(upbeat music)
This is our first
remote location, Mr. and Mrs.
Yeah, we in the world
are Mr. and Mrs. English.
We are in Eugene, Oregon at the
University of Oregon.
I can see six other live
podcasters at the city.
I can't do.
This actually behind
us, that is a track only.
What's the name of it?
The Thurman?
Hayward.
(laughing)
It's very deep.
Hayward.
I think it's Hayward.
So it's the Hayward Stadium.
It's cool, it's a track
stadium that is only for track.
Smells even better than you can imagine.
I bet.
It smells like money, I
think is what they say, right?
It smells like something.
Everybody at the University of Iowa
knew the Scooby Doo house.
And I remember at that point in time,
I was still the most
anally, which is anal person.
You had those years
that you were 18 to 24, 25,
whatever it is.
You had fun during those years.
So shout out Mr. Franks.
Literally the toughest
two years of my life.
I was near and close to
in touch with reality.
I do feel bad for
people that crossed my path
because I was not a healthy
person at that point in time.
The day I turned 16, I
wanted that driver's license
so I could go.
I didn't get a car, but
it's all out of the story too.
Then he had me back up on a one way road.
Okay, that guy should not
be a driving instructor.
Just saying.
That blanket would jump on those ports,
the air coming out of it.
So glad I met you when
you were 28 and not 18.
I understand the assignment now.
Oh my gosh, it's the worst.
You're like San Diego, very classy.
I don't know about that.
Which we'll get into next week.
Yeah, we'll have bag bed next week.
Yeah, that's right.
There's a psychology
department around here somewhere
that might need to go lay on a couch.
We actually just passed
this psychology building.
It's around here, I've seen it.
They are in key a readable.
Did you just make that up?
It's really good.
It's actually a Sean original.
I feel like I just took your.
No, someone else made that.
Okay.
Mr. Franks made that one up.
In key a readable.
Oh man, that was so funny.
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,
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, there we are.
We're on.
This is our first
remote location Mr. and Mrs.
Yeah, yeah.
It is the first actually
of what we expect to be
a couple here coming up.
We got a couple coming up.
So this is a dry run.
Hopefully people actually see this one,
all the technology works.
Yes.
You can see we're so
fancy with our little fuzzy.
We got a little fuzzy microphone.
Fuzzy, fuzzy microphones.
I know.
They remind me of
those little fuzzy things
that had the feet on them
and you would peel off the,
the feet were sticky and you
could like put them on things.
Do you remember those when you were kids?
Oh yeah.
Like the feet?
But you made their hair straight up.
Well, I think you're
thinking of the trolls.
Trolls is what I'm thinking.
Yeah, I was just thinking of these
literal round fuzz balls that had feet.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
You've done them.
Yeah, yeah.
You peeled off in the shape of two feet.
Two feet, yeah, exactly.
That's kind of what it reminded me of.
Yeah, I get that.
Putting the fuzzy on the microphone.
Yeah, I totally get that.
Yeah, well, we should
probably tell folks where we are.
Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?
Yes.
Or where in the world are Sean and Megan?
That's right, where are we?
Where in the world are
Mr. and Mrs. English?
Where in the world are
Mr. and Mrs. English?
That's right.
Yeah, we are in Eugene, Oregon.
Eugene, Oregon.
At the University of Oregon.
The University of Oregon.
Yeah.
Is that how they say it here?
Maybe, I don't know.
I think there may be
only one Big Ten school
that can use V in it,
which is V, Ohio State.
Oh, you are gonna say it.
I'm surprised, you're not
a big fan of that school.
No, I'm not, I'm not.
As a born and bred
Hawkeye, you can't cheer.
Yeah.
How funny was that?
That was our first drive by.
So we'll see, we're out
and live amongst people.
Yes.
And it's very exposing.
It is a little bit.
I feel very influencer-ish.
I do too, a little bit.
Is that what we're going for?
Not what we're going for.
That's right.
I do some live
interviews when people come by.
Although if there is a generation
that listens to podcasts and technology
and would do something like this,
I feel like they would be
at a university right now.
I can see six other live podcasters.
I can't do.
It's so funny.
I mean, we're kidding, but.
We can't, but I could see
that being a plausible thing.
We're here during the summer though, so.
Sure, but if you think about it,
when we were in college,
we would have never
seen something like this.
However, in today's day and
age, this is fairly common.
Yeah, I'm sure it is.
I'm sure most people roll
their eyes at people like this,
but it is more common.
You're right, it's totally more common.
Right, right.
And we're not doing a dance
or a jig or anything like that.
We're just sitting on a bench.
No, that would be exposing.
Like two regular people of
our certain age normally do.
Yeah, isn't it usually
like the 80-year-olds
that are holding hands on a park bench?
Yeah, that's right.
You're not feeding me
or anything like that,
so that's good.
We don't have our canes.
No offense to anybody that's watching
that has to do that.
Right, I mean, we'll be there too.
So we will be there one day.
So we're in Eugene.
This actually behind
us is the, I don't know,
is this officially part of
the University of Oregon?
Yes.
That complex right there?
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah, it is.
So just over our shoulder
and right above that gentleman
that's in the background right there.
That is a track only.
What's the name of it?
The Thurman.
Hayward.
(laughing)
It's very deep.
Hayward.
I think it's Hayward.
So it's the Hayward Stadium.
It's cool, it's a track
stadium that is only for track.
I've never really been
to a stadium like that.
In fact, we were just watching last week,
which had been two weeks ago
by the time this comes out,
the National Collegiate
Championships track meet
was held here.
So we watched this all last week on ESPN.
And I don't know about you,
but if I had been the
age of our daughter,
who's now warming up there,
I would have been so
intimidated by a place like this.
It feels like that's as big
as my college football stadium
at a D1 school.
So it's a big place.
I don't think I would
have been intimidated.
I would have been excited.
I heard a couple of kids say to that,
I cannot wait to get
down there and run on it.
I mean, it's almost
like you're a professional
as an amateur,
because you get to run
in these places that,
I mean, I think you
said the Olympic trials.
Olympic trials have been held here?
Have been held here.
So this is kind of a storied track.
A lot of people have ran here.
So it's really cool to be able to run
where people that you kind
of idolize have run before.
Right, it's a really cool experience.
It's cool even, I mean,
you and I may not be down
on the track, but it's cool even for us.
I've been mistaken quite a few times
for somebody that was running.
I'm sure.
At the middle school level.
(laughing)
That would be creepy.
That is not true at all.
I keep giving our middle daughter,
I said it again that way.
I don't know why I keep doing that,
but I keep joking with her
that people are mistaking me
for being a runner.
She's hating that.
But it's so funny
because it's the worst joke,
I mean, clearly.
Clearly.
You better let me,
I'll hold your backpack.
Yeah, yeah.
And she's like, but I
don't want people mistaking me.
I keep getting, like everybody keeps
wishing me good luck.
Right.
(laughing)
Although what would that say about me
if you look like a middle school boy?
Yeah, oh I don't.
(laughing)
So kind of glad you don't.
That's why it's not
even really a funny joke.
Probably be cut, but a
joke within our family.
So this will be interesting.
I can't cut, normally when I cut
or I have a too long
of a run on one person,
I'll just cut angles just to make it
a little bit more interesting.
Yeah.
And break it up or whatnot.
So this time when we
cut, it'll be, you know,
I'll be right here and
then when we come back,
I'll be right here.
(laughing)
You know, so those cuts
aren't gonna be nearly as good.
Yeah.
But I do find it
weird when people walk by
and we're talking to each other.
It is, it is odd.
It's a little bit odd.
Yeah.
Anywho, so we're
here, that's where we are.
Have you ever been to Eugene?
I've never been to Oregon.
We've never been to Oregon, yeah.
Period, like, yep,
yesterday was the first day
that I ever set foot on Oregon soil.
Nice.
So, have you?
I've been to a 66,000
head cattle or cow dairy.
Wilston, Oregon before, yeah.
That sounds lovely.
I think it's one of the
largest in the country, yeah.
Yeah.
Smells even better
than you could imagine.
I bet, smells like money, I
think is what they say, right?
It smells like something.
And I'm sure there's quite
a bit of money in there too.
Sure.
Yeah.
This will be a really good
test of how good our mics are
because there's a big crowd
of very loud people coming.
Right, right.
Well, before when we were kind of
scouting out locations,
there was a whole bunch of
skateboarders around here,
so I'm kind of glad that the
skateboarders have dissipated.
Yeah, yeah, that's right.
It'll be, we'll see how it works.
So, we cut because that
was a very loud drive by
and we're back.
Quite.
We're back.
At some point, somebody's
probably gonna come behind us
and do something funny, but.
Let's hope so.
We'll hope so, because that'll be great.
It'll go viral.
That'll be great,
yeah, a viral moment, yeah.
So, it feels weird to be
back on a college campus
because it's been a long
time since we've been there.
Yeah, yeah, we took, we've done a couple
just like as we've
been traveling, you know,
we visited a handful of campuses.
Yeah.
I gotta say, they all
feel like a college campus.
There's something just so
alive about a college campus.
It's amazing, I was telling
our daughter the same thing,
like it's just so, it's a neat atmosphere
because eventually she's
gonna start looking at colleges
and we'll go visit campuses
and you just walk through them
and you think of how
they, how that, you know,
works for them, right?
You kind of graduate from elementary,
this one little school, and then,
you know, middle school, and then,
now middle school she's got multiple
buildings, you know,
but they're all close together, small,
and then high school is
just bigger, more, you know,
buildings and you maybe
have to cross the street
to get to the sports complex and whatnot,
but when you come to college,
it's just such an atmosphere.
It is.
Like you said, right?
You got these green
areas, it's made for education,
it's made to make you
comfortable in a lot of spots,
and it's just, what a cool atmosphere.
It is, it is, and it's so different here,
like it's, we walked around campus a
little bit earlier today
and it's funny, yeah, they
all have like a quad area
right there, I think all
campuses will have that,
like green space where you hang out.
Dorms, I'm learning, on every college
campus look the same.
You can pick out a dorm a mile away.
Yeah, yeah, you can.
This one, one thing
interesting on this one,
just up over the hill, is
there's like a very old graveyard.
Yeah.
With these huge pine trees.
Oh my gosh, it's beautiful.
It's gorgeous, but it's super old.
As you walk by, you
can't even read the stones,
the headstones, because they're so old.
Yeah. But the one I could read was 1921,
that's when that person
passed, so that's over 100 years ago
and that looked like one
of the newest ones in there.
That's insane.
Yeah, so, I mean that's
just like the history,
like just the roots of a
college, it's really cool.
Yeah.
On morning cereal, I'll
mention a couple like neat,
like facts about the
school that we're at right now,
but obviously, most people probably know,
but the co-founder of
Nike, he went to school here,
he graduated here in
like 58, I think it was.
Really?
Yeah, so just--
Hence why the Nike stadium
was, I mean, all of that.
Yeah, there's a lot
of that stuff here, so.
Yeah, he's an alma mater here.
They are also, here's
another fun one for you,
they also are the only
school that has a Disney character
as a mascot.
You're kidding.
Although it's not officially Donald Duck,
the name is The Duck,
but if you look it up,
it's exactly Donald Duck.
You're kidding.
But just in a, oh, sweatshirt.
I mean, I knew it
looked just like Donald Duck,
I just didn't realize that
that was the inspiration maybe.
No, they have an agreement with Disney
to use the likeness of Donald Duck,
so it's interesting, right?
Super interesting, I learned something.
Yeah, there's no
Jayhawks, there's no Hawkeye.
Yeah, no, no.
Buffalo.
So that's a real
buffalo at Colorado, right?
It's a real buffalo, yeah.
Like it's actually a buffalo.
What did they do with that
buffalo in the off season?
I think they treat it like a king.
(laughing) They're on like the fifth one now or
something like that,
I don't know, but they haven't gone
through that many of them.
Really? At Bison, yeah.
I don't remember the name of
it anymore, but anywho, so.
But it's neat to be
back on a college campus,
because I mean, I went to
school as a non-traditional.
I went to a big college campus,
and things in life kind
of blew up here and there,
and so I ended up, I took time off,
and when I went back, I
was a non-traditional.
So that experience
was something I craved,
that I never got, it
was just kind of robbed.
And I do miss having
that, but you got that.
I mean, you probably lived it the way it
should've been lived.
It was, yeah, I mean,
in my experience, yes.
Probably in your opinion, yeah.
Because you do, it's
something that's really unique,
and just the things that
you get used to in college,
and we'll even go back to the Airbnb
or Verbo that we're in, right?
It's like a place you
would rent in college.
It's the size of a
crackerjack box, it's really tiny,
and the floor's a little squishy.
It has lipstick, it looks nice,
but it's just one of those things.
I walked in and immediately I was like,
I feel like I'm back in college.
Yeah.
Yeah, it is like that a little bit.
When I ran, I ran this
morning, I ran down here,
it's about a mile, and then
I kind of ran around campus
and stuff, but we always
talk about, on the way here,
we just talked about how
all those college cities
are the same way.
The campus is gorgeous,
they're old, these buildings,
the architecture is
beautiful, but then you get out
just one, two, three blocks out.
It is just trash,
because you got 18-year-olds
to 22-year-olds just on
their own for the first time,
just completely
destroying anything in their path.
There's beer bottles, I mean,
everything, it's just nasty.
Oh yeah, yeah, my brother, he had a house
right on the main street
at the University of Iowa,
and I won't go into the
story, but there's a massive
cardboard cutout of
Shaggy holding Scooby-Doo,
and they had it in this
front bay window of the house,
and everybody at the University of Iowa
knew the Scooby-Doo house.
Scooby-Doo house, yeah.
I mean, it was my brother and eight guys.
Parties were thrown there
like you wouldn't believe.
I would believe it.
I've met your brother.
Well yeah, and his friends.
His friends.
I mean, it was amazing, you know,
and you had the
couches on the front porch.
Yeah.
It was classic, I mean.
It was classic.
Yeah, I mean.
It was classic.
I do not think that 18 to 21 year old
boys were taking care
of that house at all.
Yeah, yeah.
In fact, my brother,
his room was in the attic.
I'm sure you've heard the story,
and like there were no windows,
and so they're like, you
know, my grandma was worried.
She's like, well, how is he gonna get out
if there's a fire in my mom?
Joke, she's like, you
realize he could just kick his way
through the roof, like
there's not a real roof.
There's nothing there.
He'll be the first one out.
Yeah.
That's funny.
Yeah, I don't doubt that at all, at all.
I remember, so before I was, when I was
trying to go to school
at a serious four year college, when I
was still of the age,
I do, I lived off campus.
Actually, I lived in a
dorm at one point in time,
which was great, good
experience, one semester there.
It was a co-ed one, so it was, you know,
it was really weird,
but fun, you know, really fun.
And then another time I came
back and we were on off campus,
but just like three or
four blocks off campus.
And I remember at that point in time,
I was still the most
anally, well, just anal person,
but anally clean as well.
My roommates, they can attest to this,
because I know at least one
of them still watches the show.
I mean, here's the hard part, right?
Like there's a clear master
bedroom in that apartment.
J101, I think is what it was.
And I wanted it so bad.
Everybody wanted that.
And somehow I ended up with it.
I don't know if it's
because they're just scared.
I was just so anal and
I would have flipped out
if I didn't get it.
But there's other times
where I didn't get it.
Like we rented a house
together at another place
and I did not get the master in that one.
And I was okay with it.
The world continued to spin on axis.
But I just remember being
so anally clean in that,
like my master bedroom in
the bathroom was just spotless.
And then you'd go to the shared bathroom
that all the other guys used.
And like when we had
parties or people came over,
my door was closed.
If I could have padlocked it, padlock.
But I just remember being like,
yeah, I don't live like these other guys.
Yeah, no, no.
From a very young age,
that was very apparent.
Yes, yes.
This doesn't shock me.
I had never heard that story, but it
doesn't shock me at all.
Shout out to J101.
That's awesome.
The apartment that we had,
it was right off campus.
And gosh, it was weird.
We had a ton of spiders.
I just remember like, we had to, yeah.
Anyway, that was the one
where they were fixing the roof
and I wake up and the blinds were closed.
I mean, I was waking up in the morning
and like there was a
roofer on the ladder,
like staring in at me
while I was sleeping.
And I was like, I--
While the blinds were
closed or they were open?
They were closed, but
they're a way that you could like,
if you were above
them, you could look in.
And we lived on the second floor.
So I mean, typically that
wouldn't be a major concern,
except for the fact we had a roofer
and on a ladder, like staring at me.
And I was like, I need to leave.
That's funny you say that.
That's hilarious that you say that.
So I lived in the
dungeon when I grew up at 2040,
the house I grew up in.
And by the dungeon, I was in
the basement by my own asking.
But there was a window right above my bed
and it had blinds on it.
The old blinds like that, you know,
the ones that made the noise like,
(imitates noise)
10, they weren't 10,
but whatever that was.
Aluminum kind of.
Aluminum, that's what I was asking.
And I specifically
remember laying in bed going,
that is not gonna
work when they were like
slanted down like that.
Cause I could see straight up and I
always lived in fear
that somebody was gonna jump
down into that little window
well, like in basements
and just be staring down
at me like that.
And I was like, that's not gonna work.
Immediately you flip them the other way.
If you do it the other
way, they can't see up
and you can't see out.
And you can't see out.
Yeah. Yeah.
So you learned that over time.
Yeah.
Well, that was what it
blocked out the sun better
the way that I had them or
whatever, for whatever reason.
Yeah.
I was like creeper.
And I quickly left for class that day.
Yeah.
I mean, whether you went to college
or you went to high school,
you had those years
that you were 18 to 24, 25,
whatever it is.
And you had thunder in those years.
You did. Right?
No matter what you did,
whether you went to a
campus like this or not,
I mean, I kind of split it and did both,
but I mean, those are
some of the best times.
And I hope that's what we prepare our
children for, right?
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, I'll remember
those are really tough times,
but some of the greatest times I had too.
Like throwing the
football and the cul-de-sac.
And there was just that
whole block of apartments
was just kids, college kids.
And I was scared to
death of girls and boys
and everybody was cooler or too cool
or too scary to talk to.
You wish you could go back
and have a little bit
more confidence maybe.
For sure, for sure.
Now you say you're,
when you were in the dorm,
you said it was co-ed.
Was that like literally boys and girls
were in the same room,
same floor, what does that mean for you?
Not the same room, I don't
think that would work out.
I didn't think so, but I
was like, I don't know,
maybe it was a more
progressive school than I went to.
Yeah, no, and Mr.
Franks, BF, Brian Franks,
can we say people's names on this?
I don't know, we'll
have to ask him afterward.
I'll have to ask him.
We'll cut that out, but Mr. Franks,
there's a lot of Mr. Franks out there.
He was my roommate
there in that co-ed dorm.
He was my roommate at J101.
He was my roommate at
the house that we rented.
He's my roommate, he's been
my roommate a lot of times.
I lived in his basement a
lot, so he and I go way back.
He knows my cleanliness,
he knows all my anal tendencies too, so.
And he still thinks
you're the cat's meow.
So shout out to BF.
He's the cat's meow as well.
So shout out Mr. Franks.
But he was my roommate
there and it was a co-ed floor.
It was the ninth floor of Durwood Hall
at Colorado State University.
Really?
Yeah.
Okay.
So I was only there for
literally one semester.
My mind was all,
that was literally the
toughest two years of my life.
So I wasn't even close
to in touch with reality.
I do feel bad for people
that crossed my path then
because I was not a healthy
person at that point in time.
But yeah, that was crazy.
I mean, I guess I had a boy's bathroom,
a girl's bathroom obviously,
but I mean, I was 19.
All of a sudden now I'm
living literally the room
right next door to us was girls.
Really?
Yeah, I mean, I could
have knocked on the wall
and they would have knocked back.
Yeah, I wonder if that's common nowadays.
Ours was different.
So ours was like a
girl floor, a boy floor,
a girl floor, a boy floor.
Probably a better idea.
Yes.
Because then it's like you
only really needed one set
of bathrooms per floor.
Yeah, that would make sense.
You know?
Yeah.
There wasn't, there was a little less,
but I'm sure there was
coming lane, but you know.
Yeah, that is weird.
I don't know why that was.
Yeah.
I don't know why that was, but yeah.
I hardly, it was so long ago
and it was only the ones to matter.
I didn't even, I wish I would have done.
I should have never have left.
That's a whole other
story for another time.
(laughing)
Life turned out fine, so I'm glad I did.
Yeah.
All lit up to A, you, B, all this.
Yeah, you know, like you
took the road less traveled.
I think I won.
And that made all the difference.
I think I won.
I think I won, exactly.
Yeah.
Exactly.
I wonder if he was a track star.
Why would you say that?
I don't know.
Cause he seemed like he
was running really fast.
Oh, did it?
I don't think so.
Well, we rewind the tape.
I don't think he was running that fast.
Yeah, and we have it on video now.
It just seemed like a
faster than a jog pace
from what I can hear behind me.
No, I think that was
pretty normal jog pace.
Okay.
Yeah.
Clearly this is why we
usually do this in the studio
because I have the
attention span of a fruit bat.
Yeah.
What was that?
Where's this?
(laughing)
I hate that car going by.
They must be important
because you're not allowed
to come in here.
This is like a no car zone.
Yeah, that's not a street behind us.
Yeah, that is not a street behind us.
That is what is
considered a pedestrian walkway.
You know, speaking of
driving, maybe when you shouldn't be.
I mean, our--
Yeah, where you shouldn't be.
Or where you shouldn't be.
Yeah. We actually ventured into
a brand new phase of life
where our oldest got his permit,
his driver's permit this week.
That's right.
That's a big thing.
It's huge.
I know plenty of other
people have been there
and done that, but for us,
that's a big step forward,
I think. Yeah, it is.
It really is.
So how old were you
when you got your permit?
I think I did it by the book.
I was 15 and a half.
I wanted it.
Unlike our son, I mean, I
was chomping at the bits
and I was trying to get
by on a steering wheel
and drive a car.
I mean, it just seemed
like it would be so much fun.
So the day I turned 16, I
wanted that driver's license
so I could go.
And I didn't get a car,
but it's all in a story too.
How about you?
Oh, I mean, I was, yeah, 15.
I actually took driver's at 14,
but I couldn't take my permit test.
I could take the class,
but I couldn't take my
permit test until I was 15.
But it fit well into my schedule
and I thought it'd be an easy A,
so I took it.
You took it at school.
I took it at school.
Most people didn't, but it was an option.
Mine was a summer
course I think I went to.
Whatever school year that was
during the summer, I took it.
And then I had to go
driving with that person.
Got it.
And those were my good
driver's ed stories came from.
I mean, he took me up to
Denver the first day I drove
up to Denver from Colorado
Springs into downtown Denver.
And that was a little nerve wracking
for being first time behind the wheel.
Seems a bit aggressive.
Yeah.
And then he had me, he's like, turn here.
And I'm like, it's one way.
He's like, turn here, turn here.
He was like kind of nervous about it.
You know how they get rushed.
So I turned and he's like,
shoot, this is a one-way road.
I'm like, I know that's what I told him,
that's why I didn't turn.
So then he had me back
up on a one-way road.
Okay, that guy should not
be a driving instructor.
Just saying.
I was fine with it though.
I mean, I wasn't freaked out about it.
There's one place I'm comfortable
behind a steering wheel in a car.
It's true.
I know.
You might should, I'll use your words.
You might should have
been a race car driver.
I might should have.
Where did you go?
Didn't you?
I actually drove in Minneapolis.
And one of the best
things that I remember
that my driver's ed guy did
is we were running low on gas
and he's like, do you
know how to pump gas?
I'm like, no.
Yeah.
Never been behind the wheel of a car.
He told me how to pump gas.
Yeah.
He was like, here you go, fill it up.
I was like, cool.
Yeah.
That was the thing
that actually resonated
with me, but I mean,
I drove in Minneapolis
and he didn't tell me to go the wrong way
down a one way or anything.
Yeah.
I don't remember
anything else other than that.
Other than I did drive
stick back then, right?
So my first cars were always stick.
I love a manual transmission.
I grew up on them.
I mean, I learned how to do them.
I did all the hard teaching.
Anybody that drives manual on a stick,
you know you got to learn on a hill
so that you can keep it steady
and not roll back 20 feet and kill it.
I mean, it's a skill.
It's not hard.
You just have to figure it out.
I know I tried to teach you manual ones
because when we met, I drove stick still.
Yeah, yeah.
And I've tried lots of times.
Yeah.
I think my siblings had a stick shift
and they tried to teach me.
So I mean, I think I
get the mechanics of it
and what I need to do.
It's just not intuitive
and I was never comfortable.
Yeah.
Ever.
I don't want that pressure.
What's going on back there?
Not sure.
All right, so we're back.
You'll notice there's a little cut there.
Sadly, there's I think a poor lady
that's suffering some mental disabilities
that just went by.
So we were just making sure she was okay
and we can move on now.
So welcome back everybody.
After that sobering
moment for us at least.
Yeah, yeah.
I guess this is what you get
when you shoot live on set.
On location, right?
On location, yeah.
I couldn't have planned for that.
That was pretty interesting.
But obviously we're
not gonna put that on.
That's sad.
Anyways, moving on from that though.
We're talking about cars way back then.
I mean, a lot of people that
watch this are around our age.
So I mean, we just did things differently
back then with cars, right?
Right.
A, manual.
You can't find a manual anymore.
No.
B, I mean, here's something.
If you're my age and I've
talked to many men that are my age
and we've talked about this.
We graduated in the mid
90s, anywhere from the 90s,
80, 90s, you know, late 90s.
Bass was a big thing, right?
And having those huge
speakers in the back of your car.
I mean, where I grew
up, I mean, that was like,
you had to have it.
I mean, it was like, it was a must.
You know what I mean?
For me at least.
I mean, cause that was
the music we listened to.
You wanted to have those
in the back of the car.
Did you guys have a lot of bass?
You're only two years younger than me.
So I know people had it,
but maybe that's too North?
Probably.
It was not.
It's maybe.
Well, yes, there were
some people that had it
and my brothers always
wanted a really good sound system,
but not like you.
Like where there was like
literally the whole car shook.
That wasn't really much
of a thing where I was.
No, really.
Not a must have.
I'm surprised at that.
Certainly not a must have.
Well, I wouldn't have had
a must have, but I mean,
most of, I think, I don't know.
Maybe it was just the
circles I ran with in those days,
but I mean, that was all the music.
All the music had big bass back then.
Quad City DJs, songs
like that, that just,
I mean, they would shake.
In fact, I got rid of multiple cars
so I could fit bigger speakers.
My first car was just like, you know,
a buy of convenience cause I was so
excited to get a car.
It was a truck that I'd never, you know,
it was a red Nissan truck.
Didn't need it, didn't love it.
Next one was a Honda Civic hatchback,
which had another crazy story.
Here's a crazy story on that one.
I had that one for a while,
two 15s in the back of that,
but it wasn't big enough to like,
you couldn't have a big enough box.
You gotta have enough
box for the sound to move
and vibrate and whatnot.
So I built a special box for
it, carpeted it and everything,
put it in the back,
but it wasn't big enough.
So I sold that one, I got a Blazer.
Now that Blazer box was huge.
And you put a blanket on top of that
and you have to put ports
in it to let that air out,
the vibrations out.
And that blanket
would jump on those ports,
the air coming out of it.
It was incredible.
I'm pretty sure I have
hearing loss and damage from it,
but man, I love some
Quad City DJs, Warren G,
any of those, I mean, they just put so,
they had the coolest bass
tracks in those songs back then.
And you could hear me
coming from a mile or two away.
It was super ghetto, I guess.
So glad I met you when
you were 28 and not 18.
I wasn't getting out,
we're in chains and stuff.
And we did wear bad year
clothes in the 90s, so yeah.
Sure, yeah, yeah.
(laughing) But you're like talking about the songs,
so you listen to them like, yeah, nope,
no idea what song that is, nope,
no idea what song that is.
I've heard of Warren G.
You know, yeah, well,
you would know that,
but you also know I have
very eclectic music taste.
You do, you do.
So not only did I put
those things in to my cars,
but I put in a toggle switch
so that I could turn the amp
to my subwoofers off
and then only have my mids
and my tweets, and so
I could click that off.
So when I'm listening to Celine Dion,
she doesn't have a whole lot
of bass in those songs, right?
Not usually.
I just toggle that bass right off
and it'd be just a
great sound system for that.
Yeah, your mids and your tweets,
you actually sound like our kids
in their current day
speak, where you're like,
I don't know what you're talking about.
But I'm actually using
real words to refer to things
that really exist in the world.
(laughing)
I trust you.
And our kids aren't.
No.
Whatever talk they're
doing right now is crazy talk.
Oh my gosh.
I understand the assignment now.
Oh my gosh, it's the worst.
You have to outlaw it at times
because they just won't stop saying it.
Yeah.
It's like, it is funny, you
know, once or twice that you do,
but when you do it
like 15 times in a row,
you gotta stop.
I can't take it anymore.
Yeah, we're gonna have to do something
with like mids and
tweets or something like that
and see if we can't get
like a YouTube craze that like,
or a meme craze that the
kids pick up on, you know.
Yeah, my mids and tweets.
My mids and tweets.
With my mids and tweets y'all.
Exactly.
Now I understand.
(laughing)
So what was your first guy?
I know you guys, you
guys like shared a van
or something like that, right?
Oh.
I was college.
So the first car was just
a hand me down from my dad.
It was a Buick.
La Sabre.
Maybe.
It's only Buick I know.
La Crosse. I think that--
Everything starts with
a la, it's very French.
Yeah, it's very French.
It's fancy, they're fancy cars.
They are fancy.
Yeah, no, the car was not fancy.
So we had that one for a little while
and then actually I got in an accident.
It was a nice storm and someone hit me.
And so we got rid of that one
and then we had a Plymouth Sundance.
It was bright blue.
We called it, well, I didn't.
My brothers called it the blue squirrel
because he was like
small and it did kind of like
(imitates a bird call)
kind of a thing.
(laughs)
Not shocking.
I'd like to see a picture of that.
Oh, we've got to have
pictures of the blue squirrel.
But then when we went to college,
my parents gave, we had
multiple kids at the same college.
So they're like, hey, why
don't you just take the minivan?
My mom got a new car, a new family car.
So we got the minivan
with the wood panels.
I mean like--
And everything, yeah.
And everything, yeah, yeah.
That is classic that
they handed that down.
No trade in, no nothing.
No, no.
It's a nice sound car.
It was a nice sound car.
And the thing is, is
like on a college campus,
we were just lucky to have a car.
We were like super
popular because we had a car.
You know, most people walk places.
Anyway, yeah, the heater,
actually the air conditioner broke.
And so the car would constantly overheat.
So we had to keep the
heat on all the time
so that it would blow the hot air out
and the engine wouldn't overheat.
And then to make matters worse,
my older brother
peeled back the entire tree,
like air freshener.
Yeah.
Smelled so bad.
So we wrapped it in a sock
to dull the smell, I guess.
So after a while, like then
the sock just smelled like
pine car air freshener.
So whenever the car would start to stink,
we would just pull out
the sock and like wave it.
Wow, that is a family experience.
I'm glad you guys had.
I was really classy.
Aren't you glad you
didn't meet me until I was 25?
I would never say that.
I classed up quite a bit.
I would never say that.
You've been classy.
I think you stayed classy.
You're like San Diego, very classy.
I don't know about that.
Driving the minivan.
Yeah.
Well, we're probably
getting pretty close on here.
We probably are.
Although we could talk
more about these things
because we're trying to make it,
you know, like what kind of
cars do these people drive?
When I actually made it to college,
I was driving a CRX and
that's what I was popular in.
Really?
I'm at college on a
basketball scholarship deal.
One of the only people with a car.
And so it's me driving this little CRX.
You guys know what a CRX is.
The teeny tiny one.
And I got these huge guys
that are like six, nine,
like piling into the back
where there's no back seat.
I think they're a two seat car.
Yeah, and they're,
yeah, these huge guys just,
I had like three or four
other like basketball players
and they're all over six foot.
You're kidding.
Like, cause I'm the
only one that has a car.
I don't know why I got rid of the blazer.
Yeah, you probably
should have kept the blazer.
Oh, I know why I got rid of it.
Why?
Cause I'm fickle.
It didn't have the
wheels on it that I liked.
And I'm not talking about tires.
I'm talking about the
wheels, the chrome wheels.
I didn't have the five
star alloys that I liked.
It had like more of a
hubcap looking wheel
and it bugged me beyond belief.
Yeah.
And then the CRX had great wheels.
No, that was the start of a long slide
of just worse and worse cars.
Worse and worse decisions on my part.
Which we'll get into next week.
Yeah, we'll hold back bed next week.
Yeah, that's right.
There's a psychology
department around here somewhere.
It might need to go lay on a couch.
We actually just passed
this psychology building.
It's around here, I've seen it.
Yeah, yeah, across the stadium.
I always start shaking when I
see those psych departments.
That's funny.
Well, at least we're not driving.
Our rental car was not a CRX.
That's right.
So that could have
really thrown you back.
We've got a Kia and
you know what those are.
They are in Kia Redible.
Did you just make that up?
It's really good.
It's actually a Shawn Original.
I feel like I just took your.
No, someone else made that.
Okay.
Mr. Franks made that one up.
Who knows?
Marketing genius.
Yeah, that's right.
All right, well we'll sign off this time.
Yes, well do we wanna think of our word?
Yeah, we'll do our word real quick.
I actually had one that just came to me.
Oh, just now?
Okay, let me think of mine.
Okay, I'm ready.
Okay.
All right, we've both got our words.
One, two, three, sprint.
In Kia Redible.
In Kia Redible?
(laughing)
That's hilarious.
Oh man, that would have been so funny.
Because we're sprinting to vacation.
We have this, I mean
there's just a lot of fun things.
There's a lot of them, yep.
In Kia Redible.
There's a lot of incredible things,
in Kia Redible things going on right now.
Just trying to keep up with everything.
Checking boxes till we go.
Exactly.
So, all right, well that's it.
All right, we'll sign it
off from Eugene, Oregon.
That's right.
All right.
See you next time.
Everyone, see ya.