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26 just came in fast, right?
Came in hot.
Rubbers.
Oh, yes, yes.
Shoe rubbers is what they're called.
Oh, that's my sock.
That's my sock.
Okay, well, this is weird.
It's like, thank
goodness I'm wearing gloves.
I actually wear more layers on the
sideline than I wear
skiing, which is smart.
It really starts cooking in there.
It's nice.
Whoa, that's like-
There's a lot of cushion there.
There's a lot of cushion.
I could be hit by a car
going 60 miles an hour and-
You'd be fine.
You'd be totally fine.
I would just bounce.
I feel like the cold's
gonna creep and women are tough.
That's why you outlive us.
You guys are just tougher.
I would actually totally agree with that.
And twist, double twist,
then triple vortex, close.
I don't know that I'm ready for that.
I actually look homeless.
I was out and about.
Did you wonder at some
point if that person was dead?
No, because where I was going-
And I let it go.
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 and growing careers, keeping
life together in the
middle of all the chaos.
So buckle up, because we're all in this
crazy journey together.
All right, we are back
after skipping a week.
Skipping a week.
The first time in a year
that we skipped a week.
Yeah, on purpose.
Kind of.
I mean, I have truly been going back to
be like, when could we have done it?
Yeah.
I mean, we were already not going to bed
until very, very late.
It was just a heck of a week.
It's the chaos train, as
usual, just plowing through.
There was no conductor even.
I feel like it was- I feel like the train
over the last two
weeks was similar to like
Polar Express, right?
Yeah.
When it's like no one's
really being the conductor.
We were on the Ice Lake.
Yeah.
Which is all over the place.
Like, 26 just came in fast, right?
It came in hot.
Like you think like, all right, 26 gonna
be great, blah, blah, blah.
It came in hot.
Yeah.
And nothing, nothing out
of the ordinary, really.
No.
It's just we knew we had a lot of soccer.
We knew it all the kids stuff.
Yeah.
Back to work.
Some work things just kind of Christian
doing all at the same time.
Yep.
Oh, because we had
basketball, two soccer tournaments.
I was telling, I counted it up.
We had 12 soccer games, three practices-
or sorry, not soccer games.
12 games, three practices,
and a birthday celebration.
Last weekend.
And we barely fit in
the birthday celebration.
We had two hours and then
we got kicked out of Topgolf.
Yes!
Can you talk about that
in an I'm Peave segment?
Our I'm Peave segment,
yeah, should definitely, yeah.
What was that?
Well, the Topgolf was fun.
It's just, yeah, they were
like, yeah, you can't extend.
Usually you can extend it on it.
Yeah.
So, yeah.
So what was it, 13 games?
12 games.
12 games. Yeah.
12 games, three practices,
and a birthday celebration.
Oh, oh, and like six hours of like
community service hours
for one of the kids too.
Got squeezed in there.
Yeah.
All on a weekend.
Which left us zero time to record.
Zero.
We were home, I counted it, 29 waking
minutes on Saturday.
Waking minutes, that's crazy.
I think when you can count it, almost the
total number of
minutes at home, like on your
fingers and toes, it's pretty bad.
That's crazy.
It was a crazy weekend, no doubt.
It felt like 26 just came in.
And then that was last weekend and now
this is Monday that we're recording on.
So this, that was two weekends ago.
I guess as you look at it.
This last weekend, I was in Florida.
For sure.
With our youngest for a
soccer tournament there.
Yeah.
You were here for a soccer tournament.
Here.
Turns out you probably got more of the
short stick on that one
because it was freezing
here.
Totally.
Now, I mean, I at least got
to sleep in our bed and I mean.
Yeah.
But no, I was like, huh.
But that one was what,
seven games, one track practice.
I don't know.
Only basketball games over this weekend.
Yeah, no, not this weekend.
Oh my gosh.
Yeah.
Two states.
Yeah.
A thousand miles, four flights.
And for me, I was able to, luckily
enough, see a game yesterday on Sunday.
I saw a game of our youngest in Florida,
in Jacksonville,
Florida, where the cold front
finally hit there because we had two
fairly nice days there.
And Florida is always freezing this time
of year when we're there.
Yes.
It is not a vacation.
It's a family photo from being there at
one of the SuperCOBO
tournaments two years ago
or something.
Yeah.
And we're all in our ski jackets.
You've got your little hood over you.
My fur hood up.
Your fur hood up.
You can see the beach in the background
because we're on the
boardwalk and we're all just
huddled in trying to
take a picture on the beach.
So it's never fun to go to Florida in
January for a soccer.
No, it's not.
No.
Soccer tournament.
No.
The picture just showed up on our Alexa
in the kitchen and the
kids were like, where
were we?
And I was like, yeah,
that's the beach in Jacksonville.
Exactly.
It was miserable.
It was.
So we were there.
I was there with the
youngest at another tournament.
First two days weren't bad, but yesterday
on Sunday, the cold
front that you guys have
been in finally made its way there.
And it came with freezing
torrential rain for the last game.
And so we were just soaked to the bone.
Yesterday was that day
of the chaos train for me.
Not as much for you, but you
had been in it your own ways.
But for me, I told you, we woke up.
We realized we had to be at the, we had
to be there 30 minutes
earlier than we knew.
So we're running out of
the hotel, not running.
We're fine.
We had plenty of time, but
we were, we were on the clock.
You were urgent.
All day.
We were getting there.
And I knew because I had moved our flight
that we had to leave
immediately after the
game.
So right after the game, our youngest and
I went separate ways.
We couldn't find each other.
So I'm like, now we just
lost another minute or two.
And there's no time to lose.
Yeah.
You know, to get to the, to get to the,
uh, to get to the airport.
And this was of course, after our
youngest is drenched to the
bone after playing 60 minutes.
And just not, it wasn't torrential, but
it was sideways, very
heavy, freezing rain.
Um, so I can attest to this.
I was not there.
However, I did find your leather gloves,
which were soaking and
now we're almost 24 hours
past all of this rain.
But then I took our, you, you were smart.
You put the youngest, um, Jersey into a
bag, like a plastic bag,
so that it wouldn't get
everything wet.
I pulled it out and I
mean, I could have rung it out.
It was that wet.
Was it?
Yeah.
I don't doubt it.
It was soaked and everything in the
backpack was soaked and
that was probably just from
rain seeping in through the backpack.
Yeah.
For sure.
But the actual Jersey he was
wearing, I could ring it out.
Water locked.
No doubt.
We were all that way.
We were just wet humans on the sideline,
just getting, you know,
and we're traveling so
we don't have all our stuff.
We bought a really
inexpensive umbrella at Target.
I didn't realize it was
like 12 inches in diameter.
It didn't cover your shoulders.
No, it looked like a little dainty, like
I was going to tea or something.
I was like spinning it
for, you know, to look pretty.
Oh my gosh.
So I was, we were all soaked.
But that's what that, so we were on the
clock trying to get
to this earlier flight.
Right.
So I could make it home in time.
Well, just, I love getting home earlier.
I'm a homebody.
But if I got home in time, I would be
able to make our
oldest soccer game at 8 p.m.
Yeah.
So I would make that
back here in the DFW region.
But as we're going
through security, I am so wet.
My clothing, it's actually just the
bottom of my jeans down
to my socks, which I did
not have time to change.
So it set off the, it like set off
sensors in the security thing.
So I got pulled off the first one, put in
the second one where
you had to put your hands
up and it goes around you.
I did that one and they're like, they're
like, they're like asking
me questions like, where
have I been?
What have I been doing?
You know, am I wearing a chain?
I'm like, because I had
to throw something here.
I'm like, he has a big old gold chain.
I'm not wearing a chain.
But then he starts like, you know,
patting me down and stuff like that.
And he gets down to my lower
legs, which are just soaked.
Like my jeans are soaked.
And I'm like, he's got to be thinking
like, okay, well, this is weird.
Thank goodness I'm wearing gloves because
I don't know why his pants are soaked.
And I'm like, I'm sorry.
We just came.
I'm actually, we're actually
running to catch our flight.
We just came from a soccer game where I'm
just standing in the rain.
So I'm soaked to the bone.
And he's like, that would
explain what's going on.
I still have to put your shoes through.
And he's like taking my
shoes, which are soaked.
They had to put those back through.
So then we're waiting on that.
So that like slowed us
down a little bit too.
Anyways, long story short,
we made it, got on the fly.
That was fine.
Back here.
I got back here and I had 17 minutes to
change socks and shoes.
Which your socks were still so wet that
you could see your
footprints on the wood floor.
I know.
I was like, check this out.
This is how wet I slept.
My feet were freezing on the flight.
I didn't have time to change them though.
There was no time.
Yeah.
But I left wet foot marks as I walked
over and changed my socks.
So I had 17 minutes to do that.
Pop back into the next vehicle, change
vehicles and then pop out
for another hour drive out
to where our oldest was playing.
Which happened to be the nicest weather
that you had because
you had your 8am game was
21 degrees.
Actual temperature.
Actual temperature felt like I
looked on, I think it was 17.
Something like that.
Yeah.
It was so miserably cold.
It was so cold that
my hands were burning.
And you're like, well, I mean, I've had,
I've had frostbite in
my hands and toes quite a
bit.
So they get like that.
It's just like, it was so cold.
Is frostbite like, is
it similar to burns?
Like there's degrees of frostbite?
Oh, for sure.
Yeah.
For sure.
I've never had severe frostbite, but I
mean, I definitely have had those.
I've definitely had
some type of frostbite.
Yeah.
You always talk about it.
I'm sure you do.
I mean, there's no way.
There's no way.
Live in that kind of weather.
Well, and as a kid, I was telling our
oldest as you're driving,
because they were, I mean,
they hurt all day yesterday.
My, my, my fingertips hurt.
And I was like, but when I was a kid,
you'd be playing outside
in the frigid cold, you'd
be sledding or whatever.
I mean, that's what kids do.
You play outside.
Yeah.
And you're not paying attention to it.
And then all of a sudden
you're like, my hands hurt.
And you're right.
You're like, ah, well, once
they go numb, it's better.
I can stay for a little bit longer.
I remember that as a kid too.
But in Colorado, it was cold, but we were
never at negative 30 actual temperature.
No, that's not probably
pretty common for you in Colorado.
Yeah.
But Minnesota, like
it's usually under zero.
I mean, it's below zero.
So that's, that's what it was.
So those are the last two weeks.
I don't think I've posted
anything on social media.
Not that I like am consistent on doing
that, but I do try to
put some things out there
and whatnot, but I haven't done, I
haven't done anything,
but like go to soccer games,
sleep, work and sleep.
That's all I've done.
That's it.
Nothing else has got done.
Nope.
And usually when we do have a busy
weekend, usually that
means that's something that's
postable, right?
You're posting, you know, winning a
tournament or, you know, like,
I got a lot of videos to make.
I don't know.
There may just be something where you
tell the kids like,
sorry, I'm not going to, I'm
not going to do anything from this
particular tournament.
Well, we had some great goals over this
last tournament, so I
got to do something.
And I think I did, I think I did the
tournament for the
basketball tournament two weeks ago.
So I'm not too far behind, but you know,
I know we have family
and friends that like
to see those and that's just
how people keep up these days.
Yeah.
I enjoy doing them, but
they just take so long to do.
And you're really good at it.
I'll brag on you a little bit.
I don't need to do that.
There's no need to do that.
They're just reels.
I don't know.
They're just well done.
Like, you know, it
does take an artful eye.
I think I would struggle to do it.
It's not my, my bailiwick.
Well, thank you.
Thanks.
I'll take it.
I'll take a compliment then.
So that's where we are.
So we missed an entire episode, but we're
back on it now and
moving into another week.
Hopefully this, I mean, we have another
soccer tournament coming up this weekend.
It's going to be freezing again.
Yeah, if we thought it was cold this past
weekend, it's going to
be way worse this weekend.
How do they let kids play in this?
I think they get away with it because
they're like, oh, we're in Texas.
Yeah, but it's the low on Saturday is 14
in Dallas for the record where we live.
Does anybody else play outdoor sports in
14 other than like the NFL?
I mean, I know the bears
played last night in 18.
But they're paid millions.
Like, there's a difference.
These are children.
Yeah, these kids aren't
getting NIL money just yet.
Not yet.
Exactly.
Well, and so I was complaining about how
cold it was and our
youngest sitting in Florida
sent me like the
temperature in Minnesota.
Yeah.
And I was like, you're right.
It could always be worse, but they don't
play outdoor sports.
In Minnesota, you have hockey, but you're
playing like an actual
hockey game is played
in a hockey rink.
Yeah.
You know, yes, there's pond hockey and
things like that, but
they're playing, but not organized
sports that require you to be outside
for, I mean, you think
about it, an hour and a
half game plus an hour warmup, two and a
half hours in shorts.
Let's just remember the
kids are wearing shorts.
Yeah.
So yesterday they have one, they have two
layers on very thin
layers because it's all
athletic clothing now.
Right.
So it's not like thick cotton or
something like that.
And that's just so when it, if it gets
wet from sweat or from
like freezing rain yesterday,
I mean, those poor kids, they're
literally in shorts and
what feels like 28 with just
freezing cold rain, just sopping them the
whole time for an, I
mean, 30 minute halves.
They're shorter halves at least.
Okay.
So they're sitting on an uncovered bench,
you know, and like the
bench players are just
sitting there.
Like, you know, if you're not in the
game, you're just sitting
there freezing on a cold
bench.
Oh man.
It feels like you said for the games this
weekend here in Texas,
that one game and the
next weekend, it feels like child abuse.
It does.
To put them out there.
Like there should be some level of, Hey,
maybe we don't play.
Yeah.
I think they tried to do that last night
or yesterday morning.
Didn't it move by one hour?
It moved by 30 minutes.
So it was the difference between going
out at 20 and 21 and
we're like degrees Fahrenheit.
Just to confirm this is Fahrenheit.
Celsius.
Yeah.
It's pretty nice.
It's actually a really
nice game, but no, yes.
Fahrenheit.
And I was like, who that
one degree, it feels amazing.
Yeah.
Really?
Yeah.
So one of the things, so you don't know
how all the other parents
do it, but as I've gotten
older, I just get cold, right?
I just get colder and colder now.
I don't like being cold anymore.
I get that migration to the Sunbelt.
I am starting to get that.
I know you are too.
I don't look back.
I'm like, I think 50 is freezing now.
I don't know why I
would want anything cold.
You asked yourself, like, how did you
ever, how did you live in Minnesota?
Because that's a whole 10
degrees worse than Colorado.
Yeah.
I justified it.
And I think you can ask the people who
lived near me and my friends.
When I chose to move back to Minneapolis
for my career, I was
like, well, I chose to live
here.
I can't complain.
I hate it, but I can't complain.
Yeah.
But like, so at that point in time, I'm
like, I don't like it, but I mean my job.
Good job.
I, so I got to stay here.
Yeah.
As a kid, I was like,
oh no, I can complain.
I didn't choose to live here.
This is not my choice.
That's very, yeah, that's very, that's a
very Megan thought process.
Yeah.
It's my choice to live here,
so I'm going to deal with it.
I'm going to deal with it.
Right.
But I mean, they built an entire city
that has sky waves, like
you have an entire city
that is built so you don't have to go
outside in the winter.
Yeah.
If you ever been to a city like that, a
lot of, I don't know,
there's a lot of cities
that have similar to that, but all the
downtown skyscraper
buildings are on the second level,
at least in Minneapolis is what it is.
There's sky waves from
one building to the next.
So you can go all through most of
downtown, the main
buildings at least, into where, you
know, most of the thoroughfills you can
reach it by never going outside.
Correct.
You just walk through
those things, which is smart.
Right.
The only way to do it.
Yeah.
Colorado didn't have that though.
Denver's not like that.
No, and Denver can get really
cold and it gets really snowy.
And when we lived in Chicago, I know for
a fact Chicago wasn't
like that because I remember
walking from Grand Central
Station or whatever it was.
And I knew all the
lobbies I could walk through.
Yes.
Right.
Because every building's a block.
Yep.
Right.
It's a city block.
So I knew I could walk through B of A and
then I could walk through JP Morgan.
You know, I go to this way.
I take this turn and this turn.
So I was only crossing streets to get
into the, you know, the next building.
And then I walked through that building.
Absolutely.
Because it was freezing.
Freezing.
Yeah.
And I remember, and the thing in Chicago
that I've never seen
anywhere else, but maybe
it happens.
Everyone always carried extra shoes in
their bags and like for
women anyway, because you
would get to work and you would change
your shoes because you
were walking through the
street and either your
tennies or your boots or whatever.
Like it was very normal there to always
have an extra pair of shoes in your bag.
And I learned a new term.
Rubbers.
Oh, yes.
Yes.
Men would buy shoes, shoe
rubbers is what they're called.
And they literally are like rubber, thick
rubber that goes
around your dress shoe so
that you can walk through the slush.
You can walk in the dirt and then you get
to work and you just
kind of slide it right
back off.
And they fit tightly on there.
Kind of got to snap them on a little bit.
But so I bought those, you know, and I
wore those downtown for a long time.
I think it makes more sense to have a
change, you know, a
higher, like those things should
have gone up to like ankle height because
there's plenty of
times that those gutters
were six, seven inches deep and you're
like, oh, that's my sock.
That's my sock.
Exactly what I was going to say.
And that'd be my sock.
Yep.
That'll be fun.
Yeah.
Just let that dry out.
Yeah.
Mm hmm.
But it was so normal there.
Yeah.
If you did that in Texas, people would
stare at you and be like,
what in the world is that
contraption that
you're putting on your shoe?
But everyone up there has it.
Yeah.
I think I still have them.
I may have gotten rid of
them at some point in time.
Like, I'm never going to
use these things again.
I remember my dad had them.
Yeah.
It's a very, it's
definitely a Chicago thing.
Maybe it's a northern city thing.
I think if you're in
New York, maybe has it.
I would think so.
If you're walking when it's and that's
the I loved that about
the city is that you do
walk everywhere.
Yeah.
But it's like, yeah, you have
bad weather in these places.
But and it's consistently bad.
But here.
Right.
And that's why they built infrastructure
around that because
it's consistently bad.
Here it's not
necessarily consistently bad here.
Generally the way it seems to work is we
have a great Monday through Friday.
Nice weather.
And then when we all have to go sit on
the sidelines outside,
it drops by 80 degrees
or 50.
I mean, we have had like a 90 degree
difference within like,
oh, maybe that's extreme.
But it was close.
It was a huge number.
It was like 70, 80.
It was easily.
I know just a couple of weeks ago, it was
a 68 degree drop in 24 hours.
Yeah, within 24 hours.
And that's that's a major difference.
Yeah.
Either way, point being somewhat
sarcastically here, it always
drops to low on the weekends
when we're sitting outside.
Always kids have to.
But it's also poor for us parents.
Right.
Is where I was going.
You have to sit on the sidelines, not
warming our blood by
running around everywhere.
You know, I mean, like, yeah, we're
getting upset because I'm
yelling at, you know, the
other parents, I'm yelling at the refs
that are terrible consistently.
No offense, refs or offense like, but I'm
going to call a spade a spade here.
Yeah.
So so to stay warm, I mean, I know you
guys make fun of me
now, but I don't like to be
cold. So you got me the electric vest
last year, which is fantastic.
So we counted, though, how many layers I
actually wear more layers
on the sideline than I wear
skiing.
So I take you through the
layers just real quickly.
I'll count while you while you do it.
I've got the long sleeved t-shirt.
It's my base layer.
OK, on the top.
Right.
Well, let's start on the bottom.
On the bottom, we'll start over.
I've got my I've got long johns on the
bottom with long socks
that are tucked in, obviously,
with a pair of fleece lined jeans.
Four.
That's the bottom.
I don't have anything
heated down there just yet.
I know they exist.
We might have to go there at
some point in time on the top.
Starts with long sleeve t-shirt.
We've already covered that one.
Then I go with a long sleeved, a long
armed running outdoor
running shirt that's meant
for cold because it actually has like a
turtle thing that comes up.
A turtle neck that goes up to your eyes.
Up to your eyes.
A test of this.
So I can I can cover my mouth with that
if I need to or just my
lower mouth so that wind
doesn't get in.
Then on top of that, I'll general.
Oh, I go with my my ski layer, which is a
really nice, really
warm, thick, just like
three quarters that really nice and warm.
That one also has those things that cover
your, you know, your thumbs, thumb holes.
So that's my second thumb hold layer.
Then on top of that one is where I put my
heated vest because
that heated vest will start
warming everything below.
Right. And it's close enough
to the skin that it really.
It really starts cooking in there.
It's nice.
I turn that on.
I'm never cold, but
that's what layer four.
So on top of that, then goes my hooded
sweatshirt, a strong
hooded sweatshirt that's thick,
which is great to pull up over a hat.
Genuinely, I just wear a regular hat, a
build hat because it
keeps the sun out of my eyes
and over my sunglasses.
If it's really cold, I will put on an
actual stocking hat.
But usually that goes up.
That keeps all the wind
off your neck and whatnot.
Over that, I put my
second vest down vest.
This one's not heated,
but it's a down filled vest.
That one goes on.
Then over that is my top jacket layer,
which I got a new jacket
now, which is a long, like,
what is it called?
I don't know. We call
it like a coach's jacket.
It's like a coach's jacket, but it goes
down to like my knees now,
which is why only the bottom
part of my legs were soaked yesterday
because I was wearing that.
I think it's somewhat waterproof.
Somewhat.
That's been great because I'm not getting
any wind now, you know, up the back.
No drafts up the back.
So I used to like it with a ski jacket or
my other jackets every now and then
sitting on the bleachers
or sitting somewhere, you
start getting drafty on that.
So that plus we've added now the electric
blanket, the portable
electric blanket for sitting in the
stands. Adding all that together.
Oh, and are you going to
talk about the heated seat?
Oh, we also upgraded our stadium seats
this year to heated stadium seats.
So the issue now is is charging and and
transporting all the
batteries that are required to
heat us.
I saw you put them
all in a bag last night.
There's so many.
Oh, my God.
I was like, this is ridiculous.
This is like out of control.
But but officially, I mean, you are
wearing seven layers of apparel on top.
Legitimately, legitimately seven.
Yeah.
And I could work in an eighth, which I
have done before, which
might happen this week and in 15
degree weather.
But I will say with that level of
layering and electrical
heating system I've got going
on, I am actually not that cold.
Just my hands because really it's just my
right hand because I'm videoing.
Yeah.
Right outside of that.
Now, I could see adding another layer to
my legs every now and
again, but this long jacket has
really helped with that.
Yeah.
So really, my feet are the only thing now
that kind of get a little bit cool.
Yeah.
But my top isn't in a year ago or two
years ago before you
got me that heated jacket.
And before I just said, screw it, I'm
putting on as many layers as I want to.
And I don't care who thinks I'm an idiot
or was I don't want to be cold.
Sorry.
I don't want to be cold.
That affects your life.
You know, good luck with that.
That offends you somehow.
But what was I saying?
I don't even remember now.
Just how cold like I'm not cold though.
I haven't been cold.
Two years ago, I was
shivering on the side.
I'm like shivering.
Like I would, I was on control.
Like I'd lose control.
I'd be shivering.
Yeah.
Not since this.
Yeah.
I don't want to be cold.
Seven layers it is.
And we live in DFW.
Yeah.
We have outside soccer and 15 degree
weather feels like the
coldest one we've had so far.
The real feel is two, I think.
I don't think so.
I think we've ever been negative.
I don't think we were ever negative, but
it was like two degrees.
Yeah.
That's for our daughter's game one time.
But yeah.
But tell them what you wear
while I'm wearing all this.
And I'm not that bad.
Because my layers are all very tight and
stuff like that, I can actually move.
I'm mobile.
I'm not walking like a stiff man.
You know, I mean, I did do this the other
day and I was like, whoa, that's like,
there's a lot of cushion.
There's a lot of cushion.
It's like a pillow.
I could be hit.
I could be hit by a car going 60 miles an
hour and be totally fine.
I would just balance
and balance and balance.
And then I'd be fine.
Yeah.
But women on the sideline and I haven't
seen the other men drive
like me, other dress like me.
I think most other men are
just way more manly than me.
But women way more manly.
You guys are standing out there with
exposed ankles half the time.
Yeah.
With one layer of pants on.
Yeah.
Like an athletic pair of pants.
Yeah.
Which are nothing.
Yeah.
Nothing.
So when it's really cold, I do try to
wear jeans and then I
wear boots that go up, you
know, to my my calves.
That does help.
But no, this weekend I had on just a pair
of athletic pants, a
pair of leather shoes.
My ankles were kind of exposed.
And then I had on a tank top.
But you had ankle socks on, right?
With your shoes like that, right?
Yeah.
So they're low ankle socks.
Yeah.
And then and then.
Super appropriate to show my socks.
Yeah.
That would be weird.
You got to bring that.
It'd be awkward.
Yeah.
But for everyone, I do.
But you had two inches
of ankle showing at least.
Yeah.
I have ankle socks on so you
can, my ankles are exposed.
Yeah.
So you're standing out there.
Do your ankles not get cold?
Not usually.
I mean, that's not like,
oh, how is that possible?
But I mean,
well, do you have much
feeling in your ankles?
I don't know.
But I feel like it's like, you know, I
feel like the cold is going to creep.
You get my ankle cold and it's just going
to start getting my foot cold and my leg
cold and my leg bones connected to my hip
bone and my hip bones connected to my,
you know what I mean?
Yeah.
And I don't want to.
Well, I did have a
blanket around my legs.
So that kept the wind off of them.
Kinda.
And then, yeah.
And do those leg, those
single layer leg pants?
Do they keep you warm?
Doesn't the wind go right through those?
I mean, if I put a blanket on, it's fine.
Man, women are tough.
That's why you outlive us.
You guys are just tougher.
I would actually totally agree with that.
And this is why I'm going to die at like
younger age, because I can't even, you're
out there just like braving the elements.
And I'm like, like packing my own human
oven to watch the game in.
So weak.
I'm just weakening
myself every time I do it.
You get cold though, really easily.
I do.
You do.
I sleep with heat.
Yes.
And you don't.
Oh, gosh.
You love getting into cold bed.
And I'm like, oh my gosh,
it's like ice over there.
Yeah.
I, I think that's a,
I think people enjoy.
I don't know.
I've heard more people say that they like
to sleep and it's colder than when it's
hot.
Well, I would agree with that.
I, it's hard to sleep when it's hot, but
mine just keeps me not cold.
Oh yeah.
No, no, no.
I, that would, I would be burning.
I like getting into a cold crisp bed.
That's, that's enjoyable.
Um, but yeah, no, I, I don't know.
And then on top, I mean, I do wear like a
tank top and then a, like a sweatshirt
or a sweater this weekend, I wore like a
turtleneck sweater, like a wool
turtleneck sweater, um,
and then my ski jacket.
Yeah.
Oh no, I did have, no, I had my heated
vest and then I had a ski jacket.
Cause you have a heated vest too.
And those are game changers.
And I did have that up on high for sure.
Yeah.
No.
And honestly, only my
hands and feet get cold.
Yeah.
Those are the only things
you're not getting cold.
That's fine.
But I was getting cold.
That's why I put so much
stuff on because I will get cold.
Yeah.
And it's not because I'm like a skinny
old man, just a wuss, I guess.
Or you're just sensitive to the cold.
I have sensitive skin.
I'm sensitive to the cold.
You're sensitive to the cold.
I always have been since I've known you.
That sounds like a wuss. It sounds like a wuss.
You like to wear, like you, I
get hotter faster than you do.
Yeah.
And I don't think I'm
a hot blooded person.
Like I'm, I'm usually cold.
Like if I'm one thing, I'm cold versus
hot, but I'm definitely cold, but
you're usually colder than I am.
Yeah.
That's true.
All right.
Well, what else is going on?
We just, uh, I just kind of talked about.
Uh, appropriate outdoor
dressing during soccer games.
I know.
Which, you know, I think is a good PSA.
And, um, if people have ideas on how else
you could keep yourself warm.
One of these is we're going to do those
bubbles, not those little cubes.
Everybody gets in a personal cube, but
they've got those ones on Amazon.
That's like, you can put a couch in.
I just need to be able to have, I have to
have a package generator.
It has to be plugged in.
So I have a generator there, but then we
can just like be in the
lounger, be in our
shorts, watching the game.
We can be snowing outside.
That sounds lovely.
Actually.
You've seen the picture of
that when I'm talking about.
Yeah.
Swimming feel like
you're in a snow globe.
Yeah.
Oh, it's a snow globe.
That's what it is.
Is that what it's called?
Human.
Well, no, but it's a human.
It's a great descriptor for people.
It's a human snow globe that you just zip
yourself in and out of.
Yeah.
It's the only way to camp.
Yeah.
It's how you glamp on
the soccer sideline.
So funny to do that.
You would get so many like, side eyes.
You have to show up
early and set that thing up.
Oh my gosh.
Can you imagine?
Literally like in a, in a, like a
fishbowl, people would be looking at you.
You just wave like,
bring it to TV in there.
It's hot in here.
I've heard those cubes
though, keep you super warm.
I've heard that too, but they look like I
was joking with another
parent, like, cause he's got them.
And they look like impossible to refold.
Yes.
They're one of those ones you have to do
like a figure eight and then
do like a figure G with like, they don't
just like twist and then clap close.
They're like twist, double twist, then
triple vortex close.
So they just shove them into the back of
their car, full size flat.
Cause they can't figure
out how to twist them shut.
I don't know that I'm ready for that.
I love that.
No judgment on my part.
Cause like I struggle with
the figure eight sometimes.
But I have heard that those little, the
sidelines, I mean, we've seen that
those have been more
and more popular lately.
Oh yeah.
But I still kind of laugh at
the people that are in them.
I mean, I don't know.
I wasn't judging this weekend.
It was way too cold.
Like it was just, it was, and I was
joking with another parent.
She's like, I actually look homeless.
And I was like, we all do.
Like we do.
Yeah.
Everybody does.
We had a member of the, we had someone on
the team last year for a few years.
She's super nice, but she would always
have, she'd always be in a sleeping bag.
Oh yeah.
On the sideline.
She'd stand up in a, she'd
have a, just a sleeping bag.
She'd be like walking around.
And so she had to get out, she'd have to
take the sleeping bag all the way down,
step out of it and then go do it.
And then she'd come back in and be on a
sleeping bag on the side.
Uh, the people I was standing next to all
weekend were sitting in sleeping bags.
Yeah.
They had it all the way up to their neck.
They're like, it actually keeps you warm
because your own body heat kind of heats
it.
I was like, it's
probably a fantastic idea.
I have to, that's going to be my husband.
That is his next layer.
I was just going to say
that might be our next step.
It's your next layer.
You're like, and then my seven layers on
top, four on the
bottom, I top it off with
a sleeping bag.
By the end of this, I'm going to be like,
how, like, you know, you remember
Darth Sidious or the emperor at the very
end of the last Star Wars where in
underground in his
thing, you know what I mean?
Like he's like held up
hanging by this thing.
I'm just going to be in like just the
craziest contraption
trying to keep myself
warm.
Oh my gosh.
But what's funny is like then in the
summertime, it's not
like you're like, oh,
this is nice.
You bring all this
stuff to make you like cool.
Yeah, we do.
We have the tent.
We have the mister.
All the cold waters.
Yeah.
It's a lot.
I know your parents visited us a few
months ago and we had, we didn't have
everything with us on that one because it
was actually a nice day.
So we just had the chairs with us.
But during the heat of the Texas summer,
which we'll play in 112, I think that's
the hottest we've ever played a game in,
but regularly we will
play over a hundred.
In the nineties all the time.
That's like nothing.
That's nothing.
But again, it is child abuse to let these
kids make these kids play out there.
Heat stroke.
Hello.
I know.
It's crazy.
And even for us, it's hot over there.
So yeah.
So to take all that stuff, the tent, the
mister, the misting
fan, you know, I mean,
there's a lot of stuff involved in that.
You have to take, you have to take it
with a wagon that you pull in the wagon.
We have now as a double
decker wagon, which is awesome.
Cause the tent goes on the bottom all
because you have to have a water bucket
that is misting and the, and the fan goes
on top of that, but then you have to have
all the, our water bottles in there.
The chairs have to go in there.
There's a lot of stuff.
We always bring like extra umbrellas
because sometimes we don't set the
whole thing up and
sometimes people don't have one.
So we borrow, we borrow out
or we lend out our umbrellas.
Anyways, that double decker is awesome.
It helps us get a rally.
Yeah.
And not many people have found them.
I don't know why not more people have
them, but the people that do, people
are like, Oh my gosh, that thing's huge.
But we were with your parents and I think
it was your dad who made a comment.
I don't remember his comment, but he was
like trashing this
person in and was like,
is your wagon big enough
guy or something like that?
You know what I mean?
And I was like, Oh,
we've got that exact one.
And ours has more in it than that.
So no, it doesn't have enough in it.
But you know what?
Creature comforts.
When we spend as much time, and that's
why we have the Sprinter van too, as much
time as we spend, and we just went
through it in the very
beginning of this podcast.
36, what was it?
29 waking hours at our house, which means
we spent, do the math, 48
minus 29 hours, minus 29 minutes.
Or not waking, but 24, let's say on a
soccer field or in a basketball gym.
Creature comforts.
I mean, you have to, you're
living away from home, right?
Yeah. Like, yeah.
So we've made the economic decisions to
try to make that as
comfortable as possible.
It's just a way of life for right now.
And here's the sad part.
I don't even want to say it, but I can
see the end of that tunnel.
I know.
Our oldest has two and a half years left.
I know.
That we get to do all that, pack all that
stuff up, put it all in there, all the
batteries, all this stuff, two and a half
more years for his games.
Right.
You know, he might do college stuff too.
That's TBD to be seen, I guess.
But that's.
And we're going to miss it.
What I don't want to, yeah, I'm going to miss it like crazy.
Like we're gonna miss it.
So I don't, I mean, yeah, it's insane and
we didn't have time
for a podcast in there.
Yeah.
But man, it was fun.
Yeah.
Like even our youngest, I mean, he'll be
a teenager this year,
into this year, very
into this year, obviously.
He just turned 12.
So, um, but you know, I mean, that's five
years, five and a half years.
I mean, that's our, that's a horizon for
this crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy,
crazy part of our life, the craziest, all
the money that's going
out to do these things.
I mean, we're flying all over
the country for these things.
You know, we just added
another track meet in Birmingham.
Yeah.
Never been to Birmingham.
Me either.
But it was really high
on the bucket list too.
I didn't know that.
I don't know.
Birmingham might be awesome.
I have no idea.
It probably is really nice.
But anywho, well,
that's, um, that's really nice.
Really?
I mean, that's a catch up for two weeks.
Two weeks.
For the most part.
What else?
Anything else to catch up on on that as
we wind this one down?
I don't think so.
No.
That's been, I mean, it has just been.
I've kind of turned
into the travel parent.
So I, you know, I'm having fun with, you
know, the parents out there.
I stayed up way too late this last
weekend with some of the dads.
Maybe we had some fun conversation and
you know, we had a really fun time with
those guys at the table down there at
the, at the bar in the Hilton.
But, um, I, we stayed up to 2am that
time, which is one of our time and.
Which?
Zombie.
I can't do that.
I can't even believe
you stayed up that late.
So first time I've done it, I know that
kind of group of guys has stayed up
before and done it, you know, and I've
been there till 9 30 before.
You probably stayed out till 10 or 11.
Yeah.
You've probably stayed out.
You've probably.
Maybe, maybe once on that.
I don't say that late hardly at all.
But I, I was there.
Uh, one of the guys, Mike, he brought
down old fashioned stuff to make old
fashions at 1am, you know, so I can't
turn that down, you know, but we had fun.
And you know, that that's always fun.
But we need to start earlier.
So we start like five.
So we've done it like, yeah, these are
all those signs of how do you know you're
getting older?
It's like, I do want
to be in bed at 9 30.
Like so boring.
Like I had fun doing that.
That was a grab.
I was a blast, but I
was dead the next day.
No, I wasn't dead.
I actually rallied for it.
I actually have not felt the, you have
seen after effects from it.
Like you didn't seem
like you were overly tired.
I talked to a few times.
I know when you're
tired, there is a, right.
There is a line in your voice.
Like there's how you, there's just even
like your voice sounds different
when you're really tired.
And I know like there's just, yeah, I
know when you're too tired and you
didn't seem that way at all.
Yeah, somehow I rallied through it all.
But, um, anyhow, that was tough.
That's just all those moments we just
keep talking about, but it was fun.
We were reminiscing a bunch of stuff from
like the nineties and, uh, you know,
because you're all the same.
You're around the same vintage.
Oh, we are.
There's one of us is 47.
So we had a 47 48 49 49 50 51.
That was all of us there.
I mean, that's awesome.
Isn't that funny?
Yeah.
We're all within, we all would have gone
to high school together at one point in
time, which was, it was just kind of fun
to talk through all kinds of stuff.
And, you know, and I
love that you had that.
Yeah.
That was, it was fun conversation.
That's really important.
I mean, it's really important to stay
connected with your spouse.
Obviously that's,
that's the baseline, right?
But every study will show having
connection with other same gender
adults is super important.
Yeah.
That's why we keep
you locked in the house.
I was out and about like, Oh, you were.
Well, we'll talk about that.
Not after, after two, with
the kids to bed and went out.
Well, we might need to talk about that.
I talked to the parents on
the sidelines, all of that.
Yeah.
I didn't.
Yeah.
I did not go out.
I was in bed at good times, but I mean,
my alarm was going off
at 5 45 in the morning
because I had to get
to an 80 in the game.
All right.
So real quick, any I'm peeved, we'll end
with an I'm peeved section on this.
And then we'll let the
people, the good people go.
I have a good one.
I'll give you mine.
Since you brought up alarm, my I'm peeved
moment from this last
week was in the hotel.
Some hard sleeper had set their alarm and
I know they were incredibly hard sleeping
human being because it was a
special downloadable alarm.
I'm sure because every time it went off,
it was a new sounding alarm that is
incredibly obnoxious, like one was like,
the next one was like,
I mean, like every one
of them was different.
And one of them, they slept through for
about 15 minutes and it's like,
wake up human wake up.
So my I'm peeved suggestion is if you're
one of these human beings that has a hard
time getting up, get a vibrating alarm
for when you stay in hotels.
They actually make those so that you
don't wake up
everybody that's around you.
Cause I didn't go back to sleep after
that guy's alarm went off for an hour.
But that person took an hour to get out
of bed and every five minutes their alarm
went off and they would snooze it.
And then the next
alarm sound would go off.
Except for the one that went off for 15
minutes before they
woke up enough to snooze
that one. Did you wonder at some point
that that person was dead?
No, they're just no.
Dead to the world, but not dead.
Anyways, that's my that's my I'm peeved.
And I let it go.
There we go.
Anything you need to.
I had a few of them, but I
will say we love top golf.
We had a great time.
But it was so annoying when we're like,
we just want to stay 30 more minutes.
As you always can.
And it was.
It's like they're a stick to
get 80 more bucks out of you.
Right. For 30 minutes.
Right.
And the server was like, yeah, the
manager said we can't.
We're not extending anyone tonight.
Like, what's you just
did it to them like.
This was after Domino and Domino and
Domino kept falling of
just like bad service.
Nice girl.
Horrible customers.
Yeah.
It's kind of a fail that night.
Yeah.
From their perspective.
We had a great time as family, though.
We had a great time as family and we did
learn that top golf.
Great activity to do
even in the wintertime.
He did couches.
He did like it was plenty warm in there.
It was really nice.
Yeah. From the ceiling.
He he did.
Couch was incredible.
Oh, that felt amazing.
I mean, as we're talking about through
some of the things for the sideline.
He did capture us incredible.
Yeah.
So.
All right.
Well, hey, let's let's call it then.
All right.
We will be back next
week and it all goes well.
I hope so.
It shouldn't like we
don't have another weekend.
I feel like we had a little bit of a hump
and that was it last week.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It gets the next couple of weekends.
We've had a little bit of time, but yeah,
they're a little more normal.
All right.
Well, we will see you next week.
Thanks for joining.
All right.
Ciao Ciao.
See ya.
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26 just came in fast, right?
Came in hot.
Rubbers.
Oh, yes, yes.
Shoe rubbers is what they're called.
Oh, that's my sock.
That's my sock.
Okay, well, this is weird.
It's like, thank
goodness I'm wearing gloves.
I actually wear more
layers on the sideline
than I wear skiing, which is smart.
It really starts
cooking in there, it's nice.
Whoa, that's like--
There's a lot of cushion there.
There's a lot of cushion.
I could be hit by a car
going 60 miles an hour.
And you'd be fine.
It'd be totally fine,
I would just bounce.
I feel like the cold's gonna
creep, and women are tough.
That's why you outlive us,
you guys are just tougher.
I would actually totally agree with that.
And twist, double twist,
then triple vortex, close.
I don't know that I'm ready for that.
I actually look homeless.
I was out and about, like,
did you wonder at some point
if that person was dead?
No, is where I was going.
Whoa.
You have to, and I let it go.