May 19, 2025 • 33 mins
Mother's Day celebrations kick off this week's episode, with stories of family gatherings and sports games.
Nostalgia takes center stage as they compare their wedding invitations from the early 2000s, marveling at the similarities in their choices and how wedding planning has changed in the digital age. "No websites, no email addresses – just phone numbers," they laugh, reflecting on their beautiful calligraphy and matching response cards. Their genuine friendship shines through as they appreciate these connections they didn't even know they shared when planning their weddings years before meeting.
Grab a glass of the drink of summer...the "spicy sav-bee" (jalapeño-infused sauvignon blanc) and listen in to the history of eyeglasses, the discussion meanders through topics with the natural flow of friends who are truly interested in each other's perspectives. Whether you're looking for entertainment, information, or just the comfort of friendly voices, this episode delivers with heart and humor. Subscribe now and join the conversation – these Two Noras will feel like your friends by the end of your first listen.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Hi, thanks for joining us today.
It's Nora and Nora, welcome toour first-time listeners and our
old friends alike.
We're glad you're here.
Yes, we are, and we are happyto be here.
We are happy to be hereRecording this podcast for you.
Yeah, happy, belated Mother'sDay and to you, thank you.
I thought of that when I wasediting.
I was like, oh, clearlyMother's Day was not on our
radar when we recorded.
(00:28):
No, so it was not a mention atall.
But did you have a nice one?
We had the perfect Mother's Day.
Did have two football games andtwo soccer games, but aside
from that, it was great.
I went for a big old run and wehad lunch with some bubbles and
(00:49):
then Catherine Grace servedmass and we had a low-key dinner
at home.
Ryan made dinner and we justall hung out together.
It was great.
Oh, that's nice.
The girls like laid in thebackyard sunbathing and playing
soccer.
Oh, cute, in between all of oursports, and, yeah's good.
How about you?
It was nice.
I kind of made an executivedecision.
(01:10):
I was like we are doingsomething as a family, okay, and
uh, and the day after I madethat decision, kevin's travel
baseball was like we're playinga mother's day game and I was
like kevin's not.
I was like, nope, that's so sad.
He told me this on Wednesday.
Oh, it came out on Wednesday,came out on a Wednesday, oh yeah
, and Mother's Day was Sundayand I was like we already have
(01:31):
plans, we already have tickets.
Yeah, I was like sorry, notsorry, travel baseball.
I was like he won't be there.
The Hershey experience at WaterTower, which was meh.
I wouldn't recommend it.
Okay, but we did have fun.
Hold on.
Yes, you wouldn't recommend itfor you or for kids.
(01:51):
I wouldn't really recommend itfor anyone.
Oh, wow, okay, that's a bigstatement.
Did your kids like it?
We had fun.
I would just say like it's kindof expensive and it's like we
went to Slumo and that was veryfun and it was humongous, and it
was like room after room afterroom of slime and experience and
(02:13):
like we did a Harry Potterthing.
Again, it was humongous.
It was room after room, veryextensive.
This was one room with fourdifferent corners.
And then the one thing you'resupposed to get like like a
Hershey's employee badge, andthat was broken, so we didn't
get that.
And then the coolest part wasyou could design a Hershey Kiss
(02:34):
wrapper and then you put it inthis machine and then it looks
like it's being produced.
Oh cute, but it actually isn't,it's just like a video.
Oh, it's like a video.
Oh, it's like a simulation.
Yes, so I took pictures and thekids actually really got into
it and it was funny.
Like Rory's were really funnyand then Al did Like we all did
(02:58):
one, and it was fun.
But then it was also kind oflike that would have been the
perfect souvenir, right, or whata moneymaker to be like hey,
you can buy a bag of these for amillion dollars.
You could have designed yourown Hershey bar wrapper.
But kind of, by then we were alllike we good.
So I mean it was, Did you havea good dinner down there?
Well, then I messed up.
I thought dinner with my wholefamily was at 430 and it was a
(03:24):
four, but like the Hershey thingwas so short that we were like,
oh my God, what are we going todo with all this time we have?
Because it was 2.30.
I thought we had two hours toburn downtown, but we were like
it was like a lot of time butnot enough time to do something
cool.
So we kind of like dragged ourfeet at Water Tower.
And then we went.
I was like let's drive and lookat the Obama's house in Hyde
(03:45):
Park.
So we did that.
Good for you for thinking onthe fly.
But it was funny because I am arule follower yes, you are.
And it was like no pedestriansallowed Because the street is
blocked off and it says likethis is protected by Secret
Service.
And it was clever because itsaid residential area and
(04:06):
somebody changed it intopresidential.
That's funny.
But me and all the kids werelike oh my God, we can't go down
here.
It says no pedestrians.
And Al's like who's going tostop us?
We're just walking, we're notdoing anything bad.
So five of us were like oh myGod.
And Al was just strolling downthe street and then he's like
let's take a picture.
And we're all like, oh God,it's evidence of our wrongdoing.
(04:29):
Did you take a picture?
We did, yeah, were you all likethis?
Like hurry up?
And then we got to dinner.
It's 20 minutes late and herewe thought we were 10 minutes
early.
Happy Mother's Day.
Happy Mother's Day.
Happy Mother's Day, alas andalack.
So close to summer, I have totell you there is a new drink of
summer.
Oh good, because it's not thedirty spritz?
(04:51):
No, but it's another blend.
Okay, it's the spicy sav-bee.
Oh, I like sav.
How do you say it?
Sauvignon blanc Sav-bee?
Yeah, yeah, a saab B?
Yeah, so the spicy one requiresyou to slice and freeze
jalapeno peppers.
Okay, and then you fill up yourglass of saab and add your
(05:14):
frozen jalapeno peppers.
Have you tried it?
No, are you going to?
I don't like saab B.
Oh, okay, I mean I'll drink it.
I'll drink it.
Oh, okay, I mean I'll drink it.
I'll drink it.
Maybe you like it spicy.
I drink it.
If somebody offers it to me.
Yeah, like whatever, but Idon't.
It's not your first and I alsodidn't have any jalapenos on
here.
Could you have a spicy shartLike, why soft bean?
Oh, I don't know.
Blasphemy, it's gross.
(05:39):
Okay, okay, I just wasn't surewhat.
What made sock.
I would do a spicy margespecially.
But speaking of drinks, I alsodiscovered this new topo chico.
I'm really excited to try it.
Um, you've opened it for me.
It looks so refreshing.
Yeah, it's um non-alcoholiclime with mint flavored
(06:02):
sparkling water and it has fivecalories in it.
Oh, I like it.
I think I like it.
I wasn't expecting it to bequite so limey.
Is it too flavorful for you?
I could see that for you, butit definitely has a strong
flavor with other naturalflavors.
I wonder what, besides lime andmint, potassium, that doesn't.
(06:23):
I always think that tastes likebananas.
I knew I tasted chloride inthere.
Oh, that's right, there'sprobably the magnesium is real
strong.
I'm real sensitive.
But no, I'm going to keeptrying and see.
I think, because it looks reallynice, I would mix this with
tequila.
That's a great idea.
(06:43):
Oh, I like that idea a lot.
And then you're, there's yourmargarita.
Yeah, this is great, awesome,yeah, okay, you, in my opinion,
always give the most thoughtfulhostess gifts.
Well, thank you.
You're very good at gifts ingeneral, but especially hostess
gifts.
You are always one to do that.
You never forget.
It's always very thoughtful.
Aina garten, the barefootcontessa, just told everybody
(07:05):
what her go-to hostess gifts areand I was curious what you
thought.
Because it's not wine, no, it'sokay, I don't always give wine.
She said I don't like to givehosts or hostesses something
that they feel like they have touse right away, which is what
our friend Margarita from HenselTable said.
I was surprised by some of thethings she said, like guest
(07:26):
towels or like kitchen towels.
No, okay, um, let me see if Ican guess another.
Oh yeah, soap, no, it's not.
It's not like liquid dial, likepretty soaps, yeah, um, you're
looking around, I'm lookingaround my house, I know you tell
me.
Well, they're all ingestible.
(07:47):
Oh, you eat all of them.
You eat all of them.
A bag of pasta, close, granolaUgh.
Tea, like fancy teas.
Chocolates, chocolates, greatChocolates, I was okay.
Or coffee, like fancy gourmetcoffee.
How do you even make coffee?
You would buy it like groundcoffee.
You have to have a coffee potmachine.
(08:09):
Coffee pot machine, a machine.
You don't bring it brewed, youwould give them the beans, oh,
but the host has to put thosecrumbs into the coffee pot.
The coffee machine.
I don't know what a coffeemachine is.
Coffee machine, what a geniusidea for a machine.
(08:32):
What are the grinds called?
Or the grinds, the grinds, thegrinds.
Yes, oh, you know what.
So you would have to know thatyour host or hostess was a big
coffee drinker.
Yeah, otherwise, that has themachine to make it.
Yes, also enjoys it, mm-hmm,mm-hmm.
Right, because coffee would.
That would not be a good giftfor me or for you.
(08:52):
No, but I wouldn't mind someteas.
Yeah, I mean yeah.
So I just thought that wasinteresting.
I appreciate the gesture always,yes, but I also I mean, when I
first read granola, I'm likelike a Trader Joe's, like zip
top bag, like yeah, yeah, yeah,she's probably buying.
Like gourmet, yeah, like fromthe, from like the farmer's
(09:16):
market.
Yeah, yeah, you said farmer'smarket was such disdain, you
choke on it.
You're farming all organic, itseems, so I use that word, but I
can't think of anything else.
Well, it is crummy, like it'sgroundy, but I like granola.
(09:39):
If you get like a chunk of itin the bag, oh, like a cluster
if you will.
Yeah, granola, I'm hit or miss.
My kids eat it one of my boysbut they don't eat it, right,
they mix it in yogurt.
He'll grab it because it has alot of calories.
But they don't eat it withcalories, right, they mix it in
yogurt.
He'll grab it because it has alot of protein calories in it
and, just like popcorn, eat itlike that.
(10:00):
Or put it in yogurt, yeah, okay, like a parfait.
Also, do you know anyone namedLiam or Olivia?
Yeah, I do.
Liam, number one for boys'names eight years in a row.
Olivia, number one six years ina row.
Now, the Liam that I'm thinkingof is named for his grandfather
, who is William.
(10:20):
Yes, and I didn't realize thatLiam was short for William.
It's the Gaelic form of William.
I didn't know that.
Do you know any?
I know quite a few Williams.
Yeah, yeah, I like that name.
I like it too, and I like thename Olivia.
So I was also kind of like,yeah, I get it.
Those are great.
And then number two for boys wasNoah, which is so similar to
(10:43):
Nora.
I had a friend who couldn'tpronounce her R's, so it always
sounded like Noah.
I had a friend whose fathercalled me Noah and her sister
thought that was my name.
Oh no, that's a problem, that'sfine, yeah.
And then Emma, number two forgirls.
Oh, did you happen to see whereNora fell?
I did not.
Okay, I don't like that.
It's creeping up.
(11:04):
Oh, I, eh, I like that.
It was kind of Under the radar.
Yeah, a unique name.
I don't like to share my namewith anyone, but you, oh phew,
that was a close one.
I thought you were breaking upwith me.
Oh no, but I just I don't know.
And also, we have a little bitfrom a follow-up from last week.
(11:24):
Yeah, we talked aboutstationery.
We did, how happy it made usand we brought our wedding
invitations.
We did, and it's kind of fun tocompare yes, we were meant to
be together, because when wereyou married?
I was married January 31st 2005.
And I was right behind you inJuly of 2006.
That's right.
So, yeah, just six months laterand we were on a very similar
(11:47):
wavelength.
Yeah, we were.
And I remembered incorrectly.
Mine doesn't have an outsideenvelope, it just the invitation
is the envelope and we bothhave beautiful calligraphy.
Yes, the woman who did minelives in town.
Oh, she does.
And so, yeah, you opened mineup.
And then we also had the sameresponse card we did.
It wasn't blank, but it justsays the favor of your reply is
(12:10):
requested by the 30th ofNovember, and then it's blank
for you to write a message and Ilove I didn't.
Really my mom had that idea todo those.
My mom and I kind of was like,okay, that's what you want to do
, and I love that we did thatbecause I have so many response
cards as special keepsakes.
Now here's a question to see howold we are.
(12:30):
Okay, does your invitation haveany sort of website on it at
all?
No, does your invitation haveany sort of map?
No, no maps.
Oh, your map is great.
Yeah, that's a great map of thecity.
But that just hit me right nowbecause it says, like a block of
(12:52):
rooms has been reserved at thehotel.
Please call this number to bookyour hotel.
Yes, phone numbers.
Yeah, there's no phone numbers.
And then I have even directionson the back.
Oh, because you had a lot ofpeople driving Out of towners
from Chicago or Arizona orWisconsin, right.
And then it says abouttransportation, but yeah,
(13:13):
there's no, no websites.
No, nothing.
Did you have a wedding website?
No, no, I remember that it wascool that you could look up
registry, like, my registry wasonline, but that's because
Bloomingdale's did it and weeven brought our program
Programs.
Yeah, I made my program and Iwas quite proud of it.
It turned out really nice.
(13:34):
And then my sister tried tomake hers and it went a little
awry.
Hers got a little sloppy.
Oh, it was a little sloppy,rough around the edges,
literally, yes, literally.
So I, being a good maid ofhonor, went and I put a border
of ribbon around it to try tohide some of the unevenness.
(13:55):
I love the paper you guys chose.
Thank you, it's a littlepearlized kind of paper, but
yours is lovely.
It's like a lovely kind of likean index or what would you call
it, like a, I don't know.
Oh, it's also kind of weird forme to see your and Ryan's names
next to each other, because youare not, I am norah ryan, so it
(14:15):
always kind of throws me off.
I'm like that's me.
Uh, I would have loved to haveyou as a guest.
Oh, as a guest, I'd like tohave you guys too.
Wouldn't it be fun if thefriends that you made after your
wedding like up until now, yeah, we're there to celebrate with
you.
Maybe somebody will have like avow renewal and after party oh,
you should do that, you shoulddo that.
It'll be 20 years for us, meand Alexander Then you should
(14:39):
totally do that.
I would love to come to thatkind of party.
Have a New Year's party andwhoop it up.
Yeah, we'll see how it goes.
And speaking of invitations, youwere spot on.
Oh, I brought my sister's too.
I just want to show you this.
This hers is super, oh God,everything faux, but it's got a
really nice.
This is great, isn't thatpretty?
Hers are super fancy.
(15:01):
Yeah, this looks amazing.
Did your mom help design these?
Yeah, aaron did it.
Oh, okay, yeah, I think my, Idon't.
I can't speak for Aaron, but Iknow for my mom, like we went
and she was kind of like andthis and this or this, and I was
like this sounds good.
That's pretty much.
Yeah, I don't think Erin has awebsite on hers either.
(15:22):
I didn't have much say no, butI did.
Oh, let me see.
Hers is oh yeah, mm-hmm.
So, alas, and alackack, that'sour stationary.
But then you but I did want toshare that.
You were spot on about somethinga dear friend of mine in-laws
have a stationary company.
No, they do, and it's calledstone house collection.
(15:45):
You find my instagram, get outof here and they make darling
car.
They do their own christmascard.
Oh, yeah, I'm sure, and it's socute.
They know a guy.
Yeah, and it's so cute everyyear.
It didn't cross my mind thatthey do other things.
I mean, I guess I just neverreally thought about it.
Sure, but she had mentionedthat they sell about 3,000 packs
(16:06):
of cards per year.
Okay, like to businesses orwhatever, but at Christmastime,
over 100,000 packs, wow, ofsolely for Christmas.
Yes, and when you said thatlast week on the show that you
think a lot of business isgenerated from Christmas cards.
You're right on.
Yeah, well, thank you Jillian.
(16:26):
Yeah, Thanks, for she's a loyallistener too.
I appreciate that.
She was the one who told meabout the St Germain, appreciate
that?
Um, she was the one who told meabout the saint germain.
Oh, yeah, she has all sorts oftips.
Well, that's awesome.
And wait, um, how about ourpope business last week?
What in that was amazing.
Holy smoke, holy smoke.
(16:46):
And it was very fun to.
We watched it on my computer,yeah, together, and it was wild,
because as we were recording,you got the news alert and then
we were kind of like keeping aneye on it.
It was really and you're like,ok, I'm going to go, you can't
go.
We're about to watch history,and we really did.
And the more we watched, themore we realized, like, holy cow
(17:09):
, this guy is not only fromChicago, he is a South Sider.
There's a lot of connectionsthat we can draw.
One of our priests at ourparish is friendly with him.
He was like Father Bob, fatherBob, father Bob is the Pope,
isn't that great.
He like has his phone number,because did you hear the story
about the kids?
So there was a fifth grade classthat went to the St Rita Shrine
(17:29):
oh yes, wait, that was my.
Oh no, it was sixth grade.
Yeah, st Rita Shrine oh yes,wait, that was my.
Oh no, I was yeah.
So they were there last weekduring, and Father Tom was like,
let's say a prayer.
My friend, father Bob, is partof the conclave and let's say a
prayer for him.
And then, as they finishedtheir prayer and someone's like,
oh my gosh, there's white smoke, we're going to have a new pope
(17:51):
.
And we're like, oh, we probablywon't hear.
And then Did they stay at StRita?
They stayed.
He was a substitute teacher atSt Rita and they were there at
St Rita when they got the newsthat it was pope.
Oh, I didn't know.
That Isn't that crazy.
Yes, those fifth graders hadjust like an incredible
experience.
Yeah, that's unreal, unreal,unreal.
I know Unreal, but the memes ofall the Chicago Pope memes are
(18:14):
so funny, they're so funny.
I'm really encouraged and reallyexcited about him.
I am too, I'm, hopeful thathe's going to be a good Pope.
I'd love to have him over fordinner, wouldn't you?
Yeah, yeah, and even like thestuff of him, like at the White
Sox.
Yes, oh, oh, it's just yeah,it's been like, because my
friend Nicole, who's also aloyal listener.
(18:34):
She sent me a text, like thePope is from Chicago.
I was like it was just thanksto be in the news for something
good and positive and happy, allof the above.
It felt nice, all right.
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And now back to the show.
Our topic this week is glasses,cheers, all the glasses, all the
glasses.
And it's fitting because beforewe started recording I got a
(20:21):
text from our school nurse.
Oh, that said hi there, nurseNancy.
Non-emergency.
I just wanted to discuss theresults of John's eye test,
vision test.
So I texted her back callanytime.
My husband has terrible vision,terrible.
(20:42):
My oldest daughter wearscontacts.
My middle daughter wearsglasses.
My oldest son is nothing.
So far, so good.
So John might be the next one.
Poor guy.
Yeah, oh my God, he'll be socute in glasses.
Oh my God, his cute little facewith glasses on.
Are you kidding me?
I didn't realize.
(21:03):
St John's does a visionscreening.
Maybe he went into the nurseand was like.
He was like who is that?
I'm like we both did it thesame way.
Who knows?
And do you wear glasses?
I've just started.
I've got reading glasses likereaders that I bought on Amazon.
How did you know?
Like plus one plus two, plus1.25?
(21:25):
.
I did go to the eye doctor andhave it checked out and I love
my eye doctor.
She sees all my kids too andshe's like I can write you a
prescription.
She's like but really all youneed is like a plus one reader.
And how could you tell thatthey were going?
Because it was blurry.
Oh yeah, that'll get you, gotto get you when you read, when I
read so like close up, and I'dbe like, hmm, can you read a
(21:48):
menu?
Yes, I still can, but I'venoticed like I need a little bit
more light sometimes, like Ican read without them, but I
really have to focus.
Okay, I mean I can read my ownnotes, especially if I wrote it,
but I would say, as the daygoes on or if I'm doing a lot of
work on the computer, oh, no,kidding, I need I should wear
them, otherwise I'll get aheadache.
(22:09):
Oh, I wish I had glasses when Iwas a kid I always wanted mine.
I had them.
I had like a stigmatism.
I feel like that was bs, likewhen I went like as an adult
they would give a stigmatism andI'm like but my eyes are fine,
so I don't really know what goodthey did.
Okay, then I stopped wearingthem, but anyways, but yeah, but
(22:30):
your eyes are fine.
So far, yeah, so far, so good.
Yeah, I will say I always wearsunglasses.
I was running the other day andI had a pair of sunglasses on my
head and a pair of sunglasseson.
Wow, I was like what should Ido?
I was like what should I do?
I was like should I put them?
Like on someone's port?
Like I was going back and forthin my head.
I was like, no, I just got tolike stay on course.
You got to stay on course.
Yeah, I wear sunglasses all thetime, but I realize part of the
(22:54):
reason why I like to wear themis because I use them as a
headband.
Yes, not only do I not like tosquint, but it's very helpful to
keep my hair out of my face.
Yes, I agree, my eyes are alsoreally sensitive and they always
have been, so I like to havethem, even when it's cloudy,
same, yeah, because there'sglare.
(23:14):
Yeah, my eyes are very dry.
Oh, do you use eye drops?
And so I should.
I'm supposed to Because I wassaying to my eye doctor at the
end of the night my eyes willwater, like when I lay down to
sleep.
It's like I have tears comingBecause they're dry.
She's like your eyes are so dryNow that you're closing them.
They're like overworking tomoisturize your eyes, no kidding
(23:38):
.
So I have eye drops and now Ihave them by my toothbrush so
that I put them in.
Oh, that's a good place tostart.
And then do the eye drops.
She's like, just do it everyday.
She's like because kind of likedrinking water.
She's like because once youreyes are dry, they're already
like dehydrated.
Do you drink a lot of water?
I do.
Do you drink that?
Apparently it's not getting tomy eyeballs?
Do you drink the whole thing ofthat?
(23:58):
I no, I don't actually, becauseI'm so dry.
It's all going in my eyeballs,it's all coming out at night.
I try, I really try.
I don't love to drink justplain old water.
So that's why I drink a lot ofthese.
Does this count?
Does a sparkle water count?
(24:19):
I think it counts.
I think I mean it's water.
I mean if you were like that'swhy I drink so much Diet Coke.
Then I'd be like that doesn'tcount, but this is water.
Yeah, it's sparkling water, butit's still water.
Yeah, I'm not a doctor, but Isay it counts.
Okay, thank you, I had a lot offun looking up old glasses.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry thatalmost came out my nose.
(24:41):
I did it for the sake of thepodcast so you would have
somebody to talk to, but I wouldalso.
Wasn't it ridiculous?
They were so silly.
All those early glasses Istarted reading like they were
originally invented because ofthe snow, glare and not the sun.
How about that?
They would use bone or likerock to like yeah, but my
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favorite was the Chinese thatused them to cover up facial
expressions.
Oh, they were on to somethingthey were like I could use.
Like mind your own business,you don't have to know.
Yeah, what what I'm thinking.
Gorby parker had a great littlelike blog post about it and they
had this really cute graphicthat was like they used to have
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these glass that was polishedand shaped into like a hand.
They called them reading stones.
It looked like to me, you know,in a gumball machine if you get
like one of those sticky likefrom the grocery store.
Oh, the container, the plasticbubble, and there's like a
sticky hand in it or like acheap toy like it looks like.
If you took the bottom half ofthat and stuck it on your
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eyeball, it does look like that.
Yeah, but that?
But it was also interesting tome because we were talking about
stationery last week andreading in the printing press
and all that stuff and thenafter the printing press was
invented and more people startedreading, that's when the demand
for eyeglasses increased,because then more people were
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reading and needed to use theireyeballs not just for, like,
farming or whatever, but forfarming, just, you know, but
more like focused kind of eye.
Why did you bat an eye atfarming?
I think so.
So you would imagine there wereother jobs in farming.
Well, yeah, in yourblacksmith's shop or your
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tannery, tannery what's atannery?
It's like leather, like makingleather.
Oh, in your restaurant, in yourtavern.
Tavern, you're in.
I am not going to say that.
But the other thing is that inItaly they think that's kind of
where it really got going,because they were into
glassblowing, yeah, which makessense, and they really only had
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them for close-up kind of stuff.
I was really happy in the 20s,when movie stars started using
sunglasses for fashion?
Yes, yes, yeah, well, becausethey said, sunglasses were
invented first.
Yeah, so way to go.
Sunglasses.
I know I have different pairsof everyday sunglasses, or nice
sunglasses, sunglasses, orrunning sunglasses.
Are you someone who losessunglasses?
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Yes, yes, I am, are you?
No, no, when I learned likepolarized lenses probably like
20 some years ago I was likethis is the best, right that's.
And so I bought a really nicepair of burberry sunglasses and
it came in a case and I guardedthese things with my life.
I still have them.
Oh, and you still have them.
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Good for you.
I bought a pair like a couple ofyears later.
I still have those too.
Do you know?
Christian Dior was the firstdesigner?
No, way, yeah, really, it mademe want to buy a pair.
It's for the OGs.
And now I'm just kind ofstrictly gooders.
You can't go wrong, becausethey're $25.
They're so fun Because I meanyou don't have to take it too
seriously, but I'm kind of duefor a new pair.
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I love Gooders, but I always dothe original shape.
I do too.
That shape fits me best.
But I was also looking up andthinking about glasses we drink
from Indeed.
Do you care?
Are you precious about the typeof glass you use?
Only if it's a Guinness, I wantit in a Guinness pint glass.
That's the only thing you careabout, the only thing Like a
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Diet Coke you don't want in acertain glass, wine glass, no, I
mean, it's fun to drink out ofa champagne flute, but I'll
drink champagne out of it.
So that was interesting.
They were saying the originallike the champagne flute, not
the original.
But the champagne flute is bestto keep the bubbles intact.
Is it the coupe?
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I said coupe or coupe, I don'tknow.
I call them Greek Gatsbyglasses.
I call them old schoolchampagne glasses.
Open up the flavor more and Iguess you're supposed to get the
full flavor on your palate whenyou drink from that.
What if you could do the coupeshape but tall like a flute?
So that is the, that's yourglasses, so that's those.
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That's the tulip glass thatkeeps the bubbles intact and
opens up.
It's the best of both worlds.
The flavor, yeah, look at you.
Oh, I don't know Nailing it.
And I agree, like that's kindof on point.
Yeah, like, when I think aboutit, I do like the bubbles,
though it's the same.
So I think I would prefer.
So, now that I know that theflute is better for bubbles, I'd
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rather a flute Same, I mean.
Mean, I'll take champagne,however I can get it.
But oh, sorry, sorry, did thatcome out?
Turn up, I'll take it, get thatchampagne.
Are you precious?
About what glass?
About everything?
Okay, yes, um.
So I prefer a margarita in acertain glass.
Oh, what glass for a margarita?
Those short, chubby rocksglasses that are okay, almost
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like a whiskey glass.
Yeah, I like these flutes forchampagne.
I like a red solo cup for aDiet Coke Interesting, I just
drink it out of the can.
Okay, I like a different glass,for I think the glass really
makes the drink.
I typically like to drink beerout of just the bottle.
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If it's in a can, I'll pour itout into a glass.
But we were at a functionrecently that was quite fancy
and I ordered a beer and I thinkI may have been the only person
at this function who ordered abeer and the bartender didn't
even ask.
He put it in a glass because Ithink he was embarrassed for me.
But actually in the end I waslike you know what?
I appreciate that he put it inthe glass because I think he was
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embarrassed for me, but Iactually, in the end I was like
you know what?
I appreciate that he put it inthe glass.
Did you drink beer all nightbecause?
Or did you make a change afterthat?
Well, I drank that beer, butthen it was like a.
It was called grain and grape,and so it was.
There were five wine glassesGrain, so grain like food and
drink, and grape Okay, yeah,grain and grape, so it was like
a wine.
There were 16 sommeliers there.
So I was like, oh, I'm supposedto drink wine at this.
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So I was yeah, so did youswitch?
So yeah, no, I drank the winethat was poured at the table and
then I had a beer later.
But I like that about you.
You know I could do both, whynot?
But how do you feel about thesenew glasses?
Glasses or like the Google,like with computers?
Oh, back to glasses.
Oh, like the blue light glasses, or no, the ones that are like
have like a computer inside them?
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Oh, I don't know, like whereyou could be like hey, meta,
wait what?
Yeah, like Meta has a pair Ithink Google has a pair that you
, they're like computer glassesso you can look through them and
but then also see like computerstuff.
Wait, that's terrible, and it'slike an Alexa built in.
How do you see what you see?
How do you see what's in frontof you?
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I think it's, I don't know,I've never tried them on.
Wait, say I'm sorry, and youcan edit some of this out.
They're commercials.
Have you seen the commercialwith Chris Pratt and the guy who
plays Thor and Kris Jenner?
No, or they eat the banana, no,oh, okay, what?
Yeah, I gotta look into this.
This is a thing.
How do you see?
How do you see what you'resupposed to see?
They're clear, then hot, butthen I think it projects
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something onto the clear.
I wish people could see what I'mdoing right now.
So then you're walking and yousee your computer, but you can't
see.
I think you have to call it up,like you'd have to be like hey,
glass is computer, show me,show me the map, like you could
see like a map.
Well, I can't read a map anyway, so that would be bust.
Like you could check your email, hey, and they have a camera on
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them.
So you could be like hey,glasses, take a picture or take
a video from your glasses camera.
Let's pack this later.
Isn't that crazy?
It's crazy.
Maybe I need to do moreresearch.
Um, no, that's very interesting.
Should Should we let ourlisteners go?
Should we high and low?
Yeah, we'll let you go.
Yeah, we should.
High and low.
My low is that I was late toMother's Day.
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I was a little bummer, you know.
I'm sorry, I just felt bad.
I don't like to be late.
Oh, I don't think I have a lowthis week.
That's great and I'm right.
Yeah, right, yeah, how about ahigh?
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The cast party I had a lot offun.
The kids were totally bananasand like loud and rowdy, and it
was kind of great because I waslike be rowdy, I don't need you
anymore.
Like I don't need you to focus.
Yeah, I don't need you toorganize anymore.
Yeah, you just like.
It made me happy that they hadfun together.
Like the grade levels wereintermixing and, um, yeah, that
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noise doesn't bother you, itdoes not.
I felt bad for the moms whowere trying to get their
attention where I was like ohboy, this is, yeah, just is us.
Yeah, just let it go.
Yeah, my high was probablyMother's Day.
I mean, we had so much tocelebrate.
We had Catherine Grace'sbirthday, we had Mother's Day.
We had my birthday just passed.
We had Elle's birthday justpassed, we had Easter.
There's just been so much tocelebrate.
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My inbox of text messages wasflooded with like Mother's Day
greetings and it was just.
Yeah, it was a really great day.
That's awesome.
She had lots to be happy about.
Thanks for tuning in and comeback next week.
Bye.
Hi, thanks for joining us today.
It's Nora and Nora, welcome toour first-time listeners and our
old friends alike.
We're glad you're here.
Yes, we are, and we are happyto be here.
We are happy to be hereRecording this podcast for you.
Yeah, happy, belated Mother'sDay and to you, thank you.
I thought of that when I wasediting.
I was like, oh, clearlyMother's Day was not on our
radar when we recorded.
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No, so it was not a mention atall.
But did you have a nice one?
We had the perfect Mother's Day.
Did have two football games andtwo soccer games, but aside
from that, it was great.
I went for a big old run and wehad lunch with some bubbles and
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then Catherine Grace servedmass and we had a low-key dinner
at home.
Ryan made dinner and we justall hung out together.
It was great.
Oh, that's nice.
The girls like laid in thebackyard sunbathing and playing
soccer.
Oh, cute, in between all of oursports, and, yeah's good.
How about you?
It was nice.
I kind of made an executivedecision.
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I was like we are doingsomething as a family, okay, and
uh, and the day after I madethat decision, kevin's travel
baseball was like we're playinga mother's day game and I was
like kevin's not.
I was like, nope, that's so sad.
He told me this on Wednesday.
Oh, it came out on Wednesday,came out on a Wednesday, oh yeah
, and Mother's Day was Sundayand I was like we already have
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plans, we already have tickets.
Yeah, I was like sorry, notsorry, travel baseball.
I was like he won't be there.
The Hershey experience at WaterTower, which was meh.
I wouldn't recommend it.
Okay, but we did have fun.
Hold on.
Yes, you wouldn't recommend itfor you or for kids.
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I wouldn't really recommend itfor anyone.
Oh, wow, okay, that's a bigstatement.
Did your kids like it?
We had fun.
I would just say like it's kindof expensive and it's like we
went to Slumo and that was veryfun and it was humongous, and it
was like room after room afterroom of slime and experience and
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like we did a Harry Potterthing.
Again, it was humongous.
It was room after room, veryextensive.
This was one room with fourdifferent corners.
And then the one thing you'resupposed to get like like a
Hershey's employee badge, andthat was broken, so we didn't
get that.
And then the coolest part wasyou could design a Hershey Kiss
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wrapper and then you put it inthis machine and then it looks
like it's being produced.
Oh cute, but it actually isn't,it's just like a video.
Oh, it's like a video.
Oh, it's like a simulation.
Yes, so I took pictures and thekids actually really got into
it and it was funny.
Like Rory's were really funnyand then Al did Like we all did
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one, and it was fun.
But then it was also kind oflike that would have been the
perfect souvenir, right, or whata moneymaker to be like hey,
you can buy a bag of these for amillion dollars.
You could have designed yourown Hershey bar wrapper.
But kind of, by then we were alllike we good.
So I mean it was, Did you havea good dinner down there?
Well, then I messed up.
I thought dinner with my wholefamily was at 430 and it was a
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four, but like the Hershey thingwas so short that we were like,
oh my God, what are we going todo with all this time we have?
Because it was 2.30.
I thought we had two hours toburn downtown, but we were like
it was like a lot of time butnot enough time to do something
cool.
So we kind of like dragged ourfeet at Water Tower.
And then we went.
I was like let's drive and lookat the Obama's house in Hyde
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Park.
So we did that.
Good for you for thinking onthe fly.
But it was funny because I am arule follower yes, you are.
And it was like no pedestriansallowed Because the street is
blocked off and it says likethis is protected by Secret
Service.
And it was clever because itsaid residential area and
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somebody changed it intopresidential.
That's funny.
But me and all the kids werelike oh my God, we can't go down
here.
It says no pedestrians.
And Al's like who's going tostop us?
We're just walking, we're notdoing anything bad.
So five of us were like oh myGod.
And Al was just strolling downthe street and then he's like
let's take a picture.
And we're all like, oh God,it's evidence of our wrongdoing.
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Did you take a picture?
We did, yeah, were you all likethis?
Like hurry up?
And then we got to dinner.
It's 20 minutes late and herewe thought we were 10 minutes
early.
Happy Mother's Day.
Happy Mother's Day.
Happy Mother's Day, alas andalack.
So close to summer, I have totell you there is a new drink of
summer.
Oh good, because it's not thedirty spritz?
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No, but it's another blend.
Okay, it's the spicy sav-bee.
Oh, I like sav.
How do you say it?
Sauvignon blanc Sav-bee?
Yeah, yeah, a saab B?
Yeah, so the spicy one requiresyou to slice and freeze
jalapeno peppers.
Okay, and then you fill up yourglass of saab and add your
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frozen jalapeno peppers.
Have you tried it?
No, are you going to?
I don't like saab B.
Oh, okay, I mean I'll drink it.
I'll drink it.
Oh, okay, I mean I'll drink it.
I'll drink it.
Maybe you like it spicy.
I drink it.
If somebody offers it to me.
Yeah, like whatever, but Idon't.
It's not your first and I alsodidn't have any jalapenos on
here.
Could you have a spicy shartLike, why soft bean?
Oh, I don't know.
Blasphemy, it's gross.
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Okay, okay, I just wasn't surewhat.
What made sock.
I would do a spicy margespecially.
But speaking of drinks, I alsodiscovered this new topo chico.
I'm really excited to try it.
Um, you've opened it for me.
It looks so refreshing.
Yeah, it's um non-alcoholiclime with mint flavored
(06:02):
sparkling water and it has fivecalories in it.
Oh, I like it.
I think I like it.
I wasn't expecting it to bequite so limey.
Is it too flavorful for you?
I could see that for you, butit definitely has a strong
flavor with other naturalflavors.
I wonder what, besides lime andmint, potassium, that doesn't.
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I always think that tastes likebananas.
I knew I tasted chloride inthere.
Oh, that's right, there'sprobably the magnesium is real
strong.
I'm real sensitive.
But no, I'm going to keeptrying and see.
I think, because it looks reallynice, I would mix this with
tequila.
That's a great idea.
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Oh, I like that idea a lot.
And then you're, there's yourmargarita.
Yeah, this is great, awesome,yeah, okay, you, in my opinion,
always give the most thoughtfulhostess gifts.
Well, thank you.
You're very good at gifts ingeneral, but especially hostess
gifts.
You are always one to do that.
You never forget.
It's always very thoughtful.
Aina garten, the barefootcontessa, just told everybody
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what her go-to hostess gifts areand I was curious what you
thought.
Because it's not wine, no, it'sokay, I don't always give wine.
She said I don't like to givehosts or hostesses something
that they feel like they have touse right away, which is what
our friend Margarita from HenselTable said.
I was surprised by some of thethings she said, like guest
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towels or like kitchen towels.
No, okay, um, let me see if Ican guess another.
Oh yeah, soap, no, it's not.
It's not like liquid dial, likepretty soaps, yeah, um, you're
looking around, I'm lookingaround my house, I know you tell
me.
Well, they're all ingestible.
(07:47):
Oh, you eat all of them.
You eat all of them.
A bag of pasta, close, granolaUgh.
Tea, like fancy teas.
Chocolates, chocolates, greatChocolates, I was okay.
Or coffee, like fancy gourmetcoffee.
How do you even make coffee?
You would buy it like groundcoffee.
You have to have a coffee potmachine.
(08:09):
Coffee pot machine, a machine.
You don't bring it brewed, youwould give them the beans, oh,
but the host has to put thosecrumbs into the coffee pot.
The coffee machine.
I don't know what a coffeemachine is.
Coffee machine, what a geniusidea for a machine.
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What are the grinds called?
Or the grinds, the grinds, thegrinds.
Yes, oh, you know what.
So you would have to know thatyour host or hostess was a big
coffee drinker.
Yeah, otherwise, that has themachine to make it.
Yes, also enjoys it, mm-hmm,mm-hmm.
Right, because coffee would.
That would not be a good giftfor me or for you.
(08:52):
No, but I wouldn't mind someteas.
Yeah, I mean yeah.
So I just thought that wasinteresting.
I appreciate the gesture always,yes, but I also I mean, when I
first read granola, I'm likelike a Trader Joe's, like zip
top bag, like yeah, yeah, yeah,she's probably buying.
Like gourmet, yeah, like fromthe, from like the farmer's
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market.
Yeah, yeah, you said farmer'smarket was such disdain, you
choke on it.
You're farming all organic, itseems, so I use that word, but I
can't think of anything else.
Well, it is crummy, like it'sgroundy, but I like granola.
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If you get like a chunk of itin the bag, oh, like a cluster
if you will.
Yeah, granola, I'm hit or miss.
My kids eat it one of my boysbut they don't eat it, right,
they mix it in yogurt.
He'll grab it because it has alot of calories.
But they don't eat it withcalories, right, they mix it in
yogurt.
He'll grab it because it has alot of protein calories in it
and, just like popcorn, eat itlike that.
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Or put it in yogurt, yeah, okay, like a parfait.
Also, do you know anyone namedLiam or Olivia?
Yeah, I do.
Liam, number one for boys'names eight years in a row.
Olivia, number one six years ina row.
Now, the Liam that I'm thinkingof is named for his grandfather
, who is William.
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Yes, and I didn't realize thatLiam was short for William.
It's the Gaelic form of William.
I didn't know that.
Do you know any?
I know quite a few Williams.
Yeah, yeah, I like that name.
I like it too, and I like thename Olivia.
So I was also kind of like,yeah, I get it.
Those are great.
And then number two for boys wasNoah, which is so similar to
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Nora.
I had a friend who couldn'tpronounce her R's, so it always
sounded like Noah.
I had a friend whose fathercalled me Noah and her sister
thought that was my name.
Oh no, that's a problem, that'sfine, yeah.
And then Emma, number two forgirls.
Oh, did you happen to see whereNora fell?
I did not.
Okay, I don't like that.
It's creeping up.
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Oh, I, eh, I like that.
It was kind of Under the radar.
Yeah, a unique name.
I don't like to share my namewith anyone, but you, oh phew,
that was a close one.
I thought you were breaking upwith me.
Oh no, but I just I don't know.
And also, we have a little bitfrom a follow-up from last week.
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Yeah, we talked aboutstationery.
We did, how happy it made usand we brought our wedding
invitations.
We did, and it's kind of fun tocompare yes, we were meant to
be together, because when wereyou married?
I was married January 31st 2005.
And I was right behind you inJuly of 2006.
That's right.
So, yeah, just six months laterand we were on a very similar
(11:47):
wavelength.
Yeah, we were.
And I remembered incorrectly.
Mine doesn't have an outsideenvelope, it just the invitation
is the envelope and we bothhave beautiful calligraphy.
Yes, the woman who did minelives in town.
Oh, she does.
And so, yeah, you opened mineup.
And then we also had the sameresponse card we did.
It wasn't blank, but it justsays the favor of your reply is
(12:10):
requested by the 30th ofNovember, and then it's blank
for you to write a message and Ilove I didn't.
Really my mom had that idea todo those.
My mom and I kind of was like,okay, that's what you want to do
, and I love that we did thatbecause I have so many response
cards as special keepsakes.
Now here's a question to see howold we are.
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Okay, does your invitation haveany sort of website on it at
all?
No, does your invitation haveany sort of map?
No, no maps.
Oh, your map is great.
Yeah, that's a great map of thecity.
But that just hit me right nowbecause it says, like a block of
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rooms has been reserved at thehotel.
Please call this number to bookyour hotel.
Yes, phone numbers.
Yeah, there's no phone numbers.
And then I have even directionson the back.
Oh, because you had a lot ofpeople driving Out of towners
from Chicago or Arizona orWisconsin, right.
And then it says abouttransportation, but yeah,
(13:13):
there's no, no websites.
No, nothing.
Did you have a wedding website?
No, no, I remember that it wascool that you could look up
registry, like, my registry wasonline, but that's because
Bloomingdale's did it and weeven brought our program
Programs.
Yeah, I made my program and Iwas quite proud of it.
It turned out really nice.
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And then my sister tried tomake hers and it went a little
awry.
Hers got a little sloppy.
Oh, it was a little sloppy,rough around the edges,
literally, yes, literally.
So I, being a good maid ofhonor, went and I put a border
of ribbon around it to try tohide some of the unevenness.
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I love the paper you guys chose.
Thank you, it's a littlepearlized kind of paper, but
yours is lovely.
It's like a lovely kind of likean index or what would you call
it, like a, I don't know.
Oh, it's also kind of weird forme to see your and Ryan's names
next to each other, because youare not, I am norah ryan, so it
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always kind of throws me off.
I'm like that's me.
Uh, I would have loved to haveyou as a guest.
Oh, as a guest, I'd like tohave you guys too.
Wouldn't it be fun if thefriends that you made after your
wedding like up until now, yeah, we're there to celebrate with
you.
Maybe somebody will have like avow renewal and after party oh,
you should do that, you shoulddo that.
It'll be 20 years for us, meand Alexander Then you should
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totally do that.
I would love to come to thatkind of party.
Have a New Year's party andwhoop it up.
Yeah, we'll see how it goes.
And speaking of invitations, youwere spot on.
Oh, I brought my sister's too.
I just want to show you this.
This hers is super, oh God,everything faux, but it's got a
really nice.
This is great, isn't thatpretty?
Hers are super fancy.
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Yeah, this looks amazing.
Did your mom help design these?
Yeah, aaron did it.
Oh, okay, yeah, I think my, Idon't.
I can't speak for Aaron, but Iknow for my mom, like we went
and she was kind of like andthis and this or this, and I was
like this sounds good.
That's pretty much.
Yeah, I don't think Erin has awebsite on hers either.
(15:22):
I didn't have much say no, butI did.
Oh, let me see.
Hers is oh yeah, mm-hmm.
So, alas, and alackack, that'sour stationary.
But then you but I did want toshare that.
You were spot on about somethinga dear friend of mine in-laws
have a stationary company.
No, they do, and it's calledstone house collection.
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You find my instagram, get outof here and they make darling
car.
They do their own christmascard.
Oh, yeah, I'm sure, and it's socute.
They know a guy.
Yeah, and it's so cute everyyear.
It didn't cross my mind thatthey do other things.
I mean, I guess I just neverreally thought about it.
Sure, but she had mentionedthat they sell about 3,000 packs
(16:06):
of cards per year.
Okay, like to businesses orwhatever, but at Christmastime,
over 100,000 packs, wow, ofsolely for Christmas.
Yes, and when you said thatlast week on the show that you
think a lot of business isgenerated from Christmas cards.
You're right on.
Yeah, well, thank you Jillian.
(16:26):
Yeah, Thanks, for she's a loyallistener too.
I appreciate that.
She was the one who told meabout the St Germain, appreciate
that?
Um, she was the one who told meabout the saint germain.
Oh, yeah, she has all sorts oftips.
Well, that's awesome.
And wait, um, how about ourpope business last week?
What in that was amazing.
Holy smoke, holy smoke.
(16:46):
And it was very fun to.
We watched it on my computer,yeah, together, and it was wild,
because as we were recording,you got the news alert and then
we were kind of like keeping aneye on it.
It was really and you're like,ok, I'm going to go, you can't
go.
We're about to watch history,and we really did.
And the more we watched, themore we realized, like, holy cow
(17:09):
, this guy is not only fromChicago, he is a South Sider.
There's a lot of connectionsthat we can draw.
One of our priests at ourparish is friendly with him.
He was like Father Bob, fatherBob, father Bob is the Pope,
isn't that great.
He like has his phone number,because did you hear the story
about the kids?
So there was a fifth grade classthat went to the St Rita Shrine
(17:29):
oh yes, wait, that was my.
Oh no, it was sixth grade.
Yeah, st Rita Shrine oh yes,wait, that was my.
Oh no, I was yeah.
So they were there last weekduring, and Father Tom was like,
let's say a prayer.
My friend, father Bob, is partof the conclave and let's say a
prayer for him.
And then, as they finishedtheir prayer and someone's like,
oh my gosh, there's white smoke, we're going to have a new pope
(17:51):
.
And we're like, oh, we probablywon't hear.
And then Did they stay at StRita?
They stayed.
He was a substitute teacher atSt Rita and they were there at
St Rita when they got the newsthat it was pope.
Oh, I didn't know.
That Isn't that crazy.
Yes, those fifth graders hadjust like an incredible
experience.
Yeah, that's unreal, unreal,unreal.
I know Unreal, but the memes ofall the Chicago Pope memes are
(18:14):
so funny, they're so funny.
I'm really encouraged and reallyexcited about him.
I am too, I'm, hopeful thathe's going to be a good Pope.
I'd love to have him over fordinner, wouldn't you?
Yeah, yeah, and even like thestuff of him, like at the White
Sox.
Yes, oh, oh, it's just yeah,it's been like, because my
friend Nicole, who's also aloyal listener.
(18:34):
She sent me a text, like thePope is from Chicago.
I was like it was just thanksto be in the news for something
good and positive and happy, allof the above.
It felt nice, all right.
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And now back to the show.
Our topic this week is glasses,cheers, all the glasses, all the
glasses.
And it's fitting because beforewe started recording I got a
(20:21):
text from our school nurse.
Oh, that said hi there, nurseNancy.
Non-emergency.
I just wanted to discuss theresults of John's eye test,
vision test.
So I texted her back callanytime.
My husband has terrible vision,terrible.
(20:42):
My oldest daughter wearscontacts.
My middle daughter wearsglasses.
My oldest son is nothing.
So far, so good.
So John might be the next one.
Poor guy.
Yeah, oh my God, he'll be socute in glasses.
Oh my God, his cute little facewith glasses on.
Are you kidding me?
I didn't realize.
(21:03):
St John's does a visionscreening.
Maybe he went into the nurseand was like.
He was like who is that?
I'm like we both did it thesame way.
Who knows?
And do you wear glasses?
I've just started.
I've got reading glasses likereaders that I bought on Amazon.
How did you know?
Like plus one plus two, plus1.25?
(21:25):
.
I did go to the eye doctor andhave it checked out and I love
my eye doctor.
She sees all my kids too andshe's like I can write you a
prescription.
She's like but really all youneed is like a plus one reader.
And how could you tell thatthey were going?
Because it was blurry.
Oh yeah, that'll get you, gotto get you when you read, when I
read so like close up, and I'dbe like, hmm, can you read a
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menu?
Yes, I still can, but I'venoticed like I need a little bit
more light sometimes, like Ican read without them, but I
really have to focus.
Okay, I mean I can read my ownnotes, especially if I wrote it,
but I would say, as the daygoes on or if I'm doing a lot of
work on the computer, oh, no,kidding, I need I should wear
them, otherwise I'll get aheadache.
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Oh, I wish I had glasses when Iwas a kid I always wanted mine.
I had them.
I had like a stigmatism.
I feel like that was bs, likewhen I went like as an adult
they would give a stigmatism andI'm like but my eyes are fine,
so I don't really know what goodthey did.
Okay, then I stopped wearingthem, but anyways, but yeah, but
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your eyes are fine.
So far, yeah, so far, so good.
Yeah, I will say I always wearsunglasses.
I was running the other day andI had a pair of sunglasses on my
head and a pair of sunglasseson.
Wow, I was like what should Ido?
I was like what should I do?
I was like should I put them?
Like on someone's port?
Like I was going back and forthin my head.
I was like, no, I just got tolike stay on course.
You got to stay on course.
Yeah, I wear sunglasses all thetime, but I realize part of the
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reason why I like to wear themis because I use them as a
headband.
Yes, not only do I not like tosquint, but it's very helpful to
keep my hair out of my face.
Yes, I agree, my eyes are alsoreally sensitive and they always
have been, so I like to havethem, even when it's cloudy,
same, yeah, because there'sglare.
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Yeah, my eyes are very dry.
Oh, do you use eye drops?
And so I should.
I'm supposed to Because I wassaying to my eye doctor at the
end of the night my eyes willwater, like when I lay down to
sleep.
It's like I have tears comingBecause they're dry.
She's like your eyes are so dryNow that you're closing them.
They're like overworking tomoisturize your eyes, no kidding
(23:38):
.
So I have eye drops and now Ihave them by my toothbrush so
that I put them in.
Oh, that's a good place tostart.
And then do the eye drops.
She's like, just do it everyday.
She's like because kind of likedrinking water.
She's like because once youreyes are dry, they're already
like dehydrated.
Do you drink a lot of water?
I do.
Do you drink that?
Apparently it's not getting tomy eyeballs?
Do you drink the whole thing ofthat?
(23:58):
I no, I don't actually, becauseI'm so dry.
It's all going in my eyeballs,it's all coming out at night.
I try, I really try.
I don't love to drink justplain old water.
So that's why I drink a lot ofthese.
Does this count?
Does a sparkle water count?
(24:19):
I think it counts.
I think I mean it's water.
I mean if you were like that'swhy I drink so much Diet Coke.
Then I'd be like that doesn'tcount, but this is water.
Yeah, it's sparkling water, butit's still water.
Yeah, I'm not a doctor, but Isay it counts.
Okay, thank you, I had a lot offun looking up old glasses.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry thatalmost came out my nose.
(24:41):
I did it for the sake of thepodcast so you would have
somebody to talk to, but I wouldalso.
Wasn't it ridiculous?
They were so silly.
All those early glasses Istarted reading like they were
originally invented because ofthe snow, glare and not the sun.
How about that?
They would use bone or likerock to like yeah, but my
(25:04):
favorite was the Chinese thatused them to cover up facial
expressions.
Oh, they were on to somethingthey were like I could use.
Like mind your own business,you don't have to know.
Yeah, what what I'm thinking.
Gorby parker had a great littlelike blog post about it and they
had this really cute graphicthat was like they used to have
(25:26):
these glass that was polishedand shaped into like a hand.
They called them reading stones.
It looked like to me, you know,in a gumball machine if you get
like one of those sticky likefrom the grocery store.
Oh, the container, the plasticbubble, and there's like a
sticky hand in it or like acheap toy like it looks like.
If you took the bottom half ofthat and stuck it on your
(25:46):
eyeball, it does look like that.
Yeah, but that?
But it was also interesting tome because we were talking about
stationery last week andreading in the printing press
and all that stuff and thenafter the printing press was
invented and more people startedreading, that's when the demand
for eyeglasses increased,because then more people were
(26:07):
reading and needed to use theireyeballs not just for, like,
farming or whatever, but forfarming, just, you know, but
more like focused kind of eye.
Why did you bat an eye atfarming?
I think so.
So you would imagine there wereother jobs in farming.
Well, yeah, in yourblacksmith's shop or your
(26:27):
tannery, tannery what's atannery?
It's like leather, like makingleather.
Oh, in your restaurant, in yourtavern.
Tavern, you're in.
I am not going to say that.
But the other thing is that inItaly they think that's kind of
where it really got going,because they were into
glassblowing, yeah, which makessense, and they really only had
(26:49):
them for close-up kind of stuff.
I was really happy in the 20s,when movie stars started using
sunglasses for fashion?
Yes, yes, yeah, well, becausethey said, sunglasses were
invented first.
Yeah, so way to go.
Sunglasses.
I know I have different pairsof everyday sunglasses, or nice
sunglasses, sunglasses, orrunning sunglasses.
Are you someone who losessunglasses?
(27:09):
Yes, yes, I am, are you?
No, no, when I learned likepolarized lenses probably like
20 some years ago I was likethis is the best, right that's.
And so I bought a really nicepair of burberry sunglasses and
it came in a case and I guardedthese things with my life.
I still have them.
Oh, and you still have them.
(27:29):
Good for you.
I bought a pair like a couple ofyears later.
I still have those too.
Do you know?
Christian Dior was the firstdesigner?
No, way, yeah, really, it mademe want to buy a pair.
It's for the OGs.
And now I'm just kind ofstrictly gooders.
You can't go wrong, becausethey're $25.
They're so fun Because I meanyou don't have to take it too
seriously, but I'm kind of duefor a new pair.
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I love Gooders, but I always dothe original shape.
I do too.
That shape fits me best.
But I was also looking up andthinking about glasses we drink
from Indeed.
Do you care?
Are you precious about the typeof glass you use?
Only if it's a Guinness, I wantit in a Guinness pint glass.
That's the only thing you careabout, the only thing Like a
(28:14):
Diet Coke you don't want in acertain glass, wine glass, no, I
mean, it's fun to drink out ofa champagne flute, but I'll
drink champagne out of it.
So that was interesting.
They were saying the originallike the champagne flute, not
the original.
But the champagne flute is bestto keep the bubbles intact.
Is it the coupe?
(28:34):
I said coupe or coupe, I don'tknow.
I call them Greek Gatsbyglasses.
I call them old schoolchampagne glasses.
Open up the flavor more and Iguess you're supposed to get the
full flavor on your palate whenyou drink from that.
What if you could do the coupeshape but tall like a flute?
So that is the, that's yourglasses, so that's those.
(28:57):
That's the tulip glass thatkeeps the bubbles intact and
opens up.
It's the best of both worlds.
The flavor, yeah, look at you.
Oh, I don't know Nailing it.
And I agree, like that's kindof on point.
Yeah, like, when I think aboutit, I do like the bubbles,
though it's the same.
So I think I would prefer.
So, now that I know that theflute is better for bubbles, I'd
(29:19):
rather a flute Same, I mean.
Mean, I'll take champagne,however I can get it.
But oh, sorry, sorry, did thatcome out?
Turn up, I'll take it, get thatchampagne.
Are you precious?
About what glass?
About everything?
Okay, yes, um.
So I prefer a margarita in acertain glass.
Oh, what glass for a margarita?
Those short, chubby rocksglasses that are okay, almost
(29:43):
like a whiskey glass.
Yeah, I like these flutes forchampagne.
I like a red solo cup for aDiet Coke Interesting, I just
drink it out of the can.
Okay, I like a different glass,for I think the glass really
makes the drink.
I typically like to drink beerout of just the bottle.
(30:04):
If it's in a can, I'll pour itout into a glass.
But we were at a functionrecently that was quite fancy
and I ordered a beer and I thinkI may have been the only person
at this function who ordered abeer and the bartender didn't
even ask.
He put it in a glass because Ithink he was embarrassed for me.
But actually in the end I waslike you know what?
I appreciate that he put it inthe glass because I think he was
(30:25):
embarrassed for me, but Iactually, in the end I was like
you know what?
I appreciate that he put it inthe glass.
Did you drink beer all nightbecause?
Or did you make a change afterthat?
Well, I drank that beer, butthen it was like a.
It was called grain and grape,and so it was.
There were five wine glassesGrain, so grain like food and
drink, and grape Okay, yeah,grain and grape, so it was like
a wine.
There were 16 sommeliers there.
So I was like, oh, I'm supposedto drink wine at this.
(30:48):
So I was yeah, so did youswitch?
So yeah, no, I drank the winethat was poured at the table and
then I had a beer later.
But I like that about you.
You know I could do both, whynot?
But how do you feel about thesenew glasses?
Glasses or like the Google,like with computers?
Oh, back to glasses.
Oh, like the blue light glasses, or no, the ones that are like
have like a computer inside them?
(31:09):
Oh, I don't know, like whereyou could be like hey, meta,
wait what?
Yeah, like Meta has a pair Ithink Google has a pair that you
, they're like computer glassesso you can look through them and
but then also see like computerstuff.
Wait, that's terrible, and it'slike an Alexa built in.
How do you see what you see?
How do you see what's in frontof you?
(31:29):
I think it's, I don't know,I've never tried them on.
Wait, say I'm sorry, and youcan edit some of this out.
They're commercials.
Have you seen the commercialwith Chris Pratt and the guy who
plays Thor and Kris Jenner?
No, or they eat the banana, no,oh, okay, what?
Yeah, I gotta look into this.
This is a thing.
How do you see?
How do you see what you'resupposed to see?
They're clear, then hot, butthen I think it projects
(31:53):
something onto the clear.
I wish people could see what I'mdoing right now.
So then you're walking and yousee your computer, but you can't
see.
I think you have to call it up,like you'd have to be like hey,
glass is computer, show me,show me the map, like you could
see like a map.
Well, I can't read a map anyway, so that would be bust.
Like you could check your email, hey, and they have a camera on
(32:13):
them.
So you could be like hey,glasses, take a picture or take
a video from your glasses camera.
Let's pack this later.
Isn't that crazy?
It's crazy.
Maybe I need to do moreresearch.
Um, no, that's very interesting.
Should Should we let ourlisteners go?
Should we high and low?
Yeah, we'll let you go.
Yeah, we should.
High and low.
My low is that I was late toMother's Day.
(32:34):
I was a little bummer, you know.
I'm sorry, I just felt bad.
I don't like to be late.
Oh, I don't think I have a lowthis week.
That's great and I'm right.
Yeah, right, yeah, how about ahigh?
(32:57):
The cast party I had a lot offun.
The kids were totally bananasand like loud and rowdy, and it
was kind of great because I waslike be rowdy, I don't need you
anymore.
Like I don't need you to focus.
Yeah, I don't need you toorganize anymore.
Yeah, you just like.
It made me happy that they hadfun together.
Like the grade levels wereintermixing and, um, yeah, that
(33:19):
noise doesn't bother you, itdoes not.
I felt bad for the moms whowere trying to get their
attention where I was like ohboy, this is, yeah, just is us.
Yeah, just let it go.
Yeah, my high was probablyMother's Day.
I mean, we had so much tocelebrate.
We had Catherine Grace'sbirthday, we had Mother's Day.
We had my birthday just passed.
We had Elle's birthday justpassed, we had Easter.
There's just been so much tocelebrate.
(33:41):
My inbox of text messages wasflooded with like Mother's Day
greetings and it was just.
Yeah, it was a really great day.
That's awesome.
She had lots to be happy about.
Thanks for tuning in and comeback next week.
Bye.
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