April 7, 2025 • 34 mins
Ready for a podcast that serves up both laughs and shivers down your spine? We kick things off sharing our April Fool's Day experiences - from tiny clown car rental pranks to fake academic emergencies that had us completely fooled. There's something universally entertaining about those moments when we realize we've been had, especially by our loved ones.
The conversation shifts to an unexpected place when we discuss the recently returned NASA astronauts who spent nine months in space instead of their planned week. What fascinates us most isn't just their extended stay, but their remarkable attitude about it. While most of us would lose our minds over a one-day flight delay, these extraordinary humans insist they weren't "stranded" at all. Their perspective challenges us to reconsider how we handle life's unexpected extensions and delays.
We wrap up with a deep dive into breakfast habits and family morning routines. From microwave eggs (don't judge!) to chocolate chip pancakes to the healthiest options like oatmeal with berries, our morning meal preferences reveal surprising aspects of our personalities. Whether you're Team Breakfast Sandwich or devoted to your morning gruel, you'll find yourself nodding along to our breakfast debate. What's your non-negotiable breakfast item? Join the conversation and let us know!
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Hi, thanks for joining us today.
It's Nora, and Nora, we're gladyou're here.
We are, I'm happy to be here.
Welcome to all our listeners.
Yes, those who tune in time andtime again and those who are
here for the very first time,settle in.
Yes, I have to ask did you getfooled?
Yesterday, I did get a littlefooled.
(00:50):
Did you get a little fooled?
A little fooled.
Yesterday was April Fool's Day.
Oh, yes, for those.
Yes, I am in need of a rentalcar this weekend and my charming
husband pretended that herented me a car the size of a
Like a table clown car and youlike a big car, yeah, and I got
fired up, and right away.
So how long did he keep itgoing before you?
I've been long enough to belike, okay, I should probably
stop because I was getting mad.
Yeah, um, how, how about you?
Did you get fooled?
I did.
My son, aiden P, fooled me, andit's funny because I put a
little note in his lunchbox andI was like make sure you don't
get fooled today, don't forget,it's April Fool's Day.
(01:12):
So, making sure he didn't getfooled.
And then he came downstairshe's like Mom, so I forgot I had
a Spanish project due.
I thought I was going to get itdone in Florida.
It's due today.
I totally forgot about it and Iwas just like Aiden, are you
kidding me?
And he's like April Fool's.
(01:32):
Oh, he did get you my love.
My loveist got me as well.
I forgot about that.
I texted him.
He has a football commitment onTuesday mornings, like a
meeting, and so I asked howBreakfast Club was and I said he
got kicked out for roughhousing.
And I believed him, oh gosh.
And I texted an angry text backand he kept going.
(01:55):
I texted another angry text andthen I think my boys just
pushed me and they're like, ohGod, we better stop or she'll
break.
They're like, oh, we've gonetoo far, yeah'll break.
They're like, uh-oh, uh-oh,we've gone too far.
Yeah, but I didn't fool anyone.
Did you trick anyone?
No, I did not.
I don't know.
I wasn't in the mood for ityesterday.
Well, you had one heck of aride home from Florida.
(02:16):
We had a lot of March 30.
We had a big March 31st.
I wasn't really up for anypranks.
What a mess.
What your return flight was foryou.
I know that's my well, we canget to it later, okay, but I was
curious about it.
How was the rest of your week?
It was fantastic.
I was in Florida for most of itvisiting my parents with my
four kiddos, and it was great.
I don't feel bad saying itbecause I know you're leaving
(02:38):
tomorrow to get your break andyour sunshine, but just getting
off the plane and feeling warmyes, I'm sure a nice feeling.
Oh, my gosh, it just it wasamazing.
And it was nice to have Just tobe away and a change of scenery
With your parents too, sometime with them.
It was nice and the kids had agreat time.
We ate really good food.
I even swam you did Me and Roseplayed around in the pool.
(03:03):
Good for you.
She wanted to play Marco Polo,but that's kind of a tough game
to play with two people, andalso when you have a pool full
of senior citizens, and I waslike, oh, this isn't going to go
well.
So I was like, what about weplay?
Follow the leader, I'll just dowhatever you do.
Oh, and then she was like, well, I didn't go under the water,
going under and doing tricks,but we had a very nice time.
(03:25):
Okay, as long as she was happy,right?
Yeah, how about you?
How were things back in Chicago?
Things were great.
We were sad to see our Wildcatslose, oh, but happy for their
season.
They didn't run.
Yeah, is that what you say tosports people when they lose in
the playoffs it's a good run,you had a good run, or does that
not help?
I said that to them.
Okay, it's like, yeah, you'refun to watch all season Things
(03:47):
of that nature, but how aboutour astronauts?
Oh, my gosh.
Yes, did you see the interview?
I read an article about it.
I didn't watch the interview.
I was surprised that the firstfood Sunny wanted was a grilled
cheese oh, but I guess it's hotand gooey and probably indulgent
.
And butch the chicken salad, oh, barf, sorry, no, I don't like
(04:12):
mayonnaise.
I know that's so interesting.
Yeah, what would you pick?
These are also people who arelike well, nine months was fine.
Yeah, I guess you're right.
That's a different kind ofperson.
Yeah, I like that.
They were like we were notstranded.
We were not stranded.
We were not forgotten, we werenot stranded, it's fine.
(04:33):
Why, though, it's not fine?
They're very kind and goodemployees.
They were stuck in space.
I guess they're like well,because of the scheduling, this
would have been me, nora.
You would have gotten off thespace station, I'd be like I'll
just stay, it's fine.
But they were stuck.
I hate to break it to them, butthey were there much longer
(04:56):
than they should have been.
They were there for nine monthsinstead of a week.
I mean, I was delayed one dayin Florida and I was like, good
God, do you think?
Their space station was likeyou're not stuck, we're working
on it.
And they're like, okay, theysaid we're not stuck, we're not
stuck, we're not stuck, we'renot stuck Like you know.
We had like when I read that,sunny was like you know, we woke
(05:16):
up, we exercised, we went towork, just like everybody else,
like you're in outer space.
They are outside their minds.
I think maybe they have brainloss.
Maybe good for them, for, butthey seem.
You know, she went for a threemile run the other day like
she's like and kudos to the nasadoctors because we were in
great shape when we went upthere.
(05:37):
They kept us in great shapewhile we were there.
I'm three mile run like good,good for her, because I couldn't
run three miles and I haven'tbeen in space for nine months.
I was like, oh boy, oh, my God.
But I mean I'm glad they'rehome.
Yeah, aye, aye, aye.
I would have been singing adifferent tune.
We would have been a good pairup there because you probably
(05:58):
would have grounded me Huh, yeah, I'm here in space and you
would have brought the fun andyou would have also been like,
no, we need to go.
But also that's how I get atdinner.
If I've been at dinner too long, you don't want to be on a ship
that's not ready, like I wouldget the damn ship ready.
I think it's hard.
There's not a lot of spaceshuttles lying around.
(06:20):
It's crazy.
But speaking of these different,you know I was talking to you
about the Amy Poehler's newpodcast.
Oh, we love it, good hang.
She was talking with IkeBaranold, okay, and she was
talking about the Enneagrams andhow she loves an Enneagram.
What is she?
She's a three and you're aseven or a three Seven.
I'm either a seven or a three.
(06:41):
But she was like, oh my God, Ilove Enneagrams.
I'm so into it.
I'm a three.
Tina Fey's a three, seth Meyersis a three.
I'm like, oh, my favoritepeople are threes and I'm a nine
and I'm a doormat.
I was like, oh, I'm feeling badabout myself again.
I'm surprised that they're likemy favorite favorite people are
her own kind, like her ownnumber.
(07:02):
Yeah, that's interesting, butthere are also people to
collaborate and work with.
True, but that's what I waslike.
Oh, that's why they are famousand do their own.
Her podcast is number one.
Right, it's so good, it isgreat.
I recommend it.
Yeah, well, you, actually you.
I love all of her giggles andher funny stories and her
(07:29):
conversation with Rashida Jones.
I highly recommend it.
When they were laughinguncontrollably, I started
laughing uncontrollably and itmade me think about our
listeners, because sometimes I'mworried that our giggle fest I
am worried that our giggle festCan never have enough giggles.
But that's why I like herpodcast.
She's, like there's so muchyuck, like just surround
(07:51):
yourself with the people and theconversation that you want to
have.
I love, yeah, and I like toothat she asks people where do
you find you're happy?
Like what's making you happyright now?
Yeah, no, it's all around.
A great podcast, highlyrecommend it.
Okay, I read a creepy story.
Oh, no, I've been wanting totalk about it since I wrote it
down.
Okay, there was a babysitter afew weeks back that that was my
(08:13):
stomach, I don't know.
I was like I just put my thumbsin my thumb holes because I'm
scared.
So she put the child to bed andthe kid came down and was like
I think there's monsters undermy bed.
She's like there's not monstersunder your bed.
He's like, no, I think there'smonsters under my bed.
She went up there and there wasa man under the bed, shut the
(08:37):
front door.
Uh-huh, how horrifying is that.
I have so many questions.
Okay, I probably don't have theanswers, because I never do.
Who was it?
He was the previous owner, what?
Who had like an obsession withthis house, what?
And there was a restrainingorder against him to stay out of
the house or away from thehouse.
What?
Mm-hmm, what did the babies?
(08:59):
Did he grab the boy and justrun out of the house?
But then he ran out.
So it took him a day to try andapprehend him, and I wonder if
the parents were like we knowwho it is.
Isn't that terrifying To lookunder the bed and make like to
meet eyes with someone?
There is a monster, yeah.
So what a creeper.
(09:19):
How long had he been there?
I don't know Too long, too long, too long, oh, my long.
Had he been there?
I don't know too long, too long, too long, oh my god, uh, yeah,
you know what happy podcast,but I know, just stuck with me.
Can I tell you, though, whatI'm happy about is that I was
like, oh, is this a badbabysitter story?
But it wasn't.
It's a good babysitter.
Yeah, it's fine.
Previous owner bad.
(09:39):
Yeah, yeah, I was.
Uh, I know.
At first, because I've just beenin florida I thought you were
like there was an alligatorunder his bed.
Every night on the Florida news, they're like an alligator was
in someone's pool, or it's likepolice were called to get a
six-foot alligator off thesidewalk.
I'm like this is not news, ithappens every day.
It's like our ring doorbellalerts oh, we're like coyotes.
(10:02):
Coyotes spotted, are thosegunshots?
Oh my God, that's actuallybonkers.
Also, if you think you hear agunshot, don't alert your ring
community.
Yeah, but I told my parentsthey should just be like enough
of the alligator report.
Yeah, there you go, becauseit's not the alligator update.
Yeah, just like.
Oh, and it's Florida.
So there was an alligator today.
(10:23):
And then my dad was saying, yeah, they caught one at this school
near, but there's a FloridaGulf Coast University, whatever
near where my parents have ahouse.
And my dad's like, yeah, therewere like three alligators there
, da-da-da-da-da, and he waslike Aiden, maybe you could go
to college there.
I'm like number one, no, numbertwo.
Don't tell him about all thealligators and then tell them
(10:44):
you should go.
Why are alligators all over theplace, dad?
Because it's Florida, I thinkwe're in their zone and they're
running out of space, probably.
Well, at least it's not therattiest city in America.
What's that?
Chicago?
No, oh, rats, the most rats Tenyears in a row.
We need a rat czar, like NewYork has.
(11:07):
So they're giving these ratsPoison, jobs, pizza, birth
control.
Oh, because it's safer for pets, okay, and it will control all
that, oh, okay, yeah, gross, oh,I know, I keep thinking of a
(11:27):
rat with the like compact thingpopping out the pups, like oh,
gnawing through the little thingtaking her pup.
I know that's not how they doit.
Why do I have such gross, weirdstories today?
I love it.
Are they just hoping then theydon't reproduce and then they'll
eventually die out?
(11:47):
You know, I didn't really readtoo much more into it because I
think it's gross.
Oh, but I was happy that thepoison will keep it safer for,
or the lack of poison will keepit safer for, pets.
Yeah, that's interesting.
I would love to see what itlooks like.
I'm just thinking of getting adifferent prescription, I guess,
like a bit At Walgreens, like Idon't know.
(12:09):
I don't know, we're givingbirth control to rats but some
humans can't get it anyway.
I don't know.
That is funny.
Tell me about something good,because this is a weird gross
bucket.
Okay, can I tell you where?
April we're kind of circlingback, but april fool's day,
because I was like where didthis come from?
Oh yeah, what jamoke startedbeing like let's just mess with
(12:32):
people's brains.
My daughter asked me that onthe way to school yesterday.
I was like I don't know,started in 1561.
Hello, in France.
Yeah, there's a few conflictingstories on how it came to be.
They thought maybe it was theswitch from the I think the
jacobean, to the georgiancalendar I was totally thinking
(12:53):
that or the they don't know one,because I think people used to
celebrate the new year inspringtime because it was like
the rebirth, but then it wasswitched to january, so then it
was kind of like a oh, we fooledyou, like april 1st is not the
new year anymore, like psych,yeah, but they were.
We're not exactly sure.
But then one of the mostdocumented cases is there was a
(13:14):
French nobleman and he sent hisservant out on all these
ridiculous errands once on April1st, and it was a fool's errand
, hence the name, april Fool'sand all that jazz.
But then one of the biggestapril fools takes ever was in
1980.
The british government saidthat big ben the clock well,
(13:38):
actually big ben is actually thebell, it's just whatever.
But they were saying that theywere going to replace the clock
with a digital clock and call itdigital date.
That's funny, that's reallyfunny.
So look at the British.
And then in France, whateverthey call April Fool's Day
translates to April fish andthey do a lot of fish themed
(14:00):
pranks, which I thought wasgross.
Yeah same.
I kind of got taken by one.
I got an email from this pantscompany, this men's clothing
company got taken by one.
I got an email from this pantscompany, this men's clothing
company.
They're like check out our newpocket charging pants.
They're like if you put yourphone in your pocket, it charges
it.
And I was like that's aterrible idea.
How do you watch?
Because I was thinking of thelogistics, like do you have to
(14:22):
like plug your pants in?
How do you wash them?
I was like, why like thiscompany?
What are they thinking?
And so I clicked on it to belike, what are the logistics?
And I was like, wait, no, whatthey got me.
They got you, they got me, theygot me.
I read a story that I thoughtwas an April Fool's joke, but it
was real.
Oh, that there is a companycalled His Smile, which is a
(14:45):
toothpaste company.
Okay, and they have aKFC-flavored toothpaste,
garf-ola.
Why is it just His Smile?
Real and ready to buy?
It's not for her Smile, becauseladies are smart enough not to
buy.
Ladies are like I don't want mybreath to smell like fried
chicken.
Yeah, it's gross, that is noMm-mm-mm.
We've talked about this.
Why does everything have?
(15:12):
Yeah, just, what's wrong withmint?
Just, yes, let certain thingsbe.
And also, if I had chickenbreath, I'd go brush my teeth.
Exactly, it's defeating thepurpose, I know.
Oh Lordy, should we check inwith our sponsor?
I think so, nora.
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(15:34):
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And there's nothing mad aboutthat.
(16:16):
And now back to the show.
We were inspired from ourpajama topic last week to talk
about breakfast Because pajamasand breakfast.
Although for you sometimespajamas are dinner but pajamas
and breakfast, I, for yousometimes pajamas at dinner but
pajamas and breakfast.
I eat breakfast religiously.
I don't always eat it in mypajamas, right, because you're
out of your, you're in yourworkout clothes.
(16:38):
Yeah, do you eat breakfast?
I do.
I love breakfast, it is myfavorite meal and if calories
and time did not exist, I wouldhave like big old fat girl
breakfast every morning.
Is fat girl breakfast a thing?
Is it like a hot girl?
Summer I would eat all the like.
(17:00):
I want all the carbs chocolate,pancakes and hash browns and
which don't go together?
No, but will you put themtogether?
Hash browns and which don't gotogether?
No, no, but will you put themtogether?
No, not when I was pregnant I'dbe like sure, let's do it.
But uh, do you put anything onyour chocolate chip pancakes?
I'm not a big syrup fan, becauseI know you're not a condom, I
know.
So I like a sometimes a littlebit of syrup, but sometimes a
(17:24):
little bit of powdered sugar.
Sometimes, okay, I don't mindpowdered sugar, but I'm not like
my grandmother was very stricton french toast and waffles need
powdered sugar.
Sometimes, okay, I don't mindpowdered sugar, but I'm not like
.
My grandmother was very stricton french toast and waffles need
powdered sugar, but I can takeit or leave it.
It's already a lot of sugar,but I love those.
And whenever I go out tobreakfast, do you order pancakes
?
No, oh no, because I'm like Ican't.
(17:44):
It's funny sometimes when youorder breakfast, um, when you're
out for breakfast, it comeswith a side of pancakes.
I'm like, no, that is thebreakfast.
Yes, I always like when my kidsget a nice carby treat, so then
I usually there's usually abite left over for me.
I usually order an egg whiteomelet, because I've been doing
a lot of avocado toast lately.
(18:05):
Well, I've got the patto toast,but I still am always like
don't get the hash browns, don'tget the breakfast potatoes, and
I always do, always do Forbreakfast in our house.
I always eat a bowl of oatmealwith berries.
I have a question about oatmeal.
It's the most boring breakfastever.
I eat an English muffin.
That's boring.
What's your question aboutoatmeal?
I was curious if you ate it andif you would recommend it,
(18:27):
because I wonder if that wouldbe a.
Because I looked and that's oneof the most healthy things you
can eat for breakfast oatmealand berries.
That's why I do it.
Well, good for you, becausethen by at the end of breakfast
at least I'll have one out ofthree meals healthy.
Oh, good to know.
So try not to cheat atbreakfast.
Yeah, I like to kick things off.
I drink like a gallon of tea.
(18:48):
What kind of oatmeal do you get?
The plain old, like quick oatsthat you put in the microwave
for a minute.
But I don't do like the.
I would love a maple and brownsugar, but no, this is non.
No sugar, straight up, justplain old oatmeal.
Plain old, plain old oatmealAll right, but it's got to be
nice that it's hot.
It tastes like gruel.
Oh, do you ever sing the songfrom Oliver?
(19:10):
I don't know it.
Please have some more Folks, Idon't want any more, I'm choking
.
Are you milking it or water?
No, I feel it's a half a cup ofoats and a cup of water, and
then you put it in the microwavefor a minute and 10 seconds and
then I usually drizzle a littlemilk on there to cool it off
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and mix it up, dump some berrieson there, mix it up, let it sit
for a minute or two and thenyou're done.
Do you eat right when you wakeup?
Yeah, I eat something before Iwork out, just like a little.
Yeah, how about you?
Yeah, I can't work out on anempty stomach or else I feel a
little faint, like losing.
But I'd like to eat breakfastwith the kiddos.
Yeah, does your family all sitdown for breakfast?
(19:52):
We do.
How See, my family all leaves atdifferent times.
Well, I've got Aiden.
He leaves first and I sit withhim and I'll drink tea and I'll
talk with him.
That's nice.
And then, when he leaves theyounger three, I get up and I
have their breakfast and youmake it?
I do, but it's like waffles.
(20:14):
What?
Like frozen waffles?
Oh no, rose is on a RiceKrispies kick, so she has Rice
Krispies.
Kevin is on an Eggel wafflekick.
Rory likes dry cereal.
I'm just going to eat a drycorn.
Check, that's nice that you allsit down for breakfast and then
we try to go through the day,talk about what's going on and
then out the door.
(20:34):
That's awesome.
But you guys are coming andgoing.
Yeah, because three days a weekMike has football commitments
before school and then Elleleaves at a different time and
then Catherine, grace and Johnleave about the same time.
But one walks, one rides theirbike, so it's a little different
and they get up at differenttimes.
(20:54):
So I usually set something outon the counter and nobody really
eats that and they all picktheir own thing.
But at least I've given theeffort when they come down the
stairs to be like, oh, she setsomething up, oh, that's nice.
What about the weekends?
We ever be like I'm makingpancakes or waffle?
No, we'll do.
Sometimes I'll do b for d.
I love b for d, and then I'llmake something like what you
(21:18):
have a great breakfast,breakfast casserole that you
make.
Well, I do?
Yeah, I usually only make thatfor like holidays.
Holidays, um, yeah, but no,then I'll cook like eggs and
stuff.
But there are a lot of eggsbeing cooked in my house which
makes me want to barf.
You don't like eggs?
Oh no, but they're high inprotein.
I love eggs, you do, yeah.
How do you cook them?
Well, if I cook them, I makethem in the microwave Same, okay
(21:41):
, Okay, and some people havevery strong reactions to that.
I like them because they'refluffier.
Well, it's cleaner, and youdon't burn the pan.
You don't scrape anything.
Al tends to burn them.
That was one of the firstthings I learned how to cook was
scrambled eggs in the microwave.
That, and then I learned how tomake chocolate chip pancakes
Not in the microwave, no, on thegriddle, on the stove top.
(22:04):
Whatever my mom had like apancake griddle, she did.
Whatever my mom had like apancake griddle, she did.
And now we have one too.
It's nice.
Do you use it?
Yeah, because for makingpancakes for six people to have
a little, to make four at a time, is a lot.
What do you use?
Like the powder?
I use Bisquick, and there's arecipe on the-.
Is it a powder?
It's, yeah, kind of-ish.
It's like a yeah, but there'sthe regular recipe which we
(22:27):
always used growing up and thenI realized, maybe like 10 years
ago, there's the ultimatepancake recipe.
What so?
You add some sugar, but we useSplenda because of the diabetics
in our family, and then bakingpowder and a couple other
ingredients in there to add somevanilla, and they're way better
.
Are they fluffier or what arethey?
They're fluffier and they justhave a nice kind of taste to
(22:50):
them, so that.
But we'll do a lot of Belgiannot a lot, but Belgian waffles
for dinner sometimes.
Oh, that's a good idea, that.
But yeah, I love that.
We're a big bagel family.
I thought of you because I hada bagel at the Florida airport.
Yeah, and it was horrible.
Scottsdale had great bagels.
Maybe there are New Yorkersthere that brought the recipe
(23:13):
with them.
Yes, yes, yes, here, not somuch.
I used to eat bagels in New Yorka lot because I would get them
from a cart outside my office,but I don't get them very often
here.
What do you get on your bagel?
Usually?
This is a a weird one.
They have cheddar, jalapeno,cream cheese, whoa, it's like a
dip.
Is it spicy?
Yeah, oh, good morning, I justlike butter, you do, which I
(23:38):
like, with a diet coke.
Oh, oh, oh, because you got tokill the spice.
Yes, yes, there you go, um, butI don't.
They have good soup at the ourneighborhood and sometimes I get
a bagel sandwich.
I love a breakfast sandwich,you do, that's the best, and you
know how to make them, don'tyou?
Well, no, al makes them.
He makes a great breakfastsandwich.
But I didn't really eat thoseuntil I moved to New York,
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because that was a huge thing inNew York, the breakfast
sandwiches.
You didn't eat them before.
I guess they just weren't anoption, because I think also, my
mom would just make pancakesand sometimes French toast, all
the carby stuff.
We would eat them in highschool.
Oh, I had only ever had theMcDonald's ones, oh, which I
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like?
I like an egg McMuffin and thenI take the ham off.
You don't like ham.
What is that?
Canadian bacon, canadian bacon?
No, thank you.
Keep that in Canada.
I love a lot of things fromCanada, but not that.
No, thanks, because that's ham,that's not bacon.
No, right, I don't know.
Don't ask me.
No, but I, yeah, breakfastsandwich is delightful.
Um, do you like to go out forbreakfast?
Yes, I do.
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It's so nice.
I feel like also becausebreakfast is messy.
I feel like it's hard to cleanup breakfast, Like if you're
making eggs or pancakes, oh Ithink I'm eating it.
No, I'm pretty tidy when I eatit.
Making breakfast just feelslike a mess.
There's milk and there's thebatter or the eggshells and all
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that jazz.
That it's nice to go out andhave somebody else do it,
especially when it comes out hotand it's delicious During the
week.
If somebody's like, do you wantto go out for lunch, sometimes I
suggest breakfast insteadbecause I like to meet for
breakfast and then get on withmy day.
I like meeting for breakfastbecause then that means I
usually skip lunch.
Oh, you do, because then I'musually full.
Like full, yeah, well, becauseI'm probably not meeting people
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at eight.
Usually it's like a nine 1030.
Then I try and skip or lunch,and then I eat like 700
Cheez-Its or I'll have like ahandful of pretzels 12,000
pretzels.
They're very good, but yeah,but that was the first meal I
learned to cook.
You know what else I loved aboutbreakfast growing up?
Reading the back of the cerealboxes, I know, yes.
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Or digging for the gift.
Yeah, the toy.
In there we would gift yeah,the toy in there, like we would
read the comic strips in thenewspaper and I'd read my
horoscope.
Or do the word jumble, read thecereal box.
I know, and now you know whatI'm gonna do.
What do you?
Put a newspaper on my counter.
Do you get the newspaper?
I get them online.
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That's the washer journal onthe weekends newspaper.
I I'm going to do a test.
I'm going to get the physicalnewspaper and put it on the
island and see if anybody sitsand reads it.
Maybe I'll sort itstrategically.
Okay, stay tuned for that.
All right, I'm excited to hearhow this goes.
Can you see four kids lined upreading the paper?
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They probably won't even notice.
That would be great, though.
I think that would be nice.
I also was looking into the best, healthiest things to eat for
breakfast, and we talked alittle bit about oatmeal and
berries, but cottage cheese isone of them.
Not for breakfast, I know.
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Don't people put it on likepeaches, peaches and cream
Peaches and cottage cheese?
That means something different.
But they also talked aboutsmoothies, which I like.
Smoothies, chia seeds what arechia seeds?
I have chia seeds, no way.
Oh, you're going to make me tryone.
No, but what are they?
They are high in fiber andomega-3s Great.
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And they're just little likeseeds.
What do they tell you from Achia, pet Plant, I don't know,
and you just eat them out of thebag.
No, no, no, I sprinkle them.
Oh, they're like poppy seeds.
I was going to say like pepper,but, yeah, more like poppy seeds
.
They're kind of like I wasgoing to say like pepper, but,
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yeah, more like poppy seeds.
But they have fiber and protein, anything, because the kids
like the protein in them andthey have a lot of calories.
Two tablespoons is 120.
Dang, so I have some bulkers inmy family.
What is the serving size?
Two tablespoons, oh, twotablespoons, yeah, 120 calories,
which is a lot for twotablespoons.
But if they put them in likesmoothies or in yogurt or in
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Greek yogurt to up the protein alittle bit, do you like Greek
yogurt, flavored Greek yogurt?
Yeah, I find it very sour, oh,but anyways, I'll eat stuff
because it's healthy, notbecause I really like it.
See, you're good like that, butI can't mind overmatter Like my
morning gruel.
Yeah, go to my dry oatmeal.
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I'm going to give it a shot.
I mean, I've had it before, butit's been like the kind you in
the packets it's flavored.
But you can get that packetunflavored.
Yeah, I'm going to give it ashot.
Okay, why not?
Although it's getting well,it's not really getting warmer.
Did you see that Japan likes toeat rice, fish and miso soup
for breakfast?
I have heard that it's a thing.
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Yeah, can I tell you a funnybreakfast story?
Yeah, and then I know we got toget to highs and lows.
When I was pregnant with Aiden,al signed us up to go with
friends on a ski trip toSwitzerland, and maybe you don't
know this about me, but not anavid skier.
It had been a long time and Italked to my doctor I was
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probably like four monthspregnant and she was like, well,
are you a good skier?
I said no, she goes.
Then I would not recommendskiing while you're pregnant in
the Alps.
I was like fair, so everybodyelse it was like 10 people would
go skiing and I was like wah,wah, billy, no-mates by myself.
Who, billy No-Mates?
I don't know him.
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Tell us a British expressionLike Billy No-Mates, like no
friends, no-mates, BillyNo-Mates, no friends.
Oh my gosh, billy, no mates,billy no mates.
Like walking around this townand it was also like a disaster
getting there.
And then we had to go to thisdinner and you were supposed to
sled down the mountain, pitchdark, and I was like I'm
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pregnant, I can't do that.
I had to leave dinner early andget a snowalet and then I had
to take a taxi.
I was not a happy camper.
You were Billy No-Mates, I wasBilly No-Mates, pregnant no fun,
nora.
And I was a little chip on myshoulder, not happy about it.
So Al's like let's go getbreakfast.
So we went and got breakfastthe last day.
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We were there and I sit downand on Al's plate it looked like
a wedge.
It was a little wedge and I waslike, oh, he thinks that's
cheese.
But I knew it was butter.
Oh no, did you let him eat it?
Yeah, he took like a big.
So you were mad Well, I wassuper mad.
A big fork full of this.
And he put it right in hismouth and was like you were
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bitter nomates, not Billynomates.
And he took the biggest bite ofjust pure butter and he was
like did you know that wasbutter?
I was like, oh, yes, I did,it's nice having a go.
And then it was okay.
Then I was like okay, that wasfunny.
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And then I was like I don'tknow what that says about me.
It says that you're a goodsport.
That's what it says.
I tried to be, you are, anyways, that's it.
So now I'm really hungry, same.
But before we go Now I want togo out for breakfast.
Before we go, let's do a quickround of highs and lows.
Oh yeah, let's do it.
My low is that our flight wascanceled leaving Florida, and
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then which it wasn't that bad,it was just that Aiden missed
the first day back after break.
Yeah, that's a lot.
That was a real pain in theneck.
And then not only was ourflight canceled, but our
rescheduled flight was aconnecting flight through Kansas
City.
We had a three-hour layover inKansas City, and then our bags
didn't make it.
I think my low would be the bags.
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The bags was bonkers, and so wehad two bags.
We got them back, but ourbooster seat is MIA.
That's okay, she doesn't needit anymore.
But I also feel like, though,we have an extra, so I'm not
driving around without a carseat, but part of me is like
they should still compensate usfor it.
Yeah, I think so.
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Whether or not I need it allthe time, that's still my
property that you lost.
They still lost something.
So they said after five daysthey'll touch base again.
But, um, where is it exactly?
Where?
Is it like just hanging out inan airport somewhere?
Someone, someone's like checkout this great booster seat that
four kids have sat on.
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It's kind of a smiley Milo is.
I somehow threw away a purchase,and it wasn't a big purchase.
It was just like hand towelsfor the bathroom.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, for mybathroom, the kids' bathroom and
the downstairs bathroom.
So three packages of them.
Shoot, I know I hate that.
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I hate that too.
And then I did that on Thursdayand garbage day was Friday.
Oh boo, and it was justannoying.
It literally threw money away.
Oh, I'm sorry, but my hi is.
My mom was here and we did alittle adventure to refresh my
front porch and entryway.
I noticed your new rug.
It's lovely, yeah, so it wasjust a nice little spring
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refresh.
Oh, it's nice to go shoppingwith somebody else to help you
pick out things for your house.
It is Especially your mom hassuch great taste.
Yeah, so that was a little perkto spring.
Happy spring, oh, springcleaning.
How about you To Florida, beingthere, the sunshine, the pool.
We went mini golfing at night,which was fun, which was great,
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because there were no complaintsabout it being too hot and
obese.
So it was really a win-win foreverybody and yeah, we just had
a blast.
We saw a movie when it rainedand good food Looney Tunes.
The Day the Earth Blew Up ohshoot, I know Bad day.
Well, there's a whole gum punplot line, so it's not as bad as
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you think.
I was literally watching themovie and be like, oh, that's
why it blew up.
Okay, got it.
I wouldn't really recommend it,that's okay, you found something
to do to fill your time.
I wouldn't really recommend it,that's okay, you found
something to do to fill yourtime.
My mom was like oof, did thekids like it?
They did.
There you go.
Yeah, the kids liked it.
It was silly, you know weweren't looking to like have our
lives changed, you know.
So it was good.
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It was just a really nice trip.
It was nice to get away.
Now I got to honk her down.
Find that booster seat.
Find that booster seat inSouthwest.
Let's go.
Well, I think that about wrapsit up for us today.
Thank you for joining us.
Make sure you check out ouraccount on social media, nora,
is that not what you call it?
That's right, nora has beenworking very hard and you've
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been doing some really greatthings on TikTok and Instagram
and I'm really lucky to have youland the plane.
I know I see flight delays.
It's contagious and that'sabout it.
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Hi, thanks for joining us today.
It's Nora, and Nora, we're gladyou're here.
We are, I'm happy to be here.
Welcome to all our listeners.
Yes, those who tune in time andtime again and those who are
here for the very first time,settle in.
Yes, I have to ask did you getfooled?
Yesterday, I did get a littlefooled.
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Did you get a little fooled?
A little fooled.
Yesterday was April Fool's Day.
Oh, yes, for those.
Yes, I am in need of a rentalcar this weekend and my charming
husband pretended that herented me a car the size of a
Like a table clown car and youlike a big car, yeah, and I got
fired up, and right away.
So how long did he keep itgoing before you?
I've been long enough to belike, okay, I should probably
stop because I was getting mad.
Yeah, um, how, how about you?
Did you get fooled?
I did.
My son, aiden P, fooled me, andit's funny because I put a
little note in his lunchbox andI was like make sure you don't
get fooled today, don't forget,it's April Fool's Day.
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So, making sure he didn't getfooled.
And then he came downstairshe's like Mom, so I forgot I had
a Spanish project due.
I thought I was going to get itdone in Florida.
It's due today.
I totally forgot about it and Iwas just like Aiden, are you
kidding me?
And he's like April Fool's.
(01:32):
Oh, he did get you my love.
My loveist got me as well.
I forgot about that.
I texted him.
He has a football commitment onTuesday mornings, like a
meeting, and so I asked howBreakfast Club was and I said he
got kicked out for roughhousing.
And I believed him, oh gosh.
And I texted an angry text backand he kept going.
(01:55):
I texted another angry text andthen I think my boys just
pushed me and they're like, ohGod, we better stop or she'll
break.
They're like, oh, we've gonetoo far, yeah'll break.
They're like, uh-oh, uh-oh,we've gone too far.
Yeah, but I didn't fool anyone.
Did you trick anyone?
No, I did not.
I don't know.
I wasn't in the mood for ityesterday.
Well, you had one heck of aride home from Florida.
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We had a lot of March 30.
We had a big March 31st.
I wasn't really up for anypranks.
What a mess.
What your return flight was foryou.
I know that's my well, we canget to it later, okay, but I was
curious about it.
How was the rest of your week?
It was fantastic.
I was in Florida for most of itvisiting my parents with my
four kiddos, and it was great.
I don't feel bad saying itbecause I know you're leaving
(02:38):
tomorrow to get your break andyour sunshine, but just getting
off the plane and feeling warmyes, I'm sure a nice feeling.
Oh, my gosh, it just it wasamazing.
And it was nice to have Just tobe away and a change of scenery
With your parents too, sometime with them.
It was nice and the kids had agreat time.
We ate really good food.
I even swam you did Me and Roseplayed around in the pool.
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Good for you.
She wanted to play Marco Polo,but that's kind of a tough game
to play with two people, andalso when you have a pool full
of senior citizens, and I waslike, oh, this isn't going to go
well.
So I was like, what about weplay?
Follow the leader, I'll just dowhatever you do.
Oh, and then she was like, well, I didn't go under the water,
going under and doing tricks,but we had a very nice time.
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Okay, as long as she was happy,right?
Yeah, how about you?
How were things back in Chicago?
Things were great.
We were sad to see our Wildcatslose, oh, but happy for their
season.
They didn't run.
Yeah, is that what you say tosports people when they lose in
the playoffs it's a good run,you had a good run, or does that
not help?
I said that to them.
Okay, it's like, yeah, you'refun to watch all season Things
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of that nature, but how aboutour astronauts?
Oh, my gosh.
Yes, did you see the interview?
I read an article about it.
I didn't watch the interview.
I was surprised that the firstfood Sunny wanted was a grilled
cheese oh, but I guess it's hotand gooey and probably indulgent
.
And butch the chicken salad, oh, barf, sorry, no, I don't like
(04:12):
mayonnaise.
I know that's so interesting.
Yeah, what would you pick?
These are also people who arelike well, nine months was fine.
Yeah, I guess you're right.
That's a different kind ofperson.
Yeah, I like that.
They were like we were notstranded.
We were not stranded.
We were not forgotten, we werenot stranded, it's fine.
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Why, though, it's not fine?
They're very kind and goodemployees.
They were stuck in space.
I guess they're like well,because of the scheduling, this
would have been me, nora.
You would have gotten off thespace station, I'd be like I'll
just stay, it's fine.
But they were stuck.
I hate to break it to them, butthey were there much longer
(04:56):
than they should have been.
They were there for nine monthsinstead of a week.
I mean, I was delayed one dayin Florida and I was like, good
God, do you think?
Their space station was likeyou're not stuck, we're working
on it.
And they're like, okay, theysaid we're not stuck, we're not
stuck, we're not stuck, we'renot stuck Like you know.
We had like when I read that,sunny was like you know, we woke
(05:16):
up, we exercised, we went towork, just like everybody else,
like you're in outer space.
They are outside their minds.
I think maybe they have brainloss.
Maybe good for them, for, butthey seem.
You know, she went for a threemile run the other day like
she's like and kudos to the nasadoctors because we were in
great shape when we went upthere.
(05:37):
They kept us in great shapewhile we were there.
I'm three mile run like good,good for her, because I couldn't
run three miles and I haven'tbeen in space for nine months.
I was like, oh boy, oh, my God.
But I mean I'm glad they'rehome.
Yeah, aye, aye, aye.
I would have been singing adifferent tune.
We would have been a good pairup there because you probably
(05:58):
would have grounded me Huh, yeah, I'm here in space and you
would have brought the fun andyou would have also been like,
no, we need to go.
But also that's how I get atdinner.
If I've been at dinner too long, you don't want to be on a ship
that's not ready, like I wouldget the damn ship ready.
I think it's hard.
There's not a lot of spaceshuttles lying around.
(06:20):
It's crazy.
But speaking of these different,you know I was talking to you
about the Amy Poehler's newpodcast.
Oh, we love it, good hang.
She was talking with IkeBaranold, okay, and she was
talking about the Enneagrams andhow she loves an Enneagram.
What is she?
She's a three and you're aseven or a three Seven.
I'm either a seven or a three.
(06:41):
But she was like, oh my God, Ilove Enneagrams.
I'm so into it.
I'm a three.
Tina Fey's a three, seth Meyersis a three.
I'm like, oh, my favoritepeople are threes and I'm a nine
and I'm a doormat.
I was like, oh, I'm feeling badabout myself again.
I'm surprised that they're likemy favorite favorite people are
her own kind, like her ownnumber.
(07:02):
Yeah, that's interesting, butthere are also people to
collaborate and work with.
True, but that's what I waslike.
Oh, that's why they are famousand do their own.
Her podcast is number one.
Right, it's so good, it isgreat.
I recommend it.
Yeah, well, you, actually you.
I love all of her giggles andher funny stories and her
(07:29):
conversation with Rashida Jones.
I highly recommend it.
When they were laughinguncontrollably, I started
laughing uncontrollably and itmade me think about our
listeners, because sometimes I'mworried that our giggle fest I
am worried that our giggle festCan never have enough giggles.
But that's why I like herpodcast.
She's, like there's so muchyuck, like just surround
(07:51):
yourself with the people and theconversation that you want to
have.
I love, yeah, and I like toothat she asks people where do
you find you're happy?
Like what's making you happyright now?
Yeah, no, it's all around.
A great podcast, highlyrecommend it.
Okay, I read a creepy story.
Oh, no, I've been wanting totalk about it since I wrote it
down.
Okay, there was a babysitter afew weeks back that that was my
(08:13):
stomach, I don't know.
I was like I just put my thumbsin my thumb holes because I'm
scared.
So she put the child to bed andthe kid came down and was like
I think there's monsters undermy bed.
She's like there's not monstersunder your bed.
He's like, no, I think there'smonsters under my bed.
She went up there and there wasa man under the bed, shut the
(08:37):
front door.
Uh-huh, how horrifying is that.
I have so many questions.
Okay, I probably don't have theanswers, because I never do.
Who was it?
He was the previous owner, what?
Who had like an obsession withthis house, what?
And there was a restrainingorder against him to stay out of
the house or away from thehouse.
What?
Mm-hmm, what did the babies?
(08:59):
Did he grab the boy and justrun out of the house?
But then he ran out.
So it took him a day to try andapprehend him, and I wonder if
the parents were like we knowwho it is.
Isn't that terrifying To lookunder the bed and make like to
meet eyes with someone?
There is a monster, yeah.
So what a creeper.
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How long had he been there?
I don't know Too long, too long, too long, oh, my long.
Had he been there?
I don't know too long, too long, too long, oh my god, uh, yeah,
you know what happy podcast,but I know, just stuck with me.
Can I tell you, though, whatI'm happy about is that I was
like, oh, is this a badbabysitter story?
But it wasn't.
It's a good babysitter.
Yeah, it's fine.
Previous owner bad.
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Yeah, yeah, I was.
Uh, I know.
At first, because I've just beenin florida I thought you were
like there was an alligatorunder his bed.
Every night on the Florida news, they're like an alligator was
in someone's pool, or it's likepolice were called to get a
six-foot alligator off thesidewalk.
I'm like this is not news, ithappens every day.
It's like our ring doorbellalerts oh, we're like coyotes.
(10:02):
Coyotes spotted, are thosegunshots?
Oh my God, that's actuallybonkers.
Also, if you think you hear agunshot, don't alert your ring
community.
Yeah, but I told my parentsthey should just be like enough
of the alligator report.
Yeah, there you go, becauseit's not the alligator update.
Yeah, just like.
Oh, and it's Florida.
So there was an alligator today.
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And then my dad was saying, yeah, they caught one at this school
near, but there's a FloridaGulf Coast University, whatever
near where my parents have ahouse.
And my dad's like, yeah, therewere like three alligators there
, da-da-da-da-da, and he waslike Aiden, maybe you could go
to college there.
I'm like number one, no, numbertwo.
Don't tell him about all thealligators and then tell them
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you should go.
Why are alligators all over theplace, dad?
Because it's Florida, I thinkwe're in their zone and they're
running out of space, probably.
Well, at least it's not therattiest city in America.
What's that?
Chicago?
No, oh, rats, the most rats Tenyears in a row.
We need a rat czar, like NewYork has.
(11:07):
So they're giving these ratsPoison, jobs, pizza, birth
control.
Oh, because it's safer for pets, okay, and it will control all
that, oh, okay, yeah, gross, oh,I know, I keep thinking of a
(11:27):
rat with the like compact thingpopping out the pups, like oh,
gnawing through the little thingtaking her pup.
I know that's not how they doit.
Why do I have such gross, weirdstories today?
I love it.
Are they just hoping then theydon't reproduce and then they'll
eventually die out?
(11:47):
You know, I didn't really readtoo much more into it because I
think it's gross.
Oh, but I was happy that thepoison will keep it safer for,
or the lack of poison will keepit safer for, pets.
Yeah, that's interesting.
I would love to see what itlooks like.
I'm just thinking of getting adifferent prescription, I guess,
like a bit At Walgreens, like Idon't know.
(12:09):
I don't know, we're givingbirth control to rats but some
humans can't get it anyway.
I don't know.
That is funny.
Tell me about something good,because this is a weird gross
bucket.
Okay, can I tell you where?
April we're kind of circlingback, but april fool's day,
because I was like where didthis come from?
Oh yeah, what jamoke startedbeing like let's just mess with
(12:32):
people's brains.
My daughter asked me that onthe way to school yesterday.
I was like I don't know,started in 1561.
Hello, in France.
Yeah, there's a few conflictingstories on how it came to be.
They thought maybe it was theswitch from the I think the
jacobean, to the georgiancalendar I was totally thinking
(12:53):
that or the they don't know one,because I think people used to
celebrate the new year inspringtime because it was like
the rebirth, but then it wasswitched to january, so then it
was kind of like a oh, we fooledyou, like april 1st is not the
new year anymore, like psych,yeah, but they were.
We're not exactly sure.
But then one of the mostdocumented cases is there was a
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French nobleman and he sent hisservant out on all these
ridiculous errands once on April1st, and it was a fool's errand
, hence the name, april Fool'sand all that jazz.
But then one of the biggestapril fools takes ever was in
1980.
The british government saidthat big ben the clock well,
(13:38):
actually big ben is actually thebell, it's just whatever.
But they were saying that theywere going to replace the clock
with a digital clock and call itdigital date.
That's funny, that's reallyfunny.
So look at the British.
And then in France, whateverthey call April Fool's Day
translates to April fish andthey do a lot of fish themed
(14:00):
pranks, which I thought wasgross.
Yeah same.
I kind of got taken by one.
I got an email from this pantscompany, this men's clothing
company got taken by one.
I got an email from this pantscompany, this men's clothing
company.
They're like check out our newpocket charging pants.
They're like if you put yourphone in your pocket, it charges
it.
And I was like that's aterrible idea.
How do you watch?
Because I was thinking of thelogistics, like do you have to
(14:22):
like plug your pants in?
How do you wash them?
I was like, why like thiscompany?
What are they thinking?
And so I clicked on it to belike, what are the logistics?
And I was like, wait, no, whatthey got me.
They got you, they got me, theygot me.
I read a story that I thoughtwas an April Fool's joke, but it
was real.
Oh, that there is a companycalled His Smile, which is a
(14:45):
toothpaste company.
Okay, and they have aKFC-flavored toothpaste,
garf-ola.
Why is it just His Smile?
Real and ready to buy?
It's not for her Smile, becauseladies are smart enough not to
buy.
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And now back to the show.
We were inspired from ourpajama topic last week to talk
about breakfast Because pajamasand breakfast.
Although for you sometimespajamas are dinner but pajamas
and breakfast, I, for yousometimes pajamas at dinner but
pajamas and breakfast.
I eat breakfast religiously.
I don't always eat it in mypajamas, right, because you're
out of your, you're in yourworkout clothes.
(16:38):
Yeah, do you eat breakfast?
I do.
I love breakfast, it is myfavorite meal and if calories
and time did not exist, I wouldhave like big old fat girl
breakfast every morning.
Is fat girl breakfast a thing?
Is it like a hot girl?
Summer I would eat all the like.
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I want all the carbs chocolate,pancakes and hash browns and
which don't go together?
No, but will you put themtogether?
Hash browns and which don't gotogether?
No, no, but will you put themtogether?
No, not when I was pregnant I'dbe like sure, let's do it.
But uh, do you put anything onyour chocolate chip pancakes?
I'm not a big syrup fan, becauseI know you're not a condom, I
know.
So I like a sometimes a littlebit of syrup, but sometimes a
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little bit of powdered sugar.
Sometimes, okay, I don't mindpowdered sugar, but I'm not like
my grandmother was very stricton french toast and waffles need
powdered sugar.
Sometimes, okay, I don't mindpowdered sugar, but I'm not like
.
My grandmother was very stricton french toast and waffles need
powdered sugar, but I can takeit or leave it.
It's already a lot of sugar,but I love those.
And whenever I go out tobreakfast, do you order pancakes
?
No, oh no, because I'm like Ican't.
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It's funny sometimes when youorder breakfast, um, when you're
out for breakfast, it comeswith a side of pancakes.
I'm like, no, that is thebreakfast.
Yes, I always like when my kidsget a nice carby treat, so then
I usually there's usually abite left over for me.
I usually order an egg whiteomelet, because I've been doing
a lot of avocado toast lately.
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Well, I've got the patto toast,but I still am always like
don't get the hash browns, don'tget the breakfast potatoes, and
I always do, always do Forbreakfast in our house.
I always eat a bowl of oatmealwith berries.
I have a question about oatmeal.
It's the most boring breakfastever.
I eat an English muffin.
That's boring.
What's your question aboutoatmeal?
I was curious if you ate it andif you would recommend it,
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because I wonder if that wouldbe a.
Because I looked and that's oneof the most healthy things you
can eat for breakfast oatmealand berries.
That's why I do it.
Well, good for you, becausethen by at the end of breakfast
at least I'll have one out ofthree meals healthy.
Oh, good to know.
So try not to cheat atbreakfast.
Yeah, I like to kick things off.
I drink like a gallon of tea.
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What kind of oatmeal do you get?
The plain old, like quick oatsthat you put in the microwave
for a minute.
But I don't do like the.
I would love a maple and brownsugar, but no, this is non.
No sugar, straight up, justplain old oatmeal.
Plain old, plain old oatmealAll right, but it's got to be
nice that it's hot.
It tastes like gruel.
Oh, do you ever sing the songfrom Oliver?
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I don't know it.
Please have some more Folks, Idon't want any more, I'm choking
.
Are you milking it or water?
No, I feel it's a half a cup ofoats and a cup of water, and
then you put it in the microwavefor a minute and 10 seconds and
then I usually drizzle a littlemilk on there to cool it off
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and mix it up, dump some berrieson there, mix it up, let it sit
for a minute or two and thenyou're done.
Do you eat right when you wakeup?
Yeah, I eat something before Iwork out, just like a little.
Yeah, how about you?
Yeah, I can't work out on anempty stomach or else I feel a
little faint, like losing.
But I'd like to eat breakfastwith the kiddos.
Yeah, does your family all sitdown for breakfast?
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We do.
How See, my family all leaves atdifferent times.
Well, I've got Aiden.
He leaves first and I sit withhim and I'll drink tea and I'll
talk with him.
That's nice.
And then, when he leaves theyounger three, I get up and I
have their breakfast and youmake it?
I do, but it's like waffles.
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What?
Like frozen waffles?
Oh no, rose is on a RiceKrispies kick, so she has Rice
Krispies.
Kevin is on an Eggel wafflekick.
Rory likes dry cereal.
I'm just going to eat a drycorn.
Check, that's nice that you allsit down for breakfast and then
we try to go through the day,talk about what's going on and
then out the door.
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That's awesome.
But you guys are coming andgoing.
Yeah, because three days a weekMike has football commitments
before school and then Elleleaves at a different time and
then Catherine, grace and Johnleave about the same time.
But one walks, one rides theirbike, so it's a little different
and they get up at differenttimes.
(20:54):
So I usually set something outon the counter and nobody really
eats that and they all picktheir own thing.
But at least I've given theeffort when they come down the
stairs to be like, oh, she setsomething up, oh, that's nice.
What about the weekends?
We ever be like I'm makingpancakes or waffle?
No, we'll do.
Sometimes I'll do b for d.
I love b for d, and then I'llmake something like what you
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have a great breakfast,breakfast casserole that you
make.
Well, I do?
Yeah, I usually only make thatfor like holidays.
Holidays, um, yeah, but no,then I'll cook like eggs and
stuff.
But there are a lot of eggsbeing cooked in my house which
makes me want to barf.
You don't like eggs?
Oh no, but they're high inprotein.
I love eggs, you do, yeah.
How do you cook them?
Well, if I cook them, I makethem in the microwave Same, okay
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, Okay, and some people havevery strong reactions to that.
I like them because they'refluffier.
Well, it's cleaner, and youdon't burn the pan.
You don't scrape anything.
Al tends to burn them.
That was one of the firstthings I learned how to cook was
scrambled eggs in the microwave.
That, and then I learned how tomake chocolate chip pancakes
Not in the microwave, no, on thegriddle, on the stove top.
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Whatever my mom had like apancake griddle, she did.
Whatever my mom had like apancake griddle, she did.
And now we have one too.
It's nice.
Do you use it?
Yeah, because for makingpancakes for six people to have
a little, to make four at a time, is a lot.
What do you use?
Like the powder?
I use Bisquick, and there's arecipe on the-.
Is it a powder?
It's, yeah, kind of-ish.
It's like a yeah, but there'sthe regular recipe which we
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always used growing up and thenI realized, maybe like 10 years
ago, there's the ultimatepancake recipe.
What so?
You add some sugar, but we useSplenda because of the diabetics
in our family, and then bakingpowder and a couple other
ingredients in there to add somevanilla, and they're way better
.
Are they fluffier or what arethey?
They're fluffier and they justhave a nice kind of taste to
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them, so that.
But we'll do a lot of Belgiannot a lot, but Belgian waffles
for dinner sometimes.
Oh, that's a good idea, that.
But yeah, I love that.
We're a big bagel family.
I thought of you because I hada bagel at the Florida airport.
Yeah, and it was horrible.
Scottsdale had great bagels.
Maybe there are New Yorkersthere that brought the recipe
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with them.
Yes, yes, yes, here, not somuch.
I used to eat bagels in New Yorka lot because I would get them
from a cart outside my office,but I don't get them very often
here.
What do you get on your bagel?
Usually?
This is a a weird one.
They have cheddar, jalapeno,cream cheese, whoa, it's like a
dip.
Is it spicy?
Yeah, oh, good morning, I justlike butter, you do, which I
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like, with a diet coke.
Oh, oh, oh, because you got tokill the spice.
Yes, yes, there you go, um, butI don't.
They have good soup at the ourneighborhood and sometimes I get
a bagel sandwich.
I love a breakfast sandwich,you do, that's the best, and you
know how to make them, don'tyou?
Well, no, al makes them.
He makes a great breakfastsandwich.
But I didn't really eat thoseuntil I moved to New York,
(24:00):
because that was a huge thing inNew York, the breakfast
sandwiches.
You didn't eat them before.
I guess they just weren't anoption, because I think also, my
mom would just make pancakesand sometimes French toast, all
the carby stuff.
We would eat them in highschool.
Oh, I had only ever had theMcDonald's ones, oh, which I
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like?
I like an egg McMuffin and thenI take the ham off.
You don't like ham.
What is that?
Canadian bacon, canadian bacon?
No, thank you.
Keep that in Canada.
I love a lot of things fromCanada, but not that.
No, thanks, because that's ham,that's not bacon.
No, right, I don't know.
Don't ask me.
No, but I, yeah, breakfastsandwich is delightful.
Um, do you like to go out forbreakfast?
Yes, I do.
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It's so nice.
I feel like also becausebreakfast is messy.
I feel like it's hard to cleanup breakfast, Like if you're
making eggs or pancakes, oh Ithink I'm eating it.
No, I'm pretty tidy when I eatit.
Making breakfast just feelslike a mess.
There's milk and there's thebatter or the eggshells and all
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that jazz.
That it's nice to go out andhave somebody else do it,
especially when it comes out hotand it's delicious During the
week.
If somebody's like, do you wantto go out for lunch, sometimes I
suggest breakfast insteadbecause I like to meet for
breakfast and then get on withmy day.
I like meeting for breakfastbecause then that means I
usually skip lunch.
Oh, you do, because then I'musually full.
Like full, yeah, well, becauseI'm probably not meeting people
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at eight.
Usually it's like a nine 1030.
Then I try and skip or lunch,and then I eat like 700
Cheez-Its or I'll have like ahandful of pretzels 12,000
pretzels.
They're very good, but yeah,but that was the first meal I
learned to cook.
You know what else I loved aboutbreakfast growing up?
Reading the back of the cerealboxes, I know, yes.
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Or digging for the gift.
Yeah, the toy.
In there we would gift yeah,the toy in there, like we would
read the comic strips in thenewspaper and I'd read my
horoscope.
Or do the word jumble, read thecereal box.
I know, and now you know whatI'm gonna do.
What do you?
Put a newspaper on my counter.
Do you get the newspaper?
I get them online.
(26:08):
That's the washer journal onthe weekends newspaper.
I I'm going to do a test.
I'm going to get the physicalnewspaper and put it on the
island and see if anybody sitsand reads it.
Maybe I'll sort itstrategically.
Okay, stay tuned for that.
All right, I'm excited to hearhow this goes.
Can you see four kids lined upreading the paper?
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They probably won't even notice.
That would be great, though.
I think that would be nice.
I also was looking into the best, healthiest things to eat for
breakfast, and we talked alittle bit about oatmeal and
berries, but cottage cheese isone of them.
Not for breakfast, I know.
(26:51):
Don't people put it on likepeaches, peaches and cream
Peaches and cottage cheese?
That means something different.
But they also talked aboutsmoothies, which I like.
Smoothies, chia seeds what arechia seeds?
I have chia seeds, no way.
Oh, you're going to make me tryone.
No, but what are they?
They are high in fiber andomega-3s Great.
(27:15):
And they're just little likeseeds.
What do they tell you from Achia, pet Plant, I don't know,
and you just eat them out of thebag.
No, no, no, I sprinkle them.
Oh, they're like poppy seeds.
I was going to say like pepper,but, yeah, more like poppy seeds
.
They're kind of like I wasgoing to say like pepper, but,
(27:38):
yeah, more like poppy seeds.
But they have fiber and protein, anything, because the kids
like the protein in them andthey have a lot of calories.
Two tablespoons is 120.
Dang, so I have some bulkers inmy family.
What is the serving size?
Two tablespoons, oh, twotablespoons, yeah, 120 calories,
which is a lot for twotablespoons.
But if they put them in likesmoothies or in yogurt or in
(27:59):
Greek yogurt to up the protein alittle bit, do you like Greek
yogurt, flavored Greek yogurt?
Yeah, I find it very sour, oh,but anyways, I'll eat stuff
because it's healthy, notbecause I really like it.
See, you're good like that, butI can't mind overmatter Like my
morning gruel.
Yeah, go to my dry oatmeal.
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I'm going to give it a shot.
I mean, I've had it before, butit's been like the kind you in
the packets it's flavored.
But you can get that packetunflavored.
Yeah, I'm going to give it ashot.
Okay, why not?
Although it's getting well,it's not really getting warmer.
Did you see that Japan likes toeat rice, fish and miso soup
for breakfast?
I have heard that it's a thing.
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Yeah, can I tell you a funnybreakfast story?
Yeah, and then I know we got toget to highs and lows.
When I was pregnant with Aiden,al signed us up to go with
friends on a ski trip toSwitzerland, and maybe you don't
know this about me, but not anavid skier.
It had been a long time and Italked to my doctor I was
(29:03):
probably like four monthspregnant and she was like, well,
are you a good skier?
I said no, she goes.
Then I would not recommendskiing while you're pregnant in
the Alps.
I was like fair, so everybodyelse it was like 10 people would
go skiing and I was like wah,wah, billy, no-mates by myself.
Who, billy No-Mates?
I don't know him.
(29:23):
Tell us a British expressionLike Billy No-Mates, like no
friends, no-mates, BillyNo-Mates, no friends.
Oh my gosh, billy, no mates,billy no mates.
Like walking around this townand it was also like a disaster
getting there.
And then we had to go to thisdinner and you were supposed to
sled down the mountain, pitchdark, and I was like I'm
(29:44):
pregnant, I can't do that.
I had to leave dinner early andget a snowalet and then I had
to take a taxi.
I was not a happy camper.
You were Billy No-Mates, I wasBilly No-Mates, pregnant no fun,
nora.
And I was a little chip on myshoulder, not happy about it.
So Al's like let's go getbreakfast.
So we went and got breakfastthe last day.
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We were there and I sit downand on Al's plate it looked like
a wedge.
It was a little wedge and I waslike, oh, he thinks that's
cheese.
But I knew it was butter.
Oh no, did you let him eat it?
Yeah, he took like a big.
So you were mad Well, I wassuper mad.
A big fork full of this.
And he put it right in hismouth and was like you were
(30:32):
bitter nomates, not Billynomates.
And he took the biggest bite ofjust pure butter and he was
like did you know that wasbutter?
I was like, oh, yes, I did,it's nice having a go.
And then it was okay.
Then I was like okay, that wasfunny.
(30:52):
And then I was like I don'tknow what that says about me.
It says that you're a goodsport.
That's what it says.
I tried to be, you are, anyways, that's it.
So now I'm really hungry, same.
But before we go Now I want togo out for breakfast.
Before we go, let's do a quickround of highs and lows.
Oh yeah, let's do it.
My low is that our flight wascanceled leaving Florida, and
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then which it wasn't that bad,it was just that Aiden missed
the first day back after break.
Yeah, that's a lot.
That was a real pain in theneck.
And then not only was ourflight canceled, but our
rescheduled flight was aconnecting flight through Kansas
City.
We had a three-hour layover inKansas City, and then our bags
didn't make it.
I think my low would be the bags.
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The bags was bonkers, and so wehad two bags.
We got them back, but ourbooster seat is MIA.
That's okay, she doesn't needit anymore.
But I also feel like, though,we have an extra, so I'm not
driving around without a carseat, but part of me is like
they should still compensate usfor it.
Yeah, I think so.
(31:55):
Whether or not I need it allthe time, that's still my
property that you lost.
They still lost something.
So they said after five daysthey'll touch base again.
But, um, where is it exactly?
Where?
Is it like just hanging out inan airport somewhere?
Someone, someone's like checkout this great booster seat that
four kids have sat on.
(32:16):
It's kind of a smiley Milo is.
I somehow threw away a purchase,and it wasn't a big purchase.
It was just like hand towelsfor the bathroom.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, for mybathroom, the kids' bathroom and
the downstairs bathroom.
So three packages of them.
Shoot, I know I hate that.
(32:38):
I hate that too.
And then I did that on Thursdayand garbage day was Friday.
Oh boo, and it was justannoying.
It literally threw money away.
Oh, I'm sorry, but my hi is.
My mom was here and we did alittle adventure to refresh my
front porch and entryway.
I noticed your new rug.
It's lovely, yeah, so it wasjust a nice little spring
(32:58):
refresh.
Oh, it's nice to go shoppingwith somebody else to help you
pick out things for your house.
It is Especially your mom hassuch great taste.
Yeah, so that was a little perkto spring.
Happy spring, oh, springcleaning.
How about you To Florida, beingthere, the sunshine, the pool.
We went mini golfing at night,which was fun, which was great,
(33:21):
because there were no complaintsabout it being too hot and
obese.
So it was really a win-win foreverybody and yeah, we just had
a blast.
We saw a movie when it rainedand good food Looney Tunes.
The Day the Earth Blew Up ohshoot, I know Bad day.
Well, there's a whole gum punplot line, so it's not as bad as
(33:44):
you think.
I was literally watching themovie and be like, oh, that's
why it blew up.
Okay, got it.
I wouldn't really recommend it,that's okay, you found something
to do to fill your time.
I wouldn't really recommend it,that's okay, you found
something to do to fill yourtime.
My mom was like oof, did thekids like it?
They did.
There you go.
Yeah, the kids liked it.
It was silly, you know weweren't looking to like have our
lives changed, you know.
So it was good.
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It was just a really nice trip.
It was nice to get away.
Now I got to honk her down.
Find that booster seat.
Find that booster seat inSouthwest.
Let's go.
Well, I think that about wrapsit up for us today.
Thank you for joining us.
Make sure you check out ouraccount on social media, nora,
is that not what you call it?
That's right, nora has beenworking very hard and you've
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been doing some really greatthings on TikTok and Instagram
and I'm really lucky to have youland the plane.
I know I see flight delays.
It's contagious and that'sabout it.
Bye.
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