Super Familiar with The Wilsons
Amanda and Josh on marriage, family, relationships, and connecting with new friends and interesting people. New Episodes every week.
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Super Familiar with The Wilsons
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Super Familiar with The Wilsons
Dating Stories: A Love Note Written in Blood
We celebrate the Florida Gators men's basketball national championship win while exploring how our son might perceive colors differently than most people, and Josh become a grass farmer...not that type of grass.
Talking Points
- The Florida Gators won the NCAA men's basketball championship despite only leading for 17 seconds until the final minute
- Children's unusual names at soccer games
- Josh's successful "grass farming" and the push mower
- Our son's possible tetrachromancy
- Vagus nerve stimulation for anxiety regulation
- Standing over sleeping partners and blood-written notes
Email us at FamiliarWilsons@gmail.com with your own stories of constantly talking kids, dating nightmares, or just to say hello!
Super Familiar with The Wilsons
Find us on instagram at instagram.com/superfamiliarwitthewilsons
and on Youtube
Contact us! familiarwilsons@gmail.com
Familiar Wilson's Media Relationships are the story. You are made of meat, my friend, all the way down. The following podcast uses words like and and also. If you're not into any of that shit, then now's your chance.
Speaker 2:Three, two, one run. I'm super familiar with the Wilsons Get it. Welcome to Super Familiar with the Wilsons. I'm Amanda.
Speaker 1:And I'm Josh.
Speaker 2:And we are coming to you from Gainesville, Florida, where we are now the home of the latest NCAA men's basketball national champions, Woo-hoo. So I got to tell you, Josh, that I mean, I'm a Gator graduated from UF. I wasn't really tracking men's basketball until about January.
Speaker 1:And why did you start tracking it?
Speaker 2:Because my nephew texted me and said, hey, florida men's basketball is actually on a good run right. I was like, oh, maybe we'll make it, maybe we'll win the SEC title, maybe we'll make it to the big dance, as it were. But then they were in the Sweet 16.
Speaker 1:I got to tell you, the only reason I tracked Florida basketball this year is because the head coach was supposedly a naughty boy.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Feel free to look that up. But also they signed this freshman or signed they got he committed or whatever. This freshman who's like 7'13 or something like that Giantly tall.
Speaker 2:Giantly is definitely a word.
Speaker 1:Let me tell you something, though, about this game. I fell asleep before the game came on.
Speaker 2:So I was saying they were in the Sweet 16, and then they were in the Elite 8, and then they were in the Final Four and we watched the Final Four game. They have consistently pulled it out from being behind in the game.
Speaker 1:Sounds so dirty, I know it did sound dirty.
Speaker 2:Then they won the national championship, and the thing that amazes me about this game is they were only ahead for 17 seconds. The whole game until the last minute. Like I was, I was watching it, but I was watching it on my phone because that felt less scary than having the big tv on well, let me tell you how not plugged in I was to nc2a basketball this year.
Speaker 1:I thought until the end. I thought that the semi-final game, the final, game.
Speaker 1:Like Florida won that game against whoever it was, and I'm like, why are they making a bigger deal out of this? They just won the national championship and like you weren't making a big deal out of it either. Until I then realized at the end of the broadcast, as they were doing the interviews, I was like, oh, that's what's wrong. I didn't know any of the players, really. And also I have this thing that we talked about last week or the week before, where I tend to curse teams and so, for whatever reason, I'm like okay, I'm gonna go to sleep. I have work tomorrow. I just wanna make sure that I'm rested, because everyone around me is going to either be grumpy because the Gators lost or grumpy because the Gators won and they're going to be hung over and they stayed up way too late.
Speaker 1:Damn game didn't even start till nine. So I said I'm not watching it. I'm not watching it. So I went to sleep and you woke me up at like 11 or whatever the hell time it was. So I went to sleep and you woke me up at like 11 or whatever the hell time it was, and you're like they won and I'm like great. So I missed the whole thing. But I gotta tell you I regret not staying up for the game, do you? Oh yeah, I do. Well, of course, and it's not even that, I'm just playing the result, right?
Speaker 1:Oh they won, and so I can't believe that I missed that. But it's really like I have taken this really, really strong direction in my life where I want to do everything that I can do and have all the experiences that I can have, especially around special occasions, especially during the weekends, because those times are precious. So that was just stupid for me just to go to sleep and say, oh, I want to get my rest.
Speaker 2:Really.
Speaker 1:No, not a good enough reason. In fact, this came up, was it last?
Speaker 2:night, it was yesterday. Yeah, last night.
Speaker 1:Yeah, last night, no it was the day before yesterday, it was Friday. This came up because I wanted to go out and see our friend Elio.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, he's a great musician and broadcaster, has a radio station, kind of more than acquaintance, a little less than a friend, although I'd love to get to know him better. He's very dynamic and fun and you were too tired and I was really trying to give you the hard sell let's go, let's go, let's go Because I want us to do as many of those things as possible. Now, I'm not trying to guilt you now. Good thing we didn't go, because what the hell it hailed that night.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like people's property was damaged, cars were damaged. Just all of a sudden, out of nowhere, giant hailstorm did not reach to our home, but was on up near your work and so isn't that weird. Yeah, we wound up having a. We did get a lot of rain and wind here, we just didn't get the hail, so it was good that we didn't go out. But yes, yes, no, I agree with you. We want to be able to make the most of the moments.
Speaker 2:I think, now that you are on the other side of 50, and I am about to be on the other side of 50, you're feeling your mortality, and so you're wanting to grab life by the shoulders and just shake all of the life out of it.
Speaker 1:You're a writer, aren't you?
Speaker 2:I'm very good at words, Words are my job. But here's the thing, friend. I was watching it on my phone. I turned the game on to watch the last like 30 seconds and they won. And you kind of looked at me and said huh. And I said they won.
Speaker 2:And you said, oh, so we're're watching this now, but in a really grumpy like voice and I said well, obviously not so I turned the tv off and marched my happy self downstairs and sat on the couch and watched until like 12 30 the dog came down with me. I watched all the celebration. I watched all of it and a really good friend of mine her husband was traveling so she was watching by herself too, so we were just texting each other during the celebration and everything. I watched all of it and a really good friend of mine, her husband, was traveling so she was watching by herself too, so we were just texting each other during the celebration and everything.
Speaker 1:I was asleep. How many okay people out there? Grumpy you were so grumpy and you're snarky in your sleep people out there who have a significant other, or you have occasion to encounter other people when they're asleep. Do you or does your significant other talk in their sleep and you think that they're awake, but they're not really awake? I wasn't awake. I don't remember any of that. That wasn't me. That was whatever multiverse Josh who manifested in my body, but that was not me.
Speaker 2:Multiverse. Josh is a jerk Because it wasn't just like I'm tired, Can you please. It was like oh, so we're watching this now, Like you were super snarky about it. Anyway, I'm very excited on a different level because Muffy will be attending the University of Florida in the fall. We're very excited for her. Super hard to get into now.
Speaker 1:I couldn't get back in if I tried, but I went to I can get in, just give me a Slim Jim 20 minutes.
Speaker 2:I did my undergrad at UF when Danny Warfel was playing and they were national football champions and I'm excited for her to go into even though she's not super into the sports ball, to go into a school where you've got this really exciting thing around the athletics at the school. And she also was born when the last time they were national champions. They were national champions back to back with Billy Donovan in 2005, 2006. And she was born in 2006. So she's you know she's bringing luck to the Gators.
Speaker 1:Does that mean that this year we're going to have another kid?
Speaker 2:No why?
Speaker 1:Well, because the last time.
Speaker 2:No, no, no, no. Actually, you know what Winthrop was born during, when the Cubs won the World Series. So, apparently my children are. Good luck for teams.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but teams are always winning. What are you talking about? No, the.
Speaker 2:Cubs had not won the World Series in like 100 years.
Speaker 1:Yeah, okay, and.
Speaker 2:Florida has not won a basketball championship in a while. Well, if we are going to have a kid, we're not, though, because I'm going to be 50 next month.
Speaker 1:If we are going to have a kid, then we need to start thinking of names now. So we were at Winthrop's soccer deal yesterday and his team, the Mighty Eagles, actually tied, which to me this week is a win, that is an achievement.
Speaker 2:yes.
Speaker 1:And you will notice. If you pay attention to the Wilson's, you notice that last season I did this whole spiel, I did a sports update in an old-timey fashion, and this year we've abandoned that because ain't no one wants to hear about my kids' team losing twice in a row. So if they get an actual W, then maybe we'll bring that bit back. But while we're there we encountered several names that I had never heard applied to children before.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think we should take this moment to clarify that Winthrop and Muffy are not our children's real names. We do not use their real names on this podcast, but you're about to talk about names that stand out, and I just want to clarify that we didn't actually name our child Winthrop, because that one also stands out too.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but that's a cool, noble name.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:But some names that I heard and maybe you've heard others right throughout this soccer season that I wasn't paying attention to, but we had Shepard, which is okay. It's usually a surname, though Maverick.
Speaker 2:Yeah, somebody loved them some.
Speaker 1:Top Gun and Armani. Listen, I am not making fun of this. Just give me a second to process this new information. Okay, these are now names in the parlance that people use. And what do you? What do you think about maverick as a, as a name for your child?
Speaker 2:I feel like you might be typecasting this child to be a certain really like masculinity, like man's man, kind of a maverick, like it just feels like, I mean, it's tom cruise, basically, or who he wishes that he was. Were he a little taller? Um, jesus no, he's.
Speaker 1:The men in my family are short, so he wears them cuban heels he'll be all right, so I don't.
Speaker 1:I mean it's not for me well, it's funny because, like I'm saying, is like we need to steal ourselves now for when we have this new kid, whatever name we pick, it may seem unusual now but, come you know, like 10, 15, 20 years, like a new set of names will be in common usage and so it really is wide open. So I was trying to figure out. I'll give you an example. There are names that we use now that when they first came out, people, people like that's dumb. For example, madison, you know this name madison.
Speaker 1:It's in in common usage so apparently in the 1980s, when the the movie splash came out yeah daryl hannah's character was a mermaid who, I guess, got legs and walked around. It's been a while since I saw it. She saw a sign that said madison avenue and so she. She took the name madison, or someone applied the name madison before that. It had basically just been either a man's name or surname yeah and so people were like, oh, that's what, what is that?
Speaker 1:but then that name started to gain popularity because apparently of that movie oh, interesting which I think is interesting. Another one that I looked up, shirley that's my mom's name.
Speaker 2:That's your mom's name.
Speaker 1:Used to be a man's name.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:And then I guess, shirley Temple, no, no, no, it was a book by Charlotte Bronte. Okay, that name checks a girl named Shirley.
Speaker 2:Oh, interesting, and that was unusual at the time.
Speaker 1:I guess that was the author like having a little fun and then that slowly turned and now, it's not a man, a common man's name at all. No, the name Vivian also used to be a man's name Two Vivians at soccer. So it's interesting how names change. So I was thinking what names might we see in 20? Years when we have our like three or four more kids down the line. So I'm thinking maybe, like I don't know, Charger.
Speaker 2:USB.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and especially good on the soccer field, chargers always plugged in until the end of the game.
Speaker 2:Going after the ball.
Speaker 1:They need juice and then they collapse. How about Venti?
Speaker 2:Mm-mm, I just took a sip of my coffee speaking of Venti, and I almost spit that out. Yeah sure, I just took a sip of my coffee speaking of Venti, and that I almost spit that out yeah sure, venti Starbucks drive-thru. Grande is her little brother yes, yes, lots of energy with this child no, her brother would be.
Speaker 1:What is the small one called?
Speaker 2:well, it's tall Grande and Venti okay, so tall?
Speaker 1:no, it's not no.
Speaker 2:Grande, stop stepping on my joke, keep going.
Speaker 1:Crypto.
Speaker 2:Lord.
Speaker 1:Let's see Disappears. Mid-game, though I was going to say he doesn't stick around long. Algorithm Short Al Okay, yeah, yeah. By the way, crypto would of course be short for cryptifer.
Speaker 2:That's going to say kryptonite. But okay, Cryptifer, Okay Cryptoverse the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
Speaker 1:You say Thank you, how about Please Meet my Child Netflix?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Netflix and chill is how we got him. Definitely no chill about this child. All I'm saying is that in the future there's going to be all these crazy names and the generation before is going to be this is silly and it's going to be. That's how things work. Things are cyclical. It's just going to be how things work.
Speaker 2:Things are cyclical, it's just going to be in common usage.
Speaker 1:See, I don't think so. I think that you don't think so.
Speaker 2:No, you don't think so. Would you like to just keep repeating what I said? You don't think so, go ahead I think that people are looking more to go back and reclaim names from like centuries ago instead of taking things right now and moving forward. For example, I don't know how this became my algorithm short for out or al short for algorithm. Pinterest keeps sending me lots of different baby name suggestions, uh-huh.
Speaker 1:See, I'm telling you.
Speaker 2:Pinterest needs to stay out of my uterus. I got one yesterday.
Speaker 1:You were about to say Pinterest needs to stay out of my vagina.
Speaker 2:No, I said and that would have been a better line. But go ahead Uterus Hush, stop giggling. I got one yesterday that said Irishish witch names, right so? It's like giving me irish, so I clicked on it because I was curious about what these names were. Well then, today I got old viking names, so pinterest is trying to give me from from your names what's an old viking name? I don't know, I didn't click on that one thor scars guard.
Speaker 1:I think it's interesting this idea of last names becoming first names. What's an old Viking name? I don't know, I didn't click on that one, thor Skarsgård. I think it's interesting this idea of last names becoming first names, madison or Wilson. Wilson or Dylan or these things. I want to name my next kid, though, after an artist. If we're going to name a kid, I'd like to take a famous artist like Monet. Monet would be a good first name, wouldn't it.
Speaker 2:Monet is a drag queen.
Speaker 1:Oh, is it Okay, manet, manet, manet would also be a drag queen. Yes, how about Van Gogh? There you go, van Gogh.
Speaker 2:Van.
Speaker 1:Gogh Van Gogh Wilson.
Speaker 2:Yes okay. Would we say Van Gogh or Van Gogh? I it wrong if we said Van Gogh, even though that would be correct? What about Bansky?
Speaker 1:Banksy.
Speaker 2:Banksy, that's what I meant. I'd say the same thing, like I say Mariska Hardigay and it's Hargitay, but I just switched consonants around. Yeah, that's good, we're not recording, are we?
Speaker 1:Yeah, we are recording, are we really? I thought that you weren't recording Did you? Think, this whole time you and I were just chatting this whole time.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, not the whole time, but like for the past minute and a half. I thought we were just chatting.
Speaker 1:Okay, speaking of Van Gogh, did you know that they think that he had extra rods and cones in his eyes? I do know that Because you look at his paintings and you see some of the colors he uses for I mean, he paints nature, right, yeah, or painted, and the colors he uses for the sky and starry night or for, you know, as he's looking at a flower people, like you know there's there's something that's very evocative about that, almost as if, like he's seeing see stuff.
Speaker 1:The rest of us that we don't see, and I was looking that up and the reason why I was looking it up and it's called texture. What is it? Tectra um, tetrachromancy or texture?
Speaker 2:it's called texture chromancy, what's it called. What is it called?
Speaker 1:tetrachromancy. Okay, and again it's, it's being able to see different colors because you have extra receptors both for light and dark. So gradations of of that and for different colors I think that winthrop might have that. When we are driving to school every morning and the the oncoming cars have their lights on, and this happened a while ago where he said oh, that car has green lights, Next one comes by, that car has blue lights.
Speaker 1:And he kept going and I did notice that all of the cars that had incandescent lighting, he would tend to think it was orange or yellow or red, and then all of the cars that had LED lighting, he'd say oh, that's blue or that's purple, like it'd be warm colors or cold colors, and it occurred to me that he might actually be seeing really subtle shades of these colors that are being transmitted by these light sources.
Speaker 2:I absolutely think that he does, because for a while I thought he was colorblind, because he I like if I would see something as gray and he'd say that's green. But then I'd start looking at it and it would have like a green undertone.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And he did it. When we were in the doctor's office recently it was St Patrick's Day and I was wearing green and she was wearing green and I said I like your green and he said that's not green, and he's. And we both looked at each other and he said that's great, like what I had on right or something. And I I said to her I'm like sometimes I think he's colorblind. She's like well, we don't have a test for that. But then I started looking and I'm like no, there there are undertones of what he's saying. I think he sees differently than we do.
Speaker 1:I will tell you that as soon as he started doing that, though I never once told him that he was wrong.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't. I have a couple of times I must stop.
Speaker 1:And so it speaks to a larger thing about how I'm really trying hard not to be the asshole parent who just dismisses what their kid says thereby crushing his little spirit. And so a lot of times he'll say something instead of me automatically being, oh, that's not so, me just sitting with it and holding it and really considering it and damn it if a lot of times he isn't right about whatever.
Speaker 2:And. I do not want to squash that in him times he isn't right about whatever, and I do not want to squash that in him. He has been like that from jump, though, because I remember this is the story that I like to tell about him and how he can reason things when he was maybe two and he was in a car seat and andrew-W, did I do that right? A-j-c-w.
Speaker 1:A-J-C-W.
Speaker 2:A-J-C-W, who does a lot of the music for the podcast. Anyway, he was sitting in the back with him and Winthrop was complaining that he couldn't see out the window. And Andrew said I can see, so that means you can see. And Winthrop looked at him and said put your head down here. And Andrew leveled his head with winthrop's head and said no, you're right, you can't see. And it too that joker knew how to like explain and reason why we were wrong.
Speaker 1:And he continues to do so yes, yes, um, but it's good, though. It's good because I don't want to build a kid who's like scared to express himself or or, you know, scared to point out the truth.
Speaker 1:last thing I want him to do is to have any sort of perception that I'm like, oh, I'm young, therefore I don't have a right to speak, because that translates later into oh, I'm this and so therefore I don't have a right to speak. Don't want any of that. None of us should want that for our kids. Now if he comes to me and says I see dead people, that's a different story.
Speaker 2:No, he sees people too. He saw it in the old house. We've told this story where he said mommy, who's that man behind you with the yellow umbrella or yellow raincoat or something? So he sees things we don't see. Scary as shit, that is.
Speaker 1:He loves to talk. Boy, that kid.
Speaker 2:This is the one thing he never stops, yeah no.
Speaker 1:So I was thinking about this, though, and I actually want to hear from parents out there familiarwilsonsatgmailcom. Do you have a kid who will never stop talking or never stop vocalizing? Because I've been thinking about this, I've been looking into this whole idea of vagus nerve stimulation Do you know what this is. Yeah, I know the vagus nerve is a nerve that runs right throughout your body. It's kind of mysterious to me. When I first heard about it, I thought that they were talking about the anus nerve.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:Which it is not the anus nerve. I'm not even really sure what it does, but one of the effects of stimulating it is that it regulates anxiety. It helps regulate negative emotions and all of these different positive things. And the vagus nerve is stimulated by neck massage, but also by vocalizations. It's this whole idea of people sitting around going oh, oh Well, that is a vagus nerve stimulation because it's vibrating your throat, which is really close to it, and also your jaw and your mouth, and that helps calm you. It helps you tell your body everything's going to be okay. So I wonder if the reason why he talks so much and vocalizes and sings is because that's very calming to him, because it's stimulating that part of him that regulates anxiety maybe I mean the talking is definitely a million family trait, which is my maiden name.
Speaker 2:I mean I've told you that my brother once paid me twenty dollars to not talk from lake linda, charleston because he was like I can't handle six hours in the car with you talking all the time, and we stopped at at a rest area and I went into the bathroom and just talked to myself for about 10 minutes and then came back out and got quiet again. So I mean that is definitely a family trait, but I don't vocalize like he does. So he talks a lot, but then he is constantly you're right, constantly making noises. Even we used to call him like his nummy numbs. He'd do the nummy num dance when he was a baby. Well, he still makes the same noises when, like he used to, when he was eating because it it was yummy. He still does that at almost nine. So he is constantly like I. I thought it was that he wasn't comfortable with silence, but I don't think that's what it is it's terrible for me because I have this thing with repetitive noises it drives me absolutely up the wall.
Speaker 1:I really, really, really really have to regulate myself and my reaction to that and sometimes I can't, sometimes I just like, dude, you gotta stop for a second. But realizing that it might be something that, where he's regulating anxiety, that goes through my mind a lot, as I'm fighting with my natural reaction, in fact, so much so that now when I'm stressed out, I will go, which I'm sure drives you crazy. I don't know if you've noticed it.
Speaker 2:No, it does, and I'm trying very, very hard to just let it go because I know that it's helping you. But I get how it bugs you when other people are doing it Okay, very good.
Speaker 1:Very good that we're stuck in this house of just severely anxious people. With all the noises, all of them doing their tics and all of their regulating situations, and everyone's just getting more and more amped up. That's good, it's good, it's healthy. Mine is pointing out all the things that need to be cleaned, which drives you nuts, oh my God, just let me sit and enjoy our backyard for a second before telling me all the things that we need to do in it, but that helps you that's my anxiety.
Speaker 1:I think that how we should deal with that is you tell me when, when you need to do that, and let me go get the earplugs no, no, we are partners in this, you have to listen. No, but I'm listening to your oming but here's the thing about earplugs I can still hear through them, but it's just a nice separation.
Speaker 2:The buffer between you and your reality. Yeah, that's right. All right, move along.
Speaker 1:I really do want to hear from parents out there. Do you have a kid who's just nonstop talking? How do you deal with it? How do you handle it? And when you think about your kid, are they like naturally an anxious little being? And could it be that they're just trying to use this to cope with that?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So let us know.
Speaker 2:FamiliarWilson's at gmailcom.
Speaker 1:Speaking of the aforementioned yard, I am a grass farmer.
Speaker 2:You are. You have farmed yourself some grass, and I don't mean the illicit grass. Wait, no weed.
Speaker 1:No, but I planted grass from seed.
Speaker 2:I've never done that before.
Speaker 1:And I was like this is never gonna work, but I was out there. You know, if I had overalls of straw hat I would have worn them. Spreading my seed all over the yard and boom. Four or five weeks later we've got the grass, we've got a lovely little yard. Yes, it's a nice little patch there.
Speaker 1:So it was getting a little unruly. Honestly, folks, if you could see how small this patch is, not worth even wasting the gas to crank up a lawnmower. I was looking around for electric lawnmowers. You plug them in. I was looking at attachments that you attach to weed whackers, because we have one of those. If I have to take my whacker to the patch, then I will do that To spread your seed.
Speaker 1:Yeah, after spreading my seed but even that seemed a little bit like I got to buy this new attachment. I don't know, it seemed like a bunch of faff, as our friends would say, but I saw one of these push mowers. Like the old tiny, think like 1920 or 1930, whatever, where it's just a cylinder with blades, with two wheels and a stick and you push it around and it cuts the grass.
Speaker 1:So we saw one of those in our local DIY big box store and I almost didn't buy it because I'm like surely this shit does not work, like there's a reason why we don't use these things anymore. But I took a chance after reading some reviews and I could not be happier with this push mower thing that we have Because, again, very small area, bada bing, bada boom, easiest thing to do, done, not any noise that would drive me crazy.
Speaker 1:Don't have to buy gas, don't even have to plug the fucker in, it is perfect. Now I do feel a little bit like Fred Flintstone as I'm cutting our grass, but I freaking love it.
Speaker 2:I'm so happy for you, but, fred Flintstone, would be like pushing around a dinosaur or like an elephant or something that's right, like Dino or whatever.
Speaker 1:A goat that's just eating the grass as you hold the hind legs now, if we could get our idiot dog to eat the grass I could hold him by his hind legs and move him around, he would throw up.
Speaker 2:That's why dogs eat grass, so they to make themselves throw up.
Speaker 1:You have to empty the, the bag that's there you go. Yeah, it's gross.
Speaker 2:Now. You won't let him outside now and you're so upset with this dog because when we used to let him out in the backyard so we have a very tiny backyard and we've turned it sort of into a garden right, like lots of plants and flowering things, and it used to be mulched, so now we have this patch of grass. But when we'd let the dog to go outside to use the bathroom and then clean up after him in the backyard, the dog wouldn't go. He'd just stand there at the door and stare at Josh. Now that we don't want him to go in the backyard because we don't want him to pee on things and kill the plants, we take him for walks several times a day. Instead. He just only wants to be outside and it's just. He's a contrarian, which, I'm sorry, is most of the people in this house.
Speaker 1:If I come upstairs and that damn dog is humming. But I was thinking that we went old school with buying this, this push mower, and it was the right decision. What other things could we go old school at? And it would benefit us like walking more but yeah, we've been doing that though but like walking to the store.
Speaker 1:We haven't done that in a while you're right, but to me it makes perfect sense and it was wonderful when we did it. Number one, it's healthy for, and number two we can't carry as much shit back with us from the store. So we don't spend as much money.
Speaker 2:Also, though, we have, with the exception of this week, hit summer already. Our highs have been in the 90s, and so walking is miserable when it's that hot yeah but think of the weight we would shed.
Speaker 1:Yeah, okay.
Speaker 2:Think of the weight we would shed.
Speaker 1:Yeah, okay, do what wrestlers do when they're trying to cut weight Dress in a garbage bag and tape it at the arms and at the legs.
Speaker 2:No, I'm not doing that.
Speaker 1:And then we walk outside for a few minutes. We come back, we empty the thing and there's 10 pounds right there, it's just all water weight though. Yeah, that's right, I want to lose actual fat off my body. Yeah, but you start holding on to that water weight also isn't great for you.
Speaker 2:I'm not wrapping myself in an aluminum foil and walking to the grocery store.
Speaker 1:Okay, you know what I want to start doing. This is a thing that I want to try right, and I think that this will especially be helpful in this post-apocalyptic time that we are approaching this dystopian future that we find ourself in. Bartering, okay, bartering, and I think the perfect place for us to start is when we go to the farmer's market on Saturday mornings. We try to barter because that's like the perfect setup.
Speaker 2:Well, what do we have to give these people?
Speaker 1:I don't know, but I think we should do an experiment. I think that next week we take a bag and we start throwing some shit in the bag right To take to the farmer's market to see if we can pawn off our crap for stuff that we want. Every time we go to the farmer's market we get a cup of coffee, like that's our thing. That's really why we go. We go there because it's fun to walk around and just see the things and smell the delicious food. But also we have a reason to be there. We get our Saturday coffee. But what if we approach the lady who serves the coffee next Saturday and say I would like two cups of coffee. Here is a half-used Yankee candle and three basil leaves, and see how that goes?
Speaker 2:I do not Somehow. I don't think that this is going to be successful.
Speaker 1:Do you know how many of these damn hydro flask type of thermoses?
Speaker 2:we have around the house.
Speaker 1:So many of them. Okay, we clean them up, close them up, make sure all the pieces are there, take them to the farmer's market and see what we can get for them all right, hydro flask I saw the other day and I don't think that I spent this on the ones that we have.
Speaker 2:They're now almost 50. Why are they imported?
Speaker 1:they've been tariffs, tariffs, so bartering. That's the next thing I want to try.
Speaker 2:It's time for our fesshole I didn't, I didn't know, I didn't know what I was gonna say.
Speaker 1:Go ahead, explain fesshole to people please fesshole is a threads account that I follow where people send in anonymous confessions all right and I some. Some of them are tragic, some of them are sad, some of them are funny. And then there's this, which is just weird A date confided in me that when she was a child, she was possessed by a demon.
Speaker 2:Oh, the power of Christ compels you.
Speaker 1:And had to be exercised by a priest. First of all, have you ever met any people who are demon possessed?
Speaker 2:Oh God, I grew up in a Pentecostal church. Of course I did.
Speaker 1:Did you?
Speaker 2:ever go to an exorcism? No, I never went to an exorcism, but there was definitely. We had our local lore about who in the church had been possessed and had to have demons cast out of them.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but that's like a joke, right? No, no, no.
Speaker 2:There was all lore about she. They had to do the the. She was in the basement of the church and she was turning green and they were casting the devil out of her like it's, it's yeah and then they brought the snakes out to handle.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I grew up in a church that was very like theologically based and very intellectual mine was crazy. They did not believe in any of that stuff. Um, anyway, had to be exercised by a priest. I didn't believe her but went with it because she's hot hot devil the that makes sense ended up spending a night at her place. She stood silently by the bed staring at me for three hours and then I ghosted her.
Speaker 2:Oh my god, that's terrifying, but don't you have an experience like that?
Speaker 1:oh yes, except for the demon possession part. It's actually kind of a sad situation because this girl that I dated was like she had a difficult past right. I wasn't great shakes back then, I wasn't this great guy, but I was at least better than anything that she had ever experienced before. So, like I remember, one time I had made her a dinner, I said, hey, why don't you come over for dinner? And it was like the frozen ravioli right, you're a good chef.
Speaker 2:That.
Speaker 1:I threw in boiling water and then I threw some tomato sauce on it and whatever, and maybe I put a couple of leaves on there.
Speaker 2:From just the yard or like some herbs.
Speaker 1:I think that perhaps they were herbs. But she came over and she was like you know. She started to cry. I can't believe you made me this nice dinner. Oh, that makes me sad for her. Yeah, no, this is what I'm saying, but she moved into the apartment next to me right. Okay, which I knew that person?
Speaker 1:who lived there, so she was always around. I gave her a key so that she could use the washer dryer, because they didn't have one in their apartment. I wake up in the middle of the night and she's standing next to my bed just looking at me.
Speaker 2:That's terrifying.
Speaker 1:Now, I talked to you earlier about how I'm not aware of you know things that happen when I'm in the middle of the night when. I'm asleep. I was awake enough to tell her can you please leave, lock the door behind you and don't do this again.
Speaker 2:Why was? Did she tell you why she was staring at?
Speaker 1:you, I just missed you.
Speaker 2:But why didn't she go get in bed and cuddle you? I don't know, I don't like that.
Speaker 1:I didn't check to see if there was a dead rabbit clutched in her hand.
Speaker 2:How much longer did you date her?
Speaker 1:Not very much.
Speaker 2:And she lived next door. That's awkward.
Speaker 1:They moved shortly thereafter. But but the thing is is I did not break up with her the next day, which I should have.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, that's terrifying. Because I was a theater major, I dated actors which you couldn't find no more dramatic people.
Speaker 1:So narcissists then?
Speaker 2:Yes, and I dated this one guy and he broke up with me. This is how sad this is. He broke up with me, but what he told me was I want to date other people, but I want you to wait for me. So when I am done dating other people, you are still here.
Speaker 2:And I do not want you to date anyone else especially, and then named this guy who was kind of his nemesis, which then I immediately went and started dating him and dated him for a year and a half, because that's how contrary I am. Like, if you tell me not to do something, I will go do it.
Speaker 1:Let me tell you something first of all. Unless you are an MCU hero, you do not have a nemesis. Nemesis aren't a thing that exists in the real world.
Speaker 2:Actors think they do and anyway broke up with me. But then when I started dating this other guy got really whatever. And I came out to my car one day and there was a note on my car that said I love you, baby, and it had been written in his blood.
Speaker 1:He had sliced his arm and wrote I love you in blood to me and then, after you finally broke up with Billy Bob Thornton, then what happened?
Speaker 2:So yeah, I got some stories too.
Speaker 1:No possessions, though you didn't date anyone who was possessed.
Speaker 2:No but I did date somebody who got struck by lightning twice, so maybe they were possessed and that was God trying to take them out.
Speaker 1:And maybe he was like please, god, put me out of my misery. God kept missing.
Speaker 2:No one likes to be told what to do. Alright, now is the time in the program where we tell you what to do. Josh, don't tell me what to do, I don't want to hear it, but tell the people what to do.
Speaker 1:People get off your ass.
Speaker 2:Okay, get off your collective asses.
Speaker 1:Yes, Get up, get out of the house. Don't let life pass you by. Listen, we live in difficult times right now and I understand everyone's just trying to do your best, right, and so you need to rest, you need time to recharge. But I would put to you that sometimes the best way to recharge and get rest is to do something that gives you energy Be around people. Go see music, go to an art festival, just go walk around outside.
Speaker 1:Don't just assume that because you're laying in bed or on the couch and you've got your eyes closed, that you are getting rest. How many times have you, when you've been going through a really difficult time, like buried your head in the sand, gone to sleep? Wake up in a few hours, wake up the next day and you feel just as tired. It's not just sleep that gives you rest and restoration. It is drawing energy from the people, the things, the world around you. At least, that's what I'm finding. That it is for me, just as I said earlier, me getting that extra sleep, not watching this silly little game. I regret that because I think that I really would have enjoyed it, but even if they had lost, I still would have had the experience of staying up and watching this exciting thing. Right, we should have gone out in a hailstorm Friday night.
Speaker 2:I'm not going in a hailstorm.
Speaker 1:Shirts off running around in the rain, shirts off running around in the rain just dancing to the Cuban music that Elio would have had. We should go out and do those things. I want today, at some point, to go to Black Adder and shoot some darts. Okay, Okay, I don't want to just lay around, veg out, and so I encourage you, my people out there, get off of your asses, get outside, be around other people, enjoy life, and you will find that that is much more restoring than just laying around doom scrolling or watching, you know, white Lotus or whatever.
Speaker 2:All right, well, I'm going to start by going to an art festival, so I got to get a shower.
Speaker 1:Okay, very good. All right, Amanda, that's all there is. There is no more. I had so many other things on my list of things to talk about, but we just don't know where the time goes.
Speaker 2:Well, apparently I didn't realize you were recording and just started talking nonsense for like half of this episode. So clearly that's on me. But save those notes and we can do it next week.
Speaker 1:Absolutely correct, we will do that. The spin doctors just came out with a new album, so go check that out. Face full of cake. It's called, and if you'd like to listen to any of our conversations with the lead singer of the spin doctors, I think that there have been five different episodes now then search those out, the last one being last week. We're waiting to hear from Refined Gay Jeff, who lives in Houston, which was the team that the Gators beat to become national champions in basketball.
Speaker 2:Jeff, it's okay. Are you still our friend, jeff, because we have not heard from you since before the game.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so let us know how things are, how you're recovering. I didn't even know that you were into the sports ball, so that's fun as well. All right, folks, until next week, y'all take care of yourselves, take care of each other and get out there and do something. But first send us an email. Let us know how you're doing. Familiarwilsons at gmailcom. If you want to be our first million dollar sponsor listen, we love doing this Give us your money. Familiarwilsons at gmailcom.
Speaker 2:All right, go, be kind Bye.
Speaker 1:Bye, thank you. This is a poem called. It's Not Easy being the Jolly Green Giant Chlorophyll catastrophe. Green is my bane. Verdant vita loca, driving me insane. Emerald existence a botanical bind greens got me totally, completely resigned. Lime, sage, forest moss every shade shows me who's the boss. Photosynthetic blues if you can dig, trapped in a pigmentation, so damn. Big ho ho, horrible trauma. Cucumber curse my life's a green mile. Can it get worse? Kermit was right when he said it was style. Being green's not a path that'll make you smile. Verdant, viridian olive, all on show, can't escape this color. It's even green down below. A chromatic nightmare, a pigmented hell. At least I've been told that I wear it quite well.
