(upbeat music)
Are we done bop, bop, bopping?
Yeah, we bop, bopped.
Nobody got to hear it this time.
Well, here goes another great idea.
There's another idea.
You should ask if maybe you
could do a collab with them.
I mean, you're Hollywood.
What, our entire podcast embodies, right?
Like the chaos train and--
If you saw her highlights on Instagram,
for a sec, she's fast.
Check it out.
48 hours from now.
She was invited and bopped.
Cause I'm weak.
My body and brain needs downtime.
Yeah, you know, life
throws those moments at you.
So an hour and a half has
already gone up in flames.
We're just gonna hope
that the rest of the house
is on fire.
We might have to put
you on pause for a minute.
He's gonna do it.
Hopefully he won't burn down the house.
I think the kids do
take advantage of the fact
that I can't make it upstairs very often.
It's one of my
favorite parts of the house.
You have to delete this
episode if there's any.
You're enemies, like people come and go.
You're talking about some
legitimate talent on here.
There's a lot of ego
in it for the parents.
Yeah, the yips.
Quick ass-lies.
I'm never gonna give you up.
Well, like the mom I was
talking to this morning,
and I won't use names obviously here,
she's a terrible person.
I don't want to sleep on
the moms that are competitive.
Oh, yeah.
Because we do a lot of yelling, but--
Referee abuse.
Probably one of the
funniest people I know.
Oh, for sure.
Nice knowing you all, you know.
I kind of zoned out parents.
It's a dumpster fire hearing.
Mommy issues.
They all have ego issues.
Yep, you guys are being pretty.
Yeah, this is our event session.
Go--
In mouth situation.
Total foot in mouth situation.
I mean, I know you've got the beef
and it's important to work your arm.
Maybe you're not winning in life,
because you're not
doing this for exercise.
You're not doing it
because you're good at it.
Hold on, I think we
should do a little time out.
Okay, with daddy issues and
mommy issues and ego issues.
And he said, just for the record,
my son doesn't work at our V's.
Oh, no.
The few ruin it for the many.
One.
That was very executive.
Yeah, that was cathartic.
This is just warm in my heart.
Hard to do in the moment.
We can't miss anything on the screens.
But we're labor, we need to hurry.
Flat out on your closet floor.
Energy's hard to come by sometimes.
Worked hard to get to where we are.
But we haven't always been there.
Just be happy and a kind person.
Happy and kind.
People are gonna think
I'm the biggest spoiled brat
in the world.
Don't regret it.
God, just a bratty little rich kid.
Yeah, the three McLarens, yes.
Shove it in your purse, turning red.
Oh, they were so embarrassed.
They were like--
Put one of those
steak knives in there too.
His dogs are out.
And I was like, that's just great pants.
It really is.
His tickets are pretty high, it was 7-11.
There's a reason why they measure you
on your way in and out.
Most of my funniest jokes are the ones
you have to explain.
Like a little puppy,
kind of just like hyper
around the big dog.
Bankers don't golf anymore.
But you're not a good golfer either.
No.
Not 1990, so if you know you know.
It is.
If I can make him laugh, I feel good.
Yeah, you'll just kind
of just smooth beat it.
It's great.
It usually pops out
and it's the most funny
when no one's expecting.
That was a good one and nobody got it.
(laughing)
Did Sean just say that made no sense?
Why would he even say that?
Anyways, we're way off subject here.
We're way, way off subject.
You know, here's the thing.
Yeah, I'm ready.
Phenomenal.
Phenomenal, yeah.
We are not goers on vacation,
but in definitely
getting through some Alabamram.
We do that really well on vacation.
Well, if you're drinking
that, you can't buy it.
The whale's tail, seeing the Coliseum.
Judge all you want.
I'm excited to take you there
because you've never been.
So one of the coolest things I ever did,
flying into Charles de Gaulle,
the Arc de Trumpe right here,
you've got the Eiffel Tower over here.
I mean, it was, if I
could only pick one place
to go on vacation ever
again, people would go.
You wanna go to Rome or do
you wanna go to North Dakota?
Proud Minnesota.
You've been dropped on your head, son.
Why are you going there for spring break?
And I mean, we're in March, people.
Let's all celebrate this race.
At a medium pace.
I love March Madness.
I hate it.
(laughs) My Jayhawks are just terrible.
According to the Google.
And now AI is so good
that when you type a question
in there, it almost finishes your.
Sandwiches.
See you all next week.
All right, have a good one.
We'll see ya.
Bye.
Bye, bye.
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.
I think we're ready to.
Are we done bop, bop, bopping?
Yeah, we bop, bopped.
Nobody got to hear it this time.
Oh, darn.
It's always such a great intro.
Oh.
It's kind of like a pop
song I'm getting ready to make,
so I don't want to give away the magic.
I don't know, Hanson
may have already done that
and capitalized on that a few years ago.
Mm.
Yeah, you're right.
Well, here goes another great idea.
Here goes another.
A couple of them.
Hey, but you know what?
I'm sure Hanson, gosh,
they're probably pretty old now,
but I'm sure they retired handsomely.
Actually, yeah, yeah, Hansonly.
Hansonly, yeah.
Yeah, well done.
Yeah.
I saw a video of them performing
and all three boys
still together, just older,
all 30s and 40s.
Right, right.
Just done the same thing playing bop.
Well, did they have another song?
Yeah, they had a lot of songs,
but I don't know any of them.
Yeah, okay.
Do you know any of them?
No, that's why I asked.
I'm pretty sure Mm Bop was the only.
Give you the Mm Bop remix.
Yeah.
Bop, bop, bop.
Mm bop, bop, bop.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
You should ask if maybe you
could do a collab with them.
A collab, yeah.
I mean, we're all in media
and showbiz at this point, so.
Right, I mean, you're Hollywood.
Yeah, I'll ring them up, that's right.
Great idea, you should do that.
Well, this is our second attempt
to sit down this morning.
Now it's afternoon officially.
To try to record this.
Yeah, I would say the last two hours
is really what our entire
podcast embodies, right?
Like the chaos train and.
That's right.
Life throwing things at
you that you didn't expect.
That's right.
We had a very planned out Sunday,
and yeah, the plans changed.
Yeah, there's a saying, right?
That says something like,
if you want God to step in,
you know, just start
planning everything out.
Yeah, exactly.
Have your plans set.
Nothing bad happened
this morning, it's just,
being down to one driver is difficult.
Yes.
And we had a, what we thought was
potentially a plan today
to get somebody home, and we did not.
That fell through, it
was in the middle of us
sitting down to start this.
Yeah, so, well and then of course,
shoes were supposed to,
shoes were ordered, however.
Track shoes.
Track shoes were
stolen or mistakenly taken
by somebody at our
daughter's track meet this last week.
She had to actually borrow a pair of
track shoes for that.
If anybody saw the Instagram ones,
but we liked that though,
because orange really kind of stood out.
100%, I loved it.
If you saw her highlights on Instagram,
first off, she's fast, check it out.
But that helped us find her.
You can just really see
her kind of taking off.
Yeah, loved it.
So in lieu of missing
shoes, we ordered another pair.
As one does.
As one does, especially
when there's a track meet
48 hours from now, and.
See, I did it in butt.
(laughing)
Anyways, go ahead.
It's like a high five moment.
Can you high five?
Yeah, I think we should
high five on that one,
that was good, that was good.
Yeah, so wrong size.
Actually, the store
shipped the right size,
but they were just the wrong size.
So now we are
scrambling to find those shoes
to be shipped in 48
hours so that she can,
I mean, there's no
chance that she'll have them
for practice tomorrow.
So here's what's gonna happen.
We're gonna end up burning the one day
that we had four hours of nothing to do,
which we've talked about before.
I need that, I have to have downtime.
Because I'm weak.
(laughing) My body and brain needs downtime.
And this was a four hour period
that I thought I might be able to get it.
Not that I was taking it down,
I was gonna put some of our,
you know, the last
remaining holiday decorations up,
the snowmen and wintery ones.
The wintery ones that don't,
they weren't holiday, yeah,
they're the winter decorations.
So I put those up, I was
gonna put some of the stuff
that's in the garage that
needs to go up to the attic,
I was gonna do that.
So not that I was gonna sit on the couch
and have a yellow jacket, but no,
I had some stuff to do, you know,
some of those honey do
lists are calming for me too.
Yeah, yeah.
No brain type stuff.
Exactly, and they kinda,
when you don't have time during the week,
it's just, it's really nice
to have a little bit of time
to breathe to take care of them,
and then you can go into the week
feeling like you've
accomplished something.
It wasn't running around somewhere,
it wasn't driving somewhere,
it wasn't on the sidelines
of a tense track meter soccer game.
It was just a calming,
like easy honey do list.
Afternoon. Afternoon
for just a couple hours.
No football, no basketball today
that we're watching at least.
Right, it's just that, you know,
life throws those moments at you,
and you're like, "I had
really earmarked this day
for something else."
Yeah, so an hour and a half
started going up in flames.
That's fine, that's life.
But it's life.
As I say on the other podcast,
life is what happens when
you're busy making other plans.
Yep, yep.
So you gotta make sure
you enjoy this time too.
Exactly.
And make the most of
those in between moments.
Yeah.
Yeah, we had lots of
chores for them yesterday, so.
We did, man, they had
long lists yesterday,
and I think they got through them.
Again, this is a, we
need to trust but verify.
I think the kids do
take advantage of the fact
that I can't make it upstairs very often.
Yeah.
Or wait, I can't make it
upstairs, period, right now.
Yeah.
I think they take
advantage of that a little bit.
Yeah, we should have put the elevator in.
I don't know what we were thinking.
We kinda have an elevator,
I don't think it'd be safe for me,
but it's a lift for
the record in the garage.
It is the greatest.
So if you're building a house,
or you're thinking about
doing some additional work
in the garage into your attic,
we designed the house for this,
but there's a lift that comes down
out of the garage ceiling.
Yeah.
Straight into my garage,
and so when it's
Halloween or Christmas decorations
that all go up into the
attic and come down once a year,
we add them onto this lift,
and it just automatically comes down.
In fact, it can carry my weight,
so I'll put it all on,
and I'll just lift myself
right up into the attic,
undo him, and take him down.
It's the greatest.
It's one of my
favorite parts of the house.
It is a great idea,
although it does say very clearly
that you are not
supposed to ride on the lift.
That's true.
So if any warranty issue comes,
you'll have to delete this episode
if there's any issue. Yes, yes, yes.
For the record. Proof
that I've been riding.
Yes, Shaun has never ridden on the lift.
I would never do that.
No, mm-mm.
I would never do that.
No, you walk all the way into the house,
up the stairs, through
the attic, every time.
So we already had a
soccer game this morning.
Yeah. Got a W, which was good.
It was, it was a great game.
It was against a great
team, really strong team,
and so it was fun.
It was an interesting one, though,
because it's one of the ones that's
political to some degree,
not political, it's
the wrong word for it,
but on both sides of it,
people really wanna win
because we had some
ex-players on this other team
that were loved on our team,
and they have great parents
that we miss having on the sidelines,
so it was nice to see them down there,
but it's one of those things
that I was telling our youngest, like,
hey, he can be your
friend, but out there,
and you said it better than I did.
I said, out there, your
friend's been on the field,
or the court, your enemy's,
you're gonna, and you said--
You gotta compete against him.
You're gonna compete against him.
You're not gonna hurt him,
but you're gonna compete,
and you're gonna put him on the ground,
and you're gonna put him on the floor,
but after the game, everybody,
we'll still be friends.
Exactly, and that's important.
It's tough, though.
It's tough, and it puts,
I mean, I think mentally,
it's good and bad for the kids,
but I think the good part is that,
you know, they do learn to compete.
The bad part is, it's
like, it's against my friend,
but that is very much just part of,
I don't know about all the sports,
but for sure, in the
soccer world, that's part of it
because kids switch teams quite
frequently, actually,
and so you're often on,
you're competing against someone
that you've played with or know,
maybe you went to school
with them or whatever, so it's--
And this is high level.
Some of you may not know, but our
youngest plays on a team,
he's been on this team for, literally,
he's actually been the longest tenured
player on this team,
but it's the hand-picked team,
it's the very top team in his age bracket
for the Solar Soccer Club,
and people have kinda come and gone,
that's why he's, to your
point, people come and go.
And the team is
turned over here and there,
but our youngest has been
on it with another player
that joined just very shortly after,
so the two of them are
really the longest tenured
on this team.
So anyways, we've been on
this team for a long time,
watching very high level soccer
because what I was getting at,
as a lot of people may not know,
they've been ranked number
one in the state, this team,
and right now, they're
number two on this app
that is, it's fairly accurate,
some of the top teams,
the top teams are
accurate on there, I would say.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think so.
Right, whether they're
number five through number one,
maybe there's some fluidity there.
I think so, yeah.
But right now, we're the number two team
in all of Texas.
And we're one of the
top teams in the country,
so you're talking about
some legitimate talent on here.
And the team we played
today is in the top five also,
maybe they're like one
behind us on this list.
On this particular list.
On this particular app.
So there's a lot at stake
there, not only for the kids,
but where I'm getting at on this long,
and one of our bullet points kind of
helps us get into it,
is there's a lot of ego
in it for the parents.
Because it's so highly competitive,
and at this level,
wins and losses matter.
In fact, the coaches turn
over because it's their job.
Like, one of the coaches turned over,
and he made some
decisions that some of the parents
and the previous players
that are no longer with us
didn't like.
And they left, because he
told them straight up that,
"Look, you're not gonna get close to me.
"I can't get close to
you, because I have a job.
"I have to come up
with 15 pre-MLS players,"
which is Major League Soccer.
And that's my job.
If I don't turn, I can't
get attached to your child,
because--
I might have to cut them.
And at this level, it is
cut throat, and that's hard.
It is, it is, and it's hard for the kids.
In fact, you had a brilliant move here.
I think when our youngest
first made it to that echelon.
He's been on this team a long time,
but as they get older,
it just gets more intense.
And he, for lack of a
better term, he had the yips.
He was getting, it was
so intense and so focused
that he wouldn't even
allow himself to play free.
And so for months, we did dance parties
in the parking lot to Rick
Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up,
because it just loosened it up.
And it's like, if you can't play free,
and then it was just
the reminder of like,
he's just a kid.
Yeah, so much
pressure on these poor kids,
but if you gotta know the Rick Astley
song we're talking about,
let's not skip over that.
Watch that video, YouTube the video.
The dance moves in that are just legend.
Wait for it if you're lactose intolerant.
You're in trouble
because the next part's dairy.
Dairy.
It's incredible though, but we did.
We tried to loosen them up.
There's just so much
pressure on these kids.
And the parents, including me,
put a lot of pressure on them too.
It's, I mean, I think that's natural,
and especially when
they do play at that level,
and their teammates and their competition
are all incredible.
And so it's like, you know.
Well, like the mom I was
talking to this morning,
and I won't use names obviously here,
she's a terrible person.
No, I'm just kidding, I'm kidding.
I'm totally kidding.
She's incredible.
She's incredibly competitive, right?
She played high school,
or she played college ball.
She may even play beyond that.
She was a big deal.
Her husband was a big deal.
He played semi-professional or whatever.
It's a soccer family for sure,
and they're kids, incredible player.
Oh yeah.
So you know it's just, that is hard.
And I talked about it last week,
and I was thinking about when I said it,
a lot of the dads are so competitive,
and they kind of keep that up.
But I don't want to sleep on the moms
that are competitive too,
because she's one of them.
You know what I mean?
And she could outplay
most people on the sidelines.
Yep, yep.
Anyways, that's who we were playing
against this morning,
and it's funny because on our list here,
we do a lot of yelling,
but it's mostly at the refs.
Yep.
And so youth soccer,
which this is a good thing,
but we did all.
This is not a team
thing. Not just our team.
This is not aimed at any of our parents,
but there was actually a--
An email.
An email for youth
soccer in the Dallas area
that came out about referee abuse.
And just how the repercussions,
there's actually fines now and monetary,
as well as I think playing time,
your team can get kicked out.
And it was an interesting,
I mean there were a lot
of comments from parents,
like, "Uh, you know, we had--"
We got one guy on our
team that's hilarious.
I mean, like, he doesn't miss a beat.
Probably one of the
funniest people I know.
Oh, for sure, yeah.
We get this text from him going,
yeah, nice knowing
you all, you know, like,
I'm gonna get kicked off.
I'm immediately gonna get kicked out.
And then they came
today and he got kicked out
of the basketball game yesterday.
(laughs)
So it's classic.
It's right on.
Oh wow, I didn't know that, yeah.
Did you not hear that?
Oh, you did.
Yeah, I did hear that one, yeah.
Yeah, I have to kinda sit at the end.
But if the refs would just be better,
they wouldn't be in that predicament.
I mean, there's a little bit
of a chicken egg situation here.
I don't yell at a ref when
he makes a call that we've,
if we've fouled
somebody or didn't illegal,
he calls the foul, that's fine.
Yeah, that's what he's there.
It's when they don't
call it fair or miss it.
Yeah, and people get hurt.
Yeah, that's mainly,
that's the main thing.
But I mean, we've seen some
shady things happen in this.
We really have.
Anyway, politics and youth sports,
it's crazy how just the emotions,
it's like an emotionally charged thing,
like especially at some of
these levels, it's crazy.
Was it the same, do you think?
I know you were on
the sidelines sometimes,
you were too busy
dancing to play sports, but--
It was not the same, it was not the same.
I don't remember at my, I
mean, I played all the sports,
but I don't remember.
I kinda zoned out parents,
so I don't even know if I
got yelled at or anything.
I was very focused on the fields
or the courts that I was playing on.
But I just don't remember,
until we got older, right?
Playing basketball can get a little
push come to shove at times.
Yeah, yeah, I just
think that it's a very,
one of the coaches
used the term in Dallas,
he's like, it is, well,
I'm gonna use a PG term,
it's a dumpster fire here in Dallas.
It's just a different animal,
because youth soccer
specifically in Dallas,
it just kinda plays by
its own rules, and it is--
It's one of the three
hotspots in the country.
Yeah, so-- Here, Kansas City,
and then SoCal. SoCal, yeah.
So I don't remember it from Minnesota
sitting on sidelines
or anything like that.
So we're just kind of in the fire of it.
Maybe it's just because
we have horrible refs,
because they all have mommy issues,
they all have ego issues.
They have to be right.
And I hate to generalize like that,
but all of them do.
(laughs) Yeah, and if our coach is watching this,
he's gonna be like, yep, you guys are
banned from the team.
Like you're even putting
something out on there,
yeah, complaining about refs.
We gotta get it out here,
just not on the sidelines.
Yeah, this is our event session.
I did that one time, I
have kind of calmed down
on the refs since the
one time I yelled at a ref.
Did I tell the story on here?
I don't think so, and it is hilarious.
This is like foot in mouth situation.
Total foot in mouth situation,
but apologies if anybody
listening works at Arby's.
I mean, I know you've got the beef
and it's important to work at Arby's.
And you provide something to society.
But that being said, I--
Great F meat, but okay.
Great, yeah, great F.
(laughs)
Long and the short of this
story is I would yell out,
go back to Arby's, you know what I mean?
You shouldn't be a ref,
you should go back to your fast food job
because obviously, I don't know.
Maybe you're not winning in life.
I don't know, because you're
not doing this for exercise,
you're not doing it
because you're good at it.
So what are you good
at, you know what I mean?
So my comeback was always
like, go back to Arby's,
I don't know.
So I yelled at this kid
who was just terrible.
In fact, he had turned around and said,
you guys deserve it.
I mean, he got snippy with the sideline.
He told us that our
team deserved to lose,
and it was the middle of the game,
and that we would lose.
He should not have said what he said.
So I told him to go back to Arby's.
And afterwards, his
dad, and the kid was 20s.
I mean, he didn't look like
he was 18, I didn't think,
or like 14, like some of them were.
Oh gosh.
I wouldn't have said it
to a minor, obviously.
I think we should, hold on.
I think we should do a little timeout.
And we are talking about
fully grown adult refs.
Any child who is doing this, learning,
we have never once yelled at.
So I just wanna go out and say that.
That's a good point, that's a good point.
Ever have we yelled at a minor.
These are grown men.
Grown men and women, I do.
And women with daddy issues,
and mommy issues, and ego issues.
So as soon as I told this guy, anyways,
that person, dad
happened to be at the game,
watching his son ref, and he
came up to me after the game,
and he said, just for the record,
my son doesn't work at RVs.
And so ever since then, I'm a little,
I'm cognizant of maybe who may be there.
It's like the last
game, his kids were there.
That sideline, the
ARs, his kids were there.
You weren't there at that game,
but his kids brought him
hand warmers and stuff.
And so, I don't wanna, that made me even
think of that again.
I shouldn't be berating this guy,
especially in front of his kids.
I wasn't, he was fine.
But I hadn't really done it since then.
There's honestly, I think
this could be a situation where,
just like, because there
are ones that we recognize,
as we get to the game, we're like, oh no.
You know, that are just notoriously bad.
And I wonder if they ruin it, the few
ruin it for the many,
because honestly, there
are some really good ones
that keep it in hand,
that always seem fair,
that basically we don't ever notice
because they are good.
I wonder if that's just
like the few that we know,
because there are some
where we roll our eyes
the second we get to the field.
Yeah, some are better than others.
I wish there was a way to
rate them after the game,
such that if you got,
you know what I mean,
like anybody on Google
gets five star reviews.
If they're down to a one star review,
you don't go to that restaurant,
because they got a one star review.
So all these refs should
be reviewed by both coaches.
Yeah. Right?
And if you end up getting so many ones,
because one coach is gonna
be like, oh, he was great.
He called everything for me.
But the other one gives them a one,
and maybe you have to wait 48 hours,
so you're not mad about it.
Like, one. There should be something.
But let's identify those
few that you're suggesting,
potentially, are ruining it for the rest.
Let's identify those and weed them out.
Yeah. Or, you know,
if we wanna be, you know,
if we wanna turn this to
more corporate America,
let's get them the help that they need
to be better at what they do.
Oh, that was very executive.
That was great, yeah. Executive, yeah.
Yeah.
That would be good. Anyways.
Well, we're all growing and learning.
Yeah, yeah.
Growing and teaching.
Yes. Also.
Yes, exactly.
That's a great idea.
Teaching our way, so.
Anywho, that's, I feel like that was,
that was getting it off our chest.
Yeah, that was cathartic.
That was really good.
Because otherwise, I mean, it's been
like a really awesome week.
We had a lot of fun things.
We celebrated our oldest birthday.
That's right.
And we had a lot of
really fun family time.
Yeah, you're talking about steak.
Last night, we went out to a nice dinner,
because he didn't want to go
bowling or anything like that,
so we took the family
out to a nice dinner
at a really nice steak house.
And it's just, we've
talked about it before.
It's so fun, because
they're at that age now
where we can just have discussions.
Yes. We have family talks.
And you brought up the
point that you love it
because he's asked for it.
Yeah.
And that's what he wants
to do, spend family time.
He wants family time.
He picked, like on his actual birthday,
it was the middle, well, Monday.
You know, it was school night,
so he's like, I just
want to do homemade pizza,
which is usually a family event, right?
We all make a part of it, the kids' help,
and eat at the table.
I was like, this is
just warm in my heart,
because our 15-year-old
just truly wanted family time.
Yeah.
I mean, we were at the restaurant
for almost three hours last night,
just talking,
laughing, like, it was great.
It was so much fun. Enjoying
So much fun. Wonderful food,
and enjoying wonderful company.
Mm-hmm. I started talking
college a little bit with him.
I almost feel bad about that because,
and we always say that we're busy
and running from here and there,
and I know everybody out
here is in the same boat,
but we do it for the kids.
We're busy because of the
kids and for the kids, right?
And we love that portion of it,
but are we missing the
forest for the trees there?
Not that we can tap the brakes on it,
because schedule's the schedule.
Yeah.
But I love the fact that he is looking
for more family time, which is what,
you know, you're
kinda keying in on there,
because he's not getting
enough of it during the week.
Yeah. You know,
and that tells me
that I probably need to,
again, those
in-between moments, you know,
five minutes to put
the stinking phone down
or close the computer,
and just stare at him
while he's talking to me,
or any of them, you know?
I think those are the
little in-between moments
that I gotta stop missing,
and we've talked about that before.
It's hard to do in the moment.
It is.
I'm busy, I'm busy, I'm busy, you know.
Yeah.
I gotta get some relaxation in time,
I gotta fit this in,
because I gotta go to
this, to this, to this.
Yep.
Those five minutes,
maybe they add up to 25
minutes in the whole day.
Man, if I can't give
25 minutes to the kids,
just to do nothing,
and I don't ignore them,
but I'm just saying, just
to give them, that's that.
Medicated. Yes.
Completely unplugged.
Because that's the thing now.
It's a screen.
Everybody's got a screen.
Yeah.
Where we can't miss
anything on the screens.
Right.
And it's like, we don't wanna miss life,
because we didn't wanna
miss something on a screen.
Like, that's not life.
Right. So, yeah.
And he's one, I mean, yeah,
he just wants to listen to music,
and talk to you about the music.
He's just into a lot of different things,
and like, I even felt bad,
because he really wanted to tell me
how he was gonna cook the
steak while we're back here.
Like, but we're late,
or we need to hurry.
I know, like, this way's on us.
Yeah.
You know, like, we're not
gonna be able to sit there
and enjoy that with you,
if we can't get this done.
Yeah.
Because there's no other time.
We have another soccer game tonight.
We gotta go get track shoes now.
Yeah.
You know, there's no time.
Yeah.
And at the end of the day, you know,
I got to have some energy,
because literally before the first one.
You were laying flat
out on your closet floor.
Which, for the record, I do all the time.
(laughs)
I don't think I've ever done it before.
I don't think I've ever done that before,
but I was like--
You were tired, so--
I laid down on the closet floor, yeah.
Yeah, you were like,
it's a nice carpeted floor.
Yeah, it's clean.
Anyway, yeah, I look over.
Like most 48-year-old men do.
Yeah.
Is that the 48-year-old
version of the fetal position
when you're a
three-year-old throwing a tantrum?
Yeah, just prostrate to the ground.
Yeah, yeah.
You're like, I just need a moment.
Oh my gosh.
It was great.
Gotta get that energy.
Energy's hard to come by sometimes.
Oh, it is a very, very rare commodity.
Yeah.
But we had so much fun
there last night, though.
I wish it was fun.
You walk out, the
kids, one thing I did love
is the kids have a good balance of like,
they're starting to get
that good balance of like,
what is normal and
what's not economically?
Yeah.
Right, like we've
been blessed in our lives
to have some, we've worked
hard to get to where we are,
but we haven't always been there.
Right.
Because of that, we've
raised our kids, I think,
to appreciate that this
is not really the norm.
Yeah.
Because I also don't
wanna set a bar that's high
if they end up living in an
apartment when they're 35.
Right.
Like, you're not a
failure because, you know,
you're just, just be
happy in a kind person.
Happy and kind.
That's all we care about.
Exactly.
But our daughter walked
in carrying her purse.
Yes.
Right, and she's like, "I don't wanna,
people are gonna think
I'm the biggest spoiled brat
in the world because you
have a Louis Vuitton purse."
Right.
As people do these days.
Yes.
You know, and by the way, that is not
the most expensive purse anymore.
It is not, and I waited until I was 40.
It was, you know,
actually my 41st birthday,
I think is when I got it.
Yeah, it was a big deal.
And it was a big deal.
Like, that's something
that's a big deal to us.
We sold our fourth
kid off for that purse.
Exactly.
So we put a lot of thought into that.
Oh, yeah.
Don't regret it.
No, I'm just kidding.
There wasn't our fourth
child, like I promise.
You know, but I love the
fact that she was a little bit,
like--
She was cognizant of it.
She was worried that
people were gonna judge her
for being like just some
bratty little rich kid.
Because you walk in past
three, what were they last night?
Oh, some-- McLarens.
Oh, yeah, the three McLarens, yes.
Yeah, parked out front.
Yeah.
So I mean, there's money at that place.
Yeah.
And, you know, the
other side of that coin is
she walks in all like, "Look at me.
I'm Miss Rich Little Kid."
You know what I mean?
Right, right.
So I love that.
They're aware of that.
Yeah, and she didn't wanna do that.
It was like just me.
So when we started
joking with the waitress,
because she's like, "Do
you want some more bread?"
Somebody else had already
brought out two plates of bread.
And she brought a third.
She's like, "Oh, I didn't realize
they'd already brought this out."
And like, "Well, we'll take it."
We started joking with her to bring more,
and I was like, "Shove it in your purse."
Right, right, right.
You know, at this fancy place.
And our kids were like just turning red.
Oh, they were so embarrassed.
They were like, "Oh, no."
But we're a little
steak knives in there too.
(laughing) Yeah, oh, it was just fun.
We get a full set eventually.
Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
Nice.
But she was also cultured enough to know
that the person at the
table off to the side of us,
he had slides on and took them off.
And she's like, "Mom, his dogs are out."
And I was like, "Oh my gosh, seriously?
Someone took their shoes off."
So I mean, she's cultured enough to know
you don't take your shoes
off at a restaurant also.
That's right.
So like--
It's great parenting.
That's just great parenting.
Yeah, that's what it really is.
(laughing) Of all the things, like
we'll take pride in that.
That's right.
Wear shoes at a steakhouse.
In fact, I'm pretty
sure on any restaurant
it literally says no
shirt, no shoes, no service.
Yeah, 7-Eleven it says it,
it's a little of the steakhouse.
(laughing) Come on.
Standards are pretty high at a 7-Eleven.
Yeah, that's true.
I mean--
That's true.
There's a reason why they measure you
on your way in and out.
The standards are high.
They're high.
Yeah, make sure you
can hit those standards.
Say his standards were about six foot.
Actually, that was a thinker.
That one was over my head at first.
Oh, was it?
Yeah.
Well, you know
anybody that knows me well,
knows just how funny
I am with an asterisk.
Because most of my
funniest jokes are the ones
you have to explain.
Of course, always.
That's right.
In fact, I'm pretty sure I explained
one of my jokes last week.
And as we were doing our pre-watch,
we always watch it before it goes out.
Kind of one last viewing.
I was like, oh, all
the jokes you explained
are definitely the funniest.
Yeah, you can kind of tell.
You just gotta go with it though.
You do.
That's why I'm a little nervous for,
I was supposed to go,
I was at last second
feeling to go golfing
with that guy that's on our
soccer team that's hilarious.
Yeah.
And he's also an
intelligent guy, successful,
but he's just so stinkin' funny.
And he's one of these guys
that I enjoy bantering with him.
But it is like a little puppy,
kind of just like hyper
around the big dog, funny guy.
You know what I mean?
It's how I feel a little bit.
So I eventually, the
other guy that was gonna,
I was gonna fill in
for the foursome could,
because I can only do nine.
So they let him go.
And I haven't golfed in like 10 years.
At least, yeah, yeah.
Bankers don't golf anymore.
Back when I started banking, we did golf,
but that industry has changed.
And I'm not a good golfer.
I enjoy it.
I love being out there, as do you,
but you're not a good golfer either.
No, gosh no.
And we say that,
because we both know we're not golfers.
You can't be a good golfer
if you've gone twice in your life.
Right, like I hit,
I'm like 90s, I'm a 90s,
I'm a 90s, mid-90s golfing guy.
Not 1990s, so if you know, you know.
Anyways, I'm a little nervous, A,
that I'm just gonna
embarrass him, because I'm bad.
You know, I haven't swung,
I actually haven't swung
since my shoulder injury.
So I'm a little nervous
about how bad I'm gonna be,
and if he's gonna regret it immediately,
that he asked me,
because he knows he's gonna be out there
for at least two
hours, if not four with me.
(laughs) And he's immediately like,
he's gonna have his wife,
like, you know, it's like that date,
that blind date you go on,
like if it's working out,
you have your friend call you.
Yeah, mm-hmm. If it's not.
Yeah.
I gotta go, it's an emergency.
It's an emergency.
Anyways, I'm nervous,
I'm a little nervous
to go golfing with him,
because like, you know,
I gotta live up to that for a long time.
I gotta get a lot of
energy, and you know.
But you've spent that
kind of time with him,
and you've been able
to match the hilarity,
and it's been
always-- Not match, but yeah,
I try to stay with him.
Of course, feed, it's--
If I can make him laugh, I feel good.
Yeah, like, I've listened to your banter,
it's really funny, and you'll
just kinda just spoon feed it,
and it's great.
It's fun to have you
two next to each other
on the sidelines, because it's
entertaining for me.
Yeah, yeah.
It's probably
entertaining for his wife, too.
Maybe, yeah, she's used to funny, so.
She's like, he tries, he tries.
But I know, I'm not, I mean like,
I'm a di--
Whatever, I don't know how to say that.
I have humor, but it's not like,
like your family's
funny in a different way
than I'm funny, you know?
You have a very dry sense
of humor, very sarcastic.
He's very sarcastic, too.
You might just like, up a
notch a little bit, but you're--
He's just hilarious, yeah,
I wouldn't take offense to that at all.
You just have a very
sarcastic dry sense of humor.
It's funny, and it usually pops out,
and it's the most funny
when no one's expecting it.
But it's also the
most likely to fall flat.
(laughing) Is that true?
I think so.
Like if you don't
catch the sarcasm of it,
or just the slight little
one, you know what I mean?
Like, that was a good
one, and nobody got it.
(laughing)
And they didn't get it, and
because they didn't get it,
it's like, what did Sean just say?
That made no sense, like
why would he even say that?
So it's like, either you
nail it, and it was funny,
or you don't nail it, and it's like,
just another, you know,
notch, and Sean's a little weird.
(laughing)
I don't know why he
thinks that, but anyways,
we're way off subject here,
we're way, way off subject.
Instead, it's, you
know, shoot for the moon.
If you miss, you land among the stars.
That's kinda how I think about it.
That's right, that's right.
Yeah. Yeah, well.
Oh, anyway, so that should be fun,
because the weather's
turning, and hopefully,
I think we have a few
more nice days here,
but I don't know, we're
still jonesing for a vacation.
Like, the weather, at
least for the last week or so,
has turned here, it's
getting us that spring fever.
In fact, I think a lot of people are
dealing with allergies,
so maybe it's hay fever, or whatever.
But, man, spring fever's hitting, but.
So I don't think we're
gonna do a spring break.
Yeah, I think we decided last week,
like it would just not be great with.
It's just a lot for you.
And, you know, you're getting around,
we see the doctor this week,
so hopefully you'll
get kinda the green light
to walk again, but do
you feel confident enough
to walk again?
Without crutches.
Maybe. Yeah, see, yeah.
You know, here's the thing, like,
it changes daily, like it
gets, it is daily improvement,
which is really cool to see.
If you had asked me even four days ago,
I'd be like, oh, I don't think so.
But I'm at the point
where I'm like, maybe.
And so by Wednesday, I
might be like, yeah, I'm ready.
I just took a step and it
felt okay, kind of a thing.
So I think it just makes it hard, though,
because I would slow
the family down so much.
Even if I'm walking,
I'm not at the same pace
that everyone else would.
I mean, we were talking about Costa Rica,
because that was a fabulous vacation.
We strongly
considered going to Costa Rica
over spring break, just in two weeks,
because the place that we
stayed at was available again,
and that place was phenomenal.
Phenomenal, oh.
And I mean, we'd all love,
but the way we like to do vacations,
I don't know if other people like this,
well, I don't know, a
lot of people we know
are goers on vacation.
We are not goers on vacation,
but we figured out a good
structure to vacation for us is
go one day, and the
next day we're at the pool
or staying at the house or whatever,
because we always have
a pool at the lounge at,
we're usually beach vacationers, too.
So one day go, we'll go on a
long hike to that waterfall,
or we went at ziplining,
or we went on the boat,
but the next day we're at the house,
we're playing cards,
we're playing around in the pool,
we're eating guac and chips,
and definitely getting
through some alabou rum.
Yeah, we do that really well on vacation.
On vacation very well, it's water.
And it's amazing, you
don't even get a buzz.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, if you drink enough, you can, but.
So yeah, we decided to pass on that
because we just thought it
was just a little too much
to get you down there,
and we would have just
had to sit at that place.
There would have been no going anywhere.
Yeah, I mean, even, so,
and that was one of the coolest
vacations, the whale's tail.
So look at that, the uvida,
it's right off of uvida in Costa Rica.
It is one of the coolest things.
That beach was the
largest beach I have ever seen.
The water was so warm, but it's like--
All to ourselves, too.
All to ourselves, I mean.
Incredible.
But I was just thinking,
could I even walk in that water
with that resistance on a
knee that's still healing?
I wouldn't want you to.
That water, the way it was zipping in,
depending on the time
of the tide coming in,
but yeah, we'd have to
really time that out.
It just isn't ideal.
Yeah, so.
But we'll save it up
because we might take a longer--
A longer, so.
We still haven't decided on that one yet,
but we're thinking about taking a cruise
over in the Mediterranean.
Yeah, which would be so fantastic.
So fantastic.
I think it would be good.
I mean, our kids have seen,
I mean, we've been to the,
I mean, we've been to some of the more,
like Central American
Caribbean type locations,
but I really do want
our kids to start seeing
other parts of the world,
and I think that one, this
one would be really cool.
Yeah.
I don't know that they'd
have the full appreciation
of some of it that you and I have,
but I do think that just
seeing a different culture
is really important.
And there are more, yeah,
that experience in Costa Rica was
incredible for them, right?
They tried to speak a
little bit of Spanish
when we were down there and whatnot,
and just seeing how other people live
and how lucky we are to have some of the
things that we have,
I think it's just huge just to start
planting those seeds
so that they understand that.
But one thing for them, watching soccer
and some of the
international, soccer is so international.
I mean, it is the
biggest sport in the world.
Most people don't realize that, I guess,
but some of the
international soccer players
are from Europe and all these places,
so to me, I think
they're more aware of that
than I was at their age.
Yeah, because they follow these players.
Right, so they know where they play,
they know where they live in
Europe and stuff like that,
so I think that they, for that reason,
and this is one of the
questions I posed to you
just playing a little bit of bad cop was,
where devil's advocate is,
would they appreciate it?
We know we'd appreciate it
because it's three different countries
kind of over in the Mediterranean,
but would they appreciate it?
Yeah, and this is
probably a sliding scale, right?
Yeah.
Like, seeing the Colosseum,
they're gonna think
it's super, super cool,
but will they be in awe of the fact of
seeing this ancient
structure, or even in Athens,
like that ancient
structure, like, what the hell?
Well, we even tried
to start preparing them
for that a little bit,
like, we're watching Gladiator.
Like, this is where it
was, you know what I mean?
But I mean, for a kid, that helps place them.
So yes, do you have a 10-year-old
that has watched Gladiator, just?
It's not bad.
After we rewatched it, there's way worse.
There's way worse, yeah, yeah.
So, judge all you want, like.
I don't think there's
much judgment on that one.
It's not as bad as I thought it was.
Yeah, I thought it was
pretty gory at the time,
but after watching it,
maybe we've just been decent.
They haven't seen "Save It Private Ryan,"
or what was the one that we watched?
Oh, 300, or?
No, not 300.
The one where the
doctor kept going up over
and saving people, or he wasn't a doctor.
Oh, oh, "Hacksaw Ridge."
Yeah, "Hacksaw Ridge."
Yeah, we have not introduced it.
That was the most gory I've ever seen.
That was probably, yeah.
What a movie.
But anyways, I think that
seeing some of those movies,
just to give them that
history in an entertaining way,
sets that table for, oh,
that's what happened here.
Yeah, yeah.
It's really cool.
Yeah.
Not to mention the
architecture, which I just love,
because I've been to Europe before,
and I'm excited to take you there,
because you've never been to Europe.
Right, right, so we need to go.
I mean.
Yeah, I was lucky to do some traveling
when I was younger.
One of them was I worked for FedEx
back when you could fly for
free anywhere on a FedEx plane.
You'd jump see.
So cool.
So one of the coolest
things I ever did in 96,
I believe that's when it was, 96 I think,
because the World Cup was in France.
Yeah.
And I flew in on this
MD11 in the cockpit.
So an MD11's huge.
I mean, the cockpit, it's
just 11 feet of windshield there,
flying into Charles de Gaulle,
which is the main airport there in Paris,
and you got the Arc de Trumph right here.
You've got the Eiffel Tower over here.
I mean, it was incredible.
Wow.
Incredible.
Of course, you go see Notre Dame,
and I mean, the history there,
I mean, I just, I love that.
It's just, to me, I don't know,
I've romanticized it for whatever reason,
but that's over a lifetime.
I just don't know if the kids
would appreciate some of that just yet,
but I was lucky enough to do that.
I got to go to Egypt, and I've been to,
where else have I been?
Israel, I've been to some
of those places on a trip
that I went with my
family when I was younger.
Incredible.
And I don't, some of those places
may not even be safe to go back to now.
Yeah, quite possibly, but I think, yeah,
you're very well traveled, so.
I don't know if it's well
traveled, but I've traveled.
I'd like to do more of it,
but taking you and
the kids on it is like,
it's like sharing it.
I know you will obviously
appreciate it incredibly.
We've waited too long, honestly, but.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, we have taken some fun vacations.
We went the other way,
Boroboro was incredible.
Boroboro was incredible, yeah.
That was the other way.
I would, for the rest
of my life, if I could,
I would stamp the only, if
I could only pick one place
to go on vacation
ever again, be Boroboro.
Oh, that was, I mean, that was probably
my favorite vacation.
That was just hands down,
unbelievable, unbelievable.
The watercolor, we did one of
the over the water bungalows
at a smaller resort,
so it was like we had
a whole thing to ourselves over the
watercolors with just.
Yeah, me and him, we
would just sit out there
and just watch the water.
82 every day.
On my phone, I still have
Boroboro up on the weather.
I do too.
On the weather.
I do too, yup.
Every day.
For the longest time, I had
the Bluetooth thing on there too,
but I have too many
phones now, it's got lost.
Yeah, that was--
I wanna go back there though.
That will be one to go back to, not
obviously this year,
but.
Right, right, but I mean, we're, yeah,
there's gotta be a hallmark anniversary
or something coming up.
I know we're starting to get long
and we're wrapping it up soon here,
but I also want to do
some of those things
in the United States though.
Like I just mentioned on morning cereal
that I've never been to the Grand Canyon.
Like you gotta go to the
Grand Canyon at some point.
No, I wanna go to see the Redwoods.
I wanna take the kids,
I've been to DC and all that,
but I wanna go see
where our founding fathers,
the East Coast is
incredible up there as well,
there's some history there to be seen.
So there's places in the United States
I'd love to get to.
Yeah, I agree.
Also, it's just finding the time
and if you got a week,
where do you wanna spend it?
You wanna go to Rome or do
you wanna go to North Dakota?
Okay, North Dakota, no
offense to North Dakotans.
That's not a destination place.
Someone actually told me at work,
they're like, "Hey, I'm going to
Minnesota for spring break."
And I was like, "As a proud Minnesotan,
why are you going
there for spring break?"
One question for you, why?
What the?
Are you sure?
Yeah.
You've been dropped on your head, son.
Yeah, exactly.
I was like, "July, fine, go, have fun."
Yeah, not spring
break, it's not time yet.
It's beautiful there when
it's warm and not too humid.
Right, but like--
There's like three good weeks there.
I'm just kidding, I like it.
Let's all just agree that it is not
a spring break destination place.
We can all agree on that.
I think we would all agree on that.
I think so, I think so.
So, I don't know, should we wrap it up
and end on an agreement, or
like end on an agreeable note
of Minnesota not for spring break?
Yes, we can all agree on that for sure.
But what do we have coming up this week?
That's always something fun
to look forward to, right?
Oh yeah, let's see, we
have another track meet.
Oh, so please check out,
if you haven't seen it,
it's okay to brag
every now and again, right?
But check out the
Instagram post on our daughter.
We're being braggadocious on that,
but she's been working hard for track.
Six months.
For six months, and it showed.
She dusted some people,
and it's on video, it's fun.
So hopefully she keeps doing that.
Yeah, I think she had fun.
So we have another one of those which--
Assuming she has shoes, yeah.
Assuming we can get shoes for her.
Yeah, a couple more games we have--
Another soccer game tonight.
Yep, yep.
Just tonight, and Tuesday, and Friday.
Probably Wednesday too.
And yeah, I get to go to the doctor,
maybe find out a little
bit more about my knee.
That's good.
And I mean, we're in March, people.
We're like two weeks
away from spring break.
By the time this airs, we're one week
away from spring break.
Oh my gosh, that's crazy.
Oh, let's all celebrate.
Yeah.
So I might be going golfing
for the first time in 10 years.
So I'll give an update on that.
I'm not sure about that.
Yeah, that'll be fun.
I'm excited for it actually.
That'll be good.
What else do I have?
So I don't know,
yeah, life's moving along.
Yeah.
At the normal pace here.
Which is a frenetic pace,
but it's the normal pace for us.
At a medium pace.
Oh.
Remember that one.
Yeah, Adam Sandler, right?
Put a little SNL.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
That, you know, Lunch Lady Land.
March Madness is coming out too.
I love March Madness.
I hate it.
I'm out. I'm just kidding.
My Jayhawks are just terrible.
We're bad on the offensive
side and the defensive side.
And I love Jayhawks.
I mean, if this makes it to
you guys, I love you guys.
I saw Bill Self, we all,
the family met Bill Self.
Incredible man when we were
up there for my graduation.
He was so, so funny.
Anyways.
Witty, yeah.
I'm going down a road,
we've got Big 12, all
the conference plays
starting this week.
Conference plays starting this week.
I mean, we gotta do the brackets.
Yep, yep.
I love March Madness.
Great time.
It just, any time you turn it on,
you're gonna watch a great game.
I'm saying it tomorrow on Morning Cereal,
but so spoiler alert, oh no, it won't be
because you guys are
watching this in reverse.
Yeah.
Or in arrears.
But it is also,
because it's so well watched,
March is well known as the least,
what's the word I'm looking for there?
The least amount of
work gets done in March.
Are you serious, less than December?
It's the most unproductive
working month of the year.
Because of NCAA. I'm just in December?
Yeah.
I mean.
I mean, I don't doubt it.
According to the Google.
According to the Google,
which we all know the
Google's never wrong.
You can believe everything.
You're an expert.
All you gotta do is just type it in.
Now you're an expert.
Now you're an expert, yeah.
Google is never let anyone stray.
They have not.
Algorithms aren't.
And now AI is so good
that when you type a question in there,
it almost finishes your--
Sandwiches.
There you go.
Boom.
All right.
That's it.
We were getting close.
We gotta wrap that one up.
All right.
See you all next week.
All right, have a good one.
We'll see ya.
Bye, bye.
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