Mr. & Mrs. Inglis

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We’re right there with you. Welcome to The Mr. & Mrs. Inglis Podcast, hosted by Shaen and Meghan Inglis—a weekly show where we dive into real and honest conversations about the wild ride of raising kids, growing careers, and managing family and friendships in the middle of life’s beautiful chaos. So grab your ticket and join us for a weekly dose of camaraderie, connection, and a reminder that you’re never in this alone.

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Oh, I prefer that crunchy pick.

You just gotta have the

right bread pickle ratio.

I eat french fries.

This is the one that's gonna get us

podcast of the year award.

Maybe we shouldn't be

recording this late at night.

Remember Derek Clod's?

You're talking about the chickens.

The chickens.

Don't concern yourself with the chickens

because you're a dragon slayer.

You go north of the Mason Dixon line.

Did you say Mason Dixon line?

Yeah, yes.

You don't know the movie

Rad, you gotta get to know it

because the dryer takes

longer than the washer.

Men wanna know.

So we got to the bottom of that one.

I'm not a freak.

We are just a high, I

don't wanna say strums,

not the right word.

We started that trend.

Most, most, most.

Let me try it one more time.

Most, I did it, well done.

And we just sat there in

it like a bunch of idiots

stewing in my own stupidness.

Go forth and slayeth dragons.

And slayeth the dragon.

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, I think we're good.

I think we're good.

Yeah, it is, you can

tell the time is late enough

because my eyes have given

up and I'm wearing my glasses.

For those of us who know you well,

like you wear glasses a lot now.

I mean, it's such a light prescription,

but you still wear it most of the time.

So like, I didn't even,

it didn't even dawn on me

that you have your glasses on

and you usually don't

when we're recording.

Yeah, no, I hardly ever do,

but towards the, when it

gets to the end of the day,

my eyes are shot.

Yeah.

They're fatigued and

they're ready for it.

But I mean, I've got a

different prescription.

I mean, my prescriptions

increased multiple times

over the years.

So it started out like, I'm

sure it's still very likely

that yours, but.

Yeah, I'm not legally blind, but I do.

I didn't say it, I just said.

I do have a strong prescription.

You have thick glasses.

I have very thick glasses.

I do.

They're not, yeah, it is

not a light prescription

whereas yours is.

That's right, that's right.

So anyway, that's how,

it's a late night tonight.

We're fitting it in.

Yeah, it's, we do this, you know,

as time permits throughout the week

and it's been kind of a busy week,

but the reality is, is it

wasn't that busy of a weekend.

No, what, oh, because we had

Super Bowl this last weekend.

You're gonna rat us out and be like,

we chose to be lazy.

We did, we could have maybe fitted in.

Yeah.

I'm sure we could have,

but we had soccer games.

Sure, yep.

Two of them went on Super Bowl Sunday

and then, you know, there's a lot of fun.

You make so many good

foods on Super Bowl Sunday

and so that, you know, I

don't wanna interrupt that

because we all enjoy it all day long.

It's just like a day of

gluttony in our house.

It is a day of gluttony.

I think I probably eat

as much on Super Bowl

as I do like Thanksgiving or Christmas.

Oh yeah, easily.

And it's probably not nearly as healthy.

I mean, like, and that's

assuming that mashed potatoes

and stuffing and green

bean casserole is healthy.

Oh, it's way less.

We have great finger foods

and then pizza and wings.

I mean, it's classic Super Bowl foods.

Absolutely.

And it's horrible, yeah.

And when my mouth is paying for it,

my mouth hurts so bad from all that.

So does mine.

Oh, is that terrible?

Yes.

Maybe that's good because we

know that we eat well enough,

like, healthy enough

maybe that when we eat

that much junk food

and an eight hour period,

our body just completely rejected.

Yeah, yeah.

I didn't even eat the

food that we ordered.

I only ate the stuff I made

and my mouth was still hurting.

Really?

Yeah.

Wow.

Yeah.

I mean, clearly we don't

usually eat that much salt

and sugar and all that stuff.

Yeah, I mean, over that whole time,

I had two pieces of pizza and I think I

had like four wings.

So I didn't like totally gorge myself.

I had a lot of chips,

chips and dip, I do kind of.

That I probably went

overboard on, but it's so good.

It's so good.

The corn salsa is incredible.

Yeah.

It was really good guac.

Yeah.

I mean, regular salsa.

Yeah, yeah.

The jalapeno poppers and--

Jalapeno poppers were so good.

We didn't get pickle chips, which I

really wanted orders

in pickle chips from

summer, but we never got to that.

No, we didn't and I could have made them,

but I was running out of steam.

Yeah.

It's like, because we've made them.

Yeah, oh yeah.

The ones that we make are

way better than the ones

that are out of the box.

Oh, totally.

Yeah, but that's a process.

It's a process.

That's why those pickle

chip fries were so good.

Those were so good.

You guys ever got those?

Yes.

Yeah, those were really good.

Yeah, that was, we were

there with our youngest, right?

Crunchy, yeah, we were there.

Those were so good.

Okay, so I had never had a

pickle chip until probably,

we're gonna say five

years ago, but honestly,

the reality is it was

probably only like three years ago.

It never had a pickle chip.

I was like, what a fried

pickle that is the weirdest thing.

I'm from Minnesota, we

don't have a lot of fried foods

in Minnesota, and now I'm like,

where has this been all my life?

I'm the same way.

I never had pickle chips

before probably three years ago.

Yeah.

They just, and I like

pickle, dill pickles.

Yes.

To be specific, but I

just never liked the idea

of a fried pickle.

It just didn't sound good to

me, didn't look good to me.

We're not huge on fried

foods for whatever reason.

We're on the same page

as we always have been,

but since I've, my eyes have been opened

to fried pickle chips,

because anywhere we go now,

I wanna get them at the movie theater.

The movie theater stopped

serving them for a while,

and that was really disappointing.

Was disappointing, but

they brought them back.

So I mean, they were back by popular

demand, it had to have been.

Those are the big spear ones,

and if we're gonna get

real into talking about

the different types of pickle chips,

those would be my least favorite.

Yeah.

The ones that we had that

were almost like french fries,

so that they cut the pickle in.

Those were the BJ ones,

those were really,

because they were crunchy

the whole way through.

I prefer the crunch of

it, that's what I'm saying.

I do prefer the crunch of the pickle.

That's why the classic pickle chips,

Yeah, the brown.

There has to be enough crunch in those,

and the bread's gotta be crunchy too,

because if it's all mushy,

Then that's not good.

It's no good at all.

Yeah, yeah.

You just gotta have the

right bread pickle ratio.

Honestly, that was

probably my number one fried food.

Like I'm not a huge fan of, I don't know,

french fries are fine.

Yeah.

Fine, I eat french fries,

but like if someone was like,

do you wanna order a french fries or an

order of pickle chips?

I'd be like, pickle chips.

Yeah, well french fries are onion rings.

French fries probably, but

I love a good onion ring.

Yeah, see I can eat french fries,

a whole thing of french fries, right?

Like an order of french fries,

with like a hamburger

or something like that.

I could not do that with an onion ring.

No.

One onion ring is enough for me.

For sure, and it's

not like a good pairing.

It's not like, oh, I'll

have onion rings for a side.

Yeah, exactly, I'm not

gonna eat 15 onion rings.

No, no.

It's just not gonna happen.

Just one.

For whatever reason.

But I would eat 15 pickle chips.

And 15 fries.

I think I'm with you,

curly fries are probably the best fries.

Yeah, I do like the wedge fries.

Yeah, sometimes they're good.

If they're well seasoned.

That's the key to it,

because there's so much potato to them,

that if they're not seasoned enough,

it's just eating a potato.

Yeah.

A warm, it's a potato,

an unbuttered potato,

if it's not seasoned right.

That's seasoned right.

And yes, French fries are potatoes,

but yeah, because there's the

pulpiness of a potato in it.

That's right, it's like a potato.

Yeah.

Because it is a potato.

Yeah.

Yeah, well, I don't know.

I can't think of another

fried food that I enjoy,

like fried chicken, meh.

Yeah.

I don't know, what other fried food?

Okra, I open dry as to okra.

Now I couldn't get full on okra,

but I can eat a lot more okra than I can.

I can too. I can't eat this.

Oh yeah, yeah, fried okra is good.

Yeah, that's a southern thing, I think.

For sure.

Because, yeah, I grew

up with that in Colorado,

but that's because

the family's from Texas.

Yes.

Yeah.

And yeah, I never had it.

That was like--

And people know that too.

Like, I just, I don't know, maybe okra

probably is up there

if you go to like a buffet of some sort.

They'd probably have

fried okra in some of those.

They've never seen it.

But any time I'm with

somebody that's aware of the fact

that I'm not from

Texas or I'm from Colorado,

and I get okra, they

always make a comment about it.

Like, oh, you like okra

or you're not a Texas guy?

Yeah, it is a southern--

It's totally a southern thing.

It's a southern thing.

That is sweet tea.

You go north of the Mason-Dixon line

and you say sweet tea,

someone's gonna be like,

did you say sweetie?

Like--

Yeah, first off, let's just say,

did you say Mason-Dixon line?

Yeah, uh-huh.

They still teach that in school?

I don't know.

It's hilarious.

I don't know.

The Mason-Dixon.

The Mason-Dixon line.

I don't know.

But, like, sweet tea is not a thing

unless you're in the south.

Tea.

Yeah, I didn't grow up drinking tea, so.

I don't know what I have a preference,

but that tea that's made in the sun,

there's something

very summery about that.

Innocent summer day.

It is so thirst quenching, isn't it?

It's not good, but yeah, it is.

It doesn't taste good,

but the kind of, like,

watered down whatever

taste of it is very quenching.

Yeah, I do have a fondness for

unsweetened iced tea.

It feels like it should be nostalgic.

Like, you know, it's a very soft lens

on a bright summer day.

You know, the sheets

are drying on the line

outside, blowing in

the wind a little bit.

That's where it feels,

like, girls are wearing

white summer dresses running, you know.

Of course. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Of course.

Do people hang dry clothing anymore?

Apparently, in large cities, they do

across from the building to building.

They do in Italy, right, in Rome?

Didn't they tell us? Well, they did.

We did see that, didn't we?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. They were like, yeah.

Like, sticking out of the

window was like a drying rack,

and they're like, "That's

how you dry clothes in Rome."

And I was like, "I have a family of five,

"and you could maybe hang

four shirts on that, maybe?"

Yeah, yeah.

(laughs)

We actually just added more hanging space

to our laundry room.

We totally did.

And did you notice this weekend

that I used every single rung of it?

I did, I did notice it right away.

Like, I needed that, yeah.

But I remember my mom would

always hang dry clothes outside

in the summertime. Really?

And there is nothing

like getting into bed

with clean sheets that

have been hung dry outside.

That fresh air smell

permeates the sheets,

and it is amazing.

Yeah, I never experienced that.

I bet it's great.

Oh man, that's one of the best smells.

It must be an Iowa, she

must have grown up that way.

She's like, "I gotta have a clothesline."

I don't think we did.

My mom can confirm that,

but I don't think we

ever hung clothes outside.

Interesting, okay.

Well, when I was a kid,

there was a big field

just at the end of my street.

We were the fourth or fifth house up,

and at the end of that street,

there's a neighborhood there now.

There's a whole bunch of

houses they built it out of.

When we first moved in

there, that was just a dirt lot.

Huge dirt lot, like with mounds of dirt.

So I mean, we'd have dirt

clod, remember dirt clods?

We'd have dirt clod wars on there.

Yeah, we'd always get in trouble

because someone would

always get hit in the face

with the dirt clod.

Don't throw dirt clods, parents would

come and yell at us.

I mean, really, yeah.

But they were big mounds,

and we would launch off

our BMX bicycles, our bikes.

We would launch off those things.

And just like, you know, we

talk about the movie "Rad."

If you don't know the movie "Rad,"

you gotta get to know it.

Netflix.

Yeah, wherever it's at, I

don't know where it's at,

but we would do that stuff all the time

when they're like

crash and burn sometimes.

Because I remember

one of the dirt mounds,

it was like, you know,

someone at some point in time

just dumped a whole bunch of dirt there.

And over time, the rain and snow,

it would kind of just kind

of, you know, soften it out.

And so some of them were

huge, and those are the fun ones,

because it was still like,

it was hard to climb up it,

because the two steps up, one step back,

you know what I mean?

Because the dirt would kind of fall down.

But the ones we'd jump off the bikes on,

those were hardened and had

been there for a long time.

So like, it was

actually kind of started small,

and then it got bigger and bigger,

and like the highest one

was like six foot probably,

maybe five foot, I don't know.

But like the little one was easy,

you'd just launch off that,

you'd land that one all the time,

and then you just get your

courage up a little bit more,

a little bit more, and you

get off that five foot one

and just launch in the air.

And I know I biffed it on it,

I'm sure I landed it

a couple of times too,

but maybe I only biffed it

once and I never did it again,

I don't really remember.

But my whole point there was

there was a huge dirt field,

just like four houses

down across the street.

Yeah, so yeah, I can see why

you wouldn't have done that.

Yeah, but maybe that's not,

I just, I don't know

anybody that did that,

none of my friends did that, so.

But you know, there was a pole actually

in one of my grandmother's backyards,

and like you would pull

out the thing from the house

and like hook it on the pole,

and it was the lines that

you would hang clothes on.

Highly sophisticated.

Highly, I think that was an older home,

I don't know, it was

really built in 1950.

I rented a home in Arc

City, Kansas one time

and I lived there for a

brief moment in my life,

and it had something in the

backyard to hang clothes on.

Yeah, did you do?

It was like 1950, no.

I actually thought it

was a satellite at first,

I went and looked at it,

I'm like, what is this thing?

Not a satellite, an antenna,

because it looked like

something that goes on the top

of your house to get a TV

reception back in the day.

(laughing)

It was in the middle of

the yard, the backyard.

You're out there adjusting, like why?

And it's not made of wire, you know,

it was like a string, a big string.

So I surmised that it

was a hanging laundry.

And then you proceeded

to never use it, it's--

No.

I've never hung laundry as an adult,

other than in the house on a drying rack.

Yeah, that seems like a lot more work.

It does.

Your mom had a dryer that

whole time though too, right?

Yes.

Yeah, so it was just

to keep things moving,

or just the bigger things?

Probably both, and the

fact that you just get

that fresh air smell,

like everything really does

smell cleaner, it smells cleaner.

I can see, that's like

when you open the windows

to your house.

Yeah, your house just has

that incredible smell to it.

That first spring that you

just kind of let the house

breathe, and it's like, oh,

it smells so good in here.

Yes, yeah.

And I have to imagine

she did so much laundry,

much like me, like if I

could hang half of it,

and then only put half through the dryer,

that would speed up my

laundry time quite a bit.

Yeah.

Because a lot of times

I'm waiting for the dryer

to finish one load

before I can add the next.

Yeah, because the dryer

takes longer than the washer?

Mm-hmm.

How much longer?

This is intriguing, men want to know.

(laughing)

Well, it depends.

It's been a long time.

How long have we been married?

That's how long it's been

since I've done laundry.

It's been a while.

So we got to the bottom of that one.

Inquiring minds want to know.

Yeah, definitely.

So we've covered

pickle chips and laundry.

Laundry, can you tell it's late

and it's been a really freaking long day?

Episode 51, this is the

one that's gonna get us.

The podcast of the year award.

Is there a--

Holzer.

Yeah, is that the award for it?

I was gonna go with Emmy,

I mean, is there an Emmy?

I don't know what it is.

Yeah, we're gonna send in

our clip from this one though,

for sure.

They're gonna be like, wow.

Only our most ardent of supporters

has made it this far in this one.

Oh my gosh.

Man, maybe we should be

recording this late at night.

Yeah, no.

Actually after a long day.

Yeah, again, well, go ahead.

No, no, go ahead.

I thought I'd interrupt you,

I thought you were

gonna say something there

for the long day, but this whole year,

we talked about it in

January at some point in time

and even now it's just, we hit

the ground running this year.

Yeah.

And literally we just have not stopped.

We're still sprinting.

It is, it is.

And again, I know everybody does it.

I'm not trying to say

we're the only ones that do it,

but gosh, sometimes I wish

I wasn't the one doing it

because we just go.

Yeah, it felt really nice.

I feel like Saturday was a little more,

we had some things going on,

but Saturday was a little

more relaxing than Sunday was.

Yeah, what do we do Saturday?

Not much.

I mean, well, we had a couple games,

someone had a practice, couple practices.

We went to the track, we went to church.

Oh, we went to church, yeah.

So it was a busy day, but it was--

So it was all busy, we

didn't get home till 6.30.

Right.

And then it was, and

then that's when we sat down

maybe to do a little R&R.

And then we did some R&R.

Which is crazy now though too,

because we've gotten to

that age with the kids

where I used to always

say we're a movie family,

which is great, because I

really do relax watching a movie.

It's one of the few times

like my brain shuts off.

Because you know,

we've talked about that.

Your brain's different than mine.

You're really good at being like

flipping the switch

and walking out the door.

Right?

My brain doesn't work that way, for

better or for worse.

So for me to flip that switch,

the only way that I

know how to do it right now

is literally I need to be in a project,

playing a sport or watching a movie.

Right?

So if I'm building something or playing,

which I don't play sports much anymore,

so I do want to get back in the

basketball at some point.

I just got to get to that.

I got to find time to get down there.

Or watching a movie.

And so that was always so

nice for the longest time

that every Friday

night we'd watch a movie,

we'd get pizza, watch a movie.

For me that was relaxing,

because I could actually come down.

Well our kids don't do that anymore.

Our kids have this

generation, or our kids at least,

but I think it's the whole generation,

because of reels and 10

second clips and all this crap.

They have zero attentions, man.

They cannot watch a movie anymore.

No, none.

In their favorite movies,

I watch them on the planes.

Like when we fly places,

they'll watch 30

movies in a two hour flight.

Yeah.

Right?

Because they're just picking their spots

and they want all to come in.

Fast forward to the point

that their favorite part

of the movie, and then they move on.

It's like that's not how movies are

supposed to be enjoyed.

No, it's not.

It's crazy to me.

Yeah.

Now our daughter stays with us.

Yeah.

She'll stay with us.

She will.

The boys, like, they're out.

Yeah, they'd rather do other stuff.

We held off on video

games for as long as we could.

They both have video games now.

We still try to limit that,

but I mean like, I think

they'd rather play video games

than, you know, other

than watching a movie.

I agree, I agree.

It doesn't help that,

I don't think there's

a whole lot of like,

good movies out right now

that they're interested in.

But she's gonna say the exact same point.

There's not been, like

when Avatar came out,

everybody's like, let's go watch Avatar.

Right, right.

There's been a few that are like that,

like, well, it's good to see that,

we gotta go see that movie.

That's exactly right.

But there hasn't been

a constant, you know,

feed of really good movies.

Yeah.

For our family at least.

Right, right.

I'm sure they're out there.

It's just, yeah, there hasn't been either

we don't know about them,

or they just haven't made our radar.

Like, and it's just, so yeah.

I don't even remember,

but this is one of my

favorite times ever,

cause it's Olympics time.

So for these two weeks,

you can turn on the

television at any point in time

and watch something that's entertaining.

Yeah, yeah.

I think, I love,

I'm a Summer Olympics person,

new Summer or Winter?

Oh, I mean, probably Summer, yeah.

Yeah, but.

But I like them both.

I'm not a freak.

I'm not like.

I'm not a freak.

I'm not like an Olympic freak.

I was like, I couldn't

think of a better word

cause it's too late, but.

I enjoy the Olympics.

When they're on, I want to watch them.

They're good sports.

But even our kids won't watch sports.

Like if our kids love the Broncos, right?

But they cannot watch

a whole football game.

No.

So yeah, there's so

much good television on

for the moment, it's like,

and you're not even

sitting and watching it.

You're literally like,

whatever room we have the TV on,

whether it's in like the movie room

or if it's in the main family room,

both those rooms have a

free island countertop.

Yes.

And generally you're

on that fold and close.

Usually, yeah.

I think if we hit the lottery,

the first thing that we would sub out.

Oh my gosh, is a laundry service.

This is laundry service.

100%.

For you, yeah.

I mean, that is, there is no time

that I can't be doing laundry.

Yeah.

Where it's like, I'm done.

Yeah.

I got it all done.

Yeah, again, you write us a

check for a billion dollars

today.

You're still doing the

same amount of laundry.

Still doing the same amount of laundry.

Unless we hire that out.

Yeah.

Right?

Yeah.

I mean, and there will be

a day that there won't be

that much laundry.

Yeah.

And I don't go through that much,

but each child has at

least three outfits a day.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

At least.

I don't like that.

Don't bring that kind of stuff up.

I don't like that.

I know.

That clock, it's like, what's the lady's,

what's the woman's clock?

Oh, your biological clock?

Yeah, it's like, it's like, it's like.

It's your woman's clock?

Yeah.

(laughs) It's so late, I can't

think of many words.

I got the glasses on, I'm exhausted.

I can't think of words,

brains turned off too.

I apologize.

Women have biological clocks, right?

It's ticking in the back of their mind.

Well, I have that clock,

but for the empty nest.

Yeah.

This clock is just taking

in the back of my head now.

It is, it's like Edgar Allan Poe, right?

It's the heart under

the floorboard that just

is gonna drive me crazy,

because it's getting louder and louder.

I can hear it, you know what I mean?

It's constantly there.

I try not, I try to ignore it.

Yeah.

I don't like thinking about it.

That's why this weekend,

we'll be heading out,

which will be fantastic,

because our kids are all at the age

where there's still this

Valentine's Day available

to go with us.

So our daughter has a track meet in

Alabama and Birmingham.

Birmingham, Alabama.

So we're all gonna pop in Sadie

and head on out there

as a family road trip.

And I'm really looking forward to it,

because it's time to

spend together as a family.

It'll be fun.

And hopefully it's fun.

It'll be fun.

It's your birthday?

Oh, there's that too.

But it's just when

our family has downtime

or time together,

because it's downtime for two of them,

but not downtime for one of them.

So there will be a constant struggle

for people to be entertained and not,

we are just a high,

I don't wanna say

strong is not the right word,

high energy family is

constantly on the go.

And when our kids are

a little bit like me,

I think that when there's nothing to do,

Oh yeah.

They go crazy.

Crazy.

And they can't recognize it.

That's what's funny.

I think about, yeah,

when we were snowed in

over the last few days or

two weeks ago or whatever,

they simply would not

separate from each other,

but yet they couldn't stop,

or they couldn't help themselves

from making each other mad.

But yet they don't actually separate.

Yeah, they're rage baiting

each other the entire time.

The entire time.

We're fishing as we also call them.

We started that trend.

Like we just called it fishing.

You started it.

I didn't.

We started it, yeah.

You pulled up fishing years ago.

You'd be like, "Stop fishing.

Don't take the bait."

And now all of a sudden, like.

Yeah, like you know

that they're just trying

to get under your skin.

So they're fishing to make you mad.

You have a choice whether

to bite that bait or not.

Just swim by it.

Swim by.

And now, see, I'm gonna credit you

with the whole rage baiting.

Somebody figured it out, yeah.

Like someone

overheard it and they're like,

"Oh, I'm gonna."

Don't take the bait.

That phrase.

Yeah.

Rage on that bait.

Yeah.

Rage baiting.

You actually had a

great phrase this week.

I'll have you say it,

because it's yours, but I love it.

Think about the chickens.

The chickens.

Yeah, this is one that, you know,

I'm sure we all have

these moments in our lives

that people, we all have our talents

and things that we're good at.

And you know,

everybody's got their thing, right?

Yeah.

And so there's times when, you know,

I think it gets frustrating

when you're not being recognized for that

or someone's stepping on that territory

in a way that's just not authentic.

Yup.

You know?

And some of our kids

are experiencing that

for the first time.

And it's frustrating them.

And it's like, I'm

trying to tell them like,

well, you know, like

don't worry about them.

Yeah.

You know, like don't

worry about the haters,

all that kind of stuff.

That's right.

They're just gonna, you

know, people are gonna say,

especially at that

age, people say anything.

It's like, they're not gonna back it up.

Let them say it.

You know what I mean?

Yes.

But the phrase that came up with it,

and I even said it to you,

I think yesterday or today,

because it applies to everybody.

And I do think of it sometimes this way,

but I told one of our children, I said,

look, don't, they're all chickens.

Like don't concern

yourself with the chickens.

They're all just running around crazy.

(mumbles)

All over the place,

running through the fences

and just in circles.

Don't concern yourself with the chickens,

because you're a dragon slayer.

I love that.

Yeah, that's right.

Put focus on the dragons,

because you're a dragon slayer.

Don't worry about the chickens.

Yeah, yeah, I loved it too.

And it totally landed with them.

Yes.

They're like, I get that.

Yes, like we need to have that maid

somewhere in our house

because that's fantastic.

Yeah, yeah.

It's like, you really

should coin that or whatever.

Yeah.

Trademark that.

It's on my shirt.

I got it right here.

Don't concern yourself with chickens.

You're a dragon slayer.

I don't know.

I need to, I don't know

the exact way to say it.

It's kind of wordy.

It's good for those

one-on-one conversations

with family members

that need just a little bit

of pick me up.

It is, like it

resonated with me for sure.

This is a minutia, right?

Right, right.

Yeah, it's like, all right.

It's kind of a little thing.

Yep.

It's like, all right,

it's a little thing.

This too shall pass.

It's kind of all in that same.

Type stuff.

Yeah.

Let it go.

It has the, but

there's power to it, right?

Yeah, I love it.

No, you're slaying the dragons.

It's not even like, let it be.

You're bigger and better than that.

You're made for bigger things than that.

That's right.

That's exactly what it's saying.

So it has that

positive, powerful aspect to it.

Yeah, yeah.

You're so good.

Yeah, I told you.

It's uncomfortable when people give you

those accolades.

But yeah, that was a good one.

I liked that one.

I'll hopefully not forget that.

We'll be able to continue to

use that one at some point.

I've locked it away.

Yeah, good.

I've locked it away.

Hopefully I have too.

Yeah.

Until it just falls, or that

seat doesn't light up anymore.

(laughing)

Yes.

Well, I mean, so as we

kind of round to the end here,

just a couple of fun things coming up

with just new

experiences for our kids, right?

We've got one almost turning 16,

and then this next

weekend, we've got indoor track.

So we've never been

to an indoor track meet

because our daughter who

runs track at the club level,

she's never been old

enough to do indoor track.

So she's gonna do the 60 and the 200.

Yeah, I'm so excited

to see what it's like.

Track season's so weird though.

We haven't seen her run since July, June.

June?

Yeah. She's run in July, but yeah.

Yeah, we missed the

regionals because we're out of town.

Right.

We didn't know.

We just didn't know.

We didn't know.

It was our first year in track.

Right.

So we scheduled our family vacation

after she qualified for

regionals out of the districts.

Or something like that.

Association to regionals to nationals.

So she made out at the association.

She qualified for regionals.

Then we found out, we're like,

"Well, we're gonna be

in the Mediterranean."

So I guess we'll do that next year.

Ah, I felt so bad.

I did too.

But then she's got three practices a week

that we don't pay a small amount for.

Yeah.

And we've had nothing

till now February from June,

other than just taking her to practices.

Yeah.

It is very different and

probably because we're so used

to how soccer is, and I

hear that soccer's similar

to other sports too,

where it's almost all year

and blah, blah, blah.

But track, I feel like you

train and train and train

for just very little

game time, if you will.

Yeah, yeah.

And it's one that, so I

mean, I ran track in high school

and junior high, I ran track forever.

So I know that side of it, but club track

is totally different, 100% different.

So for example, I don't

know how they train, right?

I know what I did when I

trained during school seasons.

Yeah.

Right, I know what that was like,

because it was the

same every year basically

at every school I was at.

Right, right.

But like for example, this

Saturday, she missed practice

because we had to be

in two different places

or three different

places, so she didn't get to go.

Yeah.

Unfortunately.

So we made it up though.

So I went to the track with her.

You actually came too this time.

And her workout was a warmup,

which takes about 10 minutes to warm up,

just a whole bunch of

like, just warmup exercises.

And then she did three 150s.

Right.

150 yard dashes, 350s.

Yeah.

At like 90 to 95%.

Yeah.

That was it.

And she's like, "I'm gonna be exhausted

after this third round."

Like, that's all you guys do.

Like I just, it blows my mind

that there's that little amount.

And maybe that's just one, you know,

cause I mean, I know they do three times.

One day's weights and

resistance and stretching

and all that.

They have endurance.

They have, yeah, they kind

of focus on different things.

But it's just weird

to me that that's like,

that's an entire workout

is, you know, 450 yards total.

Which, so the way it was explained to me,

I am sure there are some track aficionado

who is going to correct me.

But the way I understood

it is that you can run,

you know, say she's training for 100.

She just does 150 after

150 after 150, just to train.

But that actually won't make you faster.

Like the more isn't always better.

And it's more about the

tweaks that they're making

to the technique during the practice

that has more of an

impact than doing more of them.

They're like, you

can't make yourself faster

by running more of

that same, whatever it is,

whether it's 100 or 200 or whatever.

She's like, that's not

gonna make you faster.

What makes you faster is the technique.

So it's literally, so it's two things.

It's the technique,

no, it's three things.

Number one, you're born with it, right?

Yes, yes.

I mean, it's just people

that have that kind of fast

quickness, you're born with that.

I mean, you can't make, I

mean, we see it in soccer.

I've seen it my whole life.

We can't make people faster.

We can't make them faster.

Not by leaps and bounds.

But that being said,

tweaks, which makes sense.

Because I know they do a lot of that.

They watch video and

watch it in slow motion

and this and that.

She's tweaked, she videoed me one time

was trying to show me the

different ways and stuff.

Which was interesting.

But thirdly, then would

be strengthening, right?

Because most, mote, mote,

let me try it one more time.

(laughing)

One more time.

I went from mote to

mort, I think there was an R,

to moth, I think there was a moth.

Which is most, I'm gonna

get it out, most, I did it.

Well done.

Most track athletes are, I

think TH and athletes coming up.

I was ahead to that.

Oh yeah, I'm sure.

Most track athletes are incredible,

you know, specimens from a

physique standpoint, right?

They're in incredible shape.

And that doesn't happen

by just running 450 yards.

No it doesn't, no.

You know what I mean?

So that's being in the gym,

that's all the stuff they do.

I mean, they do do a lot of stuff

and I don't watch her practices.

So I have no idea what

they do most of that time.

But I mean, I do know,

we'll take her to practice

and she's done in 35 minutes sometimes.

Sometimes she's done

in an hour and a half.

Right, right.

But it's, so long story short there,

I am super excited

because we have not seen her run

in a while.

The last time we saw her run actually

was at the Nike

Outdoor, which was incredible.

So cool to see just the

atmosphere of the environment.

So incredible.

So this will be fun and we don't have to,

whatever the elements are outside,

like we don't have to

weather the elements.

I am so excited about that.

Yeah, outdoor track, yeah.

Outdoor track, I mean,

cause it's in the summer.

So it's like, so, so hot.

Yeah.

And it is long.

And you're just like, help me find shade.

Yeah.

And yeah, but this, I'm like, sweet.

It's gonna be like

temperature controlled.

Mm-hmm.

You can't wait.

Yeah, that is gonna be nice.

I hadn't really put my

pen to paper on that yet,

but that's gonna be nice.

I'm always thinking.

Always thinking.

I wish I could do that.

I don't know, it's kind

of resonating with me.

After last night we sat

outside in the pouring rain

for two and a half

hours without an umbrella.

So like, you know.

That's my I'm peeved.

Here's my I'm peeved

section for this week.

We went to a game last night.

Was that just last night?

That was just last night.

Oh wow.

Our oldest is soccer game.

It was supposed to rain later this week.

I thought it was, I thought it was

Thursday, Friday, Saturday,

or Thursday, Friday, or

Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.

Either way, we were

going to the game last night.

It was raining, just

kind of just drizzling

on the way there.

I'm like, shoot, it's

raining a little bit.

And I was like, darn it,

we don't have our

umbrellas in the back anymore.

I took them out for some reason,

cause I took them out

moving something, who knows?

They're not back in there though.

Well, hopefully it's not

going to rain that long.

That's supposed to.

Well, it down poured the

entire time we were there.

First off, poor kids, or

again, they're playing.

It was cold and it was just downpour,

drenching rain for the entire game.

Entire game.

And we just sat there in

it, like a bunch of idiots.

You and I, other people,

other people had theirs.

They had theirs.

One couple actually

offered one of theirs.

Oh my gosh, they did.

And I was like, I

cannot take their umbrella.

Cause like, I couldn't imagine that they

weren't the biggest,

they weren't like the big golf umbrellas.

They were, you know,

smaller miniature umbrellas.

I was like, I cannot have

another couple like huddled

under one and you and I

both had hats and hoods.

So our heads were, our hair was dry.

Yeah, well we had rain proof jackets.

We didn't have rain jackets,

but rain kind of waterproof jackets.

So it was, and we had a blanket over us,

but we just sat there just

getting soaked all night.

And it was just like,

you know what, this is,

we would tell our kids, this is a

learning moment for you.

I did, I even said-

I peeved at myself.

I was peeved.

I was like, you know what, this is a

natural consequence.

That's what I told my kid.

That's what I would have told the kids.

Exactly.

This is a natural consequence.

Yep.

So dumb.

The whole night I was

just kind of stewing

in my own stupidness.

It was pretty funny.

It was actually really funny.

We got a good wind

though, it's been nothing.

It was.

It was a shutout.

It was worth it.

I have been in so many worse games,

like weather wise worse games than that,

even though it rained.

It was cold, but not freezing.

It wasn't freezing.

And yes, I mean, I

was soaked to the bone.

Yeah, you had a leak somewhere.

I clearly had a leak somewhere.

I was dry underneath every,

underneath my jacket and I was dry.

Yeah.

You were not.

I was not.

And it was embarrassing to

stand up because I was like,

I promise I did not wet myself.

Like, I mean, from my hips to my knees

was completely soaked.

Yeah.

And we were covered in a blanket.

I don't know.

Anyway, took a long time to dry out.

Well, that's good.

We figured out our I'm peeved.

Did you have any other I'm peeved?

No, that one actually is

the tip top of the list.

We need umbrellas in the car.

Well, I'm excited for this weekend.

It should be a good one.

We have Valentine's Day

with the whole family together.

We have your birthday?

We have my birthday.

I mean, we have our daughter's track.

So it should be fun.

Road trip with the families.

Road trip.

Yeah, hopefully it'll be fun.

Put some Instagram things up.

I've been so bad on

putting up Instagram things.

I don't, I've been busy this year too.

You have been so busy.

Like, I was thinking about it.

I don't know that you've

ever been as busy with work

as you have been over

the last six months.

Yeah, that's good.

Busy.

Yeah, I'll just grind it.

That's good though.

That's good.

Better than not being busy.

Yeah.

All right, well, anything else?

Any wise words?

I don't know.

Let's go slay dragons.

Oh, I was gonna say the same thing.

Yay, I love it.

Go forth and slay dragons, people.

Go forth and slay dragons.

You have to say that with

a British accent, right?

Yeah, but I can't do accents very well.

Oh really?

You try quite a bit.

People watching this may

not know how much you try.

Yeah, I'm pretty good at kind of meshing

Australian, Irish, English.

Scottish.

You're very good.

Maybe some Indian.

Mixed in for good.

We probably shouldn't.

This would just be offensive.

Oh, I'm not gonna do it.

No, no, no.

I wouldn't say my British

accent's all that great either.

Better than mine.

I don't think you can

fool anybody just yet.

Certain sayings are really good,

but I don't think you

could have a conversation.

I could, you're absolutely right.

Which is too bad because I'd

love to have a British accent,

but unfortunately, I

just sound like this.

It would be nice.

But.

Scottish.

I'd love to always have.

See, you can do it.

I can.

That's yours.

That's your phrase that you do.

Well, it's good I can

roll my tongue so well.

Go forth.

Go forth and slay of dragons.

And slay of dragons.

All right.

We will see you guys later.

Thanks for joining.

Ciao ciao.

See ya.

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Oh, I prefer that crunchy pickle.

You just gotta have the

right bread pickle ratio.

I eat french fries.

This is the one that's gonna get us

podcast of the year award.

Maybe we should be

recording this late at night.

Remember Derek Clod's?

You think about the chickens?

The chickens.

Don't concern yourself with the chickens

because you're a dragon slayer.

You go north of the Mason Dixon line.

Did you say Mason Dixon line?

Yeah, yes.

You don't know the movie

Rad, you gotta get to know it.

Cause the dryer takes

longer than the washer.

Men wanna know.

So we got to the bottom of that one.

I'm not a freak.

We are just a high,

I don't wanna say

strung is not the right word.

We started that trend.

Most, most, most.

Let me try it one more time.

Most, I did it.

Well done.

And we just sat there in

it like a bunch of idiots

stewing in my own stupidness.

Go forth and slayeth dragons.

And slayeth the dragon.

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