[MUSIC]
This story might be TMI, so viewer
discretion advised here.
Weird, weird night.
I got it on the one else.
I think there's a movie about that.
I don't want to implicate too many
people, but I was in a plane crash.
It's frolicking in a fountain.
I like that.
Is how it was described to me.
I'm around upon corporate getaways.
All college guys smell the same.
I'm over it.
It's not sexy anymore.
We're dedicated, but not that dedicated.
I'm sorry, you're right.
You're right, I'm wrong.
You don't hear it.
Smash that like button.
Do you regret that decision?
So, yeah, I--
Okay, great segment.
Well, moving on.
Next question.
Welcome to the Mr. and
Mrs. English Podcast.
I'm Megan.
And I'm Shum.
We're here to talk about the wild ride of
raising kids, growing careers,
keeping life together in
the middle of all the chaos.
So buckle up, because we're all in this
crazy journey together.
T-T.
Ta-ta.
T-t-ter-tat.
Oh, that's a good one.
Maybe that's one I used.
Yeah.
T-t-ter-tat.
That's probably a really good one.
Nicely done.
I'm not gonna remember it next week.
All right, welcome, everybody.
Welcome.
It is middle of May,
and this is episode 19.
Yeah.
And when did we get to the middle of May?
I mean, obviously 15 days ago, but--
Slowly, but surely, yeah.
Within the last two or three days.
I mean, okay, so that's
the mathematical answer.
That's kind of the way
I look at it, I guess.
But doesn't it feel
like it was just March?
Yeah.
I was at the dentist
this morning, as you know.
And one of the things we talked about--
I don't remember if I told you this,
because you just got back.
You literally just flew back into town.
Right.
And we gotta go pick up the kids right
after we get done doing this.
So it's like, this is the chaos train.
I mean, like, it's totally true.
This is just a little--
If you peel back everybody's--
What's the term?
If you open everybody's book or you pull
back everybody's curtain a little bit,
this is what you see, right?
This is what you see, yeah.
We had 40 minutes before we
gotta go get the kids at school.
Yeah.
We gotta go to soccer.
All that stuff.
At the dentist this morning, though,
which is something else we fit in.
I fit in.
I was telling her, I was like, just
another one of those signs of the time
that you're getting old.
Because not only as you get older, time
seems to go fast, right?
It's like, gosh, just like you just said.
When do we get to May?
Time is flying by.
Right.
Well, our kids are starting to say that.
Like, our oldest is
like, this year just flew by.
Yeah.
And it's not until
you get to a certain age
that the years actually
seem to start going quickly.
Yeah.
And so that is a sign that
not only are we getting older,
but our kids are getting older, too.
It's sands of time, man.
I know.
It's a little sad, but, you know.
Yeah.
I am grateful to be on this side, right?
Like, I'm still upright, still going,
but it's still just a little bit sad to
be like, why does it keep going faster?
Yeah.
Now, did you hear the
theory that they've--
multiple kids have shared
it with me in our house?
Yeah.
Like, maybe we just don't do enough
exciting things that slow it down,
that help punctuate that time.
Well, I touched base on that just a
little bit last week,
not even, obviously, totally separately,
but, I mean,
everything was new then, right?
So you're experiencing a lot of new
things that you never knew.
Yeah.
Right?
So the older you get, I think it's the
harder to find new experiences, right?
Yeah.
That's why we search out, you know, going
on vacations to Europe.
Yeah. Why we try to, you know, go find new
places to be that we haven't been,
you know, the Grand Canyon.
Right.
Because those are new
experiences, you know,
going back to the same
place or the same spot.
That's not as great as that is at times.
Right.
It's not a new
experience, which, I don't know.
There's just something
about being somewhere new.
Yeah.
I don't know.
It is exciting.
Or just a new smell or a new song, you
know, all those new things.
Yeah.
But, I don't know.
I mean, I don't know.
There's some psychology to how that those
experiences or big experiences
help punctuate time and make
it slow down in your own mind.
Yeah.
Which is really cool.
Yeah, it is.
Why any more big experiences?
Apparently we do.
It's fine.
We know.
It's fine.
Well, welcome back, honey.
You just landed an
hour, maybe, and a half ago.
Yeah.
So just busy, busy.
Yeah.
You know?
How does it feel to be
important in business?
It's an inside joke.
A total inside joke.
Oh, if only I actually was.
Yeah.
No.
But it feels so good to be home.
Like you walk in the door and it's just
like, oh, I am so glad to be home.
Yeah.
It's tough to travel for work.
And I think.
It would be, it would,
well, so many thoughts there.
Yeah.
It's tough having you gone, right?
Because through our marriage, I've been
the one that's traveled.
Yes.
And luckily I don't travel a lot.
I've been.
Not so much anymore.
Yeah.
Once a week or once every other week.
Yeah.
Because I was in charge of my own
schedule for the most part.
So, you know, I could work around things.
But yeah, it is, it's different than not
having a mom at the house.
You know, I mean, dad, the kids are
always surprised when dad
knows how to use the dishwasher
and do stuff like that.
You know, you wash dishes too.
You know, like the
pancakes we've talked about.
I mean, like they're really surprised at
how capable fathers are.
Oh yeah.
When mom's not here.
I mean, I think I did
take care of myself.
Like you're 28 when we met.
Yeah.
That's right.
I adulted.
That's right.
On my own.
That's right.
Eight to 10 years before.
Fed myself, clothed
myself, all that stuff.
All that stuff.
All my own.
Yeah.
So glad to hear that.
Yeah.
And I haven't lost.
I haven't lost touch with that either.
That's good.
Although you, you have probably sharpened
my skills at some of
those things after seeing
just how good you are at doing.
Yeah.
Well, maybe that's why I do them is
because I am superior
apparently at doing laundry
or the dishes.
Yeah.
Which is why that's all yours.
It's actually not you like you actually
asked to do laundry
because I said I am happy to
do my laundry.
If it takes that off your schedule.
This was decades ago when we were still
kind of figuring out
like, yeah, wants to do what,
you know, trying to split.
Yeah.
And you said you didn't want to do it.
Yeah.
I mean, you were fine doing it.
You didn't want to give it up.
Right.
Because there's a certain way you like to
fold the clothes or
certain way you like to
hang the clothes, all that kind of stuff.
It comes down to the
fact that I am type A.
Do you regret that decision?
So not usually.
What's a bigger thought
than I thought I might get?
No, because I mean, I like doing, I don't
say I like doing it,
but I like it being done
my way.
So that is good.
So I get some satisfaction.
But sometimes it is a hindrance because
it's one of those things
that I mean, you are dirty
in clothes as you wash them.
Like you're wearing clothes, getting them
dirty by just existing in clothes.
And so the fact that it is a never
ending, just perpetual
cycle sometimes feels annoying.
Yeah.
I 100% understand that.
And this goes back to I may have heard
this and this might be
this story might be TMI.
So viewer discretion advised here.
But I know exactly what we hit on.
I lived on my own for a long time and you
know this story, but I am type A as well.
But I am also a little, I'm a little OCD
when it comes to things
somewhere on that spectrum.
But when it came to cleaning my house or
my condo that I had, it
was a three bedroom condo
that I owned.
First real estate that I
own three bedroom condo.
I cleaned it every weekend because I
like, you know, I'm
just a clean freak too.
You know that.
But I would also make sure all my clothes
were cleaned at the same time.
So there was a one moment in time that
everything was cleaned in my
house except for one thing.
And that was the pair of boxers that I
wore because all the
clothes went into your point.
Like all the clothes went in because like
the clothes you're
wearing are getting dirty.
They're getting dirty.
So I got I got it down to just
one pair, one pair of boxers.
And that was the only thing that was
dirty in the whole house.
It's amazing.
Yeah.
Um, yeah, I didn't get it.
I can't do that.
Life hasn't life doesn't allow for that
to get to that level of efficiency.
Yeah.
No, it really doesn't.
It doesn't.
I don't know what that is.
It's something though.
It's something.
I knew someone she would
wear an old prom dress.
So something that she
would never actually wear.
And that's what she wore
while she was doing laundry.
Yeah.
Because she's like, I don't, I'm never
actually gonna wear this
and I'm only wearing it when
I'm doing laundry.
Yeah.
And she actually wouldn't wear
undergarments underneath.
And so she was like,
yeah, so she in theory got.
Fancy.
100%.
Yeah.
Her laundry and her old prom dress.
Yeah.
Which is probably dry clean only.
So she couldn't do it anyways.
Exactly.
Interesting.
Um, I have not reached your
level or hers for that matter.
Um, I do the laundry fully closed.
Yeah.
All right, people.
We're back.
I had a frog in my throat.
Sorry about that.
But I was gone so long trying to get rid
of that frog, which is not gone.
That Megan has lost her thought.
Yes.
Which is a rarity.
It must have been a
long time and distracting.
I was trying to be like, gosh, you
usually don't get, you
don't get verklempt like that
very often.
Like you don't get,
that's the wrong word for it.
But it's been a long week, people.
Um, but you don't get
like that very often.
And I was like, gosh, are you okay?
You're really like coughing on this.
Yeah.
Make sure you're all right.
Yeah.
Well, I think I'll survive another day.
Did you catch the COVID while I was gone?
The COVID.
I don't think so.
Uh, perhaps the measles.
I think those are back down here in
Texas, but I'm vaccinated for that.
So don't worry about it.
Luckily we believe in vaccine spectrum.
Plus I was at the dentist this morning
and they gave me fluoride
and they are too talkative
with me.
Unfortunately about soccer because their
kids play soccer too.
And it's a, it's a
whole, it's a whole thing.
If your kids play soccer at this age.
In fact, I spent way more time talking
about soccer than my teeth.
I mean, like 20 to one time.
Yeah.
Which is probably pretty rare for you
because you usually have to have pretty
in depth discussions
about your teeth.
But anyway.
Yeah.
And that's genetic.
I good oral hygiene.
We've talked about that before.
Yeah.
We'll harken back to our first episode.
We both floss.
Oh my gosh.
That's funny.
Anyways, I didn't get
a chance to ask them.
Excuse me again.
I didn't get a chance to ask them about
fluoride, which is
apparently, you know, going to be
banned from our water now because it
causes brain damage and stuff like that.
That's a political road
that we won't go down.
But they got, they put it on my teeth.
So I wanted to ask you,
you're traveling for work.
I think you go so many places with that.
I know.
We're going to get out the political
thing because there's
just too, again, there's too
much I have to say
about that kind of stuff.
We'll keep it nice.
We'll keep everybody friendly here.
But what, any good stories from this, you
know, what 48 hours of travel you're on?
Because sometimes people that don't
travel a lot, that when
they get to travel, they
let loose a little bit,
maybe more than they should.
Yeah, I don't have any, I don't have any
real stories like that.
It was all pretty tame.
Yeah, I.
Okay, great segment.
Well, moving on.
Next question.
Yeah.
It was a very, very like
chill event, I would say.
However, you definitely
have some crazy stories.
Oh, that crazy.
You might have to
remind me of crazy ones.
But one of the reasons why your company
is so tame now is
because there were some events,
maybe before your time, I'm hopeful.
Yes.
That weren't so tame.
Oh my gosh.
I, yeah, there was, yes, then they were
before my time and I was not there.
But the stories.
People losing clothing,
getting into fountains.
Yes.
Is this in Vegas?
I don't know where it was.
It wasn't there.
But yeah, there was
frolicking in a fountain.
I like that.
Is how it was described to me.
It's frowned upon at corporate getaways.
Believe it or not, yes.
Okay.
Yes.
Note to people.
Again, educational here.
We tend to call those
career limiting moves.
CLMs.
That's actually a term.
People know CLMs.
Yeah, I didn't.
Yeah.
So there was a
frolicking in the fountain.
There are some stories.
Again, I haven't been included in those.
We've learned that everybody needs to
have their own hotel room now.
We're not going to share a house together
and share bathrooms
with our colleagues, our
work colleagues.
Yeah.
A lot of bad decisions
going on 12, 15 years ago.
Yeah.
So I'm glad.
I am glad that I'm sitting in my wife
who's still very
attractive out amongst the people
and she's got her own hotel
room and all this kind of stuff.
Yes.
We're keeping things within the box.
Yes.
There's been a lot of changes over the
last 15 years that, but
yeah, I mean, people use,
they would tell stories
and it was like, holy moly.
Yeah.
Like that's crazy.
Yeah.
And, you know, I don't know.
Some people travel a ton.
I'm not in a job that I travel much, but
yeah, there are just,
you just hear stories.
You were a party I know to one of them at
yours and we talked about it, Robgate.
This is your story.
And you know, I know that one.
Yeah.
I know that one.
I got to be careful because I'm thinking
about things I want to say in this.
I mean, this isn't one that we planned on
talking about or anything, but I do.
I don't want to implicate too many people
that are still out
there in the world, living
their lives happily.
They don't need Sean scooping and some of
them are, but that
one's, I can probably talk
high level enough and people that know
that are in the know, know.
Yeah.
That's it.
Except for maybe the, except for maybe
one gentleman who maybe
his wife doesn't know.
So there's the one gentleman, I just
don't know if I should go into that one.
I mean, needless to say, there have been,
I have been privy to
seeing some people making
bad decisions in their marital bliss
whilst away from their home, the nest.
Yeah.
I don't know how to say that one.
That one is, that one's a little touchy.
That one is, that one is.
I have seen, I've seen a CFO of a billion
dollar company just
trashed out of his mind,
trying to give a speech.
They, they try to get them off the stage.
He gets back up on, takes the mic.
They, you know, it's like
that long cane that comes across.
I mean, like they're trying, they're
escorting this guy off.
Yeah.
I saw that one.
That was an interesting one.
I've never heard this story.
I probably told you, I probably told you
about it, but, but yeah,
that's one of the one where
everybody's just like looking at each
other, you know,
everybody's wide eyed, just looking
around there and going, like, can you
believe what's happening in front of us?
Oh my gosh.
There's the CFO.
I've seen, yeah, I've been privy to a lot
of just, I traveled
every other week for 20
years.
Yeah.
All over the country, but
never anywhere good either.
I was, cause I was in
food and ag funding.
Yeah.
I'd fly to a nice, generally a nice city
and then I'd drive
two hours away from it.
Yeah.
I mean, I think there's a
lot of differences though.
I feel like conferences are oftentimes
where some of the more
crazy stuff can happen.
That's probably true.
Yeah.
I've been through a lot of fun.
I remember New Orleans and yeah, Vegas.
Yeah.
The funny thing about that is just, and
as we got, maybe it
was when we were a little
bit younger, cause I think the older we
get, we probably do
mature, which is a good thing.
Yeah.
Right.
But I do remember talking to you, be
like, I'm just so
surprised at just how loosey goosey
everybody gets when they're out here.
And it's usually the people
that don't travel that much.
So for someone like me,
traveling is annoyance.
I'm over it.
It's not sexy anymore.
Right.
When you're in college, you're like, oh,
I'm going to get on a
plane and go travel for
work and stay in a hotel
and eat out every night.
It's overrated.
So overrated.
Yes.
Now for a banker like me, I'm just your
average poor banker, right?
But maybe there's people that are flying
first class everywhere.
They're staying at the Four Seasons.
They're having steak
dinners every single night.
That's a different travel than I did.
Yeah.
Oftentimes you'd find my receipts with
Dairy Queen on them.
Yes.
In fact, I broke my not having ate at
McDonald's in probably 12
years for the first time ever
in Greenwood, Mississippi, when my boss
was like, let's go to McDonald's.
I was like, do we know?
That's a seal I hadn't broken in so long.
Yeah.
Oh my gosh.
You're like, I don't
want to go to McDonald's.
But you get to see some cool things.
You go to some cool places.
You were at a cool place last night.
Yeah.
We were actually at the Luke Combs Bar.
I think it's called Category 10, which
was really, it's just cool.
I mean, so you do get
to see some cool things.
And I don't travel a whole lot, but every
now and again, you're
like, oh, how did your
knee get around at the Gaylord?
Because you're staying at the Gaylord,
which if you've never
been at a Gaylord, they're
massive.
Everybody should know who the Gaylord is,
but they're just massive hotels that are,
they're like, think of a holodome.
Everybody knows what a holodome is.
A holodome on nuclear steroids.
Yeah.
I mean, they're so large.
And it's, you're kind of working on like,
you know, cobblestone,
because they look very...
They're little towns and
cities inside, kind of.
100%.
Yeah, it is.
It's like a biodome.
You know, you have lots of plants and
trees and walkways and fountains.
Yeah.
And it's like a mini Disneyland, kind of.
Kind of, all inside.
All inside.
And you just hope you don't get lost.
You know, for the first...
Actually, I was only there two days and I
used my map every day.
Anyway.
Your map of the hotel?
Yeah, because someone was like, oh, me...
You know, let's...
It's funny.
To get to the conference, because the
conference is ones you got
to really get down and around
and it's all the way in the back.
Well, and even to get to
my hotel room, I was like...
Yeah.
Okay.
After this, we should talk about...
That one multiple times
for multiple conferences.
I know that one well, so we'll have to...
Anyways, it is...
It is a maze to get around it, especially
the multiple conference rooms back around
different levels.
So crazy.
Yeah.
Anyway, well, my physical therapist, I
keep talking about how
my knee keeps getting hot.
Yeah.
Physically hot.
My other knee is
totally normal temperature.
And I asked, she's like, you know, as
long as it's not red and angry looking.
And I was like, okay, well,
it doesn't look red and angry.
I don't really know what that means, but
it doesn't look red and angry.
Last night, I looked at my knee.
I now know what red and angry looks like.
Oh, really?
It did not look good last night.
It looks fine today.
So I was like, okay, clearly the rest.
You know, like when I
was sleeping last night.
Yeah.
It's good.
Yeah.
It looks horrible today.
I was like, oh, that's angry looking.
That's...
It was so gross.
Oh, that's interesting.
Were you up a lot just walking?
I mean, it's obviously...
It could be a half mile.
Yeah.
I walked a lot the last couple days.
It's just...
It's multiple days.
It's just getting...
Multiple days.
Yeah.
And it was...
I had to do quite a few stairs yesterday.
Oh.
I'm not very good at stairs yet.
Yeah.
If you don't go the right way, they do
have escalators there,
but you have to be...
There are multiple ones.
I'm thinking it through, but...
Yeah.
Anyway, but it was like, stairs onto the
bus to go to the place
and stairs down the bus.
And then there were a lot of stairs.
Those stairs are hard too on your knee.
I'm sure those are big steps.
I know.
So someone actually
thought though that I had been...
They're like, oh my gosh, I
was wondering why it's so slow.
I was like, I just had knee surgery.
He was like, oh, I thought
maybe you had been over-served.
I was like, I haven't
had anything to drink.
Like...
I was like, I have knee surgery.
Maybe you should send out an email.
This is a follow up.
Hey, great to see everybody.
There was a mention that someone thought
I was over-served last
night after seeing me
board the bus.
It was getting...
Going home at 10 o'clock.
Actually, no, this was at like 6 o'clock.
So that's why I was like...
Oh really?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I don't think the rumor is going to start
that I was over-served.
Plus I was second to last seat and the
only people behind me I
had gone to dinner with
the previous night so
they knew all about it.
So like, I don't know.
It was only one person who didn't know
who made the comment.
Like, I thought maybe
you were over-served.
Yeah.
That's a rumor you want to squash though.
No.
That's pretty funny.
I'll do it a little bit.
That's pretty funny.
I think the best part of traveling for me
is just sitting at the
airport watching people
and just trying not to
be annoyed with them.
Because at the end, in the end when you
travel enough, it's just
all the frustrating people
that aren't familiar maybe with traveling
or people that are
MIPs, most important people
who just are doing their thing and they
don't care about anybody else.
That's the hardest part of
navigating traveling to me.
Yeah.
There are a lot of those.
Or you always get stuck by the worst
people on the plane too.
Oh my gosh.
I mean, I am not kidding.
I had to take a migraine pill in the
middle of this fight
because the guy next to me smelled
so bad.
Yeah.
I have not smelled that smell since
college and it is the college guy smell.
All college guys smell the same.
They all smell like stale beer and dirty
clothing and maybe
didn't shower for a day
or two.
So a little bit of
greasy hair smell in there.
Mm.
Paints a picture.
It paints a picture.
I'm telling you, all
college guys smell like this.
I didn't know you in college.
You may be different.
I don't drink beer, so I
didn't smell like beer.
Yeah, but it is.
It's that stale beer.
And I was just like, "Oh my
gosh, you've been on a bender.
You didn't change your clothes and you
certainly didn't
shower since last night."
And you're sitting next to me.
They always seek you out,
especially on the ones...
Go ahead.
And someone behind me
was eating Chinese food.
Yeah.
At least it wasn't
reheated salmon or something.
That is the only...
Only worst one.
That is the only thing worse than Chinese
food on an airplane.
Yeah.
Like, do people not know...
This is the IMP section.
Do they not know the etiquette?
There's only certain foods
that you can eat on an airplane.
I don't think etiquette exists anymore.
People don't care about
other people, for the most part.
Yeah.
I think the general rule is that now.
Where it didn't used to be that way.
Yeah.
We're the minority when it comes to that.
That's a soapbox comment on mine.
I won't go any further
down that road, but...
Yeah.
Yeah, there's a lot of...
I get the worst.
And there was a talker behind me.
At least they weren't next to me.
A talker.
I was like, "Oh, I get the worst."
The talkers that can't take the hint.
They're talking to me with my...
I've got my headphones
on or my buds in my ear.
And they're talking to me.
And you're over exaggerated, right?
Like, "Oh, sorry.
Sorry.
Let me get this out of my ear because I'm
listening to something and not you."
Yes.
But you're talking to me.
Right.
About what now?
Yeah.
What did you say?
No, I don't live here, darling.
Nope.
I'm going home.
Yep.
And you always put the earbud in as
you're finishing the sentence?
Yeah.
I'm going...
Exactly right.
I'm going home.
And I'll just note here for you that
there is no follow-up question from me.
I am not volleying back to you.
So pop...
You literally put it in
while you finish the statement.
But I've had an old lady literally tap me
on the shoulder even after that.
You don't tap me on the shoulder like...
I'm like, "Oh, sorry.
I thought it made it obvious.
I am not a talker.
Introvert.
I'm tired.
I'm grumpy.
Yes.
And I'm listening to something.
I have a headphone in my ear.
Yes.
But yes, I do fly often.
Yes.
Yes, I fly often.
Once again.
You might note the shortness and maybe
the slight curtness of my answer.
I think if you have to...
You've asked me more than two questions.
Like, "Oh my gosh."
Yeah.
It gets worse.
Yeah.
By the third question, it's just a
one-word answer to get it over with.
Yeah.
You remember that fight that we were on
the one time where that
guy was getting in a fight
on the aisle right next to you?
Oh my gosh.
Yeah.
That was scary.
It was super scary.
I was sitting like...
There's a one time we've
ever not been in the same seats.
I was flying back
from my cousin's funeral.
You weren't there.
Oh, I wasn't there.
And the guy was drunk and belligerent and
he was cussing up a
storm and the guy sitting...
I was on the aisle.
No one was in the middle.
And then the guy on the window, he wasn't
paying any attention to this guy.
We're all trying to ignore him.
And he was picking fights with people
going down the aisle.
He also decided to pick a fight with the
guy sitting by the
window because he was wearing
a cowboy's jersey.
Yeah.
I mean, the man was just sitting there.
That's fair.
And I mean, see what you
will about the cowboys.
There's no reason to get on a plane and
start cussing up someone
and trying to pick a fight.
And the guy wouldn't bite.
And he's like, "Okay, man."
And he was escorted.
We were grounded until they called the
cops to escort him off the plane.
And he was standing right next to me.
Was I on the phone with you or you were
texting me or something?
I was texting you going, "I'm scared."
Because he was leaning over you.
Yeah, I'm scared.
He's right next to me and he is screaming
at the top of his lungs and cussing.
I was scared.
Right.
That's crazy.
That was terrible.
Ugh.
I mean, the one time I'm
not there, that just...
That also frustrates me a
little bit that I wasn't there.
To at least get knocked out in front of
you and then blast y'all.
You're my hero.
Someone help my husband.
Yeah.
Because I was literally...
I was the only thing between the...
I mean, he was out of his mind drunk.
Yeah. Well, you know, you always get...
Those are always the fun
Vegas flights back, right?
There was a time we
owned a company in Vegas.
Oh, yeah.
And so we would fly back
and forth a little bit.
And we got...
We kind of got used to...
Unfortunately, those early morning
flights, people stay
up all night drinking.
They get on the flight.
Yeah.
Oh my gosh.
Yeah.
And there's a few of those just
belligerent people yelling
from the back and talking about
smelling.
Oh.
Being up all night, sweating, having...
Running around the strip.
Yeah.
Throwing up in the back of the plane.
Those are bad ones.
They had bags on that one.
They were thrown up into a bag.
Oh, that's disgusting.
Yeah.
Oh my gosh.
Anyways, we took a turn here.
Let's take another turn somewhere else.
It's more fun.
Yeah.
Speaking of airplanes,
this is one of the...
Here's a fun fact for everybody.
You know that game?
It's like, give me
three facts about yourself.
Yeah.
That two truths and a lie.
Yeah.
Well, I've got quite a
few of these that are...
Could be lies, right?
Yeah.
But are truths.
And one of the ones I always put on here,
so now I can't use it with everybody, but
my grandfather, who flew a plane, he was
in the Navy, I believe.
He was very skilled pilot, but he had a
little kind of single
engine plane that we used to
get around on when I was young and even
when I was a little bit older.
I was in a plane crash.
He actually had an emergency landing.
So it wasn't a crash crash.
We did a nose dive into the
ground or anything like that.
And I don't remember
it because I was a baby.
But my mom told me about it.
And it's one of the ones I always use
that I was in a plane
crash because I was.
The landing gear didn't come out.
He had to fly by the tower to do a check.
He says, "Is my landing gear down?"
And they're like, "Negative.
No landing gear."
So he had to land on the belly, which
takes a little bit of
skill to do right and not
flip the plane and not catch on fire.
So we skidded off.
It was snowy too, so maybe
that helped or didn't help.
I don't know.
But yeah, landed on the
belly, skidded off the runway.
Everybody was good.
Yeah.
That's a super cool story.
Kind of.
Yeah.
I wish I knew more about it, but I wish I
was a little bit
older than I remembered it
too.
It was one of those fun
two lies and whatever.
I survived a plane crash.
That's how I say it.
Is that a crash?
That's a crash landing.
It's a crash landing.
So I don't think I'm
stretching anything there.
No.
Maybe semantics, but I
think it's totally fine.
It's a really cool one.
But it's one of yours.
For my two truths and a lie?
That I have actually pet
a full grown male lion.
Yeah, that's right.
You told me that one before.
Weird night.
I think there's a movie about that.
Weird night is how you sign that.
How you sum that up.
It was such a strange.
That was fantastic.
We go to, it was my roommate at the time.
This is after college.
She was like, yeah, my cousin who,
sometimes you have people
who are really good just
family friends and you call them cousins
or aunts and uncles or whatever.
So she was like, this person in her life
fell into that bucket.
So she called him her cousin.
She's like, he's
having a housewarming party.
Do you want to come with me?
I was like, sure.
I mean, it was a long ways
away and two hours, right?
But he had just built this house.
So he was having a housewarming party.
Invited the entire town.
Oh, wow.
And he had lions, two adult lions, three
Bengal tigers, hyenas.
Oh, she said bear lions, tigers.
And I wish I could.
But there actually were no bears.
There was a baby black panther.
And then like, you know, horses and there
was some snake, I think.
Anyway, yeah.
And they were all in
these chain link cages.
And I'm like, I've never seen this on a
residential property.
Most people probably haven't.
I assumed it was a small town and he
invited like the 38
people that lived there.
Yeah, it was near Menominee, Wisconsin.
So I mean, yes, small town.
But he's familiar with
Menominee, Wisconsin.
Yeah.
It's just north of Oshkosh.
You know, you know, right.
I mean, we're not talking DFW, but we're
also not talking like, you know, the town
my mom grew up in.
Right.
Somewhere in the middle.
Right.
Anyway, yeah.
Yeah.
And so this lion was like, you know,
rubbing his face on the
chain link fence and they're
like, oh, he wants you to pet him.
And I was like, so
what finger don't I need?
And I like stuck my pinky through the
chain link fence and I
like scratched his nose.
Did you really?
Yeah.
I don't remember that part of it.
He scratched his nose with your pinky.
I did because his face is right there.
And I was like, what
else am I going to do?
Which one?
What finger don't I need?
That's crazy close.
Yeah.
And then I got to feed
the baby Black Panther.
No, it was a baby.
It was a baby.
It was really cute.
It's cool.
But like all this totally illegal.
100%.
Yeah.
Like there is not okay.
And this was before Tiger King.
Just I was going to say, wouldn't it be
funny if that was the actual Tiger King?
But before he relocated to Oklahoma.
Louisiana.
I don't know.
We didn't really watch
much Tiger King anyway.
Yeah.
He and so this guy apparently was the
original Tiger King, but not, he didn't
get any of the glory
lions and tigers and hyenas.
Yeah.
I honestly, to this day, I'm
like, was that just a dream?
Yeah.
Because it was weird.
Well, that's good.
I love that.
Well, since we got so many viewers,
obviously comment below on some of yours.
Yes.
We'll get through them.
Yeah.
Lots of lots of lots of
smash that like button.
Yeah.
We'll get through the comments.
There's so many of them.
That's a huge um, sorry.
Dang.
I hate when I do um's.
It was a bad transition though, but I was
going to ask happy Mother's Day to
everybody.
That was this last Sunday.
Yeah.
So happy Mother's Day.
Hope everybody had a good one.
How was yours?
It was good.
Yeah, it was really good.
Um, I did have a chance while I was
traveling this week, um, to go out with
some moms.
We went out for dinner
on one of the nights.
Um, and all of us being moms and we all
talked about the timing of having to
leave the day after Mother's Day.
Kind of impeded Mother's Day.
Cause I think sometimes.
I hated traveling on Mondays because my
Sunday, it just, it, it bled into Sunday
thinking about my travel on Monday.
Yeah.
When I'm trying to prepare, cause I knew
how crazy it was for you and I knew what
your schedule was going
to be like without me.
So I'm like, let me try to make you some
dinner so you don't even have to think
about that.
Let me know.
There's just some extra activities this
week that makes it even crazier week down
apparent.
Yes.
Yeah.
Yes.
So anyway, but it was, it was good.
It was relaxing.
I still want to watch the
end of that James Bond movie.
We couldn't even
finish the James Bond movie.
Yeah.
I don't know how we didn't
see that in the first place.
Yeah.
Started watching him.
Like I haven't seen this.
Yeah.
I knew we hadn't.
Yeah.
Those are good.
Those are good movies.
Good flicks.
Yeah.
I think the kids are liking them.
Yeah.
Well, we had a soccer game on that day
and we made the comment too.
Like, I mean, obviously it's a, it's an
hour over there because we don't play
anywhere close to our house
every time we have a game.
You know, we skipped an 8am practice that
was scheduled like four days beforehand.
A Saturday, Sunday, 8am an hour away
practice practice for our youngest son's
team.
Like, come on.
Coach, love you.
But come on.
That's Mother's Day.
Yeah.
Like we're dedicated,
but not that dedicated.
That's just mean to all the moms.
So we skipped that one.
But that's why I was bringing this up
because we still are soccer moms, you
know, it's like the soccer world.
So we still had a game that day for our
oldest son, which is an hour away and
out, you have to be there an hour before
so they can warm up.
Yeah.
Then it's an hour and
a half of game time.
Yeah.
It's an hour back home.
So it's a lot of hours.
A lot of hours.
But the people we played
had to drive up from Austin.
When you said that I
actually felt bad for complaining.
Yeah.
So they, they threw in an extra four
hours of drive time on top of the drive
time that the two hours
that we have of drive time.
Right.
I, I was like, yeah, that's commitment.
I think that was two 30, right?
We finished that game ish.
Yeah.
So they're getting home, showered seven
o'clock, basically just getting
ready for the next day.
Yeah.
And it's like, and that's Mother's Day.
Happy Mother's Day.
Yeah.
But I mean, that is
part of being a parent.
I think I actually, because I so enjoy
watching the kids play practices are
different for me, but because I like to
watch them play soccer, like I don't
mind going to a game on Mother's Day.
It's just part of being a mother.
Yeah.
You know, it's part of that experience.
The only other one I would compare to
that, that soccer annoys me on, I, I,
there's always a tournament
on our three day weekends.
Always.
Every time.
So we never get three day weekends
because there's always a tournament.
They're like, what's a, what's a three
day weekend that what's a holiday
that we can put a tournament on.
It's just how the soccer world works.
Yeah.
But those are always the ones that your
kids go the farthest.
And so you have to play a million games
on, on to Monday night.
Right.
Yeah.
I mean, we love it, but I
mean, this is part of it.
Right.
But the one that annoys me the most is
Super Bowl Sunday because there's
generally not a tournament.
It's just regularly
scheduled league play.
And they'll have games at like five
o'clock PM on a Super Bowl Sunday.
And we're like, I mean, how do you,
that's a, that's a
holiday for the United States.
Right.
Maybe, maybe the last
ones at one o'clock.
Right.
Sure.
If it's a nine AM game on
Super Bowl Sunday, okay.
Sure.
We're up anyway.
It's fine.
Right.
But yeah, we did this year
and I think we, I don't know.
I think the two teams were playing
chicken to see which team was
going to cancel first.
But, um, yeah, it was like at five PM.
That's right.
Cause everybody was like, cause we have
to put, there was an app for it.
You have to actually click whether you're
going to be there or not.
Yes, no, or maybe he's.
And so I think we
played a little bit of chick.
We were playing chicken on that one too.
We didn't want to put no, but we didn't
want to put yes on that yet.
And so it was one of those things where
we, I think, you know, we weren't the
only parents that did it, but there was
enough question that parents didn't say,
yes, we're going to be there at this five
o'clock game that the coach didn't
want to be like, well, I might cancel it
cause I might not have enough kids.
I'm like, well, that's up to you coach.
If you want to cancel, we'll understand,
you know, but there was still enough
people that were saying yes that don't
care, I guess about, or they're all in,
you know, cause their kids going
professional next year.
They're, they're 11 year old next year.
11 year old straight to premier link.
That's right.
Well, I think they're going overseas.
Man, you are Barcelona.
Oh, it is.
You're right.
I tell you, I was thinking MLS when you
said that for whatever reason.
You're sorry.
You're right.
I'm wrong.
Anyways, we were
playing chicken with that.
He was too, because both, nobody wanted
to cancel, but I don't think anybody had
an intention of playing that game.
And so finally, I think the other team
did flinch first, didn't they?
Because literally it's a, if you, it was
a, it's an L for them, right?
Cause they conceded
the game to us basically.
Which is why you don't
want to be the one to cancel.
You don't want to be the one to cancel.
Yeah.
And you know, we are, I feel like we are
so dedicated to soccer or, or any
sport for that matter, I mean, track is
the same way we'll go to freezing track
meets or scalding hot track meets.
Yeah.
But every now and again, I feel like
there should be some
type of protected time.
Like there are certain things where it's
like, that's just a hard no.
And that should be okay.
That shouldn't be where your comm, you
know, the judgment of your commitment
should lie in those moments.
It's like, I don't know.
I think we built the
credibility on that though, right?
We, we attend 99% of everything.
So that the ones that we don't like,
like, like, like when
I texted the coach on
Saturday saying we're not
going to be there on Sunday.
Sorry.
It's good family plans.
It's Mother's Day.
It's kind of like an FYI
in case you didn't know.
Like, it's Mother's Day.
It's Mother's Day.
Yeah.
But, uh, but there is no problem.
You know what I mean?
Cause we do hit most, but I think if you
miss a lot, you would be judged.
There'll be an issue in this, in this
culture that we live in.
Yeah.
For sure.
So I, that's one of those things,
especially since I was
leaving the next day and I
wouldn't get to see the kids for really
two and a half days, you know, like I
really do want to spend
Mother's Day with them.
Yep.
And I can't wait to see
their little faces tonight.
Oh, you haven't seen them yet.
It's been a while.
I'm gonna go pick them
up here in just a few.
So with that in mind, what do we got?
We got, we got the closing here.
Got the closing.
We should mention,
uh, our middle daughter.
I always say middle daughter, middle
child who has a daughter, but she's
actually her only daughter, so yeah.
Yeah. So, uh, she had her first kind of track
meet now in club season.
We've been practicing since last August
with no track season other than a few
track meets at her school, which is just
probably a different competition level.
Although she did have some good
competition at one of the schools.
Really good.
Which was great.
So we'll probably head to head with her
with that girl and some of those girls on
that team for the next few years.
So that'll be fun.
But, uh, she ran in her first, this is,
this is the one minute of bragging on the
kids, right?
She ran in her first track meet, which
unfortunately you weren't there because
you had a soccer game, but she ran
against 14 or 13 and 14 year olds.
She's 13.
Yeah.
So the age bracket was 13, 14 year olds.
Uh, and she got first place and she
killed it and, uh, she got a time that
qualifies.
So now she has two qualifying times for
the Nike outdoor
meet, which is in Oregon.
And we're learning about this.
So we thought, Oh, if
you qualify, you're in.
That's not it.
You got to qualify and then you got to be
accepted for it because obviously they
want to bring, you
know, good talent there.
Right.
It's so, and you can't
have a million people there.
So I don't know how that I still don't
even know how that
works to this date, but
she had accepted as long story short.
So super excited.
She's going to be, she's going to be
running the a hundred yard dash and the
200 yard dash at the Nike outdoors.
Later this summer.
Yeah, it was in Oregon, in Oregon.
I mean, couldn't be more proud of her
and, and just how strong she was on, on
Saturday when she had to go into that.
Point.
Like we actually entered the meet to be
like, Hey, let's get you used to that
track meet vibe, you know, so it's not a
new, really new experience for you.
You're going to have a
lot of meats coming up.
Let's just get used to it.
You may qualify, you may
not like, but you need a time.
And, but she had played two
soccer games that morning.
Got beat up in those soccer games.
I mean, she's yeah, two soccer games that
morning, two soccer, which we dropped
her off for at 6 45.
Yeah.
Right.
And, uh, yeah, she got, I did an
Instagram post on it
that probably didn't do it
justice, but she got beat up in those two
soccer games, hit to the ground.
She's got turf burns.
And then she had to turn around, get her
attitude right after they didn't lose
all season and they lost
in the championship game.
And I, I don't want to put a caveat
there, but five of our
club players, five of our
starters weren't there all
Saturday, let alone even in.
So they won the, they won the
semi-finals game without them.
Yeah.
But in the finals game, the other team,
from what I understand their club
players were there and they destroyed us.
I mean, it would have been a fun game to
watch if we had our team full team there.
Right.
And the girls that showed that were there
played their butts off.
They did.
They played their hearts out.
And that was a tough loss for them
because they hadn't lost all year.
So I would have loved to have
seen that game head to head.
I'll stop there.
Yeah.
Cause it was just frustrating to watch
the celebrations of their team, just
knowing like there's a
huge asterisk on there.
Like, whatever.
Then, so she had to pick herself off that
and go straight to this meet where she
needed a time she had to get, we're
trying to get a time and
there's other kids there
too, that were trying to get times for
their events that didn't get it.
So these aren't gimmes.
Like it's not just a, Oh,
you gotta, you gotta run.
You gotta just, you gotta hang your time
up and then you get in.
No, you have to qualify at a certain
level because they're
not just going to let
anybody in.
Right.
And so, and so she, and
she got it her first time.
That was her first time ever running an
individual 200 yard or 200 meter dash.
Yeah, she'd never done it.
Right.
So she's got it.
So now she's qualified in
the hundred and the 200.
She's awesome.
And I mean, it's just, it's so fun
watching and the way
she runs cause she, it's
running is much more technical than I
ever thought it was.
So the way that they've taught her to
run, I mean, these
young girls that know and
have been taught technically correct how,
including our daughter, I mean, they look
like Olympian athletes, the way they run.
It's, it's incredible.
Yeah.
They do it.
It's so cool.
Um, yeah, so I'm excited to give her a
hug now that we know she's officially
accepted into the Nike meet.
So, and officially a national honor
society, officially national honor
society, which we're
probably more proud of.
And it's just such a huge accomplishment.
Like very proud of all of our kids.
They're all doing really well.
So I know that's not
what people want this up.
What, what this to be about.
We could talk about her.
We could have a whole nother one.
Our kids are the greatest.
That'll be the name.
Our kids, your kids suck.
That's going to be the name of our,
that's how all parents feel, right?
About their kids.
So our next podcast will
just be your kids suck.
Our kids are better.
Yeah.
And we'll just talk about
our kids the whole time.
It should be called like nana abubu.
Nana abubu.
Yeah.
There we go.
I love it.
All right.
Well, we gotta go.
We're getting long.
We gotta go pick up the kids actually.
Yep.
Um, and I'm just kidding.
We don't think our kids are better.
We just love them and we're blessed.
Yeah.
We're proud of everybody's kids.
We'll put that out there.
We try to be, you
know, modest and have some.
Yeah.
And hope everyone listening takes time to
like really enjoy and
brag on their kids too.
Like, cause it's, please do, please do it
and brag to us about it.
Cause we love to hear
about other people's kids.
Right.
I mean, it's not just about us.
Cause I mean, you always want to be
surrounded by people who are doing really
cool, inspirational things.
And when you see other kids that are
doing those
inspirational things, like you
want your kid around them so that they
have that community of just.
We're just supporting their kid.
I mean, not everybody kid, not
everybody's kids are
getting blue ribbons.
There are kids that are getting ribbons
that are, I don't know.
I got all red blue ribbons.
So I don't know what
other ribbons colors come in.
Come in.
Yeah.
But there are other people that have that
and we want to support those kids too.
Right.
Because ultimately,
isn't it about, I love that.
Too funny.
Isn't it about your,
There's the alarm to
say go pick up the kids.
Okay.
But we are coming to close.
Yes.
And we're going to see our words.
Yes.
All right.
You ready?
Okay.
One, two, three summer.
Not bad.
Yeah.
Cause I was going to
go with anticipation.
Okay.
That's a good one.
And I'm like, you're relieved to be home.
I'm relieved.
And this past weekend,
there was a lot going on.
It was kind of a, and this
week still, like there's a lot
going on.
So it's like, there is a sense of relief
to have some of the big things behind us.
Yeah.
So.
Yeah.
That is true.
And summer is similar, right?
Yeah.
You're looking behind your,
your relief that's behind us.
And I'm just looking
right around the corner.
Yeah.
Next week is schools
out schools out summer.
That's what I was going
to say, like anticipation.
So like summer.
Yeah.
I was going between those two kind of
same thought process, but it was same.
Yeah.
I am excited for summer.
Yeah.
I'm excited for, I always look forward to
the kids being home and just the easier
schedule, right?
It's not that Lauren goes up
545 and you are, you know, out.
You're just going.
Yep.
And it's a little out of a gun.
Yeah.
And then you're like, okay, it's 11
o'clock at night and I have it sat down.
Yeah.
So.
All right.
Well, let's, uh, let's sign off then.
Yeah.
All right.
Until next week.
All right.
Have a great week.
Thank you.
Bye.