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(dramatic music)
Things out there that we cannot explain
that are paranormal.
So ghosts, you believe in ghosts.
I do.
Hey, wow, Hobby Lobby's
getting a ton of airtime tonight.
Yeah.
You know? Hook us up, Hobby Lobby.
(laughing) Did you say Satan's here?
Yes.
Like, the Bigfoot.
The Bigfoot, I don't know
why I thought the Bigfoot.
But when you go to the bathroom at night,
in your washing hands,
I don't ever look in the
bathroom mirror behind me
that's gonna be there.
I never did it either.
Just on the off chance.
Just in the--
(laughing)
You know, and I don't even have like the,
just Jack, like I'm just Megan.
Now were we both homecoming court?
I wasn't, were you?
No, I was kidding.
Okay, so we did not
participate in that one.
We did not, yeah.
Some RC Cola's, some new
Coke, maybe some Shasta.
Grape Crush.
Duck Tales.
(humming) Just blit.
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.
All right.
We're back.
We're back in Sadie.
We're in Sadie.
Yeah.
Two weeks in a row.
Somehow we burned a weekend
and didn't get around to it.
We've been pretty good
about doing it on the weekends.
Yeah, which I do like that.
It's a little more casual,
feels a little more date nighty.
Yeah.
Oftentimes there's a beverage involved.
Beverage involved.
That's one of the negatives about this.
Yeah.
There can't be any beverages involved.
At least for one of us.
Right, right.
Someone does have to make
sure we get home safely.
Yeah, that's right.
That's right.
So yeah.
Oh, goodness.
We're back.
And you're all dressed up for work.
I know, I had to go in the office today.
I know.
One of those rare times I'm so blessed
to get to work from home, but.
How great is it that the world changed?
I mean, COVID terrible,
let's, you know, that,
I hate to say that aside.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
That was a tough time in
our, I guess, human history,
whatever you want to call it.
But an outcome from that.
Yeah.
Was that most, a lot of
people get to work from home
when we're in our family, we are.
Yes, yes.
Which is, I know
everybody's blessed with that.
But gosh, it's been a huge benefit.
I truly, we've said this before,
I do not know how we would do our lives.
No idea.
I mean, I don't know
how we would do our lives
without working from home.
I don't either.
But you know what's
funny is that the highways
don't show any sign of
people working from home.
No.
The highways, everywhere I
go, no matter what state I'm in,
no matter what highway I'm in on,
whether it be 25, 35, 70,
what other ones to be on?
What other ones to be on?
Are we on?
Oh, we're on 121.
Well, yeah, you're down here.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
I was going different states there.
Oh gosh, yeah.
It's packed out.
Packed out, bumper to bumper.
All the time.
But I mean, we work from home
and yet we're still on
the highway all the time.
I know, because that's
the funny part about it.
Where are all these people going?
10 a.m. in the morning.
Yeah, yeah.
Bumper to bumper, I'm one of them.
Right, soccer practice.
Yeah.
Or volleyball or basketball or, you know.
It's generally not on a
Tuesday or Monday, you know.
Weekends are one thing
and it is always
packed out on the weekends.
But I always wondered,
like when I was going
to the airport to
catch a business flight,
you know, at one p.m. in the afternoon
or, you know, 9.20 in the morning,
whatever it might have been.
And it's just packed out with people.
Yes.
I mean, are these people
coming home from the overnight
or they're not soccer moms
because most of the kids
should be in school by then.
In theory.
Where are all these people going?
I don't know.
They just, I don't
know, just drive around.
Yeah.
They're doing all their
returns at Hobby Lobby.
That's what it is.
That's what it is.
There are just so
many returns to get done
in the middle of the day.
Oh.
Oh my gosh.
That's a little bit of
an inside joke for us.
I was at Hobby Lobby one day
and two ladies, they
happened to be females.
I'm not trying to throw that out there
but we were standing behind me
and I'm a male in Hobby Lobby.
Exactly, like no judgment
because you're a male in Hobby Lobby.
It was fine.
But they were just having a conversation
of just how busy her day was
because she had returns at Hobby Lobby.
Then she had to go down to
Target and had returns there.
Her whole day had returns.
And I'm like, oh my
God, that's so stressful.
You should probably go
book a spa appointment.
Yeah, I know.
How are you gonna get to it all?
To relax from all those returns.
(laughing) We're super judgy about that sometimes.
We hear people complaining
about things that we fitted.
Today, was it today on morning cereal
that it was National Working Parents Day?
No.
Okay.
Okay, so I'm expecting that tomorrow.
I'm waiting with me to try.
It must be tomorrow or next day
because I shoot those in advance.
I never know what day it is anymore.
No, today was make a hat day.
Oh, can we tell?
I mean, I should have just
skipped the day all together.
Like, you looked scraped
from "Bodies of the Barrel."
Today was a tough one, yeah.
It was like, make a hat day.
Really, we have a whole national day
dedicated to making hats?
Yeah.
I don't know.
Well, you know what?
That person that you saw at Hobby Lobby,
I bet she knew it was
National Make a Hat Day.
She didn't, she's out there
making construction paper.
She's doing it.
She's doing it, that's
why she was at Hobby Lobby.
Well, I hope she doesn't buy too much
because if she buys too much,
she's gonna have to return it.
She has to return it.
And that's, she's gonna stress her out.
I mean, the fourth thing.
To be fair, last week on Morning Zero,
we had National Cancer Awareness Day.
Yes.
We had 9-11.
We had multiple--
Okay, so you lightened it up.
Little roll of day.
So today was, it was a slow news day.
Yeah, yeah.
(laughing) It was Justin Timberlake's birthday
and National Make a Hat Day.
Which, you know what,
we're gonna be happy
because last week did have
some tougher national days,
you know, where he's, I mean--
Yeah, there's some heavier days.
Heavier day, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So I will take the
lightness of Make a Hat Day.
Although, I can't, you know,
we've talked about this all the time.
Like, I struggle to wear hats
because my head is so small.
Yeah, I was gonna go there.
You brought it up.
I'll go there.
But like, all hats just,
you know, they fall down
and they make me look like, you know,
fievel from an American tail.
To repeat what you said to me last week,
your word's not mine.
(laughing)
Exactly.
It's fair.
I've always known I
have a really small head.
You do have a small head,
but you look cute in hats.
If you gotta have that fit
you, which they do make those,
they make hats for women and children.
For children.
And you look cute in
them, but you never wear them.
You never take advantage of them on like,
the soccer sidelines where
a lot of women wear hats.
A lot of women wear hats.
That's a great time to wear
it when you get an 8 a.m. game
and you're up at 5.45.
Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, yeah.
But they do make my
ears look like fievel.
Yeah.
Do you remember that movie?
Yeah, of course I do.
An American tail?
Uh-huh, yeah.
I remember the, I mainly
remember the flying scene
in that one where it was
the crazy like seagull.
Yeah!
Who had like a speech
impediment and he was,
he had a tough time landing.
(laughing)
Like a skit, oh my gosh.
But I also know that song
from somewhere out there.
Oh yeah, because that--
Right, which was also on our wedding.
Yes, yes, that is my song with my dad.
So we used to sing that
song while we were making beds
on Sunday morning.
That's crazy, I can
totally hear his voice.
Oh yeah.
Singing.
That's a very, I mean, what's the word,
what's the word, a song is new.
Contemporary, that's a
very contemporary song for him
to be singing though.
Yeah.
Generally it's--
Generally speaking,
he's much more in the,
in the Percy Faith, you know, 1950s era.
Yeah, I would say 50s, 40s.
50s, for sure.
Yeah, yeah.
That's right, that was a very
contemporary song for him.
So it must have been very special.
It was.
For the two of you.
Yeah, it's a great song.
Yeah, it is.
Pia Braberson and Linda Ronstad maybe?
I don't even know.
I don't know, I don't know.
We'll have to get back to you.
But somebody did get back to us on who--
Yes, and thank you.
Last week we could not
remember who Bruce Wayne's butler was.
Yeah, yeah.
And we received an answer.
We did, yeah.
And it is?
No, it's Alfred.
Alfred.
Well, I mean, I don't know
why we're doing a drum roll
for that, everybody knows it's Alfred.
We just for some
reason could not remember.
In that moment--
Alfred.
Who Alfred was.
Because Jeeves, Jeeves
just overtook everything
at that point in time.
So if your name is
Jeeves Higgins or Alfred,
apparently your ideal
profession is butler.
Then you're over the age of 90.
And you're over the age of 90.
More than likely.
Yeah.
Where duck tail suits
mostly everywhere you go.
Yeah, duck tails.
That is something.
It's been a day.
That is something.
It's been a day.
I'm not used to going out so much and
being in the office,
that I'm more drained and so I
feel like I'm not as coherent
or cogent as I usually am.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, it's funny, so with Alfred,
that reminded me a little bit of,
you've been watching his show,
I don't know if anybody else watches it,
but Josh Gates, who, I
mean, he's such a good,
Josh Gates, he's on TV.
Discovery Channel, right?
Discovery Channel, yeah.
I was gonna say Hulu, but people watch TV
and see me doing things now.
It's true.
But he's got Expedition X,
he's got Expedition Files.
Oh, yeah.
He's got so many different things.
Expedition Unknown.
Expedition Unknown.
Yeah.
Anyways, we've been watching one lately
that is his paranormal file
one, so it's Expedition X.
Yes.
And it's funny, they go
after a whole bunch of things,
if anybody's seen it,
it's just one of those.
Anyways, they have a film
crew that documents all this.
It's like documentaries,
kind of, what, hour long.
Either trying to find,
solve mysteries or this or that.
But the ones we've been watching lately,
speaking of big, huge, scary mansions,
is what made me think of it, right?
With Alfred. Yes, yes.
Was Paranormal.
Yeah.
Which has been
interesting, we've been watching
with some of the kids, some of the kids
are still a little scared of it.
Yes, they are, the 11 year olds.
Some of them are a little too.
They're creepy, there's
some creepiness to them.
Sure.
But I bring it up,
because it's interesting
in watching it, you and I
have kind of figured out,
and I knew this a little bit on,
but definitely more so now,
that we view the paranormal differently.
Yeah, yeah.
I don't, I wouldn't say
that I go so far as to be like,
oh, something touched
me, or you know, like that.
But like, I do truly think
that there are things out there
that we cannot
explain, that are paranormal,
and we just can't explain it.
Yeah, so ghosts, you believe in ghosts.
I do, yeah.
But you don't believe,
based on what you just said,
you don't believe that a ghost could
maybe knock something
over or touch you, or,
because sometimes in this show,
like, there'll be,
some of it's over the top,
like the one girl, she's funny,
because she's always
very dramatic, theatrical.
She's a paranormal researcher, so.
Yeah, so she always,
she gets really, you know,
she gets really into it sometimes, like.
She does.
Very theatrical, oh, I just felt it.
I just, there's a
sense, I can sense something,
there's a presence.
You know, she's all in on it.
100%.
Whereas the greatest part,
they paired her with a
guy that's a skeptic.
Complete skeptic.
Yeah, yeah.
And that would be more like you, right?
Yeah, because he tries
to prove things kind of
through science or
whatever else it might have been.
Like, you heard a scream in one of them,
and it was creepy at the time.
It was.
But, you know, once they
did the research on it,
it was a certain kind of
owl that was in that region.
And so that totally
explained what it was.
It didn't happen to be a
blood-curdling, you know,
demon from the netherworlds.
Right, right, but that's what's
interesting about it.
You know, like, they
do find, a lot of times,
there are scientific
reasons for whatever it is
that they're seeing.
And I truly believe that--
Well, no, there's scientific reasons
behind what they're not seeing,
or what they're disproving.
There's never anything scientific about,
they can only not prove
things scientifically.
Right, yes, yes, yes.
It disproves the paranormal theory.
Science can disprove the paranormal,
but they never prove anything,
which is crazy because
they have all these things
at the end of it.
They're like, oh, a dark
shadow here, shadow person here,
or, oh, they have
these little devices now.
Rem pods?
Okay, you know them.
See, I've been watching.
Yeah. Yeah, I don't know what they're doing.
There's a couple of, like, Rem pods,
these are things that they put down,
and if something
comes near, like a force,
or a ghost, or something
like that, they light up.
Some of them make noise,
they can make them do different things.
They have something else, too,
that they can communicate
on radio waves with ghosts.
And so they're like, is anybody here?
And it's just, this
kills me because immediately
they're having a
conversation with a ghost.
And they're like, Satan's here.
Did you say Satan's here?
Yes.
You know what I mean?
You know what I mean?
It's, to me, it's highly unlikely
that every single time
they pull that thing out,
they get a hit from something that's,
it's never says, like, donut.
You know what I mean?
It's always like, hell, Satan, leave.
You know what I mean?
Yeah, yeah.
I know I do.
And I doubt, this is where, okay,
I am somewhat of a skeptic,
even though I do
believe there is some type
of paranormal
activity or ghost, whatever.
Because I don't think that they get a hit
every single time, right?
It is edited television.
While it is in a documentary-type format,
it's edited television.
To be entertaining.
Yeah.
So how many of those
times did nothing respond?
It would be not entertaining.
Probably a lot.
Is anybody out there?
Five minutes, nothing.
Nothing, you know, like,
and so they're obviously
only capturing the stuff
where there is some
interference on the radio waves
where, you know, there's--
So, so that was a little
bit of a long backstory,
but you actually have,
I don't know if you
want to talk about it,
but you have an experience, I think,
that kind of gets you over that,
Yeah. for me flying.
Yeah, I mean, like,
even in my own family,
and, you know, it was my cousin,
which was interesting,
she was in a bunk bed
with her roommate.
My cousin was on the top,
and, you know, her
roommate was on the bottom,
and what was crazy is they
both woke up at the same time,
and they started
talking, going, "Can you see it?
"Can you see it?"
And they were like, "Yeah, I see it."
And, like, my cousin
couldn't see the face.
And what was so interesting
is that a few weeks went by,
they ended up staying
at my grandma's house,
my cousin and her good friend,
and her friend had never been
to my grandmother's house, ever.
Yeah.
And there was a picture of
my uncle who had passed away
in, you know, 25 years before this ever,
20 years before this ever happened.
And her roommate's like, "That's the man.
"That's the man I saw."
Yeah.
And that is, like,
someone who didn't know anything
about anything, didn't know this picture,
my cousin did not see the face,
so she couldn't have been biased by it.
Yeah.
You know, so you're like, "What?
"I don't know how to explain that."
Yeah, yeah.
You know?
I don't either.
I mean, growing up, you know, in church,
I mean, I think they do preach that
there's spirits among us.
I just don't, which I do probably believe
that's maybe the case.
I don't know.
Why are all the spirits mad or bad ones?
You know, are there not happy ones?
And this might be a case
where that would be a happy one.
That was a happy one.
Right, so if you had the thing out,
he wouldn't be like, "Satan."
Right, right.
He might be like,
cookies, donut, whatever.
But, you know, there's
all these supposedly spirits
around us, but I just don't, I
don't know how they interact.
I don't know how they could
possibly interact with us.
Why would one be able
to, and not all of them?
I mean, it should be like,
it should be like constantly happening,
especially in today's day and age.
You can't hide anything with all the
cameras out there now.
There should be ghost
sightings everywhere.
Yeah, I don't know.
But there's not.
There's not, no. There's no,
there's no way to, like,
the Bigfoot, the Bigfoot.
I don't know why I call it the Bigfoot.
The Bigfoot, yeah, apparently.
Yeah, or Bigfoot, either one.
Bigfoot existed?
His pronoun is tough.
Yeah, we should know that now.
We should. You know what I mean?
Loch Ness, all these
things that, you know,
back in the day that we all
were like, it was, you know,
we grew up in the age where
there were still mysteries
in this world. Yeah.
There were less and less
and fewer and fewer mysteries
in this world because of science.
A, and B, we have
cameras covering everything.
Everything.
So if there's ghosts, I
just don't understand.
And there's people, I
know I'm talking a lot,
I gotta stop talking so much.
But there's people on TV who specialize
in, like, communicating with the dead.
A, half of them are fakes,
because everybody knows that, right?
Yes.
Because they know that, you know,
I mean, you talk in general terms,
till you figure things
out, you know what I mean?
But maybe there's people that are legit,
actually can, quote unquote, communicate.
You know what I mean? Yeah.
But if that's the case,
then why is this stuff just not, like,
on the news tonight,
like, oh, by the way,
Houdini popped up at, you know,
Jack in the bottle, I
don't know, you know?
I don't know.
I don't know.
Because why would your uncle have showed
that night in there?
So, my cousin was going through
a really, really tough time.
Yeah.
And what's interesting is that,
is she tells it, like,
he was on her mind a lot.
So, my uncle passed away
very suddenly, very tragically,
but he was kinda looked at as,
kinda the same to the family, right?
I mean, he was, he was good to the core.
And I think, and he
was really smart, right?
We hear all these stories.
He passed away when I
was quite young, so,
but even I remember
him passing out gifts.
And we were always told he
was so smart and whatever.
And so, she was going
through this tough time
really thinking about him a lot
because of all the stories we had heard
about how good he was.
Yeah.
And how helpful he was and all of that.
And so, I can't tell you why that night,
but in her life, like, that was a time
when he was on her mind.
Yeah, yeah.
I don't know.
I can't explain it.
And if it wasn't for the other person,
I would say the mind can play incredible,
the mind can do incredible things.
Exactly.
I don't wanna say play incredible tricks,
but the mind can do incredible things.
I don't know, I guess I can't explain
the other person there
that night, but, you know.
Yeah.
It's just so hard to believe.
Yeah.
It's crazy.
And there was no, like, in this--
But why would he not
have come to, I mean,
I mean, he has family.
He has living family.
I mean, has he ever visited them?
Maybe they needed him
at some point in time.
You know what I mean?
You would think that.
And I might be making this up,
but my dad swears he saw him in a mirror.
And he turned around and
there was nothing there.
Yeah.
You know, so there is just,
and I don't know the circumstances,
that one, I remember being pretty young,
like, and overhearing the story.
I don't think I was
even supposed to hear it.
Oh, really?
I'd like to apologize to my parents
if I'm now outing a,
you know, hidden secret.
You know, so I don't know.
But again, that could be
mind playing tricks on you.
Because this one had, like,
a totally unbiased person.
Yeah.
So it was like, that one,
probably when I keep it.
That night, well, they
were both sleeping though.
This is weird.
It's never, and it's
always at night, right?
Like, when we, like, the Josh K. things.
Always, always.
They only do this stuff at night,
because it's scary.
It gives you chills, you
know, when you're watching it.
Yeah.
But it's never during the day, like, hey.
You know.
Guess what?
There is a spirit sitting right here.
It's like, you know,
Casper has, you know,
he's got light colored skin.
You know, he burns in the sun, so.
Right.
Well, and if, you know,
the places that they go
in the show, if they are, you know,
fraught with paranormal activity.
Yeah.
It stands to reason that
that happens in the day.
No, only at night.
As much as it does at night, yeah.
No, just at night.
Yeah.
Because I just, I like to believe it.
Actually, no, I don't want to believe it.
I don't, it's creepy to me.
It is creepy.
Like, when you go to
the bathroom at night,
in your washing hands, just
like you said your dad did.
Like, I don't ever look in
the bathroom mirror behind me,
especially like something
recently kind of scared me.
I know.
Because that's gonna be there.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
It's like when you're
a kid running upstairs
from the basement
with the dark lights off.
Yes!
You know, it's like, oh
my God, I'm gonna get it.
Oh my gosh, there would
be times I would skip like
two, three at a time,
like trying to get up.
My room was in the
basement and it still scared me.
I don't know how you did that.
Because there was one door in the
basement that I was in,
you go down the stairs
and there were two doors.
And if you kept going
straight, you would go into what,
eventually it became
like the playroom, you know?
And then at the end of that
was kind of where my room door
was down on the left.
Well, at the very bottom of the stairs,
at that landing though,
there was a door to the left
that was just a regular solid door
that went into the laundry room.
The door to the right
went into the utility room,
but it was one of those
doors, A, it's utility room,
so a lot of noises
coming from there, whatnot.
But B, it had slats on it.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
It had all the slats on it.
And so there was that certain, you know,
whatever angle you were at, you know,
like I always
thought, if I look in there,
I'm gonna see somebody's
eyes looking through it at me.
That is creepy.
And that creeped me out
all the time, that door.
Like if you just changed that door,
it wouldn't have been nearly as creepy,
but the fact that you could see into it,
it was always dark in there, obviously.
Yeah, it's a utility room.
But I'm like, you know
someone standing right behind that,
just staring down at me.
If I look, I'm gonna see their face.
That was like, same
thing, living in the basement.
I did the same thing, we
talked about this once before.
On my blinds, I turned them up so I
couldn't see out of them
because I was in the basement.
I always thought someone was gonna be
down that window well,
just squatting down,
looking at me in the winning well.
Yeah. In my bed.
So I always turned them
up, you know, the other way.
So that you can't see into my room
and I can't see out of my room.
I learned that one the hard way.
Yeah, we did talk about that.
We talked about that.
I had the roofer on his
ladder looking down on me
while I was sleeping. In college.
I was on the second floor, creepo.
Yeah.
But ever since then,
I absolutely turned my
blinds the opposite way.
Oh my gosh.
Anyways, I'll be
curious what other people say
about paranormal type stuff.
Because I just, I don't know.
People swear by it.
People that have seen,
think they've seen something swear by it.
People that have never seen something
have a really difficult time.
I mean, I'm a science based person.
It's really hard for me
to have faith in things
that I can't, you know, aren't palatable,
that I can't actually touch, confirm.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, I'm a little bit the same way.
I don't know how much I was against.
A believer, I am not your paranormal
researcher who's like,
is anybody here with us?
That's just not me.
Yeah.
But until I heard that,
and until I, you know,
I know my cousin very well.
We were super, super close.
Until that situation happened,
and I was like, I have no understanding.
And the fear that was
in her friend's eyes
when she saw the picture of my uncle,
like that, I mean, that fear.
Were you there for that?
I wasn't.
But she like, I mean,
but I know multiple people that were,
and they were like, oh my
gosh, she like, she panicked.
Yeah.
Because she saw this,
and she's like, she
knew exactly what that was.
And it was like, I can't explain it.
Is she now the girl that's
on Josh Great Gate's show?
Yeah, no, no, no.
Because that might explain some of it.
It's possible.
I just go back to,
and today's day and age,
with all these cameras everywhere,
I mean, like right now we could say,
oh, remember like people
used to say things like,
Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary,
or whatever it was,
and it would show up in
the mirror, supposedly.
Nobody wanted to do it,
because it was so scary.
Yeah, yeah.
I don't remember what it was, but.
I never did that stuff,
because it really did scare me.
I don't watch scary movies or anything.
I get scared really easily.
I never did it either.
Just on the off chance.
Just in the,
(laughing)
I love you.
That's hilarious.
I do not believe in ghosts.
However, I'm just not gonna do it.
Now, if we were watching this back,
and something shows up back there,
that's a ghost just sitting
there waving at us or whatnot.
Then I'll believe.
There is Casper, just waving.
Yeah, yeah.
That would be pretty funny.
Well, I guess ghosts
pasts homecomings for us,
homecomings for our kids.
Yes.
We are dealing with
our first mom situation,
Yes. That we're here in Texas.
Yes.
Which is a Texas thing.
It is.
I've had to tell a couple people,
I was like, this isn't a thing.
Like, mom's the homecoming flower.
It's a fall flower.
I actually was talking to
someone about it at work,
who's from the Midwest.
And she's like, actually,
one of my favorite flowers is the mom.
It's such a pretty flower.
So her understanding of a mom,
aligned with my understanding of a mom,
of a fall flower.
But in Texas,
everything's bigger in Texas.
They make these things that,
it has a mom on it,
but it's not joking the
size of a dinner plate,
that hangs around the neck.
It's a mom with a whole
bunch of ribbons and stuff.
The girl's neck.
The girl's neck, yeah.
And then it has ribbons that
then flow down to the ankles.
Ankles, yeah.
I was like counting the
number of just flowing ribbons,
and it's like 50 on some of these.
These things are insane.
And it looks like someone wadded up
about five rolls of toilet paper
and glued it to a dinner plate.
And then strung another
two rolls of toilet paper
down from it.
They're that bad.
But we're gonna make a real pretty one
for our oldest girlfriend.
So I did buy some pretty stuff, right?
Yeah, I think so.
Like I think it's gonna be pretty.
It's gonna be as pretty as it is.
We have to do it because
it's a thing down here.
Right?
And even it's funny because our oldest's
girlfriend's parents
are not from here either.
No.
And we're not from here.
We're used to just,
okay, I have a corsage,
maybe a pin on the top of the boy.
No, down here is crazy.
And they're like, it's
so crazy and over the top.
Even what they have
to do just to ask them
to the homecoming now is
more than it used to be.
But so we're gonna do it, but I mean,
you should see these things.
I mean, people make them serious.
People have spent six,
$700 on these things.
So over the top.
They are so big and so heavy
that they actually have to
hang around the neck of--
And hide your $700 dress.
Right.
So don't spend money on the dress.
Because it's gonna be hidden by this
godawful looking mom.
Like, it's--
Such a bad tradition.
It's a bad look.
Like, it's a bad look.
I mean, let's stick to
the regular traditions.
Like, you and I probably had.
What were your traditions?
I mean, our traditions
were homecoming court.
And so you had the--
Which is, you vote on the
most popular boys and girls
that are good looking and they get--
For the most part, yeah.
You have a representative
from freshman, sophomore, junior,
and then you had like
five of the seniors.
Yeah, were we both homecoming court?
I wasn't, were you?
No, I was kidding.
Perfect.
No, we weren't.
Neither one of us were.
Okay, so we did not
participate in that one.
We did not, yeah.
And we had like a big coronation.
All the girls wore these
beautiful white dresses.
Okay.
Guys were talking,
like it was really cool.
That's at the dance?
No, no, no, no.
This was all happening before, like,
coronation happened,
you know, like the day
before the football game.
Oh, okay. Or something.
How about you?
I'm sure it was very similar.
I wasn't that
involved in that part of it.
We did have a big like homecoming parade
in old Colorado city.
Somehow people had corvettes for that,
like, because that's when I
was still on the football team.
And so like the football players,
we all put on our jerseys
and you know, we went down.
I think somebody, I
think maybe we were in trucks
pulling a trailer or something like that.
Then my senior year I was
on the soccer team doing it.
I wasn't on the football
team anymore, but yeah.
So that was like the biggest
thing I can really remember
from when I was a kid,
other than just the regular,
you dress up, you put your
suit on, you have the flowers.
Yeah.
You know, you go to the dance.
You do pictures beforehand, right?
You do pictures beforehand
with some of your friends.
Maybe you get a limo
with them or something.
Then I think there's
probably a party afterwards
or something like that.
I don't really remember, I don't have
like a good remember
of any specific homecoming.
Yeah, interesting.
You decorated for a homecoming.
I did, I did.
My senior year I was on
the homework committee.
I was on the committee.
Court, but you were on the committee.
I was on the committee.
Which I think was just a,
I think that was a mix up.
Everybody's like, Megan
should be on homecoming court.
And everybody's like, and
someone misheard committee.
I got it, got it down.
So I think you kind of
got screwed on that, honey.
Yeah, no, I actually
decorated for a lot of dances.
I was on a lot of dance committees.
I never went to a dance with a date.
Because you were
really good at paper mache.
I was really good at duct tape.
And duct tape.
Yeah, I actually made
some pretty creative things.
Which is not your ballet wick now.
No. Balie wick?
Balie wick, you're good.
Yeah, I'll say it.
But it's not your ballet wick now.
Oh no, no, I'm not.
But we all had an idea and a theme and,
as part of a committee I could do it.
It was fun. Yeah, I see.
It was always fun.
Yeah.
So, but yeah, I didn't go to the dance.
I just decorated for the dance.
Did you guys like turn on music
when you're like
throwing streamers around
and like singing, is it kind of like a
high school musical?
So like Footloose?
Yeah, yeah.
Oh gosh.
So by the seeing stuff,
I was never part of it.
I just thought I would
imagine it happening.
So, put it in that bubble if it wasn't.
You absolutely had music playing.
I mean, because you're
doing it with your best friends.
So I mean, it was fun.
And then, you know, you had
parents bringing us pizzas
and whatever.
Yeah. Yeah.
That is fun, I'm sure that's fun.
It was fun.
Having some RC colas.
Yeah, exactly.
I don't even remember if it was RC,
I mean, it was, we worked really hard.
And then, but yeah, I'm
sure it looked really nice
for the dance.
Some new Coke, maybe some Shasta.
Shasta?
Just try some grape, what was the grape?
Crush? Grape Crush?
That's the one. Or some kiss I get.
No, Crush, it was Crush.
Yeah, it was Grape Crush.
Yeah. Yeah.
So I was on the Homecoming committee.
But, yeah.
I think it was just a misunderstanding
that you were on the court, honey.
Though there's a
reason I wasn't, it's okay.
I was, I would not
have been on the court.
Now, most of my siblings were.
(laughs) Nice.
I was the one who was not, that's okay.
Nice, I did not know that.
Yeah, didn't I?
You wouldn't be able to tell now.
I'm just kidding, I'm just kidding.
I don't know, like what,
like what makes someone
be on the Homecoming court?
I'm surprised you weren't.
I think it's popularity, I mean,
if I'm saying that, I mean,
your family was very popular.
Yeah.
I mean, you can't be, you
know, an Uggo and be popular.
So, I mean, I'm sure you
have a good looking family,
they were popular, so they got on.
I'm surprised, because you were popular.
I was not popular, like I said,
everybody knew me, but I wasn't popular.
Got it.
It was too quiet to be popular.
Yeah.
Yeah, plus I ran too
small of circles back then.
Yeah, interesting.
To be too popular, I think, but yeah.
Anyways, if I could do it over,
I've actually never been
to a high school reunion,
and this is my 30 year,
this summer would have been my 30 year
high school reunion.
I never saw anything
about them getting together.
You would think the third
decade, they would do something.
You would think so.
Yeah.
And no?
Nothing.
They've had, I think
they did one at like 20,
and like 20 people showed up.
Granted, we didn't have
the greatest of, you know,
yeah, we probably didn't
have the greatest class,
or whatnot, but yeah,
you would think this year,
people would, you know, you'd do 30 year.
Because I've been so
far removed from it now,
I would think about going.
Right.
You know, because I've
talked to you about it before.
Like, I am such not the
person that I was in high school.
Right.
That it would be nice to
go back and just be like,
hey, I turned out normal, I think.
You know, I'm actually personable,
gotta, gotta, gotta, you know,
people that never made disagree.
But that's okay.
I think you're very normal.
But you know, it's kind
of nice to go back and say,
hey, you know, I
learned how to talk to people.
Yeah.
Things like that, you know what I mean?
But you've only been to one, right?
I've been to none.
Oh, I thought you went to like a bar
before we got married for something.
No, I, so right before we got married,
it was my 10 year, I didn't even know
it was happening that weekend.
And I was in Minnesota
prepping for the wedding,
and I was at a bar and
grill to watch a football game
with my parents, and it just so happened
that a whole bunch of
the people were there
at that bar and grill
prior to going to the thing.
I didn't.
It was that night though.
But I think it was that night.
Yeah, I guess that's what I was thinking.
Yeah.
You saw people.
But I mean, I didn't
talk to them or anything.
They had you have had
them since then, right?
But you didn't, you
don't know of any either.
It's not like you've
skipped them knowingly.
No, I don't know of any.
So either I'm not on the right.
Committee?
Committee?
I mean, come on.
How are you not on that committee?
How am I not on that committee?
Because I wasn't on homecoming court.
Yeah, because you weren't on the court.
You weren't popular enough.
I wasn't popular really at all actually.
Yeah, yeah.
Like, I don't know.
No, actually, I always tell this story.
So I always went to high
school with my brothers, right?
I have one who's two years older
and one who's two years younger.
And so my junior year, I was always known
for my first two years, I was known as
Matt's little sister.
Yeah.
And I was just the little sister.
Finally, my junior, I was like,
finally, I'm gonna get to be like,
my brother's coming in,
he's gonna be Megan's younger brother.
Nope.
I was John's older sister.
And I was just like, I
sounded gone, like seriously?
Yeah.
So I was always someone's sister.
Never just Megan.
And I don't even have like the just Jack,
like I'm just Megan.
Yeah.
Well, I think you
blossomed after high school.
And I'm not just talking
from like a beauty perspective,
just, you know, all around, I think.
You were a focused young woman
that got through schooling, focused.
And then you kind of
figured out who you were,
even more, I think.
Yeah, yeah.
I wouldn't say I had those,
my like formative years were
more my late teens, early 20s.
Like it was after high school that I kind
of came into my own.
Right.
That was until my
twenties for me, for sure.
Late twenties, mid twenties probably.
So ultimately it's just,
it's weird that neither one of us
have ever been to a high school reunion.
Right.
And not that, I never
really wanted to go to one.
And I don't know if you ever did either,
but now that I'm older, I'm like,
oh, it might be just
interesting to see some of the people
that I was friends with, you know,
and just how we've grown up.
I mean, I am in
contact with some of them.
Right.
You know, so now that I'm
older, it might be interesting,
but it's just weird
that neither one of us
have had that opportunity to go back.
Right, that we didn't even know about it.
Is that something people do?
And if they do, what do they do?
I don't.
Because I did see
Facebook pictures of the one
like 15 years ago, that they did.
And it was like maybe 30 people.
I gathered at like a little bar
somewhere, you know,
and everybody was just drinking.
(laughing) I didn't see any like spouses
in it or anything like that.
You know what I mean?
Really?
Yeah, so maybe people,
maybe this is not
something people do anymore.
Is this a generational
thing that we've lost?
That's a great question.
Cause I know my parents,
you know, on the big ones,
my parents went to
their high school reeds.
My parents do too.
Yeah.
Well, so it's weird as we just, it's
never been an issue.
Have you heard of
anybody our age doing it?
Have your brothers ever done it?
I don't know.
I'll have to ask.
Yeah, be curious.
Which my brothers are
still really good friends
with most of their
friends from high school though.
Yeah.
Whereas, you know, I
have a really small group
that, you know, I'm still in
contact with from high school.
Yeah.
You know, so maybe they have,
I would imagine my youngest brother has.
Yeah.
He still lives in Minnesota, so.
Yeah.
That's interesting.
I don't know for sure.
Yeah.
At some point, maybe it'll happen
where everybody gets to
put on their sports coats
and their little
cocktail dress or whatever it is
and put on your, my name is.
And rent a sports car
so that everyone
thinks that you've arrived.
That's right, that's right.
Yeah.
I think that's why I'd be
more interested in it now
because I think most
people have hopefully grown
through that stage of,
oh, I'm so successful.
Right.
You know, with, you
know, negative net worth
and my expensive car.
You know what I mean?
Right, right.
Yeah.
People are like.
Everybody's okay with being us.
Everybody's okay with
where they are in life.
Yeah.
You're regardless.
And people are, it's not a
competition, hopefully, anymore.
I would hope not.
I mean, it was so many years ago.
Yeah.
But hopefully people move past that
and then you could just
remember, you know, like go.
Yeah, that's why I think
it would be fun though.
And have a good time reminiscing.
Because most people have grown up.
Yeah.
Right, where I
pictured in my head, you know,
15 years after or 10 years or, you know,
definitely anything lower than that.
But, you know, even 15, 20 years,
people are still trying to,
you know, improve something.
Yeah.
You know, I'm not saying
I'm excluded from that either.
You know what I mean?
But, yeah, it would be interesting.
So, oh well, we'll figure it out.
Maybe my 40.
Maybe your 40.
I'll be, the problem
is I look young still
a little bit for my
age, but another 10 years,
I probably won't.
You might not.
Because these last two
years have really aged me.
I don't think I haven't.
I will, you have to
say that to some degree,
but there's been a lot of
aging in these last years.
A lot more sagging,
I've noticed, you know,
the weights not falling
off of eight years too.
I hear ya.
The gray, I have way
more gray than you do.
Like, this is not blonde people.
This is just plain old gray.
I have noticed.
Yeah, you have to say that.
It's like, oh my gosh,
I'm going really gray.
Yeah.
I don't know what else to do with it.
Like, I don't know, I'd
rather be celebrating days
in going gray than not.
That's right, that's right.
That's the perspective to have on it.
For sure, for sure.
Well, let's wrap it up here.
I know this weekend we had
the one kind of fun thing
we did this weekend for the kids.
We didn't do it, but they had it.
They had media day.
Yes.
And how cool of a thing
where, I mean, essentially,
the club that they play for is,
they just basically rented out the studio
and photographers and all
of that to take pictures
and try to, I think it's
more to get marketing and media
for a global presence or a national
presence for the club.
But how cool for them to
feel like stars for a day.
Yeah, I put a reel up for it.
If you haven't seen it,
I did a reel on Instagram
that just showed like 30 seconds.
But they're in a professional studio.
They got all those big
lights and bulbs around them
standing on like the huge green screen,
but it was white, it looked like?
White, it was all, yeah.
With the photographer there.
Everybody, I wasn't
there, you were at it,
but you told the story
that everybody was really
kind of shy at first.
And then kind of once the
first person broke the mold
or broke into doing
whatever pose they were doing,
then they started doing
a bunch of funny poses
with each other.
Yes.
Like really cool.
I mean, like once you get into it,
I mean, there's nothing like that.
Oh yeah.
What are they gonna put that,
there's no social
media when we were kids.
They're not gonna put it in a magazine.
Right.
Yeah.
It's true, it's true.
You put it.
Right, right.
The newspaper?
Yeah.
Yeah.
But it was interesting
though to see the difference
between like 11, 12 year
old boys and 15 year old boys.
Cause like the younger boys were way more
into the individuals
and it was a little more
like aggression and stuff like that,
which was interesting.
The 15 year olds, and I
don't know if this is like
that I'm in my head 15 year old thing,
without a doubt, even
the most outspoken members
of the team had no idea what to do
for their individual shots.
I think that's, I think
that's 15 year old boys
being in their head.
Very few, cause I've
been a 15 year old boy
and I wasn't like all
of them I understand.
Like I'm sure I was total
opposite of your brothers,
but I was very in my head
at that age where I was,
I didn't want to show
anybody any kind of emotion,
no kind of emoting.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
It was just, bleh.
And so I'm sure a lot of these boys
who are trying to figure themselves out
and don't, they don't want to be,
they don't want to do
something that people
make fun of them for, they
don't want to look stupid.
Right, right.
So they're just like, so
I was really glad to see
that they kind of broke,
broke form, broke mold.
Yes.
Because that's hard for that age.
It is.
Whereas the younger, I don't think
they're white there yet.
They don't have that, they're not scared
of being embarrassed yet.
Right.
And so their individual
poses were just more confident
and kind of goofy, whereas--
Pre-testosterone.
Pre-testosterone,
whereas the 15 year olds,
I am not kidding, like
the photographer was like,
I've told them they could
do like five or six poses
and none of them are.
However, when they said
that you could do groups
and like pair up, holy
moly, it was wheels off.
Once they had their buddies,
Yeah.
And it didn't matter how
silly then their buddies were,
it was wheels off.
It was hilarious.
I'm excited to see some
of the actual pictures.
I am too.
It'll be fun.
I am too, because at that point in time,
like it didn't matter, they were all
laughing at everybody.
So it didn't matter if
someone was laughing at them.
So it was really cool to see.
I just wish they would
have let the parents do some
of that, because I
think the parents would have
had some really good pictures.
Oh, I bet.
Like if we could bring
like our sideline looks,
you know what I mean?
Oh my gosh.
Yelling at the ref, or you know,
I would like throw a
chair or something like that,
you know, just catch
that in a single frame.
Oh yeah, yeah.
Oh my gosh.
I know what we need to do though.
We always say this, we
have got to catch like,
sideline phrases and just make a book
of all the sideline phrases we hear.
Yeah, that would be funny, we should.
There's so many good ones.
With a picture of that
person flaking for the back
or something, just to
give them their credit.
Unless they want it,
some of them would want it.
Yeah, exactly.
He'd be like, did you
really just say that?
So we're hilarious, oh my gosh.
Doing good roles with
some of those people.
Oh yeah, it's pretty fun.
All right, well we should
probably think of our word.
Yes, wrap it up.
Yep, I actually thought
of mine earlier today,
so I'm good.
Which normally behind the scenes here,
we break for about four minutes.
As we're like, I have no
idea, what are you thinking?
It's true.
We never share them,
that's why we've only
said the same thing twice.
Right, right, and last week.
We weren't even close, that was funny.
We weren't even close.
We probably won't be this week either.
Okay, well I do need a moment,
because I didn't think
of mine earlier today.
Do like one, two, three.
Mom. Focused.
Oh, the mom has eclipsed everything, huh?
Part of it is, I mean, because last week
we had the poster getting prepared,
you had to go out,
special to Hobby Lobby.
Wow, Hobby Lobby's getting
a ton of airtime tonight.
Hook us up, Hobby Lobby.
All right, anyways.
I mean, HOCO, as they call it nowadays,
like it took a ton of time last week.
Yeah, it did, it did.
And Focused, I love that.
Focused, yeah.
I'm working on some new
license and some stuff,
I'm head down, but pretty
soon I'm gonna come out of it.
I know karate, or I know kung fu.
You're gonna know kung fu.
I'm gonna know kung fu.
Yeah. So, in Focused,
we're just checking boxes right now,
and we're just working through it.
Yep.
It would be good,
because just heading into the,
you know, the last
quarter of this year is fun.
You know, there's just
a lot of celebrations
and getting things out of the attic
like I talked about last week,
so we're gonna make sure
we're ready to enjoy that.
Yes, yeah.
Like we talked about,
these kids have one, you know,
childhood, and hopefully
we'll give them a good one.
I know, pretty soon that Halloween
stuff's gotta come out.
I know, I know.
All right, well, hey,
thanks for joining today,
again here in Sadie.
Anything else you wanted
to say before we sign off?
I have nothing else to
say before we sign off.
All right, that's fine.
There we go, well.
I didn't know if you had a committee
for them during something like that.
No committee, but I--
There should have
been a better joke there.
I should have been
more prepared for that.
Come on, I'm on the chow chow committee.
See ya.