(upbeat music)
Pop, busy pop pop.
Pop pop.
I have a hot mic.
Don't we have people for this?
(glasses clink)
Um. Apparently.
You can't let a good glass go to waste.
My wine's got a weird color too.
Crowds are not our thing.
While your pee pee was gone.
The Walmart was incredible.
Our mega store retail podcast.
Nothing can put me in a
worse mood faster than traffic.
I wish I had a tape.
Okay, that's really helpful even for me.
If you're not passing,
get out of the pass lane.
It is known.
People, patience.
People are just so
inconsiderate of other people.
MIPs, most important people.
Well, my mom's not fat.
She's just pregnant.
I feel like everyone's just staring.
90,000 people were in section A20.
It was like 11.45 on
a full day of Disney.
Are they insane?
I feel like I should slow clap for that
because I don't know anybody.
(clapping)
That's the most lame thing I did today.
18 Disney parks in one day.
I feel like you guys are so boring.
I was like, I'm gonna shut
my brain up for 15 minutes.
I was like, what?
(laughing)
F-F-15.
I think I'm done with that story.
Number five, you gotta get here.
Man up, man up, man up.
It's not even a competition.
What?
You sit on the half
your soccer team sits on.
Do not sit on our hat.
This guy, this guy.
Maybe you don't act crazy.
Yeah, because you could
tell he's not finished.
Why bother?
We're for you.
You're like fancy like Applebee.
Who's not here?
Jesus.
Wow.
Or, or.
Here's our new ending.
One, two, three.
Exhausting.
Like six.
Finish each other's scale.
Same.
Ability.
(laughing)
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.
Bop, bop, bop.
Bop, bizzy, bop, bop.
Bop, bop.
Here you go.
See, at least when I do
it, I'm not on mic as much.
You're much more on mic,
but you're much more on key too.
I have a hot mic.
It's a hot mic, people, hot mics.
Hot mic.
These chairs, I might
have to change chairs,
because I am so bad,
my feet almost don't touch the ground,
and this is such a deep chair.
Okay, well you're talking to someone
who's only about five three,
so there are often times when my feet
don't touch the floor
because I'm on a chair.
Yeah.
And I don't know if I'm further back now,
because I, when I painted,
I feel like I need to move
this chair up a little bit.
Oh, okay.
So talk amongst yourself again.
You go ahead, handle it.
Welcome everybody.
Well, welcome to the next episode
of Mr. and Mrs. English,
and while Sean's
working on his chair there.
Can we get that, where's the grip?
Isn't there like, don't
we have people for this?
Well, and usually when we were kids,
it would go off air with the stripes,
the colored stripes,
and it was like, shh, shh, shh.
With some nice, like, hold music.
Yeah, yeah, please hold,
I don't have any good
elevator music right now.
Yeah, elevator music.
I can edit that in
there, that'd be really good,
but we're already past it now, I think.
So I'm trying to figure
out if I'm close enough now
with the mic covering my face,
because some people do
watch this on YouTube.
Right.
There we go.
Yeah.
All right.
Wow.
That was an intro.
I mean, but do we
start with just a cheers?
A cheers.
So let's do it in front of your mic
so people can hear it.
Okay.
Ready?
(clicking) Oh, it's been, cheers very much.
Try one more time.
(clicking) Kind of.
I think it works.
Yeah, those of you that
are not watching on YouTube,
which most people are
listening via audio on the podcast,
you should tell them, like,
we're drinking on a weeknight.
On a weeknight, which is pretty rare.
Not heavily.
No, no, no, but you
know, a nice little glass,
always nice when we have a free night,
which is so rare that we
ever have a free night.
So we thought we'd celebrate
by having a little beverage.
Yeah, I don't think
we're breaking any rules
that I'm aware of on the internet
that say we can't drink
and broadcast to the world.
Yeah, I don't think so.
We're both over 21.
Apparently.
(laughing)
Gosh, just missed that one.
I've been 21 more than twice.
So have you.
Sorry.
Yeah, so I don't think
there's anything wrong with it,
aside from maybe judgment of people like,
oh, you're drinking on a
weeknight, but you know, hey.
We also didn't get to have any beverages
a couple nights this weekend,
so maybe we're just making
up for it for the weekend.
That's right, we're making up, yeah,
because we have to have our
usual alcohol consumption.
Yeah, like our two nights a week.
Yeah, our bodies wouldn't really know
what to do, I think.
Yeah, without two nights a week.
Free of alcohol for more than 48 hours.
Oh, goodness.
Anyway, but yeah, because it's been,
it was a busy weekend.
Yeah, it was busy.
But on the alcohol
thing, it's pretty funny.
I don't really care about Instagram,
but it is fun to put things
up there to share with people.
And then sometimes it's like,
well, I wonder what I can do.
That'll be interesting.
Do you wanna put it on that one?
It might be closer, but that, you know,
it's just interesting, because,
again, this whole thing over like,
I'm not trying to be funny,
but being somewhat entertaining,
with some of the
things that we do on there.
So it's funny to just
kind of see what gets hits.
And so far, our biggest
viewed real on Instagram,
and then I haven't put it on YouTube.
I gotta figure out how to do that.
Not that I care, but I do need
to figure out how to do that,
is us cheersing our drinks,
because I always do a bourbon,
you always have your wine.
And our biggest one was
on a Friday night, I think,
and we just, oh no, we poured it,
at simultaneous pours.
Maybe that should be our thing,
because remember we
were talking about that?
Everybody has a thing,
a shtick, if you will,
on whatever you're gonna say.
I'm just laughing if
you're proposing that our shtick
is that with the drink?
No, no, no, our shtick is the pouring.
Is the pouring.
Okay.
I mean, if it's poured, yeah,
I think that it
insinuates we're gonna drink.
That we're gonna imbibe as well.
I mean, you can't let a
good glass go to waste.
We will partake, yeah, that's right.
Right.
Maybe that's our thing.
And that's our thing.
And you know, people judge all you want.
You know, it's like we always say,
if you're gonna judge
us on things like this,
go ahead.
Pretty responsible, reasonable.
Go at it, have fun, enjoy.
Because you know when
you go to the doctor
and it asks, do you drink alcohol?
Yes, no, and then it'll
have how many times a week?
I'm still at the very top of the list
where it's like one
to two drinks per week.
It's funny, how many days?
It's like how many days,
one to two days, right?
And then how many drinks
or something like that.
I think, I know exactly
what you're talking about,
because on my most recent visit,
or maybe my previously recent visit,
I actually checked the second one.
You did?
Yeah, because there was a
time when we were having
a drink or two during the week,
kind of normal week, just
like a glass of wine at night.
Which I think is totally
fine, most people do that,
even though that's been, I
think we were just talking
about that, scientifically disproven.
I don't think it's heart healthy.
I think they figured that out.
The health benefits may not be there.
But you know, I mean,
jury's still out on that.
Eggs have been healthy
and they're not healthy
and healthy again.
Oh my gosh.
They'd meet healthy,
not healthy, healthy.
Exactly.
Right, so I think that's something
we should be consistent with.
Yeah, yeah.
Is making sure we drink wine.
I am okay with that.
Every night, for heart health.
For heart health.
I need a healthy heart.
Yeah.
I need grape juice.
My wine's got a weird color to it.
I know, I don't know,
that's like a really dark
Chardonnay or something.
Is that what it is?
I don't know, it looks
more like apple juice.
Yeah, it's still too.
This is the wrong kind of fruit.
It's 100% the wrong fruit.
That's right, that's right.
Yeah, it has a totally
different orangey hue
that's not normal for us.
Anyway, so people, be
looking for more pores.
Pouring Instagram posts
because the people have spoken,
the internet loves it.
The internet loves it.
The internets.
Yes.
We should always do what we
see on the internets, right?
I would disagree with that actually.
Good call.
Are we being serious?
Yeah, no.
Okay, sorry.
Not even a little bit.
I just wanted to be sure.
Yeah.
Just wanted to be sure of that one.
It is good to get on
the record on that one
because I don't even want to know half
the stuff out there.
Well, we've had that curtain pulled back
a little bit this week, but alas,
we've already talked about
that, that's not digress.
We'll move on from that.
You were talking about
how crazy this weekend
was a little bit and
after our Sunday night
that we didn't get to
partake in a little bit of this,
we definitely needed it at the time.
Oh my goodness.
I think we have firmly established
that crowds are not our thing.
Maybe the pouring can be our thing,
but crowds, not our thing.
That's pretty funny.
Well, tell them why.
We had two nights where
we were in crowded stadiums
and all of that.
So we went to a professional soccer game.
Before that we had a tailgate
in addition to all the soccer games.
FC Dallas, yeah.
FC Dallas.
It was great to see go
to the FC Dallas game.
Gorgeous night.
And I'm okay with crowds for a while
and that one was fine.
It was the next night then when we had
the opening ceremonies of the Dallas Cup.
I think I used all my people patients
the night before at the FC Dallas game.
Yeah.
All your pee pee was gone.
Well, that's probably not
a good one to hyphenate.
We'll stick with people
patients instead of your pee pee.
Yeah, okay.
Probably a good thing.
I get it, I get it.
You know, I just try to be efficient.
Sometimes if you can--
Right.
I like abbreviations.
Abbreviations are great.
Or that's not an abbreviation, is it?
That's more of a--
Acronym?
Yeah, it's more of an acronym.
Yeah, but sometimes--
Anyways, you used up
your people patients.
I used up my people patients
and by the time we hit
the opening ceremonies
for the Dallas Cup, I
was done with people.
Yeah, and the Dallas
Cup just remind people
if they hadn't seen or coming in later.
That's kind of an
international youth tournament.
You 18 and under, I think?
I think so.
There's like 30,000 athletes.
Yeah, so it's been incredible.
Our two sons are playing in this cup,
each at their own, they qualified for it
with their own teams.
And it's an international tournament.
So in fact, our older son's team
is actually hosting
another team from Kent, England.
It's really cool because they joined us,
as did their coaches,
which was fun to talk to them
at the tailgate.
Just hearing about England
and it's just a little
bit south west of London.
Southeast.
East of London, that's right.
Right on the coast.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I looked it up, so I now
have a visual for where it is.
That's why I was like, oh no, it's
southeast, I got that.
I tried to find it
real quick in the moment,
but I couldn't find it.
I'd have since looked, but it was so cool
to get to talk to them
and just the difference.
It was funny because they were telling us
how they went to a Walmart that day
and we thought that the
Walmart was incredible.
It's funny, that was
gonna be my highlight too.
It was like just really cool
conversation with these guys.
You're talking about kind of
the American vibe right now
and whatnot and because right now,
sometimes the US
doesn't have the best name
in the world right now, but give or take,
whatever you stand on that,
that's probably the truth of the matter.
But out of the whole
conversations that we had
talking about kids and soccer and
politics and all this,
yeah, they went to a
Walmart and their minds were blown
because there's just so
many items in the Walmart.
They're like, how do you make decisions?
They were so impressed with Walmart.
Walmart and we're like,
we don't go to Walmart.
Well, we're highbrow.
We're target.
Yeah, exactly.
Target. Target.
We're target people, so I
mean, that's pretty highbrow.
Yeah, part of it is
like I have still a loyalty
because I worked there for a while.
So it's like I have that loyalty still
and a little bit of
the, like, I don't know,
you like to think you
always work for the best.
So I still kind of have
that, it's an ego thing for me.
I don't have that
feeling for some of mine.
That's an ego thing
for me, I can admit it.
The banks, all of our money's green.
Some banks have been
better than the other.
But we actually shopped
at Target when I was a kid.
Target, so we always went there.
So I mean, yeah, that is a
40 year kind of commitment.
Yeah, well, and I don't even know,
Walmart didn't make it
up north until, you know,
more like my teenage years.
You know, it was more of a south
from what Bentonville, Arkansas.
I remember the first time
I ever went to a Walmart,
I was in Arkansas.
And I was probably
seventh or eighth grade.
Okay.
Well, we should take this offline.
We'll cover this in our
Megastore Retail Podcast.
We go in depth into, you
know, big box retailers
and all that kind of stuff.
But back to the patience thing.
I don't think it's a people thing,
because I think we both enjoy people.
And if anybody listened to
last week's Mr. and Mrs.,
I had said, we had said we
have to get our energy up.
Because as an extrovert, you actually
gain energy from it.
I do.
As an introvert, it drains me.
I'm literally dead at
the end of the night
because it just drains energy.
And I still have to
get my energy up for it.
So it's not really a people thing.
We enjoy being around
people, both of us do.
We like the interactions and all that.
It's the herd mentality.
It's the crowds.
It's the traffic.
I mean, there's nothing,
nothing can put me in a
worse mood faster than traffic.
Bad drivers. I can attest to this people.
That's absolutely true.
And if life's rougher, like
it has been the last week,
a week, two weeks, three
weeks, whatever it has been,
then I can find a lot wrong
with a lot of drivers out there.
Normally I can kind of
brush it off, move past it.
But when I'm already pulled as tightly,
strong as I can be, oh my gosh, drivers.
I mean, literally, I wish I had a tank.
Yeah, I think traffic is
usually that just the small,
it's almost always traffic,
that it's like that straw on your back.
It's the straw, for sure.
It's like that trigger.
But yeah, if life's good
and everything's just kind of
cruising along, you take it in stride
and it doesn't bother
you at all, but it's like.
It's perspective too.
I'll never forget this, we'll learn it.
I don't even listen to smarts that much,
but sometimes things stick.
And he was talking about how, same thing,
he'll have a bad day, you
know, and if he goes out,
everybody's annoying him.
Oh, this guy's doing this,
this person's doing this,
and this driver.
But if he's in a good mood,
or trying to be in a good mood
and looking for the good
in the world, you know,
none of that stuff bothers him.
So it's really his
mentality, which now I'm suggesting,
you know, I should
transpose that to my mentality that,
if I go out there with a better attitude,
these things won't bother me.
Okay, that's really helpful even for me,
because I do that too.
If I'm just, you know,
kind of in a crabby mood,
yeah, I find fault with little things.
It's easy to find fault
when you're in just your own,
like, I don't know,
crabby is probably the best way
to say it.
The Texans are known for
being horrible drivers too.
I mean, get out of the fast lane, please.
As do non-Texan drivers, or, you know,
people who learn to drive elsewhere.
(laughing) If you're not passing,
get out of the fast lane.
Texans do have a really
bad rap across the country
on their driving.
Rightfully so.
It's known.
Rightfully, it is known.
It is known.
Yeah.
So anyways, we used up our PP on that.
Sorry.
People, patients.
Yeah.
By the time we got to this,
which is such a cool experience,
because we haven't been there before,
other people on our team
have been there with other kids
and whatnot, or even previously,
but this is our first time.
30,000 kids from all over the world.
Yeah.
Granted, a good majority of
them are from the United States,
but Germany, England, Brazil, Costa Rica,
six-- Samoa.
I mean--
Samoa, six continents,
and I don't remember how
many countries, like 30?
It was like 15 or 17, I think.
Okay, I just threw, I guess I
just threw a number out there.
So I would say 15 to 30.
(laughing)
Countries were there.
But Japan was, I mean,
I just walked by a game the other day
where there was a Japanese team,
and the goalie was
yelling at his team in Japanese,
and I was like, this is crazy.
That is so cool.
Yeah, yeah, so that was really neat.
So they did this whole
thing like the Olympics
where all the kids just come
out and they announce them,
and I'll post
something on it at some point.
I've just been so
behind on posting stuff.
But it was super neat.
Both our boys were down there.
I found them in the crowds.
Which was no easy feat.
No, well, yeah.
So that was fun.
That part was super cool.
It was hot, we were up in the shade.
People were standing
in front of everybody.
People were just,
here's what gets me, right?
I'm peeved.
I was gonna go there.
This is an I'm peeved moment.
People are just so
inconsiderate of other people.
And this goes back to
I'm a rule follower.
I try to be considerate
of other people to my own--
Detriment.
Detriment, dismay, whatever.
Yeah, yeah.
I'm trying to take pictures.
We're trying to take videos.
And people just literally
stand right in front of you,
taking their own video and picture.
Right.
There are times when I'm an idiot,
and I might not notice
that somebody's doing that.
And generally in those
moments, you'll pull me back.
Or, you know, and I'll do this,
like, you know, I'll do it,
because I'm not thinking,
and then you'll pull me back.
But one thing that you will always do
is if you do that unintentionally,
you always notice them
and then you apologize.
Like, I am so sorry, you know?
Exactly.
I mean, I am aware of my surroundings.
I'm aware that I'm not the
only person in this world.
M.I.P.'s, most important people--
Yeah.
Are everywhere.
Yeah.
I just think society is
flooded with this now.
It is the new norm.
Yeah, I think so.
To just not care about anybody else.
Yeah.
It's your world, it's your world.
You do whatever you wanna do.
Cut to the front of the
line, stand in front of people,
don't follow the rules that make society,
you know, organized.
I mean, I'm peeved and I got it out.
Yeah, there we go.
And that, I think, is why
that was the straw kind of on,
I don't even remember now.
That was Sunday night, right?
Yeah.
Sunday night.
Sunday night, and it was
just like, we were hot,
we'd been going since
5.30 in the morning.
You know, we're 13 hours later,
and we're just like, I'm so done.
I mean, I was trying to get,
I was in crowds for the first time.
Oh yes, yeah.
I was gonna go there,
because that's the other side of this.
Yeah, like, it's nerve-wracking.
I'm still not super
proficient with walking.
I'm talking about your
surgically repaired knee.
My surgically repaired knee that,
I mean, okay, in PT, I am
practicing stepping on stairs,
like, but it's,
again, not the full length
of a stair or anything.
So I'm getting there, but I look normal.
And so people would have no idea
that I'm walking on a
very delicate knee still.
Can I just interact there?
Keep that thought, I
don't wanna interrupt you,
but we had talked about it too.
And I actually, my mom was
with us for part of the day.
And I remember being in first grade,
and my mom was pregnant
with my second sister,
my middle sister.
And being young, I
remember walking around,
I wasn't smart enough to
know that people were aware,
or I wasn't aware enough to know,
but I was like, I wanted to tell people,
my mom's not fat, she's just pregnant.
You know what I mean?
But I was scared to death,
everybody thought my mom was fat,
because she was like, not eight months,
nine months pregnant, you know?
She's pregnant, everybody, she's not fat.
But that applies to
where you're at right now,
your mentality, and I don't
worry about it at all now,
but I know you're thinking a little bit,
because you don't look,
you're not wearing a brace,
you're not on crutches.
I have nothing to appreciate,
I have something wrong with you.
I'm dragging a leg a little bit,
you can tell there's, you know,
you're not walking normally,
and I know that's, to
you, you wanna tell people,
like, I'm not fat, I'm pregnant, right?
Right, right.
But I'm not, I'm not, you know,
I don't know what the word is there,
I'm just learning how
to reuse my knee again.
Right, right, like, that's exactly
what you wanna tell
people, and it's like--
I just had surgery.
I just had surgery. By the way,
I just had surgery.
Right, right, I promise,
I don't usually walk upstairs one step,
one leg at a time, with
only one leg stepping up,
and, you know, but people look at you,
and then they're
annoyed because you're taking
too much time, or you
feel like they are making it.
Well, you did stairs,
literally the first time
you did stairs was at
the FC Dallas Stadium.
You know, and you're going down,
because it's a stadium that goes down
from the main causeway, and, you know,
I'm turning around,
telling people behind us,
because there's a line behind us now,
as we're going down 20
steps, your first time,
and they're not, you know,
it's 28 inches wide at best.
Two people cannot walk
shoulder to shoulder,
up and down those stairs,
you have to turn sideways.
So I'm telling everybody,
oh, she just had surgery,
like, thanks, I
appreciate it, she had surgery.
I know, and I'm just
like, so embarrassed,
because I feel like
everyone's just staring,
which makes you nervous, because,
I mean, I'm still nervous to do stairs.
Like, I don't feel good on stairs yet.
Right, right.
Anyway, yeah.
So, not to finish that up,
but I mean, part of the time,
so that was, so we're
in crowds and traffic,
actually we missed traffic
pretty well on FC Dallas,
because we left at
halftime, so that was nice.
But then the next night, we
had full traffic getting in,
it was hard to find the boys, because
there's 30,000 people,
and the directions, I'll
just say, were not great,
of where to meet up and
drop our children off,
nor, and this is what
made it even more annoying,
were they great to pick up our children,
amongst the, if there
were 30,000 children there,
well, every one of them, I promise you,
had at least one
parent, if not two, or family,
because there's people
coming in from Mexico,
had a huge contingent, so
they had all their families,
so double that, there
was at least 60,000 people
in the stands,
parents in close relatives,
if not more than that.
I've never.
And we're like, oh, everybody meet at,
I don't remember what
it was, A20, Section A20.
Section A20 was the very
first one where everybody came up.
Yeah.
So 90,000 people were in Section A20,
and we literally were just standing.
Yeah, yeah, it was insanity.
Smushed, human sardines.
Nobody was even moving, I had
a vantage point at this point
where I could see all the way
through the tunnels and stuff,
people couldn't even move.
Right.
And it was just like, oh.
It was scary though.
I've never seen such a
sea of humanity, yeah,
and it was scary.
It was scary from the
standpoint that we've all seen,
in today's day and
age, I mean, it's crazy,
something fell, it sounds like a gunshot,
who knows, if people start moving and
pushing and trampling,
I mean, there's nowhere to go,
people are just gonna get
smushed and pushed down,
and when you're on a
surgically repaired knee,
that's not a great place to be.
Yeah.
So that part, I mean, it took us an hour
to find our first son,
maybe not that long, 40 minutes.
40 minutes, probably.
And another 30 minutes
or more on top of that
to get our second son.
Well, part of that was, he
didn't wanna answer his phone,
because he was having
fun with his friends.
Well, because there was no
cell reception there though.
Oh, that's right.
There's no cell
reception, there's one bar,
so phone calls wouldn't go through,
and in text, I had
probably three or four texts
that didn't go through the
group me that I sent out,
being like, where are the boys at?
Does anybody know where
the boys are right now?
My group me never even posted.
That's insane.
Yeah, so.
Yeah, it was a challenge,
especially on tired, hot,
just ready to be done.
It was like 11.45 on
a full day of Disney.
Yeah, it was.
Parks closing and all you
wanna do is get back to the--
Get home and then you
just got in a 600 person line
to get on the tram.
Exactly.
Speaking of which, we had
friends that just did Disney
and they did how many parks in one day?
Oh my gosh, they did four,
I think it was four parks in one day.
Are they insane?
I feel like I should slow clap for that,
because I don't know anybody.
(clapping) All right, we'll do the fast slow clap.
I don't know how they did that.
I love them, they're great.
They are go getters
though, mom is a go getter.
Oh my gosh.
I think, how much energy does she have?
It doesn't stop, it doesn't stop.
I'd like to have her, we have to have her
on some podcast somewhere at some point.
Oh my gosh, because
she's so funny and yes, she--
Hilarious.
I actually feed off of
her energy though sometimes.
I'm sure she's faking it 100%,
but she's one of the nicest
people I think that I know.
Here's the thing is
no, she's not faking it.
She is just that good.
She's, we'll ask her if we can plug,
she actually has a book,
which is, you've read it,
I have not.
It's incredible.
So they've had their
trials and tribulations,
great family, but I
always think about them when,
they're one of those
families I think about
when I'm like, am I a lazy parent?
Right, because you're like, you know,
you hear all the
things that they've done,
and it's like, oh my goodness,
Yeah.
Like, when is the most
lame thing I did today?
We did 18 Disney parks in one day.
Right.
And we were hilarious, and
they planned out old pictures,
like they had a
picture there 20 years ago,
so they had planned
that out in part of it,
I mean like, good Lord.
Yeah, it is so impressive.
And our kids are like,
we go back to our kids.
Oh my God.
They're like, you guys are so boring.
No we're not, I don't think we're boring,
but our kids are like, I
hadn't planned on doing that.
I had planned on not
going somewhere tonight.
I thought I had an open night.
And they're like, lives are crushed,
because it's like, well
guys, we need to do something.
Something similar came up
at some point this week,
I felt like where I was like, guys,
you have to be a
little bit more malleable,
have some plasticity.
Yes, yes, oh it was an
unexpected change of practice time,
I think is what it was, but yeah.
Change of practice night
or something like that.
Gosh, I had planned on
not doing anything tonight,
I needed a night off,
but they get that from me.
Whether or not they
genetically get that from me,
or they get that from me
modeling it, I don't know.
Oh, maybe a little bit of both.
Probably a little bit of both, yeah.
Yeah, but I mean, here's what you say,
we embrace a night off,
we don't get them often.
And so I try not to feel
guilty about taking a night off,
or having a glass of wine
when we get this opportunity,
because it doesn't happen often.
No, I don't feel guilty about it at all.
Like, I mean, I think
last night, it was late,
you were still working on something,
and I was like, I'm
gonna shut my brain off.
Just, you said you
had 15 minutes of work,
I was like, I'm gonna shut
my brain off for 15 minutes,
because it hadn't been shut
off in days, weeks probably.
So, and that was really
like welcome, 15 minutes.
I was shocked, flabbergasted if you will,
because Meg's is, her
job is just demanding,
your job is demanding.
And there are times, not
that anybody else's jobs
aren't demanding, I get that, I get that.
But everybody knows, like there's just,
when you're at that point, your salary,
and all that kind of stuff, like,
there's not a clock out time,
you have to hit the deadlines.
You do it until it's, yeah.
And right now, it is just
an avalanche of deadlines,
there's no work-life balance,
as much as you're
trying to fit things in,
and do all this, we have
soccer during the week this week,
I mean, you took the kids out of school
to go to these soccer
games for this tournament,
they have excuses for
it, from the league,
or from the, you know,
and so you've been working,
I mean, I've gotten, you know, you've
been working in bed,
you know, I've rolled
over and got into bed.
So I mean, it's been a push
for you for months, honestly.
And last night, I was like,
I've got like 15 more minutes,
and I said it because I thought,
you're gonna be like,
okay, I'll do this, no problem,
I got plenty to do.
And your response
blew my mind, I was like,
your response was, I think
I'm just gonna do a puzzle
on my phone then.
Yeah.
I was like, whoa.
(laughing)
I know, shocker, I needed that though.
Yeah.
I was like, in that 15
minutes, it was so restorative,
it was great.
I'm just glad you had that.
Thank you, I mean, you
were the one working,
I felt kind of bad.
It's just like, pfft, pfft.
That's spelled P-S-S-T.
I don't think it would be P-F-F-T.
You're probably right.
I have no idea.
Oh my gosh.
So here, one more thing,
do you have anything to,
are you done with that story?
I think I'm done with that story.
Because we don't have a
whole lot of topics tonight,
that was just so, that was such a
crushing, long weekend.
I know.
We said it, we had to
get our energy up for it.
We made it through it, barely.
Barely.
But we made it through it,
and one of the funniest things I've seen,
and I'm terrible at telling stories,
but yesterday, and I will put an
Instagram post up for this,
you guys have got to
check out this Instagram post.
Oh my God, we're so fine.
Of a soccer dad that I saw yesterday,
soccer dads and moms are crazy.
They're just crazy on the
soccer, on the sidelines.
And you've heard me talk about it,
even people on our team,
as your kids are younger, you
have such high expectations,
and I think you do take
some of your own ego into it.
They're reflecting me,
and you hear people like,
he never does that.
We had a dad once that literally every
mistake his son did,
he's like, well, he
made an excuse every time,
and it's like, hey, just by
the way, your kid's seven,
he's not good at
soccer, just let him play.
I don't need to hear your excuses
over and over and over again.
He's just not good,
that's okay, that is okay.
That is okay.
My son's not that
much better, it is okay.
Right, totally.
There are six at this point.
It was insane.
But parents generally
mature through this, I think.
It's a maturity process for us too,
you know what, I don't
need to check my own ego box
based on how my child does.
I'm not trying to impress other people
because my child's good.
Now, does it feel good?
It does, it does.
If we're all being
honest, it feels really good
when your kid does well,
and it feels really bad
when your kid doesn't do well.
Totally.
But at some point, you learn to not--
You disassociate
yourself and your own self-worth
from their performance.
That's right, to some degree.
(sighs)
So most of us have done that.
Yes.
And you know--
You even had, so our
oldest's coach was there,
and someone who had coached him
while he was younger for years,
he showed up at our oldest soccer game
because he's so proud of the boys
that he's been able to
coach and watch them grow.
And it was funny because he
commented on how quiet you were,
and you were like, "Hey, I'm growing."
Oh, he did?
I forgot that he had done that.
Yeah, you guys kinda had some banter.
And he's like, "Oh, you're not gonna--"
Even my mom hadn't
been to a game in a while
because she's been super
busy working and all this.
And yeah, I mean, I've grown to it.
Don't get me wrong, I was not always
as good as a father as I
should have been on the sideline,
demanding high expectations.
It's just not good.
And I think we all grow through that.
Some people get it
immediately, some people don't.
I didn't.
I had to grow through it,
but I'm much better now.
You're good now.
Anyways, and why am I out of shape?
I'm tired right now.
I'm almost breathing heavy.
It's been a long few weeks.
How long can we say that though,
before it's like, "Shawn, you are gonna
have a heart attack."
Because everybody else has hard weeks.
I mean, I know it.
We are not alone in this.
We are not.
But thank you for listening to us.
Because it's helpful.
It really is.
This date night on the internet.
Anyways, long story short here,
I'm gonna put an Instagram up.
Of the craziest dad ever.
Craziest dad ever.
And unfortunately, I have
watched him and laughed at him
and just entertained
myself for the first 20 minutes.
It was a game, not before our game,
on a different field,
because all these teams are
playing in this tournament.
This dude's insane.
He's yelling on the
sideline at his daughter.
She's guessing.
He doesn't know anybody else's name,
but he's coaching all,
"Number five, you gotta get here.
Get to the sideline."
Man out, man out, man out.
I mean, the guys over the top.
I've never seen,
we have been soccer parents for,
12 years. 12 years.
12 years.
You would have thought we had nearly,
that we had seen it all.
Well, soccer parents,
soccer parents for 12 years.
I played soccer for 15 years.
You watched it for 15 years.
So we've been around it our whole lives.
This guy takes the cake.
It's not even a competition.
So the only caveat I'm gonna give here,
I've got, so the first half was crazy.
I just sat there and
watched this guy with my jaw
wide open, just even our son was like,
"What?"
Because he was guessing
and the coach did nothing.
The coach didn't even like
acknowledge that he was there.
He's coaching from the sideline.
Anyways, he was over
the top in the first half.
The second half, he wasn't
as bad because I told myself,
"I'm gonna go there and film this guy
because this is like gold, right?
Comedy gold."
Because our coaches
are always like parents,
behave yourself, there's always rules.
This could happen.
It was just consequences for the coach.
I don't even know how this
guy didn't get kicked out
or the coach kicked
out, but long story short,
I filmed the guy for
like 25 minutes straight,
almost the whole second half.
But the second I had walked over there,
the referee was
threatening to throw him out
because he started degrading the AR.
Yeah.
He's like, "I don't care."
The ref literally said,
"I don't care how much
you yell at your own team."
Because clearly that was kind of like
a passive aggressive comment,
but you will not yell at
my ref, which is great.
I'm glad he said that.
Glad he said that.
That's so funny.
But that unfortunately took the guy down
a little bit of a notch.
So what I'm gonna post
is this guy at like 50%.
I'm just telling you, this guy at 50%
and you're gonna
love, this dude's insane.
Insane.
He was out of his mind and this is 50%.
So I'm excited, I gotta put it together
and hopefully it's a
funny montage of this guy
just yelling at, "Oh, by the way,
they're like 10 year old girls."
Yeah.
I forgot, they're not professionals.
(laughing) This is not life or death scenarios.
These are 10 year old girls
playing on 9v9 soccer field.
And for the part you were filming,
he was standing in the
middle of the opponent's players.
Oh yeah.
Or in the opponent's parents.
Another, I'm peeved,
here's another, I'm peeved.
Stand on your side.
Here's the soccer rules, everybody.
Internationally, here
are the soccer rules.
You sit on the half that
your soccer team sits on.
So your team across
from that, that whole half,
that whole half is yours.
The other half is ours.
Do not sit on our half.
It's so true.
Drives me insane, but this
guy was on, this guy, this guy.
He moved from one side at the first half
because he wanted to be on the half
that they were scoring on, apparently.
So he moved from that half,
sat in the stinking middle
of the other half of the other parents.
I mean, these people,
he was crazy though.
I was literally thinking like,
if this guy realizes I'm filming him,
like I was trying to
come up with excuses.
Maybe don't act crazy.
Because this is the guy that,
I mean, nobody said anything to him
because he's so crazy.
You know what I mean?
There are plenty of
dads that are out there
and moms that are like, hey,
settle down, go to your side.
But you don't do that with crazy.
Yeah, because you
could tell he's unhinged.
Yeah, he's unhinged.
I mean, yeah, you just have to see it.
We'll have to post it.
Anyways, all right, I'm done.
Well, oh my goodness.
What do we have coming up?
We're getting closer.
We're trying to keep this
thing closer to the 30s.
Where are we at?
Oh goodness, so we have
more soccer this week.
That coaster just fell.
So we have more soccer this week.
We have Easter coming up.
It was pretty funny
when we hadn't even thought
about pulling out our Easter decorations.
And you mentioned, you're like,
oh, I need to go pull
down the Easter decorations.
And our youngest is like, why bother?
We are so winning the parenting gig.
Okay.
Winning the parenting gig.
In all fairness, we don't
have a ton of Easter decorations.
We go all out at Christmas.
And I think we have a ton of Halloween.
And this is our decorating kit.
This kid loves to decorate for holidays.
Yeah.
But he's like, nah, as long
as you pull out that bunny,
we're good.
Now that we have this big foyer,
we need a foyer or foyer?
I think the fancy way to say it is foyer.
Okay, because I did ball.
But it's spelled like foyer.
What's that song, fancy like?
Oh yeah, you're like fancy like Applebee.
Fancy like Applebee, so in the foyer.
I made a joke, I said, you
know what we just need to do?
We need to get our cross up
there and put Jesus on it.
That's our new Easter decoration.
He rose three days later.
Oh, and we could get, I've
actually been to Skoll Rock,
where supposedly Jesus was buried, right?
And he's not there, FYI.
The rock has been rolled away.
So we could do a little cave type thing,
maybe in like our living room,
in like a big paper mache
rock, roll that sucker away.
Who's not here?
Jesus.
Thank you.
You're not on the cross either?
Anyways, I don't know,
I'm just spit balling.
This is just a spit ball.
You're, wow.
These sound like some really
great Easter decorations, honey.
But I'm just saying, if we
had those kind of decorations,
the kids would be excited.
It's true, with the paper mache stone
that we can roll away.
Or, or the--
Am I supposed to hear you out?
Yeah, yeah, or just the fake bunny
that they like to have
stirring contest with.
Like, I think that could
also just fill the void.
In the big blue Easter
egg you put a candle in.
Yeah, yeah.
They're two favorite Easter decorations.
Well, next year maybe.
Yeah, yeah.
It's been a tough year.
All right, hey, here's our new,
here's what we think
we're gonna do, our new,
if we actually
complete each other's thought,
maybe not our sentence,
because we can do that.
We can do that, we do that quite often.
Every other episode we do
that anyway, so that's easy.
That's like beginner stuff.
Yes.
Now, we're gonna count to three.
Here's our new ending.
And we're gonna summarize what
we thought our last week was.
Yep.
With one word.
Okay.
Okay?
Yeah.
Are you good with that?
Yes.
All right, everybody think
of your word for your week.
See if it's the same as ours.
All right, I'm gonna give
everybody, okay, that's it.
That's all the time we get.
All right, one, we're gonna say it.
I'm gonna say three, then say the word.
Okay.
Here we go.
We'll see if we finish
each other's thought.
Okay.
Okay, one, two, three.
Exhausting.
(laughing)
Oh my God.
Oh my gosh.
It was supposed to,
wait, wait, wait, wait.
It's supposed to
summarize our entire week.
People, patience.
It needed, the whole
week needed people patience.
Oh, okay.
Oh, okay, that makes sense.
You're right.
Sure.
And I shortened it to the pee pee.
Yeah, the pee pee.
Oh, the pee pee.
Just about this episode.
And that's the one thing
that stuck out in your mind
in this episode was pee pee.
No, no, no, it's about the whole week.
People, patience.
I mean, it was the term that
we coined during the episode,
but it--
And we were exhausted by it.
Yes.
So similar, we were close.
We were close.
All right, I give that, I give that,
on a scale of similarity.
Yes.
Of one to 10, what do you give that?
Like six.
Six.
Finish each other's.
Scale.
Ability.
(laughing)
All right, that's it, people.
We're outta here.
Have a good one.
Have a great week, bye.
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