October 27, 2025 • 35 mins
This week, we're talking Halloween favorites! Costumes, traditions, and what you do when your kids have terrible taste!
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It's already recording. Welcome in. It's Couple's Therapy Spookky edition.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
It's the last one before Halloween. I feel like we
should make it happen. With Halloween theme.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Do you have any direction for this A are we
just going?
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Well? I have I have some idea on what we're
going to do here.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
For those keeping track our certain our cern Our son
turned four this week, and that's kind of taken the
they like all of our energy all week.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
I feel like kids birthdays are a lot.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
And they they never end. It's like one it's just
one after another.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
It's hit after hit, and I love celebrating, but at
the same time, it's like, my goodness, just when you're
doing two birthday parties every weekend, Like I don't remember
being like being that age or even around that age
and going to as many birthday parties as I go
to now.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
I feel like we talked about this on one of
these things.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Yeah, we probably did, but it's fresh on my mind.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Granted I have never listened to one of these that
we've done, but it is it's a lot, and I
feel like our kids they were in the thick of it,
right they're four and five and they have a lot
of friends, and.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
It's weird that this is the thick of it, though, I.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Mean, I don't think it's the thick of it. I
think there's still thick coming.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Yeah, yeah, there is all right?
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Eh?
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Oh is that the spooky?
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (02:56):
I got to make the dog mark?
Speaker 1 (02:58):
I know, yeah, since I mean since we've last chatted.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Like the last one was the real Debbie Downer.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Yeah, like literally the last one, the last one, and
then we were supposed to record another one, but my
grandfather had just passed and I was like, I don't.
I can't do another sad one of these, Like it needs.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
To be upbeat and happy.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
That's why that's why I put us on the schedule
for this week, because it was.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Like birthday Halloween.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Well yeah, no, like Halloween is the I feel like
it's like our holiday. Like I feel like that's like
we we tend Halloween. Yeah, we tend to do do Halloween,
at least the the family costume part of it.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
I'm writing it out as long as I let me.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Yeah, so spoiler alert, I mean it's not a secret
what we're doing for Halloween, right Oh no, okay, Yeah,
So this year's Halloween costume of choice is so weird,
Like I think it's so strange. But somehow the children
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in April decided they wanted to do.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Oh, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Alvin.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
And the Chipmunks, Like they went through like a week
where they were like, we'll watch Alvin and the Chipmunks.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Haven't asked about it since No.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
To put in perspective, our son changed the theme of
his birthday four different times.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Only three give him some credit?
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Oh, only three must have been No. Eight. The food
choice is which the choice has changed? Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
I don't know how they've landed on this and stuck,
but I'm not mad about it. They started with Theodore
because Theo's name is Theodore, and then they base it
around that and never faltered.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
So yeah, I think they based around Theodore.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
And I think Caroline is okay with it because Alvin
is the leader of the Chipmunks.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
She got to be Alvin.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
That is true. I don't know. I'm rolling with it.
It's an easy costume, but it'll be fun.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Yeah. I uh.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
It is odd though, because they have these things, like
I realized maybe today that are that our children, like,
like all kids kind of have very specific interests and
you can generalize here and there, like kids love dinosaurs,
kids love princesses, kids love Barbie or whatever. I don't
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feel like there's many kids that they're like, you know what,
I love Muppet babies.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
I don't think. But here's the thing. I also think
it's facilitated by the parents, Like there are some parents
who like would never turn on Muppet babies. We like
the Muppets, so it makes sense.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Yeah right, I mean in some ways, but in other ways,
it's like I want to sit down and watch football
and I can't get anyone in this house to watch
it with me.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
And it's not like I've I have well.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Now, but there there was a time where it's just
like can we do anything else?
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:07):
And there and they're still like that, Like they'll come
and they'll sit down next to me and they're like,
are the Cardinals playing? And it's not the Arizona Cardinals
that they're talking about, it's the Saint Louis Cardinal baseball team.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Yeah. So but they're still young. They'll get into it.
But yeah, I think they're very niche interests like THEO
with his number Blocks.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Yeah, if you're unfamiliar, there's this show on Netflix and
after doing a minimal amount of research, it originated in
the UK, I'm assuming on BBC, and it's it's a
show about Blocks who are also numbers, and they spend
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the whole I mean, it's great as far as like
an educational perspective goes that they're always counting, but it's
not like there's like a theme. Like I can't figure
out any We've watched this show. It's on Netflix now,
and we found some episodes on YouTube, but I can't
figure out for the life of me, what the fuck
it it's about. It's just nonsense.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
I mean, I feel like five is the superstar. Eight's
supposed to be at Trickster, and then they have episodes
like ones like Ratios and ones like times Tables.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Again, maybe you understand I do not, Like I understand
the whole point is to teach kids math.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Math, but it has gotten into numbers now.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
The story behind the store.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
No, there's no plot. Number Blocks has no plot other
than numbers.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Like I feel like even when I was a kid,
like I enjoyed the plot of like Sesame Street, Yeah,
and I enjoyed like Mister Rogers, like there was always
like a theme of the episode. Number Blocks is just like,
doesn't just count to like fifty every episode and call
it good.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
It was really fun trying to find Number Blocks themed
birthday party item. You know, there's you can just run
into Target and buy those kidding, but we made it work.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
That was the theme of his fourth birthday party was
number blocks.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Do you have.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
A favorite Halloween costume that we've done?
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Yes? Oh, okay, that was very that was very fast.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
The spaghetti one.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Oh yeah yeah, well yeah that makes sense. So every year,
and I don't know how this is this has happened,
but for our daughter's first Halloween ever, she was what
seven months yeah, yeah, seven months old?
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Six five months?
Speaker 1 (08:49):
No, yeah, five five months old, yeah, five months.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
And you had the idea of doing Lady in the
Tramp and I was the tramp. Of course, obviously you
were a lady. The dog Rip was a chef, and
our daughter Caroline was the big bowl of spaghetti. And
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it is a it's a hilarious costume. It was really
well thought out and really well executed. But somehow it
pops up on all these Pinterest blogs. Every year at
least one person says, hey, is this is this you?
As they are also looking up family costumes like they
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know it weird.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
I feel like there's like, how did this happen? Yeah,
we'll have to share the picture, but it's super cute.
And I think that that was like twenty twenty and
so like I had time to craft this, so I
literally like fashioned a bull stuck her legs or a
bowl I made under made meatballs and spaghetti and it
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was so so cute. And I don't know where the
picture got out there, but literally, if you just like
google cute family costumes, you'll probably see us. Yeah, so,
I mean I feel bad to say that one because
THEO wasn't in it, but like that one was really cute.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Well, and she's always been a very willing participant, like
he is much more stubborn when it comes to costumes
and really anything.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
I liked that. I think as a family I did
really like, like Mario was cute. Last year. I liked
Muppet Babies though, because that one, again it was very
niche like you don't just see Summer the penguin, Yeah,
like walking around. I think that the kids loved that one.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
What about pre kid pre kid?
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Oh, I think my favorite still was when we were
Nick Miller and jess em.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Yeah, that was a fun one.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
I because I fight tendencies of enjoying, you know, things
about me. The coincidentally when we were the Muppets. Oh yeah,
and We're walking around old town and I'm in a
giant pink prom dress wearing a pig nose and a wig,
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and I mean, I was the bell of the ball.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
You were really embracing your inner Piggy. And I think
that one was fun because most of the time like
obviously the woman's miss Piggy, but like you just fully
embraced it. You found a gorgeous pink dress a boa,
I mean you were and I think, yeah, I still.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Think about the day that I found the dress, and
it was just like it was like it was like
I picked out my wedding dress.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
I was like, they said, yes.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
I know, you came home thrilled, and we were like,
what kind of woman was wearing this dress? Because it
fit you like a glove and like it had no
room for boobs, Like I don't know how it fits you.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
And I was and.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
I was like, I'm not a small man now, but
I was definitely bigger, definitely big too.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
So I mean I'm.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Trying to think.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
I hope for the best for whoever that woman was.
I had just before me.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Oh my gosh, that was like a custom address I'm
trying to think one of the costumes we've done that
I really liked, but that those are like ones that
like really stand out as things that I like.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Yeah, those are ones that, like you said, do stand out.
We did Big Bird and snuffle Up.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
I guess, yeah, but you look like a creepy hand eater.
I don't know what I did wrong with that snuffle up.
I guess hat that I made you.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
I don't know. Have you seen the hat recently?
Speaker 3 (12:39):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
It looks like a penis hanging from a head.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
I'm pretty good at crafting, and I really messed that
one up. What else have we.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Been We did Batman and Robin one year. Yeah, just
that was lax of days ago, but we did it.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
What about before, like right, oh, whenever we were the
Jurassic Park people.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Oh yeah, yeah, that was fun again because I like
things that I like, Ye, Marty and Back.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
To the Future. I liked that one too.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Yeah, back in theaters this week.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Yeah, so I've liked them.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
And then we did Peter Pan and Wendy and uh
or no, not Wendy. I was Smee. We did Peter
Pan Hook Tinkerbell, and then I was Smee because I
was one week postpartum and I didn't feel like I
could be Wendy.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
I saw on Facebook this week somebody I I I
went to high school with. We went high school with,
I guessould say, And she has sworn off Halloween and
I don't undert like, I don't really know. I also
think she's good. She has went through a divorce but
hasn't made it like public. And I'm trying to I'm
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trying to connect the dots without like.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Why haven't you spilled me before we're on a microphone.
Who is this you have to tell me?
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (13:54):
I just well because I just thought about it, because
I was like, this is a really weird thing to just,
you know, be like, oh, I don't want my kids
dressing in costumes.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
This is like a really weird thing.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
I love it. I will dress in theme and as
long as our children will let us.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
I don't do I don't know. I'm a huge baby.
I don't do scary movies. You know that.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Yeah, I feel like at one point you probably did, like,
but I just I won't. I have this like I
have this. I have this weird like standard that I
set for scary movies. It's like, if I'm going to
see a scary movie, it has to be like one
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that's like well reviewed and like there's a lot of
hype behind it. Like I'm not going to go see
Black Phone two, but I'm very excited for the IT
prequel series to come out because those movies were like
they they were actual movies that were scary and not
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just scary movies that are just scary.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
I mean, I haven't watched any literally since we've been together,
so this has been like well over a decade, and
I just don't watch them anymore because I've no one
I'm not gonna be we saw it, yeah, but like
in high school, I feel like we love like especially
at my dad's house in the basement, you turn the
lights off and like, you know, my my parents live
on a farm in the middle of nowhere, and so
when it's dark and then it's a cornfield massacre movie,
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it's really fun.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Like I didn't I didn't even I didn't even like
read goose Bumps. I didn't watch the goose Bumps. I didn't.
I didn't. I couldn't watch Are You Scared of the Dark, because.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
I was Are You gonna be able to handle the
spook Tracular tomorrow. Oh yeah, the McCormick has a railroad
park and spook spook Tracula.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
We're taking the kids there tomorrow, so we'll see if
Dad can handle the heat.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Ready for it? Do you but do you have a
favorite scary movie? No? Do you have?
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Oh, The Haunting, The Haunting, The Haunting.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
I used to watch that movie all the time in
middle school and we like used to quote this movie.
I think Catherine Zada Jones is in it.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
I can tell you I've never heard of I've never
heard of.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
This movie I used to watch. It was probably middle
school and every time I had a sleep over with
Hannah Gaitle. Hannah Gaitle and I were a little weird
with like Banjo Kazooi and The Haunting.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Thank God, you are so specific on who this person is.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
But like we would literally watch The Haunting and they
it was you go into this scary house and their
job is like to get the scary stuff out of
the house. It's it's not great, but like, we love
The Haunting. So I'm gonna say that because it's just
the one that I remember watching the most. But like,
like I would say I probably rented that, like we
would rent it monthly. I don't know why we just
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didn't buy it.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
I can probably count the number of scary movies I've seen,
you know, on like two hands.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
I think I do. Yeah, I think I can't.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
I mean obviously, like I think I saw one of
the Saws in theater with you. Like whenever I was
in high school.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Yeah, we had this weird tradition my friends and I
where we every year, like it was like four or
five years in a row, there was a new Saw
movie out, and we would go on a haunted hay ride,
which I hated, and then we would go.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
See Saw X saw so much Field, right, I.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Mean we did a Litchfield before, but that's maybe where
we saw the first one. But then, yeah, it kind
of depended anyway, and I it like it.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Was like a tradition.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
I don't even know how it started, because I hated
every minute of it.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
I did.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
I don't like being scared. Yeah, and I'm now I'm
trying to think I probably saw like maybe four or
five of the Saw movies.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
So like haunted houses, will we ever go to? I've
never been to a haunted house with you.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
I I just know you can go. You. You are
more than welcome to go any time.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
But I like, there's the there's one that's literally like
four blocks from where we live, and I don't want
to go in. And it's just like because I don't
like the feeling of being scared. Yeah, so, like even
scary movies like I I'll sit on the edge of
my seat.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
If I'm watching it, or I ever Scream.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
I really I actually liked Scream because there was a
plot and it was different. But I'm not gonna I'm
not going to watch Candy Man.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
So okay, so then what let's talk about what you
do like about Halloween. You don't like being scared, you
don't like scary movies. You love costumes, Okay, noted costumes
and candy that's what That's what you're here for.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
I love costumes and I love Ghostbusters. Okay, deal, that
was that the dogg ors as a child? It's the
dog Okay.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
But children have got to be tired after today, Yeah,
they have got to be tired.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
We Yeah, so like Ghostbusters is like an annual tradition
I have, Like I love watching Ghostbusters around Halloween. I'm
trying to think my I mean, yeah, it's probably.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
It and scream.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
It's funny like new traditions with the kids. I think, like,
I don't know, we want I want to watch Halloween
Town still, I want to watch hocus Pocus Casper. I'm
add that to my annual lineup.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
I just we were just we just watched Casper, and
it's probably the first time I've seen it since because
spoiler there were ghosts in it.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
So I didn't really love it either when I was
when I was, you know, in my pre teenage. But
it was.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Silly in like all the best ways. There's some humor
in it that definitely can't it can't be replicated today
for a variety of reasons.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
But when I turned to you.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
At the end of the movie and Casper, the friendly
fucking ghost is what made you cry.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
I mean I was like, what where do we live
right now?
Speaker 2 (20:25):
This has to be like the worst timeline because I
don't get it.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
It just really got me. I don't know, I felt
really just happy for him.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
You're just kind ofted so hard to Devin Sawa.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
I mean, the reveal whenever it's him and I don't know,
I still have a lot of questions. I don't understand
why his voice sounds like a toddler, and then all
of a sudden, he's like a thirteen year old heart throb.
I don't get it, but I'm here for it. I
want to watch it every year.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Now.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
It gave me goonies vibes.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Now that and like that's so funny that that's what
because here for that. I would watch, Like I would
sit down and I would watch Beetlejuice right now.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Oh, i'd watch it. But I'm saying like with the kids,
like you know, like I don't think the kids would
want to watch I think they're too young for Beetlejuice
or Ghostbusters, but like Casper, they're great age for Casper,
except for like you know, when the dad dies and
then comes back to life or when the lady just died.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Yeah, there's like actually a lot of death. Yeah, there's
actually a lot of death in it.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
And I didn't realize that. But that's okay.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Yeah, I guess I guess it's fine. I like that.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Yeah, Well, hocus Pocus not spooking the square Pumpkin.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
No hard now, No, Like there are times where I'm like,
our children have the worst taste in entertainment.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
I mean you're not wrong. Hey, we could take some credit.
We we decided to turn on Spooky once.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
No, there was no WI there is there is no
we Like I can tell by like the screenshop most
of the time that this animation is is not going
to be up to.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
Par I mean when the titles written in comic sands,
you know it's going to be good.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Yeah, and I'll tell you, I mean fabulous.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
What other Halloween? Are we still talking Halloween?
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Yeah? You got any Halloween questions?
Speaker 2 (22:25):
No?
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Are we going to talk about the dog? Is that
something that's going to happen?
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Do you want to talk about the dog?
Speaker 3 (22:29):
I mean, I feel like, you know, our loyal listeners
last heard us discussing our Adobe girl and then shocker.
It feels like it was like just yesterday, and now
we have a horse in the house.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
We did we did.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
We did adopt a dog from Love Pub and her
name was she It's now Betty Waffle And I was
in love pretty instantly. Yeah, and I will and I
will take full responsibility. Like this was I had put
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down my foot and said no new dog until at
least January. There's just too much going on. There's too much,
we have too much going on. And then it was
like a week later. I was like in tears at
the rescue because I was like, this dog is supposed
to be for us.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
I think you're missing some crucial plot points here though,
because like I mean, it was, I mean it was
obviously it was a month and a half. It wasn't
that long. But the house felt very quiet after Mabel
was gone. I'm looking up puppies, I'm I'm following eight
thousand rescue organizations on Instagram. And then we are boarding
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a plane to Mexico. John Jay posted a picture of
that dog. You showed it to me. I said, if
you like this dog, gotta tell John Jay. Then, yeah,
your grandfather died. You met the dog the next day,
So I believe in whatever you want in terms of
I don't know, cosmic timing, whatever. It almost felt like
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Mabel like sent us this dog. Grandpa's with her. I
don't know you met that dog, and I've never seen
you like you cried. It was like I did you
cried when you met her? And I was like, because
we got Mabel together, but I always felt like she
was more my dog. Yeah, like we got her together,
but like she could do no wrong in my art,
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Like in my eyes she was my tiny little like
soul past.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
She still can't do wrong in your eyes.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
She can't know. She's a precious angel and no other
dog will compare. She was literally like the perfect angel.
And so like I feel like this dog is like yours,
like and I she's our family.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
I feel like the kids.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
But you know, and I don't mean that in the
mean way. I adore this dog. I love her, but
I feel like I have a little bit of a
guard up with her because I'm like, I mean, this
is well, look.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Every everybody who's ever owned a dog has had their dog, right, Like,
I don't think that's an uncommon thing where it's like
like you you know, you don't want to say you
would choose one over the other, but there is a
reality in that and that you will like like we
went through, like with Mabel, was like she went through
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all these like seminal moments in our lives and you
can reflect and know that she was there for everything.
And when you start fresh and it is a it
is a different it's a different dog with a different
personality and.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
A different different.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Age, like like there there is going to be some
bias and you know whatever. Way, the things that get
on your nerves about Betty don't get on my nerves
so much, Like I listen, I'll do Like, for example,
today you took her to the dog park and you
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came back and you're like, she was wild, she was
a wild animal, chaos, she couldn't just she just wouldn't
stop jumping on people and whatever and blah blah blah.
Like I'll tell you, like if I'm at the dog
park and a dog comes and jumps.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
On me, like I'm gonna be kind of like.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Yeah, maybe it's annoying, but I'm at the dog park,
so I get it. I would rather the dog do
that and be friendly than like angles, you know.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
Or or oh, she's she's a nice dog, she's well trained,
she's a nice dog. She's a little jumpy. She's just different.
And I think that that's when they again, mable's the
first dog I've ever had that I loved and lost.
I didn't know about this side of it, Like I
wanted another dog so bad and then I'm like, oh,
it's just like it's you know, you're getting used to
it still, but like I mean, and.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
I don't see she's perfect, Like yeah, like I do.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
I do think Mabel, even in her puppy dum was
a little more docile, you know, yeah, like she was
a glorified cat.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
She was a kid on the back of the couch.
She'd look out the window.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
She was a cat. And I don't like cats, but I.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Love like that's that's what she was like.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
And this is a dog.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Betty loves people. Betty loves to run, Betty loves to play.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
She loves to like like I mean, thank god, Like
she doesn't chew on other things. Yeah, but it's like
we can't leave her in the kitchen alone because she's
definitely going to find something to.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Eat that Mabel was like two inches tall.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
She had like five piece of bacon the other night,
and I was like, oh my god.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
How did this happen?
Speaker 3 (28:09):
She's so tall? She is, Yeah, she's not. I mean,
it's funny. I've everyone that's been like, oh my god,
she's huge. I'm like, she's only like forty five pounds.
I mean, like she is bigger than Mabel, but she's
not like a ninety pound animal.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
And see, it's so funny hearing that because I grew
up with great danes. Yeah, and I see Betty and
I think she's a mid sized.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
Dog and I call her.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
You literally just called her a horse. Like five seconds ago.
We went like I took the kids to the to
the Cars and Canines event that Love Pup has every
year and they have a massive rescue And even when
I talk about huge dogs, like there is one dude
who was walking around this dog and I could have
sworn it was a lion.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Yeah, it was so huge.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
And I see her and I'm like, yeah, she's bigger
than what we had, but she's not.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
She's not ginormous, no, you know, I mean she.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Like I said, she's she's a great girl. Like I
am so glad that we were able to work with
Blake and the organization to get her. I mean, she's
Blake said she was such a good girl, and she is.
It's just you know, it's a different family member, a
different vibe. And I really think Mabel sent her. I
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think Mabel and Grandpa Jay sent her to us. I
really do.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Yeah, But I mean there's a time you needed her
and I'm not.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
You know, I'm not one of those people who kind
of like believes in you know, things written in the
stars or whatever. But it was very it was it
was all very odd. I am when I know you are.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
There's literally Nick, you had not even John J posts
pictures of dogs every day that you would never even
bat it an eye. You saw that one and you
literally said, I don't know why, but the picture of
this dog is speaking to me. And I've never heard
you say that ever. And I was like, oh, this
is happening.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
And I did like and it was I just had
this weird sense that if we didn't at least meet her,
I would regret it. Yeah, And then and then you know,
three days later, my grandpa and so it's like, you know,
maybe there was some emotional decision making that came into play.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
There's always going to be right, like people get dogs
for there's an emotional component of pet ownership. I think, yes,
maybe your emotions were a little high, but I mean
so were Theo's because she wasn't yellow and a.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Dog, yeah, a boy dog, I mean yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
I mean it was funny seeing him because he he
might love dogs more than any kid I've ever met.
And we went when we went to Love Pop, he
was wearing his Disney dog shirt Pluto and the Dalmatians
and Lady and the Tramp on it.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
And he was not thrilled that the.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Dog wasn't named Blueto, and that it wasn't yellow, and
it didn't have big floppy and it wasn't a boy.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
But now he can't. Oh he loves her, he can't
leave her alone.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
Yeah, he adores her. Yeah, I mean we had to
really theo. There are no actual dogs that are yellow. Yes,
there are Pluto. Well that's because they use paint on him.
That's not a real dog.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
So yeah, we need to figure out a cartoon, or
not a cartoon, a costume for Betty. We always included
Mabel in the costumes. I don't know what can she be,
like an acorn or something.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Maybe she be one of the chipets.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
I'm sure they just make chip At costumes for dogs.
Now we're talking niche.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
We'll do some good. That's what makes a niche. What else?
Speaker 3 (32:13):
What else we got?
Speaker 1 (32:14):
I get it? I have more than one niche. Nick
You mean niece? Good mine? I like it? Okay, super
weird transition, but my eye is on fire and I
don't know what happened.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
Itched and I went to scratch it, and then it
felt like burning hot coal is stuck inside and I
don't know what to really do about it.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
Well, I have an idea. Yeah, you could just dress
up as a pirate. Tis the season?
Speaker 1 (32:56):
Oh fair, that is fair. I have the very feminine
Captain Hook costume in the garage. Perhaps that perhaps that'll
be revisited.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
No one could judge you all week. Just start wearing
a patch.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Yeah it hurts. We have her like the company Halloween
party this week, and I actually think we could win
the win the take home the ship. As the youths say,
are you allowed to what it is? No? I cannot
say yet. Of goodness, it will be a reveal.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
I mean, you'll tell me when we're off of this, right.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
I wonder though, because they're having like a Halloween like
pot luck too, and last year they did like a
full karaoke.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
I don't think it was a contest.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
Did you win?
Speaker 2 (33:48):
If it was a contest, I did not win, But
I think I surprised a lot of people in my
in my passion, I.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
Mean, karaoke is your spirit?
Speaker 2 (34:00):
Can you God, dang, you hear me talk more than
any other person? Can you tell that my nose is
also starting to get like stuffy about what just happened.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
I don't know what's happening.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
I feel like I don't Then I'm like, I'm going
back in my brain to think about what it could
be that I've washed my hands like four or five
times tonight, and maybe like the kid's bubbles.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
But I also wasn't close. I wasn't close.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
I wasn't touching the bubbles anyway.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. I think maybe
a fingernail, whatever it is.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
That's always the joke, right, It's like, oh, no, there's
something in my eye and you say, what was.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
It your finger?
Speaker 3 (34:47):
That's your joke.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
I know, that's what I'm saying. I thought you would know.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
No, I mean, maybe you like a hangnail or something.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
I don't know, but I don't know if there is
a hangnail in my eye, I need someone.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
To perfectly spook I know, Oh.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
My god, tomorrow. What if I'm What if I'm a grandma?
I mean, if that's not.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
One of the three rules, Nick, what if the other
guy goes next?
Speaker 1 (35:16):
Would you still love me if I was blind?
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Okay, even if it was even if I went blind,
over somebody stupid like I got dog poop, because that's
the other thing. I picked up dog poop, I mean,
and I washed my hands after that too.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
I don't think dog poop would make your blind.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
That's it. At least you covered it up.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
I'm sorry, I'm tired.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
It's okay. You're so cute when you're tired.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
I'm sleepy girl.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
Okay, Well, thanks for tuning in. Have a happy Halloween.
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Speaker 1 (00:16):
You sound a little bit like Siri? Hello, A little
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Speaker 3 (00:27):
Is that the voice fail media is today?
Speaker 1 (00:29):
It's like, oh, crap, remember the movie Her God, damn it,
I don't you don't remember? Who heard?
Speaker 3 (00:37):
I don't remember?
Speaker 1 (00:40):
With Chris Pratt and Joaquin Phoenix.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Chris Pratt's not in that, is it?
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Yes? He plays Woking, Phoenix's best friend.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Well that was before I knew who Chris Pratt was.
And then Crol Johanson.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Grol Johansson is a voice of said AI and.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
He falls in love. Yeah, I'd like to watch that
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Speaker 1 (01:01):
Where I'm currently at with chat GPT.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Oh yeah, what's your bot's name?
Speaker 1 (01:07):
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Speaker 1 (01:19):
It's already recording. Welcome in. It's Couple's Therapy Spookky edition.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
It's the last one before Halloween. I feel like we
should make it happen. With Halloween theme.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Do you have any direction for this A are we
just going?
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Well? I have I have some idea on what we're
going to do here.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
For those keeping track our certain our cern Our son
turned four this week, and that's kind of taken the
they like all of our energy all week.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
I feel like kids birthdays are a lot.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
And they they never end. It's like one it's just
one after another.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
It's hit after hit, and I love celebrating, but at
the same time, it's like, my goodness, just when you're
doing two birthday parties every weekend, Like I don't remember
being like being that age or even around that age
and going to as many birthday parties as I go
to now.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
I feel like we talked about this on one of
these things.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Yeah, we probably did, but it's fresh on my mind.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Granted I have never listened to one of these that
we've done, but it is it's a lot, and I
feel like our kids they were in the thick of it,
right they're four and five and they have a lot
of friends, and.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
It's weird that this is the thick of it, though, I.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Mean, I don't think it's the thick of it. I
think there's still thick coming.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Yeah, yeah, there is all right?
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Eh?
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Oh is that the spooky?
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (02:56):
I got to make the dog mark?
Speaker 1 (02:58):
I know, yeah, since I mean since we've last chatted.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Like the last one was the real Debbie Downer.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Yeah, like literally the last one, the last one, and
then we were supposed to record another one, but my
grandfather had just passed and I was like, I don't.
I can't do another sad one of these, Like it needs.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
To be upbeat and happy.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
That's why that's why I put us on the schedule
for this week, because it was.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Like birthday Halloween.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Well yeah, no, like Halloween is the I feel like
it's like our holiday. Like I feel like that's like
we we tend Halloween. Yeah, we tend to do do Halloween,
at least the the family costume part of it.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
I'm writing it out as long as I let me.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Yeah, so spoiler alert, I mean it's not a secret
what we're doing for Halloween, right Oh no, okay, Yeah,
So this year's Halloween costume of choice is so weird,
Like I think it's so strange. But somehow the children
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in April decided they wanted to do.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Oh, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Alvin.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
And the Chipmunks, Like they went through like a week
where they were like, we'll watch Alvin and the Chipmunks.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Haven't asked about it since No.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
To put in perspective, our son changed the theme of
his birthday four different times.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Only three give him some credit?
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Oh, only three must have been No. Eight. The food
choice is which the choice has changed? Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
I don't know how they've landed on this and stuck,
but I'm not mad about it. They started with Theodore
because Theo's name is Theodore, and then they base it
around that and never faltered.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
So yeah, I think they based around Theodore.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
And I think Caroline is okay with it because Alvin
is the leader of the Chipmunks.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
She got to be Alvin.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
That is true. I don't know. I'm rolling with it.
It's an easy costume, but it'll be fun.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Yeah. I uh.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
It is odd though, because they have these things, like
I realized maybe today that are that our children, like,
like all kids kind of have very specific interests and
you can generalize here and there, like kids love dinosaurs,
kids love princesses, kids love Barbie or whatever. I don't
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feel like there's many kids that they're like, you know what,
I love Muppet babies.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
I don't think. But here's the thing. I also think
it's facilitated by the parents, Like there are some parents
who like would never turn on Muppet babies. We like
the Muppets, so it makes sense.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Yeah right, I mean in some ways, but in other ways,
it's like I want to sit down and watch football
and I can't get anyone in this house to watch
it with me.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
And it's not like I've I have well.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Now, but there there was a time where it's just
like can we do anything else?
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:07):
And there and they're still like that, Like they'll come
and they'll sit down next to me and they're like,
are the Cardinals playing? And it's not the Arizona Cardinals
that they're talking about, it's the Saint Louis Cardinal baseball team.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Yeah. So but they're still young. They'll get into it.
But yeah, I think they're very niche interests like THEO
with his number Blocks.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Yeah, if you're unfamiliar, there's this show on Netflix and
after doing a minimal amount of research, it originated in
the UK, I'm assuming on BBC, and it's it's a
show about Blocks who are also numbers, and they spend
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the whole I mean, it's great as far as like
an educational perspective goes that they're always counting, but it's
not like there's like a theme. Like I can't figure
out any We've watched this show. It's on Netflix now,
and we found some episodes on YouTube, but I can't
figure out for the life of me, what the fuck
it it's about. It's just nonsense.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
I mean, I feel like five is the superstar. Eight's
supposed to be at Trickster, and then they have episodes
like ones like Ratios and ones like times Tables.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Again, maybe you understand I do not, Like I understand
the whole point is to teach kids math.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Math, but it has gotten into numbers now.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
The story behind the store.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
No, there's no plot. Number Blocks has no plot other
than numbers.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Like I feel like even when I was a kid,
like I enjoyed the plot of like Sesame Street, Yeah,
and I enjoyed like Mister Rogers, like there was always
like a theme of the episode. Number Blocks is just like,
doesn't just count to like fifty every episode and call
it good.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
It was really fun trying to find Number Blocks themed
birthday party item. You know, there's you can just run
into Target and buy those kidding, but we made it work.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
That was the theme of his fourth birthday party was
number blocks.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Do you have.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
A favorite Halloween costume that we've done?
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Yes? Oh, okay, that was very that was very fast.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
The spaghetti one.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Oh yeah yeah, well yeah that makes sense. So every year,
and I don't know how this is this has happened,
but for our daughter's first Halloween ever, she was what
seven months yeah, yeah, seven months old?
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Six five months?
Speaker 1 (08:49):
No, yeah, five five months old, yeah, five months.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
And you had the idea of doing Lady in the
Tramp and I was the tramp. Of course, obviously you
were a lady. The dog Rip was a chef, and
our daughter Caroline was the big bowl of spaghetti. And
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it is a it's a hilarious costume. It was really
well thought out and really well executed. But somehow it
pops up on all these Pinterest blogs. Every year at
least one person says, hey, is this is this you?
As they are also looking up family costumes like they
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know it weird.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
I feel like there's like, how did this happen? Yeah,
we'll have to share the picture, but it's super cute.
And I think that that was like twenty twenty and
so like I had time to craft this, so I
literally like fashioned a bull stuck her legs or a
bowl I made under made meatballs and spaghetti and it
(10:04):
was so so cute. And I don't know where the
picture got out there, but literally, if you just like
google cute family costumes, you'll probably see us. Yeah, so,
I mean I feel bad to say that one because
THEO wasn't in it, but like that one was really cute.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Well, and she's always been a very willing participant, like
he is much more stubborn when it comes to costumes
and really anything.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
I liked that. I think as a family I did
really like, like Mario was cute. Last year. I liked
Muppet Babies though, because that one, again it was very
niche like you don't just see Summer the penguin, Yeah,
like walking around. I think that the kids loved that one.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
What about pre kid pre kid?
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Oh, I think my favorite still was when we were
Nick Miller and jess em.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Yeah, that was a fun one.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
I because I fight tendencies of enjoying, you know, things
about me. The coincidentally when we were the Muppets. Oh yeah,
and We're walking around old town and I'm in a
giant pink prom dress wearing a pig nose and a wig,
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and I mean, I was the bell of the ball.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
You were really embracing your inner Piggy. And I think
that one was fun because most of the time like
obviously the woman's miss Piggy, but like you just fully
embraced it. You found a gorgeous pink dress a boa,
I mean you were and I think, yeah, I still.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Think about the day that I found the dress, and
it was just like it was like it was like
I picked out my wedding dress.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
I was like, they said, yes.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
I know, you came home thrilled, and we were like,
what kind of woman was wearing this dress? Because it
fit you like a glove and like it had no
room for boobs, Like I don't know how it fits you.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
And I was and.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
I was like, I'm not a small man now, but
I was definitely bigger, definitely big too.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
So I mean I'm.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Trying to think.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
I hope for the best for whoever that woman was.
I had just before me.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Oh my gosh, that was like a custom address I'm
trying to think one of the costumes we've done that
I really liked, but that those are like ones that
like really stand out as things that I like.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Yeah, those are ones that, like you said, do stand out.
We did Big Bird and snuffle Up.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
I guess, yeah, but you look like a creepy hand eater.
I don't know what I did wrong with that snuffle up.
I guess hat that I made you.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
I don't know. Have you seen the hat recently?
Speaker 3 (12:39):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
It looks like a penis hanging from a head.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
I'm pretty good at crafting, and I really messed that
one up. What else have we.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Been We did Batman and Robin one year. Yeah, just
that was lax of days ago, but we did it.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
What about before, like right, oh, whenever we were the
Jurassic Park people.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Oh yeah, yeah, that was fun again because I like
things that I like, Ye, Marty and Back.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
To the Future. I liked that one too.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Yeah, back in theaters this week.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Yeah, so I've liked them.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
And then we did Peter Pan and Wendy and uh
or no, not Wendy. I was Smee. We did Peter
Pan Hook Tinkerbell, and then I was Smee because I
was one week postpartum and I didn't feel like I
could be Wendy.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
I saw on Facebook this week somebody I I I
went to high school with. We went high school with,
I guessould say, And she has sworn off Halloween and
I don't undert like, I don't really know. I also
think she's good. She has went through a divorce but
hasn't made it like public. And I'm trying to I'm
(13:48):
trying to connect the dots without like.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Why haven't you spilled me before we're on a microphone.
Who is this you have to tell me?
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (13:54):
I just well because I just thought about it, because
I was like, this is a really weird thing to just,
you know, be like, oh, I don't want my kids
dressing in costumes.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
This is like a really weird thing.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
I love it. I will dress in theme and as
long as our children will let us.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
I don't do I don't know. I'm a huge baby.
I don't do scary movies. You know that.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Yeah, I feel like at one point you probably did, like,
but I just I won't. I have this like I
have this. I have this weird like standard that I
set for scary movies. It's like, if I'm going to
see a scary movie, it has to be like one
(14:39):
that's like well reviewed and like there's a lot of
hype behind it. Like I'm not going to go see
Black Phone two, but I'm very excited for the IT
prequel series to come out because those movies were like
they they were actual movies that were scary and not
(15:00):
just scary movies that are just scary.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
I mean, I haven't watched any literally since we've been together,
so this has been like well over a decade, and
I just don't watch them anymore because I've no one
I'm not gonna be we saw it, yeah, but like
in high school, I feel like we love like especially
at my dad's house in the basement, you turn the
lights off and like, you know, my my parents live
on a farm in the middle of nowhere, and so
when it's dark and then it's a cornfield massacre movie,
(15:26):
it's really fun.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Like I didn't I didn't even I didn't even like
read goose Bumps. I didn't watch the goose Bumps. I didn't.
I didn't. I couldn't watch Are You Scared of the Dark, because.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
I was Are You gonna be able to handle the
spook Tracular tomorrow. Oh yeah, the McCormick has a railroad
park and spook spook Tracula.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
We're taking the kids there tomorrow, so we'll see if
Dad can handle the heat.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Ready for it? Do you but do you have a
favorite scary movie? No? Do you have?
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Oh, The Haunting, The Haunting, The Haunting.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
I used to watch that movie all the time in
middle school and we like used to quote this movie.
I think Catherine Zada Jones is in it.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
I can tell you I've never heard of I've never
heard of.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
This movie I used to watch. It was probably middle
school and every time I had a sleep over with
Hannah Gaitle. Hannah Gaitle and I were a little weird
with like Banjo Kazooi and The Haunting.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Thank God, you are so specific on who this person is.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
But like we would literally watch The Haunting and they
it was you go into this scary house and their
job is like to get the scary stuff out of
the house. It's it's not great, but like, we love
The Haunting. So I'm gonna say that because it's just
the one that I remember watching the most. But like,
like I would say I probably rented that, like we
would rent it monthly. I don't know why we just
(16:56):
didn't buy it.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
I can probably count the number of scary movies I've seen,
you know, on like two hands.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
I think I do. Yeah, I think I can't.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
I mean obviously, like I think I saw one of
the Saws in theater with you. Like whenever I was
in high school.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Yeah, we had this weird tradition my friends and I
where we every year, like it was like four or
five years in a row, there was a new Saw
movie out, and we would go on a haunted hay ride,
which I hated, and then we would go.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
See Saw X saw so much Field, right, I.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Mean we did a Litchfield before, but that's maybe where
we saw the first one. But then, yeah, it kind
of depended anyway, and I it like it.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Was like a tradition.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
I don't even know how it started, because I hated
every minute of it.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
I did.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
I don't like being scared. Yeah, and I'm now I'm
trying to think I probably saw like maybe four or
five of the Saw movies.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
So like haunted houses, will we ever go to? I've
never been to a haunted house with you.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
I I just know you can go. You. You are
more than welcome to go any time.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
But I like, there's the there's one that's literally like
four blocks from where we live, and I don't want
to go in. And it's just like because I don't
like the feeling of being scared. Yeah, so, like even
scary movies like I I'll sit on the edge of
my seat.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
If I'm watching it, or I ever Scream.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
I really I actually liked Scream because there was a
plot and it was different. But I'm not gonna I'm
not going to watch Candy Man.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
So okay, so then what let's talk about what you
do like about Halloween. You don't like being scared, you
don't like scary movies. You love costumes, Okay, noted costumes
and candy that's what That's what you're here for.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
I love costumes and I love Ghostbusters. Okay, deal, that
was that the dogg ors as a child? It's the
dog Okay.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
But children have got to be tired after today, Yeah,
they have got to be tired.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
We Yeah, so like Ghostbusters is like an annual tradition
I have, Like I love watching Ghostbusters around Halloween. I'm
trying to think my I mean, yeah, it's probably.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
It and scream.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
It's funny like new traditions with the kids. I think, like,
I don't know, we want I want to watch Halloween
Town still, I want to watch hocus Pocus Casper. I'm
add that to my annual lineup.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
I just we were just we just watched Casper, and
it's probably the first time I've seen it since because
spoiler there were ghosts in it.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
So I didn't really love it either when I was
when I was, you know, in my pre teenage. But
it was.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Silly in like all the best ways. There's some humor
in it that definitely can't it can't be replicated today
for a variety of reasons.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
But when I turned to you.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
At the end of the movie and Casper, the friendly
fucking ghost is what made you cry.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
I mean I was like, what where do we live
right now?
Speaker 2 (20:25):
This has to be like the worst timeline because I
don't get it.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
It just really got me. I don't know, I felt
really just happy for him.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
You're just kind ofted so hard to Devin Sawa.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
I mean, the reveal whenever it's him and I don't know,
I still have a lot of questions. I don't understand
why his voice sounds like a toddler, and then all
of a sudden, he's like a thirteen year old heart throb.
I don't get it, but I'm here for it. I
want to watch it every year.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Now.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
It gave me goonies vibes.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Now that and like that's so funny that that's what
because here for that. I would watch, Like I would
sit down and I would watch Beetlejuice right now.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Oh, i'd watch it. But I'm saying like with the kids,
like you know, like I don't think the kids would
want to watch I think they're too young for Beetlejuice
or Ghostbusters, but like Casper, they're great age for Casper,
except for like you know, when the dad dies and
then comes back to life or when the lady just died.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Yeah, there's like actually a lot of death. Yeah, there's
actually a lot of death in it.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
And I didn't realize that. But that's okay.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Yeah, I guess I guess it's fine. I like that.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Yeah, Well, hocus Pocus not spooking the square Pumpkin.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
No hard now, No, Like there are times where I'm like,
our children have the worst taste in entertainment.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
I mean you're not wrong. Hey, we could take some credit.
We we decided to turn on Spooky once.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
No, there was no WI there is there is no
we Like I can tell by like the screenshop most
of the time that this animation is is not going
to be up to.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
Par I mean when the titles written in comic sands,
you know it's going to be good.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Yeah, and I'll tell you, I mean fabulous.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
What other Halloween? Are we still talking Halloween?
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Yeah? You got any Halloween questions?
Speaker 2 (22:25):
No?
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Are we going to talk about the dog? Is that
something that's going to happen?
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Do you want to talk about the dog?
Speaker 3 (22:29):
I mean, I feel like, you know, our loyal listeners
last heard us discussing our Adobe girl and then shocker.
It feels like it was like just yesterday, and now
we have a horse in the house.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
We did we did.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
We did adopt a dog from Love Pub and her
name was she It's now Betty Waffle And I was
in love pretty instantly. Yeah, and I will and I
will take full responsibility. Like this was I had put
(23:13):
down my foot and said no new dog until at
least January. There's just too much going on. There's too much,
we have too much going on. And then it was
like a week later. I was like in tears at
the rescue because I was like, this dog is supposed
to be for us.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
I think you're missing some crucial plot points here though,
because like I mean, it was, I mean it was
obviously it was a month and a half. It wasn't
that long. But the house felt very quiet after Mabel
was gone. I'm looking up puppies, I'm I'm following eight
thousand rescue organizations on Instagram. And then we are boarding
(23:55):
a plane to Mexico. John Jay posted a picture of
that dog. You showed it to me. I said, if
you like this dog, gotta tell John Jay. Then, yeah,
your grandfather died. You met the dog the next day,
So I believe in whatever you want in terms of
I don't know, cosmic timing, whatever. It almost felt like
(24:19):
Mabel like sent us this dog. Grandpa's with her. I
don't know you met that dog, and I've never seen
you like you cried. It was like I did you
cried when you met her? And I was like, because
we got Mabel together, but I always felt like she
was more my dog. Yeah, like we got her together,
but like she could do no wrong in my art,
(24:40):
Like in my eyes she was my tiny little like
soul past.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
She still can't do wrong in your eyes.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
She can't know. She's a precious angel and no other
dog will compare. She was literally like the perfect angel.
And so like I feel like this dog is like yours,
like and I she's our family.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
I feel like the kids.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
But you know, and I don't mean that in the
mean way. I adore this dog. I love her, but
I feel like I have a little bit of a
guard up with her because I'm like, I mean, this
is well, look.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Every everybody who's ever owned a dog has had their dog, right, Like,
I don't think that's an uncommon thing where it's like
like you you know, you don't want to say you
would choose one over the other, but there is a
reality in that and that you will like like we
went through, like with Mabel, was like she went through
(25:31):
all these like seminal moments in our lives and you
can reflect and know that she was there for everything.
And when you start fresh and it is a it
is a different it's a different dog with a different
personality and.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
A different different.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Age, like like there there is going to be some
bias and you know whatever. Way, the things that get
on your nerves about Betty don't get on my nerves
so much, Like I listen, I'll do Like, for example,
today you took her to the dog park and you
(26:14):
came back and you're like, she was wild, she was
a wild animal, chaos, she couldn't just she just wouldn't
stop jumping on people and whatever and blah blah blah.
Like I'll tell you, like if I'm at the dog
park and a dog comes and jumps.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
On me, like I'm gonna be kind of like.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Yeah, maybe it's annoying, but I'm at the dog park,
so I get it. I would rather the dog do
that and be friendly than like angles, you know.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
Or or oh, she's she's a nice dog, she's well trained,
she's a nice dog. She's a little jumpy. She's just different.
And I think that that's when they again, mable's the
first dog I've ever had that I loved and lost.
I didn't know about this side of it, Like I
wanted another dog so bad and then I'm like, oh,
it's just like it's you know, you're getting used to
it still, but like I mean, and.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
I don't see she's perfect, Like yeah, like I do.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
I do think Mabel, even in her puppy dum was
a little more docile, you know, yeah, like she was
a glorified cat.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
She was a kid on the back of the couch.
She'd look out the window.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
She was a cat. And I don't like cats, but I.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Love like that's that's what she was like.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
And this is a dog.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Betty loves people. Betty loves to run, Betty loves to play.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
She loves to like like I mean, thank god, Like
she doesn't chew on other things. Yeah, but it's like
we can't leave her in the kitchen alone because she's
definitely going to find something to.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Eat that Mabel was like two inches tall.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
She had like five piece of bacon the other night,
and I was like, oh my god.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
How did this happen?
Speaker 3 (28:09):
She's so tall? She is, Yeah, she's not. I mean,
it's funny. I've everyone that's been like, oh my god,
she's huge. I'm like, she's only like forty five pounds.
I mean, like she is bigger than Mabel, but she's
not like a ninety pound animal.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
And see, it's so funny hearing that because I grew
up with great danes. Yeah, and I see Betty and
I think she's a mid sized.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
Dog and I call her.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
You literally just called her a horse. Like five seconds ago.
We went like I took the kids to the to
the Cars and Canines event that Love Pup has every
year and they have a massive rescue And even when
I talk about huge dogs, like there is one dude
who was walking around this dog and I could have
sworn it was a lion.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Yeah, it was so huge.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
And I see her and I'm like, yeah, she's bigger
than what we had, but she's not.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
She's not ginormous, no, you know, I mean she.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Like I said, she's she's a great girl. Like I
am so glad that we were able to work with
Blake and the organization to get her. I mean, she's
Blake said she was such a good girl, and she is.
It's just you know, it's a different family member, a
different vibe. And I really think Mabel sent her. I
(29:25):
think Mabel and Grandpa Jay sent her to us. I
really do.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Yeah, But I mean there's a time you needed her
and I'm not.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
You know, I'm not one of those people who kind
of like believes in you know, things written in the
stars or whatever. But it was very it was it
was all very odd. I am when I know you are.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
There's literally Nick, you had not even John J posts
pictures of dogs every day that you would never even
bat it an eye. You saw that one and you
literally said, I don't know why, but the picture of
this dog is speaking to me. And I've never heard
you say that ever. And I was like, oh, this
is happening.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
And I did like and it was I just had
this weird sense that if we didn't at least meet her,
I would regret it. Yeah, And then and then you know,
three days later, my grandpa and so it's like, you know,
maybe there was some emotional decision making that came into play.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
There's always going to be right, like people get dogs
for there's an emotional component of pet ownership. I think, yes,
maybe your emotions were a little high, but I mean
so were Theo's because she wasn't yellow and a.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Dog, yeah, a boy dog, I mean yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
I mean it was funny seeing him because he he
might love dogs more than any kid I've ever met.
And we went when we went to Love Pop, he
was wearing his Disney dog shirt Pluto and the Dalmatians
and Lady and the Tramp on it.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
And he was not thrilled that the.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Dog wasn't named Blueto, and that it wasn't yellow, and
it didn't have big floppy and it wasn't a boy.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
But now he can't. Oh he loves her, he can't
leave her alone.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
Yeah, he adores her. Yeah, I mean we had to
really theo. There are no actual dogs that are yellow. Yes,
there are Pluto. Well that's because they use paint on him.
That's not a real dog.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
So yeah, we need to figure out a cartoon, or
not a cartoon, a costume for Betty. We always included
Mabel in the costumes. I don't know what can she be,
like an acorn or something.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Maybe she be one of the chipets.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
I'm sure they just make chip At costumes for dogs.
Now we're talking niche.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
We'll do some good. That's what makes a niche. What else?
Speaker 3 (32:13):
What else we got?
Speaker 1 (32:14):
I get it? I have more than one niche. Nick
You mean niece? Good mine? I like it? Okay, super
weird transition, but my eye is on fire and I
don't know what happened.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
Itched and I went to scratch it, and then it
felt like burning hot coal is stuck inside and I
don't know what to really do about it.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
Well, I have an idea. Yeah, you could just dress
up as a pirate. Tis the season?
Speaker 1 (32:56):
Oh fair, that is fair. I have the very feminine
Captain Hook costume in the garage. Perhaps that perhaps that'll
be revisited.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
No one could judge you all week. Just start wearing
a patch.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Yeah it hurts. We have her like the company Halloween
party this week, and I actually think we could win
the win the take home the ship. As the youths say,
are you allowed to what it is? No? I cannot
say yet. Of goodness, it will be a reveal.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
I mean, you'll tell me when we're off of this, right.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
I wonder though, because they're having like a Halloween like
pot luck too, and last year they did like a
full karaoke.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
I don't think it was a contest.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
Did you win?
Speaker 2 (33:48):
If it was a contest, I did not win, But
I think I surprised a lot of people in my
in my passion, I.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
Mean, karaoke is your spirit?
Speaker 2 (34:00):
Can you God, dang, you hear me talk more than
any other person? Can you tell that my nose is
also starting to get like stuffy about what just happened.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
I don't know what's happening.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
I feel like I don't Then I'm like, I'm going
back in my brain to think about what it could
be that I've washed my hands like four or five
times tonight, and maybe like the kid's bubbles.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
But I also wasn't close. I wasn't close.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
I wasn't touching the bubbles anyway.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. I think maybe
a fingernail, whatever it is.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
That's always the joke, right, It's like, oh, no, there's
something in my eye and you say, what was.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
It your finger?
Speaker 3 (34:47):
That's your joke.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
I know, that's what I'm saying. I thought you would know.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
No, I mean, maybe you like a hangnail or something.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
I don't know, but I don't know if there is
a hangnail in my eye, I need someone.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
To perfectly spook I know, Oh.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
My god, tomorrow. What if I'm What if I'm a grandma?
I mean, if that's not.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
One of the three rules, Nick, what if the other
guy goes next?
Speaker 1 (35:16):
Would you still love me if I was blind?
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Okay, even if it was even if I went blind,
over somebody stupid like I got dog poop, because that's
the other thing. I picked up dog poop, I mean,
and I washed my hands after that too.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
I don't think dog poop would make your blind.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
That's it. At least you covered it up.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
I'm sorry, I'm tired.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
It's okay. You're so cute when you're tired.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
I'm sleepy girl.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
Okay, Well, thanks for tuning in. Have a happy Halloween.
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