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(upbeat music)
And maybe I'm just a prima donna.
Your words, not mine.
Custom mobile.
I am not very hard on
the kids, I don't think.
I was like-- Shocker.
So you have three chances to win.
Not usually in your favor.
Yeah, I mean, someone's
going to at some point.
Why not us?
Yeah.
And I can give you a
million reasons why not us?
(laughing)
That piece, I'm out.
That truly is almost
mo' money, mo' problem.
Who's coming with me?
For six dollars?
Oh, see?
That's getting really expensive.
That's expensive.
Jeeves will take care of that.
Yeah, like everyone
should have a hickens.
How do we not think of the Batman one?
Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh.
I'm embarrassed right now. I am too.
Thanks for the tax liability.
Tis the season to get
everything out of the attic.
Sometimes we're so close.
Today, not close.
Not close at all.
Welcome to the Mr. and
Mrs. English podcast.
I'm Megan.
And I'm Sean.
We're here to talk about
the wild ride of raising kids,
growing careers, keeping life together
in the middle of all the chaos.
So buckle up,
because we're all in
this crazy journey together.
Are you gonna bop?
I don't need to.
Oh, you don't?
Oh, here we go.
All right, we're recording.
All right, no, I don't
need to bop on this one,
because it just
records directly together.
So yeah, behind the scenes.
Fantastic.
Yeah, don't bop.
And we can bitty bop if you want to.
Bitty, bitty, bop.
Bitty, bitty, bop.
That was a good song.
It was a good song.
Can't even think what song that was.
I can't either, but I was like,
it took me back to about 94, 95.
Something like that, yeah.
Well, welcome to our mobile office.
Yes.
Anybody that's seen
us at the soccer games
over the last year or
so knows the mobile casa.
Yes, the mobile casa.
Casa mobile.
Casa mobile.
I don't know how to say, I don't know.
Yeah, that's probably
close enough, I would say.
Close enough.
Yeah.
Most people just call it game time.
It's game time, that's right.
This is the little
sprinter van that we've got to,
we spend so much time,
everybody knows
that's on our soccer teams.
We spend so much time out there.
Work and life and all that kind of stuff,
and different kids.
Like this last weekend,
we were out at soccer
fields from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
5 p.m., yeah.
Literally, and it was fantastic.
We watched the football game in here.
We took naps back
here, we had chips and dip.
So this thing's been a lifesaver for us.
Oh yeah, yeah.
Well, and then on practice nights,
I mean, kids can do
homework in here comfortably
if someone finishes
earlier than someone else
and we're hanging out.
Because we have all three kids here.
On Thursday nights, it's usually,
we leave the house at 4.55,
and we get back about 10 o'clock.
Yeah.
Because each one of them
has their own practice,
and then they're back in
here for another hour or two.
So if they have homework,
we can put up the table in the back,
they can do homework.
They can listen to
music, they can watch TV,
whatever we need to do.
Yeah.
Even the puppy likes it in here.
Yeah, a couple of times.
I don't like the puppy in here.
(laughing)
She's always, once she gets used to it,
and then she just kinda lays there.
Yeah, she gets crazy.
So this thing's been awesome.
It took me a while to
convince you to get this though.
Yes, and on, I mean, yes.
Track is what did it.
I know, I know.
I'll be honest, track is what did it
because anybody who knows Track Me,
it knows that nothing's ever on time.
If you have a kid who sprints,
you will spend 12 hours to watch them run
for less than 30 seconds.
I mean, it's, you need a home base.
It's a long day.
It's a long day.
Yeah, and it's hot,
because it's only over
the summer for that one,
at least right now.
We might be able to
start doing indoor meets
this winter though, so I'm
excited if that's the case.
I hope so.
Yeah.
I think we'll be in an arena,
but even then it's nice
to not sit in an arena seat
for 12 hours.
Right, they're not that comfortable.
We can walk back out and whatnot, so.
Anyways, a couple
people have made their way
into the Sadie, as we call her.
Yes.
This is the one car, we
mentioned it a few weeks ago.
This is the one car that
we do have a nickname for.
We do have a nickname
here, yeah, or she has a name.
I mean, it is Sadie,
and everyone knows her
in our house by Sadie, so.
Yeah, this is one of
those things where it's like,
if we win the lottery,
we're not gonna tell you,
but there will be signs,
and we will replace
Sadie with a nicer Sadie.
Yes.
Because there are some of
these that can get out of hand.
They're crazy.
Yeah, as Sadie 2.0?
Yeah, 2.0.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I do think that
though, it's funny because
every dad at any place we've gone to,
at a soccer, track,
whatever, loves this thing.
Women could care less.
I think this really is a gender thing.
Like, it's super helpful, but you know,
I think you love it.
I just like it and think
that it's super convenient.
Yeah, it's almost my main car now,
because every time I drive the kids
somewhere, I'm in this.
Yeah.
But, you know, I'm
constantly working in here,
or in the rare moments
where I'm not doing that,
and I can actually sit
back and watch a show,
or a sports event on this.
I mean, it's fantastic.
Yeah.
I mean, to me, with as much as we go
to get that extra
time, because we tried it.
I tried it in the truck.
For years.
Yeah. And that's fine.
And maybe I'm just a prima donna,
where I can't relax in a
truck, I can't work in a truck.
Your words, not mine.
Yeah, yeah.
But you have to admit, this weekend,
you've said yourself
it's very nice to have.
It is very nice to have.
It's very comfortable when
you're just sitting there.
I mean, it is, it is.
But I do think that the appeal
is somewhat geared toward men.
Could be.
The only people who
have ever commented on it
have been men.
Yeah.
And I mean, to me, it's
like a souped up minivan.
Yeah.
Well, I think it's a
little more than that, but yeah.
It's like a really souped up minivan.
(laughing)
Oh goodness, well, yeah.
So we're in that, we knew we'd make this,
at some point it would happen,
that we couldn't get to a
show that we had to film,
and we had to do it in here.
So this is it.
Yeah, so this is the
inaugural taping in Sadie.
Episode 34, first one.
Yes.
Oh, we made it through 34
without doing it in here.
That's pretty cool.
I gotta say, I like
the Mediterranean ones
the best so far.
They do have way better view.
Yeah, I do too.
Oh, can we go back and
do one of these in Malta?
Yes, yes, I'm happy to do that.
Okay, okay, okay.
You just tell me.
Yeah, I was gonna
say, been a week, right?
Been a busy week.
Always, always.
This was just such a
weird week, we did nothing.
That'll be weird.
Everybody says, and some
people have been through it on here,
but I mean, there'll become
a time when we do miss this,
we talk about that a lot,
but that is not the time of the life
that we're in right now.
We are raising kids
and running like heck.
Yep.
That's the doubt.
This is not, I mean,
anybody who's been through it
knows this time, they know this.
And if they don't know it yet,
but have kids that are
younger, they will know it.
You're gonna get to it,
you're gonna get to it.
And buckle the safety belt.
I could actually do the
visual if I wanted to.
Oh, you could, yeah, it's buckle in.
(laughing)
Buckle up, baby.
You're not gonna commit to that.
All right, let's find out.
I wasn't going to, I
thought that was a little much.
That was a little much,
that was a little much.
Like a flare for the traumatic.
So let's talk about the
lottery that just happened.
Yes.
This was a week ago, if
anybody paid attention to it.
The reason I know it
is because we drive by
all the signs on the
highway all the time.
So you just see that
mega million, I don't know,
I actually don't know
if it was the Powerball
or Mega Millions, because
it's the one on the left.
Which I don't know what that is.
So if you've seen the
signs in the DFW area,
it's the one on the left.
Whatever it is, but it
might have been the Powerball.
I feel like it was the Powerball.
One of them was like one
point something billion dollars.
With a B.
So most people probably know about that.
We did not win that.
Somebody in Texas did two
winning lottery tickets.
Yeah.
I'm just repeating for
you that may not know,
because I don't follow it that closely,
but I do notice when it's that high.
I think most people
notice when it's that high.
I usually try to play when
it's that high, honestly.
Yeah, like you contribute
to climbing even higher,
faster, right, that exponential climbing.
It's just, I'm not, I'll buy,
I think I do six dollars,
which is like three quick picks.
So we have three chances to win.
Which I don't know if that helps,
if that gives me three in 250 million,
or I'm still just one in 290 million,
something like that.
I don't know, I think the odds are still
not usually in your favor.
Yeah, they're stacked
against us for sure.
Yeah.
But we didn't win,
because we didn't play,
but we should play more, because
somebody's got to win.
Someone in Texas won,
someone in Missouri won,
and between the two of them,
I mean, we've talked about this before,
it's just crazy that overnight,
someone's gonna win, they're gonna have
410 million dollars.
Yeah, and that's, I'm sharing it.
Eventually coming to your bank account.
Yeah, that split would
have been over 800 million.
Right.
If it wasn't split, so.
That's where I know I'm not
that healthy of a human being,
we've talked about it,
because it actually makes me
a little anxious, like,
jealous is not the right word
for that, but it does
make me feel envious, maybe.
Yeah.
Maybe envy's a worse
word than jealous, whatnot,
but that somebody woke up
yesterday or two days ago,
and they probably had
half a heart attack,
seeing that their numbers matched,
and they're gonna
have 400 million dollars
just deposited in their
bank account within 30 days.
Right, I can't even imagine that, I mean.
Yeah.
I, no, go ahead.
Oh no, I interrupted you, you go ahead.
I was gonna say, I know
it's never gonna be me,
because we don't play, right, very often,
but like, I want it, so
I was like, yeah, sure,
so it'll never actually happen to me,
so I think maybe the
trick is not wanting it,
not wanting to win.
Do you think anybody plays the lottery,
and be like, I just
really don't wanna win this,
but I'm gonna play it, because--
Okay, so that was really
stupid of me to say that, yeah,
no, it probably was, sorry.
On some level, you're-- It's been a day.
What you're suggesting is you want it,
you actually would like to win it,
and because of that,
you think the universe
is throwing some extra
leverage against you not winning it.
Yeah, yeah.
Right, so if you didn't
care about winning it,
even though you played wanting to win it.
Right, like, oh, I'll
just pick up a lottery ticket
while I'm here, you know,
like if you're just that
nonchalant about it, as the kids say.
Well, because some people
do, I mean, it's their thing,
twice a week or once a
week, whatever it is,
they go buy their lottery ticket.
Yeah, it is their gig,
but you've always said,
and I love this, you're like, it's fun,
because just what if in the chance,
letting your mind go
there for like, what if?
Yeah, yeah.
So, if we had won, what is
the first thing you would do?
And I think that's well
worth the $6 we spend on it.
Totally.
Is just to think through, like,
because when you do
have them, you're like,
oh my gosh, we could win.
I mean, someone's going to
at some point, why not us?
Yeah.
And I can give you a
million reasons why not us?
Primarily because the
universe has told me
for my whole life it
won't be you, but yeah,
I mean, that's the fun of it, right?
Just be like, what would you do?
Because I personally would
want nobody to know, right?
So, I mean, I think, I
don't know if we live
in a non-disclosure state, so first off,
you have to figure out,
that's the fun part of it for me,
is thinking through,
okay, some states require you
to disclose, if you want it,
you have to put your name out there.
Some states are not
disclosure states, right?
So you could claim it,
like, you could form an LLC
and like hide the funds kind of, right?
So people don't
automatically know it's you,
because it was
claimed anonymously, right?
So you could keep your anonymity,
which is what I would want to do.
For sure.
Right, so then the fun
of that then becomes like,
all right, well, it's going
to take 15 days of paperwork,
right, to get this
money actually deposited
or whatever it is.
Yeah.
So in the meantime, I
got to go get a lawyer.
Yeah.
I got to talk to our financial advisor.
And I probably need to get a
couple more financial advisors,
some tax guys, and I mean,
because at 410 million, that's not all,
let's go buy a boat
and upgrade the house.
Right, right.
That's generational wealth.
Yes, it is.
You can do it right in
earning 5% a year off of it.
You've set your
family up for generations.
Absolutely.
And that would be the fun of it.
Yeah, yeah.
First off, right?
Yeah, yeah.
But then you start thinking like,
what would I really do?
Because we've always said,
I mean, what would you do if they put,
it's different, 20 million,
that's a different
conversation if you win 20 million.
In fact, you know somebody
that won like 200 million,
or 200,000 in a lottery.
Yeah, yeah.
You know, but that's not,
it's nice, but it's not life changing.
Correct, correct.
20 million's life changing.
Life changing.
400 million's
generationally life changing.
So let's just say you
won 400 million though,
what's the first thing you do?
I don't know, I'd be so overwhelmed.
Yeah.
I don't know, I'd go
out for like a nice meal
and I have a spa day.
Yeah, yeah.
But can you tell who the
planner in our relationship is?
Like first thing you
do is you get a lawyer,
talk to the financial advisor,
get a couple
additional financial advisors,
I'm like, I'd go get a massage.
Yeah, you're saying
yourself short though,
I mean, you're fine
after accument is top notch.
But I mean--
I'm just not a planner.
You know, maybe that is true, yeah.
I mean, yeah, it's not that
you don't have the intellect
to do that, it's just
you don't have the want
to be the planner of that.
I'd just be like, I'm
taking tomorrow off.
Would you keep working?
I would work until they
found the right replacement
and everything, I
would have to do something.
I probably would switch
to more like nonprofit.
Yeah.
As opposed to corporate America,
but I definitely do like nonprofit.
Yeah, I mean, you like your job,
so that's changed over the years
because you've had so
many roles at your job
and how it kind of works there,
kind of going up that ladder.
I'm almost surprised that you would even,
that there have been times
where I think you go nonprofit
and you said that now,
but there have been times
where I thought, well, maybe
you would just keep working
that because I've worked
with people that have said like,
if I won the lottery, I
wouldn't change anything,
I'd come to work the
next day and keep working.
And I kind of call BS on
that to some degree, right?
It would be nice to have
that card in your back pocket
and be like, you know what, on a bad day,
you guys can have it.
I'm here out of the, it's
not for the paycheck anymore.
Right, right.
I may do that, if we were to ever win,
there is that thought of
like, I really enjoy my job,
I really do, so as I said,
I for sure would not go in
immediately like, peace, I'm out.
That would never be me, it'd be like,
hey, let's work. You
never see Megan ever again.
Yeah, yeah, let's work on
a smooth transition plan.
You know, I could keep working,
maybe I would take a less stressful job.
Yeah. You know?
Yeah. Like, there is a certain
level of pressure that comes with my job,
just like yours, that I'd be like,
yeah, maybe I'll take a
smaller paycheck just to--
It's interesting though,
is that pressure though
from wanting to do a good
job or not to lose a job?
You know what I mean?
Like, if you didn't have the
pressure of not losing the job,
maybe that pressure wouldn't be as much
as there, maybe it's
50-50 there, you know,
it's not all the one
way or the other, but--
That's a really good thought,
I guess I didn't
really think of it that way.
Yeah. You know, how much pressure
you put on yourself, because you're like,
I, you know, we rely on the paycheck.
That's where you can
Jerry Maguire at any time.
You can! You know what I mean?
And you don't have to
take anybody with you.
Who's coming with me? Yeah, yeah.
Yeah. Money is negotiated
the more PTO, because now
you have the opportunity
to travel the world
whenever you want, so to be.
Actually, but that doesn't
work when you have young kids.
That's exactly right.
Right, so that's what I'm saying.
We always say, if we were to
win, not much would change.
I don't think much could change.
Because we're not gonna
take the kids out of school.
No. We're not gonna take
the kids out of soccer and track.
Right. You know?
We obviously, and that's why I wouldn't
want anybody to know,
because I don't want people
to treat our kids differently.
Right. I mean, if you won
that much, 400 million, I mean,
now you're talking about security,
you gotta worry about that kind of stuff.
Yeah. You know, I mean,
that truly is almost
mow money, mow problems.
Yes. You know?
Yeah. So that would be hard,
but I mean, I don't know
that a lot would change.
I would eventually, we
would probably travel more.
Yes. I would probably
get more shoes.
(laughing)
Shoes and cars.
I don't have a lot of cars now,
but I think if someone were
to give me a lot of money,
and I know there's people in our family
that would hate me for saying this,
but I probably would have more cars
than I would know how to drive,
than I would need to drive.
You know, people might
argue we have that now.
Yeah, yeah. You know?
But, but, you know, I like pretty cars,
not because I'm a car guy,
but I like pretty cars.
(laughing) You know, they're pretty to look at.
In fact, you know, we've
had a couple different,
Porsche, Porsche is how we say it.
Yeah. And fun, pretty cars.
They're fun, but they're not that fun,
because you can't drive
them the way they're meant
to be driven on the highway, right?
Right. A, it's illegal.
B, it's dangerous and
scary to some degree.
Totally, yeah. Right?
And I don't have enough time.
I have friends that
have had really nice cars,
and they take them to racetracks.
Yeah. And I'm not that much
into cars where it's like,
I really wanna let this thing all,
you know what I mean? Yeah.
So, then I just started feeling like
I was just the guy in a Porsche
that was trying to be
the guy in the Porsche.
(laughing) Does that make sense?
Yeah, it totally makes sense.
Yeah, because I remember telling you,
I think I've scratched this itch,
because I feel like I'm
trying to show something with this
instead of just, I'd rather
people not see me in the car.
Right. Just so I can enjoy it.
Yeah, because you just enjoy it
for the experience that it gives you,
because it, you know? Right, right.
But if I rolled down the window,
I always felt like I was
being judged by other people,
because I was trying to show off.
Right. You know,
because I would like, I love Ferraris.
Ferraris are gorgeous cars.
I would love to have a Ferrari, you know?
But I feel like there's
like some shame in that.
Maybe that's me being--
Well, you grew up very modest.
Like, you're a very modest person.
Yeah. You know?
So, things that are a
little more showy like that.
And I think that's where it sits
a little bit uncomfortable for you.
Yeah, yeah.
Hence why you
wouldn't want anyone to know.
I wouldn't want anyone to know either
that we won the lottery.
Right, right. I think.
Yeah, it would be so, it would be,
but it's incredible.
I just can't even imagine somebody
literally having to go
through the motions of,
I've got 410 million in
the bank right now, you know?
And, you know, at 5% interest,
I just made more money yesterday
than I had my whole
life almost, you know?
Yeah, like, yes, all of it.
I don't know, unless the people who won
were already wealthy.
They could be.
It's not generally.
Generally not the case.
Generally not the case.
The demographics of the consistent crowd.
Correct.
But, I mean, we jump
into it every now and then.
I wanted to, we just
never had a chance to.
I know, we should have.
$6.
But here's the funny thing, a Powerball,
oh no, it is Mega Millions.
Someone told me once that
Mega Millions had better odds.
And I just blindly believe that.
I have no idea if that's true or not,
so I went from playing the
Powerball to Mega Millions.
Increase your chances.
Yeah, because I would
go, I always told myself,
I want to buy one lottery
ticket a week for that $6,
because you get three
chances once a week.
Yeah.
You know, I mean, that's not bad, right?
Right.
So out of the last
year, my hopes to do that,
my attempts to do that,
I think I bought four.
(both laughing)
Because it's hard to get to like a
7-Eleven or whatnot.
And you gotta have to have
$6 exact in cash to do it.
Oh, really?
But here's where the cheap part came in.
The Mega Millions is now
not $2 for a quick pick.
It's now like $6 for a quick pick.
So I can get one pick for $6.
Oh, see.
That's getting really expensive.
That's expensive.
See, and this is why,
like, we're flabbergasted.
Why, you know, people, if you're shocked
that we wouldn't want
to be seen in a Porsche,
or you know, like, we
think $6 for a ticket
is just too much.
It is, it is.
But I don't think a whole
lot would change, you know,
because I don't know, we're
planning a vacation, right?
And I mean, it's just
where we would want to stay.
We're like, it is
obscene amount of money.
Like places that we, you know,
would stay a couple years ago,
where we're literally a fraction of the
price that it is now.
And this is just two years later.
And it's like, that's how,
if we were to win the lottery,
I would still think that's a really
expensive place to stay.
Yeah, problem is our
kids won't, you know,
they won't even think
twice about it at that point,
if we won the lottery, right?
If we won the lottery, now they do.
They've grown up enough now,
maybe they would realize it,
but there, at some point people forget
that spending $1,200 on a
t-shirt isn't normal, right?
Like, wealthy people do.
Yes, yes.
Right, I would say wealthy
people do stuff like that.
Wait, you don't have
t-shirts worth $1,200?
This one was actually given to me free
from the liquor store.
I got one too, I should
have worn my matching bullet.
You could have got matching ones.
And I was excited to get a free t-shirt.
It's a great looking t-shirt on you.
It actually shrunk a little bit,
I'm like pulling it down a little bit,
I don't like trying to show that much.
I try not to, I try not
to dry those actually,
but yeah, I mean, yeah,
we get excited about a free t-shirt.
Yeah, yeah, but we are
that generation that are,
maybe not that generation,
but we're a couple that
came from not a lot, you know?
There's times when the tans are tight.
Yeah.
We had to figure it out.
I will never forget, you know,
looking at our statement to be like,
can we buy a Little
Caesars pizza tonight?
Yeah, buy a 35.
Yeah.
Yup.
And I was like, okay, we can't, you know?
And it's just, we've evolved past that,
but it's a really good, it's like,
you know that that couple
who's kind of gone through that,
it's not about money,
and we're just as happy
when we barely had 535
in our bank account versus, you know,
we do have a little bit more than 535
in our bank account now, but, you know?
Like, we're just as happy.
Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
And that's what was nice
about when we built this house
we're in now, because this
house is far beyond anything
that we ever thought we'd live in.
Just blessed for that, but
we moved out of a great house,
which was nice also,
and probably more than we
ever thought we'd live in there,
too, but we moved out
of there into a house
that was much smaller.
Yes.
Much older.
Had zero conveniences
of the 20th century.
And it was basically
like outdoor camping.
And I know we've talked
about it before on here
a little bit or whatnot,
but I thought that was just
an incredible experience for our children
to learn that you can be happy.
Happiness isn't based on money.
Right.
Right? Right.
You can be happy in a
home that feels big,
but you can also be happy in a home
where we're all
sharing the same bathrooms
and we're sharing bedrooms.
Yeah. You know, it's not about
that. Barely indoor plumbing.
Right, barely had indoor plumbing, right.
And we didn't have outdoors outdoors.
Exactly. Outdoors was indoors.
Outdoors came indoors quite a bit.
Quite a bit in that house.
But I thought that was a
great experience for them.
Hopefully that's something
that they'll take with them
into their adulthood, you know.
Cause now they live in a house
I think that's not normal.
It definitely wasn't for me growing up,
it wasn't for you growing up. No.
You grew up in a pretty
good sized house though.
But it was just a different vibe.
It's a different vibe.
And you know, it's
funny cause our youngest,
he talks about that time
in that tiny little house
as like the best time ever.
He loved the fact that he got to spend,
that he had to share a
room with his older brother.
They had bunk beds. They had bunk beds.
Yeah, one and only
time they had bunk beds.
And I am the one who's
never gonna allow them
to have bunk beds
again because I will not
change sheets on a bunk bed ever again.
Oh man, that was hard.
That's awful. Yeah, that was difficult.
Oh my gosh, I cursed so
many times every Sunday
when I'd have to change that bed.
It's funny, here's an
insight into us though.
Like there's a lot of
times Megan will be like,
this is so hard, I can't do it,
and then I'll go do it.
I'm like, that's really not that hard.
That happens, I'm sure
it happens vice versa too.
So I tried it on the bunk beds,
I was like, that's
fine, if it's that hard,
like the world's
ending, I'm like, that's fine.
Anytime something like that
happens in our relationship,
I'll add it to my to-do list, it's fine.
We'll switch to-dos here or there,
I'll just add it to my list of what I do
on a weekly or daily basis.
That's happened before, plenty of times.
So I was like, I'll go do it, it sucked.
It was awful. It was not easy.
It was hard, because I'm always like,
how can I do this to make it easy?
And I couldn't figure it out.
I couldn't either. It was in the corner.
That corner was impossible to get up,
you couldn't sit on it and get the sheet.
It was hard. It was so hard.
You were totally correct on that one.
Yeah, I don't know how many times
I almost fell off the top bunk
trying to put that fitted sheet on.
It was so bad.
Yeah, that was rough.
Yeah, you know, I always
see those cute bunker rooms
in the houses, especially grandparents,
for the grandkids, you
have to have the grandkid room
and it has the bunk room or whatever.
Those are awesome looking.
They're awesome looking.
On Pinterest, but yeah.
On Pinterest, and that is
where they're going to stay
for the inglises.
Those are always so nice, though.
I think those people have, you know,
they have employment that
takes care of that for them.
I could have a, yes,
because I was like,
I'm not changing my beds.
Jeeves will take care of that.
Yeah, I've never even
seen this ask Jeeves.
This is something that--
Jeeves is a very butler name,
that's why it's very easy to use, right?
(laughing) Yes.
You've never seen ask
Jeeves on the initial,
like, old internet?
I did not.
It was like an oval and it
had a picture of a butler.
Jeeves was the butler,
and it was ask Jeeves.
Yeah, so it was like the first Google
that I was aware of,
at least I'm sure there
was other things, but yeah.
What other butlers are there?
There's been some other
good butlers out there.
Oh, yeah.
What's the butler in Batman?
I was just gonna say,
how do I not know the butler in Batman?
He has a very, very butler name.
Yeah.
I can't think of it
off the top of my head.
Higgins is kind of a butler name.
Higgins from Magnum PI?
Yeah.
That's a great one,
that's a good one, yeah.
That's a very--
Most people would know
that one from our generation.
Yeah, like everyone
should have a Higgins.
I would not think of the Batman one.
Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh.
I'm embarrassed right now.
I am too.
I cannot think of this.
It'll come to us.
It will. Oh my gosh.
I'm, I'm, ugh, I'm killing it.
I'm like kicking myself.
I'm gonna cut straight to me being like,
babble.
Yeah.
Like, oh, Sean remembered right away.
Sean remembered right away.
I'm gonna cut that out as soon as I get,
as soon as it comes to us.
Yeah, absolutely.
I'm ashamed.
So, so here's the big question though.
If somebody were to win the lottery,
everybody's always like,
well, you know, who do you give money to?
I, here's the thing.
Like, I would just
wanna be very generous.
Oh, we would be very generous.
That is tough.
Cause you know, you give
somebody a million dollars,
you give somebody $2
million and they're like,
well, I thought maybe four, you got 400.
I mean, why won't you give me 5 million?
You know what I mean?
Do you really think
people would think that way?
I don't know.
People get weird with money.
They do, they do.
I just, if someone that
we knew won the lottery
and was like, here's a million dollars,
there is no way that I would be like,
like mad at that amount.
Thanks for the tax liability.
Right.
No, I'm just kidding.
Who would say that?
I would never expect, ever.
Never expect it.
Even if it was like a family, like a
direct family member.
I mean, good for you.
I exactly.
I am envious, but good for you.
I am envious.
I couldn't deny that.
I would be a little envious, but.
I'll just continue working my butt off.
Yes.
To make ends meet.
Exactly.
Good thing we love what we do.
Yeah, yeah.
Do what you love, but call it work.
I guess, is that true?
Did we say that now?
It's a line from a song.
No, I know that.
You're suggesting that we
do actually feel that way.
We're close.
Close.
Closer.
You know?
Closer than we've ever been, for sure.
For sure.
Yeah.
Which is a good thing.
It is, it is.
I love that line.
Yeah.
What movie is that from?
That's a line from "By Dirt."
It's a country song.
Yeah, "By Dirt."
It's a great song.
I mean, a lot of people say
something similar to that,
obviously, but.
Yes, yes.
I thought you were
recording a movie of some sort.
You're just so good with that recall.
Yeah, and I can't recall
one from a movie right now
that's resonating with
this particular moment.
So I went to songs instead.
Nice, nice.
Well, let's see here.
What kind of recaps do we
have for this last week?
We saw a lot of friends,
soccer families this weekend.
We did.
Spent a lot of time with them.
Which is good.
We have good families
around us, I feel like,
when it comes to sporting events.
Yeah, I think so too.
We really do.
I actually enjoy, we've
been on teams where it's like,
first off, we sit at
the very end of the field.
Primarily because the opposing parents
sometimes are just not in
control of their facilities
or their mouth or whatever,
and they're loud and obnoxious.
And so it's just easier
for me to enjoy the game.
I don't know if it's for you too.
100%.
Okay, so it's not just me.
We sit on the very end,
because I don't need to hear all that.
No, not even a little bit.
But because of that,
sometimes we're a little bit away
from our soccer family
friends, which is a bummer.
But there's been times,
which where I was going with this,
where it's like, I'm
okay going down there,
because we've got some people,
I haven't always had the best sidelines.
We've always had
pretty good ones, honestly.
But not always, there's
been times where it's like,
maybe it's okay to be down here.
But right now, we do, we
have some really good sidelines.
We really do.
Some that are so funny.
Oh my gosh, yes.
We have people that care about our kids,
we care about their kids.
People are actually
looking out for wellbeing.
There's very few parents that are of the,
it's all about my kid mentality.
We have a couple.
Always.
But most aren't.
And that's nice, because
we're not those parents.
No, you're absolutely right.
And honestly, you can see it
in how well the teams are gelling.
You can tell that they
come from the parents
who care about the wellbeing of the team
and all the kids on
it, not just their own.
Yeah, yeah.
And that makes me feel good.
I see, in particular, our boys right now,
Trek is more of an individual sport,
but our boys right now
have commented to me a lot
over the last couple weeks, they're like,
man, I just really get along with
everyone on this team.
We don't have, someone was like,
oh, we had clicks last year or whatever.
It doesn't happen, it's
not happening this year.
So it feels good.
We have a time, it'll happen.
Sure.
We're in a good spot with that, whatnot.
But yeah, no, it was fun.
I was just trying to think
if there was anything funny
to bring up on the
sidelines this weekend.
I know our oldest, he
fell and hurt himself,
so that was a little bit
of the drama on Saturday.
Sunday.
And into Sunday.
Oh, into Sunday, yeah.
Because he hurt himself on Saturday.
Yeah, yeah.
And then Sunday was
like, you gonna play or not?
Because, I mean, and I
tried to be good about it,
we took him to the trainer,
because we had been to multiple trainers,
we had been to multiple people,
checked him out, medical, we did all,
we checked the boxes, and
he had a strained ligament,
which hurts, but you're
not gonna hurt yourself more
doing that, and I told
him, I played in this,
I hate going to that, but I told him,
I separated my shoulder in gym class
at like one p.m. in high school,
and played in a
basketball game, then I did seven.
Now, was it painful?
You bet it was.
I went to the doctor,
all that kind of stuff.
It separated, went back in, I took Advil,
they put all the Icy
Hot, whatever it was on it,
and I played that, he was
like, you can play on it,
it's about pain threshold.
Yeah.
And I'm like, so buddy,
it's about pain threshold.
Mentally, he had
already convinced himself,
the pain is so much, I
don't think I wanna play.
Whereas, eight hours before, he's like,
that's not bad at all.
You know?
Yeah, yeah.
And he was just like.
That's not how we're gonna do it here.
Let's step up and do one for the team.
He did, he stepped up, he played.
He did.
Wasn't the best game,
wasn't the best game for the whole team,
to be honest with you.
But he got through it, so
that was the biggest drama,
I think, for us on the weekend.
Yeah, yeah.
And the game that we
could've won, I think,
it's just, I don't know if he showed up
as much as he showed up.
I don't wanna be, I
don't wanna sound like
I'm putting him down here.
We try, we're fairly
real in our household
about how we played or didn't play.
I think he would agree
it wasn't his best game.
100%, he didn't.
And so it wasn't like, we
talked about it for months,
you know, it was like, okay,
our kids are old enough to know
when they think they played
well and when they didn't.
I think he'd agree too,
his head wasn't in the
game where it should've been.
And that's partially why he didn't have
the results on the field.
Yeah.
You know, it's important
for him to be out there.
Yeah.
Play for his team, but.
Well, we should probably wrap this one up
a little bit here.
We're gonna have a short time here.
But what do we got coming up this week?
Anything?
It's a very, it's a very normal week.
Oh, we had a football start last week.
Which, how nice is that?
I always say this, wrap
it up and everybody's like,
oh good, we're wrapping it up.
I know, like.
And then Sean brings up another thing.
I know, it's good to
watch football again.
Oh, it feels so good to be back in fall
and watch football again.
We had a lot of losses
this weekend, unfortunately.
Oh my gosh, our teams,
yeah, all our teams lost.
Broncos squeaked it out.
Yeah, barely, but yeah, yeah.
Yeah, the NCAA.
Jayhawks lost.
I lost.
Yeah, I was.
But it is so good to
watch football again.
And in Texas, it felt like fall.
We could just spit.
Anyway, in Texas, it felt like fall.
I didn't see it, but that's, yeah.
The question is, will we keep it?
It's been a light summer.
We usually pay for it, but it's been.
It's been temperate.
We've had like two 100 degrees days.
I think we already talked
about it on the previous one,
but I mean, it's like knock on wood
that we keep this nice weather.
I know.
Although it was hot in the sun.
I mean, you got burnt.
I did.
I felt like I was crispy,
but it was cool in the morning.
Like it felt like a.
Yeah, the mornings have been crazy.
Oh, it's fantastic.
That's the best thing about
having an early morning game
is you're like, at least you can.
It's not rolling out of
bed at 5.30 on a Sunday, but.
You don't like that?
Personally, no.
Yeah, no, I don't either.
Yeah, yeah.
That's one thing I
would change if I, you know,
like that's, we won the
lottery and it's like.
It doesn't change that though.
It doesn't because you're right.
The kids got to go to
school, but I'd be like,
can I just show up to
work at nine instead of.
Yeah, but you still got to get up.
You still got to get up at 5.30 in the
morning on a Sunday,
whether you're worth 400 million.
If you want to go to
your kid's soccer game.
It's true.
Whether you're worth 400 million or 5.35.
And there is no
amount of money in the bank
that would stop me from
going to my kid's soccer game.
Right, exactly.
Like.
Exactly.
Yeah.
Hmm.
Anyway.
All right, well, we got a
regular week coming up here,
I think.
The kids are excited
for Halloween already.
Actually, they're
excited for, well, Christmas.
Christmas, oh my gosh. We got Christmas music in our house.
The Christmas music from
upstairs in their bedrooms.
Yeah.
It's ridiculous, like it
was competing Silent Night
versus Underneath the
Tree by Kelly Clarkson
the other night.
(laughs) I mean, I love
Christmas, but we kind of have a,
well, it's not unsaid, it's
almost a, it is a said rule.
Yeah.
We don't listen to Christmas music
until after Thanksgiving.
Yes.
And it's not because it's not great,
but it's, to me, so
magical that you can't delude it
by just listening to it all year.
Like you want, it's like,
what's another good example?
Like you don't do
something cause you're, you know,
you want to wait for it.
And then when you wait
for it, it's even better.
Yeah, the anticipation.
Yeah, it's the
anticipation of it or whatever.
But that, but they're listening to it
on and off over the summer.
And then for sure right now, you know,
our youngest is like,
it's Christmas season.
It is not.
Like it is barely September.
Dude, it was just labor day.
Yeah, right.
Really?
Oh my gosh.
Oh yeah.
Oh well.
So Halloween, we have
coming up in two months, but.
Yeah.
We'll figure that out.
Cause we're going to
want to start taking off
Halloween stuff out.
Tis the season to get
everything out of the attic.
Yes, yes.
Cause we'll have Halloween.
Oh, we have homecoming.
Not this week, but next week.
That'll be a topic for next week.
Cause we have.
Our first mom situation.
Which you're excited about.
Just gonna stay silent.
I've made my position
on mom's very clear.
Well, I'm excited though.
Our oldest, you know, has
a, as a, as a girlfriend that
we've met.
She's super nice.
Super sweet.
We've, they went over to
their house and cooked.
Yes.
And so our oldest is
like, well, hey, you know,
can we do something like,
yeah, you can come to our house
and cook for us.
That's exactly right.
Cause she's a really good
baker and bear loves to cook too.
Yeah.
So hopefully that
happens before homecoming.
This weekend they're making us dinner.
Oh, they are?
I don't know.
I haven't seen it confirmed.
We need to set that up.
We need to confirm it.
Cause she's sweet.
So sweet.
I was a little sick last time.
So I didn't get a chance to
spend time with her as much.
They have a lot in
common, which is awesome.
They both love to cook.
So they're like, they, they
think this is a ton of fun.
Both play soccer.
Yeah, both play soccer.
So it's really cute.
Yeah.
So, all right.
Well, let's, let's sign off here.
What's our word?
That sums up last week.
Sums up last week.
You have yours?
Yeah.
I always struggle with this one.
Cause sometimes I want to hyphenate.
Mine's hyphenated.
Oh, okay.
I've hyphenated one.
Mine's hyphenated this time too.
Okay.
All right.
One, two, three.
Sleep.
Pumpkin spice.
Permation.
(laughing)
Pumpkin spice.
Sometimes we're so close today.
Not close.
Not close at all.
Really, you haven't been sleeping.
Oh my gosh.
I've been so tired.
Yeah.
And you're just getting excited for fall?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, I know we, we
haven't had any time to sleep in,
which normally we don't,
but that extra hour on
the weekends is great.
Right.
You get like, we go to bed
at maybe 30 minutes earlier
and we get to sleep in an
extra hour on the weekends.
Right.
Sometimes.
And that's really nice for you.
Yeah.
But I mean, we haven't because if we
don't have a game or.
Well, last week we were traveling.
So we were up early and gone.
Yeah.
This week we had to, we had an hour away.
Yeah.
And we'd be there at 8am.
So yeah.
Life on a soccer is life.
Yeah.
And we're up so late.
Yeah.
That's the thing that's hard for me now.
It's like, I was used
to going to bed at 930
and I know that's making me old,
but I needed my sleep
and there's no chance
I'm going to bed at 930 anymore.
Cause it was like,
okay, I can settle down.
I can get, get set out of sleep or so.
Now, if we're asleep,
eyes closed by 11.
All right.
We're kind of on schedule.
Right.
It was the night last week.
We were up past that though.
It was almost 12 and it was like up at
5.45 in the morning.
Yeah.
Oof.
Yeah.
So.
I'm looking forward to
summer as much as the kids are
at this point.
I know.
I know.
Me too.
And that vacation we took wasn't restful.
No.
Incredible vacation, but no
rest for the weary on that one.
No.
Not at all.
There was go, go, go, go, go.
It was.
I mean, there were mornings we were up.
We were out the door at 6am.
We might get a little,
we might get a little
respite for our anniversary.
Yeah.
At this month.
Yes.
So we're trying to figure
out if we can speak together.
Just need to be that amazing.
All right.
Let's have some good people go.
All right.
All right.
Well, we'll see you guys.
Enjoy the second week of football.
Anything else?
I think just chow chow.
Soccer friends, we
won't see you this weekend.
We'll see you at some practice.
Some of us will.
We'll miss you.
We'll miss you.
We'll see you next week.
All right.
You already said it.
I already said it.
See ya.
You didn't say anything.