Mr. & Mrs. Inglis

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

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

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What is Mr. & Mrs. Inglis?

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

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

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All right, here we go.

It's not gonna make it in, right?

No, it's not, we'll start right now.

That gorilla held a little slingshot.

Thank you Easter Bunny, bonk, bonk.

Finding gems like that.

Oh my, I did love gem

and the rockers and then-

Maybe I was girl crazy early on.

Red and black Lamborghini Trappurini.

They don't make things like they used to.

I like the, I'm the

person that spins in our house.

Yeah, I shopped a whole lot.

Like, we'll be honest.

Jordan Ford, the best Jordan's ever made.

My feet literally bleed if I wear them,

but I can't get rid of them.

Did not fall far from the tree on that.

No, he might be part of the trunk.

You mean out of fallen.

For some reason, I'm just taking more

pride in being Gen X.

We're the Beavis and Buttman generation.

Yeah, there it is.

We did it again.

So.

Dude, okay.

Welcome to the Mr. and

Mrs. English Podcast.

I'm Megan.

And I'm Sean.

We're here to talk about the wild ride of

raising kids and growing careers, keeping

life together in the

middle of all the chaos.

So buckle up because we're all in this

crazy journey together.

All right, here we go.

I'm still gonna make it in, right?

No, that's not.

We'll start it right now.

All right, we are back and we are still

in the, we're still in the studio.

Yeah.

We have not figured out a good place to

do this elsewhere, I guess.

No, but you know what?

We're coming up.

We have, we have trouble from soccer,

like right off the bat.

So we'll be coming from

various locations, I think.

We can be.

Yeah, we might be.

In the next couple months.

Yeah.

I sent out a, I did a reel, I think on

Friday night saying,

well, you can tell we're done

with vacation, which is, it's well in the

rearview mirror now.

It's two weeks ago.

Completely.

But we still talk about it because we're

still a little bit on the high.

I know.

But we were at a, we're,

so we're done with vacation.

We're heading into, we're in August now.

We're heading back to school.

A lot of things, it's that big shift.

Yes.

Towards the second half of the year.

Yeah.

And what better way to know it than when

you're on a Friday night.

Under the lights at a soccer game.

Yeah.

Under the soccer Friday night lights.

Exactly.

Even though in Texas, that's

not really a, it might not.

They think of something

else when they think of that.

Yeah.

I think most of the

country does, obviously.

Most of the country.

Yeah.

We're going to be more of a

football, American football.

But we, I mean, I guess it was football.

It was, yeah, I was going to say it.

European football.

Yeah.

It was, it was football.

It was like, it was like croissant.

Croissant.

Football.

So, yeah.

So that was

interesting to get back to that.

Yeah.

It was nice to get back to that.

I missed watching the kids play.

I know.

I missed it too.

And we had some really

good weather this weekend.

We had a couple of games this weekend.

I mean, right?

Yeah.

I mean, if, if soccer had weather like

that all the time, so

it was low, it was low,

it was mid to high

eighties, cloud cover completely.

Yes.

Not much humidity except when the sun

came out that one time.

Yeah.

Ten minutes and it was like.

Like ten minutes of the game.

It was, I mean, we

were drenched like that.

Yeah.

Right.

Because there's a time when it's 88 here

and it might as well be

110 because it's just,

I don't know if it's humidity that does

it too, because it's not

very humid here generally.

Generally speaking.

But I feel like when you are at a

sporting venue, I think

this applies to most sporting

venues.

Like you don't have a

lot of the cloud cover.

It's just, it feels like you have no

trees or shade or anything like that.

So you just feel like you're baking.

Yeah.

Baseball parents got to be like that

because they're in stands a lot of times.

Yeah.

And like when we play

in stadiums for soccer.

Yeah.

That's hot.

Hot. Because it's just

reflecting off the silver stadiums.

Yeah.

The seats are just, even

in track was like that.

Yeah.

I mean, you just bake.

It's like it's an oven in there.

Yeah.

And so I think in track since this was

our first summer in

track with our daughter and

we go to these meets that are, you know,

they're all day long or a

couple of days long, but

the way they do it in track is because

it's in the same

stadiums as like a soccer game

or whatever, because people are there for

so long and they have

so long in between their

events, they go ahead and they put up

their big old tents.

Oh yeah.

Just right there in the stands.

Yeah.

So yeah.

So, you know, it's longer in the front

and then this back two

are shorter and they take

up, you know, eight by eight or 10 by 10,

whatever, or 20 by 15.

Oh yeah.

Some whole teams have huge ones.

It's the mullet tent.

The mullet tent.

Right?

You're like, it's, it's up in the front

and long in the back.

Oh, I see what you're saying.

Yeah.

But I had just never seen anybody put

those tents, those shade tents in stands.

In stands.

In the stadium stands.

It makes sense, but.

Totally makes sense, but never seen it.

Yeah.

They're all day long.

Yeah.

Long. I, you know, this is her first year

really being into track,

like really competitive

track.

Yeah.

So we're learning it all.

I bet this was all new to us, you know,

when our first, when our

kids first started getting

into competitive soccer, right?

It's just, we've been doing that for so

long that we know, I

mean, we have our summer get

up and for soccer games, right?

We have it down.

Yeah.

And we have our winter one, by the way.

So it just depends like.

Yeah.

Just a lot more clothes.

Lots of layers.

But we're learning it for track last

year, not to get too far

into that, but last year

for soccer, at least we have these, we

carry on these buckets of water.

Then it has a fan that sprays the water

that missed you to keep you cool.

We didn't even pull

that out last year though.

Oh yeah.

We did all year long.

We didn't do it all the

year last year for a reason.

And this year has been

a cool summer here too.

It has just been so nice.

I do think we have some tournaments

coming up in August that

that's when you're really

putting the heat to the test.

It'll turn.

No doubt about it.

Yeah.

It's Texas.

But what I was saying though is, so we've

turned into August and I love August.

I mentioned it on morning cereal last

Friday because that was August 1st.

And to me, because you're winding down

summer, you're getting

ready for school, you're back

to school shopping, which is always fun.

It was fun as a kid.

We can talk about that,

but we're turning the corner.

You can see fall.

I love fall.

Fall is my favorite.

Oh yeah.

Of all.

I mean, they all have

something great about them.

There's no doubt about it.

I can enjoy all of them,

but fall is my favorite.

Yeah.

Colorado.

We don't really get a fall

here in Texas, unfortunately.

No, we get a couple of

days that are pretty nice.

A day.

But it's like, it's a rolling the dice.

It's 95 and you're like, oh, and 95 in

October is just

ridiculously hot because mentally

you've turned the corner.

It should be fall.

It should be cool.

Yeah.

Especially when you grew up that way.

Yeah.

So, I'm looking forward to fall now that

it's like, okay, school's upon us.

Back to school is here.

Yeah.

And so you're like, hey,

it may as well be fall.

Kind of like the end

of a vacation, right?

When you're like, you know what?

I'm already at the airport going home.

I just want to be home now.

Yeah.

It is weird how for so long after you

graduate school, right?

You don't think about summer break

anymore before you have kids.

Right.

Before your kids are in school.

Yeah.

And then once your kids go back to

school, it's like, oh my

gosh, you have a summer break

again that you have to deal

with one way or the other.

Yeah.

Change the schedule.

Sometimes it's good.

Sometimes it's harder.

Yeah.

But you're back to that.

You're back on that schedule

of like, life changes again.

Yeah.

Here for us too in two weeks.

I know.

It's, I don't know.

Were you the type that was excited about

back to school or did you dread it?

I was going to ask you the same question.

That's funny.

We didn't even prepare that, people.

Once I got probably to seventh, eighth

grade and beyond, I

looked forward to going back

to school.

Yeah.

Because for me, it was always

a time to reinvent yourself.

Yeah.

For me.

Because you're always just

growing like, who am I now?

Who do I want to be?

And, you know, not that I changed.

Right.

I didn't go gangster to.

Yeah.

But it was just, it was just a time to

show like, hey, I've grown up.

We've grown up.

Here's my new style.

That's part of it.

Right.

For sure.

I mean, I guess I'll

ask you the same question.

Did you look forward to it?

I'm sure you did.

You're.

I did.

You're by the book side person.

You're probably.

I mean, I love and I always have been the

one who really liked the laid back summer

schedule.

Yeah.

But I mean, I did miss friends and I

missed, you know, I did miss the routine.

Arithmetic.

Yeah.

I mean, I did.

I did miss that.

But I mean, once you got older, it's

like, no, I don't miss the

actual hard work of school.

But.

You miss doing reports.

Yeah.

By hand, handwriting reports.

Handwriting reports.

Oh yeah.

And then you go to the

computer lab and type them.

You have to actually have to reserve your

time for the computer lab.

Totally.

Back when we were young.

I love that.

We're just getting I actually am starting

to enjoy the fact that

we're getting to that

age.

And it's surprisingly it's actually

starting to get to the

point where it's surprising

what did not exist

when we were in school.

When we.

That's around now.

Oh yeah.

But anyways, go ahead.

Yeah.

You enjoy.

You did kind of enjoy.

I did.

Like you're excited for the football

games again or the or the,

you know, sporting events

again.

That stuff was fun.

Was I excited for

then the day in, day out?

Never that waking up when it's dark.

And I was always excited for school.

Like for finding out who's in my classes.

Yes.

Right.

Because like do I

have friends in my class?

Yeah.

Girls are in my class because, you know,

at that time, you

know, everybody's learning

to get crushes and stuff.

You have crushes and not learning, but

you have crushes and whatnot.

So you're like, who's

going to be in my class?

Who's not?

Mine is more about my own friends.

Not necessarily about like.

Well, that's how boys are.

So I'm glad you.

Interesting.

I don't know.

That's how I was.

I mean, I don't know.

Maybe I was girl crazy early on.

That's pretty funny.

But that was always but that was part of

it because you

reinvented yourself of like,

because we were lucky enough that we did.

We were able to go get some new clothes

and stuff like that.

New.

I mean, think about like even even school

shopping was fun for me.

And I remember going back to school

shopping was fun as early as sixth grade.

As early as I remember it for sure,

because I remember the

thing I remember most was

like I had to get pens and pencils.

And I loved getting that.

I wanted to.

I wanted to write erasers and I loved

getting all the new stuff.

Like I've always just loved getting new

things and then keeping it.

But I got a pen and I

still have this pen.

My mom might remember it.

It's up.

It's up in the attic.

But it was a pen that I just had to have

because I didn't need a pen.

You needed number two pencils.

Yeah, they didn't let you write in pen.

They got it for me.

It was a pen that was

like black and white.

I don't remember.

But at the top of it was a gorilla

holding his arms up like this.

Oh my gosh.

Like this.

And that gorilla held a little slingshot.

So the gorilla was like an inch, you

know, maybe an inch by an inch.

And it had a little slingshot on it.

And I thought that was the coolest thing.

Oh, you know, and now I remember too in

fifth grade, I got this

because you could get things

like to keep stuff in.

Right.

So where am I going to

keep all these boxes?

Right.

Yeah.

Your pencil boxes.

Right.

So did you have like strawberry shortcake

on yours or what was on your pencil box?

I don't know.

I don't know that it had a character.

What was on your pencil box

because you clearly had one.

I love this kind of stuff like

my Trapper Keepers and things.

I remember I had the red and black

Lamborghini Trapper Keeper one year.

And then one year it was

hot pink with checkers.

And I remember riding

it was kind of cloth.

I rode all over it.

I mean, like, well, but what I was going

to say is in fifth

grade and I saw this too,

it was a Herbie Beetle Volkswagen.

Right.

What?

Why? Specifically made for your desk.

The front of it.

How do I explain this?

The front of it, the hood was rounded,

but it was just it was

just things that stuck

stuck up.

Oh, like plastic.

It was all plastic that's so you could

stick your pins in the hood.

Oh, your pins would

stick in the hood of it.

But it was shaped like that.

Of the then Herbie Beetle.

Right.

And then the trunk opened up and so you

could put stuff in there

and it had a the tailpipe

was a pencil sharpener.

Wow.

Yeah.

So, I mean, I like

finding gems like that.

Oh, that might be you maybe maybe had a

gym in the rocker Trapper Keeper.

Do you remember that?

That's an old name.

Oh, my I did love Jim and the rockers.

And then she would turn into Jericho when

she like hit her her star earrings.

OK, I watched that cartoon for sure.

Yeah.

I'm I'm I'm going to just double click on

this gorilla that we

still have in our attic.

Do we still have her her be the love bug?

Yes.

I should have I mean, I would have been

if we ever planned for

these things because like

bring them here it is.

I have it.

It's broken.

The the trunk broke off of it.

But luckily I scotch

taped that back together.

God for scotch tape.

1988 scotch tape is

probably still holding strong.

Oh, that thing together.

Don't make things like they used to.

I think the wheels on

it were like erasers.

I mean, this thing was awesome.

It was tricked out.

Tricked out.

No doubt about it.

That kind of stuff.

I love that's the going back

to school stuff that I like.

You know me.

I've always been someone

that likes I like I like to buy.

I'm the person that

spins in our household.

Yes.

You do like to buy new things.

I do like to buy new things.

And I mean, I know I do

remember a Trapper Keeper.

It had like hot pink and turquoise like

geometric shapes on it

from from what I remember.

I don't have anything else that actually

sticks out from like a

school supply perspective.

That was like a major deal to me.

And that's that's like a dip.

You know, that's some of

the differences between us.

You know, I am I am very particular.

Yes.

And I whatever reason I

didn't get a lot of new things.

That's I'm not I'm not suggesting

anything there with that comment.

But we this was like kind of the one time

a year we would get something new.

Right.

So that was a big deal to me.

And to be able to pick out basically

whatever I wanted and show

some because I was so shy

that that was only the way that was like

the only way I showed my

quote unquote personality.

I don't know.

I don't know if it's a question.

Yeah.

Well, you know what I mean?

It was like it was a way to show your

personality what you liked

because you weren't verbally

telling people.

Yeah.

That makes sense.

That was always big to me.

I loved that kind of stuff.

That's really cute.

I would search out like

things that were just neat one.

I have a whole I have a whole pencil box

upstairs of like old pencils

and stuff like from whatever.

Just just junk.

100 percent junk.

I probably have my whole

childhood room upstairs in totes.

Yeah.

To some degree.

I should rebuild that someday.

Oh, we should.

When I finished the garage.

We'll put it we'll put a room up there.

That's 10 by 10.

Like a reenactment of

Sean's childhood bedroom.

It's a good use of space.

But I've just well, like we talked about

last week a little bit, you know, it's a

sands of time.

You're faced with these things of getting

older and times are great.

I mean, things are good.

I mean, we've said it's a

tough season, but we're blessed.

It's not that tough.

So don't shed tears for us yet.

Right.

But I am in a little bit of a nostalgic.

That's part of what Morning Serial was.

You know, just like kind of going back to

the nostalgia, like the music.

Like I love the music.

I hate that I can't play music on that.

Yeah.

On the actual show.

That's why the clips are great because I

can actually put

music, the actual song to

it.

Yeah.

Without any worries on that.

But clothes though.

Oh, yeah.

I mean, get back to those clothes, right?

You had to love that.

I did.

You like clothes.

You're a little bit of a fashionista.

I do love clothes.

Especially when I met you.

Yeah.

But I was also, you know, single and

doing single twenty five.

Like I could spend my own

money however I wanted to.

Like sure enough, I would.

You're like a little

Carrie Bradshaw in Minneapolis.

I shopped a whole lot.

G rated Carrie Bradshaw.

Yeah, I shopped a whole lot.

Like we'll be honest.

And I also, but I was also in an industry

where, you know, we

were trying to buy things

for, you know, forward looking.

So I worked for a retailer right at the

corporate headquarters of a retailer.

Of course I shopped a lot.

But I do remember getting clothes.

And it was.

You talk about reinventing yourself.

And I'm laughing at your story of the

gorilla and her be the love bug.

But at the same time, I

kind of thought about that too.

Like, oh, I'd watch a movie like Can't

Buy Me Love or something like that.

You know, back in the 80s and be like, I

want to, you know, be really stylish.

And I've never

actually been super stylish.

But anyway, I did like,

I like the new clothes.

I liked planning out what I was going to

wear on the first day.

And this is maybe different for our kids

because I grew up where

just like you, where it really

was fall.

Right.

It was.

So when you went back to school shopping,

you're buying jeans and

sweaters and sweatshirts

and that kind of stuff.

And it was always like too hot on the

first day of school to

be like, I wanted to wear

that sweater with that pair of jeans.

And you're like, it's still even in

Minnesota in September,

it's like 85 or whatever.

It would be hot.

You're like, you can't do that.

Because you pick out your first, for

sure, your first day of school.

Of course.

Outfit.

Of course.

Yeah.

Although in high school, our first day of

school, we always had to wear.

So whatever like athletics you were in,

you wore like your uniform that day.

Because we had like a first day of school

pep rally and stuff.

And because I was on the dance team, so I

would wear like my dance team stuff.

So I didn't even get to wear, you know,

like my new clothes.

Did you have that?

No, we did not do that.

We would have assemblies

where we would do that.

Yeah.

You know, game days and stuff like that.

But never a first day

of school type thing.

Got it.

Get to wear whatever we wanted to.

Yeah.

So I'm wondering if like this, the sports

that came later in the season, maybe they

didn't.

I just did because I was part of the pep

rally and our football

team did because that was

the season, the sports season.

So maybe that's why.

Yeah, I don't know.

I mean, I played soccer.

Was that fall or spring for you?

We didn't do that.

It was fall.

Oh, that was a fall sport for you.

It overlapped football.

That was a spring sport for us.

Yeah.

You can't.

I don't think we had any other fall

sports other than football.

Yeah.

No track was in the in the spring for us.

Track was spring.

Soccer was spring.

Tennis was spring.

I think they just wanted to be like,

well, hold that sacred

for the football players.

I'm surprised it was the

hockey players in Minnesota.

I mean, they walked on

literally skating on water.

Literally walked on water.

It was frozen.

I know.

Yeah, that that was a winter.

That was winter.

But yeah.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Those were the kings and queens of the

school or the hockey players.

The kings of the school.

I was there as queens hockey players.

You know, we may have had a female hockey

team like my senior year.

Oh, full female hockey team.

I think we may have later in high school.

Yeah.

I don't remember.

So for those Jefferson High School folks

out there who do know,

you can correct my history.

It's a long time ago.

Yeah.

Well, I remember the

biggest thing for me now.

I mean, we got to we got to throw out

some of those things

because everybody everybody

is listening will remember

some of these things right.

Like from high school at least.

You didn't have Z kavarice pants, right?

Not really.

No.

Okay.

You had what?

What were your like Gerbo Gerbo?

Guess.

It was huge.

That triangle and those

were so expensive back then.

So expensive.

I had like one guess shirt and it was

like, I can only wear

this every now and again.

Yeah.

Because you don't want it to get ruined.

Right.

Plus it was all striped because

everything was so loud back then.

Loud and big.

And very like lots of geometric shapes.

Lots of geometry.

Yeah.

But it made math easier.

Yeah.

Because of you.

I don't know.

Because it just did.

I don't know.

Yeah.

So yeah, that Z.

So guess was huge.

Everybody had guess.

Jordash.

That one.

No, not really.

Not really.

Did you have Jordash?

No, I'm just trying to think of brands

that we had back then.

So we were, I was walking through the

mall with our daughter

and there was an express.

Do you remember express

stores in the limited?

Those were huge for girls.

Yeah.

But I, but no, I mean, I know them, but I

don't know how big they were.

What was big back then?

It was that one store that had all the

cologne smell out of it in the malls.

Oh my gosh.

Abercrombie and Fitch.

Yep.

That was huge.

The buckle kind of came around.

Yeah.

American Eagle.

Yeah.

Which for the record has come around

officially because that was

one of the stores our daughter

wanted to go to.

They went bankrupt

like three years ago too.

Well, they're doing just fine.

They're owned by like

Gap or something like that.

Anyway, whatever.

Well, they have athletic now, whatever.

Anyway, but she actually

got some clothes there.

She's like, I really want

to go to American Eagle.

And I nearly died laughing.

Yeah.

I was like, pretty sure I

shopped here my senior year.

That's awesome.

Interesting.

But shoes, I think shoes really are the

thing that are huge for me.

I've always been a shoe person.

Always.

Still is.

That's why I say always.

I still, I've.

Always and forever.

What is the issue with me and other

people are like this or not.

I have an issue and I've said it on this

podcast and everybody

that knows me knows it.

But I just, I think

it's a Piccadillo with me.

So it's Piccadilly.

Piccadillo.

Piccadillo with me.

It's fine.

I don't know.

I like, I like things to stay new.

So as much as I want new shoes and I have

a closet full of a lot

of shoes, I don't like

to, I like to wear them, but I don't like

to wear them because I

don't want to mess them

up.

That's what I talked about in my truck.

Right?

Like sometimes I don't want to hit the

buttons in the truck as

much because I don't want

to wear the paint off that button because

if that button, the

paint on that button gets

worn off, the truck

will not feel new anymore.

That's the automobile truck.

Yeah.

Actual truck.

You know, so it's little things like that

that drive me like I'm a little neurotic.

I get it.

It's a little neurotic on that, but is

nobody else like that

where it's like I don't, I

want things to stay new.

I know.

How many pairs of shoes do

you have that you've never worn?

Not that many.

I do.

I have some, and some of this is just

because gosh, I'm trying

to think like, like my, like

the Jordan force, right?

These are popular.

Any guy that's my age

knows Jordan force, right?

They're, in my opinion,

the best Jordans ever made.

Now I don't like high tops.

I will never wear these shoes because I

would never wear,

they're three quarters by the

way.

So I don't want to make sure everybody

knows I'm aware of that

three quarter, but I would

never wear three quarters either.

I would never wear these

shoes, even though I love them.

I love them.

I want to get the white and red pair and

I want to get the

original baby blues and grays

when they come back out.

But I bought them strictly because I

couldn't afford them

when I was younger, right?

Like they were the things like I wanted

that I couldn't have.

So some of the shoes I have

in my closet are like that.

Like I'm, those ones are in a glass box.

Yeah.

They're collectors items.

And when I get the other

ones, they'll be the same way.

I'll never wear them.

Right.

They're just for me to look at.

And it's, I don't know what it is.

You know how it is.

That's, it's like a thing for my child.

It's like, I don't know.

I couldn't afford it.

Now I can.

Yeah.

But like some of those like Air Maxes in

there, like I love the look of Air Maxes.

I just, I don't want to wear them all the

time because I don't

necessarily like the look

of them on me.

You're like, I like them.

But I've got like six pairs of Air Maxes

in there that they look really good.

They're just like

decorative in my closet.

You just had an opening slot.

So you needed a pair.

Just totally wide on the bottom.

And I've never been worn.

So those are the ones that I mostly the

Nikes I have not worn.

A because Nike's sometimes are affiliated

like how the Raiders were affiliated.

Right.

It was just a little bit more of like a,

uh, what are we a ghetto look?

I don't know.

So how do I say that?

It's just a little bit more of like, uh,

you know, urban urban.

I don't want to say urban even, but you

know, it's just sometimes

it got a little different

feel to it.

Yeah.

And that's not the

feel I want out of them.

And now I'm getting

into this whole thing.

Like, Oh, what are, I guess, I guess I'm

caring what other people

think what I look like.

Right.

That's B. A is Nike shoes are made thin

and I have got Hobbit feet.

Right.

Like I have wide feet.

You have wide feet.

Our whole family is wide feet.

I know.

Yeah.

So they're actually very

uncomfortable for me to wear.

Yeah.

And that's partially why I haven't worn.

Okay.

That one's fair.

I have a pair of shoes that.

Nike's in particular are very thin.

Are they?

Yeah.

They're narrow shoes.

Okay.

Do you have a pair of shoes?

No, I have a pair of shoes.

Like they're so pretty like, and I've

always loved these shoes.

They hurt so bad.

I want to like rip my eyeballs out.

These things hurt so bad, but yet I can't

throw these shoes away.

Like there's, I can't wear these shoes.

Yeah.

My feet literally bleed if I

wear them for five minutes.

Yeah.

I mean, they slice, but

I can't get rid of them.

Yeah.

I'm like, I'm never gonna wear those.

Why donate them to someone?

I don't know.

I don't know if you have to

have narrow feet to wear them.

Just can't work those ones, huh?

They're awful.

That reminds me, I would have tanned.

It's funny because I was watching this

documentary on Celine Dion

when we flew across these.

Oh yeah.

And she has a lot of shoes,

as you could probably imagine.

Doesn't she have like a warehouse?

Yeah, she does have a warehouse of stuff.

Wow. It's all her old costumes, a lot of

concerts and stuff like that.

But she has a lot of personal shoes too.

I mean, I bet she has thousands of high

heels, but she knows all of them.

And she's like, oh, I think these are

these ones, like the

monoblocks or whatever they

are.

But she's like, oh, she was so funny

because I thought of you immediately.

She's like, these shoes,

she's like, I love shoes.

She's like, I don't care if I see a pair

of shoes I like, I don't care.

I don't care what size they were.

I will fit my foot into

them if they look good.

If they're beautiful,

I'm gonna wear those shoes.

Those high heels, right?

She was like, and she was talking about

just how uncomfortable they are.

They might destroy her feet.

She can't walk for two days afterwards,

but she's like, I am

gonna put those on and I'm

gonna look fabulous.

I was like, oh man.

Many women know that feeling.

Yeah.

Apparently.

Oh my gosh.

Well, I'm a dancer.

I have nerve damage in my feet.

There are points of my

feet that I can't even feel.

And keep in mind as a ballerina, the

whole point is for your feet to go numb.

That's part of it.

So pain in my feet is something that you

would think I would be used to.

These shoes take it to a whole new level.

They are really cute.

Yeah.

And those also look good in your closet.

They just sit there.

I will never wear them again.

So here's something that I'll be curious

what listeners think about this.

Meghan and I were talking just the other

day because our

youngest son got a new pair of

soccer cleats.

Yeah.

Boots, as they call them.

And I asked him, and Meghan thought it

was crazy, but I asked

him, I said, what was

the first shot you took in them?

Because in my mind, and this goes back to

how I treated my shoes.

I'll tell you more about that.

But I was like, there's no way you want

to put on a brand new

pair of shoes, soccer cleats

and miss your first shot.

That's like bad juju for that, those pair

of shoes in our, in our youngest agreed.

He's like, yeah.

He's like, I took a shorter shot that I

knew from my sweet spot

because he had kind of

the same mentality.

Like you can't put that bad

juju on these pair of cleats.

You can't miss your first shot.

Which is so foreign to me.

Yeah.

You don't understand that at all, huh?

Uh uh.

I don't, I don't know if that's a, that's

a, my youngest and I

are very similar in the

way that we're a little neurotic.

And I say that in a loving way because

he's, did not fall far

from the tree on that.

No, he might be part of the trunk.

He may not have fallen.

Still on that tree.

Yeah.

He got all the best of us

and all the worst of us.

But that's one of them where, you know,

there's a little, but I

can remember and we went into

this a little bit.

I can remember being in second grade and

I got a new pair of

bright red Adidas shoes,

you know, that were like Samba's or

something like that.

They're in style now, but anybody would

know if you saw them.

I loved them.

I loved them so much.

When I went, when I took them to school

for the first time, I

introduced them like this

is the hallway.

This is the gym over here.

And then this is where I literally gave

the shoes that I was

wearing a tour and introduction

to the school in second grade.

Did you speak out loud

while you were doing this?

I don't know.

Probably, probably a little bit at times.

But shoes were like

such a big deal to me.

I loved a good pair of shoes.

Like when I finally got to, you know,

playing basketball and I

would order the shoes, guys

that are my age know we used to get the

magazine and all the shoes came in.

Your brothers probably looked through

that magazine all the time.

And I was just in ecstasy with all the

shoes that I could get

and buy out of there and

you can get different colors of them.

I mean, that was really when things

started taking off

because before then it was just

cumbersome.

Like Nike really

reinvented shoes, athletic wear.

They did.

To make it more stylish and whatnot.

And but I'll never forget.

I mean, I got a pair of basketball shoes

like A, those are my court shoes.

Those only are game shoes.

They only see hardwood and

basketball is different, right?

It is.

Yeah.

But like there's then I have my outdoor

shoes, but I would for

sure, no matter what, with

that first time those shoes laced up.

I mean, that was a big deal.

It was like, all right,

fellas, you got to do me well.

You got to do me right.

I mean, like they were a part of me, but

they were also kind of a living being.

And I would make sure that that first

shot that I took in

those shoes was probably a

layup every single time.

There's no way I'm going to take a three

point shot straight out

of the box with a brand

new pair of basketball shoes.

That's bad juju.

Bad juju if you miss that.

Yeah.

I mean, new dance shoes.

What did you do with them?

Nothing they're just a piece of.

Yeah.

They're just an asset

that you had to depreciate.

That's probably didn't know about that

kind of stuff back then.

Just trying to think in like the most

general terms how you

would think of them.

I owe it.

Well, it is different because they're

really uncomfortable.

If I think about like my point shoes or

something like that, that

is different because they

hurt your feet.

And so you're like, I hate these things.

And until you can break

them in, it's kind of painful.

Well, basketball shoes are like that too.

You have to break them in.

Yeah.

You have to break them in.

You have blisters and stuff.

Yeah. For a couple of times.

Soccer shoes.

I'm sure.

Yeah.

I know our boys deal with that.

Yeah.

Because we're always like, yeah, work,

work them out in the

backyard before you take them

into a game.

Break them in a little bit.

Yeah.

No, it was just like, okay, I need new

ones because these are torn.

But yeah, I just, I mean, I don't know.

Maybe there are people that are shoe

people and there are

people that don't really care.

You know, but I'll see guys at soccer

games, dads that have

like nice pair of shoes on.

You know what I mean?

And they're not like, and they're a

little bit of a retro callback.

Yeah.

You know what I mean?

So I don't know if this is all dads that

have now figured out

we've got a little extra,

you know, free cash flow and you know, we

can go buy those shoes,

those pair of sneakers

that we wanted or have multiple colors of

that same pair of sneakers.

Yeah.

And that's just what

it is for the shoe guys.

There are dads out there wearing shoes

that I'm like, Oh, you

should probably burn those.

Right?

Like, Oh, maybe a new pair.

I don't know.

You know,

probably have an intervention here or

maybe buy a sewing kit

and you know, we don't need

to see that sock.

You know, you do.

You hold onto socks and shoes way longer.

Oh no.

Your dad had one like that too.

Your dad who is done very well in life.

I remember I'll never forget.

He like put his foot up in our

house and we live in Chicago.

Oh yeah.

He's got his whole toe sticking out of

the shoe and I'm like,

I know you're well off

enough to buy a new pair of socks.

But he's like, this asset

is not fully depreciated.

I'm not fully depreciated.

I'm sure as he thought.

I know.

I'm, I'm.

I don't appreciate those things.

I just don't.

Yeah.

I like new.

It is.

It is so hard for me to like, I have

t-shirts I don't wear shirts.

I don't wear because it's like, I mean,

like if they start,

you know, what if I sweat

in them or what if this or what if that.

I do that a little bit too

with some of my nicer clothes.

It's like, oh, if I wear it

too much, I could wear it out.

And you know, yeah, I do that, especially

with nice things that

you're like, you only

get so long with that.

And yeah, yeah.

But it also helps.

I haven't changed.

You haven't either though.

I haven't changed sizes and

I don't know how old am I?

I haven't changed sizes in like 30 years.

I in my closet have a

pair of blue corduroy.

I know exactly which

ones you're talking about.

And those were part of my

senior year new clothes.

I wear them like to fix like.

They're your work pants.

They're my work pants now.

Yeah.

But I've had those since my senior year.

Wow.

And they're big because we wore things

bigger and baggy back then.

I haven't changed.

I haven't changed that much.

You really have.

This year has been toughest for me,

honestly, as far as gaining weight.

It's been a tough year

from that perspective.

Yeah.

But I was going to say the yeah, yeah, we

can hold on to things

because we've just we

haven't our body types

haven't changed too much.

Mine more than yours.

I mean, don't forget.

I've had three kids.

Oh, you're going to use that excuse now.

Yeah.

I had to gain 40 pounds and then lose it.

Yeah.

I have to I think almost

know my max fatness was 182.

I think.

I can't remember.

Was that early?

Anyway, it doesn't matter.

Does it matter?

Did I know you then?

No, I was in college.

Okay.

I was like, I don't know

that I have ever known you.

I was like pure muscle then.

Yeah.

172 is my max fatness with you.

And that was in Chicago.

And that's when I

started keeping a diary.

Not a diary.

That's a.

A log.

Stop eating.

That's when we bought that.

That weight.

The scale.

Yeah.

That's in there.

That's still in there today.

And I logged my weight every morning

because I don't want to get too much.

But it fluctuates.

Here's the last thing I'll say on this.

I know we're drawing this out, but I

hopefully people are

thinking back to their high school

and their junior high

and just all those things.

I mean, like we could talk about

nostalgia stuff so long.

I love it.

I love nostalgia.

It's just such a good feeling.

You know, thinking about

how we used to roll our jeans.

Did you tight roll?

Oh yeah, we tight rolled for sure.

That was like eighth and ninth grade.

Yeah.

And then and then the actual rolling I

think came a little bit

later where you didn't tight

roll.

You didn't tight.

You just rolled it up a little bit.

Yeah.

But I mean, like I remember like going to

school the first time

you would roll it up

like, man, I am looking fashionable.

Like good, you know, to some degree, you

know, even if you don't

have a very high self-esteem

or whatever it might be like.

But I'm rolling that thing.

Well, you know, it looks good.

One thing I did do, I'll never forget.

And this is that era

too, maybe back then.

But because I was such a Michael Jordan

fanatic, people, my seventh grade

yearbook and probably

eighth grade, but people are almost

everybody that signed my

yearbook talked about how much

I like the Bulls and Michael Jordan

because I could wear to school.

I don't think I've

talked about it on this floor.

I would I would have I would definitely

I'd wear Michael Jordan shirt every day.

Air Jordan, Michael Jordan, the Bulls,

whatever it is, every day I

would wear probably a Michael

Jordan shirt.

Of course.

But there would be a day of the week that

I wear because I had

two pairs of Bulls boxers,

Chicago Bulls boxers.

So I'd wear Bulls boxers with Bulls sweat

pants, which is a terrible

idea or Bulls shorts with

I had one pair of Jordans my entire time.

They got stolen the

whole time I was younger.

I had a pair of Jordans, but I could wear

for like two months.

I had a pair of Jordans.

I don't think I had Bulls socks, but

definitely with a Michael

Jordan shirt, Michael Jordan

hat.

I mean, I had Chicago Bulls sunglasses at

one point in time that I think I lost.

You had a little bull on the side.

And I again thought I was the bees knees

like Bull Chicago Bulls out.

And people would comment in the yearbook

was my point like, so you like the Bulls.

I know you're a basketball player because

you wear Michael Jordan shirts every day.

So you like the Bulls, huh?

Yeah.

Like, yeah.

So you like the Bulls.

Yeah, exactly.

That's exactly what it was.

But I also sum that up with, and you

know, it's true because

I kept all those shirts.

Yeah.

And my mom helped me

keep all those shirts.

And God bless her.

One of my prized

possessions is my mom quilted.

She cut all those shirts up and made a

quilt of all my Michael

Jordan and Chicago Bulls

shirts.

And it's in our movie room theater right

now on the backside.

It's a huge jump man symbol.

I mean, it is one of

my prized possessions.

One hundred percent.

Yeah, I love it.

I love it.

It's amazing.

And if you see it ever,

those shirts, you'll know them.

You will remember it.

You talk about nostalgia.

Your brothers had shirts.

My brothers had some of those shirts.

Yeah.

Like, it may not have been, you know,

because all my brothers,

you know, so between the

three of them, many of those shirts, they

probably didn't have

as many as you, but many

of those shirts were represented.

Yeah.

I'm sure.

So like for even me, I'm like, oh my

gosh, you know, I was

not the only Michael Jordan

fan.

But you may be the only one who is

tricked out quite literally head to toe.

I doubt that.

That's the other thing I

should bring back, too.

And I rebuild that.

My room is all the Michael Jordan stuff I

had in there, all the

posters I had in there,

all the Wheaties box

I still have in there.

Yeah, I still have

all the Wheaties boxes.

These boxes used to come with Michael

Jordan posters on the

back that you could collect.

Totally remember.

Yeah.

That was such a big, you know, you unfold

it and there are three of them.

Oh, man.

So cool.

Like little by little, if you come to our

house ever, we've got

some of my like in the

in the gym over here, the exercise room.

We've got a couple of my

old Michael Jordan posters.

These are the original ones, right?

From the 80s.

They're not reprints.

They've got actual like, you know,

thumbnail holes, and then

thumbtacks and then from

when they're until I

figured out like, what am I doing?

That was that was early.

That's before I got even anal enough to

be like, what was I thinking?

I put holes in them behind it.

Then it was the blue putty behind them.

And then there was double sided tape that

figured out ripped the

wallpaper off and ripped the

paper off the actual posters.

Yeah, you learned the

hard way on that one.

Yeah, I learned the hard way on that one.

All right.

I've talked a lot today, but that's such

a fun subject for me.

I could talk about

nostalgic things forever.

Right.

Not because it was great.

It was great times.

Actually, they were great times.

They were terrible times for me.

Yeah.

But as you look back on, you know, being

a kid and an

adolescent, I mean, like there's

something special about your childhood,

even if it wasn't great.

For sure.

Yeah.

There's times when it's it wasn't great,

but it's funny how

like perspective changes

when you get older because you remember

more of the good stuff

and the stuff that made

you happy.

And, you know, I think that's why people

like nostalgic stuff

because nostalgia is the good

things.

Yeah, it's the good things.

You know, although there's nothing like a

good snapping of the belt.

So nostalgic.

Like I'm going to get a

good whooping tonight.

Yeah, that's true.

It's true.

It's not nostalgic.

No, no.

Although I don't know.

The snapping of a tree bench.

Yeah.

Go pick your anyways.

We didn't really have any of that.

So I don't know.

But music is

something that's so nostalgic.

Like there's nothing like I was never

whipped, by the way.

I don't know.

I was like, I was whipped.

I was not.

Like there's nothing like music, though,

that immediately puts

you back in that moment.

Even the bad ones like there's songs

where you're like, oh,

break up songs and whatever.

And you're like, oh, my

gosh, I could do a part I could.

We talked about last week.

If I could make a living off talking

about music and

listening to it and all this kind

of stuff, I would do it.

I would do it. But yeah, it's just it

just takes it takes me

back to that love actually

scene.

Worst DJ of all time.

The next line is.

Yep, it's official.

Oh, no, she's like, well,

it depends on what the next.

It all hangs in the next song.

That's what it is.

This one here is for all the lovers.

Yep, it's official.

He's like, just jam into it, biting his

lip like, oh, yeah, this is it.

And that's how I would be on these songs.

Like, this is the I love this song.

He takes me back to this and people.

Yeah, you know, some people love those

songs hit and misses.

But yeah.

There are songs that OK, we're only two

years apart, but there

are songs that you're

like, I love this song.

And I was like, I don't

think I know that song.

I've never heard it.

And so that two years

does make a difference.

It does. It does.

Like, there's a there's a love song that

was on like, you know, you used to make

mixtapes or love tapes and stuff like

that back in the day.

I think it's Wednesday's

coming up morning cereal.

It's Peter Cetera's first

solo hit for The Glory of Love.

And it is just like such a hard hitting

like love ballad

that's pure Peter Cetera.

Like, I could talk

about those kind of songs.

Chicago's greatest hits.

OK. And then Def Lepper.

I mean, you go any of that

kind of stuff all day long.

You introduce me to a new name.

Peter Cetera. I have no idea who that is.

He was the lead singer of Chicago.

Oh, OK.

So he left Chicago.

I didn't know. OK.

So if I know Chicago, you know his voice.

I don't know his voice no matter what.

But yeah, yeah, yeah.

Go into these things and that would be

the greatest job of all time.

Interview those people.

I just don't know enough. I

don't know enough about it.

And then you'd laugh at me because you're

like, you don't know that.

Well, I would be like,

hey, really good song, man.

Like, love it.

Totally reminds me of when I

would ride my bike as a kid.

Reminds me of my junior high girlfriend.

So.

Dude, OK.

What would you say?

I'm just kidding. It

would be better than that.

I promise it would be better than that.

Let's do this. Fantastic.

Like, obviously, I do Chicago, but mine

were, I mean, new kids on the block.

And yeah, I mean, obviously I had a new

kids on the block posters.

And right. All of that. Right.

So they had great songs.

Hangin tough. I mean, like, again, that's

back in the day when I mean,

this is the lovely stuff

that we get it to at some point.

And I love just

touching on it here and there.

But we grew up when you listen to the

radio at night and

you're like, oh, my God.

Record play. Yeah.

Because you had your mixtape in there.

It's record play. And you would get the

end of the radio DJ being like, you know,

this is Def Leppard's Porsum Sugar on me.

Why Def Leppard, you know?

But you have them all, you know, because

you would just you would record on this.

Tape. Oh, yeah.

Just back to back to

back off of the radio.

Yeah. Gosh, such simple times.

Yeah. We did that with

movies that were on TV.

And then you'd pause it

for those talked about that.

Yeah, we did. Yeah.

And so like to me, I still like, thank

you, Easter Bunny, Boog Boog.

Like, I don't remember the beginning of

that commercial, but I saw that.

Thank you, Easter Bunny, Boog Boog.

Like time after time after time, because

it was, you know, in between.

Like, while we're watching, I could just

like picture you and your siblings

just dying over those

like four or five words.

Oh, my gosh, it's the best.

Like, we still all know it.

I think it was part of it was one of the

commercial breaks for like

Back to the Future or

something, you know.

Yeah. I don't I don't even know.

But yeah, we did the same thing like.

Yeah. And on the radio.

And the thing is now you can listen to

your favorite song over and over

and over and over and over.

You could not back then. Right.

You had to wait for it.

I know. That's that's.

And I do that now, too,

with songs like All Skips,

All Skips, some of my favorite songs,

because I don't want to overuse them.

That was part of it back then.

There are some songs that I was that

never got popular enough that I loved.

Yeah. That I don't even remember almost

because they just

didn't get popular enough.

And I don't remember them now.

Or they got there on a CD that my

ex-girlfriend or my tape that my

ex-girlfriend threw away.

Yeah. You know, you're right.

That's why I don't

know. That's I don't know.

You're right. It's diluted.

It's diluted music a little bit because

there's so much of it.

Yeah. And you can you

have full access at any time.

Any time. And you you don't get the.

Breath of, you know, well, it's like with

movies with our kids right now.

And we're going we're

going we're going long.

So we got to close this off here.

But our kids will watch like 15 minutes

of a feature film movie

because they just like that part of it or

like the song there or whatever.

And then they'll move on to another.

They don't watch the whole thing because

they have full access to it.

Yeah. Bugs me to death, too.

I would never I would

have never done that.

To me, it's the

feeling of the whole thing.

It was the beginning to the end when we kids.

Yeah. Like this

generation, I tell you what.

Yeah. I was I told you last night, the

other night, for some reason,

I'm just taking more

pride in like being Gen X.

Yeah. Whatever reason it is.

Even though, as I pointed out quite

harshly the other night,

we had our stupid stuff, too.

Oh, we all do. It's just.

We're the Beavis and Butthead generation.

Like, let's. Yeah.

Let's be honest, people. Yeah.

Yeah, we are. Yeah.

And I quoted it.

I'm not going to do it here. Right.

But but still I'm going to do a pretty

mean Beavis and Butthead.

I don't remember which one did what.

I just I know I watched it.

Well, we're back into it.

We're starting to see the people on the

soccer field again, which is nice.

We actually talked to

the to we don't use names.

I hear about Majang mom talked about, you

know, hopefully some Majang and over

labor. Yeah.

I hope so. Maybe I can bring some Peter

Cetera down to that. Yes.

Who is the lead singer of Chicago?

For those of you who don't know. Yeah,

was was was the lead singer.

So getting back into the

routine, that'll be good.

I like the team. So that'll be nice.

Yeah. I don't know.

Here's to the next year.

Here's to the next school year.

Good luck, everyone. Have fun.

Yes. And should we close with our word?

Well, OK, let's close with the word.

I have mine.

OK, I guess I have mine.

I don't remember if it's

the same one I had last week.

I don't know if mine is.

I know mine's different,

but yeah, I might be close.

All right. One, two, three. Routine.

Yeah. There it is.

We did it again.

There's only like 20 episodes apart, but

routine might have been mine last week,

too. I don't know. It was.

But it it it to me like

this week was back to the.

But it really was last week.

I was looking forward to it this week.

We're back to it. Back to it.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Same one.

I kind of thought you were

going to do that, too. Yeah.

You got my mind. Nice. Nice.

All right. Well, we'll let you guys go.

We're going along on this one.

So we'll get it. We'll wrap it. We'll

wrap it. All right. All right.

Well, we'll see you

next time. Ciao Ciao Ciao.

See ya.

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