Let There Be Light!

A candy collaboration, a robot named Dot, and a light switch you control from bed—today’s ride is all about the small levers that quietly shape a calmer life. We start with a straight-talking taste test of the Reese’s x Oreo mashup, separating hype from flavor and calling out why the PB-filled Oreos delivered more joy. From there, we take a sharp turn into Phoenix, where bright red DoorDash delivery robots share the road at 20 mph. Cute? Yes. Frictionless? Not quite. We weigh privacy perks against road safety, tampering risks, and the big question of whether convenience is worth the headaches in real neighborhoods.

Sleep becomes the anchor. We break down why steady bed and wake times beat weekend sleep-ins, how circadian rhythm sets the tone for energy, and the three pillars that make better rest stick: align with the 24-hour cycle, stay awake long enough to build sleep pressure, and create a real wind-down. Then we click over to lighting—the overlooked habit shaper. Think smart bulbs on timers, warm dimmers that shift with sunset, and color cues that help kids read or relax. We swap stories from theater light design to street lamps, touch on the “City of Light” monikers for Paris and Buffalo, and geek out over the 124-year-old Livermore bulb still burning at four watts.

By the end, it’s clear: small systems do heavy lifting. Choose treats that actually taste good, set your lamps to support your nights, and pick a sleep routine your brain can trust. We wrap with honest highs and lows—injuries, coughs, a brand-new driver, and a pizza-truck feast—because real life is where these tweaks matter. If you smiled, learned something, or rethought a habit, follow the show, share with a friend, and leave a quick review so more curious listeners can find us.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:07

Hi, thanks for joining us today. It's Nora. And Nora. Thank you for tuning in to our listeners who have been with us on this journey since day one, as well as those who are joining us for the first time. Yes, our newcomers from all over the world, Nora. We are a global sensation. It's very exciting. Welcome, especially to our listeners who are joining us from overseas. Stockholm, from I can't pronounce the name of the city, but in Tokyo, in Lucerne, like these are actual real facts. These are part of our analytics.

SPEAKER_00 0:40

These are analytics, if you will.

SPEAKER_01 0:41

And that people are listening to us from over 80, over 86 countries and territories, 1,244 cities are listening to two Noras and a mic. Well, I'm sure they're wondering about Hamburger Helper. Oh, yes! I have an update. All right, spill it. Well, I dropped the ball and did not make it for my family. I have a dear friend who sent me a picture letting me know that there is always a box of hamburger helper in her pantry. Okay. She has three darling, strong, athletic, smart children. And perhaps the secret is in the sauce. I don't know. Wow. Because they eat it. So they eat, so it's just like ground beef. Loose. Like you're not putting it in like a bun or a torturing or a shell. That's what I don't understand. It's wild. It's wild. Running unluck. Just ground beef for everybody. It's just ground beef in there, yeah. Simmering in that pan. Yeah. In different flavors. Uh-huh. Hers was macaroni and cheese. Oh, so it's mac and cheese and ground beef. Yes. Interesting. Or they have like a lasagna version. They have like a lasagna version.

unknown 2:02

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 2:03

With like those bumpy kind of short noodles.

unknown 2:06

Okay.

Oreo x Reese’s taste test

Delivery robots roll through Phoenix

Pickle girl fall, really?

SPEAKER_01 2:08

Okay. Yes. I actually know what you're talking about. And then I really, I was really gonna get it. And then I didn't. But you want to make it. You want to barf a tuna helper? Oh no. Nope. Oh, thank you. Same zeeds. No, I will eat tuna and sushi. I will eat tuna in a salad from a place that doesn't have a lot of mayonnaise in it. That's my problem too. I don't eat mayonnaise. So that's uh a problem. If you bring out tuna fish salad, I'm not eating it. I draw the line. I will eat all your weird stuff when I'm not eating tuna. Did you think I was? I don't know, but you talked about tuna and then you had a smile on your face, and I can hear you wrestling with something over there. I'm not eating tuna. I'm wrestling with this treasure that I have does not come from the sea. Okay, thank you. Okay. It comes from plant that is chemicals on chemicals on chemicals. That I'm on board for. And you know we love an Oreo collab. Yes, we do. But what about a Reese's Oreo collab? Oh. Yeah. I have tried these. You have? I have. Hot off the press because they just came out in August. I don't know how did it my I get maybe my dad gave it to me and my kids. Have you so I'll give it another try. Okay. Okay. For what you think about it. Well, anything about what you think it has anything to do with your face. So, listener, I would love to describe it to people. So it's a Reese's cup on the bottom. Oh, it's white. Yes. Hello. This is what threw me off as well. Inside the peanut at the bottom is like the milk chocolate, and the top is white chocolatey Oreo cream. And then the inside is the Oreo cookies. Is this supposed to be the filling then on top? Oh, and the Oreos are in the peanut butter. The cookie part is Oh, it's almost like a crunchy peanut butter. I haven't tried it yet. So yeah. Well, let's try it and then I'll tell you how I how I get to think about it. So I can't. The Reese's part is what's the strongest. I've I personally feel like the the cream part, the white part, makes it chewy in a weird way, like gummy. And it's not bringing much to the table. What do you think? I think it just tastes like a crunchy Reese's. I don't get a lot of Oreo in there. What I did buy, and I meant to bring them to the podcast, but my kids ate them all. Oreos with Reese's peanut butter. How was that? Amazing. No, those look like they're limited to time. Those were really good. I think way better. These are not gross, but they're not blowing my hair back. These are not really It's not necessary. It's just like some crunched up Oreos at the bottom of a Reese's peanut butter. I would rather have none of the cream and just the cookie in there. They should have put the cookie on top too. That being said, I ate the whole thing. Same, same. You know, for our listeners. You know, so they get a good sense of. We do it for the pod. Mm-hmm. Nora, did you hear what's going on in Phoenix? What they're practicing or running? The DoorDash. Yes. And it's funny because when I saw the news story, I was watching it and I was like, that looks like Phoenix. And it was. It was. I mean, so DoorDash has these new little delivery robots to deliver whatever food or groceries and Arizona loves themselves a self-driving something. They sure do. They are the Waymo, too. That's right. But these are kind of cute little guys. They look like robot ladybugs. They're bright red, like that DoorDash red. And then, you know, they got the little thing over it, but they're five feet tall. They can go 20 miles per hour and they hold up to 30 pounds. 30 pounds? Yeah. That's a lot of food. That's a yeah. Mm-hmm. Well, you got all your Reese's cup Oreos. You gotta load them all in there. Oh, but that would melt. This is. Like temperate, like tempered. Temper control temperature control? Kind of looks like a lawnmower with like a helmet on. But like ladybug. It looks like I don't know. They're worried about it because, you know, you could program something to self-drive, drive itself. Well, Al and I actually did a test drive in a Tesla recently, and it was self-driving. It was the weirdest thing. But what's a concern is if say you're on the road and you're behind this thing and it's a 35 or 40, and this bad boy's going 20 miles an hour. They're worried about people messing with it. It has it has no way to protect itself. How does it ring your doorbell? I would imagine you get a notification on your phone. Oh. I didn't know if an arm can't say the handlebar is like ding dong. A fist comes out of it. Well, why doesn't it just drive faster? I don't know if it can. I I would imagine because it maybe because it's self-driving, it needs to go slower. It looks like a minion. Next next time you're in Arizona, can you please try and do the? Actually, maybe one of our Arizona listeners can try it for us. Yes. And let us know how it goes. Its name is Dot. Isn't that cute? It's cute. It looks like a dot. Because the person who wrote the review on it was like, I kicked it to see what happened. And it cried. And then it was like, please don't kick me. It did? No, it did not. Looks like a stroller now. It does. I mean, they're big. Like they're not small little things. I just, I don't know. I don't know how I feel about that. But then you also like, do I want a stranger to know my address to deliver me food? Or would I want this robot? Huh. Yeah. All right, let's work on something to try that for us. Or if you see one out in the wild, please take a picture. Yeah, let us know. Tell Dot we said hi. Hey, fall is here. Sh you sure doesn't feel like it. It doesn't feel like it. Crazy. But are you ready for a pickle girl fall? What? I know. I knew I know. I'm sorry. No. I didn't make it up. Pickles go away. Well, fall is embracing all things pickles inspires. Sardine summer. Yeah. Following the sardine summer. Why is everything so salty? Well, moss is the color of the season. Moss, I don't mind. But they say from the color green dill being in fashion to pickle-themed food and decor. No. Talk to Selena Gomez about that. Oh, she's a big pickle person. Pickle-topped birthday cake. Pickle-flavored lip gloss, anyone? Oh, why would you want your mouth to smell like pickles? I don't know. No, thank you. Do you like you like pickles? I don't mind pickles. You got three pickles.

unknown 9:13

Didn't you know I had to pay me to pay for them?

SPEAKER_00 9:16

Wait, I thought you got them for free. Oh, you got bullying to buy pickles. I got like upsol. The deli. I thought those were a free.

SPEAKER_01 9:28

I didn't know what it hurt her feelings. It was kind of a big deal. Wait, how much were those? Were they expensive? I don't know. You're like, just give me the stupid pickles. And then she was like, wait, I want to put pickle juice in them so they don't dry out. And she told me how to slice them. I was like, my friend hates pickles. I don't hate taste. But her name's Rosalie at the Dalian.

SPEAKER_00 9:49

Yeah. So I couldn't pickle me. She's psyched for pickle girl fossil.

Why consistent sleep beats sleeping in

SPEAKER_01 9:54

She's like, finally, I'm happy for her. It's her time to try. Oh. I know. I read something a little sad that made me question my habits, my sleeping habits, because I love to sleep in. If I get the chance on the weekend to sleep in to like 9:30. Or dare I say 10 o'clock. Oh my God, I'm all very, very excited.

SPEAKER_00 10:18

But your mom is like that too, isn't it? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 10:20

I come from a long line of uh late sleepers. But National Geographic, you know, my like second favorite place after Wire Cutter, said that it's better to have regular sleep than the duration of your sleep. Like the regularity is better than the duration. Like going to bed and waking up at the same time every day is better than, okay, well, I didn't get a lot of sleep, so I'm going to get 12 hours on Saturday. Do you sometimes get 12? Not lately. No. But uh they said that because it has to do with your circadian rhythm. And there are three kind of ingredients for steady sleep, is you need to be in sync with a 24-hour day and night cycle. And you have to be up for at least 16 hours so that your body is tired. And then you need to relax at bedtime. Like before bed. Mm-hmm. So you're not like, oh, I'm gonna run five miles and then jump into bed. Mm-hmm. I wonder if it's easier to fall into that rhythm when the days aren't really long or really short, when like the sun sets around the same time. When we're in more of like a moderate day to like an equal day to night time hours. Maybe. I don't know. That could be, but you go to bed about the same time every night or no? Yeah, I guess I in like 11:30. Between 11:30 and 1230. And then I wake up around 6:30. You do? Yeah. Oh no, because of the high school kiddos. Yeah. So I guess I am pretty consistent. I did just start using the sleep app on my phone because it gives you a sleep score. Oh no. And so that's kind of interesting. I haven't checked it lately. Last night I did not. I feel like I was using it for a little bit. Yeah. But then I had to stop because my sleep was poor. Oh, and then I was just like making you feel bad about yourself. Yeah. Oh, yeah. My sleep score out of 100. 61. Well, better than half. I'm failing sleep, Nora. Oh no. That's true. But I get up a lot in the middle of the night. So I think that's what gets me. Oh, yeah. But this dog of ours gets up at about the same time every day. Is she sleeping regularly now? Yeah. She's usually up by like 5 30.

SPEAKER_00 12:46

Oh my.

Smart lights, dimmers, and control

SPEAKER_01 12:47

But that's okay because I'm up usually a little bit earlier. Can you exercise again? Are you back on your regularly schedule? I'm still a little bit wonky. Ryan took her out of the cage today after I had taken her out to go to the bathroom and put her back in. She was kind of barking and squawking. But I was just leaving her in there until I can't. Letting her dry it out. Yeah, just so I could get kind of situated for the day. And then I came down and there she was. And I was like, oh, good morning. You're like, hello. I said, you wake her, you take her. And I was like, I can't take her. When your babies would like jump out of their crib, like when they were toddlers, and you were like, oh my gosh. Just like stand there, scared the bejesus out of you. Oh my gosh. Did you have climbers? Yes. Well, Aiden tried once and fell flat on his face, never did it again. Rory was like Spider-Man. He we'd watch him in the monitor. Jimmy up the side, get out. Kevin was pretty good. We had to take the springs out. So then she was on the floor. And then I don't think Rose ever did. But she never had the luxury of getting to sleep in. It was always kind of like, let's go. Yeah. Did you? Yeah, I had climbers. And Elle once climbed out, got the bottom cream that I broke in. And then she slathered herself in it. When I came in, she said, uh-oh. And that was all over her actual body. And it was so difficult to get off because it's water resistant. It was in her hair, on her face, all over her. I just had a wiper with a towel, like a dry. Oh, it was a mess. And that smell. That smell. And then like the water was like felling off us like waterproof. She was probably kind of slippery. Oh. So poor little baby Elle. Should we check in with our sponsor? Let's. Hey, Nora. Hi, Nora. How are you? I'm great. I was just wondering, do you like firecrackers? Is the Pope from Chicago? I sure do. Guess what else is from Chicago? What? Mike Haggerty Buick GMC. Bless my soul. God bless America. New Canyons, Sierra, HDs, terrains, Acadias, Yukons, you name it, they've got it. Oh my goodness. But the real firecracker of a sale is the 2025 Buick Envision. You can lease it now for$3.39 a month for 24 months. God bless America. So head on down to Mike Haggerty Buick GMC on the corner of 93rd in Cicero or check them out online at Haggertycars.com and tell them the North. And now back to the show. Our topic today is lights. Lights. Lights. Yay. Camera action. There we go, joke. Oh, Lordy. I know for me, Nora, part of my day is just turning lights off. Because my family just likes to keep them on all the time. That drives me bonkers when I wake up in the morning and there are lights on from the night before. But I will say in the evening, I go around when it's kind of getting dark outside and I adjust all our lights to kind of how I want them, even if I'm not in the room, so that it looks nice from the outside when people drive by. And so that it has like a good vibe in the air. Yeah. Most of our lights are on dimmers. Okay. But then once I have everything kind of just how I want it, inevitably somebody comes in and likes. Just call it Al calls it prison break, like with lights on full blast. But you have your lights on your phone. I do. Yeah. So I we have ring lights on the outside that are on a timer. And then inside I have certain lights, like light bulbs that are connected to our Wi-Fi. And then I have an app for them. So they're programmed programmed to come on at like a sunset. For the outside. For the inside. For the inside. Inside and outside. So I have one downstairs and then one my bedside light is on a timer. What? Yes. What do you mean? It comes on at because it's hard for me to go to bed. So if the light goes off, it's like rut roll. It's time to go to bed. It's programmed to go off at 1215. What if you're doing something? What if you're reading? Well then I have to turn it back on. But then it's also one of those things that keeps me honest because if I'm up like doing nonsense at 1215 and my light turns off, I'm like, am I really gonna go in the app and turn my light back on so I can keep watching Seth Meyer's closer look? Oh, on your phone? Yeah. Or am I taking this as a sign I should go to bed? That's funny. And then Al sleeps right through it. He goes to sleep with the light on. Yeah. No problem. No problem. And then in Kevin's room, I have it, because you can change the color of a lot of these light bulbs. He uh I have a blue light for him that could turns on. At bedtime? That's his night. That's kind of his night. Yeah. Then does it turn off? It does at like three in the morning. Oh, it stays on now. Okay. Mm-hmm. And then if he wants to read, I just turn the color to white and then he can read. All on your phone. It's all on my phone. What if he walks into his own room and wants to turn on his own light? He can't. So he has to be like, Mom, can you turn my light on? Yeah. He'll be like, I'm gonna read. And so I do. But what if like he gets home from practice and goes upstairs? Do you have to be like, oh, I gotta turn his light on? Well, he can still turn like the overhead light on. Oh, yeah. So this is just his bedside table. Oh. And then Aiden and Rory's lights are also connected to Alexa. I don't want to activate yours. Oh, she did. She's so you can turn them on with the light switch, but then when they're in bed, because they were like, you turn off the lights, you turn off the lights. And now they can just Alexa turn off the lights. But you don't you can say that in my house because nothing's connected. Which is I really like it. I find it to be helpful. And then, but I'm still turning lights off all the time. With your voice? Yeah, like the bathroom lights, like the other kitchen lights and things like that. I went through a phase with my kids, I'm not sure if you did too, with the LED lights. Oh, did they have them up in their room? Mm-hmm. During COVID when we would have like musical rehearsals through Zoom, when these kids were in their rooms, I'm like, where are you? It looks like you're in a fish tank. Like those lights. Like the strip lights, yeah. Yeah. Mm-hmm. No, thank you. Do they still have them up? Are they Mike might still have this up? Depends on what color you use. They don't use them. Yeah. Yeah. I when the girls got their room repainted, I we pulled them down. But I'm kind of picky about lights at a restaurant. Like I don't like to go to a restaurant that's too well lit. Yeah. But I also don't like to go to a restaurant that's too dark. I need a Goldilocks. We're like m women of a certain age now where we're like, I kind of need a little bit of light. I'm not at the point where I need a flashlight to look at my menu, but I like a little light. Yeah. See, no, I I lighting is something I think people kind of take for granted. And I wish I knew more about it because in theater it's super important. And the people who are light designers, like I have a my really good friend Patrick, who's incredible. And I've been really lucky. He's helped me a few times with the grammar school musical, just how intricate it can be and how much of a difference it makes in like in your home or in on stage. Or even in event planning with like up lighting, different parts of the event and how the lights should be set. Yeah. Yeah. Because I mean, we've all been in a bar when it closes and they turn the lights on and you're like, oh my God. Good night. But I love natural light.

unknown 20:35

Yeah.

Light design at home, stage, and streets

SPEAKER_01 20:36

Like I love rooms with natural light. Your house gets great natural light. Yeah, it does. Thank you. But I do love the sunset with my family at the lake. It's one of my faves. And I like when I'm running and I start in the dark and I watch the sunrise. Oh, I don't see a lot of sunrises. I see a lot of sunsets. You see a lot of midnights. You see a lot of stars? I do see a lot of stars. When the lights are just going out. That's really amazing. Do you stop and watch or do you just keep running? No, you just keep running. Yeah. But sometimes when I'm running and the light, the stoplight changes, it really upsets my flow. Oh, and you have to wait for the flight. Because I'm like in a groove and I have to wait for traffic. Are you will you run in place? Yeah, sometimes. Yeah. But then sometimes I'm like, if I did this light would just be red. Oh. But inevitably it never. I'm amazed with traffic lights. I wonder like who is in charge of that? Like the timing of them. Like who has that title? Yes. Who's the light guy? Who's the light timer? I don't know, but I like to watch when I'm at the stoplight, how much more time by watching the pedestrian thing? Yeah, that is a handy little thing. But I also always think of it at Christmas time, like when they're red and green. How they go. Oh Christmas and Christmas. Because it's in a Christmas carol. Do you ever come driving down the street and it's green and you're like, stay green, stay green, stay green out loud? Rose thinks she has secret powers to control them. Oh, let's go. Because one time she's like, we're gonna get all the lights going home from dance one day. And we didn't. So I was like, use your secret powers, Rose. Yes. My grandma would always be like, you always get all the yellow lights. And what do you do at a yellow height? I was gonna ask you that. I slow down. What do I do? Speed up. Yes. Sometimes my husband does not agree with my choice to slow down. He's like, you should have just that's what I tell my husband. Oh, does he stop? More often than not, yeah. And I tell my kids, my drivers, I'm like, always check your rear view mirror. Yes. And cross traffic. Because if there's somebody right behind you, don't stop because you'll get catapulted. Yeah. But also watch cross traffic to make sure nobody else is else's like quick on the gas coming the other way. 100%. I was surprised to learn, Nora, that the Greeks, of course they did. I guess I shouldn't have been surprised. They were the first ones to kind of discover electricity in 500 BC. Why did you say of course they did? Because they were so smart. They did a lot of things back in the day in BC. Greece was the place to be. And then it wasn't really until like the 1600s where you know people started taking it further. And then Appleton, Wisconsin had the first house powered by hydroelectricity. What's up, Appleton? I know. We may have a listener or two from there. Maybe they know the house. I could be like a historical. It should be like a landmark. Yes. Yeah. And then this kind of in 1925, so a hundred years ago, only half of Americans had electrical power. Really? And then FDR is like part of his New Deal, like trying to get out of the depression. He had the He said by 1945 with this act that he had imposed, I guess you could say. Holy cow. Which is, you know, 20 years. Yeah. They did a lot. They do. They moved a long way. That's still a lot of people who designed electricity. Yeah. But they made a lot of headway. And then by 1960, basically all houses had electricity. But that's not that long ago. No. Well, in my head, it's only 40 years ago. Yeah. But in real time, it's what, 65 years ago? Mm-hmm. Yeah. I read an interesting story about the oldest operating light bulb.

SPEAKER_00 24:33

Ooh.

SPEAKER_01 24:34

That's 124 years old. It still works. Yeah. Then why do mine go out so fast? Well, is yours handcrafted with a carbon filament bulb? Hmm. No. It's called the Centennial Light Bulb. Oh. Yeah. In Livermore, California. And it's been glowing since it was installed. That's pretty cool. I know. And it's only four watts. Oh. So it's a very dim light. But it's shining. Yeah, and they think because it's so thick that it's shining so well. Oh, okay. Or that it keeps shining. Which made me think about our light bulbs, which are so thin.

unknown 25:08

They are.

SPEAKER_01 25:09

Also, why are there so many choices now? When I go by light bulbs. Trying to figure out lighting in our house, and then the light bulbs I got were too bright or too yellow or too bright. Yes. I don't like the two white ones.

SPEAKER_00 25:25

Neither do I.

SPEAKER_01 25:26

I think that's why I ended up buying. I like the ones that go to my app because I could control the color of them. All shades of the rainbow for you. Yeah, shades. Yeah. Do you ever use them for holidays? I haven't. No. I really love Christmas lights, but we never really put any outside.

SPEAKER_00 25:44

You don't?

SPEAKER_01 25:45

No.

SPEAKER_00 25:46

This year.

Cities of Light and bulb trivia

SPEAKER_01 25:46

Sometimes you do. I always want to hire a company and then Al says no. And then but sometimes it looks too perfect when a company does it. There's something kind of charming about putting up your own lights. Yeah. There really is. And I I love it, especially because our neighborhood is really dark. So I'm always, it makes me happy. I mean, I don't want to see Christmas lights yet because it's October, but I love Christmas time because I love seeing our neighborhood all lit up. I do too, but I always am so disappointed in like the first or second week of January when it gets dark again. Yeah, it is kind of a downer. But you know, what can you do? As you would say, a last and a lack. Alas and a lack. Two little more fun facts. Oh, yeah, it's going is the city of light. Because they were the first ones to use gaslighting. Not as they were gaslighting people. They were gaslighting their streets in the 18th century. So it was all lit up with their street lamps. And then Buffalo, New York, first city to have uh elect electric street lighting. So they're also known as the City of Light. Really? We had streetlights. I wish we did too. I would say though, our neighborhood used to have a light post on everybody's property, which probably eliminated the need for light. Yes. Like where their address hung. And I know we removed ours when we moved in and did all of our work. But some people still like our neighbor across the street. We had one at our old house. Yeah, I wonder if you still do. I think so. I think it's still there. Yeah. But it's important.

SPEAKER_00 27:22

It is.

SPEAKER_01 27:22

My husband doesn't use enough light. I'm constantly going in his office and turning the lights on. Does that drive on bonkers? Because he already has bad vision.

SPEAKER_00 27:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 27:31

And then he's like up close to a screen and it's dark in there. I'm like, turn the lights on. I can fix this. Yes. There's a solution. And then he's always like, oh, thanks.

unknown 27:40

Like.

Highs and lows: kids, licenses, pizza

SPEAKER_01 27:41

Maybe he was waiting for you to turn it on with your app. Maybe he forgot he could control little stuff. He texts me sometimes. He'd be like, could you please turn off the light if I'm on a town? Like, you could get the app. I don't keep him from controlling it. He chooses not to have them. I don't want people to think you're the light boss. Oh, that's funny. Should we launch into highs and lows? Sure. What's your low? My low is my son sprained his ankle. Oh. And then he called on his way home from football, which he never does. So I kind of knew something. I thought he was going to say, is it left? Right. I was gonna I thought he was gonna say you got a ticket or it was staying late, but can you make sure you have an ice pack and Advil ready for when I get home? And I did think it was his back immediately, so this was kind of not the worst. Good news, bad. Yeah. So hopefully he makes a swift recovery. What's the time frame on it? Depends on how severe it is. So we'll see. We'll know in the next few days. Oh, poor Mike. Well, Mike's also child related. Rose is not well. She's still a really nasty cough, and it's nothing, and you know, it's not strep. We had her tested, so it's just one of those it's a really bad cold and cough, and just gotta see how it goes. Power through power through power thing. But she was crying last night because she was coughing and couldn't breathe, and then she was scared. Well, I wish her also a swift recovery. What was your high? Thank you. Aidan got his driver's license yesterday. It's crazy. It's so fun, isn't it? He came. So we let him pick up some friends and they went to Portillo's for dinner. And uh he came home and he was like, You standing on jazzed about it. And we're like, how was it being in the car with your friends with no parents? He's like, it was pretty great. But it was kind of wild because I did find myself using Find My iPhone just to be like, where'd he go? Oh. Well, he went to Portillos. He didn't put it on. Not the one I thought he was going to, but then I was like, oh, okay, that actually made sense based on where he picked up his friends. But I'm trying to tell myself to not use that too much. Yeah. Because if it'll drive you crazy, yeah, I know it would drive me crazy. But he did not take his driver's license with him. Him. Listen, he's a new driver. I was like, Aiden, you have to like is it the paper one or the car one? He still has the paper one. I was like, but you still need to have it with you. It's like if something would go. I wonder if he just takes a screenshot of it. He put it in. He has a wallet into his phone case. So it's very simple to have it with him. Just dingously. Like I got home and I was like, good Lord Jesus Christ. And to my husband, I'm like, didn't you ask him? He's like, clearly not, because it's here. I was like, okay. Oh, well, I'm glad he has it. But he's and I'm glad for you too, because it takes a little off your plate. Yeah, it's terrifying, but it's great. In a good way. Well, I don't know if terrifying can ever be good, but it's a good kind of thing. In a few weeks, you won't even think twice. I would hope. Yeah. How about you? We had an impromptu family dinner on Sunday night. Lovely. Yeah. My parents came back from Scottsday. Oh. They mosied on over and we had all six. Well, we did we had five of us, but that's close enough. That's right. She joined us at the end. So yeah, we just low-key, casual, and nice way to start the week. Oh, that is really nice. Yeah. Oh, I have another high two. Good. Speaking, we had a like a like an amazing family dinner on Sunday. I'm not trying to one-up you, but I'm glad you reminded me. We had the GP pizza truck. Yes. My mom bid on this prize at an auction, and Joe was there with his pe we had the whole pizza oven to ourselves.

SPEAKER_00 31:35

That was so fun.

SPEAKER_01 31:36

Was it so good? And usually, I was saying to him, usually when he's got the pizza oven places, I'm at a baseball game or I'm at a school event where I can't really like pig out. But I was with my family, I wore stretchy pants. I was like, I ate so much meat. And he's just back there cooking it all up. He made cheese pepperoni and then he made a sausage and peppers. Oh yeah.

unknown 31:58

Oh my God.

SPEAKER_01 32:00

So guys he had a really nice salad for us. It was it was a treat. That sounds like it. It was really nice. Thank you, Mrs. Ryan. Yeah. Thank you, mom and dad, for uh for the pizza party. But and yeah. Nice. You have the whole crew, all 15 of you? Or how many are you? And uncle, yeah. So there's six, ten, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen. There were 18 of us. Oh. Okay. So your your number is usually 16, 15. 16, and then with my aunt uncle 18. 18. Yeah, that's a big that's a big, big crew. That's fun. Was it at your house? It was at Aaron's. Oh, and even as we had to be outside. We can't be outside at my house. Because there was a construction on our lawn all weekends. The construction. Yes. Anyways, should we wrap it up? Yeah, let's land that. All right.

SPEAKER_00 32:48

All right. Catch us next week. Bye. Bye.