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Two Noras and a Mic
Mixtapes, Mac & Cheese Lip Balm, and MAFO Moments
Remember waiting anxiously by the radio, finger hovering over the record button, ready to capture that perfect song for your mixtape? That deep musical nostalgia kicked off our conversation this week as we explored how our relationship with music has evolved through the decades.
From the ritual of recording songs off B96 and Q101 in Chicago to the innovative CD cases that held our prized music collections, we unpacked the technological journey that's shaped how we experience sound. Remember the excitement of getting a new CD with printed lyrics in the booklet? Our kids will never understand the struggle! Now they simply stare at Alexa and ask for words to any song. The transition from physical media to digital streaming mirrors our own journey from adolescence to adulthood—each phase building on the last while something intangible is left behind.
Between musical reminiscences, we shared tales of extreme weather (including a 24-hour power outage that led to refrigerator food casualties), tested bizarre Panera Bread Mac & Cheese scented lip balm (with dramatically different sensory results), and discovered a new parenting trend called "MAFO" (Mess Around and Find Out). We even explored the curious case of Swingathon Festival in tiny Allington, UK—a three-day adult event that doubles the town's population and raises eyebrows among locals.
What connects these seemingly disparate topics? The thread of shared experience despite our different perspectives. Whether it's disagreeing about food safety after power outages or experiencing the same lip balm completely differently (one of us couldn't smell the cheese at all!), we're constantly reminded that even two people with the same name can have wildly different takes on the world. Subscribe now to join our weekly conversations where no topic is too mundane or too outrageous to explore!
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Hi, thanks for joining us today. It's Nora, and Nora, we're sure glad you're here. We are Thanks for tuning in week after week. Welcome friends. Yeah, if this is your first week, settle in. Yes, exactly, get comfy. We never know what's in store, we never do. But I do have something from last week, you do. Yes, a clarification from my dad. Oh gosh, it's like a fact checker. Okay, because we were talking about the wiener drop at the Joliet Slammers game and we were curious why Bill Murray would be there. Yes, he's part owner of the team. Oh, that would make sense. Thank you, mr Ryan. So case closed. Case closed on that. Yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 1:Before we go any further, how about our weather? How about our weather? Eh, eh, shoot, our weather has been bananas, but it's been a real mix. More specifically, when we finished recording last week, we ended quite abruptly because of a storm that was brewing. Yes, and holy cow. So I'm interrupting a little bit. I get a lot of notifications on my phone about weather. You know flash flood warning, beach hazard statement, air quality alerts, and then you know thunderstorm warning, thunderstorm watch, like whatever, whatever. And I'm beginning to be kind of desensitized to them, because normally it'll rain or whatever, but it's not anything to write home about.
Speaker 1:This storm was the real deal. This was the real deal, and you were kind of a hometown hero. Both my front and back patio umbrellas were in flight. I was so not chill about it, though, and I said just let them go, because the wind was whirling and the rain was pouring and it could have been dangerous, and I just think I yelled no, they're expensive. That's exactly what you yelled. I ran outside like a lifeguard. You did Thank you, ryan thinks. Outside like a lifeguard. You did Thank you, ryan thinks so. Oh, yeah, yeah. But then you wrangled the backyard. One, yes, but that rain. You got stuck here. I did get stuck. You had a shelter in place, and then your son was at my house. That was a really bad storm, a significant one.
Speaker 1:Do you care to tell our listeners about your power? So your power went out while I was here, and it was out. What do you think? 10 minutes, five minutes, 10 minutes Ours was out for over 24 hours. That is a long time to be without power. Spoiler, that's my low. But yeah, it was.
Speaker 1:We've never had. I mean, aren't we lucky? We've never had power out for that long before and Al was at home working. So he was at home with our four kids plus one, two, three more kids. So he had a lot of kids. He had a full house, full house. So then when the storm died down, I left your house and I said get those extra kids ready, I'm going to drive them all home. That was really nice.
Speaker 1:One of the kids was like why do I have to leave so soon? Because the weather is bad, it's time to go. I sent somebody home yesterday or the day before because the clouds were dark and he was like why? Because safety first, safety first. My side of the street, so there's only three houses on my four houses, I guess, if you count the one across the way, four houses on my side and they all kept power, but there's probably six or eight on the other side facing us. That all lost power.
Speaker 1:Our mutual friend who I saw in the parking lot of Target yesterday, he told me he ended up just buying a generator. Yes, that was amazing, it's a big purchase. That was told me. He ended up just buying a generator. Yes, that was amazing, it's a big purchase. That was a big purchase. We just muddled through. You could hear the generators on the other side of the street running, and that's how I knew that power was still up. It was random, though, because we didn't have power Our little cluster on one side of the street, but then our neighbors across the street were fine on one side of the street, but then our neighbors across the street were fine. Yeah, same. It's a mystery of how the grid works, so I'm glad power was restored.
Speaker 1:Yes, that was probably rough. I mean, it was kind of an adventure. It was hot, it was hot, and it's funny how muscle memory you are accustomed to walking in a room and turning the light. Like how many light switches I flipped on just out of habit, these don't work. I, I flipped on just out of habit, these don't work. I was like oh God, what am I doing? I think the biggest pain is your refrigerator. We lost, yeah, and that's. I mean. The power outage was fine, we really were fine, but a lot of food thrown out, because I Googled it and it said food in your fridge or freezer. Four hours after a power outage, you should throw it away. Our neighbors had a giant cooler. Oh, and then there was beer on top.
Speaker 1:So we went over Nice and I disagreed on if it was still good or not. I was like I'm not eating any meat that was in the freezer. My husband does that, like during the week. I'll be like oh, that's old, don't eat that. He'll be like why didn't you throw it out? Why didn't you throw it out? And we don't eat it on garbage day. Yeah, I don't like to throw a whole, half a rotisserie chicken or whatever in it Like leftovers and just let them sit in there. But he often says like why didn't you throw them out? Can't you throw them out? Like it's fine, it's always a thing. He was like I think it's fine. I said well then, if you would like to eat that meat, it's all yours, pal, wait. That's similar to this new viral parenting trend Eat the meat, whoa, whoa.
Speaker 1:Not to say that you're parenting your spouse, but they call it Fafo, fafo, and we can't say the first F word on our podcast, so we'll call it. I'll call it MAFO. Okay, mess around, mess around and find out. So it's the idea that you can ask or warn, but if someone chooses and in this case a child chooses to break a rule or doesn't follow the direction or your husband, then there's a natural consequence, for example, like bring a raincoat, grab an umbrella, and they're like no, no, like well, okay, I warned you. Yeah, I asked you. You don't, well, you'll get drenched in the storm. I feel like I do this Same.
Speaker 1:I didn't know it had a name. I didn't know it had a name either. My dad is a trailblazer yes, and this is how I was raised and I watch him do it with my kids. Often, yeah, sometimes, my parents are like are you going to let them do that? I'm like well, they've been told. Yeah, so goodbye helicopter parenting. Yeah, so goodbye helicopter parenting. Goodbye snowplow parenting. Yeah, goodbye gentle parenting. I like yours better. Messerana Vido, yeah, so do I.
Speaker 1:Mafo, yeah, have you ever heard of the town Allington in the United Kingdom? No, ma'am. Well, nora, for five years now, it has been the home of the Swingathon Festival. Oh, I read about that. I read about that last week, but I didn't say anything because I didn't know if we could talk about it. We're not an explicit podcast, go for it, but okay. So it's a three-day festival of about a thousand people who are all swingers, and so there are demonstrations and workshops, djs, live music, pole dancing classes, phone parties, dungeons and, I'm going to say games, games In quotes, adult games. I believe that it's kind of causing a ruckus with noise complaints, the locals yes, they have had noise complaints from the locals, and this is a town of 897 people, so they're doubling the size with all these swingers.
Speaker 1:Did you see the pictures of it? It was so insane. I didn't see any people, I didn't see any nudity, but it's oh hell. But they just have tents set up. It just seems dirty so people can couple off. But it's also because it's in a field. Yeah, I don't there's so much wrong with that. I think so. But if you keep scrolling, I saw a trampoline.
Speaker 1:Oh, no, no, but I had a question for you. Would I ever just swing at that? The guy who runs it Gross. What are you going to ask me? Would you rather go to Swingathon or the Naked Family Resort? Oh, my god, the Swingathon, really.
Speaker 1:Yes, I don't want to take my family on a Nakey Pie vacation. At least, at the Nakey Pie vacation there's no touching. Well, I can just choose. Oh, you can just go to the classes, I can just go and watch. I guess you can go to swing a song. Would you rather take your family? Oh, that's true. I guess you wouldn't have to participate. Just imagine sitting across the table from Aiden and Roy having dinner at the Nakey Pie Resort and it's only $250 for three nights, three days. I feel like they should charge. Do you get your own tent? Probably not Everybody's cuddling, because maybe I'd just stay inside and read and I guess you don't have to be naked.
Speaker 1:No, some of the pictures I saw had people dressed up in very suggestive costumes, looking like body parts. Okay, interesting. It says tickets for the Frisky Festival go for around $250. So you pay $250. Oh gosh, show up naked or in an inappropriate costume and then do your thing. Whatever blows your hair back, costume and then do your thing. Blows your hair back, and then you can learn and meet people who are like I also love leather and you can jump on a trampoline. You can jump on a trampoline. It looks very low budget, super low budget. It looks like some people have brought their own rvs.
Speaker 1:I think if I had to I think you're right if I had to choose between the two, I would go to this rent an rv so I could sleep in my own space. Are there like booths and tents and stuff? Because I don't see like any vendors, correct, maybe those are these trucks, but those tents must be the coupling zones. Oh God, so bizarre, too bad for the town. So, and it said it's mostly elderly people. I mean, and this is in the middle of nowhere, this picture, it's like a drone picture. So if it's that loud, and then what do you tell people at work about your weekend? How was your weekend? I went camping when? Allington? Oh, really, you had that on the ready. Are you sure you haven't been to something like this before? 100% sure I'm an improver, but anyways, I would much rather try, although maybe I wouldn't. As promised, they're here. It's here early, it came early.
Speaker 1:This is the Holler and Glow brand Panera Bread Smack and Cheese Scented Lip Balms. This is so gross, it's so disgusting. Let's smell it. So this is what I'm thinking we need to put one on top and one on the bottom, because there's two. It's a duo and it comes with a little spoon. They look like eggs, they do.
Speaker 1:The packaging is cute. I'll give them that. One is scented like a bread bowl and then one is scented. Let me see if I can tell. Oh, one is scented. Oh, that's gross. Like mac and cheese. That one's kind of broken. Oh my God, yeah, this kind of smells like bread. What is this smell like? Oh, I smelled that one already. Oh, geez, doing it again. So, oh my gosh, there's a spoon. There's a little spoon. That's what I was saying.
Speaker 1:The packaging is very cute, so I was going to just take a little. What are you doing? Oh, that's how, no way. Well, we got to try it. All right, you gotta try it. All right here, nora, try a little bread. Uh, where are you going? Bread on the bottom. I just want I don't want to try them together. Well, I think you're supposed to, because it's a bread bowl for mac and cheese, right, all right, oh, how'd I do? Are we gonna wait to try them together? Oh yeah, oh, it hasn't. It applies smoothly, all right.
Speaker 1:So for the bread, one's not bad. It definitely smells like bread, though I can't smell it Really. Is there something wrong with my? Do you need that? Thank you, is there something wrong with my sniffer? I don't think so. Oh, this is a big wet wipe here. We can share this. We don't need the? Well, I don't think we should.
Speaker 1:I will say it's a very nice quality lip gloss. It is All right. Should I wipe this out. Oh, the spoon. Yeah, maybe, okay, let's go ahead.
Speaker 1:My daughter wanted to try it. I was like, well, no, mrs Westphal and I are trying it first. Pretty shorter, all right. Oh, here you can go first. This is so sick. Yeah, the's pretty gross.
Speaker 1:This is like putting moldy cheese on your lips. Oh, it smells so bad. Cheese whiz. It's like easy cheese. Yeah, did you put it on? No, oh my God, this is so gross. Oh my God, this is disgusting. I can't even do it because I'm laughing. Uh-uh, no, no, no, no, uh-uh, uh-uh.
Speaker 1:I don't care if wet wipes are not for For your face. Oh my God, no, no, I can't smell it on my mouth. You can't, no, what? What is wrong with me? You can't smell it. I need to cleanse the palate with a cheese sour patch kit. No, I don't. I don't smell it at all. I mean, I smelled it in the container. Wait, no, I don't really smell this one. Did the wet wipe? Maybe that affected it? No, how come I can't smell the cheese? Oh my gosh, no, I can't. You have opposite noses.
Speaker 1:I can smell the bread more than I can smell it. All the mac and cheese? The mac and cheese smells like moldy cheese. I don't smell it at all, did you at first? No, I did the bread first, just like you. I'd love to take a little picture. I can't smell the bread. The bread smells like a crayon. Oh see, that's what that smells like to me. That's so weird, all right. So, mom, no, stop smelling. I just want to make sure it's still smelled. It's cute packaging, yeah, and I like the lip gloss. It feels good. Yeah, I'd use the bread. No problem, because it doesn't. You can have the bread if you want. No, no, no.
Speaker 1:I think this is way better than Lipolte, way, 100% better than Lipolte. Everything, anything's better than Lipolte. I don't have enough time to do Lipolte, where you can only get this online, I believe. So I got it through Amazon, oh, but yeah, did it sell out? Like, is it a big? So I guess you're just trying to be funny and different Because you love Panera.
Speaker 1:If you are like, can you imagine if you? What? If you were at the swing-a-thon and someone's like, did you see? I smell cheese. I smell cheese. I'm just kidding. So gross, oh, my God, that is really gross. Anywho, well, thank you for trying it.
Speaker 1:We have tried worse things, or you think this is pretty bad. The kale chips were the worst. That tasted like ocean. Yeah yeah, that was not good.
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Speaker 1:And now back to the show. Our topic today is music, but more specifically listening to music, how we enjoy music, because we've already talked sometimes about concerts and things. What I realized when you did our intro to this segment is that we did not compare notes, zero notes, so I'm not entirely sure which direction you went or what you have to share. So here we go. You start because you have comprehensive notes. Well, I just started with the first way I started listening to music, which was mixtapes in the radio, and I went kind of nostalgic. Did you call into the radio when you were a kid? We tried. We wouldn't always get through, but we would try. To request a song, yeah, and then you'd record it while they played it. You'd have your blank tape like at the ready, yeah, and then you'd record it while they played it. You'd have your blank tape at the ready Mm-hmm, yeah, and then you'd hope that the DJ didn't start talking. Talk over it. Yeah, I was actually thinking of that the other day because I was listening to XM radio, but it's like a station out of Miami and I've always been amazed how the DJs would know how to talk, like how long to talk, for it would be like they would perfectly talk over the intro and then stop right when the lyrics would come in. I guess that's their job. That's a trick of the trade. Maybe Can you remember the radio stations you listened to as a kid.
Speaker 1:I listened to B96. That was a big one. 100.3 I would listen to. 104.3 was the oldies station. Yep, I remember that well, I was a big oldies listener. Yeah, not me so much, but every once in a while I'd be like I have a great oldies mixtape. Do you remember how great I was in? Scan came to be, I don't know, scan. And then it would just like oh, oh, scan, scan, yes, like on the radio, like in the car, yes, seek and scan, be like this is great. And then you'd be like hit it again. Yes, I'm surprised you didn't list Q101. That was popular. Yes, that was like the alternative station. That was good. Yeah, that 101 and b96 is still going strong today.
Speaker 1:It is um, as is my country station in arizona, 102.5 and power 92 was a big one. It was like the b96 of arizona, yeah, and the 99.9 still has the same dj it did when we were kids. No way, it was beth and bill, built since past, but beth is still beth and friends. Beth and friends, yeah, and that vote. Whenever I hear her, it's so nostalgic it. No way. It was Beth and Bill, bill since past, but Beth is still Beth and Friends. She's still Beth and Friends, yeah, and that, whenever I hear her, it's so nostalgic.
Speaker 1:It brings me right back to the late 80s. My mom used to listen to 95.5, which was W-N-U-A. What was smooth jazz. It was like W-N-U-A 95.5. Smooth jazz Did you work for them? That was very good, because she wouldn't let us change the station. She was like, if I'm driving, it was very rare that she would let us pick the station or the channel. And I tell you what I would never, ever, if she did, let me pick this song for channel. There was a song that I knew was like inappropriate, I was not keeping it on there. My children who think it's funny. I love that. Our kids are listening to music that they hear on TikTok, thinking it's new music, when really it's old music. I love that when they're like how do you know this song? Yeah, right, and speaking of mixtapes, let's go back to that for a second.
Speaker 1:Do you remember how long it would take to make them? It was like an all night event, like a sleepover event. It was huge because you had to. I mean so how long is a mixtape? Maybe an hour, yeah, each side. So you would have to. It's not like you could just download it. You had to wait for it to record from a CD or from another tape. Oh, I forgot, you could record it from a CD. I was just thinking about the double disc players, the double cassette players yeah, yeah, when you could record from a CD, it was like, yeah, that was great. I loved the bodyguard tape. That was one of the first CDs I ever bought. But what I didn't realize was it was the number one best selling cassette tape of all time yes, best-selling cassette tape of all time yes, so I guess other people like it too. That was a great album.
Speaker 1:I feel like my. I've always listened to music, like my mom would always have music on, like if she was doing housework. She had this great. My parents still have it, this gigantic. They use it as their TV stand record player. It's a stereo. It has a record player and an 8-track oh, cool, and do you still use it? No, because the tv is on it now. But it's this massive piece of furniture and she would have records going when she was cleaning the house.
Speaker 1:But I used to do the read-along books because I had a fisher price record player and you would put the records on and then the book did it have an orange needle? Yeah, yes, and a brown case? Yeah, yeah, I still have mine. It's at my parents' house. It still works. Did she save your records? I have some records left. Yeah, oh, that's kind of cool, it's me. Have you shown it to Rose? I did, she loved it. Yeah, brown, oh, yeah, like my baby's first boombox and that was like read along books and tapes that was. You could play tapes in that too. That was great you could record.
Speaker 1:My sister and I used to try to like record people's conversations. We recorded an episode of Pee Wee Herman, where I was the mailman and Jane Mittendorf was Pee Wee Herman, and we used her dresser drawer as bunk beds. Pee Wee Jane invited the mailman in for a sleepover, as one night Sounds like something you were like I don't know what happened. All of a sudden the mailman's sleeping in my room Don't tell Ryan. And then we got into the dresser, used the dresser drawers as bunk beds, uh-oh, and the dresser fell over. Used the dresser drawers as bunk beds, uh-oh, and the dresser fell over. Oh, no, as it would if two children were in it. And from the downstairs, like from a distance, you hear Mrs Mittendorf yell Jee-hee, jee-hee, and then you hear me say oh, jane, I think I have to go home, like I'm out of here. And that tape was the greatest recording. Oh, because you had it on tape and I don't know whatever happened to it because it was recorded from the Fisher-Price recorder.
Speaker 1:We loved Pee Wee's Playhouse. I just showed it to Kevin the the other day. It's on amazon, yeah, prime tv, whatever and he was like this is really weird. I was like, oh, it's super weird. My brother had the toys. He had a peewee's playhouse set with all the figurines. It was amazing and we used to record episodes of it and that because we didn't have a video camera and so we would play the tape of us recorded it and then we would act out, have a video camera and so we would play the tape of us recorded and then we would act out the people play with the feet. That was cool, good, so cool. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:Do you remember burning cds as you got older? Yeah, in college. Yeah, that was like a freshman year favorite, but that took a long time because Because it downloaded so slowly, so slow. Also, it might have been slightly illegal. Definitely Napster, napster, all those. My friend Dave was very on the ball with stuff like that, so I feel like I tried to do it and then I would just be like I would like these 12 songs. So I was really on the ball with that. I had an external cd burner and then we'd buy a stack of blank cds and a sharpie to write all the tracks on there. I still have them all, do you? Well, I remember like with like when ipods and like all that and you could burn your own cd, like you could load your cds into itunes. Yeah, just like the first time, just like going through every single one of my CDs and trying to get those on my computer so I could have it on my iPod. I was slow to warm with the iPod, really.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was a huge fan of the Discman and the long disc. I didn't realize the Discman didn't come to be a thing until 1979. See, that to me seems early. Oh, it does. Yes, because I was still. I don't think I got a Discman until the 90s. Yeah, because I didn't have CDs until 1992. Yeah, weezer was my first CD. I love it. The blue yeah, it's so good Because I had the coolest CD case ever.
Speaker 1:You did, yes, my sister's friend had an internship at Mead and got it and it was a circle and it unclipped on one side and like accordion opened and you could fit like 15 CDs and then you flipped it on the other side and it opened on the other side and you could put 15 more. That is the coolest CD case ever. So I could fit 30 CDs in there, could put 15 more. That is the coolest. So I put 30 cds in there. And then so I so, when I was living in new york and riding the subway, had my, my mead container of cds and then my disc man commuting to work killing it. Remember in the car when you would put the cds on the visor. So I never had one because I never drove, I never had my own. That was a cool thing. But my friend had that and I was like, because then it was so easy access. Yeah, I'm just grabbing, see, yeah, not messing around the cases.
Speaker 1:I got them all. Did you have them alphabetized or in a certain order? Okay, no, no, absolutely not. I'm like, think of the organization that could have happened Just all thrown. But now when my kids get in the car, my daughter will say, oh, let me make a cue real quick. Oh, even though she has I haven't dabbled with that Even though she has a playlist like a mile long, she'll build a cue before we get in the car. That's cool.
Speaker 1:I think Rory does that. I tend to. Either lately I've been just picking an artist and shuffling songs by one artist, or I'll pick a specific album. I usually let the kids choose in the car because we have to like rotate, though, we'll be like, okay, aiden and then Rory, then Kevin and then Rose. Oh, that's nice. Elle always jumps in the front seat and I think Mike is just like whatever, really. Yeah, that's nice. Yeah, my kids fight over it. So now we have if it's an odd day, it's Aiden and Kevin, if it's an even day, it's Rory, because their birthdays are even and odd days. Oh, that's a good way to do it. Yeah, I think Mike picks his battles with her. Yeah and yeah, but that's kind of nice. Yeah, you don't have to worry about it.
Speaker 1:I was telling my kids too how exciting it would be to get a CD or a tape, and it had the lyrics in it. I was thinking about that Because Rose, the other day, was like staring at our Alexa. I'm like, what are you doing? And music was playing. She's like I'm trying to learn the words. That's too easy. I was like, oh God, you have it easy. Yeah, too easy. I remember like sitting there and like trying to learn the Blues Traveler song, oh yes, like the really fast part, or like the Barenaked Ladies oh, that's what it was. Yeah, one week like trying to learn all those lyrics.
Speaker 1:We saw them, remember, we did. That was last summer. We saw them Like we ran into them at McDonald's. Oh yeah, we had dinner with them. Yeah, we totally did. We saw them perform, yeah, at the zoo last year. That was fun.
Speaker 1:Remember the best part about that? I mean not the best part when I got left at the zoo, when I walked down the, when I ended up at like a bar slash, slot machine slash With Ryan and Al. Yeah, because, yeah, because Al just left me at the zoo. I remember walking down the road but did you say no, he didn't tell me he was leaving, no, he just left. He left me. I feel like I would have said where's Nora? Yeah, I don't know. Did you pick us up at that shady bar slot machine candy store? No, because I was kind of mad at him, that's fair. And then I don't know, no, you guys somehow made it to where we were and so I was like left there, wait, but where is my husband? Where did he go.
Speaker 1:Do you think that has anything to do with the fact that the beer vendor thought that you got free refills? Did you ever hear this story? No, so, listeners, I'm sorry I'm going off on a tangent and we can certainly end this out. We got to figure this out. So there was. You know where we were sitting originally. Mark got us those seats.
Speaker 1:So if you went up closer to the stage and to the left there was a beer vendor and, listeners, we had those silver, not refillable cups, but like disposable cups and the beer vendor in the back thought they were free refills. What? There was two vendors and one of the guys was giving free refills and then one of them wasn't. And then at the end we went for kind of like a last call kind of situation and the guy who wasn't giving free refills said to the guy who was man, what are you doing? He's like oh, I thought it was free refills, I didn't know that. No, man, it's not.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, so you and Al and Ryan were getting free refills and then left me at the zoo. I'm totally over it, it's fine. Wait, why did I get lost in the left? Maybe you don't want to walk. You guys were going to walk and I was like that's silly. And then I said I think I'm going to wait for an Uber. And then Al just left with you and Ryan, I should have waited for an Uber. And then I ended up having to climb a fence, I think with a friend of ours, and then we all ended up at the same bar. We ended up at the same bar. But, yeah, you guys had an adventure, because you guys walked the wrong way. Yeah, to the candy shop. Slash slot machine, slash bar, slash Bible thumper running the place. It was weird. It was so weird, so weird, yes, anyways.
Speaker 1:Yeah, music makes my day better. I listen to music constantly. If I have to get work done, I listen to music. If I'm in the shower, I listen to music. You listen to music. In the shower, I do, and then I do. If I need to get work done. I will listen to a podcast now, though, but I know some people do not work well with music on. Al does not like to have music on. I do not like to have music on when I'm thinking, yeah, and it helps me think better. Oh, isn't that interesting. Everybody's different, different noses, different, same name, different, different ways of doing things.
Speaker 1:You know there's more than one way to skin a cat. I will seek your word for it. Is that true? I don't know. I would think how many other possible ways could there be. I think there's only one way, and is skinning a cat. I don't know. That's not something I don't want to find out. No, thank you, I'm sure we could probably. No, I don't want to Google. I don't want to Google that. No, don't skin a cat. Just keep the skin on and just accept people's differences and differences and listen to music. Don't skin a cat. Listen to our podcast. Oh, lordy, why would you have to skin a cat? Yeah, right, yeah, who's doing that?
Speaker 1:We're looking up this expression. Where did this come from Right now? Well, no, we can do it for next week. Next week, we'll be coming to you via Zoom. Yes, I will be in New York, you will be here, but we'll be coming to you via zoom. Yes, I will be in new york, you will be here, but we'll still have an episode for our listeners and I will find out.
Speaker 1:Where did that or you could do, where did that expression come from and why one would need a cat? No, yeah, get a parka. You don't need a fur to keep warm. Get a sweatshirt. Get a sweatshirt. Get a fur. Oh, no, don't, don't get it Synthetic fur. Yeah, a joke, let's go to Highland Low. Yeah, let's do it. Let's stop talking about this. My low is our power outage.
Speaker 1:Uniform exchange at school. Oh, I have so many bags of uniforms that I need to donate. Shoot, and I missed it. Do you have jumpers? No, I have skirts. Okay, that's all right, but thank you for all my pants. You're welcome, or nothing. Pants for your child from my children, yes, well, yeah, no, you're welcome. I was happy to, I appreciate it. Six pairs of pants, my high, and I know you're going to like this.
Speaker 1:Okay, I went to the car wash yesterday. Oh, my gosh, my poor minivan. Her name is Muffin and she was so dirty because of all the construction inside and out. You have so much dust at your house, there's so much dust, and I brought Clorox wipes. I brought a Swiffer with me and I did the whole inside. I used the air gun and sprayed all the crevices of the car. I used their cleaner for the inside windows. I think you do a better job when you do it yourself.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because you don't want to know what I found. In one of the backseat pockets, so the seat behind shotgun you found an incrustable. I found one Portillo's chicken finger in a box. Oh my God, barf, was it preserved? It was fine. Yeah, I mean, I know you didn't. Yeah, it wasn't like moldy or anything, but I was like I like let out like an audible. Oh my God, this is disgusting. I wonder how long it had been there. What the heck it's been so hot. It was like it stayed warm. It was. Yeah, it was still. It was still fresh, no, gross. But I'm so happy the car is so clean. I'm happy for you because I love that feeling. It's pretty great. And then Al went this morning and washed his car. It seems to me he's a little jealous. How about you?
Speaker 1:My high is, all four of my kids were home last night by 8.45 pm. I don't know why everybody was home early, but they were and nobody went back out. So I slept soundly from like 8.45 on. Oh, you got a good night's sleep. Yeah, because usually the older kids have to be home by 11. And usually they get home at 10.59. So I don't really fall asleep even though I'm in my bed. Yeah, because you want to know what your people are accounted for. So I was thrilled that even the younger guys were home by then. It was good to have all my people in one place and a good night's sleep. That does feel good. Yeah, all righty. Well, thanks for joining us today. Yeah, and come back next week. Yep, bye.
