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(upbeat music)
I learned it from watching you, dad.
Everybody has mosh-turbation.
(laughing)
When you're mashing by yourself.
I'm not coming back from that one.
You've now lost me for
the rest of the episode.
So what is your most embarrassing moment?
What?
Regression therapy?
I'm not, I went to therapy for this.
I went to therapy for this.
To forget this, yeah.
Like you're just asking me.
Sure.
Everybody who, every kid in the 80s
remembers this bowl as the
catching water from the sink,
popcorn, fruit salad, and throw up bowl.
And you're like, yep,
yep, that was what it was.
We put popcorn in there, and for sure it
was a throw up bowl.
And grandma had one too.
And grandma had one
too, and it was orange.
Speaking of nostalgia.
Speaking of nostalgia, how old is it?
39 years old.
39.
The original top-done movie.
Do you remember that
lady running up the street,
banging the pans?
Yeah.
I mean, she looked
like the village crazy.
She was over the top.
She didn't look like it,
she was the village crazy.
She was the village crazy.
She's like, I just saw a bear.
You want me to cook it?
I don't think I'm
gonna need a bigger pot.
Get in my pan.
My cheeks still hurt
from laughing so hard.
Yeah, I just love them.
That was a ton of fun.
It was a ton of fun.
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.
Tater tots.
See, I did remember that from last week.
I know, I see.
Every now and again, I have a good idea.
Every now and again.
Every now and again, it works.
Well, it totally sounded like tater tots,
because you're going t-t-ta-ta,
and I'm like, oh.
Yeah.
Totally sounded like taters.
Yeah, tater tots, it worked well, so.
My stamp on the podcast is,
or my contribution to tater tots.
Yeah.
Great.
It's one thing, it helps us.
It was funny, because
you were getting ready
in the bathroom, which is
just outside of the studio.
And I was telling you, I
only record this by myself.
There's only just me,
when I do morning cereal.
Right, right.
I do it every day, really,
because I'm trying to do,
I'm gonna put a new
news segment into it now,
so there's current news potentially,
but that just means I have
to do it on a daily basis,
where sometimes I would do two.
Long story short, I was not used
to having somebody listen to me.
I was worried that you
were out there hearing me.
And there's times where I can go almost
through the whole thing without,
with one or two, just
like, I better repeat that,
since I kinda slurred
that, or I got tripped up.
But for the most part, I do pretty well.
I don't have a lot of
excess, I've got that down.
But I was tripping up, because I thought
you were out there listening to me.
Well, I wasn't listening.
I purposely put on just some quiet,
or it wasn't like quiet
music, like classical music,
it was just music, but I
had it on at a lower volume,
so that I truly couldn't hear you.
So you weren't in your head about
someone's listening.
Yeah.
No.
I know it was really, I
had never heard the song,
and I didn't know if you
had it on your playlist.
I was listening
actually to some Jelly Roll.
I don't know, he had some
really good Jelly Roll songs
that I need to get on my playlist.
I love all kinds of Jelly Rolls.
Oh, well I do too.
Yeah, really, people like--
Yeah, chocolate with a raspberry feeling.
Anyway, but a Luke Combs song came on,
called "When It Rains It Pours."
Is that on your playlist?
I think it is.
Holy crap, that's an awesome song.
I had never heard it.
I think it's one of those older ones.
I'm tapping my foot, I was
like, I better get out of here.
He's gonna hear me, it's one of those
that you can't help but
how to tap your foot too.
Better than mashing.
Tapping the foot doesn't get out of,
doesn't get a control too much.
Mashing, I hear it against the door.
Can you mosh by yourself?
No, I'm sure, yeah.
Smaller spaces are
better to mosh by yourself.
Well, and especially
maybe in a padded room,
I don't know if
you're mashing by yourself.
I have a really funny
word I wanna say for that,
but I'm gonna keep this totally G-rated
and move on to the next.
Oh, I wanna hear this word.
Well, I'll have to cut it.
It'll be, well, this
will beep out, right?
But it's mosh-turbation.
(laughing) I mean, you're mashing by yourself.
In small places.
Okay, I'm not coming back from that one.
You've now lost me for
the rest of the episode.
Yeah, it won't even make it on there.
Oh, it should.
Yeah? Yeah.
I don't know, our kids listen to this,
our mom, our parents listen to this.
You don't think our
parents know what that is?
They do, I know, yeah, but.
I'm still not secure enough in myself
to talk about that kind of stuff
in front of other people openly.
Yeah, well, you know, we
did have this experience once
and I've heard it from a couple people,
friends or whatever,
you know, like you're watching a movie,
like it could even be
something as, you know,
PG-13 rated or maybe the notebooks are,
but I mean, there's some
scenes in there where you're like,
and we watched that.
Yeah.
With your stepdad.
I was like, oh.
Yeah, no, it really feels that way.
I was listening to
Conan O'Brien the other day,
his son's, I don't know,
15, 16, somewhere in there,
and they watched Game
of Thrones together.
He's like, such a good show,
but we watched it back with my son.
Oh!
And he's like, I mean,
obviously everybody knows
the first, especially
the first two seasons
just have a little bit
more explicit sexuality in it.
Yeah.
And he's like, yeah,
because the guy that he
was interviewing was like,
well, wasn't that uncomfortable?
Yeah.
Like, pretty sure one
of the first scenes,
like the whole
premise, I guess, you know,
because Bran falls out, you know,
like the kid was climbing on the tower
and he falls off because of one of them.
I guess it was Bush, but.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, don't
give away all these things.
People may not have seen it, but spoiler
alert, spoiler alert.
Anyways, he was
talking about some of those
uncomfortable moments as
well, which is pretty funny.
Ah, yeah.
Everybody has them.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, there's certain people
you don't watch that kind of stuff with.
It's just embarrassment,
everybody knows this too,
but embarrassment is just
that core feeling, right?
That just is so deep within you,
it'll just cut you to nothing
to that little kid all over again.
Yes.
It's the worst feeling.
Embarrassment has gotta be
probably the worst feeling.
Right?
It's worse than
failure for, in my opinion.
And I don't like to fail.
Yeah.
But I can get over
the feeling of failure,
but the things you think back on
embarrassing moments
when you were a kid, it
immediately takes you back
to that feeling, and you're still,
I don't know if you're like me,
I'm still embarrassed by
things that embarrassed me
when I was a kid. Oh yeah.
Yeah, like I'm
embarrassed that I did that,
or I said that, or just
like I didn't mean that,
but you know what I mean?
That's how it came out,
and you play it in your head,
and you're like--
Oh my gosh, that's just, yeah.
Because there are no
inspirational quotes that say,
they all say I've failed a thousand times
so I could be successful.
Nobody says I've
embarrassed myself a thousand times.
Yeah.
And it made me successful.
Yeah.
And people's thresholds for embarrassment
are totally different.
I wish I was one of those people
who didn't get
embarrassed easily, but I--
Just laugh at yourself.
Right.
Yeah.
Right, but I, that's not me.
I've gotten better at
that as I've gotten older
laughing at myself, but
again, this is one of those ebbs
and flows of life, right?
When you're in a good spot and
everything's going well,
it's easy to let
something roll off your back.
Yeah, it is.
Just under a dream of
like, oh, I'm such an idiot.
I mean, I'm used to that.
I've always been self-deprecating anyway,
so it's kind of my go-to safe spot.
Yeah.
You know?
But there are times when things are,
it's ebbing the other direction.
Oh, yeah.
And some of those
things that may not have hit
or may not have embarrassed you,
now you're just more sensitive to it.
Yeah.
You know, it's like, I'm sorry, I'm just,
I didn't, I'm not sure why
that bothered me so much,
but I did.
Yeah, yeah.
You're like, well, I
said the same thing to you
just a month ago, and you laughed it off.
This time you bit my head off.
Right, right.
Yeah.
So.
That's why people are like,
so what is your most embarrassing moment?
You're like, what?
No, I'm not gonna tell you.
Yeah, regression therapy.
(laughing) Like, whatever, like, I'm not,
I went to therapy for this.
I went to therapy for this.
To forget this, yeah.
Like, and you're just asking me.
Sure, let me just serve that up to you.
Right, I hardly even know you.
Why would I tell you that?
And by the way, bring it
up any time you feel free.
Yeah, uh-huh.
You want to.
Yeah.
Oh my gosh.
If someone was there
and they know about it,
like, that's just what it is.
You don't, but then
there's that unspoken rule.
Right. Like, if you don't talk about it.
Right, right, nobody wants to,
just stick your head in the sand
and pretend it never happened.
Agreed.
God, it's the worst.
Yeah.
It's the worst.
How do you get over that?
I have no idea.
I don't know, but just like I said,
I was embarrassed of kind of messing up
on my earlier podcast
that I was recording,
right, you know, with you just on the
other side of the door.
Well, and this is me, your wife.
Yeah.
The person who has known
you better than anyone,
lives with you, like,
Totally comfortable with you.
Yeah, exactly, seeing you at your best,
seeing you at your worst.
Right.
And it's still like,
"I still don't want you
to see me that vulnerable
and messing up."
Right, right, exactly.
Yeah.
Anyways, well, that was a
little bit of a tangent there.
I don't remember, I don't
even remember what caused that.
We don't need to figure it out.
Mashing.
Mashing.
(laughing) Mashing, that's right.
So true to the Mr. and Mrs. form,
we just meander through.
But we've only had like 72 hours
in between these tapings though.
It's true.
(laughing)
I know.
What's happened in those 72 hours?
What happened?
Yeah.
Get this.
It's been insane, people.
Yeah, we cleaned our furniture.
Yes.
We had a free day yesterday.
Yep, free day.
Love it.
Nothing on the calendar.
I don't remember the
last time that happened.
It happens every now and again,
and when it does, it's like,
let's just sit by the
pool and do nothing.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, if it does happen, a lot of times
it's because it was raining outside
and something got canceled,
so we weren't planning
on having a free day,
so we had a surprise free day.
This was a free day we knew about.
Yeah, that's right.
Like it was the free space in Bingo.
And I was just kidding by the way.
It's like, we're not
just gonna sit by the pool,
you know, and relax.
It's like, okay, well
here's that to-do list.
Let's pull that out.
Yeah, it's like the Santa Claus list.
It's scroll, it's
scroll, it hits the ground
and rolls 20 feet in front of you.
Yeah.
We'll start here.
And then the outdoor furniture.
Yeah.
An annual.
It's an annual tradition
that I don't look forward to.
I don't like, it's probably the dirtiest
that I get all year.
Yeah.
But it is one of the
most satisfying things.
Like we sat outside last night.
Yeah.
We're like, furniture's clean.
You know, like I could
cook on the outdoor kitchen
without like, let me get some of that
pollen off the counter, you know.
Yeah, that's nice.
That was so nice.
Growing up, I don't
remember if there was ever that.
We have too much patio furniture
because we got a big patio.
We do.
And we didn't have
that much when I grew up.
And you guys had more,
because you guys had a
pretty big backyard there.
I don't remember there
being that much pollen
covering everything when I
grew up and having like that.
We need to clean up the
deck and the patio area.
We had that, well, we had that gazebo.
Yeah.
And all the furniture.
And now, later years, my
dad like wrapped it in plastic
so it wouldn't get that bad.
I only saw it wrapped, yeah.
Yeah, because we only go up there
in the middle of the winter.
But that was for sure a full
day to clean that thing out.
I just don't remember partaking in that.
We didn't have a lot of furniture.
So I'm sure this was a
quick wipe down, that was it.
Yeah.
And you've probably, I don't know,
I feel like the pollen
in Texas is ridiculous.
I don't remember
everything just being sheeted in.
It's the great
yellowing we call it down here.
Yeah, it is.
It's ridiculous.
Yeah, like, T.G.L.R.
It would be easier to put
everything in the garage.
Yes.
And wrap it in plastic like your dad.
Yeah, mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
Then have to read.
But it's so temperate
out here most of the year
that we can go out and utilize.
We use it.
Yeah.
There's certain areas that
we don't use all year round.
Like we pull in the sun chair, you know,
those lounge chairs.
Yeah.
I mean, we're not using
those, but like near the,
you use the outdoor kitchen year round.
Right.
There's chairs right there and.
Right, right.
But yeah, I don't know.
Some people probably love
the spring cleaning and that.
And let me get all the flowers planted.
I don't know, are we
at that stage of life
where it's all just a chore?
I don't know, is that a stage of life?
It could be.
I mean, there was times,
I was thinking about that
in the shower this morning
that I do like this time of year
because it's always like, oh,
everything's refreshing
and you're putting new things in.
It is a chore to plant
new flowers and go buy them
and all that kind of stuff.
When you have, you know,
all these pots, it is a chore.
And I, you're right, I
don't look forward to it anymore
where it was very, at one
point in time, it was like,
let's get the yard looking
nice, you know, years ago,
but now it's just a chore to some degree.
So I would be, I was
thinking about even outside now,
it's like all these things
I want to do to the house
or to the yard.
It's like, oh, if we did
this, we could do this.
Oh, I'd love to do this over here
because everybody's doing that.
Our neighbors are doing things, you're
seeing things delivered,
you know, and it's just that
time of year where, you know,
going to Home Depot and
bringing over the workers.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's exciting and fun.
It is, you get that.
But it's more fun now
when other people do it.
Oh, you're like, hey,
yeah, we have a great handyman
who we use on just like
little things every now and again
around the yard, like, hey, we have,
sprinkler line got broken or whatever,
can you fix that or whatever?
I usually fix those.
Oh yeah, but what are some of the things?
Like he built our
fence and stuff like that
and he's fantastic.
There was one complex sprinkler break
that I didn't want to deal with
because it was like a
crisscross of multiple ones.
I'm like, you take care of that one.
Yeah, yeah, and he did
and he's awesome, you know,
but because he's so
great, there's so many things
that you're like, hey, I'd like to do
this in our backyard
and I'd be like, can you call Juan?
Like, he's fantastic.
And yeah, let's just do that.
Yeah, I know.
Maybe it's just lazy or
whatever it is, I don't know,
but I'm not enjoying it as much.
I talked about that last week, so.
Yeah.
Well, let's move on to something maybe
that was a boring segment of.
It was, yeah, but it was a--
We'll cut some of that down.
It was a full day.
It was a full day.
I'm actually paying for it a
little bit today with my knee.
Like, it's kind of mad at me.
Your knee's been giving you a tough time.
Well, I'm pushing it.
I feel like, oh, because you're pushing.
I'm walking more, I'm
pushing myself to do stairs.
You're carrying some things now
that I'm not sure you should be.
Yeah, like, and those
all kind of make it angry,
but I think it's all okay.
I mean, surgeon was
like, oh no, it's all great.
You have great stability and--
Other than the squeaking.
Oh my good Lord.
Did we talk about that last week?
I don't know.
My knee sounds like a squeaky door.
I mean, it's like,
(imitates squeaking)
every time I bend it.
Yeah.
It's incredible.
It's pretty funny, but
it only does it like 50%
of the time or so.
Only 50%.
And when you were the doctor.
It was not.
It wouldn't do it for him.
Yeah, he's like, oh, like
the crackly crunchy sound,
which actually sounds gross.
Like, if your body's
making a crackly crunchy sound,
I think I'd be way more nervous.
I know what he's talking about though.
Oh yeah, yeah.
I don't know, I was like,
no, this is a squeaky door.
Like, this is when he
kind of looked at me like,
never heard that one.
Yeah.
You know, like, if you
rub your finger on rubber,
you know, that kind of like--
It's just not a natural
noise to come from a knee.
It's not.
It doesn't sound human.
Yeah.
But yeah, it was so
loud that at the convention
that I was at last week, we
were in the convention center
with, I don't know, 1,000
people, 1,500 people or whatever.
I crossed my legs and my
coworker sitting next to me
was like, what was that noise?
That was my knee.
I mean, you know those
things are loud and it was heard.
Yeah, it's weird.
We'll see what happens.
We'll see what happens.
Well, I sound like a
creaky door my whole life.
Well, not according to your doctor.
He thinks up to a year
it'll take for those things
to go away, but it did
sound like it was a little bit
different than the one that he's used to.
Yeah, yeah.
It's not a crackly crunchy sound.
But there's just so much
going on this time of year
that I can't, I mean, it's a
good time to kind of push it
because I mean, there is a lot.
Because you gotta keep up.
You gotta keep up.
Like there's parties,
there's graduation ceremonies,
there's a-- End of school year.
End of school year.
End of sports year,
tryouts for the next year.
Yes.
Yeah, there's a lot happening right now.
Yes.
Was there that much
stuff when we were kids
around this time of year?
I don't think so.
Not like that.
The sports are a whole
other level here these days.
That's absolutely true.
And I'm trying to
think, I played club soccer
and I played AAU
basketball, but I don't remember ever
just going, going, going, going, going.
I mean, I remember going to,
I had to practice every day
for something.
Oh, for sure.
But it never felt like it as a kid.
Yeah.
But to your point
though, maybe this time of year
was magical because it
was the end of school year.
It was the end of school year.
And you just looked
forward to this summer.
I mean.
I know.
And you're like, oh, I
can't wait to sleep in.
It was just about
playing, getting on the bike,
the friend's house.
Yeah.
When I was younger, younger.
I don't really remember high school,
like what we did for this,
because by high school you're working.
Yeah.
It's just a different phase.
Yeah, you had a different,
you usually had a summer job.
Right.
I was working at the ice cream shop.
How about you?
I was working at the restaurant.
Nice.
Yeah.
I mean, it's just, I don't
recall it being this busy,
nor do I remember.
I mean, our kids,
maybe the high schoolers
have been learning stuff,
but like our younger two,
I feel like they're totally
done with learning anything.
Oh, at school, yeah.
They have field day and
play day and boat race day.
And I'm like, are you,
why do we even have
these last three weeks?
They could have gotten out in April.
I know, three weeks of it though.
That was, that's the point, right?
Is when we were kids,
I do remember cleaning up the classroom,
like those last two days maybe.
Yeah.
And that was so fun, clearing stuff out,
cleaning things up.
Your teacher needed help
taking all the, you know,
stapled stuff on the walls out.
I remember being, maybe first grade,
it was young because I was
still at Grant Elementary School.
So it was either
kindergarten or first grade.
And the teacher had a
whole bunch of leftover,
like Z-Rock copies of
those colored by dots.
So first you had to do
like one to two to three
to four to five to six.
You had to draw all of them in and over.
And then you colored it in.
And I just thought that
was like the coolest thing.
And I was like, I'll take them.
(laughing)
Oh, little Sean.
Yeah.
That's so cute.
I probably forgot him
and never brought him home
because I don't remember
what happened after that.
I'm sure you did.
I didn't spend all summer doing it.
I can tell you that.
I don't think you did not.
There were times when like
the kids would get things
like that and I would
keep them for the summer.
Like, oh, that's great.
Yeah.
They never once pulled them out, ever.
That's funny.
Yeah, we have all those
things that they're like,
oh, we want to keep
these and this and that.
So much junk.
Yeah.
Trash.
Yeah.
Not trash yet, because it's still sitting
in our attic or something.
I know, I know.
Go ahead.
No, I was, I used to
love helping the teacher
take everything down.
That shouldn't shock
you about my personality.
Not at all.
That's why it wasn't
shocking you helped your parents
do the patio furniture either.
(laughing)
What can I say?
I'm a helpful kind of gal.
I loved that stuff.
You know what the other thing I loved?
No.
I'm such a dork.
When we would get free
time, this is usually after,
now we have the star test
here, like the standardized test.
Yeah.
If we finished early, we got free time
if the whole class was done.
And the teacher would
let us use her math book
that had all the answers in it.
And you could write on the chalkboard.
And so like, I would
pretend I was teacher.
I mean--
In class?
Yeah, yeah.
Everybody watching you?
Oh no, and you know,
like everyone was kind of
doing their own thing.
You know, there were
other, some girls that also
like to write on the chalkboard.
Yeah.
It was not in high school though, right?
I hope not.
No.
(laughing) I remember second
grade Mrs. Plumer's class
specifically doing it.
Yeah, second grade.
That's good.
That's a little more sense, yeah.
Little, little Megan.
Little, little Megan, yeah.
Too funny.
But yeah, you're right.
But there was never three weeks of that.
No.
It was fun because you'd
have field day outside.
I think maybe it was
towards the end of it.
Maybe not even that far
towards the end of it.
But it was definitely never three weeks
of wrapping this thing up.
Yeah, yeah.
And struggling to find things to do.
Yeah, yeah.
They had a nature walk to,
you know, one of the parks
and like, I never had any of that.
It was like maybe the
last two days of school.
I'm not, you know, you don't have work.
Oh, speaking of walks, walk for mankind.
Did you guys ever do
the walk for mankind?
I know about it, but no, never did it.
Oh, we did.
We had to do it like every year.
I think it was on a
Saturday or something like that.
You had to get people, you had to sell.
This is one of the things
you sold candy bars for.
Oh, okay.
And then people would also sponsor you
for how many miles you walked.
Really?
Yeah, this was back
in the mid 80s, right?
When I remember, walk for mankind.
And I remember that.
I remember where it was
down in Colorado Springs,
but it was up into like a
beautiful mountainous area
and stuff like that.
Really cool.
It was by Chi-Chi's actually.
(laughs)
Do you remember what Chi-Chi's was?
Yes!
Yeah, there was a park just
across the street from that.
And it was down
there, but then it would go
into like a neighborhood area.
It was a 10 mile block
or something like that.
And it was long.
I remember it being long.
I don't know if I ever
finished it, but it was huge.
It actually went, now that I
think about it, it was long.
All those people who sponsored you,
they didn't get their money's worth.
Well, no, the world
didn't get its money's worth.
The world didn't get its money's worth.
The sponsors just
didn't have to pay as much.
Mankind got completely gypped.
My bad.
Oh, I walked as far
as I could, I remember.
It was long.
Those are long walks.
Now, was this through
the school or your family?
Through the school.
Most kids did it, but I
think you showed up and walked
with like on a Saturday with whoever you
wanted to walk with.
Yeah.
Right?
Yeah.
I don't remember the
specifics of it for sure,
but I just remember
doing it all the time.
It was always that warm
and just a long kind of walk.
It was kind of fun, I guess.
Yeah.
I was curious if it was national.
Other people did the
walk for Mankind back then.
So I've heard of it, I just never did it.
Okay.
I don't know if it
was something sponsored
through our school or not.
Yeah.
Do you remember we had like Hearty Heart?
No, never heard of that one.
Yeah, that was like, you know,
they gave you recipes for like healthy
eating and you know.
Just say no, like all of those,
I mean, I remember those campaigns.
Oh, for sure, those ones.
But, you know.
Yeah.
I learned it from watching you dad.
Everybody knows that one.
So great.
That's my egg.
Oh my gosh.
Yeah.
Those are just ingrained in our
generations minds for sure.
Yeah, we can have a whole episode.
I love that part of
the nostalgia part of it.
I don't know if you get to a certain age
and you start getting
nostalgic, more nostalgic.
About when you were younger.
I think so.
You know, I've talked about
it before on this show that,
you know, you're on
the, I've turned the corner
more than likely to the
second half of my life, right?
And I'm not saying that in
like a morbid way or, you know,
like a sad way or anything like that.
But I think at some
point you start thinking
about your own mortality, right?
And looking back and
trying to find, you know, like,
was this life I've lived good?
Yeah.
I do the things I want to do.
You start thinking through those things,
you like the good times were some of
those nostalgic events.
Yeah.
You know, that you
think back in your childhood
when things were so
innocent and stuff like that.
Yeah.
I don't know, I just
noticed like on Instagram,
I see things all the time now.
It's probably because
that's what I follow,
but like, like there's
just all these 80s nostalgia,
80s, 90s nostalgic
things that keep popping up
because I love them and
I'll show them to you.
I'm like, look at this,
do you remember these?
I was like, I had that, I had that.
Because I mean, there wasn't a,
you didn't have a whole 15, you know,
you didn't have 15 hours of toys.
There's only so many toys.
So it's like the one that
came out, you probably had.
Right, right.
Yes.
Yeah.
And like, oh my gosh, I
saw one the other day,
it was the Tupperware and
it's that massive orange bowl
and it was like, yeah, everybody who,
every kid in the 80s remembers this bowl
is the catching water
from the sink, popcorn,
fruit salad and throw up bowl.
And you're like, yep,
yep, that was what it was.
We put popcorn in there and for sure it
was a throw up bowl.
And grandma had one too.
And grandma had one
too and it was orange,
like that yellowy orangey color.
Oh, for sure, everybody
knows that back in the day.
The Tupperware parties.
Why was that ever a
color that was popular?
The 70s, it's a holdover from the 70s,
that green and the
orange, horrible colors.
And everybody knows exactly what color
we're talking about.
Everyone.
Yeah.
Why?
Yeah.
Why was some marketing,
well I can't call that
person a marketing genius,
like that's the color we should go with.
I'm just.
Well, if you look
back at the 70s and 80s.
(laughing)
The fashion sense, it was a growth.
It was times were
moving fast for humanity.
Yes they were.
Really putting themselves out there
and stretching fashion
and forward thinking.
Everyone's gonna love this orange color.
In silver, everybody was
wearing silver in the future.
In 2025, silver jumpsuits.
That's right.
That was like the futuristic.
Yeah, everyone wore silver.
Yeah.
Hate to tell you, 1970 marketers,
we don't all wear silver in the future.
Yeah, maybe in the future we do though.
By 2050, we're all wearing silver.
We're all gonna be reflective clothing.
Reflective.
It's like the next door neighbors.
(laughing) Christmas vacation.
They're running outfits.
Yeah, why is the carpet all wet, Todd?
That is a classic movie.
It is, it is.
So it's Top Gun, it was Top Gun days,
it was last Friday night.
Yes. Or Friday.
You watched it.
I just, okay.
Speaking of nostalgia.
Speaking of nostalgia, how old is it?
39 years old.
39.
The original Top Gun movie.
Yeah, and I mean,
although we were looking at
the actors then and now.
Some have held up better.
Some have held up, wow.
You look at Tom Cruise and you're like,
okay, he's obviously gotten older,
but you're like, basically the same.
And then you're like,
everyone else from the movie.
And you're like, oh,
rest in peace, Val Kilmer.
Yeah, that's sad.
That one's sad.
But such a good, I mean,
it just holds up though.
It does.
From the moment that
first chime comes in.
Oh, oh, oh.
Yeah.
Oh.
And our kids love it,
they wanted to watch it,
we've seen it a hundred times.
Oh yeah.
And the second movie was really good,
he did a good job bringing that back.
It was probably the best sequel.
Probably one of them.
That I've ever seen, it
gave you all the feels
just like the first one did.
It stayed true to the original,
but without going over the top.
There's a few that have done that, yeah.
And it's just like--
Godfather did that pretty well.
Mm-hmm.
Oh yeah, in fact, I think I
like the second one better
than the first. The first, yeah.
Yeah, so that was fun, Friday
night we had to do that too.
It was.
It was a great idea, you
brought it up on morning cereal,
our oldest, you know, was like,
hey, because he loves that movie.
I think he might wanna fly.
He spends a lot of his
time upstairs flying on a--
Simulator.
Simulator.
But I do wanna not get away
from the whole summer thing,
because there's all these opportunities
for our kids to do summer camps, right?
Yes.
A million different, church camp,
soccer camp, shooting
camp, whatever it is.
You know, bow and
arrow camp is what I mean.
But you know, archery, I guess.
Wow, what kind of, are
we talking basketball?
Yeah, yeah.
I'm good at shooting, I
went to a shooting camp
for basketball ones.
It was all about, yeah, shooting
mechanics and stuff.
Really?
Anyways, but I mean, I went to a lot,
I did do a lot of camps, I think.
And that was, times were different then.
But I mean, I don't remember,
I did a couple, I guess,
church camps that were,
you know, I would stay
for a couple nights, maybe.
But never many, yeah,
sleep away over nights.
What about you?
Not really, I did
brownie camp a couple years.
Yeah.
Because I was in brownies.
Never made it to Girl Scouts.
I'm not a, let's just be
honest, I'm not super outdoorsy.
I'm more of a, I'll carry Bradshaw this.
I'm more of an indoor gal.
And so brownie camp was fine.
You know, bathrooms were in the woods.
Yeah, so that's really my only experience
with a summer camp.
Oh, except for once I got to high school,
I did dance camp.
I was like, you
didn't do any dance things?
No, I did.
So in high school, we had dance camp.
And that was super fun.
So that was sophomore
through senior year, I did that.
See, in Colorado, maybe I
did this during the school,
but I think it was during the summer.
There was all kinds of camps.
And I did a lot, maybe a lot of these
camps I'm remembering,
I'm remembering were from
Cub Scouts or Boy Scouts.
Because we did a lot of those things,
which were fun, nature
things, you'd make stuff.
So maybe some of the ones I'm remembering
are things that we signed
up for through Boy Scouts.
Cub Scouts.
And those are always fun.
And then as we got older,
we would do sports camps
and some of the church
camps I talked about.
But our kids, we don't
really do that within that much.
Partially, and we use
this excuse all the time,
it's that four letter word, we're busy.
And the second we
don't have something to do,
and the summer's the one
time every now and again,
we don't have to re-clean the furniture,
we already covered that boring stuff.
So at some point, we do
have four or five hours
just to sit, relax and float in the pool
or play with the kids in the pool.
Right, right.
And instead of sending them
somewhere or going somewhere,
because we do enjoy time with family.
Like, you know, we only
had two of them last night,
but we played games for four
hours at the kitchen table.
Yeah, my cheeks still
hurt from laughing so hard.
Yeah, it was a lot of fun.
That was a ton of fun.
It was a ton of fun.
I still think you guys
cheated to beat us, but...
We did not!
I was just kidding.
It was all up and up.
It was pretty funny.
Like, twice versus two, like, when it
asks how many times.
Yeah.
Twice is actually the right answer,
even though it said two
on the back of the card.
Well, some trivia to pursue sticklers
might disagree, but...
But a lot of our friends send their kids
to some of these camps
and they invite our kids to go.
So we always wonder, are
we holding our kids back?
Are they not getting to have some of
these experiences that they should?
And we do a lot of fun things for our own
family vacations, though, too.
We do.
Like, I'm trying to maybe plan a camping
trip here the next month
that I know you may or
may not be excited about.
Yeah, camping's not.
Like, we're gonna go back to...
I'm more of an indoor girl.
Camping is something
you enjoy for a night,
and I think the boys really enjoy it.
Group in Colorado, how
can I not like camping?
I could do it for a
couple of nights, probably,
but more than that, I
wouldn't be able to.
Yeah.
I really like, you know,
once you get to a camp,
and we go just...
You have to find your own campsite.
We won't go to an actual
designated campsite, right?
You kind of just go off like, "Hey, I bet
we could find something
cool off of this road,"
and you drive down to it.
And so I really like the
hours, you know, in that afternoon,
when you're like,
"Yeah, we've set up camp.
We can kind of explore a little bit."
It's the best.
That's the fun stuff.
But once it gets to, like, dinner time...
No, I'm done.
Cooking out the hot dogs and then the
s'mores, all that stuff's not fun.
Like, just sitting around a campfire,
poking at it with a shaved
down, you know, aspen stick.
It's okay.
Branch.
No?
It's okay.
That's crazy, because you guys used to
vacation in Colorado.
Now, I know you guys rented...
We had a cabin, yeah.
And there was no...
Your family's, like,
super outdoors-ish, though.
Yes.
I fell far from the tree on that one.
Well, my parents don't camp.
Yeah.
But my siblings do.
They don't camp.
Your parents don't.
Oh, they've never...
They never really did.
They've never tend to
camp, as far as I know.
Oh, okay.
Ever.
And three out of the five of us, I think,
love to camp, whereas
the other two, we don't.
Yeah.
It's not really.
Interesting.
It's not our bag, baby.
It's not your bag.
Yeah, we...
I had never camped as
an adult until I met you.
And it's just the bathroom situation?
Is that it?
No.
Okay, so the bathroom
situation is really bad.
It's just awful.
That is so frustrating.
And we've taken all the steps that you
can at the camping stores to
glam that up as much as you can.
Yeah.
And it's still just like
that's work every time.
And so, well, there's that.
And you're like,
"Well, I'm eating hot dogs."
Which, okay.
Fire-roasted hot dog.
If you're gonna eat a hot dog,
that's the only way to do it.
But it's still like a hot dog.
I'd rather eat something a little nicer.
And you're sleeping on a super...
You're sleeping...
We do mattress, air mattresses.
But I can't sleep on that.
It's freezing cold.
I feel exposed.
Like, so I don't sleep.
So all the things that I really like,
good food,
comfortable bed, nice amenities,
are completely missing from this.
Scenario.
But none of that is substituted for just
getting out into nature
and smelling fresh air
and the smell of pines and
hearing that river just flow by.
That's why I like that afternoon stuff.
Because you can get that.
So you just like to picnic.
Yes.
I like to picnic.
I don't disagree.
It is hard to find because
those spots are hard to find.
And getting harder and harder every time
we go out there, I feel like,
to just meander up some road that's not
private property and find
a good spot that's open.
You'll have somebody down the road from
you that's by hopefully by a river.
Those are hard to come by.
They are.
I've never marked where
we've stayed at previously.
So we can go right back to that spot.
Right.
And you have always found good ones.
I can't complain about the spots that you
found, whether that was via luck or what?
Oh, it's pure luck.
Yeah. I mean, I do some before Google.
It's just luck.
You just try to find a spot and you keep
going down roads to find one.
But now I did try to find one at Google.
Remember the last time he went and it was
like, oh, shoot,
there's a private fence there.
Can't do that one.
Yeah.
But we had a good spot
the last time we went.
It was the people living
out of the van that we passed.
Like once we turned off the road that I
was a little afraid.
Yeah.
Half a mile still up the road.
Yeah.
A mountainous road.
Yeah.
So it's not like they're going to just
sneak up on us in the
middle of the night.
Yeah.
I mean, the man did have knives in the
back of his like behind him, like a
Deadpool kind of thing.
But.
These swords are knives.
Machete's.
They were big knives and they this family
was clearly living out of their van.
And I was a little nervous.
Yeah.
They had like toddlers though.
I mean, he's going to go kill us and
bring us back to the family.
Yeah.
Feed us to the dogs.
I don't know.
We're also armed.
So well, we found out later we found out
the next day that we were
in mountain lion territory.
Yeah.
Well, we're in mountain
lion territory where we live.
There's been mountain lion sightings
sightings, but that that
might that might be more of a.
Yeah.
Because the park ranger
was she was really funny.
The park ranger that saw us the next day,
we thought we were
getting on the way out.
Yeah.
She wasn't.
She didn't care at
all that we were there.
Right.
Yeah.
You're so nervous and she rolled out all
the kids were like,
we're going to get arrested.
Like guys, we're in a national park.
We're rule followers.
We're all rule followers.
There's no proof that we started a fire.
Yeah, we had already
doused it at that point.
There had clearly been
campfires in that area.
The way to do it, though, and the way
we've done it in the
past is we'll go there.
What we'll drive from here to Pueblo,
Santa Hotel in Pueblo,
get up early that morning.
We go river rafting,
which is a ton of fun.
Get a little bit of a
river raft bath for the day.
Yeah.
Then we head to camping after that.
And that's what always makes it tough
because it's after a half day of that.
So we quickly kind of find a
spot that we haven't found yet.
Set up camp, which
nobody enjoys that part of it.
Finding and setting up is the hardest
part and tearing down.
Because then it's like after Christmas,
you got to clean up.
Right.
Right?
But after that, after one or two days,
then we would go to SS
Park or that one time we went
to Colorado Springs and we just rented a
nice house in a nice area.
And then just enjoyed the
house for four or five days.
That's the way to do it.
Then you only have one night out, but we
get a feel for that.
Plus we get more of a feel
while we're in the house.
And the house in Colorado Springs was the
one that had the bear.
Yes.
That was as close as you and I are.
I mean, you threw a window, but...
Yeah.
Well, we would have
broken that window easy.
Yeah.
Like our son's sitting in
the window and the bear is...
Walks right by.
Right there.
That was crazy.
Yeah.
Was that a...
It looked brown, but it
was a black bear, right?
That was a black bear for sure.
Yeah.
Okay.
Big black bear.
It was big.
Yeah.
And when it's, you know, a foot from you
on another side of a thin piece of glass.
Yeah.
That's a huge, like, you know, looking...
What is this?
Yeah.
It was like a...
Yeah.
I don't know what else...
Bay window.
Yeah.
It was a big window.
Yeah.
Because you could sit in it.
Like...
There was like a nook
there that you could sit in.
Yeah.
Just a little pressure on that and he
would have come right on in.
Really?
I love it.
Well, we wondered why there was like, you
know, do not, you know...
Feed the bears.
Yeah.
Don't feed the bears and like
close the sliding glass door.
Don't you just use the screen door.
Right.
There's locks on the trash cans.
Same thing in this park though.
Remember there was bears there.
People were like banging
their pans while we were there.
Do you remember that lady running up the
street banging the pans?
Yeah.
I mean, she looked
like the village crazy.
She was over the top.
She didn't look like it.
She was the village crazy.
She was the village crazy.
She's like, "I just saw a bear."
And you're like, "Okay, I didn't and I've
been here the whole time."
And are you wanting to cook it?
I don't think...
I think you need a bigger pot.
Get in my pan.
Some bear soup.
Oh yeah.
Anyway.
So we'll figure that one out.
But yeah, I mean, this is the last week
of school as we head into close here.
Yep.
Last week of school, we're
going to close out this episode.
We'll close out the school year.
Yeah.
In fact, by the time this airs, our
children will be on
their first day of summer.
Yep.
Which is nice for us too because that
turns into summer routines too.
Yes.
We don't have to get up.
We get like an extra hour of sleep.
Yep.
Yep.
Which is a beautiful thing.
We don't have to leave, you know, you
primarily don't have to leave.
You don't have to work to go pick up the
kids at three o'clock in
the afternoon, you know,
and just like, just that
interruption of the day.
Yeah.
It's filled with other
interruptions, but...
Yeah.
It's all good.
Summer's here.
Gotta love summer.
It's hard not to love
summer in every shape and form.
Really is.
Vacations, camping,
sleeping in, swimming, s'mores.
I mean, there's
certain things associated.
Picnics, stargazing.
Love picnics.
Bikes.
I have not.
Can't wait to get on my BMX.
Yeah.
Mosh pits.
Mosh.
Mosh-ing by yourself.
That's funny.
All right.
Well, let's think.
All right.
We'll think about our words here.
Okay.
All right.
So we'll count to three.
This will be the word that
sums up the last week for us.
Yep.
All right.
You ready?
Yep.
One, two, three.
Anticipation.
Stick-to-it-edness.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
Nice.
Anticipation for summer for you?
Or just the end of the year?
End of the year.
Like, I feel like everyone--
The stick-to-it-iveness is
really, I think, insightful.
I like that.
Everybody this week,
as busy as the week was,
I think everyone is in such good spirits
because of school
coming to an end or whatever.
So no matter how busy they were, they
were like, "It's okay.
I just got to do this
for another week or two.
I got this."
Yeah.
We're on the last.
We're on the last.
Last Thursday.
Yeah.
Last full Friday.
Right.
No more Fridays in school.
You know, like, and so that
stick-to-it-ness, anticipation,
like it was all just, it kind of needed
both to get through the week.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So.
Well, good.
All right.
Well, I hope everybody had
a good last week of school.
If you kids were in the last week of
school, some people,
big changes.
People going to
different schools next year.
Some people going to colleges.
You know, stands of time.
I know.
Graduation parties.
I know a lot of our graduation parties.
Some people were hosting
graduation parties this week.
So if you were, I hope you had a
fantastic time and you got
to celebrate your graduate.
That's exciting.
Congratulations.
That's awesome.
Awesome.
Fantastic.
All right.
Well, hey, have a great week.
Thanks for watching.
Thanks for tuning in.
Yeah.
Have a good one.
Catch you later.
See ya.