September 25, 2025 • 25 mins
Here's what we're reading, recommending, and revisiting this week.
Catherine's library find, Carrot Creatures: Make Your Own, came from the children's department, but we have concerns. Mentioned: So You Want to Be a Chef and The Jazzy Vegetarian.
Terri's random recommendation is our coverage of the current season of Dancing with the Stars, recorded immediately after the episodes air on Tuesdays and available on YouTube. Here's week 2, "One-Hit Wonders Night."
In the archives, we checked in on an episode from 2019 on parenting hotlines we could use.
Next week's lineup:
Catherine's library find, Carrot Creatures: Make Your Own, came from the children's department, but we have concerns. Mentioned: So You Want to Be a Chef and The Jazzy Vegetarian.
Terri's random recommendation is our coverage of the current season of Dancing with the Stars, recorded immediately after the episodes air on Tuesdays and available on YouTube. Here's week 2, "One-Hit Wonders Night."
In the archives, we checked in on an episode from 2019 on parenting hotlines we could use.
Next week's lineup:
- Lost S3 E18, "D.O.C." (and DWTS chat on YouTube after the show airs) on Tuesday, September 30
- Only Murders in the Building S5 E5, "Tongue Tied," on Wednesday, October 1
- Weekly roundup on Thursday, October 2
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Welcome to the Parenting Roundabout podcast. I'm Terry Morrow and
I'm Catherine Jileco. Every Thursday, we're bringing you a library find,
a pick from our archives, and a parenting or pop
culture tidbit or two. Let's start with Catherine's library find
of the week.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
So we haven't we haven't had a children's department library
find in a while, So, okay, I have one. But
then when I went to read, when I went to
the Amazon link, it basically said this is not for children.
So it's called Carrot Creatures. Make your own and it's
(00:41):
like making stuff out of food, you know it's but
it's so there's carrot creatures, apples creatures, pepper creatures, and
tomato creatures, which tomato I can seems like it would
be hard to me, Like it's just gonna yes, it's
gonna squish.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
But take a toothpick, use it to connect three grape tomatoes.
Call it a caterpillar or.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
A snowman, you know, make them different.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Sizes, a snowman blushing or else a snowman covered in blood?
Speaker 2 (01:13):
When or the yeah, one of those only murderers in
the building. But the description says that this fun series
is for home cooks that why not who but who
Fun series is for home cooks who are eager to
advance their food presentation skills. Comma for parents that would
(01:36):
like to work with their children to create fun food
creatures parentheses and they're handy with a knife. And for
professional food stilas and chefs. Oh so basically not actually
for children, even though I for sure found it in
the children's.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Depart Don't let the kid handle the knife. They can
arrange the carrot slices to look like the body of
a cat, but do not let them. This is for
moms who want to make other moms feel bad?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Is what this? Yeah? Yeah, exactly is this for I.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Went to Sydney's house and her mom made the carrots
look like a cat. Can you do that, mommy? No,
but here's a cupcake, It says.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
The variety of creatures offers many choices for their use,
from a sophisticated fruit or vegetable salad to a tray
of ordures or a children's party.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Kids are like, but you're not especially look like animals.
Nobody wants that.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
I know that's not an actual I know that's still vegetables.
Like that's that's what you're getting.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Yeah, yeah, kids aren't buying it.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
No, I also enjoy that on Amazon. The category of
this of this title is garnish Books. Then subcategory Cookbooks,
subcategory main Courses in side dishes, final category garnish. Also,
(03:09):
it takes ten to eleven days to ship, so I
don't know what going on there.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
They have to cut each of the pages.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Yes, right, yes, exactly ships a carrot cat. They just
wave a bit with a part with a little knife
like I mean, obviously not for kids, but.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
That you can use to stab yourself after you can't
get to look exactly like it looks like in the book,
and your child is going.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
This doesn't look like that one.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
But it says, don't know, it's vegetables, moms, it's not
worth the trouble.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
It says here that an adult and child could have
fun together just flipping the pages to watch the creatures
come to life.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
I don't okay, there are some children.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
This sounds like the kind of thing that they would
be making fun of on only murders in the building.
You know, this person I went to high school with
is writing books about cutting vegetables into shapes. And they are,
you know, on a bestseller list, and then Oliver would
try to do it and it would be disaster. So
(04:23):
somebody's finger would be in the middle of the cat.
Oh well, yeah, don't do this. Parents are parenting advice. Yeah, don't,
it's not worth it. Learn how to make cookies and
cakes is what you want to do. They can look,
(04:44):
they can look sloppy, and it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
They will be delicious.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Slap some frost and on that puppy and you're done.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
You're good.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
And also, anything anything to do with knives in conjunction
with anything having to do with children seems unwise. Mommy,
can I cut the carrots? Well, they want to get
the garret.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
They needed to like make it less cute or something
so that it would be clearly for adults, you know,
like it's make it, yeah it. Here's how to make
fancy garnishes, and only some of them are animals.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
So I'm scrolling down the page here a little bit,
and there's an ad for a book called So You
Want to Be a Chef? And the copverard depicts a
small child with a knife about the same size as
the kleavers they were using, and only murders in the building.
Step one, do not give your child a knife at all.
He's got a smile on his face that looks like, yeah,
(05:51):
might be in some trouble.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Mommm.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
I'm gonna take this to school and show my teacher.
Great coming with kids, well coming with kids.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Yeah, we'll see. Does it have Does this book have
any reviews? Nope, not a one in the past. In
the past nine years since it came out, no one
has reviewed.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Oh. It's also a book called Simply Veggies with a
bunch of cartoon vegetables on it, a whole bunch of.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
I also found last week a book called The Jazzy Vegetarian,
and it was a cookbook for adults, and it had
on the cover this like giant Martini glass shaped vessel
holding holding crudy ta. But I couldn't find the book
(06:55):
anywhere online like, so that's why it wasn't a lie.
Very fine, But I'll tell you about it right now,
The Jazzy Vegetarian. So maybe I can look it up
in our card catalog and share it.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
That way, it'll keep you from despairing, because all you
can use is vegetables.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
If your jazz up right, Remember This is following the
Joy of half a cookie, because I've had some subtitle
lively vegan cuisine that's easy and delicious.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Oh oh and delicious are opposites and not ever really
the same.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Well, and also vegan and vegetarian are not the same thing, so.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
That is correct.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Anyway, I'll put the link to the jazzy Vegetarian there.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
I will move on here to something that actually is jazzy.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Time to time, which is Dancing with the Stars Season
thirty four started about a week and a half ago
by the time you're listening to this, so get on
it if you're not already. We had a bit of
a quandary as to how to cover it this season.
In the past, we've done episodes on it, but time wise,
(08:24):
it doesn't work out well because you want to get
it out in as timely a fashion as possible. But
our recording schedule and when we usually drop episodes and
what we're I mean, we're already doing only murders in
the building and we're already doing lost work. We kind
of have a lot on our plate and not a
lot of time or energy leftover. So what we decided
(08:44):
we would do was just watch the episode, hop on zoom,
have a little chat about it, dump it onto YouTube,
and that's it. So if you also are watching Dancing
with the Stars, you should be able to find us
talking about it on our YouTube channel hour or two
after and anytime thereafter, we'll put it out on all
(09:08):
our social media and we'll also link to it in
the show notes for these Thursday podcasts. So you know,
listen to what we had to say and tell us
what you think in the comments, and let's have some
fun with this. Yeah, you don't have to you don't
have to dress up in anything spangly to listen to
(09:30):
sit in the comfort. The fun of Dancing with the Stars,
of course, is sitting curled up on your sofa and
criticizing people who are actually up and doing something very difficult. Right, So,
and we're down, and we have a lot.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Of complimentary things to say.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
We do, so we do.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
We have a lot of people that we like. Terry
voted for almost everyone this week. It is.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
It is such a silly show, and yet I enjoy it,
you know, some of it watching with love and excitement
and appreciation. Some of it you're hate watching. It's the
whole gamut of viewing and where you know who doesn't
need that every now and then, so you can find
(10:16):
our little little late Tuesday night recordings on our YouTube
channel or wherever you get our posts on social media
and these listen in so we don't feel so stupid
for staying up late today. Thank you. And what do
(10:37):
we have from the archive this week?
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Well, back in twenty nineteen, we heard that Disney had
a bedtime hotline which exhausted parents could call in and
get you know, Aeriel or Moana or the girl from
Ncana whose name I forgot to tell their kids to
(11:04):
go to bed. So we thought that could come in
handy for all kinds of parenting needs. So we talked
about that at the time. You know, we talked about
we would use it for homework, We would use it,
(11:25):
you know, again in the purpose in which the Disney
one was intended to tell our kids to go to bed,
except for the fact that their adults and they were
just like on their phones instead of procrastinating by asking
to asking for a drink of water. So yeah, I mean,
there's lots of applications for this at the current time.
(11:48):
Since both of my children are not in my home,
it would it would be prompting the the Disney characters
to call them and say, like, call your mom, text
your mom, let her know how she's.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Doing or thinking about to do that. You know your
mom wouldn't like, don't do it right.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Or in the case of my college student, like get up,
go to class, get a job for next summer. That's
what I need a job hotline, Yeah, setting which you
need to? I think I need to.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
I needed a job hotline that would call employers for
me and say hire her kid, will you please?
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Or we haven't heard anything from you since we put
that application in what's up? What's up going on?
Speaker 2 (12:41):
We're still out here.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
The snow, or I would call the employer and say,
we really like your this this person, please make sure
they work more m h Like if you could like
employ you know, you see people do this ruse sometimes
in TV shows where they'll hire somebody to go in
and talk somebody up or ask for somebody. If they
(13:05):
could have if there was an easy service that could
provide that, you know, people to go into the place
where your young person works and say, is so and
so here, Oh, I really like them. I wish they
worked more often. They don't work enough. I only come
to your place to see them, and it would come
so much more if they were here more. Yeah, I
(13:26):
know people who could do that. Actually I should ask
them to what. No, my daughter's not getting enough hours.
If you could just go in and ask for her
and tell them that you're disappointed she's not there, maybe
they give her more hours.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Yeah, I love that idea.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Unlikely. I you know, in our town, we have a
service that tells us when there's traffic issues around town
what streets are going to be closed, where they're draining hydrants.
You know, if there's an accident and Elaine is closed,
we get I mean I must have signed up for this,
(14:04):
but we get a email, a text, and a phone
call all telling us the same thing.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Yeah, that's giving me, got it, got it. That's giving
me bad flashbacks to the attendance system at my son's.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Right school, because very much like we would.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Look, I would get those same three notifications, and then
my husband would get it and it'd be a hole.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Yes, yes, this is the problem. I've signed up for it,
and apparently I've my husband is signed up for it,
my kids, So we just get like a cavalcade warnings
of one. I got it, I got it.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
I heard.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
I would like our our town. It's very tricky to
get across town really anytime anymore, but especially when the
schools are letting out. We have a lot of schools.
They're all just on regular surface streets, and they the
(15:05):
times are supposed to be, you know, separated enough that
there's time in between, but it never quite works out
that way, so you have to sort of know what
the schedule is. Say, Okay, I have a moment of
opportunity to get past this school area, but then I'm
in this school area. Will I be able to get
through there? Or will it still be backed up? It's
(15:26):
just really confusing. I have to go pick up my
son for work today, and I'm really stressing about it
because there's like I pass like three schools on the way,
saying okay, when is this one going to be letting out?
Is that one going to be letting out? Will I
be able to get through the traffic? So I would
like kind of maybe a live service that provides information
(15:49):
on which streets you want to stay off of at
any given time. Up school to let out, you want
to stay off the street, and that street this street
is clearing The high school has been out for a while,
so that street is clearing up. But you want to
make sure you don't go by here because the preschool
is going to be letting out at a different time
and it's you know, or like let everybody know. Okay,
today's an early closure, you know, closing day. So make
sure that you adjust all your route concerns by that
(16:12):
much time. Just that's the traffic I need to know about. Yeah,
you need a very specific the minute ways.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Yes, that's only about school.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Okay. There's somebody parked behind your park your driveway right
now to pick their kids up from school. So if
you want to go out, you're gonna have to go
talk to them. This is what I need. Yes, you
need a robot that would go out and tell me. Yes.
Trying to remember if when I was picking kids up
at school, if I ever just purposefully dropped parked incidents
(16:43):
in front of somebody's driveway. I think people think that
if they're in their car, they're not actually parked. Yeah,
so they can just be anywhere they want to be.
They can be at a stop sign forty five minutes, right,
they can You know.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
That is not the case, So.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
I can't park if I can't pull out of my
driveway because your car is sitting there, you're parked.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Yeah move yeah. Yeah. At my kids elementary school, it
was definitely complicated in terms of like what parking was
allowed where, and you know, they tried doing different like
drop off and pick up things, and it was very Yeah,
(17:28):
it was a whole thing.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Yeah, it's a live service that you could call and
it would explain to you exactly what you need to
do and where you need to go and where you
need to be and where you don't want to be.
And if you go at exactly this time, there'll be
a little opening and you'll be able to get through.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Right.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
And uh also think this isn't so much a hotline,
but if somebody could combine the concepts of car pooling
and Uber to make some sort of service which moms
could sign up and maybe if you pick up everybody's kids,
(18:05):
you get a little bit of money. And if you're
a mom who doesn't have any friends, you could call
the service and somebody would come and pick up your
kid or drop your kid off. Right, make it make
that a little bit more you know, easier to.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Navigate right, Yeah, I could see that.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
For sure, you'd have to vet people to make sure
that they were safe. But but you could all all
moms at a particular.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
School and you could get like credits, you know, so
if you've done it, yeah, then you you have a credit.
Then then the day that you need it, you spend
your credit.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Exactly. That's a good way. That's a good way to
think about it, because.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Then everybody has skin in the game, right.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
And like, yeah, yeah, I mean it just seems to
me like a lot of time people carpool with the
people in their neighborhood and maybe you don't know somebody,
or maybe you don't have any you know, you're new
to town, or maybe you just don't have that network
of people. Right, But if you could just call the
uber and you know, I'm driving right by your house, right, sure,
I'll pick your kid up what or drop your kid
(19:10):
off after So that would be an interesting hotline carpool hotline.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Yes, you can just picture like the command center, the
person who's got like this giant map of the of
the all the homes of all the people, and they
have little mini cars on magnets that they drive like
this one's driving this way and it's gonna pick up
this person. Oh I have, I have Missus Jones. She's
(19:42):
she's three minutes out.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Like, yes, and you know, if you could, like, if
you sign up for this service, you let them know
what your schedule is. And it's like, you know, missus Jones,
we see that when you're taking your kid to gymnastics,
you're gonna drive right by where this person needs to
go for karate? Could you drop him?
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Of course, yeah, I like it, so I would make
things so much easierous.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
I need a hotline to pinpoint the location of all
the neighborhood dogs and small children so that I know
when what route to take when walking my dog. And
you know, where is a good idea Where are wanting
to avoid the other dogs and small children or encounter them? Well,
(20:34):
I'm wanting to generally avoid them, Like my neighbors are
immediate nextdoor neighbors have a whole bunch of grandchildren and
so when they are in the yard, it makes my
dogs absolutely manic. You know, they just are going crazy barking,
and of course the neighbors don't appreciate that. So I
(21:00):
need you know, I'm always like trying to like peer
out my window and see if there's any children around.
So we need so I can avoid putting the dogs out.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
So yeah, that's a good idea.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Also, speaking of dog issues, in Only Murders in the building.
When we were watching it, the doorbell rang like three times, right, Oh,
because all those people kept showing up at Oliver's apartment.
Each time, Yeah, each time my dog bolted off the
(21:36):
couch and started barking like a lunatic. Oh and now
she's I hear her barking downstairs, So I need a
hotline to be like, Okay, I'm about to watch this
show at what timestamp do I need to mute it?
Because she's going to hear something that's going to drive
her nuts.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
That is a valuable service. I mean, there's a free
business idea we're offering to.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Somebody, because isn't there like for movies like yes, optimum
time to go to the bathroom or or like here's
when somebody gets stabbed and there's blood or you know,
things that things that bother different people.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
So that is a great idea. Somebody out there take
this job opportunity and figure out how you do that.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
That's great, you know because there's so many things that
could set off a dog, So you'd.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Have doorbells, other dogs, other dogs, engines revving yep.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Yep, stuff like that, thunder and lightning maybe.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
So oh that's right, yes, so yeah, yeah, somebody make that.
So I was gonna say it would be nice to
have a hotline that you could call and get the
exact right advice a situation. But even better than that,
(23:05):
I think it's a hotline you could call and the
person you could tell all your your situations that you're
dealing with, and the other person would say, you're absolutely right,
you are completely right, your ideas are perfectly sound. You
you got it, you are you are, you are right.
The other people you're dealing with, they're wrong. You you
(23:26):
are right, because nobody else in your life is going
to tell you that anonymous stranger on the phone or
just at any you know, we were originally talking about
what lengths or they would call you at any various
times you sign up for the service, at various times,
somebody just calls you, pick up the phone and they say,
(23:46):
whatever you're doing right now, you're exactly right right, doing
it exactly right, tells you otherwise is wrong. Yeah, because
we all need to hear that. Sometimes it's unlikely that
we will hear it from our families. Anonymous stranger, I'll
take it. Yes, thank you. Hotline you could call and say,
(24:09):
how's my podcast and listen. It's so good. It's all
the episodes.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
You guys are great. I listened to all the episodes.
It took me fourteen years.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Wonder if I is going to be calling us any minute.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
We're sitting by the.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Phone and they will tell us. What will they tell us?
We can't do continue record? We will pay you to
just shot off. Oh well, I.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Think we're I think we're done. And when he says
we're done, when he.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
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over the years.
Welcome to the Parenting Roundabout podcast. I'm Terry Morrow and
I'm Catherine Jileco. Every Thursday, we're bringing you a library find,
a pick from our archives, and a parenting or pop
culture tidbit or two. Let's start with Catherine's library find
of the week.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
So we haven't we haven't had a children's department library
find in a while, So, okay, I have one. But
then when I went to read, when I went to
the Amazon link, it basically said this is not for children.
So it's called Carrot Creatures. Make your own and it's
(00:41):
like making stuff out of food, you know it's but
it's so there's carrot creatures, apples creatures, pepper creatures, and
tomato creatures, which tomato I can seems like it would
be hard to me, Like it's just gonna yes, it's
gonna squish.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
But take a toothpick, use it to connect three grape tomatoes.
Call it a caterpillar or.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
A snowman, you know, make them different.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Sizes, a snowman blushing or else a snowman covered in blood?
Speaker 2 (01:13):
When or the yeah, one of those only murderers in
the building. But the description says that this fun series
is for home cooks that why not who but who
Fun series is for home cooks who are eager to
advance their food presentation skills. Comma for parents that would
(01:36):
like to work with their children to create fun food
creatures parentheses and they're handy with a knife. And for
professional food stilas and chefs. Oh so basically not actually
for children, even though I for sure found it in
the children's.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Depart Don't let the kid handle the knife. They can
arrange the carrot slices to look like the body of
a cat, but do not let them. This is for
moms who want to make other moms feel bad?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Is what this? Yeah? Yeah, exactly is this for I.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Went to Sydney's house and her mom made the carrots
look like a cat. Can you do that, mommy? No,
but here's a cupcake, It says.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
The variety of creatures offers many choices for their use,
from a sophisticated fruit or vegetable salad to a tray
of ordures or a children's party.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Kids are like, but you're not especially look like animals.
Nobody wants that.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
I know that's not an actual I know that's still vegetables.
Like that's that's what you're getting.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Yeah, yeah, kids aren't buying it.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
No, I also enjoy that on Amazon. The category of
this of this title is garnish Books. Then subcategory Cookbooks,
subcategory main Courses in side dishes, final category garnish. Also,
(03:09):
it takes ten to eleven days to ship, so I
don't know what going on there.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
They have to cut each of the pages.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Yes, right, yes, exactly ships a carrot cat. They just
wave a bit with a part with a little knife
like I mean, obviously not for kids, but.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
That you can use to stab yourself after you can't
get to look exactly like it looks like in the book,
and your child is going.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
This doesn't look like that one.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
But it says, don't know, it's vegetables, moms, it's not
worth the trouble.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
It says here that an adult and child could have
fun together just flipping the pages to watch the creatures
come to life.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
I don't okay, there are some children.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
This sounds like the kind of thing that they would
be making fun of on only murders in the building.
You know, this person I went to high school with
is writing books about cutting vegetables into shapes. And they are,
you know, on a bestseller list, and then Oliver would
try to do it and it would be disaster. So
(04:23):
somebody's finger would be in the middle of the cat.
Oh well, yeah, don't do this. Parents are parenting advice. Yeah, don't,
it's not worth it. Learn how to make cookies and
cakes is what you want to do. They can look,
(04:44):
they can look sloppy, and it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
They will be delicious.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Slap some frost and on that puppy and you're done.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
You're good.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
And also, anything anything to do with knives in conjunction
with anything having to do with children seems unwise. Mommy,
can I cut the carrots? Well, they want to get
the garret.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
They needed to like make it less cute or something
so that it would be clearly for adults, you know,
like it's make it, yeah it. Here's how to make
fancy garnishes, and only some of them are animals.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
So I'm scrolling down the page here a little bit,
and there's an ad for a book called So You
Want to Be a Chef? And the copverard depicts a
small child with a knife about the same size as
the kleavers they were using, and only murders in the building.
Step one, do not give your child a knife at all.
He's got a smile on his face that looks like, yeah,
(05:51):
might be in some trouble.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Mommm.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
I'm gonna take this to school and show my teacher.
Great coming with kids, well coming with kids.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Yeah, we'll see. Does it have Does this book have
any reviews? Nope, not a one in the past. In
the past nine years since it came out, no one
has reviewed.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Oh. It's also a book called Simply Veggies with a
bunch of cartoon vegetables on it, a whole bunch of.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
I also found last week a book called The Jazzy Vegetarian,
and it was a cookbook for adults, and it had
on the cover this like giant Martini glass shaped vessel
holding holding crudy ta. But I couldn't find the book
(06:55):
anywhere online like, so that's why it wasn't a lie.
Very fine, But I'll tell you about it right now,
The Jazzy Vegetarian. So maybe I can look it up
in our card catalog and share it.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
That way, it'll keep you from despairing, because all you
can use is vegetables.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
If your jazz up right, Remember This is following the
Joy of half a cookie, because I've had some subtitle
lively vegan cuisine that's easy and delicious.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Oh oh and delicious are opposites and not ever really
the same.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Well, and also vegan and vegetarian are not the same thing, so.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
That is correct.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Anyway, I'll put the link to the jazzy Vegetarian there.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
I will move on here to something that actually is jazzy.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Time to time, which is Dancing with the Stars Season
thirty four started about a week and a half ago
by the time you're listening to this, so get on
it if you're not already. We had a bit of
a quandary as to how to cover it this season.
In the past, we've done episodes on it, but time wise,
(08:24):
it doesn't work out well because you want to get
it out in as timely a fashion as possible. But
our recording schedule and when we usually drop episodes and
what we're I mean, we're already doing only murders in
the building and we're already doing lost work. We kind
of have a lot on our plate and not a
lot of time or energy leftover. So what we decided
(08:44):
we would do was just watch the episode, hop on zoom,
have a little chat about it, dump it onto YouTube,
and that's it. So if you also are watching Dancing
with the Stars, you should be able to find us
talking about it on our YouTube channel hour or two
after and anytime thereafter, we'll put it out on all
(09:08):
our social media and we'll also link to it in
the show notes for these Thursday podcasts. So you know,
listen to what we had to say and tell us
what you think in the comments, and let's have some
fun with this. Yeah, you don't have to you don't
have to dress up in anything spangly to listen to
(09:30):
sit in the comfort. The fun of Dancing with the Stars,
of course, is sitting curled up on your sofa and
criticizing people who are actually up and doing something very difficult. Right, So,
and we're down, and we have a lot.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Of complimentary things to say.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
We do, so we do.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
We have a lot of people that we like. Terry
voted for almost everyone this week. It is.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
It is such a silly show, and yet I enjoy it,
you know, some of it watching with love and excitement
and appreciation. Some of it you're hate watching. It's the
whole gamut of viewing and where you know who doesn't
need that every now and then, so you can find
(10:16):
our little little late Tuesday night recordings on our YouTube
channel or wherever you get our posts on social media
and these listen in so we don't feel so stupid
for staying up late today. Thank you. And what do
(10:37):
we have from the archive this week?
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Well, back in twenty nineteen, we heard that Disney had
a bedtime hotline which exhausted parents could call in and
get you know, Aeriel or Moana or the girl from
Ncana whose name I forgot to tell their kids to
(11:04):
go to bed. So we thought that could come in
handy for all kinds of parenting needs. So we talked
about that at the time. You know, we talked about
we would use it for homework, We would use it,
(11:25):
you know, again in the purpose in which the Disney
one was intended to tell our kids to go to bed,
except for the fact that their adults and they were
just like on their phones instead of procrastinating by asking
to asking for a drink of water. So yeah, I mean,
there's lots of applications for this at the current time.
(11:48):
Since both of my children are not in my home,
it would it would be prompting the the Disney characters
to call them and say, like, call your mom, text
your mom, let her know how she's.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Doing or thinking about to do that. You know your
mom wouldn't like, don't do it right.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Or in the case of my college student, like get up,
go to class, get a job for next summer. That's
what I need a job hotline, Yeah, setting which you
need to? I think I need to.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
I needed a job hotline that would call employers for
me and say hire her kid, will you please?
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Or we haven't heard anything from you since we put
that application in what's up? What's up going on?
Speaker 2 (12:41):
We're still out here.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
The snow, or I would call the employer and say,
we really like your this this person, please make sure
they work more m h Like if you could like
employ you know, you see people do this ruse sometimes
in TV shows where they'll hire somebody to go in
and talk somebody up or ask for somebody. If they
(13:05):
could have if there was an easy service that could
provide that, you know, people to go into the place
where your young person works and say, is so and
so here, Oh, I really like them. I wish they
worked more often. They don't work enough. I only come
to your place to see them, and it would come
so much more if they were here more. Yeah, I
(13:26):
know people who could do that. Actually I should ask
them to what. No, my daughter's not getting enough hours.
If you could just go in and ask for her
and tell them that you're disappointed she's not there, maybe
they give her more hours.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Yeah, I love that idea.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Unlikely. I you know, in our town, we have a
service that tells us when there's traffic issues around town
what streets are going to be closed, where they're draining hydrants.
You know, if there's an accident and Elaine is closed,
we get I mean I must have signed up for this,
(14:04):
but we get a email, a text, and a phone
call all telling us the same thing.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Yeah, that's giving me, got it, got it. That's giving
me bad flashbacks to the attendance system at my son's.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Right school, because very much like we would.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Look, I would get those same three notifications, and then
my husband would get it and it'd be a hole.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Yes, yes, this is the problem. I've signed up for it,
and apparently I've my husband is signed up for it,
my kids, So we just get like a cavalcade warnings
of one. I got it, I got it.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
I heard.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
I would like our our town. It's very tricky to
get across town really anytime anymore, but especially when the
schools are letting out. We have a lot of schools.
They're all just on regular surface streets, and they the
(15:05):
times are supposed to be, you know, separated enough that
there's time in between, but it never quite works out
that way, so you have to sort of know what
the schedule is. Say, Okay, I have a moment of
opportunity to get past this school area, but then I'm
in this school area. Will I be able to get
through there? Or will it still be backed up? It's
(15:26):
just really confusing. I have to go pick up my
son for work today, and I'm really stressing about it
because there's like I pass like three schools on the way,
saying okay, when is this one going to be letting out?
Is that one going to be letting out? Will I
be able to get through the traffic? So I would
like kind of maybe a live service that provides information
(15:49):
on which streets you want to stay off of at
any given time. Up school to let out, you want
to stay off the street, and that street this street
is clearing The high school has been out for a while,
so that street is clearing up. But you want to
make sure you don't go by here because the preschool
is going to be letting out at a different time
and it's you know, or like let everybody know. Okay,
today's an early closure, you know, closing day. So make
sure that you adjust all your route concerns by that
(16:12):
much time. Just that's the traffic I need to know about. Yeah,
you need a very specific the minute ways.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Yes, that's only about school.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Okay. There's somebody parked behind your park your driveway right
now to pick their kids up from school. So if
you want to go out, you're gonna have to go
talk to them. This is what I need. Yes, you
need a robot that would go out and tell me. Yes.
Trying to remember if when I was picking kids up
at school, if I ever just purposefully dropped parked incidents
(16:43):
in front of somebody's driveway. I think people think that
if they're in their car, they're not actually parked. Yeah,
so they can just be anywhere they want to be.
They can be at a stop sign forty five minutes, right,
they can You know.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
That is not the case, So.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
I can't park if I can't pull out of my
driveway because your car is sitting there, you're parked.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Yeah move yeah. Yeah. At my kids elementary school, it
was definitely complicated in terms of like what parking was
allowed where, and you know, they tried doing different like
drop off and pick up things, and it was very Yeah,
(17:28):
it was a whole thing.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Yeah, it's a live service that you could call and
it would explain to you exactly what you need to
do and where you need to go and where you
need to be and where you don't want to be.
And if you go at exactly this time, there'll be
a little opening and you'll be able to get through.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Right.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
And uh also think this isn't so much a hotline,
but if somebody could combine the concepts of car pooling
and Uber to make some sort of service which moms
could sign up and maybe if you pick up everybody's kids,
(18:05):
you get a little bit of money. And if you're
a mom who doesn't have any friends, you could call
the service and somebody would come and pick up your
kid or drop your kid off. Right, make it make
that a little bit more you know, easier to.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Navigate right, Yeah, I could see that.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
For sure, you'd have to vet people to make sure
that they were safe. But but you could all all
moms at a particular.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
School and you could get like credits, you know, so
if you've done it, yeah, then you you have a credit.
Then then the day that you need it, you spend
your credit.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Exactly. That's a good way. That's a good way to
think about it, because.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Then everybody has skin in the game, right.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
And like, yeah, yeah, I mean it just seems to
me like a lot of time people carpool with the
people in their neighborhood and maybe you don't know somebody,
or maybe you don't have any you know, you're new
to town, or maybe you just don't have that network
of people. Right, But if you could just call the
uber and you know, I'm driving right by your house, right, sure,
I'll pick your kid up what or drop your kid
(19:10):
off after So that would be an interesting hotline carpool hotline.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Yes, you can just picture like the command center, the
person who's got like this giant map of the of
the all the homes of all the people, and they
have little mini cars on magnets that they drive like
this one's driving this way and it's gonna pick up
this person. Oh I have, I have Missus Jones. She's
(19:42):
she's three minutes out.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Like, yes, and you know, if you could, like, if
you sign up for this service, you let them know
what your schedule is. And it's like, you know, missus Jones,
we see that when you're taking your kid to gymnastics,
you're gonna drive right by where this person needs to
go for karate? Could you drop him?
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Of course, yeah, I like it, so I would make
things so much easierous.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
I need a hotline to pinpoint the location of all
the neighborhood dogs and small children so that I know
when what route to take when walking my dog. And
you know, where is a good idea Where are wanting
to avoid the other dogs and small children or encounter them? Well,
(20:34):
I'm wanting to generally avoid them, Like my neighbors are
immediate nextdoor neighbors have a whole bunch of grandchildren and
so when they are in the yard, it makes my
dogs absolutely manic. You know, they just are going crazy barking,
and of course the neighbors don't appreciate that. So I
(21:00):
need you know, I'm always like trying to like peer
out my window and see if there's any children around.
So we need so I can avoid putting the dogs out.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
So yeah, that's a good idea.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Also, speaking of dog issues, in Only Murders in the building.
When we were watching it, the doorbell rang like three times, right, Oh,
because all those people kept showing up at Oliver's apartment.
Each time, Yeah, each time my dog bolted off the
(21:36):
couch and started barking like a lunatic. Oh and now
she's I hear her barking downstairs, So I need a
hotline to be like, Okay, I'm about to watch this
show at what timestamp do I need to mute it?
Because she's going to hear something that's going to drive
her nuts.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
That is a valuable service. I mean, there's a free
business idea we're offering to.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Somebody, because isn't there like for movies like yes, optimum
time to go to the bathroom or or like here's
when somebody gets stabbed and there's blood or you know,
things that things that bother different people.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
So that is a great idea. Somebody out there take
this job opportunity and figure out how you do that.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
That's great, you know because there's so many things that
could set off a dog, So you'd.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Have doorbells, other dogs, other dogs, engines revving yep.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Yep, stuff like that, thunder and lightning maybe.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
So oh that's right, yes, so yeah, yeah, somebody make that.
So I was gonna say it would be nice to
have a hotline that you could call and get the
exact right advice a situation. But even better than that,
(23:05):
I think it's a hotline you could call and the
person you could tell all your your situations that you're
dealing with, and the other person would say, you're absolutely right,
you are completely right, your ideas are perfectly sound. You
you got it, you are you are, you are right.
The other people you're dealing with, they're wrong. You you
(23:26):
are right, because nobody else in your life is going
to tell you that anonymous stranger on the phone or
just at any you know, we were originally talking about
what lengths or they would call you at any various
times you sign up for the service, at various times,
somebody just calls you, pick up the phone and they say,
(23:46):
whatever you're doing right now, you're exactly right right, doing
it exactly right, tells you otherwise is wrong. Yeah, because
we all need to hear that. Sometimes it's unlikely that
we will hear it from our families. Anonymous stranger, I'll
take it. Yes, thank you. Hotline you could call and say,
(24:09):
how's my podcast and listen. It's so good. It's all
the episodes.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
You guys are great. I listened to all the episodes.
It took me fourteen years.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Wonder if I is going to be calling us any minute.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
We're sitting by the.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Phone and they will tell us. What will they tell us?
We can't do continue record? We will pay you to
just shot off. Oh well, I.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Think we're I think we're done. And when he says
we're done, when he.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Says we're done, and we listen to Winnie. Thank you
for listening. You can find all our episodes on Spreaker,
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You can find recaps, thanks and an opportunity to comment
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