Super Familiar with The Wilsons
Marriage 2.0 with kids…and all the side quests!
Super Familiar with the Wilsons is a weekly comedy podcast about second marriage blended family life, and the beautiful chaos of parenting, aging, and figuring it all out (again). Hosted by Amanda and Josh, partners in life, love, and side quests, each episode dives into real-life stories, quirky observations, listener emails, and spontaneous tangents that somehow always circle back to relationships, resilience, and the absurdity of modern life.
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Beers, Bats, and Bounce Houses and What is Oktoberfest?
We tackle the whys and what-fors of Oktoberfest, plus a possible repeat of a song quiz, people who needlessly clap, beers, bats and little kids.
Music
"Wilson Theme", "Moon Water" and "The Wilson Suite" by Josh Wilson.
"Spawn from the Power Line" (Game Time Theme) by Andrew Wilson - Find him at electricsheap.bandcamp.com/music or search "AJCW" on iTunes, Spotify, and other music sources.
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"Lädschad" by Dee Yan-Key is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License.
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Hello, listening friends. If this episode goes like usual, then there probably are going to be some naughty words and adult situations discussed here. If that's not your bag, then NPR is waiting for you. Let's go. This week on Super Familiar with the Wilsons...
SPEAKER_02:We find out just how much we don't know about Oktoberfest.
SPEAKER_00:Let's go. No.
SPEAKER_02:No.
SPEAKER_01:I see nothing. I was not here. I did not even get up this morning.
SPEAKER_00:Welcome to Super Familiar with the Wilsons. I'm Josh Wilson, and I'm your friendly neighborhood misanthrope.
SPEAKER_02:I'm Amanda Wilson, and I enjoy when you start to giggle at yourself.
SPEAKER_00:So
SPEAKER_02:that's
SPEAKER_00:good. Welcome. It's quite often, especially when I look at the mirror. We have a little housekeeping to do, Amanda Wilson. I think that we neglected to give the answer to the song quiz a while ago.
SPEAKER_02:It's possible. We're not sure, but let's give it again.
SPEAKER_00:So they say that the secret to good broadcasting is consistency.
SPEAKER_02:And
SPEAKER_00:we consistently forget a whole bunch of shit. Okay, so the last song quiz that I remember that we did that we're overdue in giving the answer was, the song was, this person who answers the phone ain't rough, is she? And then the artist was 24 hours to celebrate Mohamed Reza Pavlave. Okay.
SPEAKER_02:I'm trying to remember if we gave this or I just have Ashley's audio voicemail. Our friend Ashley Webster is great at getting the song quizzes. So maybe that's just what I have in my head. It's possible we gave it, but go ahead.
SPEAKER_00:So you're saying that we gave the answer already?
SPEAKER_02:I don't remember. Let's just do it again.
SPEAKER_00:And you don't listen to this podcast, do you?
SPEAKER_02:I do listen to this
SPEAKER_00:podcast. We need every download we can get. So listen. So the answer is, and several people got this. Gavin got it. Ashley got it. Several people got this one. 24 hours to celebrate Mohammad Reza Pavlave.
SPEAKER_02:Shah Day.
SPEAKER_00:He was the Shah of Iran. So it's Shah Day. Shah
SPEAKER_02:Day. That's a really good clue.
SPEAKER_00:Isn't it really good? And I should have just left it with that or picked a really obscure Shah Day song because what I picked was... smooth operator right and that's like the easiest thing so i feel like i kind of wasted this great clue by giving a super simple clue that someone could have figured out just by the song title
SPEAKER_02:no it was i'm really impressed with it though
SPEAKER_00:it's really good yes you're impressed by the fact that i did this really great thing and then i screwed it up with a dumb thing which by the way that's kind of what it is that's
SPEAKER_02:what this podcast
SPEAKER_00:that's that's living with josh is what that is
SPEAKER_02:So do we have a new song quiz?
SPEAKER_00:We do not. I'm going back to the drawing board and I'm figuring out how to make it a little bit more difficult.
SPEAKER_02:I mean, it's difficult enough for me, but I mean, then again, I'm in the novice category.
SPEAKER_00:Amanda, send a tweet.
SPEAKER_02:All right, I'm on it.
SPEAKER_00:All right. So send this... at man standing in line behind me in the beer line.
SPEAKER_02:That is an impressive Twitter handle.
SPEAKER_00:Hashtag quick note, the band did not hire you to be its percussionist. Hashtag obnoxious. Hashtag please stop. Hashtag no one asked for this.
SPEAKER_02:Wow, I wasn't around for this.
SPEAKER_00:So we went to a bat festival, which also had beer. It was a beers and bats. They should have called it beers and bats.
SPEAKER_02:They should have, yes. That is a missed opportunity.
SPEAKER_00:Now, I've not been feeling well, right? I missed the last few days of work last week and I'm just really recovering. I don't actually know that I should have gone yesterday. I just had to get out of the house. Yeah. All of that is to say that my already short supply of patients was already, you know, pretty depleted. Yeah. So there was this Irish band.
SPEAKER_02:But I don't think they were because the lead singer said, we're going to play an Irish song now. I'm not Irish, but I have some friends that are Irish. So I'm going to play this Irish song
SPEAKER_00:now. Whether they were Irish. Irish or not, they were dressed in garb.
SPEAKER_02:Maybe they were Scottish.
SPEAKER_00:So they had... little Irish-looking hats on. Tams. Don't ask me. Oh, Tams. No, Tams is Scottish. It's
SPEAKER_02:Scottish, but they didn't have
SPEAKER_00:the Tams. And they had either dresses or kilts on, and they were playing traditional instruments. I'm probably really showing my ignorance, but it doesn't matter to me that they were an Irish tribute act. So they were playing one of my favorite songs, Whiskey in the Jar, which is a folk song, and then most famously covered by Thin Lizzy and then Metallica. Get that.
SPEAKER_02:I've never heard the Metallica cover.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. Well, it's a bop.
SPEAKER_02:What's wrong with you?
SPEAKER_00:So this gentleman, I was standing there watching, and this gentleman had invented his own rhythmic clap to this song. Oh, he was so pleased with himself, this guy, with his special clapping rhythm.
SPEAKER_02:Was it rhythmic? I mean, did it match the song? It
SPEAKER_00:did, but in his mind, he had invented this new musical part. Like, that's fine, whatever. As you're sitting and watching the band, you want to do that. But he then followed me to the beer line that was far away from the band but you could still hear the band. And he continued to do this damn clap right behind me. And I'm imagining in this guy's head, he's thinking, I need the world to hear this.
SPEAKER_02:He was very proud of himself.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, he was so proud. I'm thinking that he's thinking, if I just keep doing this, someone's going to come up to me and say, man, did you invent that? Will you please play my daughter's quinceanera or something? He'll start booking gigs and everything, the rhythmic clap or whatever it is.
SPEAKER_02:Or the band will... Assume him into the band.
SPEAKER_00:Anyway, he's freaking doing this thing right behind my head, this guy. Obnoxious.
SPEAKER_02:So I had wandered away with the five-year-old to do bounce houses, which are also obnoxious. And I came
SPEAKER_00:back. Deers, bats, and bounce houses. That's right.
SPEAKER_02:That is what it should have been called. So I wandered away and came back to find you sitting on a bale of hay with your phone out looking really dejected. And I asked you what was wrong and you said, I'm making notes. So this must be what you were making notes about.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, yeah. So ridiculous. So I already don't like it when people are listening to a band and they sing along. Yes. Even if the band invites them to do that. Like if you're in a band, do that very sparingly because I am not paying you all of this money so that Clarence right next to me can sing off key Sunday Bloody Sunday or whatever the hell. Not why I'm there. So I already have a problem with that. But then the people who are armchair percussionists, This extends to if I'm riding in a car with someone and they feel the need to tap out a rhythm to a song. Oh,
SPEAKER_02:you make me stop. If I start, you reach over and put your hand on top of my hand.
SPEAKER_00:Because not why I'm listening to the song. I'll turn the song off and say, okay, I'll wait till you're done with your performance.
SPEAKER_02:How did you introduce yourself when we were going into this podcast today?
SPEAKER_00:I don't remember.
SPEAKER_02:You called yourself a misanthrope.
SPEAKER_00:Does that mean I hate people who like interrupt songs?
SPEAKER_02:I just think that you are grumpy.
SPEAKER_00:I just think that you
SPEAKER_02:are a miser and let's find some other words. No, I mean, I get it. So the festival was nice. We've never been and they were expecting like a really large crowd, like 5,000 people or something they had said. And so there's a bat conservancy here in town. Well, I use in town very loosely because it was kind of
SPEAKER_00:out in the middle of nowhere. Out in the middle of nowhere.
SPEAKER_02:And the bats were really cool. We saw these Madagascar bats and their wingspan get up to like five feet. Like they were giant bats. I think bats are really cool, but I've only seen like the... this size bat i don't know what that like a squirrel bat i don't know what that is so we saw we saw these really cool bats uh there was our 15 year olds friends were there dancing with their dance company doing thriller and there were bounce houses and there was a beer garden so you couldn't just buy a pint of beer
SPEAKER_00:no well it was it was a tremendous racket because they sold you these little
SPEAKER_02:two ounces
SPEAKER_00:two ounce is that what they were i mean large shot glasses yeah for 25 dollars right and you go and you go to each booth and you get your and they fill it up like three quarters you're never going to get your money's worth
SPEAKER_02:no but I did discover some things I really liked which was interesting not that I will remember which breweries that came from so it was cool it was and it started out lovely beautiful weather chilly but by the time it was around noon everybody was hot and grumpy and it was a dusty field and so we were we were kind of done but I mean I would do it again I thought it was fun
SPEAKER_00:it was fun and you know grumpiness aside you're paying the$25 for the experience and it was a lot of fun.
SPEAKER_02:And for the bat. I
SPEAKER_00:did not get to bring a bat home with me. What are you talking about? No, but
SPEAKER_02:we're supporting the bats.
SPEAKER_00:Okay. The bats were hanging. They did not need support.
SPEAKER_02:They need food. They need love. They need fruit. They were fruit bats.
SPEAKER_00:There was a vampire bat. I saw that. They need blood.
SPEAKER_02:Like from mosquitoes and stuff, right? Like small rodents. I'm not from mosquitoes. No, mosquitoes. That's like a collection bank
SPEAKER_00:of just like a bunch of different people's blood. They land on small animals and they suck their blood.
SPEAKER_02:Okay. I didn't see any small animals for them to suck their blood. Do you think they housed those somewhere else?
SPEAKER_00:Why do you think they had the children's bounce houses?
SPEAKER_02:So close to the vampire bats.
SPEAKER_00:I'm just going to throw this quick thought in here. We don't even have to talk about it, but I'm baffled by people who look like they enjoy dancing.
SPEAKER_02:Again, you don't like it when people enjoy themselves. No, that's
SPEAKER_00:bullshit. No, and this is coming about because I saw on Instagram some acquaintances of mine dancing at a wedding, and everyone just looked miserable. Like, first of all, they're lurching back and forth. Because they've been at the beer garden for a while? As if they are Frankenstein. No, I just think that they don't know how to dance. A lot of people just don't know how to dance, and you put them in situations where they have to dance, and they're like, oh, God, this is like some sort of cultural ritual I have to go through. Please let this song be over. And so they just get up and they awkwardly lurch back and forth. And then finally the song's over. And the look of relief on most people's faces. It's kind of a weird thing. I kind of liken it to dance-like movements and behaviors that animals use in courtship rituals, right? Mating, right. Got it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And if that's what this comes from, if the dancing on the dance floor of a wedding comes from this urge for us to attract mates, then the human race is gonna die out really soon.
SPEAKER_02:There are some really good dancers in the world.
SPEAKER_00:Very few.
SPEAKER_02:And dance brings joy to people and you need to just, maybe there's people like, it's just not you. God, you are so, such a grump.
SPEAKER_00:I did not need dancing to get you though.
SPEAKER_02:No, but I'm also not a dancer. Maybe there are people. You know who's a dancer? The five-year-old. The five-year-old is a dancer.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Maybe he just needs to move. Maybe the rhythm's got him. It's not going to get you. It got him.
SPEAKER_00:The five-year-old doesn't look a lot like me, but we can talk about that later. I
SPEAKER_02:don't know who he looks like. He does look like you. He looked like me for a long time, and then all of a sudden, he's you. So there's that.
SPEAKER_00:Well, then fine. Maybe you're not the real mama.
SPEAKER_02:36 hours of labor says different, but
SPEAKER_03:okay.
SPEAKER_00:Octoberfest.com
SPEAKER_02:How we haven't done game time in a while.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:I'm excited.
SPEAKER_00:So here we go. I've got here 12 questions for you and we're going to keep score and see how well you know Oktoberfest. All
SPEAKER_02:right, let's do it.
SPEAKER_00:Question number one. What's wrong with the name Oktoberfest?
SPEAKER_02:Okay. Um, it's not really about the month of October. It is the German spelling for octopus or octopi. And it's really meant to be a sea festival. And somehow some drunken sailor got really into beer and like tripped. And then Oktoberfest happened.
SPEAKER_00:So you're not actually going to try.
SPEAKER_02:That was me trying. Thank you very much.
SPEAKER_00:The event started in 1810 and at that time it took place during one week in October. However, over the years it was extended and the starting date was changed to September. And so actually most of Oktoberfest happens in September. And they do that because the weather is warmer and more pleasing and they attract more visitors to stay longer.
SPEAKER_02:So you're talking about specific Oktoberfest in Germany? Yes. Not like the Oktoberfest
SPEAKER_00:that we just had here last week? No, that's what we're talking about. The German an Oktoberfest. Okay. So it's mostly in September and so it really should be Septemberfest.
SPEAKER_02:Do you know where it originated from in Germany or is that going to be one of my questions?
SPEAKER_00:That's one of the questions. Okay. Because I'm curious. Okay. What is special about the beer served at the Oktoberfest? It's
SPEAKER_02:warm.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, well, that's not special. That's awful.
SPEAKER_02:Have you ever had warm beer? No. I mean, maybe if a bottle had been sitting around and cleaning up and then I picked it up and tried to drink the dregs of it. But no, I don't think
SPEAKER_00:so. I mean, never intentionally. So I have done that, been really drunk and then had warm beer that's been sitting around. But I don't think I've had the real warm beer experience because that's also flat because it has been sitting around. I don't think that I would enjoy warm beer. And I think it's just one of the few ways that America is better than Europe.
SPEAKER_02:Okay. No, what's wrong with the beer?
SPEAKER_00:No, not what's wrong with it. What's special about it?
SPEAKER_02:It's... happy. I don't know.
SPEAKER_00:Oktoberfest is, above all, a celebration of Bavarian traditions. So the only beer you'll find during the festival is brewed within the city limits of Munich.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, that's cool.
SPEAKER_00:So only beers that fit this criteria are considered Oktoberfest beers. Now, I'd be willing to bet that all of these Oktoberfest beers that we see in the aisles of Publix, then, are not from Munich.
SPEAKER_02:So, right, so my question was going to be, so, like, probably the Oktoberfest beer that I've had the most of is, like, Sam Adams' season Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:It is absolutely Americanized version. So the Bavarian purity requirements state that there are only three ingredients used in the brewing process of this Munich Oktoberfest beer, and that is water, barley, and hops. Oh, interesting. So no fake pumpkin flavor, no cinnamon, no peels of any sort are in the real beer. Although I do... It's like saying, you know, it's the same thing where like there's no Mexican ingredients in Taco Bell food. Exactly the same thing.
SPEAKER_02:Okay. So, but I do think though, I read a book that took place at a microbrewery and I learned a little bit about brewing from that. Now, I don't pretend to know anything other than what I read in this fictional book, but it was my, I understood from that, that depending on the ratio of hops to barley to water, whatever, you can get different flavor profiles from that. So it's not necessarily adding additives that can change the way you get different tastes of it. So it's possible that there's still a little bit of that fall-ish.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, probably. But think about it. If something is more hoppy, it's like an IPA, right? Which I enjoy. So you like IPAs, I don't. So what I probably like is something that's flavored a little bit more on the barley side. Next question. So you're 0% for two so far next question the oktoberfest was originally what event what kind of event
SPEAKER_02:uh you mean like generically like a wedding a funeral a birthday party
SPEAKER_00:yeah yeah yeah that's how it started
SPEAKER_02:a wedding
SPEAKER_00:you are correct oh you got that right boom the first oktoberfest was held to honor the marriage of prince ludwig and therese of sack and hildenberg's son okay
SPEAKER_02:In
SPEAKER_00:1810.
SPEAKER_02:Do you get points for pronouncing that incorrectly?
SPEAKER_00:No, I don't get points for pronouncing that incorrectly. So, fun fact that the original wedding also included a horse race. Oh. Don't do that now. All right, next. Very good. So, you're climbing back in the contest. Adidas made a special shoe with what special feature for Oktoberfest?
SPEAKER_02:Oh, did it have the bottle opener on the bottom like that Reef sandal that you found that you love so much?
SPEAKER_00:Oh my gosh. So I found this sandal. I was wandering around in a discount shoe barn and I found this sandal that had a bottle opener on the bottom. And I just don't understand it. First of all, it was a flip-flop.
SPEAKER_02:Yes. It was made by the company
SPEAKER_00:Reef. So you're probably going to be walking where there's rocks and stones. So you You take that thing off to use it to open a bottle of beer and there's sticks in it and rocks and it's dirty and nasty. The dumbest idea and that's not the answer. So you got that wrong.
SPEAKER_02:No, that wasn't my actual answer.
SPEAKER_00:Okay, what's your answer
SPEAKER_02:then? It had a tiny little flask of beer.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, that would be pretty cool. You know, I was thinking when I saw this question, or it could be like just not even a tiny flask, like there's a proper flask on it. Just a beer shoe. Yeah, yeah. Or it's like waterproof so that you can use it to drink out of because that's a thing that's disgusting. With so much beer being consumed, it's obvious that some people might feel sick and end up puking. And that's why Adidas recently released a limited edition of vomit-proof sneakers inspired by Oktoberfest. Oh, my
SPEAKER_02:God.
SPEAKER_00:They have... Frost stitched on the side. Which is
SPEAKER_02:German for cheers
SPEAKER_00:or whatever it is. No, it's German for... And they sold out pretty quickly.
SPEAKER_02:Because of the kitschiness of it or because people actually need vomit-proof shoes?
SPEAKER_00:I would assume with the amount of alcohol. First of all, it's not going to work.
SPEAKER_02:I was going to say, they're not vacuum sealed to your foot.
SPEAKER_00:No, so it can get in. It'll get in there, yeah. And then not have a way to get out. So that's even worse.
UNKNOWN:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Next, what must happen before Oktoberfest can officially start?
SPEAKER_02:Everyone must squeeze into their lederhosen.
SPEAKER_00:I was wondering where you're going. Everyone must squeeze what? No. Let's put an X there.
SPEAKER_02:But lederhosen vomit proof because it's leather. Well, I mean, I guess if it's treated leather, but I have. So I worked
SPEAKER_00:with. How badly must Oktoberfest smell? Okay.
SPEAKER_02:So I worked at a school for a really long time and our office manager moved from Germany to the United States when she was three. So she had a lot of really traditional German clothing and well before I had the children and was a size zero and could fit into tiny things, I wore her lederhosen and it's some skin tight stuff. I had to wear it for some around the world thing. And it's made of leather? Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:So there's a lot of sticky Yeah. Oh, did you use like baby powder to cornstarch? No,
SPEAKER_02:I mean, I wasn't in it for very long. And also I don't have things to shape. Did you not listen? I was a size zero. Thighs didn't touch. Okay. It was okay. It's not things I could wear now. But so the dirndl dresses are really pretty though. So maybe you have, but that's the ones that you have to squeeze your breast into.
SPEAKER_00:Yes. All right. Oktoberfest cannot start. until the official gun salute and the mayor shouts, it is tapped. And then he offers the first mug to the minister president of the state of Bavaria. And after that, it can start. By the way, drunk Germans with guns, not a thing that I'd want to be around. Nope, absolutely not.
SPEAKER_02:Drunk anybody with guns. I worry about that a lot because of the concealed carry around here.
SPEAKER_00:American, yeah. Well, that's the good thing about Lederhosen. There's not anywhere to hide your gun. That's true.
UNKNOWN:Okay.
SPEAKER_00:What do hairy hats signify at Oktoberfest?
SPEAKER_02:Hairy hats?
SPEAKER_00:Hairy hats.
SPEAKER_02:Is that a person?
SPEAKER_00:No, it is not. Hairy hats. And it's different than hairy palms.
SPEAKER_02:You're done drinking?
UNKNOWN:Yes.
SPEAKER_00:What, your hat grows hair the more you drink?
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, it does. Yeah, no, no, no, right. The more you drink, the hairier your hat gets. I have zero idea what a hairy hat is.
SPEAKER_00:During Oktoberfest, traditional visitors wear Bavarian hats. The more tufts of goat hair on your hat, the wealthier you are considered to be.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, excuse me. So we know who to rob? What? Like,
SPEAKER_00:this is advertisement. I don't know. And I did not know that goats were a symbol of wealth in Germany. So many confusing things. No wonder they're upset all the time.
SPEAKER_02:I've only gotten one question right, right?
SPEAKER_00:That is correct. One question.
SPEAKER_02:Well, I blame Oktoberfest.
SPEAKER_00:All right. 600 to 800 people suffer from what each Oktoberfest?
SPEAKER_02:Dehydration. Oh,
SPEAKER_00:that's pretty good. Yeah, imagine like you're drinking all that alcohol. Your vomit-proof shoes are wicking all of the moisture out of your feet. Later hosing is making you
SPEAKER_02:sweat and then it wicks. Yeah. I mean, we had, I had what? Probably the equivalent of like two pints in the things that I drank yesterday and was super dehydrated all night. Like I just don't drink beer that often. So I can't imagine. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Here's the thing that I've only come recently to understand about drinking and having a hangover. Like when I was a kid, I didn't really care. Whatever, I would just do it. Can you
SPEAKER_02:clarify that by kid you mean like a young 20s, please?
SPEAKER_00:I mean, whatever, dude. It was such a long time ago. Who knows? My first sip of beer was when I was in single digits because my dad gave me the first sip off the top of the Heineken. I
SPEAKER_02:just want to make it clear that we're not advocating drinking as children. Oh,
SPEAKER_00:I'm not advocating. I mean, look how I turned out. So I think I'm definitely- A
SPEAKER_02:grumpy, miser misanthrope.
SPEAKER_00:So
SPEAKER_02:let this be your cautionary tale.
SPEAKER_00:I am a cautionary tale. Anyway, what I was saying is that I did not ever really make the connection between drinking a lot of alcohol and being dehydrated and that causing hangovers. So I've drank like a fish before. And as long as I made sure to drink plenty of water, I've been shocked that I've not gotten up with a hangover. Dude,
SPEAKER_02:there was that one night, and I don't know if we're allowed to talk about One of our sometime regular people on the
SPEAKER_00:show. No,
SPEAKER_02:we're not. We're
SPEAKER_00:not going to do it.
SPEAKER_02:Why?
SPEAKER_00:I mean, you can tell the story, but don't name any names.
SPEAKER_02:So we were at an event for someone who sometimes appears on the show. And I think prior to the event, you had had a beer or two. And then after the celebratory event, there was just this line of shot glasses. And it was like... Tequila and whiskey and bourbon and scotch. And I don't know, like just this line of all the different things that, and I feel like I've told the story before that you posted and you posted a picture on Instagram and I immediately got a message from our friend Ashley of the song quiz fame who was a nurse and who said, um, What's happening? Where are you? Please buy your husband Pedialyte on the way
SPEAKER_00:home. Do I need to send someone? That's right.
SPEAKER_02:Right. And I was like, I am driving. It is okay. But that's where we got the Pedialyte trick. And you did not have a hangover the next day.
SPEAKER_00:I didn't. And forgive me if you out there, you knew this already. I had just recently learned this in the last few years. So, I mean, I'd heard the thing where people say just keep drinking water, but I never really believed it. But I'm a true believer now. Anyway, the... The answer to the question is six to 800 people suffer from alcohol poisoning. Well, yeah, that makes sense. Now they, interestingly, and it does make sense. They have an onsite Red Cross tent. I mean, and it's usually full. at least 5,800 people need medical attention every year.
SPEAKER_02:Should we continue to support this activity that causes like so much actual medical crisis? Alcohol poisoning is zero joke.
SPEAKER_00:Okay, I'm not supporting it. And also this is happening in Europe. So what do you want from me?
SPEAKER_02:I'm just thinking about the implications from a global standpoint.
SPEAKER_00:All right, there are 14 large beer hall tents and these things are massive. The largest one seats how many people? How many people?
SPEAKER_02:10,000 people.
SPEAKER_00:That's good. 11,000 people. Wow, that's close. No, I'll give that one to you. I'll give that one. Thank you. That was a great guess. 11,000 people. And we got a picture. You should just look it up. It is unbelievable. But actually, this doesn't really look like a tent. It looks like a permanent structure with strips of fabric over the top.
SPEAKER_02:Maybe they just unroll like... Maybe it's like a pole barn that
SPEAKER_00:stays up year round. To me, tent means it's something you put up and take down. But this looks pretty... pretty permanent.
SPEAKER_02:I believe in Europe they call them marquees.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, really? I did not know that. There's also a wine tent. That's interesting, too, that offers champagne and sparkling wine. And then 140 restaurants and food tents as well.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, that's interesting. That's nice. All serving some sort of sausage?
SPEAKER_00:I mean, every Wienerschnitzel and all the things.
SPEAKER_02:All
SPEAKER_00:right. Despite the international appeal of Oktoberfest, it's still a surprisingly local affair. Only 19% of the visitors aren't from Germany. That is shocking to me. Okay, so next question.
SPEAKER_02:Well, would that be like what percentage of people come to celebrate the 4th of July aren't American? Like that's something similar, yeah?
SPEAKER_00:No, I think that Oktoberfest is... You don't have 4th of July festivals in other countries. We have Oktoberfest festivals here in the States.
SPEAKER_02:You don't know. People might be celebrating our independence only because they're glad to get rid of
SPEAKER_00:us. Yeah, no, the Good Riddance Festival.
SPEAKER_02:Yes.
SPEAKER_00:What famous... worked at Oktoberfest?
SPEAKER_02:Einstein.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, you got that one right. Only
SPEAKER_02:because he has the word Stein in his
SPEAKER_00:name. That is exceptional. Einstein. Maybe that's his drinking nickname and he just kept it. Can you imagine? Can you imagine? We got to find out what Einstein means. Albert Einstein once worked as an electrician and helped set up one of the beer tents in 1869. In 1896... 1896, I got it wrong.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, okay. Give yourself an X.
SPEAKER_00:No. I already have an
SPEAKER_02:X. Take me a second.
SPEAKER_00:Oktoberfest has its very own pop-up what?
SPEAKER_02:I mean, tent? It's a
SPEAKER_00:specialty thing. Facility, tent, whatever.
SPEAKER_02:Pop-up... Wow, I don't know. So many things. It's a pop-up like... clothing store where you buy all of your dirndls and lederhosen or in your goat hats or it's like a pop-up like what's our BMWs made in Germany? What cars?
SPEAKER_00:Bavarian Motor Works.
SPEAKER_02:Right, yes, those people. It's a pop-up BMW dealership. It's a pop-up Adidas store.
SPEAKER_00:I'll give it an X. Oktoberfest has its very own pop-up post office.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, interesting.
SPEAKER_00:They send around 130,000 postcards and letters every year and most of them say I love you. You're my best friend. friend it's okay it's be quiet it's okay it's okay you're my best friend They hold what every first Thursday of Oktoberfest?
SPEAKER_02:Prayer services.
SPEAKER_00:That is correct. Is it really? Yes,
SPEAKER_02:yes. I
SPEAKER_00:was joking. They hold a mass every first Thursday of the Oktoberfest in the Hippodrome tent. A mass.
SPEAKER_02:I really was joking about we need to pray for all these drunk fools that are coming through here, but I guess
SPEAKER_00:it's true. No, no, no. Everyone is just piling into the confessional tent like a bunch of clowns in a Volkswagen. And your last question is,
SPEAKER_02:Wait, how am I doing? Give me a...
SPEAKER_00:Do I have a chance to win? You've gotten four correct. Four out of 12. Everyone's a winner.
SPEAKER_02:Okay, that's right. Thank
SPEAKER_00:you. There is a lost and found for what? Children. That is right. Honey, I lost the kids. That's right. Seems like losing your offspring is a rather common side effect of beer drinking.
SPEAKER_02:We didn't lose anybody yesterday.
SPEAKER_00:Whether you can't find them or whether court ordered. Fear not, however, there's a lost and found for children office on the premises. And what we call that in the States is a mall playground.
SPEAKER_02:That's
SPEAKER_00:right. Shopping mall playground. It says here that Lost and Found collects around 5,000 items each year. 5,000 children? No, items. So apart from the wheelchairs, baby carriages, passports, keys, crutches, and dogs. Oh. And they find a pair of teeth almost every year. I think they mean...
SPEAKER_02:Like dentures?
SPEAKER_00:Dentures. I don't think they mean two teeth. Wedding rings also seem to get surprisingly looser in October. Scandal.
SPEAKER_02:Scandal.
SPEAKER_00:Here's your bonus question here. So you got that one right. So you have one, two, three, four. You've got five. That's better than you thought I was going to do. I'm going to give you a bonus question. And if you get this right, I'll give you two points. And so that'll take you over 50%. And
SPEAKER_02:will you buy me some Americanized Oktoberfest beer?
SPEAKER_00:Who is permanently banned from Oktoberfest?
SPEAKER_02:Bill Murray.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, sad. Too soon. Too soon. Oh, my gosh. So I don't know if all of y'all are aware that Bill Murray, the receipts are in and Bill Murray is officially kind of a jerk, which was very disappointing to me. But as I always say, no heroes, right?
SPEAKER_02:Nope, no heroes.
SPEAKER_00:But I'm going to give you a second chance because that was kind of a joke. Who is permanently banned from Oktoberfest? Who would you permanently ban from Oktoberfest? Hitler? I
SPEAKER_02:was going to say Hitler, but was trying really hard not to.
SPEAKER_00:Putin? I wouldn't let him in.
SPEAKER_02:I was just trying to think of Germans, because you said only 19% were. Trump?
SPEAKER_00:Trump, yes.
SPEAKER_02:Santa? I don't know. Who can't go to Oktoberfest?
SPEAKER_00:Paris Hilton is permanently banned from October. What did she do? She went to the event dressed in a golden and shiny Bavarian dirndl to promote a brand of canned wine.
SPEAKER_02:Oh.
SPEAKER_00:Locals got the organizers to ban her because they were offended by how she dressed. Probably also offended by canned wine. All right, so your grand total is 5 out of 12. Not bad. I
SPEAKER_02:was really hoping to get pushed over the edge, though, so you could buy me an Americanized version of Oktoberfest beer.
SPEAKER_00:Well, I'll still do that.
SPEAKER_03:Thank you. No one likes to be told what to do.
SPEAKER_00:Now's the time in the show where we tell you what to do. Amanda, what should we do?
SPEAKER_02:go find a local festival and go to it. There are festivals aplenty this time of year. And while they will take your money selling you two ounce beer glasses or funnel cakes and gelato or whatever, the attendance part tends to be rather inexpensive and or free. So just this weekend, we had an art festival, we had pride festival, which I don't understand why it's in October and also in June here, but we'll take as much time as we can for celebrating all the people in the world. And then also the Bat Festival. And next weekend, there's all these different fall festivals. So just go find a fall festival and be outside and enjoy it.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, I would recommend people doing that because people need to be re-acclimated to socializing in public situations. People are losing their damn minds on planes and shopping malls and all of these public situations. Partially that has the pandemic to blame, but also partially the fact that our society and our culture and I think globally is just getting more and more fragmented. So people need to go out, be in public, practice being nice boys, girls, and other. and get it right because I'm starting to really get annoyed with people and how rude they are and how they can't play well with others.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, I mean, we even see it with the five-year-old who was two when the pandemic started and so was home until he was four. And now when he gets embarrassed and he gets embarrassed very easy and that's developmentally, you know, typical of his age. But what he does is then he tries to turtle but by pulling my shirt up and putting his whole body underneath my shirt. So yesterday...
SPEAKER_00:Which is a problem because usually that's where I am when we're
SPEAKER_02:in public yesterday we were at we were at the thing and he was like playing like hanging on of the beer garden flagpole and I asked him to get off of it and he did for a second and then went back on it and I said please get off of it and he did so then I had to break out what I call teacher voice and in both of my kids say don't yell at me when I get stern voice but I'm not at all yelling I'm just using a stern voice and then he got real something and then this man next to us was laughing about something else and in the five-year-old started saying he's laughing at me pulled my shirt up flashed me to all of the people and then went under and I had to drag him out of my shirt with him screaming so he needs to be socialized
SPEAKER_00:and unlike the Wisconsin women's volleyball team there is not a picture of Amanda lifting her shirt in public
SPEAKER_03:what happened
SPEAKER_00:so apparently some video and photos got out they had just won a national championship and they decided to take pictures in the locker room with them exposing their upper parts of themselves
SPEAKER_02:that was sports bras on like
SPEAKER_00:no no no sports bras off and now there's I guess this big scandal I think it happened I think the pictures were taken a bit ago during last year's season but that's my recommendation also don't allow anyone to take
SPEAKER_02:go look at those pictures
SPEAKER_00:no don't go look at the pictures because it's a horrible invasion of their privacy number one but number two don't allow anyone to take pictures of you or don't take pictures of yourself that you don't want to be online
SPEAKER_02:they will get out It
SPEAKER_00:will get out. Yes, things have a tendency to get online.
SPEAKER_02:Even if that person promises you they won't
SPEAKER_00:do anything with it. Yes, even if you're trading pictures or videos with another person, you might not always be in a good relationship with that person, and then all of a sudden, boom, that's out there, which has happened that way. That's happened that way before. I mean,
SPEAKER_02:I got some things in my back pocket in case you decide you want to go rogue.
SPEAKER_00:Dude, no one wants to see that. The scandal would just be, ew.
SPEAKER_02:Extra medium, ew.
SPEAKER_00:all right amanda that's all there is there is no more what do you think of that
SPEAKER_02:i enjoyed this thank you for teaching me about oktoberfest
SPEAKER_00:well go and and take your learnings and um don't get banned from oktoberfest got a couple things in closing to say i want to give our friends dan and lou a special shout out i just listened to their latest episode on their podcast casting views and they had some nice things uh to say about me i want you to go listen to their show their latest one that they released Sunday is about funny and unusual websites and it's definitely worth listening to and there's some as we well know there's some weird stuff on the internet and so go listen to that
SPEAKER_02:I enjoy Dan and Lou their show is great but they're also just really great human people
SPEAKER_00:they they are great human people yes
SPEAKER_02:good job being great human people Dan and Lou
SPEAKER_00:some more shout outs our friends Justin and Brendan Scar and Karen and Ann Antonio Leo K and J Charlie Chicken Tom, the aforementioned Danny the Bucket, of course, Joey. Joey. And then Dan, Gavin, and Planty, wherever you are today. Thank you, all of you. You are kind of in the without whom department for this little podcast. I want to encourage you to go out, subscribe to our podcast, go to our Patreon, super familiar with the Wilsons, subscribe to that. And I'm going to give you a little teaser, things that we have coming up. We had a great conversation with someone we've just met named Zaya with his podcast The Zaya Show that's coming up in the next few weeks and we are going to speak to my close personal friend Chris Barron lead singer of the Spin Doctors again and I'm looking forward to that that's right
SPEAKER_02:Chris Barron has agreed to come back he's over your song quiz
SPEAKER_00:well I had to promise that we wouldn't do that to him again and the Wilsons are going to New York in the next few weeks we're very much looking forward to that as well
SPEAKER_02:if you've got some recommendations send them our way and I have I want to add on to your shout out with Karen and Anne. So our friends Karen and Anne from Sugar Coated Murder are writing a book, folks. And on their socials, they put out, we're writing a book. Can you guess what it's about? And so go on over to their Instagram, Sugar Coated Murder, and take some guesses. I, however, have a bone to pick because they wouldn't let me guess. Because when we guessed it on their show, they told us what the book was going to be about. I am not disclosing that, but they won't let me guess.
UNKNOWN:Okay.
SPEAKER_00:Isn't it kind of obvious what it would be about?
SPEAKER_02:Well, but it's more specific.
SPEAKER_00:Okay.
SPEAKER_02:And it's going to be super interesting. So go over, give them a follow, and see if you can figure out what that book's going to be about.
SPEAKER_00:All right. Well, this has been the longest outro that we've ever done. It's
SPEAKER_02:because I have things to say.
SPEAKER_00:So we're going to get the hell out of here. Y'all have a marvelous week. And please don't forget, button your top button and put your glasses on. Talk to y'all later.
SPEAKER_02:Go be nice.
SPEAKER_00:Bye.
SPEAKER_02:Bye.
UNKNOWN:Bye.
SPEAKER_00:Amanda, as you well know, it is Halloween season, right? Spooky times. Are you prone towards being more aware of potential situations that might be creepy during Halloween time?
SPEAKER_02:I think so, but I think that's just pretty much par for the course, right? Are you like that?
SPEAKER_00:Well, something just happened. Now, I'm very non-superstitious, and I don't believe in the paranormal, right?
SPEAKER_02:Okay.
SPEAKER_00:But the weirdest thing just happened. We were about to leave the house to go to Publix to get something or another. Those are called groceries. Grocery, thank you. And I opened up the washing machine. And you had put in like a black or a very dark blue piece of fabric in. I think it's a jacket that you have. It's that jacket from your work that's very dark blue. It's dark blue. It's like super dark blue. Almost black. Yeah. And it had spread out in such a way that it was covering all of the laundry underneath it. And on all sides, it had adhered to the side of the drum, right? Yeah,
SPEAKER_03:right.
SPEAKER_00:And so when I looked in, I just saw like nothing. I saw blackness. And for... Just a second, I really freaked out because I was like, oh my God, this is like the black hole to nowhere.
SPEAKER_02:This is the vortex in which you fall.
SPEAKER_00:Yes, so it really creeped me out. And so that just happened.
