Mr. & Mrs. Inglis

All aboard the chaos express! If you’ve got a ticket for this ride, you already know it. It’s the one where there’s never enough time in the day—kids’ schedules outpace yours, work demands keep piling up, and oh yeah, the laundry, dishes, mowing the lawn, and bills aren’t going to handle themselves. Let’s not forget staying connected with friends and family, even though you planned to be in bed by 9 pm…but it’s now 11 pm, and tomorrow starts before the sun does. Sound familiar?

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

Follow and subscribe to the Mr. & Mrs. Inglis podcast and visit our channel and our website at shaeninglis.com to check out and follow our other podcasts. You can also follow Shaen and Meghan @ShaenInglis on Instagram, YouTube, or at shaeninglis.com. Feel free to share the Mr. & Mrs. Inglis podcast with someone who would enjoy and benefit from our weekly discussions.

What is Mr. & Mrs. Inglis?

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

Follow and subscribe to the Mr. & Mrs. Inglis podcast and visit our channel and our website at shaeninglis.com to check out and follow our other podcasts. You can also follow Shaen and Meghan @ShaenInglis on Instagram, YouTube, etc. Feel free to share the Mr. & Mrs. Inglis podcast with someone who would enjoy and benefit from our weekly discussions.

[MUSIC]

This is a very nostalgic episode

apparently, but I mean,

this is just the

signs of the time, right?

We're getting old.

And so here's the deal, people.

[LAUGH] People don't call them thongs anymore.

Cuz it's pretty small, which is fast.

But we have pictures from the day we met.

I gave two of them almost black eyes.

That's what makes prison fun.

A ukulele savant.

Cuz that's not one of my talents.

Love the mix tapes.

You too?

No judgment, but a

little bit of judgment here.

I was reliving my childhood.

KIKX kicks from the 2.7.

KDWV.

How about hits?

In 98.9, Magic FM.

Anything to say, any words

of wisdom for the audience?

First.

Corrected that it's ukulele.

Yeah, I mean, that's

kind of a drop mic moment.

Welcome to the Mr. and

Mrs. English podcast.

I'm Megan.

And I'm Shum.

We're here to talk about

the wild ride of raising kids,

growing careers, keeping life together

in the middle of all the chaos.

So buckle up, because

we're all in this crazy journey

together.

Try to find a better--

Then bop.

Yeah, because sometimes I

can't tell when the bop comes out.

Oh, yeah, so T.

So I was trying to just

find another sound that's

very specific to--

Yeah.

That.

You know, it's just hard to find.

Oh, well, welcome.

Welcome.

Can you believe we're in May already?

Yes.

No, I cannot believe

we're in May already.

It's fine.

I mean, the year's fine.

Even the kids are saying that now.

So--

Yes.

That's how we're getting even older,

because as you get

older, time goes by faster.

Yeah.

And even our children

are being like, you know,

saying that the years are flying by.

Yeah, they can't believe

that school's almost over.

Yeah.

I can't believe that

school's almost over.

Crazy.

It's insane.

We have a freshman

graduating from his freshman year.

Yes, yes.

I was like, wow, he's Doogie Howser, man.

Doogie, that's a great callback.

Nicely done.

Oh, we should--

we should like watch a Doogie Howser.

Oh, I wonder if that's

one the kids would like.

You always try to find

like a series they may like.

Yeah.

You know, if it's anything

like anything else in the 80s

and 90s, it probably has, you know,

cussing, topless women.

Yeah.

I mean, I know it was on--

It was on national-- like an ABC or CBS.

Like it was prime time.

So I don't think it had any--

These were just

different back then as we've

come to figure out and

watch movies with the family.

True.

Although it was just a

16-year-old who was a doctor

or something.

I don't even know that he could drive

himself to the hospital.

Yeah.

So maybe it's a

little bit family friendly.

That's true.

But no, our Doogie is not

graduating from high school

going to college.

He's graduating freshman

going to be a sophomore.

Yes.

Which is crazy, though.

I was just--

That's insane.

That was the point.

That's insane.

Our kids are all the first

year at their school this year.

So that always comes with

just a whole bunch of logistics

in the beginning of the

year figuring it all out

and how the new

schedule is going to work.

But next year, we

kind of get to repeat it.

Nobody changes schools this

year or going into next year,

which is fantastic.

Yeah.

And it's more fun for

them because two of them

are kind of the top of their school.

So they're like two-year schools.

They're the bottom.

Now they're the top.

They're the big kids on campus.

Yeah.

And not the high school.

But it's weird because

there are high schools here

that are high schools,

freshman and sophomore,

and then senior high

schools, junior and senior, which is

just--

that's a new concept

to me coming from what

I knew from me growing up.

Yeah.

Although, yours was weird.

You're in a four-year

high school, though, right?

Yes.

As most high schools are.

I think most are.

Yeah.

Mine went there.

But when I went to my high school,

my junior high was

seventh, eighth, and ninth grade,

which was weird.

So freshman sports, we

actually did walk across the street

to where the high school was.

And we would play the high

school sports as freshmen.

But we were Holmes

Hawks, not Coronado Cougars.

So it was just weird.

And so when I was a sophomore--

You were really a freshman.

I was really a freshman.

So you're the opposite of Dooky Howser.

I was the opposite.

And I always have been.

That's not true.

I said that for Comic Relief.

Yeah, that was great.

No, it was good.

Then the next year,

though, they went to a four-year

at that high school.

Seriously?

So you had to be--

you were like the kind of

the freshman twice, almost.

No, not really,

because then I was a junior.

But the incoming sophomores, who would

have been the bottom--

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

They ended up not being the bottom,

because they ended up

coming in with a freshman class.

Got it.

So they never had to be--

They never got to be at the bottom.

Yeah, that would be the

class of 96 for auto high school.

Bunch of softies.

Yeah.

They never had to-- they

never had it as hard as most of us

did.

Right, right.

Speaking of hard, having it hard,

if I'm a little out of breath right now,

we're squeezing this one in.

It's over a lunch period.

I know.

Lunch period.

We blocked off our calendars

at lunchtime to get this done,

because we're way behind this week.

You have a one o'clock.

Yeah, I do.

Yeah.

So we have a little bit

of time to squeeze this in.

It worked.

This weekend, while it

shouldn't have been--

It shouldn't have been super busy.

It felt like it was.

Yeah, no.

They always feel busy.

Anyway, you had a very busy--

Well, just my morning.

Your morning's been insane.

We had all this rain.

So here's the deal, people.

We've talked about it

a little bit before.

And we built this house three years ago.

We started, and we lived in

it for maybe a year and a half

now.

Maybe it's been three

and a half year process.

Or it's been a while.

Been a while.

Long story short, I mean, everybody

knows there's just

struggles and new houses.

Things get to know with them and whatnot.

But one of the things we've really

struggled with at this

house is getting it to be waterproof.

So there's been a couple of times

the roofers had to come back.

And we can hear stuff in the walls.

Ding, ding, ding.

Literally three or

four I can think of just

off the top of my head.

A couple of them I fixed.

A couple of the roofers had to come fix.

Oh, yeah.

One of the issues-- and I understand.

This is first world problems here.

But we've got a spa off of our master--

we have a master

courtyard off our master bathroom.

And there's a spa that was

supposed to be in ground.

So you kind of walk out to

it and step down into it.

So it was level with the actual patio.

So kind of contemporary.

Well, the first rain, we come to find out

that the drainage system for

that spa, which is outside,

it's sitting in a

concrete bathtub, basically.

It's sitting down in there.

And then there's decking around it.

So it was flat with the decking.

Well, the drainage too ran to nothing.

It literally ran into clay ground.

So the first big rain, it

flooded the entire hot tub.

I mean, brand new.

So we fixed that one.

I actually put in a sump pump.

Worked well.

Flooded again.

It was a engineering genius.

It really was.

I appreciate you.

You're always quick

to give me confidence.

I really appreciate that.

You go too far.

Thank you.

So I put that in.

I had a pump failure.

This has been learning

give and take, give and take.

Every time I'm learning, one time we

had to pay a guy to

replace the pumps in the hot tub.

We did that like two or three times.

It was like more than once.

250 a pop.

And there was like

$700 every time they came.

So it was getting expensive.

So I was trying to figure it out myself.

I've now figured out

how to take the pumps out,

drain them of water, clean them out.

Well, every time I think I have it,

man, something goes wrong again.

And again, this morning I've got water

sensors down there now.

So my phone goes off if

water gets to two inches.

And then there's another one if it gets

to six inches, which

is right below the bottom of the hot tub

because we had the hot tub

raised 10 inches in there.

So now we can at least have 10 inches of

rain before it floods.

I gave into that.

So it's not level anymore.

Well, I mean, the thing is

just I cannot get it right.

And with all this rain, it's just

flooding our backyard.

And that was one of the things, drainage.

Nobody would step up.

And I'm talking a lot here.

So maybe I'm getting-- this is an um-pave

segment right up front.

But this is good for people to know

they're building a house.

All right, everybody's

going to build their house

in the next couple of years.

So you need to know this.

Yes.

Somebody needs to step up to

the plate on the building team

and take responsibility.

And unfortunately, I

understand the liability

for handling the drainage of your house.

Now, we have a large lot.

It's two acres.

It's on a little bit of an incline.

It's got quite an incline, actually.

But there's a couple of spots.

It definitely collects rain at.

Oh, yeah.

And because of how our house

had to be dug in to make sure

it wasn't sitting way up

here and whole kinds of things,

it doesn't drain that well.

And nobody wanted to

take that liability on.

And now it's up to me.

I'm watching it.

So I'm out there literally running,

trying to get to this taping.

Yeah.

I'm out there-- because

it happened so quickly.

I'm in sandals, like flip flops.

Right?

I couldn't see that part.

Yeah.

What do those things call?

Like thongs?

What do people call those?

Flip flops.

Yeah, they're just flip flops.

Yeah.

People don't call them thongs anymore.

That has a totally

different meaning nowadays.

Yeah.

Well, I figured, well, it's

that song, the thong song.

Because everybody goes to vacation,

where there's thongs out there.

Because you don't

want-- you can take them off

and you get into the

sand, and your feet get hot,

and you put the thongs back on.

Is that what that song's about?

Pretty sure.

You should check it out.

Anyways--

Still never heard it.

You know Cisco's thong song.

[HUMMING]

OK, I'm getting way longer on this.

But I've been outside

digging in our dirt, in our grass.

In the pouring rain.

In the pouring rain, yeah.

I mean, we have what, 10

inches in like 30 minutes?

Well, 10 would be a lot.

It was ridiculous.

But the rain gauge showed 3 and 1.5.

OK, 3 and 1.5 in 30 minutes?

In like 30 minutes, yeah.

So anyways, make sure

somebody takes care of the drainage.

It's something I'm going to

be dealing with for a while

at the house.

Yeah.

It takes a while.

Well, we always said,

we're like, well, you kind of

got to live there to

see where the water flows.

And it was just like--

Well, that was it.

We had people come out and look at it.

And they're like, oh,

yeah, yeah, yeah, $125,000.

We'll do this.

I'm going to have a pump system.

And this pulley system,

we're going to put huge--

I was like, well, why don't we just see

where the water goes.

And then we'll put the $2 billion

drainage tube system in.

Yeah.

Right?

So we do have some in the ground where we

kind of knew it was.

Yeah.

It was not done correct, because I mean,

you got high points.

You got high spots, low spots.

Unfortunately, water only runs downhill.

Is that how that works?

I'm pretty sure it is.

I'm called Doogie.

Let's see.

I'm sure he knows.

Doogie would totally know.

Doogie.

Doogie, yes.

Or his buddy.

Can't remember his name now.

Oh, I don't know.

I'm going to have to--

Miguel?

I don't know.

I have to Google it.

I'm not close enough

to be like, that's it.

So that was some of the fun this morning.

I'm sure a lot of people were

involved in the Dallas area,

at least, in that rain that we got today.

Well, and then, directly beef.

So that was up until like

five minutes before taping.

And so before I came

back here, I was like, oh,

take the puppy out.

Like, being left alone.

Who knows what she's

going to do in the house?

Take her out.

There's a massive white peacock that I

was chasing around--

I saw you.

An idiot, like, on a

newly reconstructed knee,

holding her little eight-pound puppy.

And I was, at one point, carrying the--

Cool brush.

Brush to try to scare it,

because all it was doing

was running in a circle.

So I was like, I'm

smarter than this thing.

I tried to cut it off.

And then it just ran the other way.

Around the pool.

Around the pool, and whatever.

And the dog's going crazy in my arms.

She is a small game hunting dog.

But I mean, let's be honest.

The peacock outweighs her by 20--

I mean, peacocks are big people.

They're big.

They're big birds.

They are.

Carnivores are here, too.

So I'm glad you're getting it off.

Yeah.

Anyway, and I also

didn't want her running

through the muddy yard, because, again,

the drainage issues,

we have--

She got swept away in those torrents.

Yes.

I mean, she was running through them.

And--

She could have got

stuck in one of the tubes.

What was that baby's name?

Remember that baby that got--

Baby Jessica.

Who was stuck in the well?

Stuck in the well.

I remember watching that.

That was terrifying.

I've kind of been scared

of wells ever since then.

I saw some update on her 10 years ago,

where she's just a housewife now.

A regular person.

I don't know if she's a

housewife, but she's--

47 years older.

Adult as kids.

Yeah.

It was crazy.

It was insane.

Anyways, Paris could

have been the new baby--

She could have been the new baby Jessica.

Hopefully, we would

have gotten her out safely.

Anyway, all she was--

she chased it.

She's very fast.

She may be small, but she's fast.

And she was running through water.

Anyway, she chased it.

It ended up on the roof.

So then you tried to get it off the roof.

So by this time, I

actually came back outside,

because I was laughing.

I was laughing

watching you the first time,

only for a second or two.

And then I had that--

I hate this age, because oh my gosh, I

wish I had my phone.

I should be taping this.

You know what I mean?

Do you remember when--

this is a very

nostalgic episode, apparently.

But I mean, this is

just the signs of the time.

We're getting old.

But there was a time,

obviously, when we used film.

And we went to

Walgreens and dropped it off.

And you had to be really--

I remember-- I didn't

have money growing up.

And I remember being like, well, I only

have 21 pictures on this

film, or whatever it was.

Do you know what I mean?

So I got to be really careful about what

I take a picture of.

I can't waste film.

Because it's a commodity.

There's only so much of it.

Anyways, nowadays, you can just take

pictures of anything.

And you forget to just enjoy the moment,

because you're like, god,

I got to get this on tape,

because I'll never watch it ever again.

Our kids actually do watch it.

They watch it a lot.

They love it.

So the way that our kids watch it--

I don't know if everybody

else's kids are like this,

but we use Apple TV.

And Apple TV, if you set

it to your Apple ID and all

that kind of stuff, your

pictures, your picture library.

Because they're all on my phone.

My library is the one signed up for it.

So any picture or video

I take is on the library.

So they, all the time,

they'll go through just pictures

and watch them.

They'll go through old ones.

So they do get to see those pictures.

It's a different way of living, honestly.

They're growing up differently.

They like to watch the videos of them,

whether it's Easter egg hunts, which I

wouldn't have thought

those would be super interesting.

But it's super cute looking back on it.

And they're just like--

you hear those little

voices that are no longer

little voices anymore.

Like, I found the golden egg.

Well, that's what--

you think about it.

That's what people

used to take pictures for.

You'd put them in a picture album.

You'd pick the best ones.

You'd put them in a picture album.

And you'd turn the pages.

We have picture albums in this house.

Of course we do.

Because we're of that age.

When we met, they didn't have an iPhone.

That's right.

We truly have picture pictures of us.

We don't actually have

a digital picture of us

when we first met.

We have a picture-- and this is cool.

I think we've talked about this before.

But we have pictures from the

day we met, multiple pictures

from the day we met.

Almost a timeline from the

boat that we're on together.

We have your camera

separately from my camera.

Pictures on that boat.

We are parasailing.

And then I got the courage up.

We went out that night.

I asked you to hang out

with the group that night.

So we have pictures

of us out on the town.

Where did we go?

Senior frogs, right?

I think it was senior frogs.

So it's really cool.

We have those pictures of us literally

within hours of meeting each other.

Right.

We have pictures of us dancing.

Smiling and laughing with each other.

Really cool.

But we put those there

now in a picture book.

Yeah.

A photo book.

We're not going to do that anymore.

So my whole point to this-- I'm getting

so long winded today.

I'm on speed, but I feel like we've got

to get to your 1 o'clock.

[LAUGHTER]

Which is coming up.

The point to this is we

don't take pictures anymore

for photo books.

Photo books were easy to look through,

because you would have a

whole year in 100 pictures

at the most.

60, 30 pictures.

Now, my phone has 16,000 pictures on it.

I bet there's people watching that have

30,000 on their phone.

When are we going to have time to ever go

back and look at those?

It's not like we're

going to make picture books.

We're going to shut-terfly all this.

Yeah.

And I'm terrible about,

ooh, that was a bad picture.

I should delete it.

I have four-- I'll take a

series of four pictures,

and two of which are

good, two of which are bad,

and it's the exact same thing.

But it's a luxury to

just click the button.

So here's an update, everybody, too.

Megan has taken feedback and

applied it incredibly well.

I think on this show, I

complained about the fact

that I always take the pictures.

I don't exist in any

pictures, because I'm

taking all the pictures,

unless it's a family selfie.

I don't exist.

I was never around.

There's no photo evidence of

a father in this household.

Up until a month or two ago.

I think you planted that

seed, and now you actually

think about taking

pictures of doing things.

So thank you for doing that.

I appreciate it.

You're welcome.

We have a lot of pictures.

And we've had so many

family things lately

that there's been a lot of

opportunity to take pictures.

Yeah.

Like the cornhole game in

the backyard this weekend.

And I guess that's what we were doing.

Instead of doing Mr. and Mrs. Inglis,

we were playing cornhole.

Yeah, played cornhole with the kids,

played some Frisbee with the kids.

I gave two of them almost black eyes.

That is fair.

Yes, you did.

Our poor daughter.

It's like this cut.

She's got like a second eyebrow on the

side of her eyebrow.

It's all red.

It was--

It's bruised.

To be fair, it was one of those--

she can normally catch it.

And I gave her the oldest one as well.

But it was a little windy that day.

And everybody knows that

when you throw a Frisbee,

every now and again, it'll

get that waft of air under it

or some air pressure pushing down on it.

And it'll just--

out of nowhere, just

kind of move up six inches

or move down a foot, something like that.

That's what makes Frisbee fun.

Until you get hit in the face.

It was like within like 20 seconds,

both of them just got bop bop, you know,

with a Frisbee from Dad.

Well, good for you.

I did not get those videos on camera.

Those have been great to get.

Like I did not have you pelting our kids.

You know, it was fun.

We talk about too on

this, like just trying

to enjoy those moments.

And that was one

where I remember thinking,

there's so much to get done.

I was behind on getting stuff outside.

I'm behind on getting the lawn mowed.

I'm behind on some of

these spring cleanup things.

And that was a day that I

literally was just like,

I'm not.

I'm going to just put that out of my head

and enjoy some time with the kids.

Yeah.

And it was fun.

It was a ton of fun.

I love spending time.

I love spending time with them.

You know, if we could afford to have

people do everything

for us in our lives, it would be great.

But unfortunately, we have to do dishes

and laundry and mow.

Drainage.

Create complex drainage

systems and our property.

That's right.

Design, engineer, and execute.

Yeah.

Which is your expertise?

Design, engineer, and execute.

I would say like those are three words

I would use to describe you.

Yeah.

Missed my calling on some things.

Just wasted on finance.

We're not OK, I think.

Should've been a ditch digger.

Really good at designing, digging, and--

That pickaxe feels so good in my hands.

That's right.

So yeah.

So that was fun.

We had a weekend that

was a little bit more open

because of that.

Yeah.

And the weather was so nice.

And of course, we've paid for

it because the last two days,

it's just been constant rain.

Yeah.

But it was ready.

I mean, we're getting these May, April

showers out of the way,

which destroy and flood our

spa, which we've talked about.

And once that's done, now

we've got to take the time

to go out and get some--

we've got to get some

flowers, and some plants,

and the annuals that we've got to plant.

Yeah.

It's all the regular stuff, though.

And one more thing

added to the to-do list.

So in addition to all

the year-end celebrations,

planting spring flowers, you

know what we were invited to?

Super proud of this.

I mean, like, we should build this up

just a little bit more.

I mean, just when you

think you can't be more

proud of your children, right?

I mean, they're getting

105s on their Spanish tests.

And two grades of up, honors, math.

They're all playing at the

highest level of their sports.

But just when you think

you can't be more proud,

they're all kind.

They're all thoughtful.

You've got to put that in there, too.

But just when you think--

Just when you think they

couldn't get any more excellent,

they have proven in their music class to

be a ukulele savant.

Ukulele savant is what she said.

That's exactly what she said.

That's what I said.

In case you thought

she said something else.

Or I think I've been

corrected that it's ukulele.

I was going to correct you, but I just

didn't want to be that guy.

Again, I was corrected by

the savant, who has been--

It's our youngest.

It's our youngest, who was asked

to-- or actually qualified

to be in the golden ukulele

competition.

I'm going to let that sink in.

Yeah, I mean, that's kind of a drop mic

moment in our family's

lives.

It was.

Almost so much so that I would like

report it as spam in

my work email folder,

because I was like,

what in the world is this?

And then I realized it

was from the music teacher,

and it was real.

Yeah, I mean, when you told me we were

having that discussion

laughing, but I'm like, the what?

The who?

The when?

What?

Yeah, that kid's playing the what?

I didn't even know.

I hadn't even heard of it.

I didn't even know it was a thing.

Doesn't have one at the house.

No.

Yeah.

I didn't even realize

that he was super musical.

Like, we've kind of

figured out the oldest--

our oldest son is musical.

He can pick up things on the piano.

Got a great pitch.

Great pitch.

He likes to sing.

The youngest I always kind of thought

was more like

artistic from like a drawing.

He's good at drawing.

Yeah.

We found his musical calling.

Yeah, that's right.

That's right.

Well, we'll see.

I mean, he's practicing now.

I got a little more information on it.

It's a group.

They had to pick a group.

She's got three people in his group now.

OK.

They all have to

simultaneously play, get this, bye bye bye.

They have to play it in

sync, bye bye bye, bye in sync.

Are they going to dance when they do it?

You know, they're going

to do the Deadpool dance.

Is that what it is?

I think so.

So everybody knows it

as the Deadpool dance.

Well, I mean, what

other song screams ukulele--

and yes, I said it that way--

like bye bye bye?

I mean, if I was going

to play an ukulele song,

I mean, I would narrow

it down to probably--

I mean, the thong song,

which we've already hit on,

is a great one you could do it with.

Actually, I think you could.

Yeah, think about those strings.

Pun intended.

Pun totally intended.

Secondarily, in syncs bye bye bye.

Yeah.

Right?

Yeah.

Uh-huh.

It's got to be.

So quick side note here.

Have you ever been to an in-sync concert?

No, have you?

I have.

I have been.

I'm a little jealous.

I took my youngest sister as

an excuse to go see in sync.

They played it mile high.

I can't remember if it was

still a mile high at that point

or not, but it was in--

but yeah, back in the day

when they were at their height.

I think there were 80,000 people, I

think, there and whatnot.

But I bring that up

because I liked in sync.

I still like in sync.

But again, this is one

of those things-- maybe

it was my friend group

or who I hung out with,

but I took a lot of flack for, again,

having a fairly diverse music collection.

Yeah.

Question mark?

Yeah, that's right.

I mean, I like Celine.

I mean, I've been open about the fact

that I enjoy the Spice Girls,

even though I know they're not

quality per se.

But they spoke to me

at some point in time.

In fact, I think I had a

girlfriend at the time.

They hated the fact that

I liked the Spice Girls.

I don't know.

I think she thought I had a

crush on them or something.

I was like that in junior high when my

junior high girlfriend

watched Patrick Swayze

and Tom Cruise, I think,

and Melrose Place.

I remember just being like, I am so

jealous that you probably

think these guys are good looking.

But I grew out of that,

right, as you mature out of that.

No, but I had an older

girlfriend that was jealous

of the fact that I liked the Spice Girls.

Always very short, I took slack for some

of the musical groups

that I enjoyed.

But I do remember in

syncs, bye, bye, bye,

I'm going to bring it back around.

Yeah.

They played that specifically, that song

specifically for me.

And by they, I mean one of my good

friends at his wedding.

And they pulled me out.

I mean, they called me

onto the dance floor.

And everybody knows now

it's the Deadpool dance.

But back then, it was the in sync bye,

bye, bye, bye dance.

Performed by Shawn Ingles.

Performed by me at a very low level,

because that's not one of my talents.

I wish.

Either, I should say.

I wish I had known you back then.

I would have loved to see this.

Oh, so out of character.

I was still so introverted and scared of

everything back then.

I mean, I was probably

just sweat, you know,

just profusely, just died inside.

But I tried to own it as much as I could.

You have to.

You know, I own it for fully, so.

Yeah.

I mean, and it is, it's

hard not to dance to that song.

Yeah.

You know, there's lots

of things on YouTube,

try not to laugh or try

not to sing or whatever.

Like that's one where it's

hard not to sing to it or like,

I mean, everyone knows that.

I mean, we just kind of grew

up and it was pop, you know?

I like rap, you know, we

grew up with rap, you know?

I fully appreciate

your diverse music taste.

Now we do diverge on Spice Girls.

I find them, I don't like their music is,

that's the only thing.

It's not that I care

about like the people.

I'm sure all of the

girls of the Spice Girls

are great people.

It's just their music

never really spoke to me.

So that's one that I'm like, okay.

I usually skip it when

it comes on our playlist.

And I'm glad you said that,

but I just wanted to make

sure that people knew that.

I wasn't like going to,

they're not my go-to these days.

I just don't mind them.

Yeah.

They're in our music catalog.

Yeah.

And even you'll skip

some of like the more.

Yeah.

We don't have, I mean, I

guess we have all their albums,

but they don't, we have so many songs.

They don't come on that often.

And by we, it's, I have

them just via marriage

and you had them.

And so I inherited the library when I.

Wait, wait, wait.

Didn't you have the Spice Girls poster?

No.

How did we have that?

Where do we get that Spice Girls poster?

It's your Spice Girls poster.

No, I don't have, I never

had a Spice Girls poster.

I've never had a Spice Girls poster.

Now, new kids on the block,

obviously I'm going to own that.

Right.

Completely.

But no, did the kids get that at some

book fair or something?

I don't know.

I think maybe our daughter

brought that home or something.

Yeah.

It doesn't make sense

because they're way past, anyway.

And that's an older poster.

Who knows?

We do have a Spice Girls poster.

It is not up in the house.

We just have a Spice Girls

poster in the house somewhere.

That reminded me, I got a

whole bunch of Spice Girls stuff

for like Christmas

when you're as gag gifts

from the same friend that

made me go out and sing in sync.

They all gave me some gag

gifts for Spice Girls stuff.

I don't remember what they were anymore,

but that same

ex-girlfriend, she threw it all away

because she was so mad about it.

So hopefully she's, I'm

sure she doesn't listen

to this kind of stuff.

I'm not trying to

throw her under the bus.

She also threw it away.

This is the same

girlfriend that threw it away.

You know how everybody

keeps like keepsake boxes?

So I had like pictures of like prom

and my high school girlfriend.

So my junior high

girlfriends, all that kind of stuff.

Like, you know, just letters

from them or cards from them.

Trashed, all of it.

I had a box of all

those keepsakes, you know,

like the glass that had

my prom inscription in it,

you know, the champagne glass.

These are just nostalgic keepsakes.

For you, that she had

no right to do that.

One of the, yeah.

One of the things I'm so mad about

is I had a whole thing of tapes.

Like, I don't know if anybody had it,

but I had a tape thing that you could put

like four tapes across and

it was like four by four, 16.

And then you rolled it and it had Velcro.

So it was kind of like a

baton at the end of the day

if you rolled it all up.

But those are all filled with like tapes,

like cassette tapes that were like,

like that people would make for you

or that I made for other people.

Yeah, all the mixed tapes.

Mixed tapes, thanks, I

couldn't think of that.

Love the mixed tapes.

Right, all the mixed tapes.

Even the mixed tapes that I just made,

literally back in the day when you

listened to the radio

and you knew your

favorite song was gonna come on

and you're hitting record

and play at the same time.

So you could get it.

Yeah, you might miss the first note or

something like that.

But yeah.

All those were thrown

away in there too, so mad.

That's...

That actually irritates me

because those are pieces of your past.

I met you, we were mid to late 20s.

You were late 20s, I was mid 20s.

And yes, I will remind everyone of that.

Be like, "I was mid."

I was like, "No, no, you were late."

Anyway, but because those

are keepsakes from a time

when I didn't know you, I would have

liked to enjoy those.

Like, because it's a piece of your past,

it would have been

really nice even for me.

And it's like, that's the

most selfish, crazy thing.

I know. Sorry.

I am super judgmental on that.

Like, that's just...

You're giving all girlfriends a bad name.

Yeah, a lot of baggage there that I've

let go of in the year.

But that does, the fact

that she threw that away

really does still irk me today.

Because not that I did

all this stuff in it,

but there were some things in it that

would have just been...

Like, I'd love to see a

picture of you from prom.

Yeah, I have another, my

junior high girlfriend,

who you, have you ever met her?

You know of her though.

I told her the same thing

that that box was thrown away.

And it made her mad too.

And she's just a friend.

Right. You know what I mean?

Even then it's like part

of my history, our past.

Of course.

And she's mad that

that got thrown away too.

Even though it really has no value today,

but it's just a piece of history.

You know what I mean?

Anyways.

Yeah, it's just, don't

mess up someone else's,

you know, nostalgia and whatever.

We have to write that with our children

and with your children, people.

Yes.

Raise them right.

Right.

I mean, they had so many more things

to worry about today.

Oh my gosh.

Yeah, if only it's just throwing away.

If that was the worst out of them, right?

Yeah, if it was only just

throwing away prom pictures.

Yeah. Yeah.

Oh well, we'll get through that I guess.

You will, you will.

But I mean, we're

coming up in a busy time.

I think this is a busy time

for anyone who is a parent,

because you have graduations,

you have all the end

of the year festivities,

you're fixing in or

trying to fit in field days

and parties and it's

just, you have a busy time.

It's funny, I was

talking to my mom last night

and hey mom, she's

probably listening to this

on her way to Colorado, so drive safely,

pay attention to the road.

But she was telling me like,

I just love the time of life

that you guys are in right now.

It's just so much fun, it's the best time

and before you know it, my kids have

graduated and stuff.

And it is one of those

sobering reminders that again,

you just have to slow

down and enjoy the time

because it just goes.

Just goes because like we just said,

our oldest is already in high school.

Well bring it all the way back around

to just how fast time is going.

And as busy as it is, like

you can't blink for a moment.

It's just, you can't blink

because I look at the 15 year old

and I'm like, he's a man.

He looks like a young man

and it's so far from that point

that itty bitty baby, I

actually asked our daughter

this morning before

the bus came, I was like,

do you remember when

you would just climb up,

when you were little

enough to climb up on our lap

or that we would carry you?

And she's like, no, not really.

Really?

Yeah, you know, cause

puppy was sitting on my lap

or whatever and I was

like, this is something

that'll always climb up on my lap.

Yeah.

You know, and I was

like, how quickly that went

and so many of memories we

have with our kids on our lap

or holding the kids or whatever.

I mean, and they're like,

yeah, I don't even remember that.

Yeah, it just flashes for me.

My earliest memories

are just picture flashes.

Do you still see film kind

of in your earliest memories

or are they pictures?

In my very earliest,

I mean, it's pictures.

The first video I have in

my head was living in Montana

and we had a wheat field.

How old were you?

Three.

Okay, well, that's really early.

And there was a wheat field behind us

and I remember very

distinctly being out playing

in the wheat field at sunset.

And I could still feel, you

know, if you go the wrong way,

like if you're just touching the wheat,

if you kind of bring your

fingers up, it's very smooth,

but yet if you take your

fingers down on the reed,

it's actually prickly and I remember--

You too?

Yeah.

No, I'm just kidding, go ahead.

I just remember that feeling

and the wind and the sunset

and feeling the wheat.

Yeah, that's what was

so neat about being a kid

and that's what I just

hope our kids get to.

As you get older, the world just,

you get to know the world, right?

When you're younger, the

world is still magical.

It's still discovering

new things every day,

new smells, new sights, new emotions,

everything's just new and fresh.

And as you get older, I

think that's the hardest thing

for me as you get older, it's like,

you don't really get to

experience those things anymore.

As much as you can find ways

to kind of bring that back,

it's really hard.

That's what you, I don't

know if it's the weight

of the world or just

that you're getting older,

it's not as fresh

anymore, but I always hope

that that's what our kids have.

I remember being young

and just certain smells

were just so powerful and so nice.

Growing up in Colorado

was like the pine trees.

Yeah.

Things like that just

bring back so many memories.

Yeah.

I hope kids these days have that

because they're just

inundated with everything else

but enjoying nature.

I mean, I remember having picnics.

I remember sitting out,

putting a blanket on the grass

and thinking about like,

oh, it's laying on the grass,

but the grass crushes under it.

When I was a kid, like three years old.

You were gonna say three years ago.

I was like, really?

Three years ago, it was amazing physics.

But is the world so

innocent and fresh to kids?

And maybe it is till they figure out

that they can just stare at a phone

because I see kids on

phones and no judgment,

but a little bit of judgment here.

You know, like these people

have their kids on an iPad

or a phone at like three years old

and they're just staring at it.

We made a conscious

effort not to be that parent

and not trying to be judgmental.

They're really not.

Sometimes that's your only choice.

Not that we never did that either.

Oh, yeah.

It wasn't our go-to.

Airplane rides were

like, iPad, I don't care.

Yeah, eats, iPads, there you go.

Yeah, yeah.

Although we never really had

any blowups on an airplane.

So I guess it worked.

Yeah, right, right.

There's just so much to

take that innocence away,

which we're finding out, like we said,

in the last couple of weeks.

And they're still so young for that.

I mean, even, I just

remember seventh, eighth,

ninth grade, just so much was new.

Just new emotions,

crushes, and fashion and music.

That's why music is so big to me

because I mean, I just

remember being alone in my room

and you and I have talked about this.

You play in your room too

and we just listen to the radio.

And those songs, that's

why they just take us back.

But that's all we had.

Now you can pick what

song you want to listen to

much more easily.

So I don't know if you

still get that variety.

We'll be that nostalgic for them.

Now, I know we're teaching

our kids the oldies, our oldies.

Our oldies and they love it.

Yeah.

I mean, I think we are

because there was just

a couple of weeks ago,

our youngest was, and I

know we're getting long here.

So I'll wrap it up.

He was up in his bathroom

and he was playing the music

that was probably at least,

at this point it's five

to seven years old, right?

And we could just hear this pounding

and this singing at the top of his lungs.

I mean, clear as day, we were downstairs

and we could hear him singing.

And he comes down and I was like,

were you having fun up there, buddy?

And he's like, oh, I

was reliving my childhood.

(laughing)

At 11 years old.

Because he was playing

songs that he listened to,

you know, seven years ago.

Yeah.

I mean, and he was four or five.

It had to only been about five years ago,

maybe if I actually do the math, but.

Yeah, I didn't do that much at his age

because it was just the radio.

It was the radio.

Maybe some of my favorite songs

that I had started

taping at that point in time.

I love that they all have music in there.

They all have like an Alexa or

something like that in there.

And they all just listen to it.

Every one of them at shower time,

it's just blaring music.

Blaring.

Just hear it every week.

But I love it.

I did that.

I had some waterproof

radio that was black block.

It looked like a

cassette, like a VHS cassette tape

that stuck to the wall in the shower.

And you could just barely

get the radio station on it.

You know, it was so

terrible music quality.

Sure.

But I loved it, man.

I have a jam in there.

Yeah, that's what you do.

KIKX, Kix 102.7.

I know you know yours.

KDWV.

I don't even know if they still happen.

The hits.

101.3 KDWV.

Nice.

Well, let's see.

In 98.9, Magic FM.

I think that one's actually still there.

That was Magic FM?

Wasn't that in Vegas?

No, 98.9, Magic FM

may have been in Vegas,

but it was for sure in Colorado Springs.

I think it's still there.

So the big ones when

I was there were 99.9.

I don't remember what

that one was anymore.

Dang it.

Then 98.9, Magic FM, then 102.7, Kix.

That was the really good hits one

that I listened to when I was younger.

Magic was more like hip hop.

Oh yeah, yeah.

Kind of like that 90s hip hop.

Yeah.

So 102.7 was like Def Leppard,

whereas the other one

would be like R. Kelly.

Got it.

Or Boyz II Men.

Yeah.

Boyz II Men, probably a

little more appropriate

than R. Kelly.

Yeah, nowadays.

Nowadays.

Well, we didn't know then.

Oh, he didn't see anything

wrong with, you know what?

If you know, you know.

All right, well, what

do we got coming up?

We should close this out.

Oh, super busy weekend.

We're kicking off track season.

We're closing out soccer season.

We have parties.

I don't even know how

we're gonna do this weekend.

Awards, ceremonies, parties.

You're driving at least.

I'm driving.

We'll get there.

Yeah.

We will get there.

We will, we will.

So, are we gonna close

it out with our word?

Yes, we'll close it out with our word.

All right, let me think

about what mine's gonna be.

Okay, so everybody's got yours.

Last week, remember,

we said the same one.

So, no pressure.

We'll see.

Expectations are low.

I mean, like, you can

only go down from there.

Yeah, I know.

Unless we do it twice in a row here.

And then we should play the lottery.

But this time, I am gonna

say at the exact same time,

just in case.

Just in case.

So, it's not like I'm like,

it's like that one

Saturday night, I've skit.

Yeah.

And one of them's just

totally trying to follow.

Yeah, follow what the

other one is saying.

Okay, you ready?

Yes. Here we go.

One, two, three.

Endurance. Perseverance.

It's close.

Close.

Those are synonymous.

So, on the similarity scale, very close.

Oh, I would say, what

would you say from similarity?

Nine. I would say nine too.

Endurance and perseverance.

Yeah, perseverance.

Yeah, so we're just getting through it.

We're just getting through it.

Like, it's been a long race.

Keep your head down.

Yep.

Feel like--

Push through.

The end is getting a little closer.

Like, it kinda lightens

up in the summer, maybe.

Yeah, vacation's getting closer.

Pool time.

Malibu rum time.

Yeah.

That's the drink we

should've had this weekend.

I thought about it.

Yeah, we had pineapple juice.

Anyway, okay.

(laughing)

All right, well, anything to say?

Any words of wisdom for the audience?

Just--

That was a lot of pressure.

Just, I don't know, persevere.

Yeah.

You got this.

Endurance.

I'm used to yours easily.

It's how we do it.

Okay.

All right, well, thanks for joining us.

We'll see you here next week, hopefully.

Yeah.

All right, have a great week.

Bye. See ya.

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