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Candy, Costumes, and Everyday Chaotic Charm
Who remembers the thrill of dressing up as your favorite character and walking around your neighborhood, hoping to score the biggest candy bar? Well, in our post-Halloween episode, we take you back to those golden days, sharing our experiences of spooking trick-or-treaters with a Jigsaw outfit, HomePod playing eerie music, and a house lit up like a haunted mansion. But Halloween wasn't without its disappointments, as we saw fewer little monsters knocking on our doors this year.
But that's not all we discuss in this episode. We navigate a maze of topics from the seemingly mundane, like the art of microwaving food to the perfect temperature, to trying to engage social media followers through Instagram polls. We also delve into more serious subjects, such as the complexity of adopting foreign exchange students and the unwritten rules of bus stop etiquette. We even consider futuristic ideas like shock collars on school buses to ensure timely drop-offs and cars that don't allow drunk drivers.
Before we sign off, we take a moment to discuss the rollercoaster ride of parenting. We share our attempts to teach our children responsibility, especially about car maintenance, and how we try to strike a balance between helping them and fostering independence. We also vent about dealing with meal mishaps and the need to instill financial awareness in our kids. To wrap things up, we share what's bringing us joy and excitement, from an upcoming podcast interview with two sisters who escaped a cult to our future Halloween plans. So buckle up for a ride through the highs, lows, and hilarities of everyday life.
Hey, welcome back to Ann's Cast.
Speaker 3:Here we are here we are Day after Halloween too. Day after Halloween. I mean, what if November 1st? We're in a perfect neighborhood for Halloween? It could be better, it could be. Well, you mean, as far as how many people actually took a treat, yes, correct, yeah, yeah, yeah, but the neighborhood is meant for and it was a beautiful day yesterday, correct? So it was perfect for the trick or treating. And me and you, we're into that. Yes, we're into that shit. We want a handout candy. We buy the full-size candy bars If you're listening and you know where we live full-size candy bars.
Speaker 2:Full-size candy bars. It is a perfect neighborhood for trick or treating.
Speaker 3:Yes, and my plan I told you would be next year, 300 candy bars. It is not going to happen. And I will hand out two candy bars to every kid that comes. Nope, my wife says to me why. And I said because I want to be the house that everybody goes.
Speaker 2:go to that house, they got they gave out two full-size candy bars, decorated it breaks kids out, love it, which is great. Yep, perfect. So I'm going to be the house that I'm sure we've talked about, and then you just get all the candy. Yep, we will not be.
Speaker 3:The permanent lights I set is like a flashing, it's almost like a strobey purple. It looks dope. It's almost like a haunted house.
Speaker 2:Yeah, when you look at it, but that was a little too nice. Well, that was a little too nice.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:But, yeah, you guys have lights.
Speaker 3:Well, we did your lights. Finally, we got the porch light.
Speaker 2:Yes, you did the porch light. Listen, let me just go off on a. You did a real good job.
Speaker 3:Let me go off on a side note of how great of a friend I am.
Speaker 1:I had shit all over.
Speaker 3:I got a. I had so much dust and shit in my face that I actually got a bloody nose and continued, while it was bleeding, to set up this light for you. That is accurate.
Speaker 1:But? But because I had to cut the whole bigger upside down.
Speaker 3:If you could just picture that I'm on a ladder cutting it and it's just stuffed and it wasn't even the right saw.
Speaker 2:No, it's not the right saw. You made it work. It's a perfect circle.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's not set up, but you had lights but you did something cool that I thought was cool.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, I just so. When we were in Vegas in 2021, I bought we went through the saw escape, which I would love to do. It's not even a room, it's like seven rooms.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, it's like. It's like normally are like seven rooms, like you get through one room and you're in another room.
Speaker 2:I have never done.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's what escape rooms are.
Speaker 2:It's like Vegas saw. So you know it's just it's insane yeah.
Speaker 3:It's got to be dope and so um.
Speaker 2:so when we were done, there's kind of like a little gift shop and I bought a what's his name? A jigsaw, jigsaw. I always forget his name. So I bought a jigsaw costume. So last year I didn't use it, it just felt weird about it. And this year, uh, I think I said something about it. She was like, yeah, you need to put that on.
Speaker 3:And so I'm like I don't know so, and this is like a nice jigsaw outfit. It's not costume, it's not like it's not like the cheap ones you buy at, like the decent.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's decent. It was like a hundred bucks or something, maybe a little less, but uh anyway. So I was like, how am I? I bought it and it's still wrapped. It's like it's brand new Mm. Hmm, didn't wear it last year. I thought I might be a little too fat for it, because I've gained some weight since 2021 been there.
Speaker 3:Side note tried on my Tim Duncan jersey from years ago because I was like watching the Spurs game last night I'm going to try that on and I was like I looked at Annie and I go. Well, that's a no go. Pull that sucker off. It was like new jersey time new jersey.
Speaker 2:Well, it's still fit. It was big enough, so I put it on. I don't think they knew I was putting it on, so I just went downstairs and they all kind of ooh and laughed at me. Yeah, you know, cause it was costume, so I did, but I didn't know what I was going to do. So Sierra was handing out candy. So when she would hand out candy I would just stand behind her and just kind of be still with my arms down and just stand there, not say anything, not move. I'm like.
Speaker 3:So then, uh, I had so that was that was you're feeling a little awkward about that. Is this really is?
Speaker 2:not effective. I got a couple of giggles and then I had a home pod in our bathroom. There's our guest bathroom. It's right at the front of the house and there's a window there right next to the front door. So I had a home pod there with, you know, creepy music and stuff like that. So I thought, well, I'm just going to step in there and just stand in the window and see what happens. And so kids started coming up and I'd kind of move like I'm like automated or it's like a projection, and I was. You know, I got a couple of screeches and, you know, one little girl said uh, go to sleep monster, go to sleep monster. And I didn't know what that meant and the dad was like, well, we just went to told Sierra uh, we just went out haunted house and you have little kids, you just tell them go to sleep monster. And then the monster doesn't scare them.
Speaker 3:I think, for haunted house, great idea. That's whoever put that house together is smart because you want. The little kids are where you're going to make your money, because they want to go but it's perfect to have that. You know as, hey, if, if this gets a little too, crazy, it's a safe word and everybody that works there knows if they hear that to just kind of back off. I had. I didn't know what that meant.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So you were like, I was just still like I'm back and staring at it.
Speaker 2:I'm staring at her and rubbing my like, running my fingers down the screen and I was like somebody's like I'm going to make you go to sleep, you're going to have nightmares on the girl. So I got a couple of screeches so then it's showing up.
Speaker 3:Mask light up. No, it just is because from what I saw, it seemed like it lights up but it was just. It was so prominent the way it was coming through the window.
Speaker 2:It was because with the lights you put, some a gov can light up in my porch and then I have gov bulbs on the garage lights.
Speaker 2:There's two of them, so I just set those to purple and then I think, with my white it all not quite acted like a black, yeah, yeah yeah yeah, I see what you're saying and not quite, and so my, obviously the mask is white and so it's kind of shown, but it was a good idea. So we got real excited for next year and I think we're going to dress up a little bit more and do a few more decorations. And then I want to get I'm really determined to get the gov outdoor lights, similar to yours, but it's considerably cheaper. So I'm just trying to figure out how I can get those up, so we'll see. We want to do a little bit more next year. Yeah, it was a lot of fun. Yeah, well, I love it. It's fun scaring kids.
Speaker 3:I love the whole thing and this year we always add a little piece. This year we added the 12 foot skeleton. I don't know if anybody's seen that out there, but Home Depot has. It's a kind of a hot item that the eyes actually blink at you and stuff. It's kind of cool. They're like real eyeballs in the skeleton and it's 12 feet tall. It's big, but we have all these creepy dolls and mummies.
Speaker 3:I come home and I'm like I got, I got, I got. I'm trying to finish quarterlies in the business, so I'm staying late to finish. I'm texting my wife saying has anybody stopped by and asked for candy? She's like no. I'm like good, cause I got to get home, change out the batteries on all the stuff and get the sign out, cause I got a sign that says trick or treat her if you dare, and I want to get life. It's a whole thing for me. So I got it all set up and I just I love it, dude, and one thing that I thought you did, that I mentioned just earlier before we came up here to your wife, is that I want to put the ring camera, like you did, on your screen so that everybody in the house can see everybody coming up cause you just run the ring camera and it's like a live feed running what's happening.
Speaker 3:I think that's a dope idea because then everybody can see like all the costumes and the kids freaking out and stuff.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because, you know, not everybody. We had some friends over and then Sierra and Josh were over, so it's a house full of people. So you know we're not going to ever not everybody's going to go up to the door. So, having a ring camera, I have two on the one on the doorbell and then a one that I installed myself that points down to the driveway so you can see kids it's such a good camera that you can see kids coming from down around the corner, so we could kind of prep and then we went. They got to the bottom of the driveway. Then we would get up and go to the doors to prevent, cause we have three dogs, it would prevent them from barking.
Speaker 2:You would just get up and they could just kind of got used to it and then we put put a gate in front so they couldn't go to the door every time, but it worked great and then then all the people like you said, the people that aren't going to the door can still see the costumes, because it's all pretty clear, you know, with the lights and all of that.
Speaker 3:So it's great and once you said that, I went back tonight and I started looking at some of the cause. I have all the spots where people came up and so I was like seeing all the kids that are freaking out and stuff, stuff that we didn't see before. And it was kind of like, oh okay, those are kind of cool moments that we kind of missed. And so it'd be nice to do that next year. It's a good idea.
Speaker 2:I think I'm going to do that.
Speaker 3:But the thing that the thing that was disappointing was the fact that there wasn't a lot of people out and we were talking about it today. Like, is that just because people are doing the, the trunk or treat or whatever, that they do, which is a thing, or?
Speaker 2:yeah, I told you about a a TikTok. I saw it was this young couple that had just bought a house and it was their first Halloween. They were super excited. They were both dressed up and the girl had the camera or the phone pointed to her husband and he was down on the sidewalk like looking down the street. Nobody was coming and so I looked at the.
Speaker 2:You know they were kind of, you know, a little upset about that that there were no kids. And so I looked at the comments and a lot of the comments blamed it on trunk or treat, which I guess could be a part of it. But usually trunk or treat we have one at our church and it's like the Sunday before Halloween, so you can still do something on a Halloween, but it's something that if you don't want to do that because it's the devil's holiday, then you could just do trunk or treat. So a lot of people blame that for ruining Halloween and then, and then a lot of people said they just don't have a lot of people in their neighborhoods turning on their lights and so maybe over the years people know not to go. You know, I don't know, I don't know. Or there's just another reason. You know people just aren't participating. We had probably I don't know 60, 70,. You're closer to the main road. It's still a little weird because we're just a couple blocks away but you have like a hundred.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:We may have had, maybe closer to that, because we did run out of candy so we had to turn off the lights. I'm sure we would have got, you know, 10, 15 more maybe, but we've got it. I think we're kind of tightening things up. It's a very new neighborhood. Our side is you've been here for a while, but I think it's a great neighborhood. If I lived in Vancouver or other parts of Camus, like you said earlier, it's a perfect neighborhood. There's one, two, three, four different developers, so there's, you know, all these neighborhoods that are stretched out and it's big but it's pretty compact. So if I knew about this neighborhood, I would just take my kids, just drive them, and then we would do every section, yeah, and it would be enough.
Speaker 3:Yeah, oh, yeah, I think oh yeah, so you know, I don't know. It's odd. This would be a perfect Neighborhood for my kids. Yeah, it's a great neighborhood.
Speaker 2:I'm trying to figure out because I am jigsaw and he rides a trike. I'm like do I find like a adult sized trike and just ride the neighborhood real slow on a trike, on my? My costume with a wagon behind pulling something like body parts or something. Okay, that's a little tense, Maybe.
Speaker 3:maybe if you had like a trike that sat out on your porch that you could sit on.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:And then sometimes you wouldn't be sitting on it, the trike would still be there, but then you pop up through the window in the bathroom, but just riding the neighborhood, I think riding around in the neighborhood real slow. It's almost pet-o-ish dude, it's not pet-o-ish.
Speaker 2:I guess some people could see it that way. I did say, I did mention that I should get like a voice modulator or something.
Speaker 3:Yeah, Say like oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, what does?
Speaker 2:he say Do you want to play a game? Or I have like, I want to play a game or something like that. But anyways, yeah, yeah, okay. So the last time we're going to move on from, yeah, yeah, yeah, Halloween, or so the last time we podcast Halloween, or was June 8th, yeah, so we decided we're in our quarterly mode.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So we'll podcast once a quarter. We'll maybe, you know, add a few more, but we'll see how that goes. Well, here's the deal.
Speaker 3:When summertime or springtime comes around we've talked about this I'm usually busy golfing or we're working. It's just that the ability to record is just. It's not as frequent. Right Then summertime had just ended, but right as summertime was ending and I was kind of coming out of golf, you were kind of redoing your room here because you were painting it and all that stuff.
Speaker 3:So everything was tore down and so finally the room's done, summertime and what? What is it? Today it's pouring down rain out there, yeah, and here we are recording. It's like it's. It's kind of like the winter cold is like perfect, because we come home and there's not really anything to go out and do. Nighttime comes a lot quicker.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:So it's perfect for us to hey, when we have free time we can shoot over and record at night. I mean right, I mean my nights. Just get started, man. Yeah, I'll be going to bed right after this no, you got to get on a play a little.
Speaker 2:DMZ or something.
Speaker 1:I don't think that's going to happen.
Speaker 2:You probably 30. I'm definitely going to bed, we only. We've been going for 15 minutes. We have one half hour left and then I'm out. No, no, no.
Speaker 3:You were talking today about how you're going to watch a mission impossible 11. Is it seven? I think it's 11 and you're like it's a three hour movie, so we're going to do this and it's going to be on the day it comes out to what to stream. We're going to have to start at six because three hour movie and I'm like no normal person does that. No, no. You start a movie at like nine and you're done.
Speaker 2:Like midnight I've watched, we've watched all six with a Shelley, me, josh and Sierra, so we watched all six. Over the last couple of months we were going to try to get through them so we could watch seven in the theaters and that didn't work.
Speaker 3:It's mission impossible. Seven, yeah, not 11.
Speaker 1:No, yeah, got it.
Speaker 2:The week that it came out was the week that they were getting married, so I guess that trumps it. So we couldn't see it, so that didn't happen, and so they were like and then they were in Italy for two weeks and then it was kids kicked from the big screens and the IMAX, and all of that because it was the same time Oppenheimer was out and Barbie, so it kind of got.
Speaker 1:Yep.
Speaker 2:Yep Kicked. So they're like well, let's just wait till we can rent it, because we love our setup downstairs. And so it's finally coming out on Tuesday to rent. And so I said so this is the thing. It comes out on a Tuesday. We could wait until the weekend and watch during the day, or you? Know, on the evening cause it's weekend, or we can watch during the week, but we gotta start by like six, cause it's a two hour and 43 minute movie.
Speaker 3:You can start that at nine and easily be done. Four minutes, yeah, no, no.
Speaker 2:I told you no later than 6.30, and that's pushing it.
Speaker 3:No, normal person thinks that way.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:No, listen, you always say that, you always say a normal person, but you think, because you think it, that everybody thinks it. Yeah, exactly, or does the same thing, and that's not accurate.
Speaker 3:No, I is. What I'm saying is. I'm the normal one, everyone else is weird. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3:So when I say no, normal person does it obviously I'm meaning that no normal, meaning myself, cause I'm the only normal one doesn't do that. Now there is a little extreme which is like my wife and her best friend, who they they'll stay. They're like oh yeah, we're gonna go to bed at like three o'clock tonight and then like seven o'clock rolls around in the morning and I'm just getting up to go to work and they're still awake and I'm like, yeah, so much for that three o'clock, they're just up till seven am all through the night just listening to podcasts and painting. I'm like, listen, I'm falling asleep. That happens, I'm falling asleep. I mean, I got at some point. I do get tired, but I don't know about staying up till seven.
Speaker 3:am just listening to a podcast. I gotta if I'm doing that, I gotta take a good long nap.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, from 11 o'clock to seven, you taking nap, you go to bed, no.
Speaker 3:I'm talking about like I could go home from work, and then about five o'clock I could lay down for about an hour and a half nap, and then I could probably stay up till about four am.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'd probably be good. Okay, so one of the other things right before you came over, so we won't. We'll talk about the final percentage on our next podcast, which is hopefully, maybe in a week. So we've been talking about this. We've talked about this, I think, multiple times, on the podcast and off the podcast. Microwaving food, yeah, so I created a poll on Instagram. I remembered how to do it.
Speaker 2:I remembered to do it and figure out how to do it. Who's voting on this poll? So just my followers on Instagram. How many are there? Well, I'm friends with. I'm friends with 250,. I have 252 followers, okay, so it's a decent amount. A decent amount usually sees my posts, so so far. So this is the poll. When heating food in the microwave, heat all the way through, don't mind cold spots. So I wanted to try to be is non-bias as possible. So so far, only 16 people have seen it.
Speaker 3:So by like tomorrow.
Speaker 2:I should have a lot more people.
Speaker 3:Whatever this percentage is, I'm gonna judge harshly on those 16 people.
Speaker 2:Oh, actually you know what? 16 people have seen this. This is so bogus. People are so irritating. I have it. 16 people have looked at it. Only three people have voted.
Speaker 3:So they look at it and don't vote 16 people just vote.
Speaker 2:Why are you just?
Speaker 3:looking at it.
Speaker 2:How do you look at?
Speaker 3:it and not just click a button for voting Like what's the purpose? Freaking people Like it's so irritating, that's so Okay. So three people voted. What's the percentage?
Speaker 2:Well, that's just not scientific, I know. But two people have said heat all the way through and one said don't mind cold spots.
Speaker 3:And I think that, I think that, what a bunch of garbage. I think, I think.
Speaker 2:All these freaking people have seen it.
Speaker 3:Here's what I said is I think also it is like the food Freaking people, I would say there's Also like the type of food.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:I think there's one type of food that I don't know if I could do it, unless it was heated all the way through. Well, there's probably two, two things that. I can think of currently, right now.
Speaker 2:I'm just gonna surprise you about this.
Speaker 3:Mashed potatoes kind of need to be heated all the way through. If you're gonna reheat them and then rice. You can't eat cold rice because it's like it turns hard again so you got to heat that all the way through but like but yeah, I'm spaghetti, cold spots fine, that's disgusting. But chicken but by cold spots fine. I totally found with that.
Speaker 2:You know what pizza I don't even need to eat. A lot about the other 13 people and I can see the results. I love it. I can see the results of who voted.
Speaker 3:If you know those people, you're taxing them seriously yeah seriously Idiots.
Speaker 2:That's what I say. Call one of them out.
Speaker 1:One, again three.
Speaker 2:CJ Cottle looked at it.
Speaker 3:Come on. Cj Didn't vote Seriously, dude, I mean, it just takes a second.
Speaker 2:Kayla voted. Jonathan, kevin's son, didn't vote Come on Jonathan.
Speaker 3:Seriously, we can get on him.
Speaker 2:Tiffany Lovelace.
Speaker 3:What a little bitch, Jonathan.
Speaker 2:Tiffany didn't vote.
Speaker 3:Tiffany, come on seriously.
Speaker 2:Crystal, I'm taxing your husband right now. Crystal didn't vote.
Speaker 3:I'll let her know when we're going out to dinner with them. I'll let her know. Listen, all you gotta do is tap it, Tap it. He tapped it. Yeah, you just tap it.
Speaker 2:God, it's so irritating. He's going for it. I love it. One of my former employees that lives in Phoenix didn't vote. Oh, screw that person. Aaron Waller, Now I don't know if you should be. Let me check Facebook. Can you vote on Facebook? I don't know if you can vote. I don't think you can vote on Facebook. So those people are get off the hook. I guess that's like six people, but those people should be seeing it on Instagram too, because they're all on Instagram.
Speaker 3:It's gotta vote. How hard is it?
Speaker 2:Geez, you read it and you press a button.
Speaker 3:One job. It's so simple. You get on there, you read it, you press a button. I'm actually. If I see a poll, I see a poll.
Speaker 2:Social experiment. I'm actually. That's a red flag. That's at least a yellow flag.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, almost unfriendly.
Speaker 3:Accurate If you. If I look at a poll, like if I'm on Twitter and I look at a poll, right, and I'm actually if I can't vote because it's already been closed, I'm actually irritated yeah.
Speaker 1:I'm irritated that I looked at it and I can't vote.
Speaker 3:Yeah, they've already got the results accurate. That drives me nuts. Yes, I wish I could have voted Mm-hmm. Yeah, it's, I'm like that that's irritating dude, listen, listen.
Speaker 2:I'm awake to 45 this morning and I never go to back to sleep. Yeah, I Think I'm a little too warm, it's too hot. Okay, so I turn there on. Never went back to sleep. So I look at the.
Speaker 3:You're getting Not be surprised at 245 in the morning, 245 and I would have jumped on PlayStation. Yeah, I was awake trying to go back.
Speaker 2:I'm just tossing and turning. Rouge is just snoring away to sleeping and so I Jump on my phone. I'm looking at Facebook, you know, which I probably shouldn't do. I should probably just lay there and try to go back to sleep. But I'm on. I do what everybody else does looking at Instagram, whatever, and then I put it back down and then I put it back up and I pick it up and I look at the weather Channel app because I want to know if it's gonna be raining. By the time I have to walk Rouge in a couple hours so.
Speaker 2:I'm looking at the weather channel app, looking at the. You know when is it gonna rain? It's gonna rain it like starting at noon.
Speaker 3:I'm already annoyed. I don't even I, so listen. We haven't even gotten. We haven't even gotten to what you think I'm gonna be annoyed about. But I'm just just hearing you explain these things is well enough inside of me.
Speaker 2:We haven't even got to the point you're accurate, I'm not even done, I'm so annoyed.
Speaker 3:Right now you wire you at 245 checking the weather.
Speaker 2:I want to know what it's gonna be like when you walk your dog. I want to know.
Speaker 3:Oh, you're tated right now. Seriously, jeez, I can't even friends with this guy.
Speaker 2:So I'm looking at the weather channel app and what pops up Not a poll, a survey, and so did you take the survey on a weather app. I'm taking the sir.
Speaker 3:Oh my god, I'm so mad.
Speaker 2:right now I can't even fathom drill is like 20 questions to Demographics. How do you do you look at?
Speaker 3:other places from being friends with that.
Speaker 2:Look at other apps for the weather. Do you look at? What were you looking at just prior to looking at the weather? Channel out these are the.
Speaker 3:You're taking this.
Speaker 2:You're taking this probably three o'clock in the morning Reson the button and then I misunderstood some questions so I had to go back like three or four and redo it.
Speaker 3:What are you doing?
Speaker 2:I'm like no wait, I'm reading through this too fast. I gotta go back through it, for that's why they put those. And then I read that, I see those and I read it.
Speaker 3:Why in the hell are you putting this on here? I just want this to go away so I could see the weather. They put it on there because they know that people like you I'm a reading it at 245 in the morning and you're ready to take this pull.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and it had a. When are you taking this survey? When are you looking at the app? And I had to say One at 5 am reading that survey of their life. Oh, and it said why are you looking at the weather channel app right now? So I can walk my dog and I had to type it. There weren't there, obviously wasn't Option, so I had to type to walk my dog.
Speaker 3:Later. I'm over it, dude. I'm over it.
Speaker 2:I'm over this 20, 20, at least a 20 question survey dude, I wake up, and not all just optional, I had to write some stuff in.
Speaker 3:Your listen. You're doing this all for Just just walk your dog. I wake up in the morning I get, I get dressed. I do look at the app zero. Oh yeah, I'm looking, get dressed, I'll walk outside. It could be freezing cold. I could be wearing shorts, listen, and I'll walk outside and I'll go yep, shorts, oh I shorts, it is.
Speaker 2:I see that it's 46 degrees this morning when I take Rouge, like, okay, I Already know I'm gonna wear a flannel because it is 46 and it's only gonna be like in the 50s today. So I know I'm gonna wear a flannel. But what coat do I wear when I take her on a walk? Because if I wear too heavy of a coat I'm walking, I'm gonna get sweaty. Do I wear my windbreaker? Do I wear my rain jacket? I Need to know what temperature it is to gauge what jacket I'm gonna wear, because I know what temperature about the range when I start to get too hot in a certain type of coat. So it all has to be planned because I don't like to be sweaty when I get.
Speaker 2:I'm over it all halfway through my, so your turn so I see that it's 40, about 44 degrees, and so I opted for my rain jacket with my flannel. It was perfect. Well, I like to get sweaty halfway through. Anybody else listen to this?
Speaker 3:please. You can find me on Twitter. You can direct message me. Let me know how absolute, asinine bullshit this is. Please, hey, I play. You're listening to this and you're saying to yourself this guy is a lunatic, probably should be in a padded room.
Speaker 2:Nope, I think a lot of people are like okay, this is some green flags for me no, no, he's checking the, he's checking a green flags.
Speaker 3:Yep, you are smoking crack, no he's thinking ahead.
Speaker 2:He's no proactive.
Speaker 3:No, no Listen.
Speaker 1:Doing that weather app to see what the weather is for the day is one thing.
Speaker 3:Viewing it at 3 am To see what the weather is for when you walk your dog. In two hours, it in no, and people are not. People are thinking this guy and the fact that you took the survey to while doing it.
Speaker 2:That was probably not good decision-making. I mean that.
Speaker 3:I mean when I say fired from being a friend. That's I think that's accurate. It's the only thing that can be done because you. Obviously.
Speaker 2:I've told you same person, I've told you multiple times, I've told you this, but I don't think I don't know if I've said on the podcast but years ago, before we were friends, we were both mutual friends with the Paul's yes, crystal and Jesse. So you told me, I think somewhere along the way, several years into our friendship, I think, they Told you that you needed to be friends with me and Shelley and you're like nope, because you knew who we were from church, yep, and I was a little uptight. I think that's why you said no, nope, because you were.
Speaker 3:that's not why no, that's that is the reason I'm just replaying the nope. Yeah, just like that.
Speaker 1:Because you're you and I'm me.
Speaker 2:And you're like no, I don't, and it was probably the same attitude you still have today. Yeah, probably I do not. Nope, don't need to do that, yep. And so Somehow I think we saw you at Target or something Somewhere along the way we started talking.
Speaker 3:You're like okay, I think it was target.
Speaker 2:This isn't. This isn't as bad as I thought, but every time I bring something like this up with the weather, it's right back in there. Yeah, remind you, this is why you said no to the Paul, why you said no. I did not too deep into it.
Speaker 3:Now I'm too deep into it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, three offices away from you and your business.
Speaker 3:Too deep into it. Now I'm screwed, so I can't know my way out of this one anymore, it's like 15, 17 years ago.
Speaker 2:I Think it's funny, though there's aspects of my life, the things that I do you're like, I know. This is why you said no way back then Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
Speaker 3:Another one would be when you talked about Wanting to eventually Adopt an overseas person or something to live with you. What's it called? What's that called when you Exchange student? That's what it is when you talked about wanting to exchange student, I swear that was the closest I've ever been to Absolute to punch you. I I have no words to describe what went through me is all I know is.
Speaker 2:I think we've talked about that.
Speaker 3:I almost socked you and then it dawns on me that you're Tony and not like somebody else, and so I stopped myself. Pinched Clint, I had a clinched fist and everything I was gonna.
Speaker 2:Add some white, so annoying and I know you're telling the truth Because we're pulling into the parking spot and I said it and you just stopped and stared at me.
Speaker 1:You.
Speaker 3:I almost clocked. You're like Think about it, but not like almost.
Speaker 2:I mean, that was I kind of felt something I wasn't sure until you vocalized I was like, yeah, you almost did just punch me yeah, shit, almost.
Speaker 3:It's like when you're punching a punching bag and you're just kind of punching it and then, and then all of a sudden you get just like a rage and you just start, you just grit your teeth. You know, I'm saying that's called a lot of aggression huh.
Speaker 2:It's called love aggression.
Speaker 3:Is that what that's called?
Speaker 2:love me so much in that moment.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 1:Oh gosh, I tell you what you get a funny foreign adopted student or whatever, whatever it's called.
Speaker 3:If you get one of those, it puts you in the same boat as people who have young kids. We done so. They leave until they leave, until they're out, I don't even know what to think about that, but oh, geez.
Speaker 2:Yeah, our church does these kids from Basque, which I think is in Spain or somewhere, every year and it's for like three weeks. It's real short. So I'm like, okay, this is kind of a short term, you know, three weeks, we could see how it goes, and then maybe we do it for an exchange student for like a full school year. Nope, I'm out. It's perfect because one of our kids is gone now.
Speaker 3:So you just have so many currently staying with me for three weeks at a time. It's like a foreign exchange student. Don't really do anything. I pay for everything staying there.
Speaker 2:Well, shelly's been there, done that shelly's parents did it with a Russian family. I think it was like a church thing, where this Russian family had just moved to the country or something, stayed with them for a while and then they had a British foreign exchange student that went. I think they were, he was a year ahead of Shelly but he stayed for a full school year and they stayed in touch for a couple of years. But I think they don't think she sharing talks to him anymore, for Probably has it for quite some time. But yeah.
Speaker 3:No, not into it. Speaking of going to subway, though, we were going to subway the other day. Yeah, we're gonna jump ship here and we get it's so to get to subway From our work, because we go there quite often. Yes, we take a ride out and it goes right by some apartments. Yes and, as we're going, this is just today. It was, was it just today? Yes, was just today. As we're going there, there's a bus because it must have been half day or something.
Speaker 2:That was like kindergarten.
Speaker 3:So they're letting kid, they're picking up or letting kids off. They were letting kids off. Here's the Drives me nuts first of all. So we're gonna get into what I think should happen, but the first thing that drives me nuts is there's three entrance points into this apartment.
Speaker 3:Giant apartment complex there's one main entrance and then two side entrances. Yes, correct, this bus stops at every entrance and lets kids off, correct? I have no idea why there's not just one drop off. Just go to them on the main entrance. Every parent should come there and pick their kids up. Why are you stopping three times to let kids off? Is this because the parents are lazy?
Speaker 2:What it's, kids, somebody's yeah.
Speaker 3:Just drop them off all in the same entrance, right, right. The one thing that annoys me, though, is now Bus stops in general, not just the apartment complex. One Anoint me because the kids are never as soon.
Speaker 2:As soon as we turn the corner and there was a bus there.
Speaker 3:You just Started in yes, because it they're never ready, billy. Billy Joe's always in the back. I already discussed this with you. He's always that. He's. He's probably got his backpack open. He's probably eaten half of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. He's got a soccer ball. He's throwing it around with, you know, bobby, jean or whatever, and it's it's going under the seeds and all this and it's his stop. It's his stop. He's got his backpack open. He's probably got papers out. He's probably drawn on it some figure thing that he's gotten his head and he's eaten a sandwich and his balls everywhere. And and the bus drivers, like you know, billy, you got to get off right and he's doing, so I've got a solution and I think it's a great solution.
Speaker 3:Listen, people are gonna say that it's a bit intense. Okay, but I think it's a great solution. Listen, you have shock collars. The kids get on the bus each color e-colors, like they do for dogs.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we'll call it e-colors, so it's not so listen.
Speaker 3:It's scary, it's not meant to be harmful. Yeah, kids don't listen. So you have each group. So say there's seven stops on a bus. I don't know how many times the bus stops but say there's seven stops, they have seven sets of E-colors right and the button act. So button one activates group one. So if you're getting off on the first stop you put on Group one, collar right.
Speaker 3:It's just an easy it's just an easy around the neck. Click Bus drivers starting to pull up to group one spot. He hits the number one button. It gives them a little jolt now we're talking it's like a level one jolt. Okay, enough to get their attention. Yes, if you're not ready and by not ready I mean the bus driver has to count to three seconds and you're still not standing up when the bus has stopped to get off, then the next day you go up to number two. Oh, I'm the next thing I'm saying.
Speaker 3:So then every day it increases, right, if you get to a level 10 and you're still not ready. One your pain tolerance is something else. At that point you then have to go get Tased oh, so yeah, at that point you get elevates. Yeah, you have to go you have to go get tased, and then you come back, and then you come back and we go to the lesson learned.
Speaker 3:Hopefully with the lesson learned. That way, if Billy Joe and Bobby Sue are in the back playing with this freaking soccer ball Right and their peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, you know trying to flirt with each other, and they get zapped, you know, maybe that'll straighten them up a little. Give them a little zap. You go group one. Better get ready, because I'm tired of sitting behind them and it's like, especially in an apartment complex, you see like three or four of them get off and you're like why isn't the bus moving?
Speaker 3:right and then all of a sudden, nincum poop Billy comes walking off with a soccer ball. That's and his and his mom sitting there, waving at him all like maybe you Should take a little bit more time telling your kid to get off that bus and be ready.
Speaker 2:Yeah, parents have to take responsibility, absolutely it's annoying.
Speaker 3:It's annoying. Or if you don't like the shock collar idea, then you can just drive a kid to school. Accurate, I mean, it's not. I'm not, I'm not asking for too much, yeah.
Speaker 2:Little. There's something that has to a little zip to get their attention.
Speaker 3:Yeah, just a little something you know, maybe a little maybe a little. Soon a little electric seat and maybe they sit in groups as.
Speaker 2:As soon as we turn that corner.
Speaker 3:You were irritated. Yes, yes, because I don't want to wait behind the bus and I don't mind waiting if they stop, the kids are off and they go. But when I'm sitting there and three kids get off, and then they're still sitting there, and they're still sitting there, and then they're still sitting there, and then finally some numbskull kid comes walking on backpack and his soccer ball, what were you doing in the first place? Why did I have to wait for you?
Speaker 2:Why were you not ready? Yeah, it was a few seconds before the last kid got off, yeah.
Speaker 3:And then at the apartment complex they stop again and I'm like thinking to myself why couldn't all of the kids just gotten off at the last stop? Right, it's the same apartment complex, Right? What are we doing here?
Speaker 2:That I agree with. I mean come on. I mean come on, I'm with you, I'm just not so sure about the E-caller, but I'm with you, I think it'd be a great idea Either that or I mean it would work, or either that or E-seats.
Speaker 3:I think Like the seats they sit down give them a little jolt in their booty.
Speaker 2:That might be it. I'll give them a little up, they'll just stand up and get going.
Speaker 3:Yeah, exactly, I like it.
Speaker 2:I kind of like that one. Yeah, a little E-seat.
Speaker 3:They're like whoop it's it's the stop. We know that this is not understand. We know this is not going to ever come about right, Because people are going to be like oh, you're not shocking my kids, Shut the f up, you pussy. So we know it's not ever going to come around. But the point is it's kind of like the pill idea, where we want to give the pill.
Speaker 3:Yes, I was just thinking of that, to let kids have the baby right yeah, we know it's not going to come about, but I tell you what it would solve the problem.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you come just through, our drive through and we'll give you the yes. We'll give you a yes or no to kids. Here's the deal.
Speaker 3:Our drive through will be the best drive through ever because we'll be friendly and listen if we can't be friendly. You'll know ahead of time Like you won't even need to go through the drive through.
Speaker 1:We won't make you wait.
Speaker 2:We'll say that car back there we can just tell, we can tell by the way it looks, just keep going.
Speaker 3:Just keep on moving.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think there would be a lot of people that wouldn't even need to stop, you just don't even need. We just get a little glimpse in the window and it's like no, just keep moving, no kids for you.
Speaker 3:No.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 3:Yeah, just keep on, keep on trucking.
Speaker 2:And here is the little pill. Just throw it in the window, take this, because we need to make sure you're not procreating. Yeah, exactly, keep going.
Speaker 3:Exactly. I mean, I'm just saying the other idea I had, which I think is a good idea, and I don't know why they can't do it, because we talked about drunk driving or something. There was something that we had discussed and I was like I don't know why they can't have a steering wheel that can, that can sense your blood through your hands, or something that's like some.
Speaker 2:And then metrics and everybody.
Speaker 3:I mean things, have something that you don't have to blow into, so everybody doesn't have to have a blower in their car. But literally, you have to be sitting in the driver's seat holding on to the steering wheel. Because the reason I say steering wheel is because, in order to drive, you have to hold the steering wheel all the time. Right, right. So that way, if is if you were to have somebody else hold it to start it and then let go, it wouldn't work, because once you grab a hold of it to actually steer, it would sense your blood and know that you're intoxicated and shut the car down.
Speaker 3:Right. I don't understand in this day and age why we can't have cars that don't allow people to drive if they're drunk. Then we wouldn't have to worry about drunk driving and the and the accidents and all that stuff.
Speaker 2:You know what I'm saying Because people can't control themselves.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's like I don't understand.
Speaker 2:You have a couple of drinks and you're just making bad decisions. Yeah yeah, stupid, stupid.
Speaker 3:I mean, we literally, we literally have bars and restaurants that allow people to drink and then go drive afterwards.
Speaker 2:Yes, but then we tell them that they're not allowed to drive.
Speaker 3:But yeah, it's like, yeah, but when you go to one bar and then you get cut off, and you walk to another bar and have two more. Then you walk to another bar and have two more. I mean, I like your six drinks deep and you're only three blocks down.
Speaker 2:I like the idea. I just don't know if that technology is out there. I know that's what you might have to feel. That part out.
Speaker 3:It's just odd to me it's just odd and it's interesting that the government's like, hey, you can't drive drunk, which I like. I like that part.
Speaker 3:But, then we're going to go ahead and have restaurants and bars that you have to drive to and then drive home after you're done, after you have some drinks, right. Doesn't really make any sense. It's kind of like you're setting people up for failure, right? Especially people that are addicts can't control themselves, right. So I mean it's like you know. I mean, why can't it just be yeah, you can drink, but you have to do it at home.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no more bars.
Speaker 3:No more bars. No more bars. And I mean it's still. You'd probably get some people that would leave the house and go somewhere and drive in, but that's why you have to have the thing that you got to have the steering wheel. I'm just saying right, I got great ideas.
Speaker 2:You'd have a ton of ideas. Yeah, I think the easier. I don't know.
Speaker 3:I think the easier of the two is maybe a shock collar or shock seat for the bus I think that's more doable than a steering wheel.
Speaker 2:That that could happen, why not? Why not and I'm not opposed to it, not opposed If I didn't have to wait behind a bus probably gonna be a few people that are opposed to it, but I would not be one.
Speaker 3:I mean maybe, or maybe just have stringent, more stringent rules to where it's okay. Maybe we don't do the shock thing, but you need to get your butt up and go, or no, if you're not ready, if you're not ready within a certain amount of time, then your parent gets a ticket. You know what the parent then? The parent then would say right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, get off that bus. Some negative incentivism. Yeah, come on, that's a word, figure it out. But give him a little just created it.
Speaker 3:Give him a little zap. Give him a little yep. And if they don't, if they don't respond within a three to five second period long sustained one.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:And then, if they don't respond again, then next, then the next day it goes up a notch Right. You thought number one was bad.
Speaker 2:Let's go from number two, I think it would be effective. Yeah, I mean she's positive.
Speaker 3:Maybe even use the maybe even use the ones that like on dogs, but that aren't that don't shock, they just do the vibrate, but it's harder. Maybe that's enough to kind of especially with some boys you're going to need to give him a little shock. Yeah yeah, give him a little zappity to dappity.
Speaker 2:Accurate.
Speaker 3:So I mean, that's just my ideas.
Speaker 2:Good ideas. Or we just get rid of school buses. Yeah, we could do that. Just have the parents drive them. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:Or there needs to be, or is what needs to happen. Is there needs to be certain drop offs, but that the bus can pull over and drop off.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, and stay out of it.
Speaker 3:So so if, if you're in a row of houses, we're not going to stop at your driveway, we're going to like me. I lived in. I lived in the country when I was not going to stop at the driveway, but there will be a spot close to your house that will pull over and drop you off, so then you can do that.
Speaker 2:I remember walking to elementary. I had to walk to school and I was several. It was pretty close, but it's still several blocks away. I mean these parents could walk to one spot, yeah, with their kid it's not hard. No, they're just lazy, yeah. And why doesn't the bus pull in? It's enabling lazy people.
Speaker 3:So here's what I don't get that that apartment complex where they dropped off the first time and they came around, dropped off a second time and then turned down the road to go drop off a third time, yeah.
Speaker 3:Why don't they just pull into the first one, drop off in the middle of the apartment complex, everybody, and then pull out onto that street again? Yes, why are you? It doesn't make any sense to me. I agree, because they could have just pulled into the apartment complex. That way you're not taking up anybody's time on the road. Drop off all the kids, it's actually safer. Yes, and then pull out and take off. Accurate, I mean. So now I'm starting to think that maybe it's the bus driver's fault, Maybe they're the idiots, maybe you should learn how to do it a little bit better. Yeah, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 3:One stop, or maybe you stop and before you put out your stop sign to make everybody stop, you let all the cars go by and then pull out your stop sign and let off. Bobby Joe, yeah, billy, bobby Sue and Billy.
Speaker 2:Joe, I don't know. I'm not opposed to any of these options.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:See especially the E-caller, I think that's the money right there.
Speaker 3:Yes, it might cost a little bit of money, but I'd give my tax for it, I think as a parent.
Speaker 2:I think most parents would keep that E-caller on them 24 seven. Yeah, that's fine, just give them a little jolt. Yeah, yeah, don't worry.
Speaker 3:Maybe a little patch that you get stitched into your neck when you're a baby. Parents got the old parents got the old remote control.
Speaker 1:They need to just give a little, I don't want to eat your green beans.
Speaker 2:I think there would be a lot more vegetable eating.
Speaker 3:You want to think about that again, I'll go to number two. If you don't, I think boys especially need this thing.
Speaker 2:Boys especially need it. Some of the stories you've told me about your boys. I think this E-caller would have solved a lot of problems a long time ago.
Speaker 3:The best story I told recently about my boy was we had made. You know the story, but I'm going to tell it on here. So we've made, like there's a meal that we make it's real quick where we do like egg noodles and then we get the can of like stew stuff right, yeah, it's like I can't remember the brand but and then we add green beans to the stew. So we get a can of green beans and a can of the stew stuff. We add green beans to it and then we just put it over the top of egg noodles. If you've never had it, just try it. It's a cheap meal. Back when we and I'm not saying this like back when we were struggling with money and now we're not, that's not what I'm saying but back when we didn't have as much money we would do this as a cheap meal, kind of like hamburger helper. And still, sometimes we'll get hamburger helper because we're like dude, it's like that.
Speaker 3:It just reminds us back then right, so it's a meal we used to do, so we make it and then you have rolls with it too. So you just have rolls with this like noodles and stew. It's really good. So we make it and we, I call the kids and I hate, tell your brother, blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 3:So my daughter stops in our son's room, tells him, but he's playing a video game, doesn't hear, or whatever. That's not really our fault. So then I call him after, like, sitting down for a couple of minutes. I call him because he's not coming downstairs. Mind you, this is our oldest son, right? I call him and I talk to him on the phone, say, hey, dinner. He's like, okay, I didn't hear Jordan. I was like Okay, well, it's going to get cold, it's noodles and stew, and it's going to get cold. He's like well, I'm in the middle of a game. It's like, okay, I told him what it was Said, it's going to get cold.
Speaker 3:He said, well, I'm in the middle of a game. I said, okay, well, I'm just letting you know because it's going to get cold. Right, hang up, we get done eating. We put it all away, put it in the fridge because we saved it. We put the noodles in a bowl with the stew on top, put it in the fridge. 30 minutes later he comes downstairs, he's like where's where's the dinner? And we're like we put it in the fridge. He's like, what, why would you do that? I said, dude, it's 30 minutes ago we got done, right Put it away.
Speaker 3:We're not just going to let it sit out on the counter. We're like get it out and heat it up in the microwave. And he's like I don't like cold noodles and I don't like reheated noodles in the microwave. Or no, no, no, no. He's before he said I don't like cold noodles or reheated noodles in the microwave. This time he says and this is the, this is the hilarious part he says I don't like leftovers.
Speaker 3:I go wait a second wait a second, mr, when he goes out to eat with his girlfriend, because every week on a Wednesday they have where they have time and they'll go out to eat. He'll bring home his leftovers and put it in the fridge. Never eat it. I throw it away every time I go. Wait a second. Mr Saves his leftovers every time he goes out to eat with his girlfriend and brings it home, puts in our fridge. Says he doesn't like leftovers. Then stop bringing your leftovers home when you go out to eat.
Speaker 3:Then he goes on to say, well, nobody told me. Now I'm on the border of losing it. All right, because I called him specifically. Then I'm telling him and he says he says, well, I didn't know what it was again lie, because I told him what we were eating and said it's going to get cold and I know you don't like cold noodles, all these things are right.
Speaker 3:So then it just the ungratefulness of it. So then I get on him about how ungrateful he's been and he says he has the audacity because I said you're so ungrateful. I said we don't have to do anything. We don't have to cook for you, we don't have to buy food for you. You're 19, almost 20. You could buy your own shit. You can get a fridge for your room by your own shit, do?
Speaker 2:your own thing.
Speaker 3:Yes, you could move out actually, if you wanted to. I said we don't have to do anything for you. And he has the audacity to say I never asked you to do anything for me.
Speaker 2:That's like one of those kids and say I didn't ask to be born, yes, exactly. It's almost the same kind of attitude, so I just go really Okay, okay.
Speaker 3:I just give him one of those, give him a little nod, okay, okay, I'll remember that.
Speaker 1:I'll remember that.
Speaker 3:When you come downstairs there's no chicken nuggets or there's no snacks to eat. Right, I'll look at you and I'll go. You didn't ask me to do anything. I don't need to do anything. You want stuff? Go to the store and get it Right. I'm like I basically just went off on him and was like are you kidding me? Because everything that you have the electricity, the internet, the food that you get when you get out of that pantry or in the fridge you don't put any of that food in there. You don't buy the electricity and you don't pay for the internet. I guarantee you you haven't paid a single thing of the things you use in this house Right.
Speaker 3:Those are the things that I'm talking about, that you are asking for because you're you're not physically asking me, but by using it. That's you asking me for. That Correct, and you're, and you have the audacity to tell me I didn't ask you for anything.
Speaker 1:Hmm.
Speaker 3:Hmm, oh Make it special.
Speaker 2:He's a special boy.
Speaker 1:He's a special boy. He's a special boy. It turns 20 on Sunday, I think Sunday.
Speaker 3:What's the first, second, third, fourth, is it the first?
Speaker 2:Oh no, so the fourth is Saturday. His birthday is in my phone.
Speaker 3:Saturday. Saturday is the fourth. Yeah, cause the day is the first, tomorrow's. Yeah, thursday, friday, saturday It'll be Saturday, so he'll turn 20 on Saturday. I can't believe it 20 years old on Saturday. I know it's crazy. Yeah, yeah but it's, it was, it was great. And my daughter the best story for her was she's in a financial lit in high school.
Speaker 3:She's senior high school in financial lit and she texts me there. She's like hey, what do I, what do you, what do I cost a month? Like, what are you? Yeah, and so I didn't get back because I think me and you were talking at the time at the office and so I didn't get back to her right away. And she, so she writes back and she says I'm thinking like I can't remember what she said so what's the time period?
Speaker 2:for a month.
Speaker 3:So she's going to cost a month, like all the things that give you what she thinks. No, she was asking me, what I think it is because she wants to put it down. But being as how, I didn't respond by the way, she decided to write me and say what she thought it was Right, and she goes for a month.
Speaker 2:Yeah, she goes.
Speaker 3:I'm thinking 200 for gas, which was pretty accurate. That's about 50 a week that I spend. She goes I'm thinking 200 for gas and then like a hundred for Starbucks is all I could write back was a hundred for Starbucks. That's cute. You actually thought it was only a hundred dollars for Starbucks. I mean, this girl wants Starbucks every single day and it's like 10 bucks, so a hundred dollars for Starbucks is. That's super cute that you thought that.
Speaker 3:So I think, she came up with like three or $400, and I'm like girl, so there's 200 for gas, there's probably, I'm going to say, two to 300. I must say $300 for Starbucks and food combined for the month. Okay, 300. That's just for.
Speaker 2:I think that's conservative.
Speaker 3:I'm going to say a hundred for insurance for her car. Okay, another 70 for her phone, because I just put both her and my other son on unlimited Right. And then so what did I come up with? I'm going to say a hundred, 70 for the phone. That puts it at, that puts it at 370, plus 300 for that puts it at 6 and plus about another hundred dollars. I said for other random things because I'm thinking, I'm thinking clothes you know like, and then there's all the other stuff, like the stuff that she gets, like the internet, she, I mean she all the stuff, that electricity and just everything that the kids don't think about the right, right, right, right right.
Speaker 3:So I said I'm going to say honestly it probably costs. You probably cost around $800 a month, right?
Speaker 2:And as here's the best part of the whole text, my phone right now the best part of the entire text was.
Speaker 3:She says let me grab this here. She says here's her answer. She says I was thinking 500. So she 500, because 200 for gas, which pretty accurate, and then like probably 100 or something for Starbucks that was super cute, and then $20 for snacks and like dinners, like 100, because we get fast food a lot and 60 or more for random stuff. And then right after she writes all that, she goes ew, I sound spoiled just writing that.
Speaker 2:Oh, maybe you should have done that a long time ago. Yeah, I was like Wow, so the value is like sinking in a little bit.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but the amount the best part is when I went into talk, because I went to talk with Talon's head coach right and he is the financial lit teacher for my daughter Right.
Speaker 3:And so I was talking to him about that afterwards and I was like, hey, you know she's really nervous about, you know, after being a senior. She's like that's really getting to her, like she just doesn't want to be around after she graduates, right. And so he said that's my main thing with kids is is they really in in high school right now, being a senior? They don't really have a lot. Of them don't have money to actually manage. So teaching financial it is a little difficult. So my goal is to say if you were to give him, be given this money so, in a sense, is what he's saying is, if you were to be given this $800 a month, how would you manage it and what would you do with it?
Speaker 1:And kind of thing.
Speaker 3:You know what I'm saying. And so it's like he's like understanding what you are getting, even though you're not physically getting money, and then how to manage that and know what you're getting, and understanding the value of what you're getting. Which I think is really kind of cool is how he's teaching these kids because it's like he's right how many of these kids actually have money? I mean, I'm sure some of them work, probably do, but how many of them really do have money? So she said 500.
Speaker 2:You said eight. Yeah, what was her reaction when she?
Speaker 3:didn't say anything.
Speaker 2:She didn't say anything back, she just kind of left it at that and and I don't know if she put that, I don't know if she put my number down or not, but it's definitely probably closer to 800, probably actually a little bit more, because I like that. She had to like she saw a paper. Yeah, and she goes if you've like visualized it, then it really sinks in.
Speaker 3:And she said that before I even wrote 800. So, like just her, 500 for 500. Yeah, yeah, and I like that it she's probably quite a few more, couple hundred dollars more on Starbucks.
Speaker 2:That's what you really want. To sink in because so I have a question for you. My Kayla's in here, she stepped in, so I have a question which probably could actually she could answer this too. You can plug in the mic. I unplugged it, so you'll have to. They're telling me because she's like and she's like Jordan's like.
Speaker 3:Listen, I know my mother's not going to be able to get in. I know she's not going to be able to get in. I know she's not going to be able to get in. I just want to ask you guys, and stress to push forward.
Speaker 3:Are we in times for this? And then I need something like a little bit of an forgiveness To the same cause, free of error. First let me ask you a question that's versus myself chords, is that you guys know she's? I know she's like coming close to the Goddess because she's she's, the she's l기wer. And one of the things was that her dad woke up on freezing cold mornings and would go warm up her car for her.
Speaker 3:And she's like. She's like, yeah, my dad wakes up and is like, by the way, your car is frozen over. You might want to, might want to get out there early. And then and then I'm like, yeah, what dads are like waking up and going and warming up their girl, their daughter's car, every single morning, like who's doing? And she's like, well, you know, I don't want to say names, but like, well, so, and so's dad, and the person was at our house, so, and so's dad, you know, does it every, every morning and I'm like, well, yeah, cuz he's got nothing else to do.
Speaker 3:You know, I'm saying like I'm not waking up and going out there 30 minutes before I need to leave in the cold. Like, just wake up early, cuz she's like, so now I have to rush Because I need to get out there in order to know, yeah, I'm like, yeah, get up earlier. So my question is or maybe you can answer did your dad ever do that for you? Did he ever go out and warm your car up for you and get it ready on a freezing cold day?
Speaker 1:No, I Do that myself, ready for my mom probably or his car? Yeah, but never for mine, which is fine because it's my car. I don't want anyone in it, but I think I have.
Speaker 2:I've brushed. When it has snowed, I have brushed off all of their windows. So when Sierra was still here, mikhail, I would you know, I would do shell. And then I would be like, okay, I'm just gonna brush all the snow off so they don't have to do that. But what? But my schedule is, my daughter won't even drive in the snow.
Speaker 3:So yeah, wait till it melts, you'll be good.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so but I would be. My schedule is too weird to like warm up cars and stuff. So I mean it's really sweet. I I'm a little. It's a very sweet, I think. Occasionally that's alright, I think brushing off the windows, that's gonna save them some time. But I also think you need to figure out how to do this yourself. Yeah, like wake up earlier this yourself.
Speaker 2:Yeah you got to be responsible. You're an adult or you're going to be an adult. You're going to be an adult. You know you're still under the watchful eye of your parents to protect the eyes of your parents, so they can kind of help you with some of this stuff while you still live with them, exactly. But it's your thing.
Speaker 3:And just so we're clear here, this is to dad saying yes, yes, but we're getting nods from Mikhail over here that yes.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that is. We're not like saying anything. That's like out of the normal.
Speaker 2:Well, it's like I took them both Once to a couple of times to get their oil changed and stuff like that. So they'd be comfortable with it and that'd be like, okay, the next one you're on your own. So I both of them Go and get their oil changed. They have it on you know scheduled of, whether it's the staker and their phone or on their car. They know when they got to get that done.
Speaker 3:Yeah that's all them. I have taken her to get gas, I think twice, three times, something like that, and then I would I was going and getting gas for her. Yeah and it just gets annoying right like yes. I mean especially I bought a Tesla so I don't have to go get gas. Yeah, I go get gas in my truck on my way into work. I did I'm tired to getting my wife gas Don't have to do it anymore, right?
Speaker 3:So it's like so I'm like I Don't want to go get it. Well, now she'll go with a friend. So now she's learning how to do herself. Even if it's taking a friend, she's learning how to do it, and mainly the taking a friend part is because I don't want her to go by herself, right?
Speaker 1:Yeah, so it's yeah, but she's learning how to do it on her own.
Speaker 3:So but I did the same thing with Logan. I did the oil changes on the car. They've got it finally took him did the last one and I said this is the last one I'm doing. You need to watch that sticker blah, blah, yep. What happened? He didn't get the oil change, ran it dry, engine seized up and he had to go get a new car now. He's had a new car he's supposed to go in around his birthday, which is this Saturday right.
Speaker 3:I don't like he's made an appointment yet and it's like I was just telling my wife today. I was like he needs to make that appointment. She's like you need to remind me, though. Like why do I need to remind him?
Speaker 1:You should have said a reminder in his phone.
Speaker 3:He needs to remember. Yes, you know what I'm saying, so I'm just accurate.
Speaker 2:There's no reason. Yeah, I did that with the gas, you know, I Did the same thing, kind of taught him how to do gas, or me and Shelley, you know how to do all that stuff, and so they just yeah, all that stuff on their own now here's a question Do you go get gas during the day or at night?
Speaker 3:The day always always see Jordan always wants to go get it at night. I'm sure her friends are there and that's why I'm like then you need to take a friend with you.
Speaker 1:Because I can't.
Speaker 3:I'm not just gonna let you go at night time, not at night. But if it was daytime, I mean at least like a Costco.
Speaker 2:It's pretty lit and there's always some old guy there. So yeah, you know.
Speaker 3:But it's just the cost of the car. Yeah, jordan or Annie lost her, so otherwise, if you're going to a Freddy's or a safe way. I would not want a young girl like that going so she'll she'll go with like a couple friends or whatever, cuz that that's a little bit more. If she was going to the day, I'm sure she could do it right, you know right. So I mean, she'll figure it out, but it was it was yeah, you gotta, you gotta.
Speaker 2:I mean, there's times when you know I've, well, we, we pulled up. She is, this was Friday. We went over and looked at a car and we came back and she had. We had to go over in her car and she was at a half tank. She's like are we gonna have enough gas? So yes, so sweet.
Speaker 3:Yes, my daughter's the same way.
Speaker 2:Gonna have enough gas to give it. So she's like go to Costco, we're gonna get gas and it's like and I'm like yeah. I'm like okay, so I pull up and I was like, give me your card, your debit card and your Costco card, and she looked at me Like she wanted me to pay.
Speaker 3:Great move. Great move we got to get. And and dad, you want to get out and get that for me.
Speaker 2:I said I'll pump it. I'll get out and pump it for you, but she's like well, I've been running you around, I've been running you around for your entire life.
Speaker 3:I've been running you around. Oh, how the tables have turned. But I have your dad's a cheapskate man. He's a cheapskate, I'm like hey, this is, we can life we can subway and he's like I'm saving money, I brought my lunch.
Speaker 1:I'm like what the heck we're talking about 10 bucks.
Speaker 2:I don't tip either, no, I mean subway on the app.
Speaker 3:It's like a dollar tip and he's hit zero every time no tip.
Speaker 2:I got some doggy treats for tie and I oh, when I go to the mall to do that, I get a mocha, lot of chill. Sometimes I'll get a Cinnabon, but today it was before dinner and I didn't want to do that, so I just got a Cinnabon, yeah, or a Mocca lot of chill. And it pops up and I said blue zero, we went to a Mongolian grill place, you're not very loving up in Seattle.
Speaker 2:You know where you go get the food and all that, yeah, and then they cook it 10%. I didn't even want to give him 10%.
Speaker 3:He's cheap man. He's cheap, he doesn't want to spend anything. You wouldn't even give your daughter a half a tank of gas. Accurate, accurate, I Used about.
Speaker 2:I we use maybe three, two or three gallons.
Speaker 3:I didn't use the other half my, my daughter's the same way, though with the half a tank, like she'll have a quarter tank. And I mean from our house to the school, it's like what a mile and a half. Yeah she'll have like a quarter tank. She's like you think I'm gonna be okay and I'm like you could drive to my office and back home Exactly why.
Speaker 1:About my god, you're?
Speaker 3:so worried in your car, a half a tank, you, where were you going? You were going over to beaverton. Yeah, like you could drive over to beaverton and back probably Four or five times on that half a tank before you even even breach the quarter tank.
Speaker 1:All right.
Speaker 3:I mean that's just not. I mean people don't realize how much they could actually drive right. So and and on top of that, when you hit the end and it's blinking at you and saying you need to get gas.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you still have like two gallons reserve right and and a gallons getting in that car.
Speaker 3:Gallons probably gonna get you what? 30 miles of the gallon or something like that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean it's like you're there's.
Speaker 3:No, I mean half ten, that's. She's like I had to try. So you really didn't need it. You were just hoping that maybe dad would pitch in a little no, she would have got an akin about the.
Speaker 2:She would have gotten it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I think regardless, yeah cuz, I was cuz.
Speaker 1:I had to get up early the next morning for work and I was like I don't want to have to worry about this the next day, if it was gonna be a thing which Obviously it wouldn't happen, but I just didn't want to think about it.
Speaker 3:I mean, that's borderline. You fill up and you drive off, and then on your way home you stop and fill up again. You're close, you know, say it is like, you know it's not, doesn't say fool anymore. So I better swing by, yeah.
Speaker 2:Well, you always be here's the ever have to worry about losing gas. Here is the difference.
Speaker 3:I'm sure your dad does a lot for you, right? But the difference is is if I would have gone with my daughter and she had said that I Probably just would have paid for the gas to go in the car.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I put a big no on that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, he's like shuts it down.
Speaker 2:I didn't, I didn't drive the other half gallon or a half tank.
Speaker 3:It would have been a sweet gesture, though I mean, listen, it's not just the gas time that she has to take away from her day to drive you around doing your shit. Yeah, she likes it, she likes, but you could like I have giving her no no, I have.
Speaker 2:I have filled up their tanks. When I've had to borrow their car, I've just Taught it off for both of them, just randomly, so in the past. So if you've had to, what if I've had to borrow their car?
Speaker 3:We have a courtesy thing. That's not what we're talking about. This is talking about just you know I.
Speaker 1:Yeah sharing some love you know what's your favorite snack twinkie.
Speaker 3:What's? What is it?
Speaker 1:God, no what is it?
Speaker 3:What's your favorite snack?
Speaker 1:sour cream and onion chips.
Speaker 3:You didn't buy any sour cream and onion chips.
Speaker 2:No, but I buy a cake. That's a kick.
Speaker 1:He buys me candy bars, yeah yeah, you could have bought.
Speaker 3:Well, you could have bought one just now for that. No, she's, you're cheapy. Oh, real quick, real quick. Kick cats cold and out of the fridge. Crunchy like that or warm.
Speaker 1:I always put my candy in the fridge and then I take it out and let it sit for a little bit because I can't have it too crunchy.
Speaker 3:Right, right, right, right, right, right, I will. I will freeze, kick cats, yeah.
Speaker 1:I don't like it when they're melty and they start slipping.
Speaker 3:Yes, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1:Start going down like this yeah. So I always put my candy in the fridge and then take it out and let it sit for like 10 or 15 minutes, and then it's perfect.
Speaker 2:I don't, I wouldn't mind kick cats like I have. Stickers are my favorite. I had two before you came Snickers man.
Speaker 3:Dude, that's almost break teeth worthy. You can do it with kick cats. You can do it with Reese's peanut butter cups. Yeah, things like that.
Speaker 2:I don't mind cold.
Speaker 3:It's kind of a softer chocolate with peanut butter inside or that crispy. You know this right kick cat. Other question on a kick cat okay, do you break off one at a time and eat them Two at a time, or do you just take the full stack of form, bite into it?
Speaker 1:Never. I always take them off, I break them and one at a time, one at a time, yeah, and I even kind of slow.
Speaker 2:Okay, what about a cheese stick? Are you peeling the cheese? Are you just taking a bite out?
Speaker 3:Anybody who just bites out of the cheese is fucking weird.
Speaker 2:Let me just say that I'm just dropping that out there.
Speaker 3:If you do not peel a cheese stick and you just bite into it. You're weird and I want nothing to do with you. So if that's either one of you, I would just keep it to yourself, if you're not stringing that out. Oh, it's called string cheese. For a reason it's not called bite it in half cheese. Let's be real bite it. Street cheese because you're supposed to string that shit out. Oh, am I not right?
Speaker 2:I think I have just bitten in. I've done mostly like 98%, 98, 99% of the time I'm peeling it and I'm trying to get real, real thin if you feel it you're like son of a bitch.
Speaker 3:Yes, and you know I'm right in it. Repeal it like a little thinner.
Speaker 2:I might reap, I might peel that part again if it gets, if it comes off. But if I just want to eat it, like just eat it, that'll take chunks. No, no, most of the time, like 99% of the time, I'm peeling. That's weird, what about? I wanted to last.
Speaker 1:I don't eat cheese sticks, enough to know.
Speaker 3:Perfect. Yeah, don't say you bite into it. I don't want to think you're weird. You're my favorite so far. You're the only non weird one in your family. I.
Speaker 1:Mean, I just figured out that you're.
Speaker 3:I just figured out that your dad likes to take surveys on the weather app, so that's freaking weird three o'clock in the morning, that's. I mean, that's almost insane. We should almost lock him up everything.
Speaker 1:I.
Speaker 2:Should probably, since we we need to wrap up here. Okay, I Should probably mention so. We the last time we podcast was in June and I've alluded to it a couple times. But Sierra got married, which people knew, yes, because we had talked about it, so Obviously the the wedding was fantastic, went off without a hitch, was it was a hot day, then the reception was outside, so a lot of people Some people left early, some people just sweated it out and and last, but the wedding was fantastic and and it was a lot of fun. Very happy for both of them. I still, while we all do still miss Sierra a lot.
Speaker 2:Yeah yeah, but there Josh is finally done with football. So Really, since they've gotten married, they went on their honeymoon and then football started high school football and so they really haven't had like an extended amount of time with just the two of them, you know, without football kind of Mm-hmm, you know taking up a lot of time in the evening.
Speaker 2:So that's finally done for a while. So Starting now, basically, like this week, they'll like really settle in where he comes home at a decent time you know an earlier time and all of that. So it'll be interesting to see how all that goes.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they're doing really well.
Speaker 2:Good deal.
Speaker 3:So happy moving forward. We got one thing left to do on this podcast, and that is to discuss or say what we are grateful or excited for right coming up, mm-hmm. So do you know what you're grateful or excited for?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I guess, yeah, okay, well, I know what I am too. Okay, we'll share yours first. Micaela, do you have some? I?
Speaker 3:I am excited for tomorrow because okay, I have. I was supposed to go golfing this last weekend and then Sunday, when we were supposed to go golfing and got a call at 10 30 and they had a frost delay at the place. I was supposed to go till 11 am, which is absurd. That's really they basically said.
Speaker 3:They wrote everybody early in the morning and said if you want to be a part of it, we will take all the times up till 3 30 and we'll do shotgun starts. Shotgun starts where they basically start. Everybody had a different tea, yeah right, and then, and then you go rather than starting everybody.
Speaker 3:I'm going and going, you started a different tea and then you play through until you get to that tea again and we didn't get it. We didn't get the message until it was too late to go, because it was gonna start at 11. So we ended up not golfing. And there was something else I was gonna do and we ended up not golfing and so it was like I haven't been able to golf. Really, I think I played nine holes the other day and and nine holes is just dumb. Nobody, nobody likes.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and the golf course that you did, that is not. I mean fine, and the dude I like to go golfing with he's.
Speaker 3:He, his, his mom passed away so he's been dealing with that and so we haven't been able to Really get out golfing. So tomorrow we're going not golfing because it's gonna be raining, but we're gonna go to X golf. Right, and I'm excited. I just knew I got a work till noon. I've been busy the last two days crazy, and I just got a work till noon and then I just get to go for three hours. We're just gonna eat some food and hit some.
Speaker 1:Virtual virtual golf so.
Speaker 3:I'm excited for that. Okay, that's what I'm looking forward to and excited for go Mikaela.
Speaker 1:I'm looking forward to having a day off.
Speaker 2:Right soon, that's on Friday right.
Speaker 1:Saturday.
Speaker 3:Oh, saturday You've been working non-stop every day.
Speaker 1:Pretty much, and it's just gonna keep going this night, saturday.
Speaker 2:I'm very tired she's been opening, which is at seven, so she's been up with us in the morning. Oh, yeah okay, and she's not an early sleeper like I am. Ian Shelley are she stays up. I can hear giggling at tick tocks, usually at night, gotcha.
Speaker 3:So the money will be good, but you're tired.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah. So it's only gonna look forward to that's tires on time, look forward to his day off and paycheck.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, but yeah, I'm also looking forward to so. Yesterday I haven't I don't think I told you this yet. I talked to mama about it a little bit yesterday, but yesterday I had a zoom meeting with one of my favorite musicians that I've kept in touch with for a while, and I'm potentially gonna be getting guitar lessons from him.
Speaker 2:Oh cool.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, I'm really excited to Look into that a little bit more and, yeah, work that out.
Speaker 3:Super dope, yeah, super dope.
Speaker 2:That's cool.
Speaker 3:That's cool. Yeah, I like that.
Speaker 2:I'm looking forward to and excited for a Podcast that I'm gonna be doing on Saturday. For cuz I want to know a little plug, I I did one with these two sisters couple About a maybe month, month and a half ago.
Speaker 1:Yeah, cuz it's in September right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, something like yet. Yeah, like early September, so maybe, yeah, probably about a month and a half ago they were in a cult and all of that, and so on Saturday I'm interviewing their mom and Both both of them are gonna be back and so we're really kind of gonna dig into her mom's history when she grew up which I, apparently is really crazy and then moving into the time when they were in a cult and and how she felt about that. You know all of that so mm-hmm, it'll be really interesting.
Speaker 2:And then we have some friends coming over Later in the evening that we haven't seen for a little bit. So I mean, a cult sounds cool.
Speaker 3:I don't think it's the schools.
Speaker 2:Everybody thinks yeah, you know, talked about starting one.
Speaker 3:Yeah like it sounds like a really cool fun idea, especially like, yeah, especially like when it's like a compound-ish cult. Yeah and and everything but but then usually shit goes weird.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I'm saying yeah, I think, if we would have, one it shit wouldn't go weird, it just be cool.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think so too. I think, I think if some, if if anybody out there is Interested in that, let us know.
Speaker 3:Yeah in it to win it.
Speaker 1:You only need like Four to seven people to start one.
Speaker 3:So so I mean we could just change the name to Ann's Colt. You know I'm saying yes, very cool. Well, we'll do it, we'll put more in this. She's doing that, yeah and it's all good.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, maybe we'll pencil out the colt thing. Yeah so we come up. We'll see what we come up with. Okay, it'll be fun. That's all I know.
Speaker 3:Won't be weird. All right man and hopefully I'm setting myself up because I'm usually free. I'm setting myself up to say that I will be free to record again next week.
Speaker 2:Okay, I'll be available.
Speaker 3:Let's make it happen and see if we can't get this thing back on track.
Speaker 2:Can't get this train rolling again, so All right, okay, sounds good. Thanks for stepping in me, mackie.
Speaker 1:Yeah for letting me appreciate it.
Speaker 2:All right, we'll talk to you later.
