[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.
T.
P.
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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