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Welcome to MAGIKFam, the podcast that spills the beans on life, love, and laughter with the Klotz crew—Michelle, Andreas, Gabriella, and Isabella. We're the modern-day wizards of navigating adulthood, bringing you the enchanting tales of our daily escapades.
Join us for a laughter-infused rendezvous as we dive into the chaotic wonders of being a family of grown-ups. Michelle, the sage of our MAGIK realm, guides us through the intricacies of adulting with humor and wit. Andreas, our resident maestro, orchestrates the soundtrack of our lives, where every beat is a celebration.
Gabriella and Isabella, the dynamic duo, spill the tea on the latest trends, foodie adventures, and the art of living your best life. From epic travel tales to dissecting the mysteries of love, MAGIKFam is your backstage pass to the Klotz Chronicles.
Expect candid conversations, unexpected hilarity, and a dash of magic that makes our familial bond unbreakable. Pour yourself a cup of magic potion (or your beverage of choice), hit play, and embark on this whimsical journey with the MAGIKFam—where the real magic is in the moments we share.
Welcome to the Fan Podcast.
I'm Michelle.
And this is R for Andreas.
Uh, this is Gabriela, but
I go by Gigi these days.
This is Isabella, most call me Bella.
And we are the Klotz family, and
this is The Magic Fan Podcast.
Welcome to our inaugural episode.
We're really excited to be here.
Thank you for joining.
Thank you for joining us.
Um, this is just a little passion project
that we've decided to Begin to execute.
Well, we've talked about this for years.
Yeah, we have.
And then finally, somebody
made it come true.
We gotta get all this, you know, stuff
into a recording so that we can let
everybody else know what the heck
goes on in this family every day.
Too bad nobody knows how
to use it except Gigi.
What?
Nobody knows how to use
the recording equipment.
But we'll figure it out.
Yeah, we'll bring the
crazies to everybody.
So, so, why don't we talk
about how this all came to be?
Well, we can do that first, but why
don't we start with Pits and peaks
for the week where you're trying to
low highs and lows one may say we're
trying to figure out what we want To
call it for our podcast if you have any
ideas, you got a lot of snow roses and
thorns overs and unders Just trying to
come up with anything that resembles
something more above and more below
My peak was spreading out a bunch
of straw So that the dogs don't
keep bringing dirt into the house.
That, to me, was the
peak for the week, folks.
Wow.
Who are our dogs?
Who wants to tell
everybody about the dogs?
The dogs.
The dogs.
Hey, they're in the logo.
You can see their little
picture in the logo.
So we have these two crazy
Airedale Terrier puppies
named Maximilian and Vilibald.
They do not fit into the magic.
Acronym in any way shape or form.
Marcy does, but we leave the dogs out.
We left the dogs out.
At one point we were going to
add, um, our first dog, Leo,
and make it magical with an L.
That is true.
He left the world a little early.
Yeah.
We love him.
Yeah.
He died young.
So, so now we've got these, uh, These
crazy air deals and they're gonna be
our little mascots for our magic fam.
You can see them in our logo
They accentuate the crazy in us.
That's for sure.
That's true.
Our logo on our Instagram page Shameless
plug follow us on instagram at the
magic fam pod the magic fam pod.
M a g i k Okay, so let's hear about
was that your pit or your peak?
What's that?
Spreading the hay That
could not have been a peak.
That was your peak.
Oh, yeah.
Come on.
Think about what we don't have to
deal with now when the dogs come in.
Okay, that's fine.
That's fine.
I mean, we hope.
We hope.
Sure.
So, are we going to do
everybody's peaks first?
No, I think you spread it out.
Spread it out?
Okay, so what was your, what was your pit?
My pit?
Ooh, I would say my pit was probably,
I'm going to pass that one right now.
Someone else pick up there.
They're high or they're
low, I'll come back to that.
My pit of the week was Being
fooled by Puxatawney Phil
himself when we got snowed.
There you go.
Phil liar.
Phil liar.
Filthy liar.
Seriously, we had spring
weather for multiple days.
Enough where I had actually
considered putting my coats away.
Actually.
Wait, wait, all of them?
All of my coats, I know.
All of my coats.
And lo and behold, um, we got
another A little bit of snow.
So that was my pit.
I don't know about you
guys, but I want the warm.
I want the warm weather to come.
Wow, you're gonna put all your coats away?
I'm still stuck on that.
Sorry, still stuck.
Juju, pit?
Um, pit for the week.
Um, Hey, if we're struggling to find pits,
it must have been a pretty good week.
You know what?
Honestly, like, the pit would
probably just be the drive
home from Madison last night.
It was so long.
I wasn't even the one driving, but it was
painful because even in Wisconsin, when
we have a warm winter, when it suddenly
begins to snow, people just forget.
They forget how to operate
their motor vehicles.
And so the ordinarily hour and thirty five
minute commute from our grandparents in
Oregon, which is right outside of Madison.
Was it like three?
It was like two and a half.
It was borderline two and a half hours.
You know it's bad.
I was driving, I don't remember.
There was the wrong
way off the No kidding.
There was a pickup truck spun out,
headlights the wrong direction.
Terrible.
So.
Are you sure it wasn't you spun out?
Yeah.
Shockingly.
As a listener of this podcast, you'll come
to learn that I am the injury prone child.
Um, so yeah, thankfully
it wasn't me this time
Okay.
I got a peak.
Okay.
My peak was my choir rehearsal
on Thursday evening with the
Saint Sebastian adult Choir.
Ooh, sing it.
What made so great and gents, you
know what, um, it's been exactly one
year since I've taken over at St.
Sebastian's.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And they have just, they're, they're just.
They're right there and they're
starting to dig in and they're
really learning and they're applying
their knowledge and they're sounding
great and There's just a lot of joy.
There's a lot of joy.
I got my pit.
I'm sorry.
Oh, just interrupt.
No problem.
Go ahead Hey, I don't want to forget.
You know how that is.
Yeah, you're old.
Jesus.
All right drum roll
No freaking coffee filters.
Oh my god, I also ran out
of coffee filters this week.
No freaking coffee filters left.
Well, okay.
Did you run out of filters this week?
I ran out of filters.
Should we explain though
to the followers and fans?
It was anarchy, I'm telling you.
Oh my god.
The Magic Fam is a classic
coffee making, um, Operation.
Operation.
And we do not participate in the K Cup.
We are not Nespresso people.
We do Espresso at work.
No, Nespresso.
We don't do Nespresso.
We don't do any of the pre loaded
pod, single serving coffee crap.
We're not filling up a landfill.
We are old school.
The Batch family is going to do
their best to not fill up a landfill.
We don't even buy pre ground beans.
Nope.
We are do it yourself, fresh coffee,
in the filter kind of people.
So when we don't have a coffee
filter, That, oof, that is a hit.
You gotta go with the O Natural sieve.
I seem to recall a small I'm telling
you, after I ground the beans and
they saw that metal filter, they
were, they almost just jumped back.
Well, who forgot to buy filters?
No, no.
No, no, it wasn't a matter
of who forgot to buy them.
It was a matter of Andreas, the
Ah of my Ah Jake family, um,
hallucinating that there was a new box.
I really thought I dreamt it.
You hallucinated?
I dreamt there was a new
box there and of course not.
Literally.
I said, why didn't you tell me?
I could have purchased them at the store.
No, I saw a new box in there.
I swear I did.
Yeah, I just think it's funny that we
both ran out of filters in the same week.
I think it's interconnectedness
to the magic fam, right?
Here we go.
That's just another
reason why we are magic.
So for context right now, Bella.
Bella lives at home in Whitefish Bay
with our parents, with mom and dad.
Roommates!
Roommates!
Roomies!
Adult roomies.
Adult roomies.
Bella is a graduate student at Marquette,
slaying her way through the Direct Entry
Masters of Science in Nursing program.
I'm, I might add, uh, yeah, I did
live alone prior to this and I
was adulting, I swear by myself.
You're still adulting.
You're just adulting in a different way.
Definitely a different way.
And yeah, so she lives
here and I live in Chicago.
I've got two fabulous roommates and
My commute home to Wisconsin is like
an hour and 40 minutes, which is Come
on, let's give a little shout out.
Shout out to Maggie and Erin,
the best roommates ever.
Shout out to Maggie and Erin,
the best roommates ever.
I thought I was the best
roommate, Mom and Dad.
The silence!
Deafening.
It was deafening.
Whoa.
So those are our current
living situmications.
Well, hang on.
Dad and I live here.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Dad and I live here.
With the dogs.
With the digs.
Yeah, with the schmitheads.
Okay, so Peek is straw.
Peek is straw.
Peek is coffee filter, or lack thereof.
Peek, mom, is choir rehearsal.
What is your pick for the week?
Oh boy.
Um, I, I think the pick is
gonna have to be the never
ending cleaning of this house.
That's so true.
It just, you know, shout out to the
Dyson which is kind of saving us.
Dyson kick spot, but
the dark floors folks.
Dark floors, love the aesthetic.
We are exposing.
Hate how they show every
stinking piece of dust.
I gotta admit, I was kind of shocked
that you guys decided to stain them dark.
Well, the house was.
It was dark.
It was dark.
Yeah.
I didn't know that.
Okay.
This is a new house for us.
They didn't, you know, they're
different stained colors.
They didn't match between
the whole first floor either.
Oh, interesting.
So then, yeah.
So yeah, cleaning this house.
Now they do.
Jeej, what's yours?
Um, my She's at hers.
My No, my pit my pit's the the
drive home from Madison yesterday.
My peak is the is the Valentine's
party that I had last Friday.
Oh!
It was killer.
It may have already been a week ago, but,
like, truly one of the most fun gatherings
I've ever hosted alongside my roommates.
We told friends to bring friends along,
um, turned our island into a massive
grazing table, and we ended up probably
having a solid 30 people at our house.
Uh, we live in a standard
Chicago two flat.
Um, yeah, yeah.
But no photos, I think,
you know, no photos truly.
I kind of feel like no photos.
There's a little bit of a cop out there.
I think that's an indication of a
good party because normally I'm the
person that's always too good of a
party, but I wanted to see the photos.
I know we got another event coming up.
That is.
Yeah, that's true.
I mean, two parties, two weeks apart.
Do we share that?
Or do we hold that?
We can share.
So my upcoming my impending peak.
It is my 27th birthday dinner
that we're having at my house
in Chicago this weekend.
There's gonna be 16 of us.
Best theme ever.
I'm cooking.
I'm cooking for everybody.
We're doing Italian food
because the theme is Mob Wife.
Mob Wife!
Get your furs ready!
Super original, I know, right?
Yeah, soprano esque.
Soprano esque, yeah.
Everyone wants to be Carmella.
It's gonna be a totally great evening.
I think, um, that Oma is going
to be the She might be the star.
She might be the, the mob
family matriarch star.
She might be Carmela, Carmeloma.
Carmeloma!
Ha!
That's it!
Carmeloma!
Uh, who is Oma, Dad?
Do you want to tell, do you want to
tell the world who Oma is really quick?
My mom?
Yeah.
Holy cow.
Well, we, that's another
how many episodes?
That would be like a series.
We could do a series on the Germans.
Uh, yeah.
Yeah, let's do that.
Okay, cool.
Bella.
Let's do that.
Yes.
Your pit is Huxtony Phil being a fat liar.
Truthfully.
Yes.
Filthy.
Filthy fat liar.
Filthy Phil.
Huxtony Phil.
Oh.
Lied about spring.
Um, my peak of the week would probably
just be surviving grad school for
yet another Another week of the year.
But let's be real, you're not
just surviving grad school.
We're surviving.
You are frigging crushing it.
But truly, we are doing well.
And um, excited for the
upcoming spring break that is
within just a few short weeks.
When is that for you?
It is the week before St.
Patrick's Day.
Seriously?
See, we live under the same roof
and I don't even know these details.
I know.
It's so bad.
Nobody communicates.
Part of the reason for
the Magic Fam podcast.
To learn how to communicate better.
That will be a whole other series.
I did try to set up a shared Google
calendar for the three people
that do live in the same house.
Multiple times.
We did this multiple times.
But, um, that has not proved
to be That's still there.
It's still, like it still
exists, but is it utilized?
It exists.
No.
Let's just say that we
could do a whole series.
Um, communication.
Uh, we're never gonna run out of material.
We are never gonna run out of
material for this podcast, friends.
My communication style.
No, I'm kidding.
Alright, so, the gist of the
podcast today is Drumroll, Gigi.
Brrrrr.
The origin story of Magic Fam.
Whoop!
Whoo!
Okay, um, should I go back to 6th grade?
Where it all began.
I think that that would be,
um, a very good place to start.
So, fire alarm?
Fire alarm in 6th grade.
Okay, the setting?
Setting was, uh, Thomas Jefferson Middle
School, which doesn't exist anymore.
A building that no longer exists.
Yeah, fire alarm goes off.
You know how it is.
Classrooms orderly file
out in the hallway.
Was it a drill or was there a fire drill?
It was a fire drill.
Okay.
It was a regular day fire drill.
Yep.
Yeah.
And that was, um, should we say the year?
Yeah, we can say the year.
You say the year.
What year was that?
Well, that would have been 1979.
Oh my gosh.
Actually, wait.
No.
78.
Later than that.
No way.
Middle school.
That would.
Come on.
We graduated high school in 1986.
Yeah.
You're giving away all the dates now.
Oh, crap.
Well, mom was, she was uh.
What were you in sixth grade?
We were in sixth grade.
Alright, so it was probably.
79.
80.
79.
It was the 7879 school year friends.
There you go.
What were you wearing?
Oh, I was very fashionable that year.
That was when kilts with the large
pin, you know, the big gold, looked
like a giant safety pin, kind of, you
know, pinned the skirt itself shut.
And, um, clogs.
Clogs were, were Okay, but clogs are back.
Hey, hey, what goes around comes around.
Were they wooden?
Say no.
Oh, absolutely they were wooden.
They hurt, let me tell you.
Well, why did they hurt Andreas?
Well, she didn't appreciate that I
She found her skirt to be uplifting.
How's that?
Oh my god.
Which now, we know, is not necessarily
a consensual thing to have just gone
on and It's never been a consensual
thing to have your skirt involuntary
lifted by some sixth grade Involuntary.
horn dog that you've never met before.
That means somebody else did it.
I volunteered to do it.
You volunteered.
Oh, okay.
Were you dared to do it?
I cannot disclose.
No!
I cannot disclose these things.
Rude.
I can't give away all, you know.
Okay, but here's what I want to know.
That, the fire drill incident
happened, when was the next time
you two talked to each other?
Well, we were in band together.
Why'd you play?
My mom was a cheerleader.
Wait, time out.
You're in band in middle school?
Yeah.
Totally.
I was a drummer.
Because in sixth grade, in the
Menomonee Falls Public Schools,
that's when you started your, your
endeavors into, The fine arts.
So you had to choose.
Are you gonna play a band instrument?
Are you gonna play an
orchestra instrument?
Are you gonna sing the choir?
So, of course your dad was a drummer.
Everybody falls for the drummer.
And I played the oboe.
So exciting.
So you, you were in middle school
band together for the rest of
sixth, seventh, and eighth grade?
Correct.
Yeah.
And it was just, you had class together.
This was not like a secret little
passing note type crush deal.
Like I said, Mom was at Sheila too
and I was on the basketball squad.
Right, but no, we did not have
any of those romantic feelings.
We did not date.
In middle school, your father had
a girlfriend in middle school.
Oh, totally.
Wait, this is the first I'm hearing
of this That's a whole nother episode.
Oh my gosh.
Yeah, he actually oh, yeah ask your
ask your Carmela Oma She is gonna tell
you how he like dragged this girl to
meet Oma and Opa at the band concert.
I want to introduce you to my girlfriend.
Hey, what did I play at that band concert?
Do you remember the drums?
Yeah.
No, no, remember Mike bidet
and I we were out front.
You had to play the We played the bongos.
We had to wear that little headdress
the middle eastern headdress The
things I would do to see I have
no recollection of that at all.
Mrs.
Kuhn.
She she said like this was part of the
Appropriate thing to do for the song.
So we were out like in front
Doing the bongo, dealing with her.
Are you making this up?
No, no, no, no, no.
We were wearing that
headdress and, mm hmm.
Okay, so, wow.
So when did it actually start
to, like, spark between you two?
Because clearly middle
school is not the time.
Uh, in high school.
When?
It wasn't until our junior year.
No, it was when you
had your 16th birthday.
Okay, so end of sophomore year.
Your 16th birthday.
Well, that was between,
I have a summer birthday.
That was between our
sophomore and junior year.
But did you invite him to a party?
My dad did.
Yeah, and how did Captain Jack
know to invite Andrea's class?
Captain Jack utilized my my friends
to plan this party because as many of
you listeners will be aware That was
a very difficult summer 1984 that was
the summer that my mother passed away
Two weeks before my 16th birthday, and
my dad wanted things to be as normal
as possible, and so he called on some
friends, Janet and Amy and Kelly, and
asked them to help put together Amy,
Janet Dragger, Janet Dragger, Kelly
Keen, Amy Micah, Kelly Keen, and he
probably also called Annette Willin.
Annette Willin and, and, um, who?
Amy.
Amy and Chris.
Chris Colleth.
Amy Mikek.
Amy Mikek.
Yeah, there you go.
And Chris Colleth and said help me
figure out who to invite to this party
and it was a huge surprise party and
lo and behold your dad was there.
I even remember what he gave me.
What?
He gave you a present?
Wait, wasn't it some sort of like dish?
It was.
It was a little wedge wood.
Some Wedgewood dish dish to put
whatever like trinkets like your
jewelry at the end of the day.
Exactly.
That's cute Like end of the day jewelry.
Yeah, something like yeah Okay, so
16th birthday party Sparkler flying.
It was at the Brennan's Oh, love that.
You know, we've already mentioned
so many people who have passed away.
You know, Mrs.
Kuhn is gone.
Oh, yeah.
Dr.
and Mrs.
Brennan are both gone.
Yeah.
It's crazy.
So anyway, yeah, it was a great time.
Uh, the birthday party.
I got a bike.
That was my big gift.
I got a bike.
I know.
It was awesome.
And then, I don't know, like in the fall.
I, I asked your dad out.
It was during cross country
and she asked me out.
So I was at, there was a cross
country, you know, we'd get
together just about every week.
The team would do something.
And this, I'm trying to
remember where this one was at.
Anyway, she picked me up around,
it was close to McDonald's where
you picked me up, I thought.
Right.
Because, okay, well, you have to
explain that you couldn't drive.
No, I didn't have the license.
Didn't have his license yet.
Because.
Andreas is younger.
Oh my gosh.
Cougar of a couple months.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So we went to, Was that
the one we went to?
I picked you up, and since I had asked
you out, I paid for the whole date.
Did we go to Balestrieri's?
No, you went to Pop's.
We did not go to Balestrieri's,
that was not until subsequent dates.
We went to see the movie The Natural.
With Robert Redford.
Yeah.
Didn't you also go to dinner?
And then, I thought you went to Pops.
No, we did not go to dinner because
he had a cross country event.
That's right.
And then we went to Pops.
Then we went to Pops Custard.
Shout out to Pops
Custard, Menomonee Falls.
Still kickin it.
This is where she totally,
you know, duped me.
And how did I dupe you?
Because guess who was there?
Captain Jack.
Captain Jack was there.
My dad loves ice cream,
as we are all aware.
We cannot keep him from the ice cream.
So yes, he happened to be there.
Complete coinkydink.
Yeah, to this day, I don't believe that.
No, no, no.
Whatever.
So that's where it all started.
Right away, on the spot.
And then it was just
True love from then on.
Uh, no, not so much.
Oh!
But seriously, it is so cute to see,
like, pictures of you two from high
school dances and from your graduation.
In and out, in and out.
I just have to say one super great story.
Andreas and I were only on one um,
High school dance court together.
Was that homecoming only?
Was that homecoming?
They were one.
Was that homecoming, right?
It was not.
It wasn't homecoming
from, it was homecoming.
It was a homecoming court.
Yeah.
We were in court.
You made court.
That wasn't just like
some cas casual thing.
Like that was a big deal, right?
Yeah, it was a huge deal.
Yeah.
And uh, I, mom made her dress.
I made my own dress.
That's such a flex.
Well, I.
Yeah, but I show up and
she was still sewing.
I was still sewing it when
he came to pick me up.
It was not done.
And so I quickly got it off the
sewing machine and quickly put
it on only to discover that it
was probably Three sizes too big.
Three sizes too big.
It was enormous, and I was, I
had no backup plan, of course.
Of course.
What did you do that day?
So you know that show?
I loved it.
So you know that show, you know where
they say yes to the dress, that show?
Yeah.
And then, you know, they slip
it on, and then they have those
major Clip clips on the back.
I was that clip.
My hand was that clip the entire night.
Well, that at least
kept you two real close.
I think, you know, what you said there,
Bella, was truly, you know, another one
of those cryptic objectives your mom had.
Yeah, she made it.
Oh yeah, because I've been full of crypto.
Objective purpose.
She made for 30 years.
I know what I can do to
get this guy closer to me.
, I'm gonna make my dress huge.
So he has to Yeah.
Cinch it in the hole.
Yeah.
You guys gimme way too much credit.
I am not that sly.
I'm not that crafty.
So anyway, but truly it's the,
that's the, that's the origin
story of the M and the A.
They were the Troy and
Gabriella of back in the day.
A little bit, yeah.
The what?
The Troy and Gabriella.
The musician girl and the athlete boy.
Oh, okay, yeah, yeah.
Musical lady, athletic little boy.
He was the president of the
German club and I was the
president of the Spanish club.
Wow.
And the foreign traveling
would begin later.
Mmm, truly.
There was one summer in high
school that you went and visited
his family in Germany, though.
Yeah, I did.
I stayed in Germany for a couple months.
I lived with a wonderful family
in Stuttgart and, um, we made it
out that I would take a train over
to Munich and spent the day with
his cousin, Alexander, and Which
is crazy when you think about it.
That is so crazy.
We visited Tante Lucia and Uncle Otto.
And we visited Tilde and Nick.
And of course everybody
wants you to eat and drink.
She got the full.
It was wild.
She really was just put through
the ringer right then and there.
And yet I'm still here.
Yes.
College was a little bit of an off time.
Yes, they were on a break.
Well, you know, Mom had
to join that sorority.
And from that point on, it was
just, it all went another direction.
Okay, she joined one sorority
and you were an honorary member
of all of the fraternities.
What's that?
Yeah, Mom was in one sorority,
you were an honorary fraternity
member of every frat on campus at
University of Wisconsin Whitewater.
I just lent a helping hand.
Okay.
He wanted to help me hand.
He literally, dad would throw parties
in college, charge a cover fee, and
that's how they paid their rent.
Like, get, get You guys wouldn't do that?
No!
If we charged anything at, at
UD, at Dayton, Bell and I both
went to Dayton for undergrad.
Go Flyers.
Go Flyers.
That would be, like, social suicide.
Truly.
No, no, no.
You open the door to everyone at UD.
Listen, on a future episode,
we're gonna have guests.
We're gonna have some guests.
And I, I can, I can feel it now.
We're going to have the, the
Whitewater Boys as the guests.
Oh yeah.
To talk about your dreams and your
Okay, but what, how did we get
here all of a sudden so quickly?
No, we were talking about how
you guys did a A short hiatus
throughout your college years.
Yeah, mom went on to that sorority too.
Reconvening, yes.
Okay, so we took a short hiatus.
Whatever.
How did you reconvene after college?
Once again, your mother reached out.
Wow.
Text your ex girls.
Ladies, make the first move.
Well, sometimes, you know.
So, yeah, we both moved back home.
We were adulting, living with our
adult parents back home, because,
you know, you had no money when
you graduated from college.
And, uh, I reached out and I said,
Hey, you want to go on a date?
And he said, I can't, I'm
dating a girl from Chicago.
Oh, the mafia girl,
mafia Nina, mafia Nina.
But that quickly ended that quickly ended.
Yep.
And, uh, his heart was just tied to yours.
Apparently invisible string theory.
I think so.
Um, moved in, I moved in.
What do you mean you're, you know,
through your ways, you kind of did.
You were, again, using that cryptic
method, yet you so slyly do not, huh?
Wait, so, how, wait, how soon,
how soon after college, though,
did you actually reach out?
Because you were married at 25.
Mmm.
We graduated from college in 1990.
I think, I think, uh, did I go to
Europe right away after school?
I don't know.
I did.
I did.
I went to Europe for a
little bit after college.
So all I know is that we got engaged
in 1992 and we got married in 1993, 93.
So all in all, um, you know, like
somewhere in a year and a half or so we
were dating again and getting engaged and.
I do think our, our, your proposal
story is kind of a great one though.
Well, that's another episode.
Yeah.
So we got all this stuff to talk about and
frankly, we're way too serious, but this
is the rollout of this, of this podcast.
So that is how the M and the A of magic
fam truly began the M and A and K, right?
And then the G and the I, the best
parts, came a little, a little bit later.
These are going to be some
fabulous stories to share.
I, I hope that, uh, that, that,
uh, our origin story hasn't been
something of a shocker to anybody.
Well, we all, especially you, you
girls learned a little bit more
about where it all kind of started.
Every time we hear this story, I feel
like we learn a little bit, something new.
Which is so cool, because doing this
podcast, we have a chance to just Hang out
as a family and chit chat and learn more
about each other and I'm obsessed with it.
It's amazing So before we wrap
things up, can we just say quickly?
Wait, hang on, hang on, well What?
You just skipped the other
half of magic Oh, us two?
G came in in 1997 I was a fabulous
surprise of an Oktoberfest souvenir in 98.
We're gonna save that whole story.
That's another story.
But, how, how did you come up with magic?
That's the whole point here.
Literally, you won't believe this one.
Didn't it, it was just when you were
getting an email, it was when we
were getting an email and you had to
choose, you know, your email name.
And this was like with the, you've
got mail, like, what was that?
A-I-A-I-N-A-A-O-L.
That was A-O-L-A-O-L-A-O-L.
And I remember you and I sitting
there going around and round like,
what should we have our email be?
Yeah, we were, and um, did it
just hit us and it, all of a
sudden we were just like, oh shit.
Magic.
M-A-G-I-K.
There it is.
And it has, our, our
email has not changed.
We have been, Magic Family.
No, less the, whatever, WI or, you know,
Gmail, what have you, that kind of stuff.
But otherwise, Magic Family,
you know, reigns true.
Our, our domain, is that
called your domain name?
I don't even know what it's called.
Yeah, our domain, well, it's also
creepy that it's in fourth order.
It is.
M A G I K.
It's in birth order.
But it's, it's seriously,
it's our brand at this point.
It is!
It's what our friends, like,
associate with our family.
Everyone says that, yeah.
Our family chat is the Magic Fam chat.
Yep, everyone wants in on Magic
Fam and they try to like weave
in their own letters of the name.
Magic.
Yeah.
Let's try a couple different.
We're just gonna keep it at Magic.
Well, I'm gonna, I'm gonna pose this,
um, I'll I'll give, uh, the first motion
that we should, we should bring this
inaugural, um, podcast to a, to a close.
Okay, quick, we'll do, we'll
do like hot seat for the
magic must haves for the week.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
This is going to be our second segment
that we try to incorporate, is, so we're
going to do our pits and peaks, highs and
lows, or whatever you want to call it,
and then we're going to do our magic must
haves, and then a topic of some sort.
So today's topic, of course, was our
origin story, but let's do a hot seat
magic must haves, starting with Jeej.
Must haves for the week.
One of my must haves for this
week is what I'm listening to.
I'm really I'm currently expanding
my musical horizons and I'm currently
obsessed with this DJ named Sammy Virgie.
He is from, um, the UK.
He's coming to Chicago.
I have been scammed twice
trying to get tickets.
Don't ask, don't tell.
It's fine.
Um, but, I, I've been listening to the
music non stop, um, he's like a UK garage.
DJ.
So.
Sweet.
All right, Chell, what's yours?
Wow.
Come back to me.
Ugh.
Seriously.
What's yours?
Mine would have to be
Annie's Mac and Cheese.
What'd you say?
My magic must have is
Annie's Mac and Cheese.
Whole week.
Best.
Best.
Can mine not be an item?
Can it be an idea?
Sure, sure.
So my magic must have, because this
worked really well last week, was to
plan out the, the meals for the week.
Oh, sly.
Oh, yeah.
And just cut, you know, get all
the groceries, get everything done.
It was one trip.
So that's my, my magic must have
this week is a week long meal plan.
All right.
Daddy O.
I have two, sorry.
That's fine.
Yeah.
One is guess what I need.
Coffee filters.
. That's my must have.
But you know, when mom starts
planning the, uh, the meals for the
week, most of the time we don't.
And then she'll say, what
do you want for dinner?
And I'll say, spaghetti.
Spaghetti, spaghetti with me and sauce.
So that's my other must have for the week.
Spaghetti.
Oh, so yours, your must haves are asks not
things that were must haves for you this
previous week that you just had to have.
These are upcoming must haves.
Huh?
Your must haves were, were desires, asks.
Inquiries, one may say.
Well, yeah.
They all kind of wrap up into one.
Oh my gosh.
Except coffee filters.
That's a thing.
Yeah.
Coffee filters are like essential.
True.
That's a must have.
Yeah.
And then we have to get it.
Well, that's another episode where we
have to talk about how to make coffee.
Oh my gosh.
All right, everybody.
Well, thank you so much for
joining us once again on our
first inaugural introductory
episode of the Magic Fam Podcast.
Can I end with a joke?
Wait, we gotta have a
little sign off this.
We gotta come up with something.
This your Magic fam once more
consists of Michelle A for Andreas.
Oh my God.
G is for Gabriela or Gigi.
I is for Isabella.
But most call me Bella.
And we are the Clap family.
The Magic Fam podcast.
We hope you all have a magical week.
Wait, wait, my joke.
Oh yeah.
Shelly's joke.
What do you call?
A foot with five toes.
That's not my foot.
A foot with five toes.
That's not your foot.
Wait, I told her wrong.
Oh my god.
Of course you did.
Okay.
Can I start over?
Yeah.
You have to start over.
One has five toes and it isn't my foot.
Um, I don't know your foot.
Oh, my God.
We're cracking up over nothing over here.
Folks.
All right.
One more time.
We're going to retry our sign off.
Okay.
You're listening to the magic
fan podcast, which is Michelle.
Uh, for Andreas, Gabriella
or Gigi Isabella or Bella.
We are the Klotz family.
Thank you so much for joining us,
and we'll see you again next week.
Have a magical week.
Bye!
Ciao!
Bye!
Toodle!