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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.
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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.