1 01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:03,666 (light music) 2 01:00:05,125 --> 01:00:08,791 It is an exceptionally rare day. 3 01:00:09,041 --> 01:00:10,375 It is the three days of 4 01:00:10,375 --> 01:00:11,541 fall that we get in Texas. 5 01:00:11,541 --> 01:00:13,041 The Yeti of like Texas, 6 01:00:13,291 --> 01:00:14,500 like everyone's looking for it, 7 01:00:14,500 --> 01:00:16,125 but no one ever actually finds it. 8 01:00:16,708 --> 01:00:17,583 The Chupacabra. 9 01:00:17,583 --> 01:00:18,916 It's a Chupacabra. 10 01:00:19,416 --> 01:00:20,083 Sickly yellow. 11 01:00:20,125 --> 01:00:21,333 It's a sickly yellow color. 12 01:00:21,666 --> 01:00:23,166 Oh my gosh, it's one of the best smells. 13 01:00:24,083 --> 01:00:26,083 The smell of those dried leaves. 14 01:00:26,833 --> 01:00:28,291 We made houses out of leaves. 15 01:00:28,916 --> 01:00:30,541 Ah, it's in my eye. 16 01:00:30,750 --> 01:00:31,208 Different experience. 17 01:00:31,791 --> 01:00:32,833 Wow, this is a cartoon 18 01:00:32,833 --> 01:00:33,958 in the making, right? 19 01:00:34,500 --> 01:00:36,458 Corn mazes, pumpkin patches actually. 20 01:00:36,708 --> 01:00:37,916 Yes, we did real hayrides. 21 01:00:38,166 --> 01:00:39,083 You know what, I think we could probably 22 01:00:39,083 --> 01:00:40,000 set off the roof, because 23 01:00:40,000 --> 01:00:41,541 Christmas is still magical. 24 01:00:42,000 --> 01:00:43,916 Turn that Christmas music off. 25 01:00:44,291 --> 01:00:45,916 I don't wanna hear another jingle bell. 26 01:00:47,000 --> 01:00:50,583 Oh my gosh, homemade applesauce. 27 01:00:50,875 --> 01:00:51,916 And I think they're overrated. 28 01:00:51,916 --> 01:00:52,833 You don't wanna put that out there. 29 01:00:53,000 --> 01:00:53,958 Oh my gosh. 30 01:00:54,666 --> 01:00:56,166 Rum Chata is our new pumpkin spice. 31 01:00:56,458 --> 01:00:57,000 Chupchap. 32 01:00:57,000 --> 01:00:57,666 All right, see ya. 33 01:00:58,125 --> 01:00:58,958 That piece of cotton just 34 01:00:58,958 --> 01:01:00,041 flew right into our house. 35 01:01:00,041 --> 01:01:01,166 Like a cottonwood tree piece of cotton. 36 01:01:01,208 --> 01:01:01,875 It's all right. 37 01:01:02,416 --> 01:01:03,458 Welcome to the Mr. and 38 01:01:03,458 --> 01:01:04,458 Mrs. English podcast. 39 01:01:04,833 --> 01:01:05,208 I'm Megan. 40 01:01:05,583 --> 01:01:06,125 And I'm Sean. 41 01:01:06,416 --> 01:01:07,458 We're here to talk about 42 01:01:07,458 --> 01:01:09,083 the wild ride of raising kids 43 01:01:09,083 --> 01:01:10,083 and growing careers, 44 01:01:10,458 --> 01:01:11,416 keeping life together 45 01:01:11,416 --> 01:01:12,625 in the middle of all the chaos. 46 01:01:13,416 --> 01:01:15,333 So buckle up, because we're all 47 01:01:15,333 --> 01:01:16,708 in this crazy journey together. 48 01:01:18,958 --> 01:01:19,500 No check checks? 49 01:01:20,333 --> 01:01:21,125 We don't have to check check, 50 01:01:21,125 --> 01:01:22,125 because we're doing it outside. 51 01:01:22,125 --> 01:01:23,000 We're on location. 52 01:01:23,333 --> 01:01:23,583 Yep. 53 01:01:23,875 --> 01:01:24,708 Again from our backyard. 54 01:01:25,416 --> 01:01:28,083 (laughing) At some point our 55 01:01:28,083 --> 01:01:29,625 viewers will see every angle 56 01:01:29,625 --> 01:01:30,458 of our backyard. 57 01:01:30,708 --> 01:01:31,708 That's right, that's right. 58 01:01:33,041 --> 01:01:33,750 This is another angle 59 01:01:33,750 --> 01:01:35,041 of it, but we're in it 60 01:01:35,041 --> 01:01:36,833 because it is the three days 61 01:01:36,833 --> 01:01:38,166 of fall that we get in Texas. 62 01:01:38,250 --> 01:01:42,000 It is an exceptionally rare day. 63 01:01:42,166 --> 01:01:42,375 Yes. 64 01:01:43,000 --> 01:01:44,250 Where you're like, 65 01:01:44,333 --> 01:01:46,666 what, high 60s, low 70s, 66 01:01:46,666 --> 01:01:48,500 no humidity, no wind. 67 01:01:48,833 --> 01:01:49,625 No bugs. 68 01:01:49,625 --> 01:01:50,458 No bugs. 69 01:01:51,666 --> 01:01:54,500 This is, I don't know, 70 01:01:54,500 --> 01:01:56,375 whatever, the Yeti of like Texas. 71 01:01:56,750 --> 01:01:58,250 Everyone's looking for it, but no one 72 01:01:58,250 --> 01:01:59,583 ever actually finds it. 73 01:02:00,125 --> 01:02:00,875 Chupacabra. 74 01:02:00,916 --> 01:02:02,291 It's a chupacabra. 75 01:02:02,708 --> 01:02:04,416 The Texas Tasmania, I don't know. 76 01:02:04,625 --> 01:02:05,625 There is a Texas something. 77 01:02:06,083 --> 01:02:06,958 The Chupacabra. 78 01:02:06,958 --> 01:02:07,833 I think it's the Chupacabra. 79 01:02:07,875 --> 01:02:08,916 The Chupacabra. 80 01:02:08,958 --> 01:02:10,458 I said it right the first two times, 81 01:02:10,458 --> 01:02:10,833 then it really. 82 01:02:11,250 --> 01:02:12,291 It's a tough word. 83 01:02:14,125 --> 01:02:15,333 Chupacabra. 84 01:02:15,458 --> 01:02:16,625 Chupacabra, I got that time. 85 01:02:18,291 --> 01:02:19,291 Yeah, fall. 86 01:02:19,875 --> 01:02:21,041 I've said it a couple times about this. 87 01:02:21,416 --> 01:02:24,208 My favorite season of the year, by far. 88 01:02:24,541 --> 01:02:25,041 By far. 89 01:02:26,000 --> 01:02:26,875 Summer's great. 90 01:02:27,541 --> 01:02:28,958 Winter can be fantastic 91 01:02:28,958 --> 01:02:30,833 with the holidays and the feel 92 01:02:30,833 --> 01:02:31,750 and all that kind of stuff. 93 01:02:32,541 --> 01:02:34,041 Spring, new beginnings, the 94 01:02:34,041 --> 01:02:35,708 first flowers and tree buds. 95 01:02:36,458 --> 01:02:36,916 All great. 96 01:02:37,666 --> 01:02:38,708 Hands down for me. 97 01:02:40,000 --> 01:02:41,083 I'm totally with you. 98 01:02:41,458 --> 01:02:41,500 Fall. 99 01:02:41,500 --> 01:02:42,958 Fall guy all the way. 100 01:02:43,000 --> 01:02:43,458 I know. 101 01:02:43,750 --> 01:02:44,791 I don't know why that is, 102 01:02:44,791 --> 01:02:46,916 but we both come from places that fall. 103 01:02:47,291 --> 01:02:47,500 Right. 104 01:02:48,000 --> 01:02:49,541 Real true fall, I think. 105 01:02:49,916 --> 01:02:51,208 How's Minnesota's? 106 01:02:51,875 --> 01:02:52,583 It's just earlier. 107 01:02:52,833 --> 01:02:54,708 I mean, it's a shorter season 108 01:02:55,291 --> 01:02:56,250 because it gets cold. 109 01:02:56,500 --> 01:02:57,666 Like it's the opposite of Texas 110 01:02:57,916 --> 01:02:59,000 where it just stays 111 01:02:59,000 --> 01:03:00,041 hot here so long there. 112 01:03:00,416 --> 01:03:02,458 It can get cold really quickly. 113 01:03:03,583 --> 01:03:05,166 So, I mean, sometimes 114 01:03:05,166 --> 01:03:05,833 you have a great fall. 115 01:03:06,250 --> 01:03:07,000 Sometimes you're like, 116 01:03:07,000 --> 01:03:07,916 oh wow, it's now 117 01:03:07,916 --> 01:03:09,416 snowing and it's October. 118 01:03:10,333 --> 01:03:10,500 Great. 119 01:03:11,250 --> 01:03:12,583 Well, I mean, there's enough people 120 01:03:12,583 --> 01:03:13,666 around the United States. 121 01:03:13,666 --> 01:03:14,541 I'm sure around the world too, 122 01:03:14,791 --> 01:03:16,291 I don't actually know, but I'm guessing. 123 01:03:16,833 --> 01:03:18,083 But around the United States for sure, 124 01:03:18,458 --> 01:03:20,000 I was one of the ones blessed that, 125 01:03:20,583 --> 01:03:21,125 where I grew up in 126 01:03:21,125 --> 01:03:24,000 Colorado, the leaves changed. 127 01:03:24,666 --> 01:03:27,500 The coming of fall, the perfect timing, 128 01:03:27,500 --> 01:03:29,333 all the leaves, we had the aspens, 129 01:03:29,333 --> 01:03:30,375 primarily the aspens. 130 01:03:30,708 --> 01:03:30,916 Yeah. 131 01:03:31,125 --> 01:03:32,500 Here you have some oaks that do it. 132 01:03:32,500 --> 01:03:32,750 Yeah. 133 01:03:33,583 --> 01:03:34,208 I don't know what else. 134 01:03:34,208 --> 01:03:34,583 There are some 135 01:03:34,583 --> 01:03:36,583 seasonal leaf changes here. 136 01:03:36,583 --> 01:03:37,750 Not as many, but like I 137 01:03:37,750 --> 01:03:38,500 know on the East Coast, 138 01:03:38,833 --> 01:03:40,958 they sometimes, I went on a drive, 139 01:03:41,416 --> 01:03:43,250 happened just happenstance on a work trip 140 01:03:43,666 --> 01:03:45,458 years and years ago through Virginia, 141 01:03:46,250 --> 01:03:47,291 just rolling hills. 142 01:03:47,958 --> 01:03:48,916 And I took pictures 143 01:03:48,916 --> 01:03:49,791 probably at some point. 144 01:03:49,791 --> 01:03:50,333 Might've been before 145 01:03:50,333 --> 01:03:51,958 iPhones, maybe at the beginning. 146 01:03:52,416 --> 01:03:52,583 Yeah. 147 01:03:52,583 --> 01:03:53,458 I don't know where that picture exists. 148 01:03:54,500 --> 01:03:56,500 But I remember you sending it to me. 149 01:03:56,541 --> 01:03:57,666 I think I sent it to you. 150 01:03:57,666 --> 01:03:57,791 Yeah. 151 01:03:57,791 --> 01:03:59,958 I was like, this is gorgeous. 152 01:04:00,291 --> 01:04:00,458 Yeah. 153 01:04:00,458 --> 01:04:02,000 Because just the oranges 154 01:04:02,000 --> 01:04:04,375 and the yellows and the reds, 155 01:04:04,375 --> 01:04:06,708 just rolling hills and patches. 156 01:04:07,125 --> 01:04:08,000 And that's how it was in Colorado. 157 01:04:08,291 --> 01:04:10,000 We would go for drives in the mountains 158 01:04:10,250 --> 01:04:14,041 and just see the aspen trees at the time. 159 01:04:14,041 --> 01:04:18,250 I mean, I'm sure at some point, 160 01:04:18,250 --> 01:04:19,291 I mean, because aspens actually, 161 01:04:19,500 --> 01:04:21,333 they got a disease at 162 01:04:21,333 --> 01:04:22,250 some point in Colorado 163 01:04:22,625 --> 01:04:26,166 and large acres of them died off. 164 01:04:26,333 --> 01:04:26,500 Really? 165 01:04:26,833 --> 01:04:28,333 They got burned off and whatnot. 166 01:04:28,333 --> 01:04:29,833 And if I was speaking out of turn here, 167 01:04:29,833 --> 01:04:31,041 I remember that to some degree, 168 01:04:31,041 --> 01:04:32,916 like being an issue later in life. 169 01:04:33,000 --> 01:04:33,291 Yeah. 170 01:04:33,333 --> 01:04:34,000 So I don't know if that was 171 01:04:34,000 --> 01:04:35,041 the case back then or whatnot, 172 01:04:35,041 --> 01:04:36,375 but I just remember we would go 173 01:04:36,375 --> 01:04:38,250 and it would just be just 174 01:04:38,250 --> 01:04:40,666 mountainsides of gold and red. 175 01:04:41,125 --> 01:04:41,375 Yeah. 176 01:04:41,375 --> 01:04:42,000 It was incredible. 177 01:04:42,458 --> 01:04:43,166 Yeah, yeah. 178 01:04:43,500 --> 01:04:45,791 And in Minnesota, where I grew up, 179 01:04:45,791 --> 01:04:47,750 and even down into Chicago and stuff, 180 01:04:47,750 --> 01:04:49,250 you do have the changing of the leaves 181 01:04:49,250 --> 01:04:50,500 and it's the reds and 182 01:04:50,500 --> 01:04:52,000 the oranges and the yellow. 183 01:04:52,041 --> 01:04:54,875 I mean, it is gorgeous 184 01:04:54,875 --> 01:04:55,625 because they have so many 185 01:04:55,625 --> 01:04:57,541 maples and oaks up there 186 01:04:57,541 --> 01:04:58,375 that those are the ones 187 01:04:58,375 --> 01:05:00,250 that turn more into the reds. 188 01:05:00,875 --> 01:05:02,416 Obviously no aspen, but. 189 01:05:02,416 --> 01:05:03,375 There's like a red oak just 190 01:05:03,375 --> 01:05:04,291 down the street from us here 191 01:05:04,291 --> 01:05:06,458 that does it and they get blood red. 192 01:05:06,666 --> 01:05:07,333 When the sun's coming 193 01:05:07,333 --> 01:05:08,625 through that tree, it's incredible. 194 01:05:08,666 --> 01:05:09,375 It's incredible. 195 01:05:10,375 --> 01:05:10,791 It is. 196 01:05:11,291 --> 01:05:12,458 And ours kind of go from 197 01:05:12,458 --> 01:05:14,250 green to brown and then fall off. 198 01:05:15,000 --> 01:05:16,666 (laughing) You know, and you're like, but. 199 01:05:16,708 --> 01:05:17,333 There's kind of a 200 01:05:17,333 --> 01:05:19,166 definitely yellow, a sickly yellow. 201 01:05:19,166 --> 01:05:20,041 It's a sickly yellow 202 01:05:20,041 --> 01:05:21,833 color up there, yeah. 203 01:05:22,375 --> 01:05:23,833 Before they fall off into our pool. 204 01:05:24,375 --> 01:05:26,625 Exactly, and then spend hours skimming 205 01:05:26,625 --> 01:05:27,375 them out of the pool. 206 01:05:27,375 --> 01:05:27,958 It's fantastic. 207 01:05:28,250 --> 01:05:29,291 That's right, that's right. 208 01:05:29,375 --> 01:05:31,041 I mean, at least up 209 01:05:31,041 --> 01:05:33,000 there, it's the reds and. 210 01:05:33,708 --> 01:05:35,291 I mean, I, oh my gosh, 211 01:05:35,291 --> 01:05:36,291 is one of the best smells. 212 01:05:37,208 --> 01:05:39,250 The smell of those dried leaves. 213 01:05:40,000 --> 01:05:40,583 And like when you're 214 01:05:40,583 --> 01:05:42,041 jumping in leaves as a kid, 215 01:05:42,041 --> 01:05:46,208 like we would build piles as tall as us. 216 01:05:47,041 --> 01:05:47,750 Boys, walk through. 217 01:05:48,625 --> 01:05:50,208 Walking slowly doesn't do anything. 218 01:05:50,500 --> 01:05:51,708 We don't wanna like give you. 219 01:05:52,041 --> 01:05:52,666 That's funny, our kids 220 01:05:52,666 --> 01:05:53,708 don't see us do the podcast 221 01:05:53,708 --> 01:05:55,000 very often, so we had two 222 01:05:55,000 --> 01:05:56,333 of them walking up there, 223 01:05:56,583 --> 01:05:58,333 doing this just off camera over here. 224 01:05:58,791 --> 01:06:00,041 Just like this slow, like. 225 01:06:00,083 --> 01:06:01,458 They're like, what do I do? 226 01:06:01,791 --> 01:06:03,208 Eyebrows up, and it's like, well, 227 01:06:03,500 --> 01:06:04,625 there's one door over 228 01:06:04,625 --> 01:06:05,500 there, one door over there. 229 01:06:05,500 --> 01:06:06,791 There's doors everywhere you could go, 230 01:06:06,791 --> 01:06:07,500 but they wanna walk 231 01:06:07,500 --> 01:06:09,916 like slow, small asses, 232 01:06:09,916 --> 01:06:10,750 like right behind, like 233 01:06:10,750 --> 01:06:12,750 tiptoeing, like looking at us. 234 01:06:13,000 --> 01:06:13,791 I know, I know. 235 01:06:14,083 --> 01:06:15,625 Well, we do have a big open door. 236 01:06:16,500 --> 01:06:17,083 Just walk through. 237 01:06:17,791 --> 01:06:18,166 (laughing) 238 01:06:19,625 --> 01:06:20,083 But you were saying we 239 01:06:20,083 --> 01:06:21,291 were talking about the trees. 240 01:06:21,500 --> 01:06:24,250 The trees, the color changes are like 241 01:06:24,500 --> 01:06:26,583 the curtain to fall though, right? 242 01:06:26,791 --> 01:06:27,791 Fall just, there's more 243 01:06:27,791 --> 01:06:28,750 to it than the colors. 244 01:06:28,750 --> 01:06:29,500 Like I loved that. 245 01:06:30,250 --> 01:06:31,041 And I don't wanna gloss 246 01:06:31,041 --> 01:06:31,833 over what you just said. 247 01:06:31,833 --> 01:06:33,291 I never jumped in leaves. 248 01:06:33,375 --> 01:06:34,791 Oh my gosh, really? 249 01:06:35,083 --> 01:06:36,625 Leaves were, we never had leaves. 250 01:06:37,208 --> 01:06:38,875 Leaves didn't fall like that in Colorado. 251 01:06:39,166 --> 01:06:39,583 Okay, okay. 252 01:06:39,625 --> 01:06:41,958 Cause we had, I mean, outside of Aspen, 253 01:06:41,958 --> 01:06:43,375 which I think they did lose their leaves, 254 01:06:43,375 --> 01:06:45,000 but not like oak stew or maple. 255 01:06:45,000 --> 01:06:46,000 Oh, they're smaller leaves, right? 256 01:06:46,000 --> 01:06:46,458 Very smaller. 257 01:06:47,000 --> 01:06:48,375 They shut down, but they never pile up. 258 01:06:48,666 --> 01:06:51,000 In Illinois, that's a thing. 259 01:06:51,333 --> 01:06:52,125 Oh my gosh, yes. 260 01:06:52,166 --> 01:06:53,750 The amount of leaves that fall, 261 01:06:53,750 --> 01:06:55,916 they have to get swept to the streets. 262 01:06:56,291 --> 01:06:57,041 Oh yeah, yeah. 263 01:06:57,208 --> 01:06:58,250 I mean, we would get 264 01:06:58,250 --> 01:07:01,291 piles that were eight, 265 01:07:01,541 --> 01:07:03,458 10 feet kind of long, 266 01:07:04,166 --> 01:07:05,791 and they would be four 267 01:07:05,791 --> 01:07:07,250 feet high, I mean, easily. 268 01:07:07,458 --> 01:07:08,791 And you would just jump in them. 269 01:07:08,791 --> 01:07:09,625 You're like, I don't even know 270 01:07:09,625 --> 01:07:10,625 that I'm gonna find the bottom. 271 01:07:10,625 --> 01:07:12,208 I mean, you could easily, 272 01:07:12,250 --> 01:07:14,166 completely bury yourself in leaves. 273 01:07:14,500 --> 01:07:16,083 We made houses out of leaves. 274 01:07:16,583 --> 01:07:18,000 You can't really stack them, 275 01:07:18,000 --> 01:07:18,875 but you know what I mean? 276 01:07:18,875 --> 01:07:21,000 Like in your imagination as a child, 277 01:07:21,625 --> 01:07:24,875 like over here in the pile is my bedroom, 278 01:07:24,875 --> 01:07:26,333 and the kitchen's gonna be over there, 279 01:07:26,541 --> 01:07:27,791 and you like make these 280 01:07:27,791 --> 01:07:29,958 homes out of the leaves. 281 01:07:30,166 --> 01:07:31,208 Oh my gosh, we would 282 01:07:31,208 --> 01:07:33,041 jump in leaves for hours, 283 01:07:33,041 --> 01:07:34,208 and then the parents 284 01:07:34,208 --> 01:07:35,833 would rake them back up again. 285 01:07:35,833 --> 01:07:37,875 Usually they'd leave the rake nearby, 286 01:07:38,041 --> 01:07:39,041 so you could rake them up 287 01:07:39,041 --> 01:07:40,166 again into a really big, 288 01:07:40,416 --> 01:07:42,000 yeah, yeah, into a really big pile. 289 01:07:42,333 --> 01:07:47,000 Oh my gosh, but that smell of the leaves 290 01:07:47,000 --> 01:07:49,416 is, it just takes me back 291 01:07:49,416 --> 01:07:50,416 instantly in a childhood. 292 01:07:50,875 --> 01:07:51,291 That's interesting. 293 01:07:51,541 --> 01:07:52,666 I don't have that memory, 294 01:07:52,666 --> 01:07:54,166 because that's a, I think 295 01:07:54,166 --> 01:07:55,583 that is a true Midwest thing. 296 01:07:55,625 --> 01:07:56,083 Yeah. 297 01:07:56,125 --> 01:07:56,666 You know, where you have 298 01:07:56,666 --> 01:07:57,625 these big trees that do it. 299 01:07:57,625 --> 01:07:58,666 We get a lot of leaves down here, 300 01:07:58,666 --> 01:07:59,833 we can get big piles 301 01:07:59,833 --> 01:08:01,458 here, but not like there. 302 01:08:01,666 --> 01:08:04,541 I remember going back, and when we lived, 303 01:08:05,166 --> 01:08:06,958 so when we lived in downtown Chicago, 304 01:08:07,166 --> 01:08:08,333 like near Wrigleyville, 305 01:08:09,500 --> 01:08:10,541 we lived in an apartment, 306 01:08:10,541 --> 01:08:11,125 so we didn't have trees. 307 01:08:11,458 --> 01:08:11,666 Correct. 308 01:08:12,250 --> 01:08:13,583 Or a townhouse, or 309 01:08:13,583 --> 01:08:14,708 whatever it was, condo. 310 01:08:15,250 --> 01:08:17,000 And then we moved out to the suburbs, 311 01:08:17,833 --> 01:08:19,166 but those suburbs were 312 01:08:19,166 --> 01:08:21,833 cornfields turned into suburbs. 313 01:08:22,041 --> 01:08:23,333 Suburbs, yeah, exactly, homes. 314 01:08:23,916 --> 01:08:25,125 We were taller than most of the trees 315 01:08:25,125 --> 01:08:26,541 when we first moved in, right? 316 01:08:26,541 --> 01:08:27,875 So those trees didn't really like, 317 01:08:28,458 --> 01:08:29,500 but I remember going 318 01:08:29,500 --> 01:08:30,583 into like Naperville, 319 01:08:30,583 --> 01:08:31,708 or the next ones down in, 320 01:08:31,708 --> 01:08:32,375 where they had these big 321 01:08:32,375 --> 01:08:33,500 mature trees and whatnot, 322 01:08:34,041 --> 01:08:36,083 and they had those piles, 323 01:08:36,291 --> 01:08:37,458 but everybody like raked 324 01:08:37,458 --> 01:08:39,000 them out to the street, 325 01:08:39,833 --> 01:08:42,208 and then a truck specifically designed 326 01:08:42,208 --> 01:08:43,875 to come get the leaves came through. 327 01:08:44,000 --> 01:08:45,500 It had a huge tube 328 01:08:45,500 --> 01:08:47,291 that sucked the leaves in. 329 01:08:48,083 --> 01:08:48,125 (laughing) 330 01:08:48,125 --> 01:08:49,375 And I'm guessing it chopped them up, 331 01:08:49,375 --> 01:08:49,916 and all that kind of stuff. 332 01:08:49,916 --> 01:08:50,208 Yeah, I'm sure. 333 01:08:50,208 --> 01:08:50,708 I mean, that might be 334 01:08:50,708 --> 01:08:51,791 different than when you grew up, 335 01:08:51,791 --> 01:08:52,416 but I saw that, and I 336 01:08:52,416 --> 01:08:53,291 was like, wow, this makes, 337 01:08:54,041 --> 01:08:54,791 I mean, that's a 338 01:08:54,791 --> 01:08:55,750 totally different experience 339 01:08:55,750 --> 01:08:57,291 than what Carl and I, we had pine trees. 340 01:08:57,291 --> 01:08:59,208 Pine trees didn't do that. 341 01:08:59,250 --> 01:09:01,458 No, no, they're evergreens, right? 342 01:09:01,666 --> 01:09:03,541 And jumping in a pile of pine needles 343 01:09:03,541 --> 01:09:05,375 doesn't sound pleasant. 344 01:09:05,375 --> 01:09:05,583 Yeah. 345 01:09:06,125 --> 01:09:07,708 Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, 346 01:09:07,708 --> 01:09:08,416 different experience. 347 01:09:09,250 --> 01:09:09,458 Totally. 348 01:09:10,416 --> 01:09:11,708 You come out looking like a porcupine. 349 01:09:13,333 --> 01:09:13,375 (laughing) 350 01:09:13,375 --> 01:09:15,375 This is a, wow, this is a 351 01:09:15,375 --> 01:09:16,333 cartoon in the making, right? 352 01:09:16,375 --> 01:09:17,625 It is, it is, but it's that 353 01:09:17,625 --> 01:09:19,333 crispness of the air, right? 354 01:09:19,333 --> 01:09:20,333 When you go back to Colorado, 355 01:09:20,333 --> 01:09:20,958 maybe even Minnesota 356 01:09:20,958 --> 01:09:21,625 for you, I don't know, 357 01:09:21,625 --> 01:09:23,083 but in Colorado, that, 358 01:09:23,375 --> 01:09:24,958 the coolness in the air, 359 01:09:25,666 --> 01:09:26,666 coming from the mountains, 360 01:09:26,958 --> 01:09:28,375 because the way where we lived, 361 01:09:28,791 --> 01:09:31,041 the winds always came over the mountains, 362 01:09:31,041 --> 01:09:32,208 and it just blew that 363 01:09:32,208 --> 01:09:34,541 mountain breeze down into 364 01:09:34,791 --> 01:09:35,541 where we lived, 365 01:09:35,916 --> 01:09:36,791 everybody on the front range. 366 01:09:37,625 --> 01:09:39,875 And that was just, that in 367 01:09:39,875 --> 01:09:40,916 and of itself was magical, 368 01:09:40,916 --> 01:09:42,791 those cool nights, because you could, 369 01:09:42,791 --> 01:09:43,208 it would be a beautiful 370 01:09:43,208 --> 01:09:44,666 day like today, 70, 80s, 371 01:09:44,666 --> 01:09:46,041 you're in shorts, but 372 01:09:46,041 --> 01:09:47,000 at night, you'd put on, 373 01:09:47,000 --> 01:09:48,083 I mean, like, this is it, we're like, 374 01:09:48,083 --> 01:09:49,333 we're jonesing for it, right? 375 01:09:49,500 --> 01:09:50,541 Clearly jonesing for it. 376 01:09:50,583 --> 01:09:51,875 We're in long sleeve t-shirts. 377 01:09:52,500 --> 01:09:54,625 Right, right, because these days, 378 01:09:54,625 --> 01:09:55,500 well, they don't happen here. 379 01:09:56,500 --> 01:09:57,750 And I wouldn't say that we had that 380 01:09:57,750 --> 01:10:01,166 crispness in Minnesota. 381 01:10:01,166 --> 01:10:02,208 It's really pretty 382 01:10:02,208 --> 01:10:03,416 humid there, but there is, 383 01:10:03,416 --> 01:10:04,333 there is something about 384 01:10:04,333 --> 01:10:05,375 that changing of the season 385 01:10:05,375 --> 01:10:06,375 where all of a sudden you're like, 386 01:10:06,500 --> 01:10:08,583 oh, the sun goes down and it gets cool. 387 01:10:09,375 --> 01:10:09,916 Like, you're like, it's 388 01:10:09,916 --> 01:10:10,916 a different temperature 389 01:10:12,166 --> 01:10:13,208 than it was during the day. 390 01:10:13,500 --> 01:10:15,000 And I would say that is 391 01:10:15,000 --> 01:10:17,166 unique probably to the front range 392 01:10:17,166 --> 01:10:18,500 of like just, because 393 01:10:18,500 --> 01:10:19,458 even in the middle of summer, 394 01:10:19,458 --> 01:10:20,333 it does that. 395 01:10:20,333 --> 01:10:21,125 Yeah, I mean, for me, 396 01:10:21,333 --> 01:10:21,916 and I don't know if there's 397 01:10:21,916 --> 01:10:22,875 other people that are 398 01:10:22,875 --> 01:10:24,125 Coloradans on here or whatnot, 399 01:10:24,125 --> 01:10:25,208 but you know, there's some things, 400 01:10:25,708 --> 01:10:27,541 it's not real, before reals were a thing, 401 01:10:27,541 --> 01:10:28,208 I think I showed it to you, 402 01:10:28,208 --> 01:10:29,333 we were living in Colorado. 403 01:10:29,583 --> 01:10:29,791 Yeah. 404 01:10:30,083 --> 01:10:30,583 You know, it was like all 405 01:10:30,583 --> 01:10:31,750 these like stereotypical 406 01:10:31,958 --> 01:10:32,833 Colorado things, like 407 01:10:32,833 --> 01:10:33,875 people from the front range 408 01:10:34,083 --> 01:10:35,916 are from Colorado do, you know, 409 01:10:35,916 --> 01:10:37,250 like Denver, Colorado Springs area. 410 01:10:37,291 --> 01:10:37,583 Yeah. 411 01:10:37,666 --> 01:10:38,916 Maybe down to Pueblo before Collins, 412 01:10:39,166 --> 01:10:42,291 but they were all just right on. 413 01:10:42,708 --> 01:10:43,583 I mean, he'd been down 414 01:10:43,583 --> 01:10:45,125 ahead like taking all that pride 415 01:10:45,125 --> 01:10:47,000 and like wearing shorts in a three, 416 01:10:47,000 --> 01:10:50,083 in like a three quarters zip, you know, 417 01:10:50,083 --> 01:10:51,458 or like this, like a little hoodie, 418 01:10:51,458 --> 01:10:52,916 like long sleeve t-shirt. 419 01:10:53,208 --> 01:10:53,541 Yeah. 420 01:10:53,625 --> 01:10:54,375 With shorts though. 421 01:10:54,375 --> 01:10:54,875 With shorts. 422 01:10:54,916 --> 01:10:55,625 Because that's totally 423 01:10:55,625 --> 01:10:56,500 appropriate, you know. 424 01:10:56,500 --> 01:10:57,500 Completely, like. 425 01:10:57,833 --> 01:10:58,750 That's exactly what you're 426 01:10:58,750 --> 01:10:59,916 supposed to wear in Colorado. 427 01:11:00,583 --> 01:11:01,291 You know, probably at the 428 01:11:01,291 --> 01:11:02,291 time there were some Tiva's 429 01:11:02,333 --> 01:11:03,083 or some Birkenstocks. 430 01:11:05,208 --> 01:11:06,625 Birks are made to come back. 431 01:11:06,625 --> 01:11:07,083 Yeah, we've got 432 01:11:07,083 --> 01:11:08,000 multiple Birks in the house. 433 01:11:08,708 --> 01:11:10,083 You don't have Birks, the kids do. 434 01:11:10,083 --> 01:11:10,541 The kids do. 435 01:11:10,583 --> 01:11:11,458 You don't have them. 436 01:11:11,500 --> 01:11:12,375 No, no. 437 01:11:12,583 --> 01:11:13,166 They would make mine 438 01:11:13,166 --> 01:11:13,875 look like Shrek feet. 439 01:11:14,416 --> 01:11:15,000 It's a bad look. 440 01:11:16,500 --> 01:11:16,541 (laughing) 441 01:11:16,875 --> 01:11:17,125 It's fine. 442 01:11:17,666 --> 01:11:18,291 Yeah, short and fat. 443 01:11:18,666 --> 01:11:19,000 Yeah. 444 01:11:19,041 --> 01:11:19,875 Short and wide, yeah. 445 01:11:21,416 --> 01:11:23,333 So there's that, and then, you know, 446 01:11:23,333 --> 01:11:24,291 the other part for me, 447 01:11:24,291 --> 01:11:25,666 obviously for our kids even, 448 01:11:26,333 --> 01:11:28,208 like it's ushering in the holidays. 449 01:11:28,500 --> 01:11:28,833 Yes. 450 01:11:29,125 --> 01:11:31,166 The greatest three months of the year. 451 01:11:32,958 --> 01:11:33,791 I know, our kids are 452 01:11:33,791 --> 01:11:35,208 really stretching it this year. 453 01:11:35,500 --> 01:11:36,166 Oh my gosh. 454 01:11:36,166 --> 01:11:37,333 We talked about it briefly, but. 455 01:11:37,625 --> 01:11:39,458 Yeah, we were, okay, so 456 01:11:39,458 --> 01:11:41,166 this week we were making 457 01:11:41,625 --> 01:11:42,625 Halloween cookies. 458 01:11:42,958 --> 01:11:45,291 So we've actually extended, you know, 459 01:11:45,291 --> 01:11:45,958 the Christmas, everyone 460 01:11:45,958 --> 01:11:47,000 does Christmas cookies. 461 01:11:47,000 --> 01:11:47,666 Well, maybe not everyone, 462 01:11:47,666 --> 01:11:48,791 but Christmas cookies, right? 463 01:11:48,791 --> 01:11:49,708 And we do the cutouts. 464 01:11:49,750 --> 01:11:51,166 Sugar cookies, cutouts, yeah. 465 01:11:51,166 --> 01:11:52,166 Yeah, you cut them out 466 01:11:52,166 --> 01:11:53,250 and frosting, all of that. 467 01:11:53,625 --> 01:11:54,541 Well, we extended it, 468 01:11:54,541 --> 01:11:55,250 I don't even remember 469 01:11:55,250 --> 01:11:56,083 how many years ago, 470 01:11:56,083 --> 01:11:57,458 five, eight years ago, 471 01:11:57,541 --> 01:11:59,916 to include Halloween cookies, right? 472 01:11:59,958 --> 01:12:01,958 Because we have Halloween cookie cutters. 473 01:12:02,375 --> 01:12:03,583 So the exact same thing as Christmas, 474 01:12:04,125 --> 01:12:05,541 just different cutouts. 475 01:12:07,166 --> 01:12:07,750 And so we're like, we 476 01:12:07,750 --> 01:12:09,166 should turn on Halloween music. 477 01:12:10,208 --> 01:12:12,875 And not joking, our oldest kept playing, 478 01:12:13,583 --> 01:12:15,208 like Christmas music. 479 01:12:15,208 --> 01:12:16,041 Every single time it 480 01:12:16,041 --> 01:12:17,333 was like, all of a sudden, 481 01:12:17,500 --> 01:12:18,833 a Christmas song would come on. 482 01:12:18,833 --> 01:12:19,416 And you're like, we 483 01:12:19,416 --> 01:12:20,583 don't need Ocomo come, 484 01:12:20,583 --> 01:12:21,333 Emmanuel, right? 485 01:12:21,958 --> 01:12:23,000 Ow, oh god. 486 01:12:23,000 --> 01:12:23,750 Like, it is. 487 01:12:23,750 --> 01:12:24,333 It has the one, yeah. 488 01:12:25,250 --> 01:12:27,541 This October, Emmanuel 489 01:12:27,541 --> 01:12:28,625 will come in December. 490 01:12:29,333 --> 01:12:29,916 I'll get a couple, and 491 01:12:29,916 --> 01:12:31,708 it's beginning to look a lot. 492 01:12:32,166 --> 01:12:33,166 No, it's not, it 493 01:12:33,166 --> 01:12:34,916 actually isn't, for the record. 494 01:12:35,708 --> 01:12:37,000 Yeah, we still have green leaves. 495 01:12:37,333 --> 01:12:38,916 Again, the sickish green. 496 01:12:38,958 --> 01:12:40,083 I'm starting to get the sick leave there. 497 01:12:40,083 --> 01:12:40,333 Yeah. 498 01:12:41,000 --> 01:12:41,625 It's funny, because 499 01:12:41,625 --> 01:12:43,500 maybe I'm too hard of a dad, 500 01:12:43,583 --> 01:12:44,833 which may or may not, the 501 01:12:44,833 --> 01:12:46,000 jury's out on that one still. 502 01:12:46,458 --> 01:12:48,833 But I do have kind of a soft rule 503 01:12:49,041 --> 01:12:51,958 that we don't listen to Christmas music 504 01:12:52,750 --> 01:12:54,208 until after Thanksgiving. 505 01:12:54,583 --> 01:12:54,875 Right. 506 01:12:55,500 --> 01:12:56,083 I think that's 507 01:12:56,083 --> 01:12:59,166 probably 80 to 90% of the US. 508 01:12:59,416 --> 01:13:00,958 I think so. That's the rule, right? 509 01:13:01,541 --> 01:13:02,500 And the reason for me, 510 01:13:02,500 --> 01:13:03,333 there's a real reason. 511 01:13:03,333 --> 01:13:03,833 It's not because I'm 512 01:13:03,833 --> 01:13:04,958 trying to be Scrooge. 513 01:13:05,041 --> 01:13:05,333 Right. 514 01:13:05,625 --> 01:13:08,083 It's because it's special music. 515 01:13:08,083 --> 01:13:08,416 Yes. 516 01:13:09,000 --> 01:13:10,666 And if you listen to it all your volume, 517 01:13:10,666 --> 01:13:12,250 it loses the magicalness, 518 01:13:12,458 --> 01:13:14,083 because Christmas is still magical. 519 01:13:14,791 --> 01:13:15,250 100%. 520 01:13:16,000 --> 01:13:17,875 Whether you're first grade, 521 01:13:18,666 --> 01:13:20,083 or you're coming in 522 01:13:20,083 --> 01:13:23,000 your fifth decade of it. 523 01:13:23,083 --> 01:13:23,708 Right. Right? 524 01:13:24,083 --> 01:13:25,291 It is still so magical. 525 01:13:25,875 --> 01:13:27,333 Yeah, and that's part of it. 526 01:13:27,958 --> 01:13:29,250 But you know, that's why you 527 01:13:29,250 --> 01:13:29,916 put up all the decorations. 528 01:13:30,333 --> 01:13:32,250 You build something that's magical. 529 01:13:32,583 --> 01:13:35,500 That magic is, you have to make it. 530 01:13:35,833 --> 01:13:36,458 Right. Right? 531 01:13:36,666 --> 01:13:37,916 And if you dilute it, 532 01:13:37,916 --> 01:13:38,583 it's not as magical. 533 01:13:39,291 --> 01:13:39,958 I totally agree. 534 01:13:39,958 --> 01:13:41,041 So that's why you 535 01:13:41,041 --> 01:13:42,166 should tell them, I think, 536 01:13:42,375 --> 01:13:44,083 like, hey guys, we don't listen to music. 537 01:13:44,958 --> 01:13:46,416 We're just letting them do it. 538 01:13:46,708 --> 01:13:47,125 I know. 539 01:13:47,458 --> 01:13:49,666 Well, they don't, they'll play it, 540 01:13:49,666 --> 01:13:50,541 and then I'm like, stop 541 01:13:50,541 --> 01:13:51,583 the music or whatever. 542 01:13:51,583 --> 01:13:52,125 If they're listening 543 01:13:52,125 --> 01:13:52,875 to it in the showers, 544 01:13:53,333 --> 01:13:54,375 I don't stop that, 545 01:13:54,375 --> 01:13:55,166 because I'm like, I'm-- 546 01:13:55,333 --> 01:13:57,625 Yeah, no, you should march up there, 547 01:13:58,041 --> 01:13:59,708 knock on, just bang it on the doors. 548 01:14:00,166 --> 01:14:00,791 Yeah, no thanks. 549 01:14:01,291 --> 01:14:01,500 Like-- 550 01:14:02,250 --> 01:14:04,083 Turn that Christmas music off. 551 01:14:04,083 --> 01:14:05,041 It's like, off, no. 552 01:14:05,625 --> 01:14:07,250 I don't wanna hear another jingle bell. 553 01:14:08,291 --> 01:14:10,500 (laughing) I mean, oh my gosh, our 554 01:14:10,500 --> 01:14:12,083 youngest was belting out 555 01:14:12,916 --> 01:14:14,458 some Kelly Clarkson song the other day. 556 01:14:14,458 --> 01:14:15,583 It was so funny. 557 01:14:16,125 --> 01:14:17,875 I mean, it really is fantastic. 558 01:14:19,708 --> 01:14:22,000 I get a lot of just laughter out of it. 559 01:14:22,166 --> 01:14:22,500 Yeah. 560 01:14:23,000 --> 01:14:23,583 You're right, you 561 01:14:23,583 --> 01:14:25,041 don't want to skip over. 562 01:14:25,916 --> 01:14:27,416 Like, the fun that fall 563 01:14:27,416 --> 01:14:30,125 is, and even Thanksgiving, 564 01:14:30,500 --> 01:14:32,791 our family loves Thanksgiving. 565 01:14:33,666 --> 01:14:34,708 I'm hearing more and more 566 01:14:34,708 --> 01:14:35,500 over the last couple weeks 567 01:14:35,916 --> 01:14:36,708 how excited the kids 568 01:14:36,708 --> 01:14:37,500 are for Thanksgiving. 569 01:14:38,375 --> 01:14:40,375 And you're like, okay, like-- 570 01:14:40,625 --> 01:14:40,916 Yeah. 571 01:14:42,708 --> 01:14:43,583 Thanksgiving's awesome. 572 01:14:44,833 --> 01:14:44,875 (laughing) 573 01:14:44,875 --> 01:14:45,291 You know? 574 01:14:45,666 --> 01:14:47,583 Yeah, well, it's a week off of school, A. 575 01:14:49,291 --> 01:14:50,333 True, true. 576 01:14:50,333 --> 01:14:50,916 It's been thrown off 577 01:14:50,916 --> 01:14:51,708 the last couple years. 578 01:14:52,000 --> 01:14:52,625 We're in a pretty good 579 01:14:52,625 --> 01:14:53,791 tradition of going to Minnesota 580 01:14:53,791 --> 01:14:54,666 back to your parents' 581 01:14:54,666 --> 01:14:56,000 house and doing that. 582 01:14:56,375 --> 01:14:58,750 That's just been thrown off with life 583 01:14:59,416 --> 01:15:00,666 getting busier with our kids. 584 01:15:01,458 --> 01:15:01,541 Right. 585 01:15:01,625 --> 01:15:03,208 I mean, it has nothing to 586 01:15:03,208 --> 01:15:04,500 do with want to go back there 587 01:15:04,500 --> 01:15:05,333 or not to go back there. 588 01:15:05,333 --> 01:15:06,375 But I mean, this, 589 01:15:06,958 --> 01:15:07,625 Thanksgiving, for instance, 590 01:15:07,625 --> 01:15:08,166 we're in a whole other 591 01:15:08,166 --> 01:15:09,583 state the weekend before 592 01:15:09,666 --> 01:15:11,000 Thanksgiving for soccer. 593 01:15:11,458 --> 01:15:11,666 Yeah. 594 01:15:12,416 --> 01:15:14,041 And not that we can't not 595 01:15:14,041 --> 01:15:15,416 potentially make that trip 596 01:15:15,416 --> 01:15:16,791 back there, but we may have 597 01:15:16,791 --> 01:15:18,041 soccer practices back here 598 01:15:18,041 --> 01:15:19,000 that week of Thanksgiving. 599 01:15:19,666 --> 01:15:20,416 It gets to the point 600 01:15:20,416 --> 01:15:22,250 where it's the kids' schedule, 601 01:15:22,583 --> 01:15:23,208 which everybody knows 602 01:15:23,208 --> 01:15:24,333 at this point in life, 603 01:15:24,333 --> 01:15:25,125 run your life. 604 01:15:25,250 --> 01:15:25,583 Yes. 605 01:15:25,583 --> 01:15:27,583 Like, you know, outlook, you might have, 606 01:15:27,583 --> 01:15:28,083 you probably have more 607 01:15:28,083 --> 01:15:29,166 kids' stuff on your outlook 608 01:15:29,166 --> 01:15:30,541 than you do work stuff on your outlook. 609 01:15:30,958 --> 01:15:31,583 And you have a very 610 01:15:31,583 --> 01:15:33,083 busy nine to five outlook. 611 01:15:33,458 --> 01:15:34,500 Well, eight to five. 612 01:15:35,041 --> 01:15:36,458 Sometimes seven, 30 to six. 613 01:15:36,750 --> 01:15:37,208 Right, right. 614 01:15:37,875 --> 01:15:38,666 But the kids' schedules are 615 01:15:38,666 --> 01:15:40,208 crazy, so because of that, 616 01:15:40,208 --> 01:15:42,000 it's like, well, with all 617 01:15:42,000 --> 01:15:43,291 the craziness that we have, 618 01:15:44,125 --> 01:15:45,958 to make it out there for 48 hours, 619 01:15:45,958 --> 01:15:47,208 to eat turkey with you guys, 620 01:15:47,791 --> 01:15:49,166 I'd rather just FaceTime and say, 621 01:15:49,166 --> 01:15:51,000 hey, love ya, hope your turkey was good. 622 01:15:51,500 --> 01:15:52,916 Right, because it's hard. 623 01:15:53,458 --> 01:15:56,500 And, I mean, we'll be in, 624 01:15:56,500 --> 01:15:58,291 in like a six week timeframe, 625 01:15:58,625 --> 01:16:00,833 I think we're in like, we're 626 01:16:00,833 --> 01:16:01,875 on how many different flights? 627 01:16:02,083 --> 01:16:02,666 Six different flights 628 01:16:02,666 --> 01:16:03,375 or something like that? 629 01:16:03,375 --> 01:16:04,625 Or five, four or five? 630 01:16:04,875 --> 01:16:05,541 Something like that, yeah. 631 01:16:05,541 --> 01:16:09,041 I mean, that's, like, I 632 01:16:09,041 --> 01:16:11,458 just kinda wanna be home. 633 01:16:12,250 --> 01:16:12,875 I love my-- 634 01:16:13,125 --> 01:16:13,458 It's like we were 635 01:16:13,458 --> 01:16:14,208 talking about with San Diego 636 01:16:14,208 --> 01:16:15,333 just last week, I wanna be home. 637 01:16:15,500 --> 01:16:16,208 And right now, some 638 01:16:16,208 --> 01:16:17,125 of those are split up. 639 01:16:18,208 --> 01:16:18,916 You know? 640 01:16:19,416 --> 01:16:19,458 Yeah. 641 01:16:19,541 --> 01:16:20,458 And that makes it even tougher. 642 01:16:20,875 --> 01:16:21,666 Yeah, and we were talking 643 01:16:21,666 --> 01:16:22,625 about that this morning, 644 01:16:22,625 --> 01:16:24,625 about just how, as a 645 01:16:24,625 --> 01:16:26,500 parent, it's really hard. 646 01:16:26,666 --> 01:16:27,500 We're at the ages 647 01:16:27,500 --> 01:16:29,083 where we need to split up. 648 01:16:29,083 --> 01:16:32,208 We can't all go, because every child 649 01:16:32,208 --> 01:16:34,041 has their own thing going on. 650 01:16:34,625 --> 01:16:35,416 And so it doesn't make sense 651 01:16:35,416 --> 01:16:36,750 for us all to go to San Diego 652 01:16:37,000 --> 01:16:38,458 or all to go to Colorado. 653 01:16:39,291 --> 01:16:40,208 But what that means is 654 01:16:40,208 --> 01:16:42,625 that one of us has to miss 655 01:16:42,958 --> 01:16:44,875 something in the other kids' 656 01:16:44,875 --> 01:16:45,958 lives that they're not with. 657 01:16:46,000 --> 01:16:46,208 Yeah. 658 01:16:47,416 --> 01:16:49,208 And there's a feeling 659 01:16:49,208 --> 01:16:50,625 of, at least for me, 660 01:16:51,958 --> 01:16:54,333 I don't know if it's inadequacy or just, 661 01:16:54,791 --> 01:16:56,125 I don't usually have 662 01:16:56,125 --> 01:16:57,958 FOMO, fear of missing out. 663 01:16:59,125 --> 01:17:00,291 But I do in that case. 664 01:17:00,291 --> 01:17:01,041 I do when it comes to 665 01:17:01,041 --> 01:17:02,875 the kids and big things, 666 01:17:02,875 --> 01:17:03,375 like Halloween. 667 01:17:04,333 --> 01:17:05,666 We will be split up for Halloween. 668 01:17:06,541 --> 01:17:08,250 And that's never really been the case. 669 01:17:08,875 --> 01:17:09,875 It's always like I've been 670 01:17:09,875 --> 01:17:11,208 involved, to some degree, 671 01:17:11,375 --> 01:17:13,708 in the whole thing. 672 01:17:13,708 --> 01:17:14,458 It's like death by a 673 01:17:14,458 --> 01:17:15,666 million cuts for that, right? 674 01:17:15,666 --> 01:17:15,833 Yeah. 675 01:17:16,458 --> 01:17:19,041 As the kids get older, little by little, 676 01:17:19,541 --> 01:17:21,541 Halloween, it's like kids are here, 677 01:17:21,541 --> 01:17:23,083 we're doing pre-Halloween stuff here. 678 01:17:23,083 --> 01:17:24,291 And then one year it's like, oh, 679 01:17:24,666 --> 01:17:25,375 maybe one of the kids 680 01:17:25,375 --> 01:17:26,166 wants to go to their kids 681 01:17:26,166 --> 01:17:26,875 to do pre-Halloween. 682 01:17:27,166 --> 01:17:28,125 They stayed here and then, 683 01:17:28,125 --> 01:17:28,750 oh, but maybe they're gonna 684 01:17:28,750 --> 01:17:29,500 trick or treat with some 685 01:17:29,500 --> 01:17:31,125 friends in the other neighborhood. 686 01:17:32,000 --> 01:17:33,250 So it's like little, little like that. 687 01:17:33,541 --> 01:17:35,250 Last year, our 688 01:17:35,250 --> 01:17:36,500 daughter, we didn't see her. 689 01:17:36,500 --> 01:17:37,958 She didn't even carve pumpkins with us. 690 01:17:38,500 --> 01:17:39,375 She was at a party 691 01:17:39,375 --> 01:17:40,916 and the pumpkin carving, 692 01:17:41,500 --> 01:17:42,583 there was literally, the 693 01:17:42,583 --> 01:17:43,208 only time we could do it 694 01:17:43,208 --> 01:17:45,291 was the night of Halloween. 695 01:17:45,666 --> 01:17:47,000 There was no other time to do it. 696 01:17:47,041 --> 01:17:47,250 None. 697 01:17:48,291 --> 01:17:49,791 And have them still be right. 698 01:17:50,083 --> 01:17:51,125 Because you can't carve a 699 01:17:51,125 --> 01:17:52,708 pumpkin seven days earlier, 700 01:17:52,708 --> 01:17:53,458 it won't last. 701 01:17:53,458 --> 01:17:55,166 If somebody knows that, sure, send me a-- 702 01:17:55,458 --> 01:17:57,041 Yeah, if there is some type of treatment 703 01:17:57,041 --> 01:17:57,666 you can put on the 704 01:17:57,666 --> 01:17:59,041 pumpkin that once you carve it, 705 01:17:59,041 --> 01:18:00,250 it keeps it nice for 706 01:18:00,250 --> 01:18:01,916 multiple days, great. 707 01:18:02,125 --> 01:18:02,916 I'd love to hear this. 708 01:18:02,916 --> 01:18:03,500 But we don't know it. 709 01:18:03,500 --> 01:18:03,750 Hack. 710 01:18:04,416 --> 01:18:06,958 And so, you just kind of expose yourself 711 01:18:06,958 --> 01:18:09,125 to this lack of the 712 01:18:09,125 --> 01:18:11,000 full family, you know? 713 01:18:11,250 --> 01:18:11,458 Yeah. 714 01:18:12,500 --> 01:18:14,958 Until eventually, sadly, 715 01:18:15,458 --> 01:18:16,666 they're gone the whole time. 716 01:18:16,666 --> 01:18:17,666 I mean, they're in the same city, 717 01:18:17,666 --> 01:18:18,833 but it's like we talked about it. 718 01:18:19,625 --> 01:18:21,541 We're being subbed out slowly but surely 719 01:18:22,208 --> 01:18:23,583 for their friends to be subbed in. 720 01:18:24,166 --> 01:18:24,875 Which is normal and 721 01:18:24,875 --> 01:18:26,000 natural, and it's okay, 722 01:18:26,000 --> 01:18:26,958 and it's good to see that. 723 01:18:27,791 --> 01:18:30,375 But it's hard, and this one isn't that, 724 01:18:30,375 --> 01:18:31,625 is why it's even harder, right? 725 01:18:31,625 --> 01:18:34,333 It's because extracurricular activities 726 01:18:35,000 --> 01:18:37,125 are making a choice between, well, 727 01:18:37,125 --> 01:18:38,416 do we split the family? 728 01:18:38,666 --> 01:18:40,125 Do we leave one behind? 729 01:18:41,333 --> 01:18:42,916 Those are hard decisions to make. 730 01:18:42,958 --> 01:18:43,125 Yeah. 731 01:18:43,500 --> 01:18:44,583 Especially when you do it so much 732 01:18:44,583 --> 01:18:45,250 as an economic 733 01:18:45,250 --> 01:18:46,375 consideration there as well. 734 01:18:46,583 --> 01:18:50,041 Yeah, I mean, you're 735 01:18:50,041 --> 01:18:51,916 balancing the economics of it. 736 01:18:52,416 --> 01:18:55,416 But then also, I can't have this kid miss 737 01:18:55,791 --> 01:18:57,916 what's important to them to go 738 01:18:57,916 --> 01:18:59,250 just to be with the other kid 739 01:18:59,250 --> 01:19:00,541 because it's important to the other kid. 740 01:19:01,833 --> 01:19:04,000 So it's that balance, and I 741 01:19:04,000 --> 01:19:05,041 don't know if we strike it 742 01:19:05,250 --> 01:19:06,833 perfectly all the time, but it. 743 01:19:07,958 --> 01:19:08,916 So the one thing on Thanksgiving, 744 01:19:09,166 --> 01:19:09,833 then just back to that 745 01:19:09,833 --> 01:19:11,000 one, I do feel bad though, 746 01:19:11,000 --> 01:19:11,958 because the kids are at the age 747 01:19:11,958 --> 01:19:13,375 that they've had some 748 01:19:13,375 --> 01:19:15,625 interaction with cousins. 749 01:19:16,375 --> 01:19:17,333 And I know there are 750 01:19:17,333 --> 01:19:18,541 people that have really strong 751 01:19:18,583 --> 01:19:21,416 cousin connections, you grew up that way. 752 01:19:22,750 --> 01:19:24,166 I didn't necessarily grew 753 01:19:24,166 --> 01:19:25,583 up that way because I was, 754 01:19:26,708 --> 01:19:29,541 I was a male, almost all female cousins, 755 01:19:30,083 --> 01:19:32,666 and I was either five 756 01:19:32,666 --> 01:19:34,666 years, at the very least, 757 01:19:34,875 --> 01:19:37,875 or older, or eight years 758 01:19:37,875 --> 01:19:38,958 younger than all of them. 759 01:19:38,958 --> 01:19:40,375 So I was an island by 760 01:19:40,375 --> 01:19:42,958 myself, for the most part. 761 01:19:43,750 --> 01:19:45,958 There's one other boy, cousin Brian, 762 01:19:46,208 --> 01:19:48,416 who was, I think he was 763 01:19:48,416 --> 01:19:49,458 10 years younger than me, 764 01:19:49,458 --> 01:19:50,541 or nine years younger than me, 765 01:19:50,541 --> 01:19:51,958 but significantly so. 766 01:19:52,291 --> 01:19:54,291 I was 17, he would've been eight. 767 01:19:54,375 --> 01:19:55,250 Right, right, you're 768 01:19:55,250 --> 01:19:56,500 like, we're not hanging out. 769 01:19:56,666 --> 01:19:57,166 Anybody, let's go. 770 01:19:59,625 --> 01:20:01,416 Anyways, so I never really 771 01:20:01,416 --> 01:20:02,541 had that connection there, 772 01:20:02,541 --> 01:20:03,833 but our kids are getting that connection 773 01:20:03,833 --> 01:20:05,625 as hard as it is, 774 01:20:05,916 --> 01:20:06,666 because we don't live 775 01:20:06,666 --> 01:20:07,583 anywhere near any cousins. 776 01:20:07,875 --> 01:20:10,208 No, no, we're a plane right away. 777 01:20:10,916 --> 01:20:12,416 Yeah, but you grew up 778 01:20:12,416 --> 01:20:14,208 near enough, a drive, 779 01:20:14,833 --> 01:20:16,875 and the family got together a lot 780 01:20:17,250 --> 01:20:18,500 when you were younger, I think. 781 01:20:18,500 --> 01:20:21,958 I mean, every, every Fourth of July, 782 01:20:22,291 --> 01:20:24,041 and then every New 783 01:20:24,041 --> 01:20:25,791 Year's really was when we did 784 01:20:26,458 --> 01:20:27,625 Christmas with my dad's family, 785 01:20:27,625 --> 01:20:28,500 because there were so 786 01:20:28,500 --> 01:20:29,791 many kids in my dad's family 787 01:20:29,916 --> 01:20:32,166 that they just made the decision to say, 788 01:20:32,166 --> 01:20:33,000 hey, you go with your 789 01:20:33,000 --> 01:20:34,166 other side of the family 790 01:20:34,375 --> 01:20:35,166 over Christmas, or do 791 01:20:35,166 --> 01:20:35,916 what you do for Christmas, 792 01:20:36,166 --> 01:20:36,500 and then we'll get 793 01:20:36,500 --> 01:20:38,083 together the week after, 794 01:20:38,625 --> 01:20:39,416 and spend, and we'll 795 01:20:39,416 --> 01:20:40,500 pretend that New Year's 796 01:20:40,500 --> 01:20:41,166 is our Christmas. 797 01:20:43,250 --> 01:20:45,041 And that's what we did all growing up, 798 01:20:45,041 --> 01:20:46,875 and I went to college with my cousins. 799 01:20:47,500 --> 01:20:49,750 It was, our best 800 01:20:49,750 --> 01:20:51,583 friends were our cousins, 801 01:20:51,583 --> 01:20:52,958 even though they lived a state away. 802 01:20:53,875 --> 01:20:54,833 I tell this story to 803 01:20:54,833 --> 01:20:56,000 paint the picture for people. 804 01:20:57,416 --> 01:20:59,291 When my older brother's best friend 805 01:20:59,291 --> 01:21:00,583 from high school got married, 806 01:21:01,541 --> 01:21:03,000 my aunts and uncle and 807 01:21:03,000 --> 01:21:04,750 cousins who lived a state away 808 01:21:05,041 --> 01:21:06,291 were invited to his wedding. 809 01:21:06,791 --> 01:21:08,208 Like, that's how close we were. 810 01:21:08,416 --> 01:21:09,250 That's how ingrained we 811 01:21:09,250 --> 01:21:11,166 were in each other's lives. 812 01:21:13,541 --> 01:21:16,083 And it was really cool, and so it's, 813 01:21:17,083 --> 01:21:17,875 it's super cool to 814 01:21:17,875 --> 01:21:18,875 see that with our kids, 815 01:21:19,166 --> 01:21:20,916 and how their 816 01:21:20,916 --> 01:21:22,625 friendships and their connections 817 01:21:22,625 --> 01:21:25,500 with their cousins are, but it's hard, 818 01:21:25,833 --> 01:21:26,750 because, again, this is, 819 01:21:27,000 --> 01:21:28,125 we're a plane ride away. 820 01:21:29,291 --> 01:21:30,291 We could drive it, but it 821 01:21:30,291 --> 01:21:32,041 would be, what, 12, 13 hours, 822 01:21:32,250 --> 01:21:33,125 something like that, I mean. 823 01:21:33,750 --> 01:21:34,833 Well, I think higher than that, but. 824 01:21:35,291 --> 01:21:36,000 Yeah, I was like, 825 01:21:36,000 --> 01:21:38,291 anyway, so, but it's hard, 826 01:21:38,708 --> 01:21:40,500 and we're just trying to balance it all. 827 01:21:41,291 --> 01:21:42,583 Yeah, I think that's the toughest part, 828 01:21:42,583 --> 01:21:43,583 because they want to see their cousins, 829 01:21:43,833 --> 01:21:45,208 and it's like, well, you 830 01:21:45,208 --> 01:21:46,750 know, I mean, it's tough to find, 831 01:21:46,750 --> 01:21:47,791 I mean, I hate to say it, but 832 01:21:47,791 --> 01:21:48,791 it's tough to find that time. 833 01:21:49,000 --> 01:21:49,833 It is. You know? 834 01:21:50,208 --> 01:21:52,625 And I don't know, I 835 01:21:52,625 --> 01:21:53,333 don't know how to do it. 836 01:21:53,458 --> 01:21:54,041 Even taking that to 837 01:21:54,041 --> 01:21:56,250 soccer, we still don't, 838 01:21:56,250 --> 01:21:56,791 I mean, there's still 839 01:21:56,791 --> 01:21:58,541 so many school activities 840 01:21:58,833 --> 01:21:59,958 and all that other kind of stuff, 841 01:21:59,958 --> 01:22:01,500 that it's still tough to find that time. 842 01:22:01,875 --> 01:22:02,708 But soccer would help. 843 01:22:02,750 --> 01:22:03,791 I mean, then, for like 844 01:22:03,791 --> 01:22:04,666 Thanksgiving, for instance, 845 01:22:04,666 --> 01:22:05,375 we wouldn't be traveling 846 01:22:05,375 --> 01:22:06,708 the weekend before and after, 847 01:22:07,166 --> 01:22:08,458 and then suggesting taking 848 01:22:08,458 --> 01:22:09,916 48 hours to go there, too. 849 01:22:09,958 --> 01:22:10,833 Exactly. Or it's like, 850 01:22:11,291 --> 01:22:12,750 just be at our home base. 851 01:22:13,000 --> 01:22:14,250 Right. Everybody's welcome here. 852 01:22:14,708 --> 01:22:15,750 It's absolutely right. 853 01:22:15,750 --> 01:22:17,166 In fact, our oldest has suggested that. 854 01:22:17,208 --> 01:22:17,666 Yeah, yeah. He's like, well, 855 01:22:17,666 --> 01:22:18,500 you could throw it out there. 856 01:22:20,166 --> 01:22:22,166 I don't know if that'll be received. 857 01:22:22,666 --> 01:22:24,208 I don't know how that would be received, 858 01:22:24,208 --> 01:22:26,375 but that might be, yeah, yeah. 859 01:22:26,833 --> 01:22:28,958 Part of it, too, we're both homebodies. 860 01:22:29,250 --> 01:22:31,500 I mean, I think we love, I 861 01:22:31,500 --> 01:22:32,166 don't want to speak for you, 862 01:22:32,250 --> 01:22:33,041 I love to travel. 863 01:22:33,458 --> 01:22:34,875 I think it's super fun and exciting, 864 01:22:35,291 --> 01:22:36,958 but if I am gone too much, 865 01:22:37,583 --> 01:22:40,541 I still need, as extroverted as I am, 866 01:22:40,541 --> 01:22:42,208 I still need to come back to my home base 867 01:22:42,208 --> 01:22:44,166 to feel centered and, you know. 868 01:22:44,750 --> 01:22:46,375 And so, having that 869 01:22:46,375 --> 01:22:47,583 time, like a staycation, 870 01:22:48,250 --> 01:22:50,458 a good long weekend of a staycation, 871 01:22:50,625 --> 01:22:52,250 oh my goodness, it's amazing. 872 01:22:53,208 --> 01:22:54,750 I feel restored after it. 873 01:22:55,125 --> 01:22:56,666 Oh yeah, I'm sure staycations are, 874 01:22:57,083 --> 01:22:57,708 once you discover 875 01:22:57,708 --> 01:22:58,916 staycations, they're fantastic. 876 01:22:59,625 --> 01:23:00,916 Yeah, yeah. 877 01:23:01,875 --> 01:23:03,291 And we built our house for that reason, 878 01:23:03,291 --> 01:23:04,000 honestly, that was one of 879 01:23:04,000 --> 01:23:05,041 the things we were kind of, 880 01:23:05,458 --> 01:23:07,375 maybe we built our house for that reason, 881 01:23:07,375 --> 01:23:10,083 that there's no, we have everything here 882 01:23:11,333 --> 01:23:12,958 that we would want. 883 01:23:12,958 --> 01:23:14,375 We built it to be here, 884 01:23:14,666 --> 01:23:15,666 you know, to enjoy it, 885 01:23:15,666 --> 01:23:16,666 for the kids to enjoy it, 886 01:23:16,666 --> 01:23:17,166 for the kids to have 887 01:23:17,166 --> 01:23:18,541 friends over to enjoy it, 888 01:23:18,541 --> 01:23:19,500 to have people over 889 01:23:19,500 --> 01:23:21,041 to enjoy it, you know. 890 01:23:21,625 --> 01:23:22,833 And we often joke, I mean, 891 01:23:22,833 --> 01:23:24,125 we're blessed because of it, 892 01:23:24,333 --> 01:23:25,958 but because we were able to build a house 893 01:23:25,958 --> 01:23:26,791 the way we wanted to, 894 01:23:27,250 --> 01:23:29,041 but there is no hotel, 895 01:23:29,041 --> 01:23:29,625 and we've been to some 896 01:23:29,625 --> 01:23:31,791 nice resorts around the world. 897 01:23:32,666 --> 01:23:36,000 And there's sort of maybe Boer Boer, 898 01:23:36,250 --> 01:23:38,416 where we're over the water, you know, 899 01:23:38,416 --> 01:23:39,291 and that's, you know, 900 01:23:39,291 --> 01:23:40,000 you're looking out the window, 901 01:23:40,250 --> 01:23:41,375 at those crystal blue waters, 902 01:23:41,375 --> 01:23:41,791 but I'm looking at the 903 01:23:41,791 --> 01:23:42,500 crystal blue water right here. 904 01:23:42,625 --> 01:23:43,083 Right, right. 905 01:23:43,125 --> 01:23:45,500 Not outside of Fiji, but, 906 01:23:46,458 --> 01:23:48,250 or the waters of Boer Boer, but, 907 01:23:50,500 --> 01:23:51,583 none of them are, I mean, like, 908 01:23:52,125 --> 01:23:54,208 we're trading down from 909 01:23:54,208 --> 01:23:56,041 our own bathroom, you know. 910 01:23:57,375 --> 01:23:58,250 Well, when we were 911 01:23:58,250 --> 01:24:00,708 designing, I should say you, 912 01:24:00,750 --> 01:24:02,708 I say we, the royal we, 913 01:24:03,083 --> 01:24:05,250 meaning I had a, it's all him. 914 01:24:05,291 --> 01:24:06,291 You signed off on it. 915 01:24:06,291 --> 01:24:06,916 I signed off on it, right? 916 01:24:06,958 --> 01:24:07,375 I'm sure we threw 917 01:24:07,375 --> 01:24:08,458 things back and forth, but. 918 01:24:09,166 --> 01:24:11,250 But, I mean, you would actually pull up, 919 01:24:11,250 --> 01:24:12,833 I mean, we looked at our pictures of 920 01:24:13,375 --> 01:24:14,708 the over water bungalow 921 01:24:14,708 --> 01:24:16,083 that we stayed in in Boer Boer, 922 01:24:16,083 --> 01:24:17,333 and tried to pull in 923 01:24:17,333 --> 01:24:19,041 pieces that we could, 924 01:24:19,500 --> 01:24:20,708 of those things, and 925 01:24:20,708 --> 01:24:22,208 of these fancy hotels, 926 01:24:22,208 --> 01:24:24,416 and fancy homes, to build this one. 927 01:24:24,416 --> 01:24:25,125 So, I mean, it really 928 01:24:25,125 --> 01:24:26,083 was like a compilation 929 01:24:26,083 --> 01:24:27,583 of what we liked the most around. 930 01:24:27,625 --> 01:24:28,208 That's why we went with 931 01:24:28,208 --> 01:24:29,041 the spa feel out there, 932 01:24:29,041 --> 01:24:29,625 that's why there's a 933 01:24:29,625 --> 01:24:31,583 master courtyard off of that. 934 01:24:31,583 --> 01:24:31,958 You know what I mean? 935 01:24:32,208 --> 01:24:32,541 If you've ever been to 936 01:24:32,541 --> 01:24:33,250 the house, you've seen it, 937 01:24:33,250 --> 01:24:34,208 but, I mean, it's hard 938 01:24:34,208 --> 01:24:35,250 for us to go somewhere, 939 01:24:35,500 --> 01:24:35,916 that's why the 940 01:24:35,916 --> 01:24:37,125 staycation's fantastic for us, 941 01:24:37,125 --> 01:24:38,708 and why we do like to come to our house, 942 01:24:38,708 --> 01:24:40,500 because it's so comfortable, and we're 943 01:24:40,500 --> 01:24:41,500 blessed to have that. 944 01:24:42,083 --> 01:24:43,958 But, it's really difficult to go 945 01:24:43,958 --> 01:24:45,750 somewhere that, you know, 946 01:24:46,083 --> 01:24:48,416 it's the ocean, or, you 947 01:24:48,416 --> 01:24:49,333 know, there's something else. 948 01:24:49,875 --> 01:24:52,000 Because there's no amenities, you know, 949 01:24:52,000 --> 01:24:53,500 that I think you get to a certain point, 950 01:24:54,166 --> 01:24:56,208 that it's tough to buy more amenities, 951 01:24:56,833 --> 01:24:58,083 you know what I mean? I agree, I agree. 952 01:24:59,041 --> 01:25:01,750 That are gonna up your level of comfort. 953 01:25:02,250 --> 01:25:03,708 Yeah, exactly, exactly. 954 01:25:03,708 --> 01:25:04,708 So then it's the experience 955 01:25:04,708 --> 01:25:06,875 outside of those amenities. 956 01:25:07,125 --> 01:25:08,000 That's exactly right, 957 01:25:08,208 --> 01:25:09,333 that's exactly right, yeah. 958 01:25:09,666 --> 01:25:11,000 Like who you're in Rome, right? 959 01:25:11,000 --> 01:25:12,166 Like that's probably a perfect example. 960 01:25:12,166 --> 01:25:13,500 The amenities, not 961 01:25:13,500 --> 01:25:14,625 quite what we have here, 962 01:25:14,625 --> 01:25:15,625 but the experience of 963 01:25:15,625 --> 01:25:16,833 where we were at was-- 964 01:25:16,833 --> 01:25:17,500 Yeah, and that was cool, 965 01:25:17,500 --> 01:25:18,291 because we were experiencing 966 01:25:18,541 --> 01:25:21,041 what living in like an 967 01:25:21,041 --> 01:25:22,625 apartment in Rome would be like. 968 01:25:22,708 --> 01:25:23,166 Yeah. 969 01:25:23,208 --> 01:25:24,000 You know, and now I 970 01:25:24,000 --> 01:25:24,791 wouldn't wanna do that 971 01:25:24,791 --> 01:25:25,833 for longer than the, you 972 01:25:25,833 --> 01:25:27,291 know, time we were there. 973 01:25:27,666 --> 01:25:29,458 But that was cool to see. 974 01:25:29,500 --> 01:25:29,833 Right. 975 01:25:29,875 --> 01:25:30,708 You know, but again, I 976 01:25:30,708 --> 01:25:31,875 appreciate where we live. 977 01:25:32,125 --> 01:25:32,708 Right, exactly. 978 01:25:33,083 --> 01:25:34,541 Even though we weren't a two minute walk 979 01:25:34,541 --> 01:25:36,791 from the Coliseum, or a five 980 01:25:36,791 --> 01:25:37,708 minute walk, whatever you were. 981 01:25:37,791 --> 01:25:39,125 Yeah, it was really nice. 982 01:25:39,125 --> 01:25:39,375 Yeah. 983 01:25:39,750 --> 01:25:40,458 It was really cool. 984 01:25:40,791 --> 01:25:42,041 But all that to say is 985 01:25:42,041 --> 01:25:43,958 like, that coming back to home 986 01:25:43,958 --> 01:25:44,875 is centering and we 987 01:25:44,875 --> 01:25:46,333 aren't home very often. 988 01:25:46,375 --> 01:25:46,583 Right. 989 01:25:47,416 --> 01:25:49,333 And even Monday through Friday, 990 01:25:50,583 --> 01:25:52,125 outside of a Friday night, we are, 991 01:25:53,666 --> 01:25:54,500 or outside of working 992 01:25:54,500 --> 01:25:55,333 hours, I should say. 993 01:25:55,333 --> 01:25:56,333 So we both work from home, 994 01:25:56,791 --> 01:25:57,541 but outside of working 995 01:25:57,541 --> 01:25:59,958 hours, like we're not home. 996 01:26:00,791 --> 01:26:01,000 Yeah. 997 01:26:01,083 --> 01:26:02,458 I believe that when we're working hours, 998 01:26:02,458 --> 01:26:03,833 I mean, you got your office, 999 01:26:03,833 --> 01:26:05,000 which is almost right behind us, 1000 01:26:05,000 --> 01:26:05,666 and then my office in 1001 01:26:05,666 --> 01:26:06,291 the front of the house. 1002 01:26:07,708 --> 01:26:08,708 We're in the office the whole time. 1003 01:26:09,125 --> 01:26:10,541 We don't, I don't know 1004 01:26:10,541 --> 01:26:11,666 if people are under any, 1005 01:26:11,666 --> 01:26:12,333 I don't think nobody's ever 1006 01:26:12,333 --> 01:26:13,041 talked about it, obviously, 1007 01:26:13,250 --> 01:26:14,333 but you know, don't ever 1008 01:26:14,333 --> 01:26:15,000 be under the impression 1009 01:26:15,000 --> 01:26:15,708 that it's like, oh, 1010 01:26:15,708 --> 01:26:16,250 we're just hanging out 1011 01:26:16,250 --> 01:26:17,500 in the kitchen with each other. 1012 01:26:17,500 --> 01:26:18,500 Oh, we have lunch together 1013 01:26:18,500 --> 01:26:19,500 every day with each other. 1014 01:26:19,500 --> 01:26:19,708 Yeah. 1015 01:26:20,000 --> 01:26:20,333 Never. 1016 01:26:20,750 --> 01:26:21,916 No, I mean, you can 1017 01:26:21,916 --> 01:26:23,083 count on the one hand, 1018 01:26:23,083 --> 01:26:23,750 the number of times you've done it. 1019 01:26:23,750 --> 01:26:24,500 Probably one hand, the 1020 01:26:24,500 --> 01:26:25,541 number of times you've done it. 1021 01:26:26,250 --> 01:26:26,541 Two years. 1022 01:26:27,166 --> 01:26:27,833 Hey, you're out here 1023 01:26:27,833 --> 01:26:29,083 about the same time I am. 1024 01:26:29,125 --> 01:26:29,791 And one of those times 1025 01:26:29,791 --> 01:26:30,875 you went out to eat, I know. 1026 01:26:30,916 --> 01:26:31,458 I know. 1027 01:26:32,250 --> 01:26:33,083 Yeah, yeah. 1028 01:26:33,750 --> 01:26:35,375 So it doesn't happen very often, 1029 01:26:35,750 --> 01:26:38,041 but it just reinforces like 1030 01:26:38,041 --> 01:26:39,458 then when we do have that moment 1031 01:26:39,458 --> 01:26:43,208 to be home, it's really good to have it. 1032 01:26:44,500 --> 01:26:44,750 Yeah. 1033 01:26:45,500 --> 01:26:47,166 Just watching our dog just nonchalantly. 1034 01:26:47,166 --> 01:26:48,000 So I was gonna bring up, 1035 01:26:48,458 --> 01:26:49,750 one of the things, you know, 1036 01:26:49,750 --> 01:26:50,541 you have these things 1037 01:26:50,541 --> 01:26:51,833 that you buy or you build 1038 01:26:51,833 --> 01:26:53,125 for like convenience or 1039 01:26:53,125 --> 01:26:54,583 for luxury and whatnot. 1040 01:26:55,083 --> 01:26:56,208 At this house, we've got 1041 01:26:56,208 --> 01:26:57,333 these big sliding doors 1042 01:26:57,333 --> 01:26:58,333 that open up the family 1043 01:26:58,333 --> 01:26:59,875 room to the outdoor area 1044 01:26:59,875 --> 01:27:00,875 where we're at right here. 1045 01:27:00,875 --> 01:27:02,250 And our pool is just over to this way, 1046 01:27:02,625 --> 01:27:03,500 to the rest of the backyard. 1047 01:27:04,250 --> 01:27:05,583 And you have these big 1048 01:27:05,583 --> 01:27:06,708 sliding doors that open up, 1049 01:27:07,166 --> 01:27:07,708 you know, bring the 1050 01:27:07,708 --> 01:27:09,125 outside in, inside out. 1051 01:27:09,833 --> 01:27:10,708 In today's like the 1052 01:27:10,708 --> 01:27:11,750 first day, like two years 1053 01:27:11,750 --> 01:27:12,541 since we've lived here. 1054 01:27:12,625 --> 01:27:13,208 Since we've lived here. 1055 01:27:13,541 --> 01:27:14,625 Had them all the way open 1056 01:27:14,625 --> 01:27:15,750 and kind of left them open 1057 01:27:15,750 --> 01:27:16,458 for a little while. 1058 01:27:16,500 --> 01:27:16,708 Right. 1059 01:27:17,041 --> 01:27:18,541 Which is so goofy because 1060 01:27:18,541 --> 01:27:19,500 we got another one on that, 1061 01:27:19,500 --> 01:27:20,458 on those over there that 1062 01:27:20,458 --> 01:27:21,125 we can do the same with. 1063 01:27:21,125 --> 01:27:22,250 And we never do those things. 1064 01:27:22,500 --> 01:27:23,125 We don't. 1065 01:27:23,500 --> 01:27:24,250 It's crazy to me how many 1066 01:27:24,250 --> 01:27:25,708 things we have in our lives 1067 01:27:25,708 --> 01:27:27,500 and people have in their lives like, 1068 01:27:27,500 --> 01:27:28,666 oh, I'm gonna use this. 1069 01:27:28,666 --> 01:27:31,000 This is like luxury type things, 1070 01:27:31,000 --> 01:27:32,166 like our extra just luxuries. 1071 01:27:32,583 --> 01:27:33,666 Extra luxuries that 1072 01:27:33,666 --> 01:27:35,333 you end up never using. 1073 01:27:35,500 --> 01:27:36,291 Never use. 1074 01:27:36,500 --> 01:27:37,791 Like it'd be so nice to 1075 01:27:37,791 --> 01:27:39,000 have blah, blah, blah. 1076 01:27:39,000 --> 01:27:39,500 And then you spend 1077 01:27:39,500 --> 01:27:40,583 money on it and you're like, 1078 01:27:41,375 --> 01:27:42,958 I never use blah, blah, blah. 1079 01:27:43,000 --> 01:27:44,000 Yeah, I never use blah, blah, 1080 01:27:44,000 --> 01:27:44,875 because it's a little bit extra. 1081 01:27:45,250 --> 01:27:46,250 Or this, like just 1082 01:27:46,250 --> 01:27:47,166 opening this up is nice, 1083 01:27:47,166 --> 01:27:48,458 but the reason we can do it today is 1084 01:27:48,458 --> 01:27:49,333 because there's no wind 1085 01:27:49,333 --> 01:27:50,375 and there's no bugs we 1086 01:27:50,375 --> 01:27:50,958 were talking about earlier. 1087 01:27:50,958 --> 01:27:51,166 Right. 1088 01:27:52,666 --> 01:27:53,125 Because generally, 1089 01:27:53,416 --> 01:27:54,250 especially this time of year, 1090 01:27:54,250 --> 01:27:55,625 I see all these leaves on the ground. 1091 01:27:55,625 --> 01:27:56,291 We open this up, 1092 01:27:56,500 --> 01:27:57,791 whoosh, right into the house. 1093 01:27:57,833 --> 01:27:59,375 Yeah, that's exactly right. 1094 01:27:59,375 --> 01:27:59,875 You're like, wait a 1095 01:27:59,875 --> 01:28:00,791 minute, we can't do that. 1096 01:28:01,291 --> 01:28:02,000 Yeah, and I am too 1097 01:28:02,000 --> 01:28:02,916 much of a clean freak to, 1098 01:28:03,583 --> 01:28:04,500 even closely. 1099 01:28:04,875 --> 01:28:05,458 Oh, I know. 1100 01:28:06,250 --> 01:28:07,291 Even that makes me a little 1101 01:28:07,291 --> 01:28:08,458 itchy just thinking about it. 1102 01:28:08,500 --> 01:28:09,208 Right, right. 1103 01:28:09,708 --> 01:28:11,541 But it's funny because in Texas, 1104 01:28:12,958 --> 01:28:14,333 like you don't open windows here. 1105 01:28:14,333 --> 01:28:16,125 I grew up in an environment, 1106 01:28:16,416 --> 01:28:17,666 like windows were always open. 1107 01:28:18,000 --> 01:28:19,833 I mean, not always, middle of winter, no. 1108 01:28:19,875 --> 01:28:25,416 But like most of the non-winter days, 1109 01:28:25,708 --> 01:28:27,500 like you have a window or two open 1110 01:28:27,500 --> 01:28:28,583 or you have the sliding glass door, 1111 01:28:28,583 --> 01:28:29,250 your front door's open, 1112 01:28:29,250 --> 01:28:30,625 you have the sliding glass door on it 1113 01:28:30,625 --> 01:28:32,666 and you're just getting that breeze. 1114 01:28:34,791 --> 01:28:36,125 We don't ever do that in Texas. 1115 01:28:36,375 --> 01:28:38,375 It's too hot or too cold. 1116 01:28:38,375 --> 01:28:40,333 There's not those in between days. 1117 01:28:40,333 --> 01:28:41,916 It's always too hot or too cold. 1118 01:28:41,958 --> 01:28:43,125 And I don't know if it was 1119 01:28:43,125 --> 01:28:46,750 our age or where I grew up, 1120 01:28:46,750 --> 01:28:47,458 but we didn't even have 1121 01:28:47,458 --> 01:28:49,083 AC or anything like that. 1122 01:28:49,083 --> 01:28:51,416 So the house was always, 1123 01:28:52,250 --> 01:28:53,458 it was a screen door at the 1124 01:28:53,458 --> 01:28:54,750 very least was always open. 1125 01:28:55,208 --> 01:28:56,333 The screen door to the front door, 1126 01:28:56,333 --> 01:28:57,291 we had a screen door on the front door, 1127 01:28:57,541 --> 01:28:58,791 so the front door would be open to that. 1128 01:28:58,791 --> 01:29:00,291 And then usually the back sliding door 1129 01:29:00,291 --> 01:29:01,291 would have a screen door on it too. 1130 01:29:01,416 --> 01:29:01,791 Screen door on that? 1131 01:29:02,166 --> 01:29:04,291 Or you'd have the swamp cooler. 1132 01:29:04,708 --> 01:29:05,000 Yeah. 1133 01:29:05,041 --> 01:29:05,583 I don't know if it's a swamp cooler. 1134 01:29:05,583 --> 01:29:07,416 I've never heard that before, but okay. 1135 01:29:07,458 --> 01:29:08,958 But it's just the attic fan, 1136 01:29:09,583 --> 01:29:10,500 where you click on and 1137 01:29:10,500 --> 01:29:11,708 it's a big fan of the attic 1138 01:29:11,708 --> 01:29:13,416 that just draws air into the house. 1139 01:29:13,833 --> 01:29:14,875 It's like a Colorado thing. 1140 01:29:14,875 --> 01:29:15,375 It must be a Colorado 1141 01:29:15,375 --> 01:29:16,125 thing, it's a cool house 1142 01:29:16,125 --> 01:29:17,083 because we didn't have air conditioning. 1143 01:29:17,166 --> 01:29:18,083 That air conditioning was 1144 01:29:18,083 --> 01:29:21,250 not a thing when I grew up. 1145 01:29:21,250 --> 01:29:22,541 Yeah, and I think it 1146 01:29:22,541 --> 01:29:24,375 was where you grew up. 1147 01:29:24,458 --> 01:29:24,708 Probably could be. 1148 01:29:24,750 --> 01:29:25,916 Because it is not humid. 1149 01:29:25,958 --> 01:29:27,083 I think they have it now maybe. 1150 01:29:27,958 --> 01:29:28,791 Maybe people have it, I 1151 01:29:28,791 --> 01:29:29,458 have to call people there 1152 01:29:29,458 --> 01:29:30,291 and see if you have air 1153 01:29:30,291 --> 01:29:31,000 conditioning at their house 1154 01:29:31,000 --> 01:29:31,750 in Colorado now. 1155 01:29:32,083 --> 01:29:32,458 Right, there's no 1156 01:29:32,458 --> 01:29:33,833 humidity there, it's very dry. 1157 01:29:33,833 --> 01:29:34,708 Right, right. 1158 01:29:34,958 --> 01:29:40,291 And I think that is a part of just, 1159 01:29:40,958 --> 01:29:41,791 I know, we have a little 1160 01:29:41,791 --> 01:29:42,958 puppy who wants to come up. 1161 01:29:43,458 --> 01:29:45,750 She usually likes to sit on our lap, 1162 01:29:45,791 --> 01:29:46,708 so she'll make an appearance. 1163 01:29:49,125 --> 01:29:50,250 I think that's part of where you grew up. 1164 01:29:50,250 --> 01:29:51,250 There's no humidity there, 1165 01:29:51,250 --> 01:29:52,166 so you don't need the air 1166 01:29:52,166 --> 01:29:53,458 conditioning to take that out. 1167 01:29:53,708 --> 01:29:55,416 Whereas in Minnesota, even 1168 01:29:55,416 --> 01:29:56,541 though it may not get as hot, 1169 01:29:57,083 --> 01:29:59,583 it definitely is so humid. 1170 01:29:59,833 --> 01:30:00,583 That piece of cotton just 1171 01:30:00,583 --> 01:30:01,708 flew right into our house. 1172 01:30:01,708 --> 01:30:02,833 Like a cottonwood tree piece of cotton. 1173 01:30:02,875 --> 01:30:03,541 Yeah, it's all right. 1174 01:30:03,875 --> 01:30:04,541 Right into it. 1175 01:30:04,583 --> 01:30:05,458 As long as it's not a bun. 1176 01:30:06,875 --> 01:30:08,625 So, and then the last 1177 01:30:08,625 --> 01:30:09,791 thing, for me at least, 1178 01:30:10,083 --> 01:30:13,541 with fall was sports, like fall sports. 1179 01:30:14,291 --> 01:30:16,583 Whether you play them or you don't. 1180 01:30:16,625 --> 01:30:19,291 I totally agree that. 1181 01:30:19,291 --> 01:30:19,916 They're the best. 1182 01:30:20,958 --> 01:30:21,833 I mean, football 1183 01:30:21,833 --> 01:30:23,416 starts, basketball starts, 1184 01:30:23,416 --> 01:30:26,000 and that was basketball season for me. 1185 01:30:26,625 --> 01:30:28,000 Right, so indoors. 1186 01:30:29,125 --> 01:30:30,208 I mean, just starting to come in, 1187 01:30:30,625 --> 01:30:31,625 walking out of a 1188 01:30:31,625 --> 01:30:33,583 basketball practice with wet hair, 1189 01:30:33,583 --> 01:30:34,916 whether a shower or sweat, 1190 01:30:34,916 --> 01:30:35,458 and it's just like 1191 01:30:35,458 --> 01:30:36,708 getting cold and freezing 1192 01:30:36,708 --> 01:30:37,375 and you're in your 1193 01:30:37,375 --> 01:30:40,500 sweatsuit, with your bag, 1194 01:30:42,625 --> 01:30:43,791 breath coming out. 1195 01:30:43,833 --> 01:30:44,416 You can see the breath 1196 01:30:44,416 --> 01:30:45,416 coming out of your mouth. 1197 01:30:45,416 --> 01:30:46,625 I mean, like that to me, 1198 01:30:48,041 --> 01:30:48,708 I mean, those are just some 1199 01:30:48,708 --> 01:30:49,958 of the best days of my life. 1200 01:30:50,000 --> 01:30:50,458 Oh yeah. 1201 01:30:50,875 --> 01:30:52,125 But I mean, that aside, 1202 01:30:52,125 --> 01:30:52,541 because that was, 1203 01:30:52,958 --> 01:30:54,000 basketball was so important to me 1204 01:30:54,000 --> 01:30:54,791 back then, it was just, 1205 01:30:54,791 --> 01:30:55,750 it was everything to me. 1206 01:30:55,750 --> 01:30:58,500 It was identity, it was my psychiatrist, 1207 01:30:58,875 --> 01:30:59,708 it was everything to me. 1208 01:31:01,416 --> 01:31:05,500 But that aside, football season, 1209 01:31:05,916 --> 01:31:07,500 I mean, come on, that's, 1210 01:31:08,041 --> 01:31:09,458 you don't have to be a football fan, 1211 01:31:09,458 --> 01:31:10,041 to be like football 1212 01:31:10,041 --> 01:31:11,375 season is pretty awesome. 1213 01:31:12,041 --> 01:31:13,208 It really is. 1214 01:31:13,250 --> 01:31:16,000 And I just, I love to 1215 01:31:16,000 --> 01:31:17,041 even just have football on 1216 01:31:17,041 --> 01:31:17,666 in the background. 1217 01:31:17,916 --> 01:31:19,000 I'm not someone who likes 1218 01:31:19,000 --> 01:31:20,750 the TV on or music playing. 1219 01:31:21,000 --> 01:31:23,000 Like I do like quiet when, 1220 01:31:23,375 --> 01:31:23,833 because there's just 1221 01:31:23,833 --> 01:31:25,166 always noise I feel like. 1222 01:31:25,166 --> 01:31:26,250 So the few moments that 1223 01:31:26,250 --> 01:31:27,458 I get where it's quiet, 1224 01:31:27,458 --> 01:31:28,291 like turn off the TV 1225 01:31:28,291 --> 01:31:29,333 if no one's watching it, 1226 01:31:29,416 --> 01:31:30,791 stop the music if no one's listening. 1227 01:31:32,000 --> 01:31:34,708 But football, I can have on all day. 1228 01:31:34,708 --> 01:31:36,500 Like to me, it was on all 1229 01:31:36,500 --> 01:31:37,625 the time on the weekends 1230 01:31:38,000 --> 01:31:38,833 when I was a kid. 1231 01:31:38,833 --> 01:31:39,750 And so to me, it takes 1232 01:31:39,750 --> 01:31:41,291 me back to those days of, 1233 01:31:42,125 --> 01:31:43,375 I didn't really watch 1234 01:31:43,375 --> 01:31:44,375 it when I was a kid, 1235 01:31:44,375 --> 01:31:46,125 but I had brothers, so they played it. 1236 01:31:47,416 --> 01:31:48,625 Oh my gosh, I could just 1237 01:31:48,625 --> 01:31:49,541 have football on all day. 1238 01:31:49,541 --> 01:31:49,958 It doesn't even 1239 01:31:49,958 --> 01:31:51,000 matter if I like the teams. 1240 01:31:51,000 --> 01:31:52,250 It could be my two least favorite teams 1241 01:31:52,250 --> 01:31:53,541 and like, I'll still have it on. 1242 01:31:54,208 --> 01:31:54,541 Why not? 1243 01:31:54,833 --> 01:31:55,041 Yeah. 1244 01:31:56,000 --> 01:31:56,583 I mean, it's just 1245 01:31:56,583 --> 01:31:57,625 like the quintessential, 1246 01:31:58,125 --> 01:31:59,541 I don't drink beer, but 1247 01:31:59,541 --> 01:32:01,083 it's like beer and chips 1248 01:32:01,500 --> 01:32:03,291 and just hanging out type things. 1249 01:32:03,541 --> 01:32:04,625 It's like, I don't know, 1250 01:32:04,625 --> 01:32:05,750 it's just something so, 1251 01:32:06,958 --> 01:32:07,833 I don't even want to 1252 01:32:07,833 --> 01:32:09,041 say American about it, 1253 01:32:09,083 --> 01:32:11,000 but there's just something so like, 1254 01:32:11,958 --> 01:32:16,125 good old fashioned, almost sentimental, 1255 01:32:16,458 --> 01:32:17,666 almost nostalgic about 1256 01:32:17,666 --> 01:32:19,625 like, just an afternoon, 1257 01:32:20,666 --> 01:32:21,458 sitting around with 1258 01:32:21,458 --> 01:32:22,666 friends, watching football, 1259 01:32:22,875 --> 01:32:24,416 eating, you know, 1260 01:32:24,416 --> 01:32:25,708 eating snacks and drinking, 1261 01:32:26,041 --> 01:32:27,625 your drink of choice, I don't know. 1262 01:32:28,250 --> 01:32:29,333 You don't get to do it all the time, 1263 01:32:29,333 --> 01:32:29,833 but I mean, like when 1264 01:32:29,833 --> 01:32:30,833 you can, it's fantastic. 1265 01:32:31,500 --> 01:32:31,750 Agreed. 1266 01:32:32,041 --> 01:32:32,416 I mean, we're sitting 1267 01:32:32,416 --> 01:32:33,416 here today right now, 1268 01:32:33,416 --> 01:32:34,625 only, well, no, we had 1269 01:32:34,625 --> 01:32:35,750 the rest of the day off, 1270 01:32:35,750 --> 01:32:36,333 but we had some 1271 01:32:36,333 --> 01:32:38,125 cancellations in soccer this morning, so. 1272 01:32:38,875 --> 01:32:40,375 A nice, easy day, but half the time, 1273 01:32:40,375 --> 01:32:41,333 probably last Sunday, 1274 01:32:41,333 --> 01:32:42,500 well, I was in San Diego. 1275 01:32:43,541 --> 01:32:45,958 And you may even had a game 1276 01:32:45,958 --> 01:32:46,916 that day too, I don't know. 1277 01:32:47,708 --> 01:32:49,208 Yeah, no, but what we were 1278 01:32:49,208 --> 01:32:50,500 doing is we were decorating, 1279 01:32:50,500 --> 01:32:50,958 like we finished 1280 01:32:50,958 --> 01:32:52,083 putting up the decorations, 1281 01:32:52,333 --> 01:32:53,125 and usually that's our 1282 01:32:53,125 --> 01:32:54,083 day to kind of catch up, 1283 01:32:54,500 --> 01:32:56,208 but it was, yeah, 1284 01:32:56,666 --> 01:32:57,583 there's so many good things. 1285 01:32:57,583 --> 01:32:58,125 So, there's just so many 1286 01:32:58,125 --> 01:32:59,083 good things about fall. 1287 01:32:59,083 --> 01:33:00,250 I mean, I know, we didn't 1288 01:33:00,250 --> 01:33:01,000 really have any traditions. 1289 01:33:01,458 --> 01:33:02,666 When I was younger, we 1290 01:33:02,666 --> 01:33:03,208 went to the mountains 1291 01:33:03,208 --> 01:33:04,166 and looked at the, you know, 1292 01:33:04,166 --> 01:33:04,958 we'd just do a drive 1293 01:33:04,958 --> 01:33:05,541 through the mountains, 1294 01:33:06,666 --> 01:33:07,416 which is always a fun 1295 01:33:07,416 --> 01:33:08,458 time, I love the mountains. 1296 01:33:08,458 --> 01:33:09,750 It was funny when your parents 1297 01:33:09,750 --> 01:33:10,583 were here like two weeks ago, 1298 01:33:11,625 --> 01:33:13,541 I don't know that they remembered that, 1299 01:33:13,916 --> 01:33:15,250 I know they know I'm from Colorado, 1300 01:33:15,250 --> 01:33:16,250 but I don't think they remembered, like, 1301 01:33:16,250 --> 01:33:17,333 I grew up, I lived in 1302 01:33:17,333 --> 01:33:19,500 Colorado for 33, 35 years total. 1303 01:33:19,583 --> 01:33:20,500 Yeah, yeah. 1304 01:33:20,666 --> 01:33:22,000 I don't think they remembered like, 1305 01:33:22,000 --> 01:33:23,291 oh, he is a Colorado boy. 1306 01:33:23,291 --> 01:33:25,333 I consider myself a Colorado boy. 1307 01:33:25,833 --> 01:33:26,750 I was there for 30 years, 1308 01:33:26,750 --> 01:33:28,458 really before I moved away full time. 1309 01:33:29,375 --> 01:33:30,208 We were back and forth 1310 01:33:30,208 --> 01:33:31,125 a couple of times on it, 1311 01:33:31,125 --> 01:33:31,583 you know what I mean? 1312 01:33:31,958 --> 01:33:34,625 But it's like, that is in me, you know, 1313 01:33:34,625 --> 01:33:36,291 I know they have some kids there now 1314 01:33:36,333 --> 01:33:38,083 that have lived there 1315 01:33:38,083 --> 01:33:39,208 for quite some time, 1316 01:33:40,041 --> 01:33:41,875 your brothers, but it's 1317 01:33:41,875 --> 01:33:42,583 funny because I was like, 1318 01:33:42,583 --> 01:33:43,666 oh my gosh, I don't 1319 01:33:43,666 --> 01:33:44,458 know that they consider me 1320 01:33:44,458 --> 01:33:45,916 a Colorado boy as much as they consider 1321 01:33:45,916 --> 01:33:46,750 them a Colorado boy. 1322 01:33:47,083 --> 01:33:49,541 But I lived there, I grew up there. 1323 01:33:50,500 --> 01:33:51,625 That was my old, yeah, like, 30 years is a long time. 1324 01:33:51,666 --> 01:33:53,958 I camped and did all the Colorado stuff. 1325 01:33:54,375 --> 01:33:55,208 I grew up there. 1326 01:33:55,250 --> 01:33:55,458 Yeah. 1327 01:33:56,208 --> 01:33:57,583 But my point to that was, 1328 01:33:58,625 --> 01:34:00,041 oh, but my point to that 1329 01:34:00,041 --> 01:34:01,583 was we didn't really have, 1330 01:34:01,833 --> 01:34:03,291 you know, going into the 1331 01:34:03,291 --> 01:34:05,125 mountains was just magical. 1332 01:34:05,500 --> 01:34:06,666 It was spiritual for 1333 01:34:06,666 --> 01:34:08,125 people that grew up there 1334 01:34:08,125 --> 01:34:09,000 and people that love the 1335 01:34:09,000 --> 01:34:10,750 vacation there, they get it too. 1336 01:34:10,833 --> 01:34:10,958 They get it. 1337 01:34:10,958 --> 01:34:11,750 Because you guys vacation there. 1338 01:34:11,750 --> 01:34:13,208 That's partially why I'm sure your 1339 01:34:13,208 --> 01:34:14,583 brothers relocated there. 1340 01:34:14,625 --> 01:34:14,833 Totally. 1341 01:34:15,250 --> 01:34:16,000 Your sister lives in 1342 01:34:16,000 --> 01:34:18,750 another mountainous area that, 1343 01:34:18,750 --> 01:34:19,875 you know, how could you blame her? 1344 01:34:19,875 --> 01:34:20,625 She's gorgeous there. 1345 01:34:20,750 --> 01:34:21,333 Gorgeous. 1346 01:34:21,375 --> 01:34:22,083 You know, very similar. 1347 01:34:22,375 --> 01:34:22,666 Yeah. 1348 01:34:22,666 --> 01:34:23,583 But what, did you guys 1349 01:34:23,583 --> 01:34:24,750 have traditions for fall? 1350 01:34:25,041 --> 01:34:25,791 You guys would like make 1351 01:34:25,791 --> 01:34:27,000 applesauce and stuff, right? 1352 01:34:27,000 --> 01:34:27,958 Oh yeah, yeah, because we 1353 01:34:27,958 --> 01:34:29,000 would always go apple picking. 1354 01:34:29,333 --> 01:34:30,375 Yeah, don't have that in Colorado. 1355 01:34:30,375 --> 01:34:31,583 So we don't have that, no. 1356 01:34:31,583 --> 01:34:32,416 And so you would go and 1357 01:34:32,416 --> 01:34:33,458 you would just get bushels 1358 01:34:33,500 --> 01:34:37,000 of apples and sure, we would make 1359 01:34:37,000 --> 01:34:37,708 homemade applesauce. 1360 01:34:37,750 --> 01:34:38,375 Are they red apples? 1361 01:34:38,666 --> 01:34:38,875 Red. 1362 01:34:39,208 --> 01:34:40,500 Okay, certain type? 1363 01:34:41,916 --> 01:34:42,416 Macintosh usually. 1364 01:34:42,708 --> 01:34:42,958 Okay. 1365 01:34:43,458 --> 01:34:48,125 Uh-huh, oh my gosh, homemade applesauce. 1366 01:34:49,208 --> 01:34:50,541 It's one of the best things ever. 1367 01:34:50,541 --> 01:34:51,500 I mean, I could almost 1368 01:34:51,500 --> 01:34:53,791 eat myself sick on my mom 1369 01:34:53,791 --> 01:34:55,375 and my grandma's homemade applesauce. 1370 01:34:55,416 --> 01:34:55,916 It is good. 1371 01:34:55,958 --> 01:34:57,291 It is so good, but yeah, we 1372 01:34:57,291 --> 01:34:58,916 would make that apple butter. 1373 01:34:58,916 --> 01:34:59,666 I don't think most people 1374 01:34:59,666 --> 01:35:00,875 even know what apple butter is. 1375 01:35:00,916 --> 01:35:01,500 I'd never heard of it. 1376 01:35:01,791 --> 01:35:03,583 No, it sounds weird. 1377 01:35:04,166 --> 01:35:05,041 There's no butter in 1378 01:35:05,041 --> 01:35:05,958 it, just for the record. 1379 01:35:06,458 --> 01:35:07,791 For those watching that are like, I've 1380 01:35:07,791 --> 01:35:08,583 never heard of this. 1381 01:35:10,333 --> 01:35:11,083 I think it's called that 1382 01:35:11,083 --> 01:35:12,333 because it's actually a jam 1383 01:35:12,333 --> 01:35:14,625 or whatever that, it's more 1384 01:35:14,625 --> 01:35:17,416 of a saucy jam kind of a thing 1385 01:35:17,416 --> 01:35:19,375 that you put on instead of butter. 1386 01:35:20,375 --> 01:35:20,875 But I mean, it's apples-- 1387 01:35:20,916 --> 01:35:21,541 But it's like jelly. 1388 01:35:21,875 --> 01:35:22,291 It's like a more 1389 01:35:22,291 --> 01:35:24,166 liquid jelly, maybe, apple. 1390 01:35:24,541 --> 01:35:25,000 Apple and clove. 1391 01:35:25,083 --> 01:35:26,458 It's calling it apple butter is weird. 1392 01:35:26,500 --> 01:35:27,708 It is an odd name. 1393 01:35:28,250 --> 01:35:29,416 I don't know, maybe a 1394 01:35:29,416 --> 01:35:30,500 Midwest thing, who knows? 1395 01:35:30,875 --> 01:35:31,541 But yeah, it's like 1396 01:35:31,541 --> 01:35:33,833 apples and cloves and cinnamon. 1397 01:35:34,416 --> 01:35:36,416 I mean, it's really good on toast. 1398 01:35:37,375 --> 01:35:38,958 But we made those. 1399 01:35:40,000 --> 01:35:41,500 I mean, my mom would 1400 01:35:41,500 --> 01:35:43,625 always have fresh apples. 1401 01:35:43,625 --> 01:35:44,875 I remember going out to the garage 1402 01:35:45,041 --> 01:35:46,041 because that's where you keep them 1403 01:35:46,041 --> 01:35:47,166 because it could stay kind of cool. 1404 01:35:47,958 --> 01:35:48,875 And just getting a 1405 01:35:48,875 --> 01:35:50,125 fresh apple, oh my gosh, 1406 01:35:50,125 --> 01:35:52,291 a freshly picked apple is so good. 1407 01:35:53,083 --> 01:35:53,458 I don't know that 1408 01:35:53,458 --> 01:35:54,416 I've ever really had one. 1409 01:35:54,416 --> 01:35:55,333 Even when we lived in Illinois, 1410 01:35:55,708 --> 01:35:56,708 we did get to do some of 1411 01:35:56,708 --> 01:35:59,041 the more Midwestern type 1412 01:35:59,541 --> 01:36:00,666 traditions there when our kids were 1413 01:36:00,666 --> 01:36:01,958 younger, corn mazes. 1414 01:36:02,750 --> 01:36:05,125 They had pumpkin patches, actually. 1415 01:36:05,833 --> 01:36:07,000 We had kind of some 1416 01:36:07,000 --> 01:36:08,333 pumpkin patches in Colorado, 1417 01:36:08,333 --> 01:36:09,208 but nothing real. 1418 01:36:10,125 --> 01:36:10,708 I don't think that's the 1419 01:36:10,708 --> 01:36:12,250 right climate to grow pumpkins in. 1420 01:36:12,250 --> 01:36:13,500 But Midwest, there's a 1421 01:36:13,500 --> 01:36:14,333 lot of pumpkins out there. 1422 01:36:15,208 --> 01:36:16,833 And that was fun, right? 1423 01:36:16,833 --> 01:36:17,708 Going to an actual pumpkin 1424 01:36:17,708 --> 01:36:19,583 patch and picking pumpkins 1425 01:36:19,750 --> 01:36:21,041 and the corn mazes. 1426 01:36:21,541 --> 01:36:22,708 Now they do those big 1427 01:36:22,708 --> 01:36:25,125 festivals, not in festivals, 1428 01:36:25,541 --> 01:36:26,541 but it's a whole thing. 1429 01:36:26,541 --> 01:36:27,000 Like carnival type, 1430 01:36:27,291 --> 01:36:27,750 yeah, it's a whole thing. 1431 01:36:27,750 --> 01:36:28,833 You gotta buy a ticket to get into it. 1432 01:36:29,750 --> 01:36:31,750 Exactly, and you're like, what? 1433 01:36:31,750 --> 01:36:32,833 I just kind of want to pumpkins. 1434 01:36:32,875 --> 01:36:33,541 If I had to have a 1435 01:36:33,541 --> 01:36:34,541 parking ticket to go do it, 1436 01:36:34,541 --> 01:36:35,041 I'm not gonna-- 1437 01:36:35,291 --> 01:36:37,000 No, no, this truly was in 1438 01:36:37,000 --> 01:36:37,666 the middle of the field. 1439 01:36:37,916 --> 01:36:39,375 And they would take you out on a hay, 1440 01:36:40,166 --> 01:36:41,583 you'd sit on hay bales and they'd take 1441 01:36:41,583 --> 01:36:42,750 you out on a tractor 1442 01:36:43,583 --> 01:36:44,500 carrying a trailer. 1443 01:36:44,541 --> 01:36:45,791 It was a hay ride, 1444 01:36:45,791 --> 01:36:46,416 something you guys did? 1445 01:36:46,416 --> 01:36:47,166 Was that like a thing? 1446 01:36:47,208 --> 01:36:48,083 Yeah, that was totally a thing. 1447 01:36:48,125 --> 01:36:49,125 So you did real hay rides. 1448 01:36:49,166 --> 01:36:49,541 We did real hay rides. 1449 01:36:49,541 --> 01:36:50,250 High school's always do 1450 01:36:50,250 --> 01:36:51,125 the fake ones and stuff. 1451 01:36:51,166 --> 01:36:52,791 Yeah, no, no, no, we did real hay rides. 1452 01:36:52,791 --> 01:36:53,125 Too many. 1453 01:36:53,416 --> 01:36:54,791 Yeah, oh yeah, 1454 01:36:54,791 --> 01:36:56,083 because you have to go from, 1455 01:36:57,000 --> 01:36:57,583 you had to actually go 1456 01:36:57,583 --> 01:36:58,458 out into the orchard. 1457 01:36:59,500 --> 01:37:01,875 And oh my gosh, picking apples, 1458 01:37:01,875 --> 01:37:02,625 I mean we'd almost eat 1459 01:37:02,625 --> 01:37:03,708 ourselves sick on apples 1460 01:37:03,833 --> 01:37:04,875 like while we were picking them. 1461 01:37:05,125 --> 01:37:05,958 Because you can just eat them while 1462 01:37:05,958 --> 01:37:06,791 you're picking them. 1463 01:37:08,000 --> 01:37:09,333 It's like, man, that one's not good, 1464 01:37:09,333 --> 01:37:10,458 I'll give it another one. 1465 01:37:10,458 --> 01:37:11,458 Yeah, there we go. 1466 01:37:12,083 --> 01:37:13,583 It's fun, we always look 1467 01:37:13,583 --> 01:37:14,583 forward to Apple Picking Day. 1468 01:37:15,375 --> 01:37:16,041 So no other? 1469 01:37:17,250 --> 01:37:18,791 That was prime, I mean we would make, 1470 01:37:19,000 --> 01:37:21,000 we would do cutouts, like cutout cookies 1471 01:37:21,375 --> 01:37:23,083 and carve pumpkins, all 1472 01:37:23,083 --> 01:37:23,958 of those kind of things. 1473 01:37:24,500 --> 01:37:25,958 Obviously we carved pumpkins. 1474 01:37:26,000 --> 01:37:27,125 Yeah, when was your first snow in 1475 01:37:27,125 --> 01:37:28,041 Minneapolis usually? 1476 01:37:29,375 --> 01:37:30,708 Usually it was in November, 1477 01:37:31,125 --> 01:37:31,958 but we did have the 1478 01:37:31,958 --> 01:37:33,708 Halloween blizzard when I was in, 1479 01:37:33,708 --> 01:37:34,375 I can't remember if it 1480 01:37:34,375 --> 01:37:35,166 was seventh or eighth grade. 1481 01:37:35,791 --> 01:37:37,625 And oh my gosh, that was-- 1482 01:37:37,625 --> 01:37:38,041 How much snow? 1483 01:37:39,500 --> 01:37:41,916 I think we had like 36 inches overnight 1484 01:37:42,250 --> 01:37:43,916 and then it continued to snow for, 1485 01:37:43,916 --> 01:37:45,250 I mean we were snowed in for days. 1486 01:37:45,250 --> 01:37:46,583 Did you trick or treat that night? 1487 01:37:46,583 --> 01:37:48,166 Yeah, yeah, I took my sister, 1488 01:37:48,708 --> 01:37:49,916 because she's eight 1489 01:37:49,916 --> 01:37:51,041 years younger than I am. 1490 01:37:51,041 --> 01:37:53,000 So I was in seventh or eighth grade, 1491 01:37:53,000 --> 01:37:53,916 I can't remember which, 1492 01:37:55,333 --> 01:37:56,541 but she's kindergarten. 1493 01:37:57,500 --> 01:38:00,666 And so yeah, she needed to go out, 1494 01:38:00,666 --> 01:38:01,666 and I dressed as a 1495 01:38:01,666 --> 01:38:02,708 witch and I took her out. 1496 01:38:03,250 --> 01:38:04,500 She actually slipped and fell, 1497 01:38:04,500 --> 01:38:05,875 I remember I feeling so bad. 1498 01:38:06,291 --> 01:38:07,416 But I mean it was just 1499 01:38:07,416 --> 01:38:10,000 warm, wet snow, it was so fun. 1500 01:38:10,416 --> 01:38:11,666 It was just coming down though, 1501 01:38:12,333 --> 01:38:12,791 accumulating, yeah. Oh my gosh, yeah. 1502 01:38:12,833 --> 01:38:13,916 Yeah, yeah, and 1503 01:38:13,916 --> 01:38:16,375 actually my older brother, 1504 01:38:16,375 --> 01:38:17,208 one of his good friends, 1505 01:38:17,458 --> 01:38:18,666 his mom was on a work trip, 1506 01:38:19,000 --> 01:38:20,250 and she was a single mom. 1507 01:38:20,833 --> 01:38:21,750 She couldn't get back 1508 01:38:21,750 --> 01:38:24,250 in for like five days. 1509 01:38:24,250 --> 01:38:25,708 He stayed with us for five days. 1510 01:38:25,708 --> 01:38:27,208 School was canceled most of the week, 1511 01:38:27,250 --> 01:38:29,166 five days, holy hell. 1512 01:38:29,666 --> 01:38:30,791 Because then it continued to snow. 1513 01:38:31,166 --> 01:38:32,083 I mean you couldn't even see, 1514 01:38:32,666 --> 01:38:34,000 you know this being in Colorado, 1515 01:38:34,000 --> 01:38:34,500 like when you can't 1516 01:38:34,500 --> 01:38:35,333 see out of the windows, 1517 01:38:35,583 --> 01:38:41,083 because drifts are so big, it was so fun. 1518 01:38:41,083 --> 01:38:42,250 Yeah, big snow drifts. 1519 01:38:42,708 --> 01:38:43,916 Those are some of the best 1520 01:38:43,916 --> 01:38:46,791 memories of winter, right? 1521 01:38:46,875 --> 01:38:48,875 And then you got to huge snowfalls, 1522 01:38:49,291 --> 01:38:50,125 and those drifts would 1523 01:38:50,125 --> 01:38:51,916 be like over a fence, 1524 01:38:52,500 --> 01:38:54,458 you know, halfway up a house. 1525 01:38:55,000 --> 01:38:55,958 I was just telling your 1526 01:38:55,958 --> 01:38:56,833 parents when they were here, 1527 01:38:56,916 --> 01:38:59,083 one of the biggest snowfalls I remember 1528 01:38:59,833 --> 01:39:02,375 was when we sled off the roof, 1529 01:39:03,333 --> 01:39:05,125 because it was so high. 1530 01:39:05,333 --> 01:39:05,541 Yeah. 1531 01:39:06,083 --> 01:39:06,625 I mean like can you 1532 01:39:06,625 --> 01:39:08,291 imagine high enough to be like, 1533 01:39:08,291 --> 01:39:08,833 you know what, I think we 1534 01:39:08,833 --> 01:39:09,791 could probably sled off the roof. 1535 01:39:11,083 --> 01:39:12,125 No, no I can't. 1536 01:39:12,166 --> 01:39:13,083 Not at this house, but 1537 01:39:13,083 --> 01:39:14,583 you know, at a normal house. 1538 01:39:14,583 --> 01:39:16,166 I mean yeah, it was awesome. 1539 01:39:17,000 --> 01:39:18,541 But those snowfalls were so fun. 1540 01:39:19,583 --> 01:39:21,083 The older I got, I 1541 01:39:21,083 --> 01:39:21,958 felt like it was always 1542 01:39:21,958 --> 01:39:22,583 the first snow of the 1543 01:39:22,583 --> 01:39:23,666 year was on Halloween. 1544 01:39:24,166 --> 01:39:25,791 Really? Yeah, it was always cold. 1545 01:39:26,500 --> 01:39:27,666 Maybe there's a couple of nice ones, 1546 01:39:27,958 --> 01:39:29,666 but it was cold, a couple nights, 1547 01:39:30,208 --> 01:39:31,291 couple times we lived in 1548 01:39:31,291 --> 01:39:32,416 Colorado with our children. 1549 01:39:32,458 --> 01:39:32,666 Yes. 1550 01:39:32,916 --> 01:39:34,125 I mean they had all 1551 01:39:34,125 --> 01:39:36,208 their big puffer jackets 1552 01:39:36,375 --> 01:39:37,291 under their costumes. 1553 01:39:37,291 --> 01:39:38,916 Yeah, that's how it was though. 1554 01:39:38,916 --> 01:39:40,291 It was always cold on Halloween. 1555 01:39:40,541 --> 01:39:41,875 Yeah, but these are the ones that are. 1556 01:39:42,208 --> 01:39:42,708 Oh, thank you. 1557 01:39:43,208 --> 01:39:44,708 It was always cold on Halloween, 1558 01:39:44,708 --> 01:39:45,666 so we always have to 1559 01:39:45,666 --> 01:39:46,625 have our costumes big enough 1560 01:39:46,625 --> 01:39:47,125 that we could have a 1561 01:39:47,125 --> 01:39:48,250 snow suit on underneath. 1562 01:39:48,583 --> 01:39:49,458 Yeah, yeah. 1563 01:39:49,583 --> 01:39:51,750 And so my dad would always 1564 01:39:51,750 --> 01:39:52,875 take us out with our neighbor, 1565 01:39:54,375 --> 01:39:55,958 because she was one of my 1566 01:39:55,958 --> 01:39:57,375 good friends growing up, 1567 01:39:57,375 --> 01:39:58,250 and we'd go trick or treating, 1568 01:39:58,583 --> 01:40:00,041 and both dads would walk, 1569 01:40:00,041 --> 01:40:00,666 they'd stand in the street, 1570 01:40:00,666 --> 01:40:02,583 they had a beer in each pocket. 1571 01:40:03,416 --> 01:40:04,000 So they did that. 1572 01:40:04,291 --> 01:40:04,625 Oh, 100%. 1573 01:40:04,666 --> 01:40:06,583 So that's what I was just thinking about, 1574 01:40:06,583 --> 01:40:07,416 like we kind of do the 1575 01:40:07,416 --> 01:40:09,125 drinking thing too, a little bit. 1576 01:40:09,166 --> 01:40:10,000 A little bit, yeah. 1577 01:40:10,750 --> 01:40:13,166 They would eat, so my dad and 1578 01:40:13,166 --> 01:40:14,375 our good friend John Hudson, 1579 01:40:15,333 --> 01:40:16,458 yep, they would walk out and they had a 1580 01:40:16,458 --> 01:40:17,375 beer in each pocket, 1581 01:40:17,375 --> 01:40:18,333 and they'd take us 1582 01:40:18,333 --> 01:40:19,333 around all the neighborhoods. 1583 01:40:19,916 --> 01:40:20,916 Oh man, I remember 1584 01:40:20,916 --> 01:40:22,916 coming home just bitterly cold 1585 01:40:23,083 --> 01:40:23,958 some nights from trick or 1586 01:40:23,958 --> 01:40:26,083 treating, but man, it was fun. 1587 01:40:26,375 --> 01:40:27,541 I thought you were gonna say coming home 1588 01:40:27,541 --> 01:40:28,583 and they were just blasted. 1589 01:40:29,166 --> 01:40:30,250 I don't think two beers, 1590 01:40:30,708 --> 01:40:31,833 like a full grown man 1591 01:40:31,833 --> 01:40:33,000 blasted, but you know. 1592 01:40:33,000 --> 01:40:33,708 And the cooler they 1593 01:40:33,708 --> 01:40:34,625 were pulling behind her, 1594 01:40:35,166 --> 01:40:37,083 but two in the pockets were quick access. 1595 01:40:37,083 --> 01:40:38,125 Heck yeah, yeah. 1596 01:40:38,500 --> 01:40:39,375 I don't think they were gonna, 1597 01:40:39,375 --> 01:40:40,375 it was too cold to take a 1598 01:40:40,375 --> 01:40:42,333 cooler, they'd make a freeze. 1599 01:40:42,958 --> 01:40:45,541 It's so funny, because here, it's cool. 1600 01:40:46,500 --> 01:40:46,750 Sometimes. 1601 01:40:47,250 --> 01:40:49,416 But plenty nice enough 1602 01:40:49,416 --> 01:40:51,250 still to bundle up just slightly 1603 01:40:51,458 --> 01:40:53,166 but everybody here has 1604 01:40:53,166 --> 01:40:54,541 golf carts and whatnot 1605 01:40:54,541 --> 01:40:56,375 or just walking around, but everybody, 1606 01:40:56,375 --> 01:40:57,208 all the parents are drinking. 1607 01:40:57,625 --> 01:40:58,833 In fact, they're handing out shots at 1608 01:40:58,833 --> 01:40:59,916 some houses and stuff. 1609 01:41:00,458 --> 01:41:00,708 It's like I don't 1610 01:41:00,708 --> 01:41:01,583 know that I need a shot, 1611 01:41:01,791 --> 01:41:05,375 but having a nice little zipper on the 1612 01:41:05,375 --> 01:41:06,416 way, that's not bad. 1613 01:41:06,416 --> 01:41:07,083 I'll take it. 1614 01:41:07,125 --> 01:41:08,083 Yeah, our oldest 1615 01:41:08,083 --> 01:41:09,375 drives the golf cart now, 1616 01:41:09,375 --> 01:41:10,916 I just kind of get out here and there. 1617 01:41:12,041 --> 01:41:13,875 We refill every now and again. 1618 01:41:14,125 --> 01:41:15,208 Did your parents ever dress up? 1619 01:41:16,500 --> 01:41:19,125 No, no, my mom never went. 1620 01:41:19,125 --> 01:41:20,500 I don't ever, well, maybe she did, 1621 01:41:20,541 --> 01:41:21,458 and I just don't remember. 1622 01:41:21,458 --> 01:41:22,875 It was my dad who would take us, 1623 01:41:22,875 --> 01:41:23,958 but my mom stayed home 1624 01:41:23,958 --> 01:41:24,750 and handed out candy. 1625 01:41:25,208 --> 01:41:26,166 Yeah, I don't remember my 1626 01:41:26,166 --> 01:41:27,791 parents dressing up either, 1627 01:41:27,791 --> 01:41:29,208 but we've dressed up a couple times 1628 01:41:29,750 --> 01:41:30,916 because we've gone to a couple parties 1629 01:41:30,916 --> 01:41:32,250 and then maybe went out afterwards. 1630 01:41:33,625 --> 01:41:34,458 I don't know, I dressed up 1631 01:41:34,458 --> 01:41:36,333 once, two or three years ago 1632 01:41:36,333 --> 01:41:37,833 is the last time I dressed up, I think. 1633 01:41:38,500 --> 01:41:38,875 Yeah, yeah. 1634 01:41:39,666 --> 01:41:42,833 And then, and I felt a little like, 1635 01:41:43,083 --> 01:41:45,208 I felt uncomfortable. 1636 01:41:45,708 --> 01:41:46,750 Yeah, yeah. 1637 01:41:47,708 --> 01:41:48,625 Because not a lot of 1638 01:41:48,625 --> 01:41:49,458 parents are dressed up 1639 01:41:49,500 --> 01:41:50,708 and I don't know, I 1640 01:41:50,708 --> 01:41:52,708 think you did an easy shirt. 1641 01:41:52,833 --> 01:41:53,666 I did an easy shirt, 1642 01:41:53,666 --> 01:41:54,833 but you were pretty easy 1643 01:41:54,833 --> 01:41:56,166 because you had a top gun jacket on. 1644 01:41:57,208 --> 01:41:58,041 Yeah, but I had 1645 01:41:58,041 --> 01:41:59,750 jeans, I had a t-shirt on, 1646 01:42:00,041 --> 01:42:02,250 but it felt like too much. 1647 01:42:02,541 --> 01:42:03,333 You're right, it was 1648 01:42:03,333 --> 01:42:04,666 really just a top gun jacket. 1649 01:42:04,958 --> 01:42:06,875 Right, right, otherwise you were wearing 1650 01:42:06,875 --> 01:42:07,791 your regular clothes. 1651 01:42:08,541 --> 01:42:09,750 Yeah, that's probably true. 1652 01:42:09,750 --> 01:42:10,916 Maybe it was because I was wearing boots 1653 01:42:10,916 --> 01:42:11,625 that I'd never wear. 1654 01:42:11,958 --> 01:42:13,166 Oh, that was probably it. 1655 01:42:13,416 --> 01:42:14,958 And I just felt very awkward 1656 01:42:15,125 --> 01:42:16,500 like I was trying to be like, 1657 01:42:16,916 --> 01:42:18,250 yeah, so, but we don't 1658 01:42:18,250 --> 01:42:19,333 dress up very often anymore. 1659 01:42:19,375 --> 01:42:20,166 We've done a couple of fun 1660 01:42:20,166 --> 01:42:21,083 ones here or there, but not. 1661 01:42:21,083 --> 01:42:23,083 My favorite that you did, I mean, again, 1662 01:42:23,083 --> 01:42:23,708 you've dressed up 1663 01:42:23,708 --> 01:42:24,833 just a handful of times, 1664 01:42:24,833 --> 01:42:28,125 but the clown walking on its hands. 1665 01:42:28,125 --> 01:42:28,666 It's a blow up. 1666 01:42:29,000 --> 01:42:30,166 The blow up of the clown. 1667 01:42:30,208 --> 01:42:31,166 I'm gonna pull that one out again. 1668 01:42:31,166 --> 01:42:33,833 Oh my gosh, that was so funny. 1669 01:42:34,041 --> 01:42:35,916 I mean, everywhere we went, they're like, 1670 01:42:35,916 --> 01:42:37,166 oh my gosh, look at that. 1671 01:42:37,166 --> 01:42:38,916 I took pictures with people constantly. 1672 01:42:38,958 --> 01:42:39,708 I know, people are like, 1673 01:42:39,708 --> 01:42:40,500 can we get your picture? 1674 01:42:41,083 --> 01:42:42,625 Yeah, it's a blow up, 1675 01:42:42,625 --> 01:42:43,208 you know how they have like 1676 01:42:43,208 --> 01:42:44,250 those blow up like 1677 01:42:44,250 --> 01:42:46,500 transverse Rex's that people are in? 1678 01:42:46,625 --> 01:42:47,416 This one's a blow up 1679 01:42:47,416 --> 01:42:48,291 clown, but it's a clown 1680 01:42:48,416 --> 01:42:49,000 that's upside down, 1681 01:42:49,000 --> 01:42:50,916 that's literally standing, 1682 01:42:50,916 --> 01:42:51,333 it looks like he's 1683 01:42:51,333 --> 01:42:53,291 standing on one, on his hand. 1684 01:42:53,291 --> 01:42:53,875 It looks like he's doing a 1685 01:42:53,875 --> 01:42:55,708 handstand when I'm walking 1686 01:42:55,708 --> 01:42:57,333 because my feet are in his hands. 1687 01:42:57,750 --> 01:42:58,291 So it looks like he's 1688 01:42:58,291 --> 01:42:59,625 doing walking in a handstand 1689 01:42:59,625 --> 01:43:00,625 and it's really good. 1690 01:43:01,125 --> 01:43:01,875 And so like, if I stood 1691 01:43:01,875 --> 01:43:03,791 on like one arm or one leg 1692 01:43:03,791 --> 01:43:04,875 and kind of lean to the side, 1693 01:43:04,875 --> 01:43:05,250 it would look like 1694 01:43:05,250 --> 01:43:07,125 he's standing on one hand, 1695 01:43:07,125 --> 01:43:07,958 you know, like balancing. 1696 01:43:08,333 --> 01:43:08,833 So funny. 1697 01:43:08,875 --> 01:43:10,083 And people loved it. 1698 01:43:10,083 --> 01:43:11,625 Oh my gosh, it was so funny. 1699 01:43:11,666 --> 01:43:12,041 Yeah. 1700 01:43:12,083 --> 01:43:12,875 It was so funny. 1701 01:43:13,375 --> 01:43:14,208 You got really hot in 1702 01:43:14,208 --> 01:43:14,750 there though, right? 1703 01:43:15,500 --> 01:43:17,541 Yeah, cause I was drinking a sipper 1704 01:43:17,666 --> 01:43:19,250 and then most of the night, 1705 01:43:19,666 --> 01:43:20,958 there's a couple of times I spilled it, 1706 01:43:20,958 --> 01:43:22,500 but I did, I got really hot in there. 1707 01:43:22,750 --> 01:43:23,958 Yeah, I think I started 1708 01:43:23,958 --> 01:43:24,791 handing you like waters 1709 01:43:24,958 --> 01:43:26,750 through the slit every now and again, 1710 01:43:26,750 --> 01:43:27,791 cause you're like, you know, I'm dying. 1711 01:43:28,500 --> 01:43:29,500 It did get really hot there. 1712 01:43:29,500 --> 01:43:29,916 Cause that was one of 1713 01:43:29,916 --> 01:43:31,083 our nicer Halloween. 1714 01:43:31,333 --> 01:43:32,458 He was pretty warm that one. 1715 01:43:32,833 --> 01:43:34,000 So, but we do have 1716 01:43:34,000 --> 01:43:34,833 Halloween come two weeks. 1717 01:43:35,041 --> 01:43:36,375 We'll maybe talk more 1718 01:43:36,375 --> 01:43:37,500 about that in next week 1719 01:43:37,500 --> 01:43:37,916 or something like that, 1720 01:43:37,916 --> 01:43:38,375 cause it'll be one 1721 01:43:38,375 --> 01:43:39,333 week away at that point. 1722 01:43:39,500 --> 01:43:39,916 We're going to do it 1723 01:43:39,916 --> 01:43:40,666 in Colorado this year 1724 01:43:40,666 --> 01:43:41,541 for most of the family. 1725 01:43:41,583 --> 01:43:42,666 Yup, yup. 1726 01:43:43,166 --> 01:43:44,208 I mean, you got it, right? 1727 01:43:44,625 --> 01:43:46,291 Cause we have soccer the next day. 1728 01:43:46,541 --> 01:43:46,750 Yup. 1729 01:43:47,375 --> 01:43:49,000 So we'll have to get an early start. 1730 01:43:49,416 --> 01:43:50,875 October 31st for soccer 1731 01:43:50,875 --> 01:43:51,916 games on November 1st. 1732 01:43:51,916 --> 01:43:52,500 I know I talked about 1733 01:43:52,500 --> 01:43:53,250 that last week, but. 1734 01:43:53,500 --> 01:43:53,875 I know. 1735 01:43:55,916 --> 01:43:56,166 Anyway. 1736 01:43:56,833 --> 01:43:57,333 Well, what do you got 1737 01:43:57,333 --> 01:43:57,958 coming up this week? 1738 01:43:57,958 --> 01:43:58,416 Anything good? 1739 01:43:59,500 --> 01:44:01,000 You know, no, no, not really. 1740 01:44:01,250 --> 01:44:02,666 I think we're just back at it. 1741 01:44:02,666 --> 01:44:04,666 The kids had this week off for fall break 1742 01:44:04,666 --> 01:44:06,666 and so next week it's 1743 01:44:06,666 --> 01:44:07,875 back to the regular grind. 1744 01:44:08,875 --> 01:44:09,125 Yeah. 1745 01:44:09,916 --> 01:44:10,250 Yeah. 1746 01:44:10,250 --> 01:44:10,750 I feel like you've been 1747 01:44:10,750 --> 01:44:12,416 grinding hard at work lately. 1748 01:44:12,416 --> 01:44:14,416 Is any, any end of the, any 1749 01:44:14,416 --> 01:44:15,375 light at the end of that tunnel? 1750 01:44:16,750 --> 01:44:17,166 I feel like you've just 1751 01:44:17,166 --> 01:44:18,083 going really hard lately. 1752 01:44:18,666 --> 01:44:19,583 Yeah, it's been really 1753 01:44:19,583 --> 01:44:21,958 busy and I wish I could say, 1754 01:44:21,958 --> 01:44:24,458 yeah, I do, but this is 1755 01:44:24,458 --> 01:44:25,666 kind of a busy time of year. 1756 01:44:25,750 --> 01:44:26,000 Yeah. 1757 01:44:26,500 --> 01:44:28,166 So it's, it's pretty 1758 01:44:28,166 --> 01:44:30,666 much from here till February 1759 01:44:31,000 --> 01:44:31,750 or early March. 1760 01:44:31,916 --> 01:44:33,541 That's kind of the tough time of year. 1761 01:44:33,791 --> 01:44:36,000 So it's what it is. 1762 01:44:36,125 --> 01:44:36,500 Yeah. 1763 01:44:36,500 --> 01:44:36,708 Right? 1764 01:44:37,083 --> 01:44:37,333 Yeah. 1765 01:44:38,125 --> 01:44:39,416 You just stick with it. 1766 01:44:40,708 --> 01:44:41,000 (laughs) 1767 01:44:41,375 --> 01:44:43,458 Well, we'll get through it. 1768 01:44:43,583 --> 01:44:44,583 We've got a whole bunch of 1769 01:44:44,583 --> 01:44:45,791 cookies to help us do that. 1770 01:44:46,083 --> 01:44:46,500 Yes, we do. 1771 01:44:46,500 --> 01:44:47,375 Thanks to you and the kids. 1772 01:44:47,750 --> 01:44:48,541 Oh my gosh. 1773 01:44:48,833 --> 01:44:50,041 And only a few breakdowns. 1774 01:44:50,750 --> 01:44:51,583 Oh my gosh. 1775 01:44:52,250 --> 01:44:54,541 I really do like need to 1776 01:44:54,541 --> 01:44:55,875 take some deep breaths before, 1777 01:44:56,166 --> 01:44:58,000 because before we, it's the 1778 01:44:58,000 --> 01:44:59,083 decorating that gets them. 1779 01:45:01,083 --> 01:45:03,500 I was like, is it always like this? 1780 01:45:03,500 --> 01:45:04,250 Like we were, we were 1781 01:45:04,250 --> 01:45:05,666 decorating them yesterday. 1782 01:45:05,666 --> 01:45:06,958 I was like, holy moly. 1783 01:45:07,458 --> 01:45:08,416 A fight breaks out every time. 1784 01:45:08,416 --> 01:45:09,666 Every single time. 1785 01:45:09,750 --> 01:45:10,208 Remind me of what 1786 01:45:10,208 --> 01:45:11,041 church was talking about. 1787 01:45:11,041 --> 01:45:12,666 How like a whole bunch of church people, 1788 01:45:12,708 --> 01:45:13,625 like leaders of the 1789 01:45:13,625 --> 01:45:14,750 church were playing like games. 1790 01:45:14,750 --> 01:45:15,125 Yeah. 1791 01:45:15,625 --> 01:45:16,333 And there's a bunch of 1792 01:45:16,333 --> 01:45:17,458 competitive people in it. 1793 01:45:17,458 --> 01:45:17,875 And they're like, you're 1794 01:45:17,875 --> 01:45:18,625 not following the rules. 1795 01:45:18,625 --> 01:45:19,375 That's not the rules. 1796 01:45:19,375 --> 01:45:20,083 And we're like, we're gonna 1797 01:45:20,083 --> 01:45:22,000 be appointed a buzzer person. 1798 01:45:22,250 --> 01:45:23,083 Because if someone broke 1799 01:45:23,083 --> 01:45:23,958 a rule, you get buzzed. 1800 01:45:23,958 --> 01:45:24,500 And that person got 1801 01:45:24,500 --> 01:45:26,583 over zealous, you know? 1802 01:45:26,875 --> 01:45:27,750 So that just kind of 1803 01:45:27,750 --> 01:45:29,333 reminds me of like, you know, 1804 01:45:29,666 --> 01:45:31,583 when we made cookies, you know, you guys, 1805 01:45:31,583 --> 01:45:32,916 it's like, maybe we need a buzzer. 1806 01:45:32,916 --> 01:45:33,541 I think we need a buzzer. 1807 01:45:33,541 --> 01:45:33,750 People are like, you're 1808 01:45:33,750 --> 01:45:34,208 getting out of bounds. 1809 01:45:35,000 --> 01:45:35,666 Too many sprinkles. 1810 01:45:36,416 --> 01:45:37,916 Oh my gosh. 1811 01:45:38,833 --> 01:45:39,333 I bought new 1812 01:45:39,333 --> 01:45:40,625 sprinkles before we did this. 1813 01:45:40,625 --> 01:45:42,291 They used two entire new 1814 01:45:42,291 --> 01:45:43,375 things of sprinkles gone. 1815 01:45:44,750 --> 01:45:44,958 Gone. 1816 01:45:45,208 --> 01:45:45,416 Seriously? 1817 01:45:46,583 --> 01:45:46,833 Gone. 1818 01:45:46,875 --> 01:45:47,083 Yeah. 1819 01:45:47,583 --> 01:45:49,541 I was like, okay. 1820 01:45:50,500 --> 01:45:51,166 Well, we just got back 1821 01:45:51,166 --> 01:45:52,208 from the dentist two weeks ago 1822 01:45:52,208 --> 01:45:53,458 and no cavities, so. 1823 01:45:54,416 --> 01:45:55,791 I don't know, between now and Christmas, 1824 01:45:56,041 --> 01:45:57,208 like I don't, I think 1825 01:45:57,208 --> 01:45:58,166 the chains are really low 1826 01:45:58,166 --> 01:45:59,750 if we actually have that again. 1827 01:46:00,000 --> 01:46:01,208 There's been no cavities this whole year 1828 01:46:01,208 --> 01:46:02,083 since I've taken them. 1829 01:46:03,000 --> 01:46:03,750 Since I've been there. 1830 01:46:03,750 --> 01:46:04,916 Have you had a cavity when you took them? 1831 01:46:05,333 --> 01:46:05,500 Yeah. 1832 01:46:06,375 --> 01:46:07,125 Okay, so maybe I 1833 01:46:07,125 --> 01:46:07,750 should take them more often. 1834 01:46:07,791 --> 01:46:09,041 Maybe you should take them more often. 1835 01:46:09,500 --> 01:46:10,208 I like this. 1836 01:46:10,625 --> 01:46:11,500 I like this a lot. 1837 01:46:14,041 --> 01:46:15,208 All right, well, let's think of our word. 1838 01:46:15,208 --> 01:46:15,500 All right. 1839 01:46:16,541 --> 01:46:17,750 For last week. 1840 01:46:17,750 --> 01:46:18,958 What sums up last week? 1841 01:46:20,000 --> 01:46:20,958 All right, I've got mine. 1842 01:46:20,958 --> 01:46:21,125 Ready? 1843 01:46:21,791 --> 01:46:22,000 Yeah. 1844 01:46:22,041 --> 01:46:22,833 All right, here we go. 1845 01:46:22,875 --> 01:46:24,000 There's no chance, by the way, 1846 01:46:24,000 --> 01:46:25,041 of us getting the same one. 1847 01:46:25,125 --> 01:46:25,500 Okay. 1848 01:46:25,500 --> 01:46:25,750 Okay. 1849 01:46:26,250 --> 01:46:28,041 One, two, three. 1850 01:46:28,625 --> 01:46:28,958 Pumpkin spice. 1851 01:46:30,333 --> 01:46:31,208 Yeah, no there's not. 1852 01:46:31,416 --> 01:46:32,083 Didn't I say pumpkin 1853 01:46:32,083 --> 01:46:33,625 spice for a couple weeks ago? 1854 01:46:33,625 --> 01:46:34,125 I think you did. 1855 01:46:34,541 --> 01:46:35,833 Yeah, that's a re-gift. 1856 01:46:36,375 --> 01:46:37,541 You re-gifted it. 1857 01:46:37,583 --> 01:46:39,250 You reused. 1858 01:46:40,000 --> 01:46:41,041 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 1859 01:46:41,166 --> 01:46:42,166 You gave it as a gift. 1860 01:46:42,375 --> 01:46:42,958 You re-gifted it to everybody else. 1861 01:46:42,958 --> 01:46:44,708 Yeah, I re-gifted it to everyone else. 1862 01:46:45,750 --> 01:46:45,958 (laughing) 1863 01:46:46,333 --> 01:46:47,291 Pumpkin spice for you, huh? 1864 01:46:47,291 --> 01:46:48,083 Pumpkin spice, 1865 01:46:48,083 --> 01:46:48,708 because I feel like 1866 01:46:48,708 --> 01:46:50,000 the kids are getting into 1867 01:46:50,375 --> 01:46:51,583 that seasonal spirit. 1868 01:46:51,875 --> 01:46:54,500 I feel like, hopefully not Christmas yet, 1869 01:46:54,833 --> 01:46:57,083 but getting into that, it 1870 01:46:57,083 --> 01:46:58,291 was a little more relaxed 1871 01:46:58,500 --> 01:47:00,541 because kids were home. 1872 01:47:01,291 --> 01:47:03,125 It just felt more pumpkin spicy. 1873 01:47:03,958 --> 01:47:04,333 Yeah. 1874 01:47:04,375 --> 01:47:05,666 But progress definitely. 1875 01:47:06,458 --> 01:47:08,625 Yeah, we checked some boxes last week, 1876 01:47:09,541 --> 01:47:10,458 and we were just making progress, 1877 01:47:10,458 --> 01:47:11,791 little by little on things. 1878 01:47:11,833 --> 01:47:12,000 Yep. 1879 01:47:12,666 --> 01:47:13,666 You know, it's always good. 1880 01:47:14,166 --> 01:47:14,583 Progress is good. 1881 01:47:14,875 --> 01:47:15,583 Yes it is. 1882 01:47:16,375 --> 01:47:17,458 Progress is good, people. 1883 01:47:18,541 --> 01:47:19,541 With pumpkin spice. 1884 01:47:20,166 --> 01:47:21,625 Oh, progress with pumpkin spice. 1885 01:47:22,416 --> 01:47:23,458 Pumpkin spice progress. 1886 01:47:24,333 --> 01:47:25,541 Ooh, pumpkin spice progress. 1887 01:47:26,791 --> 01:47:28,708 Although I gotta say, I'm 1888 01:47:28,708 --> 01:47:29,666 gonna be a hater right now. 1889 01:47:30,291 --> 01:47:31,750 I don't like pumpkin spice coffee, 1890 01:47:32,000 --> 01:47:33,625 or lattes or whatever they are. 1891 01:47:35,208 --> 01:47:36,500 Not what I thought they would be. 1892 01:47:36,500 --> 01:47:37,500 And I think they're overrated. 1893 01:47:37,541 --> 01:47:38,416 You don't wanna put that out there. 1894 01:47:38,541 --> 01:47:39,000 Really? 1895 01:47:39,000 --> 01:47:40,166 You think that's gonna get me hate? 1896 01:47:40,416 --> 01:47:41,208 Like, I'm a hater? 1897 01:47:41,416 --> 01:47:42,375 I mean, there's pumpkin spice, 1898 01:47:42,375 --> 01:47:45,250 everything from drinks to candles. 1899 01:47:45,541 --> 01:47:46,666 I just don't like it in coffee. 1900 01:47:46,958 --> 01:47:48,500 I don't like the pumpkin spice latte. 1901 01:47:50,500 --> 01:47:52,375 Anyway, that's just 1902 01:47:52,375 --> 01:47:54,083 Megan's hot sports opinion here. 1903 01:47:54,083 --> 01:47:55,208 The last time I had one, 1904 01:47:55,208 --> 01:47:56,291 I got it at the Citadel 1905 01:47:56,291 --> 01:47:58,166 Mall in Colorado Springs. 1906 01:47:58,541 --> 01:47:59,583 Is everything still standing? 1907 01:48:00,291 --> 01:48:00,666 Probably not. 1908 01:48:00,916 --> 01:48:02,708 It was 25 years ago probably. 1909 01:48:03,000 --> 01:48:04,166 And it was not standing 1910 01:48:04,166 --> 01:48:05,458 well last time I saw it, 1911 01:48:05,458 --> 01:48:05,791 but okay. 1912 01:48:06,666 --> 01:48:07,041 Yeah. 1913 01:48:08,333 --> 01:48:09,250 This would spend more than 1914 01:48:09,250 --> 01:48:10,500 two decades since I've had one, 1915 01:48:10,500 --> 01:48:11,250 but that was like, 1916 01:48:11,750 --> 01:48:12,875 it was like a big deal for 1917 01:48:12,875 --> 01:48:14,166 me to spend six bucks on it. 1918 01:48:14,708 --> 01:48:16,791 So I tried to really enjoy it. 1919 01:48:17,250 --> 01:48:17,958 Loved it. 1920 01:48:17,958 --> 01:48:18,416 Cause we got that 1921 01:48:18,416 --> 01:48:19,708 pumpkin spice coffee in here, 1922 01:48:19,708 --> 01:48:20,291 and it's not great. 1923 01:48:21,375 --> 01:48:23,041 Cause I was like getting into the season, 1924 01:48:23,291 --> 01:48:24,041 like a year ago or 1925 01:48:24,041 --> 01:48:24,750 two, and I bought that. 1926 01:48:25,166 --> 01:48:26,000 Yeah, and I was like, 1927 01:48:26,000 --> 01:48:27,708 ooh, I'm excited to try it. 1928 01:48:27,708 --> 01:48:28,666 And I was like, 1929 01:48:28,791 --> 01:48:30,791 Ooh, let down city. 1930 01:48:31,333 --> 01:48:33,291 Yeah, I really, maybe it's just, 1931 01:48:34,458 --> 01:48:36,041 I expected it to be better than it was. 1932 01:48:36,083 --> 01:48:36,833 Well, we've replaced 1933 01:48:36,833 --> 01:48:38,208 pumpkin spice with Kahlua. 1934 01:48:40,208 --> 01:48:41,458 (laughing) No, not Kahlua, what's 1935 01:48:41,458 --> 01:48:42,250 the other one in there? 1936 01:48:43,166 --> 01:48:43,541 Rumchata. 1937 01:48:43,791 --> 01:48:44,375 Rumchata. 1938 01:48:46,000 --> 01:48:47,833 Rumchata is our new pumpkin spice. 1939 01:48:47,875 --> 01:48:48,666 We're getting into rum, 1940 01:48:48,666 --> 01:48:50,333 almost getting into rumchata season. 1941 01:48:50,791 --> 01:48:52,250 Oh, VR in rumchata season. 1942 01:48:52,916 --> 01:48:53,958 And that's some hot cocoa? 1943 01:48:54,333 --> 01:48:55,666 Yeah, you can add that down 1944 01:48:55,666 --> 01:48:56,625 with anything that's warm. 1945 01:48:56,833 --> 01:48:57,583 Yeah, you can. 1946 01:48:58,750 --> 01:48:59,375 You're doing good. 1947 01:48:59,916 --> 01:49:00,375 Warmth or salt? 1948 01:49:00,625 --> 01:49:01,000 It does. 1949 01:49:04,000 --> 01:49:04,583 All right, well let's 1950 01:49:04,583 --> 01:49:05,458 get these people free. 1951 01:49:06,875 --> 01:49:08,291 Well, have a great week everyone. 1952 01:49:08,791 --> 01:49:09,625 Catch you on the flip side. 1953 01:49:10,000 --> 01:49:10,458 Ciao ciao. 1954 01:49:10,500 --> 01:49:11,125 All right, see ya.