August 10, 2025 • 51 mins
The Broads are back after two weeks off! Colleen recaps Comic-Con, Shandy had Covid, and Amanda celebrated her anniversaries. They also do a quick AITA and talk about Colleen's book. This is also another two-part episode! Listener feedback is next week.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Maybe Bitsy.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Hello, and welcome to the broadcast with a man is
Chandy and Colleen. My name is Colleen.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
My name is Amanda, and I'm Chandy.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Welcome to the show, everybody. This is season ten, episode five,
episode number four hundred and nine. How's it going?
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Four hundred and ten?
Speaker 1 (00:38):
We're fourteen? Oh shoot, we're four ten.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Right, because that's the time we were parted. We did
two and one.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
We did two and one, and we were supposed to
we were supposed to record last week, but it didn't
end up working out because we all went to bed
at three o'clock in the fucking morning because we got
back at Okay, this is not like an air drama
drama story or whatever, but like they were thunderstorms. We
could see them from the plane. We couldn't land Atlanta
(01:08):
Grand Ground in all all flights, like they couldn't leave
and nobody could land, so we had to fly around
in a circle for a full hour, which sucked because
we were gonna land early, and then we ended up
landing like forty minutes late instead of like twenty minutes early.
But they were like at one point they were like, Okay,
they're prioritizing they're letting people land one at a time,
(01:29):
but they're prioritizing fuel and we only have a little
bit of fuel left. But we're not desperate, and worst
case we can like skirt right over to Arkansas land
get fueled.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Over to Arkansas. Arkansas is like kind of falling.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
I don't know how far we were circling right, Oh
my god, all the way up in New York.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
It was just the whole.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Exactly, so you know whatever, So we ended up landing.
We okay, so at Atlanta Airport. Who's Amanda, your face beautiful?
Speaker 3 (02:06):
I actually truly liked the Atlanta Airport. There's n't mind.
It's big. It's got that little train thing that runs through.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
The okay, just for I have a little train track
here for So we landed here, like we were like
right here. We had to run. We had to run
all the way here to the AirTrain. We got on
the air train, we got off here, and we had
to run all the way here. So we were carrying
(02:32):
thankfully we had checked all the all the bags. Uh uh.
But everybody was like carrying heavy book bags because we
all had comic con shin in it. Like I get
all those free books every year, and I put them
in Zach's back back and like mine was full.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
Everybody, even Alex, everybody was full.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
So it ended up being at one point like Zachary,
Zachy is so out of shape, he like couldn't do it,
and Jay and Alex are like all the way ahead,
and I'm like, well, I can't leave you here. So
I ended up putting his book then on my front
and my heavy book bag on the back, and like
at that point, I was like, this might be the
point when the heart attack happens, Like I am dying. Go.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
It was a great trip.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
I was like, this is like a twenty five pound waits.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Like you're training for the Navy Seals. I know.
Speaker 6 (03:27):
Zachary is like I can't do it, and I was like,
yes you can. I'm dripping and sweat. But the thing
is we were at gate like B twelve, and he
gave this to me at like gate B four.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Have to go that far? I was like I had
to like gate B six.
Speaker 7 (03:44):
And I was like, oh my god, we get on
all four of us, dripping and sweat right red face
the flight attention.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
We're all the way in the back of the plane.
The flight attentions are so kind. They like greet us
with water. Everybody, even the passengers are like, you guys
made it. It's okay, don't worry, you made it. Thank
you for the plane for us. We boarded the plane
at like eight forty and it's supposed to leave it
(04:17):
eight fifty five. So like we knew that we were
We knew we're cutting close before they were closed. But
we also knew that because everything had been grounded, there
was gonna be a grace period. We saidn't want to
be those people that were showing up like it was
so funny. Everybody was so nice. Like I at that point,
I sat in between. I didn't realize that they were
a couple, that they had one had the window, one
(04:39):
had the aisle, and like I was in the middle,
and I must I know, I smelled so bad because
I was still in my sweatshirt, like because we didn't
want we didn't want to carry extra so we were like,
you know, switchin anyway, both of them fell asleep and
neither of them commented. But I felt really bad because
(05:01):
I was just like, oh my god, I know iak
right now. But then we we uh, we make it.
There's a couple of people that board maybe five minutes
after us, and you know, they're like, Okay, we're gonna
blah blah blah up the doors. And then we hear, well,
guess what, folks, everybody made it on board.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
But now we're grounded again.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
So we sat there for fifty more minutes on the airplane.
They couldn't, by law, bullshit they say, give out like
waters or anything at that point.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
So there's a law that says you can't give people water.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
I think the laws you can't give them booze unless
they're in first class, and the laws just you can
pay for it with your tickets. But we all sat there.
It was fifty extra minutes and then at least we
got out because we were scared.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
We were like, we don't have anywhere to stay there.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
It's whether they're not going to put us up. But
we we knew that this was the chance that we
take if you know, we're gonna leave in the afternoon.
And they ended up flying. So we leave from Atlanta.
We go all the way through like not quite to Nashville,
but like through like the mountains of North Carolina, blanking.
(06:11):
We're to be Ashville. So we go up, we go
around Ashville, we go up through Virginia, and then come
from Virginia down straight because there were thunderstorms. So that
was their way of avoiding it, which again I appreciate.
I would rather So it's normally a forty five minute
flight to get to Atlanta up from Atlanta to Raleigh,
but it was an hour and twenty minutes. But again
(06:35):
I appreciate that they weren't just like, fuck it, we'll
stay here, because I would rather wait. I would rather
instead of landing at ten twenty at night, I'd rather
land at midnight and go to my house versus which
is what ended up happening.
Speaker 8 (06:49):
So he's back in Atlanta, although at least you wouldn't
have had a car because in Atlanta you have to
pay a million dollars to park anywhere and everywhere.
Speaker 9 (06:59):
Really yeah, yeah, we went to Atlanta a couple of
times and I hate it, and like it's mostly because
of the parking.
Speaker 8 (07:11):
Yeah yeah, oh so expensive to park. Why Anyway, I'm
sure it's a lovely place. I did see some really
cool stuff there, but anyway, I take issue with the
parking situation.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Understood, But anyway, whatever, that's why we didn't record last
week is because we all got home at midnight and
then everybody's starving because we hadn't eaten since eleven o'clock
in the morning California time. Because we didn't have any time.
We got like a little we got.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
So we got cookies and some chips, but we didn't
get any meal meals.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
And what is the age that they like stopped giving
like the kids extra snacks.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Oh, they gave you extra snacks, but again the snacks
are like this amana, like are you.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
But I feel like whenever we're flying, they're like, oh,
little child, here's like fifty extra snacks. Happened just that end.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
It does not end because uh, even Jay got up
mid flight. I don't know if it was the I
think it was up like to San Diego where it
was kind of it was pretty bumpy actually, and Jay
got up at one point and it was like, hey,
I got kids, and you stopped service before he got
to us, because we were getting the back and they
were like here you go, and he like just grabbed
(08:27):
it stop. But they were also just giving handfuls away too.
On that second flight out, I think that when we
were circling in the air because of the turbulence and stuff.
They just kind of Yeah. But anyway, so Jay like
we got food. Jay went to sheets and got like
(08:47):
mozzarella sticks, mozzarella sticks and chicken fingers and shit at
like one o'clock in the morning from sheets. So we
all went to bed at like three that night, and
then I unpacked. I got up the next morning and
unpacked everything, and I did literally seven loads of laundry
and folded them all that day. I didn't want anything left.
Speaker 8 (09:10):
That is the pro tip though, because seriously, that's what
they say to do to as like a measure to
avoid potential bed bugs, like if yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
And also just very sanity to prevent insanity. Just you know,
unpack a meeting.
Speaker 8 (09:28):
Unmed but do but wash everything right away. Yeah, and
some people don't react to bed bugs, so you could
like potentially have brought them home with you if you're
a person that doesn't react. I react very strongly as
we want, but we've learned if you if you don't,
then you could unknowingly bring them back with you, and
(09:49):
that's disgusting.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
It's disgusting. Anyway.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Yeah, Well, thankfully no bed bugs were head, no beg
bear bugs stowed away that I know of, but yeah, anyway,
so that's what we did record is we were I
was I was pretty brain dead by like like Wednesday
that I was so tired. And then Jay had a
show on Thursday, and the kids were always We're gonna
(10:14):
go to Jack and Cindy's anyway, and I ended up
going to Jay's show. I was like the walking dead,
but we had mutual friends that were going and I
was like, all right, bye and I'll go nice. So yeah,
it ended up being fine.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
And then I had my first ever waffle house experience.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Oh that was it?
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Uh well, you know, after a double Jack Daniels and
a double Black of soda at twelve twenty in the morning,
it is delicious that I'm still I still prefer First Watch,
but I had to say I prefer the price tag
(10:53):
of waffle house.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Oh yeah. They're just like a very different experience.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Because it was like twenty two dollars for both of
us and we got like extra, shit, we're not even
doing it.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
It was like eighteen dollars for all.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
I feel like a waffle house.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
It's like quintessential greasy spoon, you know, it's like the
Dennis of it.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Is the Dennis of the South, even though Denny's is
the Dennis of the South.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
Specifically exactly waffle houses like past a certain yeah dude line.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Uh like yeah, it was. It was great. I was
very excited. Anyway, it was. It was good. Uh whatever.
Comic Con was great. It was one of the this year.
We actually did mainly kids related stuff, which is cool.
The kids have been super into a cartoon called Phineas
(11:46):
and Ferb which has been out for yeah, a gazillion years,
but they a ten years ago. They had a panel
at Comic Con that was their farewell panel, and then
last year they had a panel announcing that they were
coming back, and their new season has aired. They dropped
the first ten episodes recently and then ten more coming whenever,
(12:12):
and they've signed on for then an additional season after that.
But my kids have been watching Phineas and for on repeat.
They listened to the soundtrack because there's a soundtrack not
stop in the car. So when we saw that the
panel was going to be in the ballroom of our
hotel room, we were like our hotel We were like,
oh my god, like we got to do this. So
(12:34):
we made it into the panel The kids had an
absolute fucking blast. Like they they were like remember past years,
I've told you how they've like just been rebellion and
like broken me for Comaca.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
They were into it this year, like going to the floor.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Doing this, doing that, but like they were absolutely their
minds were blown at the panel because they were answering
questions in character and they were like showing special clips
of upcoming episodes and like I have pictures of them
and they're just like all in on. I was like, yes,
this is what comic Con was all about.
Speaker 8 (13:10):
I had those kids like going to Comic Con from
the din. They were like boring, Like that's they don't
realize how.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
They don't Like they will.
Speaker 5 (13:20):
After they get bullied for going. They're gonna realize it'll come.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Like it'll come back.
Speaker 8 (13:26):
Every age has its season, every season has it whatever.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Exactly, it'll come back around.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
But they were Zach got the new Uh, I don't know,
Investigators or one of those graphic novels. The New One,
I guess was at Comic Con like in it I
think it. I think it like published like in August
and they were selling it like, you know, two weeks
early in at Comic Con or whatever, and Zach was
able to show it off to all the neighborhood boys,
(13:55):
took it around and it was like look what I got.
So yes, But then Jay went to the Hasbro Breakfast
and they had like a table of things like you
could just take, so he got like a whole bunch
of shit. And then yesterday, uh, he had the neighborhood
(14:20):
boys all come over and he was like, take whatever
free fucking toy you want.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Definitely the cool host.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
We had our own little Hallway sale and Freeways sale
if you will.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
They were just laid out on the floor and he
was like, take one and go.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Did you guys see the South Park folks?
Speaker 8 (14:42):
Because that episode that this episode dropped while you guys
were away.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
And that they were and I thought of you guys.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
And I was like, oh, so the South Park episode
with the Donald Trump's micro penis aired the night that come.
It was the night before or that Sunday before Comic concert.
On the Wednesday, people were talking about it. I knew
Matt and Trey were gonna be there, but I had
actually kind of forgotten, like like I knew they were
(15:10):
gonna be there, but I'd kind of forgotten that it
was gonna.
Speaker 5 (15:12):
Happen, and then I saw the headlines and the tweets after.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
But yeah, people on the floor were talking about it,
like it wasn't like the talk of comic com but
it was like a thing that people were talking about
acting exactly. So that was fucking wild. But like we
were sitting there, Jenna, I do isn't there Jenna, Jay,
(15:41):
the kids, and I don't know if Nick was there
or not because.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
All the all the meals blend together and Nick joined
us for a lot of them.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Cliff generally only joined us for like one or two,
but so I don't remember if Nick was there or not. No,
this is neither anything there, But like at one point
we overheard people the other booth like talking about and
then he had the micro penis and I was like Jay,
and Jenna was like col and I was.
Speaker 10 (16:10):
Like, I know, yeah, it was pretty awesome and uh yeah,
but the boys so.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
With Phineas and ferb. Though I know that Nick has
told this story on the ramblecast, I started listening and
I didn't get quite up to that point yet. But
if you want to hear more comic Con stories, Nick
and Cliff went to a lot of the really cool
big panels. Actually, they spent the whole day on Saturday
in Hall H and a good part of UH Sunday
(16:45):
in Hall H. So if you want to hear more
about actual panel stuff, definitely check out the ramble cast.
I believe it is episode I actually have it up
episode three ten Life Buolt Vacuum is what it's called.
But they talk a lot about the change panel and
a lot about the different panels that Nick saw, like
he saw, he did see a lot more than I did,
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So check them out if you want to hear more
about it. It's a pretty close to the beginning of
the show. But yeah, with Phineas and for the boys, Uh,
Jana and Nick, the Boys, Jay and I. We went
to dinner on Saturday after Jena and Nick got out
of the line for bracelets for Hall H for George Lucas,
(17:28):
and it was kind of a shit show. The restaurant
had opened like two weeks before, and they were not
prepared for Comic Con level crowds. At one point they
brought out the meal my four we ordered first. Nick
and Jana got there about thirty minutes after Ross, and
they brought out like Nick's food randomly and like they
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brought out the.
Speaker 5 (17:49):
Wrong food for Zach and with Jay ordered a caesar salad.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
At one point they were like, it's gonna be another
twenty five minutes, Like it was a shit show, just
like hit some salid.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Someone had to drive up the coast, Like.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Fine, thanks Trump for your immigration policies. It was like again,
it was a hot mess. So anyway, Jay and the
boys left. We got there at seven, at nine o'clock,
we still hadn't all gotten her food. So Jay was like,
they accidentally brought Zach a berger that he hadn't ordered.
(18:26):
So Jay ate that instead of the salad, and they
all left and it was like good, go go, Like
we've been here for a really long time. We most
of us don't have our food.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
Just go.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
So Alex had his food. He's the hangary one. It's fine.
But then I guess Zach had to use the rest
room and he just it hit him as they were
crossing into the hotel, so he went into the first
floor lobby bathroom and because he was in the first
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for a lobby bathroom for a few minutes, he came
out and they happened to get to the elevator area
at the same time that the voice actors of Phineas
and Ferb with their dates and some other people were there,
so he did they.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Recognize them just from the sound of the voice or
did they well.
Speaker 5 (19:17):
We had seen the panel the day before.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
Oh right, okay.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
So Jay goes up to them and he's just like,
you know, fuck it, we're just gonna go for it.
So he's just like, hey, my kids, we were at
your panel yesterday. We're big fans. And they just seamlessly
turned to.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
Zach and Alex and was like, Hey, I'm Phineas, what's
your name?
Speaker 1 (19:39):
And you know, Ferb was like watch out for whatever
the fucking platypuses.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
They just talked to them in character for several minutes.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Wow, questions responded, and Alex is very stranger, dangery, and
even he apparently I wasn't there.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
I was waiting for the twenty five minutes.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Sou Yeah, We're just they were just both like, oh
my fucking god. And apparently after they like were walking away,
Zach literally started jumping up and down. We're like I
said that, Like Phineas and Ferb and their dates all
(20:20):
looked back and saw Zachary like dumping up and down
and we're like, you're welcome. You just got laid so
hard tonight.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Got the assignment man they did.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
And it was it was very very cool. And then
the next day, uh so that was that was Saturday. Okay,
So on Saturday, I think it was Saturday morning, we
were like, hey, boys, let's go to the floor. You
never know what could happen at comic Con. It's comic Con.
Anything could happen. We kept saying that.
Speaker 5 (20:59):
They were like, we just want to stay here.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
We're tired.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
We had to kind of come blah blah blah every
other day, and we're like, you're gonna come back with
us because there's certain things that we want to do.
You never know what's gonna happen to comic CONSCE Saturday morning,
we are walking around and there it is a booth
that has like three people left and it's the creators
and voice actors for a Nickelodeon show or Disney Plus
(21:23):
show Big City Greens. And the kids also loved Big
City Greens. It's like it was there. It was their
Phineas and ferb. So we had like Bluey Big City
Greens Phinis and verb so like it was they've watched it.
Speaker 11 (21:36):
We did a movie night with like a movie special
that they did, so like they meet them their brothers,
they talk to them as well in character and like,
so they had like.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
The best Saturday ever. Basically they got autographed posters and
we just got super lucky.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
We were walking by as they had a You had
to have tickets to.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Get autographs to meet them, but it had gone quicker
than expected and they still they were willing and gained
to sign more things. So, uh, the handler was just
randomly going up to people that were watching them with
kids and being like, hey, do you want to get
in the end of the line. So it was very controlled.
We didn't have tickets, but they let us get in
the end of the line, and I think they let
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two other people after us before they like cut it
off for good. But like we were listening because we
were so close, we were listening to like the logistics
situation all that, but it was they were just again,
it was it was so cool. They gave them personalized
autograph posters. They asked them about their favorite episodes, Why
do you like this episode? How can what can we
do in the future, Like they literally like interacted with
(22:43):
them for a good six or seven minutes, Like it
was so cool.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
So I've got to get I've got.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
To get uh eleven x seven poster frames to to
have these posters like frames because they were super cool too.
So most of my comic kind expans was through my kids.
I got. I had found this stand that like you
could make your own jewelry, and I had told Jana
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about it. I was like, I'm gonna go back tomorrow
and she was like, oh, super cool. And they give
me a bracelet too, and she took a picture of
a bracelet and it was the last thing I did
before we left. On Sunday, the kids are like complaining
because they couldn't get something minecraft, something that I ended
up getting them online. But like it was so funny
because they were like complaining and I was like, well,
(23:33):
you know what, my booth is here and I want
to go make my own jewelry near a jewelry, thank
you very much. And I get there in Jana's like
checking out and I was like okay.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
She was like, oh my god, this is who I
sought from the bracelet.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
We were like, yeah, good marketing. So I ended up
getting a really cool star Wars themed earrings, which I'm
very into. I love them. Green was my only option.
I don't like green, but I'm gonna make green happen.
So if I start wearing more green shirts, that's why
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that come comes fun.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
Jay did his.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
They did the Jan and Jack panel.
Speaker 5 (24:12):
Uh again, listen to the ramblecast because cliff share cliffs.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Share up, not cliffs. Sorry. Ralph shared a story that
one of the writers had, uh, Javier Gorillas Marcos and
I know I'm pronouncing that, mispronouncing that. I'm sorry, but
Hovey had told them for the documentary this cool theory
about the island actually being a spaceship and when you
(24:38):
look at it through that, and and the network ABC
was like, no, too far fetched. But then like Ralph
went back and tied all of this stuff with lost
to if the island actually was a crass spaceship, and
he was able to like make it make sense. So
if you don't listen to the Rambocast and you are
intrigued by this theory, go listen again to three ten
(25:00):
Uh pre tend I think it is three on one,
three on one, sorry, three to one. Go listen to
that because Nick goes through it in pretty good detail
that I won't go through here or just message Ralph.
I'm sure we'll talk about it too, but it's a
really neat theory where I was like, ooh, I kind
of like this too, actually. And then Jay had the
Toy Toobgeony Night party on Friday Night, which was super fun.
(25:24):
We rented at a bowling alley where, uh, it was
just a lot of people in one place. It was cool.
I got some insider scoop about season two and three
of Wednesday from one of the producers of it.
Speaker 8 (25:38):
Oh, season drops pretty soon.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Yeah, it does, so, so.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
I was a little afraid that it had already dropped
and I just missed it. I'm just like, no, no,
I'm so behind on television.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
No, it's super soon. But they just had the premier
in London and he was like, oh my god, when
do you But it was because he was like, well,
when are you going to be in London and I
was like oh. He was like okay, I'm gonna be
like for like, you know, thirty six hours in whatever.
So anyway, but it was it was super fun, lots
of lots of Jay's friends. It was nice because I
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did a lot of just like sitting back and watching,
which was cool because I generally, you know, I always
think that like I'm going to say something stupid, embarrass
myself or embarrassed Jay when we're in like a drinking
situation with an open bar, an open bar that I'm
paying for. So which is funny because we did. We
paid for like middle shelf, and I was like, do
(26:32):
you have any kettle one and they were like, that's
actually an up charge and I was like, is it though,
and they were like, not for you, it's not. And
I was like, thank you.
Speaker 5 (26:43):
Anyway, But it was cool because I like kind of sat.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Back and I watched everything and took a lot of pictures,
and uh, that was enough for me, actually it was.
It was nice, nice anyway. Sorry, I have blabbed on
for long enough. Amanda, Happy anniversary.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
Thanks. Thanks.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
It's you know, we celebrate both anniversaries, so it's like
we really have just like this first, right, the first, Yeah,
which is why we picked the wedding date of the
fifth to like, you know, get as close to so
we didn't have to celebrate like most multiple dates because
of you know, like I remember that and I was
(27:24):
we were together for nine years before we got married,
Like that time is real and like I didn't want
like that time to like disappear.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Like do you ever think about the difference in doing
the third.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
Well, we sort of, Yeah, we get celebrated.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
We we got a babysitter on Saturday and we went
out the Frick Collection, the reopened Friend Collection.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
You know, it was very like Gilded Age vibes. It's great.
It's I if you.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
Are in the New York City area, I highly recommend it.
I loved the Frick like before, like they've been under
renovation like the past five years or so, and they
just reopened earlier this year.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Yeah, and like.
Speaker 12 (28:05):
It was so cool. I had forgotten, like for such
a little museum. They have like so many really cool works.
I mean they have in their permanent collection like three Vermires, Like.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
Wow, which is a lot.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
Yeah, given that the man didn't there's only like thirty
somehow in the whole world and which said like Daniel
and I down a rabbit Hole.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
We watched like a whole Vermier documentary like Saturday Night.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
Apparently like the US has the most the most premieres
here between like New York as like five and DC
has a bunch, like in the portrait in the National
Gallery has a couple.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
So yeah, we we have like the most unpermanent collection
here in the US. Yeah, it's pretty wild, which I
thought was really interesting.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
That is pretty wild, actually.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
Yeah, but anyway, that's you know, that's how we celebrated
our our anniversary.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
We got a babysitter and we that.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
That's awesome. Jaye and I celebrated our daining anniversary. We
go to the same restaurant every year, except yeah, we
left late.
Speaker 5 (29:09):
Okay, we left late.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
The uber took like thirty minutes to get there because
of the traffic. We got there forty minutes late. They
still agreed to sit up to seat us. And then
we got there.
Speaker 5 (29:24):
I think we got there at like seven fifty five,
and we were fucking out of there by.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Like eight forty five. They were like, not ain't around.
So now we're like, oh we had we had our
eighteenth anniversary speed date. We were out of there like
in less than an hour, probably less than forty five minutes.
(29:48):
It was so funny. So Amanda, I am glad that
yours was a lot more meaningful. It was.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Yeah, we got that.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Yeah, that's awesome. We got back. Jay was like like,
well they can't all be winters.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
I mean, or was it too fast? And enjoy it.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
We've both got salads with meats because that so it
was very fast and like they were there so quickly.
It was so funny. Anyway, Yes, you're you're what we're
talking about.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
Yeah, today we just had I just made us dinner.
Speaker 5 (30:26):
Anything tasty I did.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
I bought some shrimp and I did like a like
a white wine sauce over over pasta.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
That's fun though.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
A little bit of like sauteed kale and shallotts in there.
Because you know, you need a vegetable.
Speaker 5 (30:43):
I always need a veggie as you get older.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
Just all the time. You should just like always have
a vegetable.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
You should, but you know, as you get older, you
need that fiber, you need that blood, sugar stability, all
the things. Eat your veggies kids, old k it's.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
Would value you well.
Speaker 8 (31:06):
Last time we recorded, I thought that I may or
may not.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Have COVID, but probably that's right.
Speaker 8 (31:12):
Yeah, And sure enough two days later my test finally
turned positive.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
I had a quick about of COVID.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Sorry, but it wasn't too bad. I think it was.
Speaker 8 (31:28):
It knocks me out less than the first time I
had COVID, the only other time I've had COVID. So yeah,
Frank like almost didn't have any symptoms at all, but really, yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Very much.
Speaker 4 (31:41):
It's almost it's almost like the vaccine actually does something, right,
imagine that.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Well, now you're not allowed to give it unless you're
super old. Yeah, you're also removing mercury from vaccines, but
allowing it to go back into our drinking water.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
Yes, yeah, you know that's that's great, you know it all,
but you know that mercury.
Speaker 9 (32:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (32:08):
Sorry, it's just like I don't know about where you
guys were, but the sky was very hazy today from
some various.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Frona right yeah, oh were there fires apparently?
Speaker 3 (32:18):
Yeah, it was very Canada.
Speaker 8 (32:21):
Making the Northeast and Midwest hazy.
Speaker 4 (32:25):
Yeah, it's like walking a pak to can't pick up
and like sit at the playground. I'm like, oh yeah,
like my throat is really scratchy and like you should
have frow water.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
And yeah, her eyes were like all like a little puffy.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
That also could because I've read this on screen on
her today, yes, yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
But yeah, yeah, yeah I did not realize that.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
Well, maybe it's a good thing. It was nice and
clear where you were, that's good.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
No, it was cloudy, but like I think that's why
I didn't realize it. But in San Diego, actually my
eyes were water every morning, which was weird because whatever, anyway, did.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
You have allergies? There's of course different allergens here.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
There are different allergens. It's funny though, because I don't
get the allergies in North Carolina, but I get them
in New York where I grew up. Oh.
Speaker 8 (33:16):
Interesting, interesting because North Carolina has four different allergy seasons.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Yes I learned this, and I don't.
Speaker 4 (33:25):
Yeah exactly, well right, but and like allergens for every season.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
For every for literally every season.
Speaker 8 (33:31):
So if you are allergic to all of the things,
then you just have your long allergies.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
You just need to live somewhere else.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
That's e zacchary.
Speaker 5 (33:40):
Yeah, because North Carolina.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Actually I think it's the state that has the most
diverse amount of trees.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
It is the most biodiverse state in the Union, which
really surprised me because we talked.
Speaker 8 (33:56):
But let's talk because because because my friend, I think
literally what I've said before on the podcast is my
friend in North Carolina told me that fact, and.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
I have not like my dad told me that fact,
and we're gonna absolutely he doesn't fact check Trump stuff,
but he fact checked.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
Anyone.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
But yeah, I trust that.
Speaker 8 (34:20):
I trust you know, I trust him's he's the like
university professors.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
You know, he's not gonna spread misinformation knowingly anyway.
Speaker 8 (34:31):
But the fact is, I haven't checked it myself, but
it but it checks out.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
A lot of it because because of.
Speaker 8 (34:38):
Like the part of the appellation, like like up by
Asheville in the in the mountains is like its whole
own micro climate. Yeah, and splash rainforest.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
Hey, they reopened more roads in Asheville.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
That's good.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
FEMA won't help us, but we're making it do.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
Because it's been like a full year now, right, I mean.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
October. I think it was coming out almost a full year.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
That's crazy.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
It was gone early voting and that was like a
whole big thing. So I think it was the very
last week.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
It's right.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
Yeah, so I have to COVID, but I'm better now.
Speaker 8 (35:19):
What else I as we were talking about offline beforehand,
I've been.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
Oh yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
This is where I get embarrassed.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
Okay, go ahead, No, don't.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
I mean, chapter thirty three, it's such a fun year.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
Oh you so brogged over me. You're way further along
than I am. No spoilers.
Speaker 8 (35:35):
That's the thing, is like, like, because I usually read,
like when I get into bed, and you know, that
can really be hit or miss, like you really need
if it's something that's like.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
You know, but yeah, this is like really kept my attention.
I have been just loving.
Speaker 8 (35:53):
Like the easter eggs for the people that know you. Yeah,
it was Vivian is full name initials.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
Room two nine.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
I knew you were going to pick that up.
Speaker 3 (36:10):
I missed, Yeah, I missed that one.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
But Frank a barrel maker. I was like, oh, that's
because he's friend I named him.
Speaker 8 (36:20):
Read that paragraph because it was like there was Lena
and Frank in the same paragraph and then that little
detail that he was a barrel maker, and I told him.
I was like, oh my god, because.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
I thought that Frank real life Frank would like to
be a smuggler and you didn't get that far.
Speaker 3 (36:36):
So sorry made their appearances. I loved both of their characters.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
Wait, sorry, who made their appears Alison Martha.
Speaker 4 (36:49):
Actually that's like just in the other room I'm gonna
go get chapter I left.
Speaker 8 (37:00):
Okay, no, so that makes sense. I just like it
took me like a day. And then I was like
I told Trunk. I was like, oh my god, like
she made you a barrel a barrel maker because you're
from Champagne probably and he was like, well, Champagne's not
mating barrels.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
I was like, well because your French wine.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
Okay, now you gotta get you gotta get a local.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
Ho yeah, yeah, yeah, a little bit.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (37:22):
Chapter.
Speaker 4 (37:24):
Oh nice, So I have ten chapters behind your further book.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
Kay, so that's exciting.
Speaker 4 (37:32):
Well, and it's like it's funny, it's a page it
is a page turner. Like I think I know that
I a very good job of knowing how to like end.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
A chapter like a good cliptain that you want to
keep that.
Speaker 6 (37:43):
I took a lot of rewriting where I because like
first I.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
Didn't get it. And then I was like oh, because
Jay was like he was like, you need to like
the Vinci code this ship, and I was like, yeah, yes,
I need ship because.
Speaker 8 (37:57):
You're I mean like this is I mean, it's like
it would be considered like young adult fiction, right, Like
what what's the sort of like age range that you're
I mean, which.
Speaker 5 (38:07):
Obviously be for like middle school age kids.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
Middle school, Yeah, the ninth or tenth graders maybe.
Speaker 2 (38:13):
Yeah, I think.
Speaker 8 (38:15):
I mean, well, it gets like literally last night I
was gonna, I was going to finish, and then at
the end of the chap it was a clippager that
I had to.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
Read one more thank you.
Speaker 3 (38:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (38:25):
Well, it's it's funny because you know, it's like I
was at the beach not last week, but the week before,
and so I was able to really like get a good,
good reading cadence. But I'm reading I'm reading this at
the same time as I'm reading the second book in
Stacy abramsh Avery Avery Keen THEOK.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
I have her autographed copy.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
Yes, I'm reading.
Speaker 2 (38:50):
She's also a fucking writer.
Speaker 1 (38:52):
I want to read. I want to read her smut novels.
To be honest, Yeah, I like to get horny to
Stacy Abrams books.
Speaker 4 (38:59):
The first one took me a long time to get into.
The second one like taught me much faster. But I'm
reading that while I'm in between reading this. So it's
like it's an interesting juxtaposition, like reading the two stories
very different, but also kind of like similar in weird ways.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
So it's like, yeah, I think the second Stacy Abrams
book had a lot more that I had to focus on.
Like I read the first one quicker than the second one, but.
Speaker 3 (39:29):
The first one took me a longer time, just because
I think I was into.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
Even my mom thought that the signed book was cool.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
That's the rogue Rogue Justice.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
No, that's the second one.
Speaker 4 (39:39):
Is the second one's Yeah, when Justice sleeps is the
first one.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
That's right because he's in a coma. Yes, okay, okay,
thank you guys though, both for reading it. I actually
I completely changed a lot of the outlines for book
two and three and I started two. So I'm very
excited about that, hopeing and we're on it. When I
fly to London overnight, my flight is like in the evening. Yeah,
(40:09):
so we'll see, and I am. You know, I had
enough points to get my flight, which, by the way,
without points, was only four hundred and sixty dollars round
trip what with out I.
Speaker 4 (40:23):
Have been monitoring flights to LA because we're going to
LA over New Year's and like it is more than that.
Speaker 1 (40:31):
Yeah in fact, yeah, yeah, yeah, so I was tracking
flights here and on the Saturday we left, they were
one price. We got to La I'm sorry. We got
to San Diego and I was like, you know, it
was still my my you know, my browser because so
I refreshed it and it was like one hundred and
fifty dollars more expensive. So I was like, hey, Jay,
(40:52):
can I log onto your VPN. I went on his
VPN and I changed it to Alabama and it went down.
Speaker 2 (40:59):
Oh I'm going to do that. Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (41:03):
Yeah, I don't have one, I know. So I'm not
like that.
Speaker 4 (41:07):
I'm like the most like not tech savvy. Like I'm
not either that works in the technological.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
Okay, so I'm not either. But on U on Saturday night,
Jay shared me a referral link that we both get
thirty days free for the VPN because I'm going to
go to London and they you need the VPN if
you want to do anything in London. But I can
share you that link and then we can all get
thirty days free. Okay, book ship, because I do.
Speaker 3 (41:36):
I feel like we.
Speaker 4 (41:37):
Are on the point where like it's only going to
start getting more expensive from me, It's like we gotta
we got to jump.
Speaker 1 (41:42):
Well, because Delta announced that they're going to use AI
too hard for flights what they think you'll pay for it,
So you're gonna go to dynamic pricing dynamic if you're
gonna on your watch. So but here's the example. If
you're going to go to Disney, if you buy the
(42:03):
tickets to Disneyland or Disney World before you buy your flights,
they're gonna have those cookies in your browser or whatever,
or they're gonna know and they're going to charge you
because they know you have to fly there anyway.
Speaker 2 (42:16):
Oh fuck them.
Speaker 4 (42:17):
Ye, So you know, if we had a transit secretary
that you know, was like looking out for the people
exactly so you get away with what you think you
can get away with.
Speaker 1 (42:32):
Remind me, uh or when I edit this, i'll hear
it and I'll send you the the VPN thirty day
free link to from my own personal one.
Speaker 8 (42:41):
Then.
Speaker 1 (42:42):
But yeah, it was fucking wild how much it went
back down to the same price that it was when
I was looking in the morning versus the California price.
Speaker 3 (42:50):
Yeah, so.
Speaker 1 (42:53):
I'm sure it's exactly so, because don't forget, remember I
got those super cheap tickets to see Hamilton in October
when Leslie and Junior is back, and you didn't see
those pricing at all. But I had a Tokyo IP address,
and I think that Broadways a two No Ticketmaster, not Broadway,
(43:14):
just Ticketmaster.
Speaker 3 (43:16):
I don't that's wild to me. You can buy Broadway
tickets on Ticketmaster.
Speaker 1 (43:21):
Well, because I went through the link that they sent out,
because I saw their announcement and clicked on the link
right away. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (43:26):
I always go through, like you know, the today ticks
and like the cheapies.
Speaker 1 (43:31):
Yeah, exactly, yes. But that's why I think you weren't
seeing them but I was, is because I think my
a P address was in a different country where they
were like, oh here's the blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (43:44):
No.
Speaker 1 (43:45):
I truly think that that's what it was, because like
they were shocking.
Speaker 13 (43:49):
The cheap as, you know, because I was like, hey,
I got these for this much, thank you Hoda hot damn.
Speaker 1 (44:00):
Fuck you AI technology.
Speaker 3 (44:05):
We just need to regulate it. This is the ship
that keeps me up at night.
Speaker 1 (44:09):
Well, Marjorie Tayler Green has turned against the.
Speaker 3 (44:15):
Resistance. Resist stands for fucking BBS. But I guess better
late than never.
Speaker 1 (44:27):
So Shanny she found out after she voted for the
big shitty bill that it doesn't allow the government to
regulate any regulation for AI for ten years.
Speaker 5 (44:36):
And she's pissed about the Epstein files, which apparently forty
of Trump voters said that they would not care and
they'd vote for him.
Speaker 3 (44:45):
Still gross, it's so gross. It's so gross.
Speaker 2 (44:53):
So we keep wondering where is the bottom? Are we
gonna they are? They're not burning break.
Speaker 1 (45:06):
Jay was like, well, like ninety five percent of Republican
support Trump, so you know, only forty six percent saying
that they would still support him. He was in the
Epstein files, I mean configuratively, and I was like, that's
still half of them.
Speaker 2 (45:19):
Just about them.
Speaker 1 (45:21):
They don't care about children.
Speaker 3 (45:23):
No, I mean the future or you know, really anything
anything burned all down.
Speaker 1 (45:32):
Unfortunately, they're not burning it all down in the way
that you can like build it back up to be better. Right,
they're burning it all down in that nineteen forty is
Nazi way.
Speaker 3 (45:46):
Atomic Bombay.
Speaker 1 (45:48):
Yeah, yeah, we're gonna keep going, keep going. Okay, I
have real quick this shouldn't be too long. I had
several leaves pulled off, but this is the quickest one.
I haven't am I the asshole?
Speaker 3 (46:01):
Fantastic?
Speaker 1 (46:02):
Okay, here we go. Would I be the asshole if
I stopped helping my daughter financially after she told me
I shouldn't expect her to take care of me when
I'm older. I fifty two female, have been helping my
daughter twenty five female financially for years in college, with
college car incerns, rent when needed, even surprise emergencies that
(46:27):
somehow always involve travel or electronics. Not complaining. Okay, maybe
a little, but I love her and have always tried
to support her while she figures her life out. Last week,
we were casually talking about retirement stuff, nothing too heavy.
I made a joke like, well, hopefully you'll take care
of your poor mom someday, and she goes dead serious. Uh,
(46:47):
you shouldn't expect that. I didn't ask to be born,
and you should have planned better for your old age. SKay,
wheeze me. She didn't say squeeze me, she said, excuse me.
I laughed it off at the time, but it's been
sitting in my chest like a rock ever since. I'm
not asking her to white drool off my chin or
pay my bills when I'm eighty it just kind of stung,
(47:10):
like wow, really after everything? So now I'm thinking, if
she's already declared she's not going to be there for
me later, why am I bending over backwards to always
be there for her?
Speaker 3 (47:18):
Now?
Speaker 1 (47:19):
Would I be the asshole if I slowly backed off
on the financial support. I'm not talking about cutting her
off overnight, just no more random Venmo bailouts or picking
up the slack when her budget accidentally forgets rent. I
just I don't want revenge. I just don't want to
feel like a walking atm anymore.
Speaker 8 (47:38):
I mean, like her daughter told her she needs to
plan better for her old age, so that means saving
some of her money right.
Speaker 3 (47:45):
Now, exactly right, Like, yeah, I mean I gave her,
she gave her consent, exactly.
Speaker 1 (47:53):
Random venmos. That's a way to save money. It's not
doing that anymore.
Speaker 8 (47:56):
Yeah, I think it's wonderful to help your children as Like,
as millennials, we understand the struggle.
Speaker 1 (48:02):
Obviously we did not have.
Speaker 8 (48:05):
But like twenty five years old and your parents are
still paying your rent and every single one of your bills,
Like you know, the economy is bad, but like.
Speaker 3 (48:13):
Like you should be paying at least some of your own.
Speaker 1 (48:16):
And even if you like can't, you should be fucking
grateful like that at the end of the day, is
that the daughter is an ungrateful bitch, Like I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (48:25):
If you your bills, like you gotta move home.
Speaker 1 (48:28):
Yeah, you don't just be like nad dog like you're
paying for me, but you know I didn't.
Speaker 3 (48:37):
Yeh. This is this is just parenting. This is just parenting.
Your child doesn't appreciate the value of a dollar, so
you have to you know, help them see that.
Speaker 1 (48:49):
Yeah, Like is like, because what happens if what happens
if them mom dies in a car crash like tomorrow,
Like her daughter doesn't know anything. Yeah, it's gonna blue
through the money her mom has and then she's not
getting know what to do. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (49:05):
Anyway, this was like the quickest stem of the asshole
we've ever had.
Speaker 3 (49:12):
Close case close.
Speaker 1 (49:14):
I have a super drama one for next week when
we have some time. It involves, Uh, my wife deleted
a text message from my ex telling me that she
was pregnant five years ago, and there are updates, like
there are there are layers to this story, like this
(49:35):
person was tuned in. I read this at Comic Con
just while I was like scrolling through during downtime and
I just couldn't turn away, and I was like, oh
my god, we need to talk about this.
Speaker 2 (49:45):
At some point.
Speaker 1 (49:47):
I will say it has a happy ending sort of,
but he does end up having relationship with the five
year old daughter, but it's a fucking wild journey in
the update to get there. So yeah, let's uh, let's
do that next week. Okay, Like I said, it's it's
(50:08):
it's super fun. I mean, if not fun, and then
it has a happy ending which makes it fun. Like
if if if the ending was bad, I wouldn't be like,
it's fun. But yeah, okay, good times. Okay, let's take
a quick break when we come back. We've got a
little bit of feedback and we'll do that. Then all right,
here we go. Okay, so we're gonna take a break,
(50:30):
but we're not gonna take a break. We're gonna cut
this into two because I'm gonna be in London and
it's gonna be like, you know, three am and yeah, okay,
so we're gonna end this right here. Pick up for
episode for second part of this episode next week.
Speaker 3 (50:47):
On that note, my name is Colleen, my name is Amanda.
Speaker 1 (50:51):
And he said, everybody, I'm thinking to the patients that
contribute to a certain level at gart ignor magnetize him
the planet, the green people bop me home in thanks again.
Everybody will catch part two. Okay, bye bye bye. I
Maybe Bitsy.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Hello, and welcome to the broadcast with a man is
Chandy and Colleen. My name is Colleen.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
My name is Amanda, and I'm Chandy.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Welcome to the show, everybody. This is season ten, episode five,
episode number four hundred and nine. How's it going?
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Four hundred and ten?
Speaker 1 (00:38):
We're fourteen? Oh shoot, we're four ten.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Right, because that's the time we were parted. We did
two and one.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
We did two and one, and we were supposed to
we were supposed to record last week, but it didn't
end up working out because we all went to bed
at three o'clock in the fucking morning because we got
back at Okay, this is not like an air drama
drama story or whatever, but like they were thunderstorms. We
could see them from the plane. We couldn't land Atlanta
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Grand Ground in all all flights, like they couldn't leave
and nobody could land, so we had to fly around
in a circle for a full hour, which sucked because
we were gonna land early, and then we ended up
landing like forty minutes late instead of like twenty minutes early.
But they were like at one point they were like, Okay,
they're prioritizing they're letting people land one at a time,
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but they're prioritizing fuel and we only have a little
bit of fuel left. But we're not desperate, and worst
case we can like skirt right over to Arkansas land
get fueled.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Over to Arkansas. Arkansas is like kind of falling.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
I don't know how far we were circling right, Oh
my god, all the way up in New York.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
It was just the whole.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Exactly, so you know whatever, So we ended up landing.
We okay, so at Atlanta Airport. Who's Amanda, your face beautiful?
Speaker 3 (02:06):
I actually truly liked the Atlanta Airport. There's n't mind.
It's big. It's got that little train thing that runs through.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
The okay, just for I have a little train track
here for So we landed here, like we were like
right here. We had to run. We had to run
all the way here to the AirTrain. We got on
the air train, we got off here, and we had
to run all the way here. So we were carrying
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thankfully we had checked all the all the bags. Uh uh.
But everybody was like carrying heavy book bags because we
all had comic con shin in it. Like I get
all those free books every year, and I put them
in Zach's back back and like mine was full.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
Everybody, even Alex, everybody was full.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
So it ended up being at one point like Zachary,
Zachy is so out of shape, he like couldn't do it,
and Jay and Alex are like all the way ahead,
and I'm like, well, I can't leave you here. So
I ended up putting his book then on my front
and my heavy book bag on the back, and like
at that point, I was like, this might be the
point when the heart attack happens, Like I am dying. Go.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
It was a great trip.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
I was like, this is like a twenty five pound waits.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Like you're training for the Navy Seals. I know.
Speaker 6 (03:27):
Zachary is like I can't do it, and I was like,
yes you can. I'm dripping and sweat. But the thing
is we were at gate like B twelve, and he
gave this to me at like gate B four.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Have to go that far? I was like I had
to like gate B six.
Speaker 7 (03:44):
And I was like, oh my god, we get on
all four of us, dripping and sweat right red face
the flight attention.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
We're all the way in the back of the plane.
The flight attentions are so kind. They like greet us
with water. Everybody, even the passengers are like, you guys
made it. It's okay, don't worry, you made it. Thank
you for the plane for us. We boarded the plane
at like eight forty and it's supposed to leave it
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eight fifty five. So like we knew that we were
We knew we're cutting close before they were closed. But
we also knew that because everything had been grounded, there
was gonna be a grace period. We saidn't want to
be those people that were showing up like it was
so funny. Everybody was so nice. Like I at that point,
I sat in between. I didn't realize that they were
a couple, that they had one had the window, one
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had the aisle, and like I was in the middle,
and I must I know, I smelled so bad because
I was still in my sweatshirt, like because we didn't
want we didn't want to carry extra so we were like,
you know, switchin anyway, both of them fell asleep and
neither of them commented. But I felt really bad because
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I was just like, oh my god, I know iak
right now. But then we we uh, we make it.
There's a couple of people that board maybe five minutes
after us, and you know, they're like, Okay, we're gonna
blah blah blah up the doors. And then we hear, well,
guess what, folks, everybody made it on board.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
But now we're grounded again.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
So we sat there for fifty more minutes on the airplane.
They couldn't, by law, bullshit they say, give out like
waters or anything at that point.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
So there's a law that says you can't give people water.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
I think the laws you can't give them booze unless
they're in first class, and the laws just you can
pay for it with your tickets. But we all sat there.
It was fifty extra minutes and then at least we
got out because we were scared.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
We were like, we don't have anywhere to stay there.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
It's whether they're not going to put us up. But
we we knew that this was the chance that we
take if you know, we're gonna leave in the afternoon.
And they ended up flying. So we leave from Atlanta.
We go all the way through like not quite to Nashville,
but like through like the mountains of North Carolina, blanking.
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We're to be Ashville. So we go up, we go
around Ashville, we go up through Virginia, and then come
from Virginia down straight because there were thunderstorms. So that
was their way of avoiding it, which again I appreciate.
I would rather So it's normally a forty five minute
flight to get to Atlanta up from Atlanta to Raleigh,
but it was an hour and twenty minutes. But again
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I appreciate that they weren't just like, fuck it, we'll
stay here, because I would rather wait. I would rather
instead of landing at ten twenty at night, I'd rather
land at midnight and go to my house versus which
is what ended up happening.
Speaker 8 (06:49):
So he's back in Atlanta, although at least you wouldn't
have had a car because in Atlanta you have to
pay a million dollars to park anywhere and everywhere.
Speaker 9 (06:59):
Really yeah, yeah, we went to Atlanta a couple of
times and I hate it, and like it's mostly because
of the parking.
Speaker 8 (07:11):
Yeah yeah, oh so expensive to park. Why Anyway, I'm
sure it's a lovely place. I did see some really
cool stuff there, but anyway, I take issue with the
parking situation.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Understood, But anyway, whatever, that's why we didn't record last
week is because we all got home at midnight and
then everybody's starving because we hadn't eaten since eleven o'clock
in the morning California time. Because we didn't have any time.
We got like a little we got.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
So we got cookies and some chips, but we didn't
get any meal meals.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
And what is the age that they like stopped giving
like the kids extra snacks.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Oh, they gave you extra snacks, but again the snacks
are like this amana, like are you.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
But I feel like whenever we're flying, they're like, oh,
little child, here's like fifty extra snacks. Happened just that end.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
It does not end because uh, even Jay got up
mid flight. I don't know if it was the I
think it was up like to San Diego where it
was kind of it was pretty bumpy actually, and Jay
got up at one point and it was like, hey,
I got kids, and you stopped service before he got
to us, because we were getting the back and they
were like here you go, and he like just grabbed
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it stop. But they were also just giving handfuls away too.
On that second flight out, I think that when we
were circling in the air because of the turbulence and stuff.
They just kind of Yeah. But anyway, so Jay like
we got food. Jay went to sheets and got like
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mozzarella sticks, mozzarella sticks and chicken fingers and shit at
like one o'clock in the morning from sheets. So we
all went to bed at like three that night, and
then I unpacked. I got up the next morning and
unpacked everything, and I did literally seven loads of laundry
and folded them all that day. I didn't want anything left.
Speaker 8 (09:10):
That is the pro tip though, because seriously, that's what
they say to do to as like a measure to
avoid potential bed bugs, like if yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
And also just very sanity to prevent insanity. Just you know,
unpack a meeting.
Speaker 8 (09:28):
Unmed but do but wash everything right away. Yeah, and
some people don't react to bed bugs, so you could
like potentially have brought them home with you if you're
a person that doesn't react. I react very strongly as
we want, but we've learned if you if you don't,
then you could unknowingly bring them back with you, and
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that's disgusting.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
It's disgusting. Anyway.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Yeah, Well, thankfully no bed bugs were head, no beg
bear bugs stowed away that I know of, but yeah, anyway,
so that's what we did record is we were I
was I was pretty brain dead by like like Wednesday
that I was so tired. And then Jay had a
show on Thursday, and the kids were always We're gonna
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go to Jack and Cindy's anyway, and I ended up
going to Jay's show. I was like the walking dead,
but we had mutual friends that were going and I
was like, all right, bye and I'll go nice. So yeah,
it ended up being fine.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
And then I had my first ever waffle house experience.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Oh that was it?
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Uh well, you know, after a double Jack Daniels and
a double Black of soda at twelve twenty in the morning,
it is delicious that I'm still I still prefer First Watch,
but I had to say I prefer the price tag
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of waffle house.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Oh yeah. They're just like a very different experience.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Because it was like twenty two dollars for both of
us and we got like extra, shit, we're not even
doing it.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
It was like eighteen dollars for all.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
I feel like a waffle house.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
It's like quintessential greasy spoon, you know, it's like the
Dennis of it.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Is the Dennis of the South, even though Denny's is
the Dennis of the South.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
Specifically exactly waffle houses like past a certain yeah dude line.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Uh like yeah, it was. It was great. I was
very excited. Anyway, it was. It was good. Uh whatever.
Comic Con was great. It was one of the this year.
We actually did mainly kids related stuff, which is cool.
The kids have been super into a cartoon called Phineas
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and Ferb which has been out for yeah, a gazillion years,
but they a ten years ago. They had a panel
at Comic Con that was their farewell panel, and then
last year they had a panel announcing that they were
coming back, and their new season has aired. They dropped
the first ten episodes recently and then ten more coming whenever,
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and they've signed on for then an additional season after that.
But my kids have been watching Phineas and for on repeat.
They listened to the soundtrack because there's a soundtrack not
stop in the car. So when we saw that the
panel was going to be in the ballroom of our
hotel room, we were like our hotel We were like,
oh my god, like we got to do this. So
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we made it into the panel The kids had an
absolute fucking blast. Like they they were like remember past years,
I've told you how they've like just been rebellion and
like broken me for Comaca.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
They were into it this year, like going to the floor.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Doing this, doing that, but like they were absolutely their
minds were blown at the panel because they were answering
questions in character and they were like showing special clips
of upcoming episodes and like I have pictures of them
and they're just like all in on. I was like, yes,
this is what comic Con was all about.
Speaker 8 (13:10):
I had those kids like going to Comic Con from
the din. They were like boring, Like that's they don't
realize how.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
They don't Like they will.
Speaker 5 (13:20):
After they get bullied for going. They're gonna realize it'll come.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Like it'll come back.
Speaker 8 (13:26):
Every age has its season, every season has it whatever.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Exactly, it'll come back around.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
But they were Zach got the new Uh, I don't know,
Investigators or one of those graphic novels. The New One,
I guess was at Comic Con like in it I
think it. I think it like published like in August
and they were selling it like, you know, two weeks
early in at Comic Con or whatever, and Zach was
able to show it off to all the neighborhood boys,
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took it around and it was like look what I got.
So yes, But then Jay went to the Hasbro Breakfast
and they had like a table of things like you
could just take, so he got like a whole bunch
of shit. And then yesterday, uh, he had the neighborhood
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boys all come over and he was like, take whatever
free fucking toy you want.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Definitely the cool host.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
We had our own little Hallway sale and Freeways sale
if you will.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
They were just laid out on the floor and he
was like, take one and go.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Did you guys see the South Park folks?
Speaker 8 (14:42):
Because that episode that this episode dropped while you guys
were away.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
And that they were and I thought of you guys.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
And I was like, oh, so the South Park episode
with the Donald Trump's micro penis aired the night that come.
It was the night before or that Sunday before Comic concert.
On the Wednesday, people were talking about it. I knew
Matt and Trey were gonna be there, but I had
actually kind of forgotten, like like I knew they were
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gonna be there, but I'd kind of forgotten that it
was gonna.
Speaker 5 (15:12):
Happen, and then I saw the headlines and the tweets after.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
But yeah, people on the floor were talking about it,
like it wasn't like the talk of comic com but
it was like a thing that people were talking about
acting exactly. So that was fucking wild. But like we
were sitting there, Jenna, I do isn't there Jenna, Jay,
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the kids, and I don't know if Nick was there
or not because.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
All the all the meals blend together and Nick joined
us for a lot of them.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Cliff generally only joined us for like one or two,
but so I don't remember if Nick was there or not. No,
this is neither anything there, But like at one point
we overheard people the other booth like talking about and
then he had the micro penis and I was like Jay,
and Jenna was like col and I was.
Speaker 10 (16:10):
Like, I know, yeah, it was pretty awesome and uh yeah,
but the boys so.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
With Phineas and ferb. Though I know that Nick has
told this story on the ramblecast, I started listening and
I didn't get quite up to that point yet. But
if you want to hear more comic Con stories, Nick
and Cliff went to a lot of the really cool
big panels. Actually, they spent the whole day on Saturday
in Hall H and a good part of UH Sunday
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in Hall H. So if you want to hear more
about actual panel stuff, definitely check out the ramble cast.
I believe it is episode I actually have it up
episode three ten Life Buolt Vacuum is what it's called.
But they talk a lot about the change panel and
a lot about the different panels that Nick saw, like
he saw, he did see a lot more than I did,
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So check them out if you want to hear more
about it. It's a pretty close to the beginning of
the show. But yeah, with Phineas and for the boys, Uh,
Jana and Nick, the Boys, Jay and I. We went
to dinner on Saturday after Jena and Nick got out
of the line for bracelets for Hall H for George Lucas,
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and it was kind of a shit show. The restaurant
had opened like two weeks before, and they were not
prepared for Comic Con level crowds. At one point they
brought out the meal my four we ordered first. Nick
and Jana got there about thirty minutes after Ross, and
they brought out like Nick's food randomly and like they
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brought out the.
Speaker 5 (17:49):
Wrong food for Zach and with Jay ordered a caesar salad.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
At one point they were like, it's gonna be another
twenty five minutes, Like it was a shit show, just
like hit some salid.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Someone had to drive up the coast, Like.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Fine, thanks Trump for your immigration policies. It was like again,
it was a hot mess. So anyway, Jay and the
boys left. We got there at seven, at nine o'clock,
we still hadn't all gotten her food. So Jay was like,
they accidentally brought Zach a berger that he hadn't ordered.
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So Jay ate that instead of the salad, and they
all left and it was like good, go go, Like
we've been here for a really long time. We most
of us don't have our food.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
Just go.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
So Alex had his food. He's the hangary one. It's fine.
But then I guess Zach had to use the rest
room and he just it hit him as they were
crossing into the hotel, so he went into the first
floor lobby bathroom and because he was in the first
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for a lobby bathroom for a few minutes, he came
out and they happened to get to the elevator area
at the same time that the voice actors of Phineas
and Ferb with their dates and some other people were there,
so he did they.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Recognize them just from the sound of the voice or
did they well.
Speaker 5 (19:17):
We had seen the panel the day before.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
Oh right, okay.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
So Jay goes up to them and he's just like,
you know, fuck it, we're just gonna go for it.
So he's just like, hey, my kids, we were at
your panel yesterday. We're big fans. And they just seamlessly
turned to.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
Zach and Alex and was like, Hey, I'm Phineas, what's
your name?
Speaker 1 (19:39):
And you know, Ferb was like watch out for whatever
the fucking platypuses.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
They just talked to them in character for several minutes.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Wow, questions responded, and Alex is very stranger, dangery, and
even he apparently I wasn't there.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
I was waiting for the twenty five minutes.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Sou Yeah, We're just they were just both like, oh
my fucking god. And apparently after they like were walking away,
Zach literally started jumping up and down. We're like I
said that, Like Phineas and Ferb and their dates all
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looked back and saw Zachary like dumping up and down
and we're like, you're welcome. You just got laid so
hard tonight.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Got the assignment man they did.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
And it was it was very very cool. And then
the next day, uh so that was that was Saturday. Okay,
So on Saturday, I think it was Saturday morning, we
were like, hey, boys, let's go to the floor. You
never know what could happen at comic Con. It's comic Con.
Anything could happen. We kept saying that.
Speaker 5 (20:59):
They were like, we just want to stay here.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
We're tired.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
We had to kind of come blah blah blah every
other day, and we're like, you're gonna come back with
us because there's certain things that we want to do.
You never know what's gonna happen to comic CONSCE Saturday morning,
we are walking around and there it is a booth
that has like three people left and it's the creators
and voice actors for a Nickelodeon show or Disney Plus
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show Big City Greens. And the kids also loved Big
City Greens. It's like it was there. It was their
Phineas and ferb. So we had like Bluey Big City
Greens Phinis and verb so like it was they've watched it.
Speaker 11 (21:36):
We did a movie night with like a movie special
that they did, so like they meet them their brothers,
they talk to them as well in character and like,
so they had like.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
The best Saturday ever. Basically they got autographed posters and
we just got super lucky.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
We were walking by as they had a You had
to have tickets to.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Get autographs to meet them, but it had gone quicker
than expected and they still they were willing and gained
to sign more things. So, uh, the handler was just
randomly going up to people that were watching them with
kids and being like, hey, do you want to get
in the end of the line. So it was very controlled.
We didn't have tickets, but they let us get in
the end of the line, and I think they let
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two other people after us before they like cut it
off for good. But like we were listening because we
were so close, we were listening to like the logistics
situation all that, but it was they were just again,
it was it was so cool. They gave them personalized
autograph posters. They asked them about their favorite episodes, Why
do you like this episode? How can what can we
do in the future, Like they literally like interacted with
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them for a good six or seven minutes, Like it
was so cool.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
So I've got to get I've got.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
To get uh eleven x seven poster frames to to
have these posters like frames because they were super cool too.
So most of my comic kind expans was through my kids.
I got. I had found this stand that like you
could make your own jewelry, and I had told Jana
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about it. I was like, I'm gonna go back tomorrow
and she was like, oh, super cool. And they give
me a bracelet too, and she took a picture of
a bracelet and it was the last thing I did
before we left. On Sunday, the kids are like complaining
because they couldn't get something minecraft, something that I ended
up getting them online. But like it was so funny
because they were like complaining and I was like, well,
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you know what, my booth is here and I want
to go make my own jewelry near a jewelry, thank
you very much. And I get there in Jana's like
checking out and I was like okay.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
She was like, oh my god, this is who I
sought from the bracelet.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
We were like, yeah, good marketing. So I ended up
getting a really cool star Wars themed earrings, which I'm
very into. I love them. Green was my only option.
I don't like green, but I'm gonna make green happen.
So if I start wearing more green shirts, that's why
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that come comes fun.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
Jay did his.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
They did the Jan and Jack panel.
Speaker 5 (24:12):
Uh again, listen to the ramblecast because cliff share cliffs.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Share up, not cliffs. Sorry. Ralph shared a story that
one of the writers had, uh, Javier Gorillas Marcos and
I know I'm pronouncing that, mispronouncing that. I'm sorry, but
Hovey had told them for the documentary this cool theory
about the island actually being a spaceship and when you
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look at it through that, and and the network ABC
was like, no, too far fetched. But then like Ralph
went back and tied all of this stuff with lost
to if the island actually was a crass spaceship, and
he was able to like make it make sense. So
if you don't listen to the Rambocast and you are
intrigued by this theory, go listen again to three ten
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Uh pre tend I think it is three on one,
three on one, sorry, three to one. Go listen to
that because Nick goes through it in pretty good detail
that I won't go through here or just message Ralph.
I'm sure we'll talk about it too, but it's a
really neat theory where I was like, ooh, I kind
of like this too, actually. And then Jay had the
Toy Toobgeony Night party on Friday Night, which was super fun.
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We rented at a bowling alley where, uh, it was
just a lot of people in one place. It was cool.
I got some insider scoop about season two and three
of Wednesday from one of the producers of it.
Speaker 8 (25:38):
Oh, season drops pretty soon.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Yeah, it does, so, so.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
I was a little afraid that it had already dropped
and I just missed it. I'm just like, no, no,
I'm so behind on television.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
No, it's super soon. But they just had the premier
in London and he was like, oh my god, when
do you But it was because he was like, well,
when are you going to be in London and I
was like oh. He was like okay, I'm gonna be
like for like, you know, thirty six hours in whatever.
So anyway, but it was it was super fun, lots
of lots of Jay's friends. It was nice because I
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did a lot of just like sitting back and watching,
which was cool because I generally, you know, I always
think that like I'm going to say something stupid, embarrass
myself or embarrassed Jay when we're in like a drinking
situation with an open bar, an open bar that I'm
paying for. So which is funny because we did. We
paid for like middle shelf, and I was like, do
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you have any kettle one and they were like, that's
actually an up charge and I was like, is it though,
and they were like, not for you, it's not. And
I was like, thank you.
Speaker 5 (26:43):
Anyway, But it was cool because I like kind of sat.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Back and I watched everything and took a lot of pictures,
and uh, that was enough for me, actually it was.
It was nice, nice anyway. Sorry, I have blabbed on
for long enough. Amanda, Happy anniversary.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
Thanks. Thanks.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
It's you know, we celebrate both anniversaries, so it's like
we really have just like this first, right, the first, Yeah,
which is why we picked the wedding date of the
fifth to like, you know, get as close to so
we didn't have to celebrate like most multiple dates because
of you know, like I remember that and I was
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we were together for nine years before we got married,
Like that time is real and like I didn't want
like that time to like disappear.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Like do you ever think about the difference in doing
the third.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
Well, we sort of, Yeah, we get celebrated.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
We we got a babysitter on Saturday and we went
out the Frick Collection, the reopened Friend Collection.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
You know, it was very like Gilded Age vibes. It's great.
It's I if you.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
Are in the New York City area, I highly recommend it.
I loved the Frick like before, like they've been under
renovation like the past five years or so, and they
just reopened earlier this year.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Yeah, and like.
Speaker 12 (28:05):
It was so cool. I had forgotten, like for such
a little museum. They have like so many really cool works.
I mean they have in their permanent collection like three Vermires, Like.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
Wow, which is a lot.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
Yeah, given that the man didn't there's only like thirty
somehow in the whole world and which said like Daniel
and I down a rabbit Hole.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
We watched like a whole Vermier documentary like Saturday Night.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
Apparently like the US has the most the most premieres
here between like New York as like five and DC
has a bunch, like in the portrait in the National
Gallery has a couple.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
So yeah, we we have like the most unpermanent collection
here in the US. Yeah, it's pretty wild, which I
thought was really interesting.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
That is pretty wild, actually.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
Yeah, but anyway, that's you know, that's how we celebrated
our our anniversary.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
We got a babysitter and we that.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
That's awesome. Jaye and I celebrated our daining anniversary. We
go to the same restaurant every year, except yeah, we
left late.
Speaker 5 (29:09):
Okay, we left late.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
The uber took like thirty minutes to get there because
of the traffic. We got there forty minutes late. They
still agreed to sit up to seat us. And then
we got there.
Speaker 5 (29:24):
I think we got there at like seven fifty five,
and we were fucking out of there by.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Like eight forty five. They were like, not ain't around.
So now we're like, oh we had we had our
eighteenth anniversary speed date. We were out of there like
in less than an hour, probably less than forty five minutes.
(29:48):
It was so funny. So Amanda, I am glad that
yours was a lot more meaningful. It was.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Yeah, we got that.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Yeah, that's awesome. We got back. Jay was like like,
well they can't all be winters.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
I mean, or was it too fast? And enjoy it.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
We've both got salads with meats because that so it
was very fast and like they were there so quickly.
It was so funny. Anyway, Yes, you're you're what we're
talking about.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
Yeah, today we just had I just made us dinner.
Speaker 5 (30:26):
Anything tasty I did.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
I bought some shrimp and I did like a like
a white wine sauce over over pasta.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
That's fun though.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
A little bit of like sauteed kale and shallotts in there.
Because you know, you need a vegetable.
Speaker 5 (30:43):
I always need a veggie as you get older.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
Just all the time. You should just like always have
a vegetable.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
You should, but you know, as you get older, you
need that fiber, you need that blood, sugar stability, all
the things. Eat your veggies kids, old k it's.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
Would value you well.
Speaker 8 (31:06):
Last time we recorded, I thought that I may or
may not.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Have COVID, but probably that's right.
Speaker 8 (31:12):
Yeah, And sure enough two days later my test finally
turned positive.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
I had a quick about of COVID.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Sorry, but it wasn't too bad. I think it was.
Speaker 8 (31:28):
It knocks me out less than the first time I
had COVID, the only other time I've had COVID. So yeah,
Frank like almost didn't have any symptoms at all, but really, yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Very much.
Speaker 4 (31:41):
It's almost it's almost like the vaccine actually does something, right,
imagine that.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Well, now you're not allowed to give it unless you're
super old. Yeah, you're also removing mercury from vaccines, but
allowing it to go back into our drinking water.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
Yes, yeah, you know that's that's great, you know it all,
but you know that mercury.
Speaker 9 (32:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (32:08):
Sorry, it's just like I don't know about where you
guys were, but the sky was very hazy today from
some various.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Frona right yeah, oh were there fires apparently?
Speaker 3 (32:18):
Yeah, it was very Canada.
Speaker 8 (32:21):
Making the Northeast and Midwest hazy.
Speaker 4 (32:25):
Yeah, it's like walking a pak to can't pick up
and like sit at the playground. I'm like, oh yeah,
like my throat is really scratchy and like you should
have frow water.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
And yeah, her eyes were like all like a little puffy.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
That also could because I've read this on screen on
her today, yes, yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
But yeah, yeah, yeah I did not realize that.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
Well, maybe it's a good thing. It was nice and
clear where you were, that's good.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
No, it was cloudy, but like I think that's why
I didn't realize it. But in San Diego, actually my
eyes were water every morning, which was weird because whatever, anyway, did.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
You have allergies? There's of course different allergens here.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
There are different allergens. It's funny though, because I don't
get the allergies in North Carolina, but I get them
in New York where I grew up. Oh.
Speaker 8 (33:16):
Interesting, interesting because North Carolina has four different allergy seasons.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Yes I learned this, and I don't.
Speaker 4 (33:25):
Yeah exactly, well right, but and like allergens for every season.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
For every for literally every season.
Speaker 8 (33:31):
So if you are allergic to all of the things,
then you just have your long allergies.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
You just need to live somewhere else.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
That's e zacchary.
Speaker 5 (33:40):
Yeah, because North Carolina.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Actually I think it's the state that has the most
diverse amount of trees.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
It is the most biodiverse state in the Union, which
really surprised me because we talked.
Speaker 8 (33:56):
But let's talk because because because my friend, I think
literally what I've said before on the podcast is my
friend in North Carolina told me that fact, and.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
I have not like my dad told me that fact,
and we're gonna absolutely he doesn't fact check Trump stuff,
but he fact checked.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
Anyone.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
But yeah, I trust that.
Speaker 8 (34:20):
I trust you know, I trust him's he's the like
university professors.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
You know, he's not gonna spread misinformation knowingly anyway.
Speaker 8 (34:31):
But the fact is, I haven't checked it myself, but
it but it checks out.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
A lot of it because because of.
Speaker 8 (34:38):
Like the part of the appellation, like like up by
Asheville in the in the mountains is like its whole
own micro climate. Yeah, and splash rainforest.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
Hey, they reopened more roads in Asheville.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
That's good.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
FEMA won't help us, but we're making it do.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
Because it's been like a full year now, right, I mean.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
October. I think it was coming out almost a full year.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
That's crazy.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
It was gone early voting and that was like a
whole big thing. So I think it was the very
last week.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
It's right.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
Yeah, so I have to COVID, but I'm better now.
Speaker 8 (35:19):
What else I as we were talking about offline beforehand,
I've been.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
Oh yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
This is where I get embarrassed.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
Okay, go ahead, No, don't.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
I mean, chapter thirty three, it's such a fun year.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
Oh you so brogged over me. You're way further along
than I am. No spoilers.
Speaker 8 (35:35):
That's the thing, is like, like, because I usually read,
like when I get into bed, and you know, that
can really be hit or miss, like you really need
if it's something that's like.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
You know, but yeah, this is like really kept my attention.
I have been just loving.
Speaker 8 (35:53):
Like the easter eggs for the people that know you. Yeah,
it was Vivian is full name initials.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
Room two nine.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
I knew you were going to pick that up.
Speaker 3 (36:10):
I missed, Yeah, I missed that one.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
But Frank a barrel maker. I was like, oh, that's
because he's friend I named him.
Speaker 8 (36:20):
Read that paragraph because it was like there was Lena
and Frank in the same paragraph and then that little
detail that he was a barrel maker, and I told him.
I was like, oh my god, because.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
I thought that Frank real life Frank would like to
be a smuggler and you didn't get that far.
Speaker 3 (36:36):
So sorry made their appearances. I loved both of their characters.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
Wait, sorry, who made their appears Alison Martha.
Speaker 4 (36:49):
Actually that's like just in the other room I'm gonna
go get chapter I left.
Speaker 8 (37:00):
Okay, no, so that makes sense. I just like it
took me like a day. And then I was like
I told Trunk. I was like, oh my god, like
she made you a barrel a barrel maker because you're
from Champagne probably and he was like, well, Champagne's not
mating barrels.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
I was like, well because your French wine.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
Okay, now you gotta get you gotta get a local.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
Ho yeah, yeah, yeah, a little bit.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (37:22):
Chapter.
Speaker 4 (37:24):
Oh nice, So I have ten chapters behind your further book.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
Kay, so that's exciting.
Speaker 4 (37:32):
Well, and it's like it's funny, it's a page it
is a page turner. Like I think I know that
I a very good job of knowing how to like end.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
A chapter like a good cliptain that you want to
keep that.
Speaker 6 (37:43):
I took a lot of rewriting where I because like
first I.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
Didn't get it. And then I was like oh, because
Jay was like he was like, you need to like
the Vinci code this ship, and I was like, yeah, yes,
I need ship because.
Speaker 8 (37:57):
You're I mean like this is I mean, it's like
it would be considered like young adult fiction, right, Like
what what's the sort of like age range that you're
I mean, which.
Speaker 5 (38:07):
Obviously be for like middle school age kids.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
Middle school, Yeah, the ninth or tenth graders maybe.
Speaker 2 (38:13):
Yeah, I think.
Speaker 8 (38:15):
I mean, well, it gets like literally last night I
was gonna, I was going to finish, and then at
the end of the chap it was a clippager that
I had to.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
Read one more thank you.
Speaker 3 (38:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (38:25):
Well, it's it's funny because you know, it's like I
was at the beach not last week, but the week before,
and so I was able to really like get a good,
good reading cadence. But I'm reading I'm reading this at
the same time as I'm reading the second book in
Stacy abramsh Avery Avery Keen THEOK.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
I have her autographed copy.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
Yes, I'm reading.
Speaker 2 (38:50):
She's also a fucking writer.
Speaker 1 (38:52):
I want to read. I want to read her smut novels.
To be honest, Yeah, I like to get horny to
Stacy Abrams books.
Speaker 4 (38:59):
The first one took me a long time to get into.
The second one like taught me much faster. But I'm
reading that while I'm in between reading this. So it's
like it's an interesting juxtaposition, like reading the two stories
very different, but also kind of like similar in weird ways.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
So it's like, yeah, I think the second Stacy Abrams
book had a lot more that I had to focus on.
Like I read the first one quicker than the second one, but.
Speaker 3 (39:29):
The first one took me a longer time, just because
I think I was into.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
Even my mom thought that the signed book was cool.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
That's the rogue Rogue Justice.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
No, that's the second one.
Speaker 4 (39:39):
Is the second one's Yeah, when Justice sleeps is the
first one.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
That's right because he's in a coma. Yes, okay, okay,
thank you guys though, both for reading it. I actually
I completely changed a lot of the outlines for book
two and three and I started two. So I'm very
excited about that, hopeing and we're on it. When I
fly to London overnight, my flight is like in the evening. Yeah,
(40:09):
so we'll see, and I am. You know, I had
enough points to get my flight, which, by the way,
without points, was only four hundred and sixty dollars round
trip what with out I.
Speaker 4 (40:23):
Have been monitoring flights to LA because we're going to
LA over New Year's and like it is more than that.
Speaker 1 (40:31):
Yeah in fact, yeah, yeah, yeah, so I was tracking
flights here and on the Saturday we left, they were
one price. We got to La I'm sorry. We got
to San Diego and I was like, you know, it
was still my my you know, my browser because so
I refreshed it and it was like one hundred and
fifty dollars more expensive. So I was like, hey, Jay,
(40:52):
can I log onto your VPN. I went on his
VPN and I changed it to Alabama and it went down.
Speaker 2 (40:59):
Oh I'm going to do that. Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (41:03):
Yeah, I don't have one, I know. So I'm not
like that.
Speaker 4 (41:07):
I'm like the most like not tech savvy. Like I'm
not either that works in the technological.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
Okay, so I'm not either. But on U on Saturday night,
Jay shared me a referral link that we both get
thirty days free for the VPN because I'm going to
go to London and they you need the VPN if
you want to do anything in London. But I can
share you that link and then we can all get
thirty days free. Okay, book ship, because I do.
Speaker 3 (41:36):
I feel like we.
Speaker 4 (41:37):
Are on the point where like it's only going to
start getting more expensive from me, It's like we gotta
we got to jump.
Speaker 1 (41:42):
Well, because Delta announced that they're going to use AI
too hard for flights what they think you'll pay for it,
So you're gonna go to dynamic pricing dynamic if you're
gonna on your watch. So but here's the example. If
you're going to go to Disney, if you buy the
(42:03):
tickets to Disneyland or Disney World before you buy your flights,
they're gonna have those cookies in your browser or whatever,
or they're gonna know and they're going to charge you
because they know you have to fly there anyway.
Speaker 2 (42:16):
Oh fuck them.
Speaker 4 (42:17):
Ye, So you know, if we had a transit secretary
that you know, was like looking out for the people
exactly so you get away with what you think you
can get away with.
Speaker 1 (42:32):
Remind me, uh or when I edit this, i'll hear
it and I'll send you the the VPN thirty day
free link to from my own personal one.
Speaker 8 (42:41):
Then.
Speaker 1 (42:42):
But yeah, it was fucking wild how much it went
back down to the same price that it was when
I was looking in the morning versus the California price.
Speaker 3 (42:50):
Yeah, so.
Speaker 1 (42:53):
I'm sure it's exactly so, because don't forget, remember I
got those super cheap tickets to see Hamilton in October
when Leslie and Junior is back, and you didn't see
those pricing at all. But I had a Tokyo IP address,
and I think that Broadways a two No Ticketmaster, not Broadway,
(43:14):
just Ticketmaster.
Speaker 3 (43:16):
I don't that's wild to me. You can buy Broadway
tickets on Ticketmaster.
Speaker 1 (43:21):
Well, because I went through the link that they sent out,
because I saw their announcement and clicked on the link
right away. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (43:26):
I always go through, like you know, the today ticks
and like the cheapies.
Speaker 1 (43:31):
Yeah, exactly, yes. But that's why I think you weren't
seeing them but I was, is because I think my
a P address was in a different country where they
were like, oh here's the blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (43:44):
No.
Speaker 1 (43:45):
I truly think that that's what it was, because like
they were shocking.
Speaker 13 (43:49):
The cheap as, you know, because I was like, hey,
I got these for this much, thank you Hoda hot damn.
Speaker 1 (44:00):
Fuck you AI technology.
Speaker 3 (44:05):
We just need to regulate it. This is the ship
that keeps me up at night.
Speaker 1 (44:09):
Well, Marjorie Tayler Green has turned against the.
Speaker 3 (44:15):
Resistance. Resist stands for fucking BBS. But I guess better
late than never.
Speaker 1 (44:27):
So Shanny she found out after she voted for the
big shitty bill that it doesn't allow the government to
regulate any regulation for AI for ten years.
Speaker 5 (44:36):
And she's pissed about the Epstein files, which apparently forty
of Trump voters said that they would not care and
they'd vote for him.
Speaker 3 (44:45):
Still gross, it's so gross. It's so gross.
Speaker 2 (44:53):
So we keep wondering where is the bottom? Are we
gonna they are? They're not burning break.
Speaker 1 (45:06):
Jay was like, well, like ninety five percent of Republican
support Trump, so you know, only forty six percent saying
that they would still support him. He was in the
Epstein files, I mean configuratively, and I was like, that's
still half of them.
Speaker 2 (45:19):
Just about them.
Speaker 1 (45:21):
They don't care about children.
Speaker 3 (45:23):
No, I mean the future or you know, really anything
anything burned all down.
Speaker 1 (45:32):
Unfortunately, they're not burning it all down in the way
that you can like build it back up to be better. Right,
they're burning it all down in that nineteen forty is
Nazi way.
Speaker 3 (45:46):
Atomic Bombay.
Speaker 1 (45:48):
Yeah, yeah, we're gonna keep going, keep going. Okay, I
have real quick this shouldn't be too long. I had
several leaves pulled off, but this is the quickest one.
I haven't am I the asshole?
Speaker 3 (46:01):
Fantastic?
Speaker 1 (46:02):
Okay, here we go. Would I be the asshole if
I stopped helping my daughter financially after she told me
I shouldn't expect her to take care of me when
I'm older. I fifty two female, have been helping my
daughter twenty five female financially for years in college, with
college car incerns, rent when needed, even surprise emergencies that
(46:27):
somehow always involve travel or electronics. Not complaining. Okay, maybe
a little, but I love her and have always tried
to support her while she figures her life out. Last week,
we were casually talking about retirement stuff, nothing too heavy.
I made a joke like, well, hopefully you'll take care
of your poor mom someday, and she goes dead serious. Uh,
(46:47):
you shouldn't expect that. I didn't ask to be born,
and you should have planned better for your old age. SKay,
wheeze me. She didn't say squeeze me, she said, excuse me.
I laughed it off at the time, but it's been
sitting in my chest like a rock ever since. I'm
not asking her to white drool off my chin or
pay my bills when I'm eighty it just kind of stung,
(47:10):
like wow, really after everything? So now I'm thinking, if
she's already declared she's not going to be there for
me later, why am I bending over backwards to always
be there for her?
Speaker 3 (47:18):
Now?
Speaker 1 (47:19):
Would I be the asshole if I slowly backed off
on the financial support. I'm not talking about cutting her
off overnight, just no more random Venmo bailouts or picking
up the slack when her budget accidentally forgets rent. I
just I don't want revenge. I just don't want to
feel like a walking atm anymore.
Speaker 8 (47:38):
I mean, like her daughter told her she needs to
plan better for her old age, so that means saving
some of her money right.
Speaker 3 (47:45):
Now, exactly right, Like, yeah, I mean I gave her,
she gave her consent, exactly.
Speaker 1 (47:53):
Random venmos. That's a way to save money. It's not
doing that anymore.
Speaker 8 (47:56):
Yeah, I think it's wonderful to help your children as Like,
as millennials, we understand the struggle.
Speaker 1 (48:02):
Obviously we did not have.
Speaker 8 (48:05):
But like twenty five years old and your parents are
still paying your rent and every single one of your bills,
Like you know, the economy is bad, but like.
Speaker 3 (48:13):
Like you should be paying at least some of your own.
Speaker 1 (48:16):
And even if you like can't, you should be fucking
grateful like that at the end of the day, is
that the daughter is an ungrateful bitch, Like I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (48:25):
If you your bills, like you gotta move home.
Speaker 1 (48:28):
Yeah, you don't just be like nad dog like you're
paying for me, but you know I didn't.
Speaker 3 (48:37):
Yeh. This is this is just parenting. This is just parenting.
Your child doesn't appreciate the value of a dollar, so
you have to you know, help them see that.
Speaker 1 (48:49):
Yeah, Like is like, because what happens if what happens
if them mom dies in a car crash like tomorrow,
Like her daughter doesn't know anything. Yeah, it's gonna blue
through the money her mom has and then she's not
getting know what to do. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (49:05):
Anyway, this was like the quickest stem of the asshole
we've ever had.
Speaker 3 (49:12):
Close case close.
Speaker 1 (49:14):
I have a super drama one for next week when
we have some time. It involves, Uh, my wife deleted
a text message from my ex telling me that she
was pregnant five years ago, and there are updates, like
there are there are layers to this story, like this
(49:35):
person was tuned in. I read this at Comic Con
just while I was like scrolling through during downtime and
I just couldn't turn away, and I was like, oh
my god, we need to talk about this.
Speaker 2 (49:45):
At some point.
Speaker 1 (49:47):
I will say it has a happy ending sort of,
but he does end up having relationship with the five
year old daughter, but it's a fucking wild journey in
the update to get there. So yeah, let's uh, let's
do that next week. Okay, Like I said, it's it's
(50:08):
it's super fun. I mean, if not fun, and then
it has a happy ending which makes it fun. Like
if if if the ending was bad, I wouldn't be like,
it's fun. But yeah, okay, good times. Okay, let's take
a quick break when we come back. We've got a
little bit of feedback and we'll do that. Then all right,
here we go. Okay, so we're gonna take a break,
(50:30):
but we're not gonna take a break. We're gonna cut
this into two because I'm gonna be in London and
it's gonna be like, you know, three am and yeah, okay,
so we're gonna end this right here. Pick up for
episode for second part of this episode next week.
Speaker 3 (50:47):
On that note, my name is Colleen, my name is Amanda.
Speaker 1 (50:51):
And he said, everybody, I'm thinking to the patients that
contribute to a certain level at gart ignor magnetize him
the planet, the green people bop me home in thanks again.
Everybody will catch part two. Okay, bye bye bye. I
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