the blade's hard andsharp.
Silly boy.
Although, by the way, winthropcut his hand today using big boy
scissors like our, our regularscissors.
Like, it's okay, I can do itand just cut right into his palm
what color were they?
Speaker 1 (14:12):
red.
Oh well, okay primary colorthat yeah, but blood are
croutons, just vintage bread yes, and they're yummy.
Why is there no Olympic eventfor sneezing multiple times in a
row?
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Because you would win it.
If there was an Olympic eventfor the decibel level, people
hit when they sneeze you wouldwin it.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Listen, this is a thing that I cannot help, and I
had to fire someone for makingfun of me for how loud my
sneezing was.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
I'm sorry what.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
No, not really.
They make fun of me for mysneezes all the time in the
office.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Because there's so loud.
You can control a sneeze, youcan.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
No, you can't.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Friend, I do.
I can control my sneeze.
When you're asleep in bed and Ihave to sneeze, you hold the
bridge of your nose or push yourtongue up on the top of your
mouth and you don't sneeze.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Oh, okay, that is the most ridiculous thing that I've
ever heard there.
Cinderella, listen, if I wereto try to hold my sneeze back at
the force and volume, like myeyes would pop out the first
time, and then things wouldexplode.
The spleen would shoot out ofmy armpit or something.
Can't have it.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Have you always sneezed this loudly?
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
I can't help it.
I mean like, even as, like ateenager.
Yes, okay, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Why does every laundry room feel slightly
haunted?
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Because it's the ghost of all the damn socks that
have lost their soulmates.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
If a rolling stone gathers no moss, why do ceiling
fans gather dust when they'respinning?
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Fair point.
I want an air purifier.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Okay, why.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Because it's supposed to keep the dust from building
up in my room and all thecommercials show me ceiling fans
with no dust on them yeah,that's definitely why there's no
dust.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Why do hangers multiply when I'm not looking
for one, but disappear when Ineed one?
That's a good point too why dochildren's band-aids work better
emotionally than medicinally?
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Unless you're.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Winthrop and you hate sticky things and don't want
band-aids on you when you needthem.
Why do we instinctively holdour breath?
Speaker 2 (16:39):
when we're thinking too hard.
I don't know that.
I do that.
What do you mean?
Speaker 1 (16:42):
This is a thing that everyone does.
Everyone does this.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Well, you've polled the whole world.
I don't know, listeners, do youhold your breath when you're
thinking too hard?
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Yes, they do.
By the way, we bought lotterytickets last night for my
birthday and did you check?
And I have not checked them yet, so we're going to have to
check them here.
Why do folded towels feelmorally superior to unfolded
ones?
Because why do folded towelsfeel morally superior to
unfolded ones?
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Because they're clean and they're fresh out of the
dryer and no one's throwing themon the ground.
And then picked them back upand hung them on something.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
You know, I prefer, like taking my towel that I've
used once, by the way, andhanging it back up.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
I have no problem with that.
I don't think you should reusea towel every time.
I do think they should bewashed once a week, but I'm
mostly speaking to the fact thatwhen Winthrop gets out of the
shower, he just will drop histowel wherever he feels like it,
and then I find them allamongst the house.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
I have no problem with drying with my towel,
hanging it up and then like havethat be my towel for the next
couple of weeks without Coupleweeks is pushing it.
No, it's like an old friend.
Listen, I feel judged when Iwash right and I go to get a
towel and it's a new, cleantowel, like, oh, you think
you're better than me.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
The towel, or me for putting out the clean towels.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
No, the towel Okay.
Why does the word ointment feellike it was invented by
accident?
Speaker 2 (18:05):
It was invented by a pig.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Why are pen caps usually single-use plastic?
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Yeah, do people have pen caps anymore?
Because I don't think they alljust click now.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
There are most definitely BICs that have pen
caps that I guess are part ofthe packaging, because I always
lose them, always, always,always.
They are somewhere, but I don'tknow where they are.
Why don't stairs also haveemergency stop buttons?
Listen, you need that.
You know what an emergency stopbutton on an escalator is right
.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Yes, but it stops the thing, so you don't get sucked
into the mechanism.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
No one is concerned that you're going to get sucked
into the mechanism.
This is not why there areemergencies.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Yeah, it's just.
Your foot starts to go into thetreads.
How small is your foot?
Very small.
Have you seen my foot?
Speaker 1 (18:57):
You'd have to have a little foot like an action
figure.
Gi, Joe is trapped again, andwhere's the emergency stop
button?
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Or if your pant leg gets stuck in it.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
It's not a thing that happens.
Anyway, you you of all peopleneed stairs to have emergency
stop buttons, because you areconstantly falling down the
stairs.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
You fell down last.
Huh, you fell down last week,so you were the last person to
have fallen down the stairs.
All right, we're moving on.
What does an emergency stopbutton on the stairs do?
They still person to havefallen down the stairs.
All right, we're moving on.
How?
What does an emergency?
Speaker 1 (19:31):
stop button on the stairs, do it just, they still
stay stationary.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
No, you would stop falling then if it would have to
put up a gate oh there's anidea, a little net, call it the
amanda stair net like thefirefighters bring when you need
to jump out of a building.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Yeah, why are there no bear-flavored gummy grapes?
That's dumb.
Why do trash cans often smellworse after you've emptied them?
Speaker 2 (19:54):
I mean for real, though, because it has the
lingering smell of all of thetrash bags that have ever
existed in that trash can.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
You know what else.
Now we get these bins from thecity, right.
So I don't know if we'reallowed to do anything, but
really all of your bins shouldhave holes on the bottom for
when it rains and it fills it up, so that you just don't get
that soup of just dreck andnastiness there.
Why do extension cords tiethemselves into more effective
(20:24):
knots than I could ever hope to?
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Yeah, I don't know, same with Christmas lights.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Why does my experience at a drive-thru
always feel like they're givingme a quiz?
I didn't study for.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Because it's just more options than you were
bargaining for.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
It's so stressful.
It is so stressful and I guessI should already know what I
want.
You know what they need to have.
They need to have as a part ofyour app.
If you're driving up to adrive-thru and you're waiting in
a line especially if it's alonger line and you have not yet
seen the menu, that it'll just.
Oh, you're at Chick-fil-A which, by the way, I don't ever want
(21:06):
to go Chick-fil-A, but you'rehere.
This is the menu items.
Also, this is what you'veordered in the past and you've
liked.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Well, if you click on the Chick-fil-A app, it does
that Like frequently orderedmeals.
It will tell you.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Okay, well, but I've already mentioned that.
Chick-fil-a was the first thingthat came to mind, but I don't
ever want to go to Bird King.
I'm quite certain the Bird King, but they need to.
Let's put AI to actual use.
Let's not use AI to take overfor writers and artists.
Let's task AI to sorting us outwhen we're going through fast
food drive-thrus.
This is all I am saying to you.
(21:34):
And then the last one how doesthe weather app lie with such
incredible confidence?
Speaker 2 (21:39):
My God, it does Like so convincingly 80% chance of
rain, 0.1 inches, 60 degreecooling down, and then it's dry
and deserty and 95 degrees.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Yeah, welcome to Florida.
All right, so there's someWilson wonderings.
Do you have wonderings?
Let us know.
Familiarwilsoncom that musictells us it's time for the news.
(22:15):
Amanda, I have a news articlefor you, just want to know what
you think.
This is one of those thingsthat goes into the category of
funny, because it happened.
I don't need to make it funny,right, it's just like it's
ridiculous.
Okay, did you know that abridge in Ireland designed to
swing open for ships couldn't beopen for four years because the
remote control that operatedthe swing bridge was misplaced?
Speaker 2 (22:36):
No.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
The bridge was unable to be opened until the control
system was reprogrammed in 2014.
So this is the Sean O'CaseyBridge in Dublin, ireland, a
pedestrian swing bridge over theriver Liffey or Liffey, I'm not
certain which was unable toopen for maritime traffic for
approximately four years due toa lost remote control.
How big do we figure thisremote control would have been
(23:00):
for a bridge?
Speaker 2 (23:01):
My question was going to be is it an Apple TV remote?
Because then I understand.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Let me.
I doubt it was that small.
Those things go all the time itwas constructed in 2005.
It says the remote, describedas being about the size of a
1990s era mobile phone, wasmisplaced.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Oh, that's big.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Yeah, budget constraints delayed the
development of a replacement.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
What?
Can't you just go to Best Buyand get that?
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Yeah, universal remote.
It's got the big buttons.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, not losing that shit.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
But I don't understand how intricate this
remote had to be to signal likebasically, open or close.
It's an AB switch, open orclose.
What the hell did they need todo?
I don't know, it's an A-Bswitch, open or close.
What the hell did they?
Speaker 2 (23:45):
need to do.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
I don't know.
Eventually, in 2014, an Irishfirm reprogrammed a new remote
control at the cost ofapproximately $1,800.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Again, that's not much, friends Like that's not
four years worth of budgetconstraints.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Well, maybe it is.
I don't know what the DublinDocklands Development Authority,
what their budget's like.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
If you get somebody to pay you $100 a month, you got
that thing fixed in a year anda half.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Yeah, but they had to spend money on, I don't know,
potatoes or Baileys or somethingI don't know.
Anyway, this highlights thechallenges of relying on single
points of failure.
In any system, One thinghappens bad and then your whole
thing is screwed Not a greatidea.
In any system, One thinghappens bad and then your whole
thing is screwed Not a greatidea.
You should probably have, inaddition to the remote control,
(24:31):
like oh, I don't know a button.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Right A switch.
I can even turn my TV on andoff at the TV.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Yeah, oh go, humans, we're the best.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Yay, yay.
We're the best, yay, yay.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
It's save the date time.
No, I don't mean Amanda'sbirthday coming up here in May.
I mean May 8th is National JoshDay.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Why is it?
Does it mean joshing likehitting somebody?
Like we're all supposed to goaround joshing people?
Speaker 1 (25:05):
No, no, no, it's an occasion where individuals named
Josh are celebrated.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
We just celebrated you this whole week.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
I know me as a specific Josh, but then now
we're widening the circle andcelebrating like General Joshes.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Okay, General Josh Day, May 8th.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Send me flowers, contribute to our fun drive.
If you give a donation today tothe Wilson Fundraising Drive,
just send it to me.
I will make sure that come JoshDay, fun things will happen.
I'll have a fun time.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
What will you do?
You will have a fun time, buthow?
How does this benefit thelisteners for sending?
Speaker 1 (25:45):
you money, I'll get a new remote for our cantilevered
bridge.
There you go.
What time is it Game time?
Who?
Speaker 2 (26:10):
That song means it's game time and we haven't had a
flashbacks in a while.
So, Josh, are you ready for aflashbacks?
Speaker 1 (26:17):
For all of our new listeners, the influx of people
listening from Antarctica andSpain and Uruguay, please let
them know what flashbacks is.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
The flashbacks is a quiz by the New York Times.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Not a sponsor.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
No, but they can if they want In which they give us
I think it's eight events inhistory and Josh has to figure
out where they go on a continuumof time before and after each
other.
It's going to give us ananchoring event and then he has
to decide is the next one beforeor after that?
Give us an anchoring event, andthen he has to decide is the
(26:51):
next one before or after that?
And josh also levels it up bytrying to guess the exact time
in history that this took placeokay, so hit me what's the first
one?
here's your anchoring event twostars collide in a far-off
galaxy, creating gold.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
It's evidence that gold can come from the stars I,
I don't even fucking know whatyou're asking me there when did
these two stars collide in a faroff galaxy, creating gold?
Okay, billions of years ago.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
No wait what not?
Speaker 1 (27:23):
billions of years ago but if it's in a far off galaxy
?
You know how long it takes toget information from a far-off
galaxy.
Yes, but not billions, right?
No, it has to be because by thetime any information that we
get from a far-off galaxyreaches us, it's already like
that happened, like thousandsupon millions of years ago, by
(27:45):
the time that light orinformation reaches us.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Okay, so what's your guess?
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Oh, for a million years ago 140 million years ago
okay, well, don't roll your eyes.
You were saying billions andit's not, it's millions all
right, what date is thatspecifically, so I can write?
Speaker 2 (28:00):
140 million years ago .
So this is going to help youanchor.
All the other things will beafter this right.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
That's what I'm saying is like just after, after
the universe was formed, thisor that thing happened, go ahead
the next thing is jesus.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
During the red scare, top us universities take a
clear and public stance onmccarthyism compliance.
Harvard will continuously buckthe trend or not continuously
cautiously buck the trend.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
So before, after the formation of the universe, I'm
going to say that that'sdefinitely in the 1950s or early
60s, 1959.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
1953.
So good, close, okay, kept outof the official credits.
An upset programmer hides hisname in a secret room in an
Atari game.
It's one of the first videogame, easter eggs.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Do you know the story ?
No, I don't.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Well, look at it after the game.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Well, the Atari games are in the late 70s, early 80s,
because that was the firstvideo game I'd ever played.
Well, that's not true.
It's the first home video gameI'd ever played.
So I'm going to say 1980.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
We had an Atari 1980, exactly Bam extra points.
And the church bell's ringingfor you, Can you hear?
Speaker 1 (29:15):
it yeah, I can Okay.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
All right, a handy fashion invention, variously
called the slide fastener, clasplocker or clothing closure,
gets a name that sticks thezipper.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Oh, I was going for Velcro.
So when were zippers invented?
So that's got to be way back inthe day, right?
Speaker 2 (29:34):
I would think so, but probably not at the formation
of the universe.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
We think that that's how zippers were created Two
galaxies collided 1920.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
1923.
You're on a roll, friend.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Bam on a roll.
Zipper was invented in 1923.
You're on a roll, friend, bamon a roll.
The zipper was invented in 1923, just in time for the Second
World War.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
Yes, the US detains thousands of Italian Americans
as enemy aliens.
It stops when it realizes itneeds Italian American troops to
invade Europe.
That sounds so much like the US.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Okay, well, it's gonna be between zippers and Red
Scare.
So oh, unless it's World War I,I don't know.
Ooh, this is a tough one.
Okay, I'm just gonna have toroll the dice.
We're gonna say 1936.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
1941.
Good, good, good.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
That was silly.
I knew it would be later thanthat.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Oh Lord.
So this next clue is a series.
It's not written in Englishalphabet, it's a series of
dashes and dots and at the verybottom, in parenthetical text,
it says Morse code is invented.
New York Times getting cheeky.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Yeah well, they're running out of ideas.
We gotta figure again thatthat's gotta be.
It's probably earlier than Ithink, because I would assume
then that that's around a waragain, because a lot of our
technological and communicativeadvances were based around
necessity and because, hey,these people are going to kill
us.
So we got to figure out how totrick them or whatever.
(31:13):
Ah, Morse code.
But then there were telegraphs.
Did telegraphs use Morse code?
I don't know.
That was in the Old West.
All right, 1850, Morse code,Okay, 1838.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
You're doing very well friend, all right, 1850,
morse code Okay 1838.
You're doing very well, friend.
All right, three more.
The inventor, josephine Cochran, exhibits an early hand-powered
dishwasher in Chicago.
One issue most US homes don'thave hot water.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Bam, come on, josephine, Use your head for
once.
Right homes don't have hotwater.
Bam, come on, josephine, useyour head for once.
Hand-powered.
Why are they grouping these alltogether, though?
Because I feel like they'remaking it difficult on me.
I've got four that are between1838 and 1953.
And I need them to spread theseout a little bit.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Well, no, I mean they went 140 million years ago and
then, like the 19th century,they skipped a whole lot.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
Okay, I have no ability to guess this.
I'm gonna say 1916.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Okay, so after Morse code, but before the zipper,
yeah, 1893.
So you still got it right onthe thing.
All right, ready for your last,your penultimate question.
Go ahead, us railroads createfour time zones from eastern to
pacific.
Are these the people thatcreated the time zones?
(32:39):
I didn't know that.
Americans now all have a clearanswer to the question what time
is it?
What did we just all not know.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
We just all guessed um, it's a little bit more
important when you have thenecessity of asking someone to
pick me up at the airport atsuch and such a time, and or
like the people to switch thetrack so the trains don't
collide.
That too, I don't know.
Dude, again, I feel like thisis all in this.
They're really trying to tripme up here.
19, shit, 1870.
(33:18):
Okay, so, between morris codeand the dishwasher.
Yeah, that once they developmorris code they could send this
information.
Hey, also, we've it's twoo'clock over there correct 1883
bam all right, last one.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
I mean you are going for a clean sweep here queen
sweep algae first appear inearth's waters.
Well, that's stupid.
Some will emit dimethyl sulfide, a pungent molecule that
creates the distinctive smell ofsea air.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Okay, so 600 BC?
I don't know, dude.
No, it's going to be way beforethat, but it's clearly, but
it's not 140 million years ago,dude whoever put together
today's quiz.
They need to be fired, yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Maybe the quiz maker was out for like spring break
and this is the junior writer.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
That's right, go ahead, so yeah between Incorrect
but close.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
What 1.5 billion years ago.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
No shit.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
Oh, astronomers found a possible sign of algae on
another planet by detectingdimethyl sulfide.
Sorry friend, you were so close.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
I'm really annoyed.
This is not a way to treat meon my birthday.
I'm on birthday week, by theway.
We have a dear friend of ourswho doesn't live in this country
who objects to birthday weeks.
I'm keeping it rolling, baby,especially after I've been
abused by the New York Timeshere.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
Well, I'm upset because here's the deal with the
flashback.
So you take it's all based onevents that are currently
happening, like the Red Scare.
We can kind of figure out whythat's on here, but I was really
excited to go to the Easter eggone to figure out what game
this guy hit it in.
And instead, the article isEaster eggs are so expensive,
(35:09):
americans are dying potatoes wetalked about this a couple weeks
ago in our podcast.
Yeah, but it doesn't tell mewhat I want to know.
I want to know the story aboutthe guy with the atari well, you
can look it up.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
You've got a miracle in your hands, a miracle of
technology and electronics yeah,yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
so this is the first year that we did not die eggs,
although muffieuffy really doeswant deviled eggs today for
Easter lunch, so we'll have tosee.
I've got about six eggs left,so we can do that.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
You have any thoughts about any of this mess?
Let us know.
Familiarwilson's at gmailcom.
No one likes to be told what todo, and now is the time in the
podcast where we tell you whatto do.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
Amanda, what should we do If you are at all into
kind of like Agatha Christietype murder mysteries?
Not like your gory stuff, butyour puzzly type stuff?
I am reading a new book bynovelist Kristen Perrin.
It's called how to Solve yourOwn Murder.
She is a YA author.
This is her first adult novel.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
YA Young adult.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
And it's yeah, it's like along the veins of Agatha
Christie or Richard Osmond, isalso listed on the back of this
book as it being like that whichRichard Osmond, if you are
familiar with UK televisionpresenters is a television
presenter host in the UK that wereally enjoy but also writes a
very successful series of novelsset in like a retirement
(36:36):
community, and I'm just very,very much enjoying this book.
So if you are interested, goget yourself.
How to Solve your Own Murder.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
I looked at it and I noticed this written in the
present tense, and I don't likeit.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
Yeah, it is written in the present tense and I don't
mind that.
I don't mind that at all, butit also it switches back and
forth between so it's the greatgranddaughter of this woman who
gets this fortune when she's 16,that she's going to die by
murder, and she lives her wholelife trying to figure out who's
going to murder her.
And then turns out she does,and so her granddaughter is
trying to solve the murder.
(37:10):
But it flips back and forthbetween the granddaughter's
present time point of view andthen the grandmother's point of
view back in like the 60s.
So it's interesting.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
All right, okay, well , there you go, as long as I
don't have to read it.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
You don't have to read it, but I'm reading it.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
I like it All.
Righty, amanda.
That's all there is.
There is no more.
What'd you think of that?
Speaker 2 (37:36):
I mean I think that I'm happy that it is a lovely
sunday morning.
The church bells are ringing,um, we had some lovely little
easter baskets with the childrenand very lovely.
I made what?
English muffin breakfastsandwiches with bacon and cheese
and egg and it was great andsat outside and it's not hot yet
(37:58):
, and so it's a lovely day sofar and I've enjoyed spending
this time talking with you.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
And this podcast was made possible by the tireless
efforts of people who should notbe allowed near electricity.
So we want to make sure tothank Justin, our senior sock
interpreter, matt, our invertedwind chime, tuner Antonio, our
paranormal sandwich artist, joshScar.
Our acoustic beard technician,daniel J Buckets, the noise
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curator of Unexplained Honks.
Chick and Tom our bureau chiefof poultry ethics and spaghetti
narration.
Monique from Germany, aretime-space accordionist.
Refined Gay Jeff are divafrequency stabilizer, mark and
Rachel are dual headedceremonial fog machiners.
And, of course, dan and Gavinare co-ministers of Chaos and
(38:47):
Gelatin.
And to you, dear listener, ourpassive psychic co-hosts who
unknowingly influenced theentire show via your facial
expressions at 12.36 pm lastThursday, we of course wish you
a good and happy week until wetalk to you again.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
Alright, go, be kind Bye.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
Bye, bye, thank you, and go and go.
(40:17):
Are you ready for us to start?
Speaker 2 (40:20):
Yeah, you didn't.
Speaker 1 (40:22):
I did.
You were actually reading abook.
Speaker 2 (40:25):
Well, because I'm really into this book and
because you told me that youweren't ready yet and then
usually I hear the and then youpoint at me and none of that
happened oh no, that's not true.
I pointed at you welcome tosuper familiar with the wilsons.
Speaker 1 (40:37):
I'm amanda and I'm josh.
Familiar Wilson's Media Relationships are the
story.
You are made of meat, my friend, all the way down.
The following podcast useswords like and and also.
If you're not into any of thatshit, then now's your chance.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Three, two, one run.
Welcome to Super Familiar withthe Wilsons.
I'm super familiar with theWilson's.
Get it.
Welcome to Super Familiar withthe Wilson's.
I'm Amanda.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
And I'm Josh Amanda.
We are on day 13 of the Wilsonfundraising drive.
Phone lines are now open If youtoo would like to join hundreds
and hundreds of our otherlisteners in contributing to the
success and welfare of theWilson family.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
I have seen no returns.
Are you hoarding all of thefundraising?
Speaker 1 (00:56):
No, your birthday's coming up and it's all to be a
big surprise.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
All right, keep sending money my way, then,
friends.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Since we last spoke to you, I've had a birthday,
We've had a soccer game and Ithought we would start there.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Oh, do we have to.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Forget it.
Let's do a silly quiz and thenget out of here and screw
sharing our lives with thesepeople.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
No, it's just.
Soccer is sad right now.
No, just start with my birthdaythen that's how oh that was
fine.
I wasn't talking about yourbirthday.
You said soccer and we'll startthere, and that's why I was
like that's that's setting usoff on a depressing tone.
But you had a birthday.
Josh is officially nine let youdo the math on what part of nine
puts together his, his age.
We had three sort ofcelebrations this week.
(01:41):
We had one on tuesday with thefamily.
Th night we had friends overfor a lovely dinner party.
And then Friday no Saturday, itwas Saturday Muffy made a from
scratch key lime pie, josh'sfavorite to celebrate him yet
once again.
So happy birthday Josh.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
And your birthday is coming up, but I bring that up
to talk about this.
My wife, ladies and gentlemen,is one of the most sensitive,
caring people in the world, andthe way that she shows her love
for people is doing stuff forthem or buying stuff for them.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Gifts and acts of service.
These are my love languages.
Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
My love language is a pat on the butt and I thank you
very much.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Words of affirmation and physical touch.
That's what you meant.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Sure, whatever.
But yeah, we had some folksover and the reason why I wanted
to bring this up is just anacknowledgement of, as I age,
I'm becoming a little lesscrusty.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Meaning I bathe more, a little less curmudgeonly and
a little more willing to letpeople in.
Better late than never.
And so it was lovely just tosit around with friends and eat
at our dinner table, and eventhough the chair upon which I
sat broke midway through the thedinner doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
I had a great time the thing is you never told
anybody it broke.
Like the next day you're like,yeah, that broke.
I mean, to be fair, it hadalready broken and you had
repaired it.
So it wasn't like the weight ofyou broke it, it just your
repair job wasn't super solid.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Well, no, the weight of me did break it.
This is one of those thingswhere I put off fixing it
because I really didn't know howto fix it.
And it's a very nice higherchair, but the seat, the actual
seat itself, just the plank ofwood is like particle board and
it had broken last week and Isaid, yeah, yeah, I'll fix it,
it'll be easy.
I went to the store Wednesdaynight, eve of my birthday,
(03:32):
looked around I was like, ohwell, I guess I've not really
thought out this trip to the DIYstore.
I just figured I would go thereand the DIY gods would gift me
with enlightenment and how tofix this thing with a minimum of
tools.
I'll put that out there as well.
Don't have a lot of tools forthat.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
You really needed a saw that you could cut, like
plywood or something right.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
No, I have a saw that can cut plywood.
But I have a saw that can cutplywood.
It's like the saw blade is verylarge, toothed.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
I'm just like you and um Rob Beckett, not me.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Just like Rob Beckett , and it wouldn't be good for
that fine type of work.
I would end up taking a pieceof wood home using the saw on it
, and then there'd be splinters.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
And that's a different kind of chair that
that we do not want.
Yes, what I ended up doing wastaking one of the lids to one of
our plastic containers out inthe garage and destroying it and
then gluing it to the three.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Oh my God, I did not know, this is what you did.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Gluing it to the four different pieces of the chair
figuring.
Oh, that'll hold it.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
What made you think it would?
Speaker 1 (04:40):
It did for half of the dinner.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Yes, oh Lord.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Is it good that I didn't tell you that beforehand.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
I mean, yes, and I also thank you for being the one
to sit upon it and not give itto one of our guests.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Well, of course I wasn't going to do that.
So anyway, we had a lovely time, it was nice to have friends
over, and all of that is to sayI'm very evangelical right now
about us getting together withour friends instead of deciding,
oh, it's too comfortable not to.
Well, that's great until you're98 laying there with no friends
(05:13):
.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Oh, that's really sad .
Yeah, it is isn't it?
Speaker 1 (05:16):
So no, you need to encourage yourself to make
relationships grow that you'vehad for a while, and then make
new relationships, and there yougo.
So that's my birthday.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
It was really lovely.
I was very proud of all thefood I made.
Everything turned out great.
But I will tell you, though,that I was feeling the 11 pm
bedtime the next day in the redwine, like I'm not.
Usually, you and I are in bedby nine, and so having a dinner
party on a weeknight, just beprepared to to need some extra
coffee in the morning.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
And let me just tell you me being to bed early is not
a function of age.
I've always wanted just to goto sleep early.
That's always been a thing thatI've tried to do.
There's a period of time whereI was going downtown and
spending time downtown where I'dstay up super late.
It was never good for me, Neverleft me at my best.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
I was before I met you, because you've always been
a late I mean an early tucker inher.
I don't know how to say that.
Tuck, Do you?
Speaker 1 (06:16):
tuck.
No, I do not tuck.
So just a brief word on thesoccer Saturday that we had.
Yesterday Winthrop's team lostlike six to one.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
No, it was four to one.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Yesterday when we were watching the game, we sat
at the end of one of the goals,like on the goal side, and we
sat back because it was shadyand we wanted to do that Instead
of sitting on the sideline,pretty much in the middle, right
up on the action, which is whatwe've done thus far, and at
first I was a little annoyedthat you wanted to sit in the
shade.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
I told you you did not have to sit with me.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
But then I realized that the further away the game
was, the less I cared whathappened on the field.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Oh, okay.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
So it was a good thing, because they got
absolutely smashed.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Is that why you kept getting up from your chair and
walking over to the sideline?
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Well, yeah because I had an option to come back when
I was starting to get agitatedagain.
So that's perfect.
The further away I am fromsomething, the less it bothers
me which actually kind ofreinforces my avoidant behavior.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Let's dive into that one a little bit.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Well, yesterday we played a very good team with a
person on it that I feel shouldprobably go pro yeah, I mean,
that's how good this kid is andso we weren't gonna win.
And I knew we weren't gonna win.
So my job as a parent was tomake sure that Winthrop didn't
care.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Well, but he's starting to care about the
winning and the losing, and thejoy of soccer is starting to
leave his bones.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Well, okay, so here I actually need some advice here,
and this is aimed at theBelsons or anybody else who's
played the footy or a team sport.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Or any other parents out there, let's ask.
Let's rely less on Dan Belsonfor parenting advice and more on
the parents out there, please.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Dan Belson, I'm happily here because you, though
, were in Winthrop's shoes, andso I'm asking about how you were
parented.
So excuse my husband's verylimited view of your expertise.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
No, I think it's pretty realistic.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Okay, hush.
So anybody who has played haveyou played a team competitive
sport or do you parent childrenwho played a team competitive
sport?
We had this experience withMuffy, but she danced
competitively on a dance teamand that's different.
That's a whole differentballgame right?
Winthrop has been heretoforefine, because the last season he
was on the team with the kidwho just killed us yesterday and
the two of them together made areally good team Like they.
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Just they were scoring, theywere defending, they outshone
everybody on their team.
Well, this time they're onopposing teams and Winthrop has
wound up on a team with kids whoare younger than him, kids who
haven't played before.
So his just natural skill levelis a little more advanced than
theirs.
And last season he was happy,fine, win or lose didn't care,
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had a good time this season.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
It's because they won more than they lost, although
they did lose last season.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
They did and he was okay and they lost.
I mean this is now our fourthgame, right, they lost the first
two games.
They tied last week, they lostyesterday and that's starting to
get to him.
I mean he didn't want to goyesterday.
My stomach hurts, but one thingwe know about him when we get
there he has a really good time,like he wants to go.
So he was my stomach hurts andkind of like fussing on the way
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in and I said you're just goingto do practice, because this
league does 30 minute practicein the game.
Do practice, see how you feel.
And as soon as we got therehe's like can I go?
Can I go, can I go play?
Like he wants to go.
But you could see him start toflag Like he was still trying to
stay up with this kid that heplayed with.
You know he's.
He's a pretty good defender.
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He's not being aggressive withtrying to score like he was last
season.
He's hanging back a little bit.
But he started to get like justreal droopy and they had our
team had more players than theother, so they alternated
quarters and he was sitting outand he was sitting on me and he
said this is why I don't likesoccer because we don't win, and
I think that it's not that wedon't win every time, it's just
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very defeating because they havenot won.
Four games into a season theyhaven't won.
And Josh and I might be atopposing views on this, because
I am of the mindset that he'sgot natural talent.
When he's out there, he likesit and I don't want him to
become just defeated becausehe's trying and the other kids
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aren't able to or they're nottrying or whatever.
That is my question is how muchdo we push him to keep going or
how much do we just say, okay,you don't like it and we stop?
Josh just wants him to be happyplaying and not care about
winning or losing.
I want him to develop sometechnique and get some
discipline behind it.
There's also a lot of researcharound team sports and what it
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does positively to your mentalhealth I mean you can get into a
situation where it's bad andalso just developing teamwork
skills.
So, anyway, my question is dowe push him or do we just let
him say, well, you weren'twinning, you got defeated, and
we give up?
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Apropos of nothing, on January 6, 1994, nancy
Kerrigan, an American figureskater, was struck on the lower
right thigh with a baton byassailant Shane Stant as she
walked down a corridor at CoboArena in Detroit.
Kerrigan had been practicingskating on an ice rink in the
arena shortly beforehand.
Well, they came to find outthat the striking on the knee
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with a baton was at the behestof Tonya Harding, or at least
Tonya Harding's husband, jeffGaluli.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Are you comparing my wanting the child to develop
some skills with Tonya Hardingand Nancy Kerrigan?
Because that's absolutelyridiculous.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
No, I'm saying that I would never condone doing
anything to a child, but maybewe got to take out a couple of
these opposing coaches.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Oh okay, sorry, I didn't realize you were planning
.
I thought you were like here'swhat happens if you get
competitive.
Please stop, you can't take outany of the coaches.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
I'm not condoning hitting anyone with anything.
I'm basically a pacifist, butI'm not above giving someone
like a chocolate donut that iscoated with chocolate favorite
Exlax or something.
Yeah, if you're not Because therestrooms at the field are
really far away and they'rereally gross too, so no one
wants to be lingering there fora while.
So I'm just throwing that outthere.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
No, you can't, that's not okay.
But maybe we should not havehim enroll in the beginner
league anymore, because flat outkid we played yesterday should
not be in the beginner league,like that just isn't a thing.
So maybe we need to do theintermediate level, not saying
advanced, but where people aretrying a little bit more.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
All right.
So parents out there or Belsons, let us know what you think.
What do you think we should do?
Familiarwilsons at gmailcom.
Amanda, it's been a while sincewe've had our segment called
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Wilson Wanderings.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Oh, yes, are you wondering things?
Speaker 1 (13:24):
I am wondering, I wonder a lot of things.
Why are there flower designs ontoilet paper?
Speaker 2 (13:35):
That's a really good question.
Are we supposed to equate thecleaning of our bottoms with,
like lovely spring days?
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Maybe it's that in ancient times they used to use
flowers and not leaves to cleanthemselves up.
Okay, all right.
Next one Is it true thatscissors feel more trustworthy
in elementary school colors?
Speaker 2 (13:57):
I don't think that it's elementary school colors.
I think the blade's hard andsharp.
Silly boy.
Although, by the way, winthropcut his hand today using big boy
scissors like our, our regularscissors.
Like, it's okay, I can do itand just cut right into his palm
what color were they?
Speaker 1 (14:12):
red.
Oh well, okay primary colorthat yeah, but blood are
croutons, just vintage bread yes, and they're yummy.
Why is there no Olympic eventfor sneezing multiple times in a
row?
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Because you would win it.
If there was an Olympic eventfor the decibel level, people
hit when they sneeze you wouldwin it.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Listen, this is a thing that I cannot help, and I
had to fire someone for makingfun of me for how loud my
sneezing was.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
I'm sorry what.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
No, not really.
They make fun of me for mysneezes all the time in the
office.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Because there's so loud.
You can control a sneeze, youcan.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
No, you can't.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Friend, I do.
I can control my sneeze.
When you're asleep in bed and Ihave to sneeze, you hold the
bridge of your nose or push yourtongue up on the top of your
mouth and you don't sneeze.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Oh, okay, that is the most ridiculous thing that I've
ever heard there.
Cinderella, listen, if I wereto try to hold my sneeze back at
the force and volume, like myeyes would pop out the first
time, and then things wouldexplode.
The spleen would shoot out ofmy armpit or something.
Can't have it.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Have you always sneezed this loudly?
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
I can't help it.
I mean like, even as, like ateenager.
Yes, okay, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Why does every laundry room feel slightly
haunted?
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Because it's the ghost of all the damn socks that
have lost their soulmates.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
If a rolling stone gathers no moss, why do ceiling
fans gather dust when they'respinning?
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Fair point.
I want an air purifier.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Okay, why.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Because it's supposed to keep the dust from building
up in my room and all thecommercials show me ceiling fans
with no dust on them yeah,that's definitely why there's no
dust.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Why do hangers multiply when I'm not looking
for one, but disappear when Ineed one?
That's a good point too why dochildren's band-aids work better
emotionally than medicinally?
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Unless you're.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Winthrop and you hate sticky things and don't want
band-aids on you when you needthem.
Why do we instinctively holdour breath?
Speaker 2 (16:39):
when we're thinking too hard.
I don't know that.
I do that.
What do you mean?
Speaker 1 (16:42):
This is a thing that everyone does.
Everyone does this.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Well, you've polled the whole world.
I don't know, listeners, do youhold your breath when you're
thinking too hard?
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Yes, they do.
By the way, we bought lotterytickets last night for my
birthday and did you check?
And I have not checked them yet, so we're going to have to
check them here.
Why do folded towels feelmorally superior to unfolded
ones?
Because why do folded towelsfeel morally superior to
unfolded ones?
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Because they're clean and they're fresh out of the
dryer and no one's throwing themon the ground.
And then picked them back upand hung them on something.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
You know, I prefer, like taking my towel that I've
used once, by the way, andhanging it back up.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
I have no problem with that.
I don't think you should reusea towel every time.
I do think they should bewashed once a week, but I'm
mostly speaking to the fact thatwhen Winthrop gets out of the
shower, he just will drop histowel wherever he feels like it,
and then I find them allamongst the house.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
I have no problem with drying with my towel,
hanging it up and then like havethat be my towel for the next
couple of weeks without Coupleweeks is pushing it.
No, it's like an old friend.
Listen, I feel judged when Iwash right and I go to get a
towel and it's a new, cleantowel, like, oh, you think
you're better than me.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
The towel, or me for putting out the clean towels.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
No, the towel Okay.
Why does the word ointment feellike it was invented by
accident?
Speaker 2 (18:05):
It was invented by a pig.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Why are pen caps usually single-use plastic?
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Yeah, do people have pen caps anymore?
Because I don't think they alljust click now.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
There are most definitely BICs that have pen
caps that I guess are part ofthe packaging, because I always
lose them, always, always,always.
They are somewhere, but I don'tknow where they are.
Why don't stairs also haveemergency stop buttons?
Listen, you need that.
You know what an emergency stopbutton on an escalator is right
.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Yes, but it stops the thing, so you don't get sucked
into the mechanism.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
No one is concerned that you're going to get sucked
into the mechanism.
This is not why there areemergencies.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Yeah, it's just.
Your foot starts to go into thetreads.
How small is your foot?
Very small.
Have you seen my foot?
Speaker 1 (18:57):
You'd have to have a little foot like an action
figure.
Gi, Joe is trapped again, andwhere's the emergency stop
button?
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Or if your pant leg gets stuck in it.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
It's not a thing that happens.
Anyway, you you of all peopleneed stairs to have emergency
stop buttons, because you areconstantly falling down the
stairs.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
You fell down last.
Huh, you fell down last week,so you were the last person to
have fallen down the stairs.
All right, we're moving on.
What does an emergency stopbutton on the stairs do?
They still person to havefallen down the stairs.
All right, we're moving on.
How?
What does an emergency?
Speaker 1 (19:31):
stop button on the stairs, do it just, they still
stay stationary.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
No, you would stop falling then if it would have to
put up a gate oh there's anidea, a little net, call it the
amanda stair net like thefirefighters bring when you need
to jump out of a building.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Yeah, why are there no bear-flavored gummy grapes?
That's dumb.
Why do trash cans often smellworse after you've emptied them?
Speaker 2 (19:54):
I mean for real, though, because it has the
lingering smell of all of thetrash bags that have ever
existed in that trash can.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
You know what else.
Now we get these bins from thecity, right.
So I don't know if we'reallowed to do anything, but
really all of your bins shouldhave holes on the bottom for
when it rains and it fills it up, so that you just don't get
that soup of just dreck andnastiness there.
Why do extension cords tiethemselves into more effective
(20:24):
knots than I could ever hope to?
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Yeah, I don't know, same with Christmas lights.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Why does my experience at a drive-thru
always feel like they're givingme a quiz?
I didn't study for.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Because it's just more options than you were
bargaining for.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
It's so stressful.
It is so stressful and I guessI should already know what I
want.
You know what they need to have.
They need to have as a part ofyour app.
If you're driving up to adrive-thru and you're waiting in
a line especially if it's alonger line and you have not yet
seen the menu, that it'll just.
Oh, you're at Chick-fil-A which, by the way, I don't ever want
(21:06):
to go Chick-fil-A, but you'rehere.
This is the menu items.
Also, this is what you'veordered in the past and you've
liked.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Well, if you click on the Chick-fil-A app, it does
that Like frequently orderedmeals.
It will tell you.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Okay, well, but I've already mentioned that.
Chick-fil-a was the first thingthat came to mind, but I don't
ever want to go to Bird King.
I'm quite certain the Bird King, but they need to.
Let's put AI to actual use.
Let's not use AI to take overfor writers and artists.
Let's task AI to sorting us outwhen we're going through fast
food drive-thrus.
This is all I am saying to you.
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And then the last one how doesthe weather app lie with such
incredible confidence?
Speaker 2 (21:39):
My God, it does Like so convincingly 80% chance of
rain, 0.1 inches, 60 degreecooling down, and then it's dry
and deserty and 95 degrees.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Yeah, welcome to Florida.
All right, so there's someWilson wonderings.
Do you have wonderings?
Let us know.
Familiarwilsoncom that musictells us it's time for the news.
(22:15):
Amanda, I have a news articlefor you, just want to know what
you think.
This is one of those thingsthat goes into the category of
funny, because it happened.
I don't need to make it funny,right, it's just like it's
ridiculous.
Okay, did you know that abridge in Ireland designed to
swing open for ships couldn't beopen for four years because the
remote control that operatedthe swing bridge was misplaced?
Speaker 2 (22:36):
No.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
The bridge was unable to be opened until the control
system was reprogrammed in 2014.
So this is the Sean O'CaseyBridge in Dublin, ireland, a
pedestrian swing bridge over theriver Liffey or Liffey, I'm not
certain which was unable toopen for maritime traffic for
approximately four years due toa lost remote control.
How big do we figure thisremote control would have been
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for a bridge?
Speaker 2 (23:01):
My question was going to be is it an Apple TV remote?
Because then I understand.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Let me.
I doubt it was that small.
Those things go all the time itwas constructed in 2005.
It says the remote, describedas being about the size of a
1990s era mobile phone, wasmisplaced.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Oh, that's big.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Yeah, budget constraints delayed the
development of a replacement.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
What?
Can't you just go to Best Buyand get that?
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Yeah, universal remote.
It's got the big buttons.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, not losing that shit.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
But I don't understand how intricate this
remote had to be to signal likebasically, open or close.
It's an AB switch, open orclose.
What the hell did they need todo?
I don't know, it's an A-Bswitch, open or close.
What the hell did they?
Speaker 2 (23:45):
need to do.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
I don't know.
Eventually, in 2014, an Irishfirm reprogrammed a new remote
control at the cost ofapproximately $1,800.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Again, that's not much, friends Like that's not
four years worth of budgetconstraints.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Well, maybe it is.
I don't know what the DublinDocklands Development Authority,
what their budget's like.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
If you get somebody to pay you $100 a month, you got
that thing fixed in a year anda half.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Yeah, but they had to spend money on, I don't know,
potatoes or Baileys or somethingI don't know.
Anyway, this highlights thechallenges of relying on single
points of failure.
In any system, One thinghappens bad and then your whole
thing is screwed Not a greatidea.
In any system, One thinghappens bad and then your whole
thing is screwed Not a greatidea.
You should probably have, inaddition to the remote control,
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like oh, I don't know a button.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Right A switch.
I can even turn my TV on andoff at the TV.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Yeah, oh go, humans, we're the best.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Yay, yay.
We're the best, yay, yay.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
It's save the date time.
No, I don't mean Amanda'sbirthday coming up here in May.
I mean May 8th is National JoshDay.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Why is it?
Does it mean joshing likehitting somebody?
Like we're all supposed to goaround joshing people?
Speaker 1 (25:05):
No, no, no, it's an occasion where individuals named
Josh are celebrated.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
We just celebrated you this whole week.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
I know me as a specific Josh, but then now
we're widening the circle andcelebrating like General Joshes.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Okay, General Josh Day, May 8th.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Send me flowers, contribute to our fun drive.
If you give a donation today tothe Wilson Fundraising Drive,
just send it to me.
I will make sure that come JoshDay, fun things will happen.
I'll have a fun time.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
What will you do?
You will have a fun time, buthow?
How does this benefit thelisteners for sending?
Speaker 1 (25:45):
you money, I'll get a new remote for our cantilevered
bridge.
There you go.
What time is it Game time?
Who?
Speaker 2 (26:10):
That song means it's game time and we haven't had a
flashbacks in a while.
So, Josh, are you ready for aflashbacks?
Speaker 1 (26:17):
For all of our new listeners, the influx of people
listening from Antarctica andSpain and Uruguay, please let
them know what flashbacks is.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
The flashbacks is a quiz by the New York Times.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Not a sponsor.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
No, but they can if they want In which they give us
I think it's eight events inhistory and Josh has to figure
out where they go on a continuumof time before and after each
other.
It's going to give us ananchoring event and then he has
to decide is the next one beforeor after that?
Give us an anchoring event, andthen he has to decide is the
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next one before or after that?
And josh also levels it up bytrying to guess the exact time
in history that this took placeokay, so hit me what's the first
one?
here's your anchoring event twostars collide in a far-off
galaxy, creating gold.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
It's evidence that gold can come from the stars I,
I don't even fucking know whatyou're asking me there when did
these two stars collide in a faroff galaxy, creating gold?
Okay, billions of years ago.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
No wait what not?
Speaker 1 (27:23):
billions of years ago but if it's in a far off galaxy
?
You know how long it takes toget information from a far-off
galaxy.
Yes, but not billions, right?
No, it has to be because by thetime any information that we
get from a far-off galaxyreaches us, it's already like
that happened, like thousandsupon millions of years ago, by
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the time that light orinformation reaches us.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Okay, so what's your guess?
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Oh, for a million years ago 140 million years ago
okay, well, don't roll your eyes.
You were saying billions andit's not, it's millions all
right, what date is thatspecifically, so I can write?
Speaker 2 (28:00):
140 million years ago .
So this is going to help youanchor.
All the other things will beafter this right.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
That's what I'm saying is like just after, after
the universe was formed, thisor that thing happened, go ahead
the next thing is jesus.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
During the red scare, top us universities take a
clear and public stance onmccarthyism compliance.
Harvard will continuously buckthe trend or not continuously
cautiously buck the trend.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
So before, after the formation of the universe, I'm
going to say that that'sdefinitely in the 1950s or early
60s, 1959.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
1953.
So good, close, okay, kept outof the official credits.
An upset programmer hides hisname in a secret room in an
Atari game.
It's one of the first videogame, easter eggs.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Do you know the story ?
No, I don't.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Well, look at it after the game.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Well, the Atari games are in the late 70s, early 80s,
because that was the firstvideo game I'd ever played.
Well, that's not true.
It's the first home video gameI'd ever played.
So I'm going to say 1980.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
We had an Atari 1980, exactly Bam extra points.
And the church bell's ringingfor you, Can you hear?
Speaker 1 (29:15):
it yeah, I can Okay.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
All right, a handy fashion invention, variously
called the slide fastener, clasplocker or clothing closure,
gets a name that sticks thezipper.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Oh, I was going for Velcro.
So when were zippers invented?
So that's got to be way back inthe day, right?
Speaker 2 (29:34):
I would think so, but probably not at the formation
of the universe.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
We think that that's how zippers were created Two
galaxies collided 1920.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
1923.
You're on a roll, friend.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Bam on a roll.
Zipper was invented in 1923.
You're on a roll, friend, bamon a roll.
The zipper was invented in 1923, just in time for the Second
World War.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
Yes, the US detains thousands of Italian Americans
as enemy aliens.
It stops when it realizes itneeds Italian American troops to
invade Europe.
That sounds so much like the US.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Okay, well, it's gonna be between zippers and Red
Scare.
So oh, unless it's World War I,I don't know.
Ooh, this is a tough one.
Okay, I'm just gonna have toroll the dice.
We're gonna say 1936.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
1941.
Good, good, good.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
That was silly.
I knew it would be later thanthat.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Oh Lord.
So this next clue is a series.
It's not written in Englishalphabet, it's a series of
dashes and dots and at the verybottom, in parenthetical text,
it says Morse code is invented.
New York Times getting cheeky.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Yeah well, they're running out of ideas.
We gotta figure again thatthat's gotta be.
It's probably earlier than Ithink, because I would assume
then that that's around a waragain, because a lot of our
technological and communicativeadvances were based around
necessity and because, hey,these people are going to kill
us.
So we got to figure out how totrick them or whatever.
(31:13):
Ah, Morse code.
But then there were telegraphs.
Did telegraphs use Morse code?
I don't know.
That was in the Old West.
All right, 1850, Morse code,Okay, 1838.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
You're doing very well friend, all right, 1850,
morse code Okay 1838.
You're doing very well, friend.
All right, three more.
The inventor, josephine Cochran, exhibits an early hand-powered
dishwasher in Chicago.
One issue most US homes don'thave hot water.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Bam, come on, josephine, Use your head for
once.
Right homes don't have hotwater.
Bam, come on, josephine, useyour head for once.
Hand-powered.
Why are they grouping these alltogether, though?
Because I feel like they'remaking it difficult on me.
I've got four that are between1838 and 1953.
And I need them to spread theseout a little bit.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Well, no, I mean they went 140 million years ago and
then, like the 19th century,they skipped a whole lot.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
Okay, I have no ability to guess this.
I'm gonna say 1916.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Okay, so after Morse code, but before the zipper,
yeah, 1893.
So you still got it right onthe thing.
All right, ready for your last,your penultimate question.
Go ahead, us railroads createfour time zones from eastern to
pacific.
Are these the people thatcreated the time zones?
(32:39):
I didn't know that.
Americans now all have a clearanswer to the question what time
is it?
What did we just all not know.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
We just all guessed um, it's a little bit more
important when you have thenecessity of asking someone to
pick me up at the airport atsuch and such a time, and or
like the people to switch thetrack so the trains don't
collide.
That too, I don't know.
Dude, again, I feel like thisis all in this.
They're really trying to tripme up here.
19, shit, 1870.
(33:18):
Okay, so, between morris codeand the dishwasher.
Yeah, that once they developmorris code they could send this
information.
Hey, also, we've it's twoo'clock over there correct 1883
bam all right, last one.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
I mean you are going for a clean sweep here queen
sweep algae first appear inearth's waters.
Well, that's stupid.
Some will emit dimethyl sulfide, a pungent molecule that
creates the distinctive smell ofsea air.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Okay, so 600 BC?
I don't know, dude.
No, it's going to be way beforethat, but it's clearly, but
it's not 140 million years ago,dude whoever put together
today's quiz.
They need to be fired, yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Maybe the quiz maker was out for like spring break
and this is the junior writer.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
That's right, go ahead, so yeah between Incorrect
but close.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
What 1.5 billion years ago.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
No shit.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
Oh, astronomers found a possible sign of algae on
another planet by detectingdimethyl sulfide.
Sorry friend, you were so close.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
I'm really annoyed.
This is not a way to treat meon my birthday.
I'm on birthday week, by theway.
We have a dear friend of ourswho doesn't live in this country
who objects to birthday weeks.
I'm keeping it rolling, baby,especially after I've been
abused by the New York Timeshere.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
Well, I'm upset because here's the deal with the
flashback.
So you take it's all based onevents that are currently
happening, like the Red Scare.
We can kind of figure out whythat's on here, but I was really
excited to go to the Easter eggone to figure out what game
this guy hit it in.
And instead, the article isEaster eggs are so expensive,
(35:09):
americans are dying potatoes wetalked about this a couple weeks
ago in our podcast.
Yeah, but it doesn't tell mewhat I want to know.
I want to know the story aboutthe guy with the atari well, you
can look it up.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
You've got a miracle in your hands, a miracle of
technology and electronics yeah,yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
so this is the first year that we did not die eggs,
although muffieuffy really doeswant deviled eggs today for
Easter lunch, so we'll have tosee.
I've got about six eggs left,so we can do that.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
You have any thoughts about any of this mess?
Let us know.
Familiarwilson's at gmailcom.
No one likes to be told what todo, and now is the time in the
podcast where we tell you whatto do.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
Amanda, what should we do If you are at all into
kind of like Agatha Christietype murder mysteries?
Not like your gory stuff, butyour puzzly type stuff?
I am reading a new book bynovelist Kristen Perrin.
It's called how to Solve yourOwn Murder.
She is a YA author.
This is her first adult novel.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
YA Young adult.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
And it's yeah, it's like along the veins of Agatha
Christie or Richard Osmond, isalso listed on the back of this
book as it being like that whichRichard Osmond, if you are
familiar with UK televisionpresenters is a television
presenter host in the UK that wereally enjoy but also writes a
very successful series of novelsset in like a retirement
(36:36):
community, and I'm just very,very much enjoying this book.
So if you are interested, goget yourself.
How to Solve your Own Murder.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
I looked at it and I noticed this written in the
present tense, and I don't likeit.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
Yeah, it is written in the present tense and I don't
mind that.
I don't mind that at all, butit also it switches back and
forth between so it's the greatgranddaughter of this woman who
gets this fortune when she's 16,that she's going to die by
murder, and she lives her wholelife trying to figure out who's
going to murder her.
And then turns out she does,and so her granddaughter is
trying to solve the murder.
(37:10):
But it flips back and forthbetween the granddaughter's
present time point of view andthen the grandmother's point of
view back in like the 60s.
So it's interesting.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
All right, okay, well , there you go, as long as I
don't have to read it.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
You don't have to read it, but I'm reading it.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
I like it All.
Righty, amanda.
That's all there is.
There is no more.
What'd you think of that?
Speaker 2 (37:36):
I mean I think that I'm happy that it is a lovely
sunday morning.
The church bells are ringing,um, we had some lovely little
easter baskets with the childrenand very lovely.
I made what?
English muffin breakfastsandwiches with bacon and cheese
and egg and it was great andsat outside and it's not hot yet
(37:58):
, and so it's a lovely day sofar and I've enjoyed spending
this time talking with you.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
And this podcast was made possible by the tireless
efforts of people who should notbe allowed near electricity.
So we want to make sure tothank Justin, our senior sock
interpreter, matt, our invertedwind chime, tuner Antonio, our
paranormal sandwich artist, joshScar.
Our acoustic beard technician,daniel J Buckets, the noise
(38:25):
curator of Unexplained Honks.
Chick and Tom our bureau chiefof poultry ethics and spaghetti
narration.
Monique from Germany, aretime-space accordionist.
Refined Gay Jeff are divafrequency stabilizer, mark and
Rachel are dual headedceremonial fog machiners.
And, of course, dan and Gavinare co-ministers of Chaos and
(38:47):
Gelatin.
And to you, dear listener, ourpassive psychic co-hosts who
unknowingly influenced theentire show via your facial
expressions at 12.36 pm lastThursday, we of course wish you
a good and happy week until wetalk to you again.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
Alright, go, be kind Bye.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
Bye, bye, thank you, and go and go.
(40:17):
Are you ready for us to start?
Speaker 2 (40:20):
Yeah, you didn't.
Speaker 1 (40:22):
I did.
You were actually reading abook.
Speaker 2 (40:25):
Well, because I'm really into this book and
because you told me that youweren't ready yet and then
usually I hear the and then youpoint at me and none of that
happened oh no, that's not true.
I pointed at you welcome tosuper familiar with the wilsons.
Speaker 1 (40:37):
I'm amanda and I'm josh.
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